Throughout the history of every nation no matter place of origin or their history or whatever makes it an entity unto itself, there are always several blots upon that history. Shameful blots, for they are incurred through the presence and activities of traitors within that nation. The motives are many and varied, but be it for money, for principle or beliefs or anger and jealousy, it makes no difference at all. The harm, the shame that falls upon the nation echoes for all time through the years of history, always there.
Most of us know the name Benedict Arnold, the notorious turncoat of Revolutionary America. Or we know the term quislings from the traitor and the spy of Norway in World War II. We know the term Mosser, referring to a Jew who betrays another Jew to authorities for generally particularly shameful motivation. One might even know the name Josephus and the question throughout history, was he, or was he not a traitor. All Nations have their share of traitors, but to me particularly poignant is when it involves turning on another Jew, or a group of Jews, or even the Jewish nation. It makes no sense. Certainly, we have enough enemies without growing a viper from within our own.
It must be stated that during the Holocaust, a period of stress and death beyond comprehension, there were Jews who outed others, perhaps in hiding, perhaps smuggling in food or sold their souls, to become the Jewish police in the ghettos and the Kapo in the camps. It is almost understandable in that case even though we have been warned that we are not to save our own life if it costs the life of another, particularly an innocent. However, when threatened with harm, even unto death, against child, parent, family member, best friend, we cannot be judgmental for we have never walked in those shoes.
On the other hand, when there is a false messiah, whose facade is shattered, and he then converts and wages a war against his own people, no, there is no excuse for that. The same goes for all false messiah cults and impersonators throughout the centuries. They promised hope for weary embattled people and ended with more death of the body and soul of the desperate and despairing who turned to conversion in their moments of agony and then became the foes of their own people. Traitor to one's nation, people, religion.
Datan and Aviram challenged Moses face to face in Egypt and then continued to wage a war, always creating troubles, drawing false pictures of a paradise back in Egypt. Traitorous to their people and to their G-d, to their very souls. They were followed by numerous traitors through centuries, most desperate for hope and salvation, looking for it anywhere and in anyone. In so doing they became traitors to the hopes and dreams of the oppressed and the millennia long and deep desire, the constant prayer, to return to Zion, the ancestral land, the land of their forefathers and foremothers. They fell prey to enticing words and presentations of false pictures and became traitors to their people and to themselves. A tragedy all around.
In medieval times equally desperate and hopeless people turned apostate. They turned on their former people, raised false charges against them, against the Talmud, before Popes, before Kings. There were and are those in more modern times. in a more secular world, who thrust aside their identity and identification as part of an ancient people. They rant and rave against Zionism, against the very idea of being a Jewish person in a modern world, against the G-d of the Jewish nation. They joined with vigor and enthusiasm all the critics of the Jewish state, of the population within and without, for the world meshed all tight, so very tight, and modern Anti Semitism unfortunately included some of the very same sort of people. They became Kofer Bakol, deniers of all, of anything that had been part of their heritage, in every atom of body and soul. In so doing, they lost themselves to their own misdeeds and words and accusations. They count as of their ranks, traitors such as Vanunu and everyone most dangerous in power of words or greed, selling out to Iran in the name of money! I think those are the worst of all, and must be empty inside, forsaken of all human dignity, trust, loyalty and hope.
However, without a doubt. most pathetic in their delusion, most dangerous in the power of their words are those who should know better, who indeed do know better, yet, who have wholeheartedly embraced the cause of the other, of the foe of their own people those whom they have consigned to the depths of Hell unless they fall prey to the lies presented to them.
They convince people to leave their heritage, to speak out against their heritage even as they use that same heritage as reason and justification for their awful behavior. They write podcasts, make guest visits to broadcasts and cast aspersions upon their own people. They beat a path away from the truth and join wholeheartedly into hallucinatory talks with those whom they claim would live and only want to live, in peace. With us. To share a land.
A most dangerous falsehood more so than others, as it generates false hopes. As people of otherwise great intellect fall for it in a deep coma of wishful thinking. Despite the fact that they know these are manifestly false statements, and never could be otherwise, they turn off the passageway to the cells of sense within their minds and believe only that if they get more people involved, if they convince more people, that indeed peace will be upon the land. In pursuit of this unachievable goal, certainly at this point, they ruthlessly demean their own and ever strive to gather more into their rather shaky foundational house.
