May 30, 2010
Ask yourselves one question, why did the Shtetl Jew of Czarist Russia dream of going to America, instead of Palestine? Answer, they wanted a better life. America offered ‘streets paved with gold’, while Palestine offered almost nothing.
Many of those that made it to America wound up as wage slaves in the sweatshop… not quite what they dreamt of.
Still they came in hordes to the ‘New World’ ….. anything was better than the life they had back ‘home’. The trip itself was a torturous experience, being passengers on the lower deck, known as steerage. Most of them traveled on ships belonging to a British company known as White Star Lines. The Titanic was among its fleet. My grandfather had a booking on its maiden voyage, but literally ‘missed the boat’. My mother was already born so my family history would not have ended had he been on board. My grandmother and her three children were to join him in America at a later date. I will write a post soon describing that trip…
But, I digress….. zionism was the last thing on the minds of these people. They were determined to make a good life in America for themselves and their children. They were, for the most part, Yiddish speakers. After long hours in the sweatshops many still found the time to enroll in courses to learn English. The early zionists tried to persuade them to learn the newly revised language, Hebrew. Most rejected this as there were no plans to leave the new land they now lived in. Zion would have to find other means to gain support for the land they wanted to conquer.
They found the support they needed after the horrors of the holocaust were brought to light. The establishment of a ‘Jewish Homeland’ seemed the least the world could agree to at that point in time…. but NOT a homeland that would displace or kill millions of people in a new holocaust. But that is what happened, the establishment of the State of Israel meant the destruction of Palestine.
Since 1948, this state has literally gotten away with murder. Since 1948 the West has been aware of this and has allowed it to continue, in most cases even financing these crimes. zionism literally has a hold on the entire world… WHY AND HOW? Where is the outcry of the Shtetl Jew that fled from a life under tyranny? Where is the outcry of the remaining holocaust survivors that lived the horrors being repeated today?
Why does this man ‘have the whole world in his hands’? Is it not time to give the world back to its rightful owners, HUMANITY?
Is it not time to sing a new song… like ‘LET MY PEOPLE GO’?
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