The Sparrow and the Beetle
(On Immigrants from the Muslim World in Europe and the US)
By Israel Shamir
I
In 1923s, a Russian poet Carney Chukovsky has written a
delightful short tale for children, Tarakan the Giant Beetle, an
all-time favourite nursery rhyme for Russian kids. It is a story
of the Animal Kingdom intimidated by Tarakan. The Beetle
threatened to devour the disobedient animals, and the awed Lions
and Tigers have holed up in their lairs. True, a beetle has no
fangs or horns, but menacing Tarakan would brandish his great
long mustachio, and no beast would dare to challenge the small
monster, until a little Sparrow flew in, and ate up the Beetle,
to common relief. Despite his threats, Tarakan was just an
insect.
This nursery rhyme came to my mind as the great nations of
Europe, “whose step once shook the earth, who endeavoured
revolutions of great magnitude, populated new continents,
conceived and inspired faiths and religions”, tremble in fear
like schoolchildren in front of their strict teacher. Once,
England ruled the waves, English Tommies climbed the Khyber
pass, marched into Cairo and stormed the Atlantic Wall. A Prime
Minister of England could decide the fate of millions. Now, he
can’t apologise fast enough for a faux-pas of his wife, who
dared to doubt the divine right of Jews to murder Palestinian
children as they find fit.
The French were not afraid to get rid of their king and
aristocracy, to disestablish their Church, to conquer Africa and
move out of Algeria. But their selfless adoration of the Jews
was put in doubt, and they lost their confidence. The Germans
created best music, philosophy and science, and the first
welfare state in human history. Now they go into a collective
toxic shock whenever the word “Jew” is pronounced. Europeans
agreed to become ‘younger brothers of Jews’, and follow the line
ordered by New York and Tel Aviv.
The fate of Americans is not better. Proud to arrogance, they
assumed the White Man’s Destiny will lead them from conquest to
conquest. They took over the great landmass of North America,
forcibly opened the doors of Japan, and won two world wars, just
to find themselves strangers in their own house. Now, instead of
their own history they study Holocaust Studies, instead of
promoting their own interests, they fight mercenary wars for
Israel. They work harder and harder to supply the goods to their
new elite. They judge the world by one criterion, ‘whether it is
good for Jews’.
This fear of Jews became ridiculous and disproportionate. We
Jews have no horns and fangs, we should be treated like any
group of people our size and cultural output: say, Welsh or
Slovak. It is a cause of embarrassment for everybody concerned,
not least to ordinary folks of Jewish origin. It is right time
for the fearless Sparrow to come in and to deflate the overblown
Tarakan, and to save the Lions and the Tigers, as well as the
little white Lamb of the Holy Land. Well, the Sparrow is here,
and I have seen it.
II
Marseille is a dynamic neat Mediterranean city facing one of the
best harbours in the world, well protected by its two forts. The
hometown of French Revolution and of French national anthem, it
was sung by Pagnol, but not everybody in Marseille is called
Marius, not everybody drinks Pastis. The City’s hero is called
Zidane, a Franco-Arab football player of renown. In the Medina,
the colourful Oriental Quarter of the City, throngs of relaxed
and joyful Franco-Arabs, natives of France, second and third
generation of Algerians, Tunisians and Moroccans created an
exciting mixture of Maghreb and Provence. They are free people,
restful and fearless. I was guided there by a large jovial
smiling and chatty woman in colourful long and spacious dress,
Rabha Attaf, born in France but keeping ties with the other
shore of the Med. Rabha was chairing a conference for equality
of Jew and Gentile in the Holy Land.
It was a great relief to meet jolly Rabha and her friends,
children of immigrants and natives of Provence. They cared for
Palestine and did not care for the seal of kosher approval by
the crypto-Zionists. Such approval is not coming cheaply: the
Jews for Two States allow activists a meagre defence against
anti-Semitic labelling and extract recognition of the
exclusionary racist Jewish state in exchange.
A crypto-Zionist I met in Marseille gave me the most ingenious
argument against universal suffrage. “Israel is a racist state,
she said. Why do you want the Palestinians to become citizens of
the racist state?” It was almost as good as Zeno’s proof that
Achilles would never overtake a tortoise.
In the city of the Golden Gate, beautiful San Francisco, I met
the second generation of immigrants who achieved prosperity, but
saved their hearts and desire to help. They do not embrace the
Judeo-American faith, they remain immune to the Mammonite
malady, and they are not easily intimidated by the slur of
anti-Semitism. Together with the brave Afro-Americans, the
Immigrants retain the true American values lost by many docile
WASPs.
The Immigrants from the Muslim world usually are described as
‘Muslims’ or “Arabs”, though many of them belong to Eastern
Christian Churches, Orthodox, Maronite or Nestorian. They have
found a new home in Europe, and became a part of the old
continent’s new mosaic. They even object to continuing
immigration as much as anybody. Innocent of the WWII guilt,
Semitic by race (if it exists) and language, free of hate or
fear of Jews, certain in their religious beliefs, they are
probably the only people (excluding Israeli dissidents) who are
not afraid to take the Judeo-Zionist establishment on. They
smile at the slur of ‘anti-Semitism’ as the Sparrow probably
smiled at Tarakan’s menacing mustachio.
