TILTING AT WINDMILLS: JEWS AND ARABS

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

JEWS AND ARABS

With the conflict in Gaza it appears that attacks have started on Jews in Europe including those in Britain, France, Belgium, Sweden and Denmark.

In my blog of last Friday, “Shalom”, I told of an old Jewish friend of mine whose parents perished in the Holocaust but is fiercely ant-Israeli.

Whilst the State of Israel is predominantly a Jewish country it does not necessarily follow that Jews around the world support the actions in Gaza and the suffering of the Palestinian people.

Any more I may add that all Arabs and Muslims are guilty of the Twin Tower horrors in New York even though the perpetrators were both.

However I suspect for George W Bush and his administration the tragedy of Gaza is nothing more than pay-back time.

One can only pray that fair minded people around the world will not equate the tragedy of Gaza with the Jewish people.

Shalom.

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TILTING AT WINDMILLS

Sancho Panza is much less learned but a good deal saner than his master.

"At this point they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that are on that plain.

"Fortune," said Don Quixote to his squire, as soon as he had seen them, "is arranging matters for us better than we could have hoped. Look there, friend Sancho Panza, where thirty or more monstrous giants rise up, all of whom I mean to engage in battle and slay, and with whose spoils we shall begin to make our fortunes. For this is righteous warfare, and it is God's good service to sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the earth."

"What giants?" said Sancho Panza.

"Those you see there," answered his master, "with the long arms, and some have them nearly two leagues long."

"Look, your worship,'' said Sancho. "What we see there are not giants but windmills, and what seem to be their arms are the vanes that turned by the wind make the millstone go."

"It is easy to see," replied Don Quixote, "that you are not used to this business of adventures. Those are giants, and if you are afraid, away with you out of here and betake yourself to prayer, while I engage them in fierce and unequal combat."”