Saturday, April 25, 2015

The confused Jewish Sense of Identity

Whatever inspired Charles Krauthammer to write a column under the title: “Obama's Inverted Nixon Doctrine: Anointing Iran,” published on April 23, 2015 in National Review Online, he came close to showing that the 1960 film of Alfred Hitchcock “Psycho” is not such a far fetched story, after all.

In the film, the character of Norman Bates confuses his own identity with that of his mother whom he murdered ten years before and kept the skeletal remains at the family motel – now his alone. The identity of the mother takes over his own when he becomes sexually attracted to another woman and so, he (she) kills that woman. The plot of the film can be thought of as a metaphor approximating what usually happens with the elites of the Jewish establishment.

For example, anyone that converts to Judaism is made to feel and to act as if he (she) were a descendant of the ancient Hebrew tribes. To believe they have a legitimate right to the land of Palestine, they pretend they have a spiritual attachment to the land … an attachment that is stronger than what the Palestinians may feel for a place they have been calling home since the beginning of time.

Moreover, to appease the humanitarian crowd that still believes the Palestinians have more rights to Palestine than converted Jews from Russia or Ethiopia, the Jewish establishment has adopted the argument of the old colonial powers to the effect that “we are more advanced than they … therefore we have more rights than they,” and so the Jews became a legitimate colonial power … in their own sick minds.

But this also made them superior not only to the Palestinians but to everyone else, including the Americans by whose largess they live. For example, they peddled stories to the effect that upon arrival in the land of milk and honey, a Russian Jeweler instantly became the best farmer that the universe has known since before the Big Bang. This is how and why the milk and the honey of Palestine were transformed into the olive and the orange groves in the patches of land where the Jewish Jeweler poked his finger into the ground.

As to the Jewish relationship with the scientists and engineers of Germany and America, Volkswagen would not exist today were it not for the Israelis who made a magnificent discovery about magnesium, the thing that saved the German company from an assured death. And the Americans would not be having the success they are having in Yemen and Pakistan were it not for the Israelis who taught them how to build and use drones.

Now comes Charles Krauthammer who demonstrates that the Jewish confusion of the identities does not end here. Writing about Iran, look what he says in this passage: “a nightmare for the Western-oriented Arab states.” The fact is that the Jews – even those who do not live in Israel – are having those nightmares. These are not the fears of Arabs; peoples that never suffered a pogrom, a holocaust or were “wiped” off the face of the Earth.

Later in the column, the author goes on to say the following: “The [Iranian] regime's ultimate strategic purpose is to … annihilate America's Middle Eastern allies. Which has those allies in an understandable panic.” No, only Israel is in a panic. But given that nobody gives a hoot about Israel's fate anymore, the Jewish establishment has adopted the Norman Bates syndrome in “Psycho” of confusing Arab and Jewish identities. Thus, whatever jealousies, pain or longing the Jews feel, they attribute them to the Arabs.

So you ask: from where might Krauthammer have acquired those notions? And the possible answer is this: “The [Saudis] are resisting being forced into Yemen negotiations with Iran, a country that is, in the words of the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., 'part of the problem, not part of the solution...’” But that's a far cry from Netanyahu saying: “We are about to suffer a second holocaust.”

Seeing someone as being the problem rather than the solution is not the same as seeing him being the agent of the next holocaust. To confuse these two positions is to reveal serious psychological problems.

No, it is not the Arabs who are panicking; it is the Jews. It is therefore fitting that it be left to a former psychiatrist to bring this out. But the odd thing is that he has not presented his views like a dispassionate clinician; he has presented them like the patient who diagnosed himself accurately.