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Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Amnesty International Pretends It Can Provide a "Safe Space" for the Jews (Judean Rose)


The other day I read that some yokel named “Paul O’Brien” thinks Israel shouldn’t exist as a Jewish state. Which is interesting, because I’ve never heard of the guy, so who cares what he thinks? Personally, I think that people who think that Israel shouldn’t exist as a Jewish state, shouldn’t exist.

Paul O’Brien is apparently some sort of an icon for the hard, Jew-hating left as head of Amnesty International USA—even if no one else has ever heard of him. (I certainly haven’t.) He’s probably getting much more attention than he should at the moment, especially from Jews, regarding his response when told of a survey in which most American Jews said they identify as pro-Israel:

“I believe my gut tells me that what Jewish people in this country want is to know that there’s a sanctuary that is a safe and sustainable place that the Jews, the Jewish people can call home.”

O’Brien’s “gut” didn’t tell him these things at all. Paul O’Brien, however, thinks that if he tells Jews that his gut tells him something, they will listen and believe him. Which is funny, because Paul O’Brien is a nonentity, a flash in the pan, a dumb little twit.

Paul O’Brien knows that Israel is not about having a safe space and it’s not about having something Jews can “call” home. It’s about a very particular piece of real estate and we don’t “call” it home. It actually IS home. And has been for thousands of years.

We think that’s pretty darned “sustainable.” Unlike Paul O’Brien. People like O’Brien—conniving, ugly-hearted people like O’Brien and Haman—have come and gone throughout the centuries. But guess what? The Jews are still here. Even though that grinds your gut, Paul O’Brien.

Paul O’Brien thinks he can cajole Jews into thinking that Israel is superfluous to them by warning them off and threatening them. When O’Brien tells Jews what they really need is a safe, sustainable place, what he’s telling them is that Israel never really belonged to them. According to O’Brien, the Jews only created Israel to be safe, but their presence in the land is not “sustainable,” which means they will never be safe if they try to stay in Israel. Because what Paul O’Brien really wants is to get the Jews the hell out of Israel so he can flood it with fake Arab refugees. Because hey, “Those nasty JEWS.”

He doesn’t even try hide it, Paul O’Brien. “I think they can be convinced over time that the key to sustainability is to adhere to what I see as core Jewish values which are to be principled and fair and just in creating that space.”

Aye yay yay. Everything “I” Paul O’Brien. Or should I say RABBI Paul O’Brien, since he clearly knows so much more than your average Chaim Yankel about core Jewish values. But no. Jews see what he did there.

By saying that Jewish values are to be “principled and fair and just,” O’Brien is saying that Jews are not being principled, fair, or just, in creating our “space,” meaning the Jewish State, which—as it happens, Paul O’Brien—was created on Jewish indigenous soil. We didn’t create or invent our history in the land or our religious imperative to live there. As Balfour and the League of Nations, as people who have actually read the bible, well knew.

In fact, I am sure that Paul O’Brien himself is familiar with the bible, and knows the truth. Israel has always belonged to the Jews. But in O’Brien’s Jew-hating little mind, Jews are an unprincipled lot, and so unfair in having created a Jewish State of Israel on Jewish land that Arabs want. That’s just not just, says “Paul O’Brien,” who insists on goy-splaining to us that we are going against our own religious principles, by insisting on living on land coveted by others, POC who only lately tried to claim it as their own.

What we have here in O’Brien’s statement is not a treatise on Jewish values, but a threat (emphasis added):

“I think they can be convinced over time that the key to sustainability is to adhere to what I see as core Jewish values which are to be principled and fair and just in creating that space.”

What Paul O’Brien did here was to say that the Jews will never be safe in Israel, that our presence there is unsustainable. O’Brien as much as said, “If you want to stay alive, you better do what I, Paul O’Brien say, and get the hell out of Israel.”

In case you haven’t, AS A JEW, absorbed his meaning, O’Brien is happy break it all down for you (emphasis added):

[Israel] shouldn’t exist as a Jewish state, [though Amnesty] takes no political views on any question, including the right of the State of Israel to survive.

In other words, Israel has no right to exist, but Amnesty will cover its butt by saying it has no particular view on whether or not Israel has a right to survive. Which kind of means Amnesty doesn’t think Israel has the right to survive. Which is pretty much a green light for Arab terrorists to do what terrorists do: kill Jews in order to remove them permanently from the Land of Israel—land that has always belonged to the Jewish people.

Look at it like this. You go to the Riviera for a month's vacation. You come back and strangers are in your house. But it’s your house. They don’t get to stay there, even if they’ve unpacked and settled in—lived there for an entire month. Their presence in your home is and remains actually illegal. It’s breaking and entering.

Of course, the Jews were not in the Riviera on vacation. We were expelled from our home. Numerous times. By foreigners who covet our land, having created new religions built on Jewish scripture that repaint reality and distort the truth: that Israel belongs to the Jews. That God gave the land to the Jews, and commands them to live there.

O’Brien however, not content with denying the Jews’ rightful presence in the land, and Jewish land rights, says Jews may have a right to self-determination, but not in Israel, where Jews, according to O’Brien, have no right to be. “The right of the people to self-determination and to be protected is without a doubt something that we believe in, and I personally believe that. We are opposed to the idea — and this, I think, is an existential part of the debate — that Israel should be preserved as a state for the Jewish people.”

O’Brien thinks all peoples have the right to self-govern, including Jews. It’s just that the Jews should not be in Israel, which should, in his opinion, not be Jewish. (Personally, I think Paul O’Brien shouldn’t be Irish. But what do I know?)

What Paul O’Brien needs to know is that the Jews aren’t going anywhere, and this time, the enemy will not vanquish us, no matter how much O’Brien would like them to off those effing Jews. We’ve built a powerful army to protect us from outsiders trying to take our land from us once again, outsiders who resort to violence against civilians, much as the Russians have done with Ukraine and to Ukrainians.

The Jews did not leave their home to vacation in the Riviera for a month. We were forced out of our land by strangers, and left to wander the inhospitable world. The truth is, there is no “safe space” for Jews. Even Israel is not safe for Jews. People like O’Brien and the organization he represents, ensure and perpetuate this truth and this lack of Jewish safety.

But O’Brien cannot pull the wool over our eyes. His false assurances are false. And anyway, we will never be convinced that our presence in Israel is somehow unprincipled, unjust, or unfair. We will never be convinced that Jerusalem is not ours. We will never be convinced that some random people can have our holy land. Because our ancient prayers and commandments tell us all day long that Israel is ours and we need to be there, no matter what.

No matter that “In each and every generation they rise up against us to destroy us.”

O’Brien perhaps forgot the next bit of that verse: “And the Holy One, blessed be He, rescues us from their hands,” as He did when we were enslaved in Egypt, as He did when Haman attempted the genocide of the Jewish people in Persia, as He did when the Greeks came into the land and outlawed the practice of Judaism.

O’Brien may have forgotten, but the Jews did not. We didn’t forget any of the times that Jews were attacked and forced to wander from place to place. We didn’t forget being expelled from our land, and returning again and again. We daily spoke of our return to the land, numerous times a day in our prayers, prayers that are in our ancient tongue, which we always retained.

The connection was never severed. And O’Brien will one day grow old and die and he will be gone. But the Jewish connection to the Land, and the Jewish presence in the Land, will continue. Whether O’Brien and his ilk, and the false claimants to the Land, like it or not.






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