Israel and Palestine: Semites and anti-Semitism

He shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen.

—Genesis 16:12

Now go and strike Amalek and utterly destroy all that he has, and do not spare him; but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.

—1 Samuel 15:3

O you Jews! If you pretend that you are friends of Allah, to the exclusion of (all)other mankind, then long for death if you are truthful.

—Qur’an 62:6

Our plan for this stage is to liberate any inch of Palestinian land, and to establish a state on it. Our ultimate plan is [to have] Palestine in its entirety. I say this loud and clear so that nobody will accuse me of employing political tactics. We will not recognize the Israeli enemy.

—Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahhar1

Our nation was tested by the cancerous lump, that is the Jews, in the heart of the Arab nation … Be certain that America is on its way to utter destruction, America is wallowing [in blood] today in Iraq and Afghanistan, America is defeated and Israel is defeated, and was defeated in Lebanon and Palestine … Allah, take the Jews and their allies, Allah, take the Americans and their allies … Allah, annihilate them completely and do not leave anyone of them

—Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Bahar, PLC2

The problem is not Hamas, the problem is not people. The root of the problem is Islam itself as an idea, as an idea. And about Hamas as an organization, of course, the Hamas leadership, including my father, they’re responsible; they’re responsible for all the violence that happened from the organization.

—Mosab Hasan Yousef3

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish … For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstition. And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong … have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are also no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything “chosen” about them.

—Albert Einstein4

The 16th chapter of Genesis tells the story of the Jewish patriarch Abraham, his wife Sarah, and her slave-woman Hagar. Because Sarah (at this time still named ‘Sarai’) was past normal child-bearing age, she gave her slave to Abraham (at this time still named ‘Abram’) to bear him a child. But Hagar was a bit too proud of her new status for Sarah’s taste, and Sarah drove her slave-woman away with mistreatment. According to the Bible, Hagar was met in her flight by an angel of the Lord, who told her to return to her mistress and submit to her will. The angel told Hagar to name her child Ishmael, and that through him her descendants would be increased beyond measure.5

According to Islamic tradition, Hagar’s son would become the father of the Arab people, while Abraham’s son Isaac by his wife Sarah would become the father of the Jewish people. This tradition describes a theological and cultural kinship between the two Semitic peoples, Arabs and Jews. The relationship, as was shown in an earlier chapter, has been confirmed scientifically as well. Not only theologically and culturally but also racially and linguistically, the Arab and the Jew are Semitic cousins.

The kinship is visible in any number of ways. Both Judaism and Islam are uncompromisingly monotheistic—the Trinitarian theories of Christian theology are too close to polytheism for Judaism and Islam. Both religions worship a singular God, understood as completely transcendent (not immanent or incarnate in any sense). Both reject the divinity of Christ. Male circumcision is a religious practice for both, as is daily mandatory prayer and segregation of men and women (especially in religious buildings). Linguistically, Hebrew and Arabic are closely related. Above all, both Judaism and Islam are supremely legalistic religions, full of detailed requirements for how followers should live their lives—including guidelines on how and when to pray, what to eat and what not to eat, and different behaviors one should show toward nonbelievers. The close relationship between Jews and Arabs has even been demonstrated scientifically. A 2000 study on Middle East genetics revealed that “Jews are the genetic brothers of Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese, and they all share a common genetic lineage that stretches back thousands of years.”6

This kinship has produced an interesting but profoundly important fact—the most anti-Semitic people in the world today are the Semitic peoples themselves (in their views about each other). This saying from the Qur’an is fairly typical and representative:

Indignity is put over them [the Jews] wherever they may be, except when under a covenant (of protection) from Allah, and from men; they have drawn on themselves the Wrath of Allah, and destruction is put over them. This is because they disbelieved in the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) of Allah and killed the Prophets without right. 7

This provides a religious justification not only for the abuse of Jewish people but for their insistence on Jewish subservience to Muslims (“under the tutelage of Allah”). Elsewhere, the Qur’an warns Muslims against befriending Jews or Christians, and that Jews are treacherous and deceitful.8

