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Drawing Strength from Yom Kippur
It was 38 years ago that a consortium of Arab states launched a surprise attack on Israel on Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement),[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the holiest and most solemn day of the year for the Jewish people. It was a sadistic attack, timed to happen when Jews in Israel would have their guard down -- in synagogue, with all communications closed (no electricity or fire is permissible) and likely weak and tired from fasting.
But Jewish resolve and the need for survival was greater than the hatred unleashed on the tiny state by Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq with troops and aid from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Pakistan, Sudan, Morocco, Cuba and Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization. Many nations further participated in attempting to destroy Israel by funding and supplying this war effort -- including the former Soviet Union through its alliance with Egypt and Arab states.
Israel was victorious and for many Jews today, Yom Kippur is more than just a day of private reflection and atonement. It is a day of Jewish pride and strength,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and an expression of our resolve and effort to survive in our ancestral homeland despite the incredible suffering our people have endured throughout the ages.
And because Yom Kippur is a holiday that brings Jews together and fills synagogues around the world to the rafters, it is a holiday that unifies us and recommits us and strengthens us for the coming year. This re-strengthening of our commitment to Israel and our culture and religion was indeed the secret weapon the Arabs missed in 1973 when they launched their attack.
The enemies of Israel and the Jewish people should know that our resolve today is greater than it was even on Yom Kippur in 1973. When we say that never again will there be a Holocaust and the gathering of millions of Jews into concentration camps where they will be gassed -- or annihilated by Gazan bombs or a nuclear Iran, we are serious. Israel does not stand alone -- not among Diaspora Jews and not among Western nations like Canada who rightly understand that Israel is the defender of freedom and democracy in the Middle East.
For today, we bear witness to a 'gang up on Israel and the Jewish people' mentality heretofore unseen in history -- for there has never before been such a convergence of technology and communication combined with such a seething hatred for the Jewish people under the guise of anti-Zionism. It is unconscionable and immoral that any religious minority on this planet -- and there are only 13 million of us -- is continuously attacked by a consortium of 52 Islamic Conference states at the United Nations. The Iranian president regularly and publicly calls for Israel's destruction; Hamas continues to shoot rockets at Israel even as the Palestinians demand a state -- but not peace, while the wanna-be leader of a new Islamic caliphate -- Turkey, is complicit in sending a flotilla to break the Gaza blockade (and subsequently demanding an apology from Israel for daring to defend itself).
Like Yom Kippur of 1973,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], we are in an emergency situation -- one that we must not leave again to chance and illusion. While Israel's enemies continue to plan war against the state or fund terrorism from a distance, others are warring against Israel from across continents. In Canada, for example, money was raised to fund a flotilla to Gaza this summer; at the end of August, an Arab group commemorating 'al-Quds Day' at Queens Park (Ontario's legislature) turned the celebration into a venom-laced protest by referring to Israel as a "cancer," and asserting that all troubles in the world are the fault of Jews. A woman presented by protest organizers as a representative of the United Church of Canada was there in support of this monstrous hate speech.
You may wonder how this could be allowed to happen -- not in Palestinian town of Ramallah, but in Toronto. The truth is that anti-Semitism (disguised as anti-Israelism) has become permissible on our university campuses,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], at gay pride weeks and in large unions like the Canadian Union of Public Employees -- Ontario and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. When the world's oldest mental illness (anti-Semitism) entrenches itself in institutions, it becomes acceptable in the public sphere as well.
The examples of Israel and Jewish hatred are numerous and slowly seeping into mainstream narrative. Statements questioning Israel's right to exist are routinely given a pass -- most recently in a CBC Radio interview when a Palestinian representative was permitted to state -- unchallenged, that Israel has been occupying Palestinian land since 1948. Anti-Israel activists like George Galloway, who speaks of Hezbollah terrorist Hassan Nasrallah (whose hatred of Jews could rival Hitler's) in glowing terms, is given a hero's welcome on university campuses across the country, while the Boycott Israel movement has filtered down to your local public library: Vancouver just hosted a meeting at one such publicly funded facility designed to encourage literacy,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], not hate. And just this past weekend, a group called for a boycott of the Jerusalem String Quartet's performance in Vancouver.
The Ottawa Protocol against Anti-Semitism just signed last month is evidence enough of how serious and concerning this issue is in Canada and around the world. Why else would a government and individual parliamentarians (who volunteered their time) spend more than two years studying and reporting on the assault on Canadian Jews? Canadians should be thankful to each and every parliamentarian involved from the three leading parties for recognizing this growing menace,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], acting upon it and providing a precedent for other nations to follow.
Yet despite these challenges, Israel will continue to grow and blossom as a Jewish state. We have learned to stand up to those who wish we would disappear and to those who would do their utmost to make that happen. We are a people that has stood the test of time. Having just marked the year 5772 calendar year on Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year), we are one of the oldest living religions known to humanity. He leaves out the impact and the consequences of historical event of 1945 , 1948 ,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 1967 and does not let the fact to get on his way. When the settlements are gone,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Israel will have peace an acceptance. If they never existed, this conflict would have been over decades ago.
Thank you for this article, Mr. Benlolo.
Just to strengthen your points: while Israel-haters continue to hate (oh,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], well.), yet another Israeli scientist has been awarded a Nobel Prize.
Prof. A significantly higher number is expected this year.
It focuses of the wars that Israel has fought without any apparent consciousness of the underlying land grab that is the cause of the conflict. For when CBC had the audacity to allow a Palestinian representative to mention it in an interview ("unchallenged," no less), it is reflexively dismissed as "Jewish hatred."
This is why the Zionist narrative is such a hinderance to peace. It actively promotes an intentional blindness to the displacement of an indigenous population. It ignores the reality of ghettos and open-air prisons that have followed for those it displaced.
It compounds such sin by ignoring their plight for over 60 years,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and engaging in their further displacement by building more and more settlements.
But when decades of frustration boil over into rage,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the Zionist narrative's blindness to such displacement conveniently allows them to play the victim.
This is not to excuse the violence,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but to point out the dangers of such blindness promoted by the Zionist narrative.
In order to find a solution,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], one must properly identify the causes of the conflict. We will not acheive peace by ignoring (or belittling) the legitimate grievances of the dispossesed.
The self-righteous hubris of some Zionists is simply unbecoming, especially with their being the cause of the conflict in the first place.
So true. The common mythology is that Arabs have always attacked Israel first, when the truth is that Israel fired the first shot in all its aggressive,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], expansionist wars. Even Israel's former prime minister aka chief terrorist, Menachim Begin,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], admitted that there was no existential threat to Israel in 1973. It is a little known fact that Israel threatened to use its nuclear weapons in 1973 unless Nixon provided Israel with the advanced conventional weaponry it demanded.
I also am disgusted with the constant conflation between anti-zionism and anti-semitism. These new hate speech laws are designed with the sole purpose of equating any criticism of Israel with anti-semitism.
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