Imagine there was no Jew hatred. No whisper of poison carried through centuries. No sermons of blame. No myths about secret power or ancient curses. Imagine that from the beginning the Jewish people were allowed to live as every other people. Farmers in peace. Scholars without fear. Families who never had to pack their lives into a suitcase in the middle of the night.

Imagine the world if every Jewish child murdered in hatred had instead grown old. Imagine if the six million murdered in the Holocaust had lived full lives. Imagine their children and grandchildren and great grandchildren filling cities, universities, laboratories and concert halls. Imagine the doctors who were never born. The poets who never wrote. The teachers who never stood in front of a classroom. The scientists who never discovered cures that might have saved millions.

Imagine a world where synagogues never needed guards at the door.

Imagine if Jewish history had not been written in expulsions and burning books and shattered glass. Imagine if the long road through exile had been a road of welcome instead of suspicion.

The Jewish people would have been tens of millions more. Perhaps many more than that. A civilization expanding naturally instead of constantly rebuilding itself after catastrophe.

Imagine Vienna without Jewish families forced out. Imagine Baghdad where ancient Jewish communities still flourish. Imagine Warsaw where Jewish streets are still full of life and laughter.

Imagine a world where Jewish children never learned the word pogrom.

But history chose a darker road.

And in that darkness one truth became clear.

Without Israel the Jewish people would again be at the mercy of every wind of hatred.

Imagine today’s world without Israel.

Imagine Jews again scattered with no refuge. No army that answers only to them. No place where a Jewish child grows up knowing the police, the courts and the soldiers are their own people. No place where Hebrew returned from ancient prayer to living language.

Imagine a world where every synagogue fire and every terrorist attack leaves Jews with nowhere to run.

Israel is not an accident of history. It is the answer to history.

In Israel a Jew does not have to apologize for existing. A Jew does not have to whisper their identity.

In Israel a Jew can simply be a Jew.

Yet imagine something even greater.

Imagine a world where Israel did not need an army.

Imagine a Middle East where no child is taught hatred before they learn to read. Imagine a region without terror militias and suicide bombers.

Imagine an Iran without ayatollahs preaching destruction. Imagine leaders who build hospitals instead of missiles.

Imagine borders that exist only on maps and not in the hearts of people.

Imagine no religion used as a weapon. No envy of success. No conspiracy theories about Jewish control.

Imagine Jerusalem as a city of prayer and peace rather than a symbol people fight over.

Imagine Jewish soldiers becoming only farmers and engineers and teachers because the world finally stopped trying to destroy them.

Imagine a world where the Jewish people never had to prove their right to exist.

Imagine a world where Israel stands not as a fortress but simply as a home among many homes.

Imagine a world where love is stronger than hatred.

And if you can imagine that world, then understand something.

Israel is not the obstacle to peace.

Israel is the reason the Jewish people are still here to imagine it.

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