What To Do About the Terror In Israel? A New Approach

you [Music] welcome to now more than ever Israel needs us my name is dick Trudel I'm here from building bridges that's a group of local Jews and Christians who are working together to enrich the connection that exists now between the Christian and Jewish communities in our area another function is we support and defend the State of Israel [Applause] well it's my pleasure to introduce rabbi Yossi Jacobsen rabbi Jacobsen is considered one of the most inspiring Jewish speakers in the world today his editor in chief of the largest Yiddish English weekly the aljahmeir German journal and is a teacher and mentor to thousands of people over the world rabbis weekly internet essays on Judaism are read by tens of thousands of people throughout the world rabbi Jacobsen is the first rabbi invited by the Pentagon to present the annual religious keynote address to four thousand US military chaplains and 234 thousand members of the National Security Agency as you will find out rabbi is a gifted order he brings enduring truth to all the you tell us and he does it in a manner that is both fascinating and entertaining he serves as the spiritual leader of a congregation by Shabaab in New York and his Dean of the yeshiva net rabbis the author of the acclaimed cake Series a tale of two souls please join me in welcoming rabbi Jacobsen [Applause] thank you so much I'm a very lucky man not everybody gets to hear their eulogy during their own lifetime you know they tell the story about a Frenchman an Italian fellow on a Jew who died and a right to heaven and the angel greets them and says first to the Frenchman here come in let me show you your place in paradise Frenchman walks in and he sees a hall filled with the most delicious exquisite French foods the most tasty of wines he is a wine connoisseur can truly appreciate it unbelievable amount of quality of wine he turns to the angel and he says I think there's some estate I've been a pretty big sinner are you sure this is meant for me and the angel says it's meant for you but there's a catch the catch is every afternoon 5 o'clock p.m. we bring out a huge big hot bowl of soup and you must go in to this path of hot soup immerse yourself completely and then the Paradise is yours to enjoy Frenchman says no way I'm afraid of the pain ok the Italian comes in the angel souls in his paradise most amazing pastas again you sure it's meant for me I have been a sinner it's for you but does it count five o'clock huge pot of hot soup comes out you gotta go in no no I'm on my way I'm scared okay shoe comes it he looks at the Paradise filled the fish mr. Maitland cookies cake cholesterol cash they vanished all the best Jewish foods in the world and of course the most favorite Jewish foods Chinese food and even more Jewish sushi and the food that old rooms really love with the depth of their hearts kid waffle soybeans and barley Kurdish the Jew says you sure it's meant for me I've been a sinner I never attended synagogue I never did any midslope the angel says is a catch five o'clock p.m. sharp be the pot of hot soup comes out you gotta go in if you agree paradise is yours to enjoy the Jew says agreed great Mazel Tov welcome to paradise this French and Italian buddies turnt them and they say we know you're scared of pain you're more afraid of pain you're a greater chicken than us why were you not afraid of going in five o'clock to that big hot pot of soup says it's very simple I have been at the countless Jewish events countless Jewish dinners five o'clock is not five o'clock supers never their house which is how I know and I'm so happy to be attending a half not Jewish event so that 7:30 was 7:30 rather than 7:30 being nine o'clock and the tomato soup was hot afterward Ahmadinejad's the other day decided to take a plane ride over the skies of Tehran the nearby territory his private pilot is driving the plane and an engine fails he gets on the system calls out to the airports in the region and he says help I have her the leader of Iran and an engine failed what does one do any country in the area give me help besides Israel we don't want help from Israeli no one responds ten minutes later a second engine fails desperately he gets onto the system I desperately need your help a second engine failure everybody was fun besides Israel no response ten minutes later a third engine fails now he's frantic he says if the last fourth engine fails I'm going down with that Ahmadinejad anybody respond even Israel and the one monitoring the system at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv gets on to the system and says yes formidable endowment me tel aviv this David from Tel Aviv how can I help you he says I have leader of Iran 300 spell I really need your help and the Israeli says sure and their reigning and Pilate says wow what a gentleman you are how special you are you will really help us and guide us this is absolutely yes what do I do Israeli tells them say after me word for sure what should I say he's Gaddafi SCADA sh'mey raba which is the Jewish prayer for the dead now some of you have to explain the joke tonight as many of us recall Veterans Day we remember as you said those who sacrifice a lot for our country First World War Second World War and many other events which are courageous men and women of service dedicated their hearts and souls for the United States of America it reminds me of the history teacher what stands up this classroom says my dear students can anyone share with me the author and the date of the following declaration asked not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country who said it and when the students shrugged their shoulders and ignorance only one boy knew and this was a Japanese