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Postscript to the World Jewish Congress in Budapest by Karl Pfeifer

13 Monday May 2013

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“Last autumn Prime Minister Orbán defined the Hungarian nation as an ethnically pure group held together by kinship and blood rather than by language and culture: “We are born into the myth of the Turul-bird just as we are born into our language and our history.” A crazy notion considering that there are no ethnically pure Hungarians. But it helps you to label all those who do not believe in the pagan foundation myth as “Jews”.

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Is the World Jewish Congress (WJC) a gathering of useless busybodies (“gittegylet” in Hungarian after Ferenc Molnár’s novel, The Boys of Paul Street) as the liberal Budapest weekly Magyar Narancs claims? An association of useless busybodies could never have gathered 500 delegates in Budapest for the occasion.

Is the WJC an entity that controls the governments of Israel or the USA as Hungarian conspiracy theorists claim? You must have lost any sense of reality to believe that.

Well, insofar as there was a discussion inside the WJC whether it was right to hold a meeting in Budapest, I can state that the conference was a clear and definite success. Rampant anti-Semitism and racism in Hungary have become the center of attention of the international media. All the delegates and journalists received a 20 page brochure entitled “Anti-Semitic Incidents in Hungary 2012” documenting the present situation.

When Orbán spoke about…

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FNS – Boston Marathon – Watching It With You

15 Monday Apr 2013

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USA Today: “BOSTON — At least two people died, including a child, and more than 100 were injured Monday after two blasts ripped through the crowd near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.”  http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/15/explosions-finish-line-boston-marathon/2085193/

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Boston.com: ”

The blast came on Patriots Day, Obama noted, which is a state holiday in Massachusetts that celebrates the beginning of the American Revolution.

Blood and broken glass covered sidewalks in the area where the blasts occurred at about 2:50 p.m. Immediately after the explosions, some of the wounded could be seen to have lost limbs; others lay unconscious.”

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/04/15/explosions-rock-boston-marathon-finish-line-dozens-injured/UyiedznUFjQRjOKwTXuSDL/story.html?rss_id=Top+Stories

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The Washington Times: ”

A Boston Globe reporter on the scene at the TD Garden said players already had begun arriving at the arena but were departing with their equipment even before the official announcement.

The arena is about two miles from the Copley Square site of the afternoon explosions. But there have been several reports of other suspicious packages around the city and Police Commissioner Ed Davis advised everybody in the city to stay home and avoid large crowds.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/15/boston-bruins-cancel-nhl-game-vs-ottawa-marathon-b/#ixzz2QZrLVckn 
Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter

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That’s enough.

I know you know how to do a fast web search too.

Today’s event will not disappear from the news so quickly; it will not be consigned to the international pages; it will probably not go the way of reportage on whacked out Jokers and the otherwise tragically confused loner.

You know the formula: major holiday; major event; lots of press; lots of blood.

In fact, it bleeds — it leads.

I know which side Americans are one, but some will not only have to choose, or having chosen, will be asked to speak, to stand, to become visible.

I’m not even going to go through a round of edits or proofs on this.

Maybe somebody just doesn’t like health, fitness, runners, public sports events, or something.

In which case, gosh, I’m sorry.

And in the other case, I’m sorry too, but in a different way.