I WILL GREATLY REJOICE IN THE LORD Isaiah 61:10

The Feast of Booths/ Sukkot is almost over, and every year I am amazed at the joy released during this week of rejoicing. I remember one year, I was looking out of my hotel window in Jerusalem watching people dancing in a huge sukkah on the roof of their building. The joy and laughter could be heard across the rooftops! It is a season when we recognize all our blessings and the good hand of G-d on our lives and our hearts are filled with thanksgiving.
To anyone who reads or listens to the daily news, this appears to be absurd. Israel seems singled out by the world’s global organizations as the number #1 enemy of the entire planet!
THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A SINGLE RESOLUTION BY THE U.N. ABOUT THE DECADES OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS  (BOTH CIVIL AND POLITICAL) OF THE 1.3 BILLION PEOPLE LIVING IN CHINA.

THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A SINGLE U.N. RESOLUTION ADDRESSING THE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS OF WOMEN OR NON-MUSLIMS IN SAUDI ARABIA.

THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A RESOLUTION ADDRESSING THE STONING OF WOMAN OR CRUCIFIXIONS MANDATED IN THE IRANIAN COURT SYSTEM.

Yet, every year the United Nations bodies are required to produce at least 25 reports on “alleged human rights violations” BY ISRAEL!

During the United Nation’s first 42 years of its 690 resolutions, 429 were specifically against Israel.
Since the U.N. began, at least one Arab nation has continually sat on the Security Council – ISRAEL is the ONLY member nation that is forbidden to sit on the U.N. Security Council!

The U.N. Human Rights Council targeted Israel for human rights violations in their Goldstone Report. ISRAEL was going after TERRORISTS who had launched 12,000 rockets on ISRAELI CIVILIANS in southern Israel!

UNESCO is in charge of perserving HISTORICAL SITES. In a 44-1 vote, they recently decided THE CAVE OF THE PATRIARCHS (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) and RACHEL’S TOMB are an “integral part of the occupied Palestinian territories”. Israel was warned that it must not violate international law by claiming the sites are their’s!

As revolutions continue in the nations surrounding ISRAEL, weaponry is being transported to be used against her. 20,000 advanced missiles disappeared during Libya’s uprising only to be found in Gaza! The international community says nothing!

So it really is amazing to see Israelis celebrating with thanksgiving and joy despite the attack on its existence. May the G-d of Israel watch over His word today in Psalm 20 :

                                              May the Lord answer you
                                  When you are in distress
                                  May the name of the G-d of Jacob protect you!
                                              May He send you help from the sanctuary
                                  And grant you support from Zion.
                                  May He remember all your sacrifices
                                  And accept your burnt offerings.
                                  May He give you the desires of your heart
                                  And make all your plans succeed.

                                  We will shout for joy when you are victorious
                                  And we will lift up our banners
                                  In the name of our G-d.
                                  May the Lord grant all your requests.

                                  Now I know the Lord saves His anointed;
                                  He answers him from His holy heaven
                                  With the saving power of His right hand.
                                  Some trust in chariots and some in horses
                                  But we trust in the name of the Lord our G-d.
                                  They are brought to their knees and fall,
                                  But we rise and stand firm.
                                  Save Lord!
                                  May the King answer us when we call!