I have had Jewish friends too, one of my closest Jewish friends let me in on some of it. Ever get any of them drunk? Drunk enough?
I learned the Jews I knew were my friend until they were on the other side of the temple door.
I understand that.
I imagine our experiences are fairly unique. I've seen how jews will get conditioned or resist conditioning in either direction. How they will strongly disagree with things until you point out who's behind it, and then their tribalism kicks in. I was so close with one family that I really considered them my family. Someone would make a passing remark about Israel Bad and buddy would completely turn on them behind their back. He would get angry. When I addressed the same concerns immediately after, pointing out his reaction and the hypocrisy of supporting israel in that context, his reaction was different. He actually considered it. But that conditioning is STRONG and life long. I realized I would never be able to breach that conditioning without being forceful and risking our friendship.
He died. I don't know if I would be here if he hadn't. It's an interesting thought.
Saw a couple of their little girls post temple fighting over who was "more Jewish". They hard hard core supremacists who believe everyone else was put on this planet to serve them.
I have to say, I hate them, I hate them all. Not because I don't understand, not because of I was raised to, not because I ever wanted to hate another.
I hate them because I know that their hatred for me is the only way they have stayed separate from every host country for two thousand years of diaspora when every other group that could eventually integrated. I hate them because I know deep down they are conditioned to hate me with every ounce of their being.
I will always hate them because to not hate them is to hate yourself.
It's the same as white trash being raised to think they're better than anyone. Like Americans thinking they're the best country when they've been the most heavily zogged for a century. Kids are going to believe whatever they've been conditioned to believe.
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