Well, that was a rude awakening for me. I have just found out via the convenience of reading it at my own home, at my own leisure, that I am an international criminal. Maybe I shouldn't be publicizing this, but I guess there was a point to be made and I am going to make it - hopefully, so please read on.
First up is the understanding of why I am a criminal, international. no less. I have had the utter gall to know the time has come, long past come actually, to understand that as good as one nation appears to be, as welcoming as one nation appears to be, to people of Jewish origin, when one scratches beneath the surface, not even so deep within the surface, one will find that those situations, those realities, are ephemeral in nature. They are and will not ever remain or be meant to remain in permanent condition. The necessity for other acts rises to the surface.
Time and time again in history we have been rudely made aware of that fact: no matter how successful the Jewish people are as a whole, no matter how high they manage to climb, to find a place for themselves, our ideas, to contribute to the society of that nation, it matters not at all. It was all not to count for very much nor for very much time. When the haters of the world united and decided that it was time once again to bring back, to revive, to strengthen the viciousness, the agony, the viral, toxic JewHatred once again, there was a warm welcome in every nation of the world.
What is JewHatred? Why do I prefer to use that, rather than the rather milder antisemitism? It is because I understand reality. Like it or not, we all, you and me together, we all have some anti-something feelings inside our heads, inside our hearts, mistaken, most probably, but there it is. These anti-feelings can be controlled, can be ameliorated via intense effort to combat these feelings. Taking actions against the reinforcement of these feelings, possibly to the point of reversal. Sometimes. Too many times, not. But Anti feelings, certainly in initial stages and not fed more garbage upon which to grow, enables life to continue, even with some rough spots. But nevertheless, a good life, for one who works hard can achieve that. Even as it is anathema to the soul and makes for a difficult environment at the very least.
However, JewHatred, any Hate with that capital H, is inimical to any kind of a life. It is a hate vicious and contagious, immune to most proposals to ameliorate it, to negate it, even to disappear it. It is something that is both inbred and ingested, the one method strengthening the other, reinforcing it until there is no way to crack open that hard shell around what is supposed to be the inherent humanity within the hearts and souls of mankind. Too often we find that it has dissipated under the pressure and the ugliness, amid the liberation of a Hate that has gotten so powerful, so border free, that it is seemingly impossible, not even worthy of an attempt, to do so.
So, to get back to the title. Why am I a criminal? Well, first and foremost, because I am Jewish. I will not hide that fact. In fact, I am proud of that fact. I am proud of our long history. I am proud of the contributions of Jewish people to myriad nations of the world, even unto those nations who were the most vicious and vile in their practice of JewHatred to the point of being desirous of the extermination of the Jewish people. As an American Jew, or as a Jewish American, wherever you wish to place your nouns and adjectives, it has always been my right to live as all other law-abiding citizens of this nation. It has also been my privilege to have another nation open for me, providing a haven, a defense which, for so many years of the millennia was not available? It was openly, actively, denied to us despite the fact of its need so blatantly present.
What is that other nation? That is the nation of Israel, Eretz Yisroel, the land given in promise to our forefathers. The land which the Israelites fought for time and time again, even as time and time again enemies came and overpowered their defenses and attempted to kill the spirit and the reality of the Jewish people. But they were never successful. Israel remained, the Jews remained, frustrating all plans against them.
Time and time again.
However, history being such that it repeats itself, much of the time for the worse, it does repeat itself for the good as well. Always in their prayers, in their hearts, deeply within every atom of their being, was and is, the permanent hope and knowledge that one day all the Jews of the world will be reunited in their ancient ancestral G-d given Promised Land. A homeland where they can walk freely, not fearing of any outward symbol which reveals their origin. Unfortunately, that is the growing case today. We will not stand for it any longer. We have already learned with dismay the truth of repetition of history The ugliness of its renewal of growth and viciousness. We know that “My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step. They are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.” (William Golding, Free Fall)
We Jews have become the experts at feeling those gray faces, knowing they are always with us but also knowing that these days we have a choice. In 1947 the U. N voted to partition the current Palestine Mandate, The British Mandate, into a Palestinian state and a Jewish state. That Jewish state was immensely truncated, given almost no possibility of survival. But those representing the future Jewish government of Israel agreed to it knowing that it was that or nothing at all and the little was better than nothing. Those who were to be the citizens of the area to be designated to be Palestine, and their backers, the myriad nations of the world, Arab and Muslim, in particular those bordering Israel, refused. Their demand was for the entire area to be theirs.
