Where Our Fault Really Lies

Now, Iran feels the need to add "Mohammed Cartoons" to the list of things labeled "The Jews' Fault." As a Jew, I feel the need to clarify exactly what has and hasn't been our fault over the past 3,000 or so years.

NOT THE JEWS' FAULT
(the short list)

1. The Holocaust
2. Cartoons depicting Islam, Mohammed, et.al.
3. The Crusades
4. The Inquisition
5. That bunt cake you tried to make in 1982 that collapsed in the oven
6. Nuclear war
7. The extinction of the dinosaurs
8. Suicide bombers
   
9. 9/11
10. 3/11
11. 7/11
12. Slavery or the slave trade
13. Disco
14. The Irish Potato Famine
15. The Black Plague
16. The crap coming out of Hollywood
17. The execution of Jesus Christ
18. Global Warming
19. Bill Clinton
20. Vietnam

THE JEWS' FAULT
(an abbreviated list)

1. The Torah
   
2. The Messiah
3. Monotheism
4. Freedom
   
5. Democracy
6. Individualism
   
7. The Theory of Relativity
8. The concept of philanthropy
   
9. The American film industry
10. The Discovery of America
11. Seinfeld
12. Vaudeville
13. The Revolutionary War
14. The Civil Rights Movement
15. Israel
16. Kosher food
17. Political Economy and the rule of free trade (David Ricardo)
18. The character of Rebecca in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe
19. Solving the Y2K problem
    
20. The Polio vaccine
    

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