>>11774456I remember in 8th grade they were "educating" us about WW2, which as you all know was about the Jews. And when we got wind that the mean Germans were abusing the poor helpless Jews and occasional Gypsy and homosexual, we just couldn't stand for it so we packed up and went right over to tell him what was what. Yep! And that's what it was all about. Now no one can have that certain mustache or name their child Adolf, ever again. Ugh. Just like the civil war was about the blacks.
Anyway, this female teacher who in retrospect was probably a Jew is asking the class how the Germans identified Polish Jews. And after a period of silence, one kid finally speaks up "he checked if they were uh, circumcised?" She responds with a subtle sort of glee knowing that most of the class, though not Jewish, was also circumcised "Yes, that's right." She clearly found it very satisfying that all the boys had been cut.
Anyway, it's never just one reason.
-Jews can hide amidst the population
-It's a profitable operation and you can sell the stem cells for like 15k (?) per small batch
-It has strong psychological effects on men (and eventually women). There was an MKULTRA subproject devoted to the effects of circumcision at different developmental stages. The role of preverbal birth trauma in splitting the core self is also useful.
-If you can get a population to have part of their perfectly fine newborn's penis amputated, what else can you get them to just dissociate and do?
On and on. It is the covenant which will sustain the Jewish people, and indeed. The Greeks, the Romans, the Spanish, and many other recognized that the ritual was the core of their religion. Without it they would crumble and disperse. Rome and Greece could sustain the backlash of making circumcision illegal (in Rome punishable by death), other countries could not, and were generally half destroyed in the ensuing tantrum.
