Math outside of algebra, was never a favorite of mine. Never even came close. Language Arts and History were champs in my book and so it has remained. Good thing too, as at least I can understand the truth beneath the heap of crap overlaying the reality of current situations, here and in Israel as well. My math is apparently skewed big time, as numbers seem to be of little value or have any true analysis of meaning. Numbers that are not uniformly verified, more obvious on one side than the other. All the while my poor math challenged brain remains addled as my attempts to understand and interpret properly never quite fit the presented narrative.
First of all, the numbers game. Israel has some chutzpah as it refuses to play the 'game' vis a vis the rules of terrorists, of Jew haters, of those who sympathize, to the tune of an increase of 130% of attacks, verbal and physical. Who vehemently, viciously, are both implicit and complicit in the increasingly hostile attitude and atmosphere on college campuses. Once again, Jews are unwelcome in the 'vaunted ivory towers' of higher education. Choice presented: be non-Jewish or be willing to turn on your own people, turn backs to truth and justice.
So - first correction necessary in this bizarre world of subjective math. Jews, Israelis, their supporters, must die in equal numbers to the claimed, non-verified, numbers of death among their terrorists and/or adherents of various degrees of complicitly. So how, in my math addled brain that does not quite ring true. How does one equate truth with lies, told by an organization of horror known to be egregious liars, unwilling, unable, to meet and recognize the truth if it were presented to them on a silver platter.
NO, most emphatically so, this will not be, No textbook other than perverted ones, would accept such skewed thinking and rotten bloodthirsty reasoning and justification. When one side wages an unwelcome, unasked for war, with concerns re the fate of noncombatants and their soldiers, juxtaposed re the battle morality or lack thereof of the opposing side, well, the math is skewed again, I guess. The ugliness of the opponent which claims numbers in this bizarre numbers game, then seeks to balance the budget of life. They roll out in sneak attack, accompanied by the "innocent" Palestinians who join in the revelries of success. Such bravery in their fierce battles against those fearsome infants, toddlers, preteens, the elderly, the noncombatants whose only thoughts are to protect their children, their elderly parents from being stolen or burned alive or decapitated or raped, beaten, whatever nasty, nasty plans of indulgent fantasy can be actualized.
So much bloodshed. The gleeful tones of Al...u Akbar pollute the air reeking of the coppery odor of spilled blood. Shivers of terror among those hiding, awaiting rescue -or death- or captivity - hiding from butchery, wondering how the hell and when their kibbutz was sent back in time and place, to the bloody pogroms of Eastern Europe, of the slaughter and genocide of the Nazis and their enthusiastic collaborators. When? And why?
Always there, bright in the eyes and minds and hearts of the people of Israel, of those who care, are the captives, their families and friends, too many still uncertain as to the fate of their loved ones. As Israel verifies names, the numbers of captives rise. Hamas, the animals, take great joy in teasing the Israelis, claiming hostages are with others, including those kidnapped by individuals, who grabbed their personal, portable bank account, a get out of jail free card.
Hamas knows it is to their benefit to keep the uncertainty hyped. They can make outrageous demands, keep some back for a rainy day, definitely not return soldiers, and for sure, keep the little ones whose memories are short and voila! New Moslems, new foes of Israel. or use some captives to demand release of killers in prison in Israel, all the better to recycle them to wreak more horror and bloodshed. Been there, done that and cannot do it again.
How and why has the world discounted the meaning, the cause, the force, the emotion, the promise and the vow, behind "Never Again?
We. Have. Not.
We most definitely have not.
Can we stop this rather dumb and deadly number game. All deaths are tragic particularly if some sense could have been injected into rather brainless skulls. Somehow, I am sure that will never happen.
It will also never happen that we give over our people to even out the numbers for the satisfaction of others.
Never!! Never!! NEVER!!
And for those of you who have an inexplicable inability to declare terrorism as terrorism, or babble nonsense that terrorism begins and is defined by its start date!! Well, there is a nice warm place for you to visit. You might then learn not to be afraid to call it as it is-and no ridiculous ignorant statement that Judaism says that is so!! Ignorant professor. Cowardly professor, afraid to call it as it is and condemn terrorism. And yes, it matters if it is the Jews who were targeted for that terrorism.
Folks, can this be defeated if we all get together and oppose it? I am so uncertain now, seeing an ancient hatred renewed and a generation climbing into power suffused with this ugliness. Whose liberal viewpoints are skewed, akin with that skewed math.
This is America. I hope.
Hope seeps out.
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