Comment: You often give students different advice, for example, to write articles. But there are such states when a person does not have the heart to write, thoughts completely disappear. There is a feeling of great regret that the teacher’s covenant cannot be fulfilled.

My Response: I myself have not written for a long time. There is Facebook, Twitter, several sources where you can write. Basically, I sometimes tweet little “bullets” for my students. On the same day, they are translated into different languages, and people read them.

They are based on the material from the past lesson or what is happening in the world or on the topic of the next lesson planned for tomorrow.

Sometimes I get up at 12 am and I can fill up Twitter before class, sometimes I do it during the day. I believe that what I write there is very important, and I am glad that there is such an opportunity where it is limited and you sit and calculate, you really calculate, so that each word has its own weight, and the message does not go beyond the allowed amount of letters.

And I don’t write articles. I do not even slander a detailed article, but I give my ideas to people who have such abilities. And they are the ones who write mainly in four languages: English, Spanish, Russian, and Hebrew.

Therefore, if you come across current articles somewhere, signed by “Michael Laitman,” then these are my ideas expressed by my students.

Question: Are they not getting distortions from this?

Answer: No. I know and clearly control those who write, and therefore, I speak so calmly about it. You can take these articles as absolutely mine.

Question: But Twitter is personal instruction?

Answer: Yes. This is me personally.
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From KabTV’s “Teacher – Student” 2/7/19

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My new article on Linkedin “Covid Isn’t Going Anywhere Yet”

After more than a year of battling with Covid-19, vaccines are available and their distribution is gaining momentum. It seems as though we are finally emerging from the pandemic as many states have lifted some, or all, of the limitations.

Nevertheless, I think we are a bit too quick to jump to conclusions. We are still not conscious enough of how we should relate to one another, and the reckless race to lift the limitations could produce a very negative response. We’re not out of the woods just yet, especially since we still don’t feel how close or far we should be from one another.

As I have said countless times, nature is smarter than we are; it demands that we overhaul our conduct. This is why it sent us the coronavirus, and the virus will continue to plague us (in various forms) until we comply with nature’s demand.

The virus is very nimble, mutates easily and quickly, and is now far more contagious than it was when it first appeared. Since we don’t feel how far we need to be from one another—to keep two feet away from this person, and ten feet away from that person—we don’t know how to conduct ourselves.

Also, even when vaccines do work, they don’t inoculate one hundred percent and are only effective for six months or so. Therefore, I see no cause for celebration.

As I have said countless times, nature is smarter than we are; it demands that we overhaul our conduct. This is why it sent us the coronavirus, and the virus will continue to plague us (in various forms) until we comply with nature’s demand.

Currently, whenever we lift the limitations, we revert to the way we lived before: selfishly, and without consideration of each other or the environment. This is exactly why the plague broke out: to compel us to transform our relationships. If we revert to the previous way of life every time we lift the limitations, the virus will keep coming back, and more virulent and violent each time. Only when we start using the forced distance between us to build positive relations, to learn about our mutual dependence, and the necessity to care about each other, we will be able to conduct ourselves in more thoughtful ways and we will not need a virus to keep us from harming one another.

To do this, we must start thinking that by keeping our distance, we are not protecting ourselves, but the ones from whom we keep away. That is, if we, collectively, cultivate a mindset where we see ourselves as infected (even if asymptomatic), and that we must keep away from each other in order not to infect others, then we will stop infecting one another. If we do this, the virus will be gone in a matter of weeks. But even more important, we will have succeeded in our first exercise in mutual responsibility.

This exercise will demonstrate that only through mutual responsibility can we build a secure and successful society, and we will want to cultivate that mindset instead of the reverence we currently have for extreme individualism and narcissism.

Our physical (and emotional) health depends on our social health more than at any time prior. If we want to be healthy, we must first heal our society from corrupt egoism. We must learn to appreciate, and gradually rejoice in our differences. We must come to see that the diversity of human society is required for its strength, and that without people who think, look, and act differently, no one can develop and succeed, since we only develop through contact and communication with different people. When we realize this, we will be able to build a balanced, healthy society, and the virus will truly be gone.

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My new article on Linkedin “Israel – A Country in Paralysis”

For the fourth time in two years, Israel is going to the polls. The country is in an unprecedented state of political paralysis, and it feels as though regardless of the election results, and whatever government is established afterwards, it will not work. Signed agreements are not kept, alliances mean nothing, and the country is in deadlock.

