“We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.”
Such amazing words. We did it you guys, and I know I’m ready to help be the change, and become the great nation Obama knows we can become.
Here in Vienna the left-liberal daily Der Standard welcomed today Barack Obama with an article of Norman Birnbaum, coeditor of “The Nation”.
He wrote a paragraph about USA-Israel relations and predicts that – my retranslation from the German - “our strange version of the Babylonian captivity - with the Israelis as masters will not end soon.” Nevertheless Birnbaum hopes that “rationality” will slowly progress.
”Though this be madness, yet ther’s method in’t”
Such pronouncements of an American intellectual are most welcome in a country where only 23 years ago during the election campaign for Kurt Waldheim the idea was promoted that the “East coast” (code word for USA Jews) rules America. It is the very old stereotype of the Jewish world conspiracy.