Gaza and the Dangers of Jewish Paranoia
Gaza and the Dangers of Jewish Paranoia RON UNZ Although the subject is generally avoided in our politically-correct age, for many generations it has been known that different groups suffer from different social maladies, probably due to a complex mixture of innate traits and cultural factors. The Irish have long been plagued by drunkenness and sometimes clinical alcoholism. The Chinese have loved to gamble, which has recently made nearby Macau the global profit-center of that industry. And European Jews have been prone to paranoia, perhaps the inevitable outcome of having spent more than a thousand years living as small, often highly-exploitative minorities among generally hostile host populations. These sorts of deeply-rooted paranoid tendencies can quietly simmer beneath the surface, then suddenly erupt into uncontrollable spasms of terror and rage, ignited by a large or small spark. Many of these agitated individuals may be completely unaware of the true facts of the situation tha