Many people, in fact, probably most people in the world do not like to look into that mirror. Be it real or virtual and in one's head or on one's face when looking deep into that mirror within that mirror we see truths that are not necessarily appetizing to our own selves. Certainly, many of them incite nausea along with panic and fear. How was this most unpleasant point reached and moreover, how do we fix it, or at least deal with it in some productive manner, to lessen its import and prevent reoccurrence?
This is the point where I am today. I am quite sure that there are many who have reached the same point and while we have been partially successful at avoiding it or walking willfully blind past it, the time has come to deal with the elephant in the room and all the little elephants which follow along. Until finally we reach the last elephant in line with the graduate cap over his head and the spectacles carrying wisdom and truth to all who would see it and know the truth.
The truth is that, in justified and justifiable thinking and recognition of reality there is much in the world that is ugly. It must be extirpated out, roots and all, to inches below to ensure we got it all, prevented its return, perhaps, possibly, in even more virulent manner.
What is this truth? It should be clear to all who have read my blog over the years that there is a very real ugly, poisonous growth of JewHatred within our world. Not that somewhat more genteel antisemitism to be found in upper classes of society, spoken of sotto voce, in sly whispers with a snidely blinking eye. Hateful, with limiting and limited factors, it is wrong to the bone. But it can be managed and certainly with no activation of the fear hackles on one's neck being raised.
No, this is the Anti Semitism that has morphed back again, once again, to a violent hatred which seems to encourage activation from the holder of that ugly sentiment, to turn words into action. The more frightening, the more out there, the better it seems. Though certainly the worse, approaching the worst, for the target and recipient of that malicious emotion and related action, is particularly more frightening to those of us who have mostly grown up in a world free of that sentiment. Of related violence to be seen only in outliers of society and spewers of hate with a few pathetic followers.
These times, in our today times, we have horrifyingly allowed much of society to turn back into the yesterdays, into its horror, into its bloodlust and into the mad desire to hurt as many as possible, particularly our children. To disappear our tomorrows before they have a chance to begin. This evil plan, these homicidal urges and activations are to be found in every persecutor of Jewry through the ages, back to the beginning. As bad as it sounds, it is within our genetic composiion, as we pass the trauma down through the generations to be alert, aware and at the ready to deal with it. Only these days we have the knowledge, the ability, the will, and the material necessary to face off with the evil troglodytes. Not so easily will Jewish blood be shed any longer.
NO More. Not Ever Again.
That being said, there is an offshoot of this current heightened awareness, and it is that which we must have the courage to look into its eyes, its reflections in the mirror and understand what has happened. We might not like it, but we must acknowledge it and we must deal with it. Not a simple matter, along with so many related issues that go into the whole messy ball of yarn that now wraps around this issue. Some of it is a necessary evil, for things happen in battles, in war waged verbally and/or physically. But some, quite a bit, can be ameliorated and lessened albeit without harm to us. We do not have to give it air and breath to live. We do not need to cede our souls as we defend the body. We can do what we must but must not become our enemy, for what then is the difference?
Along with the questioning of military plans and combat, readiness, expectations, and conscription we have also, unfortunately, 'graced' ourselves the wrong way when it comes to the politics of this nation. It is a strange politic. Though, while Israel is an independent, legitimate stand on its own two feet state, it must incorporate within, the souls and bodies of Jews around the world. Take into account those Jews who have mistakenly thought they can shout to the world that they are Jewish even as they curse their own brethren and endanger them even more, even as these apostates deny their Jewishness.
It is a state which is constantly boiling with religious clashes, not so much Islam and Judaism, but clashes within the body of the state and the faith. Every Jew around the world has his or her opinion of what the Jewish way is. How one should worship in the faith. Is the faith temporary with no change possible or can change be included? Our history itself speaks to this issue, but we are so embroiled in shouting and denying each other that we forget that a Jew is a Jew is a Jew.
No matter what he feels or thinks or observes religiously, if we forget that reality, believe me there are many out there who will gladly remind us. They, and we, by our stubbornness, dig at the cracks and crevices we have allowed to grow within us. We are falling into gaping chasms, and bottomless abysses. If we do not attend this, if we do not manage to repair them in a permanent fix, or a culture of acceptance of each other, then we are simply harming ourselves and empowering the enemy, the foes of Israel, harming ourselves with quick and deep cuts extremely difficult to heal.
I hate to think of such a future.
We must not have such a future, for that is no future at all.
We must temper ourselves and not become our own worst enemies.
Can we remember that?
Hopefully more on this in other postings.
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