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=> from a Jewish point of view...

from a Jewish point of view...
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Monday, January 24 2011, 11:21:58 (UTC)
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...as much as a non-Jew can imagine:

..say you're a seven year old Jewish kid...go even further and say your family had lost half or three-quarters or all of its members in the Holocaust...the day comes when your parents feel you're old enough to be told the truth so they sit you down, maybe the day after your seventh birthday and they explain what happened in Germany, or Italy or Poland or Czechoslovakia, or France or the United States...they tell you how Jewish families, like your own dear father and mother, sisters, brothers and grandparents were herded into ghettos to starve a little and then into camps to be worked to death and then cremated...how pretty girls and women, like your sister and mother, were used as sex toys, and boys too, like the older brother you worship...they tell you this tale of horror, of one-time friends and neighbors turning aside when Jews were hauled away, or marched off down the streets where the kids used to play together...they tell you the Church did nothing, no other country did anything to help...and to make the story really scary they tell you that there were a few Christians who spoke out, who defended and even risked their lives to save some of your people, which only makes it harder to ever trust a Christian again, because the same people who follow the same Jesus can act so horribly differently.

As you grow older maybe you read history books and find out that Muslims had always defended your people...had lived among them in peace and with respect far more than any Christian had ever lived with another Christian, if he could help it....you realize that the people you now live among, if you're a white Jew, almost wiped your people out, that this is what a good proportion of them wanted to do....are you ever going to feel secure among them again? How do you know this will never happen again? And isn't it happening all over again, with Muslims?

Would you shit on Christians or Muslims? Would you provoke Christians? Would you call them to task for what they did, would you cry out from soap boxes about the hypocrisy of Christians...their bloodlust...would you do ANYTHING at all to inflame Christian prejudice ever again...would you actively engage in those acts which formed the very basis of Christian prejudice and stereotyping EVER?

When the accusation that Jews "own everything" was at the heart of the hatred towards them which made Auschwitz possible would you EVER try to create a monopoly, in anything? Would you deliberately set out to OWN Hollywood...or the New York Times, or real estate or the United States Congress? Would you?

Jews live in constant fear that it could happen again...they KNOW their history...they know the Holocaust was not unique, they know what Christians have said and felt and done and still feel today, even if they don't want to give themselves away by articulating it freely...not yet anyhow.

Jews live on a razor's edge....they sit on a keg of dynamite....in some manner they are used to it and it has never kept them from striving for excellence or power....to their credit. But, they are wary and cautious too. Of course under those circumstances they will seek out as much advantage as possible, as much protection, even if it has to come from Christians, the same people who murdered them with impunity for centuries...and yet it's true that money and power, the things we all think will protect us, acted as a magnet drawing the Nazis to those who had too much of it, though in the beginning a few were able to buy safety and escape...but when the Christian hits the metal, no amount of money or power will save you, in fact just the reverse...so that even what you thought was your salvation may do you in even faster.

Jews live with a gun to their heads...they always have, among Christians. So, I think it highly unlikely that they would really provoke, anger or arouse Christians, if they can at all help it. Take advantage? Sure. Cuddle up, keep quiet, never mention the word "Christian" unless in a positive light? Of course. Prefer to murder Muslims rather than Christians, even though it was Christians and not Muslims who murdered Jews? Well, pick the weakest opponent where you can. And when "asked" to do something, even against your own interests, by Christians....how can you say "no"? even when they let it be known round the world that YOU make THEM act against their own interests....when exactly the opposite is the case... and you know that?



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