Nothing has changed. The anti-semitic mentality remains; the world is temporarily shocked by the Holocaust and prosperously tolerant. French, Poles, Russians, Ukrainians, Croats, and Greeks were happy to help the Nazis murder Jews. The British refused to let Jewish refugees from burning Europe into Mandate Palestine. After WWII, the Russians attempted a massacre on a similar scale through planned starvation of Jews in Siberia.
The British promised Palestine to the Jews but decimated our country soon after; the British preferred a tribal Transjordanian dynasty to the Jews. In 1947, shortly after the Holocaust, the world preferred Bedouins and briganding Arab settlers to Jews and partitioned what was left of the territory promised to Jews by the Balfour Declaration. The world didn’t care about the expected annihilation of Israel in 1948, 67, or 73.
Civilized people readily relapse to cruelty. Wars are inhumane. POWs are shot. The human mentality hardly changes at all, certainly not in decades. Anti-semitism did not evaporate after 1945, states do not collaborate honestly in the UN age, and nations do not act out of goodwill.
The Jews were strong in collaboration with the Persians, assimilated and safe in Granada, close to the rulers in Poland, kept a low profile in pre-revolutionary Ukraine, and were institutionally equal in the USSR in 1953. We saw all the developments we applaud now, yet massacres followed.
Anti-semitism is alive even in America. A strong government and prosperity suppress it. Consumerism blurs nationalism and the related hatreds. Yet, anti-semitism is there even in the most tolerant country, and flares occasionally. Today some Americans are imbued with imperialist “beacon of liberty” ideals. Blacks and Mexicans remind them of national boundaries. There have been many anti-semitic movements and incidents in America. Polls show that 17% of Americans and twice as many among blacks are dedicated anti-semites; another 35% with “mildly anti-Semitic views” would join the pogrom mobs should the American situation worsen. There is little reason for US Protestants to be less anti-semitic than European Protestants. Jews are the common enemy of the WASP establishment, the black and Mexican mob, and Muslim radicals. Hating Jews is theoretically respectable; it underscores one’s European Christian roots.
Strong states generally suppress anti-semitism like any mob activity. The only way to extinguish anti-emitism is to eliminate its object, the Jews. Jewish leaders of the diaspora, comfortable there and unwilling to move to Israel, are afraid of anti-semitism and ready to sacrifice the Jews in the gas chambers of assimilation.
The Irish in America are insignificantly different. Indians are curiously different. Jews are perceived as dangerously different. Nothing short of full assimilation would satisfy anti-semites, and Nazis murdered even assimilated Christianized Jews.
Some Christians like Jews - not real Jews but idealized Jews: loving everyone, wise, and suffering. The imaginary Jews must behave like a sect of monks. Surely good Jews should not fight; in the best Christian tradition, they must bear suffering. Love or hate, the result is the same: the world prefers the Jews dead.
Ultra-hatred is the other side of the ultra-liberal coin. Add modern logistics, weapons, and technology. More Jews were murdered in the enlightened twentieth century than at any other time. Nuclear Iran need only move a finger to destroy Israel. Pacifists and other leftists sit and wait and appease the mullahs. That didn’t work with Germany, why would it work with much less civilized Iran?
