More Jews support Darfur than Judea. Some Jews are more concerned with blacks and Arabs than with their fellow Jews and Jewish goals. Jews with the exile mentality are sorry for being alive and would rather keep quiet. They won’t upset the Gentiles who deign to have dinner with them. They are thankful for every drop of imagined support. They want to prove themselves worthy before the Gentiles, fight for human rights, save Darfur, and show Gentiles their courage. They want to be strong, and so they join the crowds, the Gentile crowds. Learn that a rigorist Jewish crowd could also be strong, very strong.
The higher a Jew is, the more fearful he is afraid of falling. Jews associate power with Gentiles, and they doesn’t want to offend their Gentile friends. And they don’t care about other Jews. The Jewish establishment reduces its pro-Jewish stance to weasel pronouncements and promptly retracts when Gentile colleagues in foreign governments disapprove. They don’t want to offend others by going uphill for their brethren. Helping Jews is not fashionable in the world community. The Jews abandon their roots to look good to Gentiles. Weak, snobbish Jews seek Gentile approval.
Jewish establishments in the diaspora push anti-Jewish assimilationist policies to please Gentile friends and to make themselves look like Gentiles, not like the weird Jews. In return, many Gentiles tacitly despise them as betrayers of their nation, quislings. In return, the Jewish establishment thinks it’s not sufficiently gentilized and proceeds with further anti-Jewish policies and spends Jewish money on blacks and other causes popular with the Left.
Assimilated Jews are not really assimilated. They parted with Judaism but did not assume a new culture; integration takes generations. They lost the old values but acquired no new ones. They are immoral.
Jews in Tel Aviv conducted business as usual while Jews in Haifa died from Hezbollah rockets. Israelis did not protest when the politically correct government sent Jewish soldiers to unnecessary death in urban warfare in Lebanon. American Jews neither donated all their money to Israel during the apocalyptic 1973 war nor gathered at the White House to push for intervention, like the US intervened for France in Indochina in 1950 or later for Kuwait against Iraq in 1990.
Israelis rationalized their inaction: we must go on with our lives as usual so the Muslim enemy won’t claim they’ve upended us. The enemy claimed that, anyway. American Jews lived normal lives while their brethren were murdered in Nazi camps. Millennia of fear and danger for our own lives have made the Jews indifferent to other Jews who are expected to die. The Jews see the death of other Jews as nothing unusual and not worth the effort to prevent.
The Jews rationalized their fear and weakness and invented pacifist Judaism, a strain of leftism with a Jewish tint. They forgot that Judaism is about righteousness and justice, not peace or pacifist conformism. The Torah continuously admonishes us to expunge evil from our midst by whatever means necessary and to fight our enemies with vengeance.
Jews want equality. French and Americans are equal, but many are contemptuous of the other’s culture. Equality does not require similarity. Equality is a function of power.
Recently, my daughter's rabbi e-mailed all students an amazing analysis of the parsha of the week. This particular week was a few weeks back, regarding the parsha involving Nimrod and the tower of Babel, where the entire world conspired to build a tower to the heavens to 'kill and destroy' G-d.What did Ha-Shem do when he saw this? He divided them by creating new dialects and languages so they couldn't communicate with each other. Did he hurt them? Rabbi said that not one hair on their head was touched. He left them in perfect physical health. He left their food and water supply complete and damaged nothing of their physical needs. He did not separate families from each other. He only changed the languages in the greater communities and from this they needed to separate and go their separate ways.Why was Ha-Shem so kind to them? They outwardly hated Him, and publicly and enthusiastically conspired to 'destroy' Him. One would think that He-Shem would take offense to this and retaliate severely. But he did not even hurt them. Not one person of that generation even suffered a scratch!The answer lies in how Ha-Shem values unison. When people work in unison, when they show the same enthusiasm in a concerted effort, when there is no discord among themselves, regardless of their activities, He-Shem rewards them in kindness. He might disrupt their plans, but he doesn't harm them.This is why people who we know to be completely immoral and unethical prosper. The homosexual platform in the united states is so strong, and kavod is given to them, often over other groups, because they are united. There is very little discord among them.So, too, with the enemies of Israel. Their prosperity is in their unity. Ha-Shem has blessed unity as one of the top ten qualifications for human success. It's just that simple.We don't know the ways of Ha-Shem and why he values unity so much, even over his own kavod and definitely over the kavod given to the Jewish People. Actually, if we delve into this, the subdivisions and fractionalization of the Jewish people is what is destroying us. Serious divides among different religious groups (hasidic, modern orthodox, conservidox and conservitive, reform, secular, etc), political interests, diaspora vs. Israeli Jews, wealthy vs. poor….anything where we are not working in concert as a whole people towards a specific goal will harm us. And, if you haven't noticed yet, we are probably one of the most divided nations on earth. No wonder our lack of success in our endeavors, like our wish for peace and the rights to our own inherited ancestral land. It just won't happen to a divided nation. 'A house divided will not stand'. We are barely standing.
Where 'kill and destroy' comes from? They were building a tower to 'obtain a name' for themselves, as I read the text.Anti-Semites are hardly so united. Leftist liberals and Neo-Nazis have little in common besides being anti-Israeli. They do not coordinate.Jews were never united, thus the Maccebees and Hanukah. We don't need majority. Just act.
Hi,You said in your post that equality is a function of power. I'd like to say that equality is also a function of nature. The nature of the number two is different from the nature of the number one. Therefore, two does not equal one, even if relativistic moralists declare that two equals one.Webster's New World Dictionary defines equal as:1.of the same quantity, size, value. 2.having the same rights, ability, rank, etc. 3. evenly proportioned. 4. having the necessary ability, strength, etc.I believe that in one sense, all people are equal. Each person is created by God and has choices to make and hardships to overcome. So it is right to extend care and respect to people everywhere, who are facing hardships (such as in Sudan); because all humans have an equal value in God's eyes due to being created by One Creator.In another sense, though, all people are not equal. I do not believe that a foreigner engaged in terroristic acts deserves the same rights as a citizen who never harms another person. The nature of the person's character and actions precludes being granted the legal status of "equality". Now, I know that this reasoning can be twisted by tyrants into calling any unfavored group "unequal". Such a twisting of definitions only happens when definitions submit to political prevarications (or political correctness based on relativistic thinking). The real question for our day is, "What is the truth?"Sir, I am an American gentile who cares deeply about Jewish issues. Of course, I care about other people groups as well.
To Rhonda: Do you care of Sudanese Blacks and Arabs as much as about fellow Americans? It's natural for people to divide the world into neighbors and others. We cannot treat everyone equally. Obadiah wrote, "Love to everyone is no love to anyone." When the injustice is immense, like in Rwanda, I say, let's go help the others. But in routine matters, including routine civil wars, I won't interfere. Jews faced that question (of helping the others) acutely in WWI. It wasn't our war, and the Jews generally refrained from participating in it. When the British offered us (at Zhabotinsky's insistence) to liberate Palestine - we assembled a Jewish Legion and did the job.