Well, didja? Didja really think that we were done with the world of the Knuckleheads. Sadly, unfortunately, we are not, for these Knucklehead lands continue to proliferate, and that population grows out of control. When has it ever been the case that an attacked nation is to be censored for fighting back, fighting to maintain its very existence? Not only for themselves, but for world Jewry. The cause is clear. The root of the fear is clear. The necessity. and urgency of what must be done is clear. Yet all is consumed by the Nacht und Nebel of war, where right is ignored and the wrong overpowers all. The land of the Knuckleheads.
Times are strange; events and actions are difficult to understand or predict. How can one think logically in a world ruled by illogic? How can a thinking sane mind function in Knucklehead land with perverted agendas? Only in such a world are the victimized, the invaded, pressured to pull defeat from the mouth of victory. To place themselves again in existential threat. To abandon their kidnapped, brutalized citizens along with their grieving families, forever to remain so. Why the pressure upon Israel to be defeated even as Hamas and Sinwar play the Knuckleheads like a virtuoso on the piano. Expected, demanded to take care of the supposed noncombatants, the very same who cheered the captured and the slaughter. Who strolled into Israel on a pleasure jaunt, a treasure trove of things and people, all to be traded at will. "Innocent"! Not on a bet!! Welcome to Knucklehead land.
Why? Because that is the way of life and society in Knucklehead world. Corrupt, ugly, hopeless. The media of the world reflects all this ugliness and threat. Comic books, manga and anime, serious literature and thrillers. Tomes of analysis. TV and streaming channels. Movies. It matters not; the reek of corruption overpowers all.
We present as a world divided, incapable of meeting the challenge upon us. To right the wrong. To ensure safety and continued existence for the peoples of the world. We, humanity, have failed. The divisive lines grow deeper, wider. Shredded. In crisis. We need to decide on our future. Is it to be the world of Knuckleheads, where truth counts for naught or is deemed a crime? Or is it to be a future built upon the dreams and wishes of humanity of the true progress earned? Can we understand deep within our marrow that we are one, that humanity is one and we have been gifted with one planet. Ours to treasure or ours to destroy and aren't we doing so well in the second choice!!
Once upon a time in a land now far away, I was an optimist. Once upon a time I spoke of an idealism. A dream achieved. War obsolete. Hatred defeated. No more the need to look over both shoulders at one and the same time. No longer to fear for our children. Once such were my hopes and dreams. Once. I look back now, and I wonder. What the hell happened?
We became too self-involved and forgot others. We allowed the building of a Knucklehead wall and came up hard against it. Their voices grew louder, ever more strident and growing in numbers. Voices of the opposed grew weak, lower in volume and certainly fewer in numbers. We allowed the better world to be dissolved in the acid spewing forth from the Knuckleheads. We have reaped what we have sown - or neglected to sow. Deeper, darker instincts of humanity crawled forth into the light and darkened the world. And we continue to blunder ever more backwards into a darker, uglier, more violent world.
America was a strong and proud ally, to be trusted. Today it turns on its head and has grown a skin of cowardice. It kowtows and bows to the aggressors and deserts the aggrieved. Mayhem around the world is ignored and an ancient hatred and victim are revived. Again. Always again. Most probably today and tomorrow and the day after and the week after and the month after that.
Where is my place? The place of Jew in this horrid new world. Attempts to wall us off from society, to shut down our voices, to stop our very breath, are growing. Frightening. What is the future to be for us. Will we be allowed a future? The shining faces of our young and the sounds of their tinkles of laughter now fill me with angst.
It is incumbent upon us to fight these Knuckleheads and remind ourselves that we are better than this. We can achieve victory if we internalize that thought and are consistent in refusing to back down. Those who choose to sit on the fence and absorb the pain and discomfort must now make a choice. No neutrality in the fight between Good and Evil. It is impossible to remain neutral. Silence is acquiescence to Evil. We must find our own inner integrity and do what must be done.
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Yitzy, the holiday of Pesach, Passover, is almost upon us. You enjoyed it so, the most enthusiastic and wide awake one at the table. You glowed, brighter than the candles. Brighter than the electric lights. Your glow came from a powerful internal source. We will miss the glow and the room will be the darker for its absence. We have lost that light, we have lost you, though you always remain with us in our longing for you and our memories of you and our thoughts of you. We miss you so much, Yitzy.
Always and forever. Always and forever.
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