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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Who is a Jew (Mr. Martillo's bark worse than his bite!)
Message-ID: <347@fisher.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 10:53:15 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  2 10:53:15 1984
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References: <1438@ittvax.UUCP>, <223@fisher.UUCP> <225@mit-athena.ARPA>, <253@fisher.UUCP> <255@mit-athena.ARPA>Re: Who is a Jew (Mr. MartilTue, 2-Oct-84 09:53:15 CDT
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Martillo is very wrong in asserting that Soviet Communists have treated
their Jews worse then the Tsarists did.  Jews in the Soviet Union are
persecuted and surpressed, but Tsarist Russia was only exceeded by
Nazi Germany in its virulent and violent attacks upon Jews.  The worst
Soviet leader (Stalin) was, from a Jewish perspective, equivalent to
one of the less hostile Tsars.  Pogroms do not take place in the
Soviet Union, and nothing apporaching a pogrom has ever taken place
there with the exception, again, of Stalin.

You also commented that Spanish persecution of the Jews following the
expulsion of the Moors makes it stupid for any Jew to involve himself
in Spanish politics.  Would you ignore the plight of a righteous child
because of his father's wickedness?  Perhaps it WAS foolish for Jews
to die for Republican Spain, but the answer lies in that generation,
not half a millenium ago.  For example, while France has a long and
venerable anti-Semitic tradtion, it was very much in Jewish interests
that the 1789 revolution succeed.

					David Rubin
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