After yet another firefight, five more Israeli soldiers were hurt as they were leaving a counter terrorist action in an area which has been rife with almost daily attacks on Israeli citizens. It matters not if children are within. It matters not at all who is within, simply that it has an Israeli license plate, which all citizens get.
It matters not to terrorists, so misnomered 'militants' that the oft targeted Border Patrol, here and in the Old City, counts many Israeli Arabs among their forces. It matters not to the world as they rush to condemn Israel while omitting any criticism of egregiously offending nations who trample on civil rights, who invade, conquer and retain neighboring nations, for decades, including Russia, including Turkey. the Sudan or create a life threat to sects and groups they do not like, who offend them somehow. China, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Malaysia, Syria, yet these nations are on Human Rights Watch Committees.
Always at the ready to condemn Israel, calling it an apartheid state. All one has to do is simply stroll around Israel, enter its universities, hospitals, malls, the Knesset, its armed forces, and see Arabs fully integrated into the nation, living in beautiful three storied buildings built by earnings, via permits as ALL houses must get to be built and occupied, by anyone for any reason.
Is Israelperfect? Absolutely not. It has cracks and errors and gifts and wonders, and contributions to advances in so many fields, as do all nations. However, for Jews to have their own nation, their ancient ancestral land, fought for, longed for, bled for, with some Judaic religion laws in place, non-interfering to other religions, anathema to the world. Over 27 Moslem nations under great restrictive laws, yet the silence of the world is overwhelming.
There is an ugly false narrative complete with rusty keys waving in the air, purported keys to ancient palatial homes and beautiful bountiful orchards. These keys are a dime a dozen, sold from boxfuls in 'antique' stores. The land visited by famous people, by reverends and pastors of note, reported to be desert and wasteland, swamps and hubs of great poverty of Arabs, sent by the effendis of Greater Syria to work there and generate income for their lords.
Evidently discounted as too much truth.
Jews, presence always there in these lands throughout the years of Galut, Exile, returned to them, their cherished ancient ancestral lands, always remembered in daily prayers, always with visions of Aliyah or going UP to this land and many did over the centuries. The Jews returned in ever growing numbers, as a place of refuge, of memory, escaping blood soaked lands of Europe, the increasingly hostile USA. They came home, and they settled and starved and built and failed and prospered and died and lived. A modern country in an ancient setting.
Attacked by numerous Arab nations pre and after the 1948 declaration of the State of Israel, a land where all were welcome who wished to live in peace, to build, Jews were murdered, the Hebron massacre in 1929, the heroes of Gush who gave their lives so their families lived. The residents of the Jewish Quarter thrown out, murdered, the settlers in kibbutzim attacked by overwhelming forces. Newly arrived remnants of European Jewry, sent directly to the battlefields, in Latrun and the road to Jerusalem as the Arab nations attempted to starve and deprive of water the entire city of Jerusalem. As they ambushed and slaughtered students, doctors, nurses who lived and worked on Mount Scopus in Hadassah where all were treated equal in their need.
Yet Israel prevailed, at great cost, always under attack and defamation. But today, Israel and Arab nations who finally accept the legitimacy of Israel have signed treaties, done business, conducted newly opened channels of diplomacy and communication, working together against rogue nations such as Iran. Israel has sent rescue and aid squads to all nations suffering from natural and manmade disasters and have done wonderful work.
Is it not about time that nations of the world, the holier than thous with their own blatant errors work on their own planks in their eyes look to themselves and the righting of the wrongs and the lacking within. Stop using Israel as a distractor from their own demons and devils.
Yes, all nations are imperfect, Israel, G-d knows among them, as is the present day USA. However, that is no excuse for continued hatred of Jews and anything they do. Time to accept the survival of the Jewish people, -got a great partner in that with us- their persistence, their good and their bad, as we do with all - or are supposed to - even as we work together to better ourselves and the world.
Enough! How about a change in pace and concentration. We focus on the world as a unit, all together, draw up a list among the nations of the world and work together to fix the world. Eliminate enemies of survival, stop the futile hatred of others often due to some difference, imagined or real and truly of no consequence.
Together. Only and always together.
With great courage and determination.
Together folks, together. In concerted, united, determined, knowledgeable effort.
Together.
Tomorrow. Today.
And together.
Only and always together.
Together, always together.
United for good.
Together.
Together.
HEAL THE WORLD.
HEAL YITZY!
Yitzchak Elimelech ben Chana Sarah
May he be granted refuah shelaymah bimheyrah beyameinu.
AMEN. AMEN
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