By COLlive reporter
Representatives of 72 countries are expected to attend the Paris peace conference which is aimed at exploring ways to restart long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian “peace efforts.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it a “a rigged conference, rigged by the Palestinians with French auspices, to adopt additional anti-Israeli stances.”
US Secretary of State John Kerry, who recently gave a lengthy speech rebuking Israel’s “pernicious policy of settlement construction,” is expected to attend as well, JTA reported.
Kerry will attend the conference less than a week before he leaves his post, with the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump and an expected reversal of U.S. rhetoric towards Israel.
In a meeting with Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende, Netanyahu said: “This pushes peace backwards, it’s not going to obligate us. It’s a relic of the past, a last gasp of the past before the future sets in.”
COLlive.com has learned that Chabad Shluchim in France are planning a spiritual counterbalance to the conference and its expected criticisms of Israel.
“We discovered that a talk from the Rebbe on this week’s Torah portion of Vayechi discusses the claims of the nations of the world against the Jewish people about the Holy Land,” one of them said.
“The sicha was said in 5741 and the Rebbe edited it for publication exactly 30 years ago to this day,” the person said. “Learning this sicha this Shabbos will be a spiritual activity to prevent any negative outcome.”
Shluchim are planning to study the Rebbe’s talk and to include community members in their learning.
The sicha’s text is available for print (begining from page 262) at http://www.hebrewbooks.org/14953
How many were they ?…70, seventy. Incredible ! the 70 nations told Israel to go back to 1967 borders, let Judeah and Samaria and…Jerusalem.
So have a look at what the Rebbe told in the latest JEM : if you don’t have a friend to ask for advice, ask your ennemy and do exactly the opposite. CLEAR !
Could the exact sicha be printed in English.
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The reference at hebrebooks.org is wrong page 262 is letters unconnected to the yinyan
1. download print, the 3rd sicha of vayechi.
2. learn the sicha yourself or in public, if possible.
3. in connection with the learning, sing the Rebbe’s “french” hoadders vihoemuna,
utzu eitza vesuffar..
and Diddan Notzach!!!