As I begin to write this newsletter edition, it is currently Monday evening, October 6th at 11pm EST in New York. Two years ago on this date, I was freshly back from Israel after one of the most incredible trips I’ve ever had to the Judean homeland — from touring Mt. Azazel in the Judean desert, from where the Priests during the Temple eras would source two goats for Yom Kippur, one to carry away sins and one to sacrifice, to learning about the rich history of Jews who spent their diaspora in Italy and rebuilt their communities in their ancestral home, to meeting new friends at two separate Yemenite Judean restaurants where the recipes reflected Judean history from 586 BC to modern times, and a very animated tour of Shuk HaCarmel deep in talk with a Jew who was visiting from Italy who fully embodied Zionism, which has been part of the Judean culture for 4,000+ years.
And of course, the entire country (not state – Israel is not a state now nor ever was – states are created or are part of consortiums) was filled with beautiful sukkahs. Whatever divisions of pro or anti judicial reform at the time was placed on hold for that week of Sukkot.
It was the only trip to Israel in the past then seven years of returning to the Judean homeland yearly, sometimes twice in certain years, where there were no terrorist attacks. I naively chalked it up to the Abraham Accords materializing to its fullest potential; after all, I had just toured numerous Arab nations the year prior (Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and back for round two in the UAE). Eerily, looking back, I did notice that the mood in Yafo emanating from the Arab population there seemed off on that particular trip.
While I was gearing up to say (a temporary) good-bye or lehitra’ot unbeknownst to me and of course to much of the world, that there were 3,400 people dancing under the stars at the Nova festival. There were families already in Shabbat mode across southern Israel in peaceful kibbutzim throughout Otef Aza – the same kibbutzim that had extended their hand to the Arab occupiers in Judean Gaza in hopes of providing a better life for them than they had under Hamas rule (little did anyone know the extent of the opulence in Gaza prior to the war and no, not just the Hamas elite).
And then all hell broke loose – Israel’s security was breached by sub-humans. Not just Hamas, which is not even a singular entity, but it is the entire Arab occupier population of Judean Gaza. 2,200 civilians, not known terrorists, eagerly aided in the barbaric Judean genocide – barbarity not even endured during the Holocaust.
My sister had called me at 6am Saturday morning to tell me to turn on the news, that there was an attack in Israel. I almost didn’t believe her as I had just returned from Israel and seen the nation at pure peace. With horror and helplessness, I watched the casualties rise from 22, which already was an abhorrent number of murdered Israelis, to 100 to 250 and at that point, we all knew it was not an attack, not even a massacre, it was a genocide.
Yes, there were non-Jews who were murdered, and no one should forget them, but to lie that this was an ‘attack’ is to disregard that the Arab occupiers were hunting Jews – there was a Bedouin (all Bedouins in all of Israel– which includes Jordan– are actually genetic Jews but have lived as Arabs and Muslims for centuries) who later disclosed that he hid eight Jews under his farm-shed. A terrorist came running onto the farm asking where the Jews were. An Arab occupier civilian from Judean Gaza phoned his excuse for ‘parents’ to excitedly share that he had murdered 10 Jews and was calling them from the phone of a woman he had raped and then killed.
The sub-humans were proud of the genocide, videos were being streamed for the world to see Jews being butchered, violently raped with knives and machine guns, human beings burned alive, children being killed in front of their parents.
I never understood the concept of Judean guilt until the genocide — guilty that I was safe in America and not with my people in Israel. My friends in Israel were sharing that the sub-humans had taken control of several of the kibbutzim, rockets were launching non-stop from Gaza into all parts of Israel while Hezbollah (which is the Lebanese government) was launching missiles at the nearly 90,000 Israeli citizens across northern Israel. Terrorists were not just operating in southern Israel, but quite many made their way across central Israel and into Judea & Samaria (which is a Hamas stronghold among the Arab occupiers in the ancestral heartland of Israel).
