News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

Here I agree! Their stand on the Falashas is ambivalent too, to say the very least:-)

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

I'm not crazy about Zionism either, although one, that is, any thinking person (Jew or gentile) can readily appreciate why ZIonists feel as adamantly about their cause as they do! Why ought the Israelis be the only nation on earth without a bona fide homeland of their own?

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

Nonetheless, post-War American, US-born. There's a difference.

Life / The Art of Complaining by Polish people [47]

I was simply making a joke apropos, nothing more!:-)

In fact, the art of complaining has become part of the Austrian, especially, Viennese, lingo from time immemorial. Optimism in Vienna (having lived there for a time) is often suspect and considered too "American" for most people's traditional tastes. Only recently, according to the NYT, is positive thinking in France actually being given intellectual credence. Go figure. That apparently it's also a Polish trait I heard for the first time just several days ago when I read the current thread!

Life / The Art of Complaining by Polish people [47]

Again, it seems they've been learning this fine art from their Austrian neighbors:-)

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

Finkelstein is not only neither a survivor himself, nor even the offspring of survivors, he has been reviled by nearly every survivor as well as non-survivor group in the country!!

Be wary of the rogue historian trying to play into the hands of the Irvings, Leuchtners and the rest of the deniers:-)

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

While not a Zionist, but as a fellow Jew, I can well understand their zeal, even if misplaced at times! And NO, I never was a supporter, rather, a detractor of, and always reviled the likes of a Meier Kahan and his ilk, just in case you're wondering.

@NoToForeigners, your very moniker suggests a deep prejudice, quite unbecoming of you, either as a Pole, a modern, post-War European, above all, as a Christian!

This persistent myth that Jews are greedy by their very nature suggests a complete ignorance of history as well as gross double standard concerning human behavior

in general!!

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

To quote Sir Winston Churchill, who saw his country through even far rougher waters than those of today, "Democracy is the least effective, most ineffectual form of government known! Yet do we know of any one better?"

Without idealism there can be no humanity, and without the latter, there remains only barbarism. Something to consider well, even when the world seems to spin helplessly out of control. Cooler heads prevailing, needn't always mean taking the path of least resistance. Expedient doesn't necessarily mean right!

Life / The Art of Complaining by Polish people [47]

Guess the Poles have been taking lessons from the Viennese!

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

In the latter instance, property title would have to be considered, since the "leaving" of the former tenants/owners might not have been legal.

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

Seems to me an extreme overreaction, don't you think, rather like throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

Putin's Russia for example...although of course he denies it vehemently! Almost reminds me of that great film >The Lives of Others<, where the young playwrite Georg Dreymann accidentally angers Commisar Hempff by talking about how repugnant he finds blacklists in his country which singled out and nearly ruined the career of his good friend and fellow playwrite Jerska. Hempff threateningly denies the existence of such, wagging his intimidating index finger at Dreymann, "You really should watch your phraseology from now on, sir!"

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

The IPS-law is nonetheless universally seen by the rest of the world as punitive, to say the least!

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

Can one really blame them, Slavictor?

Off-Topic / Which western European country would assimilate more Poles and other Slavs in next 50 years? [12]

I try, Ironside. What's your excuse?

Off-Topic / Which western European country would assimilate more Poles and other Slavs in next 50 years? [12]

The EU was originally conceived as primarily a Western European "club", deciding which members qualified based on human rights violations as well as GDP.
The only reason a country like Germany was ever allowed in, was obviously due to the latter, and not the former-:)))

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

Anything to commercialize human suffering.

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

@Hr. Grunevald, what then is your perspective? Do you agree in whole or in part with the new IPS law in Poland?

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

Any relation to Trygve Lie?
Being that you are a Norwegian, I was scarcely provoking, unless of course you might have not grasped what I was trying to say.

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

The Norwegians too had a heroic resistance movement as well, although their leader at the time, hr. Quisling, sided with Hitler. Sort of reminds me a little of Vichy France, with a Nazi Petain and Laval, but at the same time, the likes of a Jean Moulin and numerous others to make up for that unfortunate turn of political events.

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

More than terrible, inaccurate at best, moreover grossly unfair to the vast majority of Poles whose nation has been besmerched for far too long as it is.

Language / Etymology of the word "brat" - in Poland and other Slavic countries [21]

Well now, that's sure the pot calling the kettle black:-)

Language / Etymology of the word "brat" - in Poland and other Slavic countries [21]

If a Slav calls someone a "brat", that of course, is usually some sort of compliment! If a Slav calls an Anglophone same, that might cause some momentary displeasure, particularly if the latter were a minorLOL

Polonia / Polish workers in Denmark [41]

I can attest as someone who lives in the US, that Polish workmen are proverbially reliable, diligent, and honest, their foreign-language speaking skills notwithstanding:-)

They typically work solely on a cash-only basis and probably know limited English, although as many Danes know English, little reason for the former to know Danish except perhaps for the basics of "yes", "no", "thank you" etc.

Do recall the amusing, probably typical, incident whereby a Pole asks their Danish boss a simple yes or no question, to which the latter responds with "Ja, tak!" (lit. "Yes, thank you!), leaving the Poles momentarily confused, since in Polish of course, "tak" means "yes", not "thank you", and "ja" mean "I", rather than "yes"LOL

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

Just a pun, Rudy, and a poor one:-) No offense meant, merely yours truly acting foolish by blowing off a little steam by pretending to be cleverLOL

News / Roma community feels discriminated in Poland [43]

"Gypsy" in fact comes from the once mistaken notion that they were actually of Egyptian origin:-)

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

I'm not lecturing, Sig, I'm remonstrating.

Yo Rudy! Go PiS offLOL

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

Indeed there is, and so kindly remember same before you or others disseminate questionable truths; there's only one!

@dolno,
I'll mail you a translation:-)

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

@Miloslaw,

If you understand English (which apparently you do), you'd have grasped what I've written and not need to follow up with meaningless commentary meant to do nothing other than play psychology with other posters!

@kaprys, being a Roman Catholic, perhaps you'd get the gist of what I'm saying by recalling that wonderful quote from the New Testament "Hate the sin, but not the sinner". Regarding the books I recommended for your and other's edification which were both written by Jews (which objectively ought to make no difference whatsoever), try Dieter Zimmer's "The Destruction of the Jews", which I'm certain is available in both Polish as well as English translation:-) He is a German gentile who, like Ernst Klee, is a serious historian of the period.

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

Don't ask me, I'm not a Zionist.

@dolno et al,

Since when is being a "friend" of someone or something the same as not criticizing rationally when one sees something wrong? I've posted this question for nearly as long as this thread has existed, yet have not gotten an answer, almost as though I said nothing.