Your son needs to realise hate is double sided. The displaced people also hate implacably it would seem. Until the abscess of hatred is lanced the purulence of endemic conflict remains.
The sad thing is that the society in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority is built on Jew-hatred. Hopefully when this is all over, the society that is rebuilt will be deradicalized and there can be a chance for peace. And you are correct, unless we stop the hate the entire world is destined for eternal conflict.
I’m not persuaded that the Palestinians are motivated by Jew hatred at least not in the same way that those that defame the Rothschilds do. Muslims of various flavours at various times have welcomed Jews. The Turks in the aftermath of the reconquest of Spain for example. There is no reason tolerance cannot prevail in future. It has to before the toxic Christofascists get their wish for Armageddon.
You have a special boy. Love the giving charity (even though it was still theft). In addition to your comment that the Jews will always be here, I try to remember that Hashem has a plan. It is like opening a novel in the middle: you don’t know what came before, and what is coming after. We are like that: maybe we won’t see what comes after, but we know we are the middle (or near the end) of a great history, Jewish history. And your son is “on the right side” of Jewish history. Kol ha kavod. Good for him and for you.
Thank you. My son has always had a really good heart. I agree, he is on the right side of history and so are we. :) I don't know about Hashem's plans for us, but I know that we can also control our destiny. Who we are, how we respond to crisis, and what we do with the time on earth that we have been given, says more about who we are and the legacy we leave than anything else.
Proverbs 10:12 and 25:21-22 might lead to an interesting discussion. Leviticus 19:18 has been problematic for me. My therapist asked me if I could look deeply into my own eyes in a mirror while saying, "Rebekah I love you". I couldn't. Now, many years later I can. It was a most instructive lesson about loving my neighbor as myself. I still do that once it awhile, as a self checkup. As Hashem has laid out, I'm just another flawed descendant of Adam.
Hi. Robert. Here is a link all about the antisemitism in Palestinian textbooks. You also can’t judge how Jews are seen today in the Muslim world by what has happened in the past. Simply because there were periods where Jews may have been welcomed doesn’t mean that antisemitism isn’t rife throughout their society today. The same can be said for Poland. At one point when Jews were expelled from western europe during the middle ages, they were warmly welcomed in eastern europe. Yet in eastern europe you had some of the most evil versions of antisemitism in history. If you want to get a good idea of how Jews were really treated in the Arab world over time I would recommend the Book “In Ishmael’s House.” I also wouldn’t just put everything on Christian Nationalists. The Shia believe in armageddon in much the same way in order to bring back the secret mahdi. Fanaticism in any form is not good for anyone.
It so happens my forebears were Jews who emigrated from Poland in the 19th century to New Zealand. That my grandfather was Jewish was a secret told to me when I was a young adult
My husband’s stepmother had a cousin who didnt know her mother was Jewish until she was in her 40s. The stepmother finally told her because she thought she had a right to know. (her mother and the cousins mother were sisters) The cousin became very enamored of her Jewish heritage. But her brother still doesn’t know to this day, unless someone told him after both his parents passed.
I don’t understand anti-Jewish sentiment at all. I admire Nathan Rothschild enormously but his bank was a minor player by the end of the 19th century. I looked at the site and could see the references you allude to. But then I have seen videos of Israeli children singing songs celebrating the death of Palestinians. I assume they are not fake.
Your son has realized that the only snd best antidote to anti Semitism is a strong and positive Jewish identity
I second this.
Great post. I appreciate you.
Thank you. I appreciate you back :)
Interesting.
Your son needs to realise hate is double sided. The displaced people also hate implacably it would seem. Until the abscess of hatred is lanced the purulence of endemic conflict remains.
The sad thing is that the society in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority is built on Jew-hatred. Hopefully when this is all over, the society that is rebuilt will be deradicalized and there can be a chance for peace. And you are correct, unless we stop the hate the entire world is destined for eternal conflict.
I’m not persuaded that the Palestinians are motivated by Jew hatred at least not in the same way that those that defame the Rothschilds do. Muslims of various flavours at various times have welcomed Jews. The Turks in the aftermath of the reconquest of Spain for example. There is no reason tolerance cannot prevail in future. It has to before the toxic Christofascists get their wish for Armageddon.
You have a special boy. Love the giving charity (even though it was still theft). In addition to your comment that the Jews will always be here, I try to remember that Hashem has a plan. It is like opening a novel in the middle: you don’t know what came before, and what is coming after. We are like that: maybe we won’t see what comes after, but we know we are the middle (or near the end) of a great history, Jewish history. And your son is “on the right side” of Jewish history. Kol ha kavod. Good for him and for you.
Thank you. My son has always had a really good heart. I agree, he is on the right side of history and so are we. :) I don't know about Hashem's plans for us, but I know that we can also control our destiny. Who we are, how we respond to crisis, and what we do with the time on earth that we have been given, says more about who we are and the legacy we leave than anything else.
Proverbs 10:12 and 25:21-22 might lead to an interesting discussion. Leviticus 19:18 has been problematic for me. My therapist asked me if I could look deeply into my own eyes in a mirror while saying, "Rebekah I love you". I couldn't. Now, many years later I can. It was a most instructive lesson about loving my neighbor as myself. I still do that once it awhile, as a self checkup. As Hashem has laid out, I'm just another flawed descendant of Adam.
Hi. Robert. Here is a link all about the antisemitism in Palestinian textbooks. You also can’t judge how Jews are seen today in the Muslim world by what has happened in the past. Simply because there were periods where Jews may have been welcomed doesn’t mean that antisemitism isn’t rife throughout their society today. The same can be said for Poland. At one point when Jews were expelled from western europe during the middle ages, they were warmly welcomed in eastern europe. Yet in eastern europe you had some of the most evil versions of antisemitism in history. If you want to get a good idea of how Jews were really treated in the Arab world over time I would recommend the Book “In Ishmael’s House.” I also wouldn’t just put everything on Christian Nationalists. The Shia believe in armageddon in much the same way in order to bring back the secret mahdi. Fanaticism in any form is not good for anyone.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/anti-semitism-in-palestinian-school-textbooks
It so happens my forebears were Jews who emigrated from Poland in the 19th century to New Zealand. That my grandfather was Jewish was a secret told to me when I was a young adult
My husband’s stepmother had a cousin who didnt know her mother was Jewish until she was in her 40s. The stepmother finally told her because she thought she had a right to know. (her mother and the cousins mother were sisters) The cousin became very enamored of her Jewish heritage. But her brother still doesn’t know to this day, unless someone told him after both his parents passed.
I don’t understand anti-Jewish sentiment at all. I admire Nathan Rothschild enormously but his bank was a minor player by the end of the 19th century. I looked at the site and could see the references you allude to. But then I have seen videos of Israeli children singing songs celebrating the death of Palestinians. I assume they are not fake.