Eric Hoffer z"l (of blessed memory)
"Yet will I leave seven
thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto
Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him".
I Kings 19:18
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/e/et/et09a19.htm
"For from the rising of the
sun even unto the going down of the same My name is great
among the nations; and in every place offerings are presented
unto My name, even pure oblations; for My name is great among
the nations, saith the LORD of hosts".
Malachi 1:11
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/e/et/et2401.htm
Israel's
Peculiar Position
by Eric Hoffer
Los
Angeles Times
May 26, 1968
The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to
other nations are forbidden to the Jews.
Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people
and there is norefugee problem. Russian did it, Poland and
Czechoslovakia did it, Turkey threw out a million Greeks,
and Algeria a million Frenchman. Indonesia threw out heaven
knows how many Chinese-and no one says a word about
refugees. But in the case of Israel the displaced Arabs have
become eternal refugees.
Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single
Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an
atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis.
Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate
peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for
peace. Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real
Christians in this world.
Other nations when they are defeated survive and recover but
should Israel be defeated it would be destroyed. Had Nasser
triumphed last June he would have wiped Israel off the map,
and no one would have lifted a finger to save the Jews.
No commitment to the Jews by any government, including our
own, is worth the paper it is written on. There is a cry of
outrage all over the world when people die in Vietnam or
when two Negroes are executed in Rhodesia. But when Hitler
slaughtered Jews no one remonstrated with him.
The Swedes, who are ready to break of diplomatic relations
with America because of what we do in Vietnam, did not let
out a peep when Hitler was slaughtering Jews. They sent
Hitler choice iron ore, and ball bearings, and serviced his
troop trains to Norway.
The Jews are alone in the world. If Israel survives, it will
be solely because of Jewish efforts. And Jewish resources.
Yet at this moment Israel is our only reliable and
unconditional ally. We can rely more on Israel than Israel
can rely on us. And one has only to imagine what would have
happened last summer had the Arabs and their Russian backers
won the war to realize how vital the survival of Israel is
to America and the West in general.
I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with
Israel so will it go with all of us.
Should Israel perish the holocaust will be upon us.
About Eric Hoffer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Hoffer