As a relevant aside, please know that there was at that point no Palestinian nation. At all. Most of the Arab population who lived in the British Mandate came from other Arab countries, voluntarily or sent by their overseers, their overlords. Palestine was a name derived from a perversion of Philistine, an ancient enemy of Israel, which had been soundly defeated long ago. But the world bought into the lie almost immediately, and the campaign, never ending, to reinforce a decision to invalidate the yearning, the righteousness of a homeland, an eternal homeland, an ancestral homeland, an indigenous homeland, for the Jewish people. Almost immediately upon gaining statehood no less than six Arab nations attacked that tiny state, far more in population and weapons than Israel. Far more vicious in Hate, intending to destroy even that tiny piece of a State for the Jews
But they were trounced and had to pull back with the remnants of their forces. However, it took decades more for any kind of a fragile treaty to come into existence between Israel and an Arab nation and those decades were filled with wars and spilled blood. Even unto the point where Israel's survival was questioned and questionable. An all-enveloping Hatred of Israel became the food fed to the citizens and children of Arab nations. It became a holy cause to terrorize Israel.
As powerful as the JewHatred was amongst the Arab and Muslim nations, it was far more than the anti-Zionism they claimed they opposed. That was and is not so. It is not Zionism that they are fighting. It is not Israel that they are fighting. That would be only the beginning. What can be seen clearly now, even by those who are willfully blind to the true aim of the constant warfare and terrorism waged against Israel. It is the spread of that same anger or that same Hatred all meant to destroy the Jewish people. To exterminate them. To destroy any memory of them wherever they are upon the face of this earth. Whether they accept their Jewish origin, or not. Whether they stand tall and proud. Or try to hide within the clamoring mobs calling for the death of all Jews, claiming to be better Jews with and by their embracing openly the voices and the ugliness and the poison of those who chant against them, calling for their death as well. Apparently, some people do not recognize those gray faces of the past and think they can deny repetition of history that cannot be done.
And so, once again as in other times of history, Jews turned to the East, to the ancient land of Israel where their kings once reigned and the Israelite army was powerful, blessed and backed by the Lord Himself. Through our own stupidity and the ugliness of humanity, too often we lost a firm grip upon that land. But no more, no longer. And that, my friends, is why I am declared an international criminal by that poor excuse of a human being Mamdani who wishes to revive the worst Jew Hatred which locks Jews into place, no escape, no out. No life worth living. No hope. No future.
What is my criminality? Over two decades ago I changed my place of residence, moving in retirement from NYC to Florida. A citizen of Florida and the United States with all privileges and responsibilities of those citizenships. Always retaining our attachment and ties to the Land of Israel, the State of Israel, an innate part of our souls and very being as Jews. Always knowing that we had two nations to call our own.
However, those gray faces once again, made their presence known. Now, evidently, according to Mamdani, I and mine are not welcome, not equal, in the place known as New York City. The seat of the largest population of Jews outside Israel. But I am also forbidden to move from there and by extension, anywhere from within the United States to Israel, to be a dual citizen of both nations. Keeping them within me, keeping alive the flame of hope that America will come to its senses again and reject Hate. That Israel will remain strong and defiant against all those who wish to see her dead.
