European Jew-hatred, never far from the surface, flourishes under the guise of anti-Zionism. Comparing Jews to Hitler allows the Europeans to flee responsibility for the centuries of Jew-hatred that culminated in the Holocaust.Mark Helprin is one of America's greatest novelists and writer of short stories. He's also a veteran of the IDF, and a frequent contributor to Conservative publications. This morning, in the Wall Street Journal, Helprin explains why Israel's very existence depends on her nuclear weapons.
I want to highlight two important points from Helprin's article:
1. The Europeans, after hunting down and murdering two-thirds of European Jewry, have doubled down on their efforts to make the world Judenrein through support of the genocidal yearning Arab and Iranian Muslims.
2. The conventional military balance between Israel and her enemies is gradually shifting towards parity. Thus, Iran's drive for nuclear weapons is designed to neutralize Israel's last line of defence. The Persian plan is to mount a series of conventional battles against the Jewish state that will, over time, lead to Israel's downfall.
Sixty-five years after Germany's campaign to exterminate the Jews, of the many countries in the world Israel is the only one repeatedly subjected to calls for its extinction. Though Pakistan and India, like Israel and the Arabs, have suffered population exchange and territorial wars, neither questions the other's right to exist. So rare and extreme is such a position that one might think the countries of Europe, so many of which cooperated in hunting down their Jews, would do more to recognize its endemic presence in the Middle East.
They don't—their publics having largely accepted that, in regard to the question of Palestine, Arabs were the victims and Jews the victimizers and colonialists to boot. Even though, strangely for colonialists, the Jews had no mother country and it was their armed struggle that ejected Great Britain from the Levant. Conveniently forgotten is that the Jews accepted partition and the Arabs did not; that half the Palestinians who left in 1948 did so of their own volition; that more Jews left and were expelled from Arab countries than Arabs left and were expelled from Palestine; that Arabs were able to remain in Israel whereas the Arab states are effectively Judenrein; that Israel ceded the Sinai for a paper treaty, and Gaza in return for nothing but rockets and bombs; that, amidst a sea of Islamic states, it has accepted a Palestinian state while the Palestinians indignantly refuse to recognize it as a Jewish state; and that it was ready to compromise even on Jerusalem had Yasser Arafat been willing to take yes for an answer.
And conveniently forgotten in fallacious references to a cycle of violence is that—following from their oft-stated call for the destruction of Israel— Hamas, Hezbollah (which is more or less an Iranian expeditionary force), Iran itself, and the Arab confrontation states are the parties that want to change the status quo, by violence and by their own flamboyant admission.
Read the full article here. For Jews, the world is a dangeorus place. But now, more than ever in this post-Holocaust world, hostility to Jews/Israel—the leftist bifurcation of Israel and Judaism is a tactic for Jew-haters—has risen to hysterical proportions. America, once Israel's greatest ally, now has a President whose neo-Marxist world view leads him to a place—his buddy Jeremiah Wright was no accident—where Israel is, at best, an inconvenience. And the true enemy of civilization, nihilistic Muslim supremacists, are for the Obama administration, a distant mirage with the Orwellian labels of “overseas contingency,” or “man made disaster.”
