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…The problem with Livni and her generation of Israelis is the disconnect between them and the Jewish people in history. If Tsipi Livni thinks, in her own words, “The whole world blames Israel even though Israel behaved appropriately” and it’s Uri Ariel’s fault they do, she has zero sense of the history of the Jewish people. She has no sense that in every generation in Christendom and Islam the Jews were believed to be behind all kinds of misfortunes. The Jews were always guilty of something.
In a way, the guilty Jew is the core image of Christianity: Jesus, the Jew, is tortured to death for all the sins of mankind. As he passed from life to death he bore all the sins of mankind and thus cleansed men of their guilt. And indeed in Jewish history in every generation Christians have killed guilty Jews for one reason or another… |