Below is the
full transcript of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks before
the United Nations General Assembly on October 1st, 2015.
Ladies and
Gentlemen, I bring you greetings from Jerusalem . The city in which the Jewish People’s
hopes and prayers for peace for all of humanity have echoed throughout the
ages.
Thirty-one years
ago, as Israel ’s Ambassador to the United Nations, I
stood at this podium for the first time.
I spoke that day
against a resolution sponsored by Iran to expel Israel from the United Nations.
Then as now, the
UN was obsessively hostile towards Israel , the one true democracy in the Middle East .
Then as now, some
sought to deny the one and only Jewish state a place among the nations.
I ended that first
speech by saying: Gentlemen, check your fanaticism at the door.
More than three
decades later, as the Prime Minister of Israel, I am again privileged to speak
from this podium.
And for me, that
privilege has always come with a moral responsibility to speak the truth.
So after three
days of listening to world leaders praise the nuclear deal with Iran , I begin my speech today by
saying: Ladies and Gentlemen, check your enthusiasm at the door.
You see, this deal
doesn’t make peace more likely.
By fueling Iran ’s aggressions with billions of dollars in
sanctions relief, it makes war more likely.
Just look at what Iran has done in the last six months alone,
since the framework agreement was announced in Lausanne .
Every few weeks, Iran and Hezbollah set up new terror cells in
cities throughout the world. Three such cells were recently uncovered in Kuwait , Jordan and Cyprus .
In May, security
forces in Cyprus raided a Hezbollah agent’s apartment in
the city of Larnaca . There they found five tons of ammonium nitrate, that’s roughly
the same amount of ammonium nitrate that was used to blow up the federal
building in Oklahoma City .
And that’s just in
one apartment, in one city, in one country.
But Iran is setting up dozens of terror cells like
this around the world, ladies and gentlemen, they’re setting up those terror
cells in this hemisphere too.
I repeat: Iran’s been
doing all of this, everything that I’ve just described, just in the last
six months, when it was trying to convince the world to remove the sanctions.
Now just imagine
what Iran will do after those sanctions are lifted.
Unleashed and
un-muzzled, Iran will go on the prowl, devouring more and
more prey.
In the wake of the
nuclear deal, Iran is spending billions of dollars on weapons
and satellites.
You think Iran is doing that to advance peace?
You think hundreds
of billions of dollars in sanctions relief and fat contracts will turn this
rapacious tiger into a kitten?
rapacious tiger into a kitten?
If you do, you
should think again.
In 2013 president
Rouhani began his so-called charm offensive here at the UN. Two years later, Iran is executing more political prisoners,
escalating its regional aggression, and rapidly expanding its global terror
network.
You know they say,
actions speak louder than words.
But in Iran ’s case, the words speak as loud as the
actions.
Just listen to the
Deputy Commander of Iran ’s Revolutionary Guard Quds Force. Here’s
what he said in February:
“The Islamic
revolution is not limited by geographic borders….” He boasted that Afghanistan , Iraq , Lebanon , Syria , Palestine and Yemen are among the countries being “conquered
by the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
Conquered.
And for those of
you who believe that the deal in Vienna will bring a change in Iran ’s policy, just listen to what Iran ’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei said
five days after the nuclear deal was reached: “Our policies towards the
arrogant government of the United States will not change.”
The United States , he vowed, will continue to be Iran ’s enemy.
While giving the
mullahs more money is likely to fuel more repression inside Iran , it will definitely fuel more aggression
outside Iran .
As the leader of a
country defending itself every day against Iran ’s growing aggression, I wish I could take
comfort in the claim that this deal blocks Iran ’s path to nuclear weapons.
But I can’t,
because it doesn’t.
This deal does
place several constraints on Iran ’s nuclear program.
And rightly so,
because the international community recognizes that Iran is so dangerous.
But you see here’s
the catch: Under this deal, If Iran doesn’t change its behavior, In fact,
if it becomes even more dangerous in the years to come, the most important
constraints will still be automatically lifted by year 10 and by year 15.
That would place a
militant Islamic terror regime weeks away from having the fissile material for
an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs.
That just doesn’t
make any sense.
I’ve said that if Iran wants to be treated like a normal country,
let it act like a normal country.
But this deal,
this deal will treat Iran like a normal country even if it remains a dark
theocracy that conquers its neighbors, sponsors terrorism worldwide and chants
“Death to Israel”, “Death to America.”
