Gustave > the staunchest supporters of jackboot Israel are the far-right parties and pseudo-liberal Jews, that is, Jews who advocate liberal values at home but blindly support Israel's illiberal, religious fanaticism
On the basis of my own experience, particularly with whites in South Africa (I am one), I identify certain traits which may account for this:
1. The delusion that one is "better" than others. There is thus an innate arrogance
2. The refusal to live side-by-side with others and accept their values. One has to have segregation, apartheid, a ghetto, either for oneself or the others.
3. The basis of the delusion being a God-conferred quality eg religion, skin color, whatever. This confers the self-righteousness which is typical. One has to be answerable to a "Higher" calling.
4. The evident manifestation of the belief expressed by the slogan "when the going gets tough, the true believer is gone" -- emigrated -- the victim of a purge or persecution, whatever. Then he can start up his "cause" in a new country, claiming sympathy, possibly expecting some advantage for his "suffering", and invariably rising to the top of the socio-economic tree in the new country -- until he "pisses off" the people there too -- and the process starts all over. |
