Special guest post by Daniel Kaplan.
Years of activism on behalf of Israel and the Jewish people has certainly taken its toll on my spirit; I constantly question myself, wondering if my efforts to enhance the image of the Jewish nation is a futile and meaningless attempt, or if I’m fighting for a worthy cause. My mother always assured me that if all my reasoning swayed the opinion of just one person, then even this trivial number vindicates my struggle.
As the year’s progress, however, the insignificance of our efforts is morbidly clear; any person not shrouded by the perilous cloud of innocence and naivety recognizes the ineffectual nature of our Zionist activism. For the current conflict in the Middle East between Israel and the Arabs is not merely a territorial or religious squabble, but the manifestation of global anti-Semitism, and the animosity flaunted by the Arabs toward Jews only original in its expression.
This Jew-hatred, whether masked by the ostensibly good-natured United Nations or vocally espoused by the descendants of Ishmael, is the only sociological precept a rational human being can plausibly maintain is invariable, not merely a relic of the past but a persisting entity with a healthy pulse and heartbeat.
Consider anti-Semitism in its most modern rendering; Israel. The purpose of this short essay is not to educate you on the validity of Israel’s cause, as my intended audience consists of those who already partake in the futile efforts on Israel’s behalf. Israel’s justness in our eyes is as clear as the Jerusalem sky, as unremitting as the persecution our people endure. I trust we all recognize the Jewish nation as the universal scapegoat; just as Jews in medieval Europe were accused of murdering Christian youth for their blood, Israeli soldiers were recently charged with confiscating Arab organs. Furthermore, the Jewish nation is flanked in all directions, with indictments of genocide against the fictitious Palestinians and conniving control of the world powers and their respective economies. These malicious libels aren’t simply part of the consistent pattern of humanity’s bigotry and ignorance, but a unique phenomenon in itself.
These forlorn facts are only augmented in their despondency by my cynical conclusion: there is nothing we can do.
Jews win hundreds of Nobel Prizes, and their contributions to society are unequal in either number of grandeur, and yet this little fraction of inhabitants can’t escape the menacing condemnations it unrelentingly incurs. Just as the Assyrians and the Romans tried to do away with us, and the German’s tried to exterminate us – as if we were pestilent insects – the Muslims today try to “drive the Jews into the sea.” Recognize Jew-hatred not as yet another ignorant human prejudice, but an evil in a league of its own; recognize Jew-hatred as the incurable disease that it is, for as long as we continue to breath, people will attempt in vain to destroy us.
Consequently, the only pragmatic solution is to stop trying to find solutions. For we only delay – or even bring about – our inevitable reality. Israel need not heed the warnings and condemnations of the United Nations, and instead continuously attack Hamas and Hezbollah into submission. Israel must not rely on the assistance and goodwill of the United States, but must accept its challenging responsibility of curtailing Iran’s nuclear development. Israel cannot involve itself in the fallacious ‘peace process’ and must instead accept the reality of its neighbors constant aggressions. Only then can we protect our children from the poison of hope and idealism. Only then can we adapt ourselves to our endless nature and circumstances.
Some may find my opinion unacceptable, that Jews should accustom to a harsh actuality of interminable violence.
But, my friends, is it really all that unfamiliar to us?
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