Is it Herzog or Bellow, himself?
In a book published in 1961, H says "from a Jewish standpoint, the 20th Century wasn't one of" the Christians' "best periods," evidently alluding to the Holocaust.
Not much gratitude there for, or even recognition of, the overwhelmingly Christian allied rescuers.
None at all for the UN creation of Israel and American and European aid for and protection of the Jewish Homeland thereafter, though in utter defiance of our national interests, largely in response to a constant propaganda of accusation we ought in fact to resent.
And that is not at all to deny the role of nearly two thousand years of church-sponsored anti-Semitism in paving the way for Nazi genocide.
H comments that Nietzsche had a Christian view of history, seeing the present as somehow fallen from "classical greatness" into a crisis or "corruption of evil to be saved from."
Who thus ignores what Christianity inherited from the Jews, what the Jews took over from the Persians, and what Nietzsche knew about all that and about Zoroaster?
Herzog or Bellow?
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