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Israel: Life In The Shadow Of Terror
Personal accounts and perspectives on the courage, faith and pivotal issues related to the last three tumultuous years in Israel, featuring all your favorite Aish.com writers.
"Israel: Life in the Shadow of Terror" will inspire you with portrayals of the remarkable perseverance of ordinary Israelis, give you clarity on the pivotal issues underlying the Middle East conflict, and move you with poignant, first-person accounts from people who survived and witnessed terror attacks.
"Israel: Life in the Shadow of Terror" will inspire you with portrayals of the remarkable perseverance of ordinary Israelis, give you clarity on the pivotal issues underlying the Middle East conflict, and move you with poignant, first-person accounts from people who survived and witnessed terror attacks.
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416 pages, Hardcover
First published November 24, 2003
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December 26, 2025
This finely crafted treasure, edited by Rabbi Nechemia Coopersmith and Rabbi Shraga Simmons portrays life in Israel today , and the trials and tribulations faced by Israel and it's people.
It shows you what a prejudiced media will not dare to let you see, because their agenda is to prepare the world for genocide of the Jews of Israel, through a monstrous propaganda machine, never seen since Goebbels and Der Sterner paved the way for the holocaust.
The book is dedicated to the victims of Arab terror , and the first of four sections is a harrowing and heartwrenching portrait of the horrific terror faced by the people of Israel, since Yasser Arafat launched a war of genocide against the Israeli people In this he has been fully backed , in his evil plans , by the international media, world academia,the international left, the United Nations and other powerful global interests.
This part of this phenomenal work shows you that victims of terror are real, that the suffering of the people of Israel is real, no less so because they are ignored by the media and universities.
As the editors write in the Introduction to the book "Words can never describe the kind of evil that straps a belt of explosives and detonated it in a hotel filled with elderly Jews celebrating Passover, in a pizza parlour, in a shopping mall, at a bar mitzvah celebration, a cafe, a disco, a city bus, a university cafeteria; the evil that places a nine year old baby in the cross-hairs of a rifle and pulls the trigger, an evil that publicly lynches two reserve soldiers who made a wrong turn into Ramallah; an evil that murders parents and children on their way home from prayers at the Western Wall; an evil that stones to death two teenage boys to the point where dental records are requited to identify their bodies".
It deals with the trauma of the familes of those who where murdered by Arab terror , and the pain and courage of those who survived.
As we read throught the case histories of some of the +- 1000 Jews killed and tens of thousands injured in the last five years of terror, we are astounded by how resilient are the people of Israel in the face of this onslaught , as well as how cold-blooded and savage her loathsome enemies are:
"All I see in my mind's eye is a woman shrieking as she turns to see her two-year old daughter , in her stroller , engulfed in flames. She reaches to pull her daughter out of the fire-but can't because the explosion that has sheathed the carriage in flames has blown off her own arm below the elbow. She can't pull her daughter out of the burning carriage because she no longer has two hands."
A few of the cases covered: Thousands of Israeli Jewish men, women and children have died from bombs, bullets or knife attacks, and thousands of others have been maimed, blinded, orphaned, widowed and terrorized.
Two years ago on the eve of the Jewish New Year, seven month old Shaked Abraham was shot dead in her crib by an Arab murderer who forced his way into her parent's house as the family was celebrating the New Year.
A ten-month-old Jewish baby, Shalhevet Pass, was shot in her father's arms by an Arab sniper in 2001.
The following year, a five-year-old girl, Danielle Shefi, was shot to death at point blank range by an Arab killer, while cowering under her parents' bed.
That same year, two boys, four- and five-years old, where shot dead together with their mother as she read them a bedtime story, in a left-wing kibbutz, by Arab terrorists.
Over 25% percent of Jewish children living in Israel do not have enough food to eat as a result of the Intifada (war of extermination) waged by Yasser Arafat, along with the economic boycotts initiated by sympathizers of the Palestinian plans of genocide against the Israeli people.
