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Hatred of the "Enlightened"

by Chaim Walder


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The article was first published in our print edition 22 years ago.

I occasionally find the need to refute the popular belief that the Jewish Nation's most heartless enemies are the Arabs by presenting my students with indisputable historical facts.

In order to accomplish this I tell them about the atrocious deeds to the Jews of Christianity and the Christians throughout history, about the Spanish Inquisition established by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella (1478) and approved by Pope Sixtus IV, the Holy Crusades (between 1096 and 1254) that were called by Pope Urban II, the pogroms of 4508-4509 (1648-1649) in the Ukraine, the pogrom at Kishinev (southern Russia) at 1903, and of course the dreadful Holocaust (1939-1945).

On the other hand, I scan with them the Moslems's relationship with am Yisroel proving that although they did not especially love us, except for various periods no hideous occurrences like the Holocaust are recorded.

The tunes that we hear lately against the Torah-Observant make red lights flash. They remind us to be wary of Western "intellectuals" wearing fancy silk ties and tailored suits. We have no guarantee they will not harm us.

Those who murdered Jews in Germany, Lithuania, Hungary and Poland were Christians from the Western World. These were "cultured" people with whom Jews until then had enjoyed courteous relationships and excellent business ties. These polite neighbors, scholarly professors, doctors, lawyers, and other white-collared professionals, unexpectedly bashed the heads of our infants, tortured, burnt, strangled, knifed, shot, and slaughtered Jews. These "upper-class" people committed various types of beastly murders without any shred of human feeling.

Even up to the present day it is difficult for Holocaust survivors to swallow what happened. Who would have believed that Europeans, refined people, music lovers, theater enthusiasts and avid readers and critics of good literature, could possibly descend to such bestial behavior? It was unfortunately the bitter surprise of their lives.

But why do we have to go so far back in history. Let us look at the bloodbath of the Serbs to the Albanians in Kosovo. What cruelty! What a lack of humanity! This was perpetrated in modern Europe by college graduates, not primitive tribes, not impassioned religious zealots.

What characterizes Western European anti-Semitism is the uncanny ability to disregard any emotions and function coldly and efficiently like a well-oiled machine so as to materialize their objective. When western man is convinced that certain people disturb him he can butcher them without any constraints. He has no emotional impediments blocking his way from burning, exiling, stabbing, and putting an end to his enemies, and to do so in a businesslike fashion. He can act with them as if they are nothing more than a pile of wood or herd of wild animals.

Muslims are different. Emotions are mixed within Muslim anti-Semitism. A Muslim can also hate others and to smother his anger he can attack someone, knife him, or blow himself up together with other passengers on a crowded bus. However, the Muslim is unable to be as cruel as his European counterpart and banish all sentiments. He cannot be as cynical and act as coldly as the European anti-Semite can.

The conclusion is that the hatred from so-called "enlightened" people is many times more dangerous than that of those who have been termed as "primitive." These Europeans can reveal themselves as hideous monsters, working in a calculated and organized manner to the ultimate detail — until the final solution.

Yaakov Weinrot, a renowned Israeli lawyer, wrote a few weeks ago: "Today, the only hatred that one can possess and still be considered enlightened is hatred of Chareidim."

Let us add up one and one and we will see that what is happening today reminds us of what happened in the past. We are not hated by common people. We are hated by the "enlightened."

In Israel, as everywhere else in the world, there are different types of people. They differ in their convictions and the way they dress. Despite their ideological differences it can be said that they live in harmony side by side. If we ignore the newspaper headlines that show exceptions to the rule, and evaluate our daily relationships with our neighbors it can definitely be considered suitable.

Over the years a small group of people from European descent, from Germany, Hungary, Serbia, and Poland, who although possibly Jewish live absolutely like non-Jews and have internalized non-Jewish culture including so it seems anti-Semitism.

Did you ever notice that in Israel not one person whose family originated from Arab lands hounds the Chareidim or incites against Judaism? Pay attention to the names: Steph Wertheimer (German descent), Tomy Lapid (Serbian), Preitzky (Poland), Yossi Sarid, Shlomit Aloni, Roni Milo, Arnan Yekotiel, Avrohom Porez. Not one of them is a Sephardi. What is happening here? Has someone from Europe decided to send representatives who will persecute us in Israel?

It is noteworthy to examine what is being said and done. You will discern that someone is trying to reconstruct exactly what happened in Europe. A real attack on us is about to take place and, of course, as in every such attack skillful incitement precedes it.

The following is a quote from Yediot Achronot, the most widely distributed Israeli newspaper, writing about Steph Wertheimer. The title of the article is: "The Problem: Chareidim are Taking Control Over Us. The Solution: Deny Them Right of Vote."

Now please pay attention how they are carefully preparing the way for the "final solution" against the Chareidim. First they start off by frightening people, plucking on hidden fears, and converting the Chareidim into an imminent enemy. The following are some quotes from the article itself. I request from the readers, especially from the more mature, not to replace the word Chareidim with Jews. If you do so you are liable to become confused between the present and the ghastly past.

"Chareidim are hardly 15% of our population but they buy votes in a way disproportionate to their numbers — some hundred or a thousand times more than their strength. They do not believe in the country. Chareidim do not pledge allegiance to it. They disgrace the law. They take our money from us. There is no other way of saying this: They are simply stealing the country from us. We all know the way they do this. They steal votes and deceive people. Little by little they are taking control of the country.

"It is very simple. If we do not restrain the Chareidim they will kill us, the secular. Yes, they will kill us. That will be our end and the end of the Zionist State of Israel. I am saying that someone who has until now not understood that the situation is dangerous is blind.

"I want to strip the Chareidim of their money and strength. I suggest restoring them to their natural size. After we take their money away from them, and after they calm down, we will talk with them. I am addressing myself to the sane secular public: Go out into the streets, riot, do not rest or be quiet until the law governing elections is changed. They should not be allowed to vote.

"It should be the law that only someone who pledges allegiance to the state and is ready to serve in the army or in national service should have a right to vote. In no way should Chareidim be allowed to vote. They do not recognize the state. They only recognize the state's money."

Now do you understand how things progressed in Europe? After such an interview many secular people feel a sacred obligation to harm Chareidim, like the Talmudic principle of "If someone wants to kill you, rise up beforehand and kill him." Rely on Stephen Wertheimer who with his German efficiency and money will do this in the best possible way.

Before we are totally petrified it is important to emphasize something. What was quoted here does not represent the view of the secular Jews in the State of Israel. It is only the opinion of a few fanatic and racist Europeans who are liable of drawing with them many other people into a whirlpool of hatred, civil war, cruelty, and murder. They are not only endangering the Chareidim public but also the secular one exactly like Hitler who destroyed Germany together with the Jewish race.

There were never so many (religious and secular Jews in Israel) who were threatened by so few (Stephen and Tomy, Sarid and Porez). It seems to me that religious and secular Jews alike who see clearly the devastation these individuals are causing to the Jewish Nation must unite and stop them just as the Kahanah Movement was once stopped, and this must be done a moment before the First Reich will be set up here in Israel.

 

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