2008 Soap Box Archives

Israel Trip Part Six

One more stop, impressions and wrap-up.

Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Museum, was built as a constant reminder of what happened to the Jews in Europe in the Nazi era. To me it represents many things.

For one thing, it is one of the most introspective and thought provoking places I've ever been. The first place you visit stands apart from the main part of the museum and is a memorial to the nearly 1.5 million children who were murdered in the Holocaust. There are pictures when you first enter and a constant reading of names and ages of children who died violently at the hands of a satanic Nazi regime.

When you look into the innocent faces of the children in the photos at Yad Vashem it's beyond belief that any human being could be so cruel.

As one who remembers the days of the Holocaust, the newsreels of Hitler's bulldozers scraping the bodies of naked skeletal dead Jews into a hole in the ground like so much garbage it brought back memories of my childhood in the days before television. The stark, grainy black and white pictures on the big screen of a movie theater brought home the horror and made an indelible impression on my young mind.

I only wish that our media would expose the evil that goes on in the world today, maybe graphic pictures and truthful reporting could knock some sense into the heads of the complacent, who don't seem to realize that the spirit of Nazism is still very much alive.

To those who say that the Holocaust never happened, a visit to Yad Vashem will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that it is a lie straight from the pits of Hell. The Holocaust happened all right, and the horrible proof is right there for the world to see.

It is a testimony of just how much evil a human being is capable of and the truth of the statement that all it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing.

To the everlasting shame of the Western world, for the most part it turned it's back on the Jews, refusing to receive their refugee ships and even the Pope in Rome was guilty of turning a deaf ear. The people in Germany even claimed they didn't even know about the death camps.

The Jews were rounded up and loaded on box cars like cattle with no regard to their survival, much less their comfort.

There were, however, a few people like Oskar Schindler who actually did something and gave the Jews refuge. These few brave souls have their own exhibit at Yad Vashem. It is called "The Righteous Among the Nations", and that's exactly what these few heroes were.

The Holocaust didn't happen overnight. It started with the ranting and raving of Hitler and his Nazi thugs, who intimidated anybody who disagreed with them.

It started with Hitler making a scapegoat out of the Jewish people, blaming Germany's economic and social problems on them. No political party starts out by telling people that they are going to build gas chambers and kill six million people.

It happens gradually as a population allows itself to be wooed away from family values and righteousness until their collective consciences become seared and they will accept the whole lie.

While we in America look back at the horrors the Nazis were guilty of, so many of us are unwilling to acknowledge the Holocaust the people of this country have stood by and let happen, a Holocaust that has aborted over 50 million innocent lives. Lives created by Almighty God, and lives whose blood is on the hands of politicians, judges, abortionists and a politically correct public which sits back and lets gross murder be committed in the name of a woman's right to choose.

Yad Vashem is a shining memorial to the spirit and resiliency of the Jewish people. They have overcome prejudice isolation and genocide. Three years after the Holocaust, the Jewish people reclaimed their homeland. God promised to preserve a remnant of the Jews and return them to Israel and he has been true to his promise. They have not only returned but have built a vibrant country that will never be completely destroyed although her enemies will never stop trying until Jesus Christ returns and puts an end to it.

The partiality of a left-wing world media is just as rabid about Israel as they are about things in this country. They take sides against the Jews and cast them in the worst possible light.

For instance, the media is quick to report that the Israeli army is indiscriminately bulldozing down Arab houses and putting families on the street. The truth is that the Israeli army bulldozes the houses of people who either fire at them or allow others to use their houses to fire at them.

Israel is a land surrounded by enemies, by people who literally hate them and believe they have no right to exist. But they have a powerful ally, there is no way Israel could have won the wars they've been involved in without the help of Almighty God. The same God who has promised to fight for Israel in that last great battle when most of the world is at their doorstep committed to destroying her.

Although the politically correct would never admit it, the same enemies who plot Israel's destruction are plotting the destruction of the United States of America, where we have forgotten about that terrible day in September when Islamic radicals killed over three thousand Americans.

Does America really believe that the people who destroyed our trade towers are any less committed to our destruction now that they were then?

The pictures of those planes running into the trade towers should be shown daily on television in the USA as a constant reminder that there is an enemy out there who never sleeps and laughs at our politically correct weakness.

I wish America could learn a lesson from Israel, to recognize our enemies, stop caring what the rest of the world thinks of us, and above all adopt the Israeli national slogan, "Never again"!!!

Pray for our troops.

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

 

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