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NATIV   ■   Volume Fourteen   ■   Number 1 (78)  ■  January 2001   ■  Ariel Center for Policy Research

 

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Delusion and Denial:
A Reexamination of the
"Arab Conflict with Jews and the State of Israel"

Gedalya Schmalberg

  1. The "Arab conflict with Jews and the State of Israel" stems from a powerful delusional anti-Semitic ideology beholden to the majority of Palestinian Arabs and general Arab society. 
     

  2. Arab eliminationist anti-Semitism, which is a sub-set of delusional anti-Semitic ideology, is the causal agent driving Arab thought and action in this "conflict".
     

  3. This "conflict" is not a consequence of some objective disagreement with Jews and is not a response to any objective evaluation of Jewish action. 
     

  4. The Palestinian Arabs and general Arab society have cast their deep-seated hatreds of Jewish people in the prevailing terms of this era by incorporating aspects of realistic disputes into their antisemitic litany; thus to view the disputes as cause for this "conflict" or see in the Jews' own actions any relevant cause for the disputes is to confuse symptom with cause. 
     

  5. Since the 1920s and 1930s, most diplomats and officials continue to deny that this delusional anti-Semitic ideology is the causal agent of the "Arab conflict with Jews", just as they deny that delusional anti-Semitic ideology was the causal agent of the "German conflict with Jews"—the Holocaust. 
     

  6. The denial of diplomats and officials that Arabs are (and Germans were) beholden to a delusional Anti-Semitic ideology stems from diplomats' and intellectuals' inability to deal with the grim enormous task of confronting an entire society possessing massive delusional beliefs and unfounded hate. 
     

  7. Therefore, diplomats and officials disregard evidence that the disputes and tragic events are symptomatic of delusional anti-Semitic ideology, and instead embrace the false notion that the disputes are reasons for the tragic events, which is to confuse symptom with cause. 
     

  8. Consequently, diplomats and officials furthermore adhere to another false notion that "negotiation" and "compromise" can resolve the disputes and therefore the "conflict" itself.
     

  9. This denial and acceptance of these false notions is seriously compounded by the widely accepted belief within democracies that "negotiation" and "compromise" are axioms for "conflict resolution" and achieving "peace".
     

  10. "Negotiation" and "compromise" are ineffective tools for bringing about the diminution and abandonment of delusional anti-Semitic ideology.  Therefore they have had no impact and will continue to have no impact on the resolution of this "conflict". The proper measures to protect Jewish lives must be taken to avoid tragedy without precariously waiting for Arab delusional anti-Semitic ideology to diminish.

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