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January 23, 2007
Where there is life, there is hope
I believe that, I always have and I always will.
But, hope is not enough, we must be proactive, we must take an active part in our survival because without life, there is no hope.
In his essay, This Place Called Hope, Mr. Gordis is brutally honest. Its a must-read.
A century ago, the early Zionist ideologues promised the Jews that if a Jewish state were created, there would finally be one place on earth where Jews could be safe. It might not be big, it might not be beautiful, but it would be safe. Here, it was said, Jews would be able to defend themselves. Here, it was said, they would be spared the capriciousness of the world.
~snip~
As the rockets flew over the entire north, few people in Israel missed the irony of the fact that it’s now more dangerous to be a Jew in Israel (at least in certain periods, like in Jerusalem during the Intifada, or in Haifa during the war) than in any other place in the world.
~snip~
And if Hezbollah wasn’t bad enough, Israelis are asking, what about Iran? What will happen when they get the bomb? What does it mean for Jews, and for Zionism, that just seventy years after the world conspired to let the Jews be erased, more than half the world’s Jewish children (i.e., those living in Israel) could soon live in the crosshairs of a nuclear-armed maniacal Muslim fanatic? That’s a refuge? That’s success for Zionism? What does it mean that the world is clearly demonstrating that it is willing to watch this happen and not intervene?
~snip~
Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Darfur – all conflicts that have taken infinitely more lives than the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – receive nowhere near the attention that Israel does. Thousands are raped and butchered in Darfur, and days go by with scarcely a mention in the world’s papers. There are 200,000 child soldiers in Sierra Leone alone, but who even knows about that? Yet one protester ignores IDF warnings to stay out of the way and accidentally gets crushed by a bulldozer, and the world goes ape. Then Broadway produces a (bad) play about her. This is normalcy?
~snip~
Jimmy Carter writes a book calling Israel an Apartheid state, and despite the numerous reviews which point to the book’s unfairness and numerous errors of fact, the book rockets to the bestseller list. In the United States, not Egypt. It should be lost on no one that people tend to buy books that espouse positions with which they agree.
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If it’s unthinkable that more than half the world’s Jews could live in Ahmadenijad’s crosshairs, then we’d better figure out what we’re going to do. The world won’t stop him. Will we? What kind of power would we be willing to use to put an end to Iran’s nuclear capabilities? Would be it moral to use weapons we’ve never used if that’s what it would take? Would be it moral not to, if the future of the Jewish people is at stake? How much are the Jews willing to do in order to survive?
~snip~
The problem isn’t Olmert, or Katzav. This is not about Israel. It’s not even about Zionism. It’s about the future of what we call the Jewish people. Hezbollah gets that. Hamas gets it. Ahmadinejad gets it. Gaarder gets it.
Why don’t we?
~snip~
Why don't we get it?
Reality is, when people talk about ridding the world of Jews, they are talking about me, and my family.
Posted by LindaSoG at January 23, 2007 10:15 AM
Comments
They've also forgotten that when Hitler was eliminating 6 million Jews, that he didn't just stop at Jews, anything he declared non Aryan was butchered, just like anything declared non-Islam is butchered by the Moslems. What a nice organization our Communists created when they set up the UN to protect them. Which party was in charge at the time?
Posted by: Jack at January 23, 2007 12:34 PM
לינדה את מלכה!!!!!
Posted by: einat at January 23, 2007 10:10 PM
Jesus was a Jew.
As far as I'm concerned, the moslems will have a hard time eliminating all 2+ billion of us.
:-)
Posted by: Vinnie at January 24, 2007 01:19 AM