Two particularly wrenching articles are those on the Dolphinarium disco massacre on June 1 2001 where 21 young Israelis-mostly teenagers were killed and dozens critically injured and maimed when a Palestinian homicide bomber blew himself up near the Dolphinarium dico in Tel Aviv. And the article by the mother of Kobie Mandell, a teenage boy brutally beaten and stoned to death, together with a friend, by a mob of Palestinian murderers in a cave near Tekoa, their community south of Jerusalem. Koby's mother expresses her pain that so many media outlets buy into the lie that refers to the murderers who kill innocent Israelis are not terrorists trying to instill fear into and demoralize Israelis but rather are 'militants' engaged in a struggle against an oppressive government.
Parts two and three 'Israel Perspectives' and 'Israel Diaries' cover the lives and perspectives of the people living in the Land of Israel, and of the Jewish people generally.
Professor Laurie Zoloth details her experiences of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hate at San Fransisco State University.
The fourth section involves seperating the facts from the myths , which have been so obscured by the media and universities.
Articles by William J Bennett , Benjamin Netanyahu , and Ephraim Karsh detail the facts behind the conflict and the history of terrorism. There is a super article by Rabbi Ken Spiro about the history of Jerusalem ,and the conflicting Jewish and Moslem claims to Jerusalem , and the fifth deals with the choice faced by Jews in the diaspora to return to Israel, the ancient Jewish homeland-to make 'Aliyah'.
There is a helpful chapter detaling 55 ways to help Israel.
In summing up, Rabbi Shalom Schwartz reminds us that 'Since Camp David, 2000 , it has become painfully obvious that this conflict is not primarily about land , it is about Jews.
The book deals a lot with the spiritual side to the conflict , urging Jews to improve themselves spiritually .It is primarily about Love of the three most important things to the Jewish people.
Love for the Land of Israel
Love for the People of Israel
And love for the Torah of Israel.
The book affirms the extraordinary spirit of the people of Israel,
the most humane, giving, life-affirming people on the planet--
whatever sick propaganda you might have read to the contrary.
The past four years have been largely fashioned by the violent and cruel stepping-up of the campaign of those Arabs that call themselves `Palestinians', and their international networks of support, to destroy the Jewish homeland. This attack on Israel is not merely for a piece of land. It is an attack on decency, truth, compassion, respect for human life, on the sense of honor and on the Judeo-Christian spirit.
In the face of this growing terror, it may seem to be whistling in the wind to call for confidence. Yet it is good to remember the Jews are not fighting alone. Many Christians in the lands where freedom is still valued realize the assault on Israel is an assault on Judeo-Christian civilization, and that the Islamists and their extreme Left allies are a common enemy.
It is good to remember also that the Jews have shown a capacity for resistance and survival that has never been equaled. There have been others who have attempted what the Palestinians and their sympathizers are attempting, such as Pharaoh, Amalek, Haman, Antiochus, Torquemada, Chmielnicki, Hitler and Stalin.
It may require a miracle for Israel to survive the contemporary Amalek, the most powerful incarnation of them all. But the very existence of the Jewish people after so long a travail is itself a miracle. It is clear that God has always pulled the Jewish people through and ensured the total defeat of our enemies.
Jews and Israel must once again call up their reserves of courage and hope and, in alliance with the pro-freedom forces that still survive, continue to fight back. Perhaps our stamina, tested so often in the past, will once again help us over this grave crisis. Most importantly God will once again destroy our enemies and save Am Yisrael.
Merged review:
This finely crafted treasure, edited by Rabbi Nechemia Coopersmith and Rabbi Shraga Simmons portrays life in Israel today , and the trials and tribulations faced by Israel and it's people.
It shows you what a prejudiced media will not dare to let you see, because their agenda is to prepare the world for genocide of the Jews of Israel, through a monstrous propaganda machine never seen since Goebbels and Der Sterner paved the way for the Holocaust.