kid who came to study in the States from Tokyo and he immediately said it was John Fitzgerald Kennedy January 22nd 1961 during his inauguration address of raining that day in DC and that's what can that he said ask not what your country can do for us but you didn't for your country and happens to be parenthetically his speechwriter died last week he's Gaddafi's come the teacher was very impressed with the Japanese boy and annoyed with the American kids you spoiled American brats addicted to your iphones blackberries blueberries raspberries raspberries boys friends girlfriends laptops cars you know nothing of the great ideas and ideals that inspired our country and it celebrated leadership we have to learn from the Japanese here is a boy who comes from a foreign culture but displays force perseverance commitment he knows what John can that he said and when he said it January 61 and the teacher goes on for 20 minutes to extol the virtues of the Japanese until there is a voice heard from the back of the classroom and you'll forgive me folks one of the students screams the hell with the Japanese the teacher was dumbfounded 21 years in a classroom nobody ever spoke to him such words he thunders out loud who said that and the student responds quietly Harry Truman 1945 [Applause] and so and so tonight and today as we pay tribute and honor on Veterans Day to those who ask not what the country can do for them but asked what they can do for the country it is profoundly appropriate that people of goodwill in the Jewish and in the Christian community here in Burlington unite to continue asking the same question what can we do what is our calling what what we do to stand up for peace true peace stutters justice morality and the supreme value the sanctity of life you know thank you the other day in Starbucks you're laughing already Starbucks that's funny our rabbi a priest and a minister when and to have a latte for mine 75 my house of lattes for free Starbucks 975 what are they going to talk about it didn't want to talk about the passion it's a little device [Laughter] so they decided to talk about a very common theme that everyone can agree on namely what would you like to hear people say at your funeral there's nothing inspiring the priest says I would like the area people say you know he was a true man of the Lord he brought in the light of the Lord into countless hearts offered them salvation the minister says I would like to have people say my funeral he was a real friend you can lean on him in times of distress you can trust them in times of anxiety rabbi what about you and the rabbi says I would like to hear somebody say at my funeral you know I think he's moving [Applause] my friends my dear brothers and sisters I don't know if you see that my face what happened June and I don't look it but my mother happens to be Jewish and she married at YouTube and miracle the miracle she gave birth to five Jewish children and I'm the baby as you can see and so I come from a people that's been around for many many years we've been around the block they once asked a Chinese politician what is your opinion about the French and American Revolution he said too early to tell what's too much of that sixty is the scheme of history right in fact the choosing the Chinese have an old argument who comes first Chinese say we come first to true say no we have been around the thousand years before you know what sort of to rabbit said so what did you eat the first thousand years so everybody said we fasted what was Yom Kippur you said you're not Jewish your fans thousand years you faster so of course I'm a compensating for those thousand lives and so we come I come from a people that cherishes love believes in the sanctity of life believes in the value of life I used to wonder what was the depth of Moses words at the end of Deuteronomy see there are two paths before you path of life the path of death but the death of a heritable cyanogen huge life Wow genius you really need Moses to tell us choose life but in 2010 I know the answer because when I look around and I see cultures and religions that teach their students and children to choose death and teach them that the greatest achievement they can experience in their life is to die and in the process murder others and for that they will receive 72 pies of pizza or whatever they call us those giving the Jewish birth in heaven if there was ever a culture of people who could have developed such an ethic easily it was the Jewish people who have been hunted down persecuted massacred generation after generation almost every country they ended up in they could have easily developed a culture which would sanctify and celebrate but we clung tenaciously to Moses his words about Hector bhai love life give life fight for life celebrate life and that's our continuous commitment to life sometimes people who scream peace peace peace say of course peace but a my book the definition of peace is that a personal makes peace remains alive after the peace treaty but not everybody has that definition of peace for some peace and all cost even a death but peace has arrived of course you're not here to be there you're not here to celebrate it what does peace I see tonight you have also managed to arouse the passions of those who came to demonstrate I lecture a lot around the country around the world to different community centers universities as we are here tonight and they're often protesters sometimes that much larger numbers and sometimes they supplant they plant themselves at the crown the other day was if he could Boston University someone raised his hand and asked the question he says you know why can't Israel just do the right thing you know those questions saying the guy who comes to Temple