Drumbeats and Smoke Signals for Jews (Part II)

By Jason Gold

Next stop, the US.

It has already begun. Flash mobs/rioting in Chicago, Philadelphia, Denver, Wisconsin(??!!). It is amazing the US showed such enlightenment electing a black man as President and yet he and his administration including the Justice department have polarized the US along racial lines like never before. Throw in the fact that Obama learned anarchy/socialism/communism/anti-Semitism at the feet of Ayers, Alinsky, Dorn, Kalidi, Farrakhan, Wright, and the fact that despite what he polls say now he has an excellent chance of getting re-elected, and this is definitely not good for the Jews. And yet 78% of the Jews voted for this man despite his inimical hostility towards them and Israel. It is equally amazing how time and again we sow the seeds of our own destruction. And if he should be elected again with the help of our assimilated liberal brethren and the Pravda-like mainstream media, things are going to get much worse than they are now.

To be sure, what is happening in Europe will spread to the US. It will just take longer because unlike the Europeans, Americans are basically decent people. But give them enough financial hardship, fiscal uncertainty, demonization of a certain country that has its supporters in the US, and the discomfort level for Jews in this US will be ratcheted up considerably.

If there is one discussion that Jews (even observant ones) are uncomfortable with, it is about the end times or "keitz hayamim" leading to the Messianic age. The Talmud speaks about the end days leading up to the Messianic age as being the “Dor HaHachafa” or the generation of reversal, when things go backwards, when truth are lies and lies are truth, etc. among other things. And before you accuse me of being a messianist, let’s be clear about something; ALL observant Jews are messianists or are supposed to be. Many Jews feel uncomfortable acknowledging this and how it pertains to what is playing out on the world stage all around them, and how their time in the Diaspora is rapidly approaching its end, whether they choose to accept it or not.

It is also clear from Talmudic sources that as we approach our final destiny, before the new order with Israel leading the way can begin, the old order must decay and rot away. The previous post looked at Europe so now let us look at the moral decay happening in the US. Let us look at the proliferation of sexual licentiousness, pornography, corruption, and the decay of the moral values and with them the family unit, all of this once again true to Pat Moynihan's prediction of defining deviancy down. Let us look at the lack of real leadership or for those who truly have the gift of leadership, the way they are demonized by the mainstream media. Want more evidence of the generation of reversal, how lies are truth and how truth is treated as lies? If your stomach will tolerate it, tune in to MSNBC and watch the liar, racist, tax cheat, race baiter, and corporate blackmailer, aka the new “host” of his own cable show, the “Reverend” Al Sharpton. Sharpton, who perpetrated one of the greatest frauds in New York State history in the Tawana Brawley affair and whose murderous incitement helped flare the Crown Heights riots and the burning down of the Jewish-owned “Freddies” in Harlem. Who has been given a free pass by the mainstream press all these years and who counts himself as one of President Obama’s good friends. I think Tuvia Brodie put it best in his blog post of the other day; “When the political culture of the West joins the religion-based culture of Middle East Islam to attack Israel, the resulting condemnations signal how complete is the West’s moral collapse. It is not a coincidence that the West’s refusal to stand up for a Westernized but Jewish sovereign state’s right to exist appears simultaneously with the rising influence of the International political Left. This modern Left, with deep roots in Marxism, Humanism and Hellenism is perfectly comfortable with a global demonization of Israel and all matters Jewish. The Left’s Humanist-Hellenist ideology seeks to replace G-d with man, the minority with majority, and ‘justice’ with a man-made morality. The Humanist Left feeds itself on a globalist world-uniting vision that is based in part on a Hellenist faith that it is man (and only man) who can best shape the universe”.

Gd has been sending us numerous messages of late (how’s that comfort level doing?) about looking to the East and the impending demise of the West both economically and by the hand of Islam; i.e. 9/11, the recurrent economic collapse of the West, Israel’s technological and economic ascendancy. How many of us are getting that message? If you’ll allow me some dime-store prophecy (oh, let's just shred that remaining comfort level), perhaps the final or near-final message will be when a faith-based leader takes the reins of Prime Minister in Israel with a clear mandate from the people of Israel. When that happens, several things will become manifest. First, that leader will place faith in Gd and Israel’s interests above all else; no more kowtowing to world opinion. That in turn will trigger rage in the Islamic world, and when they see that they are utterly impotent against Israel, they will turn their savage rage at what remains of the West. Hopefully, we'll hear the drumbeats and see the smoke signals way before that because at that point, the discomfort levels of the Jews in the Diaspora will rise exponentially. And then, the universal question that will ring from shore to shore will be, “Where are the passports and are they up to date?”