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2003-12-30 17:50 | User Profile
The New (Anti-Semitic) World Order, THE GOOD NEWS MAGAZINE
Anti-Semitism is nothing new. It's been around since ancient times. Even within living memory of the deaths of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, anti-Semitism is back, with an increasing number of violent threats and attacks directed at Jewish targets.
By Melvin Rhodes
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In the ancient world they were persecuted for refusing to worship pagan idols or the Roman emperor. Later they were blamed for the death of Jesus Christ. In the late Middle Ages they were accused of sacrificing Christian children at the annual Passover observance, an absurdly false accusation resurrected by the Nazis in the 1930s to suit their purposes.
Often resented because of their success and despis ed because of their religious differences, animosity toward Jews has been a consistent theme throughout their history.
What is so shocking today is how quickly anti-Semitism has revived after the slaughter of the Holocaust. Less than 60 years after the Allies liberated the emaciated survivors of the death camps, the descendants of the biblical tribe of Judah find themselves blamed for a whole array of ills including 9/11, the problems in the Middle East, international economic disorder and globalization.
"They're at it again: the Jewish conspiracy to take over the world is back in session. The former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed's recent claim that the modern-day Elders of Zion 'now rule the world by proxy' not only garnered loud applause at the summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), but most likely earned silent nods of approval worldwide.
"Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the oldest hatred has been making a global comeback, culminating in 2002 with the highest number of anti-Semitic attacks in 12 years," writes Mark Strauss in the British publication The Spectator ("Who Hates the Jews Now?," Nov. 22, 2003).
Why is this happening now, still within the living memory of Holocaust survivors?
International hostility toward Israel
One of the primary reasons behind the growing anti-Semitism is international hostility toward the nation of Israel, the tiny Middle Eastern state that became the first Jewish homeland in almost 2,000 years when it was established in 1948.
"Just as historic anti-Semitism has denied individual Jews the right to live as equal members of society, anti-Zionism would deny the collective expression of the Jewish people, the State of Israel, the right to live as an equal member of the family of nations," writes Mortimer Zuckerman, editor in chief of U.S. News and World Report ("Graffiti on History's Walls," Nov. 3, 2003, p. 44).
He continues: "Israel has become the object of envy and resentment in much the same way that the individual Jew was once the object of envy and resentment. Israel, in effect, is emerging as the collective Jew among nations."
Perhaps only immediately after the Holocaust and before the establishment of most independent Islamic nations could Israel have come into existence with the blessing of the then-smaller United Nations.
Today's UN has a large anti-Israel majority (with 39 predominately Muslim nations vs. a single Jewish state) that would never have sanctioned the birth of the Jewish state, and the UN's current anti-Israel bias is not likely to change. Even with the blessing of the UN at Israel's founding in 1948, immediately after the new nation was born armies from five hostile Arab neighbors tried to destroy her. Israel survived and, with later American help and support, has remained militarily strong, thus far able to fend off attacks by hostile military forces.
For its support of Israel, the United States is also viewed with hostility in the new anti-Semitic world order. A recent opinion poll conducted throughout the nations of the European Union showed that Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, was considered the world's foremost threat to peace.
It ranked ahead of Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq and the United States-a group of nations Europeans essentially viewed as equal threats to the planet's safety and security.
It has long been fashionable for many intellectuals around the world to strongly dislike if not hate America. But now anti-Semitism is increasingly acceptable, loosely disguised as anti-Israeli sentiment.
Blaming all Jews for grievances against the nation of Israel has intensified even more since the U.S.-led action in Iraq, viewed by many Muslims as an attack on Islam inspired by Jews. To many Americans, the war in Iraq is a part of the war on terror that began with the events of Sept. 11, 2001. But many Muslims believe the Jews, Mossad (Israeli intelligence) and/or the CIA were the real perpetrators behind the 9/11 attacks.
Various conspiracy theories-which many in the West also believe-claim that no Jews reported for work in the World Trade Center that day, having been warned ahead of time by their own intelligence agents to stay away. (In reality, scores of Jewish-surnamed victims perished that terrible day). It's ironic that a substantial number of people in the Middle East rejoiced at the carnage on 9/11 but were soon attributing it to the Jews!
But it's not only developments in the Middle East that have intensified anti-Semitic feelings. Such tortured logic leads many to the conclusion that the Jews are responsible for virtually anything and everything that's wrong in the world.
Mark Strauss's Spectator article quotes the spokesman for Pakistan's Jamaat-I-Islami political party as complaining that "most anything bad that happens, prices going up, whatever ... can usually be attributed to the IMF [International Monetary Fund] and the World Bank, which are synonymous with the United States. And who controls the United States? The Jews do."
Rising attacks on Jewish targets
Mr. Strauss's Spectator article was written just a few days after two deadly car-bomb attacks on synagogues in Turkey, a country with a majority Muslim population (though officially secular) that has had a long tradition of tolerance toward Jews going back through centuries of the Ottoman Empire.
The Ottoman Turks ruled a vast Mideast empire for centuries until it collapsed shortly after World War I. A century ago that empire was composed of 40 percent Turks, 40 percent Arabs, 10 percent Jews and 10 percent other ethnic groups. For years all seemed to live in harmony.
It was the breakup of this empire that led to the present problems in the Middle East, a region that was remarkably peaceful during the four centuries the Ottomans ruled Jerusalem (1517-1917). Only after World War I were the nations of Iraq and Syria created, with Israel, Lebanon and Jordan following in the aftermath of World War II. These new nations, with borders imposed by the victorious Western powers, have contributed greatly to instability in the region.
