A Jewish Story. Sheldon Cohen

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СКАЧАТЬ he’s paranoid, he feels that others are against him, or, if not that, then he is looking for a scapegoat to occupy the people’s mind just like the Czars of Russia did to turn thinking in the direction they want. Anyway, here is what he said. I’ll read it to you.” Ben turned a few pages in his notebook, found what he was looking for, settled back in his chair and started reading. ‘The Jewish doctrine of Marxism—that’s his word for Communism, he names it after Karl Marx, Communism’s founder— rejects the aristocratic principle of Nature and replaces the eternal privilege of power and strength, by the mass of numbers and their dead weight.’ You see, David? He is saying that he hates democracy. He states that it is a mass of big numbers with its dead weight of all those people who cannot run a country. He believes that the power and strength of one man is what countries needs...that’s what he means by the aristocratic principle of nature and the eternal privilege of power and strength. Then he says, ‘Thus it, he means democracy, denies the value of personality in man, contests the significance of nationality and race, and thereby withdraws from humanity the premise of its existence and culture.’ Again, you see, he says that democracy is wrong because it does not want the strong man, it does see people as equal, which he does not, and that a democratic system will destroy a country. He sees democracy as the ‘end of all order,’ and he says, ‘this doctrine would bring about the end of any order intellectually conceivable to man.’ Then he goes on to say, ‘and as, in this greatest of all recognizable organisms, the result of the application of such a law could only be chaos; on earth it could only be destruction for the inhabitants of this planet.’ Is that taking it far, or not? Here’s how he ends up. ‘If, with the help of his Marxist creed, the Jew is victorious over the other peoples of the world, his crown will be the funeral wreath of humanity and this planet will, as it did thousands of years ago, move through the ether devoid of men. Eternal Nature inexorably avenges the infringement of her commands.’”

      Ben continued, ‘Follow the Jew,’ he says, ‘and it will be the end of life on earth.’ And if all that isn’t enough, here’s his final statement. ‘Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the almighty creator: by defending against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.’

      “Wow, so God’s giving him orders?” said David, shaking his head.

      “No, not that, but in his warped brain he can read God’s mind, so to speak. Is this a mad-man…or what? I hope you see now why I worry about this man. Anybody who can talk like this is a fanatic. He’s laying out his plans for the whole world to see. He’s telling us what kind of world he thinks people need in order to stay alive and do good—and that’s a world either where Jews have no power, or where there are no Jews. I’m not sure which.”

      “I have a hard time understanding why Hitler thinks that Jews are so bad. What did we ever do that makes him think like that?”

      “That’s my son alright; he asks, asks, and asks. Never stop, David. That’s how we learn. That’s how we get answers, and we put those answers we get into our brain and we see if it makes any sense to us. I asked the same question myself, and even when I read his reasons, I couldn’t come up with an answer, but I did come up with some thoughts that are mine that I believe in. I tried to peek into his head and I’ll share my thoughts with you, but whether anyone, including me will have the true answers, I can’t tell you. This was a fascinating study to me. I sure gave my brain a workout, and I got it all written down in my notebook, so here’s what I think. He starts by comparing Jews in a good light to Aryans. In his mind, Aryans are the greatest people, and their descendants were the German people. None other. I thought that was interesting, because that to him is a compliment toward the Jews. He goes on to say that the Jews keep going and stay together and keep the religion alive for the last two thousand years in spite of the fact that, and I quote, ‘What people, finally, has gone through greater upheavals than this one—and nevertheless issued from the mightiest catastrophes of mankind unchanged? What an infinitely tough will to live and preserve the species speaks from these facts?’

      “I never thought of that,” said David. “He’s right. What’s funny to me is the way he calls Jews a species, like we’re some kind of animal or something.”

      “Yes, he says crazy things, alright, but he doesn’t discuss the reasons why the Jews have remained a single people,” said Ben.

      David stared at his father. “Do you know the reasons?”

      “I think I do. First, Jews were the first to promote the idea of one God. We kept that concept alive for thousands of years from the days of Abraham to Moses and right up to now. We were one people then, in one location and when we lived in the area on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean about two thousand years ago, we built a great Temple in Jerusalem, a house of God. In that Temple was a Priest and the Ten Commandments that Moses received on Mount Sinai. We developed a Torah, the book of laws. With the Temple destruction, the Jews spread throughout the world. How would they stay alive? How would they remain a single people if they spread all over?”

      “Let me think, dad. Hmmm…well, we’re still Jews…we have a synagogue…we have a Rabbi…”

      “You’ve got it, David. We took the Temple with us wherever we went by building little houses of worship...synagogues. We kept the Ten Commandments and our rules, we kept our teaching over the centuries and we carried the Torah with us and always had a rabbi to guide us who replaced the one priest. We survived, but you’ll never read any of this in Mein Kampf. Hitler will tell his people that we survived because our goal was to take over the entire earth; a Jewish plot. I can’t get over the idea of his paranoia.

      “Anyhow, he also says we’re a smart people, but he says that’s because, as he puts it, ‘But his intelligence is not the result of his own development, but of visual instruction through foreigners.’ I’m not going to say that Jews are any smarter than anyone else, but, to me, this was Hitler’s way of saying that we’re not—and there I’m not going to disagree with him. But if he’s trying to give others credit for the fact that we aren’t so dumb, that’s fine with me because everybody learns that way. Again, rather than give the Jew credit, he will credit others for whatever brains the Jew has.

      “From here on, you’ll see that there’s very little good he has to say about Jews. For instance, he says that the Jews have no culture, no art, architecture or music. He calls Jews parasites on other peoples.”

      “I guess now he’s getting into it, isn’t he?” said David.

      “Yes, he is and he starts with a lie. Do you know what The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is, David?”

      “No, what is it?”

      “This was a bunch of documents that was written by the Ochrana, the Czar’s Russian Secret Police. They wrote it just to get the minds of the peasants away from any thoughts of revolution against the Czar. I think they wrote it in the late eighteen hundreds. It was a proven forgery. The Russians wrote this, but said that secret Jewish world leaders wrote it and it said that the Jews were planning to overthrow world governments, including the Russian government. In other words, it was a Jewish plot to take over the world—and all the brainchild of the Ochrana, blaming the Jews. The Jews would install an anti-Christ form of dictatorship. This got the people worked up against the Jews, turned their minds away from the Czar and was one of the reasons for the pogroms against the Jews. That’s how your grandfather, my father died. You can understand how important words can be in the lives of some people.”

      “Yeah, I remember what you and mom told me,” said David. “But who were these Jewish world leaders?”

      “There are no such animals. Jews don’t have anything like that. Catholics have a Pope, but Jews don’t have a single leader. We have famous Jews just like all other religions have famous members, СКАЧАТЬ