Jew Hate Bubbles Up In the US

James Kunstler writes:

My own theory-du-jour goes something like this: The current orgy of Jew-hating is prompted by rage actually derived from the perceived "Jew-run" Wall Street companies who have now utterly wrecked the US economy -- Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, et cetera, not to mention the Jewish players leading the cast of this show -- Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, Sandy Weil, Bernie Madoff, et al., a veritable Jew-O-Rama of money-grubbing (i.e. a Jewish trait) scoundrels who have utterly pranged the American Way of Life in order to hide their private billions in the Cayman Islands.

These Jew villains, the story goes, have taken Little Debbie Snack Cakes out of the mouths of millions of squalling KMart-Shoppers-in-Training! And must now be called out to punishment! The fear and anger over the losses on Wall Street -- and the personal accounts of millions of investors -- is being deflected (for the moment!) onto the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

What remains to be seen, of course, is whether the new spate of All-American red-white-and-blue Jew-hating will ramp up and turn into something I have been predicting for a while: "Corn-pone Nazism." We are a people now with great reservoirs of grievance and resentment. The nation is getting hammered economically, and yes, the banking industry lies in smoldering ruins -- due, no more to the Jews than to all those fine, blonde-headed WASP young men and women who marched straight out of the Ivy League MBA programs to the computer boiler rooms of the Wall Street Investment banks, where they cooked up the giant alphabet soup of securities swindles that blew up the banks. There's culpability galore to go around to all ethnic persuasions -- a regular diversity fiesta of misfeasance and greed.

The basic formula persists, though, despite Hitler, Himmler, Eichman, Hasan Nasrullah, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: when something goes wrong with money, blame the Jews. A lot of readers have sent me letters pressing me to lay low, go into hiding, be quiet, buy motion-detector lights for the house. I'm not doing any of these things, but I'm real eager to see what kind of craziness will come streaming out of America's woodwork. Maybe I should buy some stock in the company that manufactures roach motels.

NVDL: This in a rare instance where I find myself differing with Jim. Perhaps it is because I am a South African, and so am painfully aware of how a minority (which is what israel is in the Muslim Middle East) can beat its hard head against the anvil of a majority, even a poor and apparently powerless majority.

It is not right that hundreds of Palestinian lives be sacrificed for a dozen or so Israeli's. Respect for life ought to apply to one and all equally.

I also feel the use of overwhelming force will come to haunt the current perpetrators in time. The beaten foes will come back and visit their enemies with their own version of overwhelming force. There happens to be a very convenient weapon especially designed to demonstrate absolute destructive power. Until now, most people have been too afraid to use it. Make use of overwhelming force on enough occasions, use phosphorous in your bombs, and sooner or later, someone is going to graduate to nuclear weapons.