Win-win situation?

Posted on March 25, 2010 by jewamongyou

It appears that some Muslims object to the new full body scanners now mandatory in the U.K. (thanks to strike the root for the link).  I think it’s abhorrent of governments to force people to reveal their naked bodies in order to travel by plane.  It seems there is no limit to the depths governments will descend to in order to humiliate us “for our own safety”.
I do find it interesting, however, that Muslims might especially have a problem with it – considering that their presence was what caused the threat that served as an excuse for such excesses in the first place.  Muslims, in large numbers, do not belong in European society; they make no secret of their plans to overwhelm Western nations with their numbers and, eventually, subjugate the native populations.
Will Muslim protests eventually scale back the police state?  I doubt that their overall effect will be positive but we can at least hope for positive outcomes now and then.  In this particular case, if Muslims succeed in eliminating this latest government indignity, it will be a small victory for us all.  If they are made uncomfortable enough to leave, in large numbers, then it will be a large victory for the rest of us.  Given the pitiful track record of the U.K., my guess is that there will be special provisions for Muslims so that they can have another Muslim (of the same sex) body search them.  Then, of course, we lose.  Will non-Muslims be reduced to pretending they are Muslim in order to avoid the body scan?  Personally, I think the body scan would be less of an indignity.
As a side note, I think that when we are forced to reveal ourselves in such a way in order to travel by plane, we can have fun with it.  Specifically I’m thinking of using some sort of high-density tape to write messages on our own bodies in such a way that only through the scanner will it be visible.  The government goon who “makes his living” by humiliating the rest of us would be treated to such sublime messages as “F**k you!” or “You’re a loser” or “Get a REAL job”.

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Is anti-semitism good for the Jewish people?

Posted on March 23, 2010 by jewamongyou

When the bulk of European Jewry gradually lost its distinctive Mid-Eastern look , culture – especially language, religion and dress – became the only things that set these Jews apart from their gentile neighbors.  While Europe was effective in erasing the “Jewish look” over a thousand years, America was effective in erasing Jewish culture within a century (with obvious exceptions of course).  Nonetheless many American Jews still wish to remain “Jewish” even as they retain only faint vestiges of their ancestral culture.  While an Irish-American might be content to dust off his Irishness once a year to celebrate St. Patrick’s day, and an Italian-American might reminisce about his grandmother’s cooking, a Jew often feels the need for his Jewishness to take a more active role in his life.  He might feel empty otherwise.
An occasional anti-Jewish slur, by a passing drunk, is enough to fill this role.  As a matter of fact, so desperate have some Jews become, to find anti-semitism, that they will even cling to outbursts by drunk celebrities directed at nobody in particular.
Pathetic as such bottom-feeding may sound, from an objective point of view, occasional displays of anti-semitism do serve to remind Jews that they are Jews and therefore strengthen our ethnic cohesion.  In this sense they are productive.  Many “lost Jewish souls” found their way back to Judaism because of anti-semitism.
It is not a pleasant experience to be the target of ethnic slurs or intimidation.  I can say this having experienced it myself.  Yet we can look at it as a bitter pill to swallow for those Jews who are lost to their people and on the verge of total assimilation.
When I argue for the continuity of my own people, I am not advocating for a complete return to traditional Judaism – and in this I walk a fine line.  One that is full of questions and contradictions.  Can the Jewish People exist long term without its religion?  Should it?  What right do Jews have to the Promised Land if they do not believe in either He who promised it or the book that documents it?  Alas, I do not have all the answers – but future posts may explore them further.

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Provisional whites

Posted on March 22, 2010 by jewamongyou

Earlier, I quoted diamed from his blog The Road Less Traveled.  There is much of interest in that blog and I recently came across his take on borderline “whiteness”.  Any white movement must, sooner or later, resolve the problem of how to define “white”.  I recommend reading the entire post but here is his idea in a nutshell:

If someone is 3/4 white and 1/4 black, he’s provisionally white. If he acts like a decent white man who calls himself white and defends other whites, he’ll stay provisionally white. He can never be pure white, because he is too genetically distant. But he can be provisionally white. If he identifies as a black and walks around with a chip on his shoulder blaming everything on whites and saying ‘kill the white man,’ then he’s a black. For this reason, Jeremiah Wright, who’s clearly genetically closer to white than black, is a black. He lost his chance at whiteness by damning us to hell. See how it works? In all borderline cases, the cases constantly thrown at us by anti-racists: “Well what about mixed races? What about jews? What about Armenians? What about –?” The answer is now solvable. “These people are provisionally white, their own behavior will determine whether they are included by us, or excluded by us, as white or non-white.” If anyone wants to be included by us, all they have to do is ‘act white.’ Behave well, behave righteously, identify yourself as white, and be loyal to the white race.

