The Deadly Flower of Jewicide 

by Emanuel A. Winston, a Middle East analyst & commentator
April 1, 2003
gwinston@interaccess.com

The deadly flower of Jewicide is once again budding and ready to 
bloom. It is a slow growing plant so that, to Jews, its growth is 
hardly perceptible or, at least, not so troubling in each stage 
that it cannot be adjusted to. 

Our ability to adapt has even given rise to songs as in the 
musical "Candide" by Leonard Bernstein: "I am so easily 
assimilated". Recall, for example, how the Jews of Germany slowly, 
so slowly accepted the deterioration of their status as citizens 
until they were thrust into a lifestyle that dehumanized them. 
It did not  happen all at once. "So what if we have to wear a 
yellow arm-band with a Jewish star." "So what if Jewish professors 
were denied teaching status or their classes boycotted by the 
Hitler Youth." Each step down was absorbed and acclimated to.

Having been religiously harassed throughout the centuries, we Jews 
developed psychological defense mechanisms to preserve our dignity, 
if not, our sanity. Jewish leadership invariably cautioned silence 
or the pretense that the deadly flower of Jewicide was not about 
to fully blossom. Their call to action invariably arrived too late 
or not at all.

Jews are desperately gullible, wishing to believe any gesture of 
friendship, always hoping that the handshake will be honored - 
as we honored it. We Jews, even as we get on trains to death camps 
and even as we walk into the gas showers, we desperately want to 
believe the assuring words, the friendly smiles, the classical 
music - up to the very minutes. We know in our hearts that the 
words and smiles are false but, we dismiss our suspicions and we 
always pay the ultimate price.

All of this is happening again - now. The Jews of Israel, the Jews 
of America and South America, the Jews of Europe are first beginning 
to express concern. Regrettably, if our past is any indication of 
our people's future, our level of concern ought to be reaching an 
alarming peak. Instead, it seems as if in today's Jewish world, 
both leaders and the Jewish people are "adapting" to a threat 
which could sadly herald our extinction.

Arnold Toynbee, the great historian, expressed professional surprise 
that the Jewish civilization had not yet gone the way of the Roman 
Empire or other now extinct civilizations. The word: "Anti-Semitism" 
has passed into the common lexicon and no longer implies the threat 
it once did. However, it is time to find a new expression which more 
accurately and immediately expressed our peril - like the word 
I coined: "Jewicide".

Jewicide can be viewed through the lens of Genocide, Homicide and 
Suicide because it is all these things. There are those Jews who 
will immediately drop into state of denial. "Nothing unusual is 
happening", they will tell you. Similarly, our adversaries will 
also adopt 'denial', telling us and themselves that they have 
no designs on our lives, our civilization, our religion or the
epicenter of our roots, Israel. Everyone is in agreement that all 
is well, except a few trouble makers that "Shrei Gevalt" (Scream 
to G-d).

Some Jews retain their long term national memory of our unique 
history and have sensitized antennae which are tuned to those 
slow moving danger signals. We observe that deadly flower of 
Jewicide budding, with a few blossoms starting to spring open.

What are some of these signals which the Jewish leadership stare 
at with benign neglect? Without any attempt to list them in order 
of importance or timeliness consider the congregation of nations 
in the United Nations representing over 5 Billion people.

When was the last time Israel was given a vote of confidence, 
let alone the benefit of the doubt on any issue in the U.N.? 
With some very few exceptions, the U.N., either in their Security 
Council or their General Assembly votes to condemn Israel, mostly 
driven by the block of Arab nations. For some Jews, this is a 
trivial matter which they believe will pass away in time. 
For others, we realize that the votes and permanent hostility are 
cumulative and building toward a crisis for Israel and for Jews 
world-wide.

The E.U. (European Union) has a general consensus that the 7 wars** 
launched by the Arab nations had merit. Somehow, in judging Israel 
and her irritating stubbornness at staying alive by not losing one 
war the Arabs have initiated, we see a transformation in the 
practice of Jewicide. Most of the European nations did their very 
best to assist Hitler in his crusade of Genocide of the Jewish people. 
Now they have joined Islam's Crusade against Israel, ignoring the 
reality that Islam also seeks their demise and/or conversion globally.

There was a general opinion that, after the Holocaust murdered 
6 million Jews, leaving approximately 15 million Jews spread thinly 
over the planet, the Jewish people were finished as a civilization. 
Even the token gesture of partitioning a Jewish State for the 
embarrassing remnants of the Holocaust was not anticipated to 
survive the massive assault promised by all Arab/Muslim nations. 
This partition by the U.N. occurred after 70% of the designated 
homeland for the Jewish people as set forth in the Balfour 
Declaration of 1917 was cut off at the Jordan River by Winston 
Churchill to appease Abdullah who came from the Arabian Peninsula 
to threaten French-controlled Lebanon. Israel was scheduled for 
elimination by those who reluctantly voted for her partition and 
the Arab/Muslim nations pledged to insure her occupation.

