I was born in 1965. The United States had just sent their first ground troops to Vietnam, the Rolling Stones were singing “Satisfaction.” The world was divided by the Cold War, the fear of nuclear war, and the battle of ideologies. No one could have imagined then what dramatic upheavals my generation would experience.
Over the course of my life, I have learned that there is one thing people consistently overestimate: their ability to predict the future. Empires that seemed invincible have disappeared. Walls built for eternity have fallen. Revolutions have changed the world. And yet history continues to surprise us time and again.
When I was two years old, the Six-Day War reshaped the map of the Middle East. Two years later, Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the moon. At the age of eight, I watched the Yom Kippur War shake Israel and lead to a global oil crisis in 1973.
In 1979, when I was 14 years old, the Islamic Revolution transformed Iran and...
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Thank you, Aviel, for your very concise review of particular events over this period of time.
I’m one year older than you, live in Australia, so remember all that you described.
But more importantly, to mention the bedrock from which we can understand the meaning of history, Isaiah 40:8, that sums it all up.
Study this verse, meditate on it, look at Israel and we see that this nation and this nation alone is 100% on course as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who watches over Israel has decreed in His Word. Psalm 91:1-2. Shalom.