Gość: Esq.
IP: *.aquanet.co.il
16.05.02, 12:05
Dear World:
It appears that you are hard to please. I understand that you are upset over
us, here in Israel. Indeed, it appears that you are quite upset, even angry and
outraged? Indeed, every few years you seem to become upset over us. Today, it
is the brutal repression of the Palestinians; yesterday, it was Lebanon; before
that it was the bombing of the nuclear reactor in Baghdad and the Yom Kippur
War campaign. It appears that Jews who triumph and who, therefore, live, upset
you most extraordinarily.
Of course, dear world, long before there was an Israel, we, the Jewish people -
upset you. We upset a German people who elected a Hitler and we upset an
Austrian people who cheered his entry into Vienna and we upset a whole slew of
Slavic nations - Poles, Slovaks, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Russians, Hungarians,
Romanians.
And we go back a long, long way in the history of world upset. We upset the
Cossacks of Chmielnicki who massacred tens of thousands of us in 1648-49; we
upset the Crusaders who, on their way to liberate the Holy Land, were so upset
at Jews that they slaughtered untold numbers of us. We upset, for centuries, a
Roman Catholic Church that did its best to define our relationship through
Inquisitions. And we upset the arch-enemy of the Church, Martin Luther, who, in
his call to burn the synagogues and the Jews within them, showed an admirable
Christian ecumenical spirit. It is because we became so upset over upsetting
you, dear world, that we decided to leave you - in a manner of speaking - and
establish a Jewish State.
The reasoning was that living in close contact with you, as resident-strangers
in the various countries that comprise you, we upset you, irritate you, and
disturb you. What better notion, then, than to leave you and thus love you -
and have you love us? And so we decided to come home - to the same homeland
from which we were driven out 1,900 years earlier by a Roman world that,
apparently, we also upset. Alas, dear world, it appears that you are hard to
please. Having left you and your Pogroms and Inquisitions and Crusades and
Holocausts, having taken our leave of the general world to live alone in our
own little state? We continue to upset you.
You are upset that we repress the Palestinians. You are deeply angered over the
fact that we do not give up the lands of 1967, which are clearly the obstacle
to peace in the Middle East. Moscow is upset and Washington is upset. The Arabs
are upset and the gentle Egyptian moderates are upset.
Well, dear world, consider the reaction of a normal Jew from Israel. In 1920,
1921 and 1929, there were no territories of 1967 to impede peace between Jews
and Arabs. Indeed, there was no Jewish State to upset anybody. Nevertheless,
the same oppressed and repressed Palestinians slaughtered hundreds of Jews in
Jerusalem, Jaffa, Safed and Hebron. Indeed, 67 Jews were slaughtered one day in
Hebron - in 1929. Dear world, why did the Arabs - the Palestinians - massacre
67 Jews in one day in 1929? Could it have been their anger over Israeli
aggression in 1967? And why were 510 Jewish men, women and children slaughtered
in Arab riots in 1936-39? Was it because of Arab upset over 1967? And when you,
World, proposed a UN Partition Plan in 1947 that would have created a
Palestinian State alongside a tiny Israel and the Arabs cried and went to war
and
killed 6,000 Jews - was that upset stomach caused by the aggression of 1967?
And, by the way, dear world, why did we not hear your cry of upset then? The
Palestinians who today kill Jews with explosives and firebombs and stones are
part of the same people who - when they had all the territories they now demand
be given them for their state - attempted to drive the Jewish State into the
sea. The same twisted faces, the same hate, the same cry of "idbah-al-yahud" -
"Slaughter the Jews!" that we hear and see today, were seen and heard then.
The same people, the same dream - destroy Israel.
What they failed to do yesterday, they dream of today - but we should
not "repress" them.
Dear world, you stood by the Holocaust and you stood by in 1948 as seven states
launched a war that the Arab League proudly compared to the Mongol massacres.
You stood by in 1967 as Nasser, wildly cheered by wild mobs in every Arab
capital in the world, vowed to drive the Jews into the sea.
And you would stand by tomorrow if Israel were facing extinction. And since we
know that the Arabs-Palestinians daily dream of that extinction, we will do
everything possible to remain alive in our own land. If that bothers you, dear
world, well - think of how many times in the past you bothered us.
In any event, dear world, if you are bothered by us, here is one Jew in Israel
who could not care less.