Interestingly enough, there is a Christian sect which is very friendly to Jews; The Mormons, officially known as "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints". In fact, Mormons believe that they're all descended from, or adopted into, one of the twelve tribes of Israel, mostly the tribe of Ephriam. All Jews are therefore relatives.Interestingly, the Mormons belive that everybody who ever lived should get a chance to accept baptism. Dead people get the chance by having living people baptized in their name. Hence the LDS Church's huge geneology project– they're seriously intending to perform an individual baptism for every human that has ever lived.This practice of proxy baptism is a prime target of vocal Jewish groups, who routinely demand removal of all Jews from the LDS databases, which is reluctantly done. Of course, devout LDS descendants just resubmit the names, not wanting their ancestors to have to wait around in Purgatory.One has to wonder why these vocal Jewish groups care at all about a religious ordinance that couldn't possibly have any effect on their ancestors. (Does Judaism have a mechanism whereby mortal Mormons can affect dead Jew's eternal reward?)In any case, that means that there's a rather large, heavily proselyting church whose members belive they're actually relatives of all Jews.Apparently, there are many Jews lying awake in bed at night, terrified at the thought that someone, somewhere might not want them dead. And they're working very hard to fix the problem.hanzie
That's a very interesting view. But I would like to clarify a viewpoint. Yes, there are at least two "Christian" viewpoints. One sees Jews as the executioners of Jesus. The other sees Jesus as a Jew, and characterizes all Jews in such a manner.However, I am of a Christian faith that Jews are a chosen people. They are neither superhuman nor certainly not subhuman. They are a separate people unto themselves. Now, in that Jews are a chosen people, I believe that under the new covenant, all are chosen, but that the Jew still comes first, and the rest second. As a race, I see it no different from any other race.A child determines its race no more than it determines its own parents. Extermination is never an option. Assimilation is up to the individual, and can never be a forced option.As a Christian, I don't see Jews as inherently loving and such as you say some do. But I see that Christians MUST be those things to be called Christian. Faith cannot be spread by the sword, the whip, or the yoke. He who lives by the sword dies by the sword. Our bible tells us that he who says he is one of us, and yet does not love, he is a liar and a murderer. We must love without partiality. We must love with patience and long suffering. We must follow God's commands for us: To love Him with all our heart, soul, and mind; and to love our neighbor as ourselves. The "good Samaritan" loves the stranger.But the Jew is no stranger to us, and so to not love the Jew is to be Cain, because they are our spiritual brothers and sisters, the chosen of the Lord God. This is what it means that he who does not love is a liar and a murderer.Jesus loved the tax collector and the prostitute, the prisoners and the murderers. He loved because He gave His flesh to die for all sin. How then, being just a man, can I hate any other man and not be guilty of disobedience to God, who loved all men?Please understand that all "Christians" (yes, in quotes, because some claim to be, and are liars) are not as you say. Just as all Jews are not this way or that way, as others say.As for the fellow above, we differ very significantly from Mormons. Mormons believe a very different Jesus than from us.The main difference between us, them, and all others as well, is that we believe Jesus was Emmanuel, God with us, God manifest in the flesh. Jesus was fully man and fully God. Jesus is the revealed name of God, the name above all names, the everlasting Father, the Almighty. Jesus is Jehovah Savior. He was crucified, died, buried, and risen. He has not returned yet, but is to come.We of the United Pentecostal Church are known as Oneness. There's one God. He begot flesh born of a woman, and came to us in that flesh, the man Jesus. For the Jesus was the fullness of the Godhead bodily. He was fully God and fully man. The plan for the coming of Jesus was the first creation of God. Everything was created for His coming, and by Him. The Father is God, the Son is the begotten man indwelt with the manifestation of the fullness of the Father having the name of the Father, because His name is called father (Isaiah 9:6), and the Father and the Son are One, being fully God and man, and the Holy Spirit is the same God, the Spirit in action in humanity. They are not three in one, there is no "they", just one. And so, we take a severely different view on this issue than Mormons (we also don't follow the Book of Mormon, nor Joseph Smith) and also with the Trinitarians (Catholic, Protestant, Baptist, etc). We baptize in the name of Jesus, not the titles, as the bible instructs us methodically