Here is a thoughtful response by a friend to my last blog: Judaism Lost its Compass.

Mat:
Humanity has been given sufficient time to study this inexorable catastrophe of Global Warming. Yet little action has been taken. Must we Jews once again become the people’s prophets who lead Earth’s people to safer grounds? For centuries, Jews have been the conscious of humanity, but to what end? It has been a thankless task culminating with the Holocaust.

Again and again, we have made strenuous efforts to right this planet’s course. Sometimes it worked, but alas and alack, never permanently. Good efforts fade from people’s minds and memories as each generation moves on. Just look at our relationship with the African-American community. Jews have been vilified by each succeeding generation. But has anyone ever bring up the fact that the first president of the NAACP was a white Jew? You mention the murder of a Jewish boy who went south to register Black voters. Yet that has faded with time.

As a bone given to a dog, Jews were given a homeland and then left to their own devices, only to be harassed unceasingly by its neighbors. Yet, with the impeding development and possible use of a nuclear device by Iran, how much of the world gives a damn about what might happen to the people of one of the world’s oldest religion, this “conscious” of the world’s morality. Our ally, the US, continues to spend its money buying oil from our pronounced enemies. (I still maintain that Saudi Arabia were the true instigators behind the Iraq war.) China and Russia are reluctant to impose heavier sanctions on Iran. What do these massive countries care about a little democratic nation whose size is such that you can fly over it literally in minutes?

In the UK, many Israelis have had warrants sworn out against them listing them as war criminals. Travel to England, France, Germany and the Scandinavians countries has become a dangerous venture, not only for Jews, but for any Caucasian.

I maintain that it is time for others to pick up the moral gauntlet. In every religion, a moral code exists, even in Islam. Yet no one seems to be adhering to it, much less to take the lead. Maybe it’s time to pass the baton. I know, I know, Mat, someone will say, “Don’t you worry about what will happen to your children and grandchildren?” Of course, but have we not passed the ”tipping” point? What steps do I take to protect them now?

H.