Leftists Reminisces Yiddish Vs. Hebrew. Backhanded Helen Thomas Thinking

Matthew Yglesias just arrived and he's already left, full of satisfaction with himself for having come to learn, and smug in his conviction that he didn't need to learn all that much because he already knew lots of it. He was hosted by Didi Remez, whom long-time readers of this blog may recognize as an ideologically driven member of our far Left who isn't very convincing unless you agree with him. I'm recording Matthew's arrogance of lecturing to the Israelis who just can't see things as he and Didi see them, and his total lack of curiosity: if people don't see things his way they're wrong, and he has no reason to wonder why they might see things otherwise.
Before I sign off following him, however, here's a tidbit that rather sums it up:

Since I’ve got Israel on the brain, it strikes me in this regard that it’s perhaps unfortunate that the early Zionist leaders decided to revive Hebrew rather than use the Jewish state to ensure the continued existence of Yiddish and Ladino. The successful revival is enormously impressive as a pure example of clear ideological vision but that’s a lot of lost literature and such. 

Umm, Matthew: Yiddish literature didn't really start until the 2nd half of the 19th century, and Ladino, so far as I know, never created much literature at all. This means that modern Hebrew literature was born at roughly the exact same moment in time as Yiddish literature; not to mention everything else that was ever created in Hebrew, all along.
Matthew, incurious as he is, won't be interested, but if any of you are, there's a fine readable story of Yiddish literature in Aaron Lansky's Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books

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These guys must spend all their time trying to poke holes in the legitimacy in the cultural state of Israel. Too bad they are complete ignoramuses. They all allude the some kind of glamorous "what if?" with Jews in Germany. It is not worth debating them or talking with them.

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PA’s May Call Israel a ‘Jewish’ State—If Within 1949 Borders and Judea and Samaria becomes ethnically cleansed of Jews

The Palestinian Authority said Wednesday it might satisfy Israel’s demand to be recognized as a Jewish State on condition that Jerusalem returns to the borders that existed from the time of the 1949 Armistice agreement until prior to the start of the Six-Day War in 1967, called "Auschwitz borders" by the late Israeli statesman and UN Ambassador Abba Eban in 1967 due to their indefensibility.

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idiots Abed Rabbo (right) Oslo sponsor Yossi Beilin

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has said no Jews would be allowed in a new Arab state under its control. Palestine realized it had a public relations problem by rejecting the talks, but still insists on ethnic cleansing.

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The U.N.’s War on Israel

Stephen Brown
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13 October '10
Canada paid the price yesterday for its principled foreign policy stance, especially for its support of Israel, when it lost its bid to Portugal for a non-permanent seat on the powerful United Nations Security Council. In an indication as to how much the world has changed, it was the first time since the world body’s inception in 1945 that Canada had not won a Security Council seat after having been elected in every previous decade.
Canada, a founding UN member, withdrew its candidacy for the two seats reserved for “Western European and Other States” after the second ballot when it lost a third of the support it had received on the first ballot. Requiring a two-thirds majority, Canada received only 78 votes while Portugal took 113. Portugal won unopposed in the third round of voting, while Germany claimed outright the other non-permanent seat, valid for a two-year term, on the first ballot with 128 votes. Canada had last served on the council in 2000.
To the chagrin of the UN’s petty tyrants and dictators, the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in power since 2006, is a strong, unabashed supporter of Israel. And to his credit, Harper steadfastly refused to “water down” his government’s foreign policy direction to curry their favour during Canada’s campaign to secure a seat. The Conservatives even announced the day before the vote that it was strengthening its trading relationship with Israel, a move that would have displeased the UN’s Arab-Muslim block. For years, these countries have tried to diplomatically isolate Israel, passing numerous motions against the Jewish state.
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