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Next Year in Jerusalem
USA/Nancy Salvato |
August 1, 2005
- "L'shana ha-ba-ah b'yerushalayim" or "Next year in
Jerusalem" is the wish of all Jews of the Diaspora, scattered from their
homeland yet acknowledging their spiritual and historical home is Israel,
specifically, Jerusalem. "Numerous exiles and persecution, as well as
political and economic conditions and opportunities, affected the numbers
and dynamics of
Jewish Diaspora." The largest number of Diaspora Jews (5,671,000 in
2003) live in the United States; astoundingly a smaller number than the
amount of Jews killed in the Holocaust. Israel's Jewish population is
usually not considered Diaspora.
Those of the Jewish faith are most commonly categorized as Reform,
Conservative, or Orthodox Jew. But as of right now, I'm adding my own
category -Hollywood Jew. Hollywood's brand of Jew defies legitimate
membership in any of the above designations because it seems they don't
acknowledge the importance of the connection between the Jewish Diaspora and
Israel.
If I am wrong, then how can the majority of Jews who make up the majority of
the entertainment industry lend their financial and vocal support to people
or causes working to undermine the war on terrorism? This occurs even though
one of the goals of Islamic extremist groups is to destroy the state of
Israel because they regard Israel as occupied Muslim land. In addition, both
Al Qaeda (Osama Bin Laden) and Hamas (a Palestinian based organization
prevalent in the Gaza Strip) are openly anti-Semitic. Do Hollywood Jews not
realize that they are included in the intifada against infidels?
Jews all over the world derive comfort from knowing that they have a
homeland where they need not suffer persecution from those harboring anti
Semitic views. The Jewish people understand that the existence of a homeland
in Israel is a great gift. This is so important that it is mandatory for
every Israeli Jew to serve as a soldier defending Israel's existence as a
nation. Thankfully, President Bush understands Israel's right to exist
(unlike Clinton, who tried to pressure Israel to give into Arafat's demands)
and acknowledges that those who support terrorists are not interested in
true compromise with their enemies.
Think about the inherent contradiction in any arguments against fighting the
war against terrorism in Iraq. It is well known that Saddam Hussein was
paying parents of suicide bombers in Palestine $25,000 for each successful
attack against their targets. Saddam Hussein was no friend of Israel. How
can any Jew justify support for a man who launched Scud missiles into Israel
during the first Gulf War?
And now for the latest Hollywood abomination -it appears that Steven
Spielberg is filming a movie about the Israeli response to Black September,
which is largely sympathetic to the PLO affiliate who carried out the
killing of the Israeli Olympians taken hostage.
Spielberg has allegedly hired a man to be his screenwriter who is on record
as being anti- Semitic and anti- Zionist and who believes that modern Israel
should never have been born. The moral of the film is that vengeance doesn't
work, that zero tolerance for terrorism is not the way to respond to those
who won't stop until their sworn enemies are dead. The goal of the film is
to humanize the terrorists even though the terrorists deliberately didn't
speak with their captives so that they could dissociate from them when they
had to be executed. Spielberg, as of this writing, has not made any contact
with retired Mossad agents serving in key intelligence posts and who are
likely the best sources for accurate information about how events actually
played out. Yet this Hollywood Jew hopes that we can learn from his film how
to carry out the war on terror.
In the war on terror, there can be no sympathy for the enemy because the
enemy has no sympathy for us. The bottom line - Islamic extremists want us
dead. There is no humanism in that.
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