The resilience of the Israelis is unmatched. Any other nation would have utterly folded after such a genocide. 1200 murdered people in Israel is equivalent to 40,000 in America, when comparing to % of total population. America destroyed two countries thousands of miles away after nearly 3,000 murdered on 9/11. Imagine what America would have done if 40,000 were murdered by an occupier population in say Arizona or Maine.
What other people fly back home to fight in a war, what other people beg to serve in the army after such barbarity. None. The closest example would be the Kurds when they fought valiantly against ISIS.
For a week, journalists could not speak without crying on air describing the sheer atrocities in Israel, all while keffiyah-Karens in every liberal city were marching for the ‘human rights’ of utter evil parasites. Whatever sympathy the media displayed originally, completely vanished as soon as Israel militarily began to respond 20 days after the Judean genocide. Nonstop images of a bombed Judean Gaza were appearing on every channel from MSNBC to BBC to even FOX News. Moronic Westerners could not comprehend why Israel would not allow more Israelis to be murdered and that the only way to curb that outcome was to bomb not just Hamas booby-trapped civilian buildings all across Gaza, but to destroy the vast tunnels underneath, the very tunnels where many of the hostages were dragged to after either being murdered themselves or having seen their friends, family, and significant others be brutally murdered. And some of those tunnels, in Rafi’ach (let’s start using original Hebrew names for places across Israel and not repeat Arab occupier ones), El-Sisi of Egypt had bombed in 2014 as retribution for Hamas murdering 16 Egyptian soldiers in 2012. Absolute silence when Egypt militarily responds to terrorists.
Two years in, we still have what are believed to be 20 hostages still alive in Judean Gaza. And a Gaza while properly decimated by the brave IDF, but weakly not reclaimed by Netanyahu. A portion of our land (Gaza has been Judean land since 145 BC) occupied by a terrorist population hell-bent on murdering even more Jews next time. A Gaza which is on its way to becoming a third terrorist state inside Israel, but this time, recognized as such by much of the ignorant and antisemitic world.
Too many Jews are sad about the genocide, and not angry enough. Anger would have freed hostages far sooner, by demanding that Netanyahu fully siege aka starve out the Arab occupiers – it is what every real Zionist leader (and most Jews) was hoping for – from Gallant to Ben-Gvir to Amichai Chikli.
Instead, we are now currently facing a thank you gift to Hamas from both gullible Westerners and taqiyya-spewing Muslim nations who are part of the current ‘peace plan.’ President Trump is being played by Qatar, Turkey, and the Saudis. For them to sign on to the deal, one must be naive not to understand that they already gave assurances to Hamas that they will help Hamas stay in power… and remember, ALL the Arab occupiers in Judean Gaza ARE Hamas.
The Arab occupiers may be such but stupid they are not. Trump seems to have no clue about taqiyya and neither do most Jews, sadly. Israel should fully Dresden Judean Gaza as soon as our hostages are released, as a deal with a terror organization does not stand on any legal grounds, under international law, and under American law, signing a deal with an FTO (Foreign Designated Terrorist Organization) is actually illegal and is considered being an accessory to terrorism.
Jews worked too damn hard, shed too much blood to decolonize just 22% of our homeland by liberating it from the antisemitic clutches of the British occupiers, not by asking, but by force that involved fighting a global empire on local grounds for over 20 years — to now capitulating to Western Europe which has fallen to Islam, and America, which can never be a true ally as America has to ensure its own interests. For Israel, it is not merely ‘interests’ but pure survival, even if it means standing mostly alone.
When we look back in history and lament on how much damage the Romans wreaked on Judea, nearly decimated our homeland and reduced our population to 700,000 after 136 AD —that was not even antisemitism (hating Jews for being Jews), but pure retribution for rebelling against authority over the span of three expensive wars — that was the fault of Jews for inviting in the Romans in the first place to ‘aid legitimacy’ in recognizing the sovereignty of Judea post-prolonged fighting with the Seleucids and the traitorous Hellenized Jews. In the current situation, not one Arab occupier was invited by any Jew to Israel, ever. We are very grateful for one Arab who came as an occupier to Israel, Saladin I, but he was the exception. Every other Arab, the non-genetic Jew ones who were not forcibly converted to Islam, came because of occupations forced upon our land. Enough.
