Left Bewailing 2017, a Year Marking 4 Zionist Miracles
We are Jews, we are Zionists, we are happy — get used to it!
Published: April 7th, 2016
“The coming calendar year should be a year of celebrations,” writes Ari Shavit, author of the 2013 New York Times Best Seller, “My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel.” Shavit notes the abundance of major anniversaries awaiting us in 2017:
August 31, 2017 marks the 120th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress, in 1897. It’s hard to imagine today what a brave and inspired event it was, which turned overnight the yearnings of a nation into a solid, pragmatic political agenda. Then, November 2, 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. Again, who would have believed that the most prominent imperialist power, the successor of the Roman Empire, if you will, would give its enthusiastic support to a political, territorial response to the millennia of Jewish yearnings for Zion. Then, if that’s not enough, November 29, 2017 marks the 70th anniversary of the United Nations’ decision to establish a Jewish state in the Land of Israel. An idea that was galvanized 120 years ago and received a strong boost 100 years ago became a wide confirmation by the nations of the world 70 years ago.
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