Happy 63rd birthday, Israel

  • Today, May 14, is the 63rd anniver­sary of the “rebirth” of Israel. After all the thou­sands of years since the nation was first founded, it is still a rev­o­lu­tion­ary place. Men­tion­ing the word “Israel” is enough to get you into debates in some cir­cles and to hear his­toric (some­times ancient) hero­ics or mis­deeds invoked as if they had hap­pened yesterday.

    That being the case, I won’t try to add any more obser­va­tions myself. But I con­sider, along with the Amer­i­can Thinker arti­cle excerpted below, that it’s a mir­a­cle that there’s any­place called Israel at all in 2011. So happy birth­day, Israel. L’chaim – to life!

     

     

    Sixty-three years ago, May 14, 1948, was the rebirth of one of the old­est cul­tures and nations in his­tory, the State of Israel.

    Israel with Judaism as its reli­gion has his­tor­i­cal con­ti­nu­ity span­ning more than 3,000 years. It is one of the old­est monothe­is­tic reli­gions, and the old­est to sur­vive into the present day. Israel today is a unique and diverse Jew­ish state with a young viable democ­racy, in an unsta­ble region. …

    We hardly can find coun­tries that have gone out of exis­tence for as long as 3,000 years and then reap­peared and been reborn. Thus, it is indeed plau­si­ble to say that the rebirth of this mag­nif­i­cent cul­ture, peo­ple and the land was truly a miracle.

    In the ancient days, a noble and just Per­sian king, Cyrus the Great, res­cued tens of thou­sands of Jew­ish peo­ple from cap­tiv­ity in a for­eign land and empow­ered them to return home and build their sacred tem­ple. By his action of free­ing an entire peo­ple from cap­tiv­ity and restor­ing their right­ful dig­nity, Cyrus the Great, the author of the first code of Human Rights, cemented a bond of friend­ship between the Jews and the Per­sians. It was the Just King’s way of set­ting the world on a course of free­dom, equal­ity, and jus­tice for all peo­ple, irre­spec­tive of any and all considerations. …

     

     

    READ THE REST HERE.


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