Where is Home

June 8, 2010

Longtime White House scribe Helen Thomas fired after declaring that Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine" and go back to Germany and Poland.

There is no Hell and there is no Palestine, but there are anti-Semites; the Zohar-Book of Secret says, the eyes and ears are open to the world, but the mouth works only from free will. What is hidden in the heart is revealed through the mouth.

Helen Thomas said what many people think-the Jewish People are not indigenous to the Middle East, which is not true. Though Palestinians are not Arab they are on the most part Muslim. Billions of Muslims against 15 million Jews, half of which are in Israel.

In the long history of the Middle East there was never a Palestine; 2000 years ago after destroying the Temple in Jerusalem and scattering the Jewish People into the diaspora Rome changed the name of Israel to Palestine in remembrance to our ancient enemy–but, it was only in name and never in governance.

Ignorant intellectuals like Helen Thomas muddy the waters. The Jewish People have a genetic fingerprint and it is not from Europe. If the Arab People would accept the Jewish People as brother there would be no problem in sharing the Middle East and no need for violence.

The Curse of the Car

NYT—The White House on Sunday pushed out the chairman of General Motors and instructed Chrysler to form a partnership with the Italian automaker Fiat within 30 days as conditions for receiving another much-needed round of government aid.

A Rebbe a century ago remarked: you should do everything at least once just for the experience with the exception of driving a car; seems the Rebbe did not like cars. Perhaps it was not the car which was repugnant to the Rebbe, but the manner in which the car is massed produced.

Henry Ford, a known anti-Semite and inventor of the assembly line, was famous for saying: why do I need to hire a man when all I need is his hand. That curse has extended into all parts of society where one can sell their brain, their ability—the thing they love most for a buck.

Now the question is whether there is enough good in this complicated dehumanizing apparatus to justify continuation.