I grew up in the post WW ll era. My father had served in the infantry. What I knew of the Holocaust was not from history books...it was from newsreels. It was still considered "current events".
If my mother caught something about the concentration camps on television...she would stop me from viewing it. It was too horrible for a child to see, she reasoned. But I did see...plenty of images that stayed with me. And I wondered...how that could have happened. How...why...anyone...would hate someone so much just because they were Jewish. I couldn't understand...but I knew it was real.
There were real monsters in the world...and Adolph Hitler was one of them. He was gone by the time I was old enough to understand what he did... but wondered in my child's mind, if there were others. Was Hitler the only monster? Why was he so cruel. How could that have happened to people?
"Couldn't we stop it?", I asked my daddy. "We, did, baby...we did"...he would answer...but he would never elaborate.
And I would wonder...if it happened again...would we stop it...again? Then I would go out to play feel safe and know...that we would. My daddy would. He did before...and he would again if he had to. But I could never get the "why" out of my head.
Why...why oh why would...could...anyone do such horrible things to the Jews...just because they were Jewish. It made no sense to me and it frightened me to think about.
And then I was in what is now called middle school. I had a history teacher that was at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked. She believed that she would die that day. When she taught us about Pearl Harbor...it was from her memory...her experience. Not a dusty, uninteresting book. She had lived it. She had our attention. I learned...about other monsters. Ones that would send their leader to shake your hand in a peace treaty while they bombed your people in a sneak attack. Cowards.
In English class...we were assigned "The Diary of Anne Frank" to read. We were shown the news reels my mother had not let me see when I was little. Piles of human bodies... Nazi soldiers treating human beings worse than cattle being butchered. Starving people with dark eyes that pleaded for mercy as they gazed into the lens of the camera. I was shocked. And once again...I felt the fear that I had felt as a child. Were there more monsters? Did we get them all? Could it happen again? Surely we were more civilized now...surely no one could have so much hate against a group of people ever again... but I was wrong. It is happening again.
I have seen more hatred expressed against the Jews in the last year than I have in all my life...in all the movies, books and history lessons...I have never read or heard the things I am hearing now. They are being said by Muslim clerics and taught to little children in the most horrible way I have ever imagined.
You may say, "Oh, those are just the radical Muslims"... I tell you now...you are wrong. Every Muslim believes the Koran and this is what the Koran teaches.
Folks...this is a hard video to watch...but I encourage you to watch it to the end...to the very end.
The monster...hates...the Jews, because they are God's chosen people.
My daddy is gone now...but I am here...and you are here. And we must stop this monster again...
The monster is hatred...unreasonable, mind blinding hatred of the people that the Bible says are God's chosen...God's beloved... and the apple of His eye.
Wonder then, where that hatred is coming from...if our God...Yahweh...so loves the Jewish people... then who is Allah...who bears his teeth against them and rages like a taunted animal? Who deceives the world to hate..."The people of the Book"...as Jews and Christians are called?
The Book is the Torah...and the Old and New Testement of the Bible.
The people of the Book worship Yahweh, and His Son Jesus Christ. Allah wants them destroyed.
Yes...the Jews are "The People of the Book" as am I. And once again, if need be...Christians and Jews will stand together against the hate driven monster. Shalom...Kate~
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