Grandma's army

    President Donald Trump’s miraculous intervention in Israel’s lone fight to rid the world of the threat of Iran’s nuclear capabilities   reminded me of a previous blog.   President Trump’s declaration of the recognition of Jerusalem , in 2017, as the Jew’s eternal capital was an unprecedented move and, unfortunately, not followed up by our other so-called Western allies. Jerusalem has always been considered the eternal capital of the Jewish people. It is mentioned more than 600 times in the Hebrew Bible and has more synagogues per capita than any city in the world. Religious Jews all over the world have always prayed three times a day, facing Jerusalem. In Israel today, everyone has complete freedom of worship. It is the only city in which some 15 different Christian communities live alongside one another. Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives is home to 150,000 Jewish graves dating back to the 1400’s. During the Jordanian occupation of Jerusalem, Jews were not al...

Remember what caused the ongoing war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip? On October 7, 2023,  Hamas  terrorists waged the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust — slaughtering babies, committing sexual violence, burning whole families alive, and taking over 250 civilians hostage. Hamas murdered  more than 1,200  Israelis during the attack. The area known today as the Gaza Strip was allocated in the 1947 UN Partition Plan for a prospective Arab state. Its borders were based on the ceasefire line that ended the fighting after the 1948 War of Independence. The failure of further diplomatic efforts to end the Arab-Israeli conflict turned, what was intended to be a temporary armistice line, into a de-facto boundary, and the Gaza Strip into a distinct geopolitical entity. L ocked in one of the world’s most densely populated areas, along with unsettled political status, Gaza has always been a focal point of the Israeli-Arab conflict. It has also been, perhaps, the m...

  The view confronting you is awe-inspiring. On the top of a barren mountain ridge,   at the tip of southeastern Gush Etzion, with breathtaking views overlooking the Judean Desert and the Dead Sea, four American immigrants are building an oasis - a working organic farm and spiritual retreat center - with the hope of turning the site into a global tourist destination . For the past number of years, they have been utilizing various platforms, including radio and television, and going on speaking tours in Israel and abroad. They already have a tremendous following worldwide - sharing their love of the Land of Israel.                                                                                           ...

Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land; bears the same name; speaks the same language; and worships the same God that it did thousands of years ago. You dig the soil and you find pottery from the time of King David; coins from the time of Bar Kochba, and 2,000-year-old scrolls written in a script almost identical to the one spoken today. Israel is constantly being rediscovered by ongoing archeological evidence.   The vast majority of the so-called “Palestinians” were originally immigrants who streamed in from all over the Muslim world from the 1830’s to 1947. They have a non-existent history: There has never been a land known as  Palestine  governed by  Palestinians;  when was Palestine founded?;  how did it get its name, as the letter “P” doesn’t exist in Arabic; what was the Palestinian currency?; why doesn’t the Koran mention Palestine once/anywhere?   The name Pa...

Taking into account the vast amount of funding and  military equipment that has been poured into the Gaza Strip for many decades - President Trump’s vision of Gaza becoming a Riviera in the Middle East could have become a reality. Instead, with the unanimous support of the Gazan citizens, the terrorist group Hamas, has made it quite clear that their sole purpose is to destroy Israel. Jews elsewhere they leave in the hands of their fellow terrorists       Exactly 20 years ago, over 80,000 Israeli’s were forced to abandon their thriving communities in the Gaza Strip, for the sake of peace - making Gaza Judenreim. Ever since, the Palestinians have attacked Israel in every conceivable way  - culminating in October 7 th , 2023, which, they believed, would put an end to the Jewish state. The Gazan Arabs have been offered  a Palestinian state by almost all the recent American Presidents, including Biden - who all wanted the credit for ending the I...

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 barbaric act of terrorism led to ground-breaking developments For decades, the Middle East has been plagued by violence and instability, but Israel's response marked a significant turning point, dramatically transforming the region. Israel, in its counteroffensive against Hamas, targeted and significantly diminished the terrorist group's military capabilities crippling its ability to function effectively. The Iranian regime, a staunch supporter of Hamas, was 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. Israel's broader objective appears to be, not merely to respond to isolated acts of terrorism, but...