MOST ISRAELIS ARE TOO EMBARRASSED TO LOOK THEMSELVES IN THE EYE
April 27, 2008 at 7:53 am (DesertPeace Editorial, Israel's 60th, Occupation, Palestine)
Certain things are not talked about among Jews, diseases in particular. If a loved one gets ill he is wished the best, wished long life and that’s it. The disease itself is never mentioned or talked about. The common attitude is that it will eventually go away and all will be well.
It seems that the cancer of zionism is thought of in that same light, you don’t hear it discussed much, it’s hardly mentioned. In years gone by every car in Jerusalem had a small Israeli flag attached to the window in celebration of the day of Independence. This year is a big one… but hardly a flag in sight. Municipalities have put up signs and lights on all major roads… but nothing from the people themselves.
It’s as if Israelis are embarrassed about something, as they should be. Could it be they are sick of 60 years of occupying another nation? Forty years of brutality in most parts of that nation? A new spy scandal involving their ‘best friend’? Whatever it is they are not talking about it…. treating it like just another disease, hoping it will go away soon.
Just as it is with critical diseases, the victim eventually gets cured or dies. The same with the victims of zionism… unfortunately there is no cure so death is the only option. BUT… something CAN be done. Instead of Israelis maintaining their silence, they MUST speak out against the state terrorism that is happening in their name. Every minute of silence costs lives, hundreds at a time.
The same goes for Americans, a people living in a country whose government has supported every evil move of the zionist administration. Any presidential candidate that vows continued support of Israeli policies must be defeated. Every sitting official that continues to support those policies must be impeached on grounds of openly supporting an enemy nation, which Israel has proven to be with the revelations of a new spy scandal.
Zionism cannot be cured, but it can be isolated as are many other fatal diseases. JUST DO IT!
DavidG. said,
April 27, 2008 at 9:48 am
I think it goes beyond religion and politics. It has to do with innate human stupidity, that and consuming greed and love of violence and cruelty.
We are a doomed specie. In the not too distant future we will destroy ourselves.
It will be no great loss!
Annie Besant said,
April 27, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Yes, Gaia will shrug her shoulders and we will be gone. The earth will survive - she made a mistake in evolving the human race.
Ear Bleeders said,
April 27, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Civilizations come and go.
The people speak to God in hundreds of languages and have different ideas of what God wants to hear.
God speaks to us all in one language.
The devil speaks in between the details.
Matt Giwer said,
April 27, 2008 at 8:54 pm
The founding premise of Zionism and publically stated since the early 1920s by Jabotinsky is the mass murder of Palestinians and the wholesale theft of their land. The only mitigation of this in 1947-48 was using a few tens of thousands murders to drive out Palestinians, Christians and Muslims alike.
Today Zionism continues its crimes on the foundation of retaining all that has been stolen while continuing to steal more and kill or expel more non-Jews to steal their property.
Jews around the world give approval to their Jewish brethren with their silence. They are all to be tarred with the same brush. A few “self-hating” voices do not absolve all of those who are silent.
Sam said,
April 27, 2008 at 11:42 pm
The Masada Legacy
Pronounced: msad. Masada has a legendary status in Israeli mentality. Here the fight for Israeli and Jewish independence was fought with such ferocity that the people who took Masada as their last stronghold chose to die rather than surrender.
Masada is an ancient mountaintop fortress in present day Israel. Historically, it was the final outpost of the Zealots, an extremist Jewish sect, in their rebellion against Roman authority (AD 66-73).
Masada was first fortified during the 1st or 2nd century BC. Between 37 and 31 BC the Judean king, Herod the Great, further strengthened Masada, building ornate palaces, bathhouses, aqueducts, surrounding siege walls and extensive administrative and military facilities.
Masada had an exceptional geographical setting. Located in the Judean Desert, the fortress city sits atop a mesa-shaped rock that towers some 1,300 ft (400 m) above the western shore of the Dead Sea. The original purpose of the Masada fortress was to counter the potential military threat represented by Egypt and Cleopatra. In 4 BC, after Herod’s death, Masada became a Roman garrison.
In 66 AD, with the outbreak of the Jewish war against Rome, the Zealots seized Masada in a surprise night attack and massacred all of the members of its Roman garrison. In 70 AD, when Jerusalem fell into Roman hands, about 1,000 Zealots took refuge in Masada. The Romans responded by attempting to recapture the fortress. By 73 AD the Roman Army had engineered a long earth assault ramp from a hill to the west, to the shoulder of the Masada mesa.
The Zealots leader, Eleazar Ben Yair, realized that his defeat or surrender was near. He ordered that each of the Zealots was to be killed, rather than have them surrender to Roman occupation. He appointed 10 Jewish soldiers to kill the other nearly 1,000 men, women, and children in the fortress. Then 1 of the remaining Zealots killed those 10 Jewish soldiers, and he himself committed suicide. In effect, all of the Jewish occupants of Masada followed the orders of Eleazar Ben Yair and were murdered, or killed themselves, rather than surrender and be ruled by the Romans.
