Israel slipped into existence through a fortuitous window in history which briefly opened for a few months in 1947-8. That too was luck; or providenc… - Paul Johnson

In Germany, as in parts of Yorkshire, laughing — at least among people with pretensions to rank — was regarded as a form of weakness. Goethe, whose own laughter was seldom observed, thought a lady might laugh where a gentleman should keep a straight face. Frederick the Great might laugh with a Frenchman, such as Voltaire, but “would not so condescend” with his compatriots.

Jews who became socialists in the nineteenth century and who attacked the unequal distribution of wealth produced by liberal, laissez-faire capitalism were expressing in contemporary language Jewish principles which were 3,000 years old and which had become part of the instincts of the people.

Those who control a people’s opinions control its actions.’ Such control is established by treating citizens, from infancy, as children of the State,