Here and There, Nov. 9

Today is the 65th anniversary of Kristallnacht. Two days later:

Perhaps to help insure the Jews could not fight back in the future, the Minister of the Interior issued regulations against Jews' possession of weapons on November 11. This prohibited Jews from "acquiring, possessing, and carrying firearms and ammunition, as well as truncheons or stabbing weapons. Those now possessing weapons and ammunition are at once to turn them over to the local police authority."

Anybody who wants to prevent law-abiding Americans from owning firearms should print out the above paragraph and tape it to their refrigerator door.

Ralf Goergens says that although he was originally outraged by the EU poll in which a majority of Europeans named Israel as the greatest threat to world peace, he concludes that the poll is largely meaningless.

Yasser Arafat is the undisputed boss of the Palestinian "security forces"

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has come out the winner after weeks of bitter political infighting with his prime minister, keeping his grip on security forces and putting a handpicked confidant in the post of interior minister.

Yasser Arafat, recall, is the man whom Nobel Peanut Laureate Jimmy Carter described recently as having

practically no authority even among his own people

I wonder if Jimmy might be suffering from an extreme case of Freudian projection.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at November 09, 2003 04:17 PM