Lost In the Wilderness

Daniel Greenfield has a superb piece at his Sultan Knish weblog about the  utility of “deeply concerned” Jewish organizations.  He leaves them with nowhere to run after a brief review of their shameful and self-serving history in the face of Zionism, the Holocaust, and demanding freedom for Soviet Jewry.  They are worse than useless.  They prop up evil and line their pockets with kopecs from rubes.

How very similar it is with so many “pro Second Amendment”, and firearms industry groups.  Their forearms grow weary from pulling the dagger out of our backs so as to thrust it in again and again.   Stopping ever so briefly to wipe our blood off their faces and hands, for a photo-op, a fund-raiser with some pin-stripe ghoul, or  to sign off on another mass mailing.

In many ways it reminds me of the Israelites at Kadesh Barnea.  Not only did they just betray G-d with the Golden Calf, but now, they paid heed to ten gutless “scouts”, who, despite personally witnessing miracles, loyalty, and boundless love, despite being wrapped up in the arms of G-d, feared mere mortals.  They thus refused to enter the Land; preferring the familiar, to the challenge of their destiny.

G-d once again had had his fill.  He told Moses that this was the last straw.  Moses pleaded.  G-d relented.  Excepting two ( the budding leader, Joshua and the arguably even finer-souled Calev) all those over the age of twenty would never enter the Promised Land.  They would die in the desert.  Safe.  More or less secure.  But, doomed.

For freedom-oriented organizations, perhaps there is a lesson here.  So enmeshed with being respectable, reasonable, well liked, wealthy, and influential, they have lost their purpose in the wilderness, and are doomed to remain there.

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2 thoughts on “Lost In the Wilderness”

  1. OUT. OF. THE. PARK. And how much will the new leader of the ADL say, since he once worked for the obama administration? I’m sure he’s “deeply concerned”. They say the possible release of Pollard has nothing to do with soothing Israel after the Iran sellout. I agree, I don’t think it does. I think it has to do with soothing liberal American Jews, this administration has the mask off now and could care less about soothing Israel. Not to mention the release date is when he was due to be out anyway. If only he were a Taliban member who had killed a few thousand Americans he could have been out years ago.

    It is the same for Second Amendment groups. “Must not be radical, must be willing to compromise, work within the system. We only lost a little freedom because we gave up this. The art of negotiation. ” We see how the Iranians negotiate. They walk away with it all and keep the four prisoners, and get huge sums of money and the technology to keep Israel from defending itself. And America got? Daily flights coming directly from Iran soon.

    The children didn’t want to listen to Joshua and Calev, the rest of the spies lied about the good land G-d had given them.
    In the Warsaw Ghetto when the ZOB was putting up posters telling the Jews to resist, to not board the trains to hide, other Jews came and tore them down and said the ZOB would bring trouble on them. Seriously.
    The Irgun was sold out more than once, by David Ben Gurion and the establishment types.

    To be the ones that stand up and say, it is what it is, and yes this is as ugly as it appears. Tough stuff, to persist and hold the line? Tough stuff, grit if you will.

    No compromise. No surrender.
    Out of the park YB.

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