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they get away with it. Why?
Because we are still too close to
Nazi Europe and to the goyish
police of the Czar for any Jew
ish policeman to arrest a Jew
in Israel merely for being a
very intense Jew, because
that’s all their crime.
To us, they’re rather outland
ish and slightly preposterous,
but their only crime or the
reason for all their daily viola
tions of the law, is that they
feel that they are far, far bet
ter Jews than all of Israel.
That’s why they’11 continue to
get away with it because you
in America let the Amish folks
and the Hutterites get away
with all kinds of things merely
because they feel they’re bet
ter Christians than the rest of
the United States. We, who be
lieve, have some weakness for
those who believe in a special
kind of ism, but still it is fate
that’s the root of it all.
But—there’s more to it. Let’s
have a look at our atheists, the
Kibbutzim of Galilee who still
think that there is no G-d up
there, and that nature, which
they admit is an excellently
working machine, perfect with
its beauty and harmony, is a
book written without an au
thor. Some will wake up to the
absurdity of it, some will think
it’s alright. What do our young
atheists do? They put new vil
lages on the map of Israel and
call them by names which
archaeologists tell us were the
names of Jewish villages 2,400
years ago, there or within a
mile from that spot.
If you go to a kindergarten
of any of our so-called atheist
Kibbutzim, you feel you are
having registered the minor
list prophets in front of you.
Thgy call our young atheists
born in Israel, Micah, Jere
miah, Moses, David, Joshuah,
and Amos, most of them. On
Friday night, they sing, not for
religious reasons, G-d Forbid,
but for folklore, they say, be
cause that’s what Jews used to
do so we are after all Jews al
though we don’t believe. They
sing, many a time, the Psalrns
of King David put to contem
porary music, again for reasons
of cultural inheritance, only,
and they work day and night
to plant trees where there was
wilderness before, to dry up
swamps, and to paint the' des
erts green in the sun. In other
words' they work overtime to
make come true the prophecy
of Amos, Jeremiah and Ezekiel,
who said they shall inherit the
wastes and build them up and
they shall make the wilder
ness blossom forth like a rose.'
And still they claim that
they’re very atheistic.
It seems to us in Israel who
take Israel with a liberal pinch
of salt (we have to because we
live there), that these atheists
pray exceedingly well with
their ten fingers although their
words of mouth contradict the
work of their own hands. And
we presume that a generation
or two from today when their
hot air will have gone up trace
lessly, the work of their hands
will have proved prophets true
who had lived and foretold
things on that selfsame soil
twenty-four and twenty-five
centuries ago.
Eighteen years gives us some
insights, not maturity—who’s
mature at eighteen? Few
human beings—no state I know
of. But we think of Frederic
the Great, the German Em
peror who once asked his favor
ite philosopher—tell me one
palpable truth for the existence
of G-d and Voltaire replied,
“The Jews, Your Majesty”.
Two generations after that, a
German philosopher arose who
did a brilliant job of what he
called killing the Jewish G-d,
and with it Christianity, for
one could not exist without the
other. To kill what he called
the Jewish life denying force
in preparation for a higher
phase in mankind’s develop
ment, that of the godless sup
erman, Nietzche did an awfully
good job on paper. Hitler did
it in earnest. Because Hitler,
who believed in Nietzche very
much and quoted him profuse
ly. said that if Voltaire is right
and; Nietzche, then we can
prove to the world that G-d is
dead by killing all the Jews
and he tried hard. Of course it’s
lunacy but there’s a logic of its
own in this kind of folly, and
six million of our brothers
went up in smoke before his
atheism stopped.
Now if we Jews are G-d's
witnesses then the Bible §ays
that G-d is alive. If little Israel
could stand up and prevail
against the impossible chances
and odds of economy, of strate
gy and of politics, and believe
me we don’t make sense poli
tically nor strategically, then
we feel that Sinai makes sense
and that the Bible is right and
that our long, blood-stained
history has some significance.
Because if we could live
through the worst catastrophe
that has ever befallen any na
tion in history, to be reborn
three years Iatei~on our ances
tors’ soil a sovereign nation; if
the worst catastrophe is fol
lowed then immediately by the
finest glory of Judaism, then
we are indeed what was fore
told we ought to be. Because
either we Jews are nothing, or
we.are meant to be G-d’s wit
ness, chosen to carry this torch
through sorrow and through
darkness, until the day when
the Lord will be one and his
name one as the prophet fore
told.
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The Southern Israelite