This is me patrolling the Judean hills at night after celebrating the Jewish new year, watching over the expansion of a brand-new Jewish community in the heartland of our ancestral homeland.To put this into perspective, I was reading a book about Israel when I came across this extraordinary quote from Golda Meir:“By the summer it was no longer safe for Jews to travel from one city to another. Whenever I had to go from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem for a meeting, which was frequently, I kissed the children good-bye in the morning knowing that I might well never come home again, that my bus might be ambushed, that I might be shot by an Arab sniper at the entrance to Jerusalem or stoned to death by an Arab mob on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.”Golda was describing 1936.During that uprising, our jihadi Arab enemies attacked Jews more than 2,000 times across the Land of Israel, including Tel Aviv, Rehovot, Petah Tikva, Kfar Saba, and many other Jewish communities. The State of Israel did not even exist yet. They were not blaming us for “settlements” or “occupation.” They were attacking us for being Jews living in our homeland.Now look at where we are today.The same jihadi enemy remains. But those vulnerable Jewish communities of Tel Aviv, Rehovot, Kfar Saba etc. in 1936 have become thriving cities in a sovereign Jewish state, one of the strongest countries and economies on earth. And today we are once again building and strengthening Jewish communities throughout Judea and Samaria, the heartland of our God-given, indigenous, ancestral homeland.That is why I tell people to refuse to get depressed by the daily demoralizing headlines. Zoom out. Look at the big picture.Look at where Golda Meir and the Jewish community were in 1936. Then look at us today. Our enemies who seek to remove the Jewish people from this land have failed continuously for over 100 years. They have not disappeared. Neither have we.We came home. We built a state. We built cities. We revived our language. We built one of the strongest armies in the world. And despite all of their jihadi evil, and despite the enablement of the international community, we continue building.The Jewish people are stronger in our homeland today than at virtually any point in the past 2,000 years. Do not allow today’s headlines to make you lose sight of the historic process we are privileged to be living through.Strengthen your faith. Look at the big picture.We are home. We are growing. And we are not going anywhere.Am Yisrael Chai!The Golda Meir quote in this video comes from her autobiography, My Life. It is a fascinating firsthand account of the struggle to establish and defend the Jewish state.Join Our Whatsapp Channel: https://chat.whatsapp.com/GkavRznXy731nxxRyptCMv
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