Tentatively I like his idea because, in practice, many of us have been looking at things this way for a long time.  If we encounter a light-skinned “black” who speaks and behaves just like a white and whose attitudes are those of a healthy white, do we not look at that person (for most purposes) as a white?  What diamed did was put into writing what has been lurking in the backs of many of our minds anyway.  Codifying it is a step in the right direction.  He goes on to list three tiers of “whiteness”:

First Tier: Genetically white, whitey-mc-white-whites. These people should be given free admission to the country, on the sole basis of loyalty and abiding by the laws we set forth. This is the easiest level of admission.
Second Tier: Borderline cases, provisionally white. These people would be included on a case by case scenario, based on their loyalty, behavior, and character. This is a stricter standard than the previous standard, but admission is still open. IE, as many people of this type as qualify, are allowed in.
Third Tier: Non-whites. These people would again be included only as individuals. But they would have to have exceptional abilities. For instance, an IQ no less than 120. Perfect health. Good looks. Extremely talented athletes. Extremely rich. Skilled workers. Scientists or artists who have proven their stuff. You get the idea. In addition, they must be loyal to our race and abide by our laws. Obviously, if they make trouble, they’re gone. Whatever compassion or patience we show for the first tier, will not be shown to the third tier. And in addition to this, they can at no time exceed 10% of the population. So no matter how qualified you are, if our quota is full, you can’t enter. Through this simple measure, the white genome can’t be extinguished, AND we can select non-whites for their quality. This way, we do not cut ourselves off from the gifts and genes of exceptional non-whites, but we do not destroy ourselves either. It’s fair and balanced. If non-whites resent all the restrictions we put upon them, tough, they still have the rest of the world to live on. They don’t have to live here. Humorously enough, even if jews weren’t provisionally white, I’d still allow many of them in as non-whites with exceptional ability. Excluding jews entirely, who hold the secrets to a 15 IQ boost somewhere in their genes, would be sheer folly.

It seems to be as good a system as any but I do have a couple of problems with it.  Even though I am not a subscriber to the idea of a “pure race”, it seems to me that we do have relatively pure races.  As it stands today, most people who consider themselves “white” are relatively pure; it is likely that they have, in their distant past, some non-whites but they are still pure-blooded enough to be considered of “indigenous European” origin.  I doubt that “Native Americans” can say the same.  We Jews lost that relative purity long ago so that now we’re reduced to various degrees of mongrelization.  It would be a shame if the same thing happened to whites and diamed’s suggestion of allowing 10% of the white population to be non-white would certainly lead to gradual degradation.  Furthermore, in any large nation, politics and corruption would surely come into play when determining who has the “right attitudes” (amongst borderline whites) to be worthy of being “provisional whites”.  There would be many grey areas and, in the end, who you know would carry as much weight as anything else.  Perhaps it would be best if any future white nation be a small nation or a confederation of small nations.  This might help curb corruption.
I think this would be a good place to point out what many of us already know: in the long run, the only way to ensure the survival of the white race is for there to be a white nation with strong territorial integrity.  In the long run there are only two possibilities: the extinction of the white race or the creation of a white nation.  This cannot be said of any other major race of Mankind.  There is no danger of Orientals or blacks becoming extinct.  As for Australian Aborigines, Polynesians, Pygmies and various Native American tribes, they need to have their own nations as well.  I would not want them to disappear either.  Polynesians, given their own exclusive nation, would also have to grapple with the question “who is a Polynesian?”  As for those who wish for the extinction of whites, or any other race, what they are really advocating for is genocide.  In civilized society, we do not hold those who promote genocide in high esteem.  It could reasonably be said that such people are “haters” and “bigots”.   Therefore you, the reader, have a choice: either you are a “white nationalist” or you are a “bigot”.  Which will it be?

