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> The Thirteenth Tribe, Appendix 4:
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> SOME IMPLICATIONS -ISRAEL AND THE DIASPORA
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> While this book deals with past history, it unavoidably carries
> certain implications for the present and future.
> In the first place, I am aware of the danger that it may be
> maliciously misinterpreted as a denial of the State of Israel's right
> to exist. But that right is not based on the hypothetical origins
> of the Jewish people, nor on the mythological covenant of
> Abraham with God; it is based on international law -i.e., on
> the United Nations' decision in 1947 to partition Palestine, once
> a Turkish province, then a British Mandated Territory, into an
> Arab and a Jewish State.
And most importantly by conquest.
> Whatever the Israeli citizens' racial
> origins, and whatever illusions they entertain about them, their
> State exists dejure and defacto, and cannot be undone, except by
> genocide. Without entering into controversial issues, one may
> add, as a matter of historical fact, that the partition of Palestine
> was the result of a century of peaceful Jewish immigration and
> pioneering effort, which provide the ethical justification for the
> State's legal existence.
And most importantly by conquest.
> Whether the chromosomes of its people
> contain genes of Khazar or Semitic, Roman or Spanish origin,
> is irrelevant, and cannot affect Israel's right to exist-nor the
> moral obligation of any civilized person, Gentile or Jew, to
> defend that right. Even the geographical origin of the native
> Israeli's parents or grandparents tends to be forgotten in the
> bubbling racial melting pot. The problem of the Khazar infusion
> a thousand years ago, however fascinating, is irrelevant to modern
> Israel.
But this is not the case among Jew haters. The 13th Tribe has been and
is being used as some kind of " proof " that modern Jews have no
connection to the Bible ( the Jewish national mythology ) or the state
in the middle east.
> The Jews who inhabit it, regardless of their chequered origins,
> possess the essential requirements of a nation: a country of their
> own, a common language, government and army. The Jews of
> the Diaspora have none of these requirements of nationhood.
> What sets them apart as a special category from the Gentiles
> amidst whom they live is their declared religion, whether they
> practise it or not. Here lies the basic difference between Israelis
> and Jews of the Diaspora. The former have acquired a national
> identity; the latter are labelled as Jews only by their religion - not
> by their nationality, ( arguable -J2 ) not by their race.
> This, however, creates a tragic paradox, because the Jewish
> religion - unlike Christianity, Buddhism or Islam - implies
> membership of a historical nation, a chosen race. All Jewish
> festivals commemorate events in national history: the exodus from
> Egypt, the Maccabean revolt, the death of the oppressor Haman,
> the destruction of the Temple. The Old Testament is first and
> foremost the narrative of a nation's history; it gave monotheism
> to the world, yet its credo is tribal rather than universal. Every
> prayer and ritual observance proclaims membership of an
> ancient race, which automatically separates the Jew from the
> racial and historic past of the people in whose midst he lives. The
> Jewish faith, as shown by 2ooo years of tragic history, is nation-
> ally and socially self-segregating. It sets the Jew apart and invites
> his being set apart. It automatically creates physical and cultural
> ghettoes. It transformed the Jews of the Diaspora into a pseudo-
> nation without any of the attributes and privileges of nationhood,
> held together loosely by a system of traditional beliefs based on
> racial and historical premisses which turn out to be illusory.
This is very true.
> Orthodox jewry is a vanishing minority. Its stronghold was
> Eastern Europe where the Nazi fury reached its peak and wiped
> them almost completely off the face of the earth. Its scattered
> survivors in the Western world no longer carry much influence,
> while the bulk of the orthodox communities of North Africa, the
> Yemen, Syria and Iraq emigrated to Israel. Thus orthodox
> Judaism in the Diaspora is dying out, and it is the vast majority
> of enlightened or agnostic Jews who perpetuate the paradox
> by loyally clinging to their pseudo-national status in the belief
> that it is their duty to preserve the Jewish tradition.
