That would be a definite no. I do believe that no one has gotten it. No one can make sense of this entire mess that is now the best definition in one word of the status of the world, the state of current affairs in and of the United States, and the status of current descriptions of the Middle East, particularly that touching upon, or rather obsessed by, delusional views of Israel. How is the world once again in the grip of a Flaming Cold War? How in the name of God are we to explain or 'get' the fact that here in the United States, in 2024, we have a pitched battle between supposed pro-Palestinian, in reality pro Hamas, hence supportive of murder, rape and carnage and Jewish people being physically denied access to a synagogue. In the streets of Los Angeles!!!
To the world, this awful shame is presented as a mere moment in time, insignificant in the long run. Merely a blip, of no true relevance to the world. To the nation, this unthinkable clash, its horrendous reality and frightening portent of an ugly future, is to be seen as a mere moment in time, deserving of momentary mention. The print media joins in with a designation of the "incident' as "yesterday's news already. Even as the streaming of it all returns to obsession with the all-important lives of the glitterati. Such are the values of the current times.
Holocaust survivors and their families are once again looking upon versions of the streets of Berlin, of Vienna, of any country subjugated to the rule of Nazism. And they shudder at this repetition of a cursed history, never ever to be replicated in reality, But LA was not a scene of movie or TV. It was, is, a shameful reality, the America of today - Today!!! Nope, I absolutely do not get it. Nor should any decent human being get it.
Yesterday's New York Times presented a complete picture of the confusion and negativity and blindness of the world, A full page presentation of the growth of a new Nazism, a new fascism, quite healthy, within Germany. Rather ironically or stupidly or unthinkingly or deliberately, on the first page was an article decrying the woeful lack of sympathy of Israelis for those "poor innocent civilians" of Gaza. My eyeballs popped out of their sockets in disbelief. Even as the voices and the blood of the Israeli civilians, of the babies, of the elderly, cried out to the heavens, are we supposed to feel guilt at our survival, our grief, our determination to rescue those hostages, now perhaps fewer than 50 alive, with that number swindling hour by hour? Should we have simply exposed our necks to the knives and cooperated in our own deaths? Are we to have sympathy for those who instigated this war, who perpetrated this ugliness, this obscenity?
The "innocent” civilians who aided and abetted, who joined in with great glee and bloody knife? With boastful voices, who paraded the naked bodies of the slaughtered through the ranks, the crowds of cheering Gazans? Who aided and abetted the constant onslaught of words and deeds of Hamas against Israel? Who declared long and loud over and over and over again their intent to totally destroy Israel and the Jewish population within, a first step upon an attack of world Jewry? Whose famine that never was - not in two days. Not in two more days. Not in two more days. Not in two more days after that nor six weeks after that nor imminent, almost upon, coming, ever coming -that never was. Yet the nations of the world joined in with loud hectoring accusatory words and claims of criminality, all directed at Israel, and by growing extension to include all Jews. Wherever and whenever.
Who had voted in Hamas as a government? Who had allowed them to maintain control and power? Who had cooperated with Hamas in the digging of that huge network of tunnels? Who had allowed the usage of civilian infrastructure as human shields for Hamas? Who had cooperated with Hamas in the use of their living rooms, of the children's bedrooms, of their stores and their schools, of their mosques? Who volunteered to take in a captive or two into their homes and do their worst? Try to achieve the greatest depth of the depravity? No. Jewish blood will no longer be cheap. No, there is no sympathy for the "poor, innocent put upon Gazans". Certainly not as we bury our dead, our best and brightest, killed because of those Gazans now whining for sympathy. The deaths, the destruction, could have never been, should have never been - if only.
The world remains in its self-built fortified deafness and blindness, wallows in ancient tropes long deserving final denial. It ignores the lessons and truths of history. These 'innocents" with bloody hands, dripping knives have forgotten the warning: lay down with dogs and get up with their fleas. And whose fault is that? The sooner the world learns and accepts the truth, the sooner we can stop the heaving and retching of the world. Perhaps then, just maybe we might find a pathway to peace and justice. Maybe. Possibly. Hopefully. Wishfully.
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Yitzy, the world is a puzzlement. The king of Siam was indeed correct with that statement. Perhaps upstairs, the puzzles are explained, understood and solved. Not so much of that down here. If you can, it would truly be nice if you could send us a clue or two.
In the meanwhile, there is no puzzle about our love for you.
Always. and forever. Always and forever.
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