VENTING TIME!

  And you might be thinking well. if this is venting time, then what has been happening in all the previous days of this blog? To be honest. 99% of it was and will remain venting. Where else can I safely let out some of that within which demands outlet. If not in existence, I wouldn't be surprised if steam did in fact shoot out of both my ears! 

Seriously. one must find an outlet these days, for the pressure within is high, almost unbearable at times. Particularly. if one sees no improvement or any indication that the temperature of a hot situation appears to be heading into a somewhat cooler area where madness, the madness that suffuses this world, will not boil over. At least not then.

But how does one find these areas? The truth is so buried beneath the lies, the misunderstandings. The exaggerations and the omitted. That it is nigh onto impossible to dig down to the truth. To the honesty beneath those words of bluff and hate. It appears to be that the leaders of this world, such as they are. believe that purposeful misunderstanding and obfuscation of true meaning and intent of words and actions are the ways to go. Perhaps they feel that honesty makes one appear weak. Or gives away too much. 

Of what?  Whatever they feel the enemy must not know, lest they find a hole somewhere within their defenses which they had not caught themselves and the foe will then make use of that information in any which way possible to aid their situation.  With boots on the ground or the equivalent. In some way leverage it to the fullest degree possible. any which way, so as to avoid any deterioration of their own situation and to possibly increase the likelihood for a foe more open to discussions to end the conflict.   

In the meanwhile, the slaughter continues. The waste of war. The horror of it. Natural irreplaceable resources destroyed. Billions and trillions of dollars spent, expended on 'better weapons', oh so much more efficient at killing and shredding yet another irreplaceable resource. Humans. Those who could and would otherwise contribute to their nations, to the world in positive manner. People who would be able to live normal lives. With a bankable assurance of the safety of their families with confidence that the lives they build with their homes, with their families will we safe and not liable to be gone in one moment of madness among the people of this earth. A moment which negates the positive that had come before and denies the assurance of a future we all wish to see, as we fantasize of the better life our children will live.   

One of the saddest things to see are the sights and sounds of people mourning their dead. We speak of war as “only” involving our uniformed forces, and of course the undercover agents. But we forget, unfortunately, that war being what war is, it is nigh unto impossible to keep "collateral” damage to a dull roar. That is, to limit the destruction of the infrastructure of a nation and its ability to rebuild. Even better, to keep to a minimum the unbearable cruelty and harm to the soul of losing family members and friends who are not involved in any of the fighting. even as we see ourselves hardening in our minds and hearts to the deaths of humans on the other side of the battlefield. Human beings. Lives changed irreparably. By this war. Any war.

 War breaks out always with a warning. Tensions are high. Hostilities are heating up. Violations of borders, even non approved, not ordered clashes take place. But there is always a warning; it does not come out of a true peaceful moment in time. Both nations or more nations that are involved, should be awake at the wheel, paying attention as they drive through life. As the hurdles and blockades present on the road they are traveling appear before them. However, too often they do not, based on inner personal and national hubris. Thinking nobody could ever surprise them. Where they would certainly overcome any invaders. Or the hopeless, helpless, useless thinking that their enemy does not mean business. Or that their own business will inevitably bring them to the point of explosion for there will be no other way for themselves to remain as their own integral nation, their people safe for the foreseeable future, and war is the only remaining option, very unfortunately. 

However, of late, there has been an ugly trend in the customs of modern warfare. The weapons are so powerful and plentiful, and too often aimed at 'soft' targets, those for civilian usage, rather than armed opponents, a loathsome tactic all the better to depress the battered attacked nation, increase their pleas for peace, drowning in blood and tears, and calling out strongly with cries for revenge upon those who are killing them. To kill their citizens as they are killing ours, all the while ignoring, denying the ugly truth of the matter: the guilt for the civilians killed in large numbers lay at the feet of those ordering this terrible thing, a cold and brutal method of waging war.

 The leaders, civilian and military, barely a space of air between them, ordered civilians to remain in place, used them as shields, as purposeful collateral damage, to arouse the ire of nations supporting them in the travesty they have supported, to be perpetrated and waged upon that nation. They build, deep within the civilian infrastructure of the nation - community centers, schools, hospitals, civilian homes, including rooms of children - their own places of refuge, military armories, hospitals taken solely for use for their wounded, training, dungeons for their kidnapped victims so brutally tortured, thus forcing the enemy they had attacked to kill them there, along with the hapless, and often cooperative  civilians. and attached families. War is where the enemy takes it.

Buildings were destroyed, people died, families lost loved ones, food, while plentiful, was stolen by the terrorist armed forces and civilian collaborators and sent out false reports -of starvation and famine, and the world bought into these lies, egregiously false and evil accusations, drenched in hate, reeking of evil, with staged pictures sent to the world as 'proof".' Awful, planned accusations which the world bought into, adopted accusations of genocide, adding salt to the wounds of a nation which had and continues to be the target of too many and too close attempts of genocide, for 3,000 years, since the first Jew, Abraham, walked this earth.

Even now, this ancient JewHatred has burst its shell, and the poison was now free again, approved, reinvigorated, and spread out, infecting and infesting the world, as nation after nation glommed onto its newly permitted toxic viral ugliness of soul. A Hate so insane that its vicious violence could neither be contained nor halted, with all seemingly only desiring to grow it, into violence and attack, murder and arson, burning and campaigns urging the death of Jews, their entire people, and their one tiny state for them. 

A haven for their safety and survival, which has, in fact and in deed, rescued so many since its reemergence and reinstatement as the legitimate recreation of a G-d given and promised land. A protection against those who would cheerfully kill them to the last one, infants, children, men, women, the elderly. A Hate against a people who had and continue to do naught but good for this world and all who live in it, since the beginning of time.  Murder and terror perpetrated against the Jewish people grew, exponentially, and once again, we are attacked, subject to terror and fear, accused of all one can think of, accused and cursed, we the long term benefactors to the world, contributors of advances and gifts in all areas, from science to the arts, from politics to philosophy and psychology, from space to agriculture and the bottoms of the  seas.

Now, once again the target of crazed villains and those who enable, and those who stand by, silent and/or indifferent, uncaring or so suffused with evil that you cannot or refuses to see clearly through the horror, its inhumanity, refuses to acknowledge its poison of 3,000 years, its insanity, and its potential and actuality of dragging the world beyond ability nor possibility to repair and reap its rich and vast harvests, there before us, a gift from its Creator, Our  Lord. I plead with you, for you and for me, for your people and mine, for the entirety of humanity, seek out the best within you, for we all have that ability within, yet another gift to us from the One Above to His Children. 

Believe in the potentiality within us for good. Adopt it deep into the atoms of your heart and soul. Know that we have the will and the capability if we so wish it. Best of all, is to be the best one can be, to strive and try for it, achieve it and bring out the best from all, for all. Be a leader for the good rather than for the evil. You will be all the better for it. As will the world.

Think how we can take the best of yesterdays, improve it in the todays we live, and guarantee the best tomorrows possible.

Up to you.

Up to me.

Up to all of us.

No one else.

All on us.