By Paul Eidelberg

Muslims have a distinct psychological advantage over Jews: their capacity for hatred. Ben Hecht is one Jew who understood this, and his keen understanding makes fools of the Jews who have tried to make peace with Muslims since 1993.

Hecht writes: “The scoundrel – prince or priest or adventurer – has always known that it is easier to win followers through their deep talent for hate than their … capacity for love.  He has known that hatred is the magic for victory, if you can control it. Hatred strengthens people and solidifies them – behind you, if you are lucky. When we hate someone, we feel the courage necessary for slaying. If we happen to hate someone weak and unarmed against us, this does not lessen our sense of courage. In fact, it increases it. Not only the Germans, but scores of nations have shouted themselves to battle by first triumphing over the Jews.”

The greatest haters in the world are Muslims. Their hatred is so intense as to be inhuman or pathological. Writing on this subject in The New York Times (December 18, 1994), Steven Erlanger quotes the celebrated Russian author, Tolstoy. Tolstoy wrote about the Russian destruction of a Chechen village:  “The emotion felt by every Chechen, old and young, was stronger than hatred.  It was not hatred; it was a refusal to recognize these Russian dogs as men at all, and a feeling of such disgust [and] revulsion … that the urge to destroy them, like the urge to destroy rats, venomous spiders, or wolves, was an instinct as natural as self-preservation.”

Leon Uris vividly portrays this hate in his 1985 novel The Haj. One of its characters, the famous Orde Wingate, says this of Arab, hence of Arab Muslim, hatred:

Every last Arab is a total prisoner of his society.  The Jews will eventually have to face up to what you’re dealing with here. The Arabs will never love you for what good you’ve brought them. They don’t know how to really love. But hate!  Oh God, can they hate!  And they have a deep, deep, deep resentment because you [Jews] have jolted them from their delusion of grandeur and shown them for what they are—a decadent, savage people controlled by a religion that has stripped them of all human ambition … except for the few cruel enough and arrogant enough to command them as one commands a mob of sheep.  You [Jews] are dealing with a mad society and you’d better learn how to control it.

The novel’s central (but hardly typical) character, Haj Ibrahim, confides (paradoxically) to a Jewish friend:

During the summer heat my people become frazzled…. They are pent up. They must explode. Nothing directs their frustration like Islam.  Hatred is holy in this part of the world. It is also eternal…. You [Jews] do not know how to deal with us. For years, decades, we may seem to be at peace with you, but always in the back of our minds we keep up the hope of vengeance.  No dispute is ever really settled in our world. The Jews give us a special reason to continue warring.

Uris uses another such character, the cultured Dr. Mudhil, to elaborate:

We [Muslims] do not have leave to love one another and we have long ago lost the ability.  It was so written twelve hundred years earlier.  Hate is our overpowering legacy and we have regenerated ourselves by hatred from decade to decade, generation to generation, century to century.  The return of the Jews has unleashed that hatred, exploding it wildly …  In ten, twenty, thirty years the world of Islam will begin to consume itself in madness.  We cannot live with ourselves … we never have.  We are incapable of change.

Later in the novel, Mudhil remarks: “Islam is unable to live at peace with anyone…. One day our oil will be gone, along with our ability to blackmail. We have contributed nothing to human betterment in centuries, unless you consider the assassin and the terrorist as human gifts.”

Although The Haj was written in 1985 and became an international best-seller, as well as a Hollywood movie, it has not been read or taken seriously by the Jews who concluded or applauded the Israel-PLO Agreement of 1993. The milquetoast attitude of those Jews toward Islamic hatred prevails to this day.