What map you might be asking? Well, at this point I think we should take any map and make the changes on it that we need. To make room in space and time available for the changes that have been made to that map. To any of the maps of the world. For sure, the one thing we know about these maps is that they carry inaccuracies that had once been eliminated. That they carry with them signs of danger, even when not denoted clearly on the map. Unfortunately, more people are in situations where all seems lost, with no hope of finding their way out of wherever they are. Certainly, these maps provide very little help, if any at all, to safe passage to the desired destination.
In fact, this is a growth industry position of totally and clearly not knowing where we are, nor how to get where we wish to go, not even knowing for sure if that is where we wish to go and what will be awaiting us should we get there. Most probably is the reason why all the shows streaming on the media portray people not quite sure where they are and how they got there and what to do about it. It is the primary core of these programs and the books deriving from or sourcing of these programs. Lost. Manifest Destiny. Gulliver's travels. Lost in Space - of the Robinson family.
Or people finding anomie and confusion in their own hometowns. The Last House. The End of Oak Street. Two examples of many in the same genre. Good movies. Keep your interest, keep the suspense. But unfortunately, very easy to make the connection between what is real and what is on the screen. Not so far off reality, is it?
Over in France, they are looking at the end steps of the restoration of Notre Dame. Which underwent a catastrophic fire a number of years ago. The French pride themselves in taking ancient architecture and sites very seriously. Are very careful about hewing to the line of the original. They are taking what they consider to be a bold step in replacing the 19th century's stained-glass windows with modern interpretation of those windows. Stained glass. But just a different presentation of the same themes.
It is debated throughout France, but unfortunately, along with this country's worship and veneration of the old and the tried, they keep with them the old and the tried as well, not quite as gracious and beautiful as the stained-glass windows. In keeping and being true to the ancient sites and memes, some ugliness is carried on as well. Primary among that is the traditional anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish themes which run thick and fast through their veins and arteries. And that was before Israel was established, or should I say reestablished, in the ranks of the independent nations of the world.
Never mind the fact that Israel, or Judea, whatever name it was called those times, had been around longer than the governments and statehoods of most of the nations of the world. It took generations and generations before these countries were united. From tiny segments of what would be a nation at some point in time in the future, with the opposition of the many families of declared royalty, mostly it was a case of constant warring between segments and between so-called countries.
Finally, most pieces became part of the whole, whether they liked it or not, only to contain stress and tension, until so many were reseparated once again in the second half of the 20th century and/or forcibly forced to join a coalition. These coalitions and separations were certainly not conducive to a serene world affect. But one thing, be it in France, a primary carrier of this virus, or in myriad other representations of independence, always and forever, the one thing that was held in common, clutched close to offbeats beats of hearts and souls, was the JewHatred endemic within. And mind you, this was before the recognition and reestablishment of the State of Israel in 1948.
Quite a long time to carry this infection and mind you, for no reason at all. Furthermore, there was no opportunity here to disguise this JewHatred with the cover of opposition to their own state, as they claim now. The cover is flimsy and shreds itself via the light and the truth, which too many national maps try to erase from the maps of their destinies and destinations. Why? For some reason, some warped sense of hate, Jews are evidently not worthy of their own nation, where mind you, all are welcomed, and have the same rights. That is, all those who do not conspire to destroy it and its people within.
Evidently, these misdirecting maps, find it better to 'unstate' it, find it an irritant to all other states. Deny the right of Israel to be a Jewish state. This has been anathema to the world, recently and has been in this area since time began. Denied an acceptance. deemed as an invader, an interloper, from the time of the promise to Abraham from the One Above. Through the intervening wars and times and oppressions.
And wasn't and isn't it a grand opportunity to maximize the costs of these attacks, this constant desire to spill the blood of Israelis, Jewish or not, visitors, Jewish or not, as the targets became ever easier to find. The Hebron Massacre of 1929. The attacks on villages and kibbutzim prior to statehood and afterwards. The bloody intifadas. Continuing to the present times, in Israel, and throughout the world, as the hatred has become legitimate wherever and whenever a Jew can be found.
The world conveniently forgot an important road on the maps of those times. A major road which led to the reestablishment of the State of Israel in recognition of its modern form. That was the Holocaust and the Post Holocaust times when the killing continued in Europe. This tiny, embattled state undertook the inflow of survivors of the horror of Europe and the expulsions and oppression from Arab lands. The constant attacks continued various alliances of Arab nations against Israel. Evil minded terrorists. And when Israel beat back their invaders the world did not take it well.
The now persistent constant state of war, from enemies surrounding this small country, continues. Sparked by the ugliness of October 7. An attack aimed at civilians out of sheer bloodlust and a refusal to recognize the State of Israel. Its permanence. 3000 trained troops plus thousands of evil-minded adherents to that cause, swarmed in, homes, kibbutz, cities, moshavim, dancers at a Nova Festival - all were prey, their lives and their belongings savaged, terminated or stolen away into Gaza's hell. Unfortunately for them and for the world, Israel was able to regather itself and beat them back and down. Once again, trying to end the foe's attacks for all time rather than this piecemeal business. But the world did not like that. It viewed Israel and the Jews within and the Jews without as convenient constant targets and deflectors. For them to be victors and saviors of themselves as anathema to the thinking of the world. it had to be wiped off the maps of the world.
Our rescuing of ourselves out of the hands of the bloody-minded murderers was turned into an excuse for war to be waged upon Jewish people wherever and whenever they were. Once again, our blood would soak foreign lands and the lands of the State of Israel, but they found a different map in place for the Jewish nation. We stood up, spoke up, did not adhere to the 'be quiet' behavior formerly encouraged. No. We struck back and will continue to do so until the maps are corrected. Forever.
