TOM WALKER -> ALL wrote:
 TW> Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme (2008)
 TW> "We must be wakeful for a new anti-Semitism, sometimes too easy
 TW> trivialized. We must be wakeful for a new anti-Zionism that is a hidden
 TW> anti-Semitism that in reality has not accepted the existence of the state
 TW> of Israel, even sixty years after its foundation. Europe cannot turn its
 TW> back on Israel. For Israel is linked to the history of Europe, for more
 TW> than one reason. We cannot speak about the foundation of the Jewish State
 TW> without mentioning the Holocaust. There is more, the dream of a new Eretz
 TW> Yisrael was born in Europe, in the hearts and minds of Theodor Herzl and
 TW> his followers in the 19th century. And since many centuries, in many
 TW> thousands of European Jewish households, Pesach, the Jewish feast of
 TW> Easter, ends with the wish: "Next year in Jerusalem!""

Mr Leterme can be forgiven for his error, as he is most likely a Christian,
but I have to interject the correction that Pesach is *NOT* the feast of
Easter. Pesach is the memorial that marks the night when the spirit of
Death took the first born of the Egyptians and spared the Hebrews.
Generally Christians and other Gentiles call this day pass over.

This is not an invitation to start a religious discussion, I'm just
correcting the *ONE* incorrect fact of the above quote. :)


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