He admits to Bankruptcy of the Jewish Approach

Here is a typical column of the Bret Stephens variety. It came under the title: “Jewish Power at 70 Years,” published on April 20, 2018 in the New York Times. Stephens admitted that the Jewish approach has failed, and then suggested that to remedy the situation, the Jews must do A and B, which – you guessed it – are the steps of the approach he says had failed.

To explain his philosophy, Stephens seized on an incident that happened in Germany, and argued that Jews are hated in Europe, which also means they are hated just about everywhere else. The solution, he says, is for the Jews to huddle in a homeland of their own such as Israel; a place where they can be protected by Israel's “army, bomb, and robust willingness to use force to defend itself”.

Reduced to the two essential components of the Stephens argument –– the cause and the ensuing effect –– the writer's logic seems to hold together when looked at in a cursory way. But when you parse the argument and look at its parts, you discover that the glue keeping it together is strained to the limit. And you begin to understand why the Jewish approach has gone bankrupt … not once but over and over again.

What's wrong with that approach anyway? Well, to shed light at the repeated failures of the Jews to integrate into the human family, we need to understand how they view their dilemma, and how much they are prepared to cooperate in the search for a way to resolve the difficulties. What follows is a condensed account of how Bret Stephens and most other Jewish leaders view the situation:

“Germany's foreign minister tweeted, 'Jews shall never again feel threatened here.' It's a vow not likely to be fulfilled. To be visibly Jewish in Europe is to live on borrowed time. That's not to doubt the sincerity of European leaders who commit to combating anti-Semitism. Jews cannot rely for their safety on French or German politicians. There's a limit to how many guards can be deployed to protect synagogues and Holocaust memorials. There's a limit, also, to trying to cure bigotry with appeals to tolerance. The German government is mulling a proposal to require recent arrivals to tour Nazi concentration camps. It doesn't occur to them that to some, Buchenwald is a source of inspiration, not shame”.

Bret Stephens has finally seen the light. His words indicate he understands that shoving the love of Jews down the throat of people does not make them love Jews. On the contrary, it makes them hate Jews so much they wish a new Hitler would rise and implement the Final Solution for good this time. But does that mean Stephens is prepared to negotiate or at least debate what the Jews might do to harmonize with the rest of humanity? No, it doesn't mean he is prepared to do that. Here is what he says in that regard:

“Israel exists to end the victimization of Jews. That's a point Israel's critics could learn. Palestinians in Gaza returned to the border fence with Israel in protest. Their purpose is to march on Jerusalem. Israel cannot allow this to happen, and has used deadly force to counter it. The pundits think this is excessive. It would be helpful if they suggest alternative military tactics. The least they can do is defend Israel's sovereignty”.

It is obvious that there is a standoff between humanity which believes in the rule of law and justice for all – and the Bret Stephens type of Jewish leaders who are developing new ideas just as weird as the old. Given that they and Stephens have stepped back from the standard Jewish position of demanding that nations recognize the uniqueness of Jews and make laws reflecting this reality, they see no way out of the difficult situation but for the Jews to retreat into a national ghetto called Israel.

Having abandoned the idea of Jews receiving special status in every country, they still hang on to the idea that Israel should be given special status among the nations of the Earth. This is important to them because their philosophy is based on the idea that they are the chosen children of God. For this to become reality in practice, humanity must be made to accept it, adopt it and cherish it. That’s another way of saying love the Jew or else.

The idea is that if it’s impossible for individual Jews to enjoy the benefits of that divine providence in every country on the planet, they can enjoy it by exercising the right collectively. They can by going to live in Israel or by supporting it from wherever they are in the world.

When the Diaspora Jews will understand those realities, they'll get in line and accept that Israel has the right to express its uniqueness by being sole judge as to the amount of deadly force it can use when battling someone; so says the logic of the Jewish leaders.

This is especially true when battling the people whose properties Israel is looting in fulfillment of God's promise that what the Jews desire becomes theirs instantly. They can take it by hook, by crook or by the bumbling of the U.S. Congress of imbeciles, say the Jewish leaders.

And that, my friend, is why the Jewish approach has gone bankrupt again and again.