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The anxieties of destruction - a crack in the iron wall Israel today

2022-08-05T08:06:54.221Z


Many good Jews will observe the Tisha B'Av fast this year as another normal day of summer. And yet, even without a special affinity to Tisha B'av - an anxiety of destruction is rooted in their hearts. It is an existential anxiety that grips a Jew all year round as if it had been handed down to him from generation to generation. In the warnings of destruction recently voiced by leaders and intelle


Many good Jews will observe the Tisha B'Av fast this year as another normal day of summer.

And yet, even without a special affinity to Tisha B'av - an anxiety of destruction is rooted in their hearts.

It is an existential anxiety that grips a Jew all year round as if it had been handed down to him from generation to generation.

In the warnings of destruction recently voiced by leaders and intellectuals in Israel, they emphasize the danger lurking for the country, marking 74 years since its establishment.

In the last year they returned and mentioned how the kingdoms of David and Solomon and the Hasmonean kingdoms - as two periods in which the people of Israel enjoyed sovereign independence - failed to survive for more than 70 years.

As if there is something in this number to mark a fateful hourglass from which there may be no escape.

This circle of anxiety is joined by prophecies of destruction, as Henry Kissinger said in September 2012: "In ten years Israel will cease to exist."

A practical rational view can reject these intimidations, presenting them as false anxieties, as political manipulation.

But in the meantime, these anxieties are well received by the enemies around, in a way that brings them to the understanding that the time has come for victory in a new campaign.

With this mindset, Bassem Jarrar, a member of Hamas, published a book in which he explained how, by mystical calculations, the State of Israel would be destroyed this year.

Sheikh Yassin, in a personal Koran interpretation, marked the year 2027 as the year of the end of the sovereignty of the State of Israel.

In this spirit, Nasrallah declared: "Israel will cease to exist in a few years, I see in my mind people packing suitcases and marching to the airports..." (Al-Mayadeen channel).

These calculations have no basis in actual reality, yet they have ripples of influence in spreading the belief that here is a great turning point for the Islamic believers.

For many reasons, many Jews in Israel - mainly members of the generation that took part in the Six Day Wars and Yom Kippur, along with the few who are still left from the 5000 fighters - have been expressing increasing anxiety for the future of the country in recent years. On the face of it, this anxiety seems to be held mainly among Jewish Israelis and has no common ground to the Arab citizens. This anxiety is clearly unequal. It is true that from a civil point of view the Israeli Ben Umm al-Fahm also has many reasons to wish for the continued existence of the state, but if it comes to an end - his existence in his home, in his large family and in his village on his lands, does not seem threatened. As they replaced Ottoman rule will be replaced by British rule, Israeli rule will also be replaced by a new rule, and the existence of the Arabs as natives of the place seems solid.

For the Jewish citizens, on the other hand, it is a national and religious disaster whose full significance cannot be imagined and imagined.

From this aspect, the anxiety of the Jewish destruction is unique and exclusive and topical.

The resonance of the Jewish anxiety is well received in the environment as a message of weakness.

In the last year, it awakens in the enemies a sense of opportunity and an hour of fitness.

Under these conditions, despite the military strength of the IDF, the State of Israel loses the image of its presence as a solid wall. In Ze'ev Jabotinsky's seminal article "On the Iron Wall" he explained that the Arabs will agree to put up with our existence only when "they lose all hope of getting rid of us, when the Iron Wall You will plug every loophole."

The renewed anxieties of the destruction of Jews in the State of Israel - including the anxiety that has not faded since the destruction of Gush Katif and northern Samaria, in the ongoing pursuit of center-left Israeli leaders for further widespread displacement in the Jewish state - are creating dangerous gaps in the image of the Iron Wall.

From this point of view, the fasting of Tisha B'Av this year should be focused on strengthening faith and awareness of resurrection.

From a day of mourning charged with anxieties of destruction, we seek to grow strengthened hopes of redemption.

As the Sage says: "Everyone who mourns for Jerusalem is justified and sees her joy." (Ta'anit 5)

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Source: israelhayom

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