Comment: Since childhood, I was indifferent to anything that concerned Jews. I never even considered coming to Israel. I traveled to many countries and got certain feelings from them. But in Israel, there is a particular sense of something still not being completed here.

My Response: Israelis have their own special little pride, but it is characteristic of a young country. Jews know nothing about being chosen by God and in no way feel it in themselves.

Israel is as young a country as, say, the Wild West was in the US at one time when people cultivated its deserts and prairies; they were proud of it and still feel pride to this day. After all, it was a period of pioneers, first settlers.

In some ways, the same thing is happening here based on the fact that people live in danger, in a state of war. They adapt to this in very difficult conditions.

When I come to Canada or America and look at the life of Jews there, it makes me sick to see people who only care about themselves, about their own pocket. Moreover, they are open about it: “I do not care about anything else.”

It is a purely animalistic existence. Take care of today and tomorrow, and the rest can burn in hell! Their desires do not rise above a comfortable material existence.

But in Israel, life itself is different. It revolves around stress. Those living here must constantly feel close to danger, with questions about life. And this leaves a mark.

Naturally, in egoists this is manifested as some kind of pride: “Yes, we are like that.” But this is a specific pride that comes from their spiritual aim, from their eternal goal that they must achieve and deliver to humanity.

Comment: But there is a sense of indifference toward each other here.

My Response: I think it is a defense mechanism, a survival instinct. It is too hard otherwise.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Hatred of the Jews” 5/14/11

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