WWTBD?
Saturday, January 17, 2009
After seeing The Pianist, I refused to watch another Holocaust movie that portrayed Jews as helpless victims. If one guy could do what Szpilman did and survive, we had absolutely no right being portrayed as sheep led to the slaughter by the jokers in Hollywood. No more would I contribute to a culture of victimization. Yes, the Holocaust happened. Yes, there are many lessons to be learned from it. The number one lesson that victimization films don't teach: Jewish people can fight and win and survive.
I know that scares a lot of people (including self-hating Jews who fill the halls of Hollywood and the MSM). Need proof? Check out CNN's review of this Friday's release Defiance [hat tip: Atlas]:
The timing is unfortunate. For a story that has gone neglected for the best part of 60 years, this is hardly the ideal week to be extolling heroic Jewish resistance fighters.Bite my kosher tuchus.
In the film, Tuvia Bielski, played by Daniel Craig (not a Jew, to my knowledge, but an excellent actor, so we will be nonetheless glad to adopt him as one of our own), declares to a group of escaped Jews who fled into the forest to escape death at the hands of the Nazis that they would fight by staying alive. And that is what they did.
Man, does that piss people off. We survive, we dare to breathe and they hate us for it. What did Tuvia Bielski do? He told the Nazis and the rest of the world to deal with it. 1,200 people and their descendants later, we're still winning.
Despite the outbreak of world-wide jihad.
Despite the 300 British academics who demand Israel lose this war.
Despite Olmert, Livni, Barak, and their pansy "10-day unilateral cease-fire":
12:24 AM According to this evening's cabinet decision, the IDF will remain in Gaza till the rocket attacks on Israel cease. According to Hamas, as long as the IDF is in Gaza, they will continue their rocket attacks against Israel (and they have been continuing their attacks all night)We have the right to live. We have the right to survive. We have the right to defy world expectations and demands.
No commentary needed.
Do we need to wait for our neighborhoods to be terrorized, our homes to be looted, our children to be dragged into the streets and shot in order to remember that we have rights?
We have a nation and an army and we're still caving into world pressure! WHAT'S THE DEAL?!
All I can ask of my people at this hour is, What Would Tuvia Bielski Do?
Wouldn't you do it, too?
Labels: bielski, cease fire, daniel craig, defiance, Gaza, Holocaust, IDF, Israel, Jewish, Jews, Livni, Olmert, Zionism
posted by Shoshana @ 6:41 PM
Yom HaShoah & Israel Independence: Thoughts
Saturday, May 03, 2008
When asked who held the most blame for the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel answered "the American Jews." He's right. Jewish Americans were in places of power and authority within the FDR Administration, and they willingly chose to do nothing despite having full knowledge of what was going on. The Editor-in-Cheif of the NY Times openly made it a point to keep reports about European Jewry in the back pages of the largest newspaper in America--that is, when he chose to cover the story at all. Hollywood Jews did make an effort to draw attention to Hitler's atrocities in Europe in the late 1930s, as well as to help European Jews emigrate to the US, until the US Government sent Joe Kennedy to warn them against their commentary, lest America blame the Jews for being drawn into the war.
Sure, there were average Jewish Americans who did what they could to speak out, to bring family and friends over from Europe, and even to fight. But the Jewish Americans with the greatest power and authority by and large did nothing.
Today, American Jews claim that without Jewish American money, the State of Israel couldn't survive. They're wrong. Don't tell the survivors and descendants of an army that fashioned lipstick cases into bullets that they need greenbacks to function. That's plain bull. I can't help but wonder if the money argument doesn't have a twofold purpose: to ease the guilt of not taking on the burden of responsibility for leaving our European brothers and sisters in the dust, and to justify the lack of willingness to make aliyah. In any case, it's an argument that's got to stop if we are to ever begin healing the rift between American and Israeli Jewry, a great number of whom are of European descent.
Related Links:
NEVER AGAIN: Speech by the IDF Chief of the General Staff for the 'March of the Living' [Israpundit]
Lebanon Palestinians to march on border [JPost]
More than 100,000 Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon are expected to march toward the border with Israel on May 14 in the context of the Palestinian Authority's plan to mark the 60th anniversary of the establishment of Israel, PA officials told The Jerusalem Post Thursday.If you get 'Shalom TV' you'll recall that Israel Update covered this story months ago. Whether it will really happen or not, I don't know. Trying to get those forces to unify has failed more than once in the past. But, trust that if it does, it should be one hell of an Israel Independence Day.
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The plan calls on the refugees to return to Israel with suitcases and tents so that they can settle down in their former villages. The refuges are requested to carry UN flags upon their return and to be equipped with their UNRWA-issued ID cards.
The plan asks Arab countries hosting the refugees to facilitate their return by opening their borders. The plan specifically refers to Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq.
Palestinian refugees living in the US, EU, Canada and Latin America have been requested to use their foreign passports to fly to Ben- Gurion Airport, while dozens of ships carrying refugees will converge on Israeli ports.
Labels: American Jewry, Holocaust, Israel, Israel Independence Day, Jewishness, Judaism, Yom HaShoah, Zionism
posted by Shoshana @ 11:48 AM
Yom HaShoah
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Labels: Holocaust, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel, Judaism, Messianic Judaism, Persecution, Yom HaShoah, Zionism
posted by Shoshana @ 11:03 AM
