Thursday, May 22, 2008

A note concerning reparations

Some in this country believe millions and millions of dollars should be paid by our government to African-Americans as "reparations" for our past sin of allowing slavery.

And did you catch this? The nation of Belgium would, at first glance, appear to add fuel to the arguments of those advocating reparations. Belgium recently agreed to pay "indemnification" to Holocaust survivors.

But note this--note what a leading Jewish advocate, who had every right to file a claim on some of this money, did:

"Susskind, who has worked for the Jewish cause since the war, did not file an individual claim. "The point is to rebuild a Jewish community like we had before the war," he said in a telephone interview. "For suffering, there is no price."


Indeed.