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Honey is Sweet How many cheeks? - 2009-01-27 Three cheers for evil Israeli aggression! I trust my readers are smart enough to take that in the intended fashion. We *are* shooting back! Or, we did. So, we haven't COMPLETELY returned to the status quo before the recent war - rockets and mortars being shot at Israeli communities indiscriminately while we just sit here and take it. There was a truly vile article in the Washington Post (why do I read these things) in which they interviewed some people who swore that there were no Hamas shooting at Israelis in their neighbourhood, then spoke about being caught in the crossfire. 'Crossfire?' You can't have crossfire without someone shooting back. Sorry. Clearly that is not the point, as the Wash. Post credited there story with only 'eyewitnesses' and hospital records. And since when did anyone caught in the middle of a firefight have the faintest clue what was actually going on? Hospital records? They didn't talk to the Palestinian ambulance drivers who said that they were kept from responding by Hamas, or to anyone in the Hamas command structure who might have confirmed that there were no Hamas fighters in the area. Except of course that you can't trust a word that they say, either. *sigh* Last but not least, on the 'anti-Zionism' is not 'anti-Semitism' front, in Sweden 'they' (presumably the gub'ment) cancelled a candlelight commemoration of the holocaust, remember WWII?, claiming that it was because of our recent venture into fighting back. IF you want to claim you are not anti-Semitic, then how on EARTH do you justify canceling a candlelight walk in commemoration of the millions who died simply because they were Jewish? Are they saying that those innocent victims don't deserve to be remembered because of the evil Zionist entity that was created after they were all dead? Are all Jews evil because some became Israelis? Are the 'crimes' of Israel, or of Zionists, somehow the fault of those who died over sixty years ago? Enquiring minds want to know. I think the answer is fairly simple. Anti-Zionism is simply a weasel-way of avoiding admitting to anti-Semitism. And if we are not going to lay down and die just like we did in WWII, then we don't deserve to be commemorated. Because the only way they like us is as good, QUIET, victims. Dead. So sorry. You know, the whole 'turn the other cheek' thing, the one that is supposed to make it somehow better morally to let people hit you and stomp on you and kill you than to kill them, even first if necessary, is an Xtian thing. There is nothing in Judaism, first or last, that says we have to turn the other cheek, we have to accept suffering as being somehow holy. We aren't into that being purified by suffering bit. Not really. There are occasionally fringe elements who get into that, but it is not a part of mainstream Jewish thought. In (most) that is said on the topic, it is said that turning the other cheek condones sin. That it is a *bad* thing to let people hurt or harm you and not attempt to defend yourself, stop them, or get some kind of justice in court for what was done. I'm not going to claim that one way or the other is superior, morally or otherwise, only to say that it is dam' silly to expect us to live up to some moral ideal that isn't a part of our make-up. We don't expect non-Jews to put on t'fillin or say the Sh'ma three times a day. And, in any event, we HAVE turned the other cheek, if that means to give someone a chance to hit you again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again... How many cheeks do we have, anyway? 0 bleats so far:: Yesterdays : Tomorrows ::
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