Time for Aliyah?

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P J Media: Time for Aliyah?

The countries which voted to establish Israel in 1948 would not do so today.

 

by AVNER ZARMI

December 17, 2014 - 12:01 am Page 1 of 2 Next -> View as Single Page

 

Chesed le’ummim chattath, warns King Solomon: “The kindness of nations is a sin offering” (Proverbs XIV, 34).

 

By the end of 1945, the full dimensions of what had happened to the Jewish population of Europe were becoming apparent. No one has exact numbers, of course, but most demographers and historians have agreed that roughly six million people, men, women, and children, had died of exposure, famine, epidemic disease, exhaustion, and murder through all means, ranging from savage beatings to shootings to gas. Given the unsanitary conditions of the ghettos and camps into which they had been crowded as well as the intentional malnutrition, all of the deaths had been the result of deliberate policies. These policies were set in place and relentlessly pursued by one of the most advanced and cultured nations of Europe: Germany.

 

The horrific campaign which has come to be known as the “Holocaust” (the Germans referred to it as die Endlösung der jüdischen Frage,

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I have a liberal "friend" who swears the entire Middle East would be as peaceful as an old bloodhound but for Israel. I informed him, in the most diplomatic fashion possible, that he was incorrect in his assertion.