Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D- N. Y., half described Israel last week as a “pariah” among the country’s countries.
According to Schumer,” Israel cannot survive if it becomes a leper,” adding that the Jewish community “understands better than anyone that Israel may hope to succeed as a leper opposed by the rest of the world.”
For that reason, the Senate majority leader said, Israel may choose a chief other than Benjamin Netanyahu, its current prime minister. Therefore, Schumer implied, Israel will no longer be a leper.
In Schumer’s perspective, and in the perspective of most of the Democratic Party, as well as that of The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, The Guardian, the BBC, and practically every university in the West, the earth is straight and Israel is bad. Consequently, Israel is a leper among the countries.
However, there is another possible explanation for why Israel is a outcast among the people: that Israel is ethically wrong and that Israel is morally right in the conflict that the little Jewish nation is wagering in Gaza against the Hamas terrorist organization.
And what specifically does “pariah among the countries” think? Has a vote among the nation’s countries been taken? Do we really understand how the country’s countries currently view Israel? Or do we only know the opinions of the country’s governments?
And even with respect to institutions, Israel is not wholly a pariah. One very important state, that of Germany, continues to support Israel. As regards the countries themselves, according to surveys, the majority of the British people continue to support Israel.
Unfortunately, then, the explanation of Israel given by the majority leader of the U. S. Senate does not even keep accurate in the senator’s unique country.
But, why did Schumer utilize that language—not again, but twice?
One cause, I believe, is that he is a petrified Jew. This is not my mind. He acknowledged dread of being eradicated in a Holocaust- of event:” Some Palestinians”, he said, “have voted to enable groups like Hamas, which seeks to destroy the Israeli people”.
” Some” Palestinians? Most Palestinians, according to all polls, adore Hamas. The Palestinian Center for Policy Survey and Research ( and a report by Reuters ) claims that three out of four people support the Hamas terrorists ‘ atrocities committed on October 7.
The Palestinian Authority has n’t allowed elections in 18 years primarily because it believes Hamas would prevail. In a decent world, the Palestinians would be a pariah.
Schumer is aware that Hamas” seeks to eradicate the Jewish people.” Few non-Jews have a clue about how deeply the Holocaust has affected Jews, including those who were born after the Holocaust and those who had no relatives during the largest genocide in modern history. The majority of Jews experience a form of collective PTSD.
It could not be otherwise. Every Jew in Europe, including babies and the elderly, was targeted by the most militarily powerful nation in the world, the most militarily advanced nation in Europe. And it nearly succeeded: Two of every three European Jews were murdered.
Equally significantly,” the nations” watched. Therefore, just to be clear, during World War II, Jews in Europe were also considered to be pariahs. With a few noble exceptions, the world was divided between countries that helped to kill Jews and those who refused to do anything for them. Neither did they bomb any of the concentration camps or the railroad tracks leading to those camps, nor did they allow the few who managed to escape the Nazis.
For 3, 000 years, the fate of the Jews has nearly always been to be a pariah among the nations. This was foretold in the Hebrew Bible itself, which cites Balaam, a pagan “prophet”, as saying that Israel is” a nation that shall dwell alone, not be reckoned among the nations” ( Numbers 23: 9 ).
When Jews are defenseless, they are a pariah. And when Jews defend themselves, they are, according to Schumer and the elites of the world, also a pariah.
Had Schumer told the truth, he would have said this: Israel’s being a pariah among the world’s nations tells us much more about the world’s nations than about Israel. just as it did just two generations ago.
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