Jewish Odysseus: YOM HA'SHOAH

Thursday, May 1, 2008

YOM HA'SHOAH

Jewish resistance fighters captured by SS troops during the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Warsaw, Poland, April 19-May 16, 1943.

What they wouldn't have given for a few F18s and Merkavas to strike at their Satanic enemies.

What is modern Israel's excuse?

Seventy years ago, there existed a Jewish civilization in Europe which in many ways exceeded the modern state of Israel. It had its own language, newspapers, and a rich literary tradition; its own music and artistic culture; its own educational system, and courts; and many of its members were recognized as among the brightest lights of Europe. All this civilization lacked was a few thousand tanks, and jets, and perhaps a nuclear bomb or two; and because of that, it was utterly destroyed.

Have we not allowed the wisdom accrued from that unimaginably harsh lesson to go completely to waste, in just one lifetime?

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The Odyssey by Homer, Chapter 21:

For long Odysseus stood with the bow in his hands, handling it as a minstrel handles a lyre when he stretches a cord or tightens a peg. Then he bent the great bow; he bent it without an effort, and at his touch the bow-string made a sound that was like the cry of a swallow. The wooers seeing him bend that mighty bow felt, every man of them, a sharp pain at the heart. They saw Odysseus take up an arrow and fit it to the string. He held the notch, and he drew the string, and he shot the bronze-weighted arrow straight through the holes in the back of the axe-heads. Then as Eumæus took up the axes, and brought them outside, he said, ‘Thou seest, lord Telemachus, that thy guest does not shame thee through foolish boasting. I have bent the bow of Odysseus, and I have shot the arrow aright. But now it is time to provide the feast for the lords who woo thy lady mother. While it is yet light, the feast must be served to them, and with the feast they must have music and the dance.’ Saying this he nodded to Telemachus, bending his terrible brows. Telemachus instantly girt his sword upon him and took his spear in his hand. Outside was heard the thunder of Zeus. And now Odysseus had stripped his rags from him and was standing upright, looking a master of men. The mighty bow was in his hands, and at his feet were scattered many bronze-weighted arrows.