Oct. 7: Former hostage wants ‘peace in the world,’ one year later | Vargas Reports
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- Опубліковано 10 жов 2024
- Judith Raanan, an American who was one of the first hostages released by Hamas following the deadly Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, tells “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” that “this is a war that somehow God is allowing to happen” and that humankind must “somehow make peace in the world."
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Rather than ridicule her, I’ll choose to believe that’s how she truly feels.
Once you’ve survived certain things, it’s not uncommon to pray for the soul of any/all human beings.
I truly believe this woman really feels that way with her entire heart.
Two of my grandparents were holocaust survivors. My Polish grandmother was put in charge of managing an ammunition factory at the tender age of 14 because she was able to speak enough communicate between the German SS Meister who was her direct supervisor and the people from a variety of countries who were making and packing the ammunition and bombs (mostly translating between the German she learned from a private tutor her mom hired when the war broke out hoping it might help her children survive [it helped my grandmother, but her siblings and parents were sadly sent to gas chambers and killed straight off the train and never had a chance to try surviving] and Yiddish, Polish, and whatever other bits of languages she picked up in the factory like Hungarian, Russian, etc.). The SS was very particular about how they wanted the boxes packed down the how to fold the paper wrapping before sealing the boxes. The grown ups (mostly Jews) used to do it sloppily at times, and my grandmother begged them to be careful because folding the packing paper this way as opposed to that way would get the packing people and herself killed. So she always made sure everything was made and packed just right, and the Meister used to give her extra soup and bread that others didn’t get. It also later saved her life again because he snuck her two pairs of wool socks just before the Nazis surrendered - he told her to hide them because she would need them without explaining any further. Those socks saved her from getting frostbite during the Death March in two feet of snow when so many children and adults died along the way because they had little to nothing to wear. Some were in their prison jumpsuits, some were naked, most had no shoes or they got soaked through, etc. She never saw that Meister after he slipped her those socks, but she blessed him for doing that when he also could have been killed on the spot had he been caught helping this Jewish girl by giving her two thick wool pairs of socks just before learning the SS were about to surrender the war and abandon the camps.
Anyway, going back to active wartime . . . before sealing the boxes after her final inspection, my grandmother used to say a prayer that the bombs and ammo should not harm any of the good people and only take out those who truly deserved it. She didn’t say they should kill Nazis, Germans, etc. She was very careful not to assume that all Nazis, Germans, etc. are all bad. She knew in her heart that some of the SS soldiers were forced against their willed to participate in the Nazi regime and did it to save their own lives and their families. Historians have found documented proof and have heard oral accounts of this from Germans, Poles, and others who joined the SS Regime and “helped” their cause in all sorts of ways from other countries.
She really felt more love than hate despite losing 200 family members (her mom was one of eight children, so she had dozens relatives including aunts/uncles, and cousins beyond her immediate family and grandparents . . . and that’s not counting her dad’s side). She taught us not to hate people and to always treat everyone with the same dignity and respect we would want for ourselves - especially during disagreements and conflicts. Many survivors who were in concentration camps and/or survived the war in other ways left that war with lifetime battle wounds, both physical and emotional, and so many of them had trouble not hating the nations who were so cruel and their former neighbors and friends who turned their backs and didn’t stand up for them. It’s perfectly understandable. However, there were also those like my grandparents who developed more love for humanity than hate after surviving that war - because it would be quite ironic and unfair to hate these people who wronged them back. Two wrongs don’t make a right, as they say.
I have no doubt this woman means what she’s praying for.
How dumb
Shouldn't they be allowed to sue
The contrast between Judith and the anchor shows the spiritual poverty of the secular world. I agree with Judith the war is allowed by Hashem because of our own Sin. May we Repent and forgive for peace.
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