| By Victor Rosenthal
Wake up, Israel, and smell the burning synagogues and Jewish homes in Lod, Acco, Yafo, and other towns that the fighters of 1948 died for. Wake up and see that Jews have not been allowed to walk on the Temple Mount for 18 days, the Temple Mount that the fighters of 1967 died for. Wake up and hear that the roads of the Negev are infested by bandits, and that a Jew who enters an Arab town or an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem risks being beaten to death. Wake up and learn that Israel is not a sovereign state. Its laws and court decisions can be overridden by the antisemitic “international community,” and its military campaigns ended by fiats from Washington. Wake up and understand that we are not in control. Hamas demanded – they demanded! – that Jews be kept from the Temple Mount and from living in the Shimon haTzadik neighborhood of Jerusalem. Our politicians say that the cease-fire with Hamas was unconditional. We will know in the next few weeks whether they were telling the truth, or whether they have given in to the enemy’s demands. Our enemies are taking our country and our sovereignty from us, bit by bit. They have been trying to force Jews to flee from Judea and Samaria by terrorism since 1967, and now they are using similar tactics in places with mixed Jewish-Arab populations. They are burning our synagogues, homes, and cars in an attempt to take back what they lost in 1948. If Jews flee from Lod, from Acco and Yafo, they will become Arab cities like Ramallah where Jews will be afraid to go. Israel’s War of Independence did not end in 1949. Israel’s leadership was divided then over the question of whether to expel the Arabs, and despite what the Arabs say, there was no general policy of ethnic cleansing. That was a mistake: there should have been. In 1967, when the Temple Mount was captured, Moshe Dayan said that he didn’t want “all that Vatican.” A “status quo” was established, giving Muslims rights on the mount at the expense of our sovereignty. Jerusalem Arabs expected to be expelled, as the Jordanians had done to every Jew in the territory that they conquered in 1948, because that’s how it’s done in the Middle East. But we didn’t want to be Middle Eastern. We thought we could be a “villa in the jungle.” That was another mistake. Hamas is trying to drive us from southern Israel with their rockets. They fired more than 4,000 rockets at Jewish towns and cities, killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens, destroying homes and property, supposedly because Jews tried to assert their authority over violent rioters on the Temple Mount, and because Israel tried to evict four Arab families that had refused to pay rent to the Jewish owners of the property for decades. It’s all connected. Israel’s response was, as always, cut short by a command from the American president. The IDF collapsed some tunnels and killed some of Hamas’ officers and weapons development personnel. It bombed the (empty) houses of Hamas leaders. It destroyed some weapons and some manufacturing facilities. But the infection remains. It will take a while, but it will come back. It always has. With the connivance of our leadership – in the name of maintaining quiet – money will be pumped into the strip, tunnels and weapons factories will be rebuilt. It will take time, but they have patience, and their Iranian patrons will have money. They will come back. They always do. Israel is many times stronger than Hamas. We control their electricity and water supply. The threat could be ended once and for all, the way it’s done in the Middle East. That would be tough on the residents of Gaza, but the “international community” which is so concerned for them could step up and help them find new homes, in underpopulated Jordan, Europe, and North America. But we prefer to make mistakes, one after another. We prefer to suffer, even die, ourselves if the alternative is to cause suffering to others. We must stop the incremental loss of our land and sovereignty. The gains of 1967 are being erased as I write, and after them will come what was achieved in 1948 at such great cost. If we don’t act, in the way that a Middle Eastern country must in order to survive, we will lose everything. We can turn it around. Nobody expected that we would win in 1948 or 1967, but we did. This time it will be a different kind of struggle, a conceptual struggle to confront reality and deal with it. A struggle that will not begin until we wake up. |
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@ ketzel2:
Yes, I agree with that. Just look at all the attacks on Jewish diners in different cities, including New York and LA during this recent conflict. The West shoiuld emulate Hungary, which also stood by Israel in this. Ideally, they should be sent to the countries their fellow Arab tribe and clan members live in so they can be reabsorbed. Their last names tell where they are from. Most of them came to Israel very recently during the Mandate period as illegal aliens from the countries newly created for them. Just repatriate their descendants. UNRWA in reverse.
