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"Zionism: Poisoning Jewish-Gentile Relations
However, Zionism's harm extends far beyond the border of the Holy Land.
First, for many Jews around the world, it serves as a tragic substitute for their ancestral faith. Instead of having to confront and, with G-d's help, submit to the beliefs and practices of the Torah, they now have a far easier replacement. By equating Jewish support, financial or emotional for Israel with the essence of Jewishness, they
feel they have discharged their obligation as Jews although devoid of loyalty to Torah.
Indeed, the Zionist pseudo-religion demands little. It is, thus, in stark contrast with the Torah whose statutes were made many by G-d in order to give us the possibility of coming closer to Him.
In the non-Jewish population today the lines are being firmly and clearly drawn between those of faith and those who embrace the secularist decadence which surrounds us. Israel provides Jews with a means of avoiding this decision, pivotal though it is to all our lives.
By replacing the Jewish faith with a secular nationalism, Zionism has completely changed the self-understanding of far too many Jews. It has replaced the warmth of G-d's closeness with the spiritual emptiness of mere national loyalty.
However, this nationalism is not merely G-dless. It is also aggressive and amoral.
It summons Jews to perpetual war against their Gentile neighbors throughout the world. It teaches that we must respond to all threats (real, perceived or self-created) with an aggression totally foreign to the Jewish people.
A host of Jewish organizations have sprung up seeking to encroach upon peoples, nations and religions.
They claim to be defending Jewish interests. In reality they endanger those interests on a daily basis.
They see themselves as protecting Jews. Yet, lacking the Torah's blueprint for real Jewish protection, namely, the faithful obedience to G-d's Will, they resort to the bizarre tactic of opposing the forces of religion and morality in society. With this construed notion, that in this maner they or protecting the Jews, so that no other
religin or power shall encroach upon the "oppressed Jew". From there they stepped further into the abyss, that by supporting the "rights" of every form of social and media decadence and by battling against religious teachings and practices they feel that Jews will be "protected."
Some have the sole, self-appointed task of stripping society in general and education in particular of any vestige of religion and traditional morality. And, in the past three decades they have enjoyed much success. Of course, by so doing they created tremendous resentment amongst Gentiles who value their faiths and common
decency.
Others have appointed themselves the role of "protecting" the rights of the entertainment industry to flood America and the world with a shocking decadence, unimaginable just a few decades ago.
Others are on the alert to dictate to racial and ethnic groups what they may or may not say or, in some cases what they may or may not believe. Endless calls for public humiliation and abject apology are issued. From popes to Baptists to black nationalists all must forever beg forgiveness for slights to Jews, real and perceived.
Each attempt to placate these organizations brings forth the inevitable response that the "apology" issued was insufficient. Demands then begin for a better apology.
The cycle seems never ending.
In addition to begging forgiveness from Zionist organizations, financial tribute is also frequently demanded. Many, such as Germans or Swiss are forever being harassed with ever more ingenious claims for "reparations" often with little regard for any actual financial damages suffered. If refused, the offending nation or religion
is then threatened with everything from economic boycotts to diplomatic isolation.
In essence, what these organizations tell the Gentile is, "We will celebrate and proclaim our own particularity. If you Gentiles do this we will denounce and try to ruin you."
Still other groups are not solely content to bring social pressures in order to secularize society. They demand and achieve the assistance of the iron fist of government in forcing all manner of decadence (pornography, abortion and perversion) upon the populace via law and education.
Political groups target American politicians who are insufficiently loyal . . . to Israel (!) for defeat and defamation.
Boycotts and wars are urged upon the American people and their government, all based upon their importance for Israel.
Anyone who stands in the way of any part of this agenda is automatically subject to withering persecution. Pressures will be brought to have them fired from their jobs, their books banned and their lives ruined.
Where did the extraordinary and unprecedented arrogance come from which transformed the humble, G-d intoxicated, Torah-observant people into self-appointed aggressive dictators?
The answer is clearly Zionism, whose arrogance and insensitivity to the needs and wants of others, struts the globe itching for battles. "Never again", it proclaims.
From now on we are no longer "ghetto Jews". "We're tough and we'll bully all mankind if we think them our foe."
Thus, the old Jewish agenda came to be replaced by secularist triumphalism. It was the old agenda of prayer, study and good deeds, which sustained and protected the Torah nation during two thousand years of exile. It was an agenda geared to create a shining image of what a Jew should be. It was a Kiddush-Hashem -- a
sanctification of G-d's name. In certain circumstances traditional leaders have issued brief statements on issues of social concern but only to condemn the secularist decadence which envelops and threatens Jew and Gentile alike.
Unfortunately the enormous wealth and intimidating power of Zionism in all its forms makes it difficult for the message of true Torah teachings to get out.
This has resulted in ever-increasing animosity between almost every imaginable religious, racial and ethnic community in America and throughout the world and what they mistakenly perceive to be the Jewish people and their faith. In reality, the heated rhetoric and frequent aggressions against others have all been carried out by
those influenced in whole or in part by Zionism.
The approach to non-Jews of "We will show you. We will fight you. We will stop you." -- has accomplished just the reverse of what it set out to do. It has shown Gentiles nothing other than Jewish insensitivity to their neighbors and their communal needs. It has not defeated anyone. And, it clearly hasn't stopped anti-Jewish
feeling. In fact, it has inevitably exacerbated it.
In essence, Zionism, devoid of a positive program and having long since jettisoned Judaism, needs anti-Semitism to justify its own existence. And, where anti-Semitism doesn't exist, it will agitate until it has created it.
The Bible clearly states "Let not the land disgorge you for having contaminated it." Thus, we see in actual daily existence, Israel, which claims to be a safe haven for Jews, is in reality, the most dangerous place in the world for Jews. It has seen five bloody wars and endless terrorism. Bomb threats and scares are part of daily
existence. The country is covered with an endless array of security and checkpoints. It is a garrison state and has been for five decades. Indeed, the Holy Land became a dangerous place for Jews precisely when and in accordance with Zionist agitation and immigration.
For the victim of materialist philosophies there is an understandable allure in the "macho-man" imagery of Zionism. "No more weakness. Now Jews are strong." Of course, in reality Jews are still weak. Numerically and physically we are an insignificant people. Our true grandeur lies only in Divine service. It lies in pursuance of
the Biblical injunction to be a "kingdom of priests and holy nation."
The true lessening of Jewish-Gentile tensions will come to the degree that this Divine mandate is adhered to. When we will be absorbed in the holy tasks of our faith (study, prayer and acts of kindness), when Torah teachings on honesty and integrity will be observed, when we will stand in opposition to the decadence which
envelopes the world, then and only then will we earn the respect and admiration of all.
As Rabbi Hirsch writes, "Picture every son of Israel a respectful and influential priest of righteousness and lover disseminating among the nations not specific Judaism -- for proselytism is forbidden -- but pure humanity....How impressive, how sublime it would have been if in the midst of a world that adored only power,
possessions and enjoyment, there had lived quietly human beings of a different sort, who beheld in material possessions only the means for practicing justice and love towards all, a people whose minds, imbued with the wisdom and truth of the Law, maintained simple, straightforward views, and emphasized them for themselves
and others in expressive, vivid symbolic acts."
This Divine-centered life (while not an absolute guarantee that exile will be totally free of travail) is the best means of maintaining Jewish "defense" and seeing to that we not be "defamed." |
