Every civilization eventually learns that solving problems is difficult.

Finding someone to blame is easy.

History is filled with societies convinced that complicated problems can be explained by a single, convenient answer.

Everything else becomes remarkably simple.

For more than two thousand years, the Jewish people have served that purpose with astonishing regularity.

When plague came, they poisoned the wells.

When economies failed, they controlled the money.

When revolutions erupted, they were the capitalists.

When capitalism succeeded, they became the communists.

When nations lost wars, they were........

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