@ Reader:
As long as the Dominion et. al. machines are being used, the elections won’t matter. No one can win who they don’t want to win, unless they just don’t care about a given seat or election. If the chosen candidate is behind by 6,000 or 60,000,000 votes, the result will be the same – halt the count, re-calibrate the math and presto – the chosen candidate wins. They will produce what ballots they need to certify their win and move on with the business of looting the store. So the degree of fraud required is not important. There were 4 million more votes cast than registered voters in the last election and far fewer people vote than are registered. So we are not discussing a small percentage of votes, and it appears, from what Lindell and Dr. Frank have uncovered, that every state was likely involved that employed the machines. The reason the 2020 election must be addressed is because if it is not, as you point out, there will be no further elections. Even if no one drops their vote in the 10 billion drop boxes, the chosen candidate will win by a landslide – just as long as the chosen candidate is chosen by those who count the votes. This is because those who count the votes don’t actually count the votes, they just do the math and figure what the vote should have been and call it a day, because, recall if you will, no one will be able to look at the ballots or contest the election. The counters counts are sacrosanct – just ask the machines. History has a bad record of democratic societies that have recovered once such rank corruption takes root – actually there were none. So it’s not demagoguery to call attention to the fraud and demand the scales be returned to a state of balance before it is too late – (sorry if that was not your intended meaning). But this is the only way the western Democratic societies will survive this attempted(I hope) overthrow of their gov’t’s.
@ peloni1986:
Look.- stolen, or not stolen – people DO vote, and to steal an election you don’t need to change 100% of the votes but just a small percentage.
The politicians ARE corrupt but if elections don’t matter at all, then the accusations of election fraud and defying the will of the voters are completely illogical and amount to pure demagoguery – because there are no no elections to “steal”.
If no one is really elected, then the question boils down merely to who is better at election fraud – Democrats or Republicans, or maybe they toss a coin every 4 years on who gets to win this one, and then they just go at each others’ throats to entertain the “voters”?
@ Reader:
It is true that the president, by himself, is not all powerful. But the power that he wields as head of a one party control system possibly including the judiciary changes that statement completely.
As for the constituency, this would suggest that the caricatures in power now were actually elected. Now I have talked to enough of my liberal associates to recognize that some minority vote did support the imbecile in chief. But too, too much of the fraud is blatant, obvious and palpable while the Dems act to conceal routine facts that no innocent man would hide and no guilty man would allow to be revealed. And this attempt of obfuscation in the full light of day leads me (or I would suggest any reasonably intelligent and non-partisan individual) with certainty to the conclusion that this election was stolen. With this in mind, I would suggest the true constituency of this Imbecile in Chief is actually the shareholders of Dominion and their Chinese masters and not the feeble-minded, half-witted useful-idiots known lovably as Liberals. In anycase that’s my two cents.
@ peloni1986:
The party is only pandering to its CONSTITUENCY.
Now, give a thought to who the party’s constituency IS (exclude a million or two Jews who soon won’t make any difference).
Also, consider the fact that the President is not an absolute monarch.
@ Reader:
Fair point, Reader. But regardless of this fact, as long as the US is supplying the aid and controlling the shipment of these weapons – which do give Israel a very great advantage among her neighbors – her ability to decide the best path forward for the nation will be limited by the rose-tinted glasses provided by the US policy of the day, i.e. it will be limited by the policy choices of whoever has taken control of the White House (via fraud or no-fraud). And, presently, with this in mind, I believe this conclusion paints a very grim future for us all – more so now than ever given the one-party rule in Washington, and by a radicalized and unbridled hostile party at that.
The “aid” is an indirect subsidy to the US military-industrial complex because 90% of it goes to buy American weapons (the same as the US “aid” to all the other countries that the US “aids”.
