The Suicidebaums and the Self-Hating Jews

Poll_Blind

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Mon Jul-24-06 08:13 PM
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The Suicidebaums and the Self-Hating Jews

Edited on Mon Jul-24-06 08:22 PM by Poll_Blind

I wish, for the first and, I hope, last time, to address the "self-hating Jew libel." Many of you, not being Jewish, have not had to deal with the insipid, classist, racist, xenophobic calumny that is the self-hating Jew libel. The self-hating Jew libel is generally made by supporters of all military actions taken by Israel regardless of how inhumane, provocative, self-defeating, out of proportion, or frickin' stupid.

These blindly loyal supporters of Israeli military force use the self-hating Jew libel to explain why some Jews don't support Israel's inhumane, provocative, self-defeating, out of proportion, and frickin' stupid military escapades. It's an ad hominum argument. And it relies on anti-Jewish stereotypes to impute a pre-diagramed psychology upon someone of whom the libeler has no understanding. It offers nothing of substance except to accuse the Jewish critic of Israel of secretly hating the swarthy, pushy, hairy, greedy, monkey-like Shylocks of his own fantasies and projecting that anti-Semitic image inward. He knows he's a Jew, just like all the pushy, garlicky, stroemel-sporting heebs the goyim hate, and out of fear of confronting his own exile from goyishe acceptability, he has come to hate the greasy matzo-ball-eating foreskin cutting hook-nosed diamond merchant that is himself.

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I'd like to say, being a US Jew, but having been to Israel and engaged in bitter discussions with Israeli career military folk who are as crazy as can be, that the Israeli government and the IDF don't represent the world's Jews anymore than Hezbollah represents Lebanon. In fact, they don't even represent a majority of Jews in Israel. Well, at least I hope not. All right, maybe that's a little over-optimistic. They certainly don't represent me, and I'm angry that they think they're doing Jews all over the world some kind of big fat favor with their insane overkill response to Hezbollah's idiotic and evil provocation.

And to call me a self-hating Jew because I make the above argument is ignorant, hypocritical, grotesque, obscene, and simply infuriating. Please allow me a moment to say that the self-hating Jew libelers, those Suicidebaums, are the ones actually supporting a policy and course of action that is destructive both to Jews and to Israel. I could stoop to their level and say, it must be because they hate themselves that they support such stupidity. I won't. But my inclination – call it the Evil Inclination if you must – is to say to these Suicidebaums: lech lim sotz, kish mirn tuchas, un chupa mes huevos, bitches.

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Amira Haas, Gideon Levi, Uri Avnery, Norman Finkelstein and a whole host of Liberal Jewish writers, reporters, etc. have all been called this in explicitly the past on our own Israel/Palestine forum. Water under the bridge, messages deleted, but it's a sad yet absolute fact.

PB