Taking Quiescent Jewish Fundamentalism to the Extreme

This is where it ends. This is its logical conclusion. Kissing your master before he blows your people to smithereens. Applauding him as he assures you your coreligionists will soon be destroyed in a new genocide. Because they are no longer your coreligionists. You truly no longer see them as Jews like you. You believe your insanity, that they are dibbuks and monsters. Part of a foreign element, a “great multitude,” or however you explain it.

Judaism’s fundamentalists are not just similar in some theoretical way to Islam’s fundamentalists. They are publicly making out. They can’t keep their hands off each other.

There is such a thing as too frum.

Unless it means something else. Something far more thought out and perhaps more chilling.

For those of us who are listening to Holocaust deniers carefully, and not just as an excuse to build yet another museum, we know that Holocaust denial is frequently not really a call for clearer documentation of the Holocaust, but rather, a call for another Holocaust. This is clearly Ahmadinejad’s message, as he seeks nuclear arms.

But he appears to be intentionally bundling his threat to the Jewish state today with an offer of peaceful dismantlement.

Iran Daily reports,

“We recommend the western countries to prepare the grounds for dismantling the Zionist regime as they themselves have established it,� he [Ahmadinejad] said.

Noting that the dismantling of the Zionist regime by the West will be beneficial for international peace, he expressed hope that supporters of the Zionist regime will eventually give a positive response to his proposal. Ahmadinejad pointed out that international problems can be resolved in a friendly and rational manner and in a tranquil manner. “We should help bring about real peace by adopting humanistic methods,“ he said.

Neturei Karta has long been rumored to have ties to the general, non-Zionist haredi community, and has been known to intercede on their behalf. Perhaps they are also seeking to strengthen ties to this regime because they see the writing on the wall, and hope when the time comes, they will be able to act as brokers, and preempt a nuclear destruction of the Jewish state with a peaceful dismantling of it, when Iran’s in a position to make such an ultimatum either directly or indirectly. Perhaps they don’t believe they will succeed, but at least want to attempt to do so, allowing more time to save lives through emigration by facilitating an Iranian attempt at a diplomatic solution before nuking the Jewish state.

I am trying to understand Neturei Karta’s thinking, and would like to believe they see this as something more than simply hatred in their unjustifiable collaboration with the enemy.

Photograph courtesy of Failed Messiah.