To my wife’s family and to my own, Ellis Island is a place of birth into a new nation for us. It is a symbol of birth into a new nation, of the adoption of a new language. Some of my family were what we today would call economic refugees, seeking opportunities in America that were all to scarce at home. One of my uncles came here at the age of 12. His first job was retrieving body parts of miners killed in explosions, a task for which a still small twelve year old was deemed physically suited. He built a nice life for himself and his family with a bowling alley and a truck. When I stood next to it as a little boy, the tires were taller than I was.
Ellis Island remains a symbol of many nations sending their sons and daughters to the US, People of every conceivable ethnic group came through Ellis Island. Contrary to popular misconception,
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Pakistan and Israel, Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the Jews
Pakistan and Israel, Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the Jews
July 12, 2012
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Qaid e Azam
The year 1947 was a tumultuous one. In that year, British India became independent, splitting into India, a state in which Hinduism was culturally dominant, and Pakistan, which was founded as a state for Muslims.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, reverently referred to by Pakistanis as Qaid e Azam (The Great Leader), believed, as did many Muslims in British India, that Muslims in India would be dominated and oppressed in a country in which they would be a minority. The establishment of Pakistan on August 14, 1947 was accompanied by bloody and turbulent cross migrations of Muslims from India to Pakistan, and Hindus from Pakistan to India. The foundation of two modern states caused mass displacement, with an estimated 14 million people uprooted and sent to places in “their” new country that were entirely foreign to them. The death toll of this bloody chapter in Indo Pakistani history is a subject of much contention, with a consensus figure of 500,000 dead commonly used.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the first leader of Pakistan, had a vision for Pakistan of it being a lountry in which Muslims would be numerically and culturally dominant. Despite this, he promoted a vision of Pakistan in which all faith communities in Pakistan would enjoy complete civic equality. In his famous speech of August 11, 1947, Jinnah stated as follows.
Obama Takes Classic Leftist Position on Business Success [Video Link]
A classic Marxist teaching about business is that workers are the source of all wealth. According to Marxist logic, a business ownewr is simply taking what a worker produces and appropriating the surplus calue of the product. Is this what President Obama was getting at when he opined as follows?
There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me — because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t — look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.
There may well be a grain of truth to what Obama says. A manufacturer can not be a success without workers, from designers to salesmen and technicians.
The flip side....
Jews,Jewish Soldiers And Emperor Franz Josef (Video)
Franz Josef II was Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, King of Croatia, Apostolic King of Hungary, King of Galicia and Lodomeria and Grand Duke of Cracow from 1848 until the time of his death in 1916. During his rule, Emperor Franz Josef II of blessed memory transcended the fractious politics of European nationalism through his strength and through the influence of the Austro Hungarian monarchy. My Croatian grandfather, although he lived in America from 1907 until his death more than 40 years later, used to reverently maintain portraits of Franz Josef and Franklin Roosevelt. He was devoted to the US even though he never formally took citizenship in the US.
My Hungarian Jewish grandgather on the other side.....
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