This same double standard applies to every sort of interaction between Jews and non-Jews. It is a fact that in wars people suffer losses. Usually, within a few years after the wars are over, people try to get on with their lives, and they consider what is past to be past. If other people behaved the way the Jews behave, then every Englishman whose family residence got hit by a bomb during the "blitz" of the Second World War would be clamoring now for the German government to reimburse him for the repairs that his grandparents had to make 55 years ago - plus interest, of course. And if it's all right to go back 55 years for claims, why not go back 135 years and let all of the Americans whose ancestors' homes and farms in Georgia were burned by General Sherman collect damages from the U.S. government now - plus interest, of course? Or why not go back 220 years and demand that Tony Blair's government pay reparations to all of those Americans whose ancestors suffered property loss from the Redcoats during the First American Revolution - plus interest, of course? I mean, if the Jews are allowed to keep score, without regard for time, why shouldn't everyone else? Why not set up some sort of World Court for Reparations? I imagine that there are a lot of Palestinians who would like to file claims against the state of Israel.

The fact is that we would have international chaos if everybody behaved the way the Jews do. So this raises two interesting questions: Why do the Jews behave the way they do? And why do we let them get away with it?

Well, I've already given an answer of a sort to the first question: the Jews behave the way they do because we let them behave that way; it's just like the case of the bank robber, who will keep coming back until the bank guard stops being nice and shoots the robber. But there's really more to it than that.