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Eric hoffer on israel 1968 calendar


In 1968, months after Israel's whopping victory in the Six Day War, Hoffer wrote an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times (May 26, 1968) in response to the.

  • August 16, 1968 • Page Image 3 Eric Hoffer Writes: Northland *If Israel Perishes, the World Perishes* If were to perish.
  • Notable & Quotable: Eric Hoffer on Israel, 1968.
  • National convention, December 1968 -- Proposals and papers, October 1968 - December 1968 Israel.
  • July 19, 1968, at the call of the senior.
  • Notable & Quotable: Eric Hoffer on Israel, 1968.!

    The Jews are a peculiar people:  things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.  Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem.  Russia did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it, Turkey threw out a million Greeks, and Algeria a million Frenchmen, Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese and no one says a word about refugees.

    But in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees.  Everyone insists that Israel must take back every
    single Arab. 

    Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis.  Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms.  But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace.  Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.

    Other nations when they are defeated survive and recover.

    But should Israel be defeated it would be destroyed.&n