Up until last Saturday, the past few days had been among the most challenging for Israel’s friends around the world.
The Biden administration also accepted Hamas ‘ status as a negotiating tool and refused to allow Israel to defeat the Hamas criminal organization. electronic. no prisoner releases before a peace.
The northeast continued to fire at Hezbollah; the Houthis continued to shoot from the north; and one questioned how this tiniest society had managed to endure this much.
And then on Thursday evening, a day after I arrived in Israel, I found an answer of combinations, as I attended a concert in Jerusalem.
The theatre was packed with Israelis, many of whom were off-duty military or security officers, and armed with automatic rifle. A family wearing a classic Orthodox Jewish headpiece and a child carrying an M16 rifle were a part of one young couple, who was also carrying a baby in a rope. Date nights in Israel in war.
Half through the music, people began to walk up and dance, until the whole drama was rocking. It was no more a achievement, but something like a wedding, where the customers are themselves part of the show.
It came to mind in. that time: of course Israel may succeed.
Israel’s life has been a wonder since the day it declared Independence; it remains a mystery roughly 76 years after, a wonder that renews itself every era, every time.
The later Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir remarked that Israelis “have nowhere else to go” as Israel’s” secret weapons.” In the midst of the Hamas evil attack, President Joe Biden quoted her in October, and I thought it was a good way to display emotion.
But after Thursday, I realized that it was inadequate. Israel’s secret weapons is no fear of death, but rather love — love of the land, love of God, love of life itself — against the anger cultivated by its enemies.
I visited the Christian holy places on Saturday in the Old City of Jerusalem, just days before the Egyptian missile strike, and I found throngs of travellers and worshipers, unaffected by the consequences of conflict. It was incredibly moving to observe them interact with a location that had a huge impact on them.
These sincere Christians fought back against Iranian travel bans and Iranian challenges to enter the Holy Land and gave their lives to the Lord Jesus.
Maybe those prayers worked, because what transpired later that evening was wonderful.
Iran launched more than 300 drones and rockets at Israel, making it the largest-ever strike in the history of the world, and the Jewish government was able to capture almost all of them.
From late in the evening until just before dawn the following morning, the stars emitted the sounds of fighter planes and explosions. And when the moon rose, Israelis found themselves about uninjured.
Some Israelis felt a sense of joy. They had only survived the assault, which they had feared for a long time. Then the fear was gone.
It took me a few days to link the incredible display of underwater defense power that occurred that night with the moments of ardent prayer earlier in the day.
Maybe the obvious link was mere coincidence. Or perhaps it was another wonder.
Regardless, the passion that brought those Religious pilgrims to Jerusalem was true, and strong. It is the same passion that drives Israelis ‘ resolve to fight.
For weeks, I’ve been wondering whether passion would win over hate and whether Israelis ‘ desire to live peacefully with their neighbors could defeat their enemies ‘ attempts to empower their own children with hate and send that dislike around the world.
After witnessing, and living through, the amazing events in the Holy Land over the past year, I believe I know the answer: like will win in the end— given the weapons to battle, and the will to use them wisely.
Joel B. Polllak is the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings starting at 7 p.m. and Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. m. to 10 p. m. ET ( 4 p. m. to 7 p. m. PT ). He is the author of the recent e-book, “The Zionist Conspiracy ( and how to join it ), ” now available on Audible. He is also the author of the e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U. S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
