The unedited journal entries I wrote as the attacks were still unfolding — before the dead had been counted, before the hostages were known, and before history found its narrative.
Thank you for this. It's painful to read, but necessary. Beautiful writing. I was in Israel at the time and it didn't hit us for a while.
My fear today- yes, we fear, Jews always feared, even in Ancient Israel, as conquerors from North and South raped the land- is the world. The West, more precisely. How blood thirsty it still revealed itself to be. Christendom? Islam? The same barbaric instincts that were never tamed by any of these " daughters " of Israel. The moral inversion, the collective madness, the scapegoat that is not allowed to escape, as its name indicates, as it was in Ancient Israel, but needs to be slaughtered like the other goat. Islam was meant to keep its believers as savage as its texts encourage and as their history and present life inspires them to be. The " Christians" were brutal pagans who never truly evolved, whose morals were imposed on them, and 2,000 years have not sufficed to civilise them truly.
That is the floor trembling under my feet .That realisation becomes an existential fear now. It was so unexpected, so stunning to discover, so soon after the Shoah. Israel weakened by internal division, as in the past. A terrible government. A population perhaps frightened as well, who might re -elect whoever promises security. Even fraudulently. Or money. " The people of forever is never afraid", tells the moving song. But it's not true. We fear. And yet, courage is precisely what propels us forward, in spite of the fear, which makes that courage necessary. So we survive.
How dare you lump Christians and savage Muslims on same dump hill of condemnation!. Do you know any terrorist Christians killing Jews anywhere in this world? Show me any where in the Bible where believers are commanded to kill Jews or even Muslims. So pls get your facts right- Christians have never been a threat to the Jews or the state of Israel. Our Savior Jesus chose the Jewish race to come through as a man. We love the Jews for salvation came through them. The whole world knows the ideology that threatens Jews and the rest of us too, and they will never succeed.
O, I dare. You should study the blood soaked history of Christianity. Two world wars, recently enough, Christians slaughtering Christians, close to 100million in less than thirty years. The horrors of Christian persecution and martyring of Jews. And of the " heresies". The worst of human nature under the thin veneer of self-righteousness and institutional Church domination. A " salvation" Jesus never intended. Jesus was as Israelite and as zealous for his Torah as they come. He dreamed of salvation on Earth, in an imminent Kingdom of God. He believed with complete faith, all the way to the crucifixion and his last breath, that God would intervene there and then, and lift Israel from Roman abuse, if Israel repented. Christendom never truly repented, and kept committing ghastly crimes again and again.
Study , educate yourself. Identity and tribe are not enough.
There will be no Christianity left, as things look now. The new Jew-hatred ( deceptively called anti-Zionism or Palestinianism) is born as much from Christian or formerly Christian people as it is from Islam. As soon as Jews are scapegoated, one knows something is terribly wrong with a civilisation. The Christian West is collapsing. Barbarism returns from all sides. Europe regresses , as Christian delusions no longer hold in a supposedly rational age, and then the " unconverted" brutality is again revealed, and its affinity with Muslim barbarism invites regression and submission to a primitive faith and political supremacist platform . Just as Christianity's supremacist status used to be.
" Terrorism" in Islam is a very thin fig leaf as Christian apologetics go, to whitewash its own sanguinary history. Follow saintly Pope John Paul II to the Jerusalem Temple Wall
and beg for forgiveness for Christianity's crimes, as he did.
There is a difference between "cultural" Christians and real Christians. There is nothing in the Gospels that calls for war against other religions, as there is in the Koran and the Hadith. Islam, by its very nature, is a violent religion. In contrast, Jesus told us to love our enemies, not to kill them. Christianity, as taught by Jesus, is not violent. The violence that "christians" have done throughout history was done by people who were Christian in name only, or by people who were ignorant of Christ's words, or by people who didn't care that much about what Jesus taught.
Samuel, thank you for sharing such a well worded article. Your description of events re-opened the wound and ‘took me back’, reminding me of how I felt at the time .. whether October 7, or Mumbai.
As humans, we return to our daily events and circumstances that are ‘in play’ in the current time, and we must never forget the events of the past, as we have lost friends, families continue to suffer, survivors, many still injured reliving their horror .. the memory is always there
Thank you. It reaffirms a theory/belief I have. We were “chosen” not because we were/are the better people or tribe but the resilient ones who G-d could test anything on. Am Isreal.
