The other writer stated the following:
“Jews who deny Muslim and Christian attachment to Jerusalem pave the way for Muslims and Christians to deny Jewish attachment to Jerusalem.”
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Hmm.
“Muslims who deny Jewish and Christian attachments to Jerusalem pave the way for Jews and Christians to deny Muslim attachment to Jerusalem.”
“Christians who deny Jewish and Muslim attachments to Jerusalem pave the way for Jews and Muslims to deny Christian attachment to Jerusalem.”
It’s funny how the assignment of culpability works within such a statement.
Truth to tell: in 12th Century Christian Hungary, laws devised to discriminate against Jews were upon activation applied equally to Muslims (source: Raphael Patai, _The Jews of Hungary_).
The bogey: jealousy and resentment (perhaps) and supersessionary ambition (no question).
What is it about the medieval world and worldview — apart from concentrating ill-gotten wealth in thuggish elites — that keeps so many of the Soviet / post-Soviet arc trapped within it?
Perhaps post-Holocaust, the arguments are shifting from hidden and shameful supersessionary wishes (I thought that was done with in 1964) and “recognition of ‘the other'” (who isn’t “other” for somebody?) to the differences between medieval perception and rhetoric (and absolute power) toward the modern comprehension of political conditions, greater recognition of mutual obligations, and interest in the peaceful interweaving of complex and varied cultural and economic systems.
What may the medieval world have looked like?
Crimea.
Syria.
And thank the same system of thought so slyly — ah, but obviously — singles out the Hebrews as the source of all troubles.
Leadership, cultural mentality, and political power have a relationship in which the medieval of mind invests energy in the command and control of mobs. Frame-ups, innuendos, lies, rumors: snookering the marks is what political dishonesty has been all about.
In and around the Middle East Conflict, the Palestinians — who having suffered Arab apartheid and gross isolation and misguidance for decades — have paid the highest price for their once unwitting subordination to a mixture of Nazi- and Soviet-promoted images of the surrounding world, and that starting with the demonizing and scapegoating of the Jews.
Soviet cartoons distributed in the Middle East to leverage “the masses” into the Soviet camp.
Soviet cartoons distributed in the Middle East to leverage “the masses” into the Soviet camp.
The Soviet Era cartoons from the late 1960s and early 1970s suggest what Moscow used to inveigle the Arab World in its unholy designs, for back then, Russia was avowedly and godlessly communist as well as deeply anti-Semitic.
Related on BackChannels
https://conflict-backchannels.com/2016/10/03/palestinian-kgb/ – 10/3/2016
Related on the Internet
Timmerman, Kenneth R. “Former Soviet Spy Sees the Long Arm of the KGB in Today’s Muslim Anti-Semitism.” Tablet, August 7, 2013.
Palestinians and others — and this plainly demonstrated in Syria, and nowhere more so than with Yarmouk, the once Palestinian camp and refuge — will never know authentic freedom and self-determination while bent to the will of a still medieval and excessively controlling — and kleptocratic (and today “ultra-nationalist”) — Moscow.
Additional Reference
Corre, Addam. “Hamas Leaders Worth Millions of Dollars from Allegedly Skimming Donations and Extortion: Is Anyone Surprised?” Inquisitr, July 18, 2014 (updated July 22, 2014).
Danan, Deborah. “Gaza’s Millionaires and Billionaires — How Hamas’s Leaders Got Rich Quick.” Algemeiner, July 28, 2014.
Mitsotakis, Spyridon. “Russia: Hamas and Hezbollah are Democratic, Not Terrorists.” Breitbart, November 17, 2015.
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