Are We All Chickensh*t?

[I am a week late in posting this but I think it is not too late. Ted Belman]

By Rob Muchnick, US Director Manhigut Yehudit 10/30/2014, 6:10 PM

In the wake of the Obama administration’s undiplomatic name-calling of Bibi and also yesterday’s assassination attempt on Rabbi Yehuda Glick’s life, I think that we need to take a look at ourselves and determine whether or not we and our leaders are all ‘chickensh*t’, apathetic, or something worse.

Rabbi Glick, one of the most prominent fighters for Jewish rights on the Temple Mount, was shot yesterday by an Arab who was recently released from Israeli prison. He was most certainly targeted for his activism on behalf of the holiest site in Judaism, as every Israeli government since G-d liberated the Mount for us in 1967 has denied Jewish rights on the spot where our Holy Temples stood.

Today the Israeli government responded by closing the Mount to Jews, giving the shooter exactly what he wanted. Instead, Bibi should have closed the Mount to Muslims, announced that he was permitting unfettered access to Jews to pray there, that a shul will be built there immediately, and that honest plans will commence for how to proceed with constructing the Third Temple.

In response to Obama’s insults, Bibi responded earlier this week that he will do nothing to hurt Israel’s security. A wonderful line to say, Mr. PM, but we’ve heard it all before from you. You don’t think it hurts our security when you voted to expel 10,000 Jews from their homes in Gaza and the Shomron and hand these parts of Eretz Yisrael to our sworn enemy? Because of the Expulsion, we now have wars every few years to ‘mow the grass’ in which scores of Jewish boys die for virtually nothing. How about releasing thousands of Arab terrorists from Israeli prisons – yes thousands if we include his first tenure as PM? How about freezing all construction in ‘settlements’ in hopes of simply having the ‘privilege’ of sitting at the negotiating table with the author of the PLO plan to destroy Israel in stages, Mahmoud Abbas, who you have repeatedly called a ‘peacemaker’?  How about removing the IDF from most of Hebron, which resulted in the brave Jews who live there being put in a literal shooting gallery and 10-month old Shalhevet Pass’ murder at the hands of an Arab sniper?

What should we make of Obama’s underlings calling Bibi chickensh*t because he won’t do anything about the Iranian threat? Obama’s way of delivering the message was certainly disrespectful, but shouldn’t Bibi the ‘defender of Israel’s security’ have handled the threat from Iran already in a decisive fashion?

A top supporter of Bibi’s told me recently that “of course we all love and support what Feiglin stands for, but his platform is just ‘not practical’.” This man continued that, “Bibi is like treading water, and that is all we can hope for now.”

Bibi is not a stupid man, so why does he continue forever with his attempts to divide Israel while refusing to take the Jewish stand on the Temple Mount?

And what about some of the other wanna-be Israeli leaders? Bennett the ‘right-winger’ wants to give the Arabs approximately 40% of Judea and Samaria for an indefinite autonomous period, and just to make sure they like us, he wants to give them millions of dollars so that we can continue the Shimon Peres charade of having ‘economic peace’ with them. Oh, and according to former Jerusalem councilman Aryeh King, Bennett had his party members vote against building homes recently for Jews in our capital.

What of Liberman, the “tough guy”? He wants to give virtually all of J&S to those that call themselves ‘Palestinians’, when we all know that their real name should be “Fakestinians” [thanks, Beth]. Just because he attended one event with Rabbi Kahane, the Israeli populace thinks that he is the new Kahane, no matter that he writes on his website that he even wants to give a large section of the Galilee to “Palestine”, as well, because a lot of Arabs live there now.

Both Bennett and Liberman say they want to increase the Jewish identity of Israel while also saying that they would give the Arabs parts of Eretz Yisrael where most of the action in our Tanach occurred. Does this make any sense to you? Oh, and by the way, they – along with Bibi – both had their parties vote against a bill which, according to Livni, would have literally ended the fraudulent peace process.(Of course she didn’t call it ‘fraudulent’.)

There’s no need to bother discussing Lapid or Livni, as they don’t even pretend to be in touch with reality, considering they both continue to discuss Abbas the financier of the Munich Massacre as a “man of peace”. Did I mention that Abbas’ ‘peace-making’ party announced celebrations today because of the attempted murder of Rabbi Glick?

Our leaders are truly either chickensh*t or are running away from Israel’s Jewish identity for some reason, but what about us? Why do we accept this? Why do we tell ourselves that all is well, and continue to go about our daily business when we should be screaming at the top of our lungs that we’re mad as hell and we aren’t going to take it anymore?

