Death-cult versus modernity

(1) The reason the ordinary citizen has become important in modern day diplomacy is because the leadership of democracies respond to public opinion.

(2) Israel's narrative is all about its own survival when it should be about eliminating the death-cult that is in the process of taking over the Muslim world.

The UN needs to address the metastasis of death-cult organizations throughout the Arab world, not so much because we are concerned about the death-cult's effects on the Arabs but because we are concerned about its effects on the rest of the world. When death-cult action kills innocents in Iraq or Pakistan or Afghanistan or Gaza or Lebanon it should be a concern of the UN's, and Israel needs to be spearheading the program to get the UN to put a stop to it. The death-cult must be eradicated.

Anywhere someone teaches how they love death while the rest of us love life, such death-cult teaching must be stamped out, and Israel must take the lead in getting the world to stamp it out. Were Israel to see itself that way, its existence wouldn’t be about its own survival, it would be about the world's basic values. That would be a more defensible public relations position from which to work.

(3) Assimilation is not about the Jews becoming more like their host gentile populations; assimilation is about the Jews becoming more like secular Jews who have adopted modernity. Modernity is an outgrowth of exile. As the Arabs have developed a death-cult ideology, the Jews have developed a modernity ideology. Jews assimilating are Jews who have moved beyond the exile of their forefathers and have adopted an updated version of being the eternal stranger – better known as the alienation of modernity.