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Life God gave this land!?
2021.05.11 08:38
Did God give This Land?
Yesterday was exceptionally busy all day at the office till 5:00 PM though two of originally scheduled patients- both are from out of state- failed to make and deferred till next Monday.
Since I announced I would stop my clinical service along the end of June before I hit age 83 like my mentor Leonel Villavicencio did, so many of old(?) patients- some were the infants when I saw first but now grown-up adults! - wanted to receive my final(?) opinion/verdict on their mostly vascular malformation-related problem, I gave care for decades. But due to the limited time I have to allow only the patients who really need my recommendation for the future prospects of their condition although they all will be taken over by my protégés scattered throughout the world to give proper care.
That is NOT the point I wish to bring up this time but one old retired professor of nuclear physics who originally immigrated(?) from Russia- someone who knows him told me he was actually smuggled out by the CIA during the cold war era to help one critical government project.
He was not originally scheduled among the patients my staff assigned yesterday clinic but he called up the office manager - GWU (George Washington Univ) group holds a few satellite offices in the Washington suburb in addition to the main office at the downtown main hospital to help the patients!-, begging to come to see me to the clinic after the regular schedule before I leave.
He is now 93 years old but robust healthy, racially Jewish, and drives all the way from a remote corner of the Maryland suburb to my Reston satellite office, crossing Potomac River, through congested beltway, mostly alone but occasionally with his elderly daughter. Yes, he came alone this time and sat in the waiting room for more than an hour till I finish the work so that I invited him to my private office room instead of the patient exam room since he would not need a physical exam this time.
I was extremely tired after intense work all day but it was a sheer pleasure to sit around with him to chat ‘how the world treats him’ for more than 30 minutes including his recent visit to Jerusalem as the last(?) tribute to his ancestral land. I was so surprised to listen to his such critical rather negative view on the traditional claim on ‘occupied West bank’ as a Jewish homeland, which was almost identical to the view of my mentor, another Jewish Russian, who gave me a special privilege to inherit his world-pioneering works on the lymphatic reconstruction, shared with me years ago as a total surprise.
Nevertheless, I don’t know how many of you watch ALJAZEERA or France 24, but my blood boiled up to watching the scene to show one old Palestinian woman weeping helplessly, sitting alone next to her demolished house/shack - her house was demolished only because her house is simply too close to new Jewish settlement area which belongs to Palestinians. A settler spat out ‘this is our land, our God gave!!!’ unabashedly in an interview. Rather proudly shouted! No hesitation!
I don’t know but how you all would react if anyone should come to your doorway asking you to “get out because their God gave this land/house”? This is NOT my inquiry but the question I got from my mentor, Prof. Victor Krylov back in 2005 while he was visiting me to the U.S. to Reston, Virginia soon after I got back home from Korea, who escaped out to Tel Aviv right after the collapse of Soviet Union and stayed briefly in Israel till we rescued him out to the U.S. He was eventually persuaded to come back home to Moscow by his pupils even though he was fully resettled at Urbana Champaign.
Over the breakfast table, while visiting us to our house at Reston, Virginia, Prof. Krylov suddenly threw such blunt question as a total surprise, “how would you react if anyone should come to your doorway asking you to get out because their God gave this land/house?”; I was totally off-guarded to respond on this sensitive Zionism issue especially on this resettlement at the occupied land. But he was so critical, more than Arab colleagues of mine, to surprise me. Indeed I never expected such harsh criticism from Jewish people ever.
Indeed, Prof. Krylov is racially Jew and his wife is pure Russian/Slav, born in Russia but worked as the 'head' of Institute of Advanced Medicine and Technology at Moscow which is exceptional in Russia as I know of so that we never imagined he was a Jew till he got out from Russia to Tel Aviv and eager to move to the States so that we knew he doesn’t want to settle in Israel.
Anyhow, he was apparently invited by a young department chairman while in Tel Aviv, who happened to be the son of his close friend to his new house one day, which happened to be located in such a controversial new Jewish settlement area. Prof. Krylov did not know till he got there. Victor was surprised when he was told “this is our land, our God gave!!!”.
