Compare and Contrast:
Since the latter half of the 20th century the Nations of South East Asia have joined the modern world in increasing numbers. From the ruins of the post-WWII environment, Japan, with almost no natural resources beyond their human capital have built a modern economy, the second largest in the world, complete with self-perpetuating engines of innovation, enriching themselves and the rest of the world in the process. China, after initially handicapping itself with the failed ideology of communism, has joined the race with a fury, becoming so successful so quickly that they are already showing signs of transitioning from a purely labor intensive manufacturing economy to an information economy in the space of 20 years. India, similarly handicapped by communism-lite, aka socialism, has been playing catch-up with China and much of the history of the 21st century is going to involve the rivalry between these two economic giants. Various other Nations of South East Asia, ranging from Malaysia to Vietnam have begun to join the global economy, enlarging the core to the benefit of all.
Two areas have persisted in their refusal or inability to join the core. Africa has so many structural problems, exacerbated by dysfunctional governance, that it will be a very long time before they are ready and able to join the modern world. Interestingly, some of the dysfunction of Africa overlaps that of the area most conspicuous by its unwillingness and inability to join the human race in its drive for the future of mankind.
The Nations of the Muslim Middle East should be among the wealthiest in the world, yet they have done less with more than any people in history. Their massive failure is not coincidental but is inseparable from their anti-Semitism; unless there is a change in their soul-sickness, they will destroy any hope their people can ever have in becoming part of the successful, modern world of possibilities.
In Pity the Poor Anti-Semite, I described how anti-Semitism defines the self-imposed inferiority of the anti-Semite:
Here is the crucial point for those who imagine that a tiny group of people, barely 60 years out of an almost successful genocide, left with nothing more than the clothes on their backs, comprising approximately .05% of the world's population, who came to the desert in Palestine and built a modern technological nation, would have the time and interest to simultaneously devote themselves to oppressing the Muslim world, with almost 100 times their population and oceans of oil:
The anti-Semite necessarily defines himself as monumentally inferior to the Jew.
This resides in the core of the anti-Semite and renders him permanently damaged and weakened. Only the aid of a being much greater than themselves, Allah, can save them from disaster. Short of such divine intervention, they are doomed to remain defeated. The Muslim nations of the world do not see it as within their abilities to compete in a world of high technology, higher education, competitive open economies; no, they look to nuclear weapons, only available to them by virtue of their Allah given oil money rather than by the sweat of their own brows, to bring them relief from the often imagined depredations of the now conflated Jewish/American demi-Gods.
In that post I also described how the anti-Semite, in attacking the people they have built into demi-Gods, must necessarily lose the battle:
If they partially succeed, as the Nazis did, they imagine they have become Gods, intoxicated with their power; and, as with all who pretend to be Gods, they over-reach themselves and are inevitably destroyed. Only those with the egotism of the Malignant Narcissist would dare attack England, invade Russia, and antagonize the sleeping American giant, at the same time.
Should they attempt to destroy the Jewish American God-beings and fail, they will surely be destroyed themselves. The most recent example of such spectacular self-destructive failure is Osama bin Laden, who though perhaps still alive, is frightened and in hiding; while he may perhaps be able to prick the God, he is no more able to slay Israel or America than the fly can kill the eagle.
The problem for the anti-Semite is currently even worse than as described. The anti-Semite today has only his hatred to fuel his passions. Hatred is, of course, destructive to the victim of one's hate, but even more so of the hater. Once one's core has been subsumed to hate, there is no room for the positive emotions required to build a functioning society.
[In Psychoanalytic terms, the anti-Semite (the paranoid) first splits the all-good and all-bad internal images. The all-bad internal objects cause intolerable anxiety and are then defensively projected into the now all-bad object. Once the hated all-bad is projected into the external object, the Jew, the anti-Semite becomes even more anxious. He is now threatened by the external object he has imbued with fearful and hateful powers but also, since the defense cannot work, still filled with his own hatred and rage. He then must re-introject the all-bad in order to protect himself; he unconsciously and unknowingly becomes the all-bad object, celebrating hatred and death and the cycle of projection introjection repeats; this finally destroys all capacity for good.]
We see this daily in the Palestinian Territories, where the celebration of death and hate continues apace. The Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades Information Office has an English web site which reports on the exploits of the armed wing of Hamas. [HT: Elder of Ziyon] Perusing the site is to enter a looking glass world where defeat is victory and death is devoutly desired. In describing the mortar and Qassam attacks on Israel this week, an air of unreality is unavoidable:
Al-Qassam Brigades confirmed that the rockets which were fired yesterday are not the best that we have. Abu Obiada confirmed that the yesterday rockets are "just a message to the Zionist forces that we are in the resistance playground and that we have many means which can be used"
Abu Obiada revealed that we can fire 100 rockets in one hour referring that Al-Qassam messages can be stronger. He denied that the latest rockets aimed to cover an operation of kidnapping Zionist soldiers.
The spokesman warned the occupation forces of any attack to the Gaza Strip affirming that the Brigades have new tactics to respond to any aggression from the Zionist forces. " The attack on Gaza Strip will not be a picnic but the forces will pay the bill of attacking the Strip."
Abu Obiada added that the " Zionist Enemy decision to attack parts of the Gaza Strip will be a repeated mistake and it will definitely a failure to Zionist scale in the Strip"
The first comment left to the article, from a Muslim in America is instructive:
Qassam Mujahida | United States
Zionists are corrupted peopleThe Zionists do not have military capabilities like Al-Qassam Brigades as the Zionists are corrupt, deceitful people who cannot prepare a well-organized plan that will never end up in failure. Al-Qassam Brigades are better than them as they get their guidance from Allah Ta 'aalaa. He guides them through their struggle for freedom and helps them in protecting their people from the Zionist attack and massacres. I'm sure the report that said the Qassam rockets and mortar shells that were launched was to kidnap more Zionist soldiers is a Zionist or pro-Zionist report. As they always tries to present a bad image of Al-Qassam Brigades by their false statements.
This is the thinking of someone committed to provoke their own "suicide by police." Only a fool or a person so disordered by his anti-Semitism can fail to understand that the only reason Gaza continues to exist as a habitable piece of land is due to the forbearance of the Israeli people.
The anti-Semite must see the Jew as both a superman and a devalued object deserving of their contempt. Their hatred always leads to excess and their psychotic belief in their own superiority compels them to escalate at every opportunity. Since they have no interest or investment in improving their own society, with all their energies devoted to destroying the disowned devalued parts of themselves, they have become completely incapable of constructing a viable society. The same dynamic is threatening to destroy the Iranian social structure and down the road, if left unchecked, is likely o cause a succession of Muslim states to implode.
When all you feed your offspring is a diet of Jew hatred, you create offspring who can only destroy, imagining they can destroy the evil within by destroying the fantasied evil without; when unable to destroy the enemy, the only way to destroy the evil is to destroy the self.
NB: For a slightly different approach to this topic, take a look at Siggy's The Third Rail Of Palestinan Failure
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