Does anyone
seriously believe that flooding a radical theocracy with weapons and cash will
curb its appetite for aggression?
Do any of you
really believe that a theocratic Iran with sharper claws and sharper fangs will
be more likely to change its stripes?
So here’s a
general rule that I’ve learned and you must have learned in your life time
–When bad behavior is rewarded, it only gets worse.
Ladies and
Gentlemen,
I have long said
that the greatest danger facing our world is the coupling of militant Islam
with nuclear weapons.
And I’m gravely
concerned that the nuclear deal with Iran will prove to be the marriage certificate
of that unholy union.
I know that some
well-intentioned people sincerely believe that this deal is the best way to
block Iran ’s path to the bomb.
But one of
history’s most important yet least learned lessons is this:
The best
intentions don’t prevent the worst outcomes.
The vast majority
of Israelis believe that this nuclear deal with Iran is a very bad deal.
And what makes
matters even worse is that we see a world celebrating this bad deal, rushing to
embrace and do business with a regime openly committed to our destruction.
Last week, Major
General Salehi, the commander of Iran ’s army, proclaimed this:
“We will
annihilate Israel for sure.”
“We are glad that
we are in the forefront of executing the Supreme Leader’s order to destroy Israel .”
And as for the
Supreme Leader himself, a few days after the nuclear deal was announced, he
released his latest book.
Here it is.
It’s a 400-page
screed detailing his plan to destroy the State of Israel.
Last month,
Khamenei once again made his genocidal intentions clear before Iran ’s top clerical body, the Assembly of
Experts.
He spoke about Israel , home to over six million Jews. He
pledged, “there will be no Israel in 25 years.”
Seventy years
after the murder of six million Jews, Iran ’s rulers promise to destroy my country.
Murder my people.
And the response
from this body, the response from nearly every one of the governments
represented here has been absolutely nothing!
Utter silence!
Deafening silence.
Perhaps you can
now understand why Israel is not joining you in celebrating this
deal.
If Iran ’s rulers were working to destroy your
countries, perhaps you’d be less enthusiastic about the deal.
If Iran ’s terror proxies were firing thousands of
rockets at your cities, perhaps you’d be more measured in your praise.
And if this deal
were unleashing a nuclear arms race in your neighborhood, perhaps you’d be more
reluctant to celebrate.
But don’t think
that Iran is only a danger to Israel .
Besides Iran ’s aggression in the Middle East and its terror around the world, Iran is also building intercontinental
ballistic missiles whose sole purpose is to carry nuclear warheads.
Now remember this:
Iran already has missiles that can reach Israel .
So those
intercontinental ballistic missiles that Iran is building – they’re not meant for us –
They’re meant for
you.
For Europe .
For America .
For raining down
mass destruction – anytime, anywhere.
Ladies and
Gentlemen,
It’s not easy to
oppose something that is embraced by the greatest powers in the world.
Believe me, it
would be far easier to remain silent.
But throughout our
history, the Jewish people have learned the heavy price of silence.
And as the Prime
Minister of the Jewish State, as someone who knows that history,
I refuse to be
silent.
I’ll say it
again: The days when the Jewish people remained passive in the face of
genocidal enemies –
those days are over.
those days are over.
Not being passive
means speaking up about those dangers.
We have. We
are. We will.
Not being passive
also means defending ourselves against those dangers.
We have. We
are. And we will.
I know that
preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons remains
the official policy of the international community.
But no one should
question Israel ’s determination to defend itself against
those who seek our destruction.
For in every generation,
there were those who rose up to destroy our people.
In antiquity, we
faced destruction from the ancient empires of Babylon and Rome .
In the Middle
Ages, we faced inquisition and expulsion.
And In modern
times, we faced pogroms and the Holocaust.
Yet the Jewish
people persevered.
And now another
regime has arisen, swearing to destroy Israel .
That regime would
be wise to consider this: I stand here today representing Israel , a country 67 years young,
but the nation-state of a people nearly 4,000 years old.
but the nation-state of a people nearly 4,000 years old.
Yet the empires of
Babylon and Rome are not represented in this hall of
nations.
Neither is the
Thousand Year Reich.
Those seemingly
invincible empires are long gone.
But Israel lives.
The people of Israel live.
עם
ישראל חי.
The re-birth of Israel is a testament to the indomitable spirit
of my people.
For a hundred
generations, the Jewish people dreamed of returning to the Land of Israel .
