An attack on Jerusalem and a war on the nation

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44th Day of the Omer count | motzaei Yom Yerushalayim | 28 Iyyar 5781

Who do they think they are, who dare stop our celebrations, threatening war? Source

Was I living through the days before the 6-Day War again, this afternoon? I was 11 years old then, and living in the United States. Now I've been here in Yerushalayim for over 13 years, and the last time I heard a siren here was in 2014, during Operation Ssouk Eitan ("protective edge"). More here.

"Honey, what is going on?"

    "What do you mean?"

"What is this siren?" I asked.

    "It's...uh..."

"This is Jerusalem Day. Sirens aren't supposed to happen today. I think this is real. You need to come to my office. Now."  

That's the room we use for such emergencies. I have no outside windows there. It's as close to a protective room as we have.

A few seconds later we heard two thumps. This is what rockets sound like from some distance away (not saying where.). But last time I heard them, they didn't seem as close as they did today. I have to admit, I hadn't heard that we'd been warned by our enemies that we were going to be attacked if Jews weren't taken out of the Old City by 6pm (18:00).

Fortunately, no more sirens sounded here. G-d, backed up by our troops, was defending us.

War has been building up against us the whole month of Iyyar (which this year is Ramadan for them). We have one more day to go...

Now is the time for me to say something about what I think is behind the ever-present threat that underlies Jewish Israeli life and that has its effect on the Israeli personality. I'm sure I'm not the only one to have this come to mind. I have thought for years that...

 ...our government has been using the local Arabs to control the Jewish population. Which explains why the so-called "Palestinians" been getting away with murder for years, both of their own and of us.

Otherwise, we might have had the whole land already, for all I know. We might have had the courage to have all of Judea and Samaria, and even taken back Jordan, which was supposed to be ours before Britain decided, treacherously, to give it to a tribe of Saudi Arabs called the Hashemites. After the Six-Day War, we had courage aplenty because we were backed up by The One Above. But it was the government, here on earth, who destroyed it for us by not backing us up and by giving in easily to foreign governments (almost) each and every time pressure was placed upon them. 

And we wouldn't be in this situation either.

 (The Abraham Accords haven't helped, either. The nations who signed are already turning on us. Dr. Mordechai Kedar explains why.)

You know, when we try to get across that the "Palestinians" start trouble and then involve the news media only when we strike back, very few listen; basically, people who were already our friends. We don't win over people who were against us to begin with. It's a waste of time and energy.

Action speaks louder, and more persuasively, than words, theirs or ours. The US is no longer our friend, and this should not be news any longer. It is a broken reed, upon which we cannot rely. It is an opportunity for us to act with independent thought, backed up by prayer and mitzvoth.

It's time for this "Israeli" system (based on British/Ottoman law — not exactly a direct way to democracy, and even that is lacking...) to implode. 

We need Mashiah, this second, and the Kingdom of Israel! We cannot depend on any other system to be effective for us.

It seemed understandable for the nation to be afraid before June 1967. We have no excuse now. We know that if we turn to HQB"H, that He'll be on our side!

...An hour later, when I was fixing dinner, hubby said to me, 

"We'll be OK."

    "Be'ezrath haShem," I replied. (meaning, "with the help of G-d.")

"Amen." 

It looks like it'll be a rough next few days. But we'll be OK, with G-d's help...

and our courage to follow wherever He leads.

More reading: 

Let's finish this | Sirens wailing, rockets flyin' in the air | In the war zone | Another brick in the wall | If we want to leave Mitzrayim — we must have faith  | Can Israel stop "Palestinian" thieves from stealing its land? | The Jewish right to the land of Israel | What you won't read in western media about the Jerusalem riots | Today's blood libel | Recent events and their Geula basis |

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UPDATE: a MAJOR breath of fresh air:

Many thanks to Devash for the work she did separating this out from the long, long video it came from.