The problem is that we don’t understand that the motto “All of Israel are friends” is not some lofty idea conceived by an ancient sage some 3,000 years ago. It is a goal that we must strive to achieve every moment we are here because this is our vocation as a nation. Our brotherhood is not for our own sake; it is to set an example of unity above hatred and rows. The ancient bond that the people of Israel achieved was unique. It was not a bond among kin or among otherwise related people, but one that was achieved among people whose ancestors came from countless tribes and clans who were often sworn enemies. This is why King Solomon said (Prov. 10:12), “Hate stirs strife, and love will cover all crimes [of hatred].” Only when we conduct ourselves in this manner are we regarded as “the people of Israel,” and only then do we merit living in the Land of Israel.

It does not have to be this way; we brought ourselves to it. We, the people of Israel, must be as brothers to each other, as it is written, “All of Israel are friends,” and until this happens, we are not a nation, and we have no country or society.

At the moment, we are behaving like raucous siblings who were sent to their room because they misbehaved. But we are all living in one room, so we are continuing the unruly behavior while on “lockdown.” If we keep this up, we really will lose the country.

The problem is that we don’t understand that the motto “All of Israel are friends” is not some lofty idea conceived by an ancient sage some 3,000 years ago. It is a goal that we must strive to achieve every moment we are here because this is our vocation as a nation. Our brotherhood is not for our own sake; it is to set an example of unity above hatred and rows. The ancient bond that the people of Israel achieved was unique. It was not a bond among kin or among otherwise related people, but one that was achieved among people whose ancestors came from countless tribes and clans who were often sworn enemies. This is why King Solomon said (Prov. 10:12), “Hate stirs strife, and love will cover all crimes [of hatred].” Only when we conduct ourselves in this manner are we regarded as “the people of Israel,” and only then do we merit living in the Land of Israel.

At the moment, the country is running sort of on its own, but this is not the right way to run things. If we were united as we should be, above our hatred, we wouldn’t let politicians run the country; we’d have professionals running it. Educators should run the ministry of education, doctors should run the ministry of health, and the same goes for commerce and industry, culture, and so forth. Professionals should run the country and not politicians, who see only the promotion of their own careers.

As long as there is money to waste, we’ll keep going to the polls. And for our own sake, I hope we will learn what we must do sooner rather than later.
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Thrive Global published my new article: “Women Can Repair the World”

If women express a desire for humanity’s unity above all of its divisions and if they unite as a major force with this desire, they will urge men in the direction of unity.

Casey Cawthon, 32, Public Relations Director for Well Done Marketing, is shown working from the home office space she has created during the COVID-19 pandemic, Friday, Oct. 23, 2020. Cawthon, a single mom and diabetic, is considered high risk and has been working from home since mid-March.Casey Cawthon, Public Relations Director for Well Done Marketing

Whether our global home stands or falls apart in complete destruction depends on women. The celebrations of the International Women’s Day this year should be a reminder of the fact that the female force is a unifying power and is the kind of leadership so needed in these critical times as the world slowly tries to get back on its feet from a long bout of COVID-19. Women have been at the epicenter of the pandemic, in the frontlines of healthcare services and particularly hit hard by job losses. But this could be used as an opportunity for a new start to shape a more balanced society.

When men receive such a strong impetus to unite from women, they will work to fulfill those demands and will strive to unite and balance with the unified form of nature that functions with altruistic connections between all of its parts. Therefore, women’s strengths should be directed to female unity so they could contribute to society’s prosperity and happiness through unifying their efforts into building a new, comfortable and welcoming home for human society.

Studies on the socio-economic impact of the pandemic show that women have been nearly twice as likely as men to lose their jobs as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. As a palliative solution, the UN recommends a Temporary Basic Income for six months, the amount would vary depending on each country’s standard of living. We have reached a critical point where these measures should already be implemented and considered for a longer period of time.

On one hand, help should be provided to both men and women in a way that allows them to live with dignity, without excess but covering their basic needs. On the other hand, we need to make sure that every woman also has the opportunity to continue her work from home. If we thus use the time when we are bound to our homes in order to upgrade our awareness of nature’s unifying principle and to implement it in our relationships, we will then see far-reaching positive impacts of the COVID-19 crisis—a shift into a completely new and harmonious state among humanity, the likes of which we have never experienced before.