Even in our
darkest hours, and we had so many, even in our darkest hours we never gave up
hope of rebuilding our eternal capital Jerusalem .
The establishment
of Israel made realizing that dream possible.
It has enabled us
to live as a free people in our ancestral homeland.
It’s enabled us to
embrace Jews who’ve come from the four corners of the earth to find refuge from
persecution.
They came from
war-torn Europe , from Yemen , Iraq , Morocco , from Ethiopia and the Soviet Union , from a hundred other lands.
And today, as a
rising tide of anti-Semitism once again sweeps across Europe and elsewhere, many Jews come to Israel to join us in building the Jewish future.
So here’s my
message to the rulers of Iran :
Your plan to
destroy Israel will fail.
And here’s my
message to all the countries represented here:
Whatever
resolutions you may adopt in this building, whatever decisions you may take in
your capitals, Israel will do whatever it must do to defend our
state and to defend our people.
Distinguished
delegates,
As this deal with Iran moves ahead, I hope you’ll enforce it…how
can I put this? With a little more rigor than you showed with the six Security
Council resolutions that Iran has systematically violated and which now
have been effectively discarded.
Make sure that the
inspectors actually inspect.
Make sure that the
snapback sanctions actually snap back.
And make sure that
Iran ’s violations aren’t swept under the
Persian rug.
Well, of one thing
I can assure you: Israel will be watching… closely.
What the
international community now needs to do is clear:
First, make Iran comply with all its nuclear obligations.
Keep Iran ’s feet to the fire.
Second, check Iran ’s regional aggression.
Support and
strengthen those fighting Iran ’s aggression, beginning with Israel .
Third, use
sanctions and all the tools available to you to tear down Iran ’s global terror network.
Ladies and
Gentlemen,
We are also
working with other states in the Middle East as well as countries in Africa , in Asia and beyond.
Many in our region
know that both Iran and ISIS are our common enemies.
And when your
enemies fight each other, don’t strengthen either one – weaken both.
Common dangers are
clearly bringing Israel and its Arab neighbors closer.
And as we work
together to thwart those dangers, I hope we’ll build lasting partnerships –
lasting partnerships for security, for prosperity and for peace.
But in Israel , we never forget one thing. We never
forget that the most important partner that Israel has has always been, and will always be,
the United States of America .
The alliance
between Israel and the United States is unshakeable.
President Obama
and I agree on the need to keep arms out of the hands of Iran ’s terror proxies.
We agree on the
need to stop Iran from destabilizing countries throughout
the Middle East .
President Obama
and I have both said that our differences over the nuclear deal are a
disagreement within the family.
But we have no
disagreement about the need to work together to secure our common future.
And what a great
future it could be.
medicine,
biotechnology and so many other fields that are being revolutionized by Israeli
ingenuity and Israeli innovation.
Israeli knowhow is
everywhere.
It’s in your
computers’ microprocessors and flash drives.
It’s in your
smartphones, when you send instant messages and navigate your cars.
It’s on your
farms, when you drip irrigate your crops and keep your grains and produce
fresh.
It’s in your
universities, when you study Nobel Prize winning discoveries in chemistry and
economics.
It’s in your
medicine cabinets, when you use drugs to treat Parkinson’s Disease and Multiple
Sclerosis.
It’s even on your
plate, when you eat the delicious cherry tomato.
That too was
perfected in Israel , in case you didn’t know.
We are so proud in
Israel of the long strides our country has made
in a short time.
We’re so proud
that our small country is making such a huge contribution to the entire world.
Yet the dreams of
our people, enshrined for eternity by the great prophets of the Bible, those
dreams will be fully realized only when there is peace.
As the Middle East descends into chaos, Israel ’s peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan are two cornerstones of stability.
Israelis know the
price of war.
I know the price
of war.
I was nearly
killed in battle.
I lost many
friends.
I lost my beloved
brother Yoni.
Those who know the
price of war can best appreciate what the blessings of peace would mean – for
ourselves, our children, our grandchildren.
I am prepared to
immediately, immediately, resume direct peace negotiations with the Palestinian
Authority without any preconditions whatsoever.
Unfortunately,
President Abbas said yesterday that he is not prepared to do this.
Well, I hope he
changes his mind.
Because I remain
committed to a vision of two states for two peoples, in which a demilitarized
Palestinian state recognizes the Jewish state.
You know, the
peace process began over two decades ago.
