I just came back from a stressful trip through Los Angeles traffic, and while waiting...and waiting...and WAITING in the worst traffic jam imaginable, I was listening to a very interesting speech by Benjamin Friedman, a Jew who was horrified at what Israel stood for and had don - starting with the Balfour Declaration.
I would say that in Holocaust Education 101, that speech is absolutely essential. I don't even know its title since somebody sent it to me anonymously. But I am going to find out - maybe it can be reproduced. It is a stunning speech.
I am pleading utter fatigue today and am going to make today's ZGram short.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson went on a camping trip. After a good meal and a bottle of wine they lay down for the night and went to sleep. Some hours later, Holmes awoke and nudges his faithful friend.
"Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see?"
Watson replied: "I see millions and millions of stars."
"What does that tell you?" asked Holmes.
Watson pondered for a minute.
''Astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets.
Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo.
Horologically, I deduce that the time is a quarter past three.
Theologically, I can see that God is all powerful and that we are small and insignificant.
Meteorologically, I think that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. What does it tell you?"
Holmes was silent for a minute, then spoke: "Watson, you idiot! Someone has stolen out tent!!"
Clean story - with a lesson. Someone has stolen our tent.
Ingrid
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Thought for the Day:
*If I were told that WWII was conducted in secret, *that all but a handful of documents had been destroyed, *that the remaining documents were all in code words, *that the bodies had all been cremated and the ashes vanished, *and that it took a court to establish that it had even occurred, *damned right I would be skeptical.
(Letter to the Zundelsite)