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panikowskyThe EOA
Prof. Paul Eidelberg
Source: http://www.isralert.com/archives/2005/01/the_eoaa.php
A number of young and ambitious Israelis have formed a non-governmental organization called the East-Oriented Alliance (EOA). The EOA sees that decadent Europe is succumbing to Islam, and that the United States, despite the resurgence of the Christian Right, is not far behind. Indeed, EOA sees (as do American classicists) that multiculturalism-cum-feminism dooms the last bastion of Western civilization. So EOA is looking to the East. Their game? The China card.
China now has a population of 1.3 billion. The Chinese are an intelligent, industrious, and tradition-oriented people. Communism has had no significant impact on their mentality, still permeated by the teachings of Confucius. Respect for wisdom, moderation, honor, family values, and intellectual curiosity modulate the Chinese mind. China is the wave of the future, and EOA wants to ride that wave.
EOA is staffed by scientists, economists, and generalists educated in the top American universities before the latter succumbed to nihilism or post-modernism. These generalists include students of Chinese culture. They know its literature, its history and foreign relations; and, unlike typical academicians and graduates of Israeli universities and yeshivas—who dwell in ignorance about war in a country surrounded by Arabs—they have studied Sun Tzu. Indeed, they relish the Chinese attitude toward Muslims expressed in the North China Herald in 1867: “If politeness and ceremony be observed toward Mohammedans, they imagine they are feared and become arrogant; but in showing severity and rudeness, they are impressed with fear and respect, and they are supple and manageable.”
So the EOA is establishing links with China, meeting frequently with their Chinese counterparts in Tel Aviv and from time to time in Beijing. In fact, the EOA resembles a “shadow government” and is treated as such by the Chinese NGO, which sees very well that Israel’s existing government is a cesspool of corruption and incompetence. The Chinese see that despite the wisdom and subtlety of the Jewish prophets and sages, Israel’s ruling elites can neither finesse the United States, floundering in the Middle East, nor eliminate Arab thugs or Muslims wallowing barbarism.
Nevertheless, Israel has one thing the Chinese want: awesome but still secret scientific knowledge to which only a few members of EOA, versed in the esoteric wisdom of Kabala, have access. They know, therefore, that Israel must be preserved and thoroughly reconstructed in the interest of human progress.
To forge the strongest bonds with Israel and replace the United States as its leading ally, the Chinese want Jewish families to adopt Chinese babies, an idea shared by the EOA. EOA consists of ardent cultural and religious Zionists. The former no less than the latter recognize that Israel has no future unless it venerates, understands, and builds on its heritage. But this means that the EOA and its oriental colleagues agree that Chinese babies adopted by Jewish families must be converted and raised as faithful and learned Jews.
Given the traditional values of the Chinese and the various institutes of Jewish studies that have sprung up in China in the last two decades, the EOA feels more at home with their oriental counterparts than with most American neo-cons, both on global and Middle East issues. EOA scientists, with Chinese geo-strategic support, will make fossil fuel, hence oil, obsolete as an energy source, in consequence of which Mohammedanism will be relegated to the dust heap of history.
Most fascinating is the idea of Chinese Jewish children. Of course, those who have read that charming book, The Bamboo Cradle, know that Israel already has some Chinese Jews, whose love of Israel is a marvelous commentary on the Torah’s power to unite people of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. One EOA Zionist, whose wife is a Chinese convert to Judaism, wants fifty thousand Jewish families in Gaza, Judea, and Samaria to adopt at least one Chinese baby. Some suspect that he wants to embarrass the government and thwart its grotesque plan to uproot Jewish communities in these areas! Actually, he believes that the adoption of Chinese babies and their being raised as observant Jews will prompt countless gentiles from Russia to convert, and that even non-observant Jews will return to the Torah!
Although this sounds pretty far-fetched, EOA is the most serious NGO in Israel. In collaboration with its Chinese counterparts, it has drafted a constitution for China based on Confucius principles. Religious members of EOA say that this constitution, with minor modifications, could also be used in Israel, but that its adoption requires a grassroots movement spearheaded by Chinese Jews committed to genuine democracy. Of course, these Chinese Jews would have the moral support of 1.3 billion philo-Semites in China. It will probably take a political tsunami of this magnitude to bring about regime change in Israel.
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