So, if one is in France or similar surroundings, where do we go to get out of there? How, in fact, do we know where to turn on a continent that is so befuddled that it cannot find its own place even when there were specific directions to reach it. But these specific directions were deemed unsafe. Unworthy of the people of France, of the world, and so, they chose the misdirecting map. And the anger that built up as over and over again they found themselves in nothing positive situations, they found release via that one, lifelong belief.
They and other countries aways held to the belief that Jews are considered anathema, as foreigners. Never mind how long they have been living in those countries and how much they have contributed to its wellbeing. Disregard the map laid out in the Old Testament. The Book they all claim to follow. Wherein Israel was presented with the promise of the Lord of their own land. For all eternity. And to be under His eye and held within His arms forever.
The world somehow has to be deradicalized. Given instruction as to how to find proper maps. Hold them steady. Learn where to fold, and where not. No more revision of the facts of history. No more the use of Jews as deflection for the woes of the world and of nations in particular. We have got to ensure that we have a true road map for all time and for all people. Revitalization of that which the world needs and not which certain individuals need and wish to adhere to for their own benefit.
It is most frustrating when that which should guide us is that which misleads us instead. The maps were 'mismapped' for political and/or or individual benefits. For short term benefits. The ever-growing deficits within our leaders and the ever-growing herds of sheep following along. Adhering to maps which only led to a perdition for all. Never mind the truth of what happened, good, bad, or indifferent. Stick fast to that which looks better even as it is worse is what we have inculcated within the belief system of the people of the world.
We forget similar times of stress and disorder. Much of what we are undergoing right now is not new. We talk of endless wars. Wars that never end. Please note that these wars are not fought continuously with mass attacks and invasions. Much of the current wars are fought in phases. Sporadic attacks from the air, from the sea, or from land. Whatever suits the attacker at that moment. But we forget all the designations of war that had been held within Europe, between countries, between pieces of countries. The Hundred Years War. The French and Indian War. The 30 Years War. The Wars of the Cousins' war in England between York and Lancaster. Between the Protestant movement and the Catholic movement and the Puritans. It seems that humanity cannot let go of the need to make war upon others. To impose their beliefs upon others. Even if it must be at the point of the bayonet or with a click of a trigger. Or even the lighting of a fire at their feet.
Any of you out there who still maintain this fallacy that your country is safe and secure, that your country is steady and does not need a map, for it is on a map of long duration and long accuracy, they are grossly mistaken. Antagonistic debates about where they were and where they are going and how should they get there, if that is indeed the destination they should desire. These questions and desire remain quite well and alive in human culture and behavior. Countries manifesting strong hunger for the territory of others. Examples of such are many. Threats and troops come in tandem. I must tell you that my guess is not optimistic in remedying this want among nations nor the pressure from those within who wish to break away for their own group. Or when supposed allies break apart and the crack is heard round the world.
More and more people are deeming the maps of the United States are no longer map worthy. No longer doing their jobs. For we have competing series of maps, each different, each proposing new and conflicting directions and routes. Are any correct? Are they all wrong? Or is this something that can be made from a combination of the best of all? That would be the best hope that we Americans have, that the world has. But optimism is not bubbling over within me.
For we have become too stubborn, too set in our ways. Too little understanding and too great misunderstandings. What we each need, what we each want, what we will deem as irreplaceable, and what we will deem as negotiable. Such is the way of the world since forever. But it seems that we have forgotten that piece as we move forward. As we return to many old standards which deny acceptance of more modern ideas which in fact benefited their nation and the inhabitants within. But who are now at the losing end of this movement.
I am so tired of these awful maps. I am disgusted by the map makers and by those who know the truth, who can reroute in the proper manner, but who do not. Who choose for whatever selfish or feared reasons to keep to these broken maps. To direct people to places of danger. To the ends of the world where there remain only evil portents of a future most vile. This can be corrected. This can be rectified. It will take lots of hard work. It will take redirection and corrections of misdrawn lines. These maps will require give and take, push and pull, but at the end, if we all realized that our goals are basically the same, aside from those crazed by bloodlust, we all wish for peace. We all wish for a chance to raise our families in that peace. And to move humanity forward. It is just so damn bad that we have lost our way. That we have totally disregarded even those paths which we know began correctly. These will lead us back in the proper direction. But we, in our ignorance and in our arrogance forget all that. We deem ourselves as above all else on this earth, all else in this universe. But we are evidently not. How many more earthquakes do we need? Is not four enough? How many more droughts and tsunamis and hurricanes and freaky weather must we endure till even the blind and the deaf have to acknowledge that things have gone very weird out there in the world of nature. And as Shakespeare pointed out, when things are amiss with man, things are amiss with nature. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Does it even make a difference when the outcome is the same?
When will we discard these terrible maps. When will we allow a true map maker to arise? Show the world the truth of these maps or their untruths, and understand the lies entombed in the false maps. I have no idea. What I do know innately, what I do fear greatly, is the fact that we are running out of paper and pen. And people. That He who is above. is getting angrier and angrier. More and more sorrow filled at the thought of what He created, allowed to run rampant upon the face of His creation, the earth and the universe around. How much patience does He have? How much more tolerance does He have within? I don't know. I don't know that anybody knows. What I do know is that we are pushing that envelope. Real hard.
Yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Our maps grow worse. We reject the corrections. And we return to the misdirection.
Must it be this way forever?
Up to us folks, and we are falling down on the job.
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