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It is hard for me to recognize the planet. I am pasting below a very moving emotional article I just read that bears on this and similar Substacks and their mission.
Why post it here? Read his title – Once I Was a Peace Advocate. Now I Have No Idealism Left.
The mantra of hate and kill is exploding on this planet. It is a malignant metastasizing spiritual cancer that, if do not recognize it, and dispose of it, will ultimately kill or subjugate everyone on this planet. I could easily say, “Once I was an alternative medicine advocate. Not I have no idealism left”
We are a planetary people allowing scapegoating, blame and persecution rather than picking ourselves up by the bootstraps and taking care of ourselves. Of course, governments are fomenting this and discouraging self-reliance. Those of us who did not get vaxxed were ostracized, shunned, blamed for the pandemic spread, and cursed to HELL for not doing so. And are STILL being ridiculed despite the truth gradually emerging about the vaccine hoax and the disease emergence. Those of us who have practiced alternative medicine have been held to a far higher standard than those participating in the mass murder of humans at the hands of Pharma. We hurt one person, or a supplement hurts one person, and it makes international news. But “THEY” can deliberately murder hundreds of thousands. With COVID, “THEY” did it to us, and to divert Truth, “THEY” put out nothing but smokescreens.
In the case of terror, Israel has been blamed for causing the mass debauchery of another group of people, who happen to be lucky enough to have the Elites of the world eager to foment division for war, mayhem and destruction. If and when Israel is destroyed, the blame, scapegoating, and wretchedness will not end. The Romans fed Christians to the lions. The Christians massacred Moslems in the Crusades. Protestants and Catholics murdered each other in Ireland. In Iran, it is open season on those of the Bahai faith. In Eastern Europe, there was a horrible war between Christians and Moslems after the fall of Yugoslavia. In our own country, racial tensions are fed and fires stoked. There are evil agendas behind all of this, which most people could never consider. For example, I could not bring myself to believe in child death cults until the past few years. What really happened on Epstein’s Lolita Island? In the meantime, despite Britain slaughtering Indians in massacres, Gandhi prevailed in toppling the world’s greatest colonial power without killing anyone!
In medicine, those speaking out against the evil are killed. If not violently, their licenses are taken, which is death in another form. I am speaking from experience here.
Ronald Reagan summed it up well when said "Government isn't the solution to the problem, government is the problem. And the leaders of governments around the world, INCLUDING ISRAEL, have sold their souls. We saw it here with the 911 genocide and cover up. (Please see my recent podcast with Richard Gage). Israel now has its own 911. And this one threatens to spill out and consume the entire Middle East in an inferno, if people do not awaken.
I cannot believe that the government of Israel did not know about what was coming down. It is impossible. Just as it is impossible that three buildings in NYC came straight down, including one that was not struck by a plane. The bastards that set up 911 got what they wanted. The Patriot Act and endless war. The same bastards are involved in the Middle East, in my humble opinion, and what will be the result? False flags and endless war. The methods are always the same. And, in medicine, it is endless disease, arising from a false flag, like COVID. All connected.
To the best on my knowledge, the Jews are one of the few people on the planet who have not killed in the name of ethnicity or religion. Yet in modern times, millions upon millions of them have been butchered in the name of religion or ethnic cleansing. And, the world stood by. If it does so again, debauchery will not end with the slaughter of this few thousand.
Genocide is ratcheting up and governments are openly involved by forcing vaccines.
I reached out to an Israeli colleague this morning. From Israel, he told me he attempted to bring ozone to the government there for COVID. He was rebuffed over and over. Why? Because Israel was conducting studies on the alleged vaccine and other treatments and the introduction of ozone might disrupt the plans, just like the introduction of ozone for Ebola in Sierra Leone would have put a splinter in the eye of Big Pharma. Now he is dealing with lots of genetic jabbed injured Israelis like we have to deal with in America.
