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Eric, thank you for your illuminating notes on the reason they hate us.
<blowing steam>
Just two points:
1) A few days ago a bomb explode in India killing 50 people.
I did not heard ANY remarks from anybody condemning this. 2) All the people who cry for the Palestinians and demand they
should have their own country does not give a shit about the Curds (for example) who are in worse condition.
The Europe countries are basing their policy on Jew hating.
</blowing steam>
Yechiel Adar
Mehish
ISRAEL
Absurd. Your intention from the beginning was to be a snobby jerk.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/102gwtnf.asp
Among the Bourgeoisophobes
Why the Europeans and Arabs, each in their own way, hate
America and Israel.
by David Brooks
04/15/2002, Volume 007, Issue 30
AROUND 1830, a group of French artists and intellectuals
looked around and noticed that people who were their
spiritual inferiors were running the world. Suddenly a
large crowd of merchants, managers, and traders were
making lots of money, living in the big houses, and
holding the key posts. They had none of the high style
of the aristocracy, or even the earthy integrity of the
peasants. Instead, they were gross. They were vulgar
materialists, shallow conformists, and self-absorbed
philistines, who half the time failed even to
acknowledge their moral and spiritual inferiority
to the artists and intellectuals. What's more, it was
their very mediocrity that accounted for their success.
Through some screw-up in the great scheme of the
universe, their narrow-minded greed had brought them
vast wealth, unstoppable power, and growing social
prestige.
Naturally, the artists and intellectuals were outraged.
Hatred of the bourgeoisie became the official emotion of
the French intelligentsia. Stendhal said traders and
merchants made him want to "weep and vomit at the same
time." Flaubert thought they were "plodding and
avaricious." Hatred of the bourgeoisie, he wrote, "is
the beginning of all virtue." He signed his letters
"Bourgeoisophobus" to show how much he despised "stupid
grocers and their ilk."
Of all the great creeds of the 19th century, pretty much
the only one still thriving is this one,
bourgeoisophobia. Marxism is dead. Freudianism is dead.
Social Darwinism is dead, along with all those theories
about racial purity that grew up around it. But the
emotions and reactions that Flaubert, Stendhal, and all
the others articulated in the 1830s are still with us,
bigger than ever. In fact, bourgeoisophobia, which has
flowered variously and spread to places as diverse as
Baghdad, Ramallah, and Beijing, is the major reactionary
creed of our age.
This is because today, in much of the world's eyes, two
peoples--the Americans and the Jews--have emerged as the
great exemplars of undeserved success. Americans and
Israelis, in this view, are the money-mad molochs
of the earth, the vulgarizers of morals, corrupters of
culture, and proselytizers of idolatrous values. These
two nations, it is said, practice conquest capitalism,
overrunning poorer nations and exploiting weaker
neighbors in their endless desire for more and more.
These two peoples, the Americans and the Jews, in the
view of the bourgeoisophobes, thrive precisely because
they are spiritually stunted. It is their
obliviousness to the holy things in life, their feverish
energy, their injustice, their shallow pursuit of power
and gain, that allow them to build fortunes, construct
weapons, and play the role of hyperpower.
And so just as the French intellectuals of the 1830s
rose up to despise the traders and bankers, certain
people today rise up to shock, humiliate, and dream of
destroying America and Israel. Today's bourgeoisophobes
burn with the same sense of unjust inferiority. They
experience the same humiliation because there is nothing
they can do to thwart the growing might of their
enemies. They rage and rage. Only today's
bourgeoisophobes are not just artists and intellectuals.
They are as likely to be terrorists and suicide bombers.
They teach in madrassas, where they are careful not to
instruct their students in the sort of practical
knowledge that dominates bourgeois schools. They are
Muslim clerics who incite hatred and violence. They are
erudite Europeans who burn with humiliation because they
know, deep down, that both America and Israel possess a
vitality and heroism that their nations once had but no
longer do.
( originally linked from www.dynamist.com )
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On 28 Jul 2002 at 12:53, Mladen Gogala wrote:
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> This debate is getting increasingly personal and that is why I am going > to end > it right now. I tried avoiding a personal conflict in my first reply, > but you > insisted. As I have nothing to gain from the squabble, I'm out of here.
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