In the US, as in all countries and societies, there are the power structures, the “good ol’ boys”, the “patrons”, the parties, the organizations, the societies, the establishment. This in itself is not a bad thing, it is simply a fact. Most of these structures were built, at least in their origins, for a beneficial purpose: to protect and advance their communities, to help members succeed financially, politically and socially. They make connections with other power structures and establish successful methods to achieve their goals. Those who want to be successful enter the establishment that rules their community or the desired area of success, and play by the rules of the structure. This is true whether you choose the Mafia, the mosque, the university, a political career, the military, the Southern Baptist convention, the Jewish community, the union or the Grange.
If these structures are successful, they become interlinked with other structures of overlapping interests. They take certain stands and insist members hold certain approved views, and seek to advance those views over their community and to the public at large. Those who don’t toe the line will not advance, will be excluded and derided, and sometimes worse. Above all, however humble their origins may have been, large establishment structures seek their own continued existence and power often to the detriment of their original and stated goals. In other words, they will betray their membership if the interests of the structure and its leaders run counter to the community they were originally founded to serve.
The Jewish Federations in America and the kindred and connected Jewish organizations have become like this. Indeed, it’s not a new development. However, in these troubled political, social and economic times, in heavily polarized climate of the US and the rest of the world, the game can become particularly ugly.
In WWII and before, mainstream American Jewish leaders opposed efforts to rescue European Jews, to awaken public opinion in favor of the Jews being exterminated in Europe, exerting powerful and successful pressure against the efforts undertaken by other Jews to save Jewish lives. Likewise many European Jewish leaders led their people to slaughter, being unwilling to fight, even in the face of oncoming and later ongoing genocide, and opposed those who wanted to take action to save lives.
To excoriate and shame past leaders for what it’s too late to change, or to blame the dead isn’t the point. The point is to try to prevent the same from happening again. The circumstances have changed, but the basic attitudes among the mainstream Jewish organizations and leadership remain the same, with some poisonous additions. Today, the American Jewish establishment is taking the same course as its predecessors, steering the Jewish community towards disaster. They actively and in some cases ruthlessly oppose Jews who hold different views and attempt to take action contrary to the wishes of the US Jewish Establishment, even at the most local level. In this effort they are supported by Israeli consulates in the US.
The American Jewish establishment is married to the “Two State Solution” to the Jewish problem. It allows no variance or opposition to this view, and will not desert it, no matter how illogical, unrealistic and disastrous it is shown to be. Likewise the Israeli government, as reflected in its embassy and consulates in the US, will not speak seriously of any other view. Why is this? Why would such a view, shown every day to be more ridiculous and dangerous, become the religion of influential American Jews (who aren’t actively anti-Israel) and the Jewish establishment? Why is this the view foisted upon American Jews by official Israeli representatives as well? Why is this the view adopted by the majority of those currently in power in Israel, despite its repeated failures and untenable outcome? That the American State department insists on such a view isn’t surprising. That ambivalence towards Israel and Jews is the history of the US State Department since before WWII. Why would Israel’s powers that be and the US Jewish establishment support such a destructive view? It doesn’t spring from the Jewish people as a whole or Jewish religion, but from those who use the various existing power structures to rise to their positions. Thus, a person who does not ascribe to these views is prevented from rising to leadership and those who hold opposition views gain no financial or institutional support for their efforts. Consequently we have a wonderfully unanimous view, because no other view is allowed. This is described as unity in the Jewish Federation, for one. Like shepherds walking their sheep to slaughter, they want no stray dogs barking an alarm and scattering the flock.
The official view is a globalist view where serious religion (except Islam, humanism and atheism) and nationalism
