Monday, April 27, 2009

Believe anything

People will believe anything! History has amply proven that. The Germans believed that the Jews were responsible for all their problems and so set about murdering all of them (the list was ca. 12 million, but they got only ca. half). But, it didn't help them, they were defeated in WWII and lost ca. 1 million people, not fair some might conclude.
The Russians believed that Karl Marx was right, and so they got Comrade Stalin, who is reputed to have murdered ca. 50 million of them in 50 years, not a bad score, but it didn't solve any of their problems, so now they are trying to get back to where they were prior to 1917, perhaps by 2017.
The British believed that criminality was inherited, so they shipped all their criminals first to Georgia in what is now the US, and then to Australia. As far as I know there are some quite honest people among their descendents today.
Most Muslims believe that it was Jews who blew up the Twin Towers on 9/11. It is well known that no Jews attended work that day because they were warned in advance (!) and the perpetrators were not Arabs, but Arabs were used as scapegoats (!). Of course, the Arabs would like to have done it, but actually it was a Zionist plot!
Many Western liberals (such as Pres. Obama) believe that all peoples want peace and they are prepared to shake anybody's hand as long as they reciprocate and engage in "dialog." But, the fact is that most people in the world, including the majority of 1.5 billion Muslims, believe the West is the fount of all evil, that secular democracy is the way of the devil (women dress obscenely in public, alcohol is freely available, people say what they want, terrible!), and that in the end there will be a cataclysm that will end with everyone still alive accepting Islam. What is amazing is that many liberals in the West subscribe to a denial of reality in order to accomodate Islam, much like Chamberlain saying that "Herr Hitler is an honorable man!"
The Palestinians don't want peace, they believe that to die for their cause of destroying Israel is greater than making peace. If your culture and society support that belief, then why would you want to make peace? They only pretend to do so as a tactic, that underlies their strategy of ultimate war. Israel has proved too strong for them so far, so they temporize.
Most countries in the world subscribe to the Durban II formulation, that racism excludes anti-Semitism, and that Israel's fight for survival against huge odds is a form of anti-Palestinian racism. What nonsense!
North Korea is one of the last Communist dictatorships, they make rockets and nuclear weapons while their people starve, and they believe that in the end they will defeat the USA. Do they want peace?
Iran is a religious dictatorship, where they believe that Shia Islam is the only acceptable religion and they see it as their destiny to bring it to the whole world, even if it means war, death and suffering. Anyone who has seen Shia men "celebrating" Ashura, the commemoration of the defeat of Imam Hussein ibn Ali. grandson of the prophet Mohammed, in 680 ce, by flagellating themselves and cutting their heads with razors can see their bloodthirstiness. This is not a yearning for peace.
Many of those who believe that there was no Holocaust (maybe a few thousand Jews died!) nevertheless want to bring about a new Holocaust. They want to destroy Israel, a liberal democracy, and kill all the 6 million Israeli Jews. Now that's terrible irony.
Many believe that the Jews are too powerful and control the media and the Banks, while at the same time persecuting the Jews because they are powerless! Believing contradictory things at the same time is an example of man's irrationality, but unfortunately men will believe anything and act on those beliefs, to the detriment of all. So hope for peace but keep your powder dry!

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