and says what are you gonna stop beating your wife I don't beat my wife all excuses I said what's the right thing tell me so the right thing is for Israel to withdraw to the pre-1967 borders and peace will come what can you just do it why is territory holier than life why would you rather have war and bloodshed and violence and the prize children of a future when you'll have less territory for peace and security how logical how you mean how sensible someone who mark is with this seems fanatic where a piece of land becomes more valuable life and this was his question why don't you just with general I said you know you're making such a brilliant point I just have four stupid questions answered a questionable one asked tell me which year was the PLO foundant PLO was of course Yasser Arafat's organization Palestinian Palestinian Liberation Organization or I would say pathological lawyers organization which was converted into the Palestinian Authority the PA which year was its fountains and what was its objective its Charter called for the de maiz the destruction of the State of Israel he says I guess it was founded after you occupied their territories and therefore they want to destroy you I said the PLO was founded in 1964 Israel was at its pre-1967 borders Gaza belong to each rivers the West Bank belonged to Jordan East Jerusalem was under Jordan the Golan Heights was under Syria there was not one settlements there was not one huge settler and that one Jewish settlement not on the West Bank Malon Gaza mad at me through Superman of all nights why would the PLO in 1964 call for the destruction of Israel by the way that Charter has not been changed till today why explain this to me if Israel withdraws to his pre-1967 borders as it was before 1967 the PLO still says destroy them what should Israel do then question number one question number two I asked them why did Israel occupy these territories in 1967 was it that Prime Minister Levi Eshkol woke up one morning cool that Moshe they are the defense minister and says you know I'm really bored today why don't we go occupy the goal Army's Jerusalem Jordan the West Bank why not let's build another few flower shops but the Jews eat this one exactly what happened what happened was in the spring of 67 six Arab countries Egypt Syria Jordan Iraq Lebanon with the aid of Saudi Arabia vowed to destroy Israel to create another Holocaust in masters words to fit over three million Jews living in Palestine into the sea and to cleanse the Middle East finally from every last youth every last few this reel preempted the war and fought back and conquered the territories from which the war to destroy Israel is being lured so you say Israel is an occupier why did Israel occupy these territories because six countries wanted to destroy Israel Israel defended itself and then occupy the territories from which it was attacked so whose fault is it that Israel occupied these territories exactly and why would they want to destroy Israel before Israel occupied any of these territories and why would an a sane person think that if Israel goes back to 67 peace will come when it's 67 that was not a reason for peace on the contrary there was the strategy to destroy all of Israel question number three in the year 2000 a with Barak the Prime Minister of Israel is sitting with Bill Clinton and Yasser Arafat at Camp David Barak offers mr. Arafat a hundred percent of Gaza 98 percent of the West Bank a Palestinian state with a capital of East Jerusalem our effect responds by launching the most bloody Intifada in Israeli history which caused the foundation of Saco to just observe the horrific footage of soccer world suicide bombers saturating the land murdering and maiming hundreds and hundreds of Jews and Arabs but why with such a gracious offer question number four Arik Sharon the right-wing politician the right-wing leader of Israel and some are about five in August turned Gaza into a territory that became youth tonight cleansed of every Jew not one Jew was left to Gaza dozens of communities were destroyed 10,000 Jews were expelled and every last Israeli soldier left Gaza shahram the prime minister at the time today he lie in a coma unfortunately Freddie for quite a few years said we were choking them we have to give them an opportunity to feel independence here's a great experiment Gaza is yours not one June just as it was before 1967 when it was on their Egypt here is here's the beginning of your state Israel expected the day after the Arabs would come in would celebrate the gift and we begin building a new life for ourselves they is real left a few hours later the first thing all the synagogues were burnt all the communities were destroyed well the green houses that they could have used for their own economic success and growth were destroyed and from a flourishing country it was turned into Hamas tan and became the center of on wavering never-ending terror with thousands and thousands of rockets being launched against civilians so I turned to the student the Boston University and I said explain to me my dear if it's the 1967 borders that are at the heart of the dispute why would Israel would effectuate Gaza would that simply be used to terrorize their civilians near the border of Gaza they in day now until they were forced last year to go into Gaza I said can you please answer me these oxygens and then tell me if it's really rational to believe that if Israel would withdraw to the pre-1967 borders peace with comma or as Israel would withdraw to the pre-1967 borders the territory that would be given would be used as the new terror States from which the tiny little State of Israel the size of Dallas International Airport would be destroyed he said I have to think about it he's still