Comments on What they <i>don't</i> consider odd is worrisomeTypePad2008-11-27T22:09:07ZDavid Bognerhttps://www.treppenwitz.com/tag:typepad.com,2003:https://www.treppenwitz.com/2008/11/no-raised-eyebr/comments/atom.xml/Rachel Johnson commented on 'What they <i>don't</i> consider odd is worrisome'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c581e53ef013480c7e005970c2010-05-14T05:52:00Z2010-05-14T05:52:00ZRachel JohnsonUmm..hello? They dress different, speak different, socialize amongst themselves, eat a different diet. They stick out like a sore thumb....<p>Umm..hello? They dress different, speak different, socialize amongst themselves, eat a different diet. They stick out like a sore thumb. So many people blame anything that goes wrong on the jews. How is this odd? Happens everytime the economy hits the dumps. Predictable. <br />
What is odd is that the author has not figured that out yet. That the hatred is always there and never floats away like magic. It only simmers underneath the surface.<br />
And I find it odd that the author does not understand that the poor attack the rich because they don't know what else to do when they are desperate. Blame it on someone and survive at any cost. Brute force. They see the rich as having taken from them for so long, they figure, hey time to take back.<br />
Good grief.</p>Rahel commented on 'What they <i>don't</i> consider odd is worrisome'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c581e53ef0105362b73b5970c2008-11-29T21:51:51Z2008-11-29T21:51:52ZRahelhttp://profile.typekey.com/Rahel/David, my condolences. I am so sorry.<p>David, my condolences. I am so sorry.</p>Gila commented on 'What they <i>don't</i> consider odd is worrisome'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c581e53ef0105362301e7970b2008-11-29T21:13:17Z2008-11-29T21:13:17ZGilahttp://www.myshrapnel.blogspot.comI have spent the last few days checking the JPost and Haaretz websites obsessively...but not blogs. It did not occur...<p>I have spent the last few days checking the JPost and Haaretz websites obsessively...but not blogs. It did not occur to me that you know people in Mumbai--that you lost friends. I am so sorry. </p>Ilana-Davita commented on 'What they <i>don't</i> consider odd is worrisome'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c581e53ef01053622f946970b2008-11-29T20:53:33Z2008-11-29T20:53:33ZIlana-Davitahttp://ilanadavita.wordpress.com/Thanks for writing this.<p>Thanks for writing this.</p>Shimshon commented on 'What they <i>don't</i> consider odd is worrisome'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c581e53ef0105362aa468970c2008-11-29T11:37:04Z2008-11-29T11:37:05ZShimshonhttp://www.shimshon9.comMumbai is an enormous city, and Bet Habad, in common with other Batei Habad around the world, does not exactly...<p>Mumbai is an enormous city, and Bet Habad, in common with other Batei Habad around the world, does not exactly advertise itself with neon flashing lights. This was a deliberate attack, in amongst the other attacks in Mumbai, on our people, all of our people, and is neo-Nazi in purpose, intent and delivery.</p>Lisa commented on 'What they <i>don't</i> consider odd is worrisome'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c581e53ef01053621366b970b2008-11-28T22:16:20Z2008-11-28T22:16:20ZLisaOn CNN this morning the news reader asked the Mumbai correspondent, "Is there any evidence that they targeted the Jewish...<p>On CNN this morning the news reader asked the Mumbai correspondent, "Is there any evidence that they targeted the Jewish center because the rabbi is American?"</p>
<p>The correspondent replied, "Well, we really don't know."</p>
<p>Where do they get these people?</p>sean commented on 'What they <i>don't</i> consider odd is worrisome'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c581e53ef01053621330f970b2008-11-28T22:08:13Z2008-11-28T22:08:13ZseanCan you believe this guy. Typical liberal Rabbi. http://blog.beliefnet.com/windowsanddoors/2008/11/one-dead-rabbi-not-the-issue.html<p>Can you believe this guy. Typical liberal Rabbi.</p>
<p>http://blog.beliefnet.com/windowsanddoors/2008/11/one-dead-rabbi-not-the-issue.html</p>a. commented on 'What they <i>don't</i> consider odd is worrisome'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c581e53ef0105362982b9970c2008-11-28T18:34:38Z2008-11-28T18:34:38Za.News here were so nice to start stressing the deliberate targeting of Jews only this afternoon, and only on a...<p>News here were so nice to start stressing the deliberate targeting of Jews only this afternoon, and only on a sidenote of "The center next to the hotel has now been released as well."<br />
Of course, each country's news love to stress the well-being or not-so-well-being of their own countrymen first (as this is what makes news stories and has always been), and in this case here it was Germans and some of our politicians, then Lufthansa crew, then others and "reportedly some Israelis".<br />
But the entire silencing of an otherwise saddening fact was too much to call it an inconvenient circumstance.<br />
Of course, now that the latest news broke, news channels will certainly have their say. But shame on them.</p>Howl commented on 'What they <i>don't</i> consider odd is worrisome'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c581e53ef01053620aa9d970b2008-11-28T16:50:13Z2008-11-28T16:50:13ZHowl:-/ Ahdunno, maybe it's just acceptance of facts? Muslims have been hating Jews for centuries, so it's no big news....<p>:-/ Ahdunno, maybe it's just acceptance of facts? Muslims have been hating Jews for centuries, so it's no big news. But their hatred for just about everyone else as well is somewhat newer. </p>Jack commented on 'What they <i>don't</i> consider odd is worrisome'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c581e53ef01053629537d970c2008-11-28T16:48:13Z2008-11-28T16:48:13ZJackhttp://wwwjackbenimble.blogspot.comThis is so very wrong. Part of my hope for the blogosphere is that somehow, some way we manage to...<p>This is so very wrong. Part of my hope for the blogosphere is that somehow, some way we manage to influence people and affect a change in heart. A little bit a time.</p>