The book is dedicated to the victims of Arab terror , and the first of four sections is a harrowing and heartwrenching portrait of the horrific terror faced by the people of Israel, since Yasser Arafat launched a war of genocide against the Israeli people In this he has been fully backed , in his evil plans , by the international media, world academia,the international left, the United Nations and other powerful global interests.
This part of this phenomenal work shows you that victims of terror are real, that the suffering of the people of Israel is real, no less so because they are ignored by the media and universities.
As the editors write in the Introduction to the book "Words can never describe the kind of evil that straps a belt of explosives and detonated it in a hotel filled with elderly Jews celebrating Passover, in a pizza parlour, in a shopping mall, at a bar mitzvah celebration, a cafe, a disco, a city bus, a university cafeteria; the evil that places a nine year old baby in the cross-hairs of a rifle and pulls the trigger, an evil that publicly lynches two reserve soldiers who made a wrong turn into Ramallah; an evil that murders parents and children on their way home from prayers at the Western Wall; an evil that stones to death two teenage boys to the point where dental records are requited to identify their bodies".
It deals with the trauma of the familes of those who where murdered by Arab terror , and the pain and courage of those who survived.
As we read throught the case histories of some of the +- 1000 Jews killed and tens of thousands injured in the last five years of terror, we are astounded by how resilient are the people of Israel in the face of this onslaught , as well as how cold-blooded and savage her loathsome enemies are:
"All I see in my mind's eye is a woman shrieking as she turns to see her two-year old daughter , in her stroller , engulfed in flames. She reaches to pull her daughter out of the fire-but can't because the explosion that has sheathed the carriage in flames has blown off her own arm below the elbow. She can't pull her daughter out of the burning carriage because she no longer has two hands."
A few of the cases covered: Thousands of Israeli Jewish men, women and children have died from bombs, bullets or knife attacks, and thousands of others have been maimed, blinded, orphaned, widowed and terrorized.
Two years ago on the eve of the Jewish New Year, seven month old Shaked Abraham was shot dead in her crib by an Arab murderer who forced his way into her parent's house as the family was celebrating the New Year.
A ten-month-old Jewish baby, Shalhevet Pass, was shot in her father's arms by an Arab sniper in 2001.
The following year, a five-year-old girl, Danielle Shefi, was shot to death at point blank range by an Arab killer, while cowering under her parents' bed.
That same year, two boys, four- and five-years old, where shot dead together with their mother as she read them a bedtime story, in a left-wing kibbutz, by Arab terrorists.
Over 25% percent of Jewish children living in Israel do not have enough food to eat as a result of the Intifada (war of extermination) waged by Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, along with the economic boycotts initiated by sympathizers of the Palestinian plans of genocide against the Israeli people - BDS.
Two particularly wrenching articles are those on the Dolphinarium disco massacre on June 1 2001 where 21 young Israelis-mostly teenagers were killed and dozens critically injured and maimed when a Palestinian homicide bomber blew himself up near the Dolphinarium disco in Tel Aviv. And the article by the mother of Kobie Mandell, a teenage boy brutally beaten and stoned to death, together with a friend, by a mob of Palestinian murderers in a cave near Tekoa, their community south of Jerusalem. Koby's mother expresses her pain that so many media outlets buy into the lie that refers to the murderers who kill innocent Israelis are not terrorists trying to instill fear into and demoralize Israelis but rather are 'militants' engaged in a struggle against an oppressive government.
Parts two and three 'Israel Perspectives' and 'Israel Diaries' cover the lives and perspectives of the people living in the Land of Israel, and of the Jewish people generally.
Professor Laurie Zoloth details her experiences of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hate at San Fransisco State University.
The fourth section involves seperating the facts from the myths , which have been so obscured by the media and universities.
Articles by William J Bennett , Benjamin Netanyahu , and Ephraim Karsh detail the facts behind the conflict and the history of terrorism. There is a super article by Rabbi Ken Spiro about the history of Jerusalem ,and the conflicting Jewish and Moslem claims to Jerusalem , and the fifth deals with the choice faced by Jews in the diaspora to return to Israel, the ancient Jewish homeland-to make 'Aliyah'.
