In life, to live with destiny's wholeness one may need to overcome a great deal of obstacles and Jews are an example of such; having the stubbornness and ability to endure suffering and not give up; after two thousand years of forced exile, having the belief that they would still get everything they deserve. The Jewish people's credence that they have the right to raise their future generations in a safe place, their own homeland, and that every Jew will be a free person in his or her homeland is the national thrusting engine of the Jewish people.
Since their first Commonwealth was conquered and destroyed and their first exile, between 598 BCE to 538 BCE, Jews have experienced rejection and persecutions.
Since 70 AD, with the devastating Roman exile of the Jews from their homeland, Jews suffered disrespect and humiliation; were disenfranchised, persecuted, and murdered, wherever they lived, and their homeland abandoned and in ruins.
For 2000 years of exile, the Jew's enemies changed names and geographic presence but were and are continuously united in their hatred of Jews and their homeland, Israel, and the zest to harm and annihilate the Jews.
Facing the crusades, Inquisition, Ottoman Islam, pogroms and genocidal attempts, and finally the Holocaust has been the Jews' perpetual survival test.
When Antisemitism and Pogroms – organized massacres, in particular of Jewish people, in Russia and Eastern Europe, became rampant, Zionism, the national liberation movement of the Jews, the world's most oppressed people, became reality.
Zionist Jews began the Aliya movement, the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to their historical Land, which is the State of Israel.
Those Jews took a difficult journey to arrive in Israel where they settled and began cultivating the land and created an economy out of what Mark Twain described in his travel book The Innocents Abroad, "worthless soil, almost deserted the country … Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes … desolate and unlovely… ." Successively, Arabs from near and far Arab states arrived to the land seeking employment and better economic conditions, which the Jews offered them.
Those Arabs brought along into the Jewish people's land Antisemitism and Pogroms, the hate, and violence from which the Jews escaped.
Israel has just celebrated 74 years since its Independence; the establishment of a 3rd Commonwealth in the Holy Land, the Israelites and Judea, the Biblical Prophets and the Almighty God Chosen people's land.
Despite the sense of independence in their homeland, Israeli-Jews have not got rid of murderous, violent Pogroms, perpetrated, regularly, by Arabs who, since the late 19th century, entrenched themselves in the land; the country identifying itself as the Jewish people's homeland, the only Jewish state in the entire world, is not yet independent.
Since the end of the 19th century, Jews in the land of Israel have been and are being traumatized by an army of antisemitic, cold-blooded psychopath Arabs, whom the Jewish state's authorities are afraid to agitate. If it continues, this will not end well for the Jews.
Many Holocaust survivors helped establish modern Israel, the only place where they could find refuge after they were liberated from the murderous Nazi concentration camps. Sadly, these Jews had to live with anxious fear of murderous Arab violence. Their children and grandchildren have continued living in the same uneasy fear or some chose to turn the other cheek, living in total denial of the circumstances all around them.
Are the Jews in Israel suffering from Stockholm syndrome, a mechanism developed to cope with a captive or abusive situation one finds himself or herself in? Do they force themselves to cope with domestic Arab murderous violence?
Israel, time to circle back. Time to remember life 150 years ago when it was life or death matter to live in the land and finally gain independence. No room to appease or fear the Arab enemy within. Either the indigenous Jews to rule the land or the hostile to Jews out of place Arabs to rule it.
Coexistence has proven to be impossible as has been the case for the past 150 years. No matter how the appeasement generation would like to conduct life in Israel, this 'coexistence' is the Arabs' one other tool to push the Jews into nonexistence in the land.
No nation should agree to share its homeland with those who openly – verbally and physically – seek to destroy its people. The Jews and Arabs, two different worlds that only call for collision.
Slowly Israeli-Jews are being encircled and pushed out by the Arabs. Case in point is May 2021; Israeli Arab citizens' violent mob torched Jewish-Arab mixed population cities and murdered Jews.
During April 2022 much Jewish blood was spilt all over Israel. Eighteen Jews were murdered and many wounded by Arab terrorists who used knives, axes, or guns. Arabs who infiltrated into Israel from the Palestinian Authority's territory or were illegally staying inside Israel attacked Jews in Beersheba, Tel Aviv, Hadera, Ariel and Elad.
Some 3000 years ago the Israelites entered the Promised Land. Ever since the killing field in Israel has been soaked with Jewish blood and there is no end in sight. The Arabs, celebrating the loss of Jewish life, are threatening more such scenes.
Israel needs a courageous leader to circle back and act without any concern what anybody outside the country – whether the United States, the European Union, a United Nations body or antisemitic NGO – thinks or tells him or her to do, why and how.
No one has the right to tell Jews in Israel where on their land they can live and how to act in order to defend ourselves.
It is time for Israel to accrue unvanquished sovereignty. If not, the ingathering storm, to whom the land will belong and who will be able to remain living in the land, is gaining momentum and is getting darker. All the while the Jews are being pushed back into the Pogroms' of the 19th-century era, this time not in Easter Europe, rather in their own homeland.
The renowned Middle East and Islam pundit, Dr. Mordechai Kedar, always says that in the Middle East you cannot survive if you are not invincible. Israel's lack of invincibility while adopting despondency is a destructive formula. It kills.
If the killing field remains, the Jewish ethos of love, kindness, giving and hope will dissipate in the agony of the constant loss of innocent life.
To end the killing field, a good jump-start is to establish capital punishment law for Jew murderers.
