THE DIASPORA HISTORIC P0LITICAL MISTAKE

HERE THE “DIASPORA” REFERS TO DISPERSION OF JEWS AROUND WORLD AND THE TRAGIC HISTORICAL MISTAKE THEY MADE IN POLITICAL SELF-ISOLATION.

The Jews in-exile, mainly in Europe, North America, Middle East and Latin America, were people of talent and entrepreneurship. They were extremely successful in business and finance (banking and investment). They were also successful in education and culture. They, however, made an existential mistake in their continued survival in exile. They had isolated themselves from the political process in countries they lived. The result: Because of their hard work and self-made success, they had been attracting hatred and envy from the native populations. Thus, Jews slowly becoming the enemy target by hate groups and politicians of extremist views like Hitler in Germany and elsewhere. The outcome is that Jews had ended up in Hitler’s concentration camps. What is left of Jews in Germany fled for their lives to other countries around the world. Remember the “Krystal Nacht” (The Night of breaking Glasses) in Germany when Nazi activists broke into Jewish homes and synogogues at night to break up and burn things. What was their crime? They were blindsided by their success in business by thinking they were too strong community to be vulnerable, thus becoming complacent and comfortable with the status quo. Enventually, they had to pay high prices for ignoring the critical need for participation in the political process in their respective host countries. Jews had been suffering from this ostracism until the appearance of Zionism, an orthodox Jewish political ideology bent for world domination and reclaiming Palestine by chasing out their Arab neighbours.

Are the Somali communities in East, Southern and West Africa doing the same Jewish mistake? Somali-Kenyans and Ethio-Somalis, at least, finally started to understand of what I am talking about. They are now political forces to be reckoned with in Kenya and Ethiopia. What about Somalis in Southern and West Africa? There is a worrying trend that old-school businessmen are avoiding participation in the local political process, and not preparing their children to act as citizens of the countries they were born and raised – a Jewish mistake. They think that by fund-raising and supporting some native political candidates in election times as their future proteges is more than enough for their political protection in the host countries. They have to do more and prepare their offsprings to be full citizens and get elected to political bodies.