It had to be Tisha b’Av!

On the 20^th anniversary to the day of the fateful disengagement marking the end of Jewish residence in the Gaza strip, Australia, to its shame, added its imprimatur to the perfidious list of “allies of Israel” who have succeeded, one way or another, to calumniate and defame the Jewish State.

It did this while providing succour and support to her murderous foes who arose with such villainy against her almost two years ago from that same strip of land so rashly and irresponsibly ceded  two decades ago.

The thread connecting the two events is palpable. The road to Simchat Torah 2023 began on Tisha b’Av 2005. And with the hate-filled, single-message mass march of mesmerised, misguided morons across the Harbour Bridge on Tisha b’Av 2025, the seal on the global rewriting of the history of Simchat Torah 2003 has been well and truly affixed.  The victims have been recast as the genocidalists.   The murderous aggressors have been reinvented as the heroes. In their tens of thousands, if not in their millions,  Australians proclaim they are “all Palestinians”.

And no, I am not going to make the 1930s comparison.  Because Australia 2025 is not Nazi-elect Germany. Not now – and hopefully not ever. But for a few hours last Sunday, it sure looked like it!

Such is the petrifying pulling-power of social media’s dark side as well as the Left-dominated professional (in name only) media with its dishonest reporting, its libellous lies and deliberate distortions, that it can whip up as many (supposedly: the media love inflating numbers) as 90,000 Australians – albeit made up of radical Muslims, Leftist academics and artists, neo-Marxists, nihilists, anarchists, old-fashioned antisemites, naive youthful idealists, curious onlookers, tourists and, yes, a sprinkling of self-hating Jews – into a frenzy.  As it did in France, the UK and Canada, whose unholy trinity of lily-livered leaders kowtowing to their increasingly numerous Arab-Muslim populations and indoctrinated intellectuals, decided that they would “recognise” a non-existent “Palestine”.

There are those who claim to have “recognised” UFOs. There are no doubt some who maintain pigs can fly.  And there are folk who would still swear that the earth is flat.  Now added to the ranks of the deluded and the delusional are the world leaders who are hellbent on recognising an imaginary Palestinian state with no defined borders or boundaries and no cogent leadership.  Maybe there are also fairies at the bottom of Macron’s and Starmer’s gardens! Do they still believe in Santa Claus?

Back in the day when robust, investigative, honest journalism was the norm rather than the exception, one would have had reporters on the bridge asking a selection of the marchers some incisive questions. Here are ten suggestions:-

1)     How many Jews are there in the world? (Some will probably say “hundreds of millions” or even “billions”!)

2)  How big is Israel compared to Australia?  (Some will say “oh, about a quarter of the size!”  We wish!)

3)   How many kilometres does Israel measure from east to west at its narrowest points? (How many will know that it’s a mere 15km? That’s how vulnerable Israel’s borders are!)

4)  How many Arab states are there (22 – and many of the marchers are desperate to make it 23 and eliminate the one Jewish state.)

5)  How many Arab states officially welcome Jews as citizens in the same way Israel will grant citizenship to non-Jews (None)

6)   Do Arab citizens of Israel have equal voting rights with Jews? (Of course!)

7)  Can Arab citizens of Israel sit in the Knesset (Yes and they do!)

8)  Are there Arab justices on the Israeli Supreme Court? (Yes, Khaled Kabub.  So much for an “apartheid” state!)

9)   Did you know that former Israeli PM Ehud Barak once offered the Palestinian Arabs a return of 97% of Judea and Samaria – the so-called West Bank – and a capital in East Jerusalem and its leadership refused the offer?  (You’re kidding me!)

         10)  Did you know that Yahya Sinwar, architect of the October 7^th massacre, had his life saved by a proactive Israeli Jewish doctor?  (Nah!)

I would wager that 90-95 per cent of the marching mob would not have scored more than two or three correct. Most would not have wanted to be befuddled by inconvenient facts.

More than 130 generations later we are still making known G-D’s word, spoken at Sinai to our children and our grandchildren.

They in their tens of thousands, “full of sound and fury signifying nothing” (a memorable line from Shakespeare’s Macbeth). We in our millions, full of substance and meaning, signifying eternity.

Despite everything the world could smash in our faces over the millennia, we are still here, thriving, striving, surviving, reviving.

And when Macron. Starmer, Albanese and their ilk are all fossils of history, we shall remain!  This, G-D has promised.

Am Yisrael will stand strong and proud, retaining its firm moral compass, its anchor, in the face of the world’s amorality. And the verse in Zacharia (8:23) will eventually be fulfilled:  In those days it will transpire that ten men of all the different languages of the nations will take hold, yes, they will take hold of the corner of the garment of a Jewish man saying: “Let us go with you, for we’ve heard that G-D is with you!”

 

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