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JEWS:
For whatever confluence of reasons, much of humanity’s volatility, historically, has somehow been “chosen” to become aligned for and against Jews.
There are various superficial groups and tribes that are more into promoting their own than in assimilating to any higher cause. Some people think Jews behaving tribalistically are at the root of trends towards elitist collectivism over representative republicanism. The entire discussion at https://jordanbpeterson.com/psychology/on-the-so-called-jewish-question/ is interesting in that regard. But it should be read in its entirety, to get all sides. Including the comments of Keely Swan at the bottom. The comments correct some of the miscalculations of Jordan Peterson (even though I usually like his analyses). It is not hateful to make oneself aware of facts.
DIASPORA:
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_diaspora.
8th-6th century BC: Conquests of the ancient Jewish kingdoms.
66 -- 70 C.E.: Romans drove Jews out of Israel and massacred many at Masada.
(Many Jews were then scattered after losing their state or were sold into slavery throughout the empire.) See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masada.
Snippets from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_diaspora:
The complete destruction of Jerusalem, and the settlement of several Grecian and Roman colonies in Judea, indicated the express intention of the Roman government to prevent the political regeneration of the Jewish nation. Nevertheless, forty years later the Jews put forth efforts to recover their former freedom. With Palestine exhausted, they strove, in the first place, to establish upon the ruins of Hellenism actual commonwealths in Cyrene, Cyprus, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. These efforts, resolute but unwise, were suppressed by Trajan (115-117); and under Hadrian the same fate befell the attempt of the Jews of Palestine to regain their independence (133-135). From this time on, in spite of unimportant movements under Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius, and Severus, the Jews of Palestine, reduced in numbers, destitute, and crushed, lost their preponderance in the Jewish world. Jerusalem had become, under the name "Ælia Capitolina," a Roman colony, a city entirely pagan. The Jews were forbidden entrance, under pain of death. Nevertheless, 43 Jewish communities in Palestine remained in the sixth century: 12 on the coast, in the Negev, and east of the Jordan, and 31 villages in Galilee and in the Jordan valley. Further Jewish revolts erupted in the years 351, 438 and 614 in alliance with the Persians who governed Jerusalem for five years.
The destruction of Judea exerted a decisive influence upon the dispersion of the Jewish people throughout the world, as the center of worship shifted from the Temple to Rabbinic authority.
Some Jews were sold as slaves or transported as captives after the fall of Judea, others joined the existing diaspora, while still others remained in Judea and began work on the Jerusalem Talmud. For those Jews in the diaspora, they were generally accepted into the Roman Empire, but with the rise of Christianity, restrictions grew. Forced expulsions and persecution resulted in substantial shifts in the international centers of Jewish life to which far-flung communities often looked; although not always unified due to the Jewish people's dispersion itself. Jewish communities were thereby largely expelled from Judea and sent to various Roman provinces in the Middle East, Europe and North Africa.
During the Middle Ages, Jews divided into distinct regional groups which today are generally addressed according to two groupings: the Ashkenazi (Northern and Eastern European Jews) and Sephardic Jews (Spanish and Middle Eastern Jews). These groupings incorporate parallel histories sharing many series of persecutions and forced expulsions, which finally culminated in events in the 20th century that led to the State of Israel.
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Numerous subsequent exiles and persecution, as well as political and economic conditions and opportunities, affected the numbers and dynamics of Jewish diaspora.
As of 2006, the largest number of Jews lives in Israel (5,309,000), United States (5,275,000), France (492,000), Canada (372,000), and the United Kingdom (297,000). As of 2006 it is estimated that the country with the largest number of Jews is the State of Israel, with the United States falling to #2 due to assimilation and a low birth rate.
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See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogrom; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian_Ghetto; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust.
COMMENTS:
Thus, of historical necessity, many Jews became disproportionately skilled for leveraging wealth, power, and knowledge, and many who did not were culled from the gene pool.
It is as if Something has "chosen" Jews as counterpoints, but for which little of historically significant definition or direction would have been given to the cultural evolution and progress of humanity.
Thus, Jews have figured historically and prominently, often as victims, in many financial changes or upheavals, wars, scientific advancements, and predictions of Armageddon.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti_Semitism; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Rothschild; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration_of_1917; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon.
Lists of famous Jews: See http://famous.heebz.com/nobel1.html; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_Jews.
Why else would the least skilled, most dependent, and beggarly of non-Jews so often be so enviously hateful of disproportionately successful Jews?
BIGOTRY:
Regardless, America has undertaken a responsibility not to allow another Jewish holocaust.
Regardless, we must learn to resist being easily divided and herded by “artisans of ignorance and volatility” into camps organized for preying upon one another based on nothing more than evil-induced racial hatred and religious intolerance and bigotry.
