(The following is a drosha given by HaGaon Rav Aharon Feldman shlita, at the recent Agudah Convention, which I feel needs to be shared and read by all)
This past year has been very difficult. We have suffered from losing Gedolei Torah and Roshei Yeshivos. We are suffering from the war in Eretz Yisroel. The war has taken 800 lives so far and wounded 10 times as many; displaced nearly 800,000 people. There's a glimmer of hope in the recent ceasefire agreement with Lebanon, but we're far from being out of the woods. We hope that we'll have a yeshua b’korov.
What is remarkable, in America, on our home front, is the reaction here in the country to the atrocities of October 7th of last year. We expected sympathy for those atrocities; but instead, we were faced with a global wave of hatred and accusations which defy the imagination. And this wave has not yet subsided.
Genocide is a term invented to describe the indescribable, the evil of Hitler. And yet, this term is applied to a nation which legitimately defends itself, and is fighting for its survival. And which, unlike any nation in the history of war, exhibits humanitarianism by informing those buildings that they're going to bomb because there are tunnels underneath, informing the people to leave the buildings. Despite all this humanitarianism, they're accused of genocide. And the International Criminal Court accuses the Prime Minister of Israel of crimes against humanity.
Most remarkable, this accusation takes place at the very same time that one of the great world powers is engaged in wanton daily attacks on civilians with indiscriminate bombings of cities, schools, and hospitals. The International Criminal Court does not react to this. There are no college campuses that set up vigils in protest. Nothing, no reaction. Only to the Jews.
Has the world gone mad? No.
