History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]

Human aka Judeo-Christian vs. animal aka heathen. I'm not defending the Crusaders either!

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]

Over simplified in your Globish vernacular, but essentially correct.

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]

The issue though is far more involved than meets the eye. Most issues worth discussion are:-)

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]

And still, no other peoples submitted en masse with such nearly unstoppable gusto to the unparalleled anti-Christian barbarism of the Third Reich as Hitler's million hordes! This then begs the eternal question "Why Germany?"

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]

There's a thesis which maintains that the Germans never truly Christianized, but remained heathens at heart.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

None to my certain knowledge, novi.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

The "Jesus argument" might well be the most tenable one yet...if you know a thing about history:-)

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Look at who was in the influential public eye such as the prelates Jozef Kardinal Glemp, Wyszpanski, not to mention the arch nationalist politico Moczar!

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]

Thanks. Schulz though was noteworthy for being Jewish!

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

I did no such thing! The Poles, as with other gentile Europeans, hated the Jews because the latter were demonized as Christ-killers, plain and simple.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Whom else?

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]

A contemporary of that British chap Bacon?

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Your thinking is typically American, ignorant and simplistic!

Why do you like or dislike somebody? Usually, there is no reason, good, bad or indifferent.

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]

2O15 you mean, otherwise the chap died before he was even born LOL

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Question is hardly simple, novi.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Jews were initially perceived as too shrewd, too ready to see the wrong doings of others:-)

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Israel was still virgin territory by the fime the European-Jewish settlers, the Jabotinskys and so forth, arrived in the Holy Land! Try teaching Holocaust studies to Israeli youth. "So why didn't those in the schtettl simply blow 'em all away with their semi-automatics?", was the usual response from high schoolers.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Ever heard of the past that won't pass away? I guess not. Pity that. The past is always present:-)

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

The Church demonized the Jews as a mendacious lot for centuries! All lies, for the most part. A well disseminated children's Yuletide album from Nueremberg read: "Traut keinem Fuchs auf gruener Heid' und keinem Jud' bei seinem Eid." (Trust ye neither the fox alone upon the heath nor the Jew at his word) Charming little ditty.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Yet Jesus of course technically was Jewish because of Mary Magdalene:-)

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Tell that to the Untouchables, I'm sure they'll be thrilled. LOL

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Jews were the competition.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Re-read #574 and #577 once again, and EXTRA SLOWLY this time 'round.. if you can lol

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Yet history shows that the more the Jews of Europe assimilated, indeed converted, the more their lives improved:-) @Novi, insulting your intelligence doesn't take much!

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Jews were blamed for every ill under the sun because they were mistakenly targeted as "Christ killers". In fact, it was the Romans who murdered Jesus.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Will ck. it out.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Kinda tough to be even-handed with a German SS goon killing a typically defenseless, unarmed shtettl Jew probably twice the other man's size! For this reason, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising proved once and for all to the Germans as well as the rest of the world that Maccabee spirit, namely, that the Jews weren't nebishy chumps:-)

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Yep, those stubborn stats'll getcha every time!

My truth? There's only one, I always learned.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Jews have historically gotten bad press, aided and abetted by the Catholic Church.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Once again, to paraphrase Disraeli, there are lies, there are damned lies, and then there are statistics!