No one can say these days that there is nothing of interest, nothing of any importance or of topics around which fierce discussions should swirl. Every morning before I write my blog, I flip through the news of the day, of yesterday, of current events and so often, too often, I come away with a swirling inside and outside my head. How does one choose from such a wealth of topics? How to prioritize all these topics banging at the door? Aching to be written about, desirous of publicity. I'm not sure, but I do my best, try to pick my own mind and assume, right or wrong, that what interests me will be of interest to my readers, at least some of them anyway.
So. How to choose from today's overwhelming topics of important and/or disturbing effect? Perhaps seeing a small sampling of a list of topics ripe for addressing might help.
An extremely bright sophomore in university wrote a powerful presentation of her emotions as of the day after Mamdani's election to mayoral position in NYC. It chilled my bones and should chill yours as well. The powerful declaration by Mayor Eric Adams that if he were a Jewish parent today, he would worry fiercely for his children. A message to the wise, to those of us who are indeed Jewish parents. To those who know and suffer through the anguish of parents when we send our children out there, be one Jewish or not.
Or the fact that we have a most corrupt President sitting in the Oval Office whose dignity he has shredded. Actually, not only corrupt, but demented, delusionary as well. Against all moral and legal laws, he has profited from his position, buying bonds and other such things based on his own manipulation of causative factors, a most gross presentation of insider trading, certainly by a sitting President of this nation.
Furthermore, we have the dementia of this man who cannot explain why he constantly segues off into totally unrelated topics, calling it, "a weave”, to prevent further questioning. Or, more likely, perhaps due to the effect of constant use of orange makeup! The manner in which he forgets where he is, who is there in the same room, as he calls plaintively, in confused and confounded voice, upon the missing, like a child calling for a parent who has stepped out of the room.
Or the fact that 23 Democratic Party Congressional Representatives signed on to a resolution of absolute antisemitic filth. Beyond belief. But Rashida Tlaib, she guilty of loyalty to the beast of Hamas, she of treasonous behavior re this nation, does it again with her obscene resolution, followed shamelessly and shamefully by 22 pathetic haters of humanity, particularly if they are of Jewish origin. A pathetic group of JewHaters who belong anywhere else other than in Congress, enmeshed in the government of the USA.
All that, and so much more. So, how does one choose? For additional difficulty, if one needs to have that additional difficulty, we have foreign affairs and foreign relations. Selling F35s to the Saudi government. Turkey volunteering 20,000 "volunteers" to patrol Gaza - to pacify and disarm Hamas? Oh, so, vigorously not to be trusted, this man who hates Israel, and who is madly desirous to place a trained army capable and poised to invade Isreal and wreak harm upon its citizens, overtopping the violence and murderous mayhem of Oct7.
Or consider the hypocrisy and moral weakness of the Arab and Moslem nations who refuse to commit their own forces for peace enforcement and rebuilding of Gaza unless and until Hamas is disarmed. But - they will not do so nor allow Israel to do so, then exactly who will disarm Hamas? Who will insist in the face of the demented opposition, to absolutely insist, that the 100 plus terrorists cowering in the tunnels beneath Gaza, beneath the rubble that they instigated, sans weapons, come out hands up?
Nobody answers these questions. Nobody has a solution. Even as we all know the propensity of Arabs/Moslem people and nations, to turn on a dime and realign, all the better to and for them and to hell with prior agreements upon which were predicated benefits. How are we trust their fulfillment of responsibilities, will not use the jets and other weapons against Israel? No answers here either. 'Merely' the loss of the qualitative military ability of Isreal, neutralized by the huge number of Moslem nations to be given USA military training and equipment -in an area known for intense and ancestral hatred of Jews and of the Jewish nation. In an area known for its proclivities to violently overthrow governments. How and why do we trust them? What would lead us to making that erroneous conclusion? How do we even assume that if we train a Palestinian force to maintain law and order in Gaza, to combat the constant attempts of Hamas to reposition themselves as the cruel rulers of Gaza, how and why are we to trust that they will not turn and suddenly we will have another version of October 7, only this time not only by the trained terrorists and the rabble that ran along with them, (proving the lie to the question of innocent civilians in Gaza). How will we be assured that these trained and armed members of this new force will not join with their bestial cohorts and do their best to do their worst upon and to citizens of Israel. Again.
For that matter how do we ensure that anything and everything that goes on in these meetings is what is being truthfully reported and presented? How and why would we trust when so many of the nations involved are caught up in corruption, not only up to their necks, but over their heads. When bribery is rampant within those countries, with corruption a growth industry in the majority of the nations of the world? Almost every and all nations have bought into the corruption and have allowed undiluted and destructive Hate to enter their national psyche. Chief among that is the room for growth allotted to JewHatred and the enthusiasm for it.
