Once in a while someone would ask
me who are the self-appointed Jewish leaders I keep referring to in my
writings. These people say they know about the journalists and the commentators
who write on Jewish and Israeli matters, but this kind of writing hardly
qualifies as evidence that the authors are self-appointed leaders of the causes
they take up.
That would be correct, I respond,
if two conditions were met. The first is that the authors have other interests
they can write about with the same level of knowledge they have for the Jewish
and Israeli subjects, and the same level of conviction they devote to them. The
second condition is that these authors write not only to pressure the political
class or urge it to help advance their causes, but do other things also. They
should, in fact, write primarily to participate in an ongoing debate so as to
add insight to it. They may, on occasions, respond to another participant that
would have made a point they believe has harmed a cause near to their heart.
The difficulty that ordinary
people have in discerning what some authors are up to stems from the fact that
the authors are highly skilled writers able to make the insidious sound like
innocuous talk. They know how to coat themselves with a veneer of innocence
that leaves the readers with the sense they are seeing authentic concern that
is based on reliable information when, in reality, these are bogus concerns
based on false information.
Thus, the question that comes to
mind: How can ordinary people find out what these authors really want, and how
they go about obtaining it? One way to find out is to follow not only the
professional writers who know how to express one thought while conveying a
different thought, but also follow the amateur writers who speak their mind in
public or write letters to the editor. Motivated by the same drive as the
professionals, these people express the same kind of ideas but do so in a way
that is not sophisticated, thus reveal their true selves. In effect, they smoke
themselves out and smoke the sophisticated authors along with them.
One of these people is a
successful mogul in a field that is far removed from journalism. He is Tom
Perkins who co-founded an incubator of high tech firms. He comes out once in a
while and reveals what's on his mind – telling it like he thinks it is, and
saying it in plain English. In so doing, he also reveals what's on the mind of
those who take up the same sort of subjects but present them differently. His
latest foray into the field came in a letter he wrote to the editor of the Wall
Street Journal.
Responding to an article that
appeared in the Journal, he wrote a piece that was published on January 24,
2014 under the title: “Progressive Kristallnacht Coming?” In it, he says this:
I would call your attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war
on its “one percent,” namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American
one percent, namely the “rich.”
Whoa! There is a mouthful here in
that the writer constructs a full blown parallel between a horrible historical
event and what he sees happen in America today. But that's not all
because there is a good chance the parallel is false. The fact remains that
there is no reliable record as to what percentage of the German population the
Jews represented in the 1930s, yet he asserts that it was one percent. It is
obvious he is trying to make the number coincide with the one percent that is
said to represent the number of rich Americans today.
But what is it that he says
reminds him of Kristallnacht? Well a few things do: (1) There is the Occupy
movement. (2) There is the protest that sprung up around buses carrying high
tech employees to work. (3) There is the resentment expressed by some people to
the rising real-estate prices. (4) There is the fact that those prices are
taken to such levels by the bidding of the highly paid tech workers. (5) And
there is the calling of Danielle Steel a “snob” which, according to him, is a
label she does not deserve because she is a charitable woman.
And so, when someone as
intelligent as Tom Perkins can be overtaken by an upbringing that is fed to him
with his mother's milk, the world must ask what kind of upbringing is that? The
answer is that these people are told the world is a dangerous place for Jews,
and will so remain till they take full control of it. They are the
self-appointed Jewish leaders who keep messing it up for their followers, and
for everyone else on the Planet.