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From: martillo@mit-athena.ARPA (Joaquim Martillo)
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Subject: Re: Who is a Jew (Mr. Martillo's bark worse than his bite!)
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Date: Sun, 7-Oct-84 11:19:35 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct  7 11:19:35 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. MartilSun, 7-Oct-84 08:19:35 PDT
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I  think  we  have  a  confusion  here  between  reported and unreported
brutality  and  slaughter.   The  Czarists  were  brutal  but  were  not
particularly  interested  in  covering  their tracks.  The worst Czarist
slaughter I have read was the Kishenev massacre (~30  people).   Compare
this  to  the  Damascus  massacre (~25 years earlier) of ~50 people in a
city with 1/20 the Jewish population.  The point  is  in  Kishenev  many
witnesses  survived  to  tell  the  story.  With the Soviets as with the
Muslims earlier there were hardly ever any surviving witnesses.  By  the
end of Stalin's regime, there were almost no surviving Rabbis outside of
oriental provinces.  Almost  all  Jewish  intellectuals  (including  all
major  Yiddish  writers)  had been shot by 1952.  Almost every Synogogue
outside of oriental provinces had been destroyed.  To  this  day  Hebrew
instruction is illegal and no school is permitted to function in Yiddish
or Judeopersian.  At least at all time periods under the Czars Jews were
free  to leave.  The Soviets and Czarists have hated Jews and would kill
Jews for that hatred but the Czarists never  considered  maintenance  of
Jewish  identity an executable offence.  The Soviets have and seem to be
moving in that direction once again.

Once again David Rubin shows his fossilized mentality, and is unable  to
accept  that the enemies of enemies of the Jews might also be enemies of
the Jews.  In terms of dissemination of antiSemitic propaganda  and  aid
to  peoples who want to kill Jews the Soviets have surpassed all enemies
of the Jews except for Hitler.