“People of the Book” or “People of the anime”?

I grew up in Soviet Moscow, in a largely Jewish environment. We often talked about Israel, discussed what was happening in Israel, worried about this country.

I DO NOT REMEMBER a single example when I encountered disdain and negative attitudes toward Israel among Moscow Jews. Some preferred to discuss this topic in a whisper – more than understandable, given the regime’s prohibitions. Some were bolder.

But I repeat: I have NEVER seen Jews sympathize with Arabs and Israel haters and demonstratively despise the Jewish state. This was unthinkable.

I knew almost nothing about Jewish tradition (except that we bought matzah at the Moscow synagogue). But Jewish tradition inspired respect and pride in me and many of my Jewish peers.

I remember how attentively I read the TANAKH (and it was not so easy to get hold of it in the 70s) about the great history that took place in Jewish land here thousands of years ago. My feelings were typical for a significant part of Jewish youth.

One of the most painful discoveries already here in Israel was the realization of HOW MANY Jews in Israel and the United States are ready to easily put the fate of this country on the line and even sacrifice it; how many despise both Jewish values ​​and biblical history (even if they formally observe some traditions).

A series of betrayals, shame and meanness are imprinted in my memory like a newsreel.

• The Oslo Agreement and “sacrifices on the altar of peace” (thousands of Jewish victims were “sacrificed”, and none of the “architects of Oslo” were punished!);
• The betrayal of the Arabs, who were foolish enough to rely on Israel. “We have been betrayed,” one of the mayors of Samaria told me in an interview in 1995. His words have stuck in my memory;
• The shameful flight from Lebanon and the betrayal of the Maronites;
• The humiliation of Barack at Camp David and the thousands of lives lost after that in “second intifada”;
• Betrayal of the Jews of Gaza – they were the salt of the nation;
• Pilgrimage of Israeli intelligentsia to Arafat: the same Arafat whom even the Russians, not to mention the Jews, openly despised;
• Jewish policemen that trampled Jewish boys and girls with gusto in Amona;
• Sderot that was abandoned to its fate in the name of appeasing Hamas;
• Auto-da-fé over Elor Azaria, who shot dead a suicide bomber;
• Amos Oz, who sent his book to serial killer of Jews Marwan Barghouti (he wrote: ‘Hope to meet soon in peace and freedom’), and homosexuals who called their Arab sexual partners “proud Palestinians”;
• Haaretz, Palestinian newspaper in Hebrew, TV channels in the role of Soviet Agitprop, two Ehuds – Barak and Olmert (I interviewed both, and today I feel disgusted for it);
• The generals who nurtured Hamas;
• Head of the leading left-wing party, former general, who called settlers “subhumans”: “These are not people, these are subhumans, they are despicable”.

This list is endless, you can easily add to it.

It turns out that there are Jews who are capable of mocking other Jews on Yom Kippur.

And they don’t just exist. That would be half the trouble. The trouble is that there is a huge part of the Israeli elite.

I would never have believed that after two thousand years of suffering and the Holocaust, Jews would worship their tormentors.

A friend of mine who worked at Lesin’s theater told me how the acting troupe lived with the dream of quickly “breaking out of here” and going to Germany, a “civilized country,” as they called it.

“One day, one of them came up to me and said that Hitler was right,” he recalled.

I wrote articles about self-hating Jews and found that there were hosts of them on both sides of the ocean.

And now 7.10 has arrived, and it turns out that everything is much worse. It turns out that many Israeli officers are devoid of both shame and honor. They are not fighting the enemy, but the government of their own people. And here they are ruthless.

Every day a new abomination comes into this world. We saw:

• IDF и Shabak, sending female soldiers to terrorists as sex-dolls;
• High Court Judge, visiting terrorists “Nukhba”;
• A high-ranking Shin Bet official calling Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria “jerks” and calling to place them “in detention cells with rats” without charge;
• False ‘Arab Terrorist Rape Cases’;
• the failed head of the Shin Bet, who is billed as a defender of democracy;
• “leaks”, fabricated cases, forgeries, slander, illegal arrests.

I saw Jews who vilify those who sympathize with them, like Trump and Orban, and fawn over those who despise and oppress them.

I saw American Jewish billionaires donating to Jewish foundations so that they could, through Jewish NGOs, fund terrorist groups and Islamo-Nazis in Israel and on campuses.

I saw Bernie Sanders, Soros, Thomas Friedman, Schumer, Judith Butler, Nadler, Jamie Raskin, Schiff, Peter Beinart, rabbis for “Palestine,” Jewish activists for “Palestine,” Jewish LGBTK+++ for “Palestine.” Thousands like them. A huge part of the Jewish American elite.

These Jews have forgotten their own dignity and reason. They have even forgotten the instinct for self-preservation. They are spoiled, vile children who, have inherited a home earned through pain, suffering and blood, break down its walls and set it on fire from the inside to please the jeering crowd outside.

They have forgotten what it is like to live in galut, in fear, in humiliation, in contempt, in powerlessness. Less than a hundred years after the Holocaust, they seem to be obsessed with a new Holocaust.

The “People of the Book” gave birth to the “People of the anime”: infantile feelings, infantile thoughts, infantile worldview. And this is their finest hour.