Years ago, I dated a lovely Black Jewish woman. I wonder if she could have ever imagined this from an organization that is named “Black Lives Matter”:
What about Jewish lives, Gypsy lives, Christian lives, Hindu lives, Buddhist lives, etc? One black man chased for criminal activity was killed (horrible) and mayhem is stoked. And you stoke annihilation of the victims after more than a thousand innocents, including babies are butchered? How would you feel seeing: “I stand with the KKK?” A lynching and arson mob. What do you say to the American Jews who suffered persecution for decades, who then did all they could for others who were discriminated against?
I have not seen this organization calling for the murder of all the people who stole the lands of aboriginal Americans and demanding the return of said land. BLM has their establishments on such “stolen” lands, and many of aboriginal Americans live in poverty.
I have not given up, and have not done so because of you! Please read the very moving piece below. It is a message of our times. A Leftist got “woken” up. My message is “ALL LIVES MATTER”, including innocent Palestinians, used as human shields by their ruthless RULERS.
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Peace and safety be with you.
Robert Jay Rowen, MD
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October 13, 2023
Once, I Was a Peace Advocate. Now, I Have No Idealism Left.
After terrorists killed my cousin Daniel Pearl, my family called for peace. But after the worldwide celebration of our people’s slaughter, my hope for peace is dead.
The story I’m about to tell is one that many progressive Jews can relate to. In some ways, it’s a prototypical arc of a diaspora Jew who has always advocated for nuance. This week, something broke in us. We watched history repeat itself. Not just on the global scale, with the wanton massacre of our people, the savage mass murders and dismemberments of entire families and communities. But for many, my family included, history is repeating itself on a personal level as well.
In March 2003, I turned 13 and celebrated my bar mitzvah in Walnut Creek, California. By Jewish tradition, I became a man. But the ceremony felt redundant; I had already grown up. Only one year earlier, my older cousin, Daniel Pearl, an investigative journalist for The Wall Street Journal,was kidnapped and beheaded by Islamist jihadis while on assignment in Pakistan.
His killers, like the Hamas killers of last weekend, proudly released a video documenting Danny’s murder. Among Danny’s last words were, “My father is Jewish. My mother is Jewish. I am Jewish.” At first, I was in shock—how had my own cousin become a player in such a large international nightmare? Why did people get murdered simply for being who they are? In this case, for being Jewish?
Danny’s parents did not call for revenge. Instead they set up The Daniel Pearl Foundation that offers fellowships, sponsors cross-cultural music events (Danny was a gifted musician), and brings people together to improve the world. Even after what my family had been through, their work encouraged me to be idealistic and believe that the Jewish people could make peace with our neighbors. I became a fierce advocate for peace.
When I immigrated to Israel at the age of 18 and enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces, I was still driven by ideals. I thought I could promote more goodwill with our Palestinian neighbors. Serving in a combat unit based on the Gaza border, I witnessed the release of the kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, held for five years by Hamas, when his freedom was exchanged for more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners. One for 1,000. Despite my many criticisms of the Israeli government, I recognized then how much Israel valued the life of every soldier.
The late journalist Daniel Pearl
On my rare free weekend, I spent my time at Kibbutz Be’eri. Because I was a “lone soldier”—that is, an immigrant without much close family in Israel—I was given a host family. They treated me like a son, including teasing me relentlessly for choosing to come to Israel and serve, whereas most Israelis have no choice. They were politically left, just like me. Despite rockets often raining down on them, they believed in peace, just like me. This week, when the terrorists came, ideals didn’t make a difference.
I watched the news in horror as terrorists massacred over 100 people at Kibbutz Be’eri. Women. Children. I frantically messaged my host family and heard nothing back. Like my cousin Danny years ago, my family was being held hostage. The good news: unlike Danny, my host family at Kibbutz Be’eri was saved. They are physically okay. But how can they really be okay, after watching their friends and neighbors being slaughtered?
