Tel-Chai Nation: Op-eds for Israel's 71st Independence Day

Here's an item on Breaking Israel News about what's needed for our independence to succeed, from a religious-like perspective:

This year’s Yom Ha’atzmaut commemorates the 71st anniversary of a marriage that has lasted more than 3,500 years. This may sound like a paradox, but it is the inescapable truth about the Land of Israel and the Jews. No marriage has lasted so long, been so deep in its commitment and so overwhelming in its love as the one between the Jews and their homeland. Yet no marriage has been so painful or so tragic, for the partners were forced apart by the Roman Empire nearly 2000 years ago. The bride and groom pledged unconditional love but were not reunited for another 1878 years. But for all those years, nothing – absolutely nothing – could emotionally separate the partners even when they were thousands of miles away from each other. This marriage did not depend on where the partners were located, but rather where their souls dwelt.

For the marriage to succeed, the Jews, metaphorically and unprecedentedly, lifted the Land of Israel from its native soil and transformed it into a portable homeland, taking it with them to all four corners of the earth. Only in 1948 were the people and its land physically reunited.

The founding of the State of Israel, then, is not the beginning of the marriage between the land and the Jewish people, but rather a reaffirmation of the marriage commitment that took place thousands of years ago between God and Abraham. The State of Israel was not established in 1948, but more than 3,000 years ago when Abraham purchased the cave of Machpelah in order to bury his wife Sara. It was reaffirmed a few hundred years later when the Israelites inherited the land under the leadership of Joshua, immediately after Moshe’s death and again in 1948.

That cave, let's remember, is in what is today Hebron. Now, here's another, short item on Israel National News:

Remembrance is identity, and our Independence Day, following on after Holocaust Day and Remembrance Day commemorating our fallen soldiers and terror victims, is part of that identity.

The Bible is not just a chronological list of facts and information. It is our special story. A long chapter in our story.

And we are the next chapter in the continuation of that story.

We are living that mission. To fix the world, even as our enemies continue to try to destroy us.

Well I firmly believe the best way to fix the world is to encourage more people to convert to and try out Judaism, which Shmuley Boteach also supported. If we consider it seriously, then we could be getting somewhere in bettering the globe.

Labels: Israel, Judaism

Martin Gilbert said:

“The conquests of Islam made Jews the subjects
of Arab and Muslim rulers in a wide swath of land,
stretching from the Atlantic coast of Morocco
to the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan.

Being non-Muslims, these Jews held the inferior
status of dhimmi, which, despite giving
them protection to worship according to their
own faith, subjected them to many vexatious and
humiliating restrictions in their daily lives.”

SOURCE: In Ishmael’s House:
A History of Jews in Muslim Lands
(introduction chapter, page xx)
by Martin Gilbert, year 2010,
published by Yale University Press

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Martin Gilbert said:

“In the 5th century [of the Common Era] Yemen
[the land immediately south of Saudi Arabia]
adopted Judaism as its religion.

King Ab Karib Asad, the ruler of the Himyarite
kingdom, introduced the change after converting
to Judaism himself under the influence of Jews
at his court. Many south Arabian converts to
Judaism followed.

Jewish rule in Yemen lasted almost 100 years.”

SOURCE: In Ishmael’s House:
A History of Jews in Muslim Lands
(chapter 1, page 5) by Martin Gilbert,
year 2010, published by Yale University Press

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Martin Gilbert said:

“Internal Koranic evidence shows that the
Jews of Medina [a city now in Saudi Arabia]
were steeped in rabbinical tradition.

While celebrating him [Mohammed] as
an unlearned person, the hadith
[Islamic holy books] acknowledges
that Mohammed was confounded by
the learned questions of these Jews.”

SOURCE: In Ishmael’s House:
A History of Jews in Muslim Lands
(chapter 2, page 13) by Martin Gilbert,
year 2010 CE, published by Yale University Press

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Retired Lt General Tom Kelly
(Chief of Operations of the 1991 Gulf War) said:

“I cannot defend this land [Israel] without
that terrain [the West Bank]...

Without the West Bank, Israel is only 8 miles wide
at its narrowest point. That makes it indefensible.”

SOURCE: The Jewish Connection Magazine,
2012 January 6 edition, page 14, article titled:
The 2012 Arab Street Driven Security Requirements
written by retired Ambassador Yoram Ettinger

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Links to Articles That Explain
Why Israel’s 1967 Borders are Undefendable:
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www.algemeiner.com/2017/10/27/israel-cannot-withdraw-from-the-west-bank/

www.algemeiner.com/2018/10/09/no-mr-president-two-states-wont-work-best/

http://carolineglick.com/without-judea-and-samaria-israel-cannot-defend-tel-aviv/

www.jns.org/opinion/why-does-ronald-lauder-want-israel-to-be-only-nine-miles-wide/

www.jns.org/czech-president-disavows-two-state-solution-calls-for-one-state-of-israel/

https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/israel-zionism/2019/04/the-military-perils-of-ceding-israeli-control-of-the-west-bank/

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/03/guest-post-why-1967-borders-are-suicide.html