In the movie based on the
mammoth tale by Jean Auel, Clan of Cave Bear, there is a glimpse of the
sex life of the Palaeolithic people who roamed the earth some 35,000 years
ago. Apparently, whenever a Neanderthal wished to have fun, he didn’t
need to bring flowers or arrange dinner for two. He would make a certain
sign with his hand, and the chosen girl would immediately comply with his
desire, without further ado.
The sign to submit is still
with us. Whenever people discuss the things done in the name of Jews by,
say, Sharon or Abe Foxman, the moment the discussion starts to get out of
hand, one of the leaders of the community chants the magic word ‘anti-Semitism’,
and, as if under a spell, we immediately bend over. It is amazing that
grown men and women who have never personally experienced any prejudice in
their life, still respond to this spell like the girl, Ayla, in Auel’s
novel.
The machine of the official
Jewish establishment and its Israeli offshoot nauseates many Jews. Israeli
government commits war crimes on a day-to-day basis. It is run by a
certified mass murderer. The unprecedented siege, mass starvation and
summary executions are now routine. Bombing, strafing and shelling
civilians are no longer anything to get worked up about. Many Jews see it,
and are ready to say so in a cosy ‘entre-nous’ environment. They read
news from Israel with resignation and disgust, like an English Victorian
squire learning of the new exploits of his wild brother in a far away
colony.
The American Jewish
establishment is not better than Israel’s leadership. It provides
unconditional support to Israeli and other Jewish criminals, from Sharon
to Gusinsky, the Russian media lord. Abe Foxman, the head of ADL, files
compromising materials, bugs phone calls and intrudes on the privacy of
many Americans. The whining voice of Elie Wiesel and his colleagues
traffic in schmaltzy self-righteousness. Conrad Black and others of his
ilk take morally unsustainable positions, supporting freaks such as the
Chilean torturer, Augusto Pinochet, and Henry Kissinger, the destroyer of
Cambodia.
But the moment a word of
objection exits our lips, we see the sign of Ayla and bend over. If nobody
says it, we whisper it to ourselves: "Sh-sh-sh! It will cause
anti-Semitism!" We can not help ourselves, it is too deeply
engrained. Like a spoilt child, we take any criticism as a sign of hate.
We dared to rebel against kings, but we do not dare to fight our
self-proclaimed and self imposed leadership, as "it will cause
A-S".
Abe Foxman, besieged for
taking a $100,000 check from the Marc Rich Foundation, gave the sign of
Ayla in the New York Times (March 21), proclaiming, ‘anti-Semitism
is a disease, and we have seen a big eruption of that disease in New York’.
But it misfired. Rabbi Lapin of Toward Tradition called him ‘a guy who's
not in close touch with reality’, and a ‘dealer of the Anti-Semitism
Manufacture’. He noted that the ADL gets paid (by contributors)
according to how much anti-Semitism it finds.
The Guardian (March 28,
2001), to prove its pluralism, published an op-ed by a Simon Sebag
Montefiore, who declared that ‘the most energetic media-campaigners
against Israel are, in private, virulent anti-Semites’. He pictures the
British journalists and public figures as ‘dogs besetting the bear’.
"Dog" refers to lord Gilmour; "bear" to Conrad Black ,
He specifically objects to the
‘most wicked implication that Israel is replicating German behaviour: this approaches Holocaust denial in its
iniquity’. Well, it is a question of standards. Years ago, an Israeli
writer noted that the Jews measure their actions by the Nazi stick, and
invariably find themselves ‘a good and benevolent occupier’. Maybe
even this ‘generous’ standard has been set aside. Yes, the Nazi
chapter in Poland was much worse than the thirty-four year Israeli
military rule in the occupied territories. But the Nazi occupation of
France was probably milder for the French, than the Israeli occupation is
for Palestinians, and mercifully it has been much shorter. Daily life
under the Vichy government was certainly better than life in the ‘autonomous’
Gaza strip.
Montefiore calms the Brits as
his ‘aim is not to launch witch-hunts, just to warn decent people’ of
the abyss ahead. Another purpose of this op-ed, which was probably
sponsored by Black, is to frighten British Jews silly into supporting
General Sharon.
This game is not for the right
wing only. An Israeli liberal, Amnon Rubinstein, called his compatriots to
fight the danger of anti-Semitism. This plague, in his opinion, was
manifested by Greece bringing to court a Jewish stock market swindler, a
local Milken or Rich. For Rubinstein, Jew must be immune to persecution,
and all Jews must support every Jewish rascal. The Israeli peace activist,
Uri Avnery of Gush Shalom, called Arabs to fight anti-Semitism, as
"anti-Semitism brought one million Russian Jews to Israel". He
could say anti-Semitism brought half a million of Chinese guest workers to
Israel, as well.
In order to deliver peace to
your souls, I will give my personal testimony. An aging baby-boomer, I
have travelled the world, lived among Russians and Palestinians, Germans
and Swedes, the English and the Japanese, Indians and Africans, and I can
tell you, on the basis of my experience, anti-Semitism no longer exists.
As a Jew, you can walk freely in any city of men; you will be safe
everywhere, if you come as a friend. The prejudice to Jews has vanished.
You can find a Jew-hater, but there are many more people who hate the
Poles or the Irish or have a beef against the WASPs. You are much more
likely to encounter an Arab-hater or those who hate blacks or Asians.
I met with many people who
have been branded with the scarlet letter of the anti-Semite. These
so-called anti-Semites object to the policies of the organised Jewish
community, of the unholy alliance of Sharon and Abe Foxman, Gusinsky and
Mark Rich, Conrad Black and William Safire. I concur with them
wholeheartedly, as it is not a question of prejudice.
