Truthfully, there are no credits here, only debits. These debits are awardable to both sides of this amazingly nasty issue, now far more than an issue, actually a fact of life. Yesterday's title portrayed an angry shock. Perhaps a persistent refusal to accept what I know, what I feel, down to the last bit of marrow in my bones.
What, you ask? Possibly the worst period for Jews since the Holocaust and possibly overtopping that. No, I have not jumped any sharks or ingested or smoked or injected any hallucinatory ingredients. Nor have I landed on my head nor had a building fall down upon it. Nope. What has hit me hard is the truth of my fears, the actualization of warnings I have made, the melding of my words, my concerns, with identical thoughts and words emanating from rather brilliant minds.
It cannot be, we say. No way, for we have come too far, learned too much, are better than that. Uh huh. Famous last words. Simple imagination. "We are Germans (substitute any nationality) first, Jews second. We are perfectly safe. Said even as the doors slam shut as the last victim was shoved into the chamber, the last infant tossed in over the heads. "Always room for another", chuckled the young American soldier. A final check, a press of a button and now, a job well done and beer to follow.
Yes, the world has indeed come far, so far that they are now completing yet a new version of ever repeating cycles of virulent murderous hate. Each cycle improved: new gadgets, higher efficiency and a far smoother, quicker change within the nations' ethos than ever before. A joyful triumph as the world actually unites, in a universal undertaking.
This horrendous scene is awaiting us just over the rise. Think not? Think a definite flip? Read the words of Franklin Foer in The Atlantic. "The Golden Age of American Jewry has ended." Period. The details to follow, but we know them already, do we not. Merely a game of change the names a bit and there ya' go. Sound the horns and off go the baying hounds followed by their bloodthirsty masters. Almost 4,000 incidents of rising violence and intensity in the three months after Oct7. As victims, the attacked, on that holiday, yes, a holiday, though perhaps not as important as Ramadan, merely a Jewish holiday, hence discountable, have become the aggressors. Accused of abetting their own horror of savagery. Held responsible for the fortunes of war as they break over the heads of the true aggressors, innocents, of course, notwithstanding- though as with Abraham, find me ten innocents here, as even the children would tease the hungry captives held in a chair in a dark room in their home with food and candy and chomp away as they walked away, and their oh so proud parents smiling at their progeny. Innocents? Not here. Unless they are the innocents the NYT referred to who praised the deeds of Hamas on Oct7, rejoiced in the spilled blood, cheered the parade of captives. Oh, the NYT outdid themselves in this one!!
Slaughtered, butchered, the entire Fogel family, mother, father, three children - gone.
Our captives, civilians, brutalized, sexually, physically, mentally, emotionally, from the oldest to the last babe in arms.
The fattest, well-padded people I have ever seen who were 'starving, dehydrated, though quite clean with clean clothes and just so haircuts -as our captives were exhibited, gaunt, colorless, weak. Then dead. Or life status claimed as 'unknown'. Ditto their whereabouts.
In the meanwhile, every person in the world down to the nursery kids apparently have graduated with the highest degrees in diplomacy and international relations and know the answers, the solution to this all. So far more important than all the other rather obvious messes of the world.
I can go on and on, but the truth is that Noa Agramonte, her dying mother, the two dolls along with their terrified mother, the 'missing' captives, the slaughtered in Israel, and yes, the deaths in Gaza - all on Hamas. And the enablers.
There is no difference between the hatred of Hamas and their goals and the goals of the haters of the world. Read this and chew on it. Then perhaps my terror can be felt and understood.
"Why do Jew haters hate Jews?
On the surface, it makes little sense. Why would anyone hate a group that has given so much to the world in so many fields?
One can always find a good reason, ...to hate, resent or envy Jews. These reasons are usually framed intellectually. there’s a deeper motivation at work, something as simple as… pleasure.
“There are (at least) three principal sources of pleasure which anti-Semitism provides,” British philosopher Eve Garrard argued a few years ago in the online journal Fathom. “First, the pleasure of hatred; second, the pleasure of tradition, and third, the pleasure of displaying moral purity. Each of these is an independent source of satisfaction, but the three interact in various ways, which often strengthens their effects.”
And now, folks, find the article, find David Suissa's article and think.
Then join me in my fear and distrust, mistrust of the future. And aware, let us fight to change the path. We had better do so, for no others will.
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Yitzy, sad as it is to think, let alone to voice, perhaps you are better off where you are now. How could your innate goodness and innocence have understood the evil, yet as bright as you were how could you have avoided it.
Perhaps, you could have surprised all and led us to an answer, or a workable solution. Maybe. But we will never know, will we?
Miss, love, continue to adore you.
Always and forever. Always and forever.
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