Imagine This:
All the lost souls. Jews recall the Holocaust, and mourn the six million men, women and children lost in a deliberate mass murder of unprecedented intent and proportion. Six million men and women of all ages. Including children of all ages whom fate decreed would never grow to adulthood. With their deaths the world lost countless potential additional lives, many of which, apart from sharing the wonder inherent in life on earth and our place in nature, may well have become singular individuals on the world stage, capable of gifting society at large with the results of their life's work.This one spectacular intent, to cleanse the world of its Jewish population, and its partial success, shouts out to us of humankind's utter degredation, yet speaks soft volumes to us of the wondrous ability of survivors to exist on little else but hope and perseverence.
These are the same human emotions which Jews within the State of Israel demonstrate daily in their determination to turn events to their favour for survival, surrounded by a demonstrably hostile population countless times in excess of their own slender population. But the people of Israel, through its leaders' careful decisions and the courage of the population have manged to demonstrate to the world that they intend to stay, to flourish, and if the fates permit, to assist their neighbours to prosper where and when possible.
The entire Jewish population of the State of Israel numbers approximately that of the population of Jews from across Europe who perished in the Holocaust. But the six million who now populate the State of Israel are as determined to live life to its fullest in the security of their own country as many of their neighbours are to dislodge them geographically.
They have the memory of their predecessors, those whose lives were taken from them, to encourage their determination, they have pride of history, culture and collective intelligence, to hope and to anticipate a future of security. They will succeed.
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, April 26, 2006
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