Yet despite the
best efforts of six Israeli prime ministers – Rabin, Peres, Barak, Sharon,
Olmert and myself – the Palestinians have consistently refused to end the
conflict and make a final peace with Israel.
And unfortunately,
you heard that rejectionism again only yesterday from President Abbas.
How can Israel make peace with a Palestinian partner who
refuses to even sit at the negotiating table?
The Palestinians
should not walk away from peace.
President Abbas, I
know it’s not easy. I know it’s hard. But we owe it to our peoples to try, to
continue to try, because together, if we actually negotiate and stop
negotiating about the negotiation, if we actually sit down and try to resolve
this conflict between us, recognize each other, not use a Palestinian state as
a stepping stone for another Islamist dictatorship in the Middle East, but
something that will live at peace next to the Jewish state, if we actually do
that, we can do remarkable things for our peoples.
The UN can help
advance peace by supporting direct, unconditional negotiations between the
parties.
The UN won’t help
peace, certainly won’t help advance peace by trying to impose solutions or by
encouraging Palestinian rejectionism.
And the UN,
distinguished delegates, should do one more thing. The UN should finally rid
itself of the obsessive bashing of Israel .
Here’s just one
absurd example of this obsession:
In four years of
horrific violence in Syria , more than a quarter of a million people
have lost their lives.
That’s more than
ten times, more than ten times, the number of Israelis and Palestinians
combined who have lost their lives in a century of conflict between us.
Yet last year,
this Assembly adopted 20 resolutions against Israel and just one resolution about the savage
slaughter in Syria .
Talk about
injustice. Talk about disproportionality. Twenty. Count them. One against
Syria .
Well, frankly I am
not surprised.
To borrow a line
from Yogi Berra, the late, great baseball player and part time philosopher:
When it comes to the annual bashing of Israel at the UN, it’s déjà vu all over again.
Enough!
Thirty one years
after I stood here for the first time, I’m still asking:
When will the UN
finally check its anti-Israel fanaticism at the door?
When will the UN
finally stop slandering Israel as a threat to peace and actually start
helping Israel advance peace?
And the same
question should be posed to Palestinian leaders.
When will you
start working with Israel to advance peace and reconciliation and
stop libeling Israel , stop inciting hatred and violence?
President Abbas,
here’s a good place to begin:
Stop spreading lies
about Israel ’s alleged intentions on the Temple Mount .
What President
Abbas should be speaking out against are the actions of militant Islamists who
are smuggling explosives into the al-Aqsa mosque and who are trying to prevent
Jews and Christians from visiting the holy sites.
That’s the real
threat to these sacred sites.
A thousand years
before the birth of Christianity, more than 1,500 years before the birth of
Islam, King David made Jerusalem our capital, and King Solomon built the Temple on that mount.
Yet Israel , Israel will always respect the sacred shrines of
all.
In a region
plagued by violence and by unimaginable intolerance, in which Islamic fanatics
are destroying the ancient treasures of civilization, Israel stands out as a
towering beacon of enlightenment and tolerance.
Far from
endangering the holy sites, it is Israel that ensures their safety.
Because unlike the
powers who have ruled Jerusalem in the past, Israel respects the holy sites and
freedom of worship of all – Jews, Muslims, Christians, everyone.
And that, ladies
and gentlemen, will never change.
Because Israel will always stay true to its values.
These values are
on display each and every day:
When Israel ’s feisty parliament vigorously debates
every issue under the sun,
When Israel ’s Chief Justice sits in her chair at our
fiercely independent Supreme Court,
When our Christian
community continues to grow and thrive from year to year, as Christian
communities are decimated elsewhere in the Middle East ,
When a brilliant
young Israeli Muslim student gives her valedictorian address at one of our
finest universities,
And when Israeli
doctors and nurses – doctors and nurses from the Israeli military –
treat thousands of
wounded from the killing fields of Syria and thousands more in the wake of natural
disasters from Haiti to Nepal .
This is the true
face of Israel .
These are the
values of Israel .
And In the Middle
East, these values are under savage assault by militant Islamists who are
forcing millions of terrified people to flee to distant shores.
Ten miles from ISIS , a few hundred yards from Iran ’s murderous proxies, Israel stands in the breach – proudly and
courageously, defending freedom and progress.
So here’s a novel
idea for the United Nations:
Instead of
continuing the shameful routine of bashing Israel , stand with Israel .
