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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p style='background:white'><em><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Tisha B'Av (The Ninth of the Hebrew month of Av which commences this evening) is the day on which both of the Temples were destroyed. Below is a translation of an excerpt of an address given by the great Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky on that day in 5697 (the Gregorian year 1937) in Warsaw's Great Synagogue: Jabotinsky died in 1940 while on a visit to the United States.</span></em><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333'>"It is already THREE years that I am calling upon you, Polish Jewry,<br>who are the crown of World Jewry. I continue to warn you incessantly<br>that a catastrophe is coming closer. I became grey and old in these<br>years, my heart bleeds, that you, dear brother and sisters, do not see<br>the volcano which will soon begin to spit its all-consuming lava. I<br>see that you are not seeing this because you are immersed and sunk in<br>your daily worries. Today, however, I demand from you trust. You were<br>convinced already that my prognoses have already proven to be right.<br>If you think differently, then drive me out of your midst! However, if<br>you do believe me, then listen to me in this twelfth hour: In the name<br>of God! Let anyone of you save himself, as long as there is still<br>time, and time there is very little.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333'>What else I would like to say to you on this day of Tisha B’Av is<br>whoever of you will escape from the catastrophe, he or she will live<br>to see the exalted moment of a great Jewish wedding - the rebirth and<br>rise of a Jewish state. I don’t know if I will be privileged to see<br>it, but my son will! I believe in this, as I am sure that tomorrow<br>morning the sun will rise. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Eliminate the Diaspora or the Diaspora will surely eliminate you."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>