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does not mean, however, that Europeans and European or ‘white’ or ‘western’ culture should
be blamed entirely for racist Jewish ideas, either. In Chapter II.9.3, we will take a look at
Jewish ideology through the ages, and discover that ethnocentrism and even genocide through
divine sanction are important to it, as well, of course, as are the fundamentally opposed,
though nowadays conspicuously scarce, Jewish traditions of humanism and universalist
ethics. 161
Moreover, the modern state of Israel’s perhaps closest military and political ally so far,
next to the USA, was apartheid South Africa, so it – and its state servants and civilian
supporters, many of whom are still alive and prospering today – should also carry some
responsibility.
Anti-Jewish 162 persecution and genocide of Jews in Europe, especially by the German,
Austrian and other Nazis and ethnicists, must be considered as well, both for the widely
perceived ‘need’ for a Jewish homeland and for the many actual atrocities that many members
of a traumatized Jewish people seem to be inverting and repeating in a psychopathological
fashion, reminiscent of child molesters and similar, unorganized (or relatively unorganized)
offenders of human rights. (See Chapters II.1.3 and 9.3, below.) Incidentally, this is not
unique to Jews, and it certainly is not universal among Jews. The extremely high rate of
violent crime and rape in South Africa extends the spiral of apartheid violence to postapartheid
victims, and the repeated accusations by Palestinian civilians of torture and
mistreatment by the Palestinian security forces tell a similar tale about the victims of ongoing
apartheid. (More on this in the now following section.)
The large number of displaced and homeless Jews after World War II was crucial for
the establishment of Israel, and Adolf Hitler, as well as his judeophobic predecessors and his
numerous followers and partners-in-crime, are squarely to blame for creating that situation
and also for contributing to the traumatized nature of different kinds of Israeli/Jewish defense
systems – ranging from military to bureaucratic to psychological structures.
It is no wonder that the Zionist movement, the ‘national revival of the Jewish people in
its ancestral home’, was born in Vienna, the city where, only a decade later, Adolf Hitler
himself would be influenced to become a judeophobic right-wing extremist, and at a time
when Karl Lueger, the mayor of the city, was voted into office with a rabidly anti-Jewish and
pro-‘German’ political program. I am not saying that Zionism is a version of or prerequisite to
Nazi ideology. It is not. It is an extremist reaction to an extremist threat. The two movements
appeared at roughly the same time, in the same place. They grew out of the same poisoned,
ideological, ethnicist soil. 163
Finally, the USA (and others) pressured and enticed Egypt and Jordan, the two most
affected Arab states bordering Israel, to sign separate peace treaties with the Jewish apartheid
state, in 1979 and 1994, respectively. Since the vast majority of the populations of Egypt and
Jordan appear to be against those treaties, the USA has propped up undemocratic and corrupt
regimes in both countries, mainly by the crude means of delivering free weaponry. It has also
seemingly worked hard to keep other undemocratic regimes, similar to those of Egypt and
161 It should be mentioned, however, that humanist and universalist ethics are certainly not Jewish inventions.
They can be found prominently among the ancient Egyptians, e.g. in Coffin Text CT 1130, written around 2000
BCE. See Lichtheim, Miriam: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Vol. 1: The Old and Middle Kingdoms, 1973: 99ff,
131f; Assmann: Ägypten: Eine Sinngeschichte, 1996: 174, 221; Brunner: Die Weisheitsbücher der Ägypter,
1997: 137ff. It would not surprise me, in case it ever turns out possible to indicate it, if these ethics existed prior
to the ancient Egyptian civilization as well.
162 I consider the use of the popular expression ‘anti-Semitic’ imprecise and misleading within the entire context
of this investigation. This is not meant, however, to diminish the scale of atrocities committed against Jews
throughout history, in Europe and elsewhere. See, further, footnote 10, above.
163 Shlaim: The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World, 2001 (2000): 1ff, quote: 1; Morris, H.: The State They’re
In, 2004; Hessing: In der Nacht der Geschichte ein königlicher Traum: Prophet der zionistischen Bewegung:
Zum hundertsten Todestag von Theodor Herzl, 2004; Watzal: Zionismus - Postzionismus - Neozionismus:
Welchen Weg nimmt Israel? 2004: 131-146. Needless to say, perhaps: Vienna is not that bad today.
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