Stand with Israel as we check the fanaticism at our door.
Stand with Israel as we prevent that fanaticism from
reaching your door.
Ladies and
Gentlemen,
Stand with Israel because Israel is not just defending itself.
More than
ever, Israel is defending you.
Bibi
Netanyahu’s Speech at the UN on October 1 2015
I am certain it was a great
and emotional speech making lasting impressions.
The question is what such speeches can achieve. If there ever was a time when "great speeches changed history" that time is over now.
We see great, beautiful performances by leaders, religious figure heads broadcasted all over the world by over exited mass media. But then nothing happens except that we continue sleepwalking towards greater crisis, and greater disasters.
Furthermore, there are of course those who don't speak much or don't speak at all but they are acting. Thus, their actions bring the crisis further and disaster ever closer.
Moreover, giving empty sources is not only the leaders' fault. We, the public accepted our role as passive spectators waiting for those "heroes" to direct us, tell us what to do, we are watching as if everything was a movie. Thus, if those who supposed to lead us can't find any solutions we can always watch some superheroes in the cinemas and dream about them coming, and saving us.
Such behavior is understandable from the general public as they have no clue what to do.
But it is different with us Jews.
This is the Nation where each and every person is directly responsible for any action and intention. Thus, this is the only Nation that has both the practical method and the historic experience how to survive, how to solve unsolvable problems by uniting, establishing absolute mutual responsibility above all and despite our inherent nature separating us, driving us towards mutual hatred.
Jews can't remain passive and can't satisfy themselves with their leader giving emotional speeches, speeches go only so far.
We need to act. Thus, such action starts and depends on our national unity and mutual guarantee. Furthermore, nobody else can perform this action for us but ourselves. Each and every-one of us.
The question is what such speeches can achieve. If there ever was a time when "great speeches changed history" that time is over now.
We see great, beautiful performances by leaders, religious figure heads broadcasted all over the world by over exited mass media. But then nothing happens except that we continue sleepwalking towards greater crisis, and greater disasters.
Furthermore, there are of course those who don't speak much or don't speak at all but they are acting. Thus, their actions bring the crisis further and disaster ever closer.
Moreover, giving empty sources is not only the leaders' fault. We, the public accepted our role as passive spectators waiting for those "heroes" to direct us, tell us what to do, we are watching as if everything was a movie. Thus, if those who supposed to lead us can't find any solutions we can always watch some superheroes in the cinemas and dream about them coming, and saving us.
Such behavior is understandable from the general public as they have no clue what to do.
But it is different with us Jews.
This is the Nation where each and every person is directly responsible for any action and intention. Thus, this is the only Nation that has both the practical method and the historic experience how to survive, how to solve unsolvable problems by uniting, establishing absolute mutual responsibility above all and despite our inherent nature separating us, driving us towards mutual hatred.
Jews can't remain passive and can't satisfy themselves with their leader giving emotional speeches, speeches go only so far.
We need to act. Thus, such action starts and depends on our national unity and mutual guarantee. Furthermore, nobody else can perform this action for us but ourselves. Each and every-one of us.
Bibi Netanyahu’s Speech at the UN on October 1 2015
ReplyDeleteI am certain it was a great and emotional speech making lasting impressions.
The question is what such speeches can achieve. If there ever was a time when "great speeches changed history" that time is over now.
We see great, beautiful performances by leaders, religious figure heads broadcasted all over the world by over exited mass media. But then nothing happens except that we continue sleepwalking towards greater crisis, and greater disasters.
Furthermore, there are of course those who don't speak much or don't speak at all but they are acting. Thus, their actions bring the crisis further and disaster ever closer.
Moreover, giving empty sources is not only the leaders' fault. We, the public accepted our role as passive spectators waiting for those "heroes" to direct us, tell us what to do, we are watching as if everything was a movie. Thus, if those who supposed to lead us can't find any solutions we can always watch some superheroes in the cinemas and dream about them coming, and saving us.
Such behavior is understandable from the general public as they have no clue what to do.
But it is different with us Jews.
This is the Nation where each and every person is directly responsible for any action and intention. Thus, this is the only Nation that has both the practical method and the historic experience how to survive, how to solve unsolvable problems by uniting, establishing absolute mutual responsibility above all and despite our inherent nature separating us, driving us towards mutual hatred.
Jews can't remain passive and can't satisfy themselves with their leader giving emotional speeches, speeches go only so far.
