To those Israelis and American Jews who sympathized with the Palestinians. You are serving your enemy as useful idiots.
Your woke ideas and beliefs are strengthening those who want you dead. It gives you the illusion of being a good person; drugs can achieve better results with less harm.
Forces will always control the world and your life. There is no win-win situation in conflicts. Conflicts are won by the stronger side, not the weaker. In your case, there are the Jihadists’ forces, Palestinians included, that want you dead. – Make them weaker by all means possible.
Under the Trump administration, the elected politicians in Israel and the USA wish to keep you alive to serve their interests. – Make them stronger by all means possible.
Rather than aligning yourself with the Jihadists and their Palestinian supporters, I suggest that you stop fighting, belittling, and mocking the forces that want you alive. You need them more than they need you.
Pictured: A Hamas terrorist holds two of the many Israeli children that Hamas murdered, or abducted and brought as captives to the Gaza Strip, on October 7, 2023. (Image source: Hamas/X [Twitter])
by Alan M. Dershowitz • January 17, 2025 at 5:00 am
The decision by the Israeli government to make significant concessions to the Hamas kidnappers should never be called a “deal.” It was an extortion…. The kidnapping was a crime. And the extortionate demand was an additional crime.
When a terrorist group “negotiates” with a democracy, it always has the upper hand. The terrorists are not constrained by morality, law or truth. They can murder at will, rape at will, torture at will and threaten to do worse. The democracy, on the other hand, must comply with the rules of law and must listen to the pleas of the hostage families.
Especially complicit, with blood on their hands, are supporters of Hamas on university campuses who chant for intifada and revolution. Also complicit are international organizations, such as the International Criminal Court, that treat Israel and Hamas as equals.
Let us put the blame for ALL the deaths in Gaza where it belongs: on Hamas and the useful idiots and useless bigots who support murderous terrorists.
The decision by the Israeli government to make significant concessions to the Hamas kidnappers should never be called a “deal.” It was an extortion.
Would you call it a deal if somebody kidnapped your child and you “agreed” to pay ransom to get her back? Of course not.
The kidnapping was a crime. And the extortionate demand was an additional crime.
The decision by the Israeli government to make significant concessions to the Hamas kidnappers should never be called a “deal.” It was an extortion. Would you call it a deal if somebody kidnapped your child and you “agreed” to pay ransom to get her back? Of course not.
The kidnapping was a crime. And the extortionate demand was an additional crime.
So the proper description of what occurred is that Israel, pressured by the United States, capitulated to the unlawful and extortionate demands of Hamas as the only way of saving the lives of kidnapped babies, mothers and other innocent, mostly civilian, hostages.
This was not the result of a negotiation between equals. If an armed robber puts a gun to your head and says, “your money or your life,” your decision to give him your money would not be described as a deal.
Nor should the extorted arrangement agreed to by Israel be considered a deal. So let’s stop using that term.
Thank You, Israel, for Saving the World, Defending Freedom and Reshaping the Middle East by Majid Rafizadeh December 21, 2024 at 5:00 am
When it comes to national security, appeasement is not an option. Bribing aggressors only finances their militaries for attacks on the West in the future. Israel’s approach to combating terrorism has always been characterized by thoroughness and determination — for which is usually put through the tortures of hell by the very countries it is working to save.
With a vision of ultimately fostering peace, harmony, security and prosperity throughout the region, as in the Abraham Accords, Israel expanded its military operations beyond Hamas… reshaping the Middle East into a region free of the grip of terror… Make Persia Great Again!
So long as Iran’s regime remains in power, brutalizing its people and making plans for global expansion, there can be no chance for peace in the region.
Removing the regime… would bring lasting security and prosperity to the Middle East and beyond…. One could then set about subduing Turkey and its terrorist proxies in Syria.
After Hamas carried out its horrific October 7, 2023 massacre by invading Israel, murdering hundreds of people and kidnapping individuals from various countries, Israel reached a breaking point. This act of terrorism ignited a wave of decisive actions across the Middle East that catalyzed remarkable developments, aimed at countering and eliminating terror networks.
For decades, the region has been plagued by violence and instability, but Israel’s response marked a significant turning point, showcasing its resolve to confront terrorism head-on and help usher in a new era of security.
Israel has consistently demonstrated its commitment to thorough and resolute action. When it comes to national security, appeasement is not an option. Bribing aggressors only finances their militaries for attacks on the West in the future. Israel’s approach to combating terrorism has always been characterized by thoroughness and determination — for which is usually put through the tortures of hell by the very countries it is working to save.
Refusing to leave any task incomplete, Israel, in its counteroffensive against Hamas, targeted and significantly diminished the terrorist group’s military capabilities and crippled its ability to function effectively. The Iranian regime, a staunch supporter of Hamas, reacted by activating other proxies, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen, to attack Israel. In an unprecedented move, Iran also launched ballistic missiles from Iranian soil into Israel, thereby escalating the conflict.
