The year 2009 has been a volatile and troubling year for the Jewish people. First with the war in Gaza(a much needed and necessary war), add to it the financial crisis, the Jewish community scandals, (such as the Madoff Ponzi scheme, the Postville meat packing fraud and immigration scandal , and the organ selling scandal involving prominent Jewish leaders etc,etc. While our New Year started during the Hebrew month of Tishrei, the Gregorian calendar new year is filled with many future challenges. The threat from Iran still exists, the 'freeze' of construction in the Yehuda and Shomron is still on going with the Israeli government 'plowing' ahead as usual, working feverishly at the behest of the Obama administration for a two-state solution or a final solution; to finish where Hitler left off. That said, the Jewish Defense League(JDL) recently participated in a counter-demostration in Toronto against the Jew hating pro-Hamas protesters in front of the Royal Ontario Museum near the Israeli Consulate. The event demonstrated the ongoing and intensified hatred that still exist in our midst, with no end in sight until the State of Israel is completely 'out of sight'. Our enemies wish for this each day, I say wish because that's as far as it will ever come to fruition. Though many of our Jewish brothers and sister went along with the Yishmaeli(arabs) lie about the "Gaza Massacre"during the war, we were completely focused on who we were as a people. Hashem watched over us, and kept us from harms way. We will rise to occasion again and again because we believe - silence is consent.
Public relations does wonders but one wonders why so little has been done in the Jewish community, or better yet, why hasn't the Jewish leadership in the West spoken out strongly against the 'freeze' of developments in Yehuda and Shomron? I would answer this unequivocally by stating, they don't particularly care. It may not affect them and their 'golden empires' that being, affluence within their communities and influence along with their relationships within local and federal governments. In other words, why 'rock the boat' if there's no threat of it sinking. When one is in galut (exile) you have to walk a 'fine' line and this is why exactly why the current situation in theYehuda and Shomron region may very well end up like the
end results of the former Gush Katif.
The new year 2010 looks rather bleak if 'all' goes according to 'plan'. That being, a rise in terror in Israel and the West, an Israeli government bent on it's own self destruction by removing
it's own citizens forcefully from their homes and, Iran one day testing it's nuclear device and shocking the world. Our prophets have written(paraphrased) that in the end of days, the world would come against us with a furor and hatred never seen before but, it also says that they who do part take in a battle against us will be destroyed by Hashem and - Israel will - survive. Then, those who are left alive and those who have passed on before us, will come back to life and enter in to a messianic period where we will see our Maschiach and there will finally be peace on earth and in the Land of Israel. This a day that we hope comes very, very soon.
