”Yes,” he will proclaim, his voice ringing and educated, ”it is true that we continue to exist, yet we are no longer such an unpleasant burden. With every particle of Jewish blood that we sell, we and the world breathe a sigh of relief. We know that this is the price that is demanded of us. And we do not complain. No — we know that our goal is more lofty than that of any other nation, and therefore the standards that we must fulfill must be higher than those demanded of any other nation.
“So let our Palestinian neighbors beat their plowshares into swords. We shall extend our necks, our righteous women and our beloved children shall extend their necks. We shall invite our neighbors: please, shoot us here, stab us there. We do not mind. To the contrary, this is what makes us proud Israelis. This is what makes us know that we are accepted at last, that what we have to give is in consonance with what the world desires.
“In this new paradigm of the Middle-East, right unites with left, religious with secular, Israeli with Palestinian, Jew with non-Jew. And most of all, the dream that we have carried for two thousand years can be wed to the ever-spiraling vision of capital gains and economic progress — and all of it acquired for the price of a teaspoon of blood here, a bowlful there, a blood-spattered clod of earth here, a far-flung ripped-off leg there.”
The sales possibilities are broad. Jewish blood can be sold in small bottles: perfumed, powdered or flavored with anise. It can be freeze-dried or spritzed into vodka bottles. It can be placed in a thousand and one items, such as clocks, lamps and other devices using decorative, viscous liquid.
It can be contained in small pendants to be worn about the neck, or upon medallions that can be exhibited upon one’s desk. It can be presented as an incentive to sign on to an Internet account or sold in Poland outside the Auschwitz gates in tasteful decanters. It can be sprayed across the sky as part of a sky-writing advertisement or awarded to world leaders at ceremonies of state.
The Nobel Prize Committee could offer a pearl-shaped globe of blood to each of its worthy prize recipients, or it could be placed upon space ships headed for other solar systems, so that even alien life forms will have access to this most inexpensive, yet dearly-desired, commodity. It can be used to fertilize the soil, to add necessary vitamins and minerals to milk, to deepen and brighten the artist’s palette, and to provide invigorating facial baths.
The fact that Jewish blood is cheap is not merely a slogan, but a reality. And when we do not hesitate, when we forthrightly organize that reality, when we allow the trajectory of that reality to take its full course, we no longer find ourselves stymied and tormented by seeming tragedy and unending antipathy to the Jews.
Instead, we arrive at a vision in which Jew and gentile can join in a commonality, an enterprise of the spirit and body whose ultimate expression is beyond imagination.
BLOOD
