One of the most frightening things I have done lately is read the papers and surf the Internet. Every day I tell myself it cannot get any worse, and every day it does. Hate has boiled over, erupted, and sent its ugly tentacles deep through society. Once again, Jews are threatened with being burnt, accused of the medieval accusation of using blood in matzos, of being devious, killers, unworthy of being allowed to live.
From the time of Abraham, the Jewish people have been asked and forced to leave countries where they have contributed much to those very same countries. Denied the right to own land and to enter certain professions, they entered others and made a success of it. Many were the kingdoms that would have fallen were it not for the Jewish bankers lending money, paying "gifts" to the king, and often forgoing repayment of these loans. Edward II of England exiled them because his debts were overwhelming. They were burned in York, killed in France, were high in the governments of Spain and Portugal and then exiled, burned, tortured, denied breath.
One of the most stringent commandments upon a Jew is to not eat any blood in one's food. In fact, one has to go the extra step to make sure this never happens, so the horrendous accusation of blood libel and its resurrection by a leader and spokesman of Hamas on a CNN show and interview with Wolf Blitzer is astounding - and frightening.
Never did I think I would see again crowds in Germany yelling for Jews to burn and watch their stores and synagogues be set on fire - again. The Holocaust and 6 million dead evidently were not enough for these bloodthirsty creatures. The crowds in France howl for blood, for death, and have killed, kidnapped and tortured, burned and attacked synagogues and Jewish areas of French cities and the reaction of the government - to ban a defense force formed by young Jews. I guess self defense for a Jew is not allowed. Guess they never heard of stand your ground principles over there!
And then of course we have our oh so wonderful former president, Jimmy Carter, now supposedly a statesman, you should excuse the expression, and his anti Semitic feelings have been out there from the beginning. His books express them and I must confess, when I see his book in the stores and used book sales, I buy it - and destroy it. Hate should not be allowed to thrive, not here in America and not anywhere.
He has decided that the past few weeks of fighting is all the fault of Israel. We have dared to defend ourselves against a wonderful entity such as Hamas who , he says, have accepted Israel, pledged no violence and the acceptance of all international agreements. Not sure what he was smoking or drinking, but his beliefs are not of this world! They are totally contradicted by the very own words of Hamas.
His major accusation - not enough Israeli civilians died! I repeat - not enough Israeli civilians died. The fact that Israel cares about its citizens and insists on shelters and safe rooms, that strangers throw themselves over children during an attack, that Israel has devoted billions to methods of safeguarding its civilians by intercepting the rockets - all that does not count. The fact that videos are now surfacing showing Hamas detonating and shooting off rockets from crowded population centers, that a Hamas manual discussing the tactic of using civilians in their war and the harm it does to Israel, the very fact that ALL their rockets and mortars have been shot indiscriminately heading toward civilian and populated centers of Israel - all that matters not to our hateful former "leader".
The ugliness of anti - Semitism hides not so deeply under the surface. The screams that the Holocaust did not go far enough and then the denials of that very same Holocaust, the actions and deeds, the screams and shouts as they demonstrate, the HYPOCRISY of the world - it is indeed frightening. I worry for my kids and grandchildren. But the world had better know that Jewish blood is not cheap. We will not stand by and watch our people go up in smoke once again. We will not visit any more mass grave sites where literally tens of thousands were shot and thrown into ravines and buried over with dirt, alive or not!
So president Carter and his ilk can go to Hell and the anti - Semites of the world can drop dead and the air will be cleaner, the world lighter, and a better place. It does not matter if they are Hamas, UN members and their ridiculous Human Rights group where the membership consists of nations that torture and kill their own, or the nations of Europe who tiptoe around the truth. Arab on Arab violence appears to be okay for them, but Jew on Arab - oh, no - unless it is turned around. Well, NEVER AGAIN!!
By the way, lest you think that amongst us here in the Village that there is no anti - Semitism, all one has to do is sit in the assembly next to one ugly souled woman and listen to her mutter disgusting epithets all tied to the word Jew or Jewish. There are some really great people here in the Village, Jew and non Jew, but never think that ugliness cannot pervade wherever it wishes.
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