There is a helpful chapter detaling 55 ways to help Israel.
In summing up, Rabbi Shalom Schwartz reminds us that 'Since Camp David, 2000 , it has become painfully obvious that this conflict is not primarily about land , it is about Jews.
The book deals a lot with the spiritual side to the conflict , urging Jews to improve themselves spiritually .It is primarily about Love of the three most important things to the Jewish people.
Love for the Land of Israel
Love for the People of Israel
And love for the Torah of Israel.
The book affirms the extraordinary spirit of the people of Israel,
the most humane, giving, life-affirming people on the planet--
whatever sick propaganda you might have read to the contrary.
The past two years have been largely fashioned by the violent and cruel stepping-up of the campaign of those Arabs that call themselves `Palestinians', and their international networks of support, to destroy the Jewish homeland. This attack on Israel is not merely for a piece of land. It is an attack on decency, truth, compassion, respect for human life, on the sense of honor and on the Judeo-Christian spirit.
In the face of this growing terror, it may seem to be whistling in the wind to call for confidence. Yet it is good to remember the Jews are not fighting alone. Many gentiles in the lands where freedom is still valued realize the assault on Israel is an assault on Judeo-Christian civilization, and that the Islamists and their extreme Left allies are a common enemy.
It is good to remember also that the Jews have shown a capacity for resistance and survival that has never been equaled. There have been others who have attempted what the Palestinians and their sympathizers are attempting, such as Pharaoh, Amalek, Haman, Antiochus, Torquemada, Chmielnicki, Hitler and Stalin.
It may require a miracle for Israel to survive the contemporary Amalek, the most powerful incarnation of them all. But the very existence of the Jewish people after so long a travail is itself a miracle. It is clear that God has always pulled the Jewish people through and ensured the total defeat of our enemies.
Jews and Israel must once again call up their reserves of courage and hope and, in alliance with the pro-freedom forces that still survive, continue to fight back. Perhaps our stamina, tested so often in the past, will once again help us over this grave crisis. Most importantly God will once again destroy our enemies and save Am Yisrael.
It shows you what a prejudiced media will not dare to let you see, because their agenda is to prepare the world for genocide of the Jews of Israel, through a monstrous propaganda machine, never seen since Goebbels and Der Sterner paved the way for the holocaust.
The book is dedicated to the victims of Arab terror , and the first of four sections is a harrowing and heartwrenching portrait of the horrific terror faced by the people of Israel, since Yasser Arafat launched a war of genocide against the Israeli people In this he has been fully backed , in his evil plans , by the international media, world academia,the international left, the United Nations and other powerful global interests.
This part of this phenomenal work shows you that victims of terror are real, that the suffering of the people of Israel is real, no less so because they are ignored by the media and universities.
As the editors write in the Introduction to the book "Words can never describe the kind of evil that straps a belt of explosives and detonated it in a hotel filled with elderly Jews celebrating Passover, in a pizza parlour, in a shopping mall, at a bar mitzvah celebration, a cafe, a disco, a city bus, a university cafeteria; the evil that places a nine year old baby in the cross-hairs of a rifle and pulls the trigger, an evil that publicly lynches two reserve soldiers who made a wrong turn into Ramallah; an evil that murders parents and children on their way home from prayers at the Western Wall; an evil that stones to death two teenage boys to the point where dental records are requited to identify their bodies".
It deals with the trauma of the familes of those who where murdered by Arab terror , and the pain and courage of those who survived.
As we read throught the case histories of some of the +- 1000 Jews killed and tens of thousands injured in the last five years of terror, we are astounded by how resilient are the people of Israel in the face of this onslaught , as well as how cold-blooded and savage her loathsome enemies are:
"All I see in my mind's eye is a woman shrieking as she turns to see her two-year old daughter , in her stroller , engulfed in flames. She reaches to pull her daughter out of the fire-but can't because the explosion that has sheathed the carriage in flames has blown off her own arm below the elbow. She can't pull her daughter out of the burning carriage because she no longer has two hands."