Most important of all, most depressing of all, most confusing of all is what has happened in Israel and América. The USA has disappointed me beyond any and all expectations, far beyond any of the possibilities that presented themselves to us. Who could have ever imagined that we would all elect this president? Someone who claims ignorance as an excuse. Someone who proclaims lies are truths. Who basically claims to have known nothing of outspoken antisemites and welcomes them into the White House, that trashed and disrespected building. Whoever would have thought to see the corruption and taint within the entire judiciary system, from top to bottom. Whoever would have thought that the weakest, the least moral within our nation would become the legislators who governed it?
That was bad enough but worse was to find that my other country, my ancestral country, had also fallen victim and too frequently enthusiastic participant, in the corruption of the body politic. In provoking extreme positions and irritation of troublesome differences. Rather than uniting the nation, pointing out the importance of unity, they capitalized on those points to increase the division, all the better to ensure that they remain in power. At the same time, so busy cementing their permanence, these individuals were too weak and otherwise occupied to combat the vicious viral wave of JewHatred which infected the entire world. They failed in their duties and were treasonous in their actions and consequences as it affected the people of Israel.
When one walks among the people of America, among the people of Israel, one sees and feels a unity, the respect and warmth they have for each other, the knowing, especially within Israel, that they, we, are one nation, one people. In both nations the people of those nations, the men and women in the streets and offices, must defy the government who championed the divisions rather than the unions. To know there is far more that unites us rather than what divides us.
We have been deluded for far too long, allowing too many offices to be filled by those who do not belong there. Offices which belong to those who truly wish to serve the people rather than their own pockets and power. There are machinations to keep opposition down and out, but we must remain strong in our knowledge that we can and must reform our governments. This will take much determination for unfortunately this corruption reaches deep into the system, from bottom to top, secular to religious, even as the vast majority of Israelis and Americans look around in confusion and don't understand how their nation, how our nation, has found itself wallowing in the same filth that is found in other nations.
In America there is a growth of indignation and a desire for reformatting of a system, to mend the broken natures of the political parties. Here, too, in Isreal, there is an awakening.
These people, the people of Israel, the Israelites of old, were privileged to be given the first codified laws and ethics by which to live. We were to set an example and even though this placed a great burden upon us, we tried our best, too often the trying to take place under adverse circumstances. The world bought into this and held our nation to a higher standard, employed double standards. When we fell short, were not perfect, despite efforts, the nations of the world took off after us. Insisting that in our failure we enabled all the evils of the world to flourish. Hence, an all fully purposed bucket to be filled to overflowing with a JewHatred forever growing wider, deeper, more toxic as it spread.
I cannot explain it. I cannot accept it. I hope and pray that we all see through the various artifices of those desirous of influence, of power, of wealth, and drum them out of office to be replaced by true patriots of the nation. By true dedicated and honorable servants of the people. That goes not only for Israel, not only for the United States, but for every nation on this this planet. When and why did we all set aside morals and righteousness for selfishness and greed? When did all this happen? When and how can we stop it, reverse the whole process? I wish to God I knew. I wish to the heavens that I had an answer, but even if we were presented with an answer I don't believe there is enough consensus out there, enough unity and understanding within any nation, enough strength of character and morality, to turn their backs on the wrong path and regain proper orientation onto that which is proper and good. Is it even a reality, a possibility, so deep are we immured in the wrongness of things?
We must do better, for the fate of the world will arise out of the behavior of mankind. My heart hurts for all of us, for those who have gone astray, and for those who have tried to do right, and the seeming impossibility of working things out. However, I must confess that the strongest of my feelings is addressed to the people of Israel, for we have surely suffered far longer, far more and in far more intense manner than any other nation in this world, even though the brutality of mankind perpetrated on other members of mankind continues to shock and amaze me. How stupid, how thoughtless, how cruel, how inimical to the progress and benefit of mankind! What have we done? What have we allowed?
From the yesterdays we discarded all that was good and brought forward into today so much, too much, of that which was wrong, and negative, that which would impede progress and increase regression. Will our hopes for brighter tomorrows be powerful enough to get us out of the bog in which we stand, in which we wriggle our way ever deeper and deeper? Can we turn our backs to the evil and keep those tomorrows positive and optimistic?
I do not believe any of us know these answers. For sure I do know that there are people who hope that those efforts are in vain and they are too many times overpowering of those desirous of a better world. However, I do believe no one, perhaps not even the Lord, has a true reading on this matter, has a thermometer capable of recording the true fever of the ugliness which has dug deep into the human psyche.
I sure as hell hope I'm wrong.
I wouldn't bet on that.
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