Watching the left coalition parties win in France on the second round, after Macron called for snap elections, is like seeing a real life Caliphate spread across Western Europe. 

Interesting fact: the first time, it was the Jews doing because of the first Inquisition (4th – 6th century) in Sepharad. The Jews and Moors (Berber tribes) had a very close relationship in North Africa. Tired of the antisemitism of the Christians in Spain and Portugal, Jews in Sepharad worked with the Moors to invade. 

In fact, there even were Jewish Generals, like Kaula al-Yahudi who helped lead Muslim and Jewish brigades. General al-Yahudi helped secure Catalonia in 711 AD. In 718 AD, he led a rebellion against the Muslim Governor of Spain, and was executed. The Jews in his rebellion ended up living in cities of Catalonia. Later, Samuel Ibn Nagrillah became the most politically influential Jew in Muslim Spain, as the Grand Vizer and military General of Granada.

Once the Muslims invaded, they turned administration over to Jews of many of the towns. Jews enjoyed a great status and relationship the first few hundred years of the Moorish rule in Europe. 

Islam turned far more brutal after the ‘Golden Age’ and now ISIS Islam has taken over Western Europe with significant help from the liberal useful idiots – both Islamists and the former KGB called liberals, ‘useful idiots’ in that they eagerly spread their respective propaganda.

Also, those flags pictured above in the image are not ‘Palestinian’ – those flags are the flag of terrorism. Palestine means Israel, as it was the colonizer term for Judea/Israel from 136AD – 1948. And Palestinians were Jews who lived in Israel during the same 1,812 years of occupation of the Jewish homeland.

For weeks on end, there has been some asinine push to share countless videos proving how much aid is coming into Gaza, to prove how ‘moral’ Jews are over our enemies. First, that is disheartening to compare subhuman monsters with actual people. It is similar to calling the situation Jews have found themselves in, in our homeland for the past over 100 years, a ‘conflict’ which equalizes ‘both sides’ when in actuality, it has been, and to this day, sadly, continues to be a war on Jews. Though now, Israel has the power to stop this war on our people.

Second, and equally as inaccurate, to focus on Jewish morality in the face of pure evil negates who and what Jews are.

Giving aid to our enemies is not ‘moral’ it is abhorrent, and spits on the very nature of our ancestors.

In actuality, Jews are a tribal, territorial, and when needed, a ruthless people.

Growing up, I only viewed Jews as victims, and as such, it did not make me proud to be a Jew. I spoke about this with a very respected Jewish leader in NY rather recently, and he recounted similar emotions from his childhood. All he saw and heard was victimhood, which did not position being ‘Jewish’ favorably. Everything Jew-related was centered around the Holocaust (6 years out of our over 4,000 year history), pogroms, and more distantly, the Inquisition. Only focusing on victimhood does not make a proud people nor make others look favorably on a group. The only stories of strength I heard and read about was related to the IDF, but that was also twisted as in we only have ‘modern’ Israel because ‘it’ was ‘created’ for us as a result of the Holocaust. Of course, we know that is not the truth. Jews fought damn hard for nearly 20 years in an armed struggled against a mighty world power, the British occupiers, to finally liberate portions of our homeland.

If one reads the actions of the Irgun and Lehi, it would make any Zionist Jew proud. Those Jews did not ask permission of the world how and when to attack the British; they did attack, often, and did so ruthlessly. A few months ago, a friend wanted me to dispute the fact that someone accused the Irgun of being ‘terrorists’ – there was nothing to dispute. Terrorist tactics were widely used, and for good reason. There was no other way to push back the British occupiers.

Several years ago, I read the very informative book (highly recommend), Jews, God, & HIstory by Max Dimont. The book completely changed my outlook on our people. I had never felt more proud to be a Jew after reading about all the powerful Hasmonean Dynasty Kings & Queens of Judea, the territorial expansion campaigns, plot-twist unlikely alliances with neighbors, and especially the revenge tactics Jews staged against powerful empires – the Romans, and the Christian Kings & Queens of Spain & Portugal (Sepharad).

We also need to push back on the lie that all Jews were slaves in Egypt. Historically that is simply not accurate (Merneptah Stele of 1207 BC proves otherwise) and diminishes our actual indigenous nature in Israel. The ONLY Jews who were taken to Egypt by various Pharaohs were as a result of military battles. Similarly, we need to end the lie that ‘all’ Jews were exiled out of Israel after the Romans defeated the Bar-Kokhba rebels in 136 AD, or the lie that all Jews in Italy were slaves. Far from it. There were many slaves in Italy who helped build the Colosseum, (Jews were just some, and in fact, most Jews who were brought in as slaves were quickly made free thanks to Jews who bought their freedom, Jews who had been in Italy for centuries as regular Roman subjects). There were Jews in the Roman legions attacking Judea.

Did Emperor Vespasian have 10,000 Jews killed in Caesaria? Yes, but that was because Jews rebelled Roman rule. Who else was killed in vast numbers? Egyptians right next door, also due to rebellion against Roman rule. Let’s also remember why the Romans even came to Judea? It was not to randomly kill Jews. The Hasmoneans invited in the Romans and established alliances in order to set Judea more on a world-stage and to prove legitimacy of Judea. There were still clashes with the Hellenized Jews long after the Maccabees regained control of Judea from both the Hellenized Jews and the Seleucid Empire.

