“1300 BC: God gives Ten Commandments to Israelites, making them His Chosen People and granting them eternal protection under Divine Law. Nothing bad ever happens to Jews again.”
America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction (2004)
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Book II, Ch. 12
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