KUDOS to DANIEL PIPES

Submitted by Julio Dam (Paraguay), Jan 15, 2003 at 04:30

My congratulations for Mr. Pipes for his usual enlightening comment, and also for reading the right authors, like, in this case, Ken Sanes, who has a lot to say about identity, a key subject in this international puzzle. Another author, Balynt Vasoznyi has a similar analysis of the profound differences between what Dr. Huntington calls "civilizations" (which include mainly religion, and thus a distinct Weltanschaaung), in this case the American and the Leftist European civilizations.

I would like to add here that this antipathy against anything American was not and is not a "coincidence" but a carefully fabricated "meme" (Biologist Richard Dawkins´coinage), i.e., a mind virus which is still very potent indeed, just like anti-Judaism is--and this "coincidence" is anything but one.

In the final analysis, there are FOUR civilizations here at each other´s throats. One of them passes as almost unnoticed, the Jewish Civilization, which is being attacked by the Leftist and the Islamic ones.

And if I might add, although it is VERY difficult to pierce through the many perception veils which cover the truth, the true, hidden- from-sight reason for anti-Americanism is its defense of Jewish Civilization. By that I mean not only the defense of Israel, but of Jews inside America, and of the Jewish values who are the true backbone of most of the what the Western Civilization (including the Leftist European civilization) values most. That is, the value of the individual over the state, "modern Human Right," the right to have a day off during the week (the shabbat, which was a religious "invention" passing off as a Jewish union´s), etc.etc, all of these social excretions oozing out of the Hebrew Bible like honey from a honeycomb.

It is Israel and the Jews who are the true target of both Leftist Europe and Islam. The U.S. is just a bone stuck in these two civilizations´ collective throat, to be disposed of, soon. Then, it will be Israel´s turn. As a common children´s song sung in Arab lands goes: "First (we will dispose of ) those of the Sunday, then those of the Sabbath."

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