Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "Arabs vs Jews? Maybe Not | Ambassador Ron Dermer | EP 288" video.

  1. " That any people who are persecuted for 2,000 years are doing something wrong?" Longer than that, actually, if you read the Old Testament or know intertestamental history. Can you name any people in this very unjust world who WERE consistently persecuted FOR DOING WRONG? If you don't know that that is not the way this world works you don't know much. If you listened to the video, JP gave a nice succinct PSYCHOLOGICAL explanation for the phenomena in this very video (and you would do well to heed, he knows his psychology). To review: there are these people, foreigners, outsiders, who thrive in our midst, and this provides an occasion for a temptation to envy. You can account for the thriving in two ways. Either they are more industrious, or smarter, or work together more harmoniously than you (but you can't accept that because it would reflect poorly on you, and doesn't flatter or excuse your ENVY), or you can assume that they must be cheating or stealing (and that flatters your ENVY and pride). You don't have to ask the teacher, just look in your own heart, you know it's there: ENVY. Christians have a supplementary explanation for it. This world is in the hands of an malignant spirit, Satan, who hates God and assaults every thing God loves or does. You hate them for thriving in your country and hate them for going home and thriving there. Consider what the ambassador tells us Israel is thriving in in Israel: TECH. Jews thriving in banking, or trade, can be shoehorned into your self-flattering fantasies of Jewish calumny. But TECH? How does cheating and stealing make you a good computer programmer? It can't. Having a culture that values learning and work helps you develop your mind, but that is a legitimately earned accomplishment, whether you like it or not. "Could Henry Kissinger's explanation be true? " I suppose there's a first time for everything. But in his case, it's not the way to bet. "address to the matter of Ashkenazic Jews not being Semitic," It's not an issue, it's an attempt at slander. And if it were true, how would it justify hating them? It doesn't even disrupt the historic claim to the Levant if true, since the Old Testament provides for proselytes. Jewish converts are Jewish. Most of you groypers are inconsistent with each other and yourselves. You say that it is the Jewish religion that prompts Jews to hostility and domination plots toward gentiles and Christians and that Zionism is part of the plot, then when you list subversive Jews in places of power you list atheist Jews whose family has never darkened the door of a synagogue, sometimes for generations, and who are more hostile to Israel than you are. You say the Jews are to be blamed because they killed Christ, then you say modern Jews are not descendants of the Old and New Testament Jews. You deny the historical holocaust by way of trying to improve the image of Nazis, then call for a holocaust. If a holocaust is bad, why are you calling for one? If it is not bad, why do you spend so much energy trying to deny the 20th century European one? Not only are each of your claims unsupported and absurd in isolation, they don't even fit together into a consistent lie. As for your theory, listen to it objectively: "Yea, sure guys I have this idea. Lets pretend to be Jews in late Roman Europe and the middle-east so we can be persecuted instead of converting to Christianity, so we can become a part of mainstream Roman and Byzantine society. I don't foresee any problems with this plan." It is not something a bunch of Machiavellian plotters would do. IT CONVEYS NO ADVANTAGE. There might have been places and times where converting to Judaism might have conveyed pecuniary or tactical advantage. There and then was not among them. "And, critically, ex-Soviet Ashkenazim hold the vast majority of political power in Israel." What's so damning about escaping the Soviet Union? If you think that coming from a communist country tends to make one love communism, you haven't met many Cubans. The socialist background of many of the immigrants blinkered Israel's political imagination for a while, but they're mostly over it. Netanyahu looks like he may be coming back into power as the coalition which ousted him falls apart, and he is a conservative, who revolutionized the Israeli economy with free market reforms. Once again I refer you to the entrepreneurial prosperity in TECH in Israel. That simply doesn't, and can't, happen in socialist countries.
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