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2002-03-22 14:20 | User Profile
http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/03/21/Columns/Columns.45654.html
MIDDLE ISRAEL: The Jewish neurosis By Amotz Asa-El
(March 21) The war left her shorn of her husband - liquidated by Stalin while visiting Russia - and her native Romania scarred, torn and bankrupt, but even so, viewed from Bucharest in 1947, the future was all Ana Pauker's.
After having spent years in jail cells and torture chambers, she became the world's first female foreign minister, and soon enough Time magazine named the former Hebrew teacher the world's most powerful woman.
Yet life at the top was short. In '52 the woman who was born and raised as Orthodox Jew Hanna Rabinof was stripped of all her powers and placed under house arrest, where she later died destitute, forlorn and forgotten.
Thus, yet another promising Jewish career ended tragically, thanks to a violent bug that since the Destruction has repeatedly lifted Jews to euphoric heights only to plunge them into depression's abyss.
Its name was tikun olam, and its gist - whether for medieval kabbalists, fiery communists, naive capitalists or New Middle East strategists - was a pretentious, irresistible, and ultimately destructive quest to assume God's responsibilities and set out to mend the world.
There were so many like her that historian Jacob Talmon wondered in his Myth of the Nation and Vision of Revolution whether one could find "a 'Jewish' common denominator" among radicals from Karl Marx and Lazar Kaganovitch to Rosa Luxemburg and Ana Pauker.
Talmon suggested that theirs was "a Jewish neurosis," a response to centuries of the Christian neurosis concerning things Jewish. Yet the tikun olam virus attacked also in the Muslim surroundings where Jewish mysticism developed in the late Middle Ages. Back then, Jewish scholars concluded that the Jews were suffering because the Creation itself had gone awry, and that it was the Jews' task to repair it.
That theory's damage came in the form of the Shabbetai Zvi psychosis, whose damage to that messianic impostor's followers, to Jewish observance, and to the messianic idea itself is tangible until today. As kabbalistt Gerschom Scholem has argued, that affair shook the ghetto walls from within even before secular forces dismantled them from without. In any event, once out of the ghetto some Jews set out to change not only themselves and their relations with gentiles, but the world itself.
The Jewish-socialist urge to mend the world became a major anti-Semitic axe to grind, not only for Westerners like Henry Ford, but also for communists like Stalin. That Leon Trotsky's Jewishness played a major role in Stalin's pursuit of his arch-nemesis is well-known. What's incredible is that besides their personal differences the two really had a genuine ideological dispute: Stalin made do with the revolution's initial gains, while Trotsky wanted to spread communism to the entire world.
Did Trotsky seek to mend the world because he hailed from a nation of believers who suck with their mother's milk the axiom that God's world has fallen into disrepair, and it's a Jew's task to repair it? And was Stalin disparaging of this cause because his Christian upbringing assumed the world had already been redeemed?
God only knows, but what's clear is that the world-mending circle of Jews who surrounded Lenin, along with ones beyond Russia, like Hungarian and Czech leaders Bela Kun and Rudolph Slansky, were ultimately killed by Stalin, one by one.
Surely, the purges were irrational and their victims were usually non-Jews, but the fact remains that communist world-menders were often Jews and their enemies were not.
The same goes for the Jewish nation's capitalist world-menders.
WALTER RATHENAU, an amateur philosopher who inherited industrial behemoth AEG, sought a planned society and a ban on luxury production so that private capital could be freed to spur spiritual wealth. Ultimately, the man who ran the German economy during the Great War - and later became foreign minister, throughout it all calling on the Jews to assimilate - was assassinated, as a Jew.
Today, financial whiz George Soros emulates Rathenau. Though not born rich, he too is an amateur philosopher and likes to shed crocodile tears over capitalism's wrongs. And like Rathenau, he too set out to mend the world. First, he financed democratic groups like Poland's Solidarity and Czechoslovakia's Charter 77, and then he helped spread management values in the post-communist world and began financing infrastructure projects in the Third World. This multi-billion-dollar effort is so vast that Soros has become the world's second-largest foreign-aid provider after Japan and before (! the US.
Sadly, while widely appreciated, Soros's world mending also provokes anti-Semitic fantasies, such as Malaysian leader Mahtir Muhammad's. Worse yet, the day is near when today's amorphously described "anti-globalization rioters" will embrace conspiracy theories linking Soros's excessively high profile tikun olam with that of other global Jewish economic players, like the IMF's Stanley Fischer, the World Bank's James Wolfensohn, or the US Federal Reserve's Alan Greenspan.