thinking another person asked the question and said okay but why not so good will you have to show good compromise I know that may be problems there may be risks you have to show goodwill and I told them that's a very very cruel suggestion because you don't understand what terrorists terrorists cancer you remind me of a cancer patient who comes to the doctor the doctor takes an S Vincent I'm very I feel very very pain to tell you you have a tumor you have a tumor in your stomach you have a growth in your stomach so he asks the doctor what do we do doctor says we gotta go to surgery and cut it out he says I'm a kind man I don't like to cut anything out the doctor says well what do you want to do he tells the doctor let the tumor be in its place don't cut abouts I respect it I'll see the little territory to the tumor so I wanna show goodwill I want to be a mensch I would be nice you know the end of the story was my friend you know what tumors tend to do they tend to take over the entire body and he was buried soon after terror is a cancer terror is a tumor when you have terrorists in your midst who are bowing to destroy you to see the territory to compromise to show goodwill is not an act of compassion it's an act of Cruelty it will secure the death of the entire organism the passionate thing is not to compromise an inch a cancer must be cut out ruthlessly and brutally so that the healthy body can continue to breathe and live because the cancer will destroy the entire body and we'll of course destroy itself and its own family and its own children in the process it will be remembered in history when the 20th century when the 1900s are studied well and objectively as well as the beginning of the 21st century historians will be amazed on the fact that an intelligent nation as the Jewish nation or considered to be intelligent people in Israel went along with one of the greatest modern historical catastrophes called the Osmo piece of course we asked her are a father was resurrected politically the PLO was given ammunition by Israel itself autonomy in the West Bank and what happened the autonomy was used to create the most powerful terror infrastructure in modern history where suicide bombers were sent on buses and in pizzerias in cafes and in schools and synagogues and in basketball courts bellowing up children men women mothers and fathers with cuts of little children on the strips this is called Oslo peace accords you want a Palestinian state great I ask one question and no one asks this question why does not mrs. Clinton not mr. BA not all of the thinkers and think tanks and journalists and politicians and essayist and lecturers ask one thing when will you change the educational curriculum in your schools children are being taught and educated day-in day-out that the Jews are the devil they are the embodiment of evil their presence in Israel or as they call the Palestine is an insult to Allah and His Prophet Muhammad that the calling of God is to cleanse the entire land from every single living german that is mainstream curriculum this is preached in the mosques by their moms every friday every day and in most schools even in the moderate so-called moderate was bad as longest children are being educated day in day out that israel is the devil giving these people a state will not bring peace not for the arabs and not for the jews it will be bad for the arabs because it will be used as a launching base for endless terror attacks against the tiny state of israel which will only hurt the Arabs and cause more bloodshed among the arabs if you care about the area until the culture is not changed until the world perspective is not transformed until people are not reacted to respect life who are we mocking freezing a thousand units in East Jerusalem so that Jews can't live in their capital that is the obstacle for peace and the Jews for friends yeah yeah we have to hold construction it's a thousand homes that have been the obstacle for peace you know if you want pieces we will give you peace in six hours they'll be peace they one says Golda Meir when will there be peace and he says when the Arabs started loving their own soldiers more than they hate our gold the mayor said I commanded my chief of staff that if a soldier or civilian has killed any time of the night of the day I want to be woken here that it's 2:00 in the morning you follow me she said when Sadat will make the same request to wake him up the middle of the night then I'll be better times until the culture has not changed then the attempts for peace are a cynical superficial skin deep shove and anyone who cares about life should not become intoxicated by a vision that will simply create bloodshed and violence and strife and war and it's not fair for the Arab children as much as it's not fear for Jewish a soldier but no one speaks this language changing the curriculum changes and education that's the key issue but that is the obstacle for peace people talk about two equal sides this bill doesn't want to go to negotiation tables two Arabs don't want to go to the goshi ation tables today's New York Times is a story how mrs. Clinton and Egypt at Egypt are pushing very hard both the Israelis and the Arabs to sit down there are two equal sides my friends it sounds sophisticated but it's a lie I asked you a real question actually scientifically and objectively without emotion if Syria would send all of its troops on a vacation to Hawaii for six months time do you think Israel would go and occupy Syria if Jordan in Egypt would put down their arms and send their troops on vacation skiing in Vermont for a week do you think Israel would go and conquer Jordan but what if this Raley army goes on vacation for 24 hours what do you think will be the fate