There are, unfortunately too many to name, but count amongst them the kaffiya wearing Jews, 'speaking for Jewish people', who embarrass and endanger their own with every breath they take, with every syllable they utter. They are the Jews who claim to speak for other Jews, in the name of other Jews. They speak to anyone and everyone you and in so doing they join the cast of Mosser and Kofer Bakoll. The shame, upon awakening, will be theirs to own. But until then, they can wreak great havoc and harm upon the Jewish nation, upon the State of Israel because their illogical aspersions and statements rife with lies are so phrased as if to indeed be logical and loyal to the truth, so not the case.
There are many of us who have cracked under the pressure of these times. Who have grown weary of its irreparable damage to all held dear, of the unbearable sights and sounds of war, who know firsthand the awful pictures of war, worry over our hostages stolen from us, those tortured, those raped, those burned alive. Who in the name of trying to do good, to find common cause with those who truly have no common cause with us, power drive over that which reveals the holes within their theories. They urge upon all to come play. Bright contributing respected members of society fall prey to delusion, to the false hopes raised. For their efforts in championing these impossibilities, these egregious lies, will be to live as a pariah in society, to bring shame upon their families, and distain from the very ones they purported to be seekers of peace. Not good - for anyone,
However, there is one particular piece of trash whose name stands out in the ranks of traitors, for what she spoke to the U. N. Claiming to do so in the name of her fellow Jews. She spewed forth egregious lies, made up things that never were and never will be and discarded all logic, all knowledge, and then stomped upon it. Set it afire which water could not quench. Her name is Maya Yavin, ironically so, for she brings no water to the thirsty nor any understanding. In her reckless talk she openly leaves great gaping holes, Truth, nowhere in sight. She denies all reality, forgetting that she lives in a world of hostility to her people, thinking, perhaps, that she is immune since she is denying all of her heritage even as she claims it as her inspiration.
She buys wholesale into the lies insisting that Jews have no place in the land. The Jews who settled there are colonizers. One then has to wonder from whence her ancestors came and from whom were they running. She claims Jews are neck deep in crimes against humanity, blaming all devastation upon them even though she so carelessly glides over the true causations of the wars: The brutality of Hamas; the disregard for anything and everything that has the slightest bit of sanity attached; of the distinctly, clearly phrased and stated, desires of using the Jews to win their war, convincing the rest of the world that in historic inevitability, demanded is a certainty that the Jews are the problem. Thus, the first step for worldwide peace would of necessity be the creation of a Middle East sans any Jews at all. Second step is to carry this battle to the rest of the world. But of course; goes without saying. And the world will be at peace.
But no, it will not. Just as falsehood is inevitable in recognition, so too is truth. Truth which cannot be denied, which cannot be disproved. Truth, which is the savior of the world, sending it back on true tracks. Difficult to achieve, seemingly an endless matter, but there are victories if we are strong enough to make it so.
Are we so far from reality that the claims are almost laughable? To "return refugees”? No, I don't think so. For 9,000,000 not expelled or fled of their own wills and instructions of their imams? No, many of them were afraid of what they had done prior to this point. For practical reasons some had to be moved. Others were urged by the religious leaders to leave so that they could come back the next day, the next week, and loot the property of the Yahud.
And after 77 years still claiming refugee status? They should be ashamed of themselves. Their host countries should have accepted them as citizens rather than use them, to be eternally known as refugees, and political pawns in the countries of Arabia. To be known as refugees, leeches, on the teat of humanity, doing nothing with the money other than spending it on means and weapons to conduct war. If truth is included in the true analysis of history then perhaps, we might meet some accommodation, some acknowledgement of the rights of the people concerned, without interference of any know-it-all nations round the world. It is for the Cousins that these two peoples are, to hammer out a deal, to respect each other and to honor each other. The possibility of such a thing happening - weak; the probability of such a thing happening - barely there at all, if there at all.
There are many, many difficult questions to answer. And the answers might not be satisfying to all, and perhaps that is the best way. All give and take. But why is it that it seems we must constantly bang their heads on the wall, on the table, in order to bring them to the table.
The first recognition must be that we are the people of Israel and we, the nation of Jews, are here to stay. Are here to reclaim our ancestral land and, yes, share it with those who champion peace, who champion truth, who champion goodness and honor, who spurn lies. Who know lies for the poison they are. But first and foremost, we, the people of Israel, the children of G-d, we are here to stay, whether you like it or not. No matter how many lies you put forth, we are here. Our exile is over and done. We welcome those who share our vision with us. To live in honor and peace.
We are here - forever.
Yesterday and today and tomorrow.
Forever.