Through the pandemic, nature is trying to wake us to our need to make a further step in our evolution: to exercise positive, supportive, encouraging and considerate relations. Our selfish makeup is what led us to create a society that functions with each one trying to profit off everyone else; operating this way throws us all off balance. Essentially, we now need to reach a state where we care about others to the same extent we care about ourselves.

If we know the right place for men, women, parents, and children as components in society that complement each other, we will progress nicely in support and in mutual strengthening. According to nature’s structure, the female represents the desire to receive while the male represents the intention to give. Therefore, if women express a desire for humanity’s unity above all of its divisions and if they unite as a major force with this desire, they will urge men in the direction of unity.

Then, when men receive such a strong impetus to unite from women, they will work to fulfill those demands and will strive to unite and balance with the unified form of nature that functions with altruistic connections between all of its parts. Therefore, women’s strengths should be directed to female unity so they could contribute to society’s prosperity and happiness through unifying their efforts into building a new, comfortable and welcoming home for human society.

We will all feel as if we share a common home, like we live among a giant loving family in a completely new and upgraded kind of awareness of the laws of nature and the world we exist in. Now is the time to repair the world as only women know how to do.

I wish you success!!
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My new article on Linkedin “What to Do with Vocal, Antisemitic Academics”

Professor of Political Sociology David Miller of the University of Bristol recently referred to Jewish students on his campus as “pawns” of Israel, “a violent, racist, foreign regime engaged in ethnic cleansing.” Such accusations are baseless and absurd. However, the more interesting point about this statement is that while more than 100 MPs [Members of Parliament] and peers from every big political party called on the University of Bristol to act against Prof. Miller, some 200 academics from the United Kingdom and the United States signed a petition defending him. This petition demonstrates that Miller’s views are not only his own, that many people share them, even if some of them hide their antisemitism behind the “free speech” cloak.

The more we stall with implementing our ancient union and our ancient task, the more the world will hate us. The more international relations deteriorate the world over, the more the world will blame it on the Jews, and particularly on Israel. We should not take this lightly; it is our chance to carry out our mission, and we must not miss out on the opportunity. If we shun this invitation to be “a light unto nations,” the world will not forgive us, and we will have no one else to blame but ourselves.

Because Miller’s views are so pervasive, I think it is time for us to realize that silencing antisemites will not stop antisemitism. Instead, we must use such incidents as levers to explain our place in the world as a nation and as a state.

First, we must agree that no matter how badly we want to be like everyone else, Jews are not like other nations. If the whole world singles you out for condemnation, simply telling the world that it is wrong will not convince anyone. Even if the facts are in your favor, hate filled people do not listen to facts; their feelings are the only justification they need. Therefore, if the world hates us, and it does, we should try to understand why.

Take any nation, besides Jews, and you will find a common origin. Every nation started with a nucleus that had some biological affinity. The Jewish people, from the very beginning, were different. We began when people from different places, different faiths, and no biological affinity whatsoever, found a common tenet that they shared and wanted to implement in practice. That tenet was union above division, affinity over enmity, or as King Solomon put it, “Love will cover all crimes” (Prov. 10:12). Rabbi Akiva stated it even more explicitly when he said that the tenet “Love your neighbor as yourself” is the great rule of Jewish law, the Torah.

Through their efforts to practice this hitherto unthinkable idea, our ancestors created such a tight bond among them that they united “as one man with one heart” and formed a new nation out of countless prior enemies. In a sense, the ancient Israelites implemented among themselves the idea of world peace before anyone had thought of the idea.

Indeed, right from the very beginning, it became clear that the unique union the early Jews had established should serve as a role model for the rest of the world, that this is how nations should live with one another. But no one, besides the Jews, had ever done it, or tried it, or even thought of the idea. Clearly, it was up to the Jews to spread the idea and the method for implementing brotherhood above differences and hatred. This is why the Torah writes that the Jews were intended to be “a light unto nations,” that their task was to show the way for achieving peace and harmony throughout the world, as they had achieved among themselves. Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson eloquently captured the essence and vocation of the Jewish people in his book A History of the Jews: “At a very early stage in their collective existence they [Jews] believed they had detected a divine scheme for the human race, of which their own society was to be a pilot.”

While we were in exile, we were dispersed among the nations and could not be that pilot society. But now that we have returned to our land, the ancient duty has become valid, and accordingly, the demand of the nations that we implement it has grown more pressing.

