Do you hate Jews? If you are studious Muslim you might
answer of course – it is encoded in the Quran,
Hadith and Sira. If you are a Nazi or Neo-Nazi you would probably answer yes,
your delusional hero uncle Adolf taught you to hate Jews
in his writings.
Are you an American, a Westerner and/or a Christian? Do you
hate Jews (Profanity Warning – Pat Condell condemns Jew-hatred)?
SHAME ON Y0U if you answer yes.
Are you a Progressive and hate Jews (FrontPageMag & DTN) because Israel exists and
those poor non-entity Palestinians have told you they are victims? Then you are
a deluded idiot.
Any hatred of a people or religious faith is an evil. From a Christian perspective, hating Jews
is just plain ungodly. If you think the Jews are collectively
responsible for the Crucifixion of Christ, you should their hand. Without
Christ’s death and Resurrection, you to realize we would still be lost to the
Fallen nature of Adam that the Resurrected Jesus redeemed us from.
It is wrong to blame Jews for the Crucifixion, that was
actually a collaboration Roman leadership (Gentiles) and the Jewish Sanhedrin
leadership. Does anyone persecute Italians for being Christ-killers?
Norma Zager wonders out loud if there is an inoculation for
hate. Why? Antisemitism is again raising its ugly head among those that should
be enlightened to see the idiocy of Jew-hatred in this day and age of the 21st
century.
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What Me Worry?
By Norma Zager
Sent: 6/26/2016 7:59
PM
“The great enemy of the truth is
very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth,
persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” John F. Kennedy
So many years ago, and I purposely choose not to remember,
Alfred E. Newman graced the cover of Mad Magazine begging the question, “What
Me Worry?”
An icon of sorts, Alfred’s question became a watchword or
guide for my generation. Peace love and rock n’ roll seemed to fit
perfectly into the parameters of “What Me Worry?” And we didn’t, at least
not much until we entered adulthood and found ourselves face to face with
actual life.
Now it seems to me I feel compelled to raise the question
once again, but the worry somehow seems implicit in the question itself, “what
me hate?” There is so much hate around us these days; it is almost impossible
to escape its ravages or virus-like movement through our lives.
Would one invent a vaccine to eradicate hatred? I actually
wonder how many earthlings would choose to sign up for a dose.
And that is my conundrum.
For as I have come face to face with the ugliness of hatred,
I now must admit to myself it is a conscious choice and one that is dictated by
a willingness to believe lies about those very people we seek to dislike and
blame.
As a Jewish person I have faced anti-Semitism numerous
times. Whether from gentiles or self-hating Jews, the effects are always
nauseating and unsettling, and after a bout with a hater I am left spent and
weary as a sickly feeling courses through my veins until I can finally dispel
its effects.
The most difficult task coming face to face with
anti-Semitism is what to do. Shall I speak up? Shall I defend Israel? Shall I
remain mute, retain relationships and betray my true self? What is my
responsibility and how far shall I go? Perhaps to even refuse a job as I once
did.
Is there a way to make a hater stop hating or a denier
accept truth? What is gained by my leaping into the fray and becoming
emotionally involved? These are questions only one can answer for oneself.
Do I wish I could remain mute, slough it off and change the
subject? Yes, I do. Am I able to do so and not hate myself? No, unfortunately
not. So either way I wind up feeling like a ton of ugliness was dumped on my
head. I suppose that is a problem that has no answer. Hate does not possess a
path for winning on any level.
Yesterday I came face to face with a hater. Oh of course
hatred robes itself in intelligence. Academia prides itself on being above the
fray. By their sheer acumen they can better discern fact from fiction, the
cause from effect and of course who is to blame for the ills of the world. They
believe they are right, defenders of the truth, and feel no remorse when
pulling out the trite and careworn blame-the-Jews theories from their
intellectual toolbox.
And yet laughingly for them it all still comes back to one
answer: The Jews are to blame of course.
I should not have been shocked when speaking yesterday with
an educator who firmly believes Israel is an occupier and killer of innocent
Palestinians and that the problems of the Jewish people could be blamed
directly on Israel’s behavior in the Middle East.
And yet I still find it hard to believe that in the wake of
all the information available about Israel’s desire to live in peace with her
neighbors and terrorist groups like Hamas that attack innocent Israelis on a
daily basis, one would have accumulated the necessary knowledge to make an
informed decision.
But no, it is still the Jews that are at fault. Or as the
anti-Semite asked me yesterday, “Don’t Palestinians have rights? It was their
land,” and on and on and on with all the crazy rhetoric that fuels the fires of
hatred. Sadly, she believes her assumptions are truth, and being so
accomplished intellectually she thus has the right to make this choice.
What I find so amusing is that even after the world has seen
what the Arab world is capable of – stonings, killings, murdering homosexuals,
cutting off heads, burning people alive and barbaric behavior in the most
primitive forms – it still chooses to side with them against the Jewish people.
It is not information haters seek, it is merely a reason to
hate, to fuel the fires of their racist rants.
I cannot speak for Muslims, although I know only too well
they are suffering terribly for those among them who pay homage to a culture of
hatred and evil. My heart goes out to them, and I hope they as a religion
find a way to escape from this dark cloud that has risen above them.
I can however speak as a Jew. I have seen that in a
world filled with evil, a Jewish life brings far less on the open market.
Although it seems our Christian brethren have now succumbed to the ravages of
evil as well, with few to cry out against their tormentors.
There is no excuse for hatred and racism if one can forego
one’s prejudices and accept the facts. I am not saying Israel or the Jewish
people are perfect and without flaws; perfection does not exist on this earth
and never will, and we are all a little right and a little wrong at times. I am
only saying that when faced with a scenario that includes hating evildoers or a
Jew, haters, sadly, opt to blame the Jew.
It does not matter how many missiles rain down on Israeli
children before they are forced to fight back; it does not matter how many
leaflets are dropped by the IDF warning Palestinians to leave their homes and
find safety because Israeli jets are coming; it does not matter how many
Palestinian leaders hide their weapons in kindergartens or hospitals to rack up
scores of victims to serve their PR purposes; it will always be the fault of
the Jews. Because that is the choice the haters make and they will never
change.
Winston Churchill said, “The truth is incontrovertible.
Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”
Perhaps it is only in the end the world will finally acknowledge
the truth, but I highly doubt the haters will choose to see it even then.
It is clear to me that Friedrich Nietzsche was correct when
he wrote, “There are no facts, only interpretations.” I suppose as long as this
is the case the haters will hate, the idealistic will defend and the
pragmatists will stand aside and let them fight it out.
I often wonder who will win, and that is what truly gives me
pause. For it seems more and more each day it is haters 6,000,000+ and
defenders of the truth 0.
So I must ask myself once again as I have so many times
before, “What Me Worry?”
You bet I do.
_______________
This is the latest in the
series “Postcards from America – Postcards from Israel,” a collaboration
between Zager and Bussel, a foreign correspondent reporting from Israel.
Ari Bussel and Norma Zager
collaborate both in writing and on the air in a point-counter-point discussion
of all things Israel-related. Together,
they have dedicated the past decade to promoting Israel.
© Israel Monitor, June, 2016
First Published June 25, 2016
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