It’s not about land. It never was.

It’s not about the Temple Mount or right wing fanatics inciting the masses.

We have said this all along, some of us.

We knew because of Tarpat, an acronym for a blood-stained year. 1929. Hebron and hatchets and babies without heads.

We knew because of al-Husseini, who in a speech on Radio Berlin said, “Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This finds grace in the eyes of God, history and religion.”

We knew because earlier we were Dhimmi under Muslims, forced to walk in the gutter, to wear bells so Muslims could hear us coming, to wear two different-colored shoes to make us ridiculous, to help them pick us out in a crowd.

We knew because of the Farhud. Two days of slaughter in Bagdhad. A harvest of dead Jews to honor the Jewish Pentecost. May, 1941.

We knew because my friend Rivkah’s son, Avraham David Moses was murdered while studying Torah. A teenager. Pure of heart and mind. Dedicated to one thing. Cut down by evil.

And now this. Four dead rabbis. Pools of blood. A man face down wrapped in a prayer shawl, the leather winding round and round the arm that now has no life left in it to do God’s will. Twenty-four orphans all on one street saying Kaddish.

It was never about land. It was never about the Temple Mount.

I will tell you what it is about. You might scoff. But I will still be right.

I’ll be right about the root cause of the conflict. The conflict that began between two brothers, Ishmael and Isaac. One cast out, a bad influence.

The other, Abraham’s heir.

Two nations spawned, sprung from one father, two mothers. One nation chosen. The other nation scorned, spurned, JEALOUS, evil.

The Jews persist. They, we, refuse to die out, no matter how many of us they kill. Six million they killed, and still we lived. Live.

Biblically. Epically.

It makes everyone mad. It makes President Obama mad. Those Jews. He can’t say it out loud. Not where anyone can hear it. But you know he thinks it.

Europe, who wishes we would just go away and not remind them of their most primitive blood lust that can only be satisfied by persecuting Jews.

The Christians who resent us for not accepting the trinity. The Muslims who hate us for not being Muslim. The Temple Mount which refuses to stretch the truth to include a revisionist history in which Jesus did not drive out moneychangers and usurers from Al Aqsa. A Temple twice destroyed. Artifacts ignored.

Jews must not move their lips, must not live. Must not pray. Must not wear visible signs that the Nation of Israel lives. That they, the Jews, live, though Pharaoh is no more, Mohammed is no more, Jesus is no more.

The ancient Egyptians, Romans, Greeks, Philistines, Romans, all gone. All DEAD. They didn’t crush us. We remain here, Chosen. A light they would extinguish.

Except they fail. We are not easily eradicated.

They hate us. We who are the startup nation. The Nobel Prize nation.

There is evil both within and without. Intermarriage, court Jews, Jew-hating Jews, Democrats who care more about health care than Israel. The J Street pretense that the underdog is an Arab, the overlord the Jew. That the Arab murder of four rabbis in Har Nof is equivalent to Arabs killed while killing Jews.

None of this will destroy us.

None of it can.

It’s just the way it is.

Yesterday, the children of Gush Etzion formed a human chain. We will not be cowed. We will not let them tell us that here in this place Jews cannot walk, cannot live, cannot build homes.

We will not let them drown out the truth with their idiotic notions: Peace with Arafat. Peace in which Jews are forbidden entry to this village or that within the land God gave them. Two states on Jewish land will not please God. Two states is a euphemism. A solution that is The Final Solution.

The solution that will solve The Jewish Problem which is the Jews’ refusal to die out like any other normal people. The insistence on remaining a living part of humanity on God’s green earth. The Jewish refusal to roll over into the sea.

But even if we agreed, were forced to jump off a cliff into raging waters, would it matter? Did God not split the sea that we might live?

It was never about land. There is plenty of land to go around. Masses of land. Twenty-two Arab states. Oil-rich, filthy rich, Muslim Arab land. Plenty of room for their brethren.

But only one tiny sliver of land that is ours.

