My older friends have surrendered to the MAGA wave either by supporting Trump or are so stunned that this coup d'etat had happened to America that have surrendered to the enemy much as the French had in 1940. The ineffective DNC had been rejected by millions of young for their support of the genocide in Gaza and countless black and white males, because Kamala Harris was a woman, who prosecuted millions of young black males as a Californian DA. The DNC leadership remains silent. Bernie Sanders speaks out, however the major media are curtailing any news for fear of MAGA reprisals.
In 2024 millions of Jews voted for Trump, because of his vocal support of Israel. So where do we go from here?
Rehashing our past failures will not solve the present dilemma.
Recently I was speaking with the Jewish director Amos Poe, who had been born in Palestine. His mother and father came from Germany. In 1936 she left Berlin for Madrid as an anarchist supporting the CNT against Franco. She hated her father. A German Jew and banker he financially supported the Nazis, thinking that the Hitlerians stood for order and prosperity to Deutschland. Alles was gut, except his daughter said that he was financing the death of the Jews.
Then came Kristallnacht.
The following morning the dignified banker went to his place of business. The Nazis threw him out of the office and building into the sidewalk.
"But I have powerful friends in the Nazi Party."
The SA officer said, "The Jews have no friends in Germany now. Heraus Jude."
Amos' grandfather returned home and shot himself, knowing that his daughter had been right about the Nazis, but that acknowledgement came too late for millions.
Her mother begged for her to return. She left for Palestine and thankfully never returned to Deutschland. The only surviving member of her family.
30% of the USA Jews openly support Trump. They also back Putin. More prosperity and order. None of them remember the 1905 Cossack pograms and I tell them they are on a list.
It doesn't matter. They are blind to the future. The drive BMWs and Benzs.
'"The Germans make good cars." A Jewish beauty told me. "And Trump lovs Israel."
Yes, they proudly supported him, because he defends Zion and can't envison that Crystal Night is coming.
The only way to fight these people is always.
I remain committed to the struggle.
ps no one has crystal anymore. But I do.
Kristallnacht
was the word I heard
my parents whisper behind
closed doors. And I pictured
the world under a sudden
enchantment of ice, each tree limb
braceleted in crystal, each lamppost,
each windshield glazed
and electrically gleaming,
the very air wincing with light.
And the only sound would be
a myriad tinkling,
as of a thousand thousand
miniature wind chimes.
The treacherous beauty of words.
Crystal night: the stars themselves
blazing and frozen in place.
2020 Linda Pastan
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