A new generation of West-Germans after WWII traveled in droves to Israel to work on the kibbutzim. They were committed enough to take a fresh ideal, a daring and a necessary one, and ground it in going to Israel, a state and nation barely fifteen years old, founded by Jews as a matter of both ancient heritage and modern democratic social experiment - and defended with their own means and will, as an own entity for the first time in eons of only diaspora.
And a state where these young Germans would weather the distrust and hostility focused on themselves as Germans, projected upon them by those who still held in recent enough memory what the regime of their parents' and grandparents' generation had visited upon these or their parents and grandparents - or children - and seemingly with little hope of gaining new trust, let alone of healing. It was a project not guided by naiveté, but on grabbing hoe and shovel in hand, making themselves useful, doing real work on the many kibbutzim, those who would welcome them - as not all did. There are many stories of those who'd remained for a couple or more years, or who'd returned often. It was a project unburdened by ideology, with joint support and encouragement from the West-German Federal Republic and (at least) welcomed by the Central Jewish Council then under Heinz Galinsky, if nto directly supported. Likewise "welcomed" without direct support by the two officlal Churches, were the many Christian Germans who saw their sense of service aptly applied to correcting the infamous silence and collaboration of the Catholic and Protestant offices under the Nazis.
No one made a good buck (or Deutchmark) off of this, certainly not those who went there, they lived on the most modest of earnings, really pocket-money at best - they got by.
These young (exclusively) West-Germans saw in going to an Israel they recognized, a way toward healing a recent past they couldn't otherwise change, as it was not of their doing. Having confronted their own parents on what role they may have played - or on the other hand might or could have played in contrast - they did what only their generation could do and was determined to do - and what still left the former generation cold and unmoved, indiffernet and unwilling to have done or promoted themselves.
And these young West-Germans not only left an impression - if not back in Germany, on their own generation - certainly on the kibbutzim, and certainly for generations to come, in Germany and in Israel. So it would seem. But for the Left.
The entire motivating wish and desire of those healthy young Germans in going to Israel in the mid-'60s and into the '70s, was to lend their hands literally, in the areas of nursing and health care as well as field work, to balancing out what they could, in light of the horrors of two decades prior. They really believed in "Never again!". They also in this manner, wanted a Germany where Jews could again feel safe, as enough Jews had already returned and had built a growing Jewish community, as mentioned under Heinz Galinsky. They would never have imagined that just over three decades later, a mass movement of specifically Muslim immigration would bring to Germany a fresh wave of Jew-hatred.
And the Left? As soon as Germany saw its own Reunification, the former one-party East-German SED found its niche in the new German political spectrum with the Greens and PDS (later to become The Left) - and went right to work assigning to itself the image of having "saved" Germany's dark image - pushing out of public memory what these earlier, non-ideologically idealistic young West-Germans had accomplished.
And what did the West-German Left do meanwhile, in those years? Well, they gushed over the East-German Socialist Experiment, to the hilt - its best useful idiots (East-Germany never recognized Israel, and neither did they). And they supported the Red Army Faction (RAF), those heroes and heroines of socialism whose string of bank robberies and execution-style murders over the course of a decade-and-a-half sent schock-waves through the West-German population - and they always sided with the PLO no matter what.
The RAF, whose support of and training with the PLO included coordinated international and domestic terrorism - for example: the Munich Olympics and the fiasco which hindered what little advantage law enforcement and security might have gotten a handle on; or the hijacking to Mogadishu, in which only through the concentrated efforts of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was a nearly entire rescue possible, and heralded the birth of his special GSG9 crisis unit; or the hijacking to Entebbe, where West-German RAF members, judging their own parents for the "Third Reich" while having learned nothing from it themselves, now sorted and separated at the Entebbe airport, the Jewish hostages from the non-Jewish - releasing the latter and holding the former (under what for some among them, indeed was a second death sentence by Germans). As I say: National-Socialist or International, brown or red - a socialist will gladly ramp up the Jewish dead.
Now Galinsky has long since passed away, his own daughter is a rabid Israel-hating socialist. The Central Jewish Council participates with an East-German ex-Stasi informant sitting her fourth term of incompetence and abuse of Office in the German Chancellery, oepnly fostering a far-Left collectivism and climate of denunciation where her announcement of Israel being way at the top of German "state policy" is actually more of a cudgel to hold the German voting public under the control of the collective guilt.syndrome which is deeply embedded to this day. (It was to counter this very syndrome which inspired me since 1980 to come here, and which I did in 1988, and to do my part in lifting this onus and this burden of manipulated mis-identity from the Germans of my generation, and the generation of those who worked on kibbutzim - or those making a dent here inland, who were the unsung heroes I've come to know and appreciate for having contributed to a better democracy and a more fitting image of post-war Germans.
Today, the dominating climate of radical Left/Green politicians, lobbies, "SJW"s, "Anti"fa, "Interventionist-Left" - all subsidized by sitting parties and by the (never voted-for) EU-parliament - loudly and self-righteously promote BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) toward Israel, holding this state to a double standard and popularizing anti-Israel propaganda with the romantic mythos of "social justice warrioring" as red as the Stalinists and Maoists and as brown as the Naitonal-Socialists.
Meanwhile, The Merkel Plan and the EU Replacement and Resettlement Plan - both of which literally exist, and are easily available to access by internet and to read in pdf format as published - are seeing to it that Europe is repopulated with specifically and seemingly exclusively Muslim unvetted immigration from the widest swaths of Islamic dominated regions, covering from Afghanistan and Pakistan through India, through Syria and Iraq, and reaching across North Africa to Morocco, taking with it those from the entire upper third of the African continent. Flooding into West-EUrope - with Germany as the chosen spearhead - in numbers already far exceeding those seen till now, which pale in comparison with the projected numbers to be wooed and drawn onto EUropean soil over the next decades in fulfillment of an entire EUropean ethnocide at the hands of the EU itself - projected to 2050, utilizing the best of all assimilation-resistent entities, for most promising effect: Islam.
This already bodes ill for Jews in West-EUrope, and in Germany they should be feeling the heat which French and Swedish Jews already are viewing as signs to leave for parts far from Europe. Again. Thanks to The Socialist Experiment. Thanks to Germany's Merkel and her "state policy". Thanks also to the Central Jewish Council which loves Israel so much and Germany so little, that it is willing to see its own Jews here book out on account of a Welcome-Cult(ure) by the Left toward those who most share their vision of wiping both Jews and any kind of Jewish state from existence. (Of course, Jews who convert to atheistic socialism or to non-atheistic Islam may save their necks, at the price of their very identity.)
How ironic then, that the AfD party and the Pegida or Identitarian movements are precisely the ones who are actively trying to confront and to hinder just this development - and are mistakenly or manipulatively maligned in word and print, for this: as "Nazi" and as "antisemetic".
How ironic, for example, that Henryk M. Broder, a superb journalist, Polish-born Jew whose mother had died in Dachau - that this gentleman, a master of irony and biting wit and an outspoken critic of the Merkel-led Islamization of Germany and EUrope, should be branded as well by the (almost entirely radical) Left, for this: as "a Nazi". It's gotten to this point.
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