In his article: “Eric Cantor's instant burial” published in
the Washington Post on June 11, 2014, Dana Milbank talks a great deal about
Cantor's Jewishness as if he was trying to establish a link between it and the
fact that Cantor was defeated in the primary.
Milbank did not say it openly, and did not even question the
possibility in the way that the Daily Kos did when, on that same day, published
a piece under the title: “Cantor Defeated by anti-Semitic Vote?” The Daily goes
on to expand on the question with the following: “Did Cantor lose because of an
anti-Semitic Evangelical Christian backlash against the only Jewish Republican
in Congress?”
Well, I am not surprise by any of that because I have a long
story to tell in this regard. It is a lesson about life that took 15 or 20
years to sink into my consciousness. It can be summed up like this: Human
beings often distort the truth – even to themselves – because they are too
cowardly to confront the serious challenges of life. Now, my friend, allow me
to tell you what it is that took this long to sink into my consciousness.
It was around the year 1970 that the colleagues I used to
work with, and the acquaintances I met through them began to talk to me about
the Middle East war that had begun 3 years
earlier and was still raging in the Sinai under the name: War of Attrition.
These people were sort of blaming me for not “dealing decisively with the
Jews.” And despite the fact that the Egyptian forces crossed the Suez Canal in
1973 and began the process of retaking the Sinai from the Israelis that had
occupied it, some colleagues and some acquaintances continued to talk to me in
the same tone they had adopted before the Egyptian success.
These were all sorts of people I met over the years as I
worked for different employers, and spent leisure time in various places. The
people were born here or overseas, had roots in Eastern or Western Europe,
North or South America, Asia or sub-Saharan Africa. They were Christians, Muslims
or of religious affiliations I knew little about. What they had in common,
however, was that they all wanted to see the humiliation of the Jews, an
opportunity they said the Egyptians had but did not exploit. They pointed out
that the army of that country had failed to show decisiveness during the War of
Attrition, even after it crossed the Canal.
At first, I dismissed the whole thing to what the Jews
habitually call antisemitism. But years of observations – some close and some
casual – began to tell a different story. Actually I did not know what the
full story was till a critical mass had built up, and the proverbial light bulb
lit up in my head. It is that in dealing with their Jewish bosses, these people
had imagined the Egyptian army as being the alter ego that will avenge the
constant humiliation they were being subjected to, having to suck up to the
Jewish bosses in a way they never did with other bosses. And when the alter ego
failed to deliver in a decisive way, they hated him as if to transfer into him
the loathing they had developed for the self. And just for being there – an
Egyptian in flesh and blood – they took their frustrations out on me.
After that, it took me a few more years to realize that the
journalists and politicians of this North American Continent were expressing a
similar sort of sentiments. The difference, however, was that they sang a tune
in public that was different from what I used to hear privately from my
colleagues. In addition, I was able to determine that the journalists and
politicians – sometimes referred to as the elites of society – were taking
other measures as well to protect themselves.
I became conscious of that new reality because I could see
that every time the situation heated up on the world stage, and the Jewish
leaders were seen to panic, the non-Jewish journalists and politicians who had
the upper hand and were in a position to tell the Jews what they must do now to
change the dynamics of the situation, did the opposite of that. In fact, they
did what amounts to begging the Jews to forgive them for, they had failed to do
enough to protect them.
And there was only one way to explain that odd behavior. It
is that every time the situation heated up, the elites sensed that the
proverbial Final Solution was about to happen, and so they wanted the Jews who
will survive it to know that they – who are not Jewish – were on the side of
the Jews above the one hundred percent level, as absurd as this may sound.
Also, they wanted the survivors to know that they would have
done more to prevent the attempted Final Solution if only there was a way to do
it. But there was no way for them to act, and so they repeated the things that
they knew the Jews wanted to hear.
I am now convinced that despite all appearances to the
effect that the North American elites – which now include members of the
Christian Evangelical Movement – are sacrificing everything they have to please
the Jews, these people, in reality, want nothing more than to see the Final
Solution happen and succeed.