Jews needs Torah and mitzvos. That's what my bones have learned. I knew the concept. Now I really know it, well more than I used to. Without Torah, our incredible energies become wild. We destroy the world as the Talmud says.
So God expelled us from the land for the shortcomings in our observance. And we went from the authority of Torah to the authority of gentiles. The latter is actually a preferable situation to life without any authority, which is the case in the State of Israel today
The early settlers of the 19th century were non-believers. And they came here to set up their own atheistic country. They had wanted to be gentiles in Europe but the Europeans only let them be peasants. They wanted to be royalty, but not regular royalty. They wanted to be gentiles, but not the normal gentile, who was a practicing Xtian or Muslim. Jews rarely actually want to be purely gentile. They wanted to be Jewish gentiles. They want it all, a life of olam hazeh, with minimal duties but to retain the energy, intelligence, and spirituality that were implanted in them to rise above this world and attain a life of holiness within it and to attain olam habah. That's a lethal cocktail.
Such a person becomes a complete pain in the neck and that's what Israelis are. Take my word of it as I work with them. You never met such pains in the neck. Everything is a problem, every silly matter that any goy would let go is a production, and a battle, and an opinion. And I'm not even getting to the bus drivers and the clerks and the taxi drivers and the millions of others who spend every moment on the edge of shouting. The "religious" Zionists will excuse the behavior and attribute it to persecution from the nations, particularly now the Arabs.
I am started to concluding that this is a canard. We Jews have a way of dramatizing our troubles. Reading the Jewish papers in America and absorbing the endless social droning about Arabs and terrorism one pictures terrorism everywhere and every hour in Israel, Heaven forbid. The numbers tell a different story. Since 1948 an average of 27 people have been killed each year in Israel due to terrorism, nearly half in the territories. This is 1/5 the number murdered in other ways and 1/10 the number killed in car accidents. During the 1970s the number was around 9 a year. It increased with the Intifada, which arguably is a result of an occupation of 5 million people that, due to the fault of both sides as I will explain, just doesn't end. I am not saying that the Arabs are angels. But we have Torah principles of not messing with the gentiles, not provoking them. Israelis don't know how to not provoke. That's what they do for a living.
Israel has not been attacked by a foreign army in 40 years. Even then, the Yom Kippur War, in which the father of my coworker was killed, might have been avoidable if Israel had responded to Egypt's offer for a peace treaty, in exchange for the Sinai, of two years before. Israel made such a treaty 6 years later and has been at peace with Israel and Jordan, its primary foes, ever since.
Again, Egypt is not an angel, far from it. But it did manage to learn to live with Israeli's existence.
In the '67 war Israel fired the first shots. Was it truly under threat? It's not clear. Some Arab nations did saber rattling. Who knows if they would have attacked. Many Israeli generals did not believe that Egypt and Jordan were strong enough to attack.
This is one of the reasons for the seeming "miraculous" victory. Israel has always been better equipped for battle than the Arabs. When civil war broke out in '47, Israel had 40,000 well trained solders with real weapons and vehicles and radios. The Arab locals had knives. As a result, the Israeli forces were able to control 400 Arab cities in Palestine. Some Israeli historians claim that the Israelis drove the Arabs out of those cities.
Arab countries with actual armies didn't actually attack until 6 months later, after Ben Gurion declared independence. Their forces were roughly double that of Israel's, but poorly organized and not motivated. You could say that there was some real danger there, but nothing as bad as we tend to portray when we talk of 1 billion Arabs out to get us.
As I said earlier, even irreligious Jews, even ones who'll say they want nothing to do with Jews or Judaism, are generally reluctant to depart with Jewish traits. Particularly in Israel, they'll use the Bible when they please in the way that they please. They apply the concept of antisemitism liberally whether they are conscious or not of Rashi's statement that Esaiv hates Yaakov. One is compelled to ask, if Jews and gentiles are existentially the same, and if the Jewish religion is man made, heaven forbid, why would Esaiv hate Yaakov, why would antisemitism exist?
They don't ask that. And the "religious Zionist" crowd, who knows about the Rashi, forgets the Torah method which requires that one weigh this concept against many others including others such as Divine protection over the Jews, Divine compassion that reminds us of our sins over and over again, and Divine justice that punishes us if after centuries we just don't get the message.