Thank you for a real firsthand account. As we are being Islamized from the (Volga) river to the (Pacific) sea, Christians have not yet experienced that to which they somehow feel immune. It is not time to bring sharia law to the Church while they are an aid against Jews. Anti-Judaism in all of its component parts is resurgent. Even some Jews show no interest in the survival of Israel with the delusion that its destruction will bring peace to the diaspora. A blessing on our Black brothers for their courage about civil rights. Our Jewish brothers stood with them and some died for them. I can't see much support right now from the Black community in our current crisis. The sky seems to be falling but I hope that Israel stands strong and aggressive because they live in a bad neighborhood and peace comes only by convincing the neighbors that you are very serious.
Christianity has a savage, unforgivable, blood soaked history. Read for yourself the millions, the horrors, 100million Christians slaughtered by Christians in two world wars, less than 30 years apart, just " recently". The horrors inflicted on millions of Jews, who the Gospels still blame and condemn. The preposterous charge of deicide was not rescinded until the 1960s. The only salvation you need is in this life, as Jesus preached. And your salvation should connect with Muslim expected domination. Terrorism is a symptom of their savagery, but their own religion is exploitative , misogynist and corrupt. Christians today are becoming enamoured of it. There are common denominators indeed. The new Jew-hatred , disguised as anti-Zionism , is alive and well in Christendom.
Grow up, educate yourself, and get down from the unmerited high horse of self-righteousness that forgets how much forgiveness you should be praying for.
You are so very wrong!!! Christianity never blamed the Jews for Jesus' death. Go read the Bible. Judas who was a jew betrayed Jesus and chose his own punishment. Jesus didn't wish that for him neither do today's Christians. If there are historical crimes against the Jews by some Christians, it wasnt a biblical directive! , that's ignorance.
Thank you for this. It's painful to read, but necessary. Beautiful writing. I was in Israel at the time and it didn't hit us for a while.
My fear today- yes, we fear, Jews always feared, even in Ancient Israel, as conquerors from North and South raped the land- is the world. The West, more precisely. How blood thirsty it still revealed itself to be. Christendom? Islam? The same barbaric instincts that were never tamed by any of these " daughters " of Israel. The moral inversion, the collective madness, the scapegoat that is not allowed to escape, as its name indicates, as it was in Ancient Israel, but needs to be slaughtered like the other goat. Islam was meant to keep its believers as savage as its texts encourage and as their history and present life inspires them to be. The " Christians" were brutal pagans who never truly evolved, whose morals were imposed on them, and 2,000 years have not sufficed to civilise them truly.
That is the floor trembling under my feet .That realisation becomes an existential fear now. It was so unexpected, so stunning to discover, so soon after the Shoah. Israel weakened by internal division, as in the past. A terrible government. A population perhaps frightened as well, who might re -elect whoever promises security. Even fraudulently. Or money. " The people of forever is never afraid", tells the moving song. But it's not true. We fear. And yet, courage is precisely what propels us forward, in spite of the fear, which makes that courage necessary. So we survive.
How dare you lump Christians and savage Muslims on same dump hill of condemnation!. Do you know any terrorist Christians killing Jews anywhere in this world? Show me any where in the Bible where believers are commanded to kill Jews or even Muslims. So pls get your facts right- Christians have never been a threat to the Jews or the state of Israel. Our Savior Jesus chose the Jewish race to come through as a man. We love the Jews for salvation came through them. The whole world knows the ideology that threatens Jews and the rest of us too, and they will never succeed.
O, I dare. You should study the blood soaked history of Christianity. Two world wars, recently enough, Christians slaughtering Christians, close to 100million in less than thirty years. The horrors of Christian persecution and martyring of Jews. And of the " heresies". The worst of human nature under the thin veneer of self-righteousness and institutional Church domination. A " salvation" Jesus never intended. Jesus was as Israelite and as zealous for his Torah as they come. He dreamed of salvation on Earth, in an imminent Kingdom of God. He believed with complete faith, all the way to the crucifixion and his last breath, that God would intervene there and then, and lift Israel from Roman abuse, if Israel repented. Christendom never truly repented, and kept committing ghastly crimes again and again.
