Today is T'shah B'av, a Jewish fast day to commemorate the destruction of the ancient Temples in Jerusalem. On T'shah B'av both Jewish Temples were destroyed, first by the Babylonians in 586 BC, and then by the Romans in 70 AD.
Every generation new enemies rise up to destroy the Jews, imagining if they can only rid the planet of the hated and idealized Jew, they will find peace and contentment. All who have striven for a final solution have failed. From the Babylonians to the Nazis, history is littered with the debris from failed cultures which tried to destroy the Jews. What is it about this small, yet highly influential, people, that arouses such hatred?
Volumes have been written trying to answer the question and it is likely that many more volumes will follow, trying to understand this sickness that grips much of the human race at this time; history repeats. Yesterday Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei spewed forth this hate:
"Today more than ever, the Muslim peoples are disgusted and furious with the Americans. The Muslim governments, including those governments whose political statements stem from restrictions [that are placed upon them], are disgusted by the insolent and arrogant oppression and are opposed to it. The American regime can expect a resounding slap and a devastating fist-blow from the Muslim nation for its support of the Zionist crimes and criminals, after it has so brazenly violated the rights of the Muslim peoples.
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"The Islamic world, and the Muslim youth in all the Islamic countries know that there is no way to confront the barbaric Zionist wolves and the aggression of the 'Great Satan' [i.e. America] except through martyrdom. Capitulation and obedience to the American politicians, and to those who instigate quarrels and internal strife [in the Muslim world], only increase their avarice and insolence, making their actions against the [Muslim] peoples more severe.
Two days ago Iranian President Ahmadinejad addressed a rally and in between the obligatory cries of "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" he made a rather clear threat:
"Today, the Iranian people is the owner of nuclear technology. Those who want to talk with our people should know what people they are talking to. If some believe they can keep talking to the Iranian people in the language of threats and aggressiveness, they should know that they are making a bitter mistake. If they have not realized this by now, they soon will, but then it will be too late. Then they will realize that they are facing a vigilant, proud people."
At a summit of the world's Muslim countries, he added these examples of his sagacity:
"The real cure for the conflict is elimination of the Zionist regime, but there should be first an immediate ceasefire," the ISNA agency reported Ahmadinejad as saying Thursday from Putrajaya, Malaysia.
Ahmadinejad, attending a summit of Muslim nations aimed at pressing for an end to Israel's devastating military campaign, also urged that "any aggressor should go back to the Lebanese international border."
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"We say the new Middle East will prevail but without the existence of the Zionist regime. It means the existence of a Palestinian state with its own territory. In this all Muslims and Jews will co-exist peacefully on the land."
While calling for Jews and Arabs to live together, Ahmadinejad has also in the past called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" or relocated as far away as Alaska.
According to Reuters, Ahmadinejad is a hero to Muslims around the world:
Ahmadinejad has clearly struck a chord in parts of the Muslim world. He was treated like something of a rock star during a recent visit to Indonesia, particularly on college campuses.
I doubt if anyone will find comfort in the list of attendees, which included the president of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, and the prime ministers of Muslim powerhouses Turkey and Pakistan, and Malaysia, arguably one of the most modern of all Muslim states.
Yet, I fear for the Muslim world. All that unites them in avoiding the knowledge of thier own ruinous failure as a people is their hatred of the Jews.
Nations that must appeal to the most base instincts of their populations, using envy to fan hatred and mindless rage, will find that once the demon of anti-Semitism is unleashed, it will prove to be rather more difficult than they imagine to contain. Once you have convinced your people that all of the evil in the world, all the failings of your own people, are caused by others, the options become very limited.
Perhaps Islam will manage to finally destroy the Jews. Then what? They will sink into their own fetid morass of despair with no one left to blame except America. Perhaps in their emboldened and rage-filled state they will go on an orgy of destruction against the weak appeasers of Europe. Eventually, since their failures stem from themselves, they will be forced to confront their own shortcomings, but by then, many millions will have died. Furthermore, if they ever are to achieve modernity, the stain of their shameful genocide will need to be addressed; I doubt they can ever afford to do that. Their only other option is to focus on America, the "Great Satan" and attack us in a final apocalyptic spasm before they turn on each other and tear themselves apart.
And if despite their weight of numbers, and vast riches, they fail to destroy Israel, then their problem is even worse. Rather than the shame of genocide, they would once again be enmeshed in the humiliation of failure.
Either way, their rage will find an outlet.
This kind of hatred, once unleashed, must spend itself in death.
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