The conflict in Israel is steeped in historical past. So you could begin in the beginning.
David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, proclaimed the institution of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948. Then-U.S. President Harry S. Truman acknowledged this new nation on the identical day. Here is the entrance web page from the Herald:
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Truman wrote, and we quoted: “In 42 fateful words, Mr. Truman proclaimed: ‘This government has been informed that a Jewish state has been proclaimed in Palestine and recognition has been requested by the provisional government thereof. The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new state of Israel.”
It was a solemn second coming so quickly after the horrors of the Holocaust have been nonetheless being revealed. It’s a narrative that we should preserve reporting!
Including Grand Rabbi Y.A. Korff, chaplain for the City of Boston, who delivered Wednesday’s prayer at the beginning of the Boston City Council assembly, the place he shared he was within the Jerusalem Great Synagogue in Israel when the Hamas assault occurred on Oct. 7.
The terror assault was all too actual, he mentioned. I’ll allow you to go learn the remaining.
Rabbi Korff known as your loyal archivist this morning to thank the Herald for printing his phrases. How may we not?
“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night,” wrote Elie Wiesel in his landmark e-book “Night.”
This is an advanced story, however this chapter began Oct. 7 close to the Gaza Strip with Hamas terrorists killing harmless kids and taking ladies hostage. The story should begin there.
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The Herald’s protection of that historic declaration jumps to web page 3 (linked above). It’s not misplaced on this author that Israel’s existence and life within the Middle East is on an arc that continues to be violent and seemingly unending.
But we will’t put our pens down.
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