> It is, however, not easy to define what the term 'Jewish
> tradition' signifies in the eyes of this enlightened majority, who
> reject the Chosen-Race doctrine of orthodoxy. That doctrine
> apart, the universal messages of the Old Testament - the enthrone-
> ment of the one and invisible God, the Ten Commandments,
> the ethos of the Hebrew prophets, the Proverbs and Psalms - have
> entered into the mainstream of the judeo-Helenic-Christian
> tradition and become the common property ofjew and Gentile
> alike.
This is bullshit. This is what Gentiles and watered down Jews living
among Gentiles would like to believe.
> After the destruction of Jerusalem, the Jews ceased to have a
> language and secular culture of their own. Hebrew as a vernacular
> yielded to Aramaic before the beginning of the Christian era;
> the Jewish scholars and poets in Spain wrote in Arabic, others
> later in German, Polish, Russian, English and French. Certain
> Jewish conununities developed dialects of their own, such as
> Yiddish and Ladino, but none of these produced works compar-
> able to the impressive Jewish contribution to German, Austro-
> Hungarian or American literature.
> The main, specifically Jewish literary activity of the Diaspora
> was theological. Yet Talmud, Kabbala, and the bulky tomes of
> biblical exegesis, are practically unknown to the contemporary
> Jewish public, although they are, to repeat it once more, the
> only relics of a specifically Jewish tradition - if that term is to
> have a concrete meaning - during the last two millennia. In
> other words, whatever came out of the Diaspora is either not
> specifically Jewish, or not part of a living tradition. The philoso-
> phical, scientific and artistic achievements of individual Jews
> consist in contributions to the culture of their host nations; they
> do not represent a commoon cultural inheritance or autonomous
> body of traditions.
Completely wrong on this one.
> To sum up, the Jews of our day have no cultural tradition
> in common, merely certain habits and behaviour-pattems,
> derived by social inheritance from the traumatic experience of
> the ghetto, and from a religion which the majority does not
> practise or believe in, but which nevertheless confers on them a
> pseudo-national status. Obviously - as I have argued elsewhere -
> the long-term solution of the paradox can only be emigration
> to Israel or gradual assimilation to their host nations. Before
> the holocaust, this process was in full swing; and in 1975 Time
> Magazine reported that American Jews 'tend to marry outside
> their faith at a high rate; almost one-third of all marriages are
> mixed'.
He discounts cultural revivals as reaction to rampant
assimilation. Even secular and atheist Jews are going back to their
cultural roots by practicing cultural rituals. This indicates a
need for tribal identity. Their genetic history is irrelevant even
if they knew what it was.
>
> Nevertheless the fingering influence of Judaism's racial and
> historical message, though based on illusion, acts as a powerful
> emotional break by appealing to tribal loyalty. It is in this context
> that the part played by the thirteenth tribe in ancestral history
> becomes relevant to the Jews of the Diaspora. Yet, as already
> said, it is irrelevant to modern Israel, which has acquired a genuine
> national identity.
Actually, the opposite is happening. Except for the psychotic
religious
fanatics, Israel's Jews are becoming more secular and less identified.
> It is perhaps symbolic that Abraham Poliak,
> a professor, of history at Tel Aviv University and no doubt an
> Israeli patriot, made a major contribution to our knowledge of
> jewry.'s Khazar ancestry, undermining the legend of the Chosen
> Race. It may also be significant that the native Israeli 'Sabra'
> represents, physically and mentally, the complete opposite of
> the 'typical Jew', bred in the ghetto.
This is dated thinking. It applied a generation ago. The legend of
chosenness is part of the Jewish national myth. It applies to those
who
have converted as well. There is no problem here except that
Christians
can't usurp that title while Jews continue to exist. Every nation has
a
national myth where they are the center of the universe or special in
some
way. Jews don't need to apologize for their 3000 year old mythology.
There are others however who have a lot to apologize for.
Joshua2
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