Rather, decent civilization should encourage institutions for conditioning us with feelings of enlightened fellow-empathy and appreciation of “God.” A worthwhile civilization should inculcate decent family values, while also teaching us how not to condone those who would divide (even exterminate) us based on nothing more than bigotry.
LIMITS OF TOLERATION:
We must summon will to establish and enforce bounds, so that we tolerate neither criminal indecency nor those who seek our demise.
However, given this "Age of Liberal Toleration," it remains far from certain that Western Civilization will summon the nerve needed to preserve itself.
JEWS:
For whatever confluence of reasons, much of humanity’s volatility, historically, has somehow been “chosen” to become aligned for and against Jews.
There are various superficial groups and tribes that are more into promoting their own than in assimilating to any higher cause. Some people think Jews behaving tribalistically are at the root of trends towards elitist collectivism over representative republicanism. The entire discussion at https://jordanbpeterson.com/psychology/on-the-so-called-jewish-question/ is interesting in that regard. But it should be read in its entirety, to get all sides. Including the comments of Keely Swan at the bottom. The comments correct some of the miscalculations of Jordan Peterson (even though I usually like his analyses). It is not hateful to make oneself aware of facts.
DIASPORA:
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_diaspora.
8th-6th century BC: Conquests of the ancient Jewish kingdoms.
66 -- 70 C.E.: Romans drove Jews out of Israel and massacred many at Masada.
(Many Jews were then scattered after losing their state or were sold into slavery throughout the empire.) See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masada.
Snippets from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_diaspora:
The complete destruction of Jerusalem, and the settlement of several Grecian and Roman colonies in Judea, indicated the express intention of the Roman government to prevent the political regeneration of the Jewish nation. Nevertheless, forty years later the Jews put forth efforts to recover their former freedom. With Palestine exhausted, they strove, in the first place, to establish upon the ruins of Hellenism actual commonwealths in Cyrene, Cyprus, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. These efforts, resolute but unwise, were suppressed by Trajan (115-117); and under Hadrian the same fate befell the attempt of the Jews of Palestine to regain their independence (133-135). From this time on, in spite of unimportant movements under Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius, and Severus, the Jews of Palestine, reduced in numbers, destitute, and crushed, lost their preponderance in the Jewish world. Jerusalem had become, under the name "Ælia Capitolina," a Roman colony, a city entirely pagan. The Jews were forbidden entrance, under pain of death. Nevertheless, 43 Jewish communities in Palestine remained in the sixth century: 12 on the coast, in the Negev, and east of the Jordan, and 31 villages in Galilee and in the Jordan valley. Further Jewish revolts erupted in the years 351, 438 and 614 in alliance with the Persians who governed Jerusalem for five years.
The destruction of Judea exerted a decisive influence upon the dispersion of the Jewish people throughout the world, as the center of worship shifted from the Temple to Rabbinic authority.
Some Jews were sold as slaves or transported as captives after the fall of Judea, others joined the existing diaspora, while still others remained in Judea and began work on the Jerusalem Talmud. For those Jews in the diaspora, they were generally accepted into the Roman Empire, but with the rise of Christianity, restrictions grew. Forced expulsions and persecution resulted in substantial shifts in the international centers of Jewish life to which far-flung communities often looked; although not always unified due to the Jewish people's dispersion itself. Jewish communities were thereby largely expelled from Judea and sent to various Roman provinces in the Middle East, Europe and North Africa.
During the Middle Ages, Jews divided into distinct regional groups which today are generally addressed according to two groupings: the Ashkenazi (Northern and Eastern European Jews) and Sephardic Jews (Spanish and Middle Eastern Jews). These groupings incorporate parallel histories sharing many series of persecutions and forced expulsions, which finally culminated in events in the 20th century that led to the State of Israel.
….
Numerous subsequent exiles and persecution, as well as political and economic conditions and opportunities, affected the numbers and dynamics of Jewish diaspora.
As of 2006, the largest number of Jews lives in Israel (5,309,000), United States (5,275,000), France (492,000), Canada (372,000), and the United Kingdom (297,000). As of 2006 it is estimated that the country with the largest number of Jews is the State of Israel, with the United States falling to #2 due to assimilation and a low birth rate.
….
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogrom; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian_Ghetto; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust.
COMMENTS:
Thus, of historical necessity, many Jews became disproportionately skilled for leveraging wealth, power, and knowledge, and many who did not were culled from the gene pool.
It is as if Something has "chosen" Jews as counterpoints, but for which little of historically significant definition or direction would have been given to the cultural evolution and progress of humanity.
