Aby July 31st, 2007
I once had a discussion with a Canadian colonel and a few of his colleagues serving the NATO forces in Belgrade, about Zionism and the side effects it is causing to the world peace. It appears that in the western world especially the Anglo Saxon USA, UK or Canada, any ideological anti-Zionism is considered as Nazism and the majority unable to see the middle path of humanity. In 1975 the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 was passed stating that “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination” which was later ratified due to heavy Anglo-US opposition. Today a lot of North Americans see Zionism and Jew appeasement as an answer to Nazism, which is considered as short sighted and racist by neutral countries in modern Europe, Asia and Africa alike.
Anti-Zionism protests in Europe during the Israeli aggression on Lebanon in 2006.
Modern Zionism arose because of the several complex political and social developments that took place in the world during and after the World War 2 in Europe. The genocidal mass massacre of Jews under Hitler’s regime in National Socialist Germany gave a guilt complex to Americans as they contributed to the Nazi Holocaust in several ways - financially and politically. There are also religious beliefs among those of Abrahamic faiths that the Jews are people of God and need to be rehabilitated to Israel and protected at all costs which gave them a justification for Zionism. These factors culminated to the widespread Jew appeasement in Anglo-US countries. It also led them to the creation of a religiously polarised Jewish state of Israel. This developments gave a cause and justification to the later Nazi supporters and anti-Semitic hate groups in US and abroad. It also created unhealthy anti-Semitism among Arabs because of the blatant Zionism in their homeland by the Allied victors after the World War 2 (most notably the Palestinian conflict and Suez Canal Crisis).
The Jews by their very nature are peaceful and intellectual people, who have proved themselves time and again by their countless contributions to the cause of modern science, humanity and politics. It is an insult to this community to think that they cannot live in normal secular and democratic societies without the aid of appeasement and Zionist policies. Nazism is half a century old ideology, hardly of relevance today. The western obsession with Nazis has created a positive heroic view of Nazis in youngsters who often take to Neo-Nazism as an expression of their rebel attitude. It can hardly be countered by Zionism, which is the form of extremist racism standing at an opposite pole to Nazism. Neither is Nazism as justification of Zionism and nor is Zionism as justification of Nazism. Jews are after all humans like us; we cannot have a world order where Jew appeasement regains supreme over the human rights of other humans, especially in countries like Yugoslavia and Palestine. This would make us no better than the original Nazis, if we were to counter racism with equal and opposite racism.
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Aby June 22nd, 2007
This is a part of the series called America which discusses why the world dislikes USA so much as opposed to Europe (which is highly regarded). Both Europe and United States have stable economic and political conditions, freedom, military strength, scientific developments and the likes of a civilised modern world. Here follows a brief comparison of living standards in Europe and USA on the basis of healthcare, multiculturalism, education and media awareness.
Healthcare - In the United States it is common for a hospital to refuse to treat a critically ill patient if they are not insured or are not US citizens. In Europe such a concept is considered ancient and uncivilised. In the US, doctors sometimes refuse to treat or prescribe the right options to a patient if the doctor’s religious beliefs go against what is medically best for the patient. It happens most often in cases of abortion, birth control and treating homosexuals where the doctors’ medical ethics conflict with their religious beliefs. Such an act in Europe would lead to cancellation of a doctor’s license to practice for violation of the Hippocratic Oath.
Diversity - United States, despite petty internal political differences is very uniform and homogeneous to an outsider. The culture (or lack of it) is same, the food is same, the language is same and the arts and style are similar. In Europe language, art, food, culture and politics are widely varied which might be overwhelming for an outsider but makes things interesting. A person visiting Scotland on a pleasure trip won’t feel like he could have done visiting England while a person visiting New Jersey and Virginia as a tourist would almost feel both are same states (except the differences in street crimes).
Education - The quality of public education in United States is much lower than that of Europe, in fact it is lower than many developing third world countries. US High School students are much less aware of the world history and politics, have lower mathematical and scientific skills, possess lower reasoning and judgement capabilities than European students of the same age. Universities are prohibitively expensive, the better the university, the more expensive it is. Students are often immersed on a lifelong burden of debt or get wiped out of all savings for an average college degree which costs a fraction in European countries or is free as in case of countries like Germany.
Media and News - The media in United States is very short sighted and excludes the rest of the world which it considers as an amusement park. The political and cultural news about the world is often negatively biased from an American point of view to suit ‘Americanised’ tastes. Sex and sexuality is either commoditised in an obsessively unhealthy way or vilified, making it to look as a dirty and evil act. In contrast, political and cultural news in European media is much more worldly and inclusive. News media tend to present facts rather than biased opinions; sex and sexuality is shown in a positive and healthy light as compared to the US.
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- By Mark Leonard
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