Anti-Semitism
My inspiration to write more on this spiny subject came from one of the published Comments on this site. The Comment can easily be found under the subject heading Jewish History. One of my previous posts dealt with statistics connected with The Holocaust. The commentarist restricted himself to using American terminology inviting and requiring intimate oral relations. One assumes that the expression used – “Suck my dick” – indicates a certain disinclination to accept the usual 6-million-dead holocaust statistics. They were I admit wrong, because I had inadvertently left out figures of murdered Jews in Poland and many Soviet satellites, leaving a final figure that lacks substance and does not add up to 6 million. (more…)
Next year the general election in Spain will choose which of the two major political parties will struggle on for another four years; the economy in ruins, the unemployment figures spiralling upwards, confidence in local and national politicians reaching its lowest level since the death of Franco. In fact one could assume that the Spanish people had more confidence in politicians during Franco’s ‘government’ than now, for the simple reason that with Franco you knew exactly where you stood. It was a given that you were not permitted to talk about politics, and anyway could not gather together in a crowd to do so with breaking the law; choices were few or non-existent. This perhaps explains why so many Spaniards, especially in more rural districts, sang rather a lot as they went about their labours.