With the arrival of Hanukkah, many communities and political leaders internationally took the opportunity to send a message of peace and their support to Israel in the context of the war in the Middle East.
Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, lit a menorah made from materials salvaged from the devastated Israeli music festival on October 7. Likewise, President Joe Biden used a special menorah to light the candles at the White House Hanukkah ceremony. It was a glass chandelier that had survived the destruction of the home of Shai Hermes, a former member of the Israeli parliament in Kibbutz Kfar Aza.
Biden referenced this element, which was borrowed from Israeli President Isaaz Herzog: “like the ancient story of Chanukah, buried [in] piles of shattered glass, burned rubble, and bullet-pocked walls, it brought something out of the ashes completely.” intact: a menorah.”
Another menorah that became a symbol of hope and survival this Chanukah was that of Tamir Hershkovitz, a survivor of the brutal Hamas attack on Kibbutz Be'eri. Hershkovitz lit the family menorah, which had belonged to his grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, in his childhood home, now in ruins.
May the Lord bless the Mayor of NY. In a city infested with anti-Semites. The vast majority of Palestinians. Why do they choose a nation with 90% Christians and hundreds of other religious denominations? ? Why don't Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, Iran, Syria, and others, among their brothers of their faith, receive them by the millions? Do they have hundreds of thousands of square kilometers and trillions of dollars left over? In democratic countries they can burn Israeli flags. And in their countries if you raise one they cut off your head. Total decline of the democratic West. We are invaded
The only nation on the entire planet whose political form is democracy is the United States, which is also the one that created it. I am not talking about the first in history, that of Solon and Pericles; assembly or direct democracy, but about the current, representative democracy based on political representation, a characteristic principle of the liberal or parliamentary regime (England) plus the separation of powers.