The Judaization of Europe

Before WWII the predominant view in Europe was that it was acceptable to persecute Jews and to kill them when necessary. It was also accepted that other ethnic minorities, e.g. Hungarians in Austria, Slavs in Poland, Poles in Ukraine, were also subject to persecution and random acts of violence. Christianity was invoked during these killings, Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox Christians killed Jews, and they killed each other. There was a kind of Christianity, sometimes called "muscular" Christianity, that idealized the healthy muscular body as opposed to the effete, intellectual Jew. Fatherland and Christ were a powerful combination, leading to anti-Semitism as a racial and political force and to Fascism. Although the Nazis were in principle against Christianity, abhorring the religion of someone who allowed himself to be crucified and spoke of love and turning the other cheek, nevertheless, they used religion as a political force. It was common in those days to compare the "fighting ability" of various races. I still remember when I was a child arguing whether or not the British or the Germans were better fighters, and of course the French were definitely not. Such a conversation is unimaginable nowadays.
The fact that Germany was defeated in WWII changed everything, including the attitude towards Christianity. Gradually it ceased to be a strong political force and has now become essentially moribund in most of Europe. Supra-nationalism, of the Germans, the French, the Slavs etc. has been subsumed by the European ethic, all are now equal within the EU. No longer are passports needed to cross thousands of miles and many countries of Europe. The Jews became widely accepted as a minority and each country that was involved in the Holocaust has out-done others in restitution and rebuilding of Synagogues. Although many Jews who experienced the Holocaust do not take these about-faces at face value, nevertheless the situation is certainly vastly improved. These changes, partly as a result of American cultural influence and partly as a result of improved standards of living, have transformed European culture. The former idealization of power and force and national heroes has given way to acceptance of equality and toleration of national and ethnic differences. Of course, this is not totally true, for example the anti-foreigner violence in Germany, France and Russia, but these are regarded as hangovers from the old system..
Now this change represents no less than the "Judaization of Europe," the acceptance of what were formerly considered Jewish values, powerlessness, internationalism, cosmopolitanism, tolerance towards others, enjoying culture rather than going out to fight and kill. But, this tolerance has its price, including the enormous immigration of other races into tolerant, affluent Europe (as into the USA). Some of these immigrants assimilate well, but others, particularly the Muslims, keep themselves separate and retain a sense of superiority. Although one cannot see why they consider themselves superior, since they come from very poor underdeveloped countries, but, they fit into the current zeitgeist, that of opposing colonialism (that the Europeans practised with concomintant murders of millions) and so on. And this cultural attitude is virulently anti-Israel, because Israel is a power that maintains itself by military force and further is usually victorious against brown native peoples and kills civilains (according to the common belief). It is so easy to paint Israel in the colors of the former Europe, the one that emphasized nationalism, power and armed force. It is a matter of supreme irony that most countries of Europe have now instituted a Holocaust Day while at the same time lambasting Israel for daring to invade neighboring "countries" and using force to establish its will.
Some consider this anti-Israelism as another form of anti-Semitism, but it is not only that, it is a side product of the liberal, tolerant anti-war culture that is predominant in Europe today. Although most Americans are quite at-ease with the idea of a real "war on terrorism," with the war on the Taliban in Afghanistan and with the war on Saddam Hussein in Iraq, for most Europeans this is anthema. There was no more anti-Bush area than Western Europe. Now they are pro-Obama, and now we will see to which side Obama will veer, will he adopt the same culture as Europe, or will he retain the general American attitude that the US can be the world's policeman. How he manages this perilous track will determine to a large extent how Israel will fare in the near future.