[ April 19, 2024 ]
The miracle nation of Israel turns 72 today. Despite being surrounded by enemy countries, and the BDS Movement, and the anti-Semitic United Nations, the Jewish nation of Israel is flourishing like never before. In fact, Israel’s innovation and ingenuity have been on full display since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Israel is perhaps only second to the United States in fighting this deadly pandemic, despite it’s small size. Israel will no doubt have a significant role in solving other challenges that the world faces in the coming years. The world could not ask for a better friend than Israel. Am Yisrael Chai! Happy birthday, Israel!
אזרחי ישראל, יש לנו ארץ נהדרת!
חג עצמאות שמח מדינת ישראל. 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 pic.twitter.com/q1ZcwKfbfN
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) April 28, 2020
Mazal Tov and best wishes to the State of Israel on its 72nd birthday. Since the day it was founded, Israel’s achievements have made an immeasurable contribution to the betterment of the entire world. The United States is proud to stand with Israel as its best friend and ally. pic.twitter.com/KxiBcX2QiL
— Ambassador Jack Lew (@USAmbIsrael) April 28, 2020
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Join us on a fascinating journey through the last 72 years to discover how Israel has become one of the most creative and innovative countries in the world. https://t.co/jKajtayCw4 pic.twitter.com/Ebyv1DPpdN
— ISRAEL21c (@ISRAEL21C) April 23, 2020
🇮🇱 Happy birthday Israel! 🇮🇱 #Israel72 pic.twitter.com/zyutyrwfop
— Yuval Rotem 🇮🇱 (@Yuval_Rotem) April 28, 2020
Israel still stands strongly on 72nd Independence Day
It has not been easy, it has not been without pain and incredible sacrifice, but it has worked.
By Jerusalem Post, April 28, 2020
“We are one people – our enemies have made us one without our consent, as has repeatedly happened in our history. Affliction binds us together, and thus united, we suddenly discover our strength.”
And, indeed, Herzl’s words have reverberated with truth throughout the first 72 years of Israel’s history. Hopelessly divided and fractionalized within from the very beginning – religious vs atheist, socialists vs capitalists, Right vs Left, immigrants vs the native born, Ashkenazi vs Mizrahi, haredi vs secular – the country has shown that when external enemies threaten, it rallies together to fend off the threats.
“V’he sh’amda l’avotenu ve’lanu,” goes that Seder song played repeatedly on Israeli radio stations during the Passover season. “In every single generation people rise up to destroy us, but The Holy One saves us from their hands.” The Holy One, since Israel’s birth in 1948, and the country’s ability to rally together and pool its tremendous human resources to face down a common enemy.
It has not been easy, it has not been without pain and incredible sacrifice, but it has worked. Faced with affliction, the People of Israel – as Herzl recognized 124 years ago – discovers reservoirs of great strength to survive and persevere.
If the Muslims would just leave the Jews alone for a few years, goes an old joke, the Israelis would destroy themselves. It’s only unquenchable enmity that unites the country and ensures its survival.
But what if the enemy was not some external army or terrorist organization? What if the affliction did not ride in on enemy tanks or rockets sent by terrorist organizations, but rather on germs spread by a simple sneeze? And what if Israel was not the only target of this enemy?
Thus spake Theodor Herzl of the Jewish people in 1896 in his seminal pamphlet, The Jewish State.
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13 Comments
3 years ago
Happy birthday Israel. May you have many more to come.
Israel and the USA stand for freedom. Without freedom you have nothing.
3 years ago
US/UK/Israel Brotherhood of values.
Omar: “Hah! You know not the ways of true brotherhood!” 🙂
3 years ago
Reply to
TD
Rumor has it that Ilhan Omar showed Rashida Talib a picture of her brother on her phone.
To which Rashida replied: “Oh! he’s so cute! Is he married?”
3 years ago
US/UK/Israel Brotherhood of values.
Omar: “Hah! You know not the ways of true brotherhood!” 🙂
3 years ago
Things will be fine till liberal Gantz takes over for the second part of the term. Is it really better than a fourth election? The “big tent” didn’t work out so well here, so celebrate while you can!
3 years ago
Things will be fine till liberal Gantz takes over for the second part of the term. Is it really better than a fourth election? The “big tent” didn’t work out so well here, so celebrate while you can!
3 years ago
Jesus returns 2028.
3 years ago
Reply to
Scott Smith
NO DATE SETTING!
Matthew 25:13 –
Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
I wish it was yesterday. The sooner the better, however, it is not up to us to determine that and wrong to suggest when that will happen.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I think 80 years is a sufficiently long time for a generation to live dont you? Dont know day or hour but before the last person dies who became a part of Israel in 1948 should see His return.
The lesson of the Fig Tree
(Mark 13:28-31; Luke 21:29-33)
32Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: 33So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. 34Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. 35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
3 years ago
Happy 72nd birthday Israel!
An amazing country! The weather is heaven and so are the people!
Israel’s beauty and warm people always inspire me.
The only democracy in the middle east today.
Long live Israel.
3 years ago
You have accomplished what we Christians failed to accomplish:the preservation and protection of the Holy Land. Next year, I pray you will have annexed forever Judea and Samaria and turned them into a place of refuge for the persecuted victims of Islam.
3 years ago
Happy Birthday Israel and may you enjoy countless more until the end of time.
3 years ago
Happy Birthday, Israel! Wishing you many more!
