{"id":831,"date":"2016-05-04T09:01:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T13:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/isittheendoftheworld\/?p=831"},"modified":"2016-05-04T09:03:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T13:03:55","slug":"jews-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/isittheendoftheworld\/2016\/05\/jews-guns.html","title":{"rendered":"Jews With Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"

This evening marks the beginning of Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this solemn day, I pause to reflect on two things: the Jews and their enemies.<\/p>\n

I know more than a few Jews wept on May 14, 1948, when the state of Israel was born. For the first time in 2,000 years, the Jews could defend themselves. The Auschwitz flyover by IAF pilots a few years ago was one of the great circle-closings in all of history. Although Israel today has many enemies, many anti-Semites who seek to harm them, Israel is strong. Stronger even than many suspect.<\/p>\n

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The internet images of imprisoned Jews on the other side of the barbed wire from their descendants in the IDF are very moving.<\/p>\n

Message from reality to the Jew-haters: Israel is here to stay.<\/p>\n

By contrast, one almost struggles to comprehend the mindset of the enemies. Apart from understanding the Bible, and the origins of evil, I don’t believe one can fully understand. Such historic evil can only be explained by reading and believing Genesis chapter 3.<\/p>\n

When an architect of the Holocaust, the Nazi Adolf Eichmann, was captured by Israeli agents in South America in 1961, it was a signal that while Divine Judgment is sometimes slow according to human standards, It is still sure and chilling.<\/p>\n

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Adolf Eichmann, in an Israeli prison yard, 1961. (Courtesy Israel Government Photos)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eichmann was taken to Israel\u2014delicious irony\u2014tried, convicted, and executed. Years before, at the war’s conclusion, the madman actually said:<\/p>\n

\u201cI will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such madness almost defies comprehension.<\/p>\n

But it should be remembered. With anti-Semitism on the rise around the world, we must remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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