Evidently, we are all criminals, all Jewish people, most of us, for we endorse the defense actions taken by Israel against those who would see us gone forever. Our presence there, our moving there, is, according to that pig and his adherents, a "misuse of sacred space" and he endorses global intifada, no matter how he tries to deny his own past, as the grey faces crowd around him. As his terrible views of today rise to the surface.
October 7, 2023, evidently, according to our haters was at our own instigation. We wished to kill our own people - in order to do what? We were to ignore the fact that it was the civilian rabble running alongside the terrorist beasts of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, any and all who wished death upon Israel, and jeered and threatened and molested the helpless hostages, kidnapped from life to wither, to become skeletons. To live in despair. To live and die in dank dark, inhospitable tunnels. Always with threats and blows raining down upon them.
There was no starvation in Gaza, clearly been proven to be so with any shortages due to Hamas hijacking the shipments for themselves, for their beasts, or to be sold at exorbitant black market prices. They all were reaping a crop they had planted and fertilized with their Hate. They were and are the killers of our civilians, our babies, in the land of Israel and round the world as well. Our defense, our attempts to put paid to these ugly recurring attacks, to kill us, were deemed illegal, guilty of genocide, a most ridiculous attempt to deny the truth - the initial instigation and the resultant consequences were upon Hamas and Hezbollah, upon Iran and the Houthi, not upon Israel.
We had to fight a war where the enemy was, and if they hid among their own, their people and misused community beneficial infrastructure to hide within, the blame must be laid where it belongs. At times some innocents were hurt, but not at the insistence of Israel. Only at the insistence of their own masters did this occur. Any evil arose from the attackers, the beasts laden with bloodlust, thirsty for Jewish blood and not from the actions of Israel. We were attempting to once and for all, stop this constant repetitious attack upon Israel.
I think James Fenimore Cooper, in The Last of the Mohegans, speaks to this issue. "Is it justice to make evil? (As the terrorists of Gaza and of Hezbollah and of Iran, did) and then punish for it, (punish the nation which fought against it, knowing its survival was at stake, clearly to be seen, clearly to be acknowledged, denied as it would be by far too many)?
Was there, is there even a possibility to do as was suggested in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde wherein was stated, “I incline to Cain's heresy ... I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.” (Robert Louis Stevenson). The people of Israel, the state of Israel, are tired of ever returning war and false peace of a very temporary cessation of war, to return to it again and again. Would that it were indeed possible for the animals of two legs to destroy themselves, but unfortunately, it is impossible under present circumstances and certainly into the near future at the very least. Would that we could let them go to hell themselves. Themselves and all those who follow them, down into Gehinnom, the home of all wrongdoers. Those who oppose and oppress the nation of Israel, the people of the Jewish nation.
So am I a criminal? I don't think so. Nor do most of the sane people of the world, even though their numbers seem to diminish daily. What do we wish? We wish to be the living embodiment of the statement made by Robert Louis Stevenson in "Requiem“. "Home is the sailor, home from the sea, and the hunter home from the hill." A home long denied to Jews, denied their right and determination to live as equal to all other nations and all other people of this planet, of this universe.
No, it is not I, nor my people, nor our supporters who are criminals. We are entitled to our lives and rights as are all people of this besieged planet.
Will we ever live to see that day arrive? Honestly, to quote, Mayer Rothschild, I would like to see this in my own lifetime though I fear that is a hope mired in vicious tracks laid in our yesterdays, by the poison of the revival and reinforcement of these tracks in our todays and in and with the fears for our tomorrows to come.
We are not the criminals. We have the right to live where we wish, to be citizens of the nation where we live, to be as free as all are entitled to be free, to be treated with dignity and respect and that our designation to be permanent targets for those who have nothing better to do with the evil within their souls or the hate that bubbles in their blood.
No. For criminals, please look elsewhere. Certainly they live with us, on this planet, and are clearly to be seen if only we would open our eyes. To know they must be opposed and denied, fought with a vigor never ending and to remove their threats from all of us forever. Never to return.
And yet, and yet, and yet ...
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