So non-religious Jews and religious Zionist Jews go hog wild with this concept of antisemitism, explaining everything with it. But antisemitism doesn't mean that all the world is out to kill us every second. There's animosity. In America in the 40s it meant you couldn't get into a country club, which was a good thing. Plenty of Americans were openly antisemetic back then, but Jews were safe and could practice Judaism.
Are the Arabs antisemitic? Sure, like any goy. Are they wildly antisemitic? Generally Arab countries were safer havens for Jews than European, over the centuries. Wild Arab antisemitism started with the State of Israel. We provoked them. Or should I see the apikorsim from Europe provoke them.
As I said, the European zionists wanted to be goyim. And they learned militarism from them as 19th century Europe was rife with it. And they transplanted that to Israel where they instituted it as the national religion. Every Israeli is trained to be solder and they keep that with them all their lives. Everything here is a fight, and a threat, and a show. It's Jews acting like goyim in a way goyim don't even act. It's a sickness.
And they'll have you believe that they must be this way due to Arab hostility. We want peace they say. We offered them everything.
Everything minus autonomy over East Jerusalem, right of return for refugees whereas Jews whose families haven't been here for 2000 years are able to return, right to a military of their own, and toleration of Israeli military bases (well, radar stations) in their country, return of all land taken n '67 minus even settlements.
Should the Arabs take the deal? Of course they should and they have their own sick leaders who betray them. But you can't say with those terms that the Israelis will do what it takes for peace. And give up their religion, aka, the IDF at war?
And at war with whom? With a civilian population and some hoodlums. That's some tough fighting force. In the Gaza war Israel destroyed 16,000 homes and killed 500 children. Israeli lost one house and one child. A tragedy but one that resulted from the actions of criminals, not a foreign army that justifies a nation in green fatigues. North Korea is also paranoid and militaristic. Another nation with a false religion.
Israel's biggest problem is itself. This is nothing new. This is Jewish history. And the reform Jews, aka apikorsim, will blame it on the goy. But the fault lies not in our stars, but in ourselves.
Israeli's problem is not external, it's not Europe, it's not the Arabs. It is its own worst problem, it's own worst enemy. If you see life materialistically, like a goy, then you see the enemy. But if you see it spirituality, via the lens of Torah, then you see that God is with you. But if you are not with Him then you are the cause of your own problems.
So God expelled us from the land for the shortcomings in our observance. And we went from the authority of Torah to the authority of gentiles. The latter is actually a preferable situation to life without any authority, which is the case in the State of Israel today
The early settlers of the 19th century were non-believers. And they came here to set up their own atheistic country. They had wanted to be gentiles in Europe but the Europeans only let them be peasants. They wanted to be royalty, but not regular royalty. They wanted to be gentiles, but not the normal gentile, who was a practicing Xtian or Muslim. Jews rarely actually want to be purely gentile. They wanted to be Jewish gentiles. They want it all, a life of olam hazeh, with minimal duties but to retain the energy, intelligence, and spirituality that were implanted in them to rise above this world and attain a life of holiness within it and to attain olam habah. That's a lethal cocktail.
Such a person becomes a complete pain in the neck and that's what Israelis are. Take my word of it as I work with them. You never met such pains in the neck. Everything is a problem, every silly matter that any goy would let go is a production, and a battle, and an opinion. And I'm not even getting to the bus drivers and the clerks and the taxi drivers and the millions of others who spend every moment on the edge of shouting. The "religious" Zionists will excuse the behavior and attribute it to persecution from the nations, particularly now the Arabs.
I am started to concluding that this is a canard. We Jews have a way of dramatizing our troubles. Reading the Jewish papers in America and absorbing the endless social droning about Arabs and terrorism one pictures terrorism everywhere and every hour in Israel, Heaven forbid. The numbers tell a different story. Since 1948 an average of 27 people have been killed each year in Israel due to terrorism, nearly half in the territories. This is 1/5 the number murdered in other ways and 1/10 the number killed in car accidents. During the 1970s the number was around 9 a year. It increased with the Intifada, which arguably is a result of an occupation of 5 million people that, due to the fault of both sides as I will explain, just doesn't end. I am not saying that the Arabs are angels. But we have Torah principles of not messing with the gentiles, not provoking them. Israelis don't know how to not provoke. That's what they do for a living.