Iran’s regime, however, underestimated Israel’s resilience. As a Persian proverb says, “Iran was playing with the lion’s tail.” The consequences were severe.
Israel’s broader objective appears to be not merely to respond to isolated acts of terrorism, but to dismantle the infrastructure of terror in the region.
With a vision of ultimately fostering peace, harmony, security and prosperity throughout the region, as in the Abraham Accords, Israel expanded its military operations beyond Hamas. It launched targeted strikes against Hezbollah, significantly weakening its military capabilities, and extended its efforts to Syria, striking Iranian military bases and weapons-supply chains. These decisive actions underscored Israel’s commitment to reshaping the Middle East into a region free of the grip of terror.
One of the most extraordinary developments spurred by Israel’s actions was the unexpected collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria. Within a week of launching an offensive last month, armed rebel groups achieved what for decades had seemed impossible: the conquest of key cities and the end of Assad’s reign. This monumental shift not only dealt a devastating blow to Iran’s regional ambitions but also signaled the possibility of a brighter future for the region.
The ramifications for Iran were profound. Losing Syria, one of its closest allies, severely weakened the regime’s ability to project power and support its proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon. In just over a year, Israel has succeeded in reducing Iran’s regional influence, effectively dismantling or weakening the pillars of its strategy—the Syrian regime, Hezbollah, and Hamas. This achievement is unparalleled. It disrupted decades of Iran’s poisonous dominance in the region.
Thanks to Israel’s strategic and calculated actions, Iran’s regime, which had survived Western sanctions and interventions since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, now faces unprecedented challenges to its survival, which cannot come to an end soon enough.
Israel’s efforts to eradicate terrorism and destabilize its sources have largely been accomplished without substantial assistance from Western democracies. It is now time for the West to step up and support Israel and most of the Iranian people in addressing the root of the problem: the Iranian regime. This final step requires decisive action to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program and empower the Iranian people to achieve freedom. Make Persia Great Again!
So long as Iran’s regime remains in power, brutalizing its people and making plans for global expansion, there can be no chance for peace in the region. Removing the regime, often described as the “mother of all terrorism” and the godfather of terrorist groups, would bring lasting security and prosperity to the Middle East and beyond. With the regime’s collapse, its proxies would be starved of funding and weaponry, paving the way for a more peaceful Middle East. One could then set about subduing Turkey and its terrorist proxies in Syria.
Israel’s contributions to global peace and the fight against terrorism are unparalleled. This small nation has accomplished what many larger powers have failed to do: confronting evil, dismantling terror networks, and advocating for freedom and security. The world owes Israel an unpayable debt of gratitude for its unwavering courage and commitment to these ideals.
It is time for Western nations to align with Israel, offer their full support, and take the necessary steps to ensure a safer, more secure future for all. Bravo, Israel! Thank you for your remarkable efforts in making the world a safer, freer, better place.
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh is a scholar, strategist and advisor, Harvard-educated analyst, political scientist, and Harvard International Review board member. He has authored several books on the US Foreign Policy and Islam. He can be reached at Dr.Rafizadeh@Post.Harvard.Edu
The transformation of the medieval world into the modern world came about with the idea that man could and should transform his lot in life.
The liberal individualism of the Enlightenment however was soon countered by reactionary movements, feudal and socio-feudal, seeking to put the genie of individual autonomy back in the box through collectivist movements.
Socialism postured as progressive when it was reactionary. Its leaders, most often hailing from the upper class and upper middle class, reverted newly liberated societies in Russia and China back to feudalism under the guise of liberating them. The Bolsheviks took Czarist feudalism and rebranded it as collective farming, forbidding the “liberated” farmers from owning property or livestock, and even from leaving their farms to seek a better life in the big cities.
The empowerment of the individual had given way to the enslavement of man in the service of an ideal society. Individuals were once again worthless, except as they fit into a larger plan.
The ultimate struggle will be less about movements and more about individuals. The more the system fails, the more repressive it will become. And only millions of individuals can defeat it.
Socio-feudalism has the destruction of individual autonomy as its central goal.
The transformation of the medieval world into the modern world came about with the idea that man could and should transform his lot in life.
The liberal individualism of the Enlightenment however was soon countered by reactionary movements, feudal and socio-feudal, seeking to put the genie of individual autonomy back in the box through collectivist movements.
Among the most prominent of these was what would eventually be called socialism.
While early socialist movements had been a radical Christian heresy emphasizing communal living, these experiments invariably failed on a local level, leaving behind a trail of wrecked lives.
Nineteenth-century radical theorists began laying out plans for the communal transformations of entire societies.
Fourier’s socialist “phalanxes” which would influence everything from Soviet communal farms to hippie communes in the United States, were feudal mass communities with no private property and everyone assigned a role in life under the rule of a centralized “omniarch”.
Socialists had to justify the elevation of the collective over the individual through fatalism about the role of man.
All evidence to the contrary, man has no ability to change his lot in life. He is only an atom in the larger phalanxes of life. As Robert Owen, the father of British Socialism, told the US Congress in an address in 1825, man “never did, nor is it possible he ever can, form his own character,” but is “universally plastic” and socialists could make him over into anything at all.
