While enslaved in Egypt, the Israelites were just slaves;
they were nobody, at the command of Pharaoh.
Exodus, the departure from Egypt, validated the
Israelites; it lifted their heads and made them someone from the nothing they
were. More so, they were picked by G-D to be his chosen.
G-D had a plan; He was going to make the Israelites a nation,
the first nation to believe in a monotheistic G-d.
Receiving the Ten Commandment, directly from G-d, was
one other bonus the Israelites received. At that moment they became the legal owners
of the first set of human rights rules, which they gave to the world to follow.
The Jews went on to establish their first and second
commonwealth. The epic of the first and second Jewish commonwealth ended with
the destruction of the Second Temple by Rome and the exile and dispersing of
the Jews from the land of Judea to the four corners of the world.
Once again the Jews became invalid, marginalized, a minority
living under the rule and mercy, or lack of, of other nations. That kind of
existence has given birth to a disastrous genetic disease named anti-Semitism.
For 2000 years, much longer than their enslavement period
in Egypt, Jews lives under the self-created law of shush-shtil, we keep quiet, we
do not shake the establishment and leave us alone and just let us live.
But anti-Semitism has no healing and it erupted beyond
any human being comprehension when Hitler, single handed tried, and almost
succeeded, to rid the world of all Jews.
The establishment of the state of Israel is the Israelites-the
Jews’ second Exodus, this time from the four corners of the world diaspora to
the land of Israel.
Gaining sovereignty, being able to defend themselves,
has, once again, validated the Jewish People; from nobodies in Europe, where
most Jews lived till the 1940’s, they are on their way to be a leading nation
in the world.
In her 66 years of existence, the state of Israel has already left
its foot print on the world, just as the Israelites left their foot print on
the world at Mount Sinai.
So the state of Israel is now a permanent feature on world’s stage. We
must make sure that there will never be a third Exodus as it is not obtainable.
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