Tel-Chai Nation: Nechama Rivlin, RIP

The wife of the Israeli presidential incumbent, Reuven Rivlin, passed away this week at age 73:

Nechama Rivlin, Israel’s first lady, was laid to rest in Jerusalem on Wednesday at Mount Herzl, where many Israeli leaders are buried.

Senior Israeli officials, including Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein and Israel Defense Forces Aviv Kochavi were among those who attended, as were U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and other foreign diplomats.

Rivlin had suffered from pulmonary fibrosis, a condition in which scar tissue accumulates in the lungs and makes it difficult to breathe, and had undergone a lung transplant in March but the complications had her hospitalized until her death.

After reciting the Jewish mourner’s prayer, Kaddish, a tearful Rivlin eulogized the love of his life: “My Nechama, I woke up today after a sleepless night, you know I couldn’t sleep, and I looked at the calendar and realized this was your birthday. Happy birthday, my love. Yes, this is a sad birthday. Several weeks ago, at the hospital, when you started talking, you asked me to take you home. Today, Nechama, you are back home in Jerusalem.”

Earlier on Wednesday, hundreds of Israelis arrived at the Jerusalem Theater to pay their last respects to Israel’s first lady Nechama Rivlin. Rivlin’s coffin lied in repose at the theater ahead of the funeral.

It's certainly very sad she's now gone.

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Why I Support Israel
by Mr. Patrick Condell:
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“All anyone needs to know about the Middle-East-conflict is that the Jews want peace and the Arabs do not, because the Arabs hate Jews for religious reasons and they want them dead. Politics, territory - these are just excuses.”

“Whenever I make this point, it always seems to annoy the right sort-of-people, so I thought I might as well do it again.”

“If you are one of these people, then you will likely be a supporter of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign that has been so comically ineffective because the world depends on Israeli technology, and that is where the money is, not oranges and avocados.”

“If you support BDS, will you boycott the chip in your phone or computer, or is it just Israeli fruit and vegetables that you have a moral problem with?”

“Maybe you are one of the people who feel entitled to shout down Israeli speakers in universities, or to disrupt concerts and sports events that other people have paid money to enjoy. Or perhaps you campaign for the boycott of Israeli academics, to block the free exchange of information and understanding.”

“All this is on the same moral level as book-burning, and if you are a part of this movement, you are a part of that.”

“Also, the relentless focus solely on Israel that ignores the world's real human-rights-violators tells us that this is an anti-Semitic movement, and if you're a part of it, you are a part of that, too.”

“If Israel was a Christian or a Buddhist country, there would not be any BDS campaign, and everyone knows it, just as there isn't any BDS for Tibet,
a country invaded and culturally-raped by the Chinese, but then the Chinese are not Jews.”

“No BDS for Saudi Arabia treating women like livestock, because the Saudis are not Jews, which is lucky for them, because if they were, they would have to ban themselves from entering their own country. How inconvenient!”

“Crude Islamic Jew-hatred has permeated the Middle-East-conflict from day one, yet its influence is always carefully omitted from all political analysis.”

“Any doctor who diagnosed an illness as ineptly and dishonestly would deserve to be struck-off and prosecuted.”

“Palestinian leaders have had several chances for a two-state-solution and they have always rejected it because they do not want a two-state-solution, and they do not care about the suffering of their people. They want all Jews out of there, or dead.”

“The leader of Hezbollah is on record as saying that he won't be happy until every Jew on earth is dead.”

“Once you realize that this is the position then, whatever you think of Israeli security measures, your moral standpoint has to change.”

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“We know that if the Arabs were to lay down their weapons they could have peace and prosperity for all their people, and the Israelis would not need to build barriers or do anything else the world disapproved of. They could simply get on with what they do best, technological innovation, making life better for all of us, including Arabs.”

“On the other hand, we know that if the Israelis were to lay down their weapons, they would be massacred - men, women and children alike.”

“The Arabs are even happy to put their own children in the firing-line to attack Jews, they hate them so much. And this hatred comes directly from their religion. It is not politics or territory that causes a mother to celebrate the death of her child. Only religion can do that, and one religion in particular, the one that is insisting on the right of return - to the 7th century.”

“Just look at the mess they made in Gaza, which is now a hardcore Islamic hell-hole.”

“The Israelis used to be in Gaza, but they gave it up for peace.
They uprooted thousands of settlers and gave the land to the Arabs for peace.
And what did they get? They got war, of course.”

“Gaza immediately became a launching-pad for hundreds of Iranian rockets aimed at Israeli women and children by people hiding behind their own women and children - a double war-crime, ignored by the West, like all Arab war crimes. That is what the Israelis got when they gave up Gaza, and it is what they will get if they're ever stupid enough to give up the West Bank.”

“Israel needs to exist because there needs to be a Jewish state. Humanity has proven conclusively over many centuries that it cannot be trusted not to persecute Jews. Jew hatred seems to be written right into our DNA because it just keeps coming back. Any Jew who thinks the Holocaust could never happen again is a fool. There are plenty of people on this earth who would love to see it happen again, and many of them live in the countries around Israel.”

“When Arab armies have attacked in the past, they have bragged in advance about committing genocide, and they've still been bragging about it as they were getting their sorry assess deservedly-kicked again-and-again.”

“People who want to boycott Israel have no idea what it is like to live on a thin strip of land surrounded [and vastly outnumbered] by people who want to wipe out your entire population, who have repeatedly tried to do so in the past, and failed, and who will continue trying until they succeed, which is likely to happen, roughly, never, while we in the West keep paying for it.”

“What would you do if you were the Israeli Prime Minister? How would you deal with people who want you and your entire population DEAD?”

‘I know what I would do, and I would not give a damn about world opinion.
As for UN (United Nations) resolutions, I would use them to light my cigars. I do not actually smoke cigars, but I would take it up for that reason, I think it is just so important; because this is a war of crude religious hatred by Muslim-Arabs against Jews, and the Jews have to win every time.”

“The Arabs only have to win ONCE for the world to see another Holocaust, and to stand by once again watching it happen. That is why I support Israel, and that's why, if you have an ounce of humanity, you, too, should support Israel, whatever your political persuasion.”

SOURCE: Why I Support Israel,
a YouTube video by Mr. Patrick Condell,
2014 June 18 (complete transcript)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHC8KC5cLs8

http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/09/why-i-support-israel-by-pat-condell.html

ABOUT MR. PATRICK CONDELL:

Mr. Pat Condell is an atheist, who was born in Ireland around 1950 CE, and raised in England as a Roman Catholic, and educated in Church of England schools. He has no Jewish ancestors and no religious beliefs that might cause him to favor Jews.