Why still after more than 2000 years does the World Still Hate the
Christkiller ZYDS/Jews!
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:18:34 -0500, in soc.culture.usa "DoD"
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[Interesting, and probably true for most people outside the U.S. and a few
inside the U.S., but I dont think it tells the whole story]
Many of the bitter controversies in every corner of the globe inevitably
raise the same ancient question: why does the world hate the Jews?
Whether it's the angry international reaction to Israel's efforts to
defend
itself in Lebanon, or Mel Gibson's drunken rant in Malibu, the age-old
specter of anti-Semitism refuses to disappear. With only 13 million Jews
in
the world - less than one fourth of one percent of the earth's population
-
why does this tiny group inspire such bitter, widespread and often violent
animosity?
The answer is obvious to anyone who monitors anti-Semitic propaganda from
all its multifarious sources. People who express hatred, resentment or
fear
regarding the Jews almost always focus on charges of Jewish arrogance,
elitism, aggressiveness and lust for power.
According to the logic of anti-Semites everywhere, Jews deserve harsher
treatment than anyone else because they work harder than anyone else to
enshrine their own superior status. This argument suggests that the only
way
to answer constant Jewish demands for special treatment and privilege is
to
impose special limitations and restrictions on their instinctive will to
dominate.
According to such logic, the rest of the world must work together to cut
Jews down to size; only then will they function on the same plane as
everyone else. As Hutton Gibson (Holocaust-denying father of the
scandal-tarnished star, Mel) revealingly declared to interviewer Steve
Feuerstein: "I don't know what the Jewish agenda is except that it's all
about control. They're after one world religion and one world government."
This central, primeval charge that arrogant Jews seek global dominance
originates from three distinct historical factors:
1- The emphasis on the "Chosen People" concept in the Bible
2- The prominence and prosperity of Jews in most nations in which they've
established significant communities, and
3- The startling successes of the State of Israel in the mere 60 years of
its existence.
These cir***stances sometimes perplex even people of good will and
therefore
deserve deeper consideration and explanation.
I. CHOSEN PEOPLE CONCEPT
While it's true that the Bible speaks repeatedly of a special relation****p
between God and the Jews, anti-Semitic agitators have always misunderstood
or distorted the essential nature of that connection. According to
Scripture, the Jews have been chosen for distinct responsibilities, not
for
unique privileges: we accept special obligations, rather than claiming
special power. In Jewish tradition, non-Jews are expected to follow just
seven commandments-the Noahide laws of basic morality. According to
mainstream Torah teaching, gentiles who follow these rules (don't murder,
don't steal, don't commit gross ***ual immorality, and so forth) should be
judged as righteous and assumed to earn their share in the World to Come
(the afterlife). God, however, expects his covenantal people to apply far
more numerous and stringent commandments to their behavior - 613
commandments, to be exact - regarding everything from food, to business
ethics, marital relations, and Sabbath observance.
The concept of chosen-ness, in other words, involves a significant burden
rather than privileged status -a burden reflected in the common phrase,
"Ohl
Malchus Shamayim" or "The Yoke of the Kingdom of Heaven," to describe the
commitment of every Jew who accepts the covenant of Abraham. Moreover,
Jews
remain more a "choosing people" than a "chosen people" because so many
non-Jews over the centuries (and particularly in recent years) have
selected
Jewish identity and converted to our faith. In the US, nearly 10% of
today's
Jewish population of 5.2 million counts as converts to Judaism. Though we
don't emphasize proselytizing efforts in the style of Evangelical
Christians, many of the leaders of the Jewish people (including hugely
significant rabbis in nearly every era for the last 2000 years) have been
"Jews by Choice" --- those who weren't born Jewish, but chose to join our
people through an ancient, well-established process of conversion.
Finally, the whole idea of the "Chosen People" has never brought the
assumption that God selected us for unusual political, military or even
economic authority. The Bible suggests that the Jews will be "a nation of
priests and a holy nation" --- not some sort of all-conquering superpower
within the Middle East or the world at large. Our tradition has always
defined Jewish power as spiritual, rather than practical and worldly. No
Jewish leader, going all the way back to Moses and Abraham, has ever
suggested that our people should dominate the world and control other
nations. The Bible specifies relatively modest borders for the Holy Land,
and repeatedly mentions the much larger, far more formidable empires to
the
south (Egypt) and to the East (Babylonia, Assyria, Persia). Even during
the
glory days of ancient Israel under David and Solomon the Jewish state
never
achieved full control of that promised territory-let alone a
world-girdling
empire. At that time, as with Israel today, the Jewish people sought only
to
live unmolested within the confines of their own cherished land, each man
"beneath his own vine and own fig tree."
