{"id":845,"date":"2009-10-03T08:07:19","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T15:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/breasy.com\/israeldefender\/?p=845"},"modified":"2010-03-07T05:25:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T12:25:04","slug":"perceptions-of-jews-by-renowned-gentiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/2009\/10\/perceptions-of-jews-by-renowned-gentiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Perceptions of Jews by Renowned Gentiles"},"content":{"rendered":"
“The Jew is that sacred being who has brought down from heaven the\neverlasting fire, and has illumined with it the entire world. He is the\nreligious source, spring, and fountain out of which all the rest of the\npeoples have drawn their beliefs and their religions.”<\/p>\n\n
— Leo Tolstoy<\/p>\n\n
“It was in vain that we locked them up for several hundred years behind the walls of the Ghetto. No sooner were their prison gates unbarred than they easily caught up with us, even on those paths which we opened up without their aid.”<\/p>\n\n
— A. A. Leroy Beaulieu, French publicist, 1842<\/p>\n\n
“The Jew gave us the Outside and the Inside – our outlook and our inner life. We can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish hopes. Most of our best words, in fact – new, adventure, surprise, unique, individual, person, vocation, time, history, future, freedom, progress, spirit, faith, hope, justice – are the gifts of the Jews.”<\/p>\n\n
— Thomas Cahill, Irish Author<\/p>\n\n
“One of the gifts of the Jewish culture to Christianity is that it has\ntaught Christians to think like Jews, and any modern man who has not\nlearned to think as though he were a Jew can hardly be said to have\nlearned to think at all.”<\/p>\n\n
— William Rees-Mogg, former Editor-in-Chief for The Times of London and a member of the House of Lords<\/p>\n\n
“It is certain that in certain parts of the world we can see a peculiar\npeople, separated from the other peoples of the world and this is \ncalled the Jewish people…<\/p>\n\n
This people is not only of remarkable antiquity but has also lasted for\na singular long time… For whereas the people of Greece and Italy, of\nSparta, Athens and Rome and others who came so much later have perished so long ago, these still exist, despite the efforts of so many powerful kings who have tried a hundred times to wipe them out, as their historians testify, and as can easily be judged by the natural order of things over such a long spell of years. They have always been \npreserved, however, and their preservation was foretold… My encounter with this people amazes me…”<\/p>\n\n
Blaise Pascal, French Mathematician<\/p>\n\n
“The Jewish vision became the prototype for many similar grand designs for humanity, both divine and man made The Jews, therefore, stand at the center of the perennial attempt to give human life the dignity of a purpose.”<\/p>\n\n
–Paul Johnson, American Historian<\/p>\n\n
“As long as the world lasts, all who want to make progress in\nrighteousness will come to Israel for inspiration as to the people who\nhad the sense for righteousness most glowing and strongest.”<\/p>\n\n
–Matthew Arnold, British poet and critic<\/p>\n\n
“Indeed it is difficult for all other nations of the world to live in\nthe presence of the Jews. It is irritating and most uncomfortable.
\nThe Jews embarrass the world as they have done things which are beyond the imaginable. They have become moral strangers since the day their forefather, Abraham, introduced the world to high ethical standards and to the fear of Heaven. They brought the world the Ten Commandments, which many nations prefer to defy. They violated the rules of history by staying alive, totally at odds with common sense and historical evidence. They outlived all their former enemies, including vast empires such as the Romans and the Greeks. They angered the world with their return to their homeland after 2000 years of exile and after the murder of six million of their brothers and sisters.<\/p>\n\n
They aggravated mankind by building, in the wink of an eye, a\ndemocratic State which others were not able to create in even hundredsof years they built living monuments such as the duty to be holy and the privilege to serve one’s fellow men.<\/p>\n\n
They had their hands in every human progressive endeavor, whether in\nscience, medicine, psychology or any other discipline, while totally\nout of proportion to their actual numbers. They gave the world the\nBible and even their \u201csavior.”<\/p>\n\n
Jews taught the world not to accept the world as it is, but to\ntransform it, yet only a few nations wanted to listen. Moreover, the\nJews introduced the world to one God, yet only a minority wanted to\ndraw the moral consequences. So the nations of the world realize that\nthey would have been lost without the Jews. And while their\nsubconscious tries to remind them of how much of Western civilization\nis framed in terms of concepts first articulated by the Jews, they do\nanything to suppress it.<\/p>\n\n
They deny that Jews remind them of a higher purpose of life and the\nneed to be honorable, and do anything to escape its consequences It is simply too much to handle for them, too embarrassing to admit, and\nabove all, too difficult to live by.<\/p>\n\n
So the nations of the world decided once again to go out of ‘their’ \nway in order to find a stick to hit the Jews. The goal: to prove that Jews are as immoral and guilty of massacre and genocide as some of they themselves are.<\/p>\n\n
All this in order to hide and justify their own failure to even protest\nwhen six million Jews were brought to the slaughterhouses of
\nAuschwitz and Dachau; so as to wipe out the moral conscience of which the Jews remind them, and they found a stick.<\/p>\n\n
Nothing could be more gratifying for them than to find the Jews in a\nstruggle with another people (who are completely terrorized by their\nown leaders) against whom the Jews, against their best wishes, have to defend themselves in order to survive. With great satisfaction, the\nworld allows and initiates the rewriting of history so as to fuel the\nrage of yet another people against the Jews. This in spite of the fact\nthat the nations understand very well that peace between the parties\ncould have come a long time ago, if only the Jews would have had a \nfair chance. Instead, they happily jumped on the wagon of hate so as to justify their jealousy of the Jews and their incompetence to deal with their own moral issues.<\/p>\n\n
When Jews look at the bizarre play taking place in The Hague, they can only smile as this artificial game once more proves how the world\nparadoxically admits the Jews uniqueness. It is in their need to\nundermine the Jews that they actually raise them.<\/p>\n\n
The study of history of Europe during the past centuries teaches us \none uniform lesson: That the nations which received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered; and that the \nnations that have tortured and oppressed them have written out their own curse.”<\/p>\n\n
–Olive Schreiner, South African novelist and social activist<\/p>\n\n
“Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.”<\/p>\n\n
“If there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would \nbe to be an honorary Jewish citizen.”<\/p>\n\n
–A.L Rowse, authority on Shakespeare<\/p>\n\n
“Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.”<\/p>\n\n
— Churchill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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