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Ashahrabif Posted 12 years ago
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Remains as explication?

In view of the scrupulous fairness of all technical arrangements for the trial, it is among the minor mysteries of the new State of Israel that, with its high percentage of German-born people, it was unable to find an adequate translator into the only language the accused and his counsel could understand. For the old prejudice against German Jews, once very pronounced in Israel, is no longer strong enough to account for it. Remains as explication the even older and still very powerful "Vitamin P," as the Israelis call protection in government circles and the bureaucracy.

I,m really confused! What does Arendt means by the Bold sentence?
And Is "Vitamin P" synonym of nepotism?
  

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ashahrabif "Vitamin P ," as the Israelis call p rotection It seems to me that the author is telling us that P stands for "protection", whatever that may mean within this context. ashahrabif What does Arendt means mean by the b old sentence? "Remains as explication" is a very strange turn of phrase.

— CalifJim

  • ashahrabif "Vitamin P ," as the Israelis call p rotection It seems to me that the author is telling us that P stands for "protection", whatever that may mean within this context.
  • ashahrabif What does Arendt means mean by the b old sentence?
  • "Remains as explication" is a very strange turn of phrase.
  • It was probably intended to mean, "What remains to be explained is".
  • As for the implications surrounding "Vitamin P", I have no idea what those are within those governmental groups.
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ashahrabif"Vitamin P," as the Israelis call protection
It seems to me that the author is telling us that P stands for "protection", whatever that may mean within this context.
ashahrabifWhat does Arendt means
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