For literally the past 140 years, as each attempt to set back Zionism and Israel failed, our enemies came up with an endless series of excuses and explanations for their failure. The Jews, they said in the 1890s, enjoyed the protection of the Czar. Or in the 1910s, the Germans. Or in the 1930s, the British. Or in the 1948 war, the Soviets. Then the French and then the Americans. It is never the Jews’ own strength that preserves them. The Jews are not allowed to be strong. Their purpose in every version of the old antisemitic doctrine is to know their place, to be oppressed as a sign of the truth of, variously, Islam, Christianity, various empires and nationalisms, and so on. The version of that ancient patronage excuse that this guy is peddling below might be the most innovative example. It first became popular in Arab discourse about the rise of ISIS. The most radical Salafists and Islamists, because they focused on internal Islamic enemies and didn’t care about Israel, were said to have been the creation of the Jews and to be demolishing Arab countries in Israel’s service. This theory is now deployed toward Syria. It argues, basically, that things were just on the cusp of turning against Israel, that the whole region, for the first time since the fall of the Ottomans, was magically uniting for one great push that would finally correct history’s greatest error and restore Islam to its rightful place in this timeline. And just then, the Jews pulled a hail-Mary rabbit out of their hat: the Sunni radicals toppled Assad. Assad didn’t fall because of Israeli strength, you see - because the Jews had demolished a large part of Iran’s proxy system and demonstrated the regime‘s desperate weakness, because Assad and his enemies both knew that Iran wasn’t coming to his rescue this time. No, it was actually a nefarious Jewish conspiracy at work. The Jews, not 150 years of Islamic theological development, produced the Sunni Islamists of Syria. And so the Jews, protected not by their inherent strength, but only by their lies and conspiracies, can continue to be seen as weak even in their moment of undeniable triumph. It must be an exhausting way to think about the world, a truly painful level of cognitive dissonance. The Jews are desperately weak, so much so that they were on the verge of total collapse. And also nefariously and mystically strong, so much so that they can engineer vast conspiracies and hack Islam itself so that everything always tilts in their favor. This is desperate, pathetic incompetence. It’s a century-old coping mechanism that keeps them from seriously and self-critically trying to understand us. It is why they never question the old strategy as they seek in each new generation to replay the same old script. We are objectively strong for reasons that are demonstrable, replicable and not at all mysterious. But it helps that our enemies refuse to understand that and insist on weakening themselves with this kind of self-deception and intellectual vapidity. This is, in other words, one of our major advantages in the long war for our survival. https://bird.makeup/@tracking_power/1873498882526900720
See Tweet