Would you quietly accept such demand to give away your house if someone comes demanding to empty because “this is our land, our God gave!!!”?
How you’d like it?
BB Lee
Comment 12
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Israel was created by UK and USA and has been maintained by USA
with our tax money. Israel gets the most military aid among the countries
that US gives military aids to. It is an original sin that US and UK will
pay back for a long time. In the end I think Israel will disappear.
Palestinians and Arabs will bother Israelites so much that they will leave
Israel and the country may dissolve by itself. Infinitively the heaven
is always fair.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-57081848
BBC: Israel declares Emergency
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Yes, Dr. Ohn, you are right. The British empire was the one who caused so many troubles throughout the world in order to control through the ‘divide and conquer policy we all know too well. Not only the split of India and Pakistan was precipitated by the UK based on the religious background but also all the current Middle East conflicts including the Palestinian issue were initiated by the UK as you pointed out with no doubt including Zionism.
I am sure you all remember such a moving last scene of the movie, ‘Exodus’ we all saw decades ago and by all means, we all blessed their dream to come back home to their ancestral land finally to terminate their century-long diaspora and I still do without reservation, sharing their grievance especially after the holocaust through the WWII and became one of worldly-renowned (?) staunch supporters among the colleagues.
Indeed, I was completely absorbed in Yiddish music through my beloved tenor, Jan Peerce, former cantor at New York synagogue and their tragic diaspora stories in particular since my college days and feverishly collected all the available Yiddish songs and synagogue music to listen all day to irritate my wife to teasing me as spiritually Yiddish/Jewish man.
But through my frequent trips to the Middle East through the last two decades, mostly to Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi, to help my Arab colleagues to handle their vascular malformation patients, I learned the reality was a lot different from the original(?) idea of Zionism to confusing me with great disappointments. Even Jewish peoples themselves seem to have a mixed feeling with the current status of Palestinians that I confirmed through two Jewish gentlemen I mentioned above.
Indeed, those Palestinians who used to live in the land assigned to Israel by the UK but were kicked out by Israeli permanently are a real heart-broken tragedy, too much to pay as the reimbursement/compensation for the holocaust Nazi/German caused, and not by their Arab Semitic brothers, Palestinians who are the same Semite like Jews after all!
These refugees are all over Arab countries as I know of since I accidentally encountered this refugee camp for the first time, back in 1960, on way to the airport of Beirut/Lebanon to go to Ghana to participate in WAY (World Assembly of Youth). I had no idea about this camp extended near to the roadside to give me a chance of glimpse but soon learned how it happened, more in-depth through personal contact with one of the refugee family while visiting Univ of Dammam, Saudi, who was further kicked out from Kuwait after the War, and also another one in Amman, Jordan. Such sad stories broke my heart as the same kind of human being!!
I bet they will never ever be able to go back or even visit their homeland like an old retired high school history teacher who guided me to Mt. Nebo (many are familiar through the Old Testament- Moses lived out his final days at Mount Nebo only watching the Promised Land-), to point out the direction to Jericho where he was kicked out but never allowed to come back. I was too guilty to watch him weeping while he talked about such personal tragedy, praying every day to visit his ancestral graveyard someday before he dies to make his last tribute. His large tears running through his cheeks embedded into my heart forever!
Sadly,
BB Lee
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https://newrepublic.com/article/116215/was-harry-truman-zionist
Harry Truman; Israel and Palestine
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That was an excellent review on the Zionism, Dr. Ohn. As a matter of fact, it seems to be THE best illustration on the relationship between Israel/Jewish State and Palestinian State since 1945 especially on the role(?) of Harry Truman, I read ever, thanks. The story was quite close, if not, the same to what I understood all along. I further heard/understand that Truman group offered Jewish refugees survived from the holocaust to resettle at one of the western States, Oregon? for the main site but rejected by this Zionist group, though I never tried to confirm this saga.
Anyhow, sadly, Palestinian refugees are still agonizing with no chance to go back home they were kicked out from. As long as these displaced Palestinians remain scattered around Middle East, it certainly will fuel anti-Americanism to invite another FATWA against the “Zionist-Crusader alliance” to attack the U.S. like Osama bin Laden back in 1996. And we will have to pay the price.