Thus, Jews have figured historically and prominently, often as victims, in many financial changes or upheavals, wars, scientific advancements, and predictions of Armageddon.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti_Semitism; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Rothschild; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration_of_1917; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon.
Lists of famous Jews: See http://famous.heebz.com/nobel1.html; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_Jews.
Why else would the least skilled, most dependent, and beggarly of non-Jews so often be so enviously hateful of disproportionately successful Jews?
BIGOTRY:
Regardless, America has undertaken a responsibility not to allow another Jewish holocaust.
Regardless, we must learn to resist being easily divided and herded by “artisans of ignorance and volatility” into camps organized for preying upon one another based on nothing more than evil-induced racial hatred and religious intolerance and bigotry.
Rather, decent civilization should encourage institutions for conditioning us with feelings of enlightened fellow-empathy and appreciation of “God.” A worthwhile civilization should inculcate decent family values, while also teaching us how not to condone those who would divide (even exterminate) us based on nothing more than bigotry.
LIMITS OF TOLERATION:
We must summon will to establish and enforce bounds, so that we tolerate neither criminal indecency nor those who seek our demise.
However, given this "Age of Liberal Toleration," it remains far from certain that Western Civilization will summon the nerve needed to preserve itself.
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Hillary’s religion:
Snippets from http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=510E3831-CE02-4FA1-8DCA-B79F9BC32FDB:
Foundry’s then pastor, J. Philip Wogaman, an abortion rights and same-sex marriage advocate who doubted Christian orthodoxies about Jesus Christ’s virgin birth and bodily resurrection, very publicly became Bill Clinton’s spiritual counselor post Monica Lewinsky.
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Although most church-going Methodists remain largely conservative, Hillary has been a faithful disciple of the denomination’s 20th-century liberalism, which has included pacifism, great faith in the United Nations, demands for an ever larger welfare state, the diminution of national borders, liberalized immigration policies, abortion rights, gun bans, and abolition of capital punishment. Since Bill Clinton’s rise to power in a southern state, Hillary has amended her public views on many of these topics. And as senator from New York, she has long since disavowed her early hostility to Israel, which she shared with United Methodist elites.
But Hillary is still resolutely a product of liberal Methodism, if slightly less confident in the Social Gospel’s claim that good intentions and activism can banish nearly all injustice. Paul Kengor’s God and Hillary Clinton is a sharply revealing account of how Hillary came to be Hillary. And as with George W. Bush, religion and Methodism are at the center of that story.
Jews — as counterpoint pawns in games of volatility:
See http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-cold-war-ii/:
Not a Cold War? Everyone is making arguments that the U.S. and Russia are not in a “new Cold War.” Why engage in the old psychological trick of repressing what you really desire? Especially when the truth is so blatantly clear: officials in Washington and Russia truly desire a new Cold War. There is just something comforting in that predictable, bipolar world, where two grand adversaries face each other in a real-life game of Risk. It’s like two arch enemies at battle. Neither can ultimately defeat the other, yet they seem to complement each other perfectly. As the Joker endearingly told Batman in the Dark Knight, “Kill you? I don’t want to kill you. What would I do without you? … You … you complete me.”
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In the words of historian David Foglesong, for Americans Russia served as a “dark double” or “imaginary twin.” What was reflected back to them said more about themselves than their admired adversary. “Treating Russia as both a whipping boy and a potential beneficiary of American philanthropy,” Foglesong writes in his excellent The American Mission and the “Evil Empire,” “fostered in many Americans a heady sense of their country’s unique blessings, and reaffirmed their special role in the world.” The interesting thing is that to some extent the same could be said for the Russians.
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The films that do deal with the GWOT, like Syriana (2005) and Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), are critical and multi-layered attempts to tell the whole story. In the end, they fall flat because they involve too many characters, too many locations, too many narratives, too many moral gray areas, and perhaps most important, they have no inspiring, mythic heroes.
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GWOT films also have a problem making the terrorists into the villains. Perhaps it’s because we can’t imagine them smart, cultured, or advanced enough. A terrorist equivalent to Dr. No or Goldfinger just doesn’t seem probable. Even when terrorists are the villains, they turn out to be mere proxies devoid of evil agency. Take, for example, this summer’s Iron Man (2008). Tony Stark becomes Iron Man because he’s captured by terrorists who want him to make them his cataclysmic Jericho missile. It turns out, however, that the real villain isn’t the terrorist Raza, but Stark’s double-dealing, corrupt, and amoral business partner, Obadiah Stane. The film’s message is that the real enemy isn’t terrorism but unfettered capitalism. The terrorists and Iron Man are merely pawns of corporate greed, apparently just like the rest of us.
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The Cold War was a battle of good vs. evil, the villains were easily identifiable, and perhaps most important they looked and for the most part acted like us.
