Today I read in the local newspaper the horrifying news that synagogues are to be provided with police posts during the High Holy Days. I know that the local rabbi lives in constant fear of attack, and it is not that long ago that mounted police accompanied worshippers on their way to another synagogue a few miles down the road.

Who are these people who threaten the safety of law-abiding Jewish people? The problem is that the identity of these figures is blurred in the general miasma of resurfacing antisemitism. This anti-biblical attitude towards the Jews has never gone away; certainly it was blunted by sympathy in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, but the Devil's resistance to God through His Chosen People, Israel, is still all too real. Satan has put into the mouths of men various reasons why the Jews should be destroyed, but he is apparently too stupid to realise that God will forever protect them. From a biblical perspective those who oppose Israel and the Jewish people should begin to realise this. I am not concerned with politics - that's a man-made thing. Israel as a political entity may arguably make mistakes, just like other nations fighting for their survival, but according to God's promises in the Bible, she will never be destroyed. How I wish other nations would latch on to this!

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