A few of the cases covered: Thousands of Israeli Jewish men, women and children have died from bombs, bullets or knife attacks, and thousands of others have been maimed, blinded, orphaned, widowed and terrorized.
Two years ago on the eve of the Jewish New Year, seven month old Shaked Abraham was shot dead in her crib by an Arab murderer who forced his way into her parent's house as the family was celebrating the New Year.
A ten-month-old Jewish baby, Shalhevet Pass, was shot in her father's arms by an Arab sniper in 2001.
The following year, a five-year-old girl, Danielle Shefi, was shot to death at point blank range by an Arab killer, while cowering under her parents' bed.
That same year, two boys, four- and five-years old, where shot dead together with their mother as she read them a bedtime story, in a left-wing kibbutz, by Arab terrorists.
Over 25% percent of Jewish children living in Israel do not have enough food to eat as a result of the Intifada (war of extermination) waged by Yasser Arafat, along with the economic boycotts initiated by sympathizers of the Palestinian plans of genocide against the Israeli people.
Two particularly wrenching articles are those on the Dolphinarium disco massacre on June 1 2001 where 21 young Israelis-mostly teenagers were killed and dozens critically injured and maimed when a Palestinian homicide bomber blew himself up near the Dolphinarium dico in Tel Aviv. And the article by the mother of Kobie Mandell, a teenage boy brutally beaten and stoned to death, together with a friend, by a mob of Palestinian murderers in a cave near Tekoa, their community south of Jerusalem. Koby's mother expresses her pain that so many media outlets buy into the lie that refers to the murderers who kill innocent Israelis are not terrorists trying to instill fear into and demoralize Israelis but rather are 'militants' engaged in a struggle against an oppressive government.
Parts two and three 'Israel Perspectives' and 'Israel Diaries' cover the lives and perspectives of the people living in the Land of Israel, and of the Jewish people generally.
Professor Laurie Zoloth details her experiences of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hate at San Fransisco State University.
The fourth section involves seperating the facts from the myths , which have been so obscured by the media and universities.
Articles by William J Bennett , Benjamin Netanyahu , and Ephraim Karsh detail the facts behind the conflict and the history of terrorism. There is a super article by Rabbi Ken Spiro about the history of Jerusalem ,and the conflicting Jewish and Moslem claims to Jerusalem , and the fifth deals with the choice faced by Jews in the diaspora to return to Israel, the ancient Jewish homeland-to make 'Aliyah'.
There is a helpful chapter detaling 55 ways to help Israel.
In summing up, Rabbi Shalom Schwartz reminds us that 'Since Camp David, 2000 , it has become painfully obvious that this conflict is not primarily about land , it is about Jews.
The book deals a lot with the spiritual side to the conflict , urging Jews to improve themselves spiritually .It is primarily about Love of the three most important things to the Jewish people.
Love for the Land of Israel
Love for the People of Israel
And love for the Torah of Israel.
The book affirms the extraordinary spirit of the people of Israel,
the most humane, giving, life-affirming people on the planet--
whatever sick propaganda you might have read to the contrary.
The past four years have been largely fashioned by the violent and cruel stepping-up of the campaign of those Arabs that call themselves `Palestinians', and their international networks of support, to destroy the Jewish homeland. This attack on Israel is not merely for a piece of land. It is an attack on decency, truth, compassion, respect for human life, on the sense of honor and on the Judeo-Christian spirit.
In the face of this growing terror, it may seem to be whistling in the wind to call for confidence. Yet it is good to remember the Jews are not fighting alone. Many Christians in the lands where freedom is still valued realize the assault on Israel is an assault on Judeo-Christian civilization, and that the Islamists and their extreme Left allies are a common enemy.
