Another false messiah

Jews are easily enticed and attracted to false messiahs. Maybe it is something held over from the days of the Golden Calf, maybe it is just the Jewish need to saved already. Israel has become just another false messiah for the Jews no different than Shabbatai Tzvi.

American and European Jews have been coerced into believing that they must sacrifice their cozy lives in the west for the backwards life of Israel. The Aliyah-revolution hopes to bring all the real Jews living in the USA, England and Canada to Israel using guilt and mitzvah tactics to convince us to give up our decent lives for the middle east. Jews feel proud dragging their crying children through Ben-Gurion airport smiling for the cameras and crying because they are finally "home". No, you are not home, you are in hell, there is a difference.

I would love to be a fly on the wall of during a family discussion over whether or not to make Aliyah. I wonder if parents even consult with their children about Aliyah? When the Nefesh B' Nefesh mafia plane lands there are usually families with tweenage children disembarking. Why would American Jewish parents who would not send their children off to fight in Iraq agree instead to force their kids to arbitrarily give up three years of his/her life to the Israeli military? Your children were born in America free to make their own life decisions. Now parents deny that to their children by moving to Israel and when they are 18 off to the army they go. Unlike their peers in America who are going to college and starting a life. Why would parents rip their well-established lives in America for the backwards society of Israel? Teens in America prepare their whole lives for the day they get to turn 18 now are forced to join an army of a country they were not even born in to fight a war they have nothing to do with and worse off if they do not go to combat then their parents have nothing to brag about. I always noticed that children of American immigrants tend to grow up to be a little "weird" in Israel, maybe this is why: BECAUSE THEY DO NOT BELONG THERE!

Some American parents (probably the same who complain about American crime rates) decide to move their children into the west bank so they may live in the front lines (of a war). I never understood how children can easily adjust from sleeping in the comfort of their American home, in their quiet neighborhood where they are free to roam about to the gunfire, terrorist swarming desert with military check points and bomb searches of Gaza and the West Bank? Sure parents, you can get used to it because you watch the news (unlike your small children who watch sesame street) and know what goes on there and you can remember from previous trips what it is like. No conversation with your kid, no matter how long, can prepare you kids for the horror of Israeli life. Where is your logic?

The Army! At age 18 all Israeli children miserably enter the army. Now remember, your children were born in America. The the only reason your children now have to go fight for a country they were not even born in, in a war they have nothing to do with, is because their selfish parents convinced them they had to and moved them there when they were 9 before they even had a say. Diaspora Jews have an obsession with the Israeli army for psychological reasons. You see, for centuries, since Jews rarely fought back, people began to perceive us cowards. Jews lived miserably with that stereyotype until the Israeli army came along. Everybody agrees Israeli soldiers are tough so in order to be considered tough they run and join the Israeli army and involve themselves in a conflict they have nothing to do with. All this to be considered bad ass. Nevermind Meyer Lansky, Buggsy Siegel, the Khazars, the hundreds of thousands of Jews who fought for America aganist real enemies like the Nazis. Israel has a military culture which appeals to us because we would and we would like our children to be 6'4 Israeli soldiers with bulging muscles and an M4 sadly we are not. Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews have always valued education and for us we are proud when our kid graduates from Med school. Israel created the Jewish military culture. So American Jews betray America like I did and run to Israel to fight in it's wars even though their war is as unjust and pathetic as America's.

When person who claims to be a messiah for the Jews (as opposed to messiahs who claim to be Christ) Jews have a strange tendency to believe it. Jesus Christ came following the destruction of the second temple to offer consolation to the broken spiritied Jews and became a messianic figure. Shabbatai Tzvi was considered the messiah, until he converted to Islam. I cannot understand why parents are willing to move their families away from the United States where their children can live freely and aquire a decent education to live in Israel where teachers spend half their year old strike and education poor. What is the logic of European and American Jews getting hysterical over Arabs living in America/Europe and yet move to a country surrounded by Arabs who hate that particular country and regularly terrorize it? Israel is not your home, the country you came from is.

Danny H!