לֶּ ה אֶ זְ כְּ רָ הֵא פְ שִַׁנ
דִֵז
ְו י עָ לַ י אֶשְׁ פְּ כָ ה . כִּ י בְ לָ ע וּ נ וּ י ם כְּ עֻ גָ ה בְּ לִ י הֲפוּכָה . These I will remember . I pour out my very soul . Those insatiably bent on evil have devoured us .
As the State of Israel ’ s closest ally and friend , the United States , its political leaders together with American Jews and American patriots of all faiths , have a solemn obligation to our sister democracy , a sacred duty to the Jewish State in its current crisis . We remember the passionate call of Thomas Paine in the coldest , darkest days of 1776 , when a young America fought for its freedom , independence , and survival . In “ The American Crisis ” he wrote :
“ I turn with the warm ardor of a friend to those who have nobly stood , and are yet determined to stand the matter out : I call not upon a few , but upon all : not on this state or that state , but on every state : up and help us ; lay your shoulders to the wheel ; better have too much force than too little , when so great an object is at stake .... The heart that feels not now is dead .”
During his term as United States Secretary of Education , William J . Bennett wrote the following of America ’ s alliance with the State of Israel :
“ Our essential human kinship with Israel is something like our kinship with Great Britain , but it is also more particular and less blood-related than that . It is a deep-rooted feeling of linked destinies , a feeling that echoes back to our founding and to the earliest conceptions of the American experiment itself , that new birth of freedom which our fathers identified with the biblical Israelites ’ emergence from the darkness of bondage . And I believe it also has to do with an understanding , almost religious in nature , that to our two nations above all others has been entrusted the fate of liberty in the world . That -- the survival of liberty -- is precisely what our efforts to eradicate terrorism are all about .... I myself am one of tens of millions of Americans who have seen in the
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