POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Thought of in the right way, this is a hilarious story.
A political version of "time wounds all heels."
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Actually, this is not unprecedented.
When the Nazis set their laws regarding who is a Jew and who
is not, they had a large philosophical problem.
They came up with an elaborate scheme of half-Jews being
Jews and certain quarter-Jews being non-Jews.
Now, you can just imagine the many people who did not know
or could not prove who their four grandparents were and what was their
religious and ethnic history.
And there were many rumors of prominent Nazis having a
Jewish skeleton somewhere in their family closet, as it were.
This was said of Eichmann, for example, and it was even a
secret rumor about Hitler.
All appallingly ridiculous, as all such concepts are, much
as Israel's rules about who is Jewish are ridiculous and out of keeping with
modern thinking.
