Peres: Despite being targeted, the Jewish people persist
BY GREER FAY CASHMAN
22/02/2010 03:12
President urges Jews “to maintain our togetherness and introduce more tolerance.”
With Purim only a week away, it was understandable that President Shimon Peres would invoke the name of Ahasuerus, the ancient king of Persia, at the opening plenary session of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors meeting Sunday.
Peres mentioned the king to illustrate that despite the passing of centuries, the attitude toward Jews, from Ahasuerus to Ahmadinejad, remains unchanged.
Just falling short of comparing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with Hitler and Stalin, Peres wondered aloud why Jews are targeted from generation to generation when they have given so much innovation and creativity to the world out of all proportion to numbers.
“Why do they select us all the time, from Ahasuerus to Ahmadinejad?” he asked.
The only answer he could come up with was that there is some perverse attitude toward the Jewish people’s ongoing commitment to attempting to build a better world.
Quoting from The New York Times, Peres said that Jews make up only 0.2 percent of the world’s population, but 54% of the world’s chess champions and 25% of Nobel Prize laureates.
The percentage of Jewish laureates rises to 31% in the field of medicine.
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Is Kasparov Jewish?
As Azerbaijani I must say I thought our government was the lamest but hell no! Israel government is way ahead. Are they even ashamed? Jews have their country now,but they still have the attitude of national minorities.
PS.Crusades shows that jews are not the only oppressd ones and at least they were being let to live in Europe unlike muslims
Kasparov: Jewish Father, Armenian Mother
Anon: 1:28:00
The liberal democracy in Israel in the midst of dozens of the most brutal military dictatorships and dark-ages theocracies is the lamest govt in the world–by far?!
Some pathetic wars of retaliation (Crusades) demonstrate how horribly oppressed Muslims are?! Get real! That was 1000 years ago!
Jews being allowed to live in Europe while Muslims aren’t?! That is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard. After being slaughtered by the millions in the ’30s and ’40s, there are hardly any Jews in Europe today, but there are millions of Muslims living there, and Muslims from North African are immigrating there in droves.