This week Hezbollah, the Shi’ite Lebanese terrorist organization with close ties to Iran and the Assad regime in Syria, launched two cross-fire attacks on northern Israel, killing two soldiers and injuring at least seven others. Other terrorist groups, such as Hamas, were quick to praise the attack, illustrating clearly once again, the moral divide that separates Israel and other peace-seeking countries from those that fuel the fundamentalist viper raising its ugly head in our day.
In the very same week, the world marked Holocaust Remembrance Day for victims of the Shoah, again serving as a reminder of that same moral divide which separates good from evil and the magnitude of atrocities that evil can commit if not confronted.
As he addressed the U.N. General Assembly at a ceremony for the international day of commemoration, Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin stressed the need to preserve the memory of the Holocaust, along with the need for all countries of the free world to form a united front against terrorism today. “We must remember that evil is not the property of any specific region; just as it is not the attribute of any specific country or ethnic group. It is evil, that by its very nature, seeks to differentiate and discriminate between one life and another…while the only real difference is between good and bad; between humanity and darkness.”
Shabbat Shalom,
Yaron Sideman
Consul General Of Israel,
Mid-Atlantic Region
Consul General Of Israel,
Mid-Atlantic Region
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