Thank you for posting. I’m interested in your thoughts to what I’m about to say. First, I’m an American Jew. I was raised in a very religious conservative household. My heritage is Ashkenazi. Our place in this world has always ridden on a razors edge. I’m here today due to my grandfather and his brothers daring escape from Poland taking a young woman with them who became my grandmother. Those three were the only survivors of two families with a long and rich lineage and nearly 70 living family members. One great uncle survived the camps but died in the war after Israel was given back to its indigenous population after WWII. American Jews are known to be proud of our history and traditions and yet the lessons thrust upon us by every government we have ever been citizens of has escaped us. Most American Jews do not accept the fact that our existence, simply due to our numbers compared to others, is still riding on a razors edge. The amount of people in the US protesting today for this self proclaimed “day of jihad” is astounding. I’ve never felt more vulnerable within the numbers game than watching these people here and elsewhere chanting for our deaths. I’ve always personally felt responsible to G-d, my family and to the sacrifices and efforts of my grandfather to protect myself and my family at any cost. I am nearly alone in that endeavor in the US. I joined the Army as a paratrooper in 84. I did everything I could to dispel the stereotypes of Jews while maintaining and never hiding my Jewishness. I committed my focus and everything I am to becoming a warrior. In 1992 I passed the selection and qualification to become a Green Beret and I have fought in every theater of war the US has been in since Panama. I switched teams within 7th Special Forces Group in order to deploy and fight as much as I possibly could in the global war on terror. I denied promotion so I could stay on a team and fight until my wounds, injuries and mental stamina forced me to retire in 2010. Never again is said within our community with tears running down cheeks. But few take the responsibility to ensure never again means exactly that. Never again cannot mean anything unless we, personally and individually relearn our skills as warriors and are willing to fight, physically fight against anyone who tries. My belief has always been it’s better to make those who even think about it shudder at the thought rather than cry and hope it never happens again. The only place we can go to have the numbers of actual warriors is Israel. At the beginning of the video you stated we now need to really think about “our role in society and the ripple effect of our actions”. As a whole I believe our roll in society has been an example for law abiding, productive members of society. Do you believe, as I do and as I’ve lived by, that we as Jews re-examine our roll for the necessity to take personal responsibility to ensure we have the ability, mentality, strength of body and character as well as the willingness to fight for our survival? I use the gun control aspect as an example. Yes, we are scholars and we desire peace as the principle to live by. Yet given the history I’ve mentioned few Jews fight for or seem to understand the importance to be allowed to maintain weaponry so, if need be and are forced to not live in peace we can fight anyone including a government, should it become necessary. I’ve been face to face and intimate with the type of people who can burn children alive and dance in celebration while they do it. There can’t ever be peace with people who love death as much as we love live. This attack should sadly be the death of the innocence of those who have not seen who it is we are up against as well as the thousands who march in support of what they do. I pray this opens the eyes of those Jews who’ve been able to avoid the harsh reality of our place in this world. I once saw a picture of a dark, damp, cold underground shelter a family of Jews lived in for over a year during the holocaust. What struck me and brought tears to my eyes was not the conditions this mother, father and children had to live in. It was the fresh flowers in a vase sitting on a crate in this very cold, inhospitable environment. We Jews love life. All life. We celebrate it vigorously through deeds, dance and songs. We have our standards and we don’t demand anyone live by them to reap the benefits of a well lived life. All we want is to live. We should all be willing to fight to protect that if not for ourselves for our most precious gifts, our children.
Thank you for posting. I’m interested in your thoughts to what I’m about to say. First, I’m an American Jew. I was raised in a very religious conservative household. My heritage is Ashkenazi. Our place in this world has always ridden on a razors edge. I’m here today due to my grandfather and his brothers daring escape from Poland taking a young woman with them who became my grandmother. Those three were the only survivors of two families with a long and rich lineage and nearly 70 living family members. One great uncle survived the camps but died in the war after Israel was given back to its indigenous population after WWII. American Jews are known to be proud of our history and traditions and yet the lessons thrust upon us by every government we have ever been citizens of has escaped us. Most American Jews do not accept the fact that our existence, simply due to our numbers compared to others, is still riding on a razors edge. The amount of people in the US protesting today for this self proclaimed “day of jihad” is astounding. I’ve never felt more vulnerable within the numbers game than watching these people here and elsewhere chanting for our deaths. I’ve always personally felt responsible to G-d, my family and to the sacrifices and efforts of my grandfather to protect myself and my family at any cost. I am nearly alone in that endeavor in the US. I joined the Army as a paratrooper in 84. I did everything I could to dispel the stereotypes of Jews while maintaining and never hiding my Jewishness. I committed my focus and everything I am to becoming a warrior. In 1992 I passed the selection and qualification to become a Green Beret and I have fought in every theater of war the US has been in since Panama. I switched teams within 7th Special Forces Group in order to deploy and fight as much as I possibly could in the global war on terror. I denied promotion so I could stay on a team and fight until my wounds, injuries and mental stamina forced me to retire in 2010. Never again is said within our community with tears running down cheeks. But few take the responsibility to ensure never again means exactly that. Never again cannot mean anything unless we, personally and individually relearn our skills as warriors and are willing to fight, physically fight against anyone who tries. My belief has always been it’s better to make those who even think about it shudder at the thought rather than cry and hope it never happens again. The only place we can go to have the numbers of actual warriors is Israel. At the beginning of the video you stated we now need to really think about “our role in society and the ripple effect of our actions”. As a whole I believe our roll in society has been an example for law abiding, productive members of society. Do you believe, as I do and as I’ve lived by, that we as Jews re-examine our roll for the necessity to take personal responsibility to ensure we have the ability, mentality, strength of body and character as well as the willingness to fight for our survival? I use the gun control aspect as an example. Yes, we are scholars and we desire peace as the principle to live by. Yet given the history I’ve mentioned few Jews fight for or seem to understand the importance to be allowed to maintain weaponry so, if need be and are forced to not live in peace we can fight anyone including a government, should it become necessary. I’ve been face to face and intimate with the type of people who can burn children alive and dance in celebration while they do it. There can’t ever be peace with people who love death as much as we love live. This attack should sadly be the death of the innocence of those who have not seen who it is we are up against as well as the thousands who march in support of what they do. I pray this opens the eyes of those Jews who’ve been able to avoid the harsh reality of our place in this world. I once saw a picture of a dark, damp, cold underground shelter a family of Jews lived in for over a year during the holocaust. What struck me and brought tears to my eyes was not the conditions this mother, father and children had to live in. It was the fresh flowers in a vase sitting on a crate in this very cold, inhospitable environment. We Jews love life. All life. We celebrate it vigorously through deeds, dance and songs. We have our standards and we don’t demand anyone live by them to reap the benefits of a well lived life. All we want is to live. We should all be willing to fight to protect that if not for ourselves for our most precious gifts, our children.
I dont think fulfillment is a factor in getting PTSD…nor patriotism. The book sounds really interesting! Awesome presentation
Shalom, I am even more horrified hearing Europe already beginning to turn
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So theses guys were like the Jewish Hamas?