It is good to remember also that the Jews have shown a capacity for resistance and survival that has never been equaled. There have been others who have attempted what the Palestinians and their sympathizers are attempting, such as Pharaoh, Amalek, Haman, Antiochus, Torquemada, Chmielnicki, Hitler and Stalin.
It may require a miracle for Israel to survive the contemporary Amalek, the most powerful incarnation of them all. But the very existence of the Jewish people after so long a travail is itself a miracle. It is clear that God has always pulled the Jewish people through and ensured the total defeat of our enemies.
Jews and Israel must once again call up their reserves of courage and hope and, in alliance with the pro-freedom forces that still survive, continue to fight back. Perhaps our stamina, tested so often in the past, will once again help us over this grave crisis. Most importantly God will once again destroy our enemies and save Am Yisrael.
Merged review:
This finely crafted treasure, edited by Rabbi Nechemia Coopersmith and Rabbi Shraga Simmons portrays life in Israel today , and the trials and tribulations faced by Israel and it's people.
It shows you what a prejudiced media will not dare to let you see, because their agenda is to prepare the world for genocide of the Jews of Israel, through a monstrous propaganda machine never seen since Goebbels and Der Sterner paved the way for the Holocaust.
The book is dedicated to the victims of Arab terror , and the first of four sections is a harrowing and heartwrenching portrait of the horrific terror faced by the people of Israel, since Yasser Arafat launched a war of genocide against the Israeli people In this he has been fully backed , in his evil plans , by the international media, world academia,the international left, the United Nations and other powerful global interests.
This part of this phenomenal work shows you that victims of terror are real, that the suffering of the people of Israel is real, no less so because they are ignored by the media and universities.
As the editors write in the Introduction to the book "Words can never describe the kind of evil that straps a belt of explosives and detonated it in a hotel filled with elderly Jews celebrating Passover, in a pizza parlour, in a shopping mall, at a bar mitzvah celebration, a cafe, a disco, a city bus, a university cafeteria; the evil that places a nine year old baby in the cross-hairs of a rifle and pulls the trigger, an evil that publicly lynches two reserve soldiers who made a wrong turn into Ramallah; an evil that murders parents and children on their way home from prayers at the Western Wall; an evil that stones to death two teenage boys to the point where dental records are requited to identify their bodies".
It deals with the trauma of the familes of those who where murdered by Arab terror , and the pain and courage of those who survived.
As we read throught the case histories of some of the +- 1000 Jews killed and tens of thousands injured in the last five years of terror, we are astounded by how resilient are the people of Israel in the face of this onslaught , as well as how cold-blooded and savage her loathsome enemies are:
"All I see in my mind's eye is a woman shrieking as she turns to see her two-year old daughter , in her stroller , engulfed in flames. She reaches to pull her daughter out of the fire-but can't because the explosion that has sheathed the carriage in flames has blown off her own arm below the elbow. She can't pull her daughter out of the burning carriage because she no longer has two hands."
A few of the cases covered: Thousands of Israeli Jewish men, women and children have died from bombs, bullets or knife attacks, and thousands of others have been maimed, blinded, orphaned, widowed and terrorized.
Two years ago on the eve of the Jewish New Year, seven month old Shaked Abraham was shot dead in her crib by an Arab murderer who forced his way into her parent's house as the family was celebrating the New Year.
A ten-month-old Jewish baby, Shalhevet Pass, was shot in her father's arms by an Arab sniper in 2001.
The following year, a five-year-old girl, Danielle Shefi, was shot to death at point blank range by an Arab killer, while cowering under her parents' bed.
That same year, two boys, four- and five-years old, where shot dead together with their mother as she read them a bedtime story, in a left-wing kibbutz, by Arab terrorists.
Over 25% percent of Jewish children living in Israel do not have enough food to eat as a result of the Intifada (war of extermination) waged by Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, along with the economic boycotts initiated by sympathizers of the Palestinian plans of genocide against the Israeli people - BDS.
