In spring, shortly after PessaH (Passover), there are two memorial days which reflect the recent history of the saga of the People of Israel. The first is the day on the rabbinic calendar, 27 Nisán 5703, the day that effective organized resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ended, twelve days after it began on the first day of PessaH, 1943. While effective organized resistance ended on 27 Nissan (1 May, 1943), there was scattered resistance to the Nazis until 16 May (11 Iyár). This entire time period of resistance was longer than the Polish Army held out when the country was attacked in 1939.
While most Jews in exile view this day as "Holocaust Remembrance Day", and primarily concentrate on the victims, it is really a day to commemorate the beginning of militant Jewish resistance to the evil of Jew-hatred that has attempted to exterminate us over the generations. The full title of the day is yom hashóa v'hag'vurá - Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day". The Rabbinate designated a day to remember all the martyrs of the Nazi holocaust of our people - 10 Tévet, the day that the Babylonian army began the siege of Jerusalem 2,700 years ago. This day is dedicated specifically to saying Kaddísh (the memorial prayer) for all those victims who have nobody to day Kaddísh for them. And there are many unnamed victims to this massacre, each of whom lived, had dreams, hopes and family - and the families were all killed. This remembrance day is a fast day, usually in January, shortly after Hanukkah. But like all things in Israel, politics dominate this issue as well, and the secular establishment of the country ignores this day in favor of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The second day is the Day of Remembrance for the Fallen Heroes of Israel, and is marked as is Remembrance Day in Canada, or Memorial Day in the United States, with visits to cemeteries, wreath laying and the recollections of veterans of the battles fought in the many wars of this country. While here, it simply a day of remembrance for the soldiers, police and police volunteers who fell defending their country, it is a much more controversial day overseas, outside of Israel - where many people feel that Jews do not deserve a country at all. The reason this date was picked was that it is the day that marked the end of resistance of Gush Etzión - the Etzion Bloc - to the Arab Legion under the command of its British commander, Glubb "Pasha", 4 Iyár 5708 - one day before the British High Commissioner was to leave, one day before the Jewish Agency would be able to declare the first sovereign and independent Jewish entity on the soil of Israel since the days of Heftzíba 1,400 years ago. On 5 Iyár, 15 May, the Jews defending Gush Etzion surrendered - after they did, the Jordan Legion massacred 127 of them and left their bodies in the field for a year and a half - at which point the government of Jordan allowed the Israelis to finally bury their dead on Mt. Herzl. It should be noted here that an internet search of "Israel Remembrance Day" did not reveal the connection between the end of the resistance at Gush Etzion and Israel Remembrance Day at all. It was only looking up the battle of Gush Etzion that did. Again, politics dominate the issues. The Israeli government and all of the "Zionist" websites floating around the internet are afraid to link Remembrance Day to the defeat at Gush Etzion and to the savage massacre of the defenders there after they surrendered in 1948, even though that it the reason for this date having been picked.
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1 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
As I pointed out in the article above, politics dominates everything in this country.
Ruth Eglash's article in the today's Jerusalem Post deals with the fact that monies supposed to help the survivors of the death camps are not being used for that purpose, and pensioners are calling for a boycott of commemorations of Yom HaShoa, Sunday night and Monday.
The truth of the matter is that a lot of the reparations money from Germany sits in banks earning interest and is denied to the rightful recipients by the ISRAELI government, in cooperation with the banks who benefit by the money being invested for THEIR purposes. Hence, one sees the statistics cited in the Jerusalem Post article. This is another result of the direction the Zionist state has taken in its development, another reason it will collapse under the weight of its moral bankruptcy - suddenly.