So here we are edging ever closer to the end of the Iranian nuclear road. Even five years ago some of us knew that given the White House’s current occupant we’d eventually reach this point. And now — whether due to an inherent incapacity to confront evil or because his dim view of American exceptionality translates into an emotional coldness towardIsrael or as the result of simple weak-kneed incompetence — Mr. Obama seems to be preparing to capitulate and giveIran the little time it still needs to get the bomb.
He fought tooth-and-nail to prevent the sanctions now in place from being imposed on Iran and now is fighting equally strenuously to block the imposition of even harsher ones even as he accedes to Iran’s plea for negotiations that may well run out the ticking time clock for stopping Iran’s nuclear aspirations in their tracks. Apparently the assurances all along that “if you like your state you can keep your state” weren’t true either.
In just a few weeks we’ll read of how HaKadosh Baruch Hu arranged matters so that Yaakov’s sons complicit in the sale of Yosef were given a chance to do things over and this time get them right: to defend and protect Rochel Imeinu’s second child in expiation of what they had done to her firstborn so many years earlier. By framing Binyamin as the thief of his royal goblet and then demanding he remain in Mitzrayim as his slave Yosef creates a stark choice for his brothers: to see Binyamin like Yosef before him as the source of their troubles or to substitute brotherly loyalty for betrayal. Yehudah steps forth and selflessly offers himself for servitude in place of Binyamin leading Yosef to reveal himself and bring down the curtain on this saga much as Hashem Himself will do to end the saga that is human history for which the story of Yosef and his brothers serves as such an unerring metaphor.
Far be it from me to attempt to discern the Divine plan underlying contemporary world events; I’ve got my hands full merely trying to do so in regard to some of what transpires in my own personal life. But perhaps it’s not out of bounds to merely point out the uncanny way in which the trials of 70 years ago are being replayed before our eyes which surely others have noticed too.
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