again, and again, and again so that there is no mistake. Being Pentecostal, we proclaim the full gifts of the Spirit as a poured out in the process (sometimes before and sometimes after, as is exampled also in the bible).And so, from this view, I take exception to baptizing in the names of dead Jews. It's insulting to them, and useless to the one being baptized. Baptism saved the baptised, not the baptiser. Reread the account of the baptism of Jesus. John the Baptist wasn't saved by being the baptizer of Jesus. But instead argued that he must be the one baptized. Jesus stated only that for righteousness's sake, He must be washed clean as well (so that none could say he was unwashed, not baptised). No baptism can be forced. To be baptized, one must first repent, which is to change one's life for Christ. One must be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins. Matthew 28:19 is one name, Jesus, and the Apostles baptized in this name alone, for there is no salvation by any other name. One then receives the gift of the Holy Spirit. (Acts 2:38) No baptism was ever forced in the bible. No baby was ever baptized in the bible. No baptism was ever performed in any other name for the remission of sins. John the Baptism did not forgive or remit sins, but meerly performed a purifying ritual which was common in those days (just as one would wash in a pool before going to Temple). Paul had to step in many times on the issue, and even said how happy he was he didn't do many baptisms because of the ignorance shown by many that they thought they were baptized in the name of their baptizer. And he found such an insult to the baptizer. And so, Paul thought the same as Jews today who are insulted.I honestly can't figure out where some come up with ideas like infant baptism, sprinkling, baptising in the name of dead relatives, etc. that have absolutely NO biblical basis. As made up doctrine, I only wonder how far off worse abominable practices such as animal baptisms are. Even the non-Christian Jew would surely cringe at the very thought of salvation for the pig.Jesus gave us an everlasting purification. One can only be baptized in the name of Jesus once. After that, you're just getting wet. I find it interesting that LDS databases and attempts to baptise the dead. Let the dead tend to the dead. And that the living are baptised in the name of the dead? "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." (Acts 4:12)Those who are baptized in the name of the dead are dead. Those who are baptized in the name of the living are alive. There is only one who is everlasting, only one who is the eternal living. None are righteous, no not one, and the wages of sin is death. And so, all flesh will die in sin. Only One died without a single sin. One died for the sins of all. One is risen and lives forever. Only One is the well of life. We are baptized into Christ's death. How can one be baptized in the name of another, and be baptized into Christ's death. As Paul says, did I die for your sins that you are baptized in my name? A person certainly has to go through their bible with a heavy black marker not to notice how obvious it is Who we are to be baptized in.Leave the Jew alone. They are offended because it is a curse, an insult, upon a dead man to stake the salvation of a another on their name. Would they that God judge the dead by the acts of the living? Or do they condemn the living by baptizing in the name of sinful flesh? But, let the Jews sleep well at night. God gives to every man according to his deeds, not of others. No man has the power to stop the living beyond the grave, or vice versa. Otherwise, one could think to curse Peter, Paul, and John, baptizing in their names, and affect their salvation with either blessing or curse.The bible is clear, all are and were given their path to salvation within their lifetime. None can claim ignorance. Even to Abraham, righteousness was accounted to him by his faith. Or does one think God hated Abraham, Jacob, Isaac, Moses, David, Solomon, and Isaiah that they need a modern mortal today to baptise them who stood in the presence of the angel of God?Our view on the Jew? Howdy neighbor! Want a new covenant and the fulfillment of the law, come on in! You won't even have to split your God into three to do it. Yes, the same God of Abraham is our God, and Him alone. We just want you to know that this same God came to save us in the flesh, and we'd be more than happy to baptise you in His name so that the gift of His Spirit can dwell within you.But, we love you either way. Happy living under the law, best of luck to you. Blessed are those who can keep the law, and we'll pray for you. We are not your judge, but your servants. We will be here whenever you want us, and we pray for all the blessings on all the tribes that God may be glorified because of you.
I've never heard of that conflict. I could see why the Jews would oppose such baptism, seeing it as desecration, but in my opinion such reason for opposition is greatly exaggerated. I wouldn't mind to be included in the Mormon database.
