回复平原公子赵胜：嫉妒和狂热激起了人们对犹太人和中国人的仇恨

Envy and fanaticism inspires hatred of Jews as well as Chinese

David P. Goldman

The Chinese are the world’s largest people and the Jews one of the smallest, yet they have many things in common: thousands of years of history, education based on ancient classics, and a strong commitment to family. Sadly, they also have a common history of persecution. Chinese citizens of Indonesia were the victims of mass violence in 1965 and 1998, as well as Malaysia in 1969, and in 1871 in California, where 19 Chinese immigrants were murdered by a mob.

Sadly, in today’s United States, Asians and Jews are the minorities most exposed to ethnic hatred. 10,371 hate crimes against Asians were reported by an advocacy group in 2021, or 8 incidents per 10,000 Asian-Americans. In the same year, 2.717 hate crimes against Jews were reported, or 5 incidents per 10,000 Jewish Americans.

Jews and Chinese are among the world’s most successful immigrants because they value education and hard work. Envy of their success is at least a partial explanation for the hatred directed against them. Considering this parallel history, I was surprised to find in a distinguished Chinese publication a commentary about the Jews and the Jewish State full of falsehood and distortions（https://user.guancha.cn/main/content?id=879661&s=fwzxhfbt）

The commenter asked, “How did Jews become the ‘Dragon People?’” He was offended by the outrage against rapper Kanye West, whose derogatory remarks caused the German footwear company Adidas to cancel a contract with the recording star. The “Dragon People” comment was posted on November 6. On December 1, Kanye West announced in a live interview, “I like Hitler.” Hitler was the ally of the Japanese Empire that killed 25 million Chinese during World War II while Hitler killed 6 million European Jews. I wonder if the commenter has had second thoughts.

The writer speaks of “captive, slaughtered, and bullied Palestinian” Arabs. There are in fact two groups of Palestinian Arabs. One group is in Gaza and is ruled by Hamas, an ally of the Syrian militia that trained 5,000 Chinese Uyghurs in terror tactics. Hamas took control of Gaza by violence shortly after Israel unilaterally withdrew from the territory in 2005. It plans bombs in school buses and restaurants to murder Israeli civilians. Arab jihadists have killed 2,021 Arabs since the founding of the State of Israel, along with 4,148 Israeli civilians. In May 2021 alone, jihadists fired more than 4,340 rockets at civilian targets in Israel. These rockets killed ten Israelis, but many of them fell back inside Gaza, killing more than 90 Palestinian Arabs. That is, Hamas is willing to kill ten Arab civilians with its primitive rockets in the hope of killing one Israeli civilian.

That is a murderous sort of fanaticism for which I know no precedent. The tactic of the extremist organizations is to deliberately create situations in which Arab civilians are killed, to rally naïve Western liberals in support of Arab human rights. They believe that the human rights issue is the wedge that can break upon the Israeli state.

The per capita GDP in Gaza was only $3,664 in 2021. But in the West Bank provinces of Judea and Samaria, where Israel maintains ultimate control, per capita income is almost twice as high, at $6,245. That compares to $3,019 in Egypt, $4,405 in Jordan, and $4,208 in Tunisia. Outside the oil-producing countries, West Bank residents are the richest, best educated, and healthiest Arabs in the world, with 132,000 university students. In Israel itself, Israeli Arabs are 17% of the university student population, almost the same proportion as Arabs in the general population（21%）.

Hamas continues to launch terror attacks from Israel from the West Bank, and Israeli security forces destroy terrorist cells from time to time. But to say that West Bank Arabs are “captive, slaughtered and bullied” is a reprehensible falsehood.

The jihadists of Hamas want to preserve a pre-modern, tribal society. As the descendants of a conqueror nation, they rankle at their humiliation by the Jewish State.  They are not simply the enemies of the Jewish State, but of civilization itself. It ill becomes a Chinese commentator to defend such savagery.

The so-called West Bank has been a disputed territory since 1948, when Israel’s Arab neighbors refused to accept a United Nations decision to create a Jewish State in Palestine. Israel was born in a successful fight against British Imperialism, and survived a War of Independence against the armies of British client states led by British officers.

Jews have lived in the territory of Israel for nearly 4,000 years. Jerusalem had a majority Jewish population by early in the 19th century. During the 1948 War of Independence, the Kingdom of Jordan seized Judea and Samaria（the West Bank）, which previously was under the British Mandate, the last time this territory of just 5,860 square kilometers had a legitimate status under international law. In 1967, after Jordanian artillery fired on Israel from the West Bank, Israel seized the land. Its status remains undetermined. Twice in the last generation, Israel offered the West Bank Arabs an independent state. In 2000, with the backing of then-President Clinton, Israel offered to sponsor a state on 75% of the land of the West Bank. The offer was refused. Again in 2008, Israel offered the Arabs a state with 94% of the territory of the West Bank. The offer again was refused.

