Een tekst van de filosoof Eric Hoffer in 1968 is nog steeds actueel en zeer relevant (LA Times): “Israel’s Peculiar Position” (De eigenaardige positie van Israël), waaruit hieronder een fragment:
“Ik heb een voorgevoel dat me maar niet loslaat; zoals het gaat met Israël, zo zal het ons allen vergaan. Als Israël ooit wordt vernietigd, zal de holocaust op ons allen neerkomen.”
“De Joden zijn een eigenaardig volk: dingen die aan andere naties worden toegestaan zijn verboden voor de Joden.”…
The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.
Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it, Turkey threw out a million Greeks, and Algeria a million Frenchman. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese-and no one says a word about refugees.
But in the case of Israel the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace.
Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world. Other nations when they are defeated survive and recover but should Israel be defeated it would be destroyed. Had Nasser triumphed last June [1967] he would have wiped Israel off the map, and no one would have lifted a finger to save the Jews. No commitment to the Jews by any government, including our own, is worth the paper it is written on.
There is a cry of outrage all over the world when people die in Vietnam or when two Blacks are executed in Rhodesia. But when Hitler slaughtered Jews no one remonstrated with him. The Swedes, who are ready to break off diplomatic relations with America because of what we do in Vietnam, did not let out a peep when Hitler was slaughtering Jews. They sent Hitler choice iron ore, and ball bearings, and serviced his troop trains to Norway.
The Jews are alone in the world. If Israel survives, it will be solely because of Jewish efforts. And Jewish resources.
Yet at this moment Israel is our only reliable and unconditional ally. We can rely more on Israel than Israel can rely on us. And one has only to imagine what would have happened last summer [1967] had the Arabs and their Russian backers won the war to realize
how vital the survival of Israel is to America and the West in general.
I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us.
Should Israel perish the holocaust will be upon us.
Source: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/126407/stakes-michael-ledeen
Franstalige vertaling door Philosémmitisme:
Eric Hoffer: “Ce qui adviendra à Israël sera notre sort à tous”
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) était un philosophe américain – son premier livre, The True Believer, Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements (Le Vrai Croyant), publié en 1951, est considéré comme un classique – il n’était pas juif:
“Les Juifs sont un peuple particulier: ce qui est permis à d’autres nations est interdit aux Juifs. D’autres nations expulsent des milliers, et même des millions de gens, et il n’y a pas de problème de réfugiés. La Russ
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