What’s the difference in comportment between (1) someone that knows what he is doing, therefore provides for himself and his family by the work that he does, and (2) someone that knows not how to do anything constructive, therefore provides for himself and his dependents by hustling, deceiving and robbing the people who produce the good things which are meant to serve all of society?
The answer to that question is that a big
difference exists between the two. But it is a difference that can be stated in
simple terms. It is this: The one who produces what he needs to sustain him and
his family has only one story to tell: the truth and nothing else. That’s
because there is only one truth to every story. It is one that need not be
embellished or justified. It is what it is, and that’s that. As to the hustler,
he is forced to invent a new story to justify his evil doings each time that
the audience, the settings or the needs change. But try as he may, he can never
make the pig look better by changing the lipstick.
Because the truth does not change with time,
it stands like a monument to integrity for all to see, and the one that tells
it, does not have to repeat it. As to the hustler, he constantly finds himself
sinking deeper into the morass of the partial stories he finds evermore
difficult to stitch together into a coherent whole. The stories he tells begin
to disintegrate, and he begins to dissolve mentally along with them. And this,
my friend, is where Jonathan S. Tobin finds himself at this point in time.
You can see how this is happening when you
read the article that Tobin wrote under the title: “You can’t be ‘pro-Israel’
if you defend anti-Zionists,” and the subtitle: “Liberals and left-wingers are
still trying to avoid conflict with anti-Semitic ‘Squad members’ Reps. Rashida
Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. Their excuses are wearing thin.” The article was
published on August 13, 2021 in Jewish News Syndicate.
Because Jonathan Tobin and those like him
have repeatedly demonstrated they are too feeble-minded to understand the
simple concept of equality and equal treatment, I must start the discussion by
making this assertion: If two different people or different entities perpetrate
the same kind of act, the nature of one act does not change because its
perpetrator claims to be different. The two acts can and must be compared.
Because of this, the two perpetrators will be
praised or damned according to the same criteria. This means that no individual
can claim immunity because he belongs to a certain group (even a protected one.)
As well, no entity can escape being compared to another group or another nation
because it claims something unique about itself (like being the only Jewish
entity on Earth, for example) or because it belongs to a protection racket like
pretending to adhere to the principles of liberal democracy … whatever this
means nowadays.
To be specific, when American soldiers or
contractors commit crimes of the kind that they have in Vietnam, Iraq and
Afghanistan, neither they nor their acts, nor even America, which pretends to
adhere to the rule of law, can escape being equated with the Nazis or the
Vietcong or the Taliban. To argue otherwise is to claim that America is
inherently superior to others. But superior in what way? Superior in any way
you can think of: racially, religiously, ideologically or whatever strokes your
fancy. Anyone of these choices is as evil as claiming racial superiority.
What is even more gruesome than all of that,
is (1) knowing about the Israelis that have admitted to harvesting the organs
of Palestinians they killed, (2) watching an Israeli soldier shoot a wounded
Palestinian in the head in full view of the TV cameras and the Israeli
politicians who congratulated the soldier for a job well done, and (3) hear the
Jews claim that Israel cannot be compared to others because it is both
democratic and the ONLY Jewish state in the world. In addition, Israel is claiming,
for now at least, that it has shed its Marxist-Stalinist skin to wear a
right-wing mantle that is yet to be defined. Call it what you will, but this is
criminal insanity of the most Zionist kind.
If Jonathan Tobin and those like him cannot
grasp these simple truths, they must be considered as having become mentally
deficient by a toxic ingredient that has infested them. But what can that
ingredient be? It could be anything. Take your pick: something racial,
religious, ideological or whatever strokes your fancy.
So now that we have determined with some
certainty what Jonathan Tobin stands for, we look closely at his writing, from
which we may determine what it is that bothers him. Here, in condensed form, is
how he expressed himself on that score:
“Drawing a straight line between what she
characterized as oppression of Palestinians by Israel and the treatment of
African-Americans in the United States, Rep. Rashida Tlaib invoked a shadowy,
villainous conspiracy behind wrongdoing on two continents, like this: ‘They do
it from Gaza to Detroit. They exploit the rest of us, for their own profit.
It’s the same people that make money off of racism,’ she said. Claiming that
the same people who are preventing Palestinians from getting rid of the Jews
are also exploiting regular Americans was tying it all up in a conspiratorial
bow that fellow Michigan icon and anti-Semite Henry Ford would have happily
endorsed”.