Another proof this is that so many Jews are resigning from being Jews, or a taking great care not to mention it publicly.
It is a terrible thing psychologically to be despised when your identity is ostracized genuinely.
The whole thing is a vicious circle. This drives their contempt and the same time they just want to escape from it all. Do you know how many Israeli kids run away to other countries and change their identities? Jewish kids in New York do this to.
Their whole identity is just too conflicted and rent with extremes. There is a viscous and ruthless status game going on among Jews where you have these cocky and hard barked winners (lawyers, bankers, real estate and business tycoons, etc.) prancing around reminding the majority of losers how intolerable their lives are.
Then they try to dispose of that issue by wrapping it up in a Jewish identity the whole world has dripping contempt for.
Then there is the long-standing association of Jews with the suffering and horrible plight the mangiest group of Egyptian Arabs in the world, the Gaza Palestinians. Americans don’t realize how mangy the Egyptians are in general. In a world of sad bunches they are one of the saddest bunch anywhere on earth. I live on the West Coast and I swear I can smell the stench of Cairo even here. Why anyone goes there as a tourist is beyond me. Eqypt is a stinking loss beyond any kind of repair ever. In Gaza, Egyptian stench and ruin sits in microcosm under the glare of the world media. The Israelis deal with the situation by intermittent butchery that is almost always captured on film for worldwide consumption.
Meanwhile, young men, soldiers from around the world, press down upon the Israelis, each and every one of them a shining hero in their own eyes.
If you see the world as a place of cadences, Jews could not be more out of rhythm. I fully understand why so many of them want to resign from being Jews.
#1 by shari on 07/13/2008 - 12:23 pm
I wonder if there isn’t an increasing panic because how DOES a jew resign? Conversion or hidden identity doesn’t do it. Maybe becoming a mixture of negro would help. I’m not trying to be funny. I think they have a real problem.
#2 by Pain on 07/13/2008 - 5:45 pm
In the eighth grade at a Christian school a Jewish convert joined us. He looked very Jewish – swarthy – and had a lisp. One day he looked very depressed, and I asked him what was bothering him. He said it was the Jews. He said that if I knew what the Jews had done, I would understand why the Holocaust happened, that the Jews would have deserved all of it. Then he said that actually the Holocaust did not happen. He made me promise that I would try to find out on my own all the evil things the Jews did. And so I have.
His mother and father had left Judaism, and being of the Hasidic variety, they were buried in proxy. Someone threatened to kill them, too. Later, as an adult, he married a beautiful, blonde Christian woman, and although it was sad to see that, it also appears that his conversion was genuine; he still goes to church.