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Let me tell you something the world refuses to say out loud.
There is one people on this earth who were told by nearly every civilization they ever lived under that they should no longer exist. Babylon. Rome. The Inquisition. The pogroms. The Holocaust. Every century, somewhere, a ruler decided the Jews had finally run out of road. Every century, they refused the verdict.
And on a sliver of land smaller than New Jersey, that same people built the most advanced, most alive, most defiant country in the Middle East. That is not politics. That is a miracle. And the world should have the decency to admit it.
The empires that tried to erase them are museum exhibits. The language they prayed in three thousand years ago is the language they speak today. There is no precedent for this. None.
On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion declared independence in Tel Aviv. Within hours, five Arab armies invaded to finish what Hitler started. They lost. They lost again in '67. Again in '73. Every war was supposed to be the last. Every defeat was supposed to be the lesson. And yet the same regimes that lost on the battlefield kept winning the propaganda war recycling the same hatred in newer uniforms with better press releases.
While they burned Israeli flags, Israel built the future.
The chip inside your phone was designed with Israeli IP. The firewall protecting your bank was built in Tel Aviv. The irrigation system feeding a Kenyan farmer's children was developed by an Israeli agritech firm. Waze was born on streets bombed by Scuds a generation ago. The Iron Dome the only system that intercepts rockets mid-flight was built by a people who refused to die quietly under rocket fire.
The countries that boycott Israel the loudest are the countries their own citizens are fleeing. The country they boycott is the country their citizens flee to.
I write this from Somaliland.
We are a small, Muslim African nation. We rebuilt ourselves from rubble without foreign armies or oil money. We've spent thirty years waiting for the world to acknowledge what we are: a functioning, peaceful, democratic state. The Arab League ignores us. The OIC looks the other way. The same countries that lecture Israel about justice lecture us about patience.
So when Israel a nation that knows exactly what it means to be unrecognized, blockaded, and slandered treats us as a partner rather than a problem, we notice. We are Muslim. Israel is Jewish. The world told us we should be enemies. We chose otherwise. Because dignity is thicker than dogma.
The people who refuse to die build the things the people who tried to kill them cannot live without. Build anyway. Build while they boycott. Build while they burn your flag and download your apps on phones powered by your chips.
The miracle is not that Israel survived three thousand years of attempts to destroy it. The miracle is that it survived and then chose to build the future anyway.
Next year in Jerusalem.
And this year, in Hargeisa, in gratitude.