We Israelis have also been plagued by world mending. Like the founding fathers of the Reform movement, who believed the spiritually stimulating Jews' dispersal was God's blessing to the gentiles, we were foolish enough to think the Middle East would dance to our world-mending tunes. And like the Jews who had just emerged from the ghetto, simply making peace with our enemies wasn't enough for us - we wanted to change them. And so, like previous Jewish world-mending efforts, this one, too, ended in major-league failure, depression and bloodshed.
Tikun olam sounds great, but actually is an affront to God. Apparently, a Jew's duty is first and foremost to supervise his own morality, and then his immediate society's. Sailing beyond these is like building a Tower of Babel, even if the intention is "merely" to substitute for rather than challenge God. Had God wanted us to mend the world, He would have left our ancestors in Egypt so they'd change it, rather than deliver them to the wilderness.
Zionism, too, sought to shun rather than mend the world that rejected the Jews. It's time to restore that mindframe.
2002-03-22 16:17 | User Profile
Bttt
2002-03-22 20:37 | User Profile
Great post that goes along way to explain why these folks are so screwd up to the point that they screw up things for the rest of us.
2002-03-22 22:32 | User Profile
The author leaves out a lot of the details about the horrors of tikun olam, i.e., the millions of people murdered by the reds, the destroyed American cities, the loss of freedom, and on and on, but it is progress. I don't know exactly what we should do about this, but at the very least the White West should tell the Jews to "sit down and shut the #### up, you've done enough damage with your insane social engineering and our civilization cannot stand any more!" But of course, they'll do whatever it takes to suppress this discussion, just as they use their control of the media to conceal the disastrous effects of tikun olam.
2002-03-22 22:57 | User Profile
More tikun olam...
Jews in Bushââ¬â¢s Cabinet? Donââ¬â¢t Hold Your Breath
by Philip Weiss
George Bush has put every kind of American in his cabinet except Jews, and no one has complained about this, even though everyone knows itââ¬â¢s nuts. Remaking the American power structure without Jews is like remaking sports without blacks. At least when it comes to blacks in sports, you can talk about it; you can say that blacks changed sports. But no one is allowed to speak up about something we all quietly know: Jews changed America.
There is hardly an area of public life on which Jews have not had a profound impact in the last generation, as discrimination against them ended and as they gained power. The civil rights movement reflects Jewish values of justice. Feminism is a reflection of liberal Jewish matriarchal values (note the Jewish groups that are talking about Roe v. Wade in opposing John Ashcroft for Attorney General). Ever-more-powerful Jews in the media have ushered in the information age. Psychologically attuned Jews and Hollywood Jews changed the language of popular cultureââ¬âSeinfeld, Weinstein. And the new emphasis on educational achievement throughout our society reflects the Jewish love of learning.
2003-01-27 23:36 | User Profile
Excellent and thought-provoking! Contrast this with the Classical pagan view that tragedy is built into the nature of things - not a "flaw" or sign of some fall from perfection, but an inherent quality. That, and the world isn't really made for our benefit. Doubtless Wintermute could expand on this, and correct whatever misrepresentations I've made.
2003-01-28 12:12 | User Profile
**What's incredible is that besides their personal differences the two really had a genuine ideological dispute: Stalin made do with the revolution's initial gains, while Trotsky wanted to spread communism to the entire world. **
Actually, it's not "incredible" at all when one considers that there was a large Jewish diaspora for Trotsky (Bronshtein) to save in Europe and America, while there wasn't a similar Georgian diaspora for Stalin (Dzhugashvili) to worry about (the Georgian diaspora was largely confined to the Tsarist Empire).
Evolutionary psychology explains that one quite nicely.
It's funny that that author of this otherwise fine article didn't see that obvious point.
Walter
2003-01-28 13:03 | User Profile
Talmon suggested that theirs was "a Jewish neurosis," a response to centuries of the Christian neurosis concerning things Jewish.
Ah yes, Hymie's hijinxs are always a "response" to the perfidy of Evil, Shtupid Goyim - never the other way around.
A surprisingly honest piece coming from a jew.
2003-08-17 14:13 | User Profile
The problem I see here is that morality itself, which divides the world into absolute good and evil, leads people to project their own neurosis - that same division - onto others.
