"'Shucks, I admire your Israelis, what I've heard about them. A mongrel people, racially no relation to the Hebrews of the Bible, but tough fighters and clever.'"
-There Will Be Time, VII, p. 69.
The Zorachs, an Israeli couple, maintain a Time Patrol base in Tyre in 950 BC but they also:
"'...manage to help local people now and then. Or we try to, as much as we can without causing anybody to suspect that there's anything peculiar about us. That makes up, somehow, a little bit, for...for what our countrymen will do hereabouts, far uptime.'"
-Poul Anderson, "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (December, 2010), pp. 229-331 AT p. 246.
Time travel does not always take us away from current affairs.
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Kaor, Paul!
The significance of the Jews, of course, was in being chosen by God as the means of revealing Himself to mankind.
As for the rest, I disagree, not when I recall what Muslim terrorists have done, want to do, and dream of doing: another Final Solution for Jews.
Ad astra! Sean
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