The survival of the Jewish State of Israel in the face of 
overwhelming Arab numbers, well-armed by the West and the other 
Arab/Muslim nations, shocked the Europeans as well as the Arabists 
in the U.S. State Department. Israel was not on anyone's schedule 
to survive more than a few months after its declaration of
Independent Statehood on May 14, 1948. Except for the Jews and 
Bible-believing Christians, no one was pleased that the Jews had 
beaten 7 Arab armies***, armed and backed by the Europeans.

Even the United States, under President Harry Truman, embargoed 
arms to Israel, anticipating his political troubles caused by 
recognizing Israel's Statehood, would be solved by the Arab Legions.

Presently, a deadly flower is rising, called the "Road Map" 
offered by the "Quartet"( the U.S. State Department, the U.N., 
the E.U. and Russia). They took what President Bush promised the 
Arabs in June 2002, revised it, took away any requirements for 
compliance by the Arab Palestinians and placed all the onerous
restrictions upon Israel. Now the "Quartet" refuses to accept 
Israel's objections to the dismantling of her sovereignty and 
security.

No one, except most of the Jewish leadership in Israel and 
America, is under any illusion that either the Arab Palestinians 
or the Arab/Muslim nations have given up their long-term, 
oft-stated plans to liquidate the Jewish State and occupy the 
land of Israel for Islam. However, in the interim and according 
to Islamic custom, any agreement may be offered to their 
adversary until the Muslims have gained sufficient strength and 
resources to re-engage the enemy.

The radical Left in Israel, having observed their failed plan 
of Oslo - which assumed pacification of the Arab Palestinians - 
cling to their failure with a desperation born out of the fear 
of personal irrelevancy, stupidity and uselessness. They have 
joined the "Quartet", hoping that the earlier failure of Oslo 
could be erased by the extraordinary pressure exerted by the 
"Quartet". (Note! While the title "Quartet" connotes a certain 
harmony and 'bon ami', the fact is that the "Quartet" now seems 
to represent most of the hostile nations of this planet - 
as are embodied in the United Nations.)

What to do?

The remaining Jews of this world may have to abruptly awaken and 
not be so accommodating. There is a time to be angry; there is a 
time to use civil disobedience; and there is a time not to be so 
ready to calmly adjust to plans thrust upon us.

We must recognize that there are plans in the works to placate 
the Muslim/Arabs by offering the Arab Palestinians a State in 
the heartland of the Jewish State of Israel with Jerusalem as 
its capital. How can anyone hypothesize that a democratic Arab 
state can be established where none exists presently anywhere 
in the entire Arab world?

Most Jewish academics, joining the majority of the political 
Left in academia, are willing to take the risk - in the name of 
the Jewish State. The risk being that - another Arab Palestinian 
State West of the Jordan River would instantly become a safe 
haven for most of the world's Islamic Terrorist organizations, 
in addition to maintaining close operational connections to the
Terrorist-supporting Arab/Muslim countries of Iran, Syria and 
Iraq (if it is left in one piece after Operation Iraqi Freedom). 

At this time the Jewish leadership in Israel is going along with 
the idea that other nations have the right to arrange the future 
of the Jewish State and challenge her survival as well as her 
sovereignty. There is a certain pretense that Israel is an equal 
and willing partner rather than that she is actually being herded 
along by the U.S. State Department with affirmative statements 
by President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Jews as a minority in most host nations, have learned to keep a 
low profile and not protest too much. A key question now, given 
the lessons of accepting the creeping debasement in the past 
with such disastrous results (as in the Holocaust), are we doing 
it again? Or, rather, are they doing it again?

Words of the past like "scape-goating" are loaded with meaning 
for the Jews but are often ignored. Throughout history, Jews have 
been blamed for failed wars, for bubonic plague, for economies 
that go into hyper-inflation where bushels of Deutschmarks 
could not buy a loaf of bread. The Catholic Church and some 
Protestant denominations have taught that Jews successful in 
medicine, business, trade of any sort, succeed because they are 
in league with the devil. By demonizing the Jews, it makes it 
possible for them to annihilate Jews without being bothered by 
their consciences. This also squares the circle of having a 
Jewish son of G-d as their god while eliminating his family and 
the roots of his existence.