Christianity is included in this, with some exceptions - Europeans are a remarkably inventive people and some can even halfway fix a Jewish religion. However, unless the Bible is changed new generations will rediscover this psychological time bomb awaiting them.
2003-08-17 16:36 | User Profile
God only knows, but what's clear is that the world-mending circle of Jews who surrounded Lenin, along with ones beyond Russia, like Hungarian and Czech leaders Bela Kun and Rudolph Slansky, were ultimately killed by Stalin, one by one.
Lenin and Bela Kun sent millions to their deaths either by starvation or in the gulag, and this author speaks of them as world mending. There is something extremely wrong with the world all right, thy name is semitical correctness. It is the biggest LIE the world has every know. It is a sacred duty to fight this LIE entity, or it will surely destroy the world.
2004-01-11 14:03 | User Profile
The scoop is that they want to Usher in Olam Ha Ba. To do this they have to precipitate trhe coming of their "mossiach". Their talmud leads them to believe that for Mossiach to come, all the gentile world must be observing Noachide law , and jews must be observing their talmud...this will usher in their Mossiach..
To do this they must rule the entire world from behind the scenes. They have gone a long long way to implementing this..even in our public laws(102-14) here in america. They have infiltrated our government at every level(especially defense and security agencies). They have infiltrated our churches with Dispensationalism..to make american 'christians' observe and give obesience to the "chosen people"
All that remains is to get the gentiles to become good little jew worshipping noachide observant chattel...and we will have Antichrist rising.
2004-01-11 22:00 | User Profile
Stalin gets to be the Gentile, since he's the fellow who's held responsible for the worst of the Soviet Union.
Stalin, the "Georgian": [IMG]http://www.i3mm.com/~guest2/stalines.jpg[/IMG]
2004-09-13 18:18 | User Profile
"Tikkun Olam" is a negative, depressive belief - that there's something so wrong with the world it needs to be "repaired."
The Jews are a consequence of their own low self-esteem. Not coincidentally, liberals and (redacted) fit the same profile.
2004-09-13 18:27 | User Profile
Bull Connors,
A great article.
[QUOTE]Today, financial whiz George Soros emulates Rathenau. Though not born rich, he too is an amateur philosopher and likes to shed crocodile tears over capitalism's wrongs. And like Rathenau, he too set out to mend the world. First, he financed democratic groups like Poland's Solidarity and Czechoslovakia's Charter 77, and then he helped spread management values in the post-communist world and began financing infrastructure projects in the Third World. This multi-billion-dollar effort is so vast that Soros has become the world's second-largest foreign-aid provider after Japan and before (!) the US.
Sadly, while widely appreciated, Soros's world mending also provokes anti-Semitic fantasies, such as Malaysian leader Mahtir Muhammad's. Worse yet, the day is near when today's amorphously described "anti-globalization rioters" will embrace conspiracy theories linking Soros's excessively high profile tikun olam with that of other global Jewish economic players, like the IMF's Stanley Fischer, the World Bank's James Wolfensohn, or the US Federal Reserve's Alan Greenspan. [/QUOTE]
2005-10-13 18:31 | User Profile
Tikun olam is just another vocabulary for Jewish predatory practices. That anyone tries to explain it as religious or altruistic is plain bullshale.
If you want to find out why Jews act and think as they do, MacDonald's Culture of Critique is more informative than this manufactured nonsense.
2005-10-14 01:36 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]Great post that goes along way to explain why these folks are so screwd up to the point that they screw up things for the rest of us.[/QUOTE]
Ayn Rand had that Jewish messiah complex. I suspect, to some degree, that Murray Rothbard did also.
2005-10-16 05:10 | User Profile
stalin was another guy who became a world leader who was very likely a bastard.
pops want georgian or ossetian.
ole joe went to seminary but his heart REALLY wasnt in it. a revolutionary from a young age!
and he had 3 jewish wives in times when that just wasnt done by a gentile.
read tween the lines folks.
quit giving the permanent perps a permanent pass.
2005-10-21 13:45 | User Profile
[quote=YertleTurtle]Ayn Rand had that Jewish messiah complex. I suspect, to some degree, that Murray Rothbard did also.
You got it...jews are brought up to think they are the messiah...and most jews take it seriously...:argue:
Ever notice how jews walk?