Meanwhile, the White House did a nice job with the Yom HaShoah speech yesterday —
— just after it cut off arms sales to Israel
As missiles continue to be launched from Gaza, 133 Jewish hostages are still being held captive in Gaza or they are dead. The Hezbollah Shi’ites continue their unrelenting attacks on Israel, the Israeli people of the North have become refugees, and those who remain hunker in bomb shelters if they are lucky, and the White House assures Israel that it will do what it can, but Israel must hold itself in place and remain vulnerable . . . .
In spite of it all, a day after Yom HaShoah, we begin to turn our attention to our ancestor Ruth . . . a young Moabite woman who has emerged from a people who joyfully and purposely delight in killing their own children . . . . it seems almost like a frenzied form of worship; the worship of a god of death.
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Lest we forget the Moabite murderers of babies and the famine then raging (read here: hungry for bread . . . thus “Beth Lehem” or “House of Bread”), the current spectacle of the American college students demanding their portions of delicious encampment catering accompanied by a cuisine befitting their virtue signaling and self-righteous personal struggle for human dignity.
To those reading this — this is not merely what many have claimed as the manipulated innocence of American college students. Instead, this has the appearance of privileged children who have veered away from truth and decency and willfully walked into a well-orchestrated and intentional campaign of what can only be understood as just the latest iteration of child sacrifice — and all of this placed on an altar to a god of obscenity.
Sad, and even sadder, dangerous.
Here, Leviticus 19:9 as a certain neccessary background to Ruth
(read it and reap)
וּֽבְקֻצְרְכֶם֙ אֶת־קְצִ֣יר אַרְצְכֶ֔ם לֹ֧א תְכַלֶּ֛ה פְּאַ֥ת שָׂדְךָ֖ לִקְצֹ֑ר וְלֶ֥קֶט קְצִֽירְךָ֖ לֹ֥א תְלַקֵּֽט׃
When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap all the way to the edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
Lev 19:14 – וְכַרְמְךָ֙ לֹ֣א תְעוֹלֵ֔ל וּפֶ֥רֶט כַּרְמְךָ֖ לֹ֣א תְלַקֵּ֑ט לֶֽעָנִ֤י וְלַגֵּר֙ תַּעֲזֹ֣ב אֹתָ֔ם אֲנִ֖י יְהֹוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃
You shall not pick your vineyard bare, or gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger: I יהוה am your God.
Here, even further, the appearance of what appears as common decency — and yet, begging the question, why command it — let alone mention it?
לֹא־תְקַלֵּ֣ל חֵרֵ֔שׁ וְלִפְנֵ֣י עִוֵּ֔ר לֹ֥א תִתֵּ֖ן מִכְשֹׁ֑ל וְיָרֵ֥אתָ מֵּאֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ אֲנִ֥י יְהֹוָֽה׃
You shall not insult the deaf, or place a stumbling block before the blind. You shall fear your God: I am יהוה.
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Yom HaShoah after Oct. 7: How Holocaust Education Failed
https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/columns/jonathan-tobin/yom-hashoah-after-oct-7-how-holocaust-education-failed/2024/05/07/ Yes, a thought-provoking essay to read over and think through, as a failure writ large, for us and the world): Two Excerpts:
A. America . . .
Old/new woke antisemitic propaganda
- If Israel is now routinely and falsely accused of being an “apartheid state” or committing “genocide,” it is due to the success of a leftist/Islamist propaganda campaign that has convinced a considerable portion of young Americans, as well as those elsewhere that it has no right to exist. Those who chant for its destruction or cheer on the prospect of more terrorism against Jews on college campuses have been indoctrinated in the toxic myths of critical race theory and intersectionality that analogize the war to destroy the one Jewish state on the planet to the struggle for civil rights in the United States.
- As we remember the Shoah, rather than stick to our usual routine of memorialization, it’s time for decent people of all backgrounds and faiths to understand that the war on the Jews didn’t end with the defeat of the Nazis. It continues to this day under new slogans, flags and worse, with many of those who claim to stand for enlightened thought allowing the enablers of Jew-hatred to pose as advocates for human rights and the oppressed. Those lies must not be allowed to stand.
B. In the World . . .
. . . in the World of the Arts — a “Eurovision” European music festival sponsored and judged by the children of those who not so long ago, either turned a blind eye to or rather gleefully slaughtered Jews. Is this a lack of memory or yet another example of a lack of Euro-‘vision’ (sic) or is it something else entirely?
https://www.instagram.com/p/C6l40kirPQn/
C. Journal Notes:
1. Israel’s Eurovision Song, “Hurricane”
Eden Golan represents Israel this year at the Eurovision Song Contest with her song “Hurricane.”
Originally titled, “October Rain,” the track was rejected multiple times by the event organizers who demanded it be rewritten due to alleged political messaging.
After numerous submissions and rewrites, a final revised version was accepted. The contest final will take place this Sunday in Malmö, Sweden.
“It’s a super important moment for us, especially this year,” Golan said. “I feel honored to have the opportunity to be the voice of my country.”
I encourage you to watch this moving music video https://www.instagram.com/p/C6l40kirPQn/ produced by Israeli artists Boaz Tamir and Uri Gallero, using AI imagery to capture the song and this moment for the people of Israel.
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2. Israel’s Eurovision contestant Eden Golan hopes to ‘unite by music’
https://www.jpost.com/j-spot/article-800240
Golan, 20, is competing with the song “Hurricane” which initially went under the name “October Rain.”
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3. Eurovision considering disqualifying Israeli entry due to ‘political lyrics’
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-788183
The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, Kan, clarified that Israel had no intention of changing the lyrics.
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As I mentioned at the opening. the White House did a nice job with the Yom HaShoah speech yesterday — just after it cut off arms sales to Israel . . . . now as a closing thought, perhaps the world is more comfortable with vulnerable or maybe even, with dead Jews . . . how will we know?