The US Declaration of Independence asserted that man was born free, but to the socialists he was born a slave and the best that he could ever hope for was to be a slave to the right cause.
Ralph Waldo Emerson insightfully critiqued Fourier: “He treats man as a plastic thing, something that may be put up or down, ripened or retarded, moulded, polished, made into solid, or fluid, or gas, at the will of the leader… but skips the faculty of life, which spawns and scorns system and system-makers, which eludes all conditions, which makes or supplants a thousand phalanxes and New-Harmonies with each pulsation.
Was man a “plastic thing” or the bearer of the mystery of the “faculty of life”?
Leftist revolutionary movements might begin by hailing the power of the individual, but invariably ended up in a socio-feudalism system making malleable man over to fit the five-year plan.
Socialism postured as progressive when it was reactionary. Its leaders, most often hailing from the upper class and upper middle class, reverted newly liberated societies in Russia and China back to feudalism under the guise of liberating them.
The Bolsheviks took Czarist feudalism and rebranded it as collective farming, forbidding the “liberated” farmers from owning property or livestock, and even from leaving their farms to seek a better life in the big cities.
The empowerment of the individual had given way to the enslavement of man in the service of an ideal society. Individuals were once again worthless, except as they fit into a larger plan.
The socialist argument against individualism was human fallibility. The muckrakers gathered every example of misery and described them as social ills that society had to collectively remedy. Outwardly private philanthropic organizations claimed to help the poor, but their embrace of eugenics, including mandatory sterilization, seizing children from parents, prohibition, and greater state intervention, including mandatory centralized state education, set a pattern that was innately socialist even when its proponents avoided the use of the word.
Every crisis, including World War I and the Great Depression, was seen as a reason for replacing smaller institutions with larger ones and further disempowering the individual.
Hitler’s National Socialist party blamed Germany’s loss in WWI partly on free enterprise. Roosevelt and the Democrats blamed the Great Depression on free enterprise. Both built state systems for seizing control of it.
The Russian Bolsheviks not only blamed individual farmers for their famine, but used it to wipe them out.
The post-war economic rebound in America and Europe did not end socialism, but rebooted it, with governments confiscating even more wealth for “the benefit of society.”
The macro conflicts of WWII and the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation, were used to define the individual as too small to make a difference on his or her own except as part of a larger mass movement.
In the 1960s, class warfare gave way to identity politics. Individuals had to join groups to fight for a fairer society. What governmental institutions had failed to accomplish in fully transforming man, the new movements set out to accomplish in the psychedelic decade. The individual was told that liberation would come from losing his bourgeois background, worldview, inhibitions, morality and values to a new emerging humanistic blob shooting along the rainbow to the right side of history.
The 1980s marked a reassertion of individual priorities over mass movements. The movements that had broken the country were distrusted. Socio-feudalism struck back with an environmental crisis taking place on such a scale that individuals were nothing when measured against it.
Global authorities had to immediately seize total power to save the human race.
Environmentalism has brought socio-feudalists closest to realizing Fourier’s vision of abolishing private property and packing everyone off to collective compounds with a defined role in life: Man has had his day, but individuals can’t help selfishly wrecking the planet. Only subservience to larger systems can stop global warming, end human misery and transform the world.
A new wave of gender identity activism further eliminated the line between the individual and the state. The personal was political at the most granular level. The pronouns you used, the products you bought, whether you left the light on or not, were political choices. Human existence became a series of political tests measuring allegiance to a state ideology.
When the personal is political, there is nothing personal left to the individual.
Socio-feudalism had contrived to reduce man to a state of total subservience.
Medieval England banned playing games, especially “fute-ball” because it was seen as a distraction from the priorities of the state.
Postmodern California passed two laws outlawing Indian mascots, along with plastic bags, gendered toys and a thousand other things.
Postmodern man occupies a world of illusory technologies and shrinking possibilities where children are discouraged from riding bikes, packed off to early schooling at toddlerhood and indoctrinated to believe that their playthings are the reason for the destruction of the world.
Socio-feudalism has the destruction of individual autonomy as its central goal, and the pandemic lockdowns showed how easy that goal is to achieve in the face of a crisis. Government could and did assert control over what an individual could wear and whether he could leave the house. The public eventually responded to it not with a mass movement, as those mostly failed or were repressed, but by unilaterally discarding the prohibitions of the state.
Americans had ultimately fulfilled Emerson’s faith in “the faculty of life, which spawns and scorns system and system-makers, which eludes all conditions.” And that is why socio-feudalism will fail unless it can reduce mankind to a state of abject helplessness, ignorance and fear.
That is what Communist and Islamist regimes strove for, with varying degrees of success. And it is still the great aim of socio-feudalism today.
The ultimate struggle will be less about movements and more about individuals.
The more the system fails, the more repressive it will become. And only millions of individuals can defeat it.
