That is a very important phrase. I know it doesn't sound like much, but I have seen it used many times in the past while I was in (religious) school, and when I look back at that now, I realize that a sizable portion, if not (almost) all of the people who were using it did not know the first thing of how important those words were.
Not at all.
Jews have been wandering this Earth for a very, very long time. We have been chased from place to place, since the destruction of our Second Temple. We have been treated as the (ultimate) outcast by many, and we were used as a scapegoat for many hardships. Jews died as responsible for plagues, as someone to blame for the lack of food (or jobs), and sometimes simply because they were different.
But throughout it all we have prevailed. We have stood, even when we have lost our dignity. I can say (Adonai be thanked!) that so far in my life I have not been a victim of the terrible horrors of
anti-Semitism, but I have seen so many stories. Every time I saw them, I shook my head and closed my eyes, mourning the harm that a difference in theology (and ethnic background) could cause.
I have myself never been to Israel, although I intend to see the Temple Mount before I die, and if I am lucky, the rest of that beautiful city (and nation surrounding it) that all the Jews on this world can call home, if they choose.
We have a new president in the White House of Washington D.C. as of yesterday, and based on the attitudes of the people he associates with, it could be seen as quite obvious what his attitudes toward not only the Jews (who, at least in the Reform sect, voted for him likely in an extraordinary majority) but Israel will be. The Jews (in all number) are once again in danger as a culture and a people both inside Israel and out (in nations such as the United States). Once again we must stand together in solidarity, strong and united.
But I believe that some of us have forgotten what that means. Matisyahu (a Reggae artist, Jewish...) said it well in the song 'Jerusalem' "The gas tried to choke but it couldn't choke me..." That says it all right there. We have seen infinite kinds of hell as a people, and always we have surpassed them. From the savages of our infinite past to the savages of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries (as example, the Russians, the Nazis and the Middle Eastern Arabs) we have survived, and we will continue to do so.
I will not be surprised, if anyone forwards this, if non-Jews see this. This is addressed to you as well. You may not be Jews (or Israelis), but you are still human beings, and as such you must understand that we will never be defeated. Those who seek us now can attempt whatever they want. The Jewish people, nor Jerusalem, our holy city, will ever fall again.
But now the Israelis are being encouraged to cease-fire against the Hamas (our current antagonist), a group of terrorists and monsters who have said many times before (and indeed, even in their organization's charter) that all they will accept, in the end, is the utter destruction of Israel and the death of EVERY Jew on this Earth. Animals who during past cease-fires have continued to attack us... monsters who use children inside U.N. facilities to keep their members safe from the IDF. Who send children (with bombs attached to them) to die for their disgusting twisting of civilization.
Judaism is a faith with age-old traditions, and the Moslems seek now to destroy us utterly. I say let them come, because once again we will beat them back, and perhaps this time we will finally have the wisdom, despite the desires of the rest of the world, to 'finish the job'. It may not be something we want, but unfortunately for the survival of our people it is a necessity.
So often I hear Jews in the United States speaking of 'Tikkun Olam', as they call it. Wanting to repair the world... their naivety is absolutely horrifying to me, when seen side-by-side with the absolute lack of understanding of what is coming for us as a people. Just like the Jews of Germany during The Holocaust (a term many prefer not to use in today's society - "...hurtful to Germans, don'cha know..."), they believe the people of the world will see them as people of their nation first... not as Jews.
History certainly does repeat itself with frightening regularity... and this time we will not have the United States to come to rescue us, because this time they will likely be standing with our enemies... and even if they are not, I doubt they will come to our aid. Once again, the Jews must stand on our own, be we American or Israeli, or of some other homeland... we must stand by ourselves, with Israel and with Jerusalem. We can never forget that we are Jews, and we can never forget just what that means.
Matisyahu, I think, said it well in the song 'Jerusalem'. "Jerusalem... If I forget you, may my right hand forget what it's supposed to do."