The saying: “If you're not with us, you're against us”
defines what is meant by binary world. That's because those who think this way
have divided the world into two camps: the friends they embrace, and the
enemies they fight. As to the self-delusion, it refers to the inability of
seeing the world as it is. Those who suffer this condition look at the world
through colored glass they keep changing. Thus, they constantly redefine the
world by the color they wear at any moment, even if the world has not changed
one iota.
These are two important components of the Jewish ideology –
that which has acted like a disease, and has caused most of the misery that the
Jews have suffered since the beginning of time. It must also be said that the
disease is contagious in that it can be transmitted to the unwary people who
get too close to the Jews. In fact, this has been the outcome of the Jewish
presence in America
for a little more than half a century. Thus, the lessons which are derived
about the plight of the Jews can be applied to America
– some of them now, and some of them to the America of the future as it is
being shaped at this time.
And that plight of the Jews comes to the fore in a clear way
when reading the interview that Lee Smith has conducted with Joshua Muravchik,
both of whom are contributors to the Weekly Standard. The interview was posted
on the website of the magazine under the title: “Here's how the World Turned
Against Israel ,”
on December 2, 2014.
The first of six questions that Smith asks of Muravchik
contains the following element of self-deception: “aren't Israel and the Gulf states
closer than ever because of Iran ?”
On cue, the interviewee takes it from there and amplifies the self-deception by
running with it like a thoroughbred Arabian horse racing against itself in the
grand open spaces of an Arabian landscape. “It’s not only the Gulf
States and it's not only because of Iran ,” says Muravchik, “Much of the
Sunni world...” That's when he attributes to the Arabs not the noble sentiment
of seeking to cultivate friends but the ignoble sentiment of responding to
fear. So he puts it this way: “the Sunni world feels doubly threatened...”
This mentality alone would signal to anyone with a normal IQ
that the Arabs can never be friends with someone who is disturbed emotionally
to this extent. What really happened to make some Jews believe that the Sunnis
have become their friends is that they themselves became terrified of the
Shiites. In response, they wore the glasses of morbid hate to look at them.
This left them with the rose colored glasses with which to look at the Sunnis.
In so doing, they thought that the Sunnis had seen the light and joined the
Jews at being threatened by Iran .
But the truth is that the Arabs did absolutely nothing to change. Not one iota;
not one grain of sand.
A question on the occupation of Palestine
follows in response to which Muravchik gives the now standard response of Alan
Dershowitz: Israel
has the right to do to the Palestinians what has been done to others such as
the Kurds and the Tibetans. A second question on the same subject gives the
interviewee the opportunity to steer the conversation in a different direction.
This is how he put it: “Israel 's
policies contribute. [Its] transition from democratic socialism to a capitalist
economy has cost it friends.” And that opened the door for elaboration when
answering the next question. This is how
Muravchik phrased it: “No less important has been an intellectual
transformation of the central paradigm of Leftism.”
And that brings the conversation to the American scene when
Lee Smith asks: “Can this happen in the United States too?” To this,
Muravchik gives the latest variation on the habitual Jewish response. It is
that the good guys who used to be the friends of the Jews and of Israel seem to
be turning away. But since the world must remain polarized by its very nature,
it is naturally happening that those who used to be not so friendly to the Jews
or to Israel
are becoming a little more friendly if not dramatically so.
And this leads to the last question. If the choice for Israel is to be
in the Leftist camp or the Rightist one, which would serve it better? And the
response is nether of the two because when it comes to the American scene: “Israel would be
safer if it could count on support across the political spectrum.”