II. JEWISH PROMINENCE AND SUCCESS IN THE LANDS OF THE DIAS****A
No one can deny that Jews in the United States and in many other nations
recently have achieved surprising levels of prosperity and influence but
any
talk of Jewish "dominance" or "control" in those societies remains the
province of neo-Nazi propagandists. There is no significant industry or
arena of endeavor - no, not one--in any nation in the world (outside of
Israel) in which Jews outnumber or rule over non-Jews. Even the famous
Jewish command of Hollywood is an ignorant myth concerning an increasingly
international industry in which the prominence of influential Jews has
actually decreased in the last seventy years. Most of the pioneering movie
studios founded and owned by immigrant Jewish families have either gone
out
of the movie production business altogether (M-G-M) or else sold out to
strikingly non-Jewish cor****ations (Columbia to the Japanese Sony
Cor****ation, and 20th Century Fox to an Australian descendant of
Presbyterian clergy, Rupert Murdoch). The two largest entertainment
conglomerates in the world boast board chairmen who are African-American
(Richard Parsons at Time Warner) and Arab American (George Mitchell at
Disney) neither of whom are remotely Jewish. The yearly lists of
Hollywood's
most influential power players, as identified by Premiere Magazine and
other
sources, regularly show that close to one-fourth of the movers-and-shakers
are Jews-a dispro****tionate showing, to be sure, but hardly an indication
of
Jewish dominance. Similarly, the Fortune 500 list of the nation's largest
cor****ations features a top ten ranking that includes three oil companies
with strong Arab ties and no affection whatever for Israel, as well as a
car
company (Ford) founded by one of history's most outspoken anti-Semites,
and
a retailer run by conservative Christians from Arkansas (Wal-Mart)-but not
a
single cor****ation that was founded, run, or owned by Jews. Among the top
100, at most six (including Home Depot, Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers)
could classify in any way as "Jewish companies." With these
incontrovertible
facts easy to verify for anyone with access to the internet or a library,
it
becomes even more difficult to explain the persistent, pernicious and
utterly false belief that Jews "own" or "control" most of the world's
banks,
newspapers, media companies and other im****tant instiutions. Part of the
confusion involves appalling lies and misinformation: many callers to my
radio show somehow believe that the Rockefellers are Jewish (they were
actually German Christians who arrived in Philadelphia in 1723) or that
the
Rothschild family-a favorite target of anti-Semites for more than 200
years-- still dominates world banking (the family's power actually peaked
in
the Napoleonic era and their influence on the global economy today is
either
invisible or non-existent).
There is also a tendency on the part of paranoid anti-Semites to search
out
a few Jewish names even in areas in which Jews play minor roles in order
to
triumphantly affirm the myth of "Jewish control." Consider the case of the
Bush administration and the frequent, laughably absurd charge that it's
somehow dominated by Jewish "neo-conservatives" who forced the President
to
make war on Iraq for the sake of Israel. In truth, Jews remained
conspicuously absent from positions of authority during the first Bush
term:
for the first time in more than 65 years (since the Presidency of FDR!)
the
President's Cabinet (15 department heads in all) included not a single
Jew.
The true believers in a Neo-Con cabal invariably cite just two names who
held sub-cabinet posts (Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense and
Douglas Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy) and a single
civilian
advisor to the Defense Department (Richard Perle, of the Defense Policy
Board) who doesn't even count as an administration employee. The
anti-Semites focus on these names not because of their im****tance (anyone
who believes that Wolfowitz and Feith secretly controlled their imperious,
tough-as-nails boss, Don Rumsfeld, knows nothing about Rummy) but because
they happen to be Jewish. Similarly, conspiracists like to blame Jews in
the
Senate for pu****ng us into war with Iraq, while ignoring the fact that a
bare majority of the eleven Jewish Senators at the time (including such
fierce anti-war advocates as Russ Feingold and Barbara Boxer) actually
voted
against the resolution authorizing war -at a time when nearly 80% of their
gentile colleagues lined up on the other side to sup****t the President in
deposing Saddam Hussein.
To me, one of the most mystifying aspects of the stubborn belief in Jewish
influence and power is the notion that our fractious, deeply divided,
largely disaffiliated people somehow manages to get together to exert that
authority. I'm a Jewish radio talk show host, and so is the appalling (and
unfunny) Al Franken of Air America. We agree on nothing, and we've both
managed to survive several very angry, bitter, public confrontations. Do
Jew-haters believe that behind the scenes we receive the same secret memos
from Jewish Conspiracy Central, or else get together in dank, shadowy
rooms
to study the one-hundred-year-old hoax, "The Protocols of the Elders of
Zion"? Less than half of the U.S. Jewish population (alas!) gives to any
Jewish charity, or holds member****p in any synagogue, Temple, pro-Israel
lobbying group, B'nai B'rith lodge, or other Jewish organization.
In this context, the almost mystical, profoundly illogical belief in
"Jewish
power" based on our over-representation among accountants and dentists
amounts to more than a delusion; it is, in fact, a sickness.