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
Taken from an article written by Cookie Schwaeber-Issan, a granddaughter of European Jews who arrived in the US before the Holocaust. Cookie Schwaeber-Issan left the USA and moved to Israel in 1993. She became a member of Kibbutz Reim but later moved to the center of Israel with her husband.
The American people have decided.
After the last 5-7 years of Woke ideology, which sought to take the country in a decidedly progressive direction, the majority has, instead, chosen to return to the familiar and time-tested path of tradition, common sense, and reason.
Donald Trump has won both the electoral college and the popular vote, displaying the rejection of policies that threatened to change American life in ways that were not acceptable to the majority.
Their votes affirmed that boys should not be able to participate in girls’ sports, undress with them in the locker rooms, that abortion is not the number one issue on the minds of all, that open borders are not the way people should come into a country, that DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusivity) does not top meritocracy and, perhaps, most important of all, that Israel should be supported and protected.
The results of this crucial election have also sent a loud message to the Woke students throughout America’s college campuses that terrorism can be properly distinguished and that Israel’s right to defend her homeland and her citizens is still a value held by those who understand right from wrong.
The ability to call Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists, rather than freedom fighters, was also on the ballot because the Squad and their ilk did not win their bid to isolate Israel as a pariah while attempting to convince everyone that October 7th was a justified payback for establishing the Jewish homeland 76 years ago.
This victory is one which will impact Israel as she fights a battle, fully equipped from a military standpoint, because she will not be lacking the necessary weapons needed to win decisively against a bitter enemy that is set on her destruction. It means that true and lasting peace is within reach because the new Secretary of State will not be hopping on flights every couple of months to try to strongarm us into an ill-timed ceasefire at a time when our hostages remain languishing in the depths of Hamas tunnels.
While progress is important for every nation, it must be done in reasonable increments, with logic, common sense, and the ability to defend why new ideas are superior to those which are seeking to be replaced.
In the case of the Woke progressives, no one, with a minimum of sound thinking, could make a reasonable case for such absurd ideas as promoting gender fluidity, hiding the thoughts and emotions of children from their parents, teaching new rules of gender, including explicit language and behavior, to children from K-6th grade or why libraries should have drag queen sponsored story hours.
This election proved that the majority does not view these changes as progress but rather as perversion. They are not seen as welcomed enhancements, but rather as a forced imposition of a viewpoint which rejects family, faith and the freedom to pass on one’s personally held values and principles to the next generation.
The overreach of government, which was being fueled by individuals who despise the American way of life and all it brings, was apparently so onerous to most of the public, that voter turnout was greater than ever. Clearly, people understood the stakes, so they did what they had to do.
Here, in Israel, we can also breathe a great sigh of relief, knowing that, even with all its flaws, the Republicans, who have had a sweeping victory, both in the Office of President, Congress and the Senate, represent the party which is more favorable to Israel, more embracing of traditional family values and more likely to stand by our side in a war that they recognize is not reserved just for the Jewish people.
With much support from the evangelical community, the same people who are committed to pray for and bless Israel, through their repeated visits, we are assured of a faithful and loyal ally who will not be the fickle friends, weighing their support of us, based on polls or what they believe to be politically expedient for them.
The Abraham Accords now has a second shot at building a new era of cooperation and mutual respect between countries who otherwise would remain antagonistic towards us. For governments, brave enough to extend their hand of friendship, the possibility of a calm and peaceful future is within reach, for the first time in a long time.
It is this type of good will which can only serve to strengthen mankind and ensure a better tomorrow, a stark difference from the tearing down of revered statues and monuments, in an attempt to erase history and rewrite one which bears no resemblance to the true events that took place.
At the UN Special General Assembly in New York, held at the request of the leaders of the European Union and the New Arab Bloc, the representative of Israel, Miriam Novak, spoke. Standing at the podium in front of the green marble wall of the main UN hall, Miriam Novak said into the microphone:
“Ladies and gentlemen! As you know, eighty years ago, Europe, led by Germany, carried out an ethnic purge: it exterminated almost all the Jews who lived there. French, Belgians, Dutch, Norwegians, Hungarians, Slovaks, Poles, Lithuanians, and Ukrainians – all helped the fascists.
You killed at least six million Jews, including newborn babies. Each could have given the world children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, so you can multiply the number of killed by four or five… And now, when we are again plundered, beaten, and killed in all your countries, and your courts release the murderers, you tell us that we have no right to defend ourselves? We have no right to warn our enemies that we will respond to a new ethnic cleansing with an even more powerful strike? Perhaps you can name another nation whose extermination is so fanatically sought by your new Iranian-led international community? And why?
For two thousand years, we have lived among you, offering you our knowledge, discoveries, and inventions.