A friend of mine told me recently about his 20-something Israeli cousin who’s family emigrated from Morocco. The cousin stated that in his public school he was actually taught to be Israeli first and Jewish second, and that he was very proud of this fact. This comment is sad for all of us, and in particular it is pathetically ironic considering the fact that the Israeli Establishment did everything in its power to take the Judaism out of the Mizrachim, including radiating 100,000 North African Jewish kids to ‘rid them of ringworm’. In reality, this was done to keep the Ben-Gurionistas in power, because Jews from the Middle East who believe in G-d would have never voted for the Labor party. Unfortunately, it is clear that the Israeli government has not eliminated its policy of Israelization of the population, and part of being Israeli is following the Supreme Court in lieu of G-d. After all, we have to be ‘democratic’ above all else, right?

There is only one man in the Israeli government who voted to end Oslo, to not release the terrorist-murderers, to not give the Negev to the Bedouin, would re-institute full and complete Jewish control over the Temple Mount, and who has a realistic plan to end the problems with the Fakestinians by annexing and settling our Land and giving the enemy financial incentives to emigrate. If you’re as mad as hell as I am, there’s only one thing to do – namely you must support this man. His name is Moshe Feiglin. We simply cannot afford to tread water anymore.

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  5. “…the last thing we need today are Jews who wish to divide us”

    You are accusing observant Jews like Moshe Feiglin of wishing to divide you? He is living in Israel and wants to worship his G-D on the Temple Mount and you accuse him of wishing to divide the Jewish people?! What in the world are you talking about? You don’t want to feel divided, get behind him and take back the Temple Mount not only from the Muslims but from the non-Jewish world who have elected themselves caretaker of YOUR land and YOUR holy sites. What, you think backing off and being “secular Jew” and nice-nice with this world is going to get Jewish Israel ahead in their war of survival? Not. Wrong answer. What did Rabbi Kahane say, “Be nice, but not too nice.” “Nothing good came of Auschwitz” (I speak as a non-Jew). If anyone or anything is dividing Jews, it’s those Jews who are afraid to stand up to these fucking savages who are trying to exterminate you, Irving. You can’t appease an enemy who wants to wipe you out of existence. And you can’t unify the Jewish people by pleasing the non-Jewish world. If more Jews were as proud of their Jewish identity as Moshe Feiglin, the Jewish people would be much less divided than they are now. You think going the other direction, being secular and “pluralistic” and “egalitarian” for the sake of an enemy (the more pronounced one) whose religious ideology defines the Jews as untermensch and “the descendants of swine and monkeys” and commands its adherents they should murder Jews whenever they get the chance will serve as a means of making the Jews more unified? These views are also accepted and commonplace in the world, which is a shameful reality. “Better to live on your feet than to die on your knees.”

  6. I understand that, Irving. I’m not saying you haven’t a Jewish birthright. I acknowledge that. And I know that Jews were murdered simply for being born Jewish. I’m talking about merely (in the literal sense of the word) the contradiction (or so it seems to me) to be found in the term “secular Jew” and that it sounds odd to me that anyone who is proud enough to claim to be a “secular Jew” (the term itself a repudiation of everything G-D-given and connected to a national ideology delineated by the G-D of Israel and Moses) should be also proud enough to excuse himself/herself from all the dividends promised by that national ideology. How can a “secular Jew” expect the non-Jewish world to hear a Jewish voice as unified when the secular segment of that “Jewish voice” is denying the very essence of that Jewish voice? “Forget not the landmarks of our fathers.” I actually think that anyone who claims to be a “secular Jew” must simultaneously perform noetic somersaults simply to get the words out of his mouth. But that’s just me. I mean, I’m not Jewish so I’m speaking as someone “at the gate” as it were, but don’t you find the term “secular Jew” a wee bit odd sounding? And if you don’t, isn’t that lack of perception (and the fact that it’s become commonplace) itself perhaps a reason for the disunity Viiit is referring to in his post? I’m not trying to be rude, Irving, and forgive me if I sound disrespectful, but I’m simply writing out how the term “secular Jew” sounds so oxymoronic to me. I really believe that “secular Jews,” regardless the fact that their Zionism (and why did they use an exclusively Jewish term to appellate their life-saving work in bringing Jews back to Israel when the term dates back to the giving of the Torah from G-D to Moses? Why didn’t they just call it “bringing back the Jews to Israel even though we don’t believe in G-D or that this G-D gave the Jewish people this land”?)did so much to save the Jews of Europe from the Nazi Holocaust, are the reason most people, both Jew and non-Jew, go back no further than Jabotinsky or Herzl when they talk of Zionism, as though the term does not have the same ancient roots as the Torah which defines Zionism. But again, that’s just me. And it bothers me when a “secular Jew” denigrates and excoriates religious Jews simply because those Jews are being “Jewish” as defined in their Torah. They want the freedom to proclaim themselves (while doing noetic somersaults) “secular Jews” but are offended at a “religious Jew,” one of those Jews in a long, long line of Jews who are, from the time of Abraham to today the very essence of the term “Jewish,” simply because they are living as their Torah commands them to live. Observant Jews are the beginning and perpetuation of the term “Jewish” and have been for millennia; secular Jews, on the other hand, have not been existent nearly quite as long and so if one wants to accuse anyone of “excluding” the other, I think the blame rests solely on the shoulders of the “secular Jew” in that he excludes himself from a Jewish identity that preceded him by thousands of years.