The State of Israel, the state of the Jewish people, is therefore the place where Jews should unite above their differences and cover all the crimes of mutual hatred with love. If we do this, the world will justify our existence as a sovereign state. If we do not, they will use every pretext to deny our legitimacy until they finally resolve to terminate the existence of the Jewish state.

The more we stall with implementing our ancient union and our ancient task, the more the world will hate us. The more international relations deteriorate the world over, the more the world will blame it on the Jews, and particularly on Israel. We should not take this lightly; it is our chance to carry out our mission, and we must not miss out on the opportunity. If we shun this invitation to be “a light unto nations,” the world will not forgive us, and we will have no one else to blame but ourselves.
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My new article on Linkedin “Equality ad Absurdum”

Recently, six of the popular children’s books author Dr. Seuss were banned from Amazon for ostensibly containing “racist” content. As a child, Dr. Seuss, who came from German descent, was himself a victim of prejudice after suffering from anti-German aggression following the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Ironically, now his own books have been banned for ostensibly containing racist phrases. This accusation is so absurd that people responded with buying so many of Dr. Seuss’ books that they have soared to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list, occupying nine out of the marketplace’s top 10 books.

Only if we try to build closeness, care, and appreciation of each other will we put an end to bigotry in our society and form truly healthy and enjoyable communities to live in.

The absurdity of the quest for equality doesn’t stop with Dr. Seuss. In many high-tech companies, as well as in other areas, it has become a requirement that a certain percentage of executives will be women, regardless of their skills. In some cases, women must attend meetings even if they’re not in their areas of expertise, take part in decision making processes, and even cast their vote despite everyone’s awareness that they are completely clueless on the topic, but if no women are included in the vote, the decision will be invalid.

Another place where the pursuit of equality has gone beyond the boundaries of reason is computers. Terms such as “black list” and “white list” have been replaced in many cases with “deny list” and “allow list,” and the terms “master” and “slave” in computer networks have been replaced with “primary” and “secondary.” Indeed, the quest for equality has reached absurd proportions.

We can’t help it; people always have been, are, and will be different. This is what they should be! Differences do not make people better or worse, superior or inferior, but striving to make them the same does make them miserable. People are not born equal because we are all unique! Erasing our uniqueness is exactly what harms us. Instead of trying to cut everyone according to the measurements of the moral Procrustean bed, so everyone is seemingly the same and equally unhappy, we should embrace our differences because what one person contributes to society, no other person can contribute.

We shouldn’t be working on installing equal status for everyone in society, but on cultivating equal appreciation and care for all members of society, on appreciating everyone’s unique contribution. If we value one another, we won’t need to worry about discrimination or inequity since our concern for one another will generate positive relationships among everyone.

Think of a mother with two children: She does not think that both her children are the same or equal, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t love them equally. If one of them is a slower learner than the other, she might hire a tutor to help the struggling child. This doesn’t mean that she discriminates one of her children. She is simply tending to her children’s different needs equally. Since one child needs more help than the other, the mother responds accordingly.

Therefore, if we want to live in a society where people are happy, we needn’t try to make them equal, but to make them caring! Mutual care is the only guarantee we can provide to the well-being of society and the people living in it. Fighting against racism, antisemitism, chauvinism, or any kind of discrimination has never solved any of them. Only if we try to build closeness, care, and appreciation of each other will we put an end to bigotry in our society and form truly healthy and enjoyable communities to live in.
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My new article on Linkedin “Understanding Negative Social Phenomena”

In recent years, it seems as though one of the “hottest” topics in public discourse has been racism. But not only racism has been a hot topic; any kind of discrimination has become a topic of great public interest. Racism—whether against Blacks or against Jews, misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia, and even discrimination based on political views, have all gained notoriety.

All men and women are not born equal. We are born different, and our diversity drives our development as a human race. Just as no two animals, plants, or even rocks are the same, and the diversity of nature drives evolution, so it is with human diversity. The difference between human society and the rest of nature is that people, unlike any other element in creation, strive for absolute dominance. Deep down, each of us, consciously or not, strives for superiority. This is why we do not accept differences among people; we want everyone to be the same, equal.

Whenever such a topic receives attention, politicians, journalists, and celebrities jump on the bandwagon and blare their views emphatically. These statements may help their careers, but I have yet to see one problem solved by sanctimonious assertions and contempt for other people’s views. If we want to solve social problems, we must understand where they come from and uproot them at the core.