THE TRUE THREAT TO ISRAEL

Today Israel is on the front lines of the conflict between Islam and non-Islamic civilizations. For the people of Israel, it is a conflict between cousins—an intra-Semitic battle, where the two sides share certain theological, cultural, and racial characteristics. At the same time, too many among the Jews fail to recognize the true nature of the threat they face from the Arabs. They fail to recognize it because of a flawed understanding of true anti- Semitism. Because of this failure they waste too much time abusing those who should be their allies, namely, the people of Europe and the United States. The future for Israel lies in embracing its connections with Europe and the West, and realizing that its enemy is no longer Germany or the Europeans but a fellow Semitic group which wants nothing more than to destroy them.

Even before the creation of the modern state of Israel there was enmity between Muslims and Jews. Islamic religious texts make it clear that Jews are to be subjugated: “Fight against … the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.”9 Muslims are promised that their God fights against the Jews and regards them as perverse creatures.10 After the creation of Israel, this enmity became mortal. The Arabs fought several wars against Israel aimed at destroying their nation completely. But despite advantages in numbers and territory, they were never completely successful on the battlefield. After the Yom Kippur War in 1973 ended in Israeli victory, the Arabs began to rely increasingly on terror attacks and heated rhetoric rather than frontal assaults.

The conflict between Jews and Arabs will not be resolved as long as the argument between them is made in theological terms. The ultra-Orthodox Jews, who are influential over the Israeli government, believe that they are “a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.”11 They also believe that if they “pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God … and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom.”12 Any who oppose them face certain destruction: “the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; it will be utterly ruined.”13 For the ultra-Orthodox, Israel is the Promised Land, and belongs to the Jewish people by divine right.

On the Arab side of the conflict, the theological intransigence is equal and opposite. A co-founder of Hamas expressed the view succinctly in these terms: “We don’t recognize the state of Israel or its right to hold onto one inch of Palestine. Palestine is an Islamic land belonging to all the Muslims.”14 The terrorist group Hamas refers to Palestine as a Waqf, meaning an inalienable religious grant to the Muslim people, and insists that it “remains as long as earth and heaven remain. Any procedure in contradiction to Islamic sharia, where Palestine is concerned, is null and void.”15 As long as theological notions are taken seriously in this conflict, there will be no end to it.

Throughout this multi-decade conflict, Israel had no greater benefactor than the Western nations, and the United States in particular. It was American-made weaponry which provided key advantages on the battlefield against the combined Arab armies. And it was American financial aid which resupplied the Israelis after each conflict. In the case of Egypt, the United States has gone so far as to bribe the whole country more than one billion a year to leave its ally alone.

Yet as dependent as Israel is on the West for it survival, some Israelis and Jewish leaders persist in picking at the scars and scabs of the Holocaust and World War II. This includes prosecutions of senile 94-year-olds like Hans Lipschis, a man who was accused of being a prison guard at Auschwitz but later avoided trial when it was determined he was mentally unfit to understand what was happening to him.16 The scholar Norman Finkelstein has been particularly outspoken in his analysis of why some Jewish leaders continue to do this. His conclusion is simple: it pays. Finkelstein outlines in his book how professor and activist Elie Wiesel turns the Holocaust into a kind of mystery religion:

Thus Wiesel intones that the holocaust “leads to darkness,” “negates all answers,” “lies outside, if not beyond, history,” “defies both knowledge and description,” “cannot be explained nor visualized,” is “never to be comprehended or transmitted,” marks a “destruction of history” and “mutation on a cosmic scale.” Only the survivor-priest (read: only Wiesel) is qualified to divine its mystery. And yet, the Holocaust’s mystery, Wiesel avows, is “noncommunicable”; “we cannot even talk about it.” Thus, for his standard fee of $25,000 (plus chauffeured limousine), Wiesel lectures that the “secret” of Auschwitz’s “truth lies in silence.” Rationally comprehending The Holocaust amounts, in this view, to denying it. For rationality denies The Holocaust’s uniqueness and mystery.17

