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So? I'm the United States citizen and taxpayer. US foreign aid and our veto power in the UN is what allows Israel to exist in the first place. I'll post photos of dead Iraqi babies if that's the topic of the thread--not much difference--I paid for that also.
-> U.S. aid to Israel totals $233.7b over six decades - Business Israel News | Haaretz
It's Israel, not israel [sic].
Attack or libel? Israel stands guard. The United States stands guard. That doesn't mean I'm going to allow atrocities against civilians to pass without, you know, saying something...
You just stay at home and bang two rocks together (proof: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome) and pretend that Jewish people actually care what you think. That's why I feel compelled to label it a dispensationalist fantasy.
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Today's Yiddish word of the day: schmoe
schmoe - Wiktionary
schmoe (plural schmoes) Noun
A stupid or obnoxious person
From Yiddish.
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Yiddish
YIDDISH LANGUAGE
Yiddish is an endangered heritage language. It is the 1,000-year-old language of Ashkenazi Jews (i.e. European Jews). Ashkenazic Jewish Civilization represented one of the highest peaks in the history of Judaism: Yidn (Jews) spoke Yiddish (the language of the Jews).
Yiddish is a highly plastic and assimilative language, rich in idioms, and possessing remarkable freshness, pithiness, and pungency. There were an estimated 11 million speakers of Yiddish before Holocaust (two out of three Jews in the world spoke Yiddish ), and on the eve of WW II, there were 60 Yiddish daily newspapers and 300-400 daily periodicals in 30 different countries. Truly international in scope, Yiddish works were published on all five continents. It is estimated that a quarter of a million works of Yiddish literature were published in the mere 80 years that represent the height of modern Yiddish culture (approximately 1860-1940). Today there are an estimated one million speakers world-wide. It remains on the UN list of endangered languages.
Yiddish is a “fusion” language, its development a rapid process of growth and dissolution. It is based originally on a mixture of Middle High German dialects and coalescing into a language around the Rhine region of Mainz and Spires around 1100. Written in Hebrew characters, it initially served as an auxiliary to Hebrew, which was the language of prayer, ritual, and scholarly and legal commentaries. But it soon acquired an international scope (reflecting the travail of wandering, exile, dispersion), borrowing freely from almost every Indo-European language. With an estimated vocabulary of 180,000 words, it is one of the richest languages in the world. Approximately 80 percent of its vocabulary is derived from the Germanic; 15 percent is Hebraic; and five percent is from Slavic, Latin and Romance languages.
It is also categorized as a Germanic “folk” language. Since it was spoken by ordinary people rather than by scholars, its vocabulary is weak in abstractions, and has few items descriptive of nature (with which the Jews of Eastern Europe had relatively little contact). Yet it has a wealth of words descriptive of character and of relations among people. It also makes liberal use of diminutives and terms of endearment and has a variety of expletives. Use of proverbs is considerable. These qualities and usages give Yiddish a uniquely warm and personal flavor.
Yiddish is a language rich in irony, as exemplified by the following proverb on economic theory: “Rich and poor both lie IN the ground together, but ON the ground the rich lie more comfortably.”
-> U.S. aid to Israel totals $233.7b over six decades - Business Israel News | Haaretz
It's Israel, not israel [sic].
Attack or libel? Israel stands guard. The United States stands guard. That doesn't mean I'm going to allow atrocities against civilians to pass without, you know, saying something...
You just stay at home and bang two rocks together (proof: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome) and pretend that Jewish people actually care what you think. That's why I feel compelled to label it a dispensationalist fantasy.
--
Today's Yiddish word of the day: schmoe
schmoe - Wiktionary
schmoe (plural schmoes) Noun
A stupid or obnoxious person
From Yiddish.
--
Yiddish
YIDDISH LANGUAGE
Yiddish is an endangered heritage language. It is the 1,000-year-old language of Ashkenazi Jews (i.e. European Jews). Ashkenazic Jewish Civilization represented one of the highest peaks in the history of Judaism: Yidn (Jews) spoke Yiddish (the language of the Jews).
Yiddish is a highly plastic and assimilative language, rich in idioms, and possessing remarkable freshness, pithiness, and pungency. There were an estimated 11 million speakers of Yiddish before Holocaust (two out of three Jews in the world spoke Yiddish ), and on the eve of WW II, there were 60 Yiddish daily newspapers and 300-400 daily periodicals in 30 different countries. Truly international in scope, Yiddish works were published on all five continents. It is estimated that a quarter of a million works of Yiddish literature were published in the mere 80 years that represent the height of modern Yiddish culture (approximately 1860-1940). Today there are an estimated one million speakers world-wide. It remains on the UN list of endangered languages.
Yiddish is a “fusion” language, its development a rapid process of growth and dissolution. It is based originally on a mixture of Middle High German dialects and coalescing into a language around the Rhine region of Mainz and Spires around 1100. Written in Hebrew characters, it initially served as an auxiliary to Hebrew, which was the language of prayer, ritual, and scholarly and legal commentaries. But it soon acquired an international scope (reflecting the travail of wandering, exile, dispersion), borrowing freely from almost every Indo-European language. With an estimated vocabulary of 180,000 words, it is one of the richest languages in the world. Approximately 80 percent of its vocabulary is derived from the Germanic; 15 percent is Hebraic; and five percent is from Slavic, Latin and Romance languages.
It is also categorized as a Germanic “folk” language. Since it was spoken by ordinary people rather than by scholars, its vocabulary is weak in abstractions, and has few items descriptive of nature (with which the Jews of Eastern Europe had relatively little contact). Yet it has a wealth of words descriptive of character and of relations among people. It also makes liberal use of diminutives and terms of endearment and has a variety of expletives. Use of proverbs is considerable. These qualities and usages give Yiddish a uniquely warm and personal flavor.
Yiddish is a language rich in irony, as exemplified by the following proverb on economic theory: “Rich and poor both lie IN the ground together, but ON the ground the rich lie more comfortably.”