We have given you the alphabet, the Bible, the Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, the twelve apostles, Spinoza, Disraeli, Columbus, Newton, Nostradamus, Heine, Mendelssohn, Einstein, Singer, Eisenstein, Freud, Landau, Gershwin, Offenbach, Rubinstein, Saint-Saëns, Kafka, Lombroso, Montaigne, Mahler, Marcel Marceau, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Yehudi Menuhin, Stefan Zweig, Arthur Miller, Maya Plisetskaya, Stanley Kubrick, Irving Berlin, Edward Teller, Lion Feuchtwanger, Paul Newman, Robert Oppenheimer, Benny Goodman, Eugène Ionesco, Imre Kálmán, Marcel Proust, Marc Chagall, Barbra Streisand, Claude Lelouch, Steven Spielberg, Anouk Aimée, Leonard Bernstein, Norbert Wiener, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, Andrew Lloyd Webber and thousands of other scientists and educators. Imagine how many such geniuses could have been born from the millions of Jews killed by you and then from their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren! But these unborn geniuses disappeared forever in crematoriums, burned synagogues, and mass graves.
So, do you really think that your resolutions, boycotts, and sanctions can bring us back to the gas chambers? No, ladies and gentlemen! Having lived among you for two thousand years, we have had to adapt to you and learn not only your languages but also some aspects of your psychology. Otherwise, how would we have survived in Persia without Persian perfidy? In Spain without the Spanish cruelty? In Germany without German submission to discipline? In France without French avarice? In Poland without Polish vanity, and in Russia without the oaths and the Russian habit of court latrines, where one must squat and talk about one’s spiritual greatness?
“And that is why I will tell you frankly: yes, we are not angels. Among us, there have been international crooks and gangsters, Lansky, Medoff, and Epstein, thieves, looters, adventurers, and even pedophiles. But in all our common history, there has never been a Jewish Bogdan Khmelnitsky, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. There have never been Jewish Josef Mengele and Erik Koch, Jewish Adolf Eichmann and Idi Amin, Jewish Andrei Chikatilo and Li Zicheng, Jewish Jeffrey Dahmer and Jean Bokassa, Jewish Fritz Haarmann and Ted Bundy, Jewish Nikolai Dzhumagaliev and Albert Fish.
We have never made necklaces with human ears, never scalped, never eaten human flesh, never made soap with human fat, never made lampshades with human skin, never made mattresses with women’s hair, never burned people in religious temples, and never killed children in gas chambers.
Instead, we created things that changed the world for the better. Drip irrigation, seawater desalination, Intel processors and Centrino and Core Duo platforms, the world’s smallest DNA computer and the world’s first USB flash drive, nanowire and camera pill, multiple sclerosis drug and exoskeleton, Google Glass for the blind and baby breathing monitor, The radar that can see through walls, the holographic reality artificial intelligence synthesizer, and hundreds of other wonderful things.
Representing only 0.2% of the world’s population, we have given the world 32% of the Nobel Prize winners.
Yes, I forgot to tell you: we have never consumed and do not consume the blood of Christian infants to make matzah. Already in 1913, three Orthodox experts on Judaism proved this at the famous Beilis trial in Kiev. In 1962, the Second Vatican Council lifted our guilt for the crucifixion of Christ, and in 2011, Pope Benedict XVI declared that “the Christian cannot be anti-Semitic, we have the same roots.” In 2019, his successor, Pope Francis I, said that “every Christian has a Jew in him” and that “one cannot be a true Christian without acknowledging one’s Jewish roots.” In addition, the head of the global Catholic Church said that “the covenant between God and Jews continues to apply” and “that anti-Semitism includes not only attacks on Jews, but also criticism of Israel.” Finally, in June 2020, the Rev. John Hagee, the leader of American Evangelical Christians, published his “Appeal to the World,” in which he said simply and clearly, “Why do we, eight million patriotic American Christians, support Israel? Because God is on Israel’s side!
If a Christian says he doesn’t like Jews, then his false Christianity is very dubious. God says, “I will bless those who bless Israel! I will curse those who curse Israel!”
And now I want to ask the European delegates in this room: who do you think you are? Are you Christians or not? When you pray to Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the holy apostles, are you not praying to the Jews? And when you say that you carry the image of Christ in your heart, do you not admit that you carry a Jew in your soul?
Even if you are a hard-core atheist, your ancestors were Christians for two thousand years, and therefore, Judaism is in your blood – whether you like it or not!
So, ladies and gentlemen. If you insist on the international boycott of Israel because you continue to hate Jews and want the total extermination of Jews on earth, then be consistent – start with yourselves, do seppuku! It will be an honest ethnic purge.
And now, as we say here in America, I have news for you. Now, after the Christians, it is the turn of the Muslims to get rid of anti-Semitism. Yes, it won’t be easy, but just as the Almighty helped humanity get rid of the bubonic plague, anthrax, cholera, and coronavirus, He will help you get rid of anti-Semitism. You ask: why? Why has the Almighty brought us back to Israel and forced you to give up your desire to destroy us? For He has to have a purpose, doesn’t He? I will give you my personal opinion. For according to His purpose, every nation is to bring to mankind what it does best. The French – cooks and perfumers. The English and the Russians – writers and poets. Italians – artists and musicians. The Germans – soldiers and philosophers. And we Jews – geniuses. Geniuses who, in all fields, are advancing humanity from barbarism and idolatry to culture, humanism and technical progress. This is our mission, which we have been accomplishing for two thousand years, despite everything! So whether we have genetic, torsional, nuclear, tectonic, cosmic, or other defense weapons, that’s none of your business! Whether you allow us to have defensive weapons or not, we don’t care.
