Injustice, Survive -- and Thrive

Those who today loudly voice their complaints Might do well to study a people most quaint The Jewish People for 3,332 years has survived Despite pogroms and holocausts, still quite alive A former slave nation exiled to Persia almost 2,500 years ago Jerusalem then razed to the ground by Rome, as you know Jews lived by the skin of their teeth for 1,900 years Until they retook Jerusalem in 1967, a miracle it appeared Herded into ghettos in Western Europe 'til Napoleon And the 'Pale of Settlement' further east 'til the 20th century dawned Jews kept a low profile, in the face of Injustice didn't complain Beatings, Blood-Libels, Round-ups -- all sorts of Pain Jews couldn't own land; they were barred from all professions Countless peasants falsely accused Jews of murder at confession The Jew became a middleman, a despised money-changer If he tried to pass for a gentile, his very life was in danger As if all that weren't enough, last century 6 million precious Jewish souls died in Nazi gas chambers, crematoria, trenches, open holes One-third of all the world's Jews wiped out in just six years Pregnant women and infants murdered in that Valley of Tears Today Jews are in Jerusalem, Israel! a People standing strong They refused to give up hope just because they were wronged What's their secret, you may ask. How did they do it No smoke. No mirrors. They just stubbornly stuck to it... Rule #1: Education, universal literacy for all of their seed From the age of three, every Jewish child's taught to read Next: Family purity, the holiness and sanctity of wedlock Women always had rights! but no infant aborted, no child 'bad luck' And finally, what kept it all together, down through the ages An unshakeable belief in God and His Law, no matter the outrages So, from the Jews you might want to take a softer-voiced cue For you too can do it. Just follow three rules...