  7. Mr. Devolin, what in the world are you talking about? We are part of the Jewish nation, and as such many of us were murdered by the Nazis, by the Russians, by the Queen of Spain whether we were religious believers or secular. the last thing we need today are Jews who wish to divide us, because somehow they believe they are entitled to more than others.

  8. And I understand one is Jewish by birth. I’m not denying that. But when it comes to Israel, I do not understand how a “secular Jew” can so insouciantly make claim to everything the observant Jew over 2000 years ago worked so hard to keep alive and perpetuate. The secular Jew dies with nothing more than the advice to his children that “G-D does not exist” but we’re welcomed to everything HIS Jewish martyrs have given their lives for and bequeathed to us. How can they make claim to Jewish history, like the Exodus and the Spies and the conquest of Canaan when the G-D of the observant Jew is the primary focus of all this history passed on to the next generation, and the generation after that, to date? I would say the only rift between the “secular Jew” and the “observant Jew” is the insistence of the secular Jew that he/she be given the same rights Judaism promises only the Jew who acknowledges the G-D of the Jews.

  9. “So my problem with Moshe Feiglin is that to him a Jews means a Judaist, a religious Jew.
    “This excludes me…”

    If your contention is with observant, G-D fearing Jews, then I must say that these Jews existed long before the advent of your oxymoronic type. You cite the fact that Israel was “where our national identity was born and our history unfolded.” Excuse me my boldness, but the G-D you don’t believe in is innately connected to this land too. You want everything your birthright gives you, including the historical right to the land of Israel the observant Jew has lived and died to perpetuate into the 21st century, but you want it without his religious belief, which includes his national ideology, which defines his national identity. So, no, Moshe Feiglin does not exclude you, you’ve chosen to exclude yourself (while at the same time denigrating every Jew like Feiglin who is also only perpetuating onward the identity which serves to delineate the connection of the religious Jew to the land of Israel). If you choose to be known as a “secular Jew,” why then do you assume possession of everything the tenets of the religious Jew promise him? If you choose to be a “secular Jew,” then how can you claim a connection to the land of Israel, a connection first defined “over 2000 years ago” in the Torah of the religious Jew? I would not deny you your Jewish birth right. but if you demand to be recognized as a “secular Jew,” then, if you are not born in the land of Israel, how can you call Israel your homeland. No American born of Russian immigrants who came to America 100 years before he was born on American soil would claim Russia to be his “homeland.” You want to identified as deserving of everything the observant and G-D-fearing Jew has lived and died for, but without believing in his G-D, without showing any respect for his belief in his G-D but all the while demanding all the things his G-D has given to the Jewish people, a people whose very beginning is defined in their attachment to their G-D.

    Or so it seems to me. I know: you’ll claim the secular Zionist (another oxymoron) have worked hard too. I agree. But their hard work does not negate the fact that without the “religious Jew,” the luxury of claiming to be a “secular Jew” would not exist. I speak as a non-Jew, of course, but this is how it seems from the outside.

  10. Still worth reading — I would have been more caustic. But your mention of “Israelization” if true (which I assume it is), explains a lot that seems inexplicable from the Diaspora.

  11. Well, I support this man regarding Jewish rights to our homeland.
    And at the same time I don’t believe in any religion, so it is very hard for me to support a man who wants to impose religious rules on me.

    Yes, it is totally possible to be patriotic Jew without believing in Torah and without practicing the prescribed rituals.
    It is possible to stand for this ancestral land of ours just as strongly as Russians stood for their country when attacked by Nazis.
    It made no difference whether they were religious or atheists. It was their land.
    Well, Israel is OUR land.
    This is where we are from.
    This is where our national identity was born and our history unfolded. This is the land to which we longed to return for 2000 years.
    We all know that Palestinians don’t need a nation state. They need a place to live, and live well, but no need for national state.
    If given the opportunity, they would happily live in other countries.
    It is time for us to say that.
    Then we win the war for public opinion.
    And then we can resettle the Arab Muhammedans.

    So my problem with Moshe Feiglin is that to him a Jews means a Judaist, a religious Jew.
    This excludes me, and this excludes a huge section of our nation.
    If we can heal the rift between the secular and religious Jews, we will be a strong nation.
    Then everyone will hear our unified voice. Then all Israelis will be Jews. And the whole world will support us.