(Which is not, of course, to say that there aren't other sick societies.)

From the Jabotinski Society of Militant Zionists, otherwise known as the Washington Post: "A poll in Tuesday's Yedioth Aharonoth, an Israeli daily, found that 86 percent of those surveyed said that the Israeli offensive against Hezbollah was "the right thing to do," and 81 percent wanted it to continue; 58 percent said it should continue until Hezbollah is destroyed, and 17 percent said they favored a cease-fire and the start of negotiations."

An unparalleled history of victimization; an unprecedented and inconceivable industrial massacre during World War II; the development thereafter of an international politics of victimization (in which it is presumed that groups of tribally-defined groups fight only for their own interests before official government arbiters, and only the victimized groups are seen as being beyond reproach in their self-seeking); the resulting celebration of the "Jew" as, to borrow Gillian Rose's words, "the sublime Other of modernity," untainted by the depredations of enlightenment and bureaucratic rationality; the appearance of various "holy Jews" at the highest and lowest levels of international culture (Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, Elie Wiesel, Anne Frank, Jesus Christ--piously recast, of course, as a misunderstood "Jew", etc., etc.); the delirious self-celebration of America in the period after World War II, focusing largely on the American "rescue" of the world from the evils of Hitler, and developing into a cult of American support for Hitler's holy victims in the holy land; 70 years of hermetically sealed Zionist history taught in the U.S. and in Israel, in which virtually all Jews are taught that, as "holy Jew" Golda Meir put it, "there is no such thing as a Palestinian"; and the result of all of this is: a sick, sick society.

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