It was never about moving our lips, about walking up a hill in Jerusalem, about human rights. It’s about the overarching desire to exterminate God’s Chosen People and the failure down through the ages by everyone to stamp us out. It’s about jealousy.

Four dead rabbis, Jews, fathers, husbands and scholars. Widows and orphans. Rivers of blood. Men who walk into a synagogue to slaughter the Jews.

It’s one way to get them, you see, get them while they’re praying.  Easy prey during prayer.

Jews are remarkably easy to kill.

But difficult to erase. To eradicate.

Who knows? Maybe they will succeed in driving us out of the land God gave us.

But they won’t be able to annihilate us.

No one can. No one has.

And no one ever will.

 

20 thoughts on “It’s Not About Land, It Never Was”

  1. Norman_In_New_York

    It all depends on what Bibi and his cabinet do. If they cower before the diplomats, who are the most serious enemies, the agonies will continue. If they say, “Enough is enough,” then this should end as all previous intifadas ended. The response best suited for Israel’s security and self-respect would be to declare Oslo a failure, dissolve the PA and take out the trash. Of course, Obama and the Fourth Reich — er, EU, will be pissed off, as will the nest of cockroaches known as the UN. But sometimes, being a stiff-necked people has its virtues.

    1. ahad_ha_amoratsim

      Bibi and his cabinet can only react to symptoms. That’s vital, but it’s not enough.

      The really vital part: It all depends on what B’nei Yisrael do — all of us, every one, Chutznikim and B’nei Aretz alike. Yes, we have to do everything we can to fight against the murderers, to stop them before they can kill, and to go after them with everything at our disposal if they do. But if we think that’s all it will take, or that there is a political solution, and that none of this is related to how we treat one another, how we relate to Avinu Sh’beshamayim, and to our brothers and sisters who have no clue about what Jews are or are supposed to do, we are in denial every bit as severe as those who think Abu Mazen is a peace partner.

      And the main reason I am posting this is because the Jew who posts under the name Ahad ha Amoratsim likes to forget these things, and needs to remind himself that his own faults play a part in this, just like the faults of everyone else, and that the endless and oft-neglected task of correcting his faults has to be part of the solution, and that nobody else can do it for him.

  2. ahad_ha_amoratsim

    Regarding Brian John Thomas’s question (sorry, I don’t FaceBook): I assume that “As one heart we’ll continue to beat” is a reference to the song “A nation whose hearts beat as one”, which was written in memory of Shalhevet Pass HYD, a 10 month-old Jewish infant who was shot dead in her stroller in Chevron in March, 2001 by a ‘heroic’ Arab sniper who was later arrested and released by the PA.

  3. ahad_ha_amoratsim

    Varda, this should be mandatory reading for everyone who thinks they know what is being asked of Israel or why the Arabs are doing what they do.

  4. To connect biblical with secular history, Ishmael went to Arabia and there he founded the Arabs. It is not known if Islam was already established there, or developed there over the centuries. What is known is that the basic core of Islam, is that its god, Allah, is worshipped through KILLING and FORCED CONVERSIONS!!! Unlike Judaism and Christianity whose people are considered to be a martyr when they are killed for their faith, to become a martyr in the Islamic faith, YOU KILL SOMEONE ELSE!!! This is the foreign religion that the Arabs forced on most of the people that they conquered in the Middle East when they swept out of Arabia in the 7th century CE. So, not only do Arabs have no claim to our land, neither does their religion!!!

    The reason why Islam became so much more moderate and peaceful over the years is that as the centuries passed, Muslims left the Middle East and were influenced by Western culture. But the core of Islam has never left the Middle East’s clans and sheikdoms and they have been biding their time until they could take over the world!! Since the Arabs still have a totally foreign, even alien, mindset to Westerners, Western governments and businessmen are inadvertently helping the worst of the Islamists in their goal of a world wide Caliphate!!

    Israel had better gird her loins because what’s inciting the “Palestinians” and other Arab groups now is old core Islam and there will be no holds barred!!!!

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