Grandma's army

  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...

AN EVERLASTING LIGHT - I For all my new readers, I am rewriting a blog I wrote a few years ago, which is still relevant: Perhaps the most significant battle that the Jews fought, and won,  took place in the second century BCE.    Desiring to unify his kingdom through the medium of a common religion and culture Antiochus, the Greek ruler at that time, tried to root out the individualism of the Jews by desecrating their holy Temple and suppressing all the Jewish Laws. Tomorrow we start the eight day Festival commemorating this particular victory - this year coinciding exactly with Christmas. The story of Mattitiyahu Maccabee and his sons, who head the Revolt, is told in detail in the two books of the Maccabees.   A small, vastly outnumbered band of Jews waged battle against the mighty Greek armies, and drove them out of the land. Even though Judaism would have disappeared if Antiochus had succeeded in his strategy,  Jewish sages chose to leave these book...

It’s a verified fact that Hamas has been planning the ongoing war with Israel for decades. Hamas knew that they could not beat Israel militarily.  They also knew that  Israel would retaliate very strongly after the massacre on October 7 th - and the kidnapping and abuse of 252 men, women, children and babies. Hamas spent almost twenty years preparing the Gaza Strip as a killing ground for Israeli soldiers and Palestinian civilians. The  massive network of tunnels spanned more kilometers than the London Underground and  New York metro combined!  By integrating their military operations throughout civilian infrastructure - these tunnels served as missile launchers and storehouses of lethal weapons underneath kindergartens, schools, hospitals, even mosques, etc. The IDF had no choice but to fight the terrorists from, or close to, residential and commercial areas. In all those years, Hamas deliberately prepared nothing to protect it’s own civilians. On the co...