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Joseph Epstein's excellent essay in The Wall Street Journal about I.J. Singer's The Brothers Ashkenazi (them that is in the know -- and that includes most of us Forward veterans -- know that I.J. was a better writer than his brother I.B.) contains
this penetrating observation: "Politics taught I.J. the bitter lesson
that, however much the extreme
left and the extreme right might disagree, the one common ground upon
which they met comfortably was anti-Semitism." This is an evergreen
phenomenon, unfortunately. We see the brown-red coalition aligned
against Israel in Europe, of course, and, in less dramatic, but still
disturbing fashion, we The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan's
paleo-con magazine, featuring the writings of doctrinaire leftists on
Buchanan's least-favorite country, the one he recently compared to Nazi Germany. The Buchananites have even recruited Jews to do their Israel-bashing for them. This particular development falls in the category of shocking yet not exactly surprising.
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