Every year during the month of Iyar, sometime in May, debate resumes in Israel about whether those who love and seek the sovereignty and settlement of a Jewish state at least in all the land west of the Jordan should celebrate the official independence day Iyar 5 (this year, May 8) [1]. Given the failure of every government, increasingly obvious since 1967 and in place with ’official’ Zionist leaders by 1930, to fulfill this promise, some argue that to celebrate the existence of a State that works with the enemies of the Jewish people to frustrate redemption is confusion and self-contempt. Others still see the day, for all the failures of all the governments as a miracle, the beginnings of the truly sovereign Israel that the greatest sages say will mark the redemption [2].  (more…)