Posted on 04/11/2011 3:56:52 PM PDT by Ari Bussel
Love has Left the Building By Norma Zager
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hate is an unusual and deadly component in the human psyche. It embeds itself deeply like a tick under the skin. Unless removed it festers and sucks the blood of a victim.
Its diseases are brutal and deforming. Lyme Disease, for example, can maim and disrupt the normal flow of a victim’s body, corrupting the mind and vital organs.
During the civil rights battles of the sixties, the Reverend Martin Luther King understood that hope for winning the war against hatred lies not in changing the minds of haters, but in teaching the younger generation to choose love.
I was a teen then and one who understood the power of love. I watched my contemporaries march alongside a new American icon, a leader who preached love and brotherhood, and the joys of overcoming hatred and evil toward a fellowman.
Why, you might ask, am I speaking about MLK and a movement that succeeded so long ago?
What has this to do with today, with Israel, with the world that has been foisted upon us by the armies of Satan?
During the election I watched as Reverend Wright spouted anti-Zionist (code name for anti-Semitism) rhetoric on sound bite after sound bite.
I was not terribly surprised because it was long obvious to me that the majority of America’s Black population had fervently turned against its Jewish friends and allies. Many have forgotten Jewish blood was spilled and copious amounts of Jewish money funded and enabled their cause and success.
This is of course the way of the world. Sadly, gratitude is a lost art. The irony however, never left me.
As America was on the brink of electing its first Black president, those who financially benefitted most from hatred turned up the volume.
The Sharptons, Wrights and Jacksons, whose livelihood depends on hating the white man, became terrified. They even turned on Barack Obama in their fearful state.
Watching these men espouse hate, it would almost appear there is more profit in disseminating evil than in spreading love. Despite their intentions however, they underestimated Dr. King’s success, and his achievements, which were obvious as a new President was sworn in on Inauguration Day 2009.
What has this to do with the raging anti-Semitism and hatred that has taken over our world?
Quite a bit actually, and quite a bit more than most would observe at first glance.
I hear people, and even a great many Jews, say, if only Israel would do this, or Israel should do that. Some speak about the Jewish State conversationally, others with venomous rapture and anger.
What these advice givers do not see or understand is that the design of Israel’s enemies is not to accomplish peace, but destruction.
As Dr. King proved so well, the hope of destroying hatred lies in a new generation. A generation brought up in an atmosphere of tolerance and acceptance toward others.
Forging a new dynamic where it is possible to live together and grow in a positive and tolerant manner.
This can never happen in Israel or the world today. Quite simply, peace is not the end game the haters seek.
If Palestinians sought peaceful co-existence with Israel would they teach young children to hate and kill Jews? Would they preach to them the evils of Zionism and portray them on flashcards before young babies can even speak; or make cartoons depicting killing and murdering others?
When world governments tell Israel she must make peace, she must give all it takes, even her country and rightful capital to appease the enemy, it is sheer folly. It is no more than suicide for the Jewish people.
What a clever foil to get an entire people to commit suicide and portray evil as the innocent victim.
It seems they have taken a page from MLK’s playbook and completely reversed it on its ear.
They are banking on the fact when the older generation dies out, a new, fresh crop of haters will arise in its place. They will die secure that their legacy of evil will remain to kill more Jews and fight more infidels.
The devil has been forced to be more cunning, and he has certainly arisen to the challenge. Whenever he reaches a roadblock in his agenda, he finds a way to overcome. From the smallest everyday matters like using the Internet to flesh out new prey for sexual predators, or creating fictional movies depicting Israeli soldiers harming children, or sending Jew hating Jews to advise the President of the United States on Israel, the enemy’s deceit has been quite effective.
So good in fact, it is difficult to marshal the forces of good against the devil’s soldiers.
So much evil; so little time.
When someone repeats the fairy tale to me that the Arabs want peace with Israel and it is the Jews who are the cause of the problem, I smile inside. So well brainwashed have these fools been, it is impossible to argue the point.
I simply must say to them that actions speak louder than words.
Watch the television cartoons constantly presented to young Arab children teaching them to hate and kill Jews. Listen to Hamas and the nations of the world constantly blame and delegitimize the Jewish State.
Look at the evil men who populate the United Nations. A body designed to foster world peace that allows children to be murdered across the world and incites hatred and chaos.
And even gets Americans to pay for their evil deeds!
The devil has set up headquarters there, I’m certain.
I can only say if you want to teach love and acceptance take a page out of Dr. King’s playbook. Then look at the playbook of Israel’s and the world’s enemies and see if the two mesh.
It will become quite obvious they are polar opposites. The agenda of evil will become as clear as the results of their efforts.
We live in a world where children are killed and starved by the hour, hatred is a course in schools, and governments adopt murder and anti-Semitism as national policy.
The new generation is not learning love, but absorbing copious amounts of evil.
Unless the tide turns, the planet is in for a world of pain.
Oh, sorry, I forgot, the pain has already arrived and love has left the building.
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The series “Postcards from America—Postcards from Israel” by Ari Bussel and Norma Zager is a compilation of articles capturing the essence of life in America and Israel during the first two decades of the 21st Century.
The writers invite readers to view and experience an Israel and her politics through their eyes, Israel visitors rarely discover.
This point—and often—counter-point presentation is sprinkled with humor and sadness and attempts to tackle serious and relevant issues of the day. The series began in 2008, appears both in print in the USA and on numerous websites and is followed regularly by readership from around the world.
© “Postcards from America — Postcards from Israel,” April, 2011 Contact: bussel@me.com
First Published April 11, 2011
“Actions speak louder than words” never fails to show the Truth.
So, all I have to do to shut down debate on any given subject (in my favor) is to label my opponent a “hater?” That’s it?
That’s what the Dems do all the time!
Love is strong as death. - Song of Solomon 8:6
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