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Is there hope for the future?

Posted on March 21, 2010 by jewamongyou

I have a dear friend who firmly believes that there is no hope for the white race.  He is an atheist so he holds no hope of salvation via supernatural forces.  From a moral standpoint, he correctly points out that the vast majority of whites deserve what they get; they hate their own genes and allow themselves to be trampled upon and enslaved.  There is no government, on the face of the Earth, that has any concern for the white race.  Neither are there any major corporations that possess any loyalty for the white race.  It would appear that there are not even any very wealthy individuals who champion our cause.  If ever there were an underdog, in the history of Mankind, it would be white nationalists and race realists in our own era.  As white nationalists go, so goes the white race in general.
A gentleman by the name of Diamed the roadless writes:

“After twenty years of lobbying for political improvements for the white majority, Amren, Vdare, and their ilk have achieved nothing. In fact, everything has gotten irretrievably worse in all categories. Restoring America is like putting humpty dumpty back together again. The generations born and raised today don’t even have any concept of what America’s past was like. If they learn anything about the past, it’s that it was wholly evil and repugnant. Nor do the young of today have any knowledge or connection to their European homelands. They are completely rootless, tradition-less, and atomized.”

He claims that, in the end, advanced technology will reign supreme, that we shall be replaced by androids or something to that effect.  Follow the link above and read the whole column – if you don’t mind being depressed.  One of the claims he debunks is that “worse is better”.  Indeed, many have pointed to South Africa as proof that virtually nothing can awaken the slumbering white masses, even as they are slaughtered, raped and marginalized to the extreme.  One might counter that South Africa cannot serve as proof of white apathy and obliviousness because a white South African can always aspire to escape to safer, more tranquil regions.  Indeed many have already done so.  The same can be said about white Americans.  They have fled the inner cities for the suburbs and the suburbs for the town and the towns for yet other towns.  Eventually, there will be nowhere to run to and nowhere to hide.  Then what?  I hold an ember of hope that, with his back to the wall, the white male will shake the dust off his manliness and revert to an earlier state of being – when he will be worthy of the name “man”.  I hold some hope that the white female, with her back to the wall, will tire of being the plaything of men of color.  That she will remember how all the great things whites have accomplished could not have been done if not for the power of her womb.  At that point, she will be reborn and merit the name “woman”.
I’ve often claimed that there is a link between the hatred leftists have for the white race, on the one hand, and their ceaseless yearning for a return to nature on the other.  One need not be an expert demographer to conclude that a truly global economy, with free movement of people, will eventually result in the countless masses from failed societies migrating to more successful societies and overwhelming the latter.  Ostensibly, the leftist holds that there are no meaningful differences between the races.  Indeed, he rejects the concept of “race” entirely (except when it suits his convenience of course).  This is why he is not bothered by the eventual colonization, of the entire world, by blacks.  Presented with this possibility, he will laugh.  He laughs for two reasons: Firstly because he doesn’t think such a thing possible – much as he once laughed at the idea that the U.S. would become majority non-white.  Secondly because he doesn’t see that it would matter anyhow; after all, “we’re all the same”.
With the current arrangement, blacks will inherit the Earth because of two things: they have the most babies and, due to their lower average I.Q. and higher impulsiveness/testosterone, their societies are generally not as successful as other societies.  Since their societies tend to be chaotic, crime-ridden and poor, they will be net exporters of people; few non-blacks would choose to live among them given a choice.  Over the course of time, their excess babies will spread throughout the globe and steadily blacken their host countries.  We would do well to look carefully at successful black societies and try to find ways to clone them in other places – but that is a topic for another post.
I do not believe that the above scenario is lost upon the leftist elites.  As a matter of fact, I think it quite likely that they view the black colonization of the Earth as a means to an end: our return to nature.  Once all nations are sufficiently blackened, the elites will be able to control Earth’s population with great ease.  Not only will they be able to control it, they will be able to reduce it.  They aim to reduce our population to such an extent that nature will reclaim what it has lost over the last few hundred years.  As a matter of fact, without majority white nations to prop up third world countries and to feed their starving millions, the elites needn’t do anything.  All they’ll have to do is sit back and watch as the Earth’s population dwindles of its own accord.  Many will starve and many more will wither away from disease.  Yet more will be killed in wars – wars for fresh water and food.  In their eyes, all this is a good thing.  The very last thing a black person should want is the destruction of white nations and the Western societies that they make possible.  If blacks believe they are suffering now, let them wait and see how much worse it will be without whites to give them sanctuary and aid.
After all is said and done, we can rest assured that the elites will be protected in their guarded, gated communities (or perhaps deep underground).  We can also rest assured that most of those elites will be white.  They will be few and they will probably be evil but they will still carry white genes and, the Earth being empty as it is, they will want children.  Even a handful of people can go forth and repopulate the Earth – so I would not give up so easily.