of Israel and does anybody doubt it there would be no Israel that's called - Saul's all Israel wants us let us live in peace you're ready we're ready in an hour over the last 60 years since the creation of state of is in 1948 I want to know Jews are not perfect we have our villains we have our terrorists over but on your finger how many Jewish suicide bombers can you count how many Arab buses have been exploded by Jewish terrorists how many Arab pizza shops have been blown to pieces by Jews how many Ramadan gatherings have been bombed by Jews religious schools mosques how many Arabs were lenses said I went out of windows by choose how many Jews have you heard accusing Muslims of using Christian and Jewish blood in their pitas as the Arabs still accused the Jews of Duke how many choose a lot of perfect people some to say stupid things some of them even do stupid things I know I'm Jewish I know my brothers but I know that 99.9 of Israeli society wants peace that's what we breathe that's what we pray for that's what we teach our children from the milk of their mother they nurse the words of oseh Shalom in Rome Ave we are some Oh Milano you want peace in six hours that can be peace if you want peace but there's another culture in which the infants who are nursing the milk of their mother in that milk they are receiving the message that the greatest calling of our time is to exterminate every Jewish man woman and child living in Israel hundreds of thousands and millions of such an arrangement that education in mosques and schools the maps that they study don't recognize Israel there is no calling for a Palestinian state as the twenty second Arab state in the Middle East to live on the side of Israel the ambition is to create a Palestinian state instead of Israel the next question robert jacobson how do you justify theft granted you can't see territory granted ceding territory will only invite more terror granted when you give in to cancer it will take you over granted when people want to kill you the compromise will simply intoxicate them but how do you justify theft you're stealing another people's land 1937 I don't know if you heard of this there was the peel Commission Lord peel was Lord of England and Palestine was under the British Mandate and they organized Denton was known as Lord peels two peels Commission to discuss the future of the israeli-arab conflict then maybe you could divide the land and the head of the Jewish Agency was then David ben-gurion who later would become the first Prime Minister of Israel in 1948 and when ben-gurion was standing when it was his turn and he took the oath that he was testifying for three hours about the Jewish rights to Palestine and finally Lord Peel turned to him and they said mr. Ben Gurion in which city were you born and ben-gurion said I was born in Punx which country is that then he said it's in Poland but there was an eerie silence in a row Lord peel said isn't it fascinating every Arab who came here to testify when I asked him where they were born they said they were born here every Jew who came in to testify when I asked him when they were born most of them were born in Eastern Europe do you have a deed that connects you to this country when I asked them for a deed they take out the Kushan which was the Ottoman Turkish deed for land ownership what is your Kushan mr. Ben Gurion you weren't born here your colleagues weren't born here from Poland it was quiet in the room David ben-gurion realized that he was hold a Bible upon which he took oath when he began to testify three hours ago he lifted up the Bible he lifted up the Torah here is our Kishan I believe in Britain they respect this book - I believe billions of Muslims and Christians respect this book hundreds of times in this book doesn't say that the creator of the world gave one little piece of land not a big piece of land one little piece of one to one of people here is my crush on this occupation myth really disturbs the argument and actually doesn't allow the Arabs to develop and embrace peace when I was in South Africa a while ago so you know it's popular by some journalists and activists to compare Israel to South Africa the part a part I'd country so I was interviewed on one of the radio shows I told the radio host you know I said I believe that what Israel is doing to the Arabs is really wrong he got very excited he said I like when I rap I stands up to the truth tell us about it I said it's very simple I believe as I'm sure you believe a person cannot find blessing and success when they're living on stolen land by Israel allowing the Arabs to seize stolen land and claim it as their own Israel is depriving the Arabs from the divine blessings they deserve it's not good for them why are people embarrassed to say the truth Israel is not stolen it's not occupied it's equally absurd to say Israel is occupied as it is to say that New Jersey is occupied by the Americans in fact it's more absurd who can argue that America's occupied by the Americans that I won't get it to it at the moment if there was ever a nation that has a right to a country it's the Jewish people to the Land of Israel because the creator of the entire universe allocated that piece of land for one nation there was every nation [Applause] so people say what is this really supposed to do I say I'm not sure but I know what they're not supposed to do what they're not supposed to do is give the impression to their enemies that they will be successful in destroying them and every time Israel gives up a piece of territory they intoxicate those who are addicted to terror and create within them the feeling that they will be successful because through terror they seized this part of Israel and this part of Israel if they only continue