Sunday, August 20, 2017

A Homecoming for Alice and Jabberwock

A group of kind-looking con artists will score a few successes at the start of a new project they undertake because societies that wish to move ahead are geared to giving its beginners a chance to prove themselves.

These societies will even give the benefit of the doubt to the beginners that make mistakes on their way to mastering their craft and to producing better performances. But if repeated errors start to show a pattern that indicates an unhealthy scheme is behind the performance, the affected society will take back its approval of the group. And this is what happened to the Jews a zillion times during the four millenniums they have been swindling the human race around the globe.

The latest society to fall prey to the Jews has been the United States of America, and that's where we see, in real time, a live performance of what happens inside such a group when the members sense they were outed, and shown to be what they really are and what they want. They demonstrate how quickly they can point the finger at each other in a game of mutual recrimination. This tendency is clearly apparent in the drama that's unfolding in the latest article by Bret Stephens. It came under the title: “President Jabberwock and the Jewish Right,” published on August 19, 2017 in the New York Times.

The point Stephens is making misleads the readers because the author reduces the difference between his splintered right-wing Jewish camp and the main right-wing Jewish camp, to trusting or distrusting Donald Trump. But something happens when the writer struggles to develop his idea: a bigger truth comes out. It shows there is only one right-wing Jewish agenda, and it has not changed even after the split in two. Thus, the difference between them boils down, not to the content of the agenda, but to the way it must be implemented.

You get a sense of the agenda's content when you read the following passage: “He [Trump] would rip up the Iran deal. He wasn't afraid to call out the Islamofascists by name. He 'got' Israel's [back] and wasn't going to abide the State Department's piety about the peace process or the location of the U.S. Embassy [in Israel]. He'd rebuild the military”.

As to the method of implementation, it seems that Bret Stephens and those in his camp were stricken by the Holocaust psychosis more than the other camp. They are therefore more sensitive to the possible existence of hidden meanings in the Donald Trump discourse, than their opposing counterparts. You get a sense of this reality when you read the following passage:

“You could smell it in the citation of a Benito Mussolini quote; an image of Hillary Clinton alongside a six-pointed star and a pile of cash … in the denunciation of 'international banks' and the 'enemy of the American people' news media … in the resurrection of 'America First' as an organizing political slogan –– a politics of exclusion that has never served Jews well even when we were suffered to be included”.

To know that the election of Donald trump led to the split of the Right into what Bret Stephens calls the “right-of-center Jews” and whatever else, does not tell the full story. How this splinter group came into being must be added to the mix when analyzing the current situation. These people are the offspring of the new conservatives (neocons) who were themselves liberals because their parents were liberal, having suffered under the European Right before migrating to America.

In fact, politically speaking, the Jews of America resembled those that lived in Israel's kibbutzes at the time. Because it took the Palestinians at least a full generation under occupation before mounting a movement of resistance, the Jews remained liberal in Israel and America too. But when the Palestinians started to resist the occupation, the Jews of Israel started to turn Right, and so did those of America. They defected the Democratic Party to join the Republican Party, thus became the neocons.

Aside from a handful of “old guard” conservatives that resented the advent of the newcomers in their midst, the rest of that society tolerated or welcomed the neocons. The trouble is that, being third and fourth generation Americans, the youngsters lost the sense of discreteness that their ancestors lived by when expressing their political views. Indeed, the younger generation became in-your-face, brash and demanding.

Its members infiltrated and took over most of the strategic institutions in America, especially the media. In response, the society that welcomed them now began to reject them. Its anger is what Trump has expressed during the presidential campaign; its views are those he articulates as President. This is why Bret Stephens and the others in his camp are defecting back to the liberals.

It is as if Jabberwock had looked at the mirror image of a mirror image and felt nostalgic.