#silenceiscomplicity – Ahuva’s Blog

Speaking With My Feet

There is a saying: “Put your money where your mouth is.” It means that you should show by your actions that you support or believe in something. Allow me to make a little bit of a twist on that saying. I’m putting my mouth, and all the rest of me, where my money is.

Beginning in January I will be volunteering in Israel to support the IDF and, on my off-hours, the economy. I am traveling to Tel Aviv, Israel mid-January. I have a few days there before I report to SAR-EL to be stationed on an IDF base. My sister and I have volunteered for 3 weeks service.

The schedule has us stationed on a base from Sunday afternoon through Thursday mornings. I’ll be working a 3.5 hour shift in the morning, then lunch break, then a 3.5 hour shift in the afternoon. Yep, I’ll be in uniform as well, rising with reveille. I’m hoping that I’m spared the morning exercises that my son had to do when he was there way back when. 😊 I figure standing for hours, packing and unpacking supplies, will be more physical activity than I’ve done in years.

Thursday afternoons to Sunday mornings we are on our own. I hope to connect with friends and perhaps find other places to volunteer. A very good friend of mine has gifted me with funds to spend on the economy. I’m going to be looking for small businesses and other services that have been struggling to survive economically, as well as physically and mentally.

Am I scared? Actually that doesn’t really occur to me. I am more scared here in the US, with the rampant anti-semitism that is over-running the media, with the crazy haters physically attacking Jews in malls and on the street. The frenzied, uninformed, violent haters here are more of a threat to me than I’ll face under the Iron Dome.

Silence IS complicity. If you are not standing up against anti-semitism (even if “disguised” as anti-Israel), if you are not speaking out against the atrocities committed by Hamas against Israel on October 7, 2023, and against their own civilians, you are supporting Hamas and the haters by your silence. The world will never know peace if the silent majority do not speak up, if the silent majority do not speak out against the hatred and violence. I’m doing my part to repair the world. Are you?

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Silence is Complicity

Since Oct 7, 2023 I have been angry. No, FURIOUS. OUTRAGED. The massacre in Israel by Hamas was obscene and evil beyond words. Nevertheless, I expect the world to have words.

If you are quiet, if you are not speaking up, you are complicit in the evil. It’s really that simple.

I do NOT want to hear anyone try to justify the terrorist attack. Gaza has NOT been “occupied” for almost 20 years. Israel removed all traces from Gaza in 2005, including removing bodies buried in cemeteries. Did you know that? The Gazans elected Hamas. Hamas promptly massacred hundreds of members of the Palestinian Authority (also Gazans). Hamas has ruled Gaza since then, using all international humanitarian aid for terrorist purposes. Hamas leaders have billions of dollars to their name, do not live in Gaza, but keep the Gazans in abject poverty to foment hatred and protests against Israel.

You know who is NOT protesting against Israel? The over 2 million ARABS who live in Israel. Who have the same rights and privileges as the Jews. Who are CEO of a major bank, are elected to the Knesset, TV news anchors, athletes, administrator of largest Israeli hospital, Israeli Supreme Court judge, SERVING IN THE IDF, and so on. Don’t let the facts confuse you.

https://twitter.com/HilzFuld/status/1725468560766468358?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>November 17, 2023

In the meantime every antisemite and Jew hater in the world has crawled out of the murk and feels enabled and free to hate and kill Jews. Kill? Oh yes, take a look at Los Angeles where a pro-Palestinian demonstrator bashed a Jewish man in the head with a megaphone. Paul Kessler DIED as a result. SAY HIS NAME. Of course if you are a major media institute, you don’t mention that the Jew was killed by a Palestinian supporter because that doesn’t fit your story. As one reader said: “I hope the sidewalk gets a great lawyer, he’s going to need it.”

What is happening on our college campuses and in our streets is obscene. Hateful. Dangerous. Disgusting. Do you care? Or is it “only those Jews”? Make no mistake, my dear friends, who are liberal in your views, and compassionate, and trying to see “both sides”. There is no “both sides” in this particular situation. There is evil that wants to take over the world – yes, you – they want to kill you too. And there are the Israelis who are fighting to protect you and all who believe in free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of sexuality, freedom to live a life without fear. This is not about supporting the Israeli government unilaterally. This is about freedom and people, not governments.

I was asked “do you have family there?” Yes, 7 million of my family are in Israel. Over1400 of my family were brutally slaughtered. 240 of my family were kidnapped and their mutilated murdered bodies are being discovered as I type. Please note that many of those murdered and captured are NOT Israelis. They are citizens of over 30 other countries. But they ARE my family because I’m a caring, thinking human being.

And still so many are silent. So many are “well let’s be proportional”. Excuse me – the Hamas terrorists put a live baby in an oven and baked him. Should the IDF be doing that to Gazans? Right. Think about what you say. About what you DON’T say. Because at the moment I’m watching young Americans on Tik Tok claim that “gee, Usama Bin Laden was justified in destroying the Twin Towers in NYC on Sept 11, 2001, and attacking the Pentagon”. What has happened to our world that this kind of knee-jerk, mindless, destructive ideology is give publicity and credence???

You know what happened? Silence when there should have been outrage. Silence when there should have been solidarity. Silence when there should have been action.

We will not forget the silence. We will not forget who stood with us. And who did not.