Friday, January 14, 2011  [By Barry Rubin, crossposted from The
Rubin Report.]               "In 1886 all the people revolted,
Even Poles in Dolhinov revolted, They were eating bread,
drinking vodka and beating and strangling Jews The Jews were
suffering for the boy, Stanislav. They put him in a barrel and
were rocking him, Let's beat Jews in revenge for Christian
blood!"               Sound familiar?               Thank you
for this. Such simple, unbeguiling, straigh-forward accounts and
contrasts are extraordinarily refreshing, given the current
"reportage" and political/media climate in general.  The
following may be the most tragically telling condensation in
this account:  "This is progress! From illiterate Byelorussian
peasants to the United Nations in just a bit over a century!"
Why do Jews get so worked up over Holocaust denial? If it were
asserted by a great many know-nothings that the Civil War never
happened, would that change the fact that it did happen and had
huge consequences? There are many s