Why has this conflict persisted for nearly a century? Israel today has good relations with its Arab neighbors Egypt and Jordan, and diplomatic relations with four Arab League countries, Morocco, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain. An extremist minority of Palestinian Arabs opposes the existence of a Jewish State. But the great majority of Israeli Arabs prefer to live in a Jewish-majority state. Among Arabs in the capital city of Jerusalem, 93% want to live under Israeli administration. But a fanatical minority of fanatics cannot forget that the Arabs once conquered the Middle East, and cannot abide the success of the Jews.

The Nov. 6 comment is full of outrageous errors. He claims that black-skilled Ethiopian Jews were "expelled from Israel." The opposite is true: Israel made extraordinary efforts to bring the Jews of Ethiopia to Israel, where 160,000 now reside. Many have prominent positions in society; one served as a cabinet minister from 2020-2022. This falsehood supports the author's diatribe against Israel's alleged "greed, cruelty, treachery and racism." On the contrary: Israel is an exemplar of a multiracial society.

Perhaps the author dislikes the State of Israel because it is an ally of the United States. That was not always so. Israel could not have been founded without the support of the Soviet Union. Its land was under the mandate of the British Empire, and Russia opposed the Arab monarchies backed by the British. In 1950, Israel was the first country in the Middle East to recognize the People’s Republic of China as the country’s legitimate government. Israel’s alliance with the United States was the inevitable result of Russia’s support for its former Arab enemies during the Cold War. Israel remains an American ally, but an unusual one, with good relations with Russia as well as China.

The present tensions between China and the United States put Israel in a difficult position. As a small country, it needs good relations with all the powers in a multipolar world, but its air force flies F-35’s, not J-20’s or SU-57’s. But Israel is a Middle Eastern country, not an extension of the United States. Of the 3.3 million Jewish immigrants who came to Israel since 1948, less than 5%, or 148,000, came from the US. More than 1 million came from the former Soviet Union. Like the Chinese, the Jews are pragmatic, adaptive and practical, and will find a way to maintain good relations with China.

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The author is Deputy Editor of Asia Times, and a member of the advisory board of SIGNAL（Sino-Israel Government Network and Academic Leadership）, an Israeli foundation dedicated to China-Israel relations. The opinions expressed here are his own.

嫉妒和狂热激起了人们对犹太人和中国人的仇恨

DavidP.Goodm

中国人是世界上最大的民族，而犹太人是最小的民族之一，但他们有许多共同点：数千年的历史，以古代古典经典为基础的教育，以及对家庭的坚定承诺。可悲的是，他们也有一个共同的迫害历史。印度尼西亚的中国公民是1965年和1998年，以及1969年的马来西亚，以及1871年加州大规模暴力的受害者，其中19名中国移民被暴徒杀害。

遗憾的是，在今天的美国，亚洲人和犹太人是最容易受到种族仇恨影响的少数民族。2021年，一个倡导组织报告了10371起针对亚洲人的仇恨犯罪，每1万名亚裔美国人中就发生8起事件。同年，报告了2.717起针对犹太人的仇恨犯罪，即每1万名犹太裔美国人中发生5起事件。

犹太人和中国人是世界上最成功的移民之一，因为他们重视教育和努力工作。对他们成功的嫉妒至少是对针对他们的仇恨的部分解释。考虑到这段平行的历史，我惊讶地发现，在一家著名的中国新闻网站中，一篇关于犹太人和这个犹太国家的评论中充满了谎言和扭曲（https://user.guancha.cn/main/content?id=879661&s=fwzxhfbt）

评论者问：“犹太人是如何成为‘天龙人’的？”他对说唱歌手坎耶·维斯特的愤怒被激怒了，他的贬损言论导致德国鞋类公司阿迪达斯取消了与这位唱片明星的合同。《龙的人》的评论发表于11月6日。12月1日，坎耶·维斯特在一次现场采访中宣布：“我喜欢希特勒。”希特勒是日本帝国的盟友，在二战期间杀死了2500万中国人，而希特勒杀死了600万欧洲犹太人。我想知道评论者是否重新考虑了。

作者谈到了“俘虏、屠杀和欺负的巴勒斯坦人”阿拉伯人。事实上，有两组巴勒斯坦阿拉伯人。其中一个组织在加沙，由哈马斯统治，哈马斯是叙利亚民兵的盟友，训练5000名中国维吾尔人使用恐怖战术。在2005年以色列单方面撤出加沙地带后不久，哈马斯就通过暴力控制了加沙地带。它计划在校车和餐馆里用炸弹杀害以色列平民。自以色列建国以来，阿拉伯圣战分子已经杀害了2021名阿拉伯人，以及4148名以色列平民。仅在2021年5月，圣战分子就向以色列的平民目标发射了4340多枚火箭弹。这些火箭杀死了10名以色列人，但其中很多人撤退到加沙. 也就是说，哈马斯愿意用其原始的火箭弹杀死10名阿拉伯平民，希望能杀死一名以色列平民。