they will get all of it I want to ask you a question of Israel withdraws from the entire country and remains only and dissing of street in Tel Aviv to have eaten some cafes and the rest is given away what do you think will happen the next day the cafes will be bombed the objective is not to States near each other however I as they say by us would have been very nice so it'll be very sweet you see there's another important point we Westerners think like Westerners and we don't respect the Arabs enough I always throw my liberal friends you're so liberal but you lack respect I believe Arabs you don't when they say we want this real destroyed I believe then you say they don't mean a that a woman they need therapy anger management sent them roses we'll do some yoga we'll do some Transcendental Meditation or listen to the Beatles will go eat a little sushi this is the Middle East you know the story the Scorpion never met a scorpion scorpion is it near the ocean you know once the pass where the Scorpion can't swim scorpion never got to get through the other side scorpion sees a beautiful little duck scorpion says my little duck you know how to swim can I sit on your back and pass the river with you duck says no way scorpion says why is your gonna back me you'll kill me he said I would never do that just see will you do that he says no but if I bite you and you die what happens I drown right so I'm gonna kill myself or the process focuses logic buck says fun scorpion gets on the duck like start swimming halfway in the middle of the river the scorpion bites duck starts bleeding to death turns out to the scorpion understand I'm going down why would you do this to yourself beside you made a deal there's two versions to the answer basically two different Jews and overheard the conversation and each one hundred different which is what usually happens if it's two versions were happy who's me nineteen version number one is description scorpion turned to the duck and said because at the end of the day I'm a scorpion I can't help myself there's a second version to the answer because this is the Middle East we like to phrase and classify Middle Eastern politics in western terms in Western values and ethics if you and I are having a dispute over a home and the home is worth a half a million dollars and we cannot stop fighting and at one point I turned to you and I say you know what let's just split the pie into two you get a quarter of a million I get a quarter of a million and let's call it quits often your attitude will be you know that's a good idea he's a mensch I'm a man we can't get this together let's compromise whipped up the cup birthday cake you get half I get half we live in peace we Westerners think that's how it works in the Middle East Israel and the Arabs are fighting over land go to the Arabs and say let's split the birthday cake Ravin say take a Palestinian state give us a State of Israel and peace will be watchable Western logic it's not Middle East logic Middle East logic is different and here I come to the book of Genesis Sarah is married to Abram Abram marries Hager has a boyish morale Sarah gives birth to Isaac Ishmael and Isaac are growing author Sarah sees that their coexistence is not doing very well so what the serous say Sarah tells Abraham I can't have a small in the hope he has to be out of this hole why Sheila Arash Ben harmony meets because this is son of the maid cannot inherit your estate together with Isaac okay I understand Sarah's Jewish possessive mother she wants her little baby to have it all fine not the first Jewish mother to do that not the last Jewish mother to do it it's a fact the Italian mother and the Jewish mother both make pasta for dinner both of their teenagers come home from school both teenagers say the pasta stinks I'm not gonna eat it on my dead body both mothers shoot when they hear that the difference is who the Italian mother shoots her son the Jewish mother shoots herself I understand Sarah's overprotective my son my baby if I hey Brad the Sydney's with Sarah Abram doesn't want to send this small boy I have two children let them split the cake but now God comes into the picture and I would expect the god of morality who's not afraid to disagree with Jewish women or with anybody he disagreed with Eve the day she wasn't it was powerful I would expect God to tell Sarah Sarah relax I'm around when he trusts us put God sorry to my Sarah what does he tell a brown he gives Abraham the eternal commandment coil a am i real s house Irish my Buccola whatever Sarah tells you you listen to her and that has become the eternal timeless commandment to every husband in history and you can quote me on that God didn't say what sirrah tells you about a smile whatever sirrah tells you you must listen why why does he sighed with Sarah my friends my dear friends this happened 3,700 years ago but those words of Sarah got sided with her because they tell the story of history and if we ever doubt it just read the news today Sarah was not saying this smile doesn't have the right to inherit your estate with my son it was have the right he's your son just us Isaac is your son he's your child he deserves to get a part of your estate if you read it clearly in Hebrew what Sarah's saying is Ishmael can't inherit your estate together with your son because you're the baccalauréat cowboy because if you give him part of the estate's the way he understands it that the reason you're giving him part of the state is because you're weak and you know that really he deserves at all and hence it's an invitation to continue to fight until he gets it all it's a different mentality in Vermont the mentality is you're so nice you compromise you gave me half of the cake in Gaza the mentality is you