Maybe I am slow. Maybe I think about this at the wrong times of day or night. Maybe I am too close to it all actually being one of the targeted. Whatever the cause, I just don't get it. Many, many books, treatises, essays, op-eds, editorials, letters to editors, pamphlets and leaflets have been written on this topic and all achieving the grand sum of zero. Actually, that round number should come as no surprise. The topic is illogical, deeply, very deeply rooted in stupidity and nastiness, and in fact, is allergic to any sort of logic applied to it for there is no making sense out of nonsense.
Yet try and try again is the name of the game. Character assassination. Trait specificity real or not. Misinterpreted or not. Accidentally or not. Out of the air. Religious accusation. An innate flaw within humans to seek the least common denominator. Humans and "others" of self-creation. Hyper xenophobia. Deflection for unease and unrest in a population. A safety valve. Perfect scapegoats. An absolute certainty that one knows it all, all the 'truths' and all the secrets. A good moneymaker.
So, what the hell am I talking about here? I am talking about the ever-present noxious reek never dying ugliness of Anti Semitism and its inevitable consequences. It seems it follows a similar, almost set pattern, able to uncover, yet impervious to numerous attempts to replace that cover or even somehow create a mechanism through which that cover would no longer be necessary.
It begins with talk. It begins with secretive winks, as if one knows something that nobody else knows. It begins at either end of society with the poor and downtrodden who need to vent against those they deem even lower than they are. It drips down from the top levels of society, from the Uber wealthy who fear someone is out to rob them of all and from the snobs who think their blood cannot be tainted by the blood of those they consider to be their inferiors. The toxicity and the hate flow evenly and smoothly top to bottom and bottom to top and then manage to pool in the middle where there are plenty who seek to find something other than themselves to blame for whatever situation they are in their lives and for the condition of the world in general. Why the hell not!
Why do people want to kill me? Why has this desire been able to survive since time immemorial? Why has this insane hatred so consumed its believers that they willingly forswear all beliefs and values, secular and religious, that once were sacrosanct and jump with great enthusiasm into the pool of blood their hate creates and replenishes, sometimes on a daily basis.
Attacks, physical, emotional, religious forced conversion under penalty of death, or even 'voluntarily' in order to be able to live freely, for sociological reasons. What the hell is the point? Why is it that even supposed intelligent, cultured, individuals cannot see past their blood-stained vision and understand both the harm and the futility of their actions? 2500 plus years of hate but despite it all, the repression, the oppression, the murderous schemes, oh, those plans, so ambitious. And yet We. Are. Here. Repression and oppression on crack. Still, we are here. Not only existing, but generally thriving, and sharing with the world our inventions, our thoughts, our research, our arts and sciences, our all, including philanthropy of open scope. We are generally well enmeshed within society.
Once again, I ask why, from whence and why? Where has it gone wrong? And why am I not finding answers worthy of their verbiage, containing logic and thorough explanation, even justification. Truth, not memes and tropes already proven false. Not the same old junk which carries no weight. No reliance and appeal only to emotion - only to facts. Why does it continue?
The sad truth of this all is that there are no facts. There is no logic. It is based on nothing yet that nothing has the consistency of impermeable concrete. The people who engage in this, no matter how bright they appear to be, are actually dumb as the day is long. If their hatred were right, if their hatred were blessed, by the god they worship, as they claim, we would not be here. Not after 2500 plus years of hate aimed directly at our hearts. Not after the most nefarious plans put into place with the said goal our elimination, even stronger now than ever. Even as Western supposedly advanced nations buy into it all and willingly engage in it, their words might be polished but they are just as ugly as the crude words and chants of lower-class haters. Equally as ugly are the results.
And again, why? Why do these mentally, emotionally flawed people not understand a very basic fact. We are here despite all, everything thrown at us, we are here. And here we remain. Our weapon, first, last and always is our faith in the promise of the One Above, our eternal guardian, our father. As His children, at times delay in rescue is inexplicable to us, but our faith is always validated. Proof: we are here and with His aid, realized via our actions and those of Nature, we remain.
For those who need a more up close and personal experience I urge you to leave your home. Leave social media behind and get out there and meet a Jewish neighbor or two, stand by a synagogue or local store. What will you find? You. Me. Your friends and family. For we are all alike, bottom line. We are all people together and it is no more right for me to hate you than it is for you to hate me. Hate is illogical Hate is an emotion which befogs judgment. It is one of the worst traits of humanity. Why not see if you and I can toss that trait of ours in the trash.
For the errors of yesterday;
For the efforts of today;
For the dreams of tomorrow.
We must all try to do better.
And in view of this morning's breaking news, bombs hopefully putting an end to the nuclear criminal ambitions of Iran to annihilate Israel and all that do not abide by their rules, may we all join hearts and hands, and pray for peace which permeates the entire world.
Amen. Selah.
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