Eli Valley's Israel Man and Diaspora Boy

The following comic strip by Eli Valley provides an excellent introduction to fundamental Zionist concepts but misses a key subtlety that Yael Zerubavel describes in Recovered Roots, Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition on p. 19:

The highly negative perception of Exile often turned from shelilat hagalut (the repudiation of the state of living in exile) to shelilat hagolah (the condemnation of the people who live in exile), the product of its demeaning and regressive lifestyle.

In theory the Galut (גלות‎, Exile) was the problem, but Zionist leaders turned the rejection of the Exile into contempt for the people of the Exile.*

By creating a sort of collective communal inferiority complex among Diaspora Jewry, the Zionist intelligentsia and Israeli leadership have managed to stymie any significant Jewish intracommunal challenge to Zionist ideology or goals.

Because the Zionist intelligentsia mobilizes the American Zionist Jewish political economic oligarchs

• that pay for Diaspora Jewish education (really indoctrination) and
• that dominate the Israeli political process via power of the purse or by influencing US foreign policy,

Zionist intellectuals maintain a fairly thorough discipline over the American Jewish community, which in general serves the Zionist intelligentsia and oligarchy very often to the detriment of its own interests.

Thus ordinary American Jews act for the most part as an obedient Zionist resource with no real voice in the Zionist political activities that have rendered the USA an intimidated and dependent client state of the highly successful and extremely rapacious Zionist imperial system that is effectively ruled and managed by approximately 500 hyperwealthy Zionist plutocrats and about 5000 Zionist intellectuals or bureaucrats.

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The blogentry Whence comes Jewish Rage? discusses another cartoon from Eli Valley.

Note

* The Zionist leaders whether plutocrats or intelligentsia never developed any sort of inferiority or self-criticism complex and generally had a monomanic belief in their own correctness and superiority.

The Jewish community as a whole never rejected its adversarial relationship with or feeling of superiority toward non-Jews except perhaps for a short period in the early history of the Jewish Reform movement.

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Whence comes Jewish Rage?

Hint: Not Gamma Radiation
Followup: Arun Gandhi and Sholem Aleichem
Followup: The Lies of Yiddish Studies

In the nineteenth century, Jewish anger in Central and Eastern Europe resulted mostly from the breakdown of the traditional Jewish community, the disappearance of the traditional Jewish economic sector, and a sense of thwarted entitlement.

Many Jews became highly disaffected and took part in violent revolutionary activities, terrorism and assassination or simply engaged in exploitive and ethically questionable business practices toward their non-Jewish (and sometimes their Jewish) neighbors.

The Holocaust might explain some aspects of Jewish confrontational behavior, but Jewish Holocaust fixation for the most part starts in the aftermath of the 1967 Israeli War of Aggression and has steadily increased ever since. Holocaust obsession is probably a consequence of increasing Jewish confrontationalism, and, in any case, a large proportion of Russian Ashkenazim were up to their eyeballs in mass murder, ethnic cleansing, and genocide on behalf of the Bolshevik Revolution or the Soviet Union long before the mass killing of Jews started in 1941 during World War 2.

Nowadays, the older generation of Jews seems to live in dread that younger Jews will realize how evil Zionism and the State of Israel really are while younger Jews often educated in Hebrew school on stories of positive Jewish achievements and the greatness of Israel suffer severe cognitive dissonance whenever confronted with the reality of increasing legitimate hostility towards Jews because of the crimes of Zionism and of the State of Israel.

To the left and above is a great cartoon on Jewish rage from Jewcy.com (Eli Valley's The Incredible Hulk). It depicts by analogy the heavy-handed and legally questionable means that American Jews use in their never-ending quest to control discourse about the State of Israel and to prevent any public questioning of the US-Israel alliance.

 

The loss of power experienced by the Hulk when he thinks about allying with Christian evangelical fundamentalists is a good metaphor for the paralysis that besets the organized Jewish community whenever a proposal is made to give some sort of official status to Christian Zionists in Jewish pro-Israel activities.

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