Killing Kishinev, Remembering Warsaw
The anniversary of the 1903 Kishinev pogrom is today, and Jews are still getting beat up at record levels in places like England and France. Another anniversary is also approaching: the start of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, which has been dramatized in Uprising. If Jews like Mordechai Anielewicz and Shalom Yoran could fight back under the bleakest of circumstances, today's Jews can learn to defend themselves.


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For the life of me, I do not understand the enthusiasm Jews have for gun control. After all the progroms, the Holocaust, the terrorist attacks in Israel, and the increase in Anti-Semetic attacks, I would have thought most Jews would have come to realize that they can only depend on themselves for safety.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice--is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the existing of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other." - John Stuart Mill
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