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Israel needs one last miracle
I came across a very meaningful exhibition alongside the high walls of the two opposing long and wide pedestrian walks in Tel Aviv, Ben Gurion Airport. The exhibition displayed the inventions made by Israeli scientists since the day Israel was founded. Each technological and scientific invention was ground-breaking with significant contributions to humanity, in general. It was an exhibition where one could witness the undeniable miracle of a country who is only 68 years old.İvo MOLİNAS
As you all know, a few days ago, we commemorated a different miracle. At the Passover Seder, where we prayed and re-read the history of Passover, we once again commemorated the story of the Jews lead by Moses, escaping Egypt.
The most important part in this true “exodus” story, was the attribution to the miracle which occurred during the escape from Pharaoh and his army. The Jews come across a great miracle when they reach the shore of the Red Sea. As they wonder how to cross to the other side of the shore, the sea parts into two and the void in between becomes a dry land so that the Jews can cross to the other shore, on foot. The miracle is followed yet by another miracle. As the Egyptian army who is trying to capture the Jews starts walking the same path that took the Jews across, the waters fill the void and all the soldiers get lost in the depth of the waves. The Jews, now that they’ve reached the shore across, are free. All the dangers are gone, thanks to the two miracles.
After leaving Egypt, the Jews start living in today’s Jerusalem and the region known as the West Bank until the second century (A.C.) as either an independent state or under other empire’s rule. As a result of the suppression of Bar Kokhba revolt, the Jews start their two thousand years of exile. This long exile period spent at Diaspora ends with yet another miracle. After a two thousand years of exile, unjust suffering, discrimination, expulsion, massacre and Holocaust, with the approval of USA and Stalin’s Soviet Union (Stalin was never fond of Jews), the Jews found their new country.
Then, comes a third miracle. Jews from all around the world, from different cultures, come to live in this geography where most of the land is desert. Thanks to their commitment to education, technology and science, the desert turns into forests. The State of Israel makes ground-breaking inventions in the fields of agriculture, technology, medicine and science in a very short period of time.
Their ground-breaking invention in agricultural irrigation industry ‘micro irrigation (drip irrigation) technology’ and other inventions such as a technological mechanism that helps paralyzed people; flash discs that are carried in the pockets and hands of hundreds of millions of people around the world and the revolutionary medicine that directly attacks cancer cells which has become the hope of millions of cancer patients, are works of real miracles.
Israel has allocated 4.2 % of its GNP for research and development. Globally, it is competing with South Korea to win the first place.
For a country who is so committed to research, what could be more natural than having “miracles”?
However, Israel needs one last miracle. It needs the current state of war and conflict which has been going on since the day it was founded, to end. This state of war and conflict has been damaging the country’s reputation, even though she does not deserve it.
Thinking that Israel is the only obstacle in the path to peace and overlooking Palestinian groups who still dream of driving all the Israelis to the sea is a derivative form of anti-Semitism. But, after a two thousand years of break, the State of Israel who went great guns in just a short period of time, making the world witness an unprecedented rebirth, should definitely pursue peace for the sake of its own people as well as for the region.
The current situation cannot be sustainable in the long run. The Israeli politicians who do not want to change the status quo are greatly mistaken.
A country who has made ground-breaking inventions admired by the whole world should relentlessly contemplate ways to realize peace, one way or another.
The cycle of miracles which started with exodus from Egypt, should be completed with the miracle of peace. Then, only then, the Jewish State will have fulfilled its holy duty which she believes was bestowed on her.
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