swaggyp1
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I am a Jew. Those have been the words of the Jewish people for three millennia. Those were the words of the men, women, and children of Masada. Those were the words of the followers of Bar Kokhba. Those were the words of Jews in Granada in 1066, the Rhineland in 1096, Khmelnytsky from 1648 to 1657, Kishinev in 1903, and Hebron in 1929.
Those were the words of Jews in Auschwitz and Treblinka. Those were the last words of Daniel Pearl. Those are my words too. And the words of my parents, the words of my wife, and my children.
Over the weekend, my people, the Jewish people, were attacked and murdered. Mutilated. Our women were raped. Our children were kidnapped. This has happened innumerable times before to millions of Jews throughout history.
Hatred of Jews exists because evil exists. For almost all of human history, there have been people who hated the Jews and sought to strike at them while they were weak, who blamed the Jews for their own problems, and who have crafted complex conspiracy theories about the supposed power of the Jews. They have sought to destroy, to murder, to mutilate, to rape the Jews from Pharaoh to Haman, from Hitler to Hamas.
The words of the Nazis are indistinguishable from the words of Hamas. The chain of Jew-hatred is unbroken. For two millennia, since the destruction of the last Jewish dynasty in the Holy Land of Israel, those Jew-haters were ascendant.
No longer. That is the promise of the State of Israel.
Never again. Jews will not stand by and be murdered. We will not leave our Biblical homeland. We will not surrender. We will be strong and courageous, as Joshua said three thousand years ago.
Israel is indispensable. Its presence is a miracle; its strength is a gift.
Thank God for Israel.
Those were the words of Jews in Auschwitz and Treblinka. Those were the last words of Daniel Pearl. Those are my words too. And the words of my parents, the words of my wife, and my children.
Over the weekend, my people, the Jewish people, were attacked and murdered. Mutilated. Our women were raped. Our children were kidnapped. This has happened innumerable times before to millions of Jews throughout history.
Hatred of Jews exists because evil exists. For almost all of human history, there have been people who hated the Jews and sought to strike at them while they were weak, who blamed the Jews for their own problems, and who have crafted complex conspiracy theories about the supposed power of the Jews. They have sought to destroy, to murder, to mutilate, to rape the Jews from Pharaoh to Haman, from Hitler to Hamas.
The words of the Nazis are indistinguishable from the words of Hamas. The chain of Jew-hatred is unbroken. For two millennia, since the destruction of the last Jewish dynasty in the Holy Land of Israel, those Jew-haters were ascendant.
No longer. That is the promise of the State of Israel.
Never again. Jews will not stand by and be murdered. We will not leave our Biblical homeland. We will not surrender. We will be strong and courageous, as Joshua said three thousand years ago.
Israel is indispensable. Its presence is a miracle; its strength is a gift.
Thank God for Israel.
