Posted on 09/05/2014 7:27:40 PM PDT by Misterioso
It is common knowledge --at least for part of the right-- that resentment of Israel is merely an extension of Western self-hatred. We know that Israel is hated by the Arab world and many of the “have nots” of the postmodern age, because the fact that it is the only democracy and successful economy in the Middle East serves as a constant and unwelcome reminder to these countries that their problems cannot simply be blamed on the Western colonial legacy, and that, on the contrary, there is a fundamental flaw in their mentality and culture. For the same reason, the leftist intelligentsia of the West hates Israel: for them, this country is the distillation of their concept of the West to its very essence: the ultimate and eternal oppressor, a fusion of the destructive racism and capitalism that according to them constitute the core of Western culture. And needless to say, the Palestinians and other Arabs personify the eternal proletarian class of the oppressed.
(Excerpt) Read more at brusselsjournal.com ...
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*Ding Ding Ding* — Fails the first sentence check.
Bwahahahaha! Leftists and conservatives share the same Christian premise of self-sacrifice?!
So much wrong with this statement. Clearly, like most godless objectivists the author has no understanding of historic Christian doctrine, which teaches that wanting good for oneself is not wrong.
Second, the moral ethic of socialism is not Christian self sacrifice. The moral ethic of socialism is radical covetous narcissism: “I want something of my neighbor’s. He refused to give it to me freely. Therefore I will use force to take it from him and give it to myself.” Biblical Christianity recognizes this as theft, a sin worthy of eternal damnation.
The Christian recognizes that free market economics is the only righteous way to orient a society, because free market economics requires one to give something of equal value to one’s neighbor in order to receive something from him. Free market economics is based on mutual giving. Socialism is based on covetousness and theft.
Bump for reading later.
Jealousy drives anti-Semitism.
The public, in general, needs to look up the word Semite. It refers to people from south-west asia and includes not only Jews but Arabs and Persians.
Is this your take after reading the article?
“ideas, cultural ideals etc., thought of as essentially Jewish [fr. Mod. L. semiticus].”
Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute discussing Anti-Capitalism and Anti-Semitism:
No. I already knew that Jew-haters were under-achieving, jealous people.
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