Jewish organization leader says Israel will be protected by God, despite attacks by Iran or its proxies

Days aft hundreds of missiles and drones were launched astatine Israel, members of nan Jewish organization are speaking out, saying Iranian leaders are cowards who hide down proxies, adding that "almighty God" will protect those who unrecorded successful nan Holy Land.

Iran’s brazen and unprecedented onslaught connected Israel precocious Saturday progressive drones, ballistic missiles, and cruise missiles launched from Iran, Iraq, Syria and Yemen.

Only 7 ballistic missiles reached Israeli territory, causing insignificant harm to an aerial base. Israeli and U.S. forces changeable down nan remainder pinch thief from British, French and Jordanian forces.

Aish CEO Rabbi Steven Burg said pinch Fox News Digital astir Iran’s attack.

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Rabbi Steven Burg, CEO of Aish, said God has protected nan Holy Land for much than 3,000 years, and will proceed to protect nan group of Israel arsenic countries for illustration Iran motorboat attacks against it. (Fox News Digital)

"Iran attacked. Iran has been attacking nan Western world and Israel for truthful long, from truthful galore places," nan erstwhile New York autochthonal said. "They conscionable usage proxies, because frankly, they’re cowards. And I deliberation for them to benignant of travel retired from down nan stone and propulsion each those missiles astatine Israel, I deliberation group were a small surprised…but I deliberation it’s a insubstantial tiger. I deliberation what turned retired is they don’t rather person nan expertise that everyone thought they had."

Aish HaTorah, according to nan organization’s website, was started successful Jerusalem successful 1974, pinch a extremity to supply outreach to and revitalize nan Jewish group by giving them an ambiance of communal respect.

Shared values

Burg said from Israel's superior city, Jerusalem, connected Monday. As nan only populist successful nan region, he said, location are a "tremendous" number of shared values betwixt Israel and nan United States.

On nan flip side, nan U.S. and different friends told Israel not to retaliate, which Burg said is tough, because if immoderate of those countries were to get attacked, he did not judge they would respond nan aforesaid way.

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Iranian pro-government supporters rally astatine Palestine Square successful Tehran connected Sunday, successful a ceremony of Iran's onslaught connected Israel.  (Hossein Beris / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP)

"To opportunity that, ‘OK, you know, you took a changeable successful nan chin. Just beryllium thankful that you didn’t deed nan canvas,’ I deliberation Israel astir apt will person to deed backmost astatine immoderate point, and past I deliberation there’s a existent mobility of who our existent friends are going to beryllium successful nan agelong term," Burg said. "There's nary uncertainty that Israel must respond, because that's nan measurement it useful successful nan Middle East. You know, erstwhile they deed you, and you don't deed back, they conscionable deliberation they tin support bullying you and support doing this. So location person to beryllium consequences."

In bid to deed back, he explained, Israel will apt beryllium smart astir it and not beryllium pushed into anything.

"They’re going to do it astatine their ain time," he said.

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The Israeli Iron Dome aerial defense strategy intercepts missiles fired from Iran, successful cardinal Israel, connected Sunday. (AP/Tomer Neuberg)

Jews person been bullied and attacked passim history. Aside from Iran's onslaught complete nan weekend, Israel was attacked by Hamas-led terrorists connected Oct. 7, 2023, that resulted successful nan deaths of astir 1,200 Israelis and foreigners, while besides sparking an anti-Israel activity astatine U.S. universities, targeting Jewish students.

Burg said he thinks 1 of nan things that disappointed Israel and nan Jewish organization arsenic a full is what is going connected crossed campuses successful nan U.S.

Concerning trends

As a New Yorker, Burg said he remembers erstwhile al Qaeda terrorists flew planes into nan World Trade Center buildings connected 9/11, an onslaught led by Osama bin Laden that killed thousands of Americans.

Now, much than 20 years later, Burg said he sees a concerning inclination of videos connected TikTok glorifying bin Laden.

"We’re watching these protests, we’re watching nan campuses, saying it’s really clip for nan mean American who loves freedom, who loves his country, to guidelines up, because erstwhile they talk about, you know, decease to Israel, they’re really saying decease to America, decease to, really, occidental values," Burg said, adding it was clip to commencement saying America and Israel are awesome countries, and that populist is simply a awesome measurement to live. "We person to guidelines for freedom, and I deliberation that’s truthful important, for each of america to beryllium together and to really make judge that nine arsenic a whole, continues successful a free and thriving way."

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A divided of anti-Israel protesters astatine New York University. (Obtained by Fox News)

The group successful Israel could easy unrecorded successful fear, particularly aft nan Oct. 7 attacks became nan largest bulldoze of Jews since nan Holocaust.

Burg said nan onslaught "was big," adding that complete a 1000 civilians were killed while galore others were kidnapped.

‘Good versus evil'

The business created a batch of nervousness among its citizens, arsenic good arsenic a batch of tension.

But what nan onslaught besides did was bring nan state together, he said, creating a consciousness of request to get nan group who were kidnapped backmost to Israel.

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"I deliberation astatine this point, there’s specified resiliency to understand that this is bully versus evil," Burg said. "I deliberation there’s an knowing that this is nan correct fight."

Thousands of Israel supporters stitchery adjacent Central Park successful New York City, Nov. 6, 2023. (Peter Gerber for Fox News Digital)

There is besides an knowing that Israel will not beryllium amazed again, he said, and nan group of Israel cognize really to deed back.

"This is nan Holy Land. There is simply a definite consciousness and a definite deep, heavy belief successful God, that God is location to protect america and thief america connected our journey," Burg added. "We’ve been picked connected and bullied. It’s conscionable our story."

Passover to beryllium celebrated

Despite these attacks, group successful Israel are preparing to celebrate Passover to grant nan communicative of Israelites escaping slavery successful Egypt.

"We get together to talk astir how, complete 3,000 years agone successful Egypt, we were enslaved. We were forced to build nan pyramids. And past God sent Moses to prevention america and bring america retired of slavery," Burg said. "If anything, nan Passover vacation is astir bully triumphing complete evil.

"We person an knowing that arsenic agelong arsenic we're moral, conscionable ethical, arsenic agelong arsenic we move guardant successful nan correct way, past we're going to thrive. And each those nations passim nan years that, you know, tortured america and hit america up, they're each gone. And yet we're still present successful our homeland that we've been successful for 3500 years," he added. "So, I deliberation that there's a really uplifting of tone and soul, pinch this vacation and, I deliberation if anything, we're conscionable going to travel retired stronger."

Students of nan Sharif University of Technology successful Iran be a protestation sparked by nan decease of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was successful nan custody of nan country's morality police, successful Tehran, Oct. 7, 2022.  (AP Photo)

Ultimately, nan connection Burg sent was that countries tin proceed to onslaught Jews, nary matter wherever they are, God will protect them.

Iran’s government, he said, is not nan authorities nan group of Iran want — they want freedom.

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Burg continued to opportunity group successful Iran want to definitive themselves arsenic they person been oppressed for truthful long.

"We person to return a really beardown stand, and dream and springiness a small push, and watch this authorities fall, and watch nan beautiful group of Iran return complete and create bid pinch nan remainder of nan world," he said.