I Know Why Israel is such a Happy Country
I Know Why Israel is such a Happy Country

Before the 1967 war, in some parts of the country, Israel had a depth of just ten kilometers: on one side was the enemy, on the other the Mediterranean. It was very easy to shatter the small Jewish enclave. 

Because the long, troubled path taken by the Jews after Abraham travelled to Canaan from the land of the Chaldeans, through Pharaonic Egypt, Babylon and the ghettos of the earth, through the death camps and the gas chambers, did not end in May, 1948, when Israel was proclaimed a state. 

The day after the birth of the state, Egyptian, Syrian, Iraqi, Jordanian, Lebanese troops were already a few miles from Israel's most important centers. The front line was everywhere. In Jerusalem there was only one cannon and to counter the tanks and the artillery of the Arabs the Israelis had rifles, old guns, grenades and Molotov cocktails. The first military aircraft came just after two weeks of hostilities. The Israelis had the sea behind them; there was only one alternative: to win or die.

And they won. Israel is still here now that it celebrated its 67th birthday. A new survey sees Israel as the 11th happiest country in the world. How do we explain this nonsense? If you compare Israel to the other nations listed in the survey, it appears very clear that the Jewish State is just about the world's happiest country on earth. You experience happiness in Israel when you see a military trench, a religious yeshiva, a famous hospital or a secular bookshop. 

The Israelis had the sea behind them; there was only one alternative: to win or die. And they won
The country is still open to danger, with long and absurd borders. With its 20,000 square kilometers, Israel is the size of an average Italian region, while the Arab countries cover an area of ​​13 million square kilometers, three million more than the whole of Europe, from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. 

Israel is a strip of plains and hills on the edge of an arid unproductive desert. Do not forget that most of Israel's citizens are refugees or children of refugees who escaped or survived the Nazi persecution or that in the Arab countries. 

In the West, against Israel, we hear the same sinister sentences that made up Nazi propaganda, now to be found in the newspapers, schools, books, universities and parliaments of Europe. In the West the specter of Joseph Goebbels saying that Denmark was a threat to the Third Reich has reappeared. Today, in its place, is Israel. 

A state that has no place to which its people can retreat and which confronts threats every day.

So why are the Israelis so damn happy? 

Because the State of Israel is the only growing piece of the greatest civilization which appeared on earth: the West. That's why the Israelis are so happy.

But there is a deeper reason which has to do with Judaism. 

The Jews want to bring God back into this world and not to bring man up to the sky. They do not want to give mankind the kingdom of heaven, they want see God coming back to reign on earth. And this fulfills their lives with a daily miracle. Only Israel has a place called the Temple Mount. The place where the Lord's Presence appeared to mankind.