Jabotinksy on Tisha B'Av
Dovid Ben Chaim 28 Jul 2001
On pesach we are told to experience the Exodus, not merely commemorate
it. Now, on Tisha B'Av, experience these words in the time and place
which they were spoken. Imagine if they were heeded and contemplate the
consequences when they were not. Then let that guide you in all you
think
and do concerning Israel and the Jewish struggle from this moment on.
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The following excerpt was written by Zev Jabotinsky in Warsaw, Poland
on Tisha B'Av in 1937. [TWO years before the Nazis invaded Poland]
It is already THREE years that I am calling upon you, Polish Jewry, who
are the crown of World Jewry. I continue to warn you incessantly that
a catastrophe is coming closer. I became grey and old in these years,
my heart bleeds, that you, dear brother and sisters, do not see the
volcano
which will soon begin to spit its all-consuming lava. I see that you
are not seeing this because you are immersed and sunk in your daily
worries.
Today, however, I demand from you trust. You were convinced already
that
my prognoses have already proven to be right. If you think differently,
then drive me out of your midst! However, if you do believe me, then
listen to me in this twelfth hour: In the name of G-d! Let anyone of
you save himself, as long as there is still time, and time there is
very
little.
What else I would like to say to you on this day of Tisha B’Av is
whoever
of you will escape from the catastrophe, he or she will live to see the
exalted moment of a great Jewish wedding - the rebirth and rise of a
Jewish state. I don’t know if I will be privileged to see it, but my
son will! I believe in this, as I am sure that tomorrow morning the sun
will rise.
Eliminate the diaspora or the diaspora will surely eliminate you.
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Dovid Ben Chaim
Eliminate the PLO now!
Chazak! Chazak! V'nischazek!
Be strong! Be strong! May we all be strengthened!
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