Before you is a letter from the Sovereignty Movement to its members and supporters on the occasion of the 76th Independence Day of the establishment of the State of Israel.
As Independence Day 5784 (2024) approaches
To our dear friends,
Let us look from last Independence Day to this Independence Day, and from this Independence Day to next Independence Day.
These days of deliverance are days of introspection.
We must look back in order to understand the enormity of our achievement over 76 years: A world of Torah that was restored, grew and ascended; the thriving worlds of high-tech, cyber, agriculture, medicine, industry, that are a model and a miracle in the eyes of the entire world.
We must take a profound look at what is transpiring today in the country so that we will know how to draw the proper conclusions for the days to follow.
This year, the picture is clearer and more apparent. We discern who our friends are and who our adversaries are.
We painfully observe our lack of sovereignty, the dictates of the countries that surround us.
We see the weakness that has spread among the heads of our holy army who draw their combat doctrine from foreign sources.
And from a broader perspective, we see the Western world crumbling under the weight of progressivism.
But at the same time,
We see the people stronger than all their leaders, standing firm and responding voluntarily to the historic call to save our nation.
We see our soldiers courageously entering the fire with the courage of lions.
We see the heroic women of Israel like lionesses.
We see parents for whom the eternity of Israel is no less important than their own children.
With our own eyes we can already identify the leaders of the future.
We have much to improve in order to be sovereign in our land.
First of all, to repair the justice and education systems;
to promote massive aliya of Jews from the Diaspora;
to return to the values of Jewish labor;
to engender Israeli economic independence based on blue and white products;
to base our security on our own power in the spirit of the Maccabees;
to be satisfied with little.
Through all these and through standing firm in the face of the challenges confronting the nation, we will be privileged, with the help of G-d that He will “shine a new light on Zion and we will all soon merit its light.”
May we all have a meaningful Chag Atzma'ut, Independence Day,