The West, whose values have all but disappeared, is unable to cope with the Israeli will to survive.
Everybody is against the Jews. Again.
Between 1948 and 1967, the Arabs knew the shame of disastrous defeats in three wars, but they never gave up, and now again are trying to flood the small Jewish island formed in their boundless ocean. It was predictable; sooner or later it had to happen.
The Arabs are always looking to the past and and seem unable to turn towards a future where there is the State of Israel. Theirs is a kind of hypnosis: destroy Israel, whatever the cost. From the Palestinian Arabs to the Islamic State to Hezbollah, they stay alive and vibrate at the thought of seizing the enemy by the throat and drowning him in the Mediterranean.
In the refusal to allow acceptance and in the boycott of the State of Israel, Europe also expresses a spirit of shame with regard to the great historical and moral values of which it has been the bearer for centuries. The boycott movement grows every day, the anti-Jewish slurs dominate the frontpages and in the streets it is panic or death. Hunting season of the Jews is open again on European soil.
Then there is Iran, which soon might build the nuclear weapons it needs to dominate the Middle East and incinerate the small Jewish enclave. The US is now giving to the ayatollahs uranium and international support.
But all of them, the Arabs, the Europeans and the Iranians, must remember that Israel is a newVenice. In 1571, the sloth of Europe and the alliance between France and the Sultan opened the gate for Venice’s fall with the march of the Ottomans over Vienna. But there is a difference, one that the Arabs, Europe and Iran should take pains to understand: the Jewish State is not willing to meet the fate of Marcantonio Bragadin, Venice’s governor, who was flayed alive by the Turks, his ears and nose cut off after resisting for eleven months.
Israel’s siege has lasted seventy years. That is why today the Jewish State attracts the immense self-hatred typified by the languid opinions and the mysterious Western will to surrender. Israel is a scandalous solitary fortress. A small people in a small territory, and with the whole world against them.
Everybody gives up: why not Israel? It drives them crazy.
And in Israel’s refusal to surrender there is also the key to Western survival.
Mankind is made of reason and spirit, which need to support each other to merge and give the best fruit. This is precisely the pattern of life and civilization that the Israelis are offering to humanity.
In ancient times the higher and brighter harmony was the century of Pericles. We experienced another moment of splendor when the humanistic spirit swept away the Medieval darkness and opened the way to the Renaissance. But nowadays, Western civilization is threatened again by people who want to destroy all spiritual values. This is the source of the deep yearning that is bringing those of us who hold that civilization dear to place our hopes in Israel.
IL will find solutions to her problems.
Every comment either in moderation or botted I’m out of here.
@ watsa46:
Iron dome from concept to production was 100% made and developed in Israel with our know how our components and software and initially our money to the tune of almost $1 billion. When Congress after allocating a half billion dollars discretionary funding of this project inserted the provisio that Israel turn over it’s patents to American companies I think Raytheon and give same company the manufacturing of the hardware to the Americans. Israel retained only small production of our our system and all of the R&D. For a small amt. of aid America took control of a proven system off the shelf and it’s ready for America to use except they don’t want it. They prefer to spend hundreds of billions on a different technology like laser-systems. The other reason is they get control of a system and who is allowed to buy it by 3rd parties there by denying Israel potential export sales jobs to American workers instead of Israeli workers and producers.
The Iron dome US support, a fig leaf from this administration.
The American people are misrepresented by most if not all the US administration when it comes to Israel. It is clear that these administrations do not represent the Interests of the American people.
Hilary very likely will continue the Obama policies.
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2:
I went to Chit Chat and lost the comment. I wrote it in Spanish and it did not go through.
I sent you through Ted a link to an interactive site where
you will find a complete copy of Don Quijote de la Mancha in its original form. My father had one. A few years ago I tried to buy one for my children I could not find one at any price. Perhaps in South America might be easier to find. In Spain I had two very knowledgeable people who are experts in finding old editions and out of print works
including a second cousin of my and, it was in vane.
Also through Ted I sent a couple of weeks ago another link to very old colloquial expressions in Spanish. Some of them are still in use but, a great deal of these expressions are not longer used.
I like to conserve things like that for my children and grandchildren. I do not like to bother Ted because, as gracious as he is with requests I know he is a busy person specially right now when the forum is busy because of the political situation and upcoming elections in Israel.
Muchas gracias y saludos a su esposa.
PS you can ask Ted for my e-mail if you or anyone in your family wishes. I do not have as much information as I used to have in the previous computer, but still enough.
@ mar55:
Voy a tratar de encontrar el comentario mas tarde.
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2:
Senor, Please go to Chit Chat I have a message for you.
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2:
See this video directed to Obama. The message is in English with subtitles in Spanish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hx62oOihPk&feature=share&fb_ref=share
@ NormanF:
AMEN!
There is the parallel between Purim and our time.
A Jew refused to bow to the Persian vizier, who had the Jews sentenced to death.
Today, a Jew refused to bow to the American vizier, who has sentenced the Jews to death.
We all know how the story plays out. Who will hang on the gallows?
Oh G-d, its certainly not those who hate You and despise Your people. Bless them and keep them!
Europe involved in any way with Nazism will certainly perish. The US, Canada, Australia, most of the rest will return to normal.
Israel is likely to stay on course if the renegade unJews do not get official control again.