Dennis Prager: What was John Kerry thinking when he suggested that Israel might become an apartheid state?

It seems to me that whenever multiple groups struggle for control of a specific land, one group usually ends up winning and other groups end up losing. For instance, in America, the Pilgrims won and the Indians lost. In Israel, the Jews won and the Arabs lost. So Israel became a Jewish state and while non-Jews can still enjoy a higher quality of life than anywhere in the Arab world, they still have to accept that Israel is a Jewish state and that the country conducts itself accordingly.

“Apartheid” is just a slur that is flung to stigmatize a group for acting in its self-interest. In South Africa, whites lost the will to govern and so blacks, the majority population, took over. If Jews in Israel lose the will to govern, the Arabs will subjugate them.

Joe* says:

There is lots of validity to many of the arguments you are making, but they straddle or touch so many third rails that it takes an especially careful polemicist to make these arguments without getting fried. And you are not that careful, as you do love to shock.

Also, you are at least a tribalist (we all know that “race” is a mere social construct, so why dignify the accusation by even using the word?). So too are most people of most lands, cultures and times, and today is no exception. I can easily imagine lots of the angry white sports talk radio crowd cursing colored folk behind closed doors.

Anyway, how can you believe that the Jews are a chosen PEOPLE without believing that there are differences amongst the various peoples of the earth?

Personally, I believe that God chose different people for different tasks and blessed them accordingly. He blessed Scandinavian women with tremendous natural beauty, for example. Possibly to tempt Jewish men so that we could thereby prove our own in-group loyalty.

Jews like this 80 year old guy were blessed with mad real estate skills for buying up apartment buildings, and African Americans were blessed with powerful fists with which to keep their greed in check on rent-day. And to the extent that the All Mighty (this is possibly sacrilege) wants these group skill sets to be preserved, why would He favor miscegenation? Of course Darwin looks at it differently.

You are a mainstream European pre-1933. The arguments you are making require much finesse and caution, and you are not the cautious sort. You lack the social gracces and finesse to more precisely make the proper argument. “Sure, Amalek could make them, but he no longer believes that contributing to my web sites will win him the heart, mind, and body of a beautiful woman.”

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