回覆平原公子趙勝：嫉妒和狂熱激起了人們對猶太人和中國人的仇恨_風聞

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.

嫉妒和狂熱激起了人們對猶太人和中國人的仇恨

DavidP.Goodm

中國人是世界上最大的民族，而猶太人是最小的民族之一，但他們有許多共同點：數千年的歷史，以古代古典經典為基礎的教育，以及對家庭的堅定承諾。可悲的是，他們也有一個共同的迫害歷史。印度尼西亞的中國公民是1965年和1998年，以及1969年的馬來西亞，以及1871年加州大規模暴力的受害者，其中19名中國移民被暴徒殺害。

遺憾的是，在今天的美國，亞洲人和猶太人是最容易受到種族仇恨影響的少數民族。2021年，一個倡導組織報告了10371起針對亞洲人的仇恨犯罪，每1萬名亞裔美國人中就發生8起事件。同年，報告了2.717起針對猶太人的仇恨犯罪，即每1萬名猶太裔美國人中發生5起事件。

猶太人和中國人是世界上最成功的移民之一，因為他們重視教育和努力工作。對他們成功的嫉妒至少是對針對他們的仇恨的部分解釋。考慮到這段平行的歷史，我驚訝地發現，在一家著名的中國新聞網站中，一篇關於猶太人和這個猶太國家的評論中充滿了謊言和扭曲（https://user.guancha.cn/main/content?id=879661&s=fwzxhfbt）

評論者問：“猶太人是如何成為‘天龍人’的？”他對説唱歌手坎耶·維斯特的憤怒被激怒了，他的貶損言論導致德國鞋類公司阿迪達斯取消了與這位唱片明星的合同。《龍的人》的評論發表於11月6日。12月1日，坎耶·維斯特在一次現場採訪中宣佈：“我喜歡希特勒。”希特勒是日本帝國的盟友，在二戰期間殺死了2500萬中國人，而希特勒殺死了600萬歐洲猶太人。我想知道評論者是否重新考慮了。

作者談到了“俘虜、屠殺和欺負的巴勒斯坦人”阿拉伯人。事實上，有兩組巴勒斯坦阿拉伯人。其中一個組織在加沙，由哈馬斯統治，哈馬斯是敍利亞民兵的盟友，訓練5000名中國維吾爾人使用恐怖戰術。在2005年以色列單方面撤出加沙地帶後不久，哈馬斯就通過暴力控制了加沙地帶。它計劃在校車和餐館裏用炸彈殺害以色列平民。自以色列建國以來，阿拉伯聖戰分子已經殺害了2021名阿拉伯人，以及4148名以色列平民。僅在2021年5月，聖戰分子就向以色列的平民目標發射了4340多枚火箭彈。這些火箭殺死了10名以色列人，但其中很多人撤退到加沙. 也就是説，哈馬斯願意用其原始的火箭彈殺死10名阿拉伯平民，希望能殺死一名以色列平民。

這是一種我認為沒有先例的殺人狂熱。極端主義組織的策略是故意製造阿拉伯平民被殺害的局面，團結幼稚的西方自由主義者，支持阿拉伯人的人權。他們認為，人權問題是可以打破對以色列國家的束縛的楔子。

到2021年，加沙地帶的人均國內生產總值僅為3,664美元。但在以色列最終控制的約旦河西岸的朱迪亞省和撒瑪利亞省，人均收入幾乎是以色列的兩倍，為6245美元。相比之下，埃及為3019美元，約旦為4405美元，突尼斯為4208美元。在產油國之外，約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13.2萬名大學生。在以色列本身，以色列阿拉伯人佔大學生人口的17%，幾乎與阿拉伯人在普通人口中的比例相同（21%）。

