The recent attack on a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach (will our AG get the blame for it?) in Sydney is yet another tragedy of an attack on Jewish people. There are all kinds of explanation for this–and I’m sure Jewish apologists will avoid the one presented here–as to why this is taking place. It comes from an unlikely source but nothing else really fits the bill.
Years ago I had a hijab-wearing Algerian lab assistant in my Soil Mechanics Laboratory course. She didn’t have a high opinion of the Arabs; she wanted us to know that she was Berber. I also got to know her husband, a big guy. Their child was likewise, looked like he was born for the NFL. One day he and I were talking about things and he was talking about some kind of banking thing. He was explaining it and then paused to blurt out “Because Jews are smart.”
That, in a nutshell, is the whole reason why the world turns against God’s Chosen People. It’s the truth. I’ll emphasise things that are signifcant to me personally, but you can add as you like.
They were smart in the 1920’s when the WASP elites who ran the country–and certainly the Ivy League schools–changed the admission process to favour the “well-rounded person” over the real academic achiever, at the time the Jews. The fact that they used it against the Asians later should not obscure the origins of this way of admission.
They were smart in the 1930’s when Adolf Hitler started to roll out the “Final Solution” in Germany. Race was at the centre of his platform; the Germans were the “Master Race,” the Jews were ostensibly inferior. But it was a cover-up: the Jews put the lie to the Germans being the master race, Hitler’s effort to get rid of them was necessary to eliminate competition. In the end the Allies made a final solution for Adolf Hitler a reality.
They were smart in the 1940’s and afterwards when they took a run-down part of the Middle East (with no oil at the time, as Golda Meir noted) and made the desert bloom, fending off invasions by their neighbours who seriously outnumbered them.
They were also smart in the 1940’s when they engaged the services of a Scots-Irish realtor named Claude Reese to call the Gentile Old Guard’s bluff and made the first large Jewish real estate purchase in Palm Beach. The relationship between the Jews and Southerners in general and Scots-Irish in particular is a complicated one, punctuated with a string of Jewish firsts at the ballot box (first Jewish member of the House of Representatives, first Jewish U.S. Senator, first Jewish cabinet member in North America, all from the South) but suffice it to say that, if the Scots-Irish had the work and organisational ethic of the Jews, it could be a contest.
They were smart in the 1940’s and 1950’s when the Russians developed vibratory pile driving technology, which became very important in my own field. Jewish names–and quite a few women as well–populate those who made this a reality. Before that, in 1931 an Australian Jew (something to remember with this latest tragedy) named David Victor Isaacs discovered wave propagation in driven piles, another thing that changed my field.
They were smart in 1973 when two Jewish girls were valedictorian and salutatorian of my prep school graduating class, also when Golda Meir was Prime Minister of Israel. My mother deeply resented this, I did not. She was an exvangelical who referred to the Jews as “God’s Chosen People” and that divine validation was enough for me. (It would behoove the Jews not to minimise that reality.)
Jews continue to be smart with Nobel prizes and other awards. I mentioned examples from my own field; it is impossible in any scientific field to find an absence of Jewish achievers. As David Hilbert told Reichserziehungsminister Bernhard Rust, who inquired of the state of mathematics at the University of Gottingen after the Jews were purged, “Suffered? It doesn’t exist any longer, does it?”
What we’re seeing today is a broad-based revolt against real merit, our obsession with “meritocracy” notwithstanding. Any time this takes place the Jews get the worst of it. In this country it’s always been underneath the surface of an ethos supposedly founded on “equality” but starting in the 1960’s the broad-based revolt against real achievement–and the rewards for same–got rolling in earnest. Today we have transitioned from equality to equity, and combining that with the shame-honour ethos of the Middle East and Islam, we have an explosive situation which promises to get worse for the Jews–and the rest of us–before it gets better.
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