L’Avvertimento di Einstein (1948): Condanna al Partito Herut di Begin come "Fascista" e le Radici del Likud

La storia offre spesso un contesto cruciale per comprendere il presente. Nel dicembre 1948, un gruppo di eminenti intellettuali, attivisti e scienziati ebrei – tra cui Albert Einstein, la filosofa Hannah Arendt e lo storico Sidney Hook – scrissero un severo monito al New York Times. Il loro bersaglio era Menachem Begin, leader del neonato "Partito della Libertà" (Herut - Tnuat Haherut), in visita negli Stati Uniti per cercare sostegno.

Einstein's Warning (1948): Condemning Begin's Herut Party as "Fascist" & the Roots of Likud

History often provides crucial context for understanding the present. In December 1948, a group of prominent Jewish intellectuals, activists, and scientists – including Albert Einstein, philosopher Hannah Arendt, and historian Sidney Hook – penned a stark warning to the New York Times. Their target was Menachem Begin, leader of the newly formed "Freedom Party" (Herut - Tnuat Haherut), who was visiting the United States seeking support.

Democracy and Perpetual War

The western world is declining and while doing so is pressuring the east and middle east to adopt his value and his "way of life".  Empires collapses from within, they don't get overthrown by external aggressor. When the time is right  all it takes is just a little push and they fall apart.

India, China and the Middle east are offering a strong resistance to western domination. Their resistance appears irrational to us, their culture appears irrational to us. But in the end what wins, and stand out, is only a strong belief no matter how rational or irrational it is. Societies that adopt western "way of life" shows a weakness in their moral values. They accept changes from the outside.

Western evolution is at his peak of rationality and that means self-interest and egoism above all, no one is rationally willing to sacrifice his life and comfort for  a society, an abstract value or an idea. This path, ironically, should represent peace and prosperity but instead it leads to extinction.