The pain is intolerable, the sheer wave of stinging coming from my lower left side is indescribable, and there are times where it becomes so painful that I have to slap myself in order to remain conscious. It’s gnawing away at my life force, messing with my equilibrium and breathing, which scares the living daylights out of me.
Now that you’ve vicariously gone through my ills you must be asking your not so humble writer what this all means? What you read is an ode to the pain of the modern Jewish Man/Woman. I think we’re all conflicted by our collective and not so collective history. I feel that American Jews from both the left and the right are conflicted and/or apathetic about their role within their own religion their country and even their place in history.
First we must thank the era of Reaganomics because the 1980’s was the start of the “me” generation and the end of the collective movements for most causes. Every one of us possesses (or hopes to possess) all the luxuries we need within close quadrants. We can stay home, play video games, listen to music, as well as partake in all the mental, spiritual?, and physical pleasures we want. So do we stay indoors and live life for ourself and bludgeon the glut until the red is smeared all over the walls? Do we become so insulated that the “we” disappears and the “I” remains?
This all goes back to every Jew’s connection to the Holy Land. I think as a collective we should point out details that seem inaccurate about Israel and the Zionist machine. History shows that no matter the era (and this pertains to the human sense of time, which can be argued for ours), there was always a Jewish presence in modern day Israel. Muslims are relishing and rather confident in their refusal to mention that FACT. Also, since the days of Ottoman rule over the land of Palestine, Palestinian clans and tribes fought each other bloodily for supremacy. The cycle of violence was nothing new. However, the influx of Jews in the first Aliyah in 1881 made these newcomers, and the local Jewish inhabitants who have been in the region for some time, visible targets for Muslim ire. I think we should all pick up history books because all the media as well as Muslim “politicians” suffer from a collective amnesia. The BBC will remember the Six-Day War but not how it was started, the Economist will remember Sabra and Shatila but nothing of the PLO atrocities committed on both Jews, Christians and Muslims, and the Guardian will talk of the “incursion” into Gaza but barely mention of the large amount of missiles launched into Israel by Hamas. Let’s level the playing field before we go back to the days of propaganda and roundups, as well as snide comments carrying anti-semitic wit.
We should be outraged at these problems but it’s tough to grab you.
This hurts me inside because I’m a lover not a fighter, and I’m not the only Jew or Israeli feeling this pain, We All Are.
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January 21st, 2010 at 2:21 am
The liberal news media does not tell the truth about what is going on and what has happened in Israel. They talk about a Palestinian Nation that never existed. They sway the hearts and minds of those who listen to them but do not search for the truth. I am not Jewish; I am a citizen of the United States of America but my heart aches for the Jews in Israel.
You lumped Muslims and Christians together in the wrong that has been done to the Jews in Israel. It is true that much wrong has been done to Jewish people by those claiming to be Christians but the largest and loudest group, outside the Jewish community, here in the US who are trying to keep Washington pro Israel is fundamental Christianity. I would consider it a privilege and an honor if I could stand together with you and fight the wrongs that are being done to the Jewish people. Please consider me, a Christian, your friend and not your enemy.
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