- 03 Oct 2008 22:01
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Quite clearly, the Jews are as prone to stupidity and arrogant racism as anyone else. I'm just amused at the thought of Dempsey, Oxymoron and Rodion throwing stones in a fucking greenhouse.
http://www.politicsforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1649436#1649436
"The difference between the people of Israel and the nations of the world is an essential one. The Jew by his source and in his very essence is entirely good. The goy, by his source and in his very essence is completely evil. This is not simply a matter of religious distinction, but rather of two completely different species."
This is the central claim in Romemut Yisrael Ufarashat Hagalut [The Superiority of Israel], a 2003 book written by Rabbi Saadya Grama which uses classical Jewish sources in defense of a race-based theory of Jewish supremacy.
Among other things, Grama argues:
• The differences between Jews and gentiles are not religious, historical, cultural or political. They are, rather, racial, genetic and scientifically unalterable. The gentiles are at their very root and by natural constitution “totally evil†while the Jews are “totally good.â€
• Jewish successes in the world are completely contingent upon the failure of all other peoples. Only when the gentiles face total catastrophe do the Jews experience good fortune.
• The Jews themselves brought about their own destruction during the Holocaust, since they arrogantly endeavored to overcome their very essence, dictated by divine law, by leaving their ghettoes and trying to assimilate into Christian European society. The confrontational approach of the Zionists, their boycott of German products and anti-Nazi demonstrations in particular, only exacerbated the peril to European Jewry.
Grama also argues that in opposition to Zionism’s advocacy of Jewish national self-assertion and self-defense, which he views as an imitation of "gentile ways," the Torah mandates that the Jews, while in exile, should employ such means as appeasement, deception, duplicity and even “bribery†in their dealing with gentiles, so as to avoid their wrath.
Gama’s doctrine is part of a stream of rabbinic tradition — from the 11th- and 12th-century Hebrew romantic poet Yehuda Halevy to the 18th century chasidic sage Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev — which sees the differences between Jew and gentile as innate, rather than merely religious. Perhaps the most extreme version of this view is found in the central text of Chabad chasidism, Tanya, whose author, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Lyadi, Chabad’s founder, maintained that Jewish and gentile souls are fundamentally different, the former "divine" and the latter "animalistic." That viewpoint has gained ground in recent decades, particularly among ultra-orthodox Jewish thinkers.
Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh, who is considered one of the leading ideologues of the Israeli Chabad movement, has written and spoken widely on the superiority of Jews and was briefly imprisoned in Israel for racial incitement. Yated Ne’eman, an Orthodox weekly in upstate New York that is affiliated with one of Israel’s main charedi dailies, has published essays on the question of whether medical research can be understood to apply to Jews given the innate physiological differences between Jews and gentiles.
Grama frequently quotes Biblical verses that advocate terribly harsh treatment of the pagan inhabitants of ancient Canaan, implying that the same standards ought to be applied to his non-Jewish neighbors in America.
The book’s blurb includes flowery endorsements from the most revered religious scholars at the renowned Lakewood yeshiva, [an academy of advanced Talmud studies] including the institution’s foremost religious leader, or rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Aryeh Malkiel Kotler.
Kotler enthused that Gamma had written "on the subjects of the Exile, the Election of Israel and her exaltation above and superiority to all of the other nations, all in accordance with the viewpoint of the Torah, based on the solid instruction he has received from his teachers."
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Quite clearly, the Jews are as prone to stupidity and arrogant racism as anyone else. I'm just amused at the thought of Dempsey, Oxymoron and Rodion throwing stones in a fucking greenhouse.