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Friday, October 31, 2003

International Zionist Conspiracy Dept. Sometimes you absorb a certain amount of news and commentary, you notice an aspect of the issue that no one else is addressing, and you begin to form a response in your head. Then someone gets there first, but you don't mind because they do it better than you would have. A reader sent me this excellent response to Mahathir's blatherings. Here's a taste, but read the whole thing:
Why, Arabs (and many Europeans) ask themselves, should the greatest power in the world care about the fate of a few million leftovers from an ancient past, colonizing a corner of the Mediterranean in order to preserve their battered nationhood? Why would America make so many enemies and lose so many friends over the Jews? Can anything but a vast and insidious conspiracy explain such irrational behavior?

That is a fatal error. America may be a great power, but it is composed of individuals who consider themselves weak. They want the respect of their leaders and the protection of their laws even when they are weak, poor and despised. Their ancestors came to America in the hope of finding such a haven. Fairness and sympathy for the underdog are not merely a sentimental issue in the US; they are woven into the fabric of America's being. America is the political realization of the slave-religion, the cult of the creator of heaven and earth who cannot help but answer the cry of the widow, the fatherless, the poor, and the stranger. The more you tell Americans that they should abandon their friends in the interest of political advantage, the likelier they are to reach for their guns (and most of them own guns).

They want a Jewish sort of God who hears the prayer of the widow and the fatherless, and they want a government that protects the widow and the fatherless from the powerful and the arrogant. Through America's inherent sense of justice, Jews do rule the world, just as Mahathir believes, although not of course in the way he imagines it.
Here's more on how the American democratic republic was developed in accordance with Jewish ideas of representative democracy as prescribed in the Torah.

UPDATE: I don't know who this Asian Times columnist is, but damn he's good. He really gets it. Us Jews should take over the world - the world would be a better place.