Category Archives: History

Letter of the Week: Historical Alzheimer's by Dan McDonald

History, Iraq

Too bad we Americans do not understand even our own history. When a people decide they don’t want to be ruled by foreigners, they declare their own independence and no system of government can appease that determination. Only brutal force binds together people that don’t want foreign control. We asserted our independence in the American Revolution; Lincoln kept the nation together brutally during the War Between the States. Our own history teaches the obvious that we are now discovering in Iraq.

The Iraqis of today show two strong tendencies. First, they do not want American rule, no matter how benevolent or ideal our vision for Iraq is. Secondly, now that the natural divisions of the Iraqi nation have been allowed to rise to the surface, it is very dubious if anyone can heal the divisions of Shiite, Sunni, and Kurd. It is even worse for Christian and other non-Muslim minorities that formerly lived peaceably under Saddam.

The results of this war do indeed provide a lesson we should not forget.

Letter of the Week: Muhammedan Vs. Mosaic Achievement

History, Human Accomplishment, Islam, Judaism & Jews

BAB reader Linda has forwarded these self-explanatory facts (she credits a friend for collating the data). The information about Jewish accomplishment has been gleaned from the Jewish Virtual Library. As Charles Murray has written, “Until the end of the 18C throughout Europe, and well into the 19C in most parts of Europe, Jews lived under a regime of legally restricted rights and socially sanctioned discrimination as severe as that borne by any population not held in chattel slavery.” Remember that when you make excuses for Muslims:

The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000, or 20% of the world population.

They received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature
* 1988 – Najib Mahfooz.

Peace
* 1978 – Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
* 1994 – Yaser Arafat

Physics
* 1990 – Elias James Corey
* 1999 – Ahmed Zewail

Medicine
* 1960 – Peter Brian Medawar
* 1998 – Ferid Mourad

The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000, or about 0.02% of the world population.

They received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature
* 1910 – Paul Heyse
* 1927 – Henri Bergson
* 1958 – Boris Pasternak
* 1966 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon
* 1966 – Nelly Sachs
* 1976 – Saul Bellow
* 1978 – Isaac Bashevis Singer
* 1981 – Elias Canetti
* 1987 – Joseph Brodsky
* 1991 – Nadine Gordimer
* 2001 – Imre Kertesz
* 2005 – Harold Pinter

World Peace
* 1911 – Alfred Fried
* 1911 – Tobias Michael Carel Asser
* 1968 – Rene Cassin
* 1973 – Henry Kissinger
* 1978 – Menachem Begin
* 1986 – Elie Wiesel
* 1994 – Shimon Peres
* 1994 – Yitzhak Rabin
* 1995 – Joseph Rotblat

Chemistry
* 1905 – Adolph Von Baeyer
* 1906 – Henri Moissan
* 1910 – Otto Wallach
* 1915 – Richard Willstaetter
* 1918 – Fritz Haber
* 1943 – George Charles de Hevesy
* 1961 – Melvin Calvin
* 1962 – Max Ferdinand Perutz
* 1972 – William Howard Stein
* 1977 – Ilya Prigogine
* 1979 – Herbert Charles Brown
* 1980 – Paul Berg
* 1980 – Walter Gilbert
* 1981 – Roald Hoffmann
* 1982 – Aaron Klug
* 1985 – Herbert Hauptman
* 1985 – Jerome Karle
* 1989 – Sidney Altman
* 1992 – Rudolph Marcus
* 2004 – Avram Hershko, Aaron Ciechanover, and Irwin Rose

Economics
* 1970 – Paul Samuelson
* 1971 – Simon Kuznets
* 1972 – Kenneth Arrow
* 1973 – Wassily Leontief
* 1975 – Leonid Kantorovich
* 1976 – Milton Friedman
* 1978 – Herbert A. Simon
* 1980 – Lawrence Robert Klein
* 1985 – Franco Modigliani
* 1987 – Robert M.. Solow
* 1990 – Harry Markowitz
* 1990 – Merton Miller
* 1992 – Gary Becker
* 1993 – Robert Fogel
* 1994 – John Harsanyi
* 1997 – Myron Scholes
* 2001 – Joseph Stiglitz
* 2001 – George A.. Akerlof
* 2002 – Daniel Kahneman
* 2005 – Robert Aumann

Medicine
* 1908 – Elie Metchnikoff & Paul Ehrlich
* 1914 – Robert Barany
* 1922 – Otto Meyerhof
* 1930 – Karl Landsteiner
* 1931 – Otto Warburg
* 1936 – Otto Loewi
* 1944 – Herbert Spencer Gasser
* 1944 – Joseph Erlanger
* 1945 – Ernst Boris Chain
* 1946 – Hermann Joseph Muller
* 1947 – Gerty Cori
* 1950 – Tadeus Reichstein
* 1952 – Selman Abraham Waksman
* 1953 – Hans Krebs & Fritz Lipmann
* 1958 – Joshua Lederberg
* 1959 – Arthur Kornberg
* 1964 – Konrad Bloch
* 1965 – Francois Jacob & Andre Lwoff
* 1967 – George Wald
* 1968 – Marshall Nirenberg
* 1969 – Salvador Luria
* 1970 – Julius Axelrod & Bernard Katz
* 1972 – Gerald Maurice Edelman
* 1975 – David Baltimore & Howard Temin
* 1976 – Baruch Blumberg
* 1977 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow & Andrew V. Schally
* 1978 – Daniel Nathans
* 1980 – Baruj Benacerraf
* 1984 – Cesar Milstein
* 1985 – Michael Stuart Brown & Joseph Goldstein
* 1986 – Stanley Cohen & Rita Levi-Montalcini
* 1988 – Gertrude Elion
* 1989 – Harold Varmus
* 1994 – Alfred Gilman & Martin Rodbell
* 1997- Stanley B.. Prusiner
* 1998 – Robert Furchgott
* 2000 – Paul Greengard
* 2002 – H. Robert Horvitz & Sydney Brenner

