No such smoke-screen can conceal the fact that we live on a small planet where Darwinian principles rule, and under which we are all compelled to compete for sustenance and lebensraum. The "survival of the fittest" achieved by this process of "natural selection", is mediated day-to-day through the Pecking Order mechanism; ensuring thereby that the strong will ultimately triumph over the weak.
I have already established the fact that the attaining of such power does not lie within our reach, and that even if we could achieve this by a miracle of biblical proportions, such an advantage could never be attained indefinitely. Even those at the top of the Pecking Order are eventually challenged and displaced by younger and stronger animals. Saddled genetically with the need to reassert this power at regular intervals, our species - like countless others before us - is doomed to reenact its Pecking Order ritual right up to the moment that we too must disappear. All species must take their turn in the line leading to extinction, despite that reassuring genetic imperative to survive and preserve one's own gene pool.
When an entire people attempts to deny those genetic imperatives by repeatedly volunteering to take their accustomed position at the bottom of the Pecking Order, by their choice to wear a particular label or badge; or worse yet, when they deliberately place their own children in a position of peril - it becomes an exercise in group madness, no less reprehensible than the self-immolation of the cult members at Jonestown or Waco.
Once a people has lived through the experience of a Masada, certain lessons should have been retained; namely, that if the example of their mass death did not succeed in imparting to a cynical world any enduring appreciation of their valor, then they and their unborn children died in vain. Regrettably, the very raison d'etre for the modern State of Israel seems to lie in a perverse wish to re-live the Masada experience, all over again.
Until such time as a conscious decision is made by Jews to escape from their designated position at the bottom of the Pecking Order - there is no hope for them ever being able to do so, simply because their occupancy of that unenviable position has become too much a matter of habituation and convenience for the rest of society. As in Haydn's Farewell Symphony, they must drift off the stage as individuals, hopefully to diffuse and lose their group identity before the rest of society awakens to the need to prevent the loss of this historic convenience.
I am not so naive as to believe that the elimination of Anti-Semitism by any course of action will usher in an era of universal brotherly love. On the contrary, the immutable nature of the Pecking Order will simply necessitate a frantic search for an unlucky replacement, just as soon as the last Jew is gone.
Jews have stubbornly refused to recognize the fact that the inevitable destiny of those who choose to remain at the bottom of the Pecking Order, is premature death. If the option of living or dying were to be granted retroactively to all the Jewish martyrs throughout history, I am sure that the vast majority of them would be far more dedicated to staying alive next time, for the purpose of defending their values and their gene pools - if not their totems and incantations.
