Some people have claimed that they cannot consider a move to Israel. That may be understandable to some degree, considering the wealth and opportunities available in the Diaspora. Furthermore, there is no question that every person has the right to decide where to make his home.
However, some people do not seem to know where to draw the line. Specifically, a particular line of reasoning that has been proffered recently seems to be quite curious and disturbing.
Some people now foresee the collapse of the State of Israel. Their scenario envisions the displacement or murder of millions of Jews. They fear that the Jewish nation will be wiped out.
These people claim that there is a need to assure a core of Jews for the next generation, after the State of Israel collapses.
Their assertion is not based on bravery. Nor is it based on a desire to represent the future of Jewry.
It is also not based on G-d's covenant with Abraham, or on the fact that not even Hitler could wipe out the entire Jewish nation. It certainly disregards any faith in the eternity of the Jewish religion.
Their self-centered claim is based on a lack of concern for the future of Jewry.
Such Jews arrogantly feel that they are better than the Jews in Israel. They feel that their blood is too precious to waste on developing the future of the Promised Land. They foolishly see themselves as the core of the Jewish people, from which the nation will grow after Israel collapses.
Those people do not represent the future of the Jewish people. Would the Almighty continue His nation through Jews who reject and fear their homeland?
When I think of a core, I think of the inside of an apple. It's the part that I want to throw away.
I assume that G-d also looks at the self-proclaimed "core" of the Jewish people in a similar way:
They are the pits.
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