The Dept we Owe to Lipstadt
B.H. Cramer
Deborah Lipstadt has written a very important commentary on Jimmy Carter and
his book on the Palestinians (I won?t link to it at Amazon as Amazon has
been playing peculiar games with it, presumably in order to suppress its
sale). Lipstadt, a woman who until now has been famous only for having all
of David Irving?s money, expressly makes the connection between Israeli
treatment of the Palestinians and what was done to the Jewish people in the
1930?s and 1940?s. This argument usually hides in the weeds. It is the
real basis behind all defenses of Israeli actions against the Palestinians,
as well as many of the peculiarities of Israeli exceptionalism, such as
Israel?s unique ability to shelter international gangsters on the basis
that they are Jews, or Israel?s unique right to make peremptory attacks
against other countries on the basis that there might be a possible threat
against the state of the Jewish people. This doctrine has now been
extended, in the case of Iran, to allow for peremptory attacks even when
there is no threat against the Jewish people.
In Lipstadt?s view, which is the view shared by all Jewish defenders of
Israel, Carter is wrong for failing to emphasize the Holocaust in a book
about what Israel is doing to the Palestinians today. This lack of logic
from Lipstadt would be the stuff of comedy if it did not form the basis for
all the atrocities that Israel commits. Most apologists for Israel are too
smart to put it in so many words, so we owe a bid debt of gratitude to
Lipstadt for being so fucking stupid as to let the cat out of the bag. In
fact, I think many people sympathetic to Israel don?t really realize the
basis for the chip on Israel?s shoulder as they can?t bring themselves to
believe that the basis could be something that is so insane.
The bigger picture is that many Jews feel that the Holocaust gives Jews, and
by extension the Jewish state, a permanent ?Get Out Of Jail Free? card.
The world stood by and let horrible things happen to the Jews, so the Jews
have a unique right to obtain retribution in whatever way they see fit.
One of the main ways they have seen fit to obtain justice is to grab
themselves a country. No non-Jew has the moral right to complain about it,
as every non-Jew inherits the guilt for the Holocaust. Thus, Jimmy Carter
has no right to criticize the Jewish state for what it is doing to the
Palestinians. Despite the fact the Palestinians had nothing to do with the
Holocaust (in fact hardly anyone alive today had anything to do with the
Holocaust), they also have no moral right to criticize what is being done
to them. This is the kind of reasoning which makes sense to young
children, and many criminals (?I have a right to rob banks because I had a
sad childhood?), but doesn?t make any sense to the rest of us.
One of the peculiarities of the Jewish post-Holocaust experience is the fact
that there is a certain sexual frisson created by fantasies of how the
world will again conspire to destroy the Jewish people (and seeing the
Holocaust everywhere can have some amusing consequences). Benny Morris (of
all people) is obviously getting off on describing how the Jews will be
destroyed by the inevitable nuclear attack from Iran, while the rest of the
world secretly applauds. It?s Jewish masochistic porn. Of course, Morris
isn?t an idiot, and is perfectly aware that Iran hasn?t threatened Israel?s
existence, has no nuclear weapons, and has no foreseeable chance of having
nuclear weapons, while Israeli leaders have directly threatened Iran and
Israel has such weapons, so Morris? fantasy is closer to sadistic porn
rather than masochistic porn. Morris is following the same reasoning as
Lipstadt. A Jew is entitled to write propaganda advocating an attack on
innocent civilians living in a country that poses no threat to Israel.
Why? Because of the Holocaust!
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2007/01/debt-we-owe-to-deborah-lipstadt.html
RJ11
B.H. Cramer <ben_a...@beltingyids.com> wrote:
(horrible drivel given the snip)
"Cramer", can you please elaborate further on those "shitty
experiences with hallucinogenics" you had? Message-ID:
<1125145048.cafe8828396fceebe6c6eb01bec409b3@teranews>.
Seems you suffered some serious damage. Why don't you
seek help?
RJ.