By Mark Tooley, Juicy Ecumenism.
(Last week I participated in an annual Christian-Jewish dialogue with several dozen Christian and Jewish leaders meeting here in Washington, D.C. I learned much about ongoing threats to the Jewish people here and around the world. And I met Rabbi Yehiel Poupko, Rabbinic Scholar at the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Chicago, who shared this timely piece.)
As you surely know, Elie Wiesel’s classic first-person chronicle of the destruction of European Jewry, the murder of six million Jewish people, is titled Night. What you may not be aware of is that the book was originally published in Yiddish. Its Yiddish title was And The World Silenced Itself.
According to Jewish tradition the clear indicator that a person or a community has repented their past sins is for the sinner to face the same situation again and to behave differently.
Israel’s theological enemies have been intellectually honest.
Iran stated that its religious obligation is to annihilate Israel. And the world silenced itself.
Hamas stated that its religious obligation is to annihilate Israel. And the world silenced itself.
Hezbollah stated that its religious obligation is to annihilate Israel. And the world silenced itself.
Iran placed the approximately 2.25 million Christians in Lebanon under the jackboot of Hezbollah. Israel liberated the Lebanese. And the world silenced itself. The world did not thank Israel.
Iran actively enabled Bashar Assad in his civil war assault to murder 600,000 Syrians and drive 5 million Syrians (one third of the population) into exile. And the wThe Annihilation of Israel – Juicy Ecumenismorld silenced itself. The world did not thank Israel for enabling the downfall of Assad and the possibility of a free Syria.
Israel, a few months ago, significantly limited the capacity of Iran, the world’s foremost exporter of terrorism, to continue spreading its violence and bloodshed. The world silenced itself, and did not thank Israel.