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Today begins Israel's 63rd Independence Day, with the official ceremony on Mount Herzl. Here's a bit of commentary on the history involved:
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- Happy Birthday Israel
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Israel's 63rd Independence Day
Today begins Israel's 63rd Independence Day, with the official ceremony on Mount Herzl. Here's a bit of commentary on the history involved:Israel is 63 years old.Continue reading at the link. And here's more on some of the people who were chosen to light torches on Independence Day (I can't seem to access the embed code, or I'd add the video here). They're excited at being invited to light the big candles, and this is definitely an occasion to be marveled at.
It began as an effort to do the impossible: revive the Hebrew language and resettle the Jewish People in the Holy Land, almost two millennia after the Jewish capital of Jerusalem was occupied by Roman legions and the Holy Temple burnt down.
Over the centuries, the Jews had seemed to turn into a non-nation: a multicolored world tribe of wanderers, always weeping for their lost glory, always on the run, forever fearful of the wrath of the "normal" nations within whose borders they resided.
All nations recognized the Jews' unique talent, and realized the debt that civilization owed the ancient nation. Monotheism, the precepts of Western morality, the idea of nationality that transcends time and borders, even the seven-day week and the Sabbath were passed on to the world by this Semitic-Mediterranean tribe.
As the world progressed from "Dark Ages" to modernity, all recognized the utterly disproportionate contribution that Jews made, as individuals and as a group, to the commercial, financial, scientific and political systems that defined the new world. Amazing breakthroughs in knowledge, bold artistic revolutions and earth-shaking world movements were formed and led by the progeny of Avraham, Yitzchak and Ya'akov.
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Congressman Allen West’s on Obama’s two-stale solution in Israel From Will at The Other News: “Today’s endorsement by President Barack Obama of the creation of a Hamas-led Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders, signals the most...
- On Sarah Palin's Visit, She Asked An Awesome Question
Following her visit to India, Sarah Palin came to Israel and paid a visit to the Western Wall, among other things, and surely the most amazing thing she could do was to ask why should we apologize to Islam? Popular conservative politician Sarah Palin...
- Sen. Robert Menendez Champions Israeli Rights
The New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez has given a speech where he answers Barack Obama's misleading speech in Cairo. Sen. Menendez said: Far too many misrepresent the significance of the Holocaust, especially in regard to the State of Israel and...
- Happy Birthday Israel
From Pamela at Atlas Shrugs: INDOMITABLE ISRAEL AT 60 by Pamela Geller and Eliza Saxon “…and whether we like it or not, the coming into being of a Jewish State in Palestine is an event in world history to be viewed in the perspective, not of a generation...
- The Koran Affirms Jews Right To Jerusalem
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