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Using "A Conversation About Race" effectively

Posted on March 20, 2010 by jewamongyou

A few months ago, I purchased “A Conversation About Race” and I thoroughly enjoyed it.  Within a short time, I had no less than six people watch it at my home.  After mentioning it to my boss, I offered to lend him the DVD.  He found it thought-provoking and agreed with Greg Bodeker on just about every count.  Since then, I’ve had at least ten other co-workers borrow the DVD and watch it.  In fact, it hasn’t seen the doors of my home in several months.  It seems to me that this valuable tool would be wasted gathering dust on a shelf somewhere.  My point, in all this, is not to brag but to encourage my readers to do the same.  It’s probably a good idea to make sure that all transfers, of the DVD, take place outside of your actual work environment.  The parking lot might be a good place.  It’s probably also a good idea to avoid drawing the attention of non-whites – just so you won’t have to do any unnecessary explaining.

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Racism in our daily lives…

Posted on March 19, 2010 by jewamongyou

Our company decided to fund a scholarship and:

Preference will be given to women and applicants of minority heritage; if no eligible female or minority student applies, a total of two scholarships will be awarded to other students.

This blatant racism was brought to my attention by none other than my boss, who found it insulting that he (being a white male) would be considered a second-class citizen in the eyes of his employer. While this was being discussed amongst us,  I took advantage of the situation, trying to recruit some of my co-workers to join me downtown with signs denouncing anti-white discrimination (though not, specifically, our employer).  There were no serious takers though.  One man equated such a protest with being neo-Nazi or skin-head.  It was asked why it is considered alright to discriminate against whites so openly and to such a degree.  My answer was, of course, that it is because only whites allow themselves to be trampled upon.

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Changing our tactics pt. 2

Posted on March 17, 2010 by jewamongyou

After I recently posted about changing our tactics, people commented with worthy suggestions.  Those suggestions related to immigration law, the education system and the media.  While all those are worthy goals, I think there are more effective, and realistic, things we can do right away.
First of all, we need to set up a fund (we can call it a “scholarship”) from which sums are awarded based on Educational Blitzkrieg Attacks.  These E.B.A.’s would have to accomplish certain things and avoid certain things.
They must be directed at children or young people.  They must be composed of effective, accurate and positive sound bites.  They must attract a certain amount of attention.  They must be done in a fun and cheerful manner (ideally with a smile).  At least two people should participate, ideally three (one to document it on video).
They cannot be dangerous, illegal or hostile in any way.  They should not appear suspicious or sneaky.  They must not be negative, hateful or “anti” anybody.
An ideal E.B.A. would be to wait outside a school when classes are dismissed for the day.  When the children are out and about, they will be treated to the sound of a bull-horn saying things like “Be proud of your European heritage!  Your heritage is precious!”  This would last only a few moments.  Wait a few days, or weeks, and then do it again – but with a different, related message.  With any luck, those words will get some of the children thinking and asking questions.  We are forced to pay taxes so that government can pollute the minds of our children with leftist garbage.  The least we can do in return is give those kids some truth.
Another E.B.A. would be in the form of fliers.  These fliers would be colorful and cartoonish.  Each one might highlight a different famous white person.  At the bottom, the bold caption might read “Your European ancestors did much to be proud of!”  I know many will disagree with me on this, but I believe it is better to use the word “European” than “white”.  These fliers could be given away with toys – but the child would have to listen to a minute or two of European accomplishments before getting the toy.
More adult-oriented fliers would be used with college and high school students.  Perhaps some of them would mention the plight of whites in South Africa – or even America (as long as it doesn’t mention other races by name or inference).  We want to be careful so that nobody can accuse us of spreading hate amongst children.  It might be a good idea to set up a booth, near a high school, with music.  In exchange for a free school supply or an i-tune gift card, the student would have to listen to a couple of minutes of European history and pride.  When adults walk up and ask “what are you doing?” The answer would be “We are trying to raise awareness of European-American heritage.”  Say it with a smile and offer to share some information with the adult as well.
Many are not willing, or able, to participate in such activities.  But there is no need for them to feel left out; they can always donate to the E.B.A. fund and encourage others to do so.  The fund will provide a monetary award to those who can document that they participated in such activities.   If hundreds of occurrences, like those described above, take place all over America people will start to notice.  Sooner or later there will even be local news coverage.  This sort of movement would be like a Tea Party for white activists.  A campaign like this would be wholesome, American and guaranteed to get results – because we can blog about national policy until we’re blue in the face but, outside of our own circles, few care.  Our future is with our youth and our youth is at school – so this is where they must be reached.

