<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Having gone to the site in question and reading what was said in context, it's a bit hard to see what it is that Ms. <span tabindex="-1" id=":yx.1">Merkle</span> should be apologizing for.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Were some Jews complicit in the holocaust? Yes, undeniably but I read nothing that would be misconstrued by a reasonable person as placing blame for anti-Semitic persecution on the Jewish people as a whole or anything that implied that any Jew was responsible or deserving of their fate be it from the Nazi's or Christians.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">What is also undeniable is that regardless of ones feelings about roe v. wade it is not unreasonable to draw a comparison between 50,000,000 Jews and 54,000,000 plus children. I both cases the victim's had no say over their fate. I see nothing that is "half <span tabindex="-1" id=":yx.3">assed</span> or ignorant" in the juxtaposition.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">g</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Rosemary Huskey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:donaldrose@cpcinternet.com" target="_blank">donaldrose@cpcinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
<div>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4">Good Morning Dr. Merkle,</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4">I am writing to you, as head of your household, about the distressingly</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4">anti-Semitic</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4"></font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4">tone of your wife</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4">’</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4">s recent contribution to</font></span><span lang="en-us"> </span><a href="http://www.feminagirls.com/2015/08/01/victims-and-perpetrators/" target="_blank"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u><font color="#0000ff" face="Calibri" size="4">Femina</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span></a><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4">, the blog maintained by your mother-</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4">in-law, Nancy Wilson, your sister-in-law</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4">,</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4"> Rachel</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">Jankovic</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4">, and your wife, Rebecca Merkle.</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"> I do not know what Mrs. Merkle</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4">’</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4">s background or training in Holocaust studies might be but</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"> when I read</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">her</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">statements</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"></font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">“it was those Jewish leaders who forced their own people into slave labor”</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"> and</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">“The Jews of Poland were betrayed by their own”</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"> I can only suppose that her education in that area</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">is</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"></font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">not only limited bu</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4">t</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"> deliberately biased.</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"></font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4"> For example, y</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4">our wife re</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4">ferenced</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4"></font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4">“</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4">Rumkowski”</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"></font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">(</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4">the Nazi appointed</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">manager of the Lodz ghetto</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4">) but</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"></font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">someh</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4">ow miss</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4">ed</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"> the irony that h</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4">is</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"> first name was Chaim</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"> which means, as you certainly know</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4">,</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">“</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4">L</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4">ife</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4">”</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"> in Hebrew.</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"></font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4"></font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> </span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4">I say to you in truth, nothing and I mean</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"></font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u> <font face="Calibri" size="4">n</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u><font face="Calibri" size="4">othing</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"> is more repellent tha</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4">n</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"> half-assed,</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">ignorant</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"></font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">references and comparisons to the Holocaust. Further, as you should also know the anti-</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4">Semitic</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">climate of Europe including Great</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">Britain</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">was</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">nourished and encouraged by the Christian</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">leaders</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"></font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">and</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">church</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"> members</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"></font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">for</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"> almost</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">two millenni</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4">a</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4">.</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"> The ugly spir</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4">it and actions of those miserable jackasses</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"> performed the</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"></font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">centur</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4">ies</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"> long</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">discordant overture</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"></font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">that</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">set the stage for the</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"> National Socialism</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"></font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">party of post World War I Germany.</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"></font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4"></font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">John Calvin,</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">amongst the foundational theologians of you</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4">r</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4"> own sect, Christ Church,</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri" size="4">offered the following comments of Judaism.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><b><i></i></b></span><span lang="en-us"><b><i><font face="Calibri" size="4">A Response To Questions and Objections of a Certain Jew</font></i></b></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><i></i></span><span lang="en-us"><i><font face="Calibri" size="4">Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.</font></i></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri" size="4">Excerpt from "Ad Quaelstiones et Objecta Juaei Cuiusdam Responsio," by John Calvin; The Jew in Christian Theology, Gerhard Falk, McFarland and Company, Inc., Jefferson, NC and London, 1931.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4">Are we to believe that you share this perspective</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4"> because you are an unabashed follower of John Calvin</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4">?</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4"> </font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4">I encourage you</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4">to</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4">ask your wife to apologize</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4">publically</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4">for her</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4"> remarks and notify readers of</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4">her</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4"> family blog that</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4">none of the victims of Nazi or Christian</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4">, </font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4"> persecution were or</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4">,</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4"> are resp</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4">onsible, for their</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4">fate.</font></span><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></font></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="4">Rosemary Huskey</font></span></p>
</font></span></div>
<br>=======================================================<br>
List services made available by First Step Internet,<br>
serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br>
<a href="http://www.fsr.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://www.fsr.net</a><br>
mailto:<a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>
=======================================================<br></blockquote></div><br></div>