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SJ Arieh Selig
Seeking a better way.

What we did NOT do…..

After WW2

When 6 million Jews were murdered with industrial efficiency, among them 1 million children.

What did the Jews do….

What did the Jews NOT do.

We didn’t riot in European Cities and destroy your businesses.

We didn’t march AGAINST the countries that ultimately took in Jewish Refugees.

We didn’t demand you all convert to Judaism.

We didn’t rape your women or kidnap children and elderly.

We didn’t hijack planes.

We didn’t separate Muslims from Christians

Or Catholics from Protestants.
In your history you already did this.

We didn’t demand death to all Germans and Nazi collaborators.

We didn’t demand the UN impose sanctions on all those countries that assisted the Nazis.

What we DID do….

We became fully involved in your societies.
We created new businesses with barely any resources to start off with.

We swore allegiance to Prime Ministers, Presidents and Kings and Queens.

We built schools and Kindergartens that also welcomed non Jews, because non Jews knew their kids will get a good all round education in a modern forward thinking Jewish School.

We became captains of industry

We became Actors, Singers, Writers, Scientists, Doctors and Musicians.

We became Nobel Prize Winners

Yes we fought when absolutely necessary.

When the British were preventing Jewish immigration to our future Jewish State, sending us back to internment camps in Cyprus.
Shame on them.

What we didn’t do is seek vengeance for the world’s apathy to what was happening to us in Europe.

Only at the end of WW2 when you liberated us from the concentration camps…

When you saw the barely alive walking skeletons.

When you saw the pits of corpses upon corpses upon corpses in big pits in the ground, that the Jews were forced to dig, and then shot, tumbling one upon the other into that pit of hell.

Very often naked, their dignity robbed from them till the very last second.

Only then, ONLY THEN DID THE WORLD WAKE UP IT’S CONSCIENCE FINALLY PRICKED.

What the Jews have been through even before WW2, any other group of people you would have understood why they became suicide bombers etc.

But we NEVER were suicide bombers.

We wanted to create a safe home.

That’s what Zionism is.
That Israel be a safe home for Jews.
That’s it!

We wanted our national homeland back again, stolen from us by so many others including the Romans, the Greeks, the Babylonians, the Turks, the British…..

… and as long as you were peaceful you could be a citizen of that country TOO !

It is written on Israel’s Declaration of Independence for G-d’s sake!!!

Check if you want!

Any comparing the Palestinian story to the Jewish story is TOTALLY ADHORRENT, the Palestinians never had our history.

Not ever!

Or even the Palestinian story to the Irish story…. again false!

But here’s the tragedy of it all.

The Palestinians could have learnt from the Jewish story how to grow from the ashes and build a State.

Who better to learn from on rebirth than the Jews.

Jews living shoulder to shoulder with them they could have learnt from us.

Instead they chose violence, lies, brainwashing their children, believing in the most insane doctrines like how wonderful it is to be a martyr!

Hamas and the rest don’t want a State they want an Islamist world.

IF THE JEWS HAD BEHAVED IN 1948 AS THE PALESTINIANS DO NOW WE WOULDN’T HAVE GOT OUR STATE.

The West needs to wake up and REALLY STUDY HISTORY AND THE AIMS OF THE ISLAMIST FASCISTS LEAD BY IRAN.

I’m a Jew I’m a Zionist, my Grandparents were Zionists.
My former sister in law was eighth generation Yerushalmi (citizen of Jerusalem)

Israel wants peace, we have always wanted peace, we are crying out for peace, we are dying, literally for peace.

Anyone who thinks we don’t want peace is the greatest ignorant fool on this planet!

We would have had peace DECADES AGO IF THE PALESTINIANS REALLY WANTED IT TOO.

I prefer, if given the choice, to be alive in a strong democratic Israel, even a hated one, than to have your pity and support as we bury our children, brothers, sisters, parents and grandparents, because we suicidally listened to your Western advice.

Have you got it yet???

We have no territorial ambitions on anyone, don’t listen to fools like Erdogan.

WE WANT OUR STATE LEFT ALONE TO LIVE IN PEACE.

THAT’S IT!!!!!

About the Author
Northern Ireland born & bred. Made Aliya in 1990 just before the Gulf War. WUJS in Arad (World Union of Jewish Students) graduate. Worked and lived in Baka Jerusalem since 1992 I'm a Centrist by default, the distance between Left and Right is too great. Whether I write about the state of the world, politics, or a couple having a cuppa, my real aim is to close the gaps between us.