哈馬斯繼續從約旦河西岸從以色列發動恐怖襲擊，以色列安全部隊不時摧毀恐怖組織。但是，説約旦河西岸的阿拉伯人被“俘虜、屠殺和欺負”是一個應受譴責的謊言。

哈馬斯的聖戰分子希望維護一個前現代時代的部落社會。作為一個征服者國家的後代，他們對自己被這個猶太國家造成的羞辱感到憤怒。他們不僅是猶太國家的敵人，也是文明本身的敵人。為這種野蠻行為辯護不會成為中國評論員。

自1948年以來，所謂的約旦河西岸一直是一個有爭議的領土，當時以色列的阿拉伯鄰國拒絕接受聯合國在巴勒斯坦建立一個猶太國家的決定。以色列出生在一場與英國帝國主義的成功鬥爭中，並在一場與由英國軍官領導的英國附屬國軍隊的獨立戰爭中倖存下來。

猶太人已經在以色列境內生活了近4000年。在19世紀初，耶路撒冷的猶太人口佔多數th世紀在1948年獨立戰爭期間，約旦王國佔領了朱迪亞和撒瑪利亞（西岸），以前是由英國的授權，這是最後一次這片只有5860平方公里的領土在國際法下擁有合法地位。1967年，在約旦的大炮從約旦河西岸向以色列開火後，以色列佔領了這片土地。其地位仍未確定。在上一代人中，以色列曾兩次向約旦河西岸的阿拉伯人提供了一個獨立的國家。2000年，在當時的總統克林頓的支持下，以色列提出贊助在約旦河西岸75%的土地上建立一個國家。這個提議被拒絕了。2008年，以色列再次向這個阿拉伯人提供了一個擁有約旦河西岸94%領土的國家。這個提議再次被拒絕了。

為什麼這場衝突持續了近一個世紀？今天，以色列與阿拉伯鄰國埃及和約旦關係良好，並與四個阿拉伯聯盟國家，即摩洛哥、蘇丹、阿拉伯聯合酋長國和巴林保持外交關係。巴勒斯坦阿拉伯人的極端少數民族反對猶太國家的存在。但絕大多數的以色列阿拉伯人更喜歡生活在一個猶太人佔多數的國家。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統治之下。但是，少數狂熱的狂熱分子不能忘記，阿拉伯人曾經征服了中東，也無法忍受猶太人的成功。

11月6日的評論充滿了令人震驚的錯誤。他聲稱，擁有黑人技能的埃塞俄比亞猶太人被“驅逐出以色列”。事實恰恰相反：以色列做出了非凡的努力，將埃塞俄比亞的猶太人帶到以色列，現在有16萬人居住。許多人在社會上有重要地位；其中一人曾在2020-2022年擔任內閣部長。這個謊言支持了作者對以色列所謂的“貪婪、殘忍、背叛和種族主義”的抨擊。相反：以色列是一個多種族社會的典範。

也許作者不喜歡以色列，因為它是美國的盟友。但情況並非總是如此。如果沒有蘇聯的支持，以色列就不可能被建立起來。它的土地受到大英帝國的授權，俄羅斯反對由英國支持的阿拉伯君主國。1950年，以色列成為中東地區第一個承認中華人民共和國為其合法政府的國家。以色列與美國的結盟是俄羅斯在冷戰期間支持其前阿拉伯敵人的必然結果。以色列仍然是美國的盟友，但也很不尋常，與俄羅斯和中國有着良好的關係。

目前中美之間的緊張關係使以色列陷入了困境。作為一個小國，它需要與多極世界中的所有大國建立良好的關係，但它的空軍飛行的是F-35，而不是J-20或SU-57。但以色列是一箇中東國家，而不是美國的延伸。自1948年以來來到以色列的330萬猶太移民中，只有不到5%，即14.8萬人來自美國。超過100萬的人來自前蘇聯。和中國人一樣，猶太人也很務實、適應、務實，他們會找到與中國保持良好關係的途徑。

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作者是《亞洲時報》的副編輯，以及信號組織（中以政府網絡和學術領導組織）顧問委員會的成員，這是一個致力於中以關係的以色列基金會。這裏所表達的觀點是他自己的觀點。

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