YOM YERUSHALAYIM!!!
Sunday, June 01, 2008
We're in a season of holidays right now. Tonight begins Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day, the day we celebrate our victorious recapture of Jerusalem in 1967. In honor of the holiday, Treppenwitz has posted an interview with Moshe Rusnak, the commander of the Haganah forces in the Old City during the War of Independence in '48. Of course, we already know that Moshe Dayan opposed the capture of Jerusalem in '67; in fact, his opinion was one that led the Israeli government to surrender control of the Temple Mount back to the Arabs. However, in this interview, Rusnak details that, even then, the leadership of the nascent Israeli army never had any intention of reclaiming Jerusalem for the Jewish people.
In other words, we have all the more reason to rejoice in our G-d for the miracles He continues to perform in our midst, despite our complete bull-headed unwillingness to listen to Him and fulfill our part of the Sinai bargain.
HaShem fights for His people. And that is why we celebrate the gift of Jerusalem.
***
2008 Election Note:
Man, I love Carl in Jerusalem.
Hannity and Colmes on Obama's connection with 'Palestinian' terrorist Rashid Khalidi
Rashid Khalidi is a 'respected' 'Palestinian' terrorist: a member of the PLO since the days it was officially labeled a terrorist organization, he is now a professor at Columbia University (where else?), holding the Edward Said chair in Arab studies. Said was also a member of the PLO.Sean Hannity is a pretty cool dude, too.
As it turns out, Khalidi and his wife Mona are also good friends of Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama.
Well, if all else fails, American Jews would be wise to rejoice in the fact that we still have Jerusalem to run to.
Labels: Israel, Jerusalem, Obama, Yom Yerushalayim, Zionism
posted by Shoshana @ 7:45 PM