There was a time when these types of events couldn’t shake my ideals. I used to argue relentlessly for a two-state solution. I fought bitterly with Israeli friends about the decency of the Palestinian people. Even though radical Islamists had murdered my cousin, even though civilians had been blown up in buses daily during the Second Intifada, I refused to give in to nihilism.
In 2012, I returned to the States to study film at University of Southern California, and published a book about my military service that criticized the Israeli government. This didn’t win me many friends, but I continued to advocate for nuance regardless. I proudly supported Black Lives Matter, LGBTQIA+, and feminist causes. I called myself a progressive Jew.
But over the years, I noticed a disturbing trend: With all the atrocities in the world, why did my social justice warrior friends hate Israel so disproportionately? Why did it feel like intersectionality excluded Jews? Why did the left—who supposedly stood up for human rights—put child-murdering Hamas terrorists on a pedestal?
At first, I thought it must be miseducation.
“Ah, they think Palestinians are the indigenous people. I’ll show that Jewish history, and the archaeology to prove it, dates back millennia.”
“Ah, they think we’re white colonizers. I’ll show how many Jews are people of color, including those who are Mizrahi, Sephardi, and Ethiopian.”
“Ah, they’ll get it once I show them that there are fifty Muslim countries, and only one Jewish state.”
But my friends weren’t interested in correcting their misunderstandings.
I agreed that the settlements were unlawful, that Gaza was a humanitarian crisis, that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyuahu was a dictator. I assumed—if I cared enough, if I mourned for the Palestinian dead, if I put nuance above all else—our neighbors and their allies would give us the same decency.
How wrong I was. This past week, as over 1,300 Jews were slaughtered, the most murderous attack on Jews since the Holocaust, I saw the true face of Palestinians and their allies. All around the world, they celebrate. They gloat. They mock our tears. They do not protest against Hamas. They embrace pure evil.
And so, to the terrorists I now say:
When you killed my family, I forgave you. When you killed my people, I forgave you. But when you killed my idealism, I had no forgiveness left.
To non-Jewish friends who have reached out, thank you. It is simply the human thing to do. To friends who dare justify what has happened, you are not friends. You are nothing but Nazi supporters dressed up in leftist intellectual language. To the Palestinians: you have lost all moral authority to claim victimhood. I will never advocate for you again. To my family, friends in Israel, and Jews around the world hurting right now, I love you. Stay safe.
In Berlin, where I live today with my German-Ukrainian Jewish wife, Germans love to say “Never Again.” Right now, Never Again is happening again in real time, livestreamed for the whole world to see. I find myself looking up my military number in case the IDF reserves call for me. Unlike our enemy, I feel no joy at the prospect of going to war. But if our people’s existence is at stake, I will do what I must. I will be the world’s favorite villain: the Jew who has the audacity to defend his people.
Ilan Benjamin is the founder of FourFront, a social media entertainment business; an award-winning filmmaker; and the author of Masa: Stories of a Lone Soldier. Follow him on Twitter (now X): @ilanibenjamin.
Idolatry strikes deep. All nation states are idols of a tribe. We forget the concept of idolatry. Fromm did not. Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult...Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.” ― Erich Fromm
"... governments are fomenting this and discouraging self-reliance."
Please... in your own mind, break through the indurated tumor that is the belief in 'government' as being a legitimate, moral and necessary institution. It is not. In any way, shape or form. Government is inherently immoral, illegitimate, unjust. It attracts the worst of humanity into its ranks. It kills creativity, ingenuity, efficiency and progress. The relationship of a government to its 'subjects' is a blatant master-slave relationship.
Study this when you have the time. Very enlightening:
https://www.mensenrechten.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/the-most-dangerous-superstition-larken-rose-20111.pdf
Voluntaryism is the true, legitimate and highest social structure for an evolved, spiritual people.
http://voluntaryist.com/fundamentals/introduction.html