The Peace FAQ:
Galut Mentality, Dhimmi Mentality
Frequently Asked Questions:
What is "Galut Mentality"?
- "All people, Jews or gentiles, who dare not defend
themselves when they know they are in the right,
who submit to punishment not because of what they
have done but because of who they are, are already
dead by their own decision; and whether or not they
survive physically depends on chance. If
circumstances are not favorable, they end up in gas
chambers."
by Bruno Bettelheim, in FREUD'S VIENNA AND OTHER ESSAYS
- "[Jews tend to think firm Israeli retaliation to Arab terrorism] would make people think badly of the Jewish people, when, as
appears, the opposite could be the case. For what actually seems to
happen is that the world and even Israelis get impatient with the
Jewish victims and it is the might of the Arabs that gets respected
and it is the Arab side that gets sympathetic treatment to have Israel
give never-ending concessions. Subsequently, the Stockholm Syndrome
sets in and the Jewish leftists, especially infected with this malady,
think how to speed up the surrender that they are "sure" will put a
stop to the horror of Arab savagery, the way Chamberlain was sure that
his concessions would put a stop to Hitler's ruthless land grabs."
"...Though the present high-minded Israeli scrupulousness has resulted in disarming the Israeli people in the face of the ruthless Muslim-Arab enemy, even the likely defeat of the Jewish Commonwealth as a consequence must stoically be accepted, or, otherwise, what will the goyim say?"
by David Basch
- The following are sections from the article
"Instead of Excessive Apology."
by Zeev Zhabotinsky, 1911
(translated by Boris Shusteff)
" We constantly and very loudly apologize... Instead of turning our backs to the accusers, as there is nothing to apologize for, and nobody to apologize to, we swear again and again that it is not our fault... Isn't it long overdue to respond to all these and all future accusations, reproaches, suspicions, slanders and denunciations by simply folding our arms and loudly, clearly, coldly and calmly answer with the only argument that is understandable and accessible to this public: `Go to Hell!'?
Who are we, to make excuses to them; who are they to interrogate us? What is the purpose of this mock trial over the entire people where the sentence is known in advance?
Our habit of constantly and zealously answering to any rabble has already done us a lot of harm and will do much more. ... The situation that has been created as a result, tragically confirms a well known saying: "Qui s'excuse s'accuse". We ourselves have acquainted our neighbors with the thought that for every embezzling Jew it is possible to drag the entire ancient people to answer, a people that was already legislating at the time when the neighbors had not even invented a bast shoe. Every accusation causes among us such a commotion that people unwittingly think, `why are they so afraid of everything?' Apparently their conscience is not clear.' Exactly because we are ready at every minute to stand at attention, there develops among the people an inescapable view about us, as of some specific thievish tribe. We think that our constant readiness to undergo a search without hesitation and to turn out our pockets, will eventually convince mankind of our nobility; look what gentlemen we are--we do not have anything to hide! This is a terrible mistake. The real gentlemen are the people that will not allow anyone for any reason to search their apartment, their pockets or their soul. Only a person under surveillance is ready for a search at every moment.... This is the only one inevitable conclusion from our maniac reaction to every reproach--to accept responsibility as a people for every action of a Jew, and to make excuses in front of everybody including hell knows who. I consider this system to be false to its very root. We are hated not because we are blamed for everything, but we are blamed for everything because we are not loved. ...
We may apologize only in rare, unique and extremely important moments when we are completely confident that the Areopagus in front of us really has just intentions and proper competence.
We do not have to apologize for anything. We are a people as all other peoples; we do not have any intentions to be better than the rest. As one of the first conditions for equality we demand the right to have our own villains, exactly as other people have them. Yes, we do have provocateurs and draft dodgers, and it is even strange that we have so few of them under current conditions. Other people have also these kind of "good", and, in addition, they have embezzlers, and pogrom-makers, and torturers--so what-- the neighbors live and are not ashamed.... Do our neighbors blush for the Christians in Kishinyov who hammered nails into Jewish babies' eyes? Not in the least,--" they walk with head raised high and look everybody in the face; they are absolutely right, and this is how it must be, as the persona of a people is royal, and not responsible and is not obliged to apologize. ...".. We do not have to account to anybody, we are not to sit for anybody's examination and nobody is old enough to call on us to answer. We came before them and will leave after them. We are what we are, we are good for ourselves, we will not change and we do not want to."
Can one suffer from 'Galut Mentality' even in Israel, in other words, post-Exile?
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History should have taught us that it is better to be hated and
respected by the nations, than to be loved and memorialized by them.
But it seems that we are poor students of Jewish history. After
almost 50 years of Jewish independence the leftist leaders of "post
zionism" are leading us back to a galut mentality of the Exiled Jew,
basing our security upon the good will of other nations.
Rather than defend ourselves against Arab terrorists who come to murder us and take our country from us, we are reduced to the absurdity of begging the terrorist leaders to help us stop terror. Those who serve as sponsors and havens for terrorist murderers are being asked to help us and be our partners. Thus we have voluntarily surrendered our independence and turned our backs upon Zionism. We have brought the Exile home to Israel and created the greatest threat both to Zionism and our independence.
- Rabbi Eliezer Waldman
- It is as if the Jewish State had returned back to the ghetto time, when an
inexplicable guilt syndrome flourished among the Jews. There are no proud
Hebrews anymore, there remain only the downtrodden Jews of the Galut.
- by Boris Shusteff
- You can take the Jew out of the exile;
but it is often more difficult to take
the exile out of the Jew.
What is the cause?