gave me half of the cake [Applause] because you know you're wrong and you know really I deserve the whole cake cause I've always been screaming and you showed weakness and my pressure helped that you see that half and if I continue my terror campaign I will get Siri doesn't say he should not I cannot he doesn't have the mentality he doesn't think in such terms I can paint romantic pictures but peace is about reality it's about truth when deserving to walk to school and safety and not being blown up to pieces on a negative bus you know about the preacher who loved children loved children and one day he paid his alleyway with a new pavement of cement and of course the children saw fresh cement the one who told to do they loved leaving their imprint everywhere and they start jumping on the new cement that the preacher comes in and starts hollering at the truth you lazy brat self-centered narcissistic good-for-nothings and his wife comes on and says whoa you always say that you love children why are you hollering at them and he says my dear wife I love children in the abstract not in the concrete's [Laughter] they're all screaming peace peace I don't want peace and abstract I want peace in the countries it's beautiful to talk about peace but peace must equal security safety life not living in perpetual fear not Palin's burying their children every year and not as he described a member of soccer coming to see his own wife slay shot from close range a few months ago it's not called peace they call them victims of peace I want to know what his death defined as part of peace that's the type of peace Sarah makes a very profound observation it doesn't know how in the smalls world he needs all of Israel the Palestinian state must substitute Israel if Israel then gives his smile a peace if small says I got a little bit I'll continue my terror campaign and I'll get more am i speaking in the abstract go to Gaza in 2005 Israel gave up a piece of the cake impeccably flawlessly not one Jew was left here it is what was the response we got Gaza it's now move on and pieces will get the rest of us what can Israel do to make peace Israel can do nothing to make peace the Arabs are the ones who have to decide they want peace what Israel can do is not to intoxicate the situation and not to distance them from peace and not to give them the illusion that through terror they will win the land because when Israel does that indirectly assists been removing themselves from the day when they will sober up and mature and be ready to inculcate in for their children a new perspective a perspective based on respect unusual respect on the dignity of life many of you Christians will not understand this but my fellow Jews sitting here will understand it very well it has to do with the very deep complexes that the Jewish people have and that is and I'm gonna use a observation made by the first chief rabbi of Israel his name was anybody heard of him it was Rabbi kook Rabbi Abraham kook he was the first chief rabbi of Palestine before the state in the 1930s he died in 35 he was a prolific writer who's a poet he once asked the question why is the world obsessed for the Jews what if Jews always play big league why do they never play Little League they never constitute more than 1% of civilization why do they make so much noise I mean it's a fascinating thing how many people live in Indonesia 300 million people how often do you read about Indonesia once a seven and a half years how many people live in Israel 7 million how often do you read about Israel every single day and the newspapers blogs websites it's always been this way the world is obsessed with the Jerusalem with Israel and he asked why and he said that history is like a dinner if it went to a banquet at dinner people give speeches on how it is by the Christians I know how it is by the Jews one speech after another speech after another speech you finish his speech hopefully you put down the mic next speaker next big flexp history progresses cultures civilizations nations peoples the Egyptians their Syrians the Babylonians the Persians the Greeks the Romans the Byzantines in Hegel's thought right you have the thesis you have there thisis a nation of Culture gross continues to grow reaches its plateau its height its pinnacle that begins to decline and history moves on and every culture makes its imprint on history its contribution productive or constructive or destructive and then it moves on he says the only nation that's still holding the mic everybody had to fight the Romans had the mic for 500 years but then they left all of the my sister Jews are still holding the mic why and everyone still wants to know what they have to say and he answered because the Jews are stuttering so for thousands of years the world turns to them and says new yeah at Sinai they heard a very powerful message it's so powerful and so intense it scares them and they're afraid to say it because they're not sure how the world will accept it it's very hard for the Jews to embrace their destiny in this world the only nation that claims that Israel is an ordinary country is Israel do you know that no one else thinks Israel's normal no one else thinks Israel is ordinary the Jews are walking around and screaming we're just a regular nation no you're not and you're not gonna deceive anybody stop stuttering tell the world the truth and that's our calling today that's our cool the world wants to hear the truth they don't want to hear stutters but when was the last time you heard a Jewish leader a Jewish journalist get up and say Israel didn't occupy any territory God gave it to the Jews Jews are afraid to say it because it's too Jewish sounds of angelical and which Columbia Harvard graduate Jew would want to