BB Lee
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It is fortunate that I and all other Koreans have no land or house given by God.
We worked our ass off "to buy" the land we own. By that, we have a true and proud claim on it.
It is a blessing that What I own is what I earned, not given free by God.
The Jewish land was given by the British by their politics, not at all by any God.
When one gets the land free for no particular reason, he may say it was given by God.
However, we all know that God does not go around and gives lands away here and there.
That's why the arguments go on and on forever between the Jewish and Palestinians.
Therefore, anything given by God is a thing for an eternal curse. Don't take it!
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So, you are right, doc, we are lucky we were not blessed to have become a God-chosen people, aren't we! Isn’t that silly, doc? Anyhow, it is a self-inflicted wound they pay as the price to claim for 'God-chosen people'. Even President Truman refused to accept such silly claims by Jews as ‘God chosen people’ with special privilege, different from all other peoples including their own Semitic cousin, Palestinians. They are indeed such proud’ God-chosen’ people superior to all other humankind to lead the whole world now, aren’t they? But as long as they refuse to give up the claim as 'God-chosen people', no one on the surface of the earth would like them!
BB
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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/how-should-we-talk-about-the-israel-lobbys-power.html
Israel Lobby's power
Take foreign aid. The U.S. provides the Jewish state with $3.8 billion a year in aid and has committed to doing so for each of the next ten years. Compare that with what the U.S. gives other allies who are as wealthy as Israel: The U.K. got $150,000 in 2017; South Korea got $775,000. The average aid for high-income countries like Israel, according to USAID, is $79 million a year. Israel gets 48 times more.
Per capita, the disparity is close to absurd. Israel gets $436 in U.S. aid a year; dirt-poor Afghanistan $154; post-war Iraq $91; Egypt $14. By any measure, this is extreme exceptionalism. Yes, Israel faces military threats. But so does South Korea. And, unlike South Korea, Israel has nuclear weapons (illegally acquired) and its enemies don’t. The IDF and the Mossad stride the region with unparalleled military capacity and a vast technological edge. Israel is not David anymore. It’s Goliath. And even if you believe the U.S. should somehow be aiding a country as wealthy as Israel, you’ve got to admit the scale of it is off the charts.
*American Jews lobby American politicians for Israel at the expense of
American national interest. Yet the American public doesn't seem to care
what the US does to Israel.
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Oh, yes, we all know that, Dr. Ohn. But anything wrong with that? We ought to be really grateful for such a unique opportunity God-chosen people gave to the USA to support Israel unconditionally. Did anyone ever, as I know of in the USA, dare (?) to show any doubt or objection on such unconditional support to Israel? No, sir! No way, doc, no way! We should kowtow to express eternal gratitude for such a unique opportunity these God-chosen people gave to us/the USA. Congress should pass a new law to mandate all Americans kneel toward Jerusalem five times a day to pray ‘long live Israel/Zionism’ like Muslims do to their Allah!!!
God bless America!
BB
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I don't mean to kidding you but that is what many people here in the U.S. tried to convince me when I came to the U.S. for more than a half century ago. And there has been no change since I came to this heavenly country. Indeed, to live safely here in the U.S., many adviced 'NEVER EVER try to cross two taboos, that is Jewish people and NRA!' when I came to the States. So be it! Am I wrong?
BB
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-13331522
Hamas rules Gaza
Of course, you don't get such story in depth out from shallow Americano TV.
Indeed, even CNN or MSNBC will have to lower the eye level more in these days to fit to the majority which got used to short twits like a bird, thanks to MF Tramp with small microcephalic bird brain. But other non-Amerikano, European channels deal this issue properly to ease my thirst.
Anyhow, DW-TV (Deutsch Welle) is very cautious to deal Israeli issue so that I don't watch routinely but France-24 is much more liberal so that I always watch France-24 every evening after BBC. If there are any more interesting stories, I read Aljazeera instead since they stopped free TV service.
BB Lee