individual,

Are there any more like you at home?

Mr Opinion,
Is that the best answer a Sociologist can come up with ?

Foxy,

You really don’t get what some of us have to say.

I don’t see multiculturalism like you do.

As for myself being blinkered about multiculturalism, this is another example of your need to dominate debate given you always know the answers even before you start a thread.

Given I have regularly stated I am all for a multi-ethnic society, but do have some concerns, you need to show us the error of our ways besides your usual isn’t life great rhetoric. Mocking me does not really cut the mustard.

The reality is that a society has every right to ensure that ethnic minorities do not rock the boat in terms of what Australian society is about. The reality is multiculturalism in Australia will only be tested now with growing minorities and a possible period of economic decline.

While I don’t fear the future in the case of Australia, which I plan to present on OLO, I will express my individual concern on any matter I please.

Now get back to your books of wisdom, and try and show us why our concern about large minorities is nothing to worry about.

Since you and others rave on about reading history and so on, show us we have nothing to fear rather than lecture us.

Finally, of course my birth name would be different. I clearly said I was a child of Greek parents.

But how my name came to be Lewis is, frankly my dear, none of your business.

Only a rude person would ask such a question in order to make a cheap point

Chris,

You say of that woman, "You really don’t get what some of us have to say".

She doesn't get anything that cannot be found in the ABC or the gutter press, whose garbage she copies almost word for word on many occasions. Anyone who hasn't allowed themselves to be bullied by her knows this. Even ALTRAV seems to have given her away as a lost cause. It's people like her and her little two girly-man acolytes that make me wonder if OLO is worth continuing with. Perhaps it's the old battleaxe's aim, to knock off everyone she doesn't agree with. No matter what you say, she comes back again, and again, and again.

No we should all stay with OLO, even with our occasional sparring.

It is a great forum still with a lot of potential if it could attract even more contributors. I love the format of different opinions/perspectives bouncing off each other.

As I have stated before, OLO helped toughen me up as a student of politics, and learn much from the left and right about the need to take on board all perspectives

Dear David .,

Thank You so much for sharing your family's history.
Your grandmother sounds like a remarkable lady.
Thank You for giving me a small window into the
shetl of Eishyshok (Eisiskes), in Lithuania. I did
not know much about that history and since reading your
post I looked it up on the web and learned so much more.
I found out that there's even a book available -
"There Once Was a World" by Yaffa Eliach, which I will
try to get a hold of.

That Lithuanians participated in the killing of Jews is
not open to serious historical challenge, this is a fact.
A very painful fact. The Government of Lithuania has
officially accepted responsibility for the mass killings
of Jews. The Government issued a statement which acknowledged
"It is a tragedy that Lithuanian citizens were personally
involved in the mass killings organized by the Nazis".

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's State Visit to
Lithuania August 23 - 25th 2018 was a historic event.
Mr Netanyahu and his wife participated in a Memorial
ceremony in Vilnius where Mr Netanyahu stated:

" Standing here today we remember all those who perished and
all that was destroyed. We salute the heroism of those
Lithuanians who unlike collaborators risked their own lives
as they saved many Jews. We will always honour their memory".

May the Lithuanian government continue to fund
the re-building of
synagogues, schools, Centers of Learning,
and ensure the health and vibrancy of today's
Jewish communities, that they - not only survival but grow
in Lithuania. And through full education of their population - guarantee that this
never happens again.