I think there are two types of solidarity: endogenous solidarity and exogenous solidarity. The first is a forging of sincere bonds in a group that shares common ideals. The second is a reaction to an external threat. In the first the bonds are between people, generated by who these people are. In the second cohesion in the group is maintained because external pressure holds it together.
In exogenous solidarity the enemy of mine enemy is my friend and when all share a common enemy all are friends.
In Israel/Palestine it is obvious that the Palestinians are suffering much more than the Hebrews, who by an large enjoy a comfortable standard of living in comparison. When everyone else is your enemy, then those around you are like brothers and sisters.
And so exogenous solidarity maintains itself and is dependent on the existence of the "enemy". And regardless how the PTB manipulate things, the Hebrews of Israel themselves seem to be addicted to this "toy-megalomaniac feeling", which is similar to the feeling the Nazis engendered in the German people and all fascists try to promote in their populations (USA included) to keep them divided from greater humanity.
The difference with the US is that there the fascist experiment has gone a step further in promoting division within a population divided from the rest of the world, down to the level of the family unit. Even intimate human relationships are attacked as the article on "teledildonics" reveals in another thread:
http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=1223
The point is that exogenous solidarity is VERY dangerous to the people who choose to adopt it, no matter how warm and fuzzy it makes them feel with each other as they face the "common foe". And it seems to go beyond reason in a world where the perspective of the rest of the world is generally available to any local population.
Ariana Melamed said:
Most of the citizens of one small country, absolutely sure that the fact of their existence is like a bone in a humanity throat. The more logical assessment is, that the rest of the world is not really interested in what is going on in this country, except for more or less violent events that happen here. But the "chosen ones" just can't accept this really simple fact. We have a feeling of historical persecution of beaten and victims before this country seeped into Zionist platform and became haunted concept of nation, accessorized with large army and lot of achievements. And all of this is forgotten, while the rest of the "world", no matter where, speaks another criticism about the behaviour of the "chosen ones". And in order to balance the feeling, we created the concept of "UN- shmuen" or in broader version: "No matter what "Goim" will say, matter what Jews will do about it".
So the opinion of the rest of the world is known, but seems to generate cognitive dissonance and a sense that the "feeling" of everyone else must be "balanced". This reveals a stubborn reluctance to release the "chosen ones" title, even though as Keit mentioned the Hebrew people of Israel are much more secular than religious.
So what this amounts to is not a title given by any god, but stubborn Nationalism pure and simple. From one side of the telescope (the wrong end) this makes every one else seem anti-semitic, but from the other side it is the Nationalists who suffer from hyper-semitic fanaticism. And what is interesting is that the nomenclature used to describe this nationalism is not objective at all.
Hebrew semites are a minority in a vaster Muslim semitic population. Isrealites are secular, yet grasp to a purely religious concept of being "chosen", "Holocaust" literally means "total buring", and describes the suffering of many many peoples throughout, yet these are set aside for the monopolistic purposes of one small group. This monopolization is like spitting in the face of everyone else's suffering, and is the same if not worse than any denial of the suffering of this one little group.
And the price this group may end up paying for the privelidge and comfort of patting each other on the back and feeling superior is right next to the price imposed on all those other peoples who have also endured Holocausts. And the rest of humanity is pressured to deny the sacred memory and beneficial lessons that such wide-spectrum suffering (as an earmark of the human condition, and not the exclusive heritage of one group) can provide. So while a few are punished for "Holocaust denial", who will "punish" those who deny to the rest of the world the right to honor the lessons of their own past?
This anti-goyism is not just predjudice caused by fear and insecurity. It is hubristic addiction to the luxuries of selfish arrogance on a national scale. And one cannot but pity those who cling to such concepts because they are encouraged by those in power they consider their protectors to be the ultimate suckers, lemmings stubbornly running toward the abyss.
The thing is, even if people in the rest of the world don't wake up, one day the poopoo will hit the fan to the extent that there will be those left who will. For the "chosen", huddling together on a giant sacrificial altar, that may not be an option. Time will tell, but if things don't change the next "holocaust" may well be their last.