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Mark Steyn on the lesson of a Jewish cemetery
Another important piece from Steyn in which he explores the new (and completely politically acceptable) antisemitism which unites Leftists and Islamists. Such a union has real consequences which are already being played out every day.
"By 2005, there were fewer than 150 Jews in Tangiers, almost all of them very old. By 2015, it is estimated that there will be precisely none. Whenever I mention such statistics to people, the reaction is a shrug: why would Jews live in Morocco anyway? But in 1945 there were some 300,000 in this country. Today some 3,000 Jews remain—i.e., about one per cent of what was once a large and significant population. That would be an unusual demographic reconfiguration in most countries: imagine if Canada’s francophone population or Inuit population were today one per cent of what it was in 1945. But it’s not unusual for Jews. There are cemeteries like that on the rue du Portugal all over the world, places where once were Jews and now are none. I mentioned only last week that in the twenties, Baghdad was 40 per cent Jewish. But you could just as easily cite Czernowitz in the Bukovina, now part of Ukraine. “There is not a shop that has not a Jewish name painted above its windows,” wrote Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, visiting the city in 1937. Not today. As in Tangiers, the “community” resides in the cemetery."
Jews and Evangelicals Meet
The event, held June 15-16, attracted leaders representing large swaths of the more than 50 million evangelical Christian adults in the United States — and, in the process, underscored the changing face of the movement.
Can 3rd Temple be built without destroying Dome of the Rock? | Jerusalem Post
Interesting because a number of Christian prophecy theorists have been saying for years that this could be done and will be done based on their interpretation of Revelation chapter 11. Would this be the compromise that makes a peace possible?
Leaving Peru for Israel
Interesting NY Times story here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/world/americas/22peru.html.
This is actually part of a larger trend that's taking place around the globe.
