The Rabbi's Cow is Always Kosher (II)

Self-Interest Modifies Decisions or Judgments

 

I used a translation of a cynical Yiddish proverb for the title of the blog entry on the Agriprocessors story.

 

In Jewish law there are many reasons why a Rabbi might declare meat from a slaughtered cow non-kosher, but in the case of his own cow and his own economic self-interest, he might judge the entrails differently.

 

Arabic has a similar proverb (in Colloquial Egyptian).

 

قالوا للقضي حيطة شخ عليها الكلب قال لازم هدّها قالوا دي اللي بيننا وبينكم قال قليل من الماء يطهرها

 

They said to the Qadi: A wall – the dog pissed on it.

He said: Obligatory to knock it down.

They said: That adjoining between us and you (plural).

He said: A little water purifies it.

 

[It's a lot pithier in Arabic.]

 

This sort of situational ethics has become the norm of far too many Jews that support all sorts of racist practices in the Israeli context even though historically in the American context Jews have opposed discriminatory laws when applied to Jews and often also when applied to non-Jews.

 

The Jewish insistence on Holocaust restitution is quite hypocritical when far too many Jews make all sorts of mental contortions to justify the refusal to restore properties or residence rights of which Palestinians have been wrongfully deprived.

 

US foreign policy like that of other great powers has long suffered from a similar sort of hypocrisy, but since Jewish Zionist Neocons become dominant in the US policy-making establishment, US foreign policy hypocrisy -- now resulting from attention both to American and also to Zionist interests -- has reached hitherto unachieved heights when officials like Condi Rice address the ME, Russia and Georgia. 

 

Similar pretence has spread throughout the DOJ, for the Bush administration uses the court system to persecute Muslim charities at the same time Jewish and Zionist individuals and organizations provide massive ongoing material support of Zionist terrorism.

 

Any American believing in equality before the law should be offended.

 

Not only are far too many Americans clueless about history or foreign policy issues, but all sense of morality or fundamental American principles has been lost. Support for Zionism spreads poison throughout American culture and especially among those like Richard Land and his white evangelical associates and supporters, who claim to be most concerned with American values.

 

 

 

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