What came first ?? The Jews or the Ghetto

Frustrated Arab's Diary

  

Amsterdam Ghetto1938

 Amnsterdam Ghetto 2010

What came first ??

the chicken or the egg ??

I was not there when Nebucco came along

or when the Pharaoh took them away

Neither I have anything to do with the Spanish-Inquisition.

No sir  !!

I was born in 1948 and ever since, I try

to understand the world around me .

One of the many questions I asked myself

was whether the Jew came first or the Ghetto ??

For the last 35 years I am living in

the safest place on Earth for any Jew....

which is The Netherlands.

In those 35 years my city,Amsterdam,

has seen 4 Jewish Mayors.

And the Netherlands which contains 35.000 Jewish-persons

has had 6 or 7 Jewish Ministers and about 10 to 15

members of Parliament , not to forged the Jewish presence

on the Banking and Business stage

not to mention the Textile & Diamond-industry...........

etc.etc...

I came to live , accidentally , in the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam

which after 30 or 25 years moved away slowly

to another nearby neighbourhood.

Voluntarily and in an organised manner ,

my Jewish-co-citizens are gathering ( or re-gathering)

less than 2 kilometres away.....

in a new neighbourhood ....

or must I say a new-Ghetto !! ??

Why ??

I have no idea !!!

but I may conclude that this (new) Ghetto is Jewish-made

in a country where Jews and Judaism have always flourished.

So why this

eternaly-revolving-Ghetto-mentality  ??

This new-neighbourhood , is neither strategic , nor exclusive,

nor safer , nor prettier, nor having any other advantages.......

except that it is now , Jewish !!

Probably , my Dutch-Jewish-co-citizens

have again decided to be first Jewish and then to be Dutch !!

Or maybe they are hiding away from........

the next Gert Wilders ???

Ik weet het niet precies !!

Raja Chemayel

a Dutch-Hommos-head !

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