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Morgenthau saw the Soviet war on religion, and Judaism in particular, as fundamental to the regime’s claim on power. When a regime sees its power as stemming from itself, he argues, it cannot live in peace with God. By extension, the regime cannot live in peace with His people on earth, the Jews. It is the very existence of the Jews as Jews that constantly reminds the Communists that this is God’s world and not theirs. “Judaism, in particular, presents a challenge to any totalitarian regime, for the prophetic tradition of Judaism has made its business, since the times of the prophets of the Old Testament, to subject the rulers of Israel to the moral stands of the other world,” Morgenthau told Congress. “A regime for which truth is a mere by-product of its own power cannot fail to recognize in this Judaic claim an element of subversion.”

– Dovid Margolin, quoting Hans J Morgenthau in Commentary, “The Jews in Defiance of History“

These individuals hate the State of Israel because has become the world’s preeminent “guest house” of Torah. They also hate the Jews, and the State of Israel has made itself the guardian of the Jews (within the boundaries of the natural order). They hate the Torah and the Jews because they realize that they will never be fully able to remake the world according to their own preferences unless the Torah is forgotten and the Jews, as a people, are extinct.

– Mamre, “The Elephant in Our Living Room”

“If you put people in a moral vacuum, they will seek to fill it with the closest thing at hand. Over the past several years, people have sought to fill the moral vacuum with politics and tribalism. . . . . For people who feel disrespected, unseen, and alone, politics is a seductive form of social therapy. It offers them a comprehensible moral landscape: The line between good and evil runs not down the middle of every human heart, but between groups. Life is a struggle between us, the forces of good, and them, the forces of evil.”

– David Brooks, writing in The Atlantic, “How America Got Mean“

“People who cannot fill the emptiness in the place marked ‘religion’ with something worthwhile will fill it with whatever is at hand.”

– Mamre, “The Right Solution”