If Barack Obama is animated by any persistent ends (or world view) that shape his political acts (or tactics), it’s a combination of thinly veiled hatred of both Judaism and Americanism. I for one am pleased to see Jews and Americans in the same boat, if only because I‘m proud say I am an American Jew who has devoted his life to studying and writing about the unsurpassed statesmanship of America’s Founding Fathers and the inexhaustible wisdom of the Torah which the Jewish people bestowed on mankind since the Revelation at Mount Sinai.

Obamanization: slavery and propaganda

Obama addresses the uniformed division of the Secret Service in front of the South Portico of the White House. Photo courtesy Pete Souza/The White House

With the possible exception of slavery, Obamanizaton is the greatest curse that has been inflicted on the American people, and the irony – a double irony – is that a black who is not an American, is the personification of this curse, and would not be were it not for the principles of the American Declaration of Independence which he scorns in utter ignorance of their Judaic origin.

This ignorance underlies Obama’s anti-American and anti-Israel Agreement with Iran, a despotic regime whose pathological Muslim leaders revel in ecstasy screaming “Death to America!” and “Death to Israel!”

To understand the political rationale behind these theological maledictions, it will be helpful to consult Vladimir Jabotinsky whose understanding of anti-Semitism – a misleading euphemism for hatred of Jews and Judaism – is most illuminating.

Blaming the Jews

In his book, The Jewish War Front, which was written and published in 1940, the year of his death, Jabotinsky said that Nazi Germany’s drive toward world dominion would have been a nonstarter had it not been for anti-Semitism.  He writes:

Everybody knows that in propaganda the appeal of love is slow and lumbering in comparison with the appeal of hatred. Hatred is the piquant sauce which accelerates both the swallowing and the digestion of ideas and policies.  And the ‘sauce’ can be fully effective only if the object of hatred is close at hand, familiar to all, and easily and safely attacked.

Enter Muslim Jew-hatred. Ingrained in Arabs from childhood on, this hatred can remain dormant for years, and suddenly, like an unseen explosive, it can be ignited at any time by Arab despots.

Ponder Jabotinsky’s insight:

Had the Nazi propaganda been confined from the beginning to preaching rebellion against the Versailles peace terms and the wickedness of the English or the French or the Americans, its theoretical appeal might still have been powerful, but its actual progress among the masses would have been so gradual that it’s doubtful whether it would have gathered enough energy for an explosion.

Jabotinsky explains:

A Versailles Treaty is not a tangible object of real and palpable hatred; the emotions of the masses cannot be stirred by an object which can only be seen in the public library.  On the other hand, hating the English or the Americans is either a torture to the hater himself, so long as he dare not express his hatred by deeds, or a very dangerous enterprise, if he tries prematurely to translate his hatred into action.  There is only one ideal object for mass training in collective hate, and that is the Jews.

The Jew is everywhere in reach; he can be pointed out at any street corner [in Israel or in Brooklyn]; and he can be insulted or assaulted with only the minimum of risk, or with none at all. To foster a movement of the Nazi type without the daily use of Jewish targets would be like staging a pageant without rehearsals.

Moreover, to divert attention of people the failings and hateful acts of their own regime, nothing is more effective than focusing popular discontent and hatred on the Jews. The keen-eyed and down-to-earth Jabotinsky discerned what few saw outside Germany: the extent to which the Nazi movement depended, during the two decades of its existence, on Jew-hatred for its vitality and driving power.

Without referring to the Jews, National Socialism could have simply emphasized rearmament, the militarization of the Rhine district, the restoration of Germany’s colonies, the Anschluss of Austria, and the annexation of the Sudetenland. All these aims could have been preached every whit as forcibly had their authors never thought of Israel and Judah. But they evidently felt, from the very beginning, that none of these aims would ‘go down’ properly with the masses unless they were duly seasoned. Thus, not a single spoonful of this witches’ brew was offered without the spice of anti-Semitism.

Now we can better appreciate why the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are disseminated throughout the Arab world.  This is the spice of Jew-hatred that enables Arab rulers to finance Arab terrorism and plan the next war on Israel.  But what of the Jews?

Jabotinsky refers to a Jewish revolutionary in Tsarist Russia who uttered the oft-quoted formula: Jewish blood is the best for oiling the wheels of progress.

Yasser Arafat’s successor Mahmoud Abbas applied this formula in the Oslo “peace process.” Unless Jews are murdered on a regular basis they will resist exchanging territory for peace. How to deal with this cunning was beyond the smartness and staying power of Israel’s milquetoast prime ministers.

If this was not enough, the shedding of Jewish blood sustains the pacifism and post-Zionism of the Israeli Left. This bloodshed requires not only Jew-hating Arabs, but also self-hating Jews who allow these Arabs to murder Jews without fear of massive retaliation.

No wonder contempt for Israel has been magnified by the Islamic sympathies, hence anti-Israel (hence anti-Jewish) propensities, of Barack Obama. Obamanizaton is the feel good slavery of our time.☼