On this past Sunday, I spent some of it watching this TV series on PBS. I found it fascinating, learning more and more about the Jews, than I ever had before.
I know that I wrote about how Israel belonged to the Jews because of the Holocaust. And Schama stated that as well, reminding us that the governments of the world at that time wasted so much time, of which they could have saved so many more Jewish lives, if they had not waited so long.
Which is true. I have heard the people were tired of war, after WWI, but even so, if we had not intervened, we would be speaking German right now.
Whole Jewish communities were obliterated during the pogroms in Eastern Europe during and after WWI. There were times and places where the Jews had relative peace, but eventually something bad would happen and the Jews would be scapegoated again.
The first ghetto was created in Venice for the Jews. They were enslaved in Egypt during Moses' time. They wee kicked out of Spain during the Inquisition. They were conquered by multiple empires in Biblical times.
So much has happened to the Jews and yet they still exist. As God promised, they cannot be completely wiped out. Other people groups have come and gone, but the Jews have and will exist forever.
Nevertheless, after the Roman Empire, they never had a home. The British Empire envisioned a home for them in the turn of the century, the Victorian Age. But they also envisioned an independent Palestine for the Arabs at the same time. Thus, it was inevitable that there would be war in Israel.
Even so, the Jews were willing to fight for it. After WWII, when the Jews came home, they were still shuffled around by the British military. They found resistance from the Palestinians.
Yet, they are a resilient people, not willing, not ready to give up.
So I still say, after all they have suffered, the least we can do is let them have their home.
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