Something I wrote Comparing U.S. and Israeli Jews

Bad times create strong people, strong people create good times, good times create weak people, weak people create bad times, bad times create weak people.

81% of all Jews alive today live in America or Israel. 39% of all Jews in America, and 42% of all Jews in Israel.

American Jews, are mostly the decedents of the most poorest, most powerless Jews of Europe. They are the Jews whose ancestors first felt the effects of an increasingly genocidaly antisemitic Europe, and where the first Jews to reach the conclusion that they must flee. Most American Jews, are the decedents of Jews who came to America, before the 1925 immigration quota.

Israeli Jews, are the last surviving Jews of three continents that have genocided or ethnically cleansed themselves of almost all of their Jews. Most Israeli Jews, 90% of Israeli Jews, are the descendants of refugees who had no where else to go, but to come together, fight together for their survival, and build a place in their indigenous land, where they could finally stop dying, when no such place was available to them.

The bad times of the most poor, most powerless Jews in Europe before, during and in the immediate aftermath of WW1, this is what created the strong American Jews of Emma Lazarus and Anna Rosenberg, who created the single most strongest and thriving Jewish Diaspora in history. And these good times of American Jews, the most privileged Jewish Diaspora, this created some of the most profoundly naive, and weakest, Jews today.

The good times of the wealthiest Jews of Europe, this created the naive Jews who were the last to understand they needed to flee, and then faced immigration quotas at every turn. Similarly the Jews of MEANA (which was historically less antisemitic than Europe) did not need to really start to flee, until all the Jews of Europe where desperately trying to flee but with no where to go. This most tragic moment of Jewish history, is what gave birth to the strongest Jews like Shimon Peres, in modern Jewish history, who rose up from the ashes of the Holocaust, declared their independence while under the fire of the Egyptian army hellbent on their annihilation, only to survive and emerge as the first sovereign Jews who were masters of their own fate for the first time in almost 2,000 years.

Today many American Jews, don’t remember their history, of what it was like and took to survive being poorest Jews in Europe, the historically most antisemitic place on earth. The history of most American Jews, is that their ancestors left a Europe, where wealthy assimilated elite Jews could still have a large degree of safety. The current reality today of most American Jews, is they live in an America where the assimilated anti-Zionist Jews who sufficiently demonizes Israel, can still have a large degree of safety.

Today’s Israeli Jew, can NEVER forget their history. The history of most Israeli Jews, is that their ancestors left a land that no or almost no Jew could survive. The last surviving Jews, of a Europe and a Middle East that killed or expelled almost all its Jews, would than survive multiple genocidal wars against them from multiple arab army’s set on exterminating them, and in these most dire moments, be routinely dined any help even when the’d previously been promised, by western country’s that didn’t want to upset the oil rich Arab countries trying to exterminate them.

Today’s elite privileged American Jews, are yesterday’s elite privileged European Jews. Today’s 2025 progressive NYC Jew, is yesterday’s wealthy German Jew. Most of the Jews in 1925 Europe, did not survive the Holocaust. Only 1/3 of the Jews in Europe, and 5% of German Jews, would survive the Holocaust, and the ones that did survive, mostly became the Jews of Israel.

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