Israel has demonstrated to the world that the IAF is the best in the world, reaching deep inside Iran, that Mossad can out-think, out-work, outmaneuver any one of our enemies – the beeper operation carried out in Lebanon is one of legends, and that the chayalim (soldiers) are braver than most armies. Not one army has had to endure this level of urban warfare where children are sent out to launch grenades, where women are terrorists aiding and abetting, and the enemy hides in tunnels, in civilian hospitals, in ambulances, and fights mostly not in any uniform.
Jews did not survive 4,000+ years of being a race and continuously remained (at least a portion of our people) in Israel out of pure luck. Nor did we ‘found’ or ‘create’ or ‘re-establish’ Israel in 1948. There is no Israel without Jews and no Jews without Israel. Now is the inflection point – now is the time we collectively refuse to have more intifadas and genocides. If that is what Western Europe wants for itself due to Muslim immigration, that is their choice. Our inner disease of ‘whattheworldthinksofus-itis’ must come to a halt.
Take Back Judean Gaza so that the hostages murdered did not fight back as hard as they could muster in vain, so that those brave soldiers who fell in battle did not do so in vain. For the 251 hostages, for the 1200 murdered (including 38 children – who were not used as human shields by Jews as the Arab occupiers do with their own children, but who were protected as best they could by family members) two years ago, for those murdered in post-Judean genocide terrorist attacks across Israel, and for the Jews outside Israel also murdered for being Jews.
Any iota of naive ‘peace’ with subhuman Arab occupiers who burned Jews alive, raped women with knives and machine guns, mutilated body parts while laughing with glee, is to usher in the next Judean genocide.
Dresden Gaza once our hostages are returned and reclaim Gaza. Re-populate Gaza with Jews. Gaza has been Judean land since 145 BC, and legally, per Article 80, still belongs to Israel. The Arab occupiers in Judean Gaza (and many in Judea & Samaria) have proven incapable living anywhere in the vicinity of humans.
*For Gil Tasa and his little boy, Or, who were murdered at 6:29am by Arab occupiers, with his other children watching in horror and severely harmed.
*For the Kapshitter family who were heading home from 5 year old Ethan’s birthday camping trip when they were intercepted by terrorists and forced out of their car. The subhumans murdered Ethan first, making sure the parents witnessed their son’s murder. His parents, Dina and Evgeny, were murdered next to Ethan. It took a week to find his eight year old sister, Aline’s body. She was brutalized so heavily, she could only be identified via DNA.
*For Ilana Gritzewsky, whose fiance, Matan Zangauker remains a hostage today, who was dragged to the tunnels and testified to the antisemitic UN that “it was impossible to breathe, walking was nearly impossible, and that “Hamas took away my humanity piece by piece.”
*For Or Levy, who endured 491 days in captivity and was being starved.
*For Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Agam Berger, Daniella Gilboa, and Naama Levy who bravely fought the terrorists on their base and then survived captivity.
*For Erick Peretz, 58, who took his 16 year old disabled daughter, Ruth, to the Nova festival and were both brutally murdered.
*For Tamar Kedem Siman Tov (35), her husband Yonatan Siman Tov, 36, their 5.5 year old twin daughters, Shahar and Arbel, and son Omer, 2, who were all murdered in their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz.
*For the 1,035 IDF soldiers who fell in battle – 100 from the Israel Police, 9 from Shin Bet, and 8 from the prison service. Nearly half of the fallen were under the age of 21 and serving mandatory service.
Compassion Towards Enemies is Not a Judean Value and Leads to Murdered Jews
‘Compassion’ is what led to the genocide on October 7th. Compassion wrapped in dangerous liberal policies.
Who did not have ‘compassion’? Egypt with their stringent safety measures against terrorists.
