Imagine you live in a town that is to some extent isolated from the rest of the world. The town is composed of several clans of extended families but even then, the intermarriage among the clans makes the entire town feel like one super extended family.
One
day, a small family of newcomers who claim to have ancient roots in this town,
comes to settle and live in it. Before you know it, every one of the newcomers
begins a whisper campaign whose aim is to drive the wedge between the
individuals, and between the clans. The newcomers are so relentless at what
they do, you’d think they are powered, not by fuel from this world, but by a high-octane
brew that could have come from the satanic underworld of the wretched and the
doomed.
Does
that sound familiar to you, my friend? It is the story of the Jews who, for
thousands of years have gone from town to town where they spread hate and
calumny of the sort that ended badly for them. From ancient Persia and ancient
Egypt, to Russia and Eastern Europe of the Middle Ages, to Western Europe and
America of the modern era, the Jews dug the graves that continue to entomb
them.
They
are at this time working furiously in America, trying in vain to slander the
Arabs and the Muslims, aiming to start a religious war between Christians and
Muslims. They believe that such war will turn out to be the predicted
Armageddon that will allow them to inherit the Earth and everything as well as
everyone in it. One of the Jewish leaders at the forefront digging the Jewish
graves, is Jonathan S. Tobin.
Tobin’s
latest work in this area came under the title: “Can the West be honest about
the Islamist threat?” and the subtitle: “For 20 years, Americans have failed to
adequately confront radical Islam as an ideology and faith. The fall of
Afghanistan is a reminder that defending liberal values requires
truth-telling.” Tobin printed his article in the Jewish News Syndicate, the
publication he edits.
If
you want proof that Tobin’s mouth is separated from the operation of his brain,
here is a passage from his article that should convince you:
“Nothing has ever provided better proof
that Americans are, on the whole, fair-minded people than the fact there was no
wave of violence or hate crimes against American Muslims. Throughout the last
two decades, as FBI hate-crime statistics have consistently shown, attacks
on Muslims remained rare and represent a fraction of the total of anti-Semitic
incidents that were recorded during this same period”.
Reading
that passage in the context of Tobin’s entire article where he asserts that the
Jews are the good guys whereas the Muslims are the bad guys, but then says that
the Americans are a fair-minded people because they hate the Jews more than
they hate the Muslims, should tell you that Tobin has a cavity where he is
supposed to have a brain, or if he has a brain, it has no control whatsoever
over his mouth.
In
fact, if Tobin had only a handful of active brain cells in that cavity, he
would have asked himself why it is that the fair-minded Americans who welcomed
and embraced both the Jews and the Muslims, ended up showing a clear preference
for the Muslims? In so doing, he would have opened a whole new vista to
preoccupy his intellectual pursuits rather than remain where he is, locked in a
dark box with only a pack of stale Jewish talking points that the American
people have increasingly refused to feed on.
Opening
that vista for himself, Jonathan Tobin would have avoided speaking like the
culturally bankrupted dude who is latching unto any straw that could make him
appear acceptable to a public that no longer believes in anything he or anyone
like him, says. The following is a montage in two parts of excerpts from
Tobin’s article that show the extent of his bankruptcy:
First part: “Biden added that the US would
continue to stand for human rights and the women of Afghanistan. That kind of
meaningless rhetoric is more of an insult to the people he left behind than
anything else. America is no longer in any position to do a thing to help them”.
Here, Jonathan Tobin rebukes President Biden
for engaging in meaningless rhetoric. It is meaningless, he says, because Biden
is trying to cash in on a situation he can no longer influence.
Second part: “Just as some who deplore
terrorism exclude Palestinian [action] against Israel from their concerns, the
same people are more concerned that the Jewish state’s liberal policies that
ensure freedom for gays be used as a reason to refute attacks on the legitimacy
of Zionism”.
This
time, it is Jonathan Tobin himself who is seen to engage in a rhetoric of his
own. It is slightly different from that of Biden, but one that is just as
meaningless. It is meaningless because Tobin is trying to cash in on the habit
of Jewish Americans to praise Israel in the hope that this will rub off on
them, and enhance their image in America.
In
asking the West to be honest about the Islamist threat, Jonathan Tobin has shown
that he doesn’t know something that’s well known to the West. In fact, like the
clans of the town that have been together from the beginning, the West has
interacted with Islam during good times and bad times.
Each party has won a few battles and lost a few. Each party knows the strengths and weaknesses of the other. Each has a great respect for the other, and no Johnny come lately who’s equipped with a foul mouth is going to change that.