The unparalleled, barbarous terrorisit attack that struck an unsuspecting America and decimated the Twin Towers in New York and segments of the Pentagon in Washington has become a symbol of the violent world in which we live. Along with the thousands of innocent people who died, another death that of the long held illusion that such atrocities cannot happen in the United States - "the Land of the free and the Home of the brave" - was forever put to rest.
In innmumerable media interviews with Americans who witnessed the horrific disaster and who, miraculousy, were spared from the tragic fate that befell so many helpless victims, one question kept recurring: "Why do they hate us?". It is a familiar query, asked by generations of jews who were persecuted in crusades, inquisitions and Hittler's intended final solution. yet neither the unspeakable Holocaust, in which one third of the jewish people were annihilated, nor the State of Israel that rose with God's help from the ashes of Auschwitz, has elimainated the need to ask that searing question.
There is no greater desecration to the memory of victims of Terror, be they the countless Jews who are daily murdered and injured by Arab terrorists in the name of liberating Palestine, or the thousandds of men, women and children who were murdered in the dastardly attacks in New York in Washington by killers who justify these insane acts in the name of their religious beliefs, than the sickening attempts by leftist liberals to explain the reasons for these atrocities. However, hate and violence cannot be rationalized and more importanly must never br appeased.
God blessed be his holy name, chose the Jewish people as His own particular treasure and promised that we would never again be exiled from our eternal Homeland, Eretz Yisrael. Let the nations "plot their plots and plan their plans", but in the end God always wins. |