sound like an avid Jellicle question for heaven's sake we quote Darwin we don't quote Moses we quote Freud we won't program achievement we quote Hitchens we won't quote the Baal Shem Tov to Jewish which remark said I would never belong to a club that would have me as a member so tonight I turn to you my fellow Jews you know what a guy is a guy he's a Gentile and a Jew is a Jew are Gentiles there was once a Jew converted to Christianity need became a priest so at his first sermon everybody came to listen to him even the Cardinals so when he finished one of the Cardinals went over to him and said you know that was a beautiful sermon you gave but next time don't start it off my fellow Gaea [Laughter] so I speak to two communities today we build bridges with each other first I talk to I reach out to you my fellow Jews and then I reach out to you my fellow Goyle and then I convert my fellow Jews we have to stop stuttering we ought to stop stuttering we want to cherish our heritage our history our faith because if the non-jewish world will ever come to respect the Jewish people that will be Jews who respect themselves if the world will ever come to embrace the Jewish vision of history it will be Jews who are not embarrassed with themselves they will never love us as long as we hate ourselves am i right and they're not even Jewish you see non-jews respected Jews who respect themselves and they're embarrassed by Jews or embarrassed by themselves this is not about racism or bigotry on the contrary it's about an obsession with the value of life and the value of peace and their respect for every person we as Jews what to intensify and strengthen our Jewish education our wisdom our knowledge of our heritage of our history of our faith we have to inspire ourselves to give our children the gifts of Torah the gifts of Judaism so that when they understand Israel when they look at Israel they don't see it as just some foreign tumor and Middle East that's making trouble and perturbing mr. Obama's plan to create a peaceful world don't laugh but rather they can appreciate Israel from a Jewish perspective from a sober historical perspective from a broad perspective give me a children the gift of Torah too my dear fellow we're all God's children on behalf of my people I want to thank you express our profound gratitude for your unwavering love and support and commitment to a world cleansed of hate of bigotry of racism of anti-semitism and your commitment to defend good and innocent people we truly thank you tonight we salute you tonight we honor you tonight for your tremendous affection and display of camaraderie with a country that is undeserving of all the hateful rhetoric it receives every day on campuses and universities in newspapers and websites around the country I admire your understanding of Jewish history because in one word if you want to understand Jewish history the Jews are the miners Canaries of history we were all taken a few weeks ago with the story of the miners in Chile we know before miners go down to their mind as they first send Canary Birds no one has miners Canaries what is the function of the canary birds the canary birds go down into the mines if they come back we know it's safe to go down into the mines and the canary birds die or come back disease we know that there are noxious fumes in the mines and therefore humans should not go down because they may become ill or from the poisonous noxious fumes in the mines who are the miners Canaries of history the juice for this is the truth of history wherever and whenever there was a people or a nation or a country or a kingler government that was targeting Jews and persecuting Jews Jews were always the first but nevertheless the Jews are the first one who died and suffer from the noxious fumes in our world suicide bombers did it begin by exploding by blowing up the World Trade Center a 9/11 they could have became London and it means and in India and in Yemen the Russia they began in Israel Hitler began with the Jews every American was destined to die the Muslim terrorists begin with the Jews but it never ends and when people isolate the Israel and say it's Israel's problem no Israel is the miners Canaries the Canaries are sensitive to the fumes and they get hit first but the poison will remain and will kill every living person that's the nature of all history you study any nation that persecuted Jews they began with the Jews but ultimately it went beyond the Jews Jews are the people that attract the hate of the most evil elements of society that's truth of history tutor come a days of the world Kamala Nets keys of the world to Stalin's and the goggles and the manga lives and the Hitler's and the Pol Pot Sandara Fox and the Nasrallah's and that but in the top of the world our first and foremost extracted to exterminate the Jewish people we are the Canaries why you'll figure that out and read the Bible and I salute you for appreciating them for eternal izing that message together we must hold hands and say no to lies note the bloodshed no to violence and equally no to fake peace which will only bring more death tonight we must say yes to life yes to justice yes to morality and yes to the truth that the land of Israel is God's eternal gift to his people thank you very much special very special thank you to rabbi Jacobsen [Applause] now all clothes in a small printer we thank the Almighty for this evening and ask blessings on all the King we asked for an increased awareness of the people and land of Israel moment and the instilling of the law for the your word concerning your land I asked all here have a safe trip home to once again we meet as Jews and Christians in mutual support from the Land of Israel and everyone said obvious real cow [Applause]