Two particularly wrenching articles are those on the Dolphinarium disco massacre on June 1 2001 where 21 young Israelis-mostly teenagers were killed and dozens critically injured and maimed when a Palestinian homicide bomber blew himself up near the Dolphinarium disco in Tel Aviv. And the article by the mother of Kobie Mandell, a teenage boy brutally beaten and stoned to death, together with a friend, by a mob of Palestinian murderers in a cave near Tekoa, their community south of Jerusalem. Koby's mother expresses her pain that so many media outlets buy into the lie that refers to the murderers who kill innocent Israelis are not terrorists trying to instill fear into and demoralize Israelis but rather are 'militants' engaged in a struggle against an oppressive government.
Parts two and three 'Israel Perspectives' and 'Israel Diaries' cover the lives and perspectives of the people living in the Land of Israel, and of the Jewish people generally.
Professor Laurie Zoloth details her experiences of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hate at San Fransisco State University.
The fourth section involves seperating the facts from the myths , which have been so obscured by the media and universities.
Articles by William J Bennett , Benjamin Netanyahu , and Ephraim Karsh detail the facts behind the conflict and the history of terrorism. There is a super article by Rabbi Ken Spiro about the history of Jerusalem ,and the conflicting Jewish and Moslem claims to Jerusalem , and the fifth deals with the choice faced by Jews in the diaspora to return to Israel, the ancient Jewish homeland-to make 'Aliyah'.
There is a helpful chapter detaling 55 ways to help Israel.
In summing up, Rabbi Shalom Schwartz reminds us that 'Since Camp David, 2000 , it has become painfully obvious that this conflict is not primarily about land , it is about Jews.
The book deals a lot with the spiritual side to the conflict , urging Jews to improve themselves spiritually .It is primarily about Love of the three most important things to the Jewish people.
Love for the Land of Israel
Love for the People of Israel
And love for the Torah of Israel.
The book affirms the extraordinary spirit of the people of Israel,
the most humane, giving, life-affirming people on the planet--
whatever sick propaganda you might have read to the contrary.
The past two years have been largely fashioned by the violent and cruel stepping-up of the campaign of those Arabs that call themselves `Palestinians', and their international networks of support, to destroy the Jewish homeland. This attack on Israel is not merely for a piece of land. It is an attack on decency, truth, compassion, respect for human life, on the sense of honor and on the Judeo-Christian spirit.
In the face of this growing terror, it may seem to be whistling in the wind to call for confidence. Yet it is good to remember the Jews are not fighting alone. Many gentiles in the lands where freedom is still valued realize the assault on Israel is an assault on Judeo-Christian civilization, and that the Islamists and their extreme Left allies are a common enemy.
It is good to remember also that the Jews have shown a capacity for resistance and survival that has never been equaled. There have been others who have attempted what the Palestinians and their sympathizers are attempting, such as Pharaoh, Amalek, Haman, Antiochus, Torquemada, Chmielnicki, Hitler and Stalin.
It may require a miracle for Israel to survive the contemporary Amalek, the most powerful incarnation of them all. But the very existence of the Jewish people after so long a travail is itself a miracle. It is clear that God has always pulled the Jewish people through and ensured the total defeat of our enemies.
Jews and Israel must once again call up their reserves of courage and hope and, in alliance with the pro-freedom forces that still survive, continue to fight back. Perhaps our stamina, tested so often in the past, will once again help us over this grave crisis. Most importantly God will once again destroy our enemies and save Am Yisrael.
April 7, 2022
Written during the Second Intifada, this is a collection of short essays on living with terror in Israel. Published by Aish HaTorah, these essays provide a sober look at the reactions to terror, its causes and historical perspectives. There is a wide range of authors, from the famous to those who have personally experienced tragedy. The book can be divided into two types of essays – inspirational and factual. Personally, I found the factual more enlightening. Unfortunately, in the almost 20 years since it has been published, not much has changed.
July 8, 2025
This is a collection of short essays on living with terror in Israel. Read it if you want a refreshing view far from the biased antisemitic media.
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