These days, the immigrants have received their baptism of fire
in Germany, the European stronghold of Zionist influence. The
Syrian-born German MP, Jamal Karsli, called on Germany to stop
selling weapons to Israel because, among other things, its armed
forces employ Nazi methods. Immediately his own Green party
ditched him. A lesser man would learn the might of the Giant
Beetle and retire, but this Asian Sparrow joined the Free
Democratic Party (FDP) and broke another taboo by openly
speaking in an interview about the strong influence of the
Zionist lobby over the German media.
The Zionist minders of Germany launched a ferocious attack on
the brave man. Karsli was forced to resign from his new party
and, at very crucial moment for the Palestinians, most of the
potential German supporters of a just peace in the Middle East
became almost completely neutralized, wrote Shraga Elam, an
Israeli dissident living in Germany. Many courageous Israeli
dissidents, including Dr Ilan Pappe of Haifa University and
Gideon Spiro of the Israeli Campaign for Mordechai Vanunu,
supported Karsli.
Shraga Elam writes: “In the present atmosphere in Germany many
people are afraid to utter loudly what they think and to express
their legitimate critique against Israeli war crimes. Because of
this, a growing number of people feel that only the right-wing
radicals are courageous enough to declare publicly the
widespread disapproval of Israeli politics”.
His analysis practically coincides with that of Dr Kevin
McDonald, a California State University Professor, who wrote:
“In Germany, a critical discussion of Jewish policies . . . is
virtually impossible. Whether conservative or liberal, a
contemporary German intellectual who says anything outside a
narrowly defined spectrum of codified pieties about Jews runs
the risk of professional and social suicide. Discussions of the
work of Jewish intellectuals have come to dominate German
intellectual life to the almost complete exclusion of non-Jewish
Germans. Scholars have lost all sense of normal standards of
intellectual criticism and have come to identify more or less
completely with the Jewish victims of Nazism. Jewish writers
like Kafka are seen as intellectual giants who are above
criticism. Even minor Jewish writers are elevated to the highest
levels of the literary canon while Germans like Thomas Mann are
discussed mainly because they held views on Jews that have
become unacceptable in polite society. Indeed, it is not too far
fetched to suppose that German culture as the culture of Germans
has disappeared entirely, replaced by the culture of the
Holocaust” .
It seems even obedient Germans got tired of it. Just a few days
after the brave interview of Jamal Karsli, the Germans flocked
to buy a controversial novel Death of a critic by Martin Walser.
The main character in the book, a creative writer, kills a
vehement Jewish critic (like in Bulgakov’s Master and
Margarita). The leading German newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung called the novel, ‘anti-Semitic,’ but it has been sold
out on its first day of publication in Germany. A few years ago,
Walser caused the rage of Zionist lobby in Germany saying the
WWII tragedy was used as a "moral cudgel" to hammer home "German
disgrace for current-day purposes".
Apparently, Europe and America need immigrants from the Islamic
world as the jungle needs the fearless Sparrow. That is a great
irony of history, as immigrants were considered natural and
obedient allies of anti-nationalist forces. Now these allies had
parted their ways.
III
Immigration from the Islamic world was an important tool of the
neo-liberal, globalist, Mammonite policy. While good people
helped refugees, the Mammonites encouraged immigration as a
means to lower native workers’ salaries, to extract more profit
by using cheap foreign labour and to undermine homogeneity of
the society. The new rich outsiders supported immigration in
order to displace traditional elites and to occupy their place.
European nationalists had a valid reason to object to the
immigration from Dar al-Islam, as they perceived it a threat to
their society’s traditional way of life.
But the Mammonites stepped on their own petard. The immigrants
had settled, moved socially upwards and discovered the unwritten
taboos of the Western society. They noticed that the Mammonites
obstruct their social integration and full participation in the
public discourse. “Could it be that Arab-Americans can’t write?”
– exclaimed the gifted Ahmed Amr from Seattle as he noticed the
Jewish owners and editors of newspapers openly discriminate
immigrants from the East. The Immigrants noticed that the
persecutors of Palestinians are their real adversaries, and they
have had no hate or fear of Jews. It caused the rift between the
immigrants and their former supporters. From Marseille to
Berlin, from San Francisco to Rome, a new constellation took
place, as the Mammonites dropped the PC and have attacked the
Immigrants.
