It
was not long ago that National Review Online (NRO), together with the now
defunct Weekly Standard and the still tricky Fox News Channel, turned
themselves into hysteria machines sensationalizing and amplifying the mischief
that may have been committed by the newly arrived young refugees into Europe.
The
American publications falsely assumed that all the refugees were Muslim, and
tried to paint them as naturally wicked characters who will destroy Europe's
Western Civilization. The editors, columnists and contributors of said
publications posited that the way to defend America against the menace of that
phenomenon, was to point the finger directly at Islam and call it the calamity
that's gathering over the horizon … and then denounce Islam in the strongest
possible terms.
What
happened next was that the newly elected Trump administration tried to
capitalize on the media-driven burgeoning hysteria. It did it by using the
power of the executive order to turn the hysterical speeches into injurious
actions. To that end, it issued several orders aimed at hurting Muslims, not
because of anything they did, but because of what the aforementioned
publications said they might do in the future.
And
like everything else, the actions of the Executive provoked reactions that
proved so fundamental, they became icons representing a universal truth that no
one could contradict. It is that the bigger the lie you put out, the shorter
the shelf life of that lie. This truth imposed itself on the scene and sparkled
like a bright star. It triumphed when massive rallies were held by the American
people, and when the courts rose up to say no, this is not an accurate
description of the Muslims we know. In fact, the attempt to defame Islam
reflected negatively, not on Islam, but on the characters that were behind the
dirty propaganda campaign.
Now,
that same National Review Online is trying to accomplish a feat that is proving
to be as impossible as restoring to a scrambled egg its natural form by
returning it into its shell. You'll find NRO arguing that the more massive the
truth you tell, the more it is rejected by an increasing number of people.
See
for yourself. On February 11, 2019, National Review Online published an
editorial attempting to do just that. So did Jonathan Goldberg, who is one of
its editors, as he tackled the same subject in his regular column. The
editorial came under the title: “A Shameful Tolerance.” The Goldberg column
came under the title: “Ilhan Omar's Lazy and Anti-Semitic Tweets.” Together,
the two pieces say something that is truly surprising about the Jewish
character.
To
understand that part, we need to recall that two characteristics are so
ingrained into our human nature, it is stupefying and frightening to know that
indoctrination can erase them as easily as hitting the “delete” button of a
computer keyboard. Those characteristics are: pattern recognition and the
principle of reciprocity. The Jewish leaders have developed a way to erase them
in the people they recruit for the movement, turning the people into obedient
foot soldiers who faithfully serve the Jewish causes, especially Israel.
You
can see how the idea of recognizing a recurring pattern is mishandled in the
NRO editorial. The natural thing being that when you hear an accusation leveled
against someone by several people that never met, you tend to believe there is
some truth to the accusation. To be certain, you try to get to the bottom of
it. You investigate the accused who is the common element to all the stories.
Well, believe it or not, that's not what the Jews do. Instead, they proudly
list the accusations leveled against them, and say this is what proves all the
accusers are wrong. That’s so staggeringly illogical, it gives the Jews the
image of the recidivist who complains he is singled out unfairly for the crimes
that he alone commits.
You'll
sense that Jewish characteristic when you go over the editorial in which you
see the writers damn Henry Ford, as well as the authors of the Protocols of the
Elders of Zion, Louis Farrakhan, Donald Trump, Al Sharpton, African Americans
and Muslim Americans. In fact, you'll discover that the Jews blame all this
people for what they call anti-Semitism, but never blame themselves. They don't
even question if there is something that they can do to alleviate the concerns
other people may have about their conduct.
As
to the principle of reciprocity, you'll sense that Jonathan Goldberg does not
understand that “causality” may be a one-way street in the science of physics.
But when it comes to human interactions, causality becomes a two-way street. It
often alters itself to become, “reciprocal escalation.” In fact, what rules in
human interactions is the principle of: You step on my foot and I'll step on
both your feet.
Here
is the passage that gives Goldberg away: They have the causality backward. The
Israel Lobby exists precisely because people like Omar and her defenders make
it necessary for it to exist.
What
Goldberg does not understand is that the following can also be said: people
like Omar and her defenders exist precisely because institutions like the
Israel Lobby make it necessary for them to exist.
This
is what causes the escalation in the game of mutual recrimination. Now think
about this: when you have the Jews on one side, and you have humanity on the
other side, guess who wins and who loses...