Wiping Out the Jews: A Work In Progress
Arthur Lewis Aug. 5, 2012
In my more desperate moments I like to imagine that Ronald Reagan is still in the White House, and that he is contemplating the menace posed by Iran’s development of nuclear weapons and nuke-bearing missiles. You may recall that Iran released the U.S. embassy hostages in 1981 at virtually the same moment that Reagan lugged his jar of jelly beans into the Oval Office. The mullahs had sized up this man Reagan and had properly concluded that he wasn’t going to take any kaka from them, the kind they had dished out with impunity to Jimmy Carter.
Let’s give Barack Obama the benefit of the doubt and assume that he doesn’t secretly want the Iranians to blow Bebe Netanyahu and the rest of the Israelis into radioactive dust. Let’s assume, instead, that Obama, with his reliance on diplomatic negotiations and economic sanctions, is simply gutless. When the first mushroom cloud rises over Tel Aviv, the world can confidently expect that Obama will react with solemn indignation and appoint a committee to study what happened.
The perennial effort to wipe out the Jews has been going on for all the thousands of years since this persecuted minority first organized itself at some sort of town hall meeting in the Middle Eastern desert. Because the extermination effort has been pursued with such singleminded intensity, one is tempted to attribute it, somehow, to a single intelligence. But how can that be, unless one believes in Satan?
The Jews have been everybody’s favorite scapegoat. The Egyptians tried their hand at wiping them out under the pharoahs. The Iranians — that’s right — had a go at it under Haman. Later there were the Spanish inquisitors, the Tsarist pogroms. And let’s not forget Hitler, whose extermination program was the most ambitious and successful of all. He had several years of unfettered opportunity to carry it out, and he was backed by that famous German efficiency.
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