Tag: #AmYisraelChai

Am Yisrael Chai!

Credit to i24 News for the screen shot.

Noa Argamani recounts : “There was a knock on the door. A voice said, ‘It’s the IDF. We’ve come to take you home.’”

Chief Inspector Arnon Zamora, an officer of the elite Yamam counter-terrorism unit, was mortally wounded in the hostage rescue operation in the central Gaza Strip. A hero of Israel and the Jewish people. May his memory be for a blessing.

There are still 120 hostages. BRING THEM HOME NOW!!!

4 days later… A clarification. Apparently “good condition” is a very relative term. In this case it seems to indicate that the hostages had all their limbs, no obvious external marks from torture, and Noa was not pregnant. That’s a pretty low bar. 😦

“The abductees were regularly beaten by their “innocent” captors.
“It was a harsh, harsh experience, with a lot of abuse, almost every day. Every hour, both physical, mental and other types, and that is something that is beyond comprehension”.
“They had no protein, so their muscles are extremely wasted, there is damage to some other systems because of that”.
“There have been periods where they got almost no food whatsoever”
“As time passes, hope of being released kind of decreases and you start wondering if this would ever end… losing that faith is where you get to the breaking point”.

Hostages held by “innocent” civilians. You can’t justify this. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real Gazan grievances. But this has NO justification.

Speaking With My Feet

There is a saying: “Put your money where your mouth is.”  It means that you should show by your actions that you support or believe in something. Allow me to make a little bit of a twist on that saying. I’m putting my mouth, and all the rest of me, where my money is.

Beginning in January I will be volunteering in Israel to support the IDF and, on my off-hours, the economy. I am traveling to Tel Aviv, Israel mid-January. I have a few days there before I report to SAR-EL to be stationed on an IDF base. My sister and I have volunteered for 3 weeks service.

The schedule has us stationed on a base from Sunday afternoon through Thursday mornings. I’ll be working a 3.5 hour shift in the morning, then lunch break, then a 3.5 hour shift in the afternoon. Yep, I’ll be in uniform as well, rising with reveille.  I’m hoping that I’m spared the morning exercises that my son had to do when he was there way back when.  😊 I figure standing for hours, packing and unpacking supplies, will be more physical activity than I’ve done in years.

Thursday afternoons to Sunday mornings we are on our own. I hope to connect with friends and perhaps find other places to volunteer. A very good friend of mine has gifted me with funds to spend on the economy. I’m going to be looking for small businesses and other services that have been struggling to survive economically, as well as physically and mentally.

Am I scared? Actually that doesn’t really occur to me. I am more scared here in the US, with the rampant anti-semitism that is over-running the media, with the crazy haters physically attacking Jews in malls and on the street. The frenzied, uninformed, violent haters here are more of a threat to me than I’ll face under the Iron Dome.

Silence IS complicity. If you are not standing up against anti-semitism (even if “disguised” as anti-Israel), if you are not speaking out against the atrocities committed by Hamas against Israel on October 7, 2023, and against their own civilians, you are supporting Hamas and the haters by your silence. The world will never know peace if the silent majority do not speak up, if the silent majority do not speak out against the hatred and violence. I’m doing my part to repair the world. Are you?

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