Slaughtered by the thousands?... they did as they were told.
Expelled from places they'd lived for centuries? ... they did as they were told.
Excluded them from the professions, civil service, prohibited from marrying Christians?... they did as they were told.
Nuremburg Laws?... they did as they were told.

SET AGAINST this backdrop, it is truly mind boggling that we, of all good people in the last 2,000 years, have to be the ones born into an era when the Jews suddenly refuse to accept their fate and be blamed, besieged, attacked, and generally do as they are told.

How dare they not listen, even when told expressly that their killing of a fine man whose only crime was to kill Jewish kids, mothers, and geriatrics like himself - is "unlawful?"

Clearly, the Jews we face are different. They don't care when we tell them the man they killed was everything they are so proud to value - a scholar, a sage, and a freedom fighter. Heck, they don't even care when we scream in their ears that killing their paraplegic adversary constitutes a war crime.

What crosses their minds when they ignore pontifications, reprimands, and instructions like those unleashed at them this week by anyone and everyone, from the UN's secretary-general to Her Majesty's foreign secretary? Do they perhaps recall at such a moment how Britain helped trap the Jews in wartime Europe?

Clearly, this era's Jews are different.

Unlike their ancestors, whose long but selective memories were focused on who killed how many Jews, when, where and how - our era's Jews prefer to recall how their ancestors didn't fight back. They fight. They don't do as they are told, and when fingered - they argue.