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It is no accident that the word nebbish originated in Yiddish, a language without a nation that is spoken by a people repeatedly beaten down by pogroms and thus in a good position to empathize with nebbishes.
Ha'aretz said it understood why some Israelis felt they owed the Serbs a debt of gratitude for their tenacious opposition to the Nazis during World War II, but added: "A much-persecuted nation, well versed in pogroms, cannot stand on the side, watching an institutionalized process of exterminating civilians based on religion and ethnicity.
While evoking German outrage at such state-sponsored pogroms, the historians David Bankier and Kershaw do not conclude that the "Germans overwhelmingly condemned the Nazi anti-Semitic atrocities."
This is on account of Christian behavior over the past 2,000 years, by which I mean blood libels and pogroms and inquisitions, those sorts of things.
He should just say: "I meant to piss you off, just don't start any pogroms or shoot me."