The Israel Question can't really be analysed without discussion of the role played by American Jewry prior to and after the Israeli state's inception. To quote from BAP's article,
On Israel's Problem:
Quote:To understand the Israel problem [it] is important to look at Israeli history and its founding. The problem is that its founding principles are in theory no longer accepted either inside or outside the country. But they’re rejected for different reasons by Israelis and by liberal Westerners. Israeli nationalists are in the difficult situation of trying to set this right somehow.
A great source particularly on the ideological evolution of American Jewry, recommended rather recently by a certain "angel" on the "heavensite", is Norman Finkelstein's
The Holocaust Industry. Like BAP suggests should be done, Finkelstein provides a fairly comprehensive review of Israel's establishment and its survival, but with specific attention to how the new nation was seen (and subsequently
utilised) by American Jews. His main point in this regard is that American Jews didn't really give much of a shit about Israel until 1967, after the June War, because American Jews tend to only march "in lockstep with American power." It wasn't until the June War that Israel became a strategic asset for the United States, and thus, for American Jews as well. Some quotes on this:
Quote:In both domestic and international affairs American Jewish elites hewed closely to official US policy. Doing so in effect facilitated the traditional goals of assimilation and access to power.
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Just as mainstream American Jewish organizations downplayed the Nazi holocaust in the years after World War II to conform to the US government's Cold War priorities, so their attitude to Israel kept in step with US policy. From early on, American Jewish elites harbored profound misgivings about a Jewish state. Uppermost was their fear that it would lend credence to the "dual loyalty" charge.
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In fact, Israel was not important to American Jews [...] Only 1 in 20 American Jews cared to visit Israel before June 1967 [...] Across the political spectrum, American Jewish intellectuals proved especially indifferent to Israel's fate [...] Just before the June war, the AJC sponsored a symposium on "Jewish Identity Here and Now." Only three of the thirty-one "best minds in the Jewish community" even alluded to Israel; two of them did so only to dismiss its relevance.
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Then came the June war. Impressed by Israel's overwhelming display of force, the United States moved to incorporate it as a strategic asset [...] Military and economic assistance began to pour in as Israel turned into a proxy for US power in the Middle East [...] Previously Jewish elites could only offer a few lists of Jewish subversives; now, they could pose as the natural interlocutors for America's newest strategic asset.
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After the June war, mainstream American Jewish organizations worked full time to firm up the American-Israeli alliance [...] Coverage of Israel in The New York Times increased dramatically after June 1967. The 1955 and 1965 entries for Israel in The New York Times Index each filled 60 column inches. The entry for Israel in 1975 ran to fully 260 column inches [...] many mainstream American Jewish intellectuals also suddenly found "religion" after the June War.
Naturally, Finkelstein draws that American Jewish invocation of
The
Holocaust only became a defining feature of American Jewry (i.e., it went from basically being shied away from to what is now Holocaustianity)
after Israel had proven itself strategically valuable to the United States through its military success in the June War. But why only after? Well that much is pretty obvious - it protected
their new most valuable strategic asset and gave
them the same (probably stronger) insulation from criticism that other minorities in America enjoy, most obviously on display today more than ever in the past.
The way I see it, Israel is one thing, American Jewry is another. Yet, is it really possible to separate the two? I don't believe that the "dual loyalty" of American Jews actually exists in any meaningful way. Rather, I think what both America and Israel face is a
dual parasitosis by American Jews. I am confident that the most genuine Israeli nationalists probably hold views that are [almost] in complete accord with the European and American dissident rights, much like BAP's example, "maybe [it] is possible for example to hear in Mahler this or that Jewish sensibility, but he is a European composer through and through, inconceivable outside European civilization, and for Herzl and those like him, the early founders,
Israel was to be a shining exemplar of European culture and European civilization."
How do Israelis, both libtarded and "conservative" (non-Hasidic) view American Jews? This is not rhetorical, as I genuinely don't know. One has to figure that it may be similar to how a lot of Irish or Italians view "Irish-Americans" or "Italian-Americans". Even if you're Irish or Italian by blood, everyone knows that you're not
really culturally Irish or Italian at this point. Why would the guidos in New York or the drunkards in Boston, who can't even speak "their" own languages, have any claim to the country that their peasant ancestors came from two, three, or even four generations ago? The difference perhaps, given the circumstances, is that American Jews admittedly did/do play a much more crucial role in Israel's continued existence than these other examples ever did with their respective countries, albeit only out of total self-interest and not because they actually feel bound to their "homeland", if we want to call it that. What happens to the Israeli nationalists/right-wing now that American Jews are malicious libtards that don't actually have to move in lockstep with American policy anymore, but now rather play a heavy hand in creating and dictating it to the very same Gentiles and "founding stock" - many of which who, retardedly, are maybe the only people on the face of the Earth that actually believe the two are naturally aligned? I think its already happening... American Jewry will swallow them up and spit their bones back out too, if they can.