So much craziness has happened this year! From the Arab spring to constant threats from Iran to Israel, does anyone else feel that war is imminent? America is building up its military in the middle east and so is Russia. (another cold war perhaps?). Also everything that’s going on in Syria scares me a little too. What if nukes end up in the “wrong” hands? I don’t thinks it’s a matter of where, I thinks it’s a matter of when it will happen.
Yup. Israel has a war roughly every five or six years. We’re overdue. And yes. People go day to day largely ignoring all of these significant world events that have happened the past few years. The world just barely avoided a nuclear holocaust during the Cold War, and all signs indicate that a similar situation will occur very soon. The reason there’s not as much national panic now as there was back then is because today everyone has their heads in the sand. Ironically, that makes it much more likely that it won’t be just a “close call” this time around.
I believe it was Rabbi Grylak in Mishpacha who argued the contrary: that the Arab world’s descent into anarchy is the best thing that’s happened for Israel(or did he say for the Jews?) since the liberation of Soviet Jewry. He believes that it will take these wretched countries decades to climb out of their mess. He credits HKBH for this, and so should we. No one should be blind to the danger that the situation presents, but no one should sink into despair either; it isn’t the Jewish way.