The Algemeiner recently reported that “After weeks of escalating criticism of Israel by the Obama Administration, Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State and the leading 2016 Democratic presidential contender, on Sunday called for the renewal of the ‘special’ relationship between the US and the Jewish state. In a telephone conversation with Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Clinton said that she ‘thinks we need to all work together to return the special US-Israel relationship to constructive footing, to get back to basic shared concerns and interests.’”
The Pineapple Revolt is from Jack Engelhard’s memoir Escape from Mount Moriah.
“There was only fear on this ship, and pineapples, several hundred passengers, a million pineapples.
We were on the Serpa Pinto, on the high seas destined from Hitler to FDR, or whoever would take us in. FDR refused.
So we were headed for Philadelphia, and after that, who knew?
But along with the rest of the huddled men, women and children on board, we were the few who had managed to escape.
