The Jewish People: A Past, Present and Future

Last Oct 7^th was one of the darkest day in Jewish history – and that’s saying a lot for people who have known 3000 years of persecution! As we shook in a river of endless tears at the sight of the barbaric attack of Islamic radicals, as we burst into pieces with longing for the return of over a hundred hostages for over a year now, what was almost worse was the hateful reaction of the world around us.

It seems so easy to hate the Jews. Even though there’s such a small number of them (relative to the number of Christians or Muslims), many people hate the Jews because they’re the successful ones who are supposedly harassing the little guy.

This longstanding moral impulse in American culture to cheer for the “underdog” and help the “little guy” is as old as the biblical story of David and Goliath. But siding with the Palestinian terrorists is akin to siding with Goliath, the destructive giant (of political Islam)!

An American woman who was interviewed after the October 7^th massacre said simply, “I have no idea who’s right or wrong or what’s going on in the Middle East. All I know is that I will always side with the little guy.” Well ladies and gentlemen, these poor “little guys” caused the September 11^th massacre and destruction, sending thousands of American lives to their deaths while they laughed and celebrated, and they will do so again in a heartbeat. How did it feel to mourn as a nation and see them dance with glee, celebrating that they have caused you your deepest pain? Well, this is how Jews all over the world felt when you sided with the Palestinians after they butchered innocent people, children, babies, and kidnapped others on October 7^th.

It’s ugly to hate people merely because of their religious belief or because of accidents of birth like skin color. It’s ugly because it’s taking human beings capable of choice, reason and intellect and classifying them by their innate traits, just like families of animals. Every form of collectivism does away with people’s daily choices to be a good or a bad person and divides them according to religion, skin color, or sexual proclivities.

To be a Christian antisemite is a different kind of glaring contradiction, for were not Christ himself, his family, and all his disciples Jews? Also according to the Bible, Arabs and Jews were cousins. Are we all doomed to hate each other forever because of things that happened thousands of years ago because some of us happened to be born here and some of us there?

Speaking of countries and borders, the Bible clearly states that not only were Jews the original inhabitants of the land of Judea, but they were also the first and only religion in the world for generations, the only civilized choice offered against the archaic paganism of the time.

Persecuted for centuries and enslaved by many conquerors (to build the Egyptian pyramids, among many others), these hard-working, learned people were forced into exile for two millennia by the Romans. This lengthy exile is called the Diaspora. No other people or nation has managed to keep its own identity under such conditions!

The persecution of the Jewish people continued throughout history all over the world until the most hateful and odious culmination that took place during the Holocaust, exterminating six million men, women and children like they were vermin. It is indeed a miracle that we are still here at all!

These refugees of the Holocaust and of a 2,000-years diaspora decided to reclaim their own land 76 years ago, paying the Arabs high rates for the barren desert and putrid swamps. Thousands of them literally had no choice as Holocaust refugees were turned away in many countries by the boat load. Returning to Israel for the first time with the “desire to fight” but only in order to protect themselves, thus came the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) into being. And the barrage of fighting began.

Many Arabs chose to stay and live in Israel, many of whom prosper, like my family physician, a woman who is free to wear and do what she wants, my honest mechanic who hangs a peace and tolerance sign in his garage and who flew many Israeli flags on Independence Day, my dentist, and many others. They don’t live in poverty or oppression, and no one uses them as human shields during live fire. They live peacefully alongside Israelis every single day of their lives under conditions for which I’m sure they’re grateful.

Those who didn’t stay in Israel became the Palestinian refugees. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) states that refugee status ends once a refugee is granted citizenship in a third country. That is true for all refuges other than Palestinians! The UN literally created a different agency and status for them. Despite dealing with a smaller group of refugees than the totality of world refugees, The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has a bigger budget, bigger staff, and grants a perpetual refugee status! This distorts the entire concept of a refugee. Refugee status is not something that one can inherit from one’s ancestors – until the UN made it possible! Most refugees get their status for five years. Why do the grandchildren of the original refugees still hold that status eight decades later?! Even in the recent 2024 Olympics boat parade we clearly saw one boat for world refugees and a separate boat for Palestinians. Doesn’t that raise any red flags for you?

If you’re able to rise above the diet that the biased media is feeding you, you could easily see that the Arab world is never going to let this conflict end or these “refugees” find a home because they are simply too useful as martyrs (and again, human shields). If we think of the world of politics as one big poker game, barbaric villains like Hamas wouldn’t put down the cards that enable them to vilify the one bastion of civilization in their midst.

We owe it to ourselves to truly understand the world. And if you understand that this political game is never going to end, perhaps it’s time we took a long, hard look at multiculturalism, the edict that tells us not to judge any culture because we’re all supposedly equal. Perhaps it’s time to question the seeming sanctity of the concept of equality. I’m not equal to barbarian terrorists who butchered innocent children, babies, the elderly, women, men and pets on a blissful Saturday morning – I am infinitely better than they are! I worked hard my entire life to become a good, civilized person who makes good, moral choices. The vast majority of people do too. I believe that, like any good person, most of you condemn those atrocious acts.

I wrote this article in the hopes of clarifying some points for the readers who are truly confused. I hope I succeeded in doing that. If we don’t change things here and now, what kind of a world will we be leaving future generations? One great way to fight for a better tomorrow today is to join the homeschooling movement that reclaims parents’ age old right to educate their children and to shape them into humans they can be proud of. The other crucially important way is to stop funding higher education institutions, most of whom are so muddled in their thinking that they are siding with the Hamas barbarians! How can any truly good person justify that to himself? The next generations of future adults that are being formed in academia would run a chill through most people’s bones.

I’d like to bring to the mind of the young African American student who called for the extermination of all the Jews this quote by the great Martin Luther King, “We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.” Can you live with your conscience?

Sharone Powell is an author (writing under the name Shar Lemond), homeschooler, and co-owner of KnowableWorld.com. Am Israel Chai!