The professional anti-Semitism
fighters know this very well. Their true purpose is not to fight
anti-Semitism, but to frighten ordinary Jews into submission. That is why
the pillars of the community write them generous checks, and they report
every insult, magnifying it by a factor of ten. The Holocaust Industry is
but a branch of the Anti-Semitism Manufacture, a two-pronged weapon: it
pumps money from Gentiles and forces Jews into obedience to the leaders of
the community.
In 1991, when Iraqi Scuds
landed in Israel, and the gas warfare alarm sounded, a dozen Israelis
suffocated in their gas masks and died. There was no poisonous gas
outside, just the fresh and fragrant air of the Judean hills, but they
would not breathe it. They thought they would die the moment they took
their masks off. Instead, they suffocated in their masks. This is the
paradigm of modern Jewish existence in the shadow of fear.
When Noah released the first
dove from the ark, it had to return. The second dove, however, brought
back an olive branch. The third dove did not come back. He found the
deluge was over, and saw no reason to come back to the stifling air of the
Arc. I am your third dove. You may take off your masks. The air outside is
perfectly good. The deluge has subsided. Step outside to greet the human
race, your brothers and sisters.
Jews and Gentiles, we have the
same enemies and the same friends. The enemies are those who push us back
into a goy-hating ghetto; for a Jew-hater is but a mirror image of a
goy-hater. A few generations separate us from the stifling world of
traditional Jewish community life. Those who pine for it can take a trip
to Brooklyn.
Yossi Klein Halevi, an
Israeli-American journalist, wrote about his childhood: "We lived on
the border of Borough Park. Beyond our Brooklyn enclave,.. were Italians,
Puerto Ricans, and Scandinavians. They evoked no curiosity in us, only
fear. We saw them all as members of the same ethnic group:
Jew-haters. Goyim we called them, a Hebrew word that literally means 'the
nations' but that we understood to mean the enemy. We lived in a
sealed Jewish world.... had it been possible, we would have surrounded
Borough park with a moat..... Borough Park's interests were limited
to its own borders, and leapt over the Christian neighborhoods to embrace
other Jewish enclaves - as if the only civilized parts of the world
were Jewish, the rest being inhabited by rabid creatures capable at any
moment of unprovoked violence. 'The world' existed only insofar as it
affected Jews. The Jews and 'the world' could never coexist; at best
we would endure each other from a distance. Some of our
religious laws seemed meant not to bring us closer to God but to separate
us from the goyim, and I accepted that estrangement as self-evident».
Keep in mind, he was writing
of modern New York with its large Jewish population, not of some medieval
town. It is not strange that Halevi, brainwashed in his youth, became an
activist of the goy-hating Nazi group, Meyer Kahane’s Jewish Defence
League. He moved on, but even now, this correspondent for the New
Republic in Israel supports settlers, who behave "as if the
only civilized parts of Palestine were Jewish, the rest being inhabited by
rabid creatures capable at any moment of unprovoked violence". A
few generations ago, all the Jews lived in such enclaves, subservient to
the Jewish elite of wealth and learning. The rule of the elite was based
on patronage and on our fathers’ fear of anti-Semitism. The Jewish
aristocracy has adapted to new conditions and continues to reinforce this
fear in order to control us.
The ‘mutual support’ of
the Jewish community is immoral. If an Irishman or an Italian steals, he
goes to jail, and his parish priest might send him a Christmas pie. If an
influential Jew steals, be it Vladimir Gusinsky or Mark Rich, the Jewish
community demands his impunity. If the Jewish state commits war crimes,
the Jewish community supports it without reservations. This is abnormal
behaviour for an ethnic community, a shameful remnant of our habit of
dealing with the outside world as if we were members of a medieval guild.
Let us help one another to
overcome the impulse to bend over. A man should be able to voice
objections to the homicidal policies of his leadership without being
called a traitor. That was the position of Mark Twain who fought the US
intervention in the Philippines. That was the position of Thoreau during
the war over Texas. These were the positions of Alexander Solzhenitzyn,
Thomas Mann, and Berthold Brecht. It should be easy for Jews to emulate
these men, as the self-styled Jewish leadership has no real power over
Jews; it can only resort to scare tactics.
The pursuit of the bogey of
anti-Semitism leads away from the real problem. During WWII, the brilliant
Russian Jewish writer, Iliya Ehrenburg, in a moment of rage called out (on
the pages of Pravda) to his countrymen to ‘Kill the German vermin’.
Marshal Joseph Stalin rebuked him: ‘The Nazis come and go, but the
German people remain forever’. The German propaganda made a killing out
of the hate speech of Ilya Ehrenburg, trying to obscure the fact that the
problem was not the anti-German remark of the Jewish writer, but the
German war crimes. In the same vein, the problem today is not a mythic
anti-Semitism, but Israeli war crimes and US complicity in these crimes.
Anti-Semitism is a weapon of
the scoundrel, said Lenin in 1920’s echoing the maxim of Samuel Johnson.
This sentence, as so many Biblical verses, has retained its validity in a
changed context: scoundrels still use anti-Semitism as a weapon, but now
most of these scoundrels are Jewish.
Mr. Israel Shamir is a
Russian Israeli writer and journalist. He wrote for Haaretz,
BBC,
Pravda and translated Agnon, Joyce and Homer into Russian. He
lives in Tel Aviv and writes a weekly column in the Vesti, the
biggest
Russian-language paper in Israel.
Source:
by courtesy & © 2001 Israel
Shamir
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