Trond Andresen, a Norwegian professor who has been active in Norway’s Red (Communist) Party, Maoist AKP (m-l) Party, and Red Electoral Alliance, which places him fully within the mainstream of the Norwegian cultural elite, has written a letter to the Wall Street Journal taking issue with Alan Dershowitz’s account of his encounter with the poisonous anti-Semitism that is endemic in that elite. Andreson’s letter powerfully, if inadvertently, confirms Dershowitz’s account (about which I put in my own two cents here), and closely echoes a 2008 post on an online forum in which Andresen wrote: ”There is something immensely self-satisfied and egocentric about the ’tribal mentality’ that is so widespread among Jews….Not just the religious ones, but also a great many modern secular Jews view their own ethnic group as being worth more than all other ethnic groups. Yes, they actually think they are ‘the chosen people.’” No, folks, Dershowitz wasn’t exaggerating.
The 2nd paragraph of the letter begins with:
“From a Norwegian vantage point, [...]”
Maybe that is the entire problem: the Norwegian “vantage point”. People in a country swimming in oil simply cannot understand that governments of other countries have to consider the survival of their own citizens first and foremost, way ahead of the welfare of humankind as a whole.
Speaking of oil, I note that Middle-East conflicts are in Norway’s economic interest, because they raise the price of oil.
Norwegian, hmmmm…the only well-known modern Norwegian I can think of is V. Quisling. Now, who was he allied with?
So what’s the argument? There are no chosen people? There are? Which viewpoint is anti-Semitic?
Can I be a chosen person? If not why? Am I on the outside looking in or because of my happy lack of obligation am I actually on the inside looking out?
Who am I?
Why am I on this planet?
How much does Saturn weigh?