The Madness
Decades ago an older family friend was mugged in the Bronx on the way to a baseball game. He was driving around in his car looking for parking when some locals on the street directed him down a road that turned out to be a dead end. It was trap. They approached the car and demanded money. He was trembling. One of them said, I see you have got the kids here, so just give us 20 bucks.
Just today, erev Shabbos, I was in a garage in Israel, a kind of garage, rudimentary shopping area with basement stores when I heard a shouting match. It wasn't the usual Israeli shouting match, but seemed to escalate from there to where I was expecting a fistfight to break out.
I ignored it at first, not wanting to be a machlochus tourist but as the shouting continued over a ten minute period and escalatied to the point of pure rage, I decided to walk over.
I saw a tall olive skinned man in frum dress and a light beard howling at a much smaller man that carried a baby in his arms. I found out later that the tall man was the manager of the shopping area and the smaller man owned one of the properities from which another man rented space. The fight had something to do with the manager wanting the owner to kick out the tenant because he wasn't frum enough. There was some talk about a beis din and the old standard claims of one person robbing another person of parnassah.
The property owner had not just a kid in his arms but two others by his side that were so young I imagined that they had only recently learned to walk. They looked pretty scared as their father braved the verbal assault.
I calmly said to the yeller, in my rudementarly Hebrew, there are children here, speak pleasantly.
I don't know if the yeller had simply yelled himself out at that point or he actually heeded my words but he stopped and walked away.
I tell anyone who will listen, Israel is a nut house. I tell them that the ghetto gansters in Bed. Sty. Brooklyn seemed more civilized to me. Perhaps the garage manager wouldn't have mugged anyone for money, but he also couldn't contain his rage when in the presence of tiny children. Even a mugger from the Bronx has better sense.
As I say again and again, the cause is Zionism. That's how I see it. It isn't the Arabs as many like to claim and if you want to hear my argument on that see my other articles about how the frequency of terrorism is grossly exaggerated, about how Israel been the aggressor in starting nearly all of its wars, and how Zionism itself is an aggressive breakaway from God and Torah.
Or just read the words of Ben Gurion:
"Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country." (David Ben Gurion)
Zionism has created a madness that makes Jews, at least Israeli Jews, seem like the freaks of the planet. I witnessed it today.
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