Sunday, July 29, 2018

Hermit by Choice and Hermit by Coercion

When you see a headline that reads: “World Socialism's Anti-Israel Turn,” you're inclined to think that World Socialism has turned against Israel just now.

But when you read the article that's developed below the headline, you encounter this: “The left turned against Israel after the 1967 war –– refram[ing] Zionism from a story of Jews fighting for a home into another Western effort to oppress a Third World people.” And you wonder if anyone is left on Planet Earth that hasn't parted company with Israel due to its conduct on the world stage.

In fact, the article offers clues as to what's going on with Israel and its quirky relationship with the human race. Besides having that headline, which serves as title, the article also came under the subtitle: “Shimon Peres could once be the honorary president. No more.” The article was written by Elliot Kaufman and published on July 23, 2018 in the Wall Street Journal.

After asking if the marriage between the Left and Israel can be saved, Elliot Kaufman makes the point that while Socialist International, “has been anti-Israel for decades, it accused Israel of apartheid last month, and endorsed the BDS movement.” This shows that Jews will stay in a deteriorating marriage up until the moment it begins to cost them money, at which time they'll gladly dissolve the marriage. The article also shows that the Jews will do nothing to try saving their marriage, preferring instead to endure an intolerable situation than let go of habits their partners can no longer endure.

And so, while many wonder why a country like North Korea chose to live in a state characterized as “hermit,” they do not realize that the rulers of North Korea did not choose that state for their country or their people. It is that the condition was imposed on them by America in an attempt to isolate the country for refusing to give up its desire to live the way it wants to.

And so, it can be seen that the coerced state of North Korea contrasts with that of the Jews who freely chose to live like hermits. They did so, living in ghettos behind walls that were made of wood and stone during the time that they bunched together in Europe in a sojourn that lasted several centuries. And when the time came for them to carry on with the habit of fleeing the place where they made a mess of their lives, they carried the ghetto tradition with them to their new destination.

That was America. When the new continent opened to them, the Jews moved into it in droves and chose to huddle in closely knit neighborhoods that did not have physical walls separating them from the rest of the country. What their leaders did, however, was erect virtual walls that continued to separate the rank-and-file from the surrounding neighborhoods.

To that end, the leaders created Jewish specific schools, recreation centers and media, thus forming a kind of cultural ghetto behind whose walls they kept the flock, preventing it from interacting more than necessary with the outside world. The leaders also discouraged the kind of mixed marriages that did not result in some kind of windfall for the Jewish causes.

You would think that given the developments which unfolded over the last half century, Elliot Kaufman would get the message and urge his fellow Jews to make an effort at harmonizing with the rest of humanity, but you'd be wrong. Instead of doing that, Kaufman blamed the bad relation that exists between the Jews and humanity on the latter for practicing what he says is a double standard that disadvantages the Jews.

Elliot Kaufman traces the deterioration of the relations between Socialist International and Israel to the effort of Bruno Kreisky who was the Jewish Chancellor of Austria and also vice president of the International. Kaufman adds that now, “35 of the International's member parties are in government.” They promote the BDS movement, condemn Israel's Law of Return and demand the immediate release of Palestinian prisoners, says Kaufman.

This should bring people of goodwill to ask if there is anything that can be done to help the Jews integrate into the human family. Well, whatever the ultimate plan will end up being like, it must be based on showing the Jews examples of nobility they can absorb as if by osmosis, and then aspire to emulate.

Since there is nothing more noble than a victim of the Jews advising them on how to improve their performance to integrate into a human family that has developed the highest esteem for the victim, the Jews should consider as golden the advice that Mahmoud Abbas is giving.

Here is how Elliot Kaufman has revealed the existence of such advice: “Mahmoud Abbas attributed the Holocaust to Jewish social behavior”.

The advice is clear: to integrate into the human family, the Jews must improve their social behavior. They should heed this advice and thank Abbas profusely.