Every Day Thoughts: September
Sep 1
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
Ziva David was used to people treating her differently. Not because she was a woman and people seemed to automatically think this made her a weakling – she could and did happily dispel them of this absurd notion by promptly kicking them to the ground and keeping them there – but because they had a problem with her being Jewish.
And perhaps Israeli as well, but to her it was more because of her being Jewish.
She couldn't help being Jewish; her mother had been a Jew and that was all that really counted. Even if she was not Orthodox and even if she broke the rules from time to time, which she did, it did not matter that she still had faith and her faith was important to her. Simply being born to a Jewish mother was enough to make some people hate her from the bottom of her heart.
She knew she could spend the rest of her life reasoning with them that their hate was a stupid waste of energy and had no real basis in reality, for if she would be hated for simply being born, why could the world not hate them for exactly the same reason? What mattered to her was that she was comfortable in her own skin, and their insults meant nothing.
If they wished to put some form of action behind their words, she would make them sorely regret it. For she was Ziva David, Jew, Israeli and just like everyone else.
If she excluded the assassin part.