Nowhere to Go!

 After hitler’s third reich had attempted to extinguish the Hebrew race, the Jews who had survived that Holocaust had nowhere to go. . . except their ancient homeland.

They had established an ancient homeland under the leadership of Moses, about 3000 years ago.

In the mid-1940’s, those European Israelites who had escaped or evaded hitler’s concentration camps, mid-1940’s—they truly had no choice, except to try to get to—to use an ole Beatles’  phrase—“get back to where you once belonged.”

So they got together and blasted and outlasted and cajoled and planted and supplanted  their way back into that land where they had started their long journey long, long ago—the land called Palestine. 

It was no walk in the park. I mean, they were between a rock and a hard place after hitler had tried to extinguish them from the face of the earth.

Truth be told, they had, as Prime Minister Golda Meir later told Senator Joe Biden in 1973, nowhere else to go. 

I mean . . . and I’m a post-WWII baby boomer, remembering that. . . Ringo had sung, back in the day, 1960’s-70’s— about having “nowhere to go” as . . . “oh, that magic feeling, nowhere to go.”

as if having nowhere to go were some blissful condition like nirvana or Tuesday afternoon with the Moody Blues or a walk in central park with Paul Simon talking to a lamppost. . . 

No, no, no. Those post-Holocaust escapees running for their lives in 1945 had, literally, nowhere to go. . . except back to where they had come from long ago.

And that’s why Golda Meir had told Joe Biden, back in ’73, that they had had nowhere to go . . . except where they did go.

And they called it Israel! just like the ole days, like it or not.

And that, my friends, is what, as  Paul Harvey used to say, “the rest of the story.”

And they sang, “We were like men who dreamed, filled with laughter, with songs of joy!”

Listen and you will hear the joy, from the Bridge Ensemble:

(http://micahrowland.com/carey/13 Itamar Freilach.mp3)

and furthermore as my friends Danny and Donna and David sang: Aliyah Yerushalayim

(http://www.micahrowland.com/carey/09 Aliyah Yerushalayim.mp3)

Glass half-Full