We need to act. Thus, such action starts and depends on our national unity and mutual guarantee. Furthermore, nobody else can perform this action for us but ourselves. Each and every-one of us.
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem is Jewish territory by YJ Draiman
ReplyDeleteMEETING WITH MAHMOUD ABBAS (aka ABU MAZEN) IS A MISTAKE.
Meeting with Mahmoud Abbas aka Abu Mazen the leader of the Arab PA is a mistake; to do so is legitimizing a terrorist and murderer as a leader.
After years of Arab deception, to believe peace is possible is a delusion, and another mistake.
The Arabs have a state, which is Jordan. Jordan illegally occupied and confiscated about 80% of the land allocated to Jews under international law and treaties of post WWI. The Arabs also have over 75,000 square miles of land (which is 6 times the size of Israel) which the Arab countries illegally confiscated from the million expelled Jewish families.
It is time to take another approach. Forego all peace talks until the Arabs can prove they can control their population and live with the Jews in peaceful coexistence for at least 5 years. Furthermore, Arabs must eliminate the education of its people to commit terror and violence; replacing it with education and practice of living in harmony and coexistence. Nothing less will be accepted. It is not negotiable.
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem is Jewish territory
and has been since prior to the building of the two Jewish temples. It is a historical fact that King David of Israel paid the Jebusites money to purchase that property, in order to avoid conflict. Israel, after liberating Jerusalem and Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism in 1967, Israel graciously permitted the Arabs to continue to pray at Temple Mount.
The time has come to terminate said arrangement. Jewish worshippers have suffered years of abuse by Muslim Arabs committing unwarranted acts of violence on a consistent basis. Israel has the right, duty and obligation to revoke the unappreciated privilege formally granted. It is the Arab Muslims who are defiling The Jewish "Holy of Holies".
It is time for Israel to take back Jewish its sacred ground, which is the holiest site in Judaism, once and for all.
I am sure Arab-Muslims would not permit anyone in the world to build and control the holy Muslim Site in Mecca. Let the Arab-Muslims have Mecca, and the Judeo-Christian people have Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.
My mother-in-law was sent to the gas chamber in Auschwitz three times. Somehow she crawled out between the legs of others and survived while losing most of her family in the Nazi extermination camps. I proudly say and practice, NEVER AGAIN. Enough is enough. Ghetto mentality of capitulation is over.
I will not and cannot cower to Arab terrorism, violence, intimidation, and threats, etc. Furthermore, I am confident no self respecting Israeli is willing to cower to terrorism and violence. To prevent such a scenario, Israel must go on an unrelenting offense to claim and take back what belongs to Israel and its people. World opinion be damned.
The time for negotiation and compromise is over.
YJ Draiman
How many holidays do the Arabs-Muslims celebrate due to historical events in the land of ancient Israel and Jerusalem.
ReplyDeleteThe Jewish people celebrate most of their holidays and fast days in memory of Jerusalem and Israel since 70 AD (that is over 2,000 years).
Pleading the Jewish goal and aspiration to return to Israel and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem - where it was before it was destroyed and desecrated by the enemies of the Jews. Many of the Jewish prayers for thousands of years recite the love of Israel and the Jewish aspirations to return to their ancestral land and bring back its glory and holiness.
At Jewish weddings they break a glass in memory of Jerusalem and the aspiration to return and build the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.
Every day at the end of the meal the Jews recite a blessing and thank G-d for providing sustenance and beseech G-d to return and rebuild the temple in Jerusalem.
Most Jewish prayers mention our pleading to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple.
YJ Draiman
How many holidays do the Arabs-Muslims celebrate due to historical events in the land of ancient Israel and Jerusalem.
ReplyDeleteThe Jewish people celebrate most of their holidays and fast days in memory of Jerusalem and Israel since 70 AD (that is over 2,000 years).
Pleading the Jewish goal and aspiration to return to Israel and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem - where it was before it was destroyed and desecrated by the enemies of the Jews. Many of the Jewish prayers for thousands of years recite the love of Israel and the Jewish aspirations to return to their ancestral land and bring back its glory and holiness.
At Jewish weddings they break a glass in memory of Jerusalem and the aspiration to return and build the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.
Every day at the end of the meal the Jews recite a blessing and thank G-d for providing sustenance and beseech G-d to return and rebuild the temple in Jerusalem.
Most Jewish prayers mention our pleading to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple.
YJ Draiman