As the shadow of the years since the Holocaust lengthens, it becomes clear to those already born into the country how close that catastrophe is still close to us. • Opinion
The rickety ships that sailed the immigrants during the period between the Holocaust and the War of Liberation were called by names such as "The Jewish State," "Hope," "Homeland," "The Exodus of Europe." This is the famous Exodus. Ike Aharonovich, the captain, would always correct whoever asked and say, "European departure." "Not Exodus."
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The crews of these ships were still alive until a few years ago, and like the Holocaust survivors themselves, it was important for them to be remembered. There were some among them who made a name for themselves as writers and leaders, but this is the chapter that shaped them. Ike was at their head. It is a struggle for memory. The rewriting efforts of our people's memory to warp and distort were exerted on every front: the mass slaughter of 1939-1945, the illegal immigration, the war against the British, the Nakba crawling during the War of Independence.
The goal was, just like Shoshana Damari's wobble song, "home." It's hard to compare, of course, but one of the things we will remember from the days of the epidemic is the gathering of Israelis roaming from scratch. An airline run by Israeli airlines, El Al Wisraier. Wherever the Israelis lost contact with the earth, they demanded that a conviction be brought; That Israel will send a blue air arm and return them, "home." And not just because it's easier and easier to get through the "home" epidemic. But because this "home" created a relief and health system capable of supporting the lives of the millions who now inhabit the State of Israel.
As the shadow of the years since the Holocaust lengthens, it becomes clear to those already born in the country how close it is to us. Some Israelis have not yet been released from the shock of the mass murder of European Jews, with the Holocaust already threatening North African and Arab Jews and even Israel. Wandering and fleeing to the last shore: "If I die on the ship / The wandering stray / My body is thrown into the frightened abyss / I will return in the special one's way - home!" (Lyrics: Aaron Ashman).
In the great love and sacrifice of Ike and his friends, the schism and hatred were always hidden. Ike, the captain, hated Ben-Gurion. Even in his last years as a teenager in his eighties, he did not forget to hate Ben-Gurion. But be prepared for all sacrifice for the people. About him and his heirs the poet wrote that they "carry their people to Nablus". Recalling the schism that prevented Warsaw ghetto fighters from uniting the left and right currents in the recent battle. But every day, a new story suddenly floats; And this is the last pre-death insurgency in the Lutsk ghetto. There, the Jews stormed the killers with some shouting "Shema Yisrael" and some others singing "The International".
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More than reports of the rise of anti-Semitism to a worldwide epidemic, the internal phenomenon in Israel that is unrelated to schism and disagreement is alarming. This is the phenomenon of shame from the word "Jew". The Chief of Staff noted in an IDF day order that the Star of David that was being hunted by the pursuers as a symbol of humiliation, in Israel is the symbol of valor. "The Jewish state" - this is the reason for the state's existence. But every "Jew" and "Jew" today must be balanced. A Jew will not leave the street alone without "equality" or without all the minorities who also received the great blessing of the great Jewish tent we established here.
Perception of the simple threat
"Conceive if in vain the night of rage will pass - and I will never learn this time either," Avraham Shlonsky wrote. He did not mean the dangers that threaten any society, lest it fall short of universal morality. He intended, like Bialik before him, the innate incompetence of the Jewish people to identify and prepare for extinction. The natural desire to isolate children from the anti-Jewish hatred that prevails not only in distant lands but also around Israel makes it difficult to grasp the simple threat. Bialik noticed the opacity of the Jewish settlement as early as October 1930, and warned of the Holocaust: "If the Nazis come to power in Germany," he wrote, "a renal peace is expected for all European Jewry." The unity that was signed on the eve of the Holocaust with a date for the application of sovereignty in the valley and the settlements, expresses the gap between loss and control of national destiny.