Every once in a while I feel like I'm fed up. And I need to let it out. Fed up with who? Lots of people. I'll start with my fellow Jews. An AP-NORC poll conducted last month found that 45% of secular Jews feel no connection to Israel. What's the matter with you people? Did you not learn any of the history of our people? Do I need to start with the Babylonians? The Romans? The murders, the persecutions, the exiles? Do you not know any of it? How about the expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290? Or from Spain in 1492? Not even the Russian pogroms in the late nineteenth century into the early twentieth century? At least the Holocaust? And you think nothing bad can happen to you because you live in (fill in the blank)? Or because you are a secular Jew? It's time to wake up! Start defending your fellow Jews now!
Then we have the leftwing Jews. You know, they hate AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee), because AIPAC actually supports candidates for Congress who will (hopefully) support Israel. They hate AIPAC because their cherished leftwing candidates hate Israel. And they are Leftists before they are Jewish. Well, wake up! Did you not see that Hamas slaughtered 1200 Jews and kidnapped another 250, on October 7, 2023, in the worst attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust? And did you fail to see that all the leftwing groups and causes that you supported didn't give a damn about the slaughter of your fellow Jews. In fact, they turned on the Jewish people. What is your problem? You have a death wish? You hate Trump so much that's all you can talk about? You refuse to acknowledge all the good he's done for Israel and the Jewish people? Fine. But why does your hatred of Trump blind you to the ever increasing Jew hatred going on all around you? Wake up!
While I'm getting my fellow Jews mad at me, I don't want to forget the ones who say they are too old, or retired, or too busy playing golf and spending time with their families. Or, it's too stressful to deal with it. No, you're not too busy. And too bad if it's stressful. Living through another Holocaust would be more stressful. And you're not too old. When the Rebbe (Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, arguably the most influential Rabbi of the twentieth century) was told by some advisers that he should retire upon reaching 70 years old, he refused. He said not only would he not retire, he would dedicate himself to opening 70 new Chabad centers in honor of his 70th birthday. Regardless of how busy you are with (fill in the blank), don't tell me that you don't have the time to stand up for Israel and the Jewish people. If not for yourself, then for your children and grandchildren. Wake up!
Who else can I pick on? Notice how the Left wing Jew haters and the Right wing Jew haters have that in common? We know the Leftists in Congress who hate Israel. Now, Right wing candidates are joining them. Not to mention much of the mainstream media and Left wing pundits and Right wing pundits. Isn't that nice how they can all coalesce around one issue - "We hate the Jews." Of course, most of them deny being antisemitic. We're not antisemitic, we just have a problem with Israel. Or Gaza. Or with Zionism. And, of course, what about the genocide, apartheid and colonialism? Who actually falls for any of that nonsense? If you agree with any of that, you are antisemitic at best, and a Jew hater at worst.
Apartheid? Then how is it that Arabs are in every sector of Israeli society? Not just lawyers and doctors and in the universities. But on the Courts and in the legislature (the Knesset). Genocide? Those claiming genocide mostly mean that not enough Jews died compared to Palestinians. They mean that (some anyway) Israel has the right to defend itself, but not actually fight back. I already explained in a prior post that the Palestinian population has grown, not decreased. But what about starving the Gaza population? You mean ignore the hundreds of tons of food and medical supplies that Israel has allowed into Gaza? Who else does that? Who else takes such good care of an enemy they are fighting while in the middle of a war with them?
And, you can always ignore the fact that Hamas takes the food and supplies for their fighters. Because if you were honest about it, you would acknowledge that Hamas does not give a damn about the people of Gaza. If you were honest about it, you would admit that Hamas has used all the billions of dollars in aid to buy weapons and to build tunnels into Israel. All for the sole purpose of killing Jews. They even admit it. They don't try to build a productive society for the people they rule over. They start war after war, knowing full well that thousands of Gazans will die. But some of you want to blame Israel for having the nerve to fight back. Wake up!
But doesn't Israel starve the people? No, they don't. Here's a statement from the UN: "Humanitarian workers were forced to halt food distribution after armed personnel affiliated with the de facto authorities (that would be Hamas) forcibly entered the Abu Rashid food distribution point in Jabalia, North Gaza." And: "These incidents are not isolated. They are completely unacceptable and reflect an increasingly dangerous pattern of intimidation, violence and obstruction." What about colonialism? Jews are the colonizers of the land they have been kicked of time after time? Really?
How does anyone in their right mind support a terrorist organization that brutally rapes, tortures and murders civilians? And then blame the victims. What is the matter with you people who do that? I've got others to complain about. See Part II.
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