As one of the founders of our state, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, once said: “Whether you like us or not, we don’t care, we arrived before you and we will leave after you.”
Little Israel is showing the world how to win again – and saving civilization and a free way of life into the bargain …. let Israel keep winning!
The problem with the JCPOA was, of course, its “sunset clauses.” They assured Iran that it could legitimately have as many nuclear weapons as it can produce in just a few short years.
The West has left Israel to fight a war that should never have been Israel’s alone. The Western nations, through diplomatic miscalculations, the need for votes, cowardice, and a fear of conflict, have essentially outsourced their responsibilities for maintaining global peace to Israel, watching from the sidelines as the conflict ramps up.
If the West is too fearful or reluctant to engage directly in the fight against injustice, terror, and tyranny, the very least it can do is stand with Israel and stop trying to sabotage it at every turn. Support should not be limited to words but include political, diplomatic, and military backing. By failing to support Israel fully, the West is empowering exactly those countries working to revise the world order — from one of freedom to one of tyranny — by displacing the West.
It is a grotesque reflection on the international community, particularly the Biden-Harris administration and the European Union, not to be offering unequivocal support. Israel’s struggle is not just for its own survival but for the security and peace of the Free World. The West, through its passivity, is failing not only Israel, it is hollowing out its own survival.
The West has left Israel to fight a war that should never have been Israel’s alone. The Western nations, through diplomatic miscalculations, the need for votes, cowardice, and a fear of conflict, have essentially outsourced their responsibilities for maintaining global peace to Israel, watching from the sidelines as the conflict ramps up.
Culminating with the dispatch of arch-terrorist Yahya Sinwar this week, how many of the world’s most vicious terrorists has Israel liberated the world from in a few short weeks?
Little Israel is showing the world how to win again — and saving civilization and a free way of life into the bargain. For those of us fortunate enough to live in a free society rather than in a society of fear, as the former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky calls them, let Israel keep winning!
This is one of the most brilliant articles I’ve ever read. It was written by Miriam Lopian, a British medical specialist who recently moved to Israel.
October 7th caught us all by surprise, but I must admit that my anxious brain has always been waiting for it, and I don’t think I am alone.
I was prepared because the modern Jewish state was reborn during an era defined by the cry of “never again.” Never again would we march like sheep to the slaughter, but not never again would there be another attempt to annihilate us.
I was prepared because our entire state is built to function with this threat etched in our hearts. We hand over our family members to serve in the Israel Defence Forces from the age of 18; in Israel you are never too far from a bomb shelter, lest you get caught in a rocket downpour and a massive concrete wall separates Israeli and Palestinian villages, purposefully built to defend against terror.
I was prepared because we have had to degrade ourselves and the spirit of our peace-loving people by enforcing military control over large territories and restricting the movement of fellow human beings because of the very real threat some of these people pose.
I was prepared because I know you can’t simply walk into a mall here without being searched for weapons and the world’s most brilliant minds are working around the clock to gather intelligence on every suspect across the Middle East and beyond.
I was also prepared, thanks to my education in Jewish history, which taught me the enduring precedent of millennia-long animosity towards the Jewish people. The Bible, the world’s most widely read book, introduces this narrative with the story of the Exodus, where the Israelites escaped 430 years of slavery and persecution by the Egyptian Pharaoh’s, and were led to their homeland—Israel—more than 3,000 years ago. This theme of persecution and resilience is a consistent thread throughout our history, with various civilizations such as the Greeks, Romans, Babylonians, Persians, and Crusaders each playing their part.
I was prepared because I personally know countless people alive today who bore witness to the ease with which the most civilized nation of its time systemically exterminated over 6 million Jews. I know that from its inception, the newly decolonized State of Israel has served and continues to serve as a refuge for Holocaust survivors and Jewish refugees from around the world, including those fleeing Western democracies, Arab dictatorships, and Eastern European communist regimes.
But I don’t need to evoke history to remind me of the threats our people continue to face. Our enemies, some of whom reside mere kilometers from me, behind the security wall, electrified fences, and checkpoints, and even some who sit in our university lecture halls, take great pleasure in regularly reminding us of their murderous intent.
I was prepared because I know what they are taught in their schools, and I know that they hide stashes of advanced weaponry in their children’s Disney-decorated wardrobes. I also know the financial reward they receive from their government, who receive billions of dollars in international aid, should they accomplish their deadly missions.
I was unprepared, however, for the barbarity and sadistic nature of the violence inflicted upon my people on October 7th, including the acts of burning, rape, and mutilation, and the sheer glee with which they carried out these atrocities—actions that have no precedent, even among non-human species on the planet.
