In the book I wrote and whose publication was blocked by the Jewish Establishment I discussed many of the views that my Jewish friends were kind enough to share with me. Under the heading: Rise Of The East, a section of Chapter Seven mentioned Congressman Tom Lantos of California who passed away last week. I thought it fitting to use this column and share those thoughts with my readers.
RISE OF THE EAST
By the end of the Twentieth Century, the East was beginning to rise thanks in part to the Arab oil embargo which was prompted by Israel’s continued aggression against its neighbors using financial, military and political support from the United States. The embargo and the rise in the price of oil made the small Japanese cars popular and boosted the Japanese economy to heights no one imagined before. Supplying the car market being a zero sum game, what Japan gained America lost. And the car industry being the backbone of the advanced economies at the time, America’s economy lost ground against Japan’s. This in turn facilitated the growth of the other Asian economies such as the four Asian tigers followed by China and India. And the East as a whole continued to forge ahead.
Instead of rethinking their approach to try and find a way to live with others in harmony by forging normal relations with their neighbors, the Jews started to discover roots they had in far away India and Japan. And they tried to use these roots to play the same old game of identifying with someone while badmouthing someone else. They tried to find roots in China too but failed to make headway there, so they settled for the establishment of commercial ties between China and Israel. But these ties soon began to irritate the Americans because trade and military secrets started to be funneled to China through Israel.
My Jewish friend in Montreal was starting to say that the trouble with finding Jewish roots in a place is that it scares the hell out of the people who live in that place. I believe the first time he said something like this was in the Nineteen Nineties when the Israelis suddenly became adamant about keeping the town of Hebron under their rule. The excuse they gave was that there are deep Jewish roots in Hebron. The town being situated in Palestinian territory, the Israelis wanted to make it a Jewish enclave inside the proposed Palestinian nation.
And as always, the Jews in North America lifted the idea from the war torn Middle East and brought it to Canada seeking to Hebronise the districts of Montreal where most Jews live and where they claim to have roots. The Jewish leaders proposed to make these districts part of some place else such as Ontario or New York and they sent envoys to New York to agitate for the implementation of the scheme.
This alarmed my Jewish friend so much that he predicted if the scheme works in one place, the Jewish Establishment will want to make it work everywhere. The consequence will be that every time the Jews will say they discovered they have roots in one place, the people who live in that place will be terrified as they will think that the Jews will want to declare it part of some place else. And so my friend warned: “Watch out when the Jew discovers he has roots in your backyard because his next move will be to take over your house and move it somewhere else.”
Another trend that disturbed my Jewish friend was caused by the activities of the Jewish Congressman from California Tom Lantos. My friend used to say that this man behaves as if he owns America, and this cannot be healthy especially in view of the fact that Lantos speaks with an Eastern European accent and makes no secret that he is motivated by the Holocaust of which his family was a victim. The trouble is that America was not the perpetrator of the tragedy but the liberator of the victims yet it is asked to feel guilty and make reparations as if it had been the perpetrator. If America is asked to do this much for the Jews whom it liberated from the Nazis, said my friend, think how much it owes the Blacks whom it enslaved and exploited for several generations.
My friend’s theory is that the Jews made a mess of their lives everywhere they went which was from East to West. But California is as far West as you can go because long before Tom Friedman was told that the World is flat, my friend had discovered that the Earth is a sphere, and if you go more West than California, you will find yourself in the East. And that is where you will never be allowed to con the people because these cultures have been around since before recorded history. And if you try to tell the people there how to run their lives, they will politely explain that you cannot teach daddy how to make babies then throw you out with the bath water. My friend, you see, is a genius at mixing metaphors.
Something else my friend saw on television really disturbed him. Apparently, within one month or so, the famous Barbara Walter did an interview with the Black leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan and with Henry Kissinger. To Farrakhan, Barbara Walter said that ten years or more had passed since Blacks won all their rights, and it was time to put the bad memories behind and move on. But she took Henry Kissinger to the town in Germany where he grew up and asked him to tell of those moments forty or fifty years ago when he was not treated well by school kids because he was Jewish. A double standard so stark, it poked my friend in the eye. Just think what a Black person would feel watching something like this, he said.
What preoccupies my friend and those Jews who think seriously about their place in the World is that without a reason to stay together, the Jews will assimilate in the other cultures and disappear, a scenario that the Jewish Establishment is well aware of. And it is for this reason that the Establishment contrived a paradigm of anxiety which can only be sustained by irritating everyone else. The result is that a permanent state of anxiety and not an ethnic or a religious bond is what keeps the Jews together. This state of anxiety has become the Jewish identity and the Jew has been condemned to remain an irritant to everyone else.
But what about the Jews who live in Israel? Can they create a nation on the American model and forge a distinct identity of their own? My friend doubts the ability of the Israelis to forge a common identity in the style of the American melting pot because he believes that the American pot is itself an illusion that is sustained by an economic paradigm based on the laissez faire attitude which is built into the system. This attitude attracts a special class of people who are daring and who take risks. But this is not the sort of Jew who would go to Israel because no one will go to that country when they can go to the United States, Canada, Australia or New Zealand and do much better there.