Posted on 01/21/2015 5:28:34 AM PST by Kaslin
In the wake of the terrorist attack on a kosher market in Paris, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked French Jews to come home.
I don't particularly like that advice. I think it would be a tragedy if centuries of Jewish French culture had to die out because Jews were chased out by Islamist thugs. The French government agrees -- for now at least -- and has posted armed soldiers everywhere Jews live and gather.
Still, what Netanyahu understands is that there is strength in numbers. The more Jews there are in Israel, the stronger Israel will be. The flip side is that the fewer Jews there are in France -- or Europe or America -- the weaker Jews as a whole will be.
But no matter how you slice it, Jews are at a numerical disadvantage.
People understand that in a democracy there will always be strength in numbers. The politician who gets the most votes wins, the constituency with the most voters gets heard the most, etc. This also tends to be true of intellectuals, activists and businesses. If China didn't have more than 1 billion people, Hollywood wouldn't kowtow to Chinese sensibilities. And if Duke University didn't have a growing number of Muslim students, no one would have thought to broadcast calls to prayers from its chapel bell tower.
And if there were a billion Jews in the Middle East, HarperCollins would never have edited out Israel from its atlas. The publisher was recently embarrassed by the revelation (first reported by the British Catholic magazine The Tablet) that it had been selling an atlas "developed specifically for schools in the Middle East," promising "in-depth coverage of the region and its issues" that nonetheless left Israel on the cutting room floor. A spokesman for the subsidiary that put out the map told The Tablet that including Israel would be "unacceptable" to their customers in the Persian Gulf and elsewhere. And the customer is always right.
A similar attitude pervades the leaders of the so-called international community. Tiny Israel manages to chafe the sensitive pinstriped derrieres of the State Department and foreign ministries around the globe. According to "realists," Israel is a problem because the majority of nations -- and many Muslims in the West -- don't like it. It was this sort of thinking that prompted French President Francois Hollande initially to ask Netanyahu not to attend the unity march in Paris against terrorism. It's also probably why Hollande ostentatiously walked out on Netanyahu's remarks at the Grand Synagogue.
Realism itself is not anti-Semitic. But it's often hard to tell where realism ends and anti-Semitism begins, as when a French diplomat in 2001 famously used a common epithet to describe that "sh***y little country Israel" and blame it for all the troubles in the world. He added, "Why should the world be in danger of World War III because of those people?" Many had similar attitudes about Czechs and Poles before World War II.
Since 2006, the U.N. Human Rights Council has condemned Israel 50 times. It has denounced human rights violators such as Iran, Saudi Arabia and China zero times.
Nearly every conversation about the Charlie Hebdo cartoons makes reference to the fact that there are 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide, as if there's an obvious correlation between the number offended and the nature of the offense. This is less about manners and more about power worship. A musical mocking Mormons (15 million worldwide) has been a smash hit on Broadway for years. Yet according to many of the same people who leap to defend Muslim sensibilities on cable TV, defending Mormon sensibilities marks you as a rube.
In much of the Muslim world, newspapers frequently run vile anti-Semitic cartoons depicting, for instance, Jews dressed as Nazis eating babies. Perhaps if Jews outnumbered Muslims by roughly 115 to 1 rather than the other way around, we'd hear more about those blasphemous drawings.
Anyone who cherishes democracy understands that numbers matter. But the key word in "liberal democracy" is "liberal," not "democracy." A mob can be of one mind on an issue, but that doesn't make it right. And giving into the mob simply because it is large and dangerous may be realistic, but a better word for it is "appeasement."
History repeating itself IMO. Why would you stay when the French laws go so against defending yourself?
I actually think “cowardice” is a better word for this than “appeasement”. Liberals are stinking cowards and only do “brave” things when they get applause from their peers and the media.
Angelina Jolie and Charlton Heston are some of the few from that group who have ever done anything really brave.
It’s history repeating itself only much worse this time because they kill everyone, not just Jews, but Christians, even Muslims. They burn to death Christians and last week executed 15 Muslim boys for watching a soccer game.
Thanks Kaslin.
Anyone still need a reason why Israel was created? “F” the French and their years of giving in to the savages at their gates. Israel should send hundreds of planes over there and bring its people home.
And let’s not overlook a little root-cause analysis here.
Those Islamofascists are in France for a few reasons:
1. France’s Socialism (very much supported by France’s Jewish population) has spent more than it takes in, so it needs cheap labor to do cheap work to pay taxes (sound familiar)?
2. France’s culture turned from the Church and traditional Judo-Christian values to the existentialism espoused by Sartre and others. This led the French people away from raising traditional families (death by demographics, sound familiar) away from the traditional work ethic (we want more for less, sound familiar?), and into more self-focused pleasure time (sound familiar).
So, as we analyze what the Jews in France are going through, which is largely caused by policies they supported (for the most part) pushed through by politicians who supported those policies (and who tend to be anti-religious in general)...
...let the US citizen observe and learn from France’s mistakes.
Close the damn border!
Throttle ALL immigration, illegal AND legal.
Require that immigrants assimilate to American culture.
DUMP the SOCIALIST programs in America that are running us over the same economic cliff that France is plunging over.
.....At least in America, you can do a “lock and load”.
“People understand that in a democracy there will always be strength in numbers”
Which is way democracies always end up in ruin and slaughter and our Foinders wanted no part of them.
Because they are doing what “their god”, whom Jesus said was from the begining, “a liar, a thief, and a murderer”.
Goes all the way back to when God promised Abraham that God will “bless those who bless (Israel) and curse those who curse Israel.” It is all found the “Book”.
Yet we are sadly is starting to see this happening in America as well. Just think of last night’s SOTU.
Nearly all of the OT Prophets speak of the Diaspora returning to the Land of Promise.
This could be interpreted as referring to the return after the Babylonian Captivity, and be done with it.
Or, it could be referring to what is happening in the World Today.
Or Both.
In any case, it is unprecedented in History for any other People Group besides the Jews.
Of course, modern means of transportation makes what seemed impossible in 700BC quite possible today.
I wonder why that is? (rhetorical question!)
Am Yisroyel Chai!
Agreed. Even more so today because for Christians, Babylon represents the godless immoral world. Today I will be going through the Prophets again with Babylon in mind because the day of the Lord is near.
In my own Biblical studies, I try to read the plain text and derive my first interpretation from that. It is, IMHO, the first line in interpreting Scripture.
After that layer has been explored, there is the Typology. That is very tricky and should be undertaken with much caution and prayer.
But some things just can’t be “explained away”!
And I’m “looking up”!
I’ve been doing the exact same thing. Typology, patterns?, is something that every person recognizes especially in childhood. I have a problem usually taking things literally and have to be inspired to see the symbolism.
While reading Revelation yesterday one verse jumped out at me. Verse 10:7 “but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as He preached (the gospel) to His servants the prophets.”
I’m on a treasure hunt.
Well said!
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