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Dialect and culture

Posted on March 17, 2010 by jewamongyou

Few things can match the sadness of the extinction of an ancient language.  When a human is on his deathbed, his friends and loved ones are there to bid him farewell.  He says his final words and passes amid weeping and bowed heads.  But when a language is on its deathbed, its natural heirs carry on obliviously even as they strengthen the life of its murderer – by giving their stolen breath to form words of the alien tongue.  But the alien tongue does not even need their contributions.  English would have survived perfectly well without stealing Irish children from Gaelic.  Arabic would still have flourished without those last few Aramaic speakers.  Spanish would still be doing quite well without speakers of those Amerindian tribal languages.
While the passing of a language is tragic even when its speakers willingly give it up in favor of a more dominant one, it is even worse when the stronger language is forced upon a vanquished population.  I think that the demise of a dialect is also a tragedy.  It is symbolic of the decline of the culture that produced it.  When I lived in Israel I fought hard for the preservation of authentic Semitic Hebrew.  It was an uphill struggle, with the entire weight of government, educational institutions and the media against me.  Still, I was not alone and had some success.  Similarly, Southern English has always held a place in my heart.  It is pleasing to the ear and represents the authentic America.  It is also subject to powerful forces that wish to eradicate it: the mainstream media, government and the education system.
One organization, which valiantly fights for its linguistic heritage, is the League of the South.  This is from their website, DixieNet.org:

In an 18 June 1998 issue of the Charleston (S.C.) News and Courier, there appeared an article entitled ‘Are Accents Holding Us Back in Life?’ It begins with the questions ‘How much is your Southern accent worth?’ and ‘Could keeping it cost you a chance at a lucrative career?’ A professor at Mars Hill College in North Carolina proposes and ‘accent modifying’ center for Southern college students. She hopes to get funds (a big Federal grant, no doubt?) to study just how much of a Southern accent can hold a person back. Then the ‘modifying centers’ will reteach Southern students to achieve a ‘national standard.’ The professor cites the example of a top student who was a sure bet for a graduate fellowship in biomedicine at a top Southern university-until she had her interview, that is. The professor continues: ‘She had to go to a secondary institution. It was specifically her accent . . . . They needed her to be able to present at national conferences.’ One may question whether it is actually the accent that is wrong or the rank prejudice of the academics who denied the candidate her position on such grounds. One might also pose the question of whether the professor would do better by demonstrating such cases of true discrimination (and might we say, violation of an individual’s civil rights?) toward the purpose of eliminating the discrimination rather than the accent. It seems that once again in this crazy time of absurd reversals and values run amok, that the cart is put before the horse, Where too, we might ask, is the academic’s professed honouring of diversity-that sacred cow idol of current academia.

I highly recommend reading all of chapter seven, linked to above and I applaud their efforts.  It is disturbing that, at a time that Southern American English is under siege, “Ebonics” is proliferating among young people.  Even though it is true that “Ebonics” is largely derived from Southern American English, currently it is the embodiment of something radically different.  A dialect is like clothing for a culture and is symbolic thereof.  So, of these two dialects – Southern and “Ebonics” – which one should America be promoting amongst its youth?

