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ERETZ ISRAEL HASHLEMA!


Israel acquired a heroic sheen from the manner it had created a nation for itself, after over two millennia of exile from their homeland, starting with the Babylonian exile in the sixth century BCE. Several other exiles followed and the Jews of the diaspora all over the world, amidst their suffering and humiliations, mostly in Europe, never forgot to sing “L’Shana Haba’ah B’Yerushalayim” or “Next year in Jerusalem” at the end of the Passover Seder and at the end of the Ne’ila service on Yom Kippur. The Aliyah Bet, or illegal immigration, of the Jewish survivors of the German Holocaust and the pogroms in Eastern Europe led to the determination of building a new nation driven by egalitarian values and strong enough to never let it happen again. The world admired them for it. Except for a few like the RSS gurus M.S. Golwalkar and V.D. Savarkar who openly admired Adolf Hitler and his “Die Endlosung”, or Final Solution”, our Hindu nationalists began admiring the Israelis only when their heroics inflicted defeat after defeat of the overwhelmingly numerous Muslim Arabs. But Israel’s heroic burnish is now dulled after the emergence of Israel as the pre-eminent and most ruthless power in the Middle East. 

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