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The Psychopathology of Politics CND Posters on Myriads of Hoardings Against Germany Over Fighting the Demand 'Don't Attack Iraq' and Couple Actual Japanese Attackers VOLUME 2 No. 11 NOVEMBER 2002 The psychopathology of politics CND posters on myriads of hoardings against Germany over fighting the demand 'Don't attack Iraq' and couple actual Japanese attackers. France this with 'Freedom for Palestine'. Such occupies a totally different sphere in the slogans hardly square with the indebtedness stakes. All its organisation's professed aim, which is sophistication and assumption of nuclear disarmament. How can an cultural superiority over the cowboys on attempt to prevent a state like Iraq with the other side ofthe Atlantic cannot still a record of serial aggression against a sense of unease engendered by the neighbouring countries - Iran, Kuwait, nation's past. Today's French wince at Israel - from going nuclear earn the the recollection of their wartime censure of opponents of nuclear conduct and hate to be reminded that proliferation? Nor does another they largely owe their liberation from fevourite CND mantra, Jaw-Jaw not the Nazi yoke to the Americans. War-War', chime with an intifada-hred However great France's indebtedness oattle cry like 'Freedom for Palestine'. to America, it is dwarfed by that of Jaw-Jaw showed signs of prevailing over Afghan President Hamid Karzai Germany. The United States restored War-War in Israeli-Palestinian relations their democracy and - via the Marshall for most of the 1990s until Arafat's The psychological mainsprings Plan - their economy. Moreover, in 1948 obduracy hoisted Sharon into power behind such self-contradictory, not to the US organised the Berlin airlift, It is an undeniable fact that the most say perverse, attitudes were laid bare by which kept Germany's historic capital •'itractable proponents of the intifada - the seventeenth-century commentator from being starved into submission and llamas, the Al-Aksa Brigade, Islamic who wrote: 'The Puritans ban bear- total incorporation into Stalin's empire. J'had - think that they will only have baiting not because it inflicts pain on the For the next 40 years the Americans achieved 'Freedom for Palestine' when animals but because it gives pleasure to pursued a policy of strenuous military, 'srael has been wiped off the map. It is the spectators.' Applying this insight to economic and cultural competition with ^"^ same hardliners, utterly deaf to any the present situation, one can say that the Soviet Bloc, which eventually Appeal to reason or humanity, who glory those who put up the 'Don't attack Iraq - caused it to disintegrate. The most ^ resorting to the revolting butchery Freedom for Palestine' posters were not visible element of this disintegration bought by suicide bombers. And let us so much motivated by concern for was the collapse of the Berlin Wall - and "^ot forget that it was so-called ordinary Iraqis, who, anyway, would love alongside it the reunification of ^estinian men and women in the to be rid of Saddam, or for Palestinians, Germany. '^eet who cheered when Saddam's as by sheer hatred of America or Israel. Given all these facts, the mind boggles *^d missiles hit residential districts of The explanation for the depth of anti-US at a German minister's assertion that ^1 Aviv, and ululated with joy at news of feeling throughout Western Europe can Bush, like Hitler, indulges in foreign "^ attack on the twin towers in also be found in psychopathology. It is adventures to divert attention fi-om Manhattan. simply that people - and peoples - bear a internal problems. Now President Bush, "^y do proponents of the Palestinian grudge against those to whom they are admittedly, has worries over corporate of it* '^se, who deck themselves out in the obligated. failures and rising oil prices, but they are Ionia t^i ^utrements of moral superiority, Britain, which stood alone in 1940 as nothing compared to those of oi^, ^^ot bellicose battle cries instead of while America was still mired in the Chancellor Schroder. The (jack)boot is offi'*'' ^ngthening the human bond between slough of isolationism, has least reason very much on the other foot. Contrary to ortstt^ . '•" sides - as exemplified by the to feel so obligated. Even so, it ought to Frau Daubler's canard, it was Schroder '^ada*ssas h Hospital's implantation of a be grateful for the fact that after the who, to divert attention from pressing ^sh bomb \nctim's kidney into a attack on Pearl Harbour, President internal problems - stubbornly high Roosevelt gave priority to the war ^Perately sick Arab girl? continued page 16 AJRJOURNAL NOVEMBER 2002 Freudian slippage C. C. Aronsfeid: Passionate scholar of Richard Grunberger the Holocaust One day in September the Daily Cesar (he preferred the initials C.C.) Telegraph reported an American Aronsfeid, who has died at the age of scientist's discovery of a gene that 92, was a major scholar, researcher and renders Jews averse to consuming historian of the Holocaust, playing a alcohol in large quantities. It didn't seem key role in the establishment and a particularly world-shaking discovery running of the Wiener Library. In his Cesar Aronsfeld and his wife Helga since we are widely known to have a later years, he became the temporary greater propensity for fressing than editor of AJR Information, the Jewish relations was the AJR shickering (a term which incidentally forerunner of the A//? 