Monday 26 August 2013

Abolishing The Ghetto

In 1797 Napoleon Bonaparte, on behalf of the French Republic abolished the Jewish Ghetto in Venice.
From now on Jews were to be equal.
Of course, some Jews wanted to be equal, but what was to be the price? Was it the mass murder of the Jews? Was it the abolition of European Jewry?
Would the nations state demand total assimilation?
Would it demand total obeisance to its demands and its ideology?
When people set themselves free they tend to remain free, but when the State liberates people they tend to lose whatever it means to be who they are.
For instance, the Feminism of the State often means that women have difficulty in leading the lives that their grandmothers took for granted, even if they have gained for themselves freedoms that were previously denied them.
Similarly, gay liberation, as defined by the state, guts the radical questioning gay culture of the recent past and replaces it with a conformist orthodoxy that diminishes and patronizes gays.
From the moment the leading soldier of the totalitarian state opened the gates of the Ghetto, Jews were in danger.
The religion of the majority was conscripted into the ideology of the new totalitarian state, but what of the minorities, those who lived separate autonomous existences, most notably the Jews and the Gypsies?
In every Nation State minorities were picked on and persecuted, and the process continues apace in the Arab countries. There are Arabs in Israel, but there are no Jews in Palestine. And within Arab countries, non Moslem or non Arab minorities are persecuted, such as Berbers, Bedouin, Druze, Christians, Copts and so on.
As far as the new totalitarian state is concerned you are either for it or against it. It demands Submission.

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