When someone you know to be a Christian says he converted to Judaism, you say to him, that's your business. You may go on to say: But I don't know if I should congratulate you or feel sorry for you.
When someone you know to be of
Caucasian descent says he is of African descent, you say to him: That's a
fraudulent claim. If you cash in on this fraud, you'll commit a crime for which
you can be prosecuted.
When someone says he was
immersed in two or more cultures, and must in some circumstances choose to
follow the wisdom of one culture or the other, you envy him because you see him
as culturally richer than you, having more choices from which to pick what
suits his undertakings.
When someone says he is glad
his child––who did not serve in the military of his country of birth––has
volunteered to serve in the military of a foreign country to which he did not
emigrate, you know this is a family of dual loyalty if not a family of
traitors.
Why do you need to mull over
these hypothetical situations? You need to because Douglas J. Feith is trying
to pull the wool over your eyes. To do so, he wrote an article under the title:
“Why I'm a Zionist,” and the subtitle: “And how support for a Jewish state is
eminently compatible with American patriotism.” It was published on January 18,
2021 in National Review Online.
When you strip the article of
the fluffy garbage it contains about Israel being a democracy and blah, blah, blah,
what remains that's useful for the purpose of this discussion, is the analogy
that Feith has drawn about his own case and that of John Kennedy who was
Catholic, yet got elected President of the United States.
What Douglas Feith is
disregarding out of ignorance or malice, is that being of a given ethnic
descent is not something you can get into or out of at will. Rather it is
something as natural to you as the blood that runs in your veins. This is why
to pretend you are what you're not is to commit a fraud that can earn you
severe punishment. As to the idea of belonging to one religion or another; this
is a choice you can make any number of times because a religious ideology is an
artificial construct that's treated like a political ideology, or the ties you
wear to suit your daily moods. How about socks? Do you choose them to suit the
day of the week?
Kennedy was a Catholic of
Irish descent and born in America. If he were a private citizen, he could be
loyal to the pope or any foreign star but not to Ireland or any country because
he was expected to be loyal to America. As President, which made him employee
of the government, he could not be loyal to the Pope in any personal or
political sense because he was supposed to be loyal to the Constitution. As to
his Catholicism, the principle of separating Church and State, compelled John
Kennedy to publicly declare he will adhere to that principle while keeping his
religion to himself.
John Kennedy did exactly what
he was supposed to do. But taking advantage of a complex situation, Douglas
Feith says that because John Kennedy could do it, he too can do it. No, he
cannot. Kennedy was loyal to America and its constitution, and loyal to no one
else while practicing his religion in private.
Douglas Feith, on the other
hand, is fusing religion which is an artificial construct with an ethnicity he
plucked out of thin air, and says this is like Kennedy being faithful to
Catholicism. This is sick. Still, Douglas Feith goes on to assert that it is
okay to be Jewish and be so fanatically loyal to the foreign entity that is
Israel, he can spend all his time defending and glorifying that entity while
pretending to be American. It is what he says makes him a Zionist. He also
wants everyone to believe it is morally acceptable for every Jewish American to
dodge the American draft, serve in the military of Israel, return to America
and use it like a cash-cow to live the highlife while spending his time
deviously glorifying that disgraceful foreign entity.
When someone is morally
screwed up to this degree, what else do you think he would do? Well, let him
tell it in words he borrowed from Louis Brandeis. The latter was himself a Jew
that uttered the words at a time when there was a Palestine full of
Palestinians and only a handful of Jews. The words went like this: “Every
American Jew who aids in advancing the Jewish settlement in Palestine, though
he feels that neither he nor his descendants will ever live there, will be a
better man and a better American for doing so”.
Here again Douglas Feith used
words that applied to one situation, and made them sound like they strengthen
the argument he is making in favor of different situation. In fact, Louis
Brandeis was urging wealthy American Jews to send money to help poor Jews in Palestine.
Brandeis even remarqued that wealthy Irishmen were sending money to help
potato-starved Irish in Ireland. And nowhere did Brandeis justify anything like
the situation which exists today in occupied Palestine.
Douglas Feith has proven, with every word he uttered in that article, to be a fraud and a traitor to an America that served him and his family well. He is a thankless disgrace to everything noble that the human species stands for.