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There's a great postcard that K picked up. It says:
Prisoner of War
"Let us learn our lessons. Never believe any way will be smooth and easy or that anyone who embarks on that strang voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that one the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events... incompetant or arrogant commanders, untrustworthy allies, hostile neutrals, malignant fortune, ugly surprise, awful miscalculations..." A quote by Winston Churchill.

Under the quote is a photo of George W, looking a bit like a foolish school boy with his hands on his head. When I first looked at the image it looked like he was covering his head, or putting his hands to his head in the way kids do when something goes wrong. O! oh But looking again, I realise that he is smoothing a kippah (yarmulka, skullcap...) onto his head. I don't know know whether the designer of the postcard has realised, or whether it is intentional that George Bush is suddenly associated with Jewishness. That's the problem. It's there and I won't be the only one to have noticed it. There is a link between George W, war-mongering and Jewishness... It's funny but I thought it would hve been a better, more subtle message without the image anyway. Now I just feel crap that yet another person is saying by accident or implying hostile things about Jewishness - especially when, in general, I agree with what they're trying to say...

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