In fact, it was Jews who subjugated entire tribes in a land which we shared. Judean society was not predicated on the now bastardized version of ‘tikkun olam’ but rather on the notion of ‘rise and kill first’ if needed. We see that value played out in our actual history; just a brief snippet:

• Judeans conquered and subjugated the Idumeans (that is how we obtained Jerusalem under King David), Edomites, and Moabites – all Semitic tribes. In fact, there were only Semitic tribes in Canaan.
• Long battles with the Assyrians – Battle of Qarqar was in 853 BC. In 722 BC, the Assyrians conquered the Kingdom of Israel (but did not kill most of the Jews, rather, dispersed Jews throughout the Assyrian empire). Many of the ‘lost tribes’ descendants in the Diaspora have since been found, alive and well, thanks to DNA testing. It took the Assyrians around 70 years to defeat Jews in Samaria, and their siege on Jerusalem failed.
• Jews fought a near 20 year war with the mighty Babylonians. In fact, it worked out for the Judeans that were left, in a sense. The Babylonians took captive the upper echelons of Judean society, about 10%, and then redistributed the land to the 90% that were left.
• Maccabees brutally attacked both Hellenized Jews and the Seleucid Empire. In fact, a Jewish vigilante group, the Sicarii, emerged from the Judean Maccabee rebels. They cut the male genitalia off of Hellenized Jews who they caught worshiping idols, burned entire Hellenized Jewish villages and razed them to the ground.
• In reality, the Philistines did not seek Jews out to battle. It was the Judeans who took the battle to the Philistines (a Greek-Cretan seafaring people who settled in Gaza). First, the Maccabees defeated Gaza in 145 BC, then, in 100 BC, Hasmonean King Janneaus worked with Queen Cleopatra III against her own son, to secure Gaza for Jews. Queen Cleopatra III sent in two Jewish Generals to lead the year long battle. Queen Cleopatra III’s top military commanders were both Jews: Chelkias and Ananias.
• Bar Kokhba rebels called on 400,000 Jews to fight with them against the Romans. The Romans had to call in legions from as far away as England and next door, in Egypt, to crush the third Jewish-Roman war (131 AD – 136 AD). It was because of the expense of these Jewish wars against Rome, that contributed to Western Rome’s downfall.
• In the mid 4th century, Jews in the Galilee rebelled against the Roman ruler, Constantius Gallus.
• Jewish revolt against Heraclius (part of the Byzantine-Sassanian War) – the Jewish inclusion in this war is legendary. The Jews in Palestine proved to be a mighty fighting force that the Persians (who in reality were not against Jews; Persians before Islam were Zoroastrians and were very philosemitic) worked with Jews to reinforce their own positions in Palestine against the Byzantines. Bands of Jews from Jerusalem, Tiberias, Galilee, Damascus, and even from Cyprus, united and undertook an incursion against Tyre, having been invited by the 4,000 Jewish inhabitants of that city to surprise and massacre the Christians on Easter night.

The Jewish army consisted of 20,000 men. The expedition, however, miscarried, as the Christians of Tyre learned of the impending danger, and seized the 4,000 Tyrian Jews as hostages. Jews from Palestine destroyed the churches around Tyre, an act which the Christians avenged by killing two thousand of their Jewish prisoners. This revolt was the last known attempt to achieve autonomy before 1948. Decades later, Persians briefly took control of Jerusalem but let Jews continue to live there without issue.

• Like mentioned above, Jews enthusiastically helped the Moors invade Sepharad.
• The Battle of Haifa in 1100 AD, when mostly Jews held back the mighty Crusader armies for an entire month.
• Long before the liberation of Israel, Jews set up both defense and offensive groups against Arab attackers in Israel. When Jewish villages were attacked, Jews were not ‘asking permission’ when to fight back, they eliminated Arabs with difficult to obtain weapons.
• In a previous issue, I shared about the brave Jews in ghettos during WWII who were fighting against Nazis, even young women often shot and killed Nazis. 90 ghettos had armed resistance units.
• Jews are the only group in the world to achieve independence after such a lengthy duration of occupation and colonization, and it was a fierce battle against the British occupiers. While the Haganah did their part on defense, it was the Irgun and Lehi who were assassinating British officers, blowing up British infrastructure. Mizrahi Jews also led the fight in intelligence gathering for Israel, started the Mossad, by going behind enemy lines in the very towns and cities from which they were forced to flee.

And of course, we know how brave the IDF has been and continues to be. Therefore, it is absolutely jarring that there are Jews who say today’s Jews are not like before – before what? Jews have always been fighters. Nor can I comprehend when Jews gleefully share that we are feeding our enemy. Can you imagine a Judean feeding anyone from the Roman army? the Assyrians? the Byzantines? Did Jews feed the Nazis in sympathy? Were Jews in Palestine giving aid to the British as they were blowing up their police stations and railways? No. And neither should we now be aiding our enemies. We have many. Some are hiding like rats underground, others are UNRWA teachers, still others sit in suits at the UN and currently in the White House and some are also members of European Parliaments and the U.S. Congress. All of them are Hamas. As are all who cheered and fostered the murderous regime that literally emerged from an occupier population on Jewish land whose goal is to murder Jews.

No Judean was driving their enemies to hospitals or keeping borders open or giving work permits. That is insanity. We cannot forget our Judean roots and who Jews actually are – a warrior, tribal, territorial, and proud people.