Jeff in Jerusalem (Healing Series Day 2-A) (March 2, 2025)
The Great Thawing
Dear friend: Every hour here is an awakening. The thawing, the re-assemblage, “the raging against the dying of the light” (Dylan Thomas); The urgency of this place perfectly mirroring my own urgency to come back to life (and light); The clearer understanding of my mother and all my ancestors that emerges in 5 minutes at the wailing wall (the great wall of Israel). Now I know where the wailing came from :); The ‘Sacred Geography’ that calls you home (you must find yours, wherever they may be); The ‘How the hell did I get here?’ (Can you relate?); The wish that my ancestors could meet me for dinner now that I see that none of it was personal (and yet all of it was person-all); the great sleeps that accompany the great awakenings.
Today’s (accompanying) music: Van Morrison And the healing has begun
That sounds incredibly horrible. I could see why Israel would feel a much safer haven, compared to that. It's amazing to me you could say something that would be so damned threatening [though, not anymore, now that I think of it, in the US :(!]. The amount of resilience it would have to take, to survive that, is mind boggling. Perhaps you had assistance from your ancestors you didn't even know of, at the time, to augment your own strength. Now you are home or, at least, for the moment. Thank you for being you, for speaking bravely and authentically and for being a torch for many who are lost.
Happy for you Jeff that you feel you good about this and that you were able to survive the horrific ordeal that was directed at you. I pray you'll be able to find healing and peace there and in general. I fully understand what you are saying with regard to the atmosphere there becasue i was born and grew up in israel (of there's an interest, wrote my thoughts on religious identities and how that impacts the conflict and possibility of safety and cooperation for human beings here https://open.substack.com/pub/headandheart1/p/my-perspective-on-the-conflict-in), and at the same time I would like to point out something that seems to me to be important (to be honest i am a bit hesitant if to do so, knowing your current emotional state and what you've been through in the last few of years), but i would just humbly and respectfully like to point out - for the sake of not allowing misunderstanding to take root in your readers - that not all jews feel the same as you do about the zionist billionaires' colonial project (even as we love israelis and want the best for ordinary israelis), and that many MANY jews (including holocaust survivors, examples below) strongly reject the supremacist neo-nazi tribalism of zionism and its RUTHLESS CRUEL INHUMANE ANTI-LIFE implementation in the form of a century-long invasive colonial project to disposses, throw out, torture, abuse, massacre, rape, DEHUMANIZE, annihilate, steal homes, steal lands, exterminate and erase the indigenous children, mothers, fathers and elderly (who deserve this fate according to the zionist narrative managers becasue we all know, don't we, that the only reason that the indigenous human beings in palestine resist their dispossesion, extermination, torture, dehumanization and throwing out is for no other reason but that they are evil antisemites by nature who want to kill all the jews. Or so the neo-nazi zionist billionaires and their paid influencers would have us believe.. there is of course no other explanation, according to zionist propagandists, for why the indigenous people might feel resentful towards the colonial zionist project that disposseses, massacres, steals their home and dehumanizes them. Yes, it must be antisemitism, no other explanation)
PS. And just to clarify why i described zionism as a neo-nazi ideology - that is becasue i know from personal experience that the deeply indoctrinated anti-unity SUPREMACIST zionist tribalists truly believe that the blood of those human beings who had the (childish and God-ignorant) religious label ‘jewish’ placed upon us at birth is ‘special’ and different from the rest of humanity and that unlike all other blood, ‘jewish blood’ - as the zionist supremacists call it - is superior in importance and value to the rest of humanity, and that is what gives them the "divine right" to commit the unspeakable aforementioned atrocities and human invalidation and erasure that they have been committing for many many decades against those who were not given at birth the "correct" religious label of the important chosen ones (anotner factor that drives their supremacist mindset and behavior is the narrative and psychology of 'we are the victims' which is very VERY deeply embedded in every israeli child from birth (i know this becasue i was born into this cult and personally went through this traumatization and indoctrination process. More details in the linked essay above)
PLUS they believe that the fake bloodthirsty tribalist genocidal hebrew “god” (the sectarian humanity-dividing fake “god” that the immature, frightened & violent nationalist brain invented for itself) made certain specific humans (those who had the label “jewish” placed upon us at birth) CHOSEN and elevated above others, and that this tribalist hebrew "god" works in his spare time as a real estate agent in the sky who dishes out lands specifically to his favored chosen ones (those cultists who prostrate before him the most and soothe his insecure ego by telling him repeatedly that he's the greatest "god" there is), and therefore this real estate agent "god" gifts lands to his chosen ones by ordering the slaughter and genocide of the “inferior” inhabitants of these lands (those who don't subscribe to the nazi belief in the supremacy and "divine rights" of certain humans over others, based on a childish religious label that was placed on us at birth)
As i wrote in my linked essay above
TRYING TO CREATE SECTARIAN SERCURITY (SECURITY ONLY FOR THE PART AND NOT FOR THE WHOLE, SECURITY ONLY FOR ME AND MY GROUP) IS THE VERY CAUSE OF INSECURITY!!
