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Similarly, Mr. Terkel is now resting comfortably in his spacious air-conditioned condominium, and looking out the window dreaming of his socialist messianic kingdom, which, to his consternation, has not yet arrived. But, Mr. Terkel believes, if only the Jews and the Israelis in particular would act like saints, then the messianic kingdom would be here. Alas, Mr. Terkel, there are few saints among Jews, Christians, Muslims, and just about everyone else. You, sir, are the victim of your own naive thinking, which stems from your World War II experiences, which you astonishingly labeled “The Good War” when millions of Jews and non-Jews were dying. Then the good guys, the Allies (many of whom did not care a hoot about the destruction of European Jewry, and some of whom welcomed or even participated in the Holocaust), were fighting the Axis powers.
Finally let me say that the whole American left is just pathetic. The SDS had a good thing going when they, like Albert Gore Sr. and Jr., opposed the war in Vietnam. But the students in the SDS thought that they could win over middle-class America by not taking a bath, engaging in unlimited sex, smoking pot, and using other drugs, and denouncing Israel as a racist imperialist state. And Joel Sprayreger is correct when he notes that Mr. Terkel has never publicly, to my knowledge, contributed to a Jewish cause. Messrs. Terkel and Sussman, it is you who ought to study history and not Joel Sprayreger.
