This is acceptable to most people in the United States for at least two reasons that you may not have considered.

First, Jews are the ancient holy ones of Christianity, the dominant religion of the United States. The Christian messiah is listed in the Christian Bible as being a Jew. In fact, most of the characters in the Christian Bible are listed as being Jews. Christians often consider Jews to have been “chosen” by the Christian deity and to be therefore infallible. This is also a convenient fit with with the forgein policy of the United States.

Second, by being the successful aggressor since 1948, and in the process overwhelming and displacing the previous (or “native”) population, Israel has earned the admiration of many people in the United States. That is, after all, how the people of the United States came to dominate the area of North America presently called the “United States”.

It is mind-boggling, if not mind-shattering, to know that the same people in my circle of fairly close interactions, are, this week, marching in the streets, supporting organizations and cultures that seek not only to eliminate Israel but also seek the elimination of every Jew on the face of the earth (or, if we are lucky, the dimi-ization of Jews and other infidels.)’ The big news just a few years ago was the discovery of maps of the Mideast that did not include Israel. The bigger discovery by the public has yet to be made with the map that includes only the worldwide Umma with countries considered ‘infidels,’ conquered, converted or eliminated.

I doubt if anyone of my circle of acquaintances believes they are marching to support my own, or my family’s Daniel Pearl style butchery by Palestinians or the Islamists that have supplied them with weapons tunneled into Gaza. I am, however, absolutely convinced that these marches and protests are a clear and unequivocal support, not only for what my circle of friends and acquaintances believe to be the ‘human rights’ of Palestinians, who are seen as the helpless victims of the “Israeli siege,” but also for the eventual ‘return’ to the world Umma, wherein me and my family are either ritually slaughtered or are forced to live as semi-citizens under a totalitarian religious rule.

Unfortunately, what I also strongly believe, and what my circle of colleagues and acquaintances choose to ignore, is that their heads and families will most certainly be next, as the illusion that if “Israel goes away,’ the ‘conflict’ will go away, is just that, an illusion. Once Israel is off the map, the next map redrawing will be missing London, Paris, New York and so on. The only solution to the ‘conflict’ will be the eventual rule of Islamist tyranny and the elimination of the infidels, Jew and non-Jew alike.

The other evening, I had the privilege of speaking with a German Jew, a woman in her 80’s or 90’s who clearly recounted how, while in her 20’s, she ’saw the signs’ at the beginning of Hitler’s rise to power. Her awareness that evil was rising and that things were going to get worse brought her to act by leaving the country and migrating to the United States.

I asked this lovely lady a question that has nagged at me for most of my life - why did most Jews stay in Germany? Didn’t these Jews, and their friends and acquaintances who loved them, realize what was going on? The woman gazed downward through intensely clear eyes, thought for a moment, and then said “everyone was sleeping.”

My deepest wish for the New Year is that we all wake up before it’s too late because this time, the threat is as real as it was before, except this time, it’s worldwide, with no safe haven left to escape.

Zach