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Sir-- Re 'EU in tatters' ( Al-Ahram Weekly 2-8 April) I just arrived in Germany to visit relatives and friends and am shocked at the degree of lethargy. It seems to me that the generation of '68 and all they fought for has been successfully absorbed into the business elite. Forty years ago students took to the streets to protest against the so-called Notstandsgesetze in Germany, yet these days our students are virtually invisible. Could it not be that the dissolution of Europe has been planned by the group who set it up? Remember, England did not join the euro. Rothschild made an obscene profit with his gold-euro-dollar scheme when the euro was introduced. He will profit handsomely again as it gets abolished.
Where will relief come from? Jared Diamond remarked that to get real change, the pain of collapse will need to hit the elite. In other words, as long as the top one per cent escapes the pain on the street, real change will not happen. I don't think he was advocating revolution, but rather a collapse that would not simply hit the street. This notion that pushing Obama will do anything meaningful is pure fantasy. Let us hope for the best. Europe is in deep trouble financially as well as mentally.
Max Pepper
Stuttgart
Germany
Do onto others
Sir-- I had no opinion of Varun Gandhi beforehand, but after reading 'This Gandhi is no Mahatma' ( Al-Ahram Weekly 2-8 April) I came away feeling nothing but support for him. The article is full of bigoted opinions of Jews, so why should Muslims complain when you get a little of your own medicine? The writer and others lose all rights to protest against Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism since they are willing to condone and forward similar attitudes towards Jews. If this is an issue of free speech, why not respect people who have derogatory views of Muslims and Arabs? I see no op-ed's by great minds like Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Irshad Manji. Why not? They are more respectful of Muslims than many of your columnists are of Jews. Yet still you ban them.
Jane Likwich
California
USA
Appears Jewish
Sir-- Concerning 'Pride and prejudice' ( Al-Ahram Weekly 19-25 March) Biden seems to have a Jewish background. His mother perhaps was not Jewish. She was trotted out during the election from some Pennsylvania small town. But the media seems to have deliberately ignored his Jewish descent. According to judicial-inc.biz his great grandfather was an Iraqi Jew and Biden voted (along with descendants of Israeli Jews who left Iraq) in the 2005 Iraqi elections -- knowing perhaps that the media would maintain his cover anyway. In short, he has a Jewish father, a Jewish wife (Jill Jacobs) and a Jewish son. He still might not have been a Zionist, but it sure helps.
Sayed Sayed
New Jersey
USA
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