III: ISRAEL'S SUCCESS - AND ALLEGEDLY "EXPANSIONIST" AND "IMPERIALIST"
NATURE
In order to credit Islamist denunciations of an "Israeli Empire," or worry
that the perennially embattled Jewish state might indeed count as uniquely
aggressive and power hungry, one must remain incurably ignorant not only
of
contem****ary history but of rudimentary geography. The merest glance at a
map reveals the incontrovertible fact that Israel remains, in every sense,
a
tiny nation. Egypt alone - representing only one of Israel's twenty
hostile
Arab neighbors-is more than 48 times the land area of Israel. Adding
together only the various Arab nations (without including other vast
Islamic
homelands like Iran and Afghanistan and Pakistan), the Arabs control well
over 300 times the area of the New Jersey-sized Jewish state. In other
words, even before President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran succeeds (God
forbid) in his plan to "wipe Israel from the map," 99.7% of the Arab lands
are already free of Jews.
Moreover, for nearly thirty years, Israel has been shrinking and
retreating - not expanding - hardly the behavior of an aggressive empire
bent on world domination. After capturing the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza and
the
West Bank in a defensive war in 1967, Israel returned the vast Sinai to
Egypt in 1978, agreed to the establishment of a Palestinian State on most
of
the West Bank and Gaza in 1993, vacated its security zone in Lebanon in
2000, abandoned Gaza entirely in 2005 and, under the current Prime
Minister,
committed to moving out of nearly all territory in the West Bank in the
near
future. In retrospect, some of these moves look like horrible policy
mistakes, but they unequivocally indicate that there is no basis at all to
suggest that Israeli aggression accounts for contem****ary anti-Semitism.
The establishment of the modern Jewish state wasn't a cause of Jew hatred,
but a response to Jew hatred-not only in Europe, but throughout the
Islamic
world where some 800,000 Middle Eastern and North African Jews were driven
from their ancient communities and found new homes in Israel. None of
Israel
's eight major wars has been about a Jewish lust for new territory. All of
them have been about a beleaguered nation's ceaseless attempts to make its
citizens secure from murderous attack in the distinctly limited area of
their ancestral homeland. Every Arab child in Lebanon, in Gaza, and in the
West Bank could sleep sweet, undisturbed slumber as soon as tomorrow night
if the adults once-and-for-all gave up their long-standing project of
driving the Jews out of the Middle East.
Contrary to anti-Semitic presumptions, Israel has never demanded special
privileges of any kind, but yearns (and bleeds) only for the same rights
other nations enjoy: to live undisturbed beside its neighbors without
unceasing attack by terrorists, militias and, occasionally, major armies.
Montenegro, the newest member of the family of nations after a referendum
this year, won independence and worldwide recognition despite the fact
that
more than 45% of the electorate opposed bringing the nation into
existence,
and only a bare majority claims Montenegran (as opposed to Serbian)
nationality. More than 80% of the residents of Israel are Jewish, and they
have fought tenaciously for their nationhood for nearly sixty years. The
desire for peaceful borders and acceptance from fanatical neighbors hardly
amounts to an Israeli demand of privileged status, but the refusal to
grant
that recognition reflects the classical attitude of the anti-Semite: that
Jews indeed deserve different treatment from all other nations on earth
but
in a negative, hostile and, ultimately murderous sense.
In conclusion, none of the three obsessive fears of Jew haters-the "Chosen
People" concept, Jewish prosperity in the Dias****a, and Israel's success
(so
far) in nation-building and self-defense -demonstrates in any way a push
for
world conquest or superior standing for the children of Abraham. How,
then,
can we understand the imperishable belief that Jews function as an
arrogant,
imperious, overbearing people? In a few words, that resentment stems in
truth from the age-old Jewish refusal to abandon our separate identity,
our
irreducible distinctiveness through the millennia. My friends Dennis
Prager
and Joseph Telushkin provide the most compelling exposition on this
dynamic
in their invaluable book, Why the Jews?, recently reissued.
In any event, the logic becomes most accessible when considered in
personal,
intimate terms. If a small group among your neighbors refuses invitations
to
wor****p in your churches and mosques, to eat the food you prepare in your
homes, to marry your daughters, to embrace your nationalisms, or to share
your enthusiasm for the ultimate, universally applicable perfection of
your
Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Catholic, Islamic, Nazi or Communist
worldview, then it's all but certain you will resent the members of that
stubborn group - and assume that they exclude themselves from elements of
your society due to an innate, obnoxious sense of superiority.
For Jews who try to remain faithful to the old covenant, there's no choice
about the unyielding refusal to assimilate and disappear-and no surprise
at
the angry reaction in much of the world. After all, the Bible repeatedly
predicts that response. This realization doesn't make it any easier to
cope
with anti-Semitism, but it does make the eternal hatred comprehensible. No
matter how inconvenient or unpopular, we get our marching orders from the
commandments--including the crucial and celebrated injunction to choose
life, for ourselves and our people.
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