What Returns on Investment?

I am shocked by the docile, lay-down, defeatist attitude we are taking to the societal challenges here in Australia.

Plenty of analyses by the Jewish communal “commentators”. But very little tachlis! Jewish leaders are busy explaining the freakin’ obvious, and making us feel even more helpless and hopeless. The result – everyone is saying how scared they are! And don’t tell me it’s ok – it’s being handled stealthily by “shtadlanut” – i.e. it’s all happening behind the scenes. Enough of “behind the scenes”!

Why haven’t heard one Jewish leader, lay or religious, come out and say, “its’ time for action! We can do it! We can stem the tide. We can fight this!” Not one such leadership voice. All I hear is: we can’t fight it because it’s worldwide; or, it’s because of Israel and Netanyahu; or, it’s Nazi Germany again; or, we have to get out-er-here, or, well, they have a point – all those babies, and…. –  such defeatist, frightened, misguided, and weak, rationales for doing nothing!

I can hear your retort: So, if you are so clever, tell us, what can we do?

The challenges and Solutions

1. Media: the media won’t provide the time of day for “our side” because Israel won’t allow them into the Gaza military arena that Israel is fighting in and control. So, the journalists, needing to make a living, go where they can take the best photo-shoots (even win a prize), stage-manage great and dramatic visuals of purported and real human suffering (who’ll know anyway!), and pay off the friendly Hamas with great propaganda stories and narratives which Reuters and the like sells on to the world news channels and talk shows.