Joshua And Caleb

clipped from article.nationalreview.com We are challenged to fight an enemy who wishes to deny us our freedom, and enslave us. We hear voices repeating the false intelligence of the ten, telling us that all is lost, that there is no hope. Iraq is lost, they say, and Iran must be appeased. I was just invited to a conference on “how to live with a nuclear Iran.” There will be more such voices, perhaps even a consensus that we cannot win, and must accept our doom. Joshua and Caleb saw more deeply, realized that their war could be won, and their cause was just, and refused to surrender to the “consensus” of the ten. In the end, they were proven correct, the war was won, and the Jews became a free people. The battle against tyranny is endless on this earth, and we can no more escape it than could the wandering Jews. I agree with the rabbi; the sin of abandoning hope and of surrendering to tyranny is even greater than idolatry. A terrible sin indeed.