Did Benjamin Franklin's very good friend & Enlightenment thinker Voltaire, have a...

...point about the Jews? Franklin & Voltaire friends:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F00E1DE1E30EE3ABC4053DFB4668389639EDE

"Franklin and Voltaire, a short time before the death of the latter, met for the first time at a theatre in Paris. On being introduced, they cordially shook hands. But this was not enough. Each then clasped the other in his arms, and for a moment held him in an affectionate embrace, It was not a mere formal meeting between two aged philosophers; a deeper significance attached to the interesting scene. It was the spontaneous outburst of kindred feelings and a common faith. It was the Deism of the New World, through its most illustrious representative, saluting that of the Old."
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''You (Jews) have surpassed all nations in impertinent fables, in bad conduct and in barbarism. You deserve to be punished, for this is your destiny.''
Voltaire

''They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race.''
Voltaire

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/30/books/l-voltaire-and-the-jews-590990.html
 
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