My disappointment was immense. I was crest-fallen, having returned to reality. You must accept my apologies for telling you about such an absurd experience. It was just too beautiful to keep it a secret. I know everybody is convinced that peace and mutual understanding in the Middle East is just around the corner. Nobody would question that a hundred years from now there will be two happy neighbors in the Holy Land, one accepting the other and the jihad folks having vanished in the long forgotten past. So why would any Israeli even think of leaving for the Baltic? Why would they trade their land for a better one? They are happy where they are.
True, I don’t share that opinion, but don’t mind my pessimism. I expect the defensive separation wall to become permanent. I fear belligerence will never cease. I worry about the Israeli Arabs to outnumber the Israeli Jews and to do that during the lifetime of today’s children. That would indeed be ominous. Yes, I am truly concerned about the future of the Jews’ homeland. So please forgive me. Not many will agree with such melancholic predictions. But boy, what a lovely dream it was!
H. Peter Nennhaus is a retired surgeon and Illinois resident. He was raised in Berlin and became a U.S. citizen in 1961. His various interests include the study of the history of the 20th century, the Holocaust, and anti-Semitism. Peter is the author Quo Vadis, Israel? available at Amazon.com and at Outskirts Press.