And Bibi knows this.
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And how many billions were expended in this most recent show of tolerance of our enemies desires of annihilation towards us. How many bombs were dropped. How many sorties flown. Everyone of those actions did us harm, placed us under threat of death, placed us further within the terrible yoke of debt as we strive to be too moral to injure our enemies who are indiscriminately trying to murder us. The burden of such tolerance is great. And, the burden is more than the debt that pays for these toys that provide us such great protections. The burden also includes the ability of access to even buy these toys – like a drug dealers narcotic it has warped our sense of self respect. And this burden keeps us flying as Icarus at a level beyond our means and leaves us with a potentially similar conclusion. It is, genuinely, a sense of hubris to love thy enemy too much such that it impairs our ability to definitively respond and defend our homes and our people from these wanton aggressions.
Netanyahu, as a much younger politician, once posed the idea to be rid of this yoke of US dependency. Indeed he spoke in the halls of the American congress and said
I believe he recognized during his involvement in the gov’t sphere that what was good for the US was not necessarily good for all. In this same speech, he cited a phrase from the bible that he has use often over the years: “G_d will give strength to his people G_d will give his people peace.” Sadly though, Netanyahu’s first tenure was less successful than his more recent premiership. And those who followed him and the terrible choices they pursued made his leaving all the more unfortunate. So the strength he referenced was never obtained nor was the peace it portended. So Israel will always be bound to the will of the US as long as this aid is as necessary as it is today. And while Iron Dome is a magnificent achievement, the financial and logistical dependency it requires will add weight to our bonds to the cycle of servitude to the shifting sands of US policy as we continue to be forced by our dependency on making choices not of our own necessity but of a design fitting to their desires. And their desires currently are likely soon to place Israel in a place of great compromise as Obama’s third term seeks to return Iran to a role of grandeur in the middle east.
So as I said before, our acquiescence here should surprise no one.
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Welfare, where the state provides for its public, is a double edged blade. It provides a need, services or goods, while severing a persons independent state – both mentally and physically. The instant gratification of fulfilling this need is overwhelming to the point that the consequence often goes unnoticed or is just ignored. And so a form of institutional dependency is often formed, all the while reinforcing, consciously or not, a state of servitude and vassalage. International aid is a form of welfare between nations and the double edged status both reveals a need of such aid while creating a state of interdependence. It alters what might previously have been a relationship of peers into one of dominance and subservience. Yesterday, I alluded to the fact that it should not surprise anyone that Israel would not move further than the will of the Americans would allow it to do – and it shouldn’t. It is the aid, it binds our hands and limits our will to a design of their making. Its generosity is insurmountable and yet, it necessarily curtails our resolve thru the views and mindset of the US. This was true in Madrid. This was true in Oslo. This was true at Hebron. And it is still true today. And now Israel has created for itself, and itself alone, a false notion that we must go to war and seek to do no harm, when in fact, the harm that Israel avoids is the very deterrence that might act to protect it in future conflicts. No nation would do what Israel does in this. What people would fear a group of simpletons carrying the power of annihilation in its palm but instead knocks on doors as in a wellness check to alert their enemies that their dwelling is about to be destroyed. This is not war – it is civil demolition. And it is this standard that we will be held to in perpetuity. They don’t even respect us for these actions – instead they ridicule our efforts towards valuing the life of our own enemies over our own people, our own selves – they complain of a couple hundred deaths when such a deployment of bombs could have resulted in an equivalence to Hamburg. Nevermind the potential successes that we sacrifice in doing so. If we do not recognize the needs of survival, as Rosenthal states “we will lose everything”.
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They should only be resettled in Muslim lands, not Europe or North America. Otherwise you get more pogroms in more places.
A wonderful article!
It should be sent to every Jewish home!
The only thing that should be added to it – if we lose everything because we refused to wake up, EVERYTHING WILL INCLUDE THE LIVES OF ALL THE JEWS!
Yes!
Victor got it!