Why are Jews so excluded and slaughtered in history?

There is a Jewish Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, Israel, and the atmosphere inside is very solemn and heavy. The memorial hall introduces the cruel persecution and massacre of Jews by German Nazis during World War II. Six torches were built on the building next to the West Wall (also known as wailing wall) in the old city of Jerusalem to burn day and night to commemorate the 6 million Jewish victims who were massacred by the Nazis in World War II.

This has happened many times in history, in Russia and some other European countries.

What caused the human tragedy of the Jewish Holocaust?

When the Nile and the two river basins are shining with splendid civilization, a unique nation in human history is also thriving. As a new force active in the vast Middle East, they wandered between the Arabian Peninsula and the great river civilization, and finally settled in Canaan under the leadership of Moses and Joshua.

Jews are "unique" in human history, and many people call them "the nation with the highest IQ", but their uniqueness is also reflected in their ill-fated life.

The history of Jewish founding is full of legends. Saul succeeded Moses and Joshua as king, and his military ability helped him defeat many foreigners. King David became famous for knocking down Goliath, the giant, and eventually replaced Saul, which profoundly changed the history of the Jewish state.

But soon, the glory of the Jews could not be maintained, and their country was divided into two regimes. The regime in the north is called "Israel". Its internal struggle and the corruption of the regime gave King Sargon II of Assyria a chance and eventually destroyed the country in 722 BC.

The country in the south is called Judas. Although the economic development is not as good as that of the northern brothers, they live longer with favorable defensive terrain. In the early days, it paid tribute to ancient Egypt (King Solomon's gold was shipped to Egypt in large quantities), which was contested by the Assyrian Empire in the middle period and finally destroyed by the invincible new Babylon in 586 BC. Nebuchadnezzar II, the new king of Babylon, invaded Jerusalem, blinded King Zedekiah of Judah and brought tens of thousands of Jews into the kingdom of Babylon (known as "Babylonian prisoners" in history).

This blow was fatal to the Jews, who suffered an unprecedented national crisis and laid the groundwork for their future wandering career. Persian cyrus the great once helped Jews to return to their homeland, but they were just poor people under the protection of Persian monarchs, which was later proved by facts.

Alexander and his successors appeared one after another, and Canaan became the battlefield of heroes. Successors were a little tolerant of Jews, but later Romans were not so friendly.

For more than 2,000 years, from the ancient kingdom of Judah in der untergang, New Babylon, in 586 BC to the establishment of modern Israel, the Jews have been a people who lost their sovereignty, especially after two uprisings against Rome were suppressed, which made the Jews not only lose their sovereignty, but also lose their homes and become a wandering people.

Anywhere in the world, no matter how early they come, how long they live and how much they contribute, they will always be regarded as strangers.

Religious belief

Jews created the earliest monotheism in human history, and they were very proud of it. They ignored all other beliefs. Jehovah is the God in Jewish belief. Jews believe that God has inspired them and swear that they are God's chosen people. Jews are a people who stick to tradition. Historically, Jews once believed in Judaism as a whole nation and refused to change Jewish canon. In order to keep the Sabbath, ancient Jews gave up resistance many times in the face of foreign invasion, which led to a fiasco; In order to keep the Sabbath, giving up work to treat patients often leads to their death.

This xenophobia is naturally despised by other monotheistic religions, especially Christianity, which was born out of Judaism. Christians were persecuted by the Roman Empire in the early days, but they had advantages that Judaism did not have.

With Christianity becoming the state religion of the Roman Empire in 330 AD (and then becoming the main religion in Europe) and the prophet Muhammad being enlightened to develop Islam (the main religion in Arab countries) in 6 10 AD, the fate of Jews as pagans became more and more difficult: Western Europe persecuted Jews in the Middle Ages, and a large number of Jews moved to Eastern Europe (Poland, Russia and other countries): during the Crusade, in order to save a Jew, Under the long-term anti-semitic education, it has become more and more common for Jews, and the Roman church even acquiesced in the massacre of Jews, which directly contributed to the Jewish massacre. Jews began to live in isolated cities without citizenship (closed Jewish settlements with doors and walls). Because they were confined to agriculture and handicrafts, they started modern financial business (usury).

Economic reasons

The ability of Jews to do business and make money is recognized all over the world. Jews who immigrated to Europe in those years became untouchables, or "second-class citizens". They have no civil rights and can't own land. The main way to improve their lives is to do business, and some people engage in usury. Usury was originally prohibited by Christianity, but the Jewish creditors were not only princes and nobles, but also bishops, cardinals and even the Pope himself borrowed money from Jewish bankers. The society at that time was somewhat similar to that in ancient China, that is, the social status of businessmen was relatively low. Jews live in the cracks, learn the way of doing business, haggle over every ounce, and gradually get rich. But it also left a bad impression on other people in society. Shylock, a ruthless Jewish businessman described by Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice, has become a typical Jewish businessman. Many Chinese businessmen in Southeast Asia are also called "Oriental Jews", which gives people some warnings: after getting rich, they should give back to the society, and they should not be "rich but heartless" and sow the seeds of social hatred. Therefore, European countries are very disgusted with Jews and try their best to expel them from their own countries. Jews wander around Europe like lost dogs.

France carried out six large-scale expulsions from 1 128 to 1394, and even in 1290, the British king ordered the expulsion of all Jews in the territory.

By the outbreak of the Great Plague in the Middle Ages, the "Black Death" swept across Europe, killing 30 million people and reducing the population of Europe by one third. Among them, Europeans were surprised to find that most of the dead were Europeans, while the infection rate and mortality rate of Jews were very low. In this regard, the Jewish explanation is that Jews love cleanliness and pay attention to hygiene. However, this explanation is difficult to convince Europeans. So later there was a saying that this "plague" was poisoned by Jews.

nationalism

In addition to the above factors, the rising nationalism in modern times has also done great harm to Jews. Nationalism in Europe can be traced back to the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France.

In modern times, nationalism is becoming more and more powerful, and every country makes full use of nationalism to promote its independence, revolution or reform. When the Nazis came to power in Germany, the whole of Germany thought that the "Versailles-Washington" system was a disgrace to them, which also led to the abnormal development of German nationalism.

As we all know, World War I was a war caused by the unequal distribution of spoils by imperialism, and it had nothing to do with Jews. But the Jews did make a lot of money in World War I, so Hitler sealed the Jewish shops first and then confiscated their factories. In the end, he still didn't feel avenged, and came up with a way to completely remove the threat of Jews and kill them.

In fact, not only Hitler, but all of Europe actively participated in the Holocaust.

Because Jews have been slaughtered many times in history, a national complex of self-esteem and inferiority has been formed in history. On the one hand, they think that they are God's chosen people, that is, the so-called "God's voters", who have the wisdom and promise given to them by God, so they have an advantage over foreigners; On the other hand, because I am Jewish, I am often bullied, persecuted and even slaughtered by foreigners, so I feel inferior. It is precisely because of the sorrow of the nation that Jews have been exiled and bullied for thousands of years. Jews believe in the Old Testament and pursue the principle of "repaying kindness and revenge", which is the so-called "tooth for tooth, eye for eye". Especially after the restoration of Israel, Jews often have a sense of crisis because of their small population and small country. If you are attacked, you will try to retaliate.