Eitan Haber
Photo: Shalom Bar Tal
Wishing you good luck, Mr. President
On behalf of seven million Israelis, Eitan Haber welcomes new President of Free World to White House
The moment you enter the Oval Office at the White House this evening, you will no longer be the personal president of 300 million Americans. You are the president of the Free World, and billions of people are looking up to you as of today with their hopes and prayers.
You can seal their fate with your very own hands, your words, and your decisions: You will decide who will live and who will die in war or of hunger. You are the man, you and nobody else, who will bring hope to despaired human beings and dishearten others.
The whole world will closely monitor your words, your whispers, and your winks. They will wish to see you as the savior who will resolve all the world’s problems.
And we, in our little corner, here in the Middle East, are anxious to see whether you shall continue the tradition of American presidents in recent generations and view us as an ally; your frontline aircraft carrier in this bloody region of the world.
We are anxious to see whether you will bestow on us all the good that the great America can offer, or whether, heaven forbid, you will see us as just one more nation among all others.
You have the power, almost all of it, to decide whether we shall be waking up every morning with a smile and new song in our heart, or whether, heaven forbid, more worried wrinkles shall be finding their way to our foreheads.
Today, seven million citizens in the State of Israel wish you good luck!