PPS. Here are a couple of examples of the holocaust survivors that i mentioned above who strongly oppose zionism and who describe exactly how it follows the same supremacist triibalist ideology of the right-wing NAZI tribalists in europe who persecuted and murdered their family. They show how the exact same DEHUMANIZATION that the right-wing Nazis in europe committed against jews, is now being employed by the right-wing neo-nazi zionist supremacists against the indigenous people of west Asia.
1. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YVmCwhFk6Pc
2. https://www.doubledown.news/watch/2024/may/7/holocaust-survivor-absolutely-demolishes-israel
3. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=upmrOAwfSsU
4. https://www.doubledown.news/watch/2024/april/28/meet-the-wrong-jew-the-media-doesnt-want-you-to-know-exists
PPPS. Here are a couple of essayz by two israelis who write beautifully on the intense traumatizing indoctrination (into supremacist tribalism and the victimhood mentality) that every child in israel is subjected to from birth. Both of them show the profound PSYCHOSIS of the zionist tribalist cult (i do fully understand that it can be exhilarating to an outsider who first arrives into such an intensely tribalist society - that has completely separated itself from humanity and views its members as unique and more valuable than other humans - but i do humbly recommend reading what these two israelis have to say, in order to perhaps gain a deeper understanding of the very intense zionist supremacist tribalism, the victimhood story that underlies it, and the traumatizing indoctrination that fuels it)
1. https://avigail.substack.com/p/israel-the-legacy-of-a-perpetrator
2. https://valdphillips.substack.com/p/if-you-dont-know-this-you-cant-make?
3. https://substack.com/profile/208248312-alon-mizrahi
PPPPS. Lastly, I very highly recommend listening to this profound speech (part of the oxford union debate) by an indigenous woman whose home has been stolen and whose family has been massacred by invading neo-nazi zionist colonizers. It is one of the most blisteting elucidations of the evil of zionism, of its supremacy & domination psychology, of the american billionaires' imeprialism behind it, and her description of the palestinian deep connection and reverence to the ACTUAL land (which colonizing zionists have none of. Invading zionist colonizers have an idea/belief in their head, but zero connection to the ACTUAL land, its soil, its olive trees, its hills) and the palestinian struggle to survive in the face of such profound evil murderous onslaught to disposses them off their land and throw them out to make way for the superior elevated chosen ones. Along with her numerous other really profound heart-wrenching descriptions of the human corruption involved in colonialism, dispossesion and learnt ethno-superiority.
In my view, the spiritual and heart-based profundity of this speech is on par with the best of MLK’s speeches. Truly a seminal speech for the ages.
Her entire speech can be heard here https://web.archive.org/web/20250123200549/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW5U_ZqGmZU(Had&themeRefresh=1
And can be read here: https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/how-the-oxford-union-debate-was-won/
And by the way, I had to post it from archive, becasue oxford union gave in to intense zionist billionaires’ pressure to censor her original speech that was published on youtube, after it received more than a million views in less than a week and overwhelming support!!