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Note 9: "Thus interpreted, the Nazi extermination both justifies the necessity of Israel and accounts for all hostility directed at it: The Jewish state is the only safeguard against the next outbreak of homicidal anti-Semitism and, conversely, homicidal anti-Semitism is behind every attack on, or even defensive maneuver against, the Jewish state.
But the fact is that there is a recognizable problem or a collection of problems, and ridiculing them is nothing more than a defensive gesture stemming from our own discomfort at facing them (if I may be allowed a little armchair analysis of my own).
Even The Nation , famously defensive on the question of Hiss, calls the biography "an honest and indispensable book that goes a long way toward restoring to Chambers an elementary human plausibility" (gosh, thanks).
His conclusion: Mexican customs were a kind of mask, a defensive camouflage worn to hide the country's unresolved past.
Deir Es-Suryani, as the name suggests, was a community of Syrian monks and its neighbor, Deir Anba Bishoi, is of typical design with a tiny round-domed fourth-century church and inner defensive bastion dating from the ninth century.