Physics
* 1907 – Albert Abraham Michelson
* 1908 – Gabriel Lippmann
* 1921 – Albert Einstein
* 1922 – Niels Bohr
* 1925 – James Franck & Gustav Hertz
* 1943 – Otto Stern
* 1944 – Isidor Issac Rabi
* 1945 – Wolfgang Pauli
* 1952 – Felix Bloch
* 1954 – Max Born
* 1958 – Igor Tamm & Il’ja Mikhailovich Frank
* 1959 РEmilio Segr̬
* 1960 – Donald A.. Glaser
* 1961 – Robert Hofstadter
* 1962 – Lev Davidovich Landau
* 1963 – Eugene Wigner
* 1965 – Richard Feynman & Julian Schwinger
* 1967 – Hans Bethe
* 1969 – Murray Gell-Mann
* 1971 – Dennis Gabor
* 1972 – Leon Cooper
* 1973 – Brian David Josephson
* 1975 – Benjamin Mottleson
* 1976 – Burton Richter
* 1978 – Arno Allan Penzias & Pyotr Kapitsa
* 1979 – Stephen Weinberg & Sheldon Glashow
* 1988 – Leon Lederman & Melvin Schwartz & Jack Steinberger
* 1990 – Jerome Friedman
* 1992- Georges Charpak
* 1995 – Martin Perl & Fredrick Reines
* 1996 – Douglas D. Osheroff & David M. Lee
* 1997 – Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
* 2000 – Zhores I.. Alferov
* 2003 – Vitaly Ginzburg & Alexei A. Abrikosov
* 2004 – H. David Politzer & David Gross

The Jews are not demonstrating with their dead on the streets, yelling and chanting and demanding revenge. The Jews are not promoting the brain washing of children in military training camps; teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non-Muslims.

The Jews don’t hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, the Jews don’t traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels. The Jews don’t have the economic strength of petroleum, nor the possibilities to force the world’s media to see “their side” of the conflict.

Perhaps if the world’s Muslims could invest more in normal education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems, we could all live in a better world.

 

New Historians’ Hissie Fit

History, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Propaganda, Pseudo-history

In Harvard Hucksters, I spoke about the modus operandi of the New Historians: This is a group of popular far-left fabricators (one of whom facetiously boasted: ‘We perform at weddings and bar mitzvas’), who’ve cocked a snook at the liberal country in which they’ve thrived, so as to gain admittance into the fashionable Palestinian pantheon… they misrepresent documents, resort to partial quotes, withhold evidence, make false assertions, and rewrites original documents. Such is the incompetence of these Arabists that they even neglect Arab archival material, “relying almost exclusively on Western often only secondary sources.” As Ha’aretz’s Avraham Tal puts it, they are preoccupied with the systematic invalidation of the Zionist narrative in the Israeli-Arab conflict. Avi Shlaim, one of the performers in the New-Historian’s much sought-after vaudeville, juggles the facts to come up with an analysis of Israel’s failed war in Lebanon. The shtick is familiar: no mention of the eight dead and a murderous diversionary shelling of border communities by Hezbollah, but plenty of assertions about the vampiric lusts of the Jewish State’s leaders. The anatomy of hating Israel is worth reading.

New Historians' Hissie Fit

History, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Propaganda, Pseudo-history

In Harvard Hucksters, I spoke about the modus operandi of the New Historians: This is a group of popular far-left fabricators (one of whom facetiously boasted: ‘We perform at weddings and bar mitzvas’), who’ve cocked a snook at the liberal country in which they’ve thrived, so as to gain admittance into the fashionable Palestinian pantheon… they misrepresent documents, resort to partial quotes, withhold evidence, make false assertions, and rewrites original documents. Such is the incompetence of these Arabists that they even neglect Arab archival material, “relying almost exclusively on Western often only secondary sources.” As Ha’aretz’s Avraham Tal puts it, they are preoccupied with the systematic invalidation of the Zionist narrative in the Israeli-Arab conflict. Avi Shlaim, one of the performers in the New-Historian’s much sought-after vaudeville, juggles the facts to come up with an analysis of Israel’s failed war in Lebanon. The shtick is familiar: no mention of the eight dead and a murderous diversionary shelling of border communities by Hezbollah, but plenty of assertions about the vampiric lusts of the Jewish State’s leaders. The anatomy of hating Israel is worth reading.