Miki Zohar, an Israeli lawmaker and member of Netanyahu’s Likud party, has claimed that Jews are the smartest people in the World.
Zohar, who actually has a Japanese girl's first name, made the comment during a radio debate, while discussing the rising tide of corruption charges threatening to overwhelm the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
As reported by The Times of Israel:
“I can tell you something very basic,” Zohar said. “You can’t fool the Jews, no matter what the media writes. The public in Israel is a public that belongs to the Jewish race, and the entire Jewish race is the highest human capital, the smartest, the most comprehending. The public knows what the prime minister is doing for the country and how excellent he is at his job.”
It is true that some groups of Jews -- Ashkenazim for example -- have high IQs, and it is also true that history records many brilliant Jewish intellectuals, businessmen, and scientists. But history also records that Jews have been expelled from literally dozens of countries hundreds of times, which might suggest that someone somewhere was doing some pretty serious miscalculating that was not based on being the "smartest people in the world."
Also, it is hard to take Zohar's comments too seriously if we consider the fact that the Jews -- out of the depths of their supposedly vast wisdom -- decided to found their ethnostate in Palestime in 1948.
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Planting a tiny, isolated colony in the heart of a vast, hostile civilisation, and then working night and day to promote leftist and anti-colonial values around the World really doesn't look like the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Nowadays, under Bibi Netanyahu, Israel is an increasingly friendless state, being subjected to a mounting moral barrage that is slowly eroding its right to exist. In fact, it is only a matter of time before Israel is swamped by its surrounding Arab Muslim population, either through economic reliance on a servant class, aided by Leftist values, as happened to White South Africa, or through moral and military attrition, and by becoming an increasing pariah state.
If the Jews were really as smart as Zohar claims, they would have established their Jewish ethnostate in one of several alternatives that were proposed at the time -- either Uganda, Madagascar, Crimea, or even part of Germany.
Also, if they were really "high IQ" instead of just "high verbal IQ," they would not have promoted Left-wing, egalitarian ideas, as these constantly undercut Israel's claims to the lands it conquered and occupies.
Nowadays, under Bibi Netanyahu, Israel is an increasingly friendless state, being subjected to a mounting moral barrage that is slowly eroding its right to exist.
ReplyDeleteYou keep saying this, but it's just not true. Israel's international relations have always been very poor because it automatically has the emnity of the entire Arab and Muslim world, as well as the anti-colonial block and has no natural allies. In 1975, the UN actually formally declared Zionism to be racism. Things got even worse (after a brief honeymoon period) following the acknowledgment by the Israeli government of its only fundamental illegitimacy through the Oslo accords, which was supposed to pacify world opinion, but - as it always the case - just whetted its appetite for more concessions.
Currently, however, Israel's relations with the Arab world are better than they have ever been, relations with Africa and China are slowly improving and with India are quickly improving. South America is also looking up. Relations with Eastern European countries are very strong and even Russia is broadly friendly despite have directly opposite interests on many issues. The constantly warned about change in American public opinion keeps getting indefinitely delayed. The only area of the globe where things are really on the downturn is Western Europe plus Canada.
Your other point is also flat out wrong. If Jews had built their ethnostate in Africa, they would have faced just as much emnity from the surrounding blacks and global opinion and the whole project would have burned out after a couple of decades because their would have been no Schelling point to rally around.