- [People] "can be, as psychiatrists call, 'conditioned'
to behave in a certain way. If, for example, a child grows up in a home
where he is beaten for all sorts of things he doesn't understand, or for
nothing except...because his mother drinks and his father is a brute, then
that child will grow with many of his impulses crushed. He will learn early
that if he answers back, or hits back he will be badly hurt by the powerful
people he lives with". [This kind of situation can be
extrapolated to a whole people. This happened to the Jews, who were a people]
"without its own army since the time of Mohammed.. A people without its own
army is always ...helpless against direct brutality... Few men resist as
individuals when surrounded by others who are passive".
- Lynne Reid Banks, in her book Letters to My Israeli Sons
gives an excellent explanation of why the Jews did so little to oppose their fate during World War II. -
What has gone wrong? In one very insightful analysis, the answer lies
in Israel's "psyche of the abused." Here, Dr. Kenneth Levin, a prominent
psychiatrist, likens Israeli behavior to that of an abused child. Distorting
its past to conform with enemy views of Jewish original sin, Israel largely
believes - especially in its persisting acceptance of Oslo - that it is
responsible for Arab terrorism and Islamic holy war. Such belief,
paralleling the beliefs of the abused child, will bring it to utopia. What is
forgotten here is that utopia, as Thomas More instructed, means "nowhere."
LOUIS RENE BERES (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971) is Professor of Political Science and International Law at Purdue University. He is the author of many books and articles dealing with Israeli security matters.
- "...people who feared violent death as the greatest evil were bound to
appease their enemies, hence would eventually suffer violent death at
the hands of those who regard [their own] violent death as a gateway
to paradise".
- Prof. Paul Eidelberg, Co-founder and President of the Foundation for Constitutional Democracy in the Middle East
- ...the force
that does not kill - that does not kill just yet - can turn a human being
into stone, into a thing, while it is still alive. Merely hanging ominously
over the head of the vulnerable creature it can choose to kill at any
moment, poised portentuously to destroy breath in what it has allowed, if
only for a few more moments, to breathe, this force makes a mockery of the
fragile life it intends to consume. The human being that stands helplessly
before this force has effectively become a corpse before any lethal
assault is even launched.
- LOUIS RENE BERES (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971) is Professor of Political Science and International Law at Purdue University. He is the author of many books and articles dealing with Israeli security matters.
How is Galut or Dhimmi mentality displayed in contemporary middle east politics?
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For whatever reasons, Israel has come to accept a view of itself that
was spawned not in Jerusalem, Hebron or Tel-Aviv, but in Cairo, Damascus,
Baghdad, Teheran, Jericho and Gaza. Degraded and debased, this is the view
not of a strong and powerful people, determined to remain alive, but of a
conspicuous corpse-in-waiting, ingathered from exile only to make its
relentless fate easier to inflict. It goes without saying that no self-
respecting Israeli would concede such a view, but it is the operative
national image nonetheless.
- The recent poster in Israel by a disturbed Jewish girl proclaiming
"Mohammad is a pig" was grounds for killing Jews. A further example of
the continuing dhimmi mentality is that Muslims in Israel are allowed a
never-ending stream of hatred towards Judaism and Christianity, while
a Jew who says something about Islam that is not flattering "should
know better", and is therefore guilty of "incitement".
- The enemies of Israel always demand that Israel take chances for
peace. Indeed, in our short history we have taken the most ridiculous
and dangerous chances for peace of any nation anywhere at any time in
history. We have set world precedents for deliberately weakening
ourselves before our enemies merely in the hope that such gestures
would, in some way, lead to peace.
This is not a strategy. It is cowardice resulting from fear that we cannot win the inevitable Arab war to destroy us and thus we must surrender to our enemies now. Our present leaders have admitted that Syria, Iraq and Iran are already stockpiling non-conventional weapons and posturing for war. They even admit that the PLO has built underground bunkers in Gaza and is smuggling anti-tank weapons into the country. All of this is for "Peace", of course.
...The Israeli novelist Aharon Megged notes: "We have witnessed a phenomenon which probably has no parallel in history; an emotional and moral identification by the majority of Israel's intelligentsia with people openly committed to our annihilation." This identification has created a Jewish body politic that is disarming itself, ensuring the onset of existential harms even while it pursues the charade of military preparedness. There is a way out of this humiliating and fateful dilemma, but it must go far beyond the usual superficial suggestions of policy and personality changes. It is a way that requires, more than anything else, an upright posture for the nation, a posture that precludes clasping the enemy's knees and kissing his hands. It is a way of dignity, not supplication. It is a way of statying alive, of avoiding not only death, but also the shameless death-in-life that now cripples and immobilizes Israel before it is fully born.
- LOUIS RENE BERES (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971) is Professor of Political Science and International Law at Purdue University. He is the author of many books and articles dealing with Israeli security matters.
How is Galut or Dhimmi mentality displayed in care-free America and Western Europe?
- Under Construction
- RELATED SECTIONS:
The Stockholm Syndrome, Self-Hating Jews, Dhimma, Jonathan Pollard, Fear, Jews
- WWW RESOURCES:
- BOOKS & PRINTED MATERIAL:
- Letters to my Israeli sons: The story of Jewish survival, by Lynne Reid Banks
[VIEW BOOK HERE] - Freud's Vienna & Other Essays, by Bruno Bettelheim
[VIEW BOOK HERE] - The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege, by Kenneth Levin
[VIEW BOOK HERE] - Chutzpah, by Alan M. Dershowitz
[VIEW BOOK HERE] - The Jewish Divide Over Israel: Accusers and Defenders, by Edward Alexander, Paul Bogdanor
[VIEW BOOK HERE]
- Letters to my Israeli sons: The story of Jewish survival, by Lynne Reid Banks
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