The Reality of Injustice

Wisdom Nugget.....He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth: In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth."

Sign on Nobel Laureates Boulevard in Rishon LeZion saluting Jewish Nobel Laureates.

Here are my closing thoughts on injustice.

We all like stories with happy endings. Whether the story is in a book or movie or even in real life, we like stories with happy endings.That's one reason why I love Chinese movies. The good guy never dies and he always beats the bad guy at the end. Sometimes, however, real life stories don’t have happy endings. And although we prefer stories with happy endings to stories with sad endings, we understand that life and its stories don’t always have happy endings. And as much as we all hate to live in a world of injustice, truth is because we live in a fallen world, some stories have unjust endings. Solomon wrote :
"Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them. 2 And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive. 3 But better than both is he who has not yet been and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun."

In 1947, Simon Wiesenthal formed a volunteer organization to help find and prosecute Nazi war criminals. During the next forty years, Wiesenthal’s organization helped track down more than one thousand war criminals, including Franz Stangl, the former commandant of the Treblinka death camp.
What was Wiesenthal’s motivation? He had plenty of good reasons. During World War II, he spent the last three years of the war in a series of labor and concentration camps. The Nazis killed 89 members of his and his wife’s Jewish families during the war. But when asked the reason for his work, he pointed to one concrete experience that happened in a World War II death camp. One day two Nazi officers rode to the site where the prisoners were excavating rock. One of them grabbed a Jewish man and made him stand back to back with another Jewish man. He had a guard bind the two men together with a rope. Then, just as calmly as if he were swatting a fly, he pulled out his gun and shot through the first man’s head into the head of the man behind him, killing both men with one bullet. He turned to the other officer and said to him, “See, I told we’ve been wasting 50 percent of our bullets.”
Simon Wiesenthal’s responded to this atrocious act by saying, “God was on leave.” He wondered where God was when the world was filled with injustice.

66 years later the Jews rule the world. Out of the total 684 Nobel laureates ( in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Economics and Peace.) world over, a full 22.66% of them have been of Jewish lineage. An amazing list of achievements for a people who comprise just 0.1955% of the world population! There are 115.9 times as many Jewish Nobel laureates as there would be if every race had equal representation among the Nobel Prize winners). Many of their contributions to science and society are practical and beneficial to our everyday lives (e.g. anesthesia, penicillin, blood groups, relativity which enables GPS).

How did they do it ? Many reasons, but one of them being that
after thousands of years of persecution, climaxing at in the Holocaust murder of 6 million of them They were resurrected and restored to greatness because " Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit".


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