A positive and a negative make light

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This is part three on the birth of Zionism and the relationships between Jews in Europe at the turn of the 19th century. The world is not a nice place but if you have a desire for unity, then maybe, just maybe, you have a little Jew in you. Why is it so hard for us to accept the conditions that led to the birth of Zionism? Why is it so difficult to connect with someone when you disagree? How come it takes so much effort to get off our a$$#s and fight for a good change and why is it that when people do it, they almost always get co-opted by some higher, not-as-good interests? How do you explain that fact that Jews are always at the forefront of every revolution and every social change yet, like with the women's march, end up being shunned by their comrades sooner or later and accused of the very same things they set out to abolish? What are we not doing right? A positive and a negative do make light but they need connection in the middle to make that happen! Isn't this the Jew Function?

Lio: We tried to kill ourselves first. We tried to kill each other. Exactly. It's always us. It's always us. And it's the job of the new generation each time to become a new generation of Jews, meaning I think a new generation of showing unity above all these things. I bet that the attention is going to turn to the Jews pretty quickly.
Seth: The Jews saw them all, beat them all. And he is now what he always was. All things are mortal, but the Jew. All other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?