Re: Einstein

Powerful comments from A. Einstein.

Thanks.

Paul Williamson



KSamman@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Subj: [AL-AWDA] Einstein
> Date: 3/16/01 5:31:31 PM !!!First Boot!!!
> From:    rgmattar@cyberia.net.lb (Raja Mattar)
> Reply-to:    Al-Awda@yahoogroups.com
> To:    Al-Awda@yahoogroups.com
> 
> Friends,
> 
> I came across the following interesting and fully-referenced
> quotations by
> Albert Einstein.  They might be useful in some discussions.
> 
> Raja
> 
> 1.
> Should we be unable to find a way to honest cooperation and honest
> pacts with
> the Arabs, then we have learned absolutely nothing during our 2,000
> years of
> suffering and deserve all that will come to us.
> 
>       Albert Einstein (German-born Am. physicist, 1879-1955): letter
> to
> Chaim Weizmann, Nov. 25, 1929
> -----------------------------------
> 2.
> I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the
> basis of
> living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state.  Apart
> from
> practical consideration, my awareness of the essential nature of
> Judaism
> resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a
> measure of
> temporal power no matter how modest.  I am afraid of the inner damage
> Judaism
> will sustain - especially from the development of a narrow nationalism
> within
> our own ranks, against which we have already had to fight strongly.
> 
>       Albert Einstein (German-born Am. physicist, 1879-1955): "Our
> Debt to
> Zionism," speech before the National Labor Committee for Palestine,
> New York,
> Apr. 17, 1938 (repr. in Out of My Later Years [1950] ch.52)
> -----------------------------------
> 3.
> No one has the moral right to call himself a Christian or a Jew if he
> is
> prepared to commit murder upon the instruction of a given authority,
> or if he
> permits himself to be used for the purpose of initiating or preparing
> such a
> crime in any way whatsoever.
> 
>       Albert Einstein (German-born Am. physicist, 1879-1955): writing
> in
> 1928, per Banesh Hoffmann, Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel [1972]
> ix
> -----------------------------------
> 4.
> The world is a dangerous place to live in not because of those who do
> evil
> but because of those who watch and let it happen.
> 
>       Albert Einstein (German-born Am. physicist, 1879-1955): quoted
> in Time
> magazine, "Terror and Pity", Sep. 2, 1996
> -----------------------------------