March 31st, we heard that very gentle and intelligent lady, 
Condelezza Rice, speaking for President Bush, tell a Jewish 
audience at the annual AIPAC (American-Israel Political Action 
Committee) Policy Conference that they (the Bush Administration) 
has a plan to pacify the Arab Palestinians and bring peace to the 
region. While I admire Condelezza Rice, I am astounded by her 
"Chutzpah" (Nerve) in assuring a beleaguered nation that we 
(the Bush Administration) have found a solution to Arab/Muslim 
belligerency to the Jewish State of Israel which challenges the 
existence of Jews and their Covenant with a G-d who make no 
mistakes in His Judgement. 

Ms. Rice said at the same time that 4000 Arab Palestinians 
volunteered as Homicide Bombers against American troops in Iraq. 
Even as Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of 
State Colin Powell were warning Syria to cease arming Saddam's 
Iraq, they were promising the Israeli people that Arabs would
keep a peace via signed agreements.

Even as both Rice and Powell were offering assurances to the 
AIPAC assembly, it was reported that Israel's visiting Foreign 
Minister Sylvan Shalom was informed by President Bush that the 
American government does not intend to make any changes in the 
"Road Map" plan as drafted by the U.S. State Department. That
means that Sharon's 100+ revisions will be ignored and the Plan 
will be non-negotiable - denials notwithstanding. Thus, as I 
mentioned earlier, all promises and assurances made to the 
Jewish State are virtually worthless from the onset.

President Bush has warned the American people that a mix of Arab 
Terrorists planted in the United States in "sleeper Terror cells" 
may very well unleash Terror with WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction). 
This and much more have been the record of unremitting hostility 
against America and Israel. I am sure that Condelezza Rice and 
President Bush believe that they have a solution to erase an 
age-old hatred. But, they are naive or we are to accept their 
beliefs.

Meetings to decide the fate of the Jewish people have occurred 
with disturbing frequency over the centuries. Usually the 
'judges' did not have the best interests of the Jews in mind. 
From the destruction of both Jewish Temples on the Temple Mount 
in Jerusalem, to Church fathers re-arranging the lives of Jews, 
to the aristocracy of Spain expelling their Jews, through pogroms 
in Russia, descending to the depths in Hitler's Wannsee 
Conference where the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" 
was decided to eliminate all the Jews of Europe and the world 
once it was conquered by the Nazis' Third Reich. In all of the 
above, the confiscation of all assets, all properties, cancellations 
of all debts owed to the Jews - accompanied the local Jewicide - 
throughout history. History can be instructive if you remember it 
and apply the lessons.

With all good intentions of the Bush Administration, to offer 
another plan for a "Jewish solution" flies in the face of an 
almost unbroken history of Jewicide. Putting Israel into the 
hands of European and Arab/Muslims, relying on their future good 
will and their firmly established track record for breaking all 
agreements with Jews or the Jewish nation does not inspire 
confidence (to say the least).

For the first time in ages, Jews have their destiny in their own 
hands in their own land. So far, they have succeeded in protecting 
themselves from surrounding hostile Muslim/Arab nations who have 
usually been supported by European nations with financially vested 
interests. 

The proposed "Road Map" from President Bush, modified by the 
"Quartet", is designed to place the safety of Jews and Israel 
into other hands, with a confidence-building overview by America 
or monitors from the E.U. or NATO. The sad fact is that, once this 
process is in motion, all good intentions aside, America cannot 
prevent the Arab/Muslim nations nor the Arab Palestinians from
attacking Israel from a stable operational base called the 
New State of Palestine.

Israeli leadership, with support from World Jewry, should politely 
refuse with a very firm "NO! Thank You!". Nor should the Jewish 
establishment in America wait quietly before they firmly impress 
on the Bush Administration and the "Quartet" that they will 
aggressively resist using Israel as payment to the Arab/Muslim 
nations for this necessary war to remove Saddam and his WMD 
(Weapons of Mass Death). 

The historical experiment in Jewicide must be stopped NOW and 
NEVER AGAIN be accepted by the Jewish people. If we again wait 
to "Shrei Gevalt", perhaps we deserve everything intended for us.
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** 7 Wars of Arab/Muslim Aggression: 1948 (War of Independence), 
1956 (Sinai Campaign), 1967 (Six Days War), 
1970-71(War of Attrition), 1973 (Yom Kippur War), 
1982 (War to Prevent PLO Attack from Lebanon), 
1991 (Saddam's First Persian Gulf War).

*** 7 Arab armies who attacked Israel the day after she declared 
Independence: May 14, 1948: Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, 
Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Iraq.

Sources: "Diplomacy by Other Means" 
by Thomas Friedman NEW YORK TIMES 
&
"Battleground: Facts & Fantasy in Palestine" 
by Samuel Katz Bantam/Steimatsky 1973