The word chutzpah is often mistranslated to characterize
someone exhibiting ‘nerve’ or ‘gall’ but chutzpah is more than just galling or
nervy behaviour.
Think of a thief who
calls the police to lay a complaint that someone has stolen his own illicit
stash of ill-begotten loots. That’s
chutzpah.
Applied to the world stage, a man who wrote a doctoral thesis steeped in
holocaust denial and is rumoured to be the bag man who helped finance the PLO’sterror attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics against the Israeli Olympic team
attending a French anti-terror march - now that’s real chutzpah.
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