No working in Egypt, no year-round open border, no major goods allowed legally to Gaza from Egypt from the Egyptian border, no money funneled to terrorists using Egyptian banks. A reminder that most of the Arab occupiers in Judean Gaza are Egyptians. Al-Masri is a very common last name, which even Hamas admitted years ago back in 2012. Joining the Egyptian settlers, who began moving in first in the 1840s during a brief Egyptian takeover, and then more significantly after the 1947 – 1948 war against Israel, were some former Arab Israelis, themselves occupiers from 25 different Muslim nations, who only fled to Gaza to help the Arab armies at the time kill Jews faster. Jews lived in Gaza since 145 BC, as it was an important Judean port city for over a thousand years. And Gaza at various times served as a center for kabbalah study.
As for saying ‘the children are innocent’ – before the war, the most popular children’s game in Gaza was called ‘Stab a Jew’ where they pretended, eagerly, to murder Jews.
From birth, the Arab occupier ‘innocent children’ are taught to hate Jews and then want to murder Jews. This is how you have 12, 13, and 14 year old Arab occupier kids in Israeli prisons. It was those ‘innocent children’ who joined in attacking Jews dragged back to Judean Gaza on October 7th, children and their mothers who were screaming with joy at the brutality which occurred across the border.
Can Jews finally stop being naive. We are compassionate, in that the IDF did not mutilate, rape, or behead the Arab occupiers in Gaza. Anything else should have been fair game.
If we truly want safety in Israel for Jews, reclaim Gaza and eliminate the majority of the murderous Arab occupiers by any means necessary in both Judean Gaza and in Judea & Samaria. Any country would do similar.
**Please sign Jonathan Karten’s important petition to remove the murderer of his late uncle from the terrorist release list, as part of the hostage deal: https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-release-of-jamal-al-hur-and-any-repeat-terrorist-offenders?cs_tk=AwK17NsLNlvwUo8z6WgAAXicyyvNyQEABF8BvDQxNDJhNzU4ZmI5YjBkZDg3MGU5MWE5OTkzODA0ODMzZmU2MjI5NDVmY2RjN2Y5ZWUwMTNhZjFhMDg5ODhlMTc%3D&utm_campaign=a602d7b160a149839f92a97804647875&utm_content=initial_v0_2_0&utm_medium=email&utm_source=recruit_sign_digest&utm_term=cs The terrorist murdered numerous other Jews including children, and currently still holds influence within Hamas.**
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For 20 years, I was an anti-Israel Jew, not due to the media, but largely due to the Jewish organizations I was part of, who would misinform that Israel was ‘founded’ in 1948, that Herzl had anything to do with it, or even more laughable, the UN. Antisemitic terms such as ‘Palestinians’ to mean the Arab occupiers, and not the indigenous Jews in Israel, who were called Palestinians from 136 AD – 1948, West Bank, settlers, settlements, Green Line, and East Jerusalem. Other lies included that all Jews were exiled after 136 AD. Or that Jews came to Israel per a Biblical story and not invoking actual history, that Jews literally emerged from Semitic tribes in Judea & Samaria 4,000 years ago.
None mentioned that Gaza was Judean land since 145 BC, and to this day, legally, per international law (Article 80) still belongs to Israel. Or that Gaza was an epicenter of Judean life in numerous eras prior to the liberation of Israel, in 1948, by brave Jews after 20 years of fighting the British occupiers. Or that most of the Arab occupiers in Jewish Gaza are not ‘Gazans’ but former Egyptian nationals settled in after 1947/48 and radicalized, or that the other smaller cohort are former Israeli-Arabs who came to Israel originally from 25 different Muslim nations, and who then fled to Gaza, once Egypt stole Gaza, to help Arab armies kill Jews faster in the 1947-1948 War.
In 2014, I became a Zionist, and began to learn actual Judean history along with the history of Israel, as that is interwoven. Social media posting turned into becoming a published op-ed writer on the topics of Israel, antisemitism, and politics. Thousands of people since then have been converted to being pro-Israel solely by my sharing irrefutable facts and history. To date, I have been published over 50 times in both Jewish and non-Jewish publications. And, in 2022, I launched Taking Back the Narrative (www.tbtnisrael.com), a Zionism education company.
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