Netanyahu Concedes on Palestinian State as Iran Looms in the Background
JL — Jews are not a united tribe; throughout history and especially through the 20th century many Jews contributed to their own tribe’s demise, e.g. by being instrumental in the Soviet revolution and early state. The problem is that demise of Jews and Israel is bad for the rest of us in a big way — loss of specific contributions (what’s the chance that one of exterminated 6 million would have come up with cold fusion?) and of the general climate of inquiry and freedom that is possibly correlated to their abilities in letters and numbers (would it be harder for the left to take over Europe’s policy and open the doors to Muslim immigration if European Jews weren’t so diminished? Maybe)
So yeah, just like it would have been better for the rest of the world to come to the aid of Banu Qurayza so is now.