All men and women are not born equal. We are born different, and our diversity drives our development as a human race. Just as no two animals, plants, or even rocks are the same, and the diversity of nature drives evolution, so it is with human diversity.

The difference between human society and the rest of nature is that people, unlike any other element in creation, strive for absolute dominance. Deep down, each of us, consciously or not, strives for superiority. This is why we do not accept differences among people; we want everyone to be the same, equal.

However, we will only think that people should be the same if they are the same as me! Anyone who does not think like me is wrong, should be “reeducated,” or eliminated. Of course, this is an extreme presentation of human ambitions and most people do not maintain such extremist views, but it is nonetheless the driving force behind social mindsets.

As just stated, diversity is essential; it drives our development. The problem is our attitude toward it. To change our attitude toward diversity and make it constructive, we need to understand that were it not for diversity, we wouldn’t be here; we’d be extinct. Diversity means mutual complementation, where each element provides what no other element can. Just as we wouldn’t want salmon to be sharks, and just as we wouldn’t want our hearts to become kidneys, so we shouldn’t want anyone to be anything other than what they are. We may not see the contribution of each person to society, but ignorance does not excuse mistakes. As Martin Luther King, Jr. already pointed out, “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

Therefore, to solve negative social phenomena, we should relate to them constructively. Every time a problem manifests, we should treat it as an invitation for correction. It is not the problem itself that we should fix, but the hatred that has caused it. As said above, people’s differences make them hate one another, which manifests in different ways each time. Nevertheless, it is always the hatred that we must correct, and not the differences.

Think of the most extreme examples, such as hatred between Whites and Blacks in America. We shouldn’t expect Blacks to become, or even want to become White, or the other way around. We should, however, work on recognizing the contribution of each part to society, on the unique values and beauty that each race and color possesses, and then we will come to love one another precisely because of who we are, and we will not want each other to change. The idea is therefore not to change one another, but build love atop the differences, and in fact, precisely because of them.

If we were able to see the beauty and unique contribution of each element in society, we would grasp how dependent we are on the success and prosperity of each person in society. We wouldn’t need to deal with social problems since they would dissolve in the love that would surround everyone. If a certain problem did appear, we would treat it as a sign that we have not completed our work and there is more love to build, this time around a new rift that we did not see before. If we treat our differences in this constructive manner, we will be thankful every day that we have so many people of so many colors, creeds, and races.
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My new article on Linkedin “A Two-Pronged Solution to Campus Antisemitism”

Academia has become a bastion of antisemitism across the globe, and both the UK and the US are not exceptions. The most recent case of inflammatory statements against Jews and Israel emerged from David Miller, a professor of political sociology at the University of Bristol who advocates to “end Zionism,” and who accused Jewish students of being used as “political pawns by a violent, racist foreign regime engaged in ethnic cleansing.” The hatred against Jews will not be ended by saying he is not right. As Jews we can only stop the problem of antisemitism through a two-pronged approach: explain the root of it, and fulfill our expected role by establishing unity among us.

As it is written in The Book of Zohar, “Everything stands on love” (VaEtchanan). It is the obligation of the Jewish people to unite in order to show the way for the cohesion and balance of the entire human race by implementing the great tenet of the Torah, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” When this happens, animosity towards Jews and Israel will transform into praise and appreciation.

Miller’s words left no one indifferent. A good number of scholars signed a letter backing Miller’s right to academic freedom, while hundreds of professors from around the world, in contrast, penned another letter criticizing his hateful idiocy. Bristol University in the meantime has not removed him from his position and merely expressed that they do not endorse his statements.

As uncomfortable as it might be, antisemitism is a natural manifestation in people. We can punish haters on college campuses or in any other educational institutions and it will never end the problem. In the place of this antisemitic professor there will be another hundred, and another two hundred, and thousands upon thousands that will continue multiplying worldwide. We already see this undeniable phenomenon in America where forces against Jewish students are not only growing but strengthening over time. The high value Jewish tradition has placed on education attracts many young Jews to college and university campuses, and their prominent participation puts them at the cross-hairs of anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist sentiments.

We need to understand that what lies behind antisemitism is rooted in history, all the way back to ancient Babylon where the Jewish people emerged some 4,000 years ago. The people of Babylon thrived at first and worked in unity toward common goals, but later, as their intensifying egos alienated them from one another, they fell into unfounded hatred.

