farmdoc's blog post number 374

As surely as day follows night, thunder follows lightning and spring follows winter, Yom Ha’atzmaut – Israel’s Independence Day – today follows Yom Hazikaron yesterday. The sequence of these two days is clear: Israelis owe their independence – the very existence of their State — to the soldiers and others who sacrificed their lives for it. Yom Ha’atzmaut’s celebrated on the 5th day of the month of Iyar in the Hebrew calendar – the anniversary of the day Israel’s independence was proclaimed by David Ben-Gurion publicly reading the Proclamation of the establishment of the State of Israel. This followed the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine which was adopted by a UN General Assembly vote on 29 November 1947, resulting in UN General Assembly Resolution 181. In 1948 the 5th of Iyar was 14 May – the second last day of the British Mandate of Palestine. The Hebrew word Ha’atzmaut is derived from the stem etzem meaning ‘inner and essential’ – which tells you the exact value Israelis place on their independence. Today, on her 61st birthday, Israel’s still under existential threat from the lunatic revisionist amnesiacs of the Arab/Islamic world and their sycophantic allies. Just as millions of Jews survived Hitler's Final Solution, so will Israel survive – and prosper – long after the said amnesiacs and their allies have gone and been forgotten. As surely as day follows night.