Everywhere on the planet and throughout time, people have
hated each other, fought and then reconciled to later become friends, even
countrymen and family. This has been the history of Europe, certainly that of
the races that migrated to the new worlds such as the US, Canada, Central and
South America as well as Australia.
It also happened in Asia and Africa where great cosmopolitan
cities were built in ancient and modern times to receive and accommodate the people
that came from many places around the world, and that settled in those cities
to start a new life.
But there is one group of people with whom hate has always
taken a form so different from the norm, it does not erase by the normal
interactions, in the way that things happen everywhere else with the human
family. These are the Jews whose initial move into a community may be an
occasion for celebration but always ends with a horror story that adds another
chapter to the sorry state of the Jewish condition. Why is that?
Well, an editorial in the Jewish dominated Wall Street
Journal helps us understand this phenomenon because it demonstrates that when
hate is elevated to the level of religious dogma, it opens the door for its
adherents to enter the realm of a contorted sort of existence; an eternal
damnation from which there is no escape. The title of the editorial is “Our
Friends the Mullahs” and the subtitle is: “Tehran and the U.S. don't have a
shared interest in the Mideast.” It was published on June 17, 2014 in the
Journal.
The normal approach to take when you discuss a subject is to
lay out the background of the story, and then make the analysis and the
commentary that will lead you to the conclusions supporting your position. But
when your conclusions are already made, and when they are etched in stone as
solidly as a religious dogma, you tend to begin the discussion with them
however negative you may sound to the reader whom you know will probably be
turned off right at the start.
And this is how the Wall Street Journal begins that infamous
editorial: “Such is America's strategic disarray in Iraq that the Obama
Administration has come up with a new version of an old idea – court Iran as an
ally.” The editors have determined this may come to pass from an interview that
Secretary of State John Kerry gave recently in which he said: “Let's see what
Iran might be willing to do … we are open to any constructive process that
could minimize the violence, hold Iraq together and eliminate the presence of
forces ripping it apart.”
These are lofty goals, of course, but in the eyes of the
Journal editors, they are offset by things they cannot stomach. Here they are:
“The mullahs must be astonished at their good fortune. A year ago they were
isolated and scrambling to save Assad of Syria. Then Obama agreed to spare
Assad's airfields from bombing in return for giv[ing] up his chemical arms …
Now the sanctions on Iran have been eased as part of the nuclear talks, and the
U.S. is negotiating to be the air force for Iran's Quds Force.”
Well, any normal human being would say there is nothing
wrong with that. True, this is what a normal human being would say … unless
they are powered by hate fueled with a dogma that has the force of religion.
And this is what the editors of the Wall Street Journal have demonstrated. They
went on to spew their venom against the Quds force which fought against America
as much as America fought against it.
That said, the editors admit “America
does have an interest in defeating ISIS that
has captured much of Sunni Iraq,” and they quickly follow this with a but. Here
it is: “But that doesn't mean the U.S. has shared interest with Iran in the
region.” What? They just made the point that both sides share the interest of
seeing ISIS defeated. It seems that fanatic dogma has a way of preventing you
from seeing your own creation.
And based on this contorted logic, the editors of the
Journal go on to ramble a few more points that make no more sense than what
they made so far. And they end like they started: “This outreach to Iran smacks
mostly of strategic desperation. It is what an Administration does when it
realizes its policy has failed and the damage to U.S. interests is becoming too
obvious to hide from the American public.” This is deadly venom wrapped in
eternal hate from which there is no escape.