Tomorrow celebrates the first recorded attempted genocide.
Of course it was to be practiced upon the most popular of all genocidal victims.
A dream of that ancient father of HAMAS, a removed son of the kings of Amalek (the first foe to attack the people of Israel after they had come out of Egypt as a free nation who were defeated finally in the time of David, and a nation in the south and to the south of Gaza), Haman planned to use the forces of Xerxes, just prior to his great invasion which resulted in Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea, to kill all the jews in exile in Persia.
He failed and we have the holiday of Purim as a result. A holiday, of course, the jews even today, have been accused of using children's blood, to sweeten the cakes (Hamantaschen) with.
But as a result of the perceived trampling of the 'waqf' of Amalek, this first 'humiliation', and 'nakba', generated as it seems to have always done since, the typical reaction across 2500 years.
If you are jewish, the truth I have learned since 2001 is this:
It will never be over.
Of course it was to be practiced upon the most popular of all genocidal victims.
A dream of that ancient father of HAMAS, a removed son of the kings of Amalek (the first foe to attack the people of Israel after they had come out of Egypt as a free nation who were defeated finally in the time of David, and a nation in the south and to the south of Gaza), Haman planned to use the forces of Xerxes, just prior to his great invasion which resulted in Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea, to kill all the jews in exile in Persia.
He failed and we have the holiday of Purim as a result. A holiday, of course, the jews even today, have been accused of using children's blood, to sweeten the cakes (Hamantaschen) with.
But as a result of the perceived trampling of the 'waqf' of Amalek, this first 'humiliation', and 'nakba', generated as it seems to have always done since, the typical reaction across 2500 years.If you are jewish, the truth I have learned since 2001 is this:
It will never be over.
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I probably mentioned this before, but I used to hang out with my friends at the YM/YWHA when I was a kid. One year we won the booth prize at the Purim carnival. It's hard to describe but it involved chicken wire and about two dozen boxes of pink facial tissue.
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