Hamas and Human Sacrifice
about 20 percent of the Nazi gauleiters—the regional party leaders—committed suicide, as did about 10 percent of the generals.17 But that means that 80 percent of the gauleiters and 90 percent of the generals were quite happy to continue living. The vast majority of card-carrying Nazis and even rank-and-file SS members neither went insane nor kille
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Deir Yassin stands out in the history of Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine precisely because it was so unusual and so out of character for the Jews. No single Arab massacre of Jews has that status, because there are too many to list. Yet every Arab schoolchild and propagandist knows of and speaks of Deir Yassin, while few ever mention Hebron, Kfar
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the Bible commands Jews to exterminate certain people such as the Amalekites and the Canaanites. “Do not leave alive a single soul,” decrees the holy book. “Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you” (Deuteronomy 20:16–17). This is one of the first recorded i
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the lessons we derive in the aftermath of major catastrophic events are decidedly not rational. We exaggerate the probability of their recurrence, and we resent any reminders that (setting the shock aside) their actual human and economic impact has been comparable to the consequences of many risks whose cumulative toll does not raise any extraordin
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