Israel is battling enemies who promise to slaughter Jews until the 'Zionist entity' is annihilated

Israel is battling enemies who promise to slaughter Jews until the 'Zionist entity' is annihilated

My recent Sephardic Jewish Tour took me from Bucharest, Romania, north along the Carpathian Mountains, then west and south into Transylvania and Hungary, and finally to Belgrade, Serbia. We enjoyed fine company and dining, toured historic palaces and churches, and explored Bran Castle, legendary home of Vlad the Impaler and Count Dracula.

Mostly, we visited overgrown Jewish cemeteries and once-thriving synagogues, some restored to their pre-WWII glory, many just a shadow of their former splendor. The now silent holy places reminded us how Jewish communities were slaughtered by Nazis and Nazi-aligned Europeans.

In my wife’s grandmother’s hometown of Iasi, 13,000 out of 50,000 Jews were murdered in the streets by fellow townsfolk; survivors were sent to death camps in Poland. In Sighet, a majority-Jewish town before 1940 and birthplace of Elie Wiesel, just 2,300 of 10,000 Jews survived the war. Only in Bucharest – thanks to the King, Queen Mother, Chief Rabbi of Romania and U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau – were Jews not deported.

In the Middle East, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Amin al-Husseini worked to bring Hitler’s Final Solution to Palestine. Formerly Judea but renamed Syria Palestina by the Romans, it was a post-WWI remnant of British and French “mandates” that carved new nations out of the once-mighty Ottoman Empire.

By war’s end, two-thirds of all Europe’s Jews, and 90 percent of all Jewish children, were exterminated by Nazis and their collaborators. Some 400,000 Romanian Jews had been murdered; 200,000 of the survivors emigrated to Israel over the next 40 years.

Jews and the world promised Never Again would genocides be allowed to happen. But today we witness commemorations and memorials to dead Jews – while the world’s oldest hatred once again spreads its venom globally, demanding the........

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