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" WHEN BERNARD MALAMUD WROTE, &amp;quot;If you ever forget you&amp;#039;re a Jew, a gentile will remind you,&amp;quot; I don&amp;#039;t think he had Mel Gibson in mind. But here we are, and it is not a happy place. Not only am I tired of all the &amp;quot;Mel is an anti-Semite&amp;quot; revelations, but I&amp;#039;m also starting to feel sorry for him. I&amp;#039;m not saying that he didn&amp;#039;t screw up, but once you&amp;#039;ve been crucified in print by a troika of intellectual leviathans like Christopher Hitchens, Maureen Dowd, and Rob Schneider; had your apology accepted by the director of the Anti-Defamation League; and gotten an invitation to Yom Kippur services from a star-fucking Beverly Hills rabbi--well, I think you&amp;#039;ve paid your pound of flesh for mouthing off. Mel Gibson is an anti-Semite--if that came as news to you in July, here&amp;#039;s another stunner: Shit stinks--but he&amp;#039;s okay in my book. I&amp;#039;m the type of Jew with a soft spot for Catholics, drunks, and actors--in that order--and Mel&amp;#039;s the trifecta: a decent actor, a raging alcoholic, and a batshit sedevacantist Catholic who built his own church out in Malibu. I&amp;#039;m also a Jew who never forgets for a second that he&amp;#039;s a Jew, nor that the world is seething, always, with Jew-hatred of incredible virulence. Mein Kampf and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion are still big sellers across the Muslim world. The European Union, ever unruffled by Jewish corpses, bleeds for Lebanon. Pat Buchanan still has a microphone. And I should set my beard ablaze over Mel Gibson? Please. This is the same guy who, after New York Times columnist Frank Rich wrote that Mel&amp;#039;s The Passion of the Christ could inflame anti-Semitism worldwide, told a magazine, &amp;quot;I want his intestines on a stick. . . . I want to kill his dog.&amp;quot; Same guy whose dad referred to Pope John Paul II as a &amp;quot;Koran kisser,&amp;quot; thinks that the Holocaust is &amp;quot;fiction,&amp;quot; and says that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by &amp;quot;remote control,&amp;quot; not Al Qaeda. Same guy who got pinched for drunk driving back in 1984, tried to get sober in 1991, and told Diane Sawyer on Primetime about his suicidal urges in 2004. This is the guy who, between Lethal Weapon 2 and Lethal Weapon 3, thought it&amp;#039;d be a fine idea to star in Hamlet. This guy, in short, is the ultimate goy. There&amp;#039;s a war being fought inside of Mel Gibson, a holy war. His father&amp;#039;s in there. Mad Max Rockatansky and Sir William Wallace are in there. Harvey Weinstein and Michael Eisner are in there, too. He has seven children, more money than he could ever spend, and no clue. As he was being booked at the Malibu police station, he reportedly saw a female officer staring at him and asked, &amp;quot;What do you think you&amp;#039;re looking at, sugar tits?&amp;quot; I myself think that Mel really wanted to know the answer. I&amp;#039;ll tell you exactly what he deserves: rachmones. Pity. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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