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Jerusalem50 - Naftali Bennett
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brothers and sisters Shalom so I'm a
minister of it my name's left a Lebanon
Minister of Education and minister of
diaspora affairs now since you are from
the Diaspora technically I'm your
minister nice to meet you we're doing
here something that's never been done
before the hush bah the Pledge of
Allegiance of Jews to the Jewish nation
this is the first time ever we're making
history right now 50 years ago to this
day Israeli fighters paratroopers freed
hama by Temple Mount and the Kotel
amaba'ti
how many of you I want anyone who was
here that day to raise your hand just so
I see it so I want everyone to raise
your hand you were here everyone raise
your hands Telemundo yep because every
one of you was here because every Jew
was here that day but every Jew is here
also 3,800 years ago I see over there an
old man with his boy his name is Avram
Abraham they're walking towards Allah
meliha Abraham's walking with his son
Isaac he took every one of you was there
fast forward eight hundred years I see a
platoon of fighters of King David that
are conquering Jerusalem and setting
yerushalaim Jerusalem as our capital
fast forward another thousand years I
see a very bad picture becoming - the
second temple is on fire
the Romans captured Jerusalem destroyed
our second temple right up there and
expelled all the Jews we had a Jewish
state right here all across Israel two
thousand years ago with an education
ministry transportation ministry we had
it all and then we were thrown away
thrown out to Morocco to Germany to
Spain to Iran Iraq United States of
America
fast forward during those 2000 years
every day our direct ancestors my
grandfather's grandfather's grandfather
and yours also they said three times a
day they pray to you shall I'm in fact
every Jewish marriage at the you know
very most romantic point the hot on the
groom says to the Colada bride
Emma Skye Katyusha lionfish Kamini if I
forget Jerusalem let me forget my right
hand only we do it I can't recall French
people saying if I forget thy Paris
forget my right hand
fast-forward to 1948 our fighters are
fighting but we only managed to maintain
West Jerusalem where the Knesset is and
all of that we lose the Kokila Madhavi
and then for 19 years we pray and hope
that one day maybe a hundred years from
now we'll get back and then fast forward
the 1967 fifty years ago now Jerusalem
is reunited and like a electric current
across the world all the Jews suddenly
wake up my own parents were
born and raised in San Francisco they
were totally unconnected to Judaism they
didn't know anything about Israel not
much about Judaism their name were Jim
may rest in peace and Myrna Bennett
suddenly they were glued to the radio
because like everyone they understood
that the new Jewish state in 1967 was
just 19 years old was about to be wiped
out and they were listening and suddenly
this tiny Jewish nation wins and
releases and reunites Jerusalem so they
make aliyah and now fast forward a
thousand years and five thousand years
and ten thousand years Yahoo Shalom is
not only our heritage it's our destiny
were Jews not only because we were born
to be Jewish because today right now
we're deciding again and again to be
Jewish which means to do good to fix the
world the takeno l'm so yeah dude is not
just being born Jewish well that's what
it is it's also an active decision to be
Jewish so I want to congratulate all of
you in just two minutes you're going to
pledge allegiance to the alma you will
be to the Jewish people and just tell
you whatever happens at any time LT
style is your home and you shall I'm is
your capital we love you - Dada
you
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