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Aug. 2, 2010/21 Av 5770 The Big Lie It has been said that the easiest person to kid in this world is yourself, and the Israeli public fits this mold to a T but before I go into this claim, a word or two (or more) is necessary to discuss the title of this article. Josef Goebbels—Hitler's propaganda minister—was notorious for his use of the "Big Lie." But the concept of the Big Lie did not start with the Nazi barbarians but with Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche—a perverted German intellectual of the 19th century. Here is an excerpt from Book 3 of my trilogy, Joseph's Odyssey: Joseph spent a good part of the hours before sunrise skimming through Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil. In reading through the latter volume, Joseph concluded that there was little good but indeed, much evil within its pages. Joseph shuddered as he coursed through Nietzsche’s work. “Write with blood . . .” the author advised his followers, “. . . and you learn that spirit is blood.” The book went on to talk about a race of “supermen”—the übermenschen—who would give up their lives of security and accept lives of suffering and striving for individual greatness. The concept of the übermensch disturbed Joseph. The doctrine, he believed, although ridiculous could easily be adopted, distorted, and used by one nation to cruelly mistreat another . . . . Joseph… flipped the pages to the last chapter and caught a disturbing line: “. . . the falseness of an opinion is for us no objection to it . . . and we are . . . inclined to maintain that the falsest of opinions . . . are the most indispensable to us.” The man was sanctifying the use of lying. The ends would always justify the means… . Although Hitler coined the term, the "Big Lie", the expression has been, beyond a doubt, polished and made more sophisticated by the Communist totalitarians,  contemporary leftists, and Arab propagandist who have carried the technique to new heights. But, what, exactly, is the "Big Lie." Hitler himself expounded on it. …in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. —Adolf Hitler , Mein Kampf, vol. I, ch. 10. According to Hitler, then, the creation and implementation of the Big Lie involved four steps: 1. "there is always a certain force of credibility…" In every Big Lie there is a small kernel of truth which then is distorted, taken out of context, and expanded into the Big Lie. 2." …the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily…." In other words, the Big Lie penetrates a person's emotions more readily than his intellect. The bigger the lie, the better because your audience would take the view that "What he says is so improbable that it must be true because no one would attempt to get away with telling such a whopper."! 3. Concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one. (The Palestinians are truly the experts on following this point.) 4. If you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it. —Hitler as His Associates Know Him (OSS report, p. 51). The two Big Lies of today that are making the rounds, of course, are that a. Israel owes it birth to the UN Partition Resolution of 1947. b. The Palestinian Arabs are the victims of a new holocaust perpetrated on them by the "Zionists" (an all inclusive byword for "Jews"). When Barack Hussein Obama delivered his famous/infamous speech in Cairo last year, he implied that Israel was created (by the UN) as a form of compensation for the Holocaust. To his credit, Netanyahu has repeatedly and publicly tried to correct this lie but I fear that too many Israelis - believe lie #1 (the UN being the legitimate source of Israel's birth) and
- lie #2 that we owe the Palestinians something because maybe, just maybe, we did steal their land.
Now, amongst Israel's Jewish population, we have three groups who have expressed their views on this subject. - The hilonim (secular Jews) do, in most cases, believe that Israel's legitimacy stems from the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and the UN Partition Resolution of 1947.
- The haredim, for the most part, reject the legitimacy of the
State of Israel because the Messiah did not lead us back to Palestine to establish the 3rd Commonwealth. 3. The national religious camp (vastly outnumbered by both the secularists and the haredim) adheres to the view that our deed to this land is the Bible and that we did not have to have the Messiah here to begin the physical (note, I did not say "spiritual") redemption. How ironic that fundamentalist Christians, who number approx-imately 40-50 million in the U.S., advocate the view that our legitimacy stems from the Bible. Only when more Jews in Israel feel the same way, and openly say so to the entire world, will Barack Hussein Obama finally get the message. If we have lied so much to ourselves, what, then, can we expect from a hostile, or at best, indifferent, world? Sy
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