Why Europe hates Jews
Why is Europe so anti-Israel? This ought to bring the anti-Semites out of the woodwork (Hat Tip: Shy Guy). Israel's success flaunts Europe's failure. And, despite European economies going down the tubes, EU countries still fund Arab Palestinian hate groups and rescue terrorists. Having used the most powerful forces in the world to eliminate the Jewish people, Europeans must feel frustrated at the audacity of Jews, not only to defend themselves, but to survive as Jews, forcing their leaders to salute a flag that bears a Jewish symbol, and shake hands with Jewish generals.Ouch. Read it all.
Instead of their traditional Jew-hatred, Europeans smile, and slip cash to the Arabs to do their dirty work. Condemning Israel is easier than feeling shame.
Jews in Israel are a traumatized people. Traumatized by the Holocaust and by constant Arab terrorism, we are also traumatized by our own leaders who, in the name of peace, emboldened our sworn enemies and exposed us to their murderous efforts. And many Israeli academics never lose an opportunity to condemn the country that pays their salaries. Israel's media often operate as propaganda machines for the Left.
How Europeans must relish their bigotry when they see Israeli political cartoons, opinion pieces (as "news"), literature and art that depict Israelis as vicious, Jews as despicable, and Judaism as worthless.
Ach, Europe, how you must shiver with humiliation when you need Israeli-produced technology, science and medicine. What angst overtakes you when you must decide whether to boycott Israeli fruit and vegetables, or enjoy them.
Like a supposedly dispatched victim, Israel comes back to haunt Europe, not only to confront it with its strength, but ablaze with Jewishness. What an indignity for Europeans to see flourishing Jewish communities instead of piled corpses, bones of those buried in mass execution pits renewed in Israeli children.
Europe hates Jews, finally, because it hates itself; it knows what European civilization allowed, permitted, and condoned. "Never Again" is the Jewish password; Europeans know it can.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:12 PM
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That is based off this, to which Michael Totten replied with this.
The Europeans have never forgiven the Jews for surviving. And the irony is the Europeans themselves do not know how to survive. There is more of a question mark on Europe's future in the next half century than there is on Israel's. Europe will soon enough reap the fruits of the Jew hatred it has sown throughout its history and no one will miss it.
I partly agree with this guy. First, he is only naming 33.3% of the issue, the Euros. The Russians (and FSU) are another 33.3%. They, just as much as the Euros, are financing and assisting Israel's neighbors to finish off the Jews who have escaped their clutches. And the other 33.3% is the high tech world (including leading universities in the US, which sponsor regular anti-Israel, pro-genocide events) which, while not necessarily anti-semitic individually, are sitting back and hoping that this harassment of Israel will lessen Israel's flaming pace of achievement in science and technology.
About 20 years ago, when I first joined the Jewish community, community members would speak fondly of trips to Germany, where people smiled at them and even apologized for gassing their cousins... I would just shake my head because I lived in Germany and heard Germans, like some German city ballerinas, talking amongst themselves when they thought no one from outside was listening. I think Mr. Dann has some wishful thinking when he thinks Germany "hates itself" because of what happened. No... it is a sickness and Israel needs to defend itself.
For all the supposed post-nationalism of Europe, they sure are comfortable with new nation states everywhere else (former USSR, former Yug (incl. Kosovo), decolonization, and of course the PA). Nor has the recent crisis brought any spirit of post-national cooperation amongst the European states (they had to be threatened with economic collapse to issue a bailout to Greece).
I suspect NormanF's explanation makes more sense overall, even if we shouldn't mention it too often.
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