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[Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
In 1954, on the Jewish holiday of Purim, a bus carrying passengers from the Red Sea beach town of Eilat entered Scorpions Pass.
A decade before there was any ‘Palestinian’ cause, Muslim terrorists ambushed the bus. Ephraim Fuerstenberg, the driver, was shot dead, and his wife Hannah was taken out and raped and murdered. Men had thrown themselves in their dying moments on his two children to hide them. But his 9-year-old boy, Haim, raised his head to call for his sister, the Jihadist lifted up the body on top of him and shot him in the head, he would lie in a coma for 32 years before finally passing away. His sister Miri, who wrote the story in her book, ‘The Girl From Scorpions Pass’, survived only by hiding under the man who had thrown his body on top of hers to save her life.
The PLO would not be founded until 1964. An account in Time Magazine made no mention of ‘Palestinians’ because no such people had been invented yet. The West Bank and Gaza, the territories at the heart of the two-state solution and the ‘Palestinian’ cause, had been seized by Jordan and Egypt, and were being used as the bases from which the Islamic terrorists operated.
Nor had Islamic terrorism entered the popular jargon. These Jihadis were known as the ‘Fedayeen’ or those who die for Allah. Their style of attacks closely resembled those perpetrated by Hamas on Oct 7. And the Israelis had no high tech, no border wall and not nearly enough manpower to come to grips with the constant Islamic Jihadist raids across the border.
The Islamic attacks escalated under the cowardly leadership of Moshe Sharett, Israel’s second prime minister, who had put all his faith in international diplomacy and the United Nations.
After the Scorpions Pass massacre, Sharett had refused to respond, arguing that, “an act in reaction to the bloodbath would only blur the horrifying effect and would place us on the same level as the murderers on the other side.” Israeli commandos, who had little respect for Sharett, a leftist hack with no understanding of the battlefield, began to go rogue against the Jihadis.
Long before drones, Israel responded with a more personal form of targeted killings. Small commando units tracked down terrorists inside Gaza and the West Bank and killed them. They also came after the Egyptian officers who, like the Soleimanis of today, were organizing them.
Throughout the early 50s, Jihadis raided Israel from Gaza, killed and raped those they could, including Leah Festinger, a young Holocaust survivor, threw a grenade into a room where a family was sleeping, killing the children, including a 3-year-old girl. Meir Har Zion, a war hero who excelled at penetrating enemy territory, responded to the murder of his sister by making his way to the West Bank with a few friends and hunting down the men he believed were the killers.
Finally a murder near Nahal Oz, one of the communities targeted by Hamas in the Oct 7 massacre, brought the situation into clear focus. Roi Rotberg, a young man who was patrolling the fields, was ambushed, had his eyes gouged out and his mutilated body left on display.
Expecting the international community to mediate peaceful borders had been tried and it had failed. Egypt and Jordan were never held accountable for Islamic terror raids, and only the Israeli responses to them were condemned by the White House and the United Nations. The Eisenhower administration had turned over its foreign policy to the oil industry and Arabists like Assistant Secretary of State Henry Byroade whose true allegiance was to Arab Muslim states.
And that was the setting for what was just another funeral, until IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan, who knew Rotberg personally, delivered a famous eulogy that defined the new state of affairs.
Invoking the story of the biblical figure Samson, who had carried away the gates of Gaza on his shoulders from the Philistines, Dayan spoke of the small community of Nahal Oz which “carries on its shoulders the heavy gates of Gaza, beyond which hundreds of thousands of eyes and arms huddle together and pray for the onset of our weakness so that they may tear us to pieces”.
“It is to us that the blood of Roi calls from his shredded body,” Dayan warned. “Although we have vowed a thousand vows that our blood will never again be shed in vain — yesterday we were once again seduced, brought to listen, to believe. Our reckoