“Green Means Go!” Israel’s Next Steps

Unlike some of its predecessors, the new U.S. administration is highly supportive of Israel’s responsibility to prioritize its security needs above all else. While this situation is rare, it is not entirely unprecedented.

As Israel deliberates its next steps, JEM’s Enduring Peace presents the Rebbe’s timely guidance for Israel, including the Rebbe’s urgent message that the window of opportunity will not remain open forever.

Many Jews worldwide have been riding an emotional pendulum, following every development concerning the hostages, and regarding Israel’s security challenges. Within all the frenetic events, there has been a unique positive development on the diplomatic front. The current US administration, with a clear appreciation for Israel’s security needs, is projecting full support for Israel to “do what it needs” to defend itself.

Historically, such moments have been few and far in between.

Narrated by Rabbi Elkanah Shmotkin, director of JEM’s Enduring Peace, the Rebbe’s words in the video talk directly to current events.

The address featured in the video — delivered in the summer of 1982, several days into the Lebanon War — was to a group of high school graduates. At the time, the Americans, preoccupied with a high level diplomatic mission in Europe, had discreetly “given” Israel a window to act.

Articulating a message which he knew would quickly be transmitted to Israel’s leaders, the Rebbe explained that Israel had been presented with a unique window of opportunity which must be utilized.

Enduring Peace is an educational project by JEM dedicated to sharing the Torah’s straightforward and compassionate guidance to security and peace in Israel.

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