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From: tedrick@ernie.BERKELEY.EDU (Tom Tedrick)
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Subject: Re: Anti-Semitism and history
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Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 04:14:09 EST
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>5.  Jews were anti-militaristic (this easily follows from 1-4).  In a
>    militaristic age, anti-militarism incurred resentment from the
>    walking wounded of Europe's wars.

I suspect this is a myth. I read an attempted refutation of this
idea in "Germany without Jews" by Bernt Engelmann, which gives
examples of very excellent military achievements by various Jews.
Even some German military figures had Jewish blood, including
Field Marshall Milch of the Luftwaffe (who was too valuable to
lose despite being Jewish), Heydrich himself (who had a Jewish
grandparent, and conceived and began the implementation of the
"final solution" before being assasinated), and possibly even
Hitler (there is a good chance that one of his grandparents was
Jewish).

Today the Israeli military forces are qualitatively the finest
in the world.

Let me finish with a story: a close friend of mine happens to
be Jewish. Her grandfather served with the Austrian army in
WWI. He was wounded and spent a long time in a Russian prisoner
of war camp. He was finally released. After Hitler took over,
he was put in a concentration camp and killed along with almost
all of my friend's relatives.