| The Jerusalem Demonstration Four hundred thousand Jews pledge allegiance to Jerusalem, the eternal and exclusive Capital of the Jewish State (Serious estimates ranged from 200,000 - 300,000, but the point is that this was a very substantial show of numbers especially taking into consideration that this is a country of 5 million Jews. Rabbi Waldman has expressed beautifully the feeling and emotion of the evening. Jack) by Rabbi Eliezer Waldman Rosh Yeshiva, Yeshivat Kiryat Arba Never have I witnessed such a moving experience as I did last night. Throughout the streets of Jerusalem one could feel an unprecedented outpouring of Jewish emotion. How powerful was the message coming from four hundred thousand Jewish hearts pulsating as one and in one direction. . . Jerusalem, Zion, the old city, the kotel. . . the Temple Mount. There is no way to describe the image of a literal sea of Jews against the background of the ancient walls of the holy city. There was a silent communication between the stones and the people. One could almost see a mutual exchange of emotion between the ancient walls of Jerusalem, and the faces of the Jews who surrounded them. Those faces reflected a powerful light of faith which rebounded back to them from the walls. During these last 34 years I have participated in many demonstrations but never have I had such an experience. Never was there such a demonstration, not in numbers nor in the intensity of the emotions of faith, love and loyalty which the very word Jerusalem aroused within the people. People from all walks of Jewish life in Israel just got up and said, "Jerusalem, I pledge to you, If I forget thee O Jerusalem may my right hand lose its cunning." Those who spoke before the massive crowds included sabras and olim. Among them were paratroopers who had participated in the liberation of Jerusalem in 1967. Just as at that moment of joy and wonder, when all of Israel became one, truly seeing the Hand of G-d, so too at this tremendous gathering, both observant and non-observant shared a common bond of holiness with the City of David. I would like to share with you some of the moving statements of Jews who spoke on this stage. A young boy, about eight years old, was introduced as a resident of the Moslem quarter of Jerusalem: "I am speaking in the name of hundreds of Jewish children who live not in the Moslem quarter nor the Jewish quarter. Because there are no "quarters". There is only one eternal Jewish Jerusalem." Mayor Ehud Olmert addressed himself to President Clinton and said, "After eight years of great friendship that you showed us, it is too bad that you will only be remembered as the first president of the United States who proposed the division of Jerusalem." The mayor of Rishon L'Tzion, Mr. Meyer Nitzan, representing the Labor Party, mentioned that his city was established in 1882 and its name was intended to show that this was the first town turning to and inspired by Jerusalem, Zion. Therefore, he spoke in the name of the citizens of his city, who are all united in our loyalty to the unity and Jewish sovereignty of Jerusalem. We will never compromise on the essential value of Jerusalem. There is no meaning to Zionism and the ingathering of the Exiles without and exclusive Jewish Jerusalem. Ron Lauder, the chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, said, "I am not speaking in the name of any Jewish organization. I am speaking as an individual Jew echoing the voices of millions of Jews all over the world pledging their loyalty to a united Jerusalem whose sovereignty cannot be compromised. I want all of the hundreds of thousands of Jews standing here to know that you are not alone. We are all with you. " The speaker who brought us all to tears, was Avital Sharansky, She began by saying that she hadn't spoken publicly for 14 years, ever since her husband, Natan, was freed by the Soviet Union. "I could not resist the calling of Jerusalem. Jerusalem is the heart of Israel. . .is the heart of the Jewish people all over the world. No nation can yield its heart and remain a nation. No one, no president, no leader of any nation, has a right to demand our heart. I want all of you to know that the hearts of millions of Jews in Russia awoke to their Jewishness on that special day in 1967 when Jerusalem was liberated. Jerusalem gives a deep special meaning to our lives and Jewish values. We are all ready to give our lives for Jerusalem." When our national anthem," hatikvah", was sung by these hundreds of thousands of Jews facing the illuminated ancient walls of Jerusalem and the words, "Eretz Tzion v'Yerushalyim" were heard, there was not a dry eye among all of us. How pathetic Clinton has become when even after Arafat mocked him and scorned his proposal, he still grovels at the murderer's feet begging for even a hint of compromise. The lame duck president simply cannot relate to the reality of these 400,000 Jews who pledged allegiance to the unity of Jerusalem under exclusive Jewish sovereignty, echoing the voices of millions of Jews all over the world. He cannot understand that all of the Jewish people have an eternal holy bond with this city which can never be broken or compromised. Jerusalem as the heart of our homeland is the vital force which gives vitality to all of Eretz Yisrael. Just as the function of the heart is to give life to all of the limbs in the body, so too does Jerusalem inject life and vitality to all parts of our country. In moments of weakness, during a lapse of faith, our hapless leaders seemed willing to surrender almost anything for a futile hope for peace. But when Jerusalem was put on the chopping block, all Jewish hearts began throbbing for Jerusalem. Our holy city is, indeed, the heart of our nation and for her we are all united in defense of our only homeland. "Thus said the L-rd of hosts. I have returned unto Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. And Jerusalem shall be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the L-rd of Hosts, the Holy Mountain." Zecharia 8:3 |
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