A disease of society and its
consequences.
Boris Gulko
Translation of Alla Axelrod
The
fate of societies and civilizations is similar to human fate. The main
similarity is that all three are mortal. The cause of death is disease and the
main sign of an old age is a total deterioration of the body.
The
situation seems hopeless, but human societies have a hope. There is an
exception of Jews. Having come into the synagogue on the Sabbath, the curious
visitor may find that during the weekly reading of the Torah that while reading
her weekly servings one of the Cohens gets invited. Cohen must be a descendant
of Aaron, brother of Moses. Cohens have special rights that are given to them,
continuing for more then 33 centuries, since the Jews were wandering in the
desert. And the curious visitor will realize that immortality of the Jews is
associated with eternity of the Torah. If the Jews will disappear, Torah will
become meaningless as well. Its characters will disappear too.
A
clear sign of the Jewish immortality is the absence of senile decrepitude in
us. Despite the fact that the number of Jews in the world is equal to the
statistical error in calculating the Chinese, as the joke made by the sociologist Milton Himmelfarb, Jews dominate
in many intellectual and spiritual areas. Jewish society is prone to a disease
like any other. Entire communities under the influence of internal or external
causes disappear. In the last century, the Jews suffered, apparently, two fatal blows - fascination with Marxism and the
Holocaust. But after that the people rose mystically in the rebirth of Israel . The
Jews of Israel are now a young, full of energy ethnos, with their own language
and remarkable demographics, which has returned to everyday life from the dark
depths of a past era.
Simultaneously
with this miracle, the common for the peoples of the world thing is happening -
the recent process of dying of the largest but fastest assimilating Jewish
community - the community of American Jews. Its fate demonstrates the grotesque
form of a social disease that has affected the Western world, called “progressivism”.
For thousands of years, Jews have been preserved through faithfulness to Judaism. After their secularization in the first half of the twentieth century, the self-identification of the Galut Jews took place on the basis of solidarity withIsrael 's
struggle for survival. Thus, the renaissance of Russian Jewry, also seemingly
doomed, began after the miracle of Israel 's victory in the 1967
Six-Day War. Similar was the hope for the survival of unorthodox American Jews.
But now, because of the disease of progressivism, the sense of community of
American Jews with Israeli brethren is passing away, the thread connecting them
with Jewry is breaking off.
For thousands of years, Jews have been preserved through faithfulness to Judaism. After their secularization in the first half of the twentieth century, the self-identification of the Galut Jews took place on the basis of solidarity with
“The
Algemeiner” newspaper reported on a forum of American "Jewish
activists" with four members of the Knesset, held in the large Boston conservative synagogue "Kehillath Israel ".
"Activist" Shifra said at the forum to Israeli politicians: "You
lose me and many people in the Jewish community ... I can’t look the other way
when, because of the murder of three Israeli teenagers, 2,300 Palestinians were
killed in response (Operation “Defensive Shield” in 2014”). I
want to know what you are doing to make peace with the Palestinians. I want to
know what the government is doing to achieve peace." The deputy from
Likud, Amir Ohana, answered her. He
noted that Israel
waged a war with HAMAS because of tens of thousands of bombs and missiles that
fell on the heads of the Jews, and confessed to Shifra: "If I have to
choose between losing more Israeli lives, regardless, civil or military, or losing
you, I will choose, regretfully, to lose you."
The
activists gathered in the synagogue shared Shifra's views. What is the flock,
such are the shepherds -- Israel
is also "losing" most of unorthodox rabbis. After the recently
concluded AIPAC conference, the rabbi of America 's
largest and most influential conservative synagogue, “Park Avenue” synagogue in
Manhattan , Eliot Cosgrove in his speech accused Israel of
apartheid, since Arabs from the Palestinian Authority can not participate in
elections to the Israeli Knesset. The rabbi could be indignant that the
autonomy authorities have not held their elections for many years. But until Israel did not annex Judea
and Shomron, why should the Arabs of the autonomy participate in the Israeli
elections?
At
the annual conference of the anti-Israeli organization of the ESTs (Jewish
self-haters), "Jewish Voices for Peace", recently concluded in
Chicago, honored the Arab terrorist Rasmey Odeh who participated in the 1969
terrorist attack in which two Jewish students were killed. The murderer was
introduced to more than a thousand people who gathered there by Rabbi Alice
Weiss.
The
societies of the Judeo-Christian civilization now suffer, to varying degrees, the
signs of senile decrepitude, manifested in the same way as in humans: the
collapse of self-reproduction and the attacks of the same grievous disease that
American Jews experience, called progressivism, also called liberalism or
leftism. The fatal consequence of this disease of a society is similar to AIDS
in humans - the affected organism is unable to resist the external infection -
the invasion of aggressive Islam, which is openly proclaiming its goal - the
destruction of Western societies and the subordination of their peoples.
The
events that are decisive for the fate of Western civilization are now taking
place in America ,
whose people are much younger than Europeans and, as the latest elections
showed, aren’t able to resist the disease. Progressivism for the 8 years of Obama's
presidency has moved to its goals incredibly, and, it seemed, irrevocably. The
abolition of biblical sexual morality made possible the absurdity of same-sex
marriages, sex change (the most famous transvestite Olympic champion in
decathlon, Bruce Jenner has already announced the desire to go back to the
man's appearance) and even the abolition of the notion of sex manifested in
general toilets and showers in schools. The victories of "combating
racism" split the societies into groups with different rights - that is,
they achieved the reverse goals, exactly opposite to what they were initially. "Women's
rights" made men hostages and led in colleges to an epidemic of groundless
accusations of rape. The most famous case is the groundless accusation of a mentally
ill black striptease girl claimed to be raped by a group of students, Lacrosse
players of the University
of Duke , which cost the
guys three years of litigation, and the astronomical legal expenses to their
parents.