The solution proposed by Nimrod, king of Babylon, was the dispersion of the people. He argued that when people are far from one another, they do not quarrel. Abraham, at the time a renowned Babylonian sage, suggested a second solution. He had observed the integrality of nature and pointed out that it is nature’s dictate that human society must eventually become united. Therefore, he campaigned to unite the Babylonians despite and atop their growing egos.

Today humanity finds itself in a state very similar to the one the ancient Babylon experienced. We are globally interdependent, yet, at the same time, we are alienated from one another. But because we have already spread throughout the world, Nimrod’s solution of parting ways is no longer practical. We are now required to use Abraham’s method.

Because we as Jewish people have previously implemented Abraham’s method and achieved a state of optimal connection, we must rekindle our unity and teach the method of connection to the whole of humanity. If we fail to do so, the pressure against the Jewish people will continue to escalate.

Antisemitism can only be solved through two thrusts: 1) advocacy against antisemitism on the one hand, and 2) the proper functioning of the role of Israel to exemplify and educate for unity, on the other. This must take place both in theory and in practice. In other words, we need to explain that when the Jewish nation fell from its moral apex of love of others, hatred of Israel among the nations began. Through antisemitism, the nations prod us to disclose the method of connection. Therefore, the people of Israel, descendants of the ancient Babylonians who followed Abraham, are required to set an example for the whole of humanity and thus become a light unto nations.

As it is written in The Book of Zohar, “Everything stands on love” (VaEtchanan). It is the obligation of the Jewish people to unite in order to show the way for the cohesion and balance of the entire human race by implementing the great tenet of the Torah, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” When this happens, animosity towards Jews and Israel will transform into praise and appreciation.
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My new article on Linkedin “Open Letter to the International Criminal Court”

To: The International Criminal Court (ICC)

Subject: The Court’s announcement that it will open a formal probe against Israel concerning alleged “war crimes” during the 2014 Operation Protective Edge military campaign.

The ICC Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, recently stated that “The decision to open an investigation followed a painstaking preliminary examination.” More importantly, the prosecutor asserted, “My office takes the same principled, non-partisan, approach that it has adopted in all situations over which its jurisdiction is seized,” and the investigation “will be conducted independently, impartially and objectively, without fear or favor.” At the same time, the court admitted, “The ICC is not a panacea, but only seeks to … promote accountability … in an effort to deter [war] crimes.”

But the Jews have long forgotten all about their achievement. They, too, have fallen prey to hatred and have become hostile to their own people just as before they united for the first time in antiquity. In such a state, they cannot set an example of unity; they can only project hatred, which they do in abundance. And because of the world’s expectation from them to project unity, the more they hate each other, the more the world hates them and accuses them of causing wars.

An effort to deter war crimes is a noble goal, no doubt, but I respectfully disagree with the means to achieve it. I, too, am unhappy with the way that the Jewish people and the Jewish state are conducting themselves. However, I think that in order to alleviate the suffering of the parties involved in this conflict, the pressure on Israel should focus on what Israel projects to the world, and not only to the issue of the Palestinians.

No institutions are more preoccupied with the State of Israel than the UN and its various subsidiaries. Many people, Jews for the most part, feel that this “obsession” with the Jewish state reflects a double standard that stems from antisemitism. I, too, believe that the UN is thoroughly antisemitic, but I also understand why this is so. Additionally, I do not think that the “obsession” with Israel is uncalled for. In my view, it is a natural phenomenon that stems from people’s inherent feeling that Israel is an obstructive force. For this reason, I view the nations’ preoccupation with Israel as an attempt to deal with what they perceive as a problem.

I agree that Israel is an obstructive force, but for a different reason than the one that the international community stipulates. In my view, Israel is an obstructive force because the internal division among Israelis reflects negatively on the world and excites conflicts throughout the globe. The nations do not blame Israel for all the wars because Israel actually starts them. They blame it because Israel is projecting the venom and hatred that then cause wars to erupt. And how does Israel do this? The hatred of Israelis for each other reflects on the entire world and poisons the air throughout the planet.

In my book Like a Bundle of Reeds: Why unity and mutual guarantee are today’s call of the hour, I elaborate on the origin and significance of the Jewish people to the well-being of the world. Israel, being the Jewish state, should be a leader in carrying out the duty of the Jewish people toward the world. We must remember that the Jewish people is not an ethnicity in its own right, but the descendants of ancestors who came from the numerous tribes, clans, and peoples that inhabited the ancient world in the Fertile Crescent. These people became a nation only after they resolved to rise above their animosity, which stemmed from their different origins and roots. In having achieved this unthinkable union, they presented the world with a method to eliminate hatred, wars, and lift the peoples of the world to a spiritual level of existence, where global brotherhood prevails.

