There was a time when I was young and a practicing
Catholic. I am not young anymore, and I have unresolved issues with matters of faith.
I will not grow younger but I'll keep trying to resolve the issues of faith.
Meanwhile, I still remember how, as a young boy, I
struggled with two issues that were paramount to me at the time: the lie and
the guilt. That struggle dissolved when I came to live in North America 54
years ago. We first settled in Toronto near Lake Ontario where I could go to
the lake and lay my eyes on a sea of water. But I did not have to go far to lay
my eyes on a sea of lies. I discovered that the whole liberal-democratic place
was swimming in lies. As to the matter of guilt, it started to stir me up only
3 years after my arrival into my new home.
What brings back these memories are the kind of
articles I propose to highlight in this discussion. There are two of them this
time. One article came under the title: “How to Fight Anti-Semitism,” written
by Ben Shapiro and published on October 31, 2018 in National Review Online. The
other article came under the title: “The chosen people, chosen again,” written
by Suzanne Fields and published on October 31, 2018 in The Washington Times.
When I began to read the first sentence in the
Shapiro article, I felt like the monitor had blown in my face. Here is that
sentence: “On Saturday, a white supremacist attacked the Tree of Life synagogue
in Pittsburgh, murdering eleven people, specifically targeting the elderly and
the infirm.” It is so glaringly obvious that something was more important to
Shapiro than the dead and wounded. He worried about the synagogue appearing to
lack young worshipers on a sabbath, being patronized only by the very old. He
thus, fabricated a lie on the spot to make the readers believe he had
information to the effect that the gunman specifically targeted the elderly and
the infirm, thus spared the lives of the young who were nowhere to be seen or
be in the news.
Shapiro forgot to account for an even bigger lie,
however. It is one that's as Jewish as matzoh bread. It happened that before
the cameras got to Pittsburgh, the first that came out the mouths of Jews was
that the synagogue was attacked during a “baby naming” ceremony. This was a
filthy lie designed to gain sympathy. The sickening fact is that exploiting
children by hiding behind them –– their own and those of others –– is a Jewish
disease etched into their DNA. The Old Testament is full of such examples from
cover to cover. And there is no breathing Jew that doesn't spew a fake and
exploitative story about children with every breath they exhale.
All of that came at the beginning of the article.
But the author wrote the piece because he had a specific ending in mind he was
eager to get to. In fact, it is a standard Jewish staple to claim that Jews are
a special people. For this reason, they want the political leaders to make
Jewish-specific laws that punish the citizens who do not accept that premise.
There was a time when the Jews used to promote such ideas brazenly, but they
got clobbered for being so in-your-face. And so, they began to say them in more
subtle ways. Here is Shapiro's way:
“The theory recognizes that anti-Semitism is
something different –– and that it ought to be treated as such. It means that
Jew-hatred can't be curbed by generalized policy prescriptions. It must be
fought at every turn.”
Did you catch the drift of the last part, my
friend? When the Jews says that something must be done at every turn, they mean
that the government must appoint a Czar to supervise a police force that will
be dedicated to snoop on, apprehend and punish the citizens who will not obey
the Jewish-specific laws whose effect may have turned the rest of society into second
class citizens in their own country.
As to the Suzanne Fields article, she dealt with
the “guilt” part of the equation. She began by quoting a passage from a piece
of writing that was authored by a Holocaust survivor. He had asserted that “all
the details and all the aspects of the 'Final Solution' were known to the White
House” while they were happening.
At the end of World War II, the Jews made claims
against the European countries that had anything to do with the business of
killing Jews, and won hefty compensation settlements. Knowing that these
settlements were final, the Jews wanted a revenue stream that will be
permanent. They reckoned this could only come from the United States. But what
claim could they make against an America that did nothing to hurt them, but
liberated them from the concentration camps of Europe?
Well, there is the idea that America knew what was
going on but neglected to come sooner and save the Jews. Never mind that even
if the accusation of prior knowledge were true, it would not have made military
sense for America to curtail the war effort elsewhere so as to get to the
European theater sooner … and most likely walk into a trap that would have
served neither the Americans nor the Jews.