David Horovitz, Times of Israel:
"You may consider this appeal itself divisive and unjustified, but do internalize that many fine, patriotic and responsible Israelis feel this way
Hear this, you rulers of the House of Jacob, You chiefs of the House of Israel, Who detest justice And make crooked all that is straight, Who build Zion with crime, Jerusalem with iniquity!
Her rulers judge for gifts, Her priests give rulings for a fee, And her prophets divine for pay; Yet they rely upon GOD, saying, “GOD is in our midst; No calamity shall overtake us.”
Assuredly, because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field, Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins And the Temple Mount a shrine in the woods."
Micah 3:9–12.
It was the Babylonians who destroyed the First Temple, and the Romans who destroyed the Second, but the catastrophes were enabled by moral decay and corruption among the Jewish leadership, and vicious, debilitating infighting.
The Jews’ exile from the Holy Land was relatively brief in the aftermath of the first of these calamities. Not so the second. It took 2,000 years, and belated global horror at the Holocaust, for the Jews to be granted their right to return and reassert sovereignty in our ancient homeland.
And yet, as becomes more obvious every day, we have forgotten the dire lessons about what corrupt leadership and internal contempt end up doing to our country and our people...
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