The Peace FAQ:
Automorphism, Ethnomorphism
Frequently Asked Questions:
What is Automorphism?
- A derivative of 'anthropomorphism', the psychology of projecting human qualities and emotions onto non-human animals, plants and inanimate objects. Thus 'automorphism' is the psychology of projecting one's own qualities, emotions, values or culture onto other people. And 'ethnomorphism' is the psychology of projecting the characteristics and values of one's own ethnic group onto other ethnic groups. It is the assumption that other people or ethnic groups share the same values as you and your ethnic group.
At it's most benign, this psychology is offensive not only to the persons or ethnicity whose uniqueness and distinctiveness is being negated by such projection, but it is also offensive to the culture or ethnic group of the one making the projection. In the later case, their culture or ethnic distinctiveness is also negated by the assumption that all the world shares the same values. Thus, if not checked by rational consideration, such psychology leads to the racist politics of universalism and anti-multiculturalism.
More dangerously, automorphism can result in the inability to comprehend and acknowledge in others what is commonly known as 'evil' except, perhaps, in hindsight. At it's worst, this psychology has, and can, lead to genocide by suppressing the comprehension of the logical results of the unencumbered rise of 'evil'. Those responsible for the Holocaust are not only the nazis themselves, but all 'good' people, Jews and Gentiles, who stood silent during the rise of Antisemitism both before Hitler, and throughout his public life. History will judge us by whether or not we recognize and actively oppose the rise of 'evil' in our time.
Historically, what has been the greatest diplomatic error Israel has made in its relationships with its neighbors?
- "Israel's indecisiveness in the annexation of these territories
rekindled the PLO's hope for a second Palestinian state [Jordan being
the first] and the subsequent destruction of the Jewish one. Israel's
policy stemmed from an incorrect assesment of the situation. Its
leaders, brought up on the European values of democracy tried to
transplant these values into Middle Eastern soil. They believed that
the Arabs would eventually understand how advantageous it would be for
them to have the Jews as their neighbors. They were promulgating
these values, completely ignoring their incompatibility with Islamic
doctrine. The idea of the Arab empire was still fresh in the Arabs'
memory; the Jews were "dhimmi" in their eyes. To allow the creation
of an independent Jewish state in the middle of the Arab world under
these circumstances was absolutely intolerable to Arab
nationalists. The Peel Commission Report confirmed this in 1937
by stating that the conflict between the Arabs' and the Jews'
aspirations is "irrepressible" and "irreconcilable" and that it is
"difficult to be an Arab patriot and not to hate the Jews."
- Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Yosef Tekoah, in an address made in New York, on April 15, 1975, on the occasion of the twenty-seventh anniversary of Israel's independence
- "...Jewish thought has traditionally been bewildered by and unable to account for or come to terms with the persistence of Evil..."
- Jacques Givet, "The Anti-Zionist Complex"
In its interactions with the Arabs, what has the West most consistently failed to understand?
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THE NATURE OF THE BEAST
By David Basch
The jackal kills sheep becase he is a jackal. The jackal has nothing personal against the sheep. Nothing the sheep can do, no gift he can make, no appeasement will make the jackal change his mind about this. It is the nature of the beast as everyone will recognize. The jackal is a useful prototype to bear in mind as our attention shifts to two other kinds of "beasts".
The first "beast" is the Muslim-Arab. In the same way that the jackal must kill the sheep because he is a jackal, the Muslim-Arab must attempt to destroy Israel because he is a Muslim-Arab. It is the nature of the beast. It goes to the essence of what the Muslim-Arab is.
He is the product of his socialization that has given him a value system and his peculiar sense of right and wrong. To him, it is wrong, unjust, for a non-Muslim national power, a power ruled by infidels, to exist within what he regards as the Islamic realm. What is more, his socialization teaches that it is right and proper to endlessly expand this Islamic realm into the domain of others, even using military force if necessary to do so -- a doctrine called Jihad. While Muslim-Arabs attempt to disguise this pernicious anti-social goal -- the better to achieve it -- world class experts on Islam, like Professor Bernard Lewis of the University of Chicago, certify that this martial aspect is indeed the nature of Jihad.
The Muslim-Arab tends to be more observant of his creed than persons with a Western orientation. Submerged in their own secular culture, Westerners can scarcely imagine the mind-set of the Muslim-Arab, a person that can appear charming, gracious, and generous. Unfortunately, when this same sweet person answers the imperatives of his Islamic religion, he can be transformed into a man of simmering hate and a supporter if not a perpetrator of the terrorism for which Arabs have by now become justly famous.
While non-Muslims will see the vile terrorist actions of the Muslim-Arab as the savagery it is, to the Arab this same savagery meets his definition of being "a good Muslim-Arab". Read the Gazan opinion polls after each savage attack. Robbery and murder, which everywhere else would be considered evils, when perpetrated by Muslims against unsubjugated Israeli infidels are "righteous" acts. In Arab eyes, the Jews of Israel dare to impose a non-Muslim sovereignty over what Muslim-Arabs deem the lands of Islam. No historical evidence of two earlier Jewish commonwealths can change this Arab opinion. Nor can mountains of opposing historical evidence shake the opinion of the Arabs of the territories that they are the original Canaanites. The alleged Islamic lands in question are not just the famous "territories" but all the lands of the State of Israel.
Since Muslim-Arabs take with deadly seriousness the idea that Islam must triumph over its rivals, failure to achieve this goal leaves the Muslim-Arab's life incomplete, moreso, and especially, when that unachieved triumph concerns infidels in a place as conspicuous as a standing Israel.
Yes, like the jackal to the sheep, the Muslim-Arab has a murderous design toward unsubjugated infidels. This is given exquisite expression in the current designs of the Arabs toward the destruction of the State of Israel, the religious nature of which goal the Muslim-Arab tries hard to disguise as some secular matter of historical justice -- the better to achieve it.
