The Long Path of Hatred

"One historian summarized the Jewish experience in America.  "This is the first land where the Jews didn't automatically have to fear the police."  His meaning was that, for too long, authority and the individuals who wield power were capricious, arbitrary, rapine.  Holocaust chronicler, Dr. Raul Hilberg, put it another way when he writes in capturing the logic and horror of some 1700 years of experience with the "civilized" western world.  "The Church said you may not live among us a s Jews. "  The result was conversion, exclusion, or ghettoization.  Then Hilberg continues: "After the Church, the State  said you may not live among us."  The consequence: More ghettos, often violence, sometimes expulsion.  "The Nazis then said you may not live."  -Michael Zedek