The
Progressives’ expected victory in the fight against "climate change"
promised governments and intra-national organizations like the United Nations
control over industry and agriculture, as well as the distribution among the
impoverished population, because of such control of food and life benefits
means total dictatorship. And the influx of Muslims from the Middle East to America had to
suppress the possibility of resisting progressivism in democratic ways by
citizens with traditional values.
But
at the moment when the history of the Judeo-Christian civilization in America seemed
to come to an end, an incredible thing happened. Against the position of all
elites and media, and despite the predictions, Donald Trump, a man of common
sense and with traditional values, won in the presidential election. He took on
the abolition of the most destructive "achievements" of President
Obama, with an "obsessive determination" as progressive journalists
complain, fulfilling his election promises.
Progressive
journalists (and this includes most of them) and politicians began and continue
4 months of hysteria: they are observing the death of what liberalism has
achieved. Unable to defend it, the Progressives have strained all the power of
their lungs to yell out the connections of the Trump administration with
Russian agents, while, according to the chief of intelligence services in the
Obama administration, James Clapper, they have no evidence to prove it.
These
attempts: accusations that the Attorney General of the United States, while still
being a Senator, spoke with the ambassador of Russia, and some Trump‘s adviser back in 2013 met with a Russian businessman,
reminiscent of the fight against Trotskyism, which we read about in books
(someone somewhere met with someone
somewhere, yadda, yadda, yadda), would be amusing, if all this anti-Russian
"struggle" today did not pose a threat to the fate of the world,
depending on the interaction of the US and Russia in countering the Muslim
threat.
Some
diseases of Russian society are specific to Russia only, and some a similar to
the West. The most difficult specific
problem is de-selection: mass getting rid of the best people from all walks of
life, to which the country's population has been subjected for a century. Even in
Stalin’s times Korolyov[A1] designed rockets that carried the first man-made satellite and sent
the first man into space, and Tupolev[A2] created airplanes suitable for both war and peace. Today in Russia , no
matter for how much money, there are no one to develop modern technologies. Real
scientists who survived in socialism, left for the West. University, the only
Russian school mentioned in the top 100 in the world, is now listed towards its
end.
Even
more terrible consequences of anti-selection of the population are in the
destruction of morality. In the corruption perception index prepared by
Transparency International in December 2014, Russia
shares 136th place out of 175 with Nigeria ,
Cameroon , Iran , Kyrgyzstan
and Lebanon .
Corruption for society is what cancer is for a man. There are no means to
struggle with it. Usually in a society infected with corruption, success in
such a struggle only means a replacement of one corrupt official with another.
And
the general problem of Russia
and the West is demographic. Its solution in Russia
is analogous to Europe - at the expense of
emigrants from Muslim countries. In case of Russia ,
these are the former republics of the USSR . Nowadays, Muslims make up
about 15% of the country. In the next decade, this figure is expected to reach
20%, approximately as in Israel
and much higher than in other European countries.
In
this regard, the problem of terrorism for Russia is extremely relevant. The
last major attack - in the St. Petersburg subway
- was made by a native of Kyrgyzstan .
The
most dangerous for today's world among the Islamist forces is the aggressive
regime of Iran ,
fueled by Obama's 150 billion of dollars, on the way to mastering nuclear
weapons. Well informed journalist Caroline Glick in an article from March 23
explains: "Obama's foreign policy crowned achievement was his nuclear deal
with the mullahs. It opened Iran 's
way to the nuclear arsenal and promises the regime of realization of Ayatollah Khomeini’s
wildest dream ... In Obama’s last year at the office, his greatest concern was
to ensure that his nuclear deal with Iran survived his presidency.
Glick
points out the means of solving the deadly threat: "For decades, Russia was the main supplier of arms to Iran ... If Trump could convince Russia to abandon Iran 's
support, he would have had the opportunity to dismantle the regime in Tehran , neutralize the
Iranian nuclear program and destroy Hezbollah without the need for a major war.
The payment of Russia
for consent to such a deal will be significant. But if Trump accepts such a
policy, the US
has many negotiating "arguments" that he can use to persuade Putin to
withdraw from the ayatollahs and eliminate the threat that they represent for
US interests. "
The
problem with this strategy is obvious. Glick explains: "Since the election
day, the Democrats and their loud flapping seals in the media, as well as
allies in the US intelligence community, have hit the drums of war against
Russia and accused Trump and his advisers that they act as Russian puppets at
best and agents at worst ... Trump needs a deal with the Russians. The only
question is whether he is willing to pay the political price this transaction
will require? "
The
answer to this question will result in whether the Iranian atomic bomb will explode
in an unpredictable place in the next decade or two?
[A1]Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, 1907 – 1966 worked as the lead Soviet rocket
engineer and spacecraft designer
[A2]Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev was a pioneering Soviet aircraft designer.
During his career, he designed and oversaw the design of more than 100 types of
aircraft, some of which set 78 world records.
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