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IS Israel closing its embassy in Dublin a prudent and wise decision or the actions of an over-sensitive, petulant government?
And why is it that whenever a Jew or Israel is criticised the response is always to shout back “you’re antisemitic”? Can’t we Jews ever take criticism from a non-Jew without always believing that their intent is always malicious and insidious, their intention to destroy us or be complicit in destroying us? Are we as a people neurotically over-sensitive thinking everyone wants to exterminate us? “Yes,” says Freud from the grave. “The Holocaust has left every generation of Jews thinking everyone wants to annihilate them.” Israel even has the chutzpa to accuse a Jewish Irish Prime Minister of being antisemitic! But the Irish Prime Minister is not Ireland you say. But there again was not Egypt Pharaoh and Pharaoh Egypt? Ireland is being sensible in that even though they disagree with Israel they are not withdrawing their embassy in Israel. The Irish Prime Minister Mr Simon Harris has the same sombre, contemplative Jewish gaze of the poet and singer Leonard Cohen. I wonder if Mr Harris writes poetry? I do think It is quite extraordinary that Ireland a predominantly Catholic country with a growing political party such as Sinn Fein should have a Jewish prime minister. This would suggest Ireland is not antisemitic.
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