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Knesset Member declares from podium: “I believe in the Messiah”

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Likud Member of Knesset Galit Distel-Atbaryan addressed the plenum on Wednesday, and despite self-identifying as non-religious, her address praised the “messianic” manifestations appearing among the IDF in Gaza.

Distel-Atbaryan described a gathering of hundreds of soldiers singing “Ani Maamin” (“I believe”) before going into combat in Gaza. The song’s words are “I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the Messiah, and, though he tarry, I will wait daily for his coming”. It is the twelfth of Maimonides’ thirteen-point version of the principles of faith and is a declaration of a belief that the Messiah will surely come.

“Yesterday, I saw one of the most touching films I have seen that came out of this war until now. Hundreds of soldiers in one hall, singing that they believe with complete faith in the coming of the Messiah. It is a little strange, because as emotional as this is, every newspaper you open, every television show you watch, every article in Haaretz, define this belief in the Messiah, this burning and eternal belief of the nation of Israel, this Messianic belief, as the greatest existential danger to our country right now. It doesn’t matter that this is how we define our soldiers indirectly, those who do the Kohanic blessing in Gaza, those who sing in honor of the Messiah in Gaza, those who put on tefillin in Gaza. These ‘Messianics’ that die in Gaza, and protect us in Gaza, they are a danger because they are ‘Messianic’? It doesn’t matter that it is strange that for the eternal nation that one thing that kept us was our belief that the Messiah would one day come. Suddenly, this belief is considered a curse or an existential threat to the country.

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If I'm reading the article right, she is awaiting the Messiah that is to come.
Not Jeshua HaMaschiach Who has come, and will return.

(Israel365news would never print such a story. They await their Messiah eagerly, yes, but they reject Jesus.)
 
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