这是一种我认为没有先例的杀人狂热。极端主义组织的策略是故意制造阿拉伯平民被杀害的局面，团结幼稚的西方自由主义者，支持阿拉伯人的人权。他们认为，人权问题是可以打破对以色列国家的束缚的楔子。

到2021年，加沙地带的人均国内生产总值仅为3,664美元。但在以色列最终控制的约旦河西岸的朱迪亚省和撒玛利亚省，人均收入几乎是以色列的两倍，为6245美元。相比之下，埃及为3019美元，约旦为4405美元，突尼斯为4208美元。在产油国之外，约旦河西岸的居民是世界上最富有、受教育程度最高、最健康的阿拉伯人，有13.2万名大学生。在以色列本身，以色列阿拉伯人占大学生人口的17%，几乎与阿拉伯人在普通人口中的比例相同（21%）。

哈马斯继续从约旦河西岸从以色列发动恐怖袭击，以色列安全部队不时摧毁恐怖组织。但是，说约旦河西岸的阿拉伯人被“俘虏、屠杀和欺负”是一个应受谴责的谎言。

哈马斯的圣战分子希望维护一个前现代时代的部落社会。作为一个征服者国家的后代，他们对自己被这个犹太国家造成的羞辱感到愤怒。他们不仅是犹太国家的敌人，也是文明本身的敌人。为这种野蛮行为辩护不会成为中国评论员。

自1948年以来，所谓的约旦河西岸一直是一个有争议的领土，当时以色列的阿拉伯邻国拒绝接受联合国在巴勒斯坦建立一个犹太国家的决定。以色列出生在一场与英国帝国主义的成功斗争中，并在一场与由英国军官领导的英国附属国军队的独立战争中幸存下来。

犹太人已经在以色列境内生活了近4000年。在19世纪初，耶路撒冷的犹太人口占多数th世纪在1948年独立战争期间，约旦王国占领了朱迪亚和撒玛利亚（西岸），以前是由英国的授权，这是最后一次这片只有5860平方公里的领土在国际法下拥有合法地位。1967年，在约旦的大炮从约旦河西岸向以色列开火后，以色列占领了这片土地。其地位仍未确定。在上一代人中，以色列曾两次向约旦河西岸的阿拉伯人提供了一个独立的国家。2000年，在当时的总统克林顿的支持下，以色列提出赞助在约旦河西岸75%的土地上建立一个国家。这个提议被拒绝了。2008年，以色列再次向这个阿拉伯人提供了一个拥有约旦河西岸94%领土的国家。这个提议再次被拒绝了。

为什么这场冲突持续了近一个世纪？今天，以色列与阿拉伯邻国埃及和约旦关系良好，并与四个阿拉伯联盟国家，即摩洛哥、苏丹、阿拉伯联合酋长国和巴林保持外交关系。巴勒斯坦阿拉伯人的极端少数民族反对犹太国家的存在。但绝大多数的以色列阿拉伯人更喜欢生活在一个犹太人占多数的国家。在首都耶路撒冷的阿拉伯人中，93%想要生活在以色列政府的统治之下。但是，少数狂热的狂热分子不能忘记，阿拉伯人曾经征服了中东，也无法忍受犹太人的成功。

11月6日的评论充满了令人震惊的错误。他声称，拥有黑人技能的埃塞俄比亚犹太人被“驱逐出以色列”。事实恰恰相反：以色列做出了非凡的努力，将埃塞俄比亚的犹太人带到以色列，现在有16万人居住。许多人在社会上有重要地位；其中一人曾在2020-2022年担任内阁部长。这个谎言支持了作者对以色列所谓的“贪婪、残忍、背叛和种族主义”的抨击。相反：以色列是一个多种族社会的典范。

也许作者不喜欢以色列，因为它是美国的盟友。但情况并非总是如此。如果没有苏联的支持，以色列就不可能被建立起来。它的土地受到大英帝国的授权，俄罗斯反对由英国支持的阿拉伯君主国。1950年，以色列成为中东地区第一个承认中华人民共和国为其合法政府的国家。以色列与美国的结盟是俄罗斯在冷战期间支持其前阿拉伯敌人的必然结果。以色列仍然是美国的盟友，但也很不寻常，与俄罗斯和中国有着良好的关系。

目前中美之间的紧张关系使以色列陷入了困境。作为一个小国，它需要与多极世界中的所有大国建立良好的关系，但它的空军飞行的是F-35，而不是J-20或SU-57。但以色列是一个中东国家，而不是美国的延伸。自1948年以来来到以色列的330万犹太移民中，只有不到5%，即14.8万人来自美国。超过100万的人来自前苏联。和中国人一样，犹太人也很务实、适应、务实，他们会找到与中国保持良好关系的途径。

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作者是《亚洲时报》的副编辑，以及信号组织（中以政府网络和学术领导组织）顾问委员会的成员，这是一个致力于中以关系的以色列基金会。这里所表达的观点是他自己的观点。

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