When I woke up this morning, I was not clear as to my exact location. It did not look like Florida nor like the plane we have been traveling in since it felt time forever and more. Nor was it one of my children's homes and so where in the name of Dickens are we? Prying my eyes open a bit more I confirm the place, giving me great happiness as well as a great big moan for it equaled up to one place both timely and welcome as well as back ache warning. All the unpacking!!
Just then I heard confirmation as the sweet sounds of the shofar blown each and every morning in the month of Elul. Heart and soul hear the call to prayer, to atone for violations of the past year, to repent and ask for mercy and forgiveness from Hashem and all whom we have offended during that time. How blessed it is to hear that sound every morning as those notes come wafting through my window. In the land given unto the people of Abraham, to my people all those millennia ago. Music in my ears along with the sounds of children playing outside and the banging of hammers as indeed, 'shavu banim ligvulam' - your children have returned to their land. In which we lived, which we visited, the same land for which we prayed, the nation which provided haven for Jewish refugees, those persecuted, and those who returned in full free choice, for each one knows the call of the heart, the State of Israel. The land we have been called upon year after year to defend, for survival and for rescue of those held captive in a death in life in the caves and cells of the enemy.
We have also been called to defend ourselves politically in an extremely hostile political world. Organizations such as the United Nations and all of its subordinate branches also incorporate within their very souls an antagonism, even hatred of Israel and of Jews in general. It has supported physically, emotionally, financially and militarily those who fought against Israel, those who hate Israel, those whose final goal in life is to destroy that nation, it's people within and the related population in all the nations of the globe.
There was no shame among them as at one and the same time they claim those borders in totality, with Jewish citizens able to remain - under their Sharia rules - and at other times they admit their true desire to be Judenrein, not a Jew to be had within those borders. Not within Israel as it was nor even among the living in the world at large, admitted by a leader of this cause, who stated clearly that "our war is not against Israelis but against all Jews."
Worst of all is when they are aided and abetted by the Anti-Semitic leaders of both the West and the East who've decided to join in the chorus of hate and shed their flimsy outer coating hiding their anti -semitic beliefs - France, England, the Netherlands, Germany, Japan, country after country barely one hesitating to join that ugly choir of hate, that modern, open revelation as alive and quite well, that this ancient and evil hatred has never been truly forsworn nor defeated, not desired to be so.
Israel has been held to an unlivable standard of behavior, impossible to achieve, yet demanded so of Israel. They are to relinquish any formation, any format of self-defense as any other nation would have it. Lives taken by the soldiers of Israel is verboten, as Israel must fight a war where none of their enemies fall - so demanded and so criticized when naturally it does not take place. It cannot.
The enemies themselves are violating all the rules of warfare, even as they receive the sympathy of the world once it is clear that Israel has overcome their forces, on the way to yet another victory in another war forced upon them, this one in a most vicious and war rule violating as ever has occurred, attempting to achieve Hitlerian depth of ugliness and barbarity. Even as those who invaded Israel claim justification and victimhood, and gin up false numbers and statistics and states of life that never were, and the world believes, full immersion into their falsehoods.
Furthermore, the very fate of Israel is glommed onto by a world which hates it. France and Saudi Arabia are initiating a conference in New York State of all places, where they will discuss the solution of a two states existence in Palestine and guess who has no presence, no voice there? This has been happening for almost two years as nations other than Israel discuss its state and its dismemberment.
This cannot continue, and yet no one moves to admit that fact and instead moves on with scoldings and lectures and beliefs of impossible to believe lies. It is a condition which can not much longer exist for it is brutal and problematic as ever and unless a fair and eqitable solution with full acknowledgement of the right of Israel to exist, its legitimacy, its true nationhood, even as attested to within the political world by the Balfour Declaration (hello, England) and the United Nations - yes, that very same organization-then neither will there be a Palestine for Israel will not, cannot write itself off.
It did not do so - neither yesterday nor today.
It will certainly not do so for the tomorrows to come.
Never.
NEVER!
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