Dear Jews! Good Jews!!
There have been entire books written on this subject.
Compared to what other lands offered the Jews throughout history, America has been exceptional. But let's not ignore the fact that anti-semitism exists in America and that it exists in very high places from which it is having a devastating effect in Eretz Yisrael.
We don't have to go very far back in history to find a few telling examples:
In 1967, during the Six Days War, the US sent a spy ship (the Liberty) to monitor Israeli military communications and report them to Egypt.
In 1973, during the Yom Kippur War, the US held up critical arms shipments for an entire week causing needless death and injury to Israeli soldiers.
In 1979, Washington sponsored Camp David 1 which resulted in the loss of the Sinai to Egypt.
In 1984, the US withheld vital information about Iraqi WMD capabilities which it was obligated under treaty to share with Israel. (This is what JPollard made available to the Israeli government.)
In 1990, the US withheld identifying codes from the Israeli Air Force so they would not launch a retaliatory attack against Saddam Hussein's scuds. Without the codes, Israeli jets would have been viewed as enemy combatants by the Americans and shot down.
In 1991, the US sanctioned the concept of "Land for Peace" at the Madrid Conference.
In 1993, the US received Arafat at the White House and brokered the Oslo Peace Treaty which led to thousands of Israeli deaths and injuries.
In 1997, the US sponsored the giving away of 13% of Yesha and Hevron, the City of the Patriarchs.
From then until now, the US has armed, financed and given international recognition to a terrorist State hell-bent on Israel's utter destruction and continues to pressure the all too eager to comply heretical government into deeper and deeper concessions on land and security.
The G-d of Israel "neither slumbers nor sleeps." Payday is coming. What do you think they have earned?
Yeshayahu 34:1-5 "Nations, come near to hear, and kingdoms, hearken. The earth and the fullness thereof, the world and all its offspring. For the Lord has indignation against all the nations and wrath against all their host. He has destroyed them; He has given them to the slaughter. And their slain ones shall be thrown, and their corpses-their stench shall rise, and mountains shall melt from their blood. And all the host of heaven shall melt, and the heavens shall be rolled like a scroll, and all their host shall wither as a leaf withers from a vine, and as a withered [fig] from a fig tree. For My sword has become sated in the heaven. Behold, it shall descend upon Edom, and upon the nation with whom I contend, for judgment."
Prepared from creation for a day and an hour:
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK - significant activity continues beneath the surface. And the activity has been increasing lately, scientists have discovered. In addition, the nearby Teton Range of mountains, in a total surprise, is getting shorter. The findings suggest that a slow and gradual movement of a volcano over time can shape a landscape more than a violent eruption. The 45-by-30-mile Yellowstone caldera bulged and deflated significantly during the past 17 years, resulting in a series of small earthquakes that produced 10 times more energy than would occur if the ground were to move suddenly in a large eruption. "We think it's a combination of magma being intruded under the caldera and hot water released from the magma being pressurized because it's trapped. I don't believe this is evidence for an impending volcanic eruption, but it would be prudent to keep monitoring the volcano." From 2004 to 2006 the central caldera floor rose faster than ever, springing up nearly 7 inches during the three-year span. "The rate is UNPRECEDENTED, at least in terms of what scientists have been able to observe in Yellowstone." One of the largest supervolcanoes in the world lies beneath Yellowstone National Park, which spans parts of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. Supervolcanoes can sleep for centuries or millennia before producing incredibly massive eruptions that can drop ash across an entire continent.
If you see the BBC docudrama about the effects of an eruption of the Yellowstone super-volcano, you will understand how it will stop flights coast to coast...permanently; how it can cause a complete darkness to fall; and send up a pillar of smoke and ash high into the atmosphere. No telling how long it would be visible.
Yeshayahu 34: 8-9 "For it is a day of vengeance for the Lord, a year of retribution for the plea of Zion. And its streams shall turn into pitch and its dust into sulfur, and its land shall become burning pitch."
This is how Hashem repays those who hurt His children. If you are His child, He wants you to go home!! He does not intend you to share in the punishment of His enemies!!
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Isaiah 60:1-2 "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the L-rd is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples: but the L-ord shall rise upon thee, and His glory shall be seen upon thee."
Isaiah 60:1-3 "The Spirit of the L-rd is upon me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the L-rd, and the day of vengeance of our G-d; to comfort all that mourn in Ziyyon, to give beauty for ashes, the oil of mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they shall be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the L-rd, that He maight be glorified. Isaiah 62:11-12 "Behold the L-rd hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Ziyyon, Behold thy salvation cometh; behold, His reward is with Him,and His work before Him. And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the L-rd: and thou shall be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken."
Isaiah 61:1-3 "sorry for mistake"
Each and every one of your "insights" were within me from when they became known. I thank you for pulling them together so tightly. And, thank you again for sounding the shofar for us in chutz l'aretz!
I think there are many in chu'l in panic and preparing. I am eagerly awaiting my passport.
Where do I have this time. Yes, I am commenting, but also preparing for Pesach on a spiritual level, and packing for the practical journey.
Neshama,
tears streaming down my face.................go!
Hi,
I'm not sure at all sure why you said before that it was not worth responding to my statement that for Hashem to treat the Jews of America differently from Jews in other places seems unfair. I think it's a vital point. Now you seem to be addressing this point despite your earlier words, but I don't see how what you're saying is very significant.
Despite all the points you bring, most Jews in America feel safe there. I lived in America most of my life and never felt unwanted, let alone in danger. You can't compare what Jews in other countries suffered to being in a country where the local Jews are treated fine but government policy towards a certain faraway country appears generally positive but has sometimes been negative - and even then it's debatable, and even if you're sure something was negative, you still might think the govt. meant well. You and I think it was bad to give away parts of Yesha to Arabs and to arm the PA, etc., but plenty of American Jews and gentiles don't think so. Plenty of Israelis don't think so! Israelis have consistently supported pro-"Palestinian" political parties, be they Labor, Likud, Kadima, etc. How can recognizing these things as evil be the test that determines whether American Jews will live in Israel? Israelis themselves have failed the test, and immigrants from many other countries never had to take it.
I really wonder how Hashem could shut the gates on American Jews without first subjecting them to some good old-fashioned anti-Semitic riots and massacres, where the room for interpretation is much reduced and the path to follow is clear to all but the most stalwart.
I accept that idea of there being an END, I just don't understand why opportunity before that end should not be distributed evenly.
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And on the idea that the Gush Katif disaster was the sacrifice of the Slonimer Tzaddik's tradition - I find that a very forced fit. The tradition cited describes a sacrifice that was accepted but that was actually bad because it should have waited till Moshiach - but surely the sacrifices for Gush Katif were NOT accepted, since their goal was not at all achieved, and surely they were correct in making their efforts - are we really supposed to give up land and encourage Arabs to murder us just because Moshiach hasn't come yet? You say that if this match is not correct, "there is no understanding what happened on Tisha b'Av 5765." Well, isn't it possible that we did not merit to keep Gush Katif because of other sins, or even that we just don't know the reason? Also, the tradition specifically mentions the Temple - how does this relate to Gush Katif? Do you have some justification for the Temple being a metaphor for Gush Katif? I've never heard of such a connection, but then I'm not talmid chochom.
Thanks for all your posts and answers up until now. Looking forward to your next post....
Hmmmmmm.... Last week I booked a summer trip with my family to Yellowstone National Park. This is no joke! Let's see how this plays out.
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