To DeWayne: Please allow Obadiah a bit of polemical exaggeration. Our group has a lot of contacts with people of Christian faith and, indeed, Obadiah studied Christianity in depth (he's preparing a book on Christianity and Talmud). Obadiah does not imply that all Christians are anti-Semites. May I re-iterate Obadiah's point that though anti-Semites are less than majority, in the time they would act, as always, with silent acquiescence of the majority and only a few Christians would stand up against the anti-Semites. So it always has been, and Obadiah insists that human mentality did not change in the half-century since 1945.
Gentelmen:I am an American, retired US Army. A Catholic Christian. As De Wayne says, We do not get to chose who our parents are. Since it is by definition G-d is just. He is not frivilious or arbitrary! Therefore we are all equal. White, Black, Christian, Jew, even Moslem.The Christian at least I can speak for americians, feel that Israel should exist, should be left to live in peace. as a democratcy should be emulated for everyones prosperity. Chridtians beveive that one's choice to accept the christian religion is a person's personal choice. If someonr refuses that is between him or her and G-d.Islam on the other hand beleives in conversion by the sword, and nobody is allowed to convert back, on pain of death. Thier 'holy book' stated "All Jews must be killed. and the entire world must be forced to convert to Islam." since they beleive that the 'koran' is the literal word of god. their is no compromise with them.Since G-d handed down to Moses the ten commandments, such as 'thou shall not kill. he made no exceptions. The 'Koran' allows murder, theft lying, etc. therefore can not come from G-d. It must therefore come from someone else. Someone who while not god. pretends to be, wants to be, but is in rebellion aganist G-d.A book by lucifer would allow murder, rape, theft, lying. and worshiping him breaks the first commandment. No peace will ever be possible. Shut them out. Be seperate from them.Trust is death.
To Robert: There are some contradictions. Jews cannot both live in peace and in democracy. We already have 34% Arabs in the 0-9 age group. Democratically, they would take over the Jewish state in 20 years flat.There are exceptions from You shall not kill commandment. Enemies should be killed, criminals, too.What we're trying to do, is to non-democratically transfer the Arabs to Jordan, and kill the enemies.
My love for Jews grows. I long to reveal my true identity. Binyamin is the key somehow…..the story repeats itself. It's is time to wake up to Islam as the last revived empire before Shabbat comes.
Obadiah has a point.
Most people despise the weak and admire the strong.
How simple!
If the Israelis realize this simple truth, they will be strong and see to their national interests. And then, miraculously they will be treated with respect, and the USA government will support them.
And that actually happened from 1967 to 1973. Six years of respect.
Sooner or later people forget how far they have come and where they are going. This is due to the fact that they are destructed by partial and transient events. It is necessary that they also loose their identity in the process since the very fundamental basics that make them are already in the wind. This is what the staunch muslim would call a "kafir". You must reaslize that this makes the whole secular world "kafirs'.I take deep offence with Obadiah Shoher for referring to Black Africans in his article "Buy the Left" as being "backward and unable to form viable governments". I cannot argue my case as I am a black African and already guilty in his eyes. Look around you…
When Obadiah writes of the Africans being unable to form viable governments, I see no implication of their guilt. Why would you consider yourself "guilty in his eyes"?
No Black country is a viable state: safe, decent, controlling its borders and the entire territory, economically advancing, law-abiding. Try arguing with that. (Kenya, Mozambique, and Ghana are in this regard better than other African countries.)
I had to re-read this article "Buy The Left". How can an Arab racially profile a black man? And such arrogance carried without care. I know I should not be taking this personally but am way too saddened by his ignorance to say a hush! Weigh your words, research your articles. Is it not the same "AID" from the West that make African counties poorer and poorer. And how can the people who control the world economy let Africa be better if they benefit from the plunder. Have you seen the EPZ's in Kenya? Export raw materials, import finished(expensive) products. It goes without reason that if somebody has a leverage on you, he can only let you get better or worse, akin to that damn Gaza strip you guys fight for like you would do anything with it if you got it …