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The World’s Sophisticated Hypocrisy Mechanism
The world seems to have begun saying that there is something
fundamentally illegitimate about Israelis, Israeli institutions and
the State of Israel in its entirety.
By Ron Jager
Winston Churchill has been quoted as saying “Some people like the
Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that
they are beyond question the most formidable and the most remarkable
race which has ever appeared in the world.”
A huge proportion of shapers of the modern mind were Jewish, from
Marx, Freud, and Einstein to Sergey Brin of Google and Mark Zuckerberg
of Facebook.
Jews have had an influence out of all proportion to their numbers,
because they believe in the individual and his or her power to change
the world for the better. Believing that G-d has high expectations of
the Jews has resulted in great accomplishments for all of civilization
throughout history.
So if for argument’s sake we accept that Jews have consistently
brought good things to humanity over the course of history only to
have many of our beliefs and ideas borrowed later down the line by
Christianity, Islam, and even secular philosophy, then why is it that
the world chooses at every opportunity to dismiss the harsh realities
of the Islamic world, or of the Palestinian Arabs refusal to
negotiate, never giving Israel the benefit of the doubt.
It seems as if the World always focuses exclusively on blaming Israel,
employing hypocrisy and a double standard as standard fare when
relating to Israel.
It seems that when ever possible the world ignores crimes against
humanity such as are being implemented daily in Syria, and instead
blames and castigates Israel for initiating or responding to this
threat.
Every day, Israel is accused of being an Apartheid nation, the BDS
(Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) movement ranks successes day by
day as universities, organizations, corporations, and whole nations
boycott the State of Israel.
All of this leads up to an indefensible conclusion that has taken hold
in recent years, that there is something fundamentally illegitimate
about Israelis, Israeli institutions and the State of Israel in its
entirety.
Much of the intellectual landscape that justifies this kind of
thinking is proudly and unashamedly expressed by these self-appointed
“guardians” of the Western world, having managed to produce a
hypocrisy mechanism that is among the most sophisticated in human
history.
This global monitoring apparatus strictly monitors the violation of
human rights, including the most minor ones in Israel, while forgiving
almost any case of trampled rights, absence of democracy, cutting off
of limbs, oppression of minorities and women, the stoning of
homosexuals, and even sanctioning the right of a Muslim man to conduct
intimate relations with a wife up to 8 hours after her death– as long
as these are undertaken in the Arab world and their perpetrators are
not suspected, heaven forbid, of collaboration with the spearhead of
Western “imperialism”, Israel.
The terror attack at the Boston marathon is the most recent example of
how awry Western thinking has evolved. Each time a terrorist strikes,
it appears as if the politically correct Western intellectual crowds
feel a hardly defendable uneasiness about the fact that the killer may
be an Arab and/or a Muslim. It seems that any remark concerning a
terrorist’s Muslim ethnicity and religious views is automatically
irrelevant and racist. Rather than it be seen as a necessary component
of informing the public, this honest reporting is represented as
“crucifying” a supposedly innocent group of people rather than simply
being reflective of the truth.
How are we to understand this never ending concentration of the
world’s attention on Israel alone while at the same time it ignores
the role of the Islamic world in widespread terrorism throughout the
world and the suppression of democratic and human rights in Islamic
societies?
Is it coincidental that during the past two decades Islam has slowly,
but steadily, established tens of thousands religious institutions
throughout the Western world, including mosques, Islamic schools,
Islamic cultural centers, and Islamic organizations, many of them
seemingly innocent front organizations serving as “gateway”
organizations for hard core Islamic terror?
Self declared vanguards of “human rights” such as Pakistan, the Arab
Emirates, and Saudi Arabia have funded upwards of billions of dollars
to fund this modern-day attempt to infiltrate western societies. Over
the past two decades, and even more so since 9/11, tens of millions of
Islamic families have immigrated to western nations, establishing
Islamic-based societies within and under the nose of democratic
societies.
Alongside this undeniable attempt to change the demographics of many
democratic societies in the West, we have witnessed an unprecedented
snowball of de-legitimization of Israel leading to a situation today
in which the streets of many European capitals are unsafe for Jews to
walk freely, coupled with Israel being portrayed as the number one
enemy of the world.
What’s the connection and how are they related?
A former Israeli Prime Minister once stated that he doesn’t have the
privilege of getting angry, too much is as stake. Yet as we assess the
battering that Israel has consistently taken in recent years, the
apartheid and BDS propaganda against Israel that has been ongoing for
years, creating a strategic threat on the State of Israel, we cannot
stay apathetic.
Academic boycotts and the BDS movement as propagated by Western
intelligentsia are funded and fueled by the very Islamic nations that
are behind the mass immigration of Muslims to western nations.
What better way to obscure the Islamic revolution aiming to change the
course of Western societies than to invest relatively small amounts of
money on funding Islamic students, who register at the top
Universities and take over pubic discourse at the campuses of Europe
and America, keeping busy demonstrating against Israel around the
clock.
Supporting whole Universities and faculties with seemingly endless
funding is a way to deny Israel’s legitimacy and deny her scientific,
political, and cultural successes to the benefit of all nations.
The simple fact that the Arabs of Israel enjoy more democratic and
human rights than any Arab in any Islamic nation would in itself
neutralize all the false propaganda against Israel fpr being an
Apartheid state, yet is conveniently ignored.
The massive funding of NGO’s throughout Europe and the United States
and, of course, in Israel itself, allows the constant churning out of
false testimonies, commission, reports, and an endless amount of
material that is disseminated by journalists and media outlets – who
are paid handsome fees to report and add to the already hostile
atmosphere that exists out there against Israel
Israel’s staunchest critics say little about the real human disasters
of this world, specifically in the Islamic world. This is the real
tragedy of our times.
Israel will get by, survive and flourish, of that I am sure. I am not
so sure about the rest of the World.
The writer (www.ronjager,com) a 25-year veteran of the I.D.F., served
as a field mental health officer and Commander of the Central
Psychiatric Military Clinic for Reserve Soldiers at Tel-Hashomer.
Since retiring from active duty, he provides consultancy services to
NGO’s implementing Psycho trauma and Psychoeducation programs to
communities in the North and South of Israel and is a strategic
advisor to the Director of the Shomron Liaison Office.