Those children lived in a time of chaos, no society, of brutality, of death and as children were in the worst position ever. Well. Think about today and see if you feel the same way I do, and if not, then look deep inside yourself and ask yourself what have you become.
In Hosea, the book of the prophet of the same name, there is a verse which warns that the Lord and His People will accept only three sins, violations by an enemy and on the fourth, will return in kind to them what they have given or done to others. In 1973 as Israel was almost destroyed by a coalition of Arab states and the cowardice of the world, this song became popular, a song of defiance and hope. And Israel is still here.
But I wonder about the rest of the world today as well. We have become the nation of evil, the Damesek (Hebrew name) of Hosea. And how? Let's enumerate.
Today, studies have been shown to pinpoint the fact that Trump and his misdeeds, his grievous behavior have induced actual anxiety and ill feeling within people. I know. I am one of them. The columnists use the strongest language I have ever seen in print when they talk about the President. The strongest ever. There is an element of almost hopelessness, an attitude of we will just have to wait it out and hope we survive. His administration has turned into the biggest grab bag ever, with his appointees using the USA as their own private piggybank, raping the countryside, tearing away safety nets, consigning millions to die needless and painful deaths, and draining the lifeblood of the country.
It has turned the Republican Party on its head as it endorses the exact opposite of all that it had endorsed before. It has turned grown men into whimpering wimps, with no backbone, no spine, no balls, no morals, no soul.
But all this , all these wrongdoings are the three first misdeeds. What is the fourth is the one that condemns us all the way into the future and just as today we recall the Holocaust and its cruelties, how people lost themselves in its evil, became active participants or silent bystanders, thus allowing it to go on, they will recall the way we here in America have allowed our most innocent and helpless immigrants, the lifeblood of the future, to be taken away, to be ripped away and then? And then?
Told that your child is taken for a bathe and then never getting him or her back? Having an infant ripped from a mother's breast as she is feeding the baby? Huge camps of tiny kids roaming around or lying there listless. thousands of children raised without love, able to be taken away and used for what? For child soldiers? For sex dolls and victims? For slaves, and body servants. Or just left to wither away. And America will have to bear this stain forever. Forever.
What will you say or your grandchildren say when they are asked what you did about this? Did you fight it? Did you speak up about it? Against it? Did you harbor any children for safety? Did you support those who did? Or did you emasculate your soul and cheer it on falling under the cult of Trump, the dictator, the antitheses of what America is and supposed to be and was, at least until this man.
The children of the Thunderdome. Not just a song by Tina Turner. Not just a movie about Mad Max. But a real life event now, an ongoing and growing worse every minute crisis. Our own imitation of the Holocaust.
Who are we? What are we? Are these children less valuable because most are brown? Are they less feeling because they are brown? Do their parents not love them, hope for them, dream for them or is it that they are brown and therefore less human, untermensch and the horror in my mind, is that Jews can support this man who encourages it all, this Trump and his henchman Sessions and the people who do this job. It is not a job. It is not morally correct. It is so wrong that I sputter as I try to describe my despair, my hopelessness, my outrage.
Look within yourself. Take a good deep look. Who are you? Where will your children be soon enough, for hate does not stop. There are no boundaries. Look!!!!!
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