Lambert Benjamin

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So what beanie hat does the Jewish prophetic do with liberal Christianity's attempt to distance itself from Constantinian Christianity and to grapple with the Holocaust, especially in Germany?? Instead of honoring Christians for their struggle, the Jewish prophetic hammers away at German Christian guilt when it is used as a self-serving rescue.? As well, it cites German Christian discourse and material enablement of Israel as a no-go area for Jews and Christians of Conscience.? It focuses as well on German prosperity in the present.? Is that prosperity built upon the suffering of others? For using Jewish suffering in the Holocaust as a means of creating more suffering trivializes everything, including the very memory of suffering. Trivializing suffering, then or now, trivializes the rage against it.? For the Jewish prophetic, trivializing the victims of the Holocaust by creating more victims is the ultimate transgression against the prophetic  and thus the Jewish indigenous.

At the end, we begin again, or so it goes in the realm of poetry.? Beginning again we see life from another angle, innocence filtered through experience.? Theology likewise seeks renewal by returning but, in the theological realm, it may too late.? The return to Jesus for Christians or the rabbinic era for Jews is misplaced.? Christians in Germany dad hats cannot return to Jesus through Luther, Hitler and Heidegger.? Jews cannot move back before the Holocaust or Israel.? In a strange way, then, German Christians and Jews are bound together in the present as they have been in the past.? Both come after the Holocaust and after Israel  after Israel meaning after what Jews  with German political, material and theological enablement  have done richardson hats and are doing to the Palestinian people.

Obviously the current peace process brokered by the United States and Secretary of State John Kerry, whatever its fit and starts, nowhere addresses the needs of the Palestinian people or Jewish culpability in the creation and expansion of the state of Israel.? No Middle East peace process has.? Instead, like German Christian and Jewish theology, the various peace processes have served as a cover for Israel's continuing expansion.? If there are any doubts remaining, think of what the latest peace process promises Israel  more or less all the Palestinian land Israel has taken plus a release from any and all historical claims against it.? Think, then, of what the latest peace process promises Palestine  more or less everything it has yet to lose and a bar against raising any pork pie hat and all historical claims against Israel for its crimes against the Palestinian people.

So the Jews function as a rescue for German complicity in the Holocaust  through repentance and paying up in cash, economy and military hardware  and now the much criticized Americans help rescue Europe from its history of anti-Semitism and its support for the state of Israel that ethnically cleansed Palestinians in its birth and has disappeared Palestine in its continuing expansion.? If only Israel can be held back  from taking more than it already has taken  and if only Palestinians  will accept what is left over from Israel's birth and expansion  then all will be forgiven.? The challenge to the West, to German Christians, to Israeli Jews and global Jewry who have also been enablers and to Jewish theology will be over as well.

If the present or future peace process takes hold the German critics of the German Christian establishment will be silenced and the exploding Jewish prophetic will be sidelined. Will German Christians then return to the safe confines of grappling with Luther, Hitler and Heidegger as Jews return to the safe confines of the ancient rabbis now filtered through the disembodied tenure-seeking academic elite in Jewish Studies?It isn't easy to commit oneself to the possibility, indeed the necessity of refusing rescue.? Obviously on the personal level rescue is essential.? To refuse to rescue a person in need is universally understood to be unethical, even inhuman.? Of course that rescue is refused everyday on the personal and, to be sure, on the communal level as well.

The Jewish prophetic cannot go the route of rescue, politically, the contemporary Jewish prophetic is too brutally honest. Neither can it go the route of rescue, theologically, today's Jewish prophets would feel foolish calling on the Holocaust-absent God.? If anything is certain it is that the beret hat prophet  and the prophetic  is on her own.? God is not calling, commanding or accompanying the prophet, at least according to contemporary Jewish prophets.For some, this may seem an oversight, for how does a person sacrifice for justice absent a cause greater than self, one that is rooted in a transcendent reality? Whatever the theoretical constructs, the contemporary Jewish prophetic does not solicit resources outside of itself.? For after the Holocaust and after Israel, how can one call on a God of justice without regressing to [img]https://www.restaurantivo.com/images/a/beret hat-425zhp.jpg[/img] an infantilism that belies the struggle for a just world?

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