AMERICA, AMERICA

   What has happened to my country? I now fully understand and sympathize with the taking of the knee as the national anthem was played. Why? Because my country has disowned me in every way possible. It has disowned my fellow Jews, and it has deserted my ancestral homeland, Israel. It has embraced a foreign policy which harms rather than helps and empowers the vicious animals of Hamas to hold out, to be the aggressors and the victors in their dirty games. It endangers both my countries as our enemies celebrate.   In fact, wherever I turn, whatever direction, whatever prediction of the future, I join with those who see no future for    Jews in this country at all, other than perhaps as a persecuted, oppressed scapegoat for the ills of society, a traditional role for Jewry throughout the ages. 

I thought, hoped, that was a phenomenon of the past, that the madness here would die down, but it has not. In fact, it is worse than ever with no indications even whispering of a correction of course. It has grown into a monstrous existential threat to our survival and in fact, the survival of any progress made over the centuries throughout the world - for everyone. The backwards thinking violence asserting misnomered "progressives" have wrought their worst and are descending to even lower depths of Hell for all of us. ALL. Huge DANGER signs ahead.  

With crazed mobs shouting for the death of Israel, for the death of me, for all Jews, how am I to trust in this nation any longer? How can I pledge allegiance to a nation which has disavowed its allegiance to me? Is there room within for any logic? Are there any ears willing to listen, minds willing and able to see through the obfuscation, the tempting, empowering throes of calls for violence? Are they willing and able to see the truth as reflected with the videos of their behavior, the threat they are to society in general as well as themselves? The ugliness is blatant.

Authorities tremble in fear of these manifestly stupidly dangerous mobs of students, being played as puppets of their so unprofessional professors who vend not education nor enhancement, but purvey hate and homicide, of medieval hate as they gladly, triumphantly upend western society, a goal they have chased, prepared for, for decades.

The blood-stained rhetoric of their chants, the vandalizing of institutions which had granted them permission to come, to learn, to take advantage of an open society so different from most of the countries of the foreign students - all chilling to the souls of the targets of their visible hatred and vicious plans. 

For the American students homegrown, they have bought wholesale and whole enchilada into a rather exhilarating world which not only allows for violence but praises it and removes all constrictions from it. The cherry on top: it is ever so fashionable, complete with its own accessories, ever so empowering as adults cave to their misbehavior, so much more than that as we look into a fast-approaching future based on the motivations and nefarious goals of the fomenters of this awfulness, as they shout hatred, to advocate violence to frighten the adults who have ruled their lives. They are triumphant as the authorities, the adults in their lives, kowtow to them, set empty deadlines, useless consequences which never happen, and give in to egregiously dangerous demands. 

The granting of these demands can and will most certainly reek of BDS, of triumphant JewHatred, of finding a path which melts the very ground beneath their feet, as the solidity of true progress over the centuries is buried ever deeper within the swamps of their thinking, their goals, and the inevitable end of it all. It bodes evil and destruction for all, a return to the Dark Ages of humanity.

The realities of the modern world are front and center, yet we remain blind. We feel the shaky ground beneath our feet, and so grasp onto false support. We see the plinths of society tilting at ever steeper angles but refuse to shore them up. We hear the ugly chants yet remain deaf. We know the truth but do not defend it. The world remains silent or in tandem with the mobs, allowing for the success of those pulling the strings, for the success of hate. 

Are we in fact all haters? Do we all wish for the liberating permission to create our own Purge movies? Do we all have chainsaws in our garages and attics, under our beds all sending out a clarion call for a christening of blood? How have we reached this point? I am so puzzled, so disheartened. I can barely see any pathway with any possible clearance to climb over the hurdles so solid, so high, with hate. So many, as the mad desire to isolate Israel, to reinstate world Jewry once again as the handy dandy pariahs of the world grows and intensifies.  

Why. Why. Why. Dear Lord, have You indeed forsaken Your people once more?

Once upon a time, a time fading quickly into the past, the world could look to America to set the standards, to hold themselves and others up to benchmarks of quality and progress. True progress. Today. not so much. We have two outdated, outmoded dangerously incompetent people. running to be President of the United States of America. In this aspect we are shamed in front of the world. We pulled our own pants down and spanked ourselves with big wooden paddles.

 One man, Trump. is a demented, demonic reincarnation of the views and values of Hitler. His desire to wreak REVENGE in capital letters. His promise. to do just that. Chilling. Even more chilling is how so many refuse to see behind his rather weak front, to see through to the truth that he is a criminal at heart. An evil person at heart with not a single redeeming feature within body or soul. 

And to the other man - a man who is way beyond his sell by date. He cannot see that his policy of stomping and tromping on Israel, of hedging its possibilities is grossly empowering and encouraging to Hamas, to continue on their bloody path, to refuse to give in, to send out false rays of hope and then cancel them, to watch as our hostages die one by one by one. until they will be no more.

Ammunition shipments to Israel have been frozen. What now? Joe Biden, will you stand by as Israel is down to it last bullet, its last functioning rifle, its last standing defender a 12-year-old brave little girl with a pile of rocks at her feet? Will you stand by? The hordes of Hamas will pour in again, rife with hate and bloodlust, all those not so innocent Gazans. Know that YOU - Joe Biden - will have set the stage for this. You will be ranked with Hitler, tied as the largest purveyors of the venom of a Holocaust, once again perpetrated upon the Jews. Are you now oh so proud as you anticipate that moment? You must know that is the only end if you continue your destructive policy towards Israel.

  Are we ending the age of America? Are we demonstrating that mankind is not capable of supporting a true democracy? Cannot overcome its barbaric instincts for violence and blood? Cannot forestall its urge to find scapegoats, to wreak havoc upon some group? It almost matters not who or what, but just someone - after the Jews. Of course. Now, America. America. God has refused to shed His light upon us. He has covered over that light with clouds of darkness portending evil to come. Is it our fault? Is it His fault that He built us with points of weakness? When the whole structure will collapse and the stress and strain - I don't know. I just don't know.

Yesterday, a day set aside to remember, to feel, the Holocaust, to know the loss of so many souls, of   so many unborn, of children denied futures. We are watching the hatching. of another Holocaust. Not so much in the future but rather far closer than that. Yesterday over 2000 more Yizkors, the prayers for the dead, were recited. For the slaughtered in their beds, or dancing, or in captivity, brutalized, tortured, and soldiers doing their duty even as they guarded gates for aid to Gazans!   

All the voices that climb up to the heavens. Will the gates be open for them? Will God. unstop His ears and hear the groans and moans of His creations?

 If someone, anyone, can provide me with an answer my doors are open. My ears are open. My eyes are wide open. I crave reassurance. I crave certainty of a possibility of future for the little ones.

  From whence will that come. That assurance. Answer me, someone, please. 

-------------------------------------------------------------Yitzy, golden child, now is our time to catch the ear of G-d and persuade Him to listen, to heed the cries of His embattled Creations on Earth. We are desperate. We are confused.

Now is the hour of our need.  

Love you, miss you, hold you close - 

Always and forever. Always and forever.