Masada now is a major Israeli tourist revenue attraction, in addition to being an Israeli national symbol. Masada is where Israeli special forces give their oath of allegiance, and the word Masada is the name of a global Jewish youth training program.
An impressive history, and one that continues to influence many lives today, but how do we interpret it?
Were the Jews who massacred the Roman families garrisoned at Masada freedom fighters or brutal terrorists? Was the Zealots leader, Eleazar Ben Yair, a mass murderer and a terrorist or a religious hero? When Eleazar Ben Yair ordered all of the Jewish families murdered, were they willing martyrs for their faith or innocent, terrified victims of an extremist leader? When the Zealot soldiers killed each member of their own families, were they fanatical followers or faithful believers? Perhaps the interpretation depends on which Masada tour guide you get.
Masada’s powerful legacy of Zionist values appears to strongly influence todays Palestinians, too. The Palestinian Arabs never really shared the Zionist values before, but todays Palestinians may someday have a Masada of their own, as their national symbol. The Likud Party is certainly doing all it can to help them produce one.
Or maybe for todays and tomorrows Palestinians, ‘their Masada’ will be just a collection of nondescript street corners and village squares where they committed suicide, one by one, rather than submit themselves and their children to Zionist domination.
Are the Palestinian Arabs freedom fighters or manipulated victims? Are they sacrificing themselves to assure a future for their children on their own land, or just copying the behavior of their own Zionist oppressors? Do they all have to die, just like the Zealots, or can they negotiate peace?
Is todays Zionist Israeli military a noble defender against insane fanatics, or the recreation of the Roman Army that captured Masada? The Masada tour guides of the future will, no doubt, properly interpret all of this for us.
The Masada legacy doesn’t have to repeat itself forever.
Attend Carefully To These Admonitions:
Israeli Jews: Your own genetic scientists have clearly proven that your genetic code is identical to the genetics of the Arab Muslims living inside Israel and in the occupied territories. Palestinians are Semites. They are identical to you. You have been one race since the time of Abrahim.
Your own finest thinker, Albert Einstein, wrote, ‘Insanity is continuing to do the same thing over and over and expecting different results.’ When you invade Palestinian neighborhoods and kill and maim Palestinians you are destroying your own families, in the same way that Eleazar Ben Yair murdered his own people. Do you wish to be known throughout the world, and forever, as insane?
The Masada legacy of murder and suicide is a cultural pathogen. It has infected and corrupted your very identity. It is the death-rattle of the most noble aspects of the Jewish tradition. Recognize it. Close your eyes to it. Turn your backs on it. Walk away from it. Heal yourselves.
You were taught in Hebrew school that Jews are to be “A Light unto the Nations.” The Masada legacy has metastasized into a cultural disease that delivers only darkness and death to Jews and to all others. When will you choose to believe, pray, think, and act outside this ancient psychopathic box?
Muslims - Turn And Walk Away.
To Arab Muslims: You have no equity in the Masada legacy. It is not a part of your history or your beliefs. The Masada legacy of murder and suicide is a cultural pathogen. It has infected you. In your agony, you have fallen into an unholy and co-dependant relationship with those who oppress you.
Recognize this. Admit it. Turn your backs on it. Walk away from it. Return to your own values. Only then can you be healed - and your spirits - and your land - can become your own again.
Your Prophet (May He Rest In Peace) taught you that the ‘People of the Book’ are all sons and daughters of Abrahim, and are brothers and sisters in peace. He specifically included Jews and Christians. And he implied inclusion of all decent people. And as you pray - five times each day - to the One Eternal Spirit, ask for light, forgiveness, guidance and wisdom. If, in your agony, you have forgotten how to pray, your own Sufi masters will gently teach you.
To Each Of You
Listen to yourselves, in your agony, and listen to each other. ‘Listening is the beginning of understanding. Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening. Let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance.’ Proverbs 1:5
Each of you seek and revere knowledge. You must now acknowledge that your cultural health profoundly shapes the nature of all that you do. And your cultural health influences far more than you control. Your ultimate responsibility is to deliver an uncommon depth of Light, knowledge, understanding and meaning to all those you influence and serve throughout the world.
Look Inside
“People suffer, not because they can’t solve their problems, but because they can’t see their problems.” Albert Einstein
The Masada legacy of murder and suicide is a cultural pathogen that has spread throughout the world. If you recognize it and walk away from it, it will no longer infect you.
The Masada legacy is only one - of many cultural pathogens - that you will find within yourselves - if you choose to see them. And each is lethal. Cleanse yourself - and your culture - and walk away. Otherwise, you are doomed. And you doom all those around you.
After Illness, How Do You Regain Health?