A top Jewish official, Stephen Steinlight, Director of National
Affairs at the American Jewish Committee , frankly called the
Jews “to disregard our own Politically Correct gods, and to risk
upsetting old and new friends and allies”. Unless the Jews
contain the Immigrants, says Steinlight, “Jewish political power
would diminish”. “Our present privilege, success and power do
not inure us from the effect of historical processes. We have an
enormous stake in the outcome of the process, and we cannot
contemplate the loss of power with complacency”. In order to
protect their privilege, Jews should discourage non-Jewish
immigration and undermine the meagre influence of the
Immigrants, as “the non-European immigrants harbour no feelings
of guilt and see the Jews only as the most privileged and
powerful of white Americans”. The white Americans are docile and
obedient, but the immigrants from the Muslim world, whether
Muslims or Orthodox Christians, do not accept the Jewish
privilege as a norm.
Steinlight expressed hatred to Latinos, “who unseated our best
congressmen”, but utmost hostility of this spokesman of Jewry is
aimed at Muslims and Eastern Christians, Immigrants and converts
alike, who threaten “our disproportionate political power”. He
proposed to use “the Jewish power disproportionally concentrated
in Hollywood, TV and news industry” in order to “divide and
conquer” various communities of Americans.
Steinlight draws a self-portrait of an American Judeo-Nazi: “I
was taught that Israel is my true homeland. More tacitly and
subconsciously I was taught the superiority of my people to the
gentiles. We were taught to view non-Jews as untrustworthy
outsiders, while the primary division in the world was between
“us” and “them”.
The policy of “divide and conquer” was executed in Europe
through publication and promotion of the racist writings by
Oriana Falacci. Take her article, substitute ‘Jews’ for
‘Muslims’, publish it and you will find yourself in jail doing
five years for hate crime. Put ‘Muslims’ back and laugh all the
way to bank. Muslims for Falacci are “scoundrels with turban or
kaffiah”.
The mass murderer of Sabra and Shatila, Kibie and Jenin is “the
tragic and Shakespearean figure Sharon”. Well, Shakespeare has
such figures, but usually they have no names, just “Second
Murderer”.
Oriana regrets that “nobody can keep a Mustafa or a Mohammed
from enrolling in a University (something I hope will change)”.
Indeed, let them wash dishes, as in her beloved Israel.
She blasphemes Jesus Christ, and refers to “a Jew without whom
the priests would all be unemployed” (probably Judas?)
Her narration of history is as perverted as that of present. She
writes: “I find it shameful that almost all of the left forgets
the contribution made by the Jews to the fight against fascism”.
One could add, “but the present fascist right of Italy did not
forget the contribution made by Jews to the cause of fascism”.
Indeed, many Italian Jews ardently supported Italian fascism
from its very beginning. Three out of five Martyrs of Fascism
were Jews, and there were Jewish ministers in the governments of
Mussolini. Zionist leaders, including Sharon’s mentor Jabotinsky,
adored Italian fascists, and now, the neo-fascist party of Italy
is a good friend of Sharon and of the state of Israel.
The enlightened Jews, yesterday’s fighters against racism, now
support this Judeo-Nazi line. A liberal Jewish professor
forwarded to me her article with an introduction saying, “What
Oriana Fallaci is saying about the Islamic leaders is
eye-opening. This is a real prophetic call addressed to the
West. If we do not realize where the danger comes from it will
be over with us”. Yes, it is indeed eye-opening. It should open
eyes on the new idea promoted by Masters of Discourse: “you may
be a racist to anybody, as long as you are OK to Jews”.
This concept was spelt out by Alexander Chancellor in the
Guardian in his eulogy of the assassinated Dutch right-wing
leader Pim Fortuyn aptly called “Not Black and White”. The late
saint “was never suspected of anti-Semitism. Islam was his great
enemy and he supported Israel in its war against Palestinians”.
It makes this enemy of immigrants a good guy even for the
liberal Guardian. I hope the Guardian will provide us with
portraits of other saints, as well. What about Jack the Ripper?
He was never suspected of anti-Semitism, too.
Nor was Mussolini, neither Franco. As Albert Lindemann
convincingly demonstrated, Adolf Hitler was unique in his
rejection of Jews. Other fascists, most notably Mussolini, tried
to persuade Hitler to desist of his struggle with Jews, as they
did. Judeo-Nazism proposed by Steinlight, preached by Oriana
Falacci, exemplified by Ariel Sharon, accepted by the Guardian
is the winning proposition, the one the Masters of the Discourse
are trying now on our world. Not in vain, an Israeli government
delegation participated in deliberations of European extreme
right in Brussels.
It is a complicated and decisive moment in the history of
European and American Nationalist forces. A generation ago, they
were pushed to fight Communism, and in the end both antagonists
found themselves almost extinct. Now the same forces bent on
‘divide et impera’ try to set them up and against the Immigrants
from the Muslim world, in order to preserve “unprecedented power
and privilege of American Jewry”. The Mammonites have powerful
tools: media and universities, political system and business. It
is a moment when the enemies of yesteryear, leaders of
Nationalists and Immigrants should meet and work out a common
strategy, for the general well-being and against privilege.
“The Prince of the World could pervert any idea of the Lord; but
the Lord can turn every Satan’s idea into a wonderful thing” .
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