“When we were led into the gas chamber, YOU said nothing. When we were forcibly converted, YOU said nothing. When we were thrown out of a country just for being Jews, YOU said nothing. Now when we defend ourselves suddenly, YOU have something to say. Did we take revenge on the Germans for their Final Solution? Did we take revenge on the Spanish and the Portuguese for their Inquisition? Did we take revenge on Islam for treating us as Dhimmis? Did we take revenge on the Russian Okhrana and for the forgery of the Protocols of Zion? We studied our Torah We innovated in medicine We innovated in defense systems We innovated in IT, communications and computer science We innovated in agriculture We made music We wrote poetry We made the desert bloom We won Nobel prizes We founded the movie industry We financed democracy We fulfilled the word of Hashem by becoming a light unto the Nations of the Earth. So World, when you criticize us for defending our heritage and our ancestral homeland, we the Jews of the world do exactly what you did, we ignore you. You have proven to us for the last 2,000 years that when the chips are down, you don’t care. Now leave us alone and go sort out your own mess whilst we continue our 5784-year-old mission, enhancing the world we share.” - Howard Klineberg via Hillel Fuld (with minor redaction by me)
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