Finkelstein objects to such attempts to make the Holocaust into a unique and religiously mysterious event. It prevents rational understanding too see it that way. Furthermore, as the French scholar Jean-Michel Chaumont has shown, “the claim of Holocaust uniqueness originated in, and only makes coherent sense in the context of, the religious dogma of Jewish chosen-ness.”18

Israel and Jewish leaders go so far in their prosecution of perceived anti-Semitism as to come close to what one might call anti-Europeanism. This was most apparent in the May 2014 elections for the European Union parliament, where anti-EU and pro-nationalist parties won big. The results were immediately denounced in the press as an attack on European Jews (in the absence of any real evidence). One Jewish leader characterized the election as a “rise of anti-democratic forces” and bemoaned the fact that “the European taxpayer has to finance these racist politicians.”19 President of the European Jewish Congress Moshe Kantor blamed the result of an open, free, and democratic election on the “passivity” of European governments.20

What Jewish groups read as anti-Semitism is really nothing other than ordinary European tribalism. All European groups simply dislike one another. The English are anti- Irish and the Irish are anti-English. Germans mock the French, and vice versa. Russians despise non-Russians. Poles dislike the Germans and the Russians. It is a common part of the European fabric to harbor dislike against the other groups. Jews are not exempt from this tribal mindset.

What makes the complaints so ironic is that these supposedly racist parties were elected on platforms of controlling illegal (and mostly Muslim) immigration to Europe. Muslim immigrants, as this book has already documented, represent the primary source of insecurity and intolerance for European Jews—not the people of Europe. Nevertheless, Jewish leaders insisted that the problem was with the Euro-skeptics:

These radical parties have been able to grow in their respective home countries for quite some time and are now cementing their presence also at the European level. They must be confronted head-on or the danger will only continue to grow.21

Thus, European Jews and Muslims joined hands to denounce moves to reduce importing intolerance, calling it unacceptable for Europeans to elect parties which represent their own interests.22

Instead, Jewish and Muslim leaders in Europe have pledged unity with each other to oppose the nationalist European parties. As reported in one outlet, “Some Jewish leaders see a silver lining in the election results, however, postulating that the rise of the far right may catalyze European Jews and Muslims to work together.”23 The absurdity of the response is plainly visible in the way leaders pledged unity with one another and in the same breath denounced “anti-Semitic attacks in Belgium and France.”24 The anti-Semitic attacks that Arab and Jewish leaders joined together to denounce were carried out by jihadist attackers, not native Europeans. Yet this same response was picked up in Russia as well, where Jewish and Muslim groups pledged to “work together to combat forces of extremism and hate.”25

What some Jewish leaders in Israel and Europe are missing is that the existential threat to their existence does not come from Europe. Today, the German and the Israeli have a common enemy. It is not Germans or Britons or Swedes who are threatening to destroy Israel. Jews must realize that the real threat—and real anti-Semitism in the world today— comes from their Semitic cousins, the Arabs.

THE TRUE NATURE OF ANTI-SEMITISM

The conflict in Israel between Jews and Arabs needs to be seen in a fundamentally different light. When you put aside the competing theological claims, which have no factual or rational basis, the disagreement will appear quite clear. It is an intra-Semitic conflict, a fight between Semitic cousins. There is no greater anti-Semite in the world than another Semite—or more precisely, than another member of a competing Semitic religion. This is the true cause and nature of anti-Semitism. It is inherent in the exclusivist monotheistic claims of the religions. To be an anti-Semite it is necessary to belong to one of the other Semitic religions: Judaism, Christianity, or Islam.

This is not an uncommon opinion in Christian circles. No less authority than Pope Pius XI declared in 1938, “Through Christ and in Christ we are the spiritual descendants of Abraham … Spiritually, we are Semites.”26 Although the Pope insisted that anti-Semitism was “inadmissible,” he nevertheless expressed the theologically exclusive view that the promise made to Abraham was “realized in Christ.”27 Theologically, the Pope was on solid ground—but his theology directly contradicts Jewish teaching, for which God’s promise to Abraham will never be broken. The Pope’s statement, although it was not intended that way, is fundamentally anti-Semitic.

