THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“The Jews are a peculiar people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.

Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people, and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it. Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchmen. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese–and no one says a word about refugees.

But in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace.

Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.”

— Eric Hoffer

BIRTHDAYS:

480 bc Euripides, Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full.

1642 Giovanni Maria Bononcini, Italian violinist, composer, and theorist (Musico prattico), born in Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio. Sonata da Chiesa IIa del Duodecimo tono una quinta più in basso, and Infelice la mia costanza

1684 Johann Theodor Römhild, German organist and composer, born in Salzungen, Thuringia, Saxony. Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid Roem V 68

1768 William Wallace, Scottish mathematician and astronomer who invented the eidograph (an improved pantograph).

1861 Robert Bosch, German engineer, inventor (automotive ignition device), and industrialist, born in Albeck, Kingdom of Württemberg.

1942 Dith Pran, Cambodian photojournalist, survivor of the Cambodian genocide, and subject of the movie “The Killing Fields”

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HERE’S SOME RECREATIONAL READING FOR THE NEXT LOCKDOWN:

IN 2006. Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

RELATED. Nuremberg Code.