<p>Anyhoo, there will be more blood. This is going to get uglier again.</p>roimort commented on 'What they <i>don't</i> consider odd is worrisome'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c581e53ef010536288f77970c2008-11-28T07:48:44Z2008-11-28T07:48:44ZroimortI remember that joke very well. Our version, which I think had a crisper punch line, went like this:: Speaker:...<p>I remember that joke very well. Our version, which I think had a crisper punch line, went like this::</p>
<p>Speaker: Now that Germany is reunited they're going to have a Fourth Reich and this time they're going to kill twelve million Jews and six firemen.</p>
<p>Interlocutor: Why six firemen?</p>
<p>Speaker: You see, nobody cares about the Jews.</p>
<p>La plus ca change, la plus c'est la meme chose.</p>Wry Mouth commented on 'What they <i>don't</i> consider odd is worrisome'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c581e53ef0105361fddcb970b2008-11-28T06:12:00Z2008-11-28T06:12:00ZWry Mouthhttp://wrymouth.comRadioman Dennis Prager was just talking last week about how he looked forward to visiting a Chabad center in Africa...<p><br />
Radioman Dennis Prager was just talking last week about how he looked forward to visiting a Chabad center in Africa ... so when I heard that as a target, it struck me as significant...</p>
<p>I wouldn't be surprised, in this day and age, if we discovered later on that the whole series of attacks was actually centered around the Chabad house, that it was not incidental, but essential, with the hotel attacks being diversionary.</p>
<p>I wouldn't be surprised at all. </p>Ari commented on 'What they <i>don't</i> consider odd is worrisome'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c581e53ef010536287acf970c2008-11-28T06:04:26Z2008-11-28T06:04:26ZAriJew-hatred is both a contagious, sometimes inherited, psychosis. No country or religion is immune. Rational motivation is not part of...<p>Jew-hatred is both a contagious, sometimes inherited, psychosis. No country or religion is immune. Rational motivation is not part of the equation.</p>
<p>And yes, there is the "soft racism" of lowered expectations toward the morals of non Jews. Why do they murder Jews in Buenos Aires, Rome, Mumbai and Kenya? Um, not sure -- but they can't be held responsible for their actions. It's just . . . what they do. </p>
<p>Genocide in Sudan and Rwanda? Well, that's just what they do. Israel is just a lot more interesting, isn't it?</p>
<p>Why did Saddam Hussein lob missiles at Israel in 1991 when the US pushed him out of Kuwait? Again, not sure - but the Jews probably deserved it, and it was as good a time as any, right?</p>
<p>Don't overthink this one. It's a law of nature. Just like God created genetic mutations, he also created the mutation of Jew hatred. Doesn't mean we have to like it or tolerate, but understand it for what it is -- a freak of "nature."</p>Kae Gregory commented on 'What they <i>don't</i> consider odd is worrisome'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c581e53ef0105361fab88970b2008-11-28T04:09:42Z2008-11-28T04:09:43ZKae GregoryWhen Jews, whom one would think would be predisposed toward treating other Jews well; when these Jews can take homes...<p>When Jews, whom one would think would be predisposed toward treating other Jews well; when these Jews can take homes and land away from other Jews in a country largely considered Jewish, how on earth could it possibly be considered odd that Jews would be mistreated by non-Jews anywhere - let alone by those who are commanded by their religious texts to search out and to kill Jews pretty much anywhere. Doesn't strike me as odd at all. Maybe a little before - not now.</p>beverly commented on 'What they <i>don't</i> consider odd is worrisome'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c581e53ef0105361f7fe1970b2008-11-28T01:40:26Z2008-11-28T01:40:26Zbeverlyhttp://knowthefeeling.blogspot.comhttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/28/nyregion/28chabad.html?_r=1&hp The NY Times article about the Chabad house did seem to imply that this was an unusual target, not...<p>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/28/nyregion/28chabad.html?_r=1&hp</p>
<p>The NY Times article about the Chabad house did seem to imply that this was an unusual target, not fitting with the other types of establishments targeted. </p>Joyce commented on 'What they <i>don't</i> consider odd is worrisome'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c581e53ef010536280b64970c2008-11-28T00:59:21Z2008-11-28T00:59:21ZJoycehttp://momisaverb.blogspot.com/Thank you for posting this. I had no idea. I wish I knew how to link to other websites. Please...<p>Thank you for posting this. I had no idea. I wish I knew how to link to other websites. Please get the word out. </p>Bob commented on 'What they <i>don't</i> consider odd is worrisome'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c581e53ef0105361f7262970b2008-11-28T00:51:46Z2008-11-28T00:51:46ZBobhttp://lostfart.blogspot.comWell, look on the bright side: No one considers you paranoid when you say, "The world is out to get...<p>Well, look on the bright side: No one considers you paranoid when you say, "The world is out to get me."</p>
<p>That's powerfully written and very convicting of the world's tolerance of antisemitism.</p>JDMDad commented on 'What they <i>don't</i> consider odd is worrisome'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c581e53ef0105361f47e2970b2008-11-27T22:40:55Z2008-11-27T22:40:56ZJDMDadhttp://JDMDad.blogspot.comI was thinking a little bit like this when I noticed that mention of the Chabad center was deep down...<p>I was thinking a little bit like this when I noticed that mention of the Chabad center was deep down in some of the news reports (some didn't even mention it, but those were in the early newspaper this morning, so maybe they didn't get that part of the story yet). It was troubling me, but I couldn't put my finger on exactly what it was that bothered me. You nailed it exactly, thank you. I'll continue saying Tehellim for the Holtzbergs and all the others. <br />
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