They beat us. They discriminated against us in professions and academia. They forced our daughters to marry their sons. They pillaged our villages in their lands with their pogroms. They burned us wholesale in Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen Belsen, etc. They put us in ghettos and starved us. And more and more.
Yet, every day the stubborn Jew in Europe faced east and prayed for the day his People would be able to return to the Land. The Jew in the East faced west each day facing Zion.
The Promise:
The promise as is written “And I will fetch you from the 4 corners of the earth.” It began in the latter part of the 1800s with a trickle of Jews coming to settle the land. It increased in greater numbers in the beginning of the 1900s. The rise of Nazism brought many more Jews to Israel in spite of the hypocritical British occupiers who tried to block us. They tried to stop the inevitable. They tried in vain to stop the children from coming home to their mother.
6 million died but during the disaster signs of hope sprouted. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising inspired Jews to stand up and fight like the Maccabees of yesteryear. In the beginning of the uprising they raised the flag. The flag with the blue star of David and the 2 blue stripes, very much similar to the tzizit (fringes) with the techelit that is mentioned in the Shema.
They went down fighting with a few survivors who mostly escaped to the Land of Israel.
In the meantime the Irgun and the Lehi fighters chased the British imperialists out of our land while fighting against local Arab Jew haters. By 1948 our independence was declared and 7 Arab armies attacked us, but we were not going be denied. More wars initiated by the Arabs in 1956, 1967, and on Holy Yom Kippur in 1973, failed. The Israelis took the blows but gave better than they received. Intifadas and fake peace agreements came and went. Saddam Hussein launched rockets. Hizbollah learned and launched thousands more. Hamas murdered several of our brothers and sisters with lust of inhumanity as once again the world stood by.
Iran, the biggest initiator and supporter of terror in the world armed Hamas, Hizbollah, and the Houtis while they developed the weaponry to annihilate the tiny but always growing Jewish State.
The world stood by while the lunatic theocracy of Tehran became bolder and bolder. The world once again didn’t realize that if it’s bad for the Jews, ultimately it will be bad for the world.
Finally, with little time to spare, Israel surprised the Mullahs. Yes, before they disappear into the dustbin of history they will attempt to send their dwindling supply of Ballistic missiles to Israel. To win a war? Of course not. However, their hatred of Jews is what motivates them. In their sick minds, no matter the outcome, they must kill as many Jews as possible. This is Amalek. They hate us with a passion that can’t be remedied with logic, education, persuasion.
The haters will fall because Israel isn’t a tiny Jewish community without weapons to defend itself. Now we have the weaponry, the technlogy, and most importantly, the knowledge that not for nothing did we come back and succeed after almost 2,000 years in Exile. We have a mission and a purpose and not fake friends in England, France, etc, and openly hostile killers in Iran will deraill our mission.
After all is said and done, with G-d’s help, we’ll prevail and show the world how to take out the garbage. After all the the threats and all the rockets, you better believe it, our flag will still be there flying proud.
This is our Land and our mission, and Hashem is keeping his promise. His children have returned to their home, permantly.
Am Yisrael Chai