7ourna/. Information. Having retired from the has entered Australian slang). However, Born in 1910 the oldest of four Institute of Jewish Affairs in the mid- embedded in the text of the report children of an Orthodox wine merchant 1980s at the age of 75, he was invited to become the temporary editor of A//? lurked a hideously inept malapropism. in Exin in eastern Germany (now Kcynia in Poland), Aronsfeld left Germany for Information, which he did for two This was the description of European England soon after Hitler gained years, handing over the editorship to Jews asashkenazis. ASHKENAZIS! power In London he met Alfred Richard Grunberger in spring 1988. Had the reporter responsible for this Wiener, who was at the time seeking an Following his departure, the AJR lapse, I wondered, ever heard that in English translator for an archive he was Information noted that 'we have since Hebrew male nouns take the suffix im in assembling on National Socialism. He received many letters indicating the plural. There are, after all, quite a was to become Wiener's principal appreciation of the lively debate he has introduced' and that the publication's few words with that ending in current assistant for the next quarter-century. The Jewish Central Information Office, 'contents and layout soon showed the usage - kibbutzim, chassidim, Bank as it was known before it was renamed marks of his professional experience, a Hapualim - that any fully-pledged the Wiener Library, played a key role in deep knowledge of Jewish affairs, and member of the journalistic profession information and propaganda aspects a feeling for the interests of our ought to be familiar with. Besides, of the Second World War. After the war, readership.' anyone with a nodding acquaintance Aronsfeld edited the Wiener Library Cesar Aronsfeld held with the Bible, or with Milton's Paradise Bulletin, which was perhaps his characteristically strong views on major Lost, ought surely to have heard of greatest contribution in the postwar Jewish issues of the day, including the cherubiw and seraphjw. years. When Wiener retired in 1961, Arab-Israeli conflict, on which he was Aronsfeid took over as acting director Having pondered the matter for inclined to take a doveish stance. A ofthe Library. Following Wiener's death strong polemical element informed several days, I am inclined to blame this in 1964, Walter Laqueur was appointed many of his writings, which were not slip of the word-processing tongue less director In 1966 Aronsfeld left the seldom imbued with a somewhat on ignorance than on 'Freudian slippage' Wiener Library for the position of apocalyptic warning about a possible due to brain-washing. If one hears Senior Research Officer at the Institute recrudescence in the UK or elsewhere constantly that members of the Israeli of Jewish Affairs. Here he edited the of Nazi-style antisemitism. He was very Defence Force behave like Nazis - an scholarly journals Patterns of Prejudice much a private man, deeply sensitive- and Christian-Jewish Relations. allegation shouted from the rooftops by modest, and friendly with peop'^ tub-thumpers like John Pilger and Will Aronsfeld was a prolific letter-writer whom he respected, yet he could be Self, and echoed by Establishment and one of the journals to which he unexpectedly abrupt towards those io' whom he had little respect or who, a' figures like Chris Patten - it insidiously frequently wrote, and to which he he believed, wished to interfere in h'^ worms its way into the collective made a regular contribution on themes relating to world Jewish history, closely guarded independence. subconscious. (Didn't a delegate to the Anglo-Jewish history and Christian- Howard Spi«^ TUC conference at Blackpool shout out 'Sharon!' when Tony Blair asserted that Saddam Hussein was the worst dictator in power in the world today?) AJR Journal On second thoughts, maybe Tom Richard Grunberger Editor-in-Chief r|J JACKMAN • Paulin is moonlighting as a Daily Ronald Channing Executive Editor W^ SILVERMAN Howard Spier Editorial and Production Telegraph journalist under an assumed AJR Journal, 1 Hampstead Gate, COMMERCl(U, PROPERTY' CONSULTANTS name. Stranger things have happened in la Frognal, London NW3 6AL Fleet Street, also known as the Street Tel: 020 7431 6161 Fax: 020 7431 8454 e-mail: [email protected] 26 Conduit Street, London WlR 9TA ofShame. www.ajrorg.uk Telephone: 020 7409 0771 Fax: 020 7493 801' AJRJOURNAL NOVEMBER 2002 A two-way bet on Haider NEWTONS Richard Grunberger Leading Hampstead Solicitors advise on National character is far from immutable.
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