Deep within, the Jewish people are tied in an unbreakable connection to the tribes and clans from which they came. Deep within, the descendants of those tribes, which by now have spread throughout the world, feel that connection and will therefore never stop observing and examining the Jews. These descendants carry with them the latent memory of the achievement of their ancient tribespeople, and demand that they will share their secret with them. They demand that the Jews will teach the world how to form that union above hatred that they once formed among themselves.

But the Jews have long forgotten all about their achievement. They, too, have fallen prey to hatred and have become hostile to their own people just as before they united for the first time in antiquity. In such a state, they cannot set an example of unity; they can only project hatred, which they do in abundance. And because of the world’s expectation from them to project unity, the more they hate each other, the more the world hates them and accuses them of causing wars.

Therefore, the ICC, and every international institution, should focus its attention on the unity of Jews among themselves. It should demand that the Jewish state become an example of brotherhood rather than enmity, of cohesion rather than division. Since Jews are connected to the entire world through those long forgotten roots, their connection will reflect on all of humanity and change the atmosphere throughout the world. For this reason, if the ICC wants the Palestinians and the entire world to have a good life, it must pressure the Jews to be Jews once more—united above their hatred—and everything else will follow.
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My new article on Linkedin “The Benefit in the ICC’s “Unbiased” Investigation against Israel”

Fatou Bensouda, the prosecutor in the investigation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) into possible “war crimes” against Israel, promised that the investigation “will be conducted independently, impartially and objectively, without fear or favor.” Right. As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pointed out, the ICC, which was established to prevent atrocities like the Holocaust from happening again, is now coming after the Jewish state. Instead of genuine impartiality, “It turns a blind eye to Iran, Syria and the other dictatorships that are committing real war crimes left and right,” said Netanyahu. As always, the easiest way to expose antisemitism is to look for double standards, and in this case, it couldn’t be more patent.

If we want to win the world’s favor, we have to stop treating each other with such guile and odium. We have to stop hating one another or the world will not stop hating us.

Yet, anyone who knows me, or who has read my books, The Jewish Choice, and Like a Bundle of Reeds, will not be surprised if I express no grievances against antisemites or the existence of antisemitism. In fact, I fully understand where it is coming from and I treat it as a natural phenomenon and a call to action rather than as an unwarranted accusation against my people.

I am not in the least surprised that the world judges us by a different standard than it judges the rest of the nations. They expect something different from us and judge accordingly. We may state that we are the same as everyone else, that we are no different from any other nation, but no one believes this declaration, and deep down, neither do we.

Instead of complaining about the world’s double standard against the Jews, we should see it as both a compliment and a challenge. They expect us to be more righteous than everyone else, more ethical than everyone else, and when we fail their test, they accuse us of crimes against humanity.

We try to be righteous and ethical but the world does not believe us. It is wrong, of course; no army is more careful with human rights violations than the Israeli army, but no one believes us, and for a good reason: This ethical conduct is unreliable for a very simple reason—the way we treat each other. We first have to learn how to relate to one another, and then the world will listen to our arguments about being virtuous. They see in our treatment of each other a testimony to our wickedness, and they will not believe a word we say in court before we act out who we profess to be.

Let me ask you this: Would you trust someone who you knew was mean to his own brother, stole from his own sister, framed his own parents in order to put his hands on their money and property, and then told you he’s a good person? No, you wouldn’t, and rightly so. This is how the world sees us Jews—as a band of warmongers stealing from each other, cheating on each other, betraying one another, while pretending to be harmless and innocent. In their eyes, we are guilty before the trial at the ICC even started, and it makes no difference what we will say in our defense.

If we want to win the world’s favor, we have to stop treating each other with such guile and odium. We have to stop hating one another or the world will not stop hating us.

They know we are smart; they know we are able; and they know what we have contributed to the world. However, they also know that they cannot trust us because they see how we treat one another. If we want fair treatment anywhere, we must start by doing so among ourselves, and then we will begin to see the world changing its approach toward us.

For more on this topic, read my books The Jewish Choice: Unity or Anti-Semitism, historical facts on anti-Semitism as a reflection of Jewish social discord, and Like a Bundle of Reeds: Why unity and mutual guarantee are today’s call of the hour.
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