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Living among Jews
From: The Jerusalem Report
Date: 20070514
Author:Stuart Schoffman
Writing about the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, D.H. Lawrence had this to say about the Red Man: "Those who are pushed out of life in chagrin come back, unappeased, for revenge." Dead Indians, he observed bluntly, are the "daimon, or demon, of America," and he was right, especially if you extend the metaphor to race in general.
The Spanish expelled Jews and Muslims, then sailed to America and murdered the dark-skinned natives. Some of the European conquerors of the New World thought the Indians were subhuman; others thought they were descended from lost tribes of ancient Israel. Some, ...
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