DON'T BLAMEman truly was created in God's image. The obsessive attachment of the Jew to morality and truth, and the terrible price he paid for this attachment for thousands of years, gives to a "goy" like me a reason to believe that humanity is not just a band of primitive savages that tear each others' throats out every few years.I do not know to what extent you are aware of the image of the wandering Jew in the communal consciousness of Western man, an image which is based on a sentence from Genesis: "You shall be a ceaseless wanderer on earth." The State of Israel erased from the brow of the Jew the mark of the eternal wanderer. For the first time in 2,000 years, the Jew was seen as an equal among equals. Now you come and with your own hands abandon the homeland of the Jewish people, a homeland which was paid for with the lives of millions of your brothers in the crematoria of Auschwitz and Treblinka. The Jewish soul you have already sold to the devil. Now you are busy tearing up the body, or more correctly, what has been left of it. Already, you prepare for exile. In a grotesque distortion, with your own hand you print the mark of Cain on your brow--not for having murdered your brother, but because he has murdered you. The voice of your blood, not the voice of his, is what cries from the ground. Is there a more satanic and truer expression of |
Hegel's statement, "The tragedy of the Jewish people does not inspire in me fear and pity, but a very deep revulsion"...?
In my frequent visits to Israel, I noticed a profound deficit that distinguished the Hebrew nation--a deficit of straightforward simplemindedness. I refer to those diligent, straightforward simpletons who are the mainstay of a well-ordered nation, behind the barricades of which the land guards its soul from the spiritual AIDS of the "world improvers." I have not found this aristocracy of simple folk in your land and it is a great defect that cannot be remedied. On the contrary, with every step you find "the creative genius," whose hand is in everything, from the stockmarket to the PLO, selling shares in the morning and his homeland in the afternoon, and in the evening, if he has any strength left, he girds his loins and sallies forth to defend the rights of those who want to annihilate him. Therefore, my friend, do not address your sad call to the nations of the world, or its Creator. The guilt lies not with them. This time, for a change, their hands are clean. Send a letter to your own people. Compose a letter to the simpletons, those whom Erasmus extolled in his In Praise of Folly. Go and find them in the markets, in the buses, in the stores, in all the places where their instinct for survival has not yet been extinguished. Just be sure to stay away from the universities.
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IN MEMORIAM--which brought the infant nation to the brink of civil war.It took place in 1948. The regular troops of the new State of Israel had astounded the world, by standing up to and repelling five Arab armies--including the Spitfires of King Farouk's Egyptian Air Force, and the heavily armored and well-trained troops of "Glubb Pasha"--Britain's Gen. John Glubb's Arab Legion, which invaded from the Kingdom of Transjordan and were able to take the Old City of Jerusalem. During a truce, one of Israel's leading guerilla groups, the Irgun Zvai Leumi, attempted to land a shipload of desperately needed arms and ammunition. This ship, the S.S. Altalena, had been sent and supplied by Americans such as the renowned playwright and newsman, Ben Hecht, who staged a benefit musical on Broadway. But David Ben-Gurion ordered the Altalena to surrender its cargo to the regulars, the Haganah, whose elite strike force, the Palmach, was massed for possible battle. When the Irgun commander refused, the order was given to open fire. And one of that ship's crew, who I interviewed in New York, recalls that they had to take |
the Irgun commander by force and get him off the ship--along with several dead and wounded. The name of the Irgun commander was Menachem Begin. (Ed. note: 18 passengers were shot to death as they swam to shore.)
Since the name of the Palmach commander who opened fire was Yitzhak Rabin, I was surprised to read or hear so many American Jews express surprise that one Jew could fire on another. And I hope very much that a similar optimism is not applied to dismissing any possibility of civil war. Along with my prayers for Yitzhak Rabin, I pray that Peres and whatever government that follows will NOT abandon the Jewish residents of Judea, Samaria and the Golan; will NOT cede land which is essential for any reasonable hope of national defense; and will NOT be naive enough to expect that Arafat's U.S. taxpayer-subsidized "Palestine" Police will apprehend--or even try to control--Hamas, Hezbollah, Abu Nidal or George Habash. Let us remember the good and courageous things done by Yitzhak Rabin. As we commend his soul to the Lord of Hosts.
Lester Kinsolving is host of "Uninhabited Radio: The Les Kinsolving Show," which is broadcast in the Baltimore area on radio station WCBM 680. |
Outpost - 8 - November 1995
