ED Note: Today, Shamir laments the passing of yet another Journalist victim of the Zionist system, Joe Sobran. Joe was a Whiz Kid Writer, Editor and ultimately Senior Editor of W. F. Buckley’s National Review, and a close personal friend of Buckley himself. He wrote about Zionism and “Jews” and neither his stature on the National Review nor his friendship with Buckley could protect him.
In short, the Holocaust has become a device for exempting Jews from normal human obligations. It has authorized them to bully and blackmail, to extort and oppress. This is all quite irrational, because even if six million Jews were murdered during World War II, it doesn’t follow that the survivors are entitled to commit the slightest injustice. If your father was stabbed in the street, that’s a pity, but it’s not an excuse for picking someone else’s pocket.
In a peculiar way, the Holocaust story has promoted not only pity, but actual fear of the Jews. It has removed them from the universe of normal moral discourse. It has made them victims with nukes. It has made them even more dangerous than their enemies have always charged. It has given the world an Israel ruled by Ariel Sharon.
Benjamin Netanyahu has written that Israel is “an integral part of the West.” I think it would be truer to say that Israel has become a deformed limb of the West.
