Perhaps a better title for this posting would have been J'accuse. I am not referring to the enemies of Israel without, those who proceed to combat us in many fields of conflict but from without, from outside. They gather numbers seemingly as plentiful as grains of sand. Ironically the dark side of a reversal of the promise of Hashem, the Lord, to Abraham. It will not be the descendants of Abraham who will be countless in number equally as uncountable as the grains of sand.
These enemies are clearly to be seen in the toxic atmosphere and venomous world of JewHatred, Anti-Semitism in capital letters. Most of us now know the truth, who our enemies are, but there are those still willfully blind, who close their senses to the entry of truth. These are the people who think that trying to distinguish one Jew from another, to separate one from another, will ensure their survival. It will not, for history has taught us otherwise.
Within the rancid hearts and souls of the haters of Jewry, of their very existence, to them, to be a Jew is not merely to adhere to the same culture, to the same traits, the same professional areas, the same values. To be a Jew is to be a part of an unworthy race, for to be a Jew involves a racial definition rather than anything else. Even the most devout of conversions outside the religion means nothing to these people. Blood is blood and blood will tell.
This they say and this they believe, as they live - and die - by this twisted Hate of baseless reasoning and indeed, of harm to the people of the world. To remove Jewry, to cancel its existence, is to impose a lack of forward movement, a lack of inventions and ideas seeking to improve the world. To fulfill the commandment given to Jews to improve the world, to fix the errors and inequities, to at least begin the work necessary even as others will have to complete it.
In fact, I agree with the worst of them, with the most loathsome creature of their world - to be a Jew involves a racial definition. To be a Jew is to belong to a race, yes, but this race is different. It comes in many colors. It comes with many ethnicities. And it comes with a great, huge dollop of acceptance into the community of Jews round the world. Ironically enough even as our haters condemn us as apartheid in nature, we are the race that accepts others within our fold as members of the tribe even as they differ in history, in realms of prayers and restrictions of prayer, in color and ethnicity, in our origin, in facial features.
To be a Jew is to believe in the common history. Even if that history was truncated left in isolation for hundreds and hundreds of years. Still and forever with common dreams, always and forever, no matter where Jews are living, be it in Africa, Asia, The Americas. It makes no difference and above all else there is that dream, that goal, that desire, that drive, to reach Jerusalem. To reside in the Holy Land, for all know the promise made to Abraham. That this would be an eternal, forever homeland of the Jewish people.
Even as yet another commonality reared its ugly head and clawed hands. That is the persistence, the permanent existence of JewHatred. Perhaps jealous of that community's unity. It's cohesion. It's survival. Always to emerge from the pipeline of horror with head held high. Dreams to replace the nightmares. Dreams of the possibility and the actuality, the reality, of the State of Israel. The reincarnation of the ancient kingdoms of Judea and Israel. The fulfillment of the promise made to us, that we adhered to through the millennia.
This is all part and parcel, internal and indivisible, to be found within all Jews, even as some try to deny it. Whether they are proud of it, believe it or attempt to deny it. Even if many generations have been lost, subsumed into where they do not and never did belong, being lost, that "Pintaleh Yid", that shared racial memory remained. Communities have returned to their people, welcomed, transported home.
All lending itself to the proof of the promise that from the four corners, all directions of the earth, our people will return to their home. Where they are not considered guests to be welcomed or rejected, but instead, in fact, as yet another pillar added to the unity and the strength of their forever people. Where they belong. Home.
Now back to the beginning. Why is it such a tough day? One simple and clear reason is that this world has so many truth deniers, so many negative human beings who challenge the definition of humanity. It is both mind boggling and mind depressing, soul shattering and heart compressing. Even in the world which had made great strides, much distance remained to reach the finishing line, to combat, defeat and erase these harmful and erroneous putrid statements.
From our enemies we know what to expect. Familiar with enemies now reformed, reformatted, we welcome them into the light of true humanity. However, that is all from our enemies from without. The hardest, most challenging effort must be made elsewhere - within our nation. Within our people. Within us. Too many times, we indeed have met the enemy and they are in fact, us. We looked too often and too deeply into the abyss, at the hydra headed monster within, and some took on the worst of the traits of this monster, and became 'monsterized' against our own, forgetting the common bonds, the shared history, the shared humanity. We became, some of us, thankfully few in number, our own enemies. The unkindest cut of all.
More on this tomorrow.
Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow.
We must turn the cycle into better territory and prospects.
There is no other truth.
No other way.
No comments:
Post a Comment