Talking about Athens and Jerusalem in Athens by Gilad Atzmon

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May 20, 2010, 12:39:08 PM
Talking about Athens and Jerusalem in Athens by Gilad Atzmon
Wednesday, May 19, 2010

http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/talking-about-athens-and-jerusalem-in-athens-by-gilad-atzmon.html

Quote* In terms of Jewish history, we can detect a real dilemma here concerning this mirroring.  As much as Jews tend to regard themselves (traditionally) as a chosen people, they have been largely confused by other people's dismissal of their 'greatness'.

    * Similarly, the Israeli collective unconsciousness can be grasped as the fear of being perceived as a collective murderous society rather than the obvious concern about being involved in the murderous act itself.

    * This fear has matured along the years into a unique form of Israeli collective neurosis. In fact, when Zionists blame you for being an anti Semite, they basically express a deep unease with the fact that you have managed to see through them.

"If this hostility, even aversion, had only been shown towards the Jews at one period and in one country, it would be easy to unravel the limited causes of this anger, but this race has been hated by all peoples among whom it has established itself. It must be therefore, since the enemies of the Jews belonged to the most diverse races, lived in countries very distant from each other that the general cause of anti-Semitism has always resided in Israel itself and not in those who have fought against Israel."

Bernard Lazare, \'L'antisémitisme son histoire et ses causes\'.
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