Why are we interrupting? Because we find that at this point, we are flying very quickly backwards, back into the future and it is not designed for our comfort nor, or indeed, our future. The plane of existence upon which we stand has turned out to the shaky. It is very carefully and mightily disempowering its possibilities and threatening the future, all predicated on an outdated, hateful Jewish denying society.
In general, at this point and truthfully in use and under discussion, as an option, particularly among those well assimilated into the Christian society at large, is a return to what was, but never worked. New again but in fact as old as time. It presents itself as a humanistic proposal to those of the Jewish faith, promising an embrace to those who will follow one or the other of two paths. One is a path tried before in many countries of Western Europe and even in America. That is to be a quiet Jew in your home but not on the street They look like anybody and everybody else along the roads of the nations of the world. Consigning a heritage to a trash dump which for many years will remain untouched and when rediscovered if it is such a time as it suits that larger society to remind you of your heritage, of the truth of your genes, the truth of who you are, that society will behave accordingly.
Been there, done that, haven't we? Many a time. Many a time successful for those who bought into it hook, line, and sinker, but only for a time. The innate prejudice and jealousy will always rise to the top as scum is wont to do. A more permanent path remains. The second path is most likely a twig, an offshoot of the main trunk of the poisoned tree. It will take over the minds of the haters and those who hate themselves.
It too has been tried many, many a time, to succeed, with generations buying into it out of desperation, out of ambition, and all actions are baseless, useless in the long run, even in the short run. The Pale was such a place. It planned to convert one third of the Jewish population, to kill another 3rd, and exile the last third. It was put into action in spoken and unspoken manner. But quite heavily applied in other nations of the world particularly so in nations of the West.
More of the wealthy, the ambitious, lent themselves to those who wished them gone, to joining this false precept of a world embracing those who denied their heritage and their history. Some nations presented this option as a one and done. A permanent divorce and wedding as a safe place for a soft landing providing perhaps what seemed to be a soft landing for its proponents and acceptors. So simple. With no consequences of you in a rising value within society
But once again, we found that this was both a temporary and permanent situation. There were some who escaped this pressure, leaving the country of their residence, where they were denied acceptance as either citizens or fellow human beings. Some jumped into it, totally immersed themselves in its fetid waters, cleared all remnants of an "outmoded and dangerous faith".
But, down the road, inevitably, the truth of the hate, of infected perverse thinking and actions made their presence known. All was unearthed and aired. Nothing came out of that but more negativity, of more hate in ramped up manner. Vindictive grossly inhumane manner. The same hate which burned Jews in their homes in England. Jews burned at the stake in France and Spain. In the New World and the Old.
So why are we back here again? In France in 1789, it was proposed that citizenship rights for Jews were proper. But this came with a caveat most indigestible. They had to disavow their relationship, their connection to other Jews throughout the world, to stubborn Jews within their own country. His famous statement - and warning - Everything to the Jews as individuals. Nothing to them as a people. What other nation has consistently been placed into this tragic choice? Live or die? Stay and give up your soul. Leave. Run. Find the same thing in another language, but still the same.
Furthermore, once convinced they had buried their past deeper, unable to be found, they discovered otherwise. Time and time again the haters and their enablers dug into the past, some recent, some further into that past. All those people who had gone missing were found. Some knowingly, some not. The motivation had changed the emphasis. It was not just to erase the faith. It was to erase the Jewish people. Even if one tried to flee for safety the borders were closed. No exit. No survival.
So it was in the German Nazi Empire with collaborators galore. No lack, cooperating with their own enemies in the name of erasing Jewry from this earth. It all began and begins with the precepts of the Jewish faith, anathema to so many who were way behind. Romans, Greeks. Arab monarchs and Muslim jihadists. No air between them. The sophisticated sotto voce murmurs and whisperings in th UN, among natural enemies who focused together on "the Jewish problem". All of us. You are and remain as despised. The gates of the nations of the world are closed as the ever ongoing, ever more horrible, ever stronger replication and reincarnations of vicious memes of Hate continues.
Now, perhaps here is where it hits me in more personal manner. As one of multiple generations who lived in New York City. As one who accepted as normal the “Jewish overlay" in the city. Yiddish words and Jewish precepts were part and parcel of the life within the city. Jewish men and women rose in the professions. The various educational systems. The manufacturing processes. To be outwardly free and confident to walk through the city, attend synagogue, go about life, without fear of physical harm, to dress as one did without fear.
Now this is no more. Greatly handicapped by a vicious leader, a mayor, who hates Jews, buoyed by his twisted faith in a perverse form of Islam and false statements of Palestinians who have joined with him to combat the reality and righteousness of a Jewish state, an independent, thriving nation. This eats away at him, and he has joined with the haters of the world, going where he does not belong, neglecting responsibilities. He is equal to the worst JewHaters, as he uses the political power of his position - herein América!!! - to condemn Jews, to deny them safety in their own residence, to do all he and his accursed wife can to negate and disappear the Jewish State of Israel, the Jews within his realm, and indeed, all Jews elsewhere.
New York City is my home. Born and bred within. Part and parcel of the beat of life within. Generations before me and after me, all native-born Americans, hence, entitled to any and all of rights granted to all citizens, be they of whatever faith or none, prior residence, naturalized, whatever conditions met and invoked. But today, no more. It is the haters on the level of Mamdani that we must pursue, squash, and remove from office where he has no right to be. One wishing to destroy the nation has no right to be in any such position.
One does not invite into one's home he and those who would as soon set your house on fire with you within as do anything else. One's obligation for the sake of self, family and friends, for Americans, for citizens of the world, is to shake and wake up the people who love this nation. There is certainly enough legal power in this nation, enough rights to do just this and return us all to where we were before we went drastically off road without an offroad vehicle.
Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow.
What should be? What was and what?
We must draw the picture. We must color it in and present it to future generations as a gift, an eternal one, never losing its value, never losing its courage and its might and determination to hold true to the values of the Founding Fathers and all who defended it over the past 250 years.