In a way, Pope Pius could not help himself. As the scholar Jonathan Kirsch points out, it is the committed monotheist who is religiously intolerant. For a pagan or a Buddhist there is no reason to hate someone for his religious commitments, whereas it is inherent in monotheism to regard those who believe in other gods as fundamentally and damnably mistaken:

Precisely because the monotheist regards the polytheist with such fear and loathing, peaceful coexistence between two theologies is possible only from the pagan’s point of view and never for the true believer in the Only True God.28

For all the Abrahamic faiths, there is a Chosen people—the Jews, the believers in Christ, the Muslims—and there is everyone else. Whether called infidel, heathen, gentile, or kafir, the Other is the enemy, and is despised. In the case of Judaism and Islam, the Other does not even deserve the same moral treatment:

When the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.29

In the same book, the Israelites are commanded:
You must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. You must destroy it completely, both its people and its livestock. You are to gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. That town is to remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt.30

They are also instructed as to their supremacy over all peoples:
For the Lord your God will bless you as he has promised, and you will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. You will rule over many nations but none will rule over you.31

It is clear that a double morality exists, with one code for fellow Israelites and another for everyone else:

You may charge a foreigner interest, but not a fellow Israelite, so that the Lord your God may bless you in everything you put your hand to in the land you are entering to possess.32

These beliefs have been well absorbed by the ultra-orthodox Jews for centuries. In 2003 a rabbi named Saadya Grama, who graduated from an American yeshiva in New Jersey, wrote a Jewish supremacist book in which he writes:

The difference between the people of Israel and the nations of the world is an essential one. The Jew by his source and in his essence is entirely god. The goy, by his source and in his very essence is completely evil. This is not simply a matter of religious distinction, but rather of two completely different species.33

Grama even characterizes the Holocaust as a divine punishment against the Jews for daring to assimilate with Europeans.34 Allen Nadler, the writer who exposed Grama’s book to public scrutiny, later observed that the world of Jewish theological scholarship had become quite extreme, “the Jewish equivalent of the Taliban.”35

Both Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia are often cited for their anti-Semitism. Both societies were steeped in Christian thinking, regardless of their official ideologies, and as such imbibed some of the distrust of Jews as a competing Semitic faith. Professor Robert Wistrich’s masterful study of anti-Semitism has detailed how anti-Semitic stereotypes and preaching were integral to Christianity for a long period.36 What’s more, the famous English writer John Middleton Murry has argued that the savage anti-Semitism of the Nazis was itself caused not by racial hatred but ultimately by the mistreatment of the German people during the Armistice that ended the First World War:

The responsibility for the starvation of Germany after the signing of the Armistice rests primarily upon us … It is primarily our injustice, our betrayal of the principles of morality and humanity which we professed to hold sacred, that has conjured up the spirit of cynical savagery with which we shall in vain seek an understanding today.37

For Muslims or certain kinds of fundamentalist Christians it is possible to be theologically anti-Semitic because their rival theology requires that Judaism be seen as a mistake. For example, Islam has a number of texts explaining how the Jews used to be the Chosen People, but they deliberately tampered with the message God gave to them, necessitating the revelation to Muhammad which could correct all their mistakes and lies. In order to be anti-Semitic, it is necessary to offer a competing narrative. For religions which are not playing the same monotheistic game as Judaism or Islam, it is unnecessary to feel one way or the other about the Jews. Hindus, Buddhists, and Odinists, do not have any theological reason to dislike or despise Judaism.

Some argue that anti-Semitism is a case of racial hatred. But it seems unreasonable for Jews to tell the whole world that they are the Chosen People for centuries and then complain if Germans or Saxons or Hindus or Chinese should make a similar claim. It is of the nature of making exclusivist claims like being Chosen that it will foster resentments. After more than three thousand years of claiming to be the Chosen People the Jews have no reason to be offended if some tribe or nation calls itself special. No one can empirically verify any of the Jewish claims, yet half the world still believes in that sort of nonsense. Furthermore, the example of the Jews in India illustrates that the phenomenon of racial and theological hatred—that is, anti-Semitism—does not really exist outside of Semitic faiths. The Jews of India have not been subject to pogroms or genocide or discriminatory abuse.

