Eretz Tzion v'Yerushalim

I have just witnessed one of the most moving scenes I've ever  seen or heard.  Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump sat together and the Prime Minister thanked the President for the resolute support afforded his noble nation by the U.S. over the last year. He specifically cited the Trump administration's courageous and honest decision to move the U.S. embassy to Israel's eternal capital and the President's defiance of the viciously anti Israeli U.N. General Assembly. 

The look of gratitude on the Prime Minister's face offered a telling contrast to the tension so very obvious in him when he faced Barack Obama.  Obama's countenance, contorted with painfully and barely concealed antiSemitism, betrayed his hostility on those onerous occasions.  An hombre like the Prime Minister cannot but have been fully aware of it though he was not intimidated. He did his duty and held on until the U.S. returned to common sense.

I know I too felt gratitude toward our President, whose suitability for his office manifests itself with greater clarity apace. Our relationship with Israel is an important  measure of our worth as a democracy. I am not Jewish but I think it plausible and credible that  Jewish people have a covenant with the Lord to set an example for humanity of how oppression can be constructively resisted and how human life may be positively lived. For our country to support this is as it should be.  We are a youthful nation; we should be willing to learn from those who have survived the centuries and be blithe to go to the wall for them. And now, under Donald Trump, we are and I rejoice at it.

The phrase I used as a title is the conclusion of the first verse of the redeeming Israeli National Anthem  "Hativka". I understand it to mean "in Zion and Jerusalem".  May the Israeli nation , guaranteeing as it does  high civilization, with all its humanitarian qualities, in a sea of barbarity and bigotry, be ever so blessed,inspired and preserved.  With utmost respect:  Jack