A Squire’s Trial

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- They’ve been run out of virtually every country on this continent
and elsewhere – you think everyone else were at fault
but the Jews? If your friends warn you not to take some man
in for the night, and the man tells you they all treated him
badly and ran him out of their homes, are you truly going to
think the fault lies with them or suspect that he did something
in each home he was taken into?
- I suppose I’d trust the judgment of people I know over
some stranger whom they all had experiences with.
- And you’d be right to do that. Nothing made Jews the way
they are, there was no event, no catharsis or catalyst that put
them on this path as a whole group, it simply is the way they
are.
- But how did we allow them back into our homes again then,
if at some point they were run out for their actions?
- One honorable man once said: “A country has the Jews it
deserves. Just as mosquitoes can thrive and settle only in
swamps, likewise the former can only thrive in the swamps of
our sins.”
- So, you’re saying that the more we departed from truth, the
more we opened the way into our homes for the Jews?
- They were attracted by the lies and falsehoods that overtook
our lives, both because they consciously knew they could
exploit it for their benefit, and because their innate nature
drew them to what is only their natural environment: an instinct
not unlike that which leads the salmon upstream, or the
sea turtles back to the place of their birth.
- But how have we come to this point? For how long now
have we been living in a world ruled by lies?