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It is time to change our tactics

Posted on March 16, 2010 by jewamongyou

What do KKK members, skinheads, David Duke, Don Black, BNP members, Michael Levin and Jared Taylor all have in common?  They’re all pro-white.  Of course they have their differences; some are ignorant thugs while others are refined scholars.  Still others focus on politics and others lean toward militant action.  Some are religious while others atheist.  Perhaps it’s time we have a pro-white organization that encompasses all of the above.  This organization would only act on matters that are not controversial (among pro-whites): aid to South African whites, helping white orphans, teaching white/Western history and pride, bringing attention to medical issues that affect mainly whites, stamping out violence against whites in American/European cities, increasing the white birth-rate and working toward white homelands for example.
During the last Amren meeting, which was abridged due to persecution, some talk was heard of changing our tactics.  While research, blogging and education are all important and should continue, I think it is vital that we consolidate forces as a voting block, as a lobbying group, as a mobile (and reliable) group of protesters and yes, even as an agent of intimidation when necessary.
We no longer have the luxury of being “nice guys in suits” all the time.  While in Virginia, I met John Browne of Tip of the Spear and I found him to be inspiring.  We need more people like him, who are not afraid to stand up to evil, look it in the eye and say “no more!”
Can we take skin-heads and channel their energy to good use?  I don’t know but it might be worth trying.  There is a lot of pent up anger among young whites, who suffer daily from racist aggression – but they are ignorant of racial truths and know nothing of pro-white organizations.  Any “outreach” ideas can be discussed here.

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The struggle for Hebrew

Posted on March 15, 2010 by jewamongyou

There is much to say about the sorry state of “Hebrew” in Israel.  What now passes for “Hebrew” is naught but a garbled pigeon-English that is an insult to the ears, sounds like a comatose Frenchman choking on a (still living) frog and shouldn’t even be called a “language” at all.  Of course there are individuals, in Israel, who are better than that but practically all Israelis under the age of 40 or so, who have been processed by the education system there, speak in the laziest manner possible.  Israeli “Hebrew” as used on radio is certainly better but still a far cry from what it should be.  All said, if every Israeli would just give up “Hebrew” and speak Arabic instead, they’d probably be closer to real Hebrew than what they have now.  Apparently back in 1979 there was still hope and a man by the name of Dr. Abraham Matalon wrote a book about it.  Dr. Matalon was born in Egypt and moved to Israel in 1949, where he was active in promoting the Hebrew language.  I do not know if he is still alive.  As far as I know, this book has never been translated into English.  I’ve translated only the forward (minus the last couple of paragraphs) and here it is:

“The Hebrew Pronunciation in its struggle” by Dr. Abraham Matalon.  Tel Aviv 1979