On top of this, racial hatred may not even be valid. Recent genetic research on the Ashkenazi Jewish population (i.e., European rather than Middle Eastern Jews) has found that more than 80% of their maternal DNA is pure European, with between 50 to 80% of the paternal DNA also being European.38 While such studies are preliminary, it is entirely possible that Ashkenazi Jews may end up having far more in common genetically with other Europeans than they do with other Jewish groups.

Perhaps this is why Ashkenazi Jews harbor such contempt for the darker-skinned Jewish populations. In 1949, Ashkenazi journalist Aryeh Gelblum wrote the following about Mizrahi Jews who were then immigrating to Israel:

This is the immigration of a race we have not yet known in the country. We are dealing with people whose primitivism is at a peak, whose level of knowledge is one of virtually absolute ignorance and, worse, who have little talent for understanding anything intellectual. Generally, they are only slightly better than the general level of the Arabs, Negroes, and Berbers … these Jews also lack roots in Judiasm, as they are totally subordinated to savage and primitive instincts. As with Africans you will find among them gambling, drunkenness, and prostitution.39

Nor was Gelblum alone in his assessment. Karl Frankenstein, the “father of the Israeli education system,” regarded Mizrahi Jews as endowed with a “primitive mentality.” Israeli author Kalman Katzenelson argued in his book The Ashkenazi Revolution (1964) that Mizrahi Jews suffered from genetic inferiority and called for an apartheid regime which would limit their political rights.40

In the end, the claims of anti-Semitism present several irreconcilable contradictions. Jews are one of the richest and most successful ethnic groups in both Europe and the United States. One cannot be both rich and successful and at the same time discriminated against. Economically, nearly every ethnic group in the U.S. would love to be in the situation the Jews enjoy. It is improper and ungrateful to call one’s host an offensive name—and so it is with claims of anti-Semitism raised against the Western countries. On top of this, as was shown above, Ashkenazi Jews often harbor racist attitudes toward fellow Jewish groups— although on the one hand, the Ashkenazis themselves have less claim to Israeli soil, and on the other hand, they still continue to complain about racism and anti-Semitism among European people.Furthermore, Israel and the Jews have no moral right to accuse other countries of being racist. The evidence is overwhelming that if racism and discrimination are alive and well in the world they may be found as easily in Israel as in Europe. Take the results of a survey of Israeli society published in the Jerusalem Post:

According to the survey, 43% of Israelis are unwilling to marry, or have their children marry, Ethiopians. More than 50% refuse to live in the same neighborhood as Arab families. 25% would not want their children to marry religious Jews and more than 10% were averse to their children marrying Sephardim. And these numbers are only the tip of the survey’s iceberg.41

A later poll found even more striking results, with about half the population of Israel regarding it as “national treason” for a Jewish woman to marry an Arab. A full 75% of the population didn’t think it was right for Arabs and Jews to share the same apartment buildings. Over 37% of respondents felt confident enough to agree with the opinion “Arab culture is inferior.”42 Such statistics simply have no parallel in the United States or Europe.

These attitudes are not confined to just opinions. According to the same survey, racist acts against Arabs are also on the rise in Israel, with a 10% increase over the previous year (2006).43 In 2010, demonstrators in Israel took to the streets to protest the mixing of Orthodox Ashkenazi Jews with secular-minded Mizrahi Jews in the public schools. It was the “largest [demonstration] in Jerusalem since ultra-Orthodox protesters gathered in similar numbers in 1999.”44 In July 2013 the new Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi sparked outrage with racist comments about basketball players: “Who cares if a bunch of paid Cushim in Tel Aviv beat a bunch of paid Cushim in Greece?”45 ‘Cushim’ is a Hebrew slang term for African, that some consider roughly equivalent to the word ‘nigger’ or ‘coon.’