Health is far more than the absence of disease. In nature, when you create a vaccuum, something new must replace that which was removed.
If Jews are to become “a Light unto the Nations,” then Jews - and all others who seek cultural health - and who heal themselves of a cultural pathogen - need a new moral compass to fill the cultural void within them. And they need a new light to guide them.
Follow a Sustainable Moral Compass
Abram Poljak wrote these thoughts as his ‘moral compass’ - and to light his way - during a time when he was in prison in Germany in the 1940s. I believe his reflections serve as a new light and a new ‘moral compass’ for Israeli Jews and for Arab Muslims as well. If you are able, read his thoughts for yourself, as he wrote them; if not, they are translated here for you.
“Erkenntnis ohne Liebe is kaltes Licht, ein Irrlicht, das in den Abgrund führt. Je mehr Licht der Erkenntnis wir bekommen, um so einsamer werden wir An dieser Einsamkeit können wir zugrunde gehen, wenn nicht zum Licht der Erkenntnis ein höheres Licht, das vollkommene, kommt: das Licht der Liebe und der Demut. Erkenntnis mit Liebe is aber Wahrheit, Vollendung, das Wahre Licht.”Abram Poljak
Knowledge without love is a cold light, a false light, which leads us into the abyss. The more light of knowledge we get, the more lonely we become. We can be destroyed in, or by, this solitude if to the light of knowledge we do not add a higher form of light, the perfect light: the light of love and humility. Knowledge with love, however, is Truth, Perfection and the True Light.
“Alles Licht, das wir erhalten haben, strömt aus Seiner Gnadenhand. Er gibt es uns nicht, damit wir hart werden und jene verachten, die weniger Licht haben als wir, sondern damit wir uns ihrer erbarmen und ihnen dienen.” - Abram Poljak
All the Light we have received streams from His merciful hand. He does not give it to us so that we become hard and scorn those who have less light than we have, but so that we will have compassion for them and serve them.
“Es ist die Aufgabe des Sehenden, den Blinden zu führen, mild und sanft, ohne ihr zu stoßen und zu erschrecken. Stilles Dienen wird von uns verlangt, heiliges Schweigen. Räume den Blinden die Steine aus dem Wege und beschütze ihn vor jenen, die aus seiner Blindheit Nutzen ziehen wollen!.” - Abram Poljak
It is the task of the seeing to lead the blind, mildly and softly, without pushing them or frightening them. Quiet service is demanded of us, sacred silence. Take the stones out of the way of the blind person and protect him from those who would take advantage of his blindness.
Only You Can Change Your Destiny
Erase and replace the Masada legacy of murder and suicide. Start your new life with the admonitions of Abram Poljak - in all that you believe, honor, think and do. The admonitions of Abram Poljak will enable you to begin to regain your health. And they will light your way.
The Future - For You and Your Children
How do you want your sons and daughters to grow up? Twisted by an invisible disease you inherited? Or with clear minds and spirits? Filled with love for themselves and all mankind - or unthinkingly trapped in an ancient psychopathic box?
The new desitny you choose for yourself will change their destiny as well. And you must decide - for your childern will become what you become.
The future is not a place you - and they - are going, it is a place that - you - are creating. The new paths to it are not found, they are made, and making a new path changes both the path maker and the destination.
Your Mission Is Their Mission
Your new mission - in a culture together - is to produce and deliver an uncommon depth of Light, knowledge, understanding and meaning to the world of men and women whom you serve and influence.
Your personal humility and your new ‘moral compass’ will influence your brothers and sisters, your children, and your future prosperity, far more than you may imagine. Only together can you be “a Light unto the Nations.”
“There is a destiny that makes us all brothers. No one goes his way alone.
All we send into the lives of others, comes back into our own.”
From the time of Abrahim, you have had a mysterious bond with one another as you have walked the same land on your journey. You are indeed one State for Two Peoples. Two Peoples who are bound together by love.
Your spiritual health - and your future - exists within this mysterious bond, because: ‘The most beautiful experience in the world is the experience of the mysterious.’ Albert Einstein.
As-salaam alaykum …… Shalom…..
washy said,
April 28, 2008 at 1:23 am
I can’t believe the defeatist comments here. I have no intention of seeing me or my species go into extinction. If you really hate yourself so much, then why don’t you off yourself and let the rest of us alone?
Why? Because you care . . . .
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The Big Raven said,
April 28, 2008 at 1:06 pm
All the while the W.A.S.P.S. in north america still live on STOLEN land.
Go ahead a cry for the Palistinians and call down the israelis for all they have done is what they were taught by thier biggist supporters here on Turtle Island. When I look into the eyes of my fellow citizans they can NEVER look me in the eyes for they KNOW that they have done gravous wrong to my peoples and you all have the frigging NERVE to call it “manifested destiny” and all I can say about that is “MY ASS”