Forward

This book is an expanded version of a pamphlet that was published in 1965: “The Degeneration of Hebrew in Israel”.  Many were shocked that we chose such a title for the pamphlet.  For those who considered this to be a testimony of contempt for our language, in fact we come to redeem the disgrace of our beloved (language), to demand the return of its crown to its head and the restoration of its lost honor.
Everybody agrees that the situation of our language is steadily deteriorating, in vocabulary and the wonton intrusion of foreign words, and syntax – which is vulnerable to foreign influences without end, and in the realm of pronunciation.  This is all because of a lack of coordination and rules.
Prior to the foundation of the State of Israel, it was common opinion that a struggle for the restoration of the language is a worthy cause, just like activism for the independence of Israel in its land.  From the time that the State of Israel was announced, people became complacent for we had “achieved our goal”.  A few demanded that the Zionist movement be disbanded, for its goal had been met according to them.  Others sought to sever the historic ties between the Jews of Israel and the Jews of the Diaspora, claiming that there is now an “Israeli identity” which is distinct from the dispersed Jewish people.  Others even lost interest in fighting for the continuation of revitalization of Hebrew, since it was announced to be the national language of Israel.  Voices were heard claiming that Hebrew need not be preserved in our mouths for we can expect, and make possible, the emergence of a new language that would replace “traditional” Hebrew.  In order to facilitate the morphological, grammatical and phonetic replacements of Hebrew, they sought to free the people from “outdated” conventions.
Thirty years after the establishment of the State of Israel, there is still difficulty in defining three primary concepts in the life of our people and we ask: Who is a Jew?  What are the boundaries of the State of Israel?  What is the preferable pronunciation of Hebrew?  The lack of historical, and linguistic, norms against these questions brings deep and great confusion to our society and even blemishes the faith of many in (the concepts of our) people, nation and language.
Even though the correct pronunciation was fixed at the beginning of the century, some educators rose up against rules that were contrary to what they were used to and they cast doubt upon the authority of those who had defined the correct pronunciation.  New rules were not set and they argued that a solution not be reached until a later time.  However, since the language was a living one, it required immediate solutions to unprecedented problems that arose.  When people are appointed to teach the rules of a language and to publicize them, we would get expected answers – or, at least, close to those that would be expected.  But when there are no rules, we get answers that are shocking and undesirable, that cripple the language’s ability to develop in ways that are faithful to its past and its foundations.   Without fixed rules, behold “each man does what is right in his own eyes.”  Each teacher teaches as he sees fit… and they all serve as a bad example for the ears of the people.  Hebrew pronunciation is divided by the tribes of Israel and its statuses, according to societal dynamics.  The mix of pronunciations in Israel might bring about a situation where “one man cannot understand the speech of his fellow” as was said about the people of Babylon in ancient times.
Hebrew, in our days, is like a maiden by a fork in the road under a flourishing tree: anybody who wishes has his way with her; but the city leaders see and say nothing.  Verily it is so with Hebrew these days, our age can be called “the generation of chaos.”
Within the thirty years of statehood that have elapsed, groups of Jews have migrated here who have packed, within their baggage, the trappings of non-Western culture.  From the beginning people arrived from different cultural backgrounds.  Since solutions were not found to generally accommodate the social habits of these people, many problems developed and even worsened.
There were educators and public servants, in Israel, who believed that anything that had any hint of non-Western culture – must be considered “primitive”, and anybody who wished to be considered “modern” would hasten to distance himself from those things.  There came to be a negative connotation and wholesale rejection of the family structure, of tradition and religion, of mannerisms, of traditional garb and cuisine.  The fire of criticism spread to the Hebrew pronunciation of these Jews who had come from the lands of Islam.  Their sons were handed over to educators who flooded their ears, as if it were some kind of wonder, a pronunciation that was different from that of their forefathers and that was contrary to the correct pronunciation.  In the hearts of the students was solidified the conviction that they must abandon the pronunciation of their ancestors as if it were a despicable thing, that they must join the procession to become “modern” toward the “new” Hebrew.  Just as they were taught to disdain the traditions of their fathers, so too were they taught to hold the correct pronunciation in contempt, since it was represented as primitive.
We should feel fortunate and say that, within the last few years, there has been a change for the good in Israeli society.  They no longer put off societal problems until “time does what it will”.  Many community leaders are prepared to admit that the path we took in the past, the wholesale throwing into the sea of all aspects of Oriental Jewish culture, is not acceptable.  The drunkenness with “Western” culture is gradually subsiding with the revelation that some evils were gotten from there: drugs, abandonment of moral principles, spiritual destruction and a lack of faith in values.  Will this wave of sobriety reach also to the realm of language, so that we may continue in our efforts to restore Hebrew to its correct pronunciation?
Our generation is troubled with severe physical and political problems: is it possible, within this situation to make heard the cry of Hebrew and its pronunciation?
Every language struggle, amongst peoples, arose and succeeded according to the degree with which it was integrated within their societal struggles.  A language war is not waged on its own.  The Hebrew language rose back to life as an essential vessel for the political rebirth of Israel.  The struggle for the correct pronunciation will rise and succeed when it is seen as a vital force for the political rebirth and when it is strongly connected to Israeli society.  At the same time that hopes of peace are being felt across the sea and over the heavens, so too does the demand for a correct Hebrew pronunciation go hand in hand with the need to bring Hebrew and Arabic cultures closer together.
Like any societal question, pushing it off for another day cannot solve the problem of pronunciation.  On the contrary, every delay only makes the matter worse.  The problem of pronunciation is tied to the question of Hebrew script, for the way to effective communication is double: hearing and seeing, the ear hears and the eye sees.  It is necessary for the methods of script and writing bring about accurate reading, according to the demands of correct pronunciation.  We can find a solution to the problem of Hebrew script without vocalization (vowel marks).  Writing “kethiv maleh” (using some consonants excessively in order to compensate for the lack of vowels) is not the best way.

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