I also wasn’t prepared for the aftermath, which began on October 8th and has continued daily since.
I was unprepared when I witnessed British citizens dancing along Edgware Road in jubilation on that day, while we were still counting our dead.
I was unprepared to witness old friends and medical colleagues marching in Trafalgar Square supporting the genocide of my people, chanting “From the River to the Sea,” while the Police looked on with indifference.
I was unprepared for the deafening silence and hypocrisy of the UN Commission on the Status of Women and the #MeToo lobby in the face of the widespread sexual violence extensively documented on October 7th, yet despite this, many claim there is still not enough proof.
I was unprepared to discover that the murderers who participated in this barbaric carnage were employees of the UNRWA and Al Jazeera, both of which continue to operate freely.
I was unprepared for the silence of Michelle Obama, who proudly campaigned to “Bring Back Our Girls” for the Nigerian girls held by Boko Haram but not for the American citizens, toddlers, teenage girls, or even the Holocaust survivor hostages from Israel.
I was unprepared for the sight of a one-year-old ginger toddler featuring on a ‘Kidnapped’ poster, still waiting for the Red Cross to visit, and I was very much less prepared for that poster being defaced with swastikas so many times and in so many countries.
I was unprepared for the fact that the British Police instructed someone not to walk next to a Palestinian protest in London because he was “openly Jewish,” and they couldn’t guarantee his safety.
I was unprepared to encounter “I love Hezbollah” signs in Central London, even after I had become accustomed to the “I love Hamas” signs and even though they are both designated terrorist organizations by the British and American governments.
I was unprepared for Iran to launch hundreds of ballistic missiles at my home, my family, and my friends with the sole intent to kill me and my people. At the same time, those around me continued engaging me in irrelevant small talk.
I was unprepared to learn that the esteemed halls of Ivy League institutions are infested with venomous hate and racism. Despite their privilege and education, thousands of their students remain painfully ignorant yet eager to be useful idiots, rallying to a cause they themselves fail to comprehend.
I was unprepared for a reality where Kamala Harris is commemorating the 7th of October by planting a pomegranate tree in her garden while the Ayatollahs in Iran are busy getting on with testing their nuclear facilities.
I was unprepared for the Asserson report to reveal that the BBC’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict violated its own guidelines on more than 1,500 occasions. Yet, the BBC would continue to spew its hate as usual.
I was unprepared for Kay Burley to accuse Eylon Levy on Sky News that Israel releasing 150 convicted Palestinian murderers in exchange for 50 Israeli civilian hostages underscored the disproportionate disregard Israel had for Palestinian lives.
I was unprepared for the New York Times to eulogise Hassan Nasrallah, as a “powerful orator, beloved by Shi’ite Muslims” who “provided social services for Lebanon.” and wanted “one Palestine, with equality for Muslims, Jews, and Christians.” All the while, Syrians, Lebanese, Iranians, and Israelis celebrated his assassination as it ultimately unloosened the noose around our necks a little.
I was unprepared for Naomi Klein to write an article in the Guardian yesterday entitled, “How Israel has made trauma a weapon of war,” nor was I prepared for Raz Segal’s “Israel must stop weaponizing the Holocaust” a year ago.
I was unprepared for UN Secretary-General Antonio Gueterre’s failure to condemn the Islamic Regime of Iran for lobbying 180 ballistic missiles into Israel. However, the UN’s shocking conduct warrants its own entirely separate article.
I was certainly unprepared for the fact that on October 7th, 2024, I would be writing this from my bomb shelter, which ironically reminds me of a gas chamber I saw in Majdanek, whilst thousands of Americans are converging on the steps of Columbia University in New York, chanting “globalize the intifada” and again, silence.
I never thought I would understand how the Holocaust happened, but now I do.
Where is the USA going? China is on the rise. North Korea and Russia are allying. What used to be the winning Western world transformed into a Woke, ignorant world. Islam, the conquering political ideology, breeds terrorist organizations of fanatic monsters like HAMAS.
These fanatic monsters are sacrificing their babies, children, women, and the elderly to achieve their goals of death and destruction.
Their weapon is the HUMAN SHIELD. The “Innocent Palestinians” is Hamas’s powerful Weapon.
Such a weapon could not have been considered 50 years ago. The Idiots of the Woke World allow Hamas to use HUMAN SHIELD to achieve their goals and blame the IDF for the casualties. The IDF is Israeli citizens, men and women, who were called to serve, left their jobs, and replaced their tools with arms, protecting their children and elders from the evil monsters attacking them. The Idiots of the Woke World made the HUMAN SHIELD a powerful weapon.
The outcome of Hamas’s war against Israel is not clear. The effect on your life in the USA is.
If Israel loses, good and right or whatever remains of it in this world are gone. For the fanatic Islamists, Israel is the obstacle that must be eliminated first. The Woke world and the USA will follow.
Unfortunately, only a major wake-up call, like fifty of the 9/11 attacks on the USA, may force America to wake up and join Israel in this war of Good against Evil.