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The Russians are also desiring a simpler time. Soviet Russia too held up America as a litmus test for its own success. Noting American hypocrisy, unemployment, decadence, racism, and poverty were staple tropes in Soviet propaganda. Take for example the famous Soviet children’s story Mister Twister (1933). Adapted to animation in 1963, Mister Twister chronicles the decadence and racism of Mr. Cook, a former American government minister and banker, on his visit to Leningrad. Mr. Cook is appalled by the presence of a black man in his hotel, and he is sent into a fit of anxiety as the hotel mirrors multiply the African’s presence. Finally, after some desperation and a lesson in Soviet ethics, Mr. Cook learns the errors of his ways and embraces Soviet multiculturalism. The film’s message served as an ideological ace in the hole for the Soviets. “Sure, we have our problems,” the Party said, “but at least we aren’t the decadent, racist, and hypocritical Americans!”
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In America, the response to the Georgian War proved once again that Russia as whipping boy is still an effective means to rally the masses. John McCain’s tough talk toward Russia was a campaign booster. It is no coincidence that his bump in the polls coincided with the reemergence of the Russian military menace.
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The Cold War was the best of times and the worst of times. Both Russia and the United States were at the pinnacle of power that was ironically secured in their mutual adversarial existence. The Islamic enemy, on the contrary, only reveals our sentimentality, our weakness, and our hesitance. The Russians, however, are a real enemy easily amendable to political and cultural simplicity. They are an enemy we can talk to. One that reflects our own fantasies about ourselves back to us. Russians and Americans, embrace your symptom! Embrace your mutual paranoia, your inability to evaluate yourself without your dark other! The Cold War has so much more to give.
Snippets from http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=75C8F746-EDD4-49DC-9B18-2C740EEEB316:
Gandhi's Love Letters to Hitler
By Seth Frantzman
FrontPageMagazine.com
Friday, September 19, 2008
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In a letter dated December 24, 1940, Gandhi assured Hitler that he had no doubt of “your bravery or devotion to your fatherland.” Zionist appeals for Gandhi to support a national home for the Jewish people, meanwhile, fell on deaf ears, as he insisted that “Palestine belongs to the Arabs.” Not only did Gandhi reject the cause of a Jewish state but he effectively echoed Nazi propaganda, as with his warning that “this cry for the national home affords a colorable justification for the German expulsion of the Jews.”
Even more supportive of Hitler were the Mennonites. In a letter dated September 10, 1933, the Conference of East and West Prussian Mennonites from the German city-state of Danzig wrote to the Fuhrer to express its “deep gratitude for the powerful revival that God has given our nation through your energy” and wished Hitler a “joyful cooperation in the up building of our Fatherland through the power of the Gospel.” If its enthusiasm for hosting Ahmadinejad is any guide, the Mennonite Church has learned little from this dark chapter in its past. On the contrary, the church’s alliance with the Iranian leader is an extension of its hard-line anti-Israel politics, which find expression in its funding of books advocating the so-called “right-of-return” for Palestinian Arabs – a policy that, if implemented, would mean the destruction of Israel.
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One finds a similar antagonism for the Jewish State in the activism of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the “peace” arm of the Quakers. As an example of what it calls “Quaker values in action,” the AFSC includes its campaigns to “challenge” American support for Israel. A supporter of the PLO, the AFSC not only backs radical anti-Israel groups like Zochrot but opposes Israel’s attempts to defend itself against Palestinian terrorism. That the Quakers are now willing to sit down to dinner with the man who has openly called for Israel to be wiped off the global map should not be entirely surprising.
By any reasonable standard, self-styled peace activists might be expected to condemn leaders who support terrorism and who unashamedly seek the destruction of other nations. But just as advocates of non-violence found a way to accommodate the genocidal designs of Adolph Hitler, so they have been willing to make peace with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. And just as Gandhi never expressed remorse for his “dear friend” letters to Hitler, its unlikely that these supposed believers in non-violence will break a dinner date with his Iranian heir.
See http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/factchecking_obamas_conference.html.
JEWS: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/anti-semitism-is-countercyclical/
Jews:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/symposium_why_do_so_many_jews.html
Comment by Dlanor:
To tzvee (“why are Jews liberal? liberalism is such a morally superior political attitude”):
You assume, without logic or empirical support, that liberals are smarter at seeing what is obvious, and that jews, tending to be smart, therefore tend to be liberal. You seem to be pretending liberalism is superior, based only on pretense of superiority of jews.
However, if jews are so often liberal because liberalism is so obviously superior, then I must ask you: What in logic or experience demonstrates that liberalism (government enforced communitarian security) is superior to conservatism (respect for individual freedom and responsibility)?
As stated, your argument is no better than nyah nyah nyah.
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