Once again, the Jewish cycle has come to the point of intersection
where the Jews will have to make a choice between living like the rest of
humanity, or renewing the claim that they tower supremely above everyone else,
thus deserving of special treatment.
This is the point in the cycle when the Jews always made the fatal
claim of touting their supremacy, a move that sent them into the arms of a
pogrom or a holocaust century after century. Seeing them standing at that
intersection, makes you wonder which choice they will make. While their leaders
seem to rush headlong into repeating the pattern that sent their flock into the
ocean of bottomless abyss, the rank-and-file seem willing to push back against
the leaders like they never did before.
The struggle between the Jewish leaders and the rank-and-file is a
new phenomenon. As well, both the political and cultural settings in which the
drama is unfolding are different from the past. Thus, we cannot rely on history
to tell us how the drama will develop or where it will end. All we can do is
rely on our instinct to tell us how human beings might behave under the
prevailing conditions, and surmise how some people will react to the unfolding
events, and how other people might respond.
Two articles published recently will help us understand what the
Jewish leaders are doing, as they try to convince the rank-and-file they should
follow their instructions. One article came under the title: “Paradoxes of the
Middle East: A Frequently Asked Questions,” written by Eugene Veklerov and
published on August 11, 2019 in the American Thinker. The other article came
under the title: “It was a tough July for congressional anti-Semitism,” written
by Jack Rosen, who is president of the American Jewish Congress, and published
on August 12, 2019 in the Washington Examiner.
Eugene Veklerov began by laying out the premise of his article:
“The older [Jewish] people tend to support Israel, whereas the younger people
tend to view Israel negatively.” And so, to convince the younger Jewish
generation that it should be more sympathetic toward Israel, Veklerov proposed
to do the following: “The purpose of this piece is to list a few dry and
well-established facts with little or no commentary.” He went on to list the
frequently asked questions, and gave what he says are fact-based answers.
So, you go through the list of Q and A, and realize how loaded
they all are with deception. In fact, the first Q and A sets the tone for all
that follows. Understanding the trick employed by the writer with the first Q
and A, gives a clear indication as to how deceptively the entire piece was put
together. Here is what Veklerov did:
Q: Did Jews immigrate to what is now Israel as a result of WWII?
A: No. Jews have always lived in the Middle East … During the
period 1850-1875 more Jews than Muslims lived in Jerusalem.
What's wrong with that? What's wrong is that the question points
to a serious legal and moral concept, whereas the answer points to something
that's trivial and irrelevant. The point of the question is that the Jews made
a mess of their lives during the centuries that they lived in Europe, a sojourn
that culminated in the Holocaust. This resulted in the Palestinians paying the
price for the Jewish misbehavior and the Nazi overreaction to that misbehavior.
This is unacceptable morally and legally in any civilized culture.
Now look at the answer that Veklerov gave to that question. First,
he began with an assertion that's totally irrelevant. He said this: “Jews have
always lived in the Middle East.” So what? Jews have always lived in Europe,
Asia, Africa and the Americas too. Does that give them special rights? Of
course not. But the writer made it sound like it does.
Second, Veklerov said that during a 25-year period, more Jews than
Muslims lived in Jerusalem. No. Not in East Jerusalem where even today, more
Arabs (Christians and Muslims) than Jews live there. What happened toward the
end of the Nineteenth century was that Jews began to move into a western
district of Jerusalem where mostly Christians used to live. At some point there
might have been more Jews than Muslims in that district, but not more Jews than
Arabs (Christians + Muslims). And then, by 1875, the Muslims outnumbered the
Jews again in that same district. In any case, this occurrence does not give
the Jews a right to claim Jerusalem or Palestine any more than they can claim
ownership of New York or America because they outnumber the Buddhists or the
Christians or the Muslims or whomever in Brooklyn.
When confronted with this kind of arguments, the older generation
of Jews gets tired quickly and sticks with the idea that Israel can do no
wrong, therefore must not be asked to change anything. The same is not true
with a younger generation that knows it will have to live with the consequences
of Israel's behavior whether they live in America, in Europe or anywhere else
in the world.
This attitude of the young is scaring Eugene Veklerov and all
those like him, including Jack Rosen, the writer of the second article.
Being president of the American Jewish Congress, Rosen must have
felt duty-bound to discuss the future of Israel and the Jews in Pollyannaish
terms to a younger generation that's growing restless by the day.
The problem is that Rosen remains totally oblivious of the fact
that the young wish to see an Israel that can stand on its own. They want it to
work on winning the approval of the American people, not the approval of the
political scoundrels in either Party.
They also want to see an Israel that will work on winning the
approval of the 200 or so countries in the world, not an Israel that keeps
running into the arms of America, asking to be sold to foreign leaders who will
hold their noses with one hand, take a bribe with the other hand, and vote in
favor of Israel at the United Nations or some other international forum.
Today, young Jews have more than their grandparents to teach them
history. They have highly qualified professors who talk about many topics, not
just the Holocaust. They have a mountain of publications they can consult at
the library. And they have the internet which offers an infinite amount of
information that's literally at their fingertips.
The young have realized that they stand at the intersection where
they must choose between living a normal life on equal footing with the rest of
humanity, or continue to be the black sheep of the family; the one that will
end up being culled in the gas chamber and incinerated in the crematorium yet
again.
More and more, young Jews are choosing the life that humanity is
offering them, rejecting the death that their self-appointed leaders are trying
to heap on them.