Aliyah & The Disappearing Jew

Netanyahu: No future for Diaspora Jewry
Gil Hoffman, THE JERUSALEM POST
Oct. 6, 2006

Opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu questioned the future of Diaspora Jewry in a closed-door meeting with American contributors to the IDF's Nahal haredi program on Thursday morning.
He warned that assimilation and intermarriage would threaten the future of Diaspora Jewry and said the Nahal haredi program was the answer to the rifts inside Israeli society. Netanyahu told participants to do everything possible to prevent assimilation in their communities, but said Israel is what is keeping the Jewish people together.
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"There is no future for Jews in the Diaspora, because of assimilation and intermarriage," Netanyahu said, according to participants. "The only future for the Jews is in Israel. The only hope for the Jewish people in the Diaspora is Israel."

In this prophecy, Jeremiah said: "And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph [Ephraim], and I will bring them again [to the Holy Land] to place them; for I have mercy on them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the Lord their God, and I will hear them" (Zechariah 10:6).

My comments: There are about 15 million Jews in the world today. Consider that the Holocaust exterminated 6 million to get a perspective on this. Jews make up, right now, 0.3 % of the world's population. There aren't enough of them to fill up Los Angeles or Cairo.

What's more, they are headed for extinction through inter-breeding. That is, the purity of the Jewish race, the thoroughbreds, has been seriously compromised through marrying Gentiles in the nations to which they were dispersed. Jews have, of course, suffered enough in this world: but they really face an uncertain future unless they get their act together. Netanyahu, I think, believes this. He is calling for aliyah, or a return to Israel. This at a time when Jews have been leaving Israel.

America is the world's chief stronghold of genuine Jews. Some argue they are doing fine in their dispersion. Others worry that the purity of the race is seriously compromised.

It may be that this waning of the Jew is one of the clearest indications of the lateness of the hour, of the finality of the eschaton, or the "end of the age." We certainly live in a moment like no other in history, with forces and circumstances in the world that seem to be pulling us inexorably toward the fulfillment of some of the unfinished business of ancient prophecies.