Israel has a common problem with businesses actively engaged in “Jews-only” employment practices. In some cases, religious groups actively boycott businesses which employ Arabs. While Israeli rights groups protest the practice, right-wing political parties actively promote such policies and even award “certificates to firms that restrict hiring to Jews.”46

There have been particularly ugly incidents involving dark-skinned Jewish groups from Ethiopia in Israel. In 1996, a protest by thousands of Ethiopian Jews turned into a riot after it was revealed that Israel’s blood bank routinely destroyed donated Ethiopian blood because it was believed they had AIDS. “Although our skin is black,” one demonstrator’s sign read, “our blood is as red as yours and we are just as Jewish.”47 Then in 2013 it was revealed that African women immigrating to Israel had been “subjected to mandatory contraceptive injections, effectively amounting to forced (if temporary) sterilization.”48 At the same time, Israel’s own Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has openly declared that “illegal [African] infiltrators flooding the country” threaten “our existence as a Jewish and democratic state.”49 Such statements pass almost without comment in the mainstream media while European politicians who ask for restrictions on non-European immigration are denounced as racists.

In the end, it is telling that the greatest Jews in history have all been outspoken critics of Judaism. Jesus, Baruch Spinoza, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and Albert Einstein were all critics. All of them ultimately left Judaism after disavowing Jewish theological and racial tribalism. Judaism and Israel, like every other religion, every other philosophy and every other nation in the world is not immune to dialectical analysis, rational criticism, and empirical deconstruction. It is absurd for leaders to cry “anti-Semitism” whenever a critic opens his mouth.

THE WAY FORWARD FOR ISRAEL

Although Israel has its flaws, it is beneficial to the world in the coming conflict with Islam and the West should continue to support it. Israel and the Jews are the eternal enemy of the eternal enemy of non-Islamic civilization. Since its inception, Islam has been in conflict with Hindu, Buddhist, Oriental, and African civilizations. This means that for Westerners, Hindus, Orientals, and Africans, our enemy’s enemy is also our friend. Israel will be in the forefront of the fight to defeat Islam and defend secular western culture.

The West will continue its support for Israel, but this support must come with a price. Israel must give up its Semitic exclusivism and align itself with the Western nations on an equal basis. This means no more support for rabbis who teach that, “Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world; only to serve the people of Israel.”50 Israel and Jewish leaders must give up their anti-Europeanism. While cries of anti-Semitism and reminders of the Holocaust may work very well as a tactic, it is a very bad strategy in the long run.

This price also means that the ultra-orthodox must be made to pull their weight in Israel. The ultra-orthodox have been the most uncompromising when it comes to dealing with Arabs and Muslims. They believe the metaphysical claims about being Chosen People living in their Promised Land. At the same time, they spend much of their time reading the Torah, producing children, and collecting welfare. Rather than contribute to their society, they refuse to perform military service.

Aligning with the West also means an end to moral grandstanding over World War II. Witch hunts like the Hans Lipschis prosecution should be ended. Nothing is served by such trials from the distant past, particularly when the threat presented by Islam is pressing and immediate. Europe and Israel should unite in their opposition to the spread of Islam by demographic jihad. If Israel wishes to accuse Europeans and Americans of racism, they should look to their own policies concerning African immigrants in Israel.

In the end, Israel must acknowledge that its special relationship with America has brought them $112 billion (nearly $250 billion when adjusted for inflation) worth of direct aid. It has also cost the United States a great deal in terms of Islamic hostility, which would otherwise be directed elsewhere. If Israel wishes this special relationship to continue—and it should continue, because it is in the interests of both Israel and the West—it should do so as a free partner.

The future of Israel and the world Jewish community lies with the West. With the Arabs or Muslims there is only oppression at best and genocide at worst. The example of Muhammad himself teaches the Muslims of every era that it is acceptable and even good to wipe out Jewish tribes. Complaints about European anti-Semitism completely miss the point—the eternal enemy of the Jewish people is their fellow Semite, the Muslim Arab. Attacking Europe out of fear of another Holocaust only fosters resentment. The most likely candidate to re-enact the Holocaust is the Arab. Israelis and European Jews must make common cause with Europe against the Arabs.