The letter provides irrefutable evidence and undeniable testimony that the humanitarian aid provided to Gaza, ostensibly to the civilian population, is invariably commandeered by Hamas.
The letter cites statements to this effect by the US embassy in Israel, the US government itself, the IDF, UNRWA – and even Fatah officials.
“The shocking truth is that the United States is providing material support to a terrorist organization that is waging a brutal war against the only democratic ally the US has in the Middle East, and the US-funded and trained Palestinian Authority Security Forces are no different than Hamas. Exposing the terrorist nature of the US’s ‘partner for peace’ is ‘inconvenient,’ to put it politely, so the Administration has decided to attack the messenger in order to suppress the message.” – Meir Deutsch, Director General, Regavim.
Biden Administration seeks to silence consensus civil society organizations in Israel with sanctions typically used against terrorists: “A draconian measure that harks back to the days of colonialist oppression.”
A team of legal experts submitted a sharply worded letter to the US State Department following the announcement of Executive Order 14115 sanctioning the Tzav 9 Movement. “The Executive Order is an anti-democratic attack on free speech and the right to protest.”
Earlier this week (Monday), following publication on Friday, 14 June 2024 of a US Executive Order imposing sanctions on the Israeli protest movement Tzav 9, a team of lawyers headed by Attorneys Marc Zell, Noam Schreiber, Jerome Marcus and other experts in US and international law, on behalf of the Regavim Movement, sent a request for clarification to the US State Department.
The sharply-worded letter decried the Executive Order as vague and unsubstantiated, describing it as an attempt to stifle free speech and the right to protest.
The legal team called upon the US government to explain both the basis for the sanctions and the practical implications for Tzav 9 and Regavim, one of several civil society organizations that helped the Tzav 9 activists organize. “Our firms represent The Regavim Movement, a public interest organization dedicated to the protection of Israel’s national lands and resources, as well as Regavim’s Chief Executive Officer, Meir Deutsch; a number of persons who have donated to Regavim and wish to continue to do so; and … persons and political advocacy organizations which have interacted with, supported, and been addressed by Regavim and its leaders,” the letter explained. “The Regavim Movement is active in the public, parliamentary and judicial spheres, through publication of opinion and research papers, and through the dissemination of reports, policy and opinion papers, media communications and, when necessary, legal action.” “One of Regavim’s initiatives is support for Tsav 9, an entity which conducts nonviolent demonstrations and civil disobedience in an effort to prevent the transfer of assets to Hamas.”
The letter went on to highlight the vast differences between the target of the sanctions – Tzav 9, an apolitical, non-violent, law abiding grassroots protest movement – and the beneficiaries of the aid that the sanctions aim to protect -a US-designated terrorist organization that continues to take pride in the atrocities it perpetrated on October 7th, the very same group that continues to hold men, women and children hostage. “Tsav 9 is resolutely nonpartisan, and is supported by over 15,000 members and supporters from all walks of Israeli life, and from all points on the religious and political spectra. …The protest activities in which Tsav 9 has engaged are completely nonviolent, and precisely the kind of public advocacy and civil disobedience of which President Biden and members of his administration have explicitly approved. Hamas is a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, and the provision of any financial support to Hamas is a federal crime.”
The letter provides irrefutable evidence and undeniable testimony that the humanitarian aid provided to Gaza, ostensibly to the civilian population, is invariably commandeered by Hamas: The letter cites statements to this effect by the US embassy in Israel, the US government itself, the IDF, UNRWA – and even Fatah officials. The letter further notes that the Executive Order was issued without any prior dialogue, clarification, discussion or communication with the Tzav 9 leadership or with the Regavim Movement, despite the fact that the US Embassy in Israel has an open and active channel of communication with the public policy group.
Meir Deutsch, Director General of Regavim: “The Biden Administration, which claims to be the leader of the world’s greatest democracy, has been exposed as anti-democratic. Apparently, both Tzav 9 and Regavim have spotlighted some uncomfortable facts that the American government prefers to hide: The shocking truth is that the United States is providing material support to a terrorist organization that is waging a brutal war against the only democratic ally the US has in the middle east, and the US-funded and trained Palestinian Authority Security Forces are no different than Hamas.
Exposing the terrorist nature of the US’s “partner for peace” is “inconvenient,” to put it politely, so the Administration has decided to attack the messenger in order to suppress the message.” “Regavim extended support to Tzav 9 and to the families of those murdered and captured by Hamas, adding our voice to their call to halt support for the Nukhba terrorists in Gaza – as did 80% of Israeli citizens,” Deutsch added. “Particularly against the backdrop of the most recent United Nations report, which determines that there is no famine in Gaza, the imposition of sanctions is a desperate move by American government, a misdirected tantrum targeting a protest movement that expresses dissent through legally protected non-violent free speech, in the most legitimate and justified protest there is. These unprecedented punitive measures hark back to the dark era of the Iron Curtain. Executive Order 14115 is illiberal and anti-democratic.”
