Then they came for me....
Do you remember that poem? First they came (click through to read the whole text and history of its origins in Nazi Germany)
Israel's "popular" English-language news magazine, Ynet, has an interesting article on the current rise of the Radical Islamic Fundamentalist (RIF) activities across Europe. The article notes the RIF population is rising hand-in-hand with the non-Islamic (mostly Christian) open hatred and acts of Anti-Semitism (such as this horrific and very public kidnapping and torture of a Jewish man named Ilan Halimi in Paris in 2006).
I have to say it--and not just because I'm Jewish and hold a dual citizenship (American Israeli) but also because what happens to the Jews is indeed a barometer for world tolerance--a new rise in Anti-Semitism across Europe is not a good thing for the War on Peace.
The RIFs will make yet more headway as more "Good Men" stand silently by and allow Evil to chase away or physically remove Jews from our homes and our lives. We did not fight back when Hitler did it. For nearly a century Jews worldwide have had a mantra: Never Again. Trust me, having been brainwashed into this indoctrination all my life, the world Jewry means never again!!
Since we Jews possess one of the strongest and most lethally armed militaries (Israel's IDF and special forces are in the top 3 worldwide not to mention Israeli Intelligence and counter-intelligence being one of the strongest!) and a strong place in the First World Economic market, I'm not really sure the world wants to make another Nazi-level stand against the Jews. I'm not saying that to make a challenge. I'm saying that because I would hate to be caught in the middle of that kind of warfare. It will not end well.
The 21st century, with social networking and the amount of powerful propaganda that can be spread, virally, through so many worldwide networks, is a very different battle field than Hitler faced. Even setting aside the fact we can amass a defense more quickly now, and the mental and emotional assaults can be countered with internet access (and internet sabotage which the RIFs have battled with for years now), there's the fact that Israel has got nuclear capability. We haven't used it but that doesn't mean we don't have it. That just means we don't want to start something we'll have to finish--because it will end with a finality that cannot be recovered. A nuclear option is not an option unless or until there is no other option. I fear for the day when Israel feels itself actually pressed with our backs to the wall. That's when we'll be out of "other options."
Israel's "popular" English-language news magazine, Ynet, has an interesting article on the current rise of the Radical Islamic Fundamentalist (RIF) activities across Europe. The article notes the RIF population is rising hand-in-hand with the non-Islamic (mostly Christian) open hatred and acts of Anti-Semitism (such as this horrific and very public kidnapping and torture of a Jewish man named Ilan Halimi in Paris in 2006).
I have to say it--and not just because I'm Jewish and hold a dual citizenship (American Israeli) but also because what happens to the Jews is indeed a barometer for world tolerance--a new rise in Anti-Semitism across Europe is not a good thing for the War on Peace.
The RIFs will make yet more headway as more "Good Men" stand silently by and allow Evil to chase away or physically remove Jews from our homes and our lives. We did not fight back when Hitler did it. For nearly a century Jews worldwide have had a mantra: Never Again. Trust me, having been brainwashed into this indoctrination all my life, the world Jewry means never again!!
Since we Jews possess one of the strongest and most lethally armed militaries (Israel's IDF and special forces are in the top 3 worldwide not to mention Israeli Intelligence and counter-intelligence being one of the strongest!) and a strong place in the First World Economic market, I'm not really sure the world wants to make another Nazi-level stand against the Jews. I'm not saying that to make a challenge. I'm saying that because I would hate to be caught in the middle of that kind of warfare. It will not end well.
The 21st century, with social networking and the amount of powerful propaganda that can be spread, virally, through so many worldwide networks, is a very different battle field than Hitler faced. Even setting aside the fact we can amass a defense more quickly now, and the mental and emotional assaults can be countered with internet access (and internet sabotage which the RIFs have battled with for years now), there's the fact that Israel has got nuclear capability. We haven't used it but that doesn't mean we don't have it. That just means we don't want to start something we'll have to finish--because it will end with a finality that cannot be recovered. A nuclear option is not an option unless or until there is no other option. I fear for the day when Israel feels itself actually pressed with our backs to the wall. That's when we'll be out of "other options."
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