Study , educate yourself. Identity and tribe are not enough.
There will be no Christianity left, as things look now. The new Jew-hatred ( deceptively called anti-Zionism or Palestinianism) is born as much from Christian or formerly Christian people as it is from Islam. As soon as Jews are scapegoated, one knows something is terribly wrong with a civilisation. The Christian West is collapsing. Barbarism returns from all sides. Europe regresses , as Christian delusions no longer hold in a supposedly rational age, and then the " unconverted" brutality is again revealed, and its affinity with Muslim barbarism invites regression and submission to a primitive faith and political supremacist platform . Just as Christianity's supremacist status used to be.
" Terrorism" in Islam is a very thin fig leaf as Christian apologetics go, to whitewash its own sanguinary history. Follow saintly Pope John Paul II to the Jerusalem Temple Wall
and beg for forgiveness for Christianity's crimes, as he did.
There is a difference between "cultural" Christians and real Christians. There is nothing in the Gospels that calls for war against other religions, as there is in the Koran and the Hadith. Islam, by its very nature, is a violent religion. In contrast, Jesus told us to love our enemies, not to kill them. Christianity, as taught by Jesus, is not violent. The violence that "christians" have done throughout history was done by people who were Christian in name only, or by people who were ignorant of Christ's words, or by people who didn't care that much about what Jesus taught.
A raw primal scream as another painful chapter in our history unfolds. I felt I was there with you. I stand with you still. Am Yisrael chai.
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for this. It required no sharpening of prose or edits of any kind.
Samuel, thank you for sharing such a well worded article. Your description of events re-opened the wound and ‘took me back’, reminding me of how I felt at the time .. whether October 7, or Mumbai.
As humans, we return to our daily events and circumstances that are ‘in play’ in the current time, and we must never forget the events of the past, as we have lost friends, families continue to suffer, survivors, many still injured reliving their horror .. the memory is always there
Am Yisroel Chai .. now and forever 💙🇮🇱💜✡️
Thank you. It reaffirms a theory/belief I have. We were “chosen” not because we were/are the better people or tribe but the resilient ones who G-d could test anything on. Am Isreal.
Thank you for a real firsthand account. As we are being Islamized from the (Volga) river to the (Pacific) sea, Christians have not yet experienced that to which they somehow feel immune. It is not time to bring sharia law to the Church while they are an aid against Jews. Anti-Judaism in all of its component parts is resurgent. Even some Jews show no interest in the survival of Israel with the delusion that its destruction will bring peace to the diaspora. A blessing on our Black brothers for their courage about civil rights. Our Jewish brothers stood with them and some died for them. I can't see much support right now from the Black community in our current crisis. The sky seems to be falling but I hope that Israel stands strong and aggressive because they live in a bad neighborhood and peace comes only by convincing the neighbors that you are very serious.
An excellent and reasoned account, despite the evil and the madness; you manage to bring truth with perspective.
A fine achievement ,so much we smother our lives with is utter dross in the face of all you saw and won't forget.
Thanks for telling us.
Christianity has a savage, unforgivable, blood soaked history. Read for yourself the millions, the horrors, 100million Christians slaughtered by Christians in two world wars, less than 30 years apart, just " recently". The horrors inflicted on millions of Jews, who the Gospels still blame and condemn. The preposterous charge of deicide was not rescinded until the 1960s. The only salvation you need is in this life, as Jesus preached. And your salvation should connect with Muslim expected domination. Terrorism is a symptom of their savagery, but their own religion is exploitative , misogynist and corrupt. Christians today are becoming enamoured of it. There are common denominators indeed. The new Jew-hatred , disguised as anti-Zionism , is alive and well in Christendom.
Grow up, educate yourself, and get down from the unmerited high horse of self-righteousness that forgets how much forgiveness you should be praying for.
You are so very wrong!!! Christianity never blamed the Jews for Jesus' death. Go read the Bible. Judas who was a jew betrayed Jesus and chose his own punishment. Jesus didn't wish that for him neither do today's Christians. If there are historical crimes against the Jews by some Christians, it wasnt a biblical directive! , that's ignorance.
The unspeakable horror even the West can't bring itself to 🙈🙉🙊