ET TU

  No, this is not addressed to Brutus as made famous by Shakespeare, but rather about the modern   emulators of Brutus, turning on friends, stabbing them in the back. As he did, they try to justify their abhorrent deeds with excuses of righteousness which fall short, very short, playing blind to the ugly motivations and end goals of those they ally with.  

These critters spout words condoning horrors, approving acts of barbarity and savagery far beyond any words capable of conveying their ghastly ugliness of soul. Personally, my stomach turns at the attempts of some trying to draw an image close to the truth of the butchery of humans. Even as they fail, try as they might, it is enough to cause me to shout and scream, cry to the heavens for revenge, to avenge our spilled blood. Once again, the blood of my people soaks the land, only this time it is the ancient land of our own violated. 

The ugly godawful truth, the very bodies rending the heavens and the earth, as they cry for revenge, for justice. It is undeniable and the world, in the first reaction stood by Israel, condemned the horror, the savagery, and the perpetrators. But then, slowly but surely, in ever increasing speed, the haters, the emulators of Brutus turned on their shocked betrayed friends, joined with the perpetrators, and claimed the false high ground. Despite all their attempts to justify the horror, laying blame on the victims, those fierce warriors of old women, the handicapped, the months old babies, the brave toddlers, the frantic parents and grandparents, they failed. Nothing, no excuse under the sun could possibly justify such ugliness.

Suddenly the nursery rhyme leaves not the farmer nor the cheese alone, but Israel, alone among nations, as always. Same old, same old. A few more Jews dead, hey, what's the big deal! Suddenly all have a say in the matter, instructing Israel how to conduct this righteous war against terror, and yes, in revenge, in defense. Israel is assigned responsibility to safeguard their enemy. The 'innocent' savages who joined in the slaughter, who cheered the paraded brutalized captives, who chanted in glee as news of the slaughter spread, whose mothers ululated at funerals of one son, wishing for the   next sons to follow.

 NO, THEY ARE NOT INNOCENT.

BETTER YET, INNOCENT MY ASS!!   

Now the sanctimonious world kicks in. Roger Waters is in his glory chanting his standard antisemitic memes. The workers of Starbucks post a message of hate and support for Hamas. College campuses, one after the other, disgusting lemmings of hate, join in with their contributions of ugliness, causing fear in fellow students of Jewish background. The responses of administrators and companies are weak, hedging their bets, too late, Brutus one and all.  

 Hitler resurfaces as Jews on campus are threatened, isolated, spat upon. As Jewish stars are painted on homes and stores in Berlin. As the weak self - hating Jews join with their enemies who will stab them in the back when convenient, just as they slaughtered the peace activists last Saturday. 

These fake liberals, carers of all other than Jews and Israelis are not our friends.

Nor are the crazed, incompetent leaders of the remnants of the GOP.   

They. Are. Not.

 Et tu, Brutus. All, each and every one of you. J'accuse all those who stand with them. I curse you for the angst and confusion you have induced in your former Jewish colleagues, turning on them in full Brutus mode. Evidently every minority is to be defended, fought for, but never the Jews.  

No, friends are not always friends, and they turn Brutus on the unsuspecting.

The same goes for those who think the rabid conservative is your true friend. No, not your friends either as they align more and more with the antisemitic violent white power gangs.

 Friends seek you out, feel with you, speak words of encouragement and sympathy. Friends defend the truth, abhor the Brutus so proliferate within society. Friends are good people. I trust and love the true friends in my life.  

Friends, I do not know whether we can even salvage the situation in the world. It is crazed, rotten with hate.  The Brutus of the day is celebrated, the hater idolized, the negative prized over the positive. The future of the future is cloudy, but we must try. We are surely lost if we do not. 

We must seek the true friends, be a true friend ourselves, and together we might have a chance.   Perhaps, just perhaps we can overcome the evil growing rapidly within our nation and within the world. If we do not do this quickly, well, the obvious is there. For all to see. For all to know.

HEAL OURSELVES.

• HEAL THE WORLD.

  HEAL YITZY!

  Yitzchak Elimelech ben Chana Sarah

  May he be granted refuah shelaymah bimheyrah beyameinu.

  AMEN. AMEN

  AM YISROEL CHAI.

"May the Omnipresent One have mercy on our brothers the whole House of Israel who are in distress or captivity, whether on sea or land. May He lead them from distress to relief, from darkness to light, and from oppression to redemption, now, swiftly and soon - and let us say: AMEN. 

Always together. Only together.