Counterpoint: Putting up with Zionists' Skewed World View
As a Christian Egyptian who grew up in Montreal and Toronto, Canada, and
having pursued my education and my career in this open society, I have had
more than ample occasion and opportunity to interact with Jewish people.
Now to put this in context, I am not, nor have I ever been, Muslim. Having
grown up in Canada, I was largely not exposed to the bias against Jews that
I otherwise would have been had I grown up in the Mideast or Northern
Africa. In fact, Montreal and Toronto, with such large Jewish (among other
minority) populations, were cities where one would have expected a great
deal of tolerance and respect of/for people with different backgrounds and
cultures.
It is in such an environment that the Jewish population has managed to
nevertheless alienate itself from the rest of society.
They choose to live in exclusively Jewish neighbourhoods. Apparently you
can take the Jew out of the barrio, but you can't take the barrio out of the
Jew.
Worse still is the fact that the vast majority of the people that live
in these neighbourhoods were educated in English; you can hear it as you
walk around say the Hasidic quarter around Wilson area in Toronto. On the
other hand, many of the Asian and Latin neighbourhoods around major
metropolitan cities in Canada develop to cater to a large minority
population that was not educated in the language (and you can walk around
those neighbourhoods with your ears perked up if you need proof). The
Jewish population choses to disassociate itself from the rest of society,
even when living in a tolerant, open one.
It also appears that anyone who has a negative opinion of Israeli or
American 'neocon' Mideast policy is 'anti-Semitic.' Never mind that the
reason that most people abhor these policies is due to the inhuman
treatment that is borne by the Palestian people, themselves Semites, as a
result. Heck, I can argue that I am rather very 'pro-Semitic' and want the
suffering of the Palestinian people to end.
Then comes the completely skewed Zionist world view - that the rest of the
world is bent on the destruction of Israel and, as such, the Jewish people
have the right to use whatever means possible to secure a Jewish state.
When you counterpoint that it was in fact 'the rest of the world,' in the
form of the UN/League of Nations, that actually passed the resolution
creating the state of Israel as a sympathetic gesture in the aftermath of
the WWII, you are dismissed out of hand as being willfully ignorant.
When
you point out that every human rights agency, officially sanctioned (say, by
the UN) and independent (say Amnesty International, GreenPeace) condemns the
Israeli treatment of the Palestinians and that the occupation of Palestinian
territory is illegal, as defined by the same resolutions by the UN that
created the Jewish state no less, you are then labelled an 'anti-Semite.'
While attending university, I took part in a study group of which a Jewish
student was a member. It should be noted that neither I nor any other
member brought up the topic of Mideast politics. Nevertheless, it only took
this Jewish classmate until the second study session to bring up the topic.
I respectfully disagreed with his opinion and mentioned the arguments made
in the preceding paragraph, to which I was met with, "The UN are a bunch of
big fat idiots who don't know anything." Great. I think this says more
about the problem with the Jewish attitude than any point that I have made
thus far. (This classmate went on further to elaborate, and indicate his
level of indoctrination, by mentioning how young Palestinian children are
taught that Jewish people eat them and that one cannot negotiate with people
who think such things... among other laughable assertions.)
It is this attitude of entitlement, of moral superiority that has caused the
so-called plight of the Jewish people over the course of history. This goes
back well before Nazi Germany or even The Roman Empire. If you are inclined
to read the Christian Bible's 'Old Testament' (and believe any of it to be
remotely historically accurate), you may note that the Hebrews never got
along with any of their neighbouring nations way back then, either. Of
course the argument then was that the other nations were against them
because they were 'God's chosen people,' as hard to fathom as such arrogance
is.
It seems that the more things, the more they stay the same, as history
inevitably teaches us.
