Weekly Warning Words

     All Arab, other Moslem nations and professional anti-Semites worldwide have condemned Zionism and Zionists for several decades in the forum of the United Nations and in a prejudiced press. Most segregationists and terrorists have declared the people of Israel racists and terrorists without being rebuked a lot by historians and Bible lovers in our age. Only a few lovers of truth have tried to defend Israel and its citizens as a state where tolerance of all cults and religions is highly honored and protected.

     Zion was the fortress of King David. He bought the temple area from the former conquerors as did his ancestors the areas of Bethlehem and Beer Sheva. No wonder that Jews, driven out many times by greater conquerors, longed to return to their natural homes. No matter how often Jews of Judah and Israel were destroyed, thousands kept hiding underneath caves and cellars in Zion, Jerusalem, and all other smaller settlements.

     Every confessing Jew in exile celebrated his Passover by stressing the ideal "Next year in Jerusalem" as the center idea of Judaism. Therefore, it was no wonder that persecuted Russian Jews of Odessa Kharkov and Kiev separated from other "Lovers of Land" by calling themselves "Lovers of Zion". Since their congress at Basel, they used the term Zionists as an expression of their love for Zion as their true home. There is history, culture and poetry in the word even if maligned by slanderers and calumniators who try to make it sound ugly like their hatred.

     Actually, modern Zionism was invented and celebrated by the great and once fashionable George Eliot, Ms. Evans, in her sensational best seller "Daniel Deronda." Theodor Herzl was less sure of his love of Zion than the lady who started life and school in pietistic England before she found all her un-Christian feelings which developed into masterful novels.

      For 2 millennia and a half, have Hebrews, Judaeans, Israelis been persecuted in their country and often nearly exterminated. But the cave-like cellars of their stone homes and the many hollows in mountains and hills offered thousands of spaces for poor and hungry survivalists. And thousands more of Jewish pilgrims couldn't be held back in exile. Throughout ages, they preferred to die or be murdered in their homeland instead elsewhere by Christians or Moslems.

     When Jesus celebrated the Passover like any other Jew, his words "This is my blood" and "This is my flesh" gave assassins the guidance they didn't really need. Those who blame His people for the death He sought, in order to fulfill what Jewish prophets had feared would happen to God's own people are anti-Zionists, prevaricators and nihilists in Bible studies. In ancient times, those anti-Zionists were power-hungry individuals. Since Emperor Constantine and Mohammed their true-believers tended to hate and slander every descendant of Jesus's people. Dogmatists know only themselves as true, faithful and loyal to their cult. The "unbelievers" are hated for being different and persecuted from here to eternity. If they did believe in their Bible, they would believe like Moses that the children must not be made responsible for the sins of their fathers, and that it is a religious crime to condemn descendants after hundred generations for what may have happened 2000 years ago. However, civilized people don't have to get their cue from sensationalist falsifications or artful documentation by hateful characters without character.

     To everyone's surprise, Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell of the Christian Coalition seem to have become the most fervent Zionists and actual protectors of Israel-Zion. Whatever their motivation, they pay sturdy Russians who despair of their present country to solidify Zionist strength and determination. Even if most of them don't know about their roots, are not religious or not even related to Jews, those warrior-descendants will defend Israel against pious murderers and other suicidal bombers.

     Two Arabs who have important positions in the Jewish Kibbntz Maagan Michael told us that "they" were the first who sent a medical mission to help Kossovo Moslems. Their people adopted 100 stateless Moslems from the Balkan war zone. Instead of betraying Israelis to their Arab Moslem-cobelievers, they now are a strong defence unit during Jewish holidays and are most appreciative of Jewish or Israeli culture, humanism and multitudinous talents for a peaceful development - as soon as the oceans of hatred and murderous religiosity is ebbing away. If more Arabs learned that their future could be paradisical on earth if they joined the lovers of Zion, there didn't have to remain this pious roadblock to peace, cooperation and human understanding.

Week 26 - March 17, 2004 - Jews Everywhere

March 10, 2004 - Week 25 - Who is a Zionist?

BY DR. BRUNO J. KEITH