TABOO TALK

The road to Jewish emancipation in America had to be less bumpy than in Europe, although not without a few snags, one of the most notorious being the refusal to accept 930 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in 1939, as a result of which they had to return to Europe, and most of them would later perish in the Holocaust. Another unpleasantness was America’s anti-Israel stand in the 1956 Suez War, followed by JFK’s strong objections to Israel’s budding nuclear program. Added to these blots on America’s subsequent Pledge of Allegiance to Israel has been undoubtedly the most serious, yet the least publicized accusation initially made by Moscow and supported by a large majority of the Russian Jews and, I suspect, of the Israeli Jews as well, that an anti-Soviet Anglo-American conspiracy to delay the opening of the Second Front in Europe until 1944, during World War II, was largely responsible for the Holocaust of six million Jews, most of whom would have been spared, had the D-Day been carried out in 1942, or even in 1943, as expected by Moscow and incessantly demanded by Stalin.

The unpleasantness of this accusation is somewhat alleviated by a convenient combination of several facts, namely, that (1) the American Jews seem to be unaware of it; (2) that the Russian Jews coming to America are keeping mum about it; and (3) that Israel is being paid a sufficient compensation by Washington, not to bring it up. In fact, such historical sores have by now been safely covered by the thick blanket of Verboten, or, as I call it in this entry’s title, taboo talk.

…Who in his right mind would want to remind America these days of her own President Thomas Jefferson saying something as "degrading and injurious" about the Jews as the following: "Their system was deism; that is belief of only one God. But their ideas of Him and of His attributes were degrading and injurious." (From Jefferson’s An Estimate of the Merit of the Doctrines of Jesus Compared with Those of Others, 1803.)

Who in his right mind would want to repeat President Truman’s words, from his July 21, 1947 diary entry, that “the Jews have no sense of proportion, nor do they have any judgment on world affairs.”

There is no desire on my part to rub all these things in. My point is to bring home the realization that in our time no American President would dare to conduct a policy which may be interpreted as insufficiently pro-Israel, and no aspiring politician, even of the minor leagues, would dare to say or write anything suspicious regarding the Jews, and expect to get away with it.

The curse of Verboten, as it spreads over the essential elements of history, politics, social life, etc., has cast a spell of fear, confusion, and ignorance, by its virtual ban on any meaningful discussion of the Jewish factor in modern times. It has contributed to the creation of a political fetishism, or a special kind of cult extended in this country toward Israel. No criticism is allowed, and each single mention of the Name smacks of cultic Doxology. This can be compared to the cult of Marx and Lenin in the old Soviet Doxology, and to some other cults too. Only those cults never extended to foreign objects, and when they did, like in the case of Karl Marx, their fetish had been dead for quite some time.

Turning an existing and functioning foreign object into a national fetish is perhaps unprecedented. Even the Pope does not rise to a similar status of infallibility and veneration, as Israel, and the Judenthum as a whole, have attained in the United States.

If anything could give comfort to the innermost confines of Jewish self-awareness it should be a well-justified sense of self-importance. Nothing in this world of ours can be properly understood without this essential component, the Jewish Factor. The chosenness of the Jews is much more than a tenet of religion, it is a fact of life.

Yet look around: the Jewish Factor is probably the most forbidden subject in our politically-correct society, in fact, more forbidden than “hate speech”! The most important piece of the global jigsaw puzzle, its very centerpiece is missing!!! Alas, we cannot understand the world around us without understanding the Jews, and we cannot understand the Jewish Factor at all without an assiduous study of the historical development of the Jewish thought and activity over the ages.

…I expect to be accused of every mortal sin for raising such controversial subjects throughout this section and in this entry. Ironically, the most controversial points of all have been made by unimpeachable Jewish writers and great Jewish patriots. It would be thoroughly anti-Semitic to see the Jews as a monolith, united right or wrong. An old Jewish joke says, for three Jews there are always four opinions. By the same token, any honest Jew will object to one opinion being imposed on all Jews, which is exactly what is being done by certain American Jewish ideologues today.

There are indeed dramatic differences of opinion, a great concern for many Jews regarding the recklessness of the allegedly “pro-Israel” agenda promoted by the neoconservative Jewish political activists in the United States, which in reality is conducive to a dangerous radicalization of the right wing of Jewish politics both in America and in Israel. In my opinion, such negative developments must not be swept under the Verboten rug, as the consequences of this kind of “political correctness” may turn out terribly harmful as much to the Jews themselves, as to the world at large.

Therefore I am drawing such attention to what I am calling the Jewish Manifest Destiny of Tikkun Olam, to the psychology and politics behind its most important interpretations, without the knowledge of which, and without an understanding of the true meaning and implications of which, one can never grasp the meaning of modern history, politics, and international relations, no matter how hard one tries. This Jewish legend, having taken mighty root in the United States, has indeed become the cornerstone of the American Foreign Policy, underlying the colossal misconception of Russia in America, the source of shock and a profound confusion in this country about the world as such, the tragic and inevitable source of perpetual retreat and failure. It is my honest opinion that unless the role of the Tikkun Olam philosophy and of its subconscious effect on the thinking of most Jewish foreign policy experts and lobbyists in the United States has been properly elucidated, all political science will amount to a bad joke. It is a daunting and uncomfortable truth, but sine qua non.

What is, then, the essence of the modern American ideology of Tikkun Olam, which, I have to repeat, has so much departed from Isaac Luria’s delightful mythological construct as to become its arrogant antithesis, and an inherent blasphemy?

There is no doubt that the ongoing Globalist attempt on the part of the United States to take political control of the world by economic and military means is bound to backfire with a vengeance, evidence of which we have seen plenty, 9/11 being one of such instances. Nationalism is the most powerful political force in the world, and nobody can bulldoze it with impunity. It is true that each society has its own fifth column, but not in this case, not in the final analysis. If history can teach us anything, it is the established fact that even a generous superpower support for the most obliging fifth column in a third-world country will go down to defeat, in the long run, when it faces the surging counterforce of indignant nationalism, as its nemesis.

There are certain very unpleasant implications here, so overly-sensitive and passionately controversial that their very inclusion in my book must instantly make this book untouchable for all eternity, yet it is the truth and only the knowledge of this truth can help America overcome its looming global political crisis and then its possible economic collapse. The shocking truth is that those American Jews who are exercising the most influence on this country’s foreign policy, disdainfully look down upon the Jews of other nations as their reliable fifth column. But that is exactly what they themselves have turned into, by virtue of their predictable and easily exploitable by America’s and Israel’s enemies, intransigence, within their own host: American society at large.