Growing anti-Semitism in Europe
The bombings of the two Jewish synagogues on the Sabbath of Nov. 15 coincided with the burning down of a Jewish school in France. When the French president and prime minister visited the school soon afterward, both leaders condemned the return of anti-Semitism.
Yet this was just one of many anti-Semitic attacks in France in recent years. Often blamed on France's 5 million Muslims-mostly immigrants and the children, often unemployed, of those immigrants-there is also the possibility that people with extreme right-wing views may be contributing to this problem. France's far right is one of the biggest in Western Europe.
Austria's extreme right has also enjoyed considerable success in recent years. However, it is not just right-wing parties that are anti-Semitic. Left-wing parties have their own soft spot for anti-Semitism. One reason is anti-Israeli sentiment.
Quoting from left-of-center newspapers, Mr. Zuckerman expresses amazement in his U.S. News and World Report essay at what is being published in the democratic countries of Western Europe.
"In England, The Guardian wrote that 'Israel has no right to exist.' The Observer described Israeli settlements on the West Bank as 'an affront to civilization.' The New Statesman ran a story titled 'A Kosher Conspiracy,' illustrated by a cover showing the gold Star of David piercing the Union Jack. The story implies that a Zionist-Jewish cabal is attempting to sway the British press to the cause of Israel.
"In France, the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur published an extraordinary libel alleging that Israeli soldiers raped Palestinian women so that their relatives would kill them to preserve family honor. In Italy, the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano spoke of Israel's 'aggression that's turning into extermination,' while the daily La Stampa ran a page 1 cartoon of a tank emblazoned with the Jewish star pointing its big gun at the infant Jesus, who cries out, 'Surely they don't want to kill me again'" (pp. 45-46).
Other factors in today's anti-Semitism are antibusiness and, especially, antiglobalization views many on the left hold. Jews are seen as disproportionately successful in banking and business, which often leads to resentment and accusations of greed and taking unfair advantage of others. And as minorities perceived as having loyalty to Israel, Jews are often accused of being unpatriotic, a common accusation made against them since Roman times when Jews refused to worship the emperor or bow down to the Roman pagan deities....
2003-12-30 19:14 | User Profile
[QUOTE]Anti-Semitism is nothing new. It's been around since ancient times. Even within living memory of the deaths of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, anti-Semitism is back, with an increasing number of violent threats and attacks directed at Jewish targets. [/QUOTE]
Of course, this begs the questions why it's been around since ancient times, and why it's back now with a vengence?
Hmmmm???
Maybe Jewish behaviour plays some minor role in that?
Naw, that couldn't be it.
Walter
2003-12-30 19:45 | User Profile
[QUOTE]....the descendants of the biblical tribe of Judah ......:lol:[/QUOTE]
C'mon David Ben-Ariel Bin FBI/ADL Agent, even you know that's not true!!
Anyway, the jews are untouchable David-ADL, and they're just inches away from total world domination where "anti-semitism" will be punishible by death.
2003-12-31 03:49 | User Profile
I take my treasures in the next life. I feel Saddam's pain. He is being drugged so much only a machine keeps him alive. They are injecting him with truth serum and testing him with the full science of the Order. How he breathes is a mystery to me. I remember the truth of Iraq, how Christians were free to worship under Saddam. I know our President has a conscience, deep within his mental recesses. Sorry fact being that I cannot support Dean nor Gephart/Kerry .. we should only hope that Bush divulges himself of the masticizing ailment which is universal Zionism. Sad America. No real leader who can wash us CLEAN of the bondage to Israel as created by England. And many English souls who cry out. Be what it may, you know and I know that there have not been serious atttacks not due to control, but due to the holy spirit, who plays in the m ind of all .. who impacts history .. the basic facts of life, the saving factor.
2003-12-31 14:58 | User Profile
And as minorities perceived as having loyalty to Israel, Jews are often accused of being unpatriotic, a common accusation made against them since Roman times when Jews refused to worship the emperor or bow down to the Roman pagan deities....
Perceived my foot. Fact is more like it. There are threads about this throughout this forum. Oh, they're patriotic alright. For Israel and getting Americans sent to do their dirty work. If those s.o.b.s want Syria and Lebanon invaded so damn badly with an idea of removing an enemy with our troops and getting dirt cheap oil from Iraq via that pipeline, then let them put their asses on the line.
Israel and Zionism isn't worth the life of one G.I.
2003-12-31 16:37 | User Profile
[QUOTE=xmetalhead]C'mon David Ben-Ariel Bin FBI/ADL Agent, even you know that's not true!! Anyway, the jews are untouchable David-ADL, and they're just inches away from total world domination where "anti-semitism" will be punishible by death.[/QUOTE]
They do seem to be pushing for that right now aren't they? In the news last week, I read an article about the President of Hungary and how the president stopped a law from going through that would outlaw criticism of the Jews.
Here in Canada it is pretty much outlaw, due to our hate crimes laws which prevent you from 'slandering' or 'libeling' a 'minority'. Anything you say in criticism of the Jews could be turned around on you and called lies. You have to be really careful these days as to what you say about the jews, zionism and Israel.
2003-12-31 19:35 | User Profile
As far as I know the Jews have been kicked out of 38 countrys, is not that they are Jews but for the way that they act as Jews. I am tired of hearing about the so called "holocaust" this is nothing more than a money making machine for the Jews (Zionists), why should we all still pay for something that happened over 50 years ago? and for how long does the world have to keep on paying? ,,,,, the Jews are the richest people in the world and they don't need the 6 billions dollars aid that the USA tax payers give them every year, what they really need, and are getting, is the moral support of the USA government, but not from our people.