We remember the Holocaust on Yom HaShoah.
Our enemies should remember this:
And Iran, especially, should remember this:
Am Yisrael chai.
The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
P. J. O’Rourke visited Israel at Passover in 2001, and wrote about it in his book “Peace Kills”. Among the places he went was Yad Mordechai, the kibbutz near the border with Gaza named after the leader of the resistants of the Warsaw Ghetto. It has a war memorial at one end of the kibbutz, commemmorating the heroic stand of the residents against the Egyptian Army in 1948. 114 of them held out for six days against overwhelming numbers and arms, then retreated. Their stand allowed the nascent IDF just enough time to rush reinforcements to block the road to Tel Aviv, stopping the Egyptians from rolling into the city. Later in the year the IDF retook the kibbutz.
At the other end of the kibbutz there is a small Holocaust Memorial Museum. O’Rourke noted that it hurried over the sorrow and pity and got right in to the story of those who resisted the Nazis, which you’d expect given who the place is named after. But, O’Rourke commented, the message of the Yad Mordechai Holocaust Memorial Museum is that the real memorial is at the other end of the kibbutz, the war memorial.
In 1942 there was no Jewish State and no army that would defend the Jews from their murderers. The next time they rise up to kill the Jews, as they do in every generation, Zahal will be there.