Israel has not been attacked by a foreign army in 40 years. Even then, the Yom Kippur War, in which the father of my coworker was killed, might have been avoidable if Israel had responded to Egypt's offer for a peace treaty, in exchange for the Sinai, of two years before. Israel made such a treaty 6 years later and has been at peace with Israel and Jordan, its primary foes, ever since.
Again, Egypt is not an angel, far from it. But it did manage to learn to live with Israeli's existence.
In the '67 war Israel fired the first shots. Was it truly under threat? It's not clear. Some Arab nations did saber rattling. Who knows if they would have attacked. Many Israeli generals did not believe that Egypt and Jordan were strong enough to attack.
This is one of the reasons for the seeming "miraculous" victory. Israel has always been better equipped for battle than the Arabs. When civil war broke out in '47, Israel had 40,000 well trained solders with real weapons and vehicles and radios. The Arab locals had knives. As a result, the Israeli forces were able to control 400 Arab cities in Palestine. Some Israeli historians claim that the Israelis drove the Arabs out of those cities.
Arab countries with actual armies didn't actually attack until 6 months later, after Ben Gurion declared independence. Their forces were roughly double that of Israel's, but poorly organized and not motivated. You could say that there was some real danger there, but nothing as bad as we tend to portray when we talk of 1 billion Arabs out to get us.
As I said earlier, even irreligious Jews, even ones who'll say they want nothing to do with Jews or Judaism, are generally reluctant to depart with Jewish traits. Particularly in Israel, they'll use the Bible when they please in the way that they please. They apply the concept of antisemitism liberally whether they are conscious or not of Rashi's statement that Esaiv hates Yaakov. One is compelled to ask, if Jews and gentiles are existentially the same, and if the Jewish religion is man made, heaven forbid, why would Esaiv hate Yaakov, why would antisemitism exist?
They don't ask that. And the "religious Zionist" crowd, who knows about the Rashi, forgets the Torah method which requires that one weigh this concept against many others including others such as Divine protection over the Jews, Divine compassion that reminds us of our sins over and over again, and Divine justice that punishes us if after centuries we just don't get the message.
So non-religious Jews and religious Zionist Jews go hog wild with this concept of antisemitism, explaining everything with it. But antisemitism doesn't mean that all the world is out to kill us every second. There's animosity. In America in the 40s it meant you couldn't get into a country club, which was a good thing. Plenty of Americans were openly antisemetic back then, but Jews were safe and could practice Judaism.
Are the Arabs antisemitic? Sure, like any goy. Are they wildly antisemitic? Generally Arab countries were safer havens for Jews than European, over the centuries. Wild Arab antisemitism started with the State of Israel. We provoked them. Or should I see the apikorsim from Europe provoke them.
As I said, the European zionists wanted to be goyim. And they learned militarism from them as 19th century Europe was rife with it. And they transplanted that to Israel where they instituted it as the national religion. Every Israeli is trained to be solder and they keep that with them all their lives. Everything here is a fight, and a threat, and a show. It's Jews acting like goyim in a way goyim don't even act. It's a sickness.
And they'll have you believe that they must be this way due to Arab hostility. We want peace they say. We offered them everything.
Everything minus autonomy over East Jerusalem, right of return for refugees whereas Jews whose families haven't been here for 2000 years are able to return, right to a military of their own, and toleration of Israeli military bases (well, radar stations) in their country, return of all land taken n '67 minus even settlements.
Should the Arabs take the deal? Of course they should and they have their own sick leaders who betray them. But you can't say with those terms that the Israelis will do what it takes for peace. And give up their religion, aka, the IDF at war?
And at war with whom? With a civilian population and some hoodlums. That's some tough fighting force. In the Gaza war Israel destroyed 16,000 homes and killed 500 children. Israeli lost one house and one child. A tragedy but one that resulted from the actions of criminals, not a foreign army that justifies a nation in green fatigues. North Korea is also paranoid and militaristic. Another nation with a false religion.
Israel's biggest problem is itself. This is nothing new. This is Jewish history. And the reform Jews, aka apikorsim, will blame it on the goy. But the fault lies not in our stars, but in ourselves.
Israeli's problem is not external, it's not Europe, it's not the Arabs. It is its own worst problem, it's own worst enemy. If you see life materialistically, like a goy, then you see the enemy. But if you see it spirituality, via the lens of Torah, then you see that God is with you. But if you are not with Him then you are the cause of your own problems.
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