by Steven Shamrak
Endless amounts of time and
millions of dollars are wasted on rebuking false accusations and deliberate
distortions of the facts of history as well as the current 'reality' invented
by Arabs, made by traditional anti-Semites, self-hating Jews and all sorts of
sophisticated and primitive xenophobes. Uncountable numbers of petitions have
been in circulation to counteract statements made by politicians in the United
Nations, parliaments around the world and/or on the front page of the papers
and TV shows. The present flavour of the month that attracts so much Jewish
enthusiasm are calls for boycotts of Israeli produced goods, investment in
Israel and scientific cooperation. I only wish that Jews would show the same
level of enthusiasm in support of our Zionist ideals!
At the same time, the Internet
has provided an ideal meeting place for traditional, brainless anti-Semites and
mentally disturbed, xenophobic attention seekers. They feed and thrive on the
attention that they provoke from people who are justifiably disgusted with
their uncontrolled activities on the Net. Therefore if you really want to hurt
them, the only way to deal with them is to stop dignifying their outrageous
anti-Israel behaviour with any response and deprive them of any attention.
The Internet is becoming the
major wasteful vent of people’s energy where they express themselves with no
results – just like a Japanese stress-relief dummy! We must not confuse
activities with accomplishments! Only by focusing on the Jewish National goal,
the establishment of Eretz-Israel on Jewish ancestral land, we will make it reality!
Therefore, the main question
we have to ask is: Do we really have to fight all of those idiots, including
the Presidents and the Prime ministers, and their politically or
psychologically distorted accusations? The record of the previous efforts made by
Israel and Jewish communities has proved that we must not waste our time and
resources on them. For example, a hundred years ago in Europe, in spite of
explicit contrary statements in the Torah about the use of blood, Jews were
accused of using blood of Christian children in preparation of Matza. Jewish
communities had won several court cases but it did not convince our enemies and
the idea is still subscribed to by some Christians and is being propagated in
Muslim countries as well.
The change of world opinion
and respect toward Israel and Jews was achieved several times after the
victories of the Independence war, the Six Day war and the Yom Kippur war -
when Israel was able to affirm itself as a strong, sovereign and equal nation.
Unfortunately it did not last long and the governments of Israel were unable or
unwilling to use the political momentum created by those victories, largely due
to the galut (slave) mentality Jews developed during life in hostile and
anti-Semitic environments, and the tradition of international anti-Semitism
prevailed again.
Israel must realize that Jews do not have many friends who
would be interested in helping Israel to reach the Jewish national goal. We must stop wasting time,
resources and energy on rebuking our enemies. It is a distraction! Although it
makes people feel good, it does not produce long lasting results. We must focus
on our goals and strategies in order to achieve them. Anything else is just
another useless activity, which takes us further from the Permanent Peace, even if it feels important and good at times.