Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

This looming social problem makes sense of their reliance of the Holocaust
as a substitute unifying principle, a secular religion for a people that have
nothing in common but materialism, something that during the late 1960s
and early 1970s slowly began to emerge on the world stage where you could
deny the existence of God but not the Holocaust!
It is the problem that emerges when one has built a culture in the mind
without having developed a civilisation. As I surmised in 1971: ‘…my
prophecy is, if the Jews firmly establish themselves in Israel, they, too, will
become subject to the decaying influences of mankind- not even the sense
of being the chosen ones will save them- the final general tension will then
be eliminated in this world…and will that be the end of them?’.
The democratic process and the demographic problem will in time see a
one-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
I ended these brief reflections by penning the following:
Oh, Israel! Oh, Israel!
Ancient youngster of the world;
Sunny shadows still blot
Your cradled hand.
Awake anew, take hold, and take hold!
Quench your thirst!
Drink lustily from your
Own abundant wisdom!
Reach out for other hesitant hands.
And give generously of your plenty.
Such can only bring you joy -
You have and thus you can afford to give.
Israel, I love your virginal maturity –
Hold yourself forever above the common;
Grace your body and soul with timeless dignity!
Oh, Israel! Oh, Israel!
Yours is the world?
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Two cards I sent to Australia on 1 and 2 January 1971 had, among other
things, the following comments:
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