And you can say that again. All of us should be saying it again and over again. What the hell indeed! When an 88-year-old survivor of the Holocaust has to take the nation to task, and reminds them that they are, they can, they should be better than this, well what the hell is going on, shockingly, within the borders of America but also within the borders of countries round the world.
Many of these same countries have gratefully accepted the aid of Israeli contingents sent to their countries during times of crisis, who did not distinguish foe from friend because that is not the Jewish way. Now unfortunately that ancient maxim has proven its truth. "No good deed goes unpunished.” Apparently so when those same nations follow it quite diligently when it comes to Israel. The same holds true when it comes to use of the advances Israel has made in the medical field, in the science field, in daily life, and shared with all.
I, we, all of us, are growing tired of shouting out at the TV screen, at podcasts, at the print media, at the online media, at the brutes and ignoramuses, at those who know better, WTF!!!!! WTF!!!!If you, reading this blog, belong to one of the above categories, well that goes multiple times for you. Furthermore, if you think you are exempt from any of these categories, even as you support them implicitly and/or complicitly doing so in private well, that multiplicity of WTF is exponentially assigned to you.
The silence that you think exempts you from being smeared with its filth does not work. It reeks of rot and grossly immoral inhumane behavior, leading all the way to murder. Yes, murder. Implicit aid and approval is visible, think you not so. Equally enabling of this stench, this shame, of mankind, is the silene or apathy of those who may not support it, but we have learned, unfortunately, that silence is equally complicit. We Jews and all righteous people have internalized the lessons of history, taught time and time again, that silence is the ally, closely intertwined, with and of evil and evildoers. Murder most inexcusable. Murder most brutal. Again and again through the centuries.
WHAT?WTFWTFWTFWTFWTFWTFWTFWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWTFW!!!!!!!!!!
What do you want from us? What do you want from the rest of humanity? Why do you wish to negate all that Jews have contributed through the centuries wherever they have lived? Why do you believe that hate based on nothing, only ignorance, is righteous? Why do you think boasting of this horror, endless chanting of rhymes both infantile and dangerous at the same time, makes you more important, heightens your value, for it most definitely does the complete opposite.
Why does it take a Holocaust survivor severely burned internally and externally, in body and soul, by a flamethrower from hell, to take the entire world to task, for her statement applies equally to all, Americans, Europeans, whoever, whatever the origin or religion or any aspect of humanity. Think not that you are excluded from this question. Think not that you are excused from answering it as well.
Why, when Israel is attacked in massacre format with plans for more, the equal of any Crusade Pogrom, is she held up as the instigator, the brutal invader? No, for she is defending her integrity as a state, equal and as legitimate as any on the face of this earth. Why, when she is defending her citizens, of whatever origin, whatever religion, from a duplication of such horror? Why, when she goes where the war takes her, why is she held up as a state of war criminals?
Do we tar the two little Bibas babies, or the 48 other children slaughtered, the people sleeping in their beds, or having breakfast, attending synagogue on a holiday morning, of the dancers of Nova, as equally guilty of your false accusations? Do we?
Or do we accuse Hamas as war criminals? As they deliberately place civilians in harm's way, even unto death. As they kill their own children, boasting that it matters not for their women will give them more. And for what? To raise them in hate and educate them in violence?
As civilian infrastructure is used as storage places and dispensers of hate and bloodshed, of weapons and terrorists? As homes are used to access and exit from tunnels wherein hostages are brutally held and tortured, raped, and killed, and where NO ONE, nary a soul, demands to see and protect, to free from Hell?
Why the above? Why is Israel being asked to debase and devalue her citizens, to remain silent as the slaughter comes for them and theirs? Not to resist and not defend, to take all that is thrown at them, at us, round the world. Would you expect this of any other nation? Or is it only because we are Jews, Israelis and we are one. We bleed together, with no space between us, whether we are standing outside a museum or marching for the hostages or going to synagogue, school, or simply taking a walk, as citizen soldiers stand guard over the nation, over their families, martyrs all, whose blood will not go unavenged.
We do not wish for war, do not want it, but when forced upon us, to it, we will fight, and we will hold true to our command. To the last one, to the last pieces of bodies held hostage, to the last living brutalized live hostage, we leave no one behind, even if it takes years to achieve, even as the terrorists know this and purposely kidnap the living and the dead, holding for ransom, for crazed ratios of the redeemed, for families waiting in anguish for their lost loved ones. All are to return to their people, all martyrs in a dreadful thread through time.
Hear the words and the pain of the burned Holocaust survivor, whose people not so long ago were in fact, burned, and massacred, attacked on the streets. But that was the Old World, and the New World was to be different, better. Evidently not.
she still appeared rattled by the ordeal.
“It’s about what the hell is going on in our country,” she said when pressed. “What the hell is going on?”
she said she “wants people to be nice and decent to each other, kind, respectful, encompassing.”
“We’re Americans,” she emphasized. “We are better than this. That’s what I want them to know. That they be kind and decent human beings.”
Hear the words of the American ambassador to the U. N at a meeting of the Security Council where, as usual Israel was be roasted upon the spit of the world, to commit itself to a suicidal ceasefire. Most grossly hurtful as nary a word from anyone other than America, re the hostages. As if they do not exist, and in any case, are of little to no importance. America vetoed this message of hate from the world to the Jewish people.
So tired of it all. The Hate. The anger. The bloodshed. All of it.
Have we not learned anything from all our yesterdays?
Why have we tainted so indelibly our todays?
Are we doomed to continuation of this, to ugly tomorrows of no end?
WTF?
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