Tuesday January 21, 2020
I've Been Thinking:
Forty-six presidents, kings and prime ministers will visit Israel this week.
That number is truly impressive.
The United States is being represented by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
The last time so many leaders converged in Israel was in 2017 and the
occasion was the funeral of Shimon Peres who served the country as both
prime minister and president.
Actually, fewer high level dignitaries came for the Peres funeral than are coming this week.
Israel is marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the
Auschwitz death camp. The official ceremony will take place on Thursday
at Yad Vashem, the national Holocaust memorial and educational center
in Jerusalem.
The central theme of this memorial event will be confronting anti-Semitism.
No other country in the world could successfully invite that many
leaders to attend a memorial and receive so many positive responses. It
shows how important and well respected Israel is and it shows how
important the fight against anti-Semitism is.
Again, truly impressive.
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