Sunday 5 December 2010

Advanced and Intellectual

The Likudniks and worse can scream and shout all they like, but if the Jewish Chronicle were not reflecting mainstream Anglo-Jewish opinion, then no one would buy it; if the members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews were not reflecting mainstream Anglo-Jewish opinion, then they could not hope for re-election; and so on.

Domination by the people who merely happen to shout the loudest is clearly coming to an end. Not a moment before time. Perhaps, for example, the Board of Deputies of British Jews has decided to do as its name suggests, which is not to look after a foreign state, least of all a foreign state perceived dual loyalty to which is greatly to the detriment of British Jews, with whom in any case it has less and less in common? Again, not a moment before time.

The Levant remained a bulwark against Islamist expansionism while it remained a civilisation of Christians, Muslims, Jews and Druze, with Arabic as its lingua franca and with its de facto capital at Damascus. But a dreadful wound was inflicted on it in 1948, from which it has still begun to recover hardly, if at all. The Holy Land – Latin Catholic and Greek Orthodox, Melkite and Maronite, Syrian and Armenian, Anglican and Lutheran – founded, and continues to give considerable support to, the Popular and Democratic Fronts for the Liberation of Palestine, whatever else one might think of those organisations.

Lebanese Catholics and Orthodox pray for the success of Hezbollah, which is allied to several of their own political parties, and which is instrumental in restoring Beirut’s historic synagogue. The other side in Lebanon is mostly bankrolled by Saudi Arabia, which says all that needs to be said. “A mini Iran” – emerging democracy, high culture, more women than men at university, reserved parliamentary representation for Jews and Christians? Or a mini Saudi Arabia? No contest. But guess which one Israel wants.

Muhammad is now the single most common name for newborn boys within Israel’s pre-1967 borders. About 14,000 Jews left Israel annually between 1990 and 2005. Half of Israelis aged between 14 and 18 express the desire to live elsewhere. A huge percentage of Israelis holds, or plans to inquire about obtaining, foreign nationality. The Berlin synagogue has 12,000 members, and there are now perhaps 55,000 Jews in Poland, many of whom are immigrants from Israel. Curzon was right when he bemoaned the Balfour Declaration on the grounds that the “advanced and intellectual” Jews would have no desire to live in the Middle East. They cannot wait to go home.

Desperately, Israel is instead flying in Russians who refuse to eat kosher food and who insist on taking their Israeli Defence Force oaths on the New Testament alone, Russian Nazis, East Africans who have invented a religion based on the Old Testament brought by Christian missionaries, Peruvian Indians, absolutely anyone at all. Such Jewish births as there still are, are largely and increasingly to ultra-Orthodox who so disdain the Zionist State that they will use physical force against its teenage conscripts of both sexes.

If Israel does not want to become a haven for Russian Nazis, then she needs to repeal the Law of Return, declaring that she is now a settled culture and society in her own right, and precluding any wildly impracticable demand for a corresponding right on the part of Palestinian refugees or their descendants. The people who will do anything for Israel except live there, and who throw their weight around in demanding policies that suit their prejudices expressed from comfortable berths thousands of miles away, can thus be told where to go, or not to bother trying to go.

2 comments:

  1. Spooky Arabist Durham. SAD. And David Lindsay is the biggest SADDO of them all. Oil funded, port encrusted, stilton munching, black tie wearing, anti-American, anti-Semitic cunts.

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