Giving No F**ks

If I am not for myself who will be for me?

In 1975 the UN passed the resolution equating zionism with racism. (It was later revoked in 1991) Then US Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan said of the UN in 1975, that it has made antisemitism international law. (It is an interesting note that at the time the UN General Secretary was a man called Kurt Waldheim, who was actually a true blue Nazi.) While the resolution may have been revoked, this perspective of the UN remained, as it has remained in most international organizations since. Judenhass is the go to philosophy in order to get ahead in the international NGO sphere. It is de rigueur to hate Israel and Jews. If you fail in that regard, you lose your job.

The interesting thing at the time was something that happened with then UNICEF ambassador, the actor Danny Kaye. A proud Jew and without a doubt an ardent zionist, he was asked by leading Jewish organizations to resign from UNICEF in protest. He responded, that UNICEF was about children who had nothing to do with this vote and he refused to resign. (Now if you don’t know who Danny Kaye was, you are poorer for it.)

(By the way, this UNICEF kerfuffle was a big discussion in my home. My parents who were very involved in the Jewish community and active in the world of proIsrael advocacy were quite sure that Danny did the right thing. Well at least my mother was sure he did. Never really discussed it with my father. However, considering he spent a large portion of his life working to save other people’s children I am certain that he sided with my mother in this. You also have to understand my life at this point. Within a few months of the UN vote I jetted off to Israel as a 15 year old to study for a semester, coming home a week before Entebbe. We are a product of many things, most of what we become is what we live through.)

I can see why someone would not want to hurt children who had nothing to do with the malignant philosophies of some political lackey thousands of miles away. People need to sleep at night and make sure that their soul does not become hardened or blackened.

But I wonder how long we have to accept that the world can celebrate the slaughter of Jewish children yet we, the Jewish People, need to care about helping these People’s children? Why do we need to put our children second, third or even lower on the scale of importance? Why do we need to subjugate ourselves to those who are raising their children that we are lesser than? Why are we helping those who do not reciprocate respect and care?

Look at the families of Kibbutz Nir Oz. Murdered, raped, beheaded, kidnapped. These were the peaceniks. The people who drove Palestinians from Gaza to hospitals and doctor appointments. Who gave them jobs. Welcomed them into their homes and their community. And they were paid back with slaughter. And not just slaughter, but joyful unabashed gleeful barbarism.

I saw an interesting point made on social media the other day. That even in the darkest hours of nazism, there were those who fought back. There were the partisans. There were the righteous gentiles who tried to save Jews at great risk to themselves. Israel offered millions of dollars for the return of each hostage. And we now know that the hostages were not only held in the homes of civilians, but many were actually kidnapped by civilians like Shiri, Kfir and Ariel Bibas. Yet, not one civilian in Gaza came forward. In fact, we have stories of rescued hostages who had actually escaped their captors, and then were hunted down by gazan civilians and turned back over to Hamas.

So why am I, supposed to care about them? Why am I supposed to care what happens to their children? Of course I do not take joy in the harm or death of a child, but the sins of the parents are visited upon the children are they not? If the parents do evil and celebrate this evil, put their own children in harm’s way are we supposed to not fight back? Look at the children that were taken to the handover of the coffins of the murdered Bibas children. What kind of parent brings their children to such an event, bringing them to celebrate this abomination of a ceremony? (By the way did you see those well dressed, healthy bright eyed beautiful living children at that “ceremony?” All born within the last 12 months. Tell me who brings babies into this world in the middle of a genocide? Who brings babies into this world to have them suffer starvation? Just more facts to refute the lies told by the Hamasniks and antisemites for the last 15 months. )

Yes, I would like to fix their education system. Deradicalize them, as has been suggested for post October War Gaza. Take the care of the “refugees” away from the Islamists who have so indoctrinated a generation to the point of sociopathology. (This includes the education in the Palestinian Authority and honestly most of the Arab world as well. Only after the Abraham Accords were signed did the UAE attempt to remove the antisemitism from its school books.) But other than that why should I care about them beyond how it might benefit my own? This includes anyone worldwide so marinated in Judenhass. Why would I care what happens in their lives unless it benefits my children’s future?

Oh you say, a more peaceful world is something to strive for. Ok, I will give you that. I would love nothing better than to live in a world of unicorns and fairy dust with a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. But until such time as we can recreate the Garden of Eden on Earth, while we are trying to ferret out the satanic hordes from our midsts, what do we do? And yes, if you think God has given you the right to burn alive babies and gang rape children to death then you are many things, among them an agent of Beelzebub.

So what do we do?

There is the famous saying that the great Rabbi Hillel taught:

If I am not for myself, who will be fore me?

But if I am only for myself, what am I?

I honestly think that so many of us Jews forget the first line and go straight to the second. So in need of being loved and so wanting to be accepted by the world community at large that we do put ourselves last. This is why so many synagogues across the US have a “social justice” rabbi or leader. Why do they do this? There can be charity leaders. People who do good things. But trying to be part of a movement who outright rejects your humanity is absurd on its face. (My girlfriend’s church is always doing missions and providing for the community, but I don’t think they call it social justice anything. Why the fuck is any of it called “social justice” by any part of the Jewish community?)

We forget that the admonition by Hillel is to take care of yourself and your loved ones first. Your world is what is important, and when you have left over energy, time and ability you can take the time to care for others.

Listen we all do it. We give to charity, we volunteer at soup kitchens, or food banks. We sell Girl Scout cookies, and walk for breast cancer. We participate in school bake sales and volunteer for the PTA. We should never stop doing those things. We live here. We live within our community and need to be viable members.

But I think what we need to do is to look at the world for what it is. Those who do not value our children’s lives, well we do not have to care about theirs. Compassion needs to be a 2 way street. We aren’t going to make those that hate us love us because we are kind to them. They see our compassion as a weakness. Something to be exploited.

Well no more.

Perhaps, this is what the outpouring of Jew-hatred has rendered. It may have taken decades since the UN resolution of 1975, but eventually you do learn the lesson the world is trying to teach you. There are those in the world who truly, really hate us. (50% according to the latest ADL poll). Why? How come? Wherefore, and what to do about it, has been discussed, debated and rehashed for so many decades that it quite frankly is making us look ridiculous. Sometimes people are simply assholes. Accept it. You can’t fix them. Get over it.

Not that I hate these antisemitic losers. For hate, as I mentioned before, is a wasted, useless emotion.

I just no longer care what happens to them, to any of them. And will defend my children and loved ones to the most extreme no matter who is in the crosshairs.

“The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference,” so said Elie Wiesel.

That may not be the politically correct version of life. But I think it is the human version. And I am happy and content with that.

As the first thing, I and every Jewish person is, before anything else, is human despite what the world may think.

IT IS DAY 503 OF THE HOSTAGES BEING STARVED AND HELD IN THE TERROR DUNGEONS OF GAZA 🎗️

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