The second of the two "beasts" of interest is the "universalist" Jew. Like the jackal and the Muslim-Arab, this beast is also programmed and predictable. He is an animal obsessed with finding brotherhood among all men in accordance with utopian doctrines of the nature of mankind. Driven by a desparate need to demonstrate a moral superiority -- he obviously knows himself as the opposite -- he is programmed to find traits of brotherhood in others, even if he has to invent the evidence for it.
Overly righteous to a fault, this is the kind of Jew who would fight on principle to the death to enable an Adolph Hitler to come to power by democratic means, against the objections of Jewish "troublemakers". Only clear history has forced such Jews to take note of the Nazi horror as the mass behavior of a supposedly enlightened nation in violation of utopian assumptions about man. But learning this the hard way, they cannot apply such knowledge to new, prospective cases. Thus, today, the Jewish universalists find many "good" Muslim-Arabs that do not wish to destroy Israel. That is what the "nice Arabs" tell them to their face as they support Arab terror behind the scenes. It is to such persons that the universalists want to surrender to demonstrate their nobility, to show those "nice" savages and the world that there are indeed good, high-minded, righteous Jews like themselves, the universalists.
Not peculiarly -- since it is probably of the essence of his flawed, corrupted character -- though the universalist Jew is blind to the savagery of the Arab strangers who want to kill him and his people, he remains finely tuned to detecting "the evil ones" of his own people who would guard the Jewish community against the savages this liberal Jew has adopted as his brothers in humanity. Uncovering the reality of the Arab threat and his savage capabilities would shatter the emotional balance and world view of the universalist. (Peres has not discovered it yet even at this late date.) Hence, he strives mightly to prevent himself from learning of this reality. It is the nature of this beast.
It is instructive to recognize the role of the two aforementioned "beasts" in making the Oslo process possible:
The Muslim-Arab has seen in the universalist Jews allies, par excellence, in fulfilling his heart's desire to destroy Israel. All the Muslim-Arab needed to do was to speak in a language of idealism resonant to the ears of this kind of Jew. In the process that emerged, the universalist Jew saw a means to gratify his neurotic need to pose as a moral giant in creating a new utopian Middle East. He was willing on behalf of his illusions to trade to the Arabs the strategic positions Israel had been using to hold her enemies at bay for an illusion of peace. Like a sheep opening the gate to the jackal, the universalist Jew agreed to hopelessly weaken his nation in the name of his utopian dream of mankind in an illusion of a peace that jackals cannot deliver.
The psychic rewards to the universalist Jew of actualizing his imagined ideals must not be underestimated. It is probably as great as the reward the Arab imagines to be gained from Muslim-Arab triumph. That is why such universalist Jews are virtually impervious to recognizing reality, unless forced by an Arab knife against his own neck, if then. Shimon Peres has not recognized this to this day after the tragic murder of almost 300 Jews.
The universalist Jew surrenders to his enemy because he is the sick universalist beast he is. The Jews of Israel who trust the governance of their land to persons of this ilk, as they did four years ago when they elected the Labor Party to office, sell out their own future. To do so, they threw out of office the Likud Shamir government that had given the nation unprecedented levels of security, gone today.
No doubt, a Western media creates confusion by carefully painting a false picture of events in support of the Jewish universalists who champion the foreign policy of others -- not Israel's. Haven't the Jews of Israel wised up to the fact that this media is "free" to do the bidding of the foreign policy establishment it serves, establishments quite willing to take gambles with Israel's future for the sake of oil. If there were really an Arab peace partner at the other side of the negotiation table, would it be necessary for a CIA infiltrated press corps and the falsifications, distortions, and omissions that characterize "news" coverage to obscure the nature of the Muslim-Arab and his ominous goals?
It is time for Israelis and their government to wake up. The Muslim-Arab has designs on Israel because he is Muslim-Arab, not because of a few dunams of sand in the territories of Judea and Samaria that he calls the "West Bank" that he says he wants. He had those territories prior to 1967, including Jerusalem. When enough Israelis are brought to the recognition of the enduring nature of the Muslim-Arab enemy, they will see that appeasing the belligerant Arab "no-people", a pseudo-people invented to sow moral confusion among the leftists, facilitating Israeli surrender, cannot bring peace. It will only bring the front lines of the enemy forward, to Israel's disadvantage.
The idea that Israel must leave herself open to the mercy of murderers is as irrational as leaving the sheep pen open to the jackal. What is more, guarding the sheep from the jackal offers the pattern for guarding Israel against the ravages of the Muslim-Arabs.
When this understanding becomes common currency, I have no doubt that Israelis will find the means to counter the dangerous Arab forces arrayed against them -- forces that will only become ever more ominous to the extent that the raging furnace of Arab demands are vainly gratified.
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- Why I Left Jihad: The Root of Terrorism and the Return of Radical Islam, by Walid Shoebat
[VIEW BOOK HERE] - Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion, by Stewart Elliott Guthrie
[VIEW BOOK HERE] - The High Cost of Peace: How Washington's Middle East Policy Left America Vulnerable to Terrorism, by Yossef Bodansky, Jim Saxton
[VIEW BOOK HERE] - Re-Examining Sovereignty: From Classical Theory to the Global Age, by Hideaki Shinoda
[VIEW BOOK HERE] - The Others: How Animals Made Us Human, by Paul Shepard
[VIEW BOOK HERE] - Curious Conduct, by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
[VIEW BOOK HERE] - In the Face of the Nations: Israel's Struggle for Peace, by Josef Tekoah
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- Why I Left Jihad: The Root of Terrorism and the Return of Radical Islam, by Walid Shoebat
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