When I was in high school, I realized something very significant about the human condition.  ,
I came to the realization that people typically despise those who engage in cruel far more than they despise those who engage in evil.
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The way that many people responded to both socialism and anti-communism led me to this assumption.
To my delight, a great many people– particularly, all liberals and some, though not all, liberals– hated anti-communists far more than they hated socialism.
Because of my first preoccupation with good and evil, now in great school, I hated socialism. How could one certainly, I wondered. Along with Nazism, it was the great sin of the 20th centuries. Needless to say, as a Jew and as a man, I hated Nazism. But as I was born after Nazism was vanquished, the wonderful sin of my day was socialism.
Socialists murdered about 100 million folks– all combatants and all honest. Stalin murdered about 30 million people, including 5 million Ukrainians by starvation ( in just two years: 1932-33 ). Mao killed about 60 million individuals. Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge ( Red Cambodians ) killed about 3 million people, one in every four Cambodians, between 1975 and 1979. Between 2 and 3 million people were killed by the North Korean socialist regime, not including the 1 million who were killed by the Korean War, which the North Vietnamese communists started.
Put at least a few more individuals– family and friends– who were deeply and completely affected by the dying of their family member or friend to the 100 million killed by marxists. Add to that the other billion people whose lives were ruined by being housed in a socialist authoritarian state: their poverty, their violation of fundamental human rights, and their loss of dignity.
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You may assume that anyone with a working consciousness and a level of compassion would despise communism. But that did not happen. However, there were many people throughout the non-communist earth who supported socialism. And there was an even larger number of people who hated anti-communists, dismissing them as” Cold Troops”, “warmongers”, “red-baiters”, etc.
With regard to Israel and its rivals, we are currently once witnessing this occurrence: contempt of those who oppose evil rather than those who do bad. And on a far greater amount. Everywhere in the universe, people and governments despise Israel. Israel is the most feared state at the United Nations as well as in European press and, of sure, in institutions.
Israel is a liberal democracy with an independent judiciary, independent opposition hit, and equal rights for women, gays and its Muslim population ( 20 % of the Jewish community ). The Persian program, Hamas, and Hezbollah, its allies, do not permit these privileges to those under their command. More relevantly, their main goal– however, their mentioned reason for being– is to clean out Israel and its Israeli inhabitants. Hamas and Hezbollah have built nothing, absolutely everything, in Gaza and Lebanon, both. They are the only ones who commit genocide against Israel and its Immigrants.
Why did so many people hate anti-communists more than marxism? And why do yet more persons hate Israel more than Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah?
The common cause is that the majority of people find it difficult to stare wicked in the face because of their emotional and psychological limitations. The term “dark” is frequently used to describe terrible. But it is not black, it is easy to look into the black. Bright vivid light is much harder to see. Perhaps that is why Lucifer, the unique title of the Christian lord, comes from the word “light”.
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Why this is so– why people will never call bad “evil”– is likely related to a lack of courage. People fear resisting evil, and again one declares anything bad, one is morally bound to do it. The fools who mock Christianity– whether through a work of “art” like” Piss Christ” ( a crucifix in a jar of urine ), or the Paris Olympics opening ceremony that mocked the Last Supper, or the Los Angeles Dodgers honoring the” Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” ( men in drag dressed as nuns )– would never mock Islam. They fear Arab fury, they do not concern Christian anger. In contrast to Christian wrath, Muslim wrath has done and is doing much more cruel in our time.
And there is one more cause for hating Israel– one that is certain to Israel– rather than those who seek to destroy Israel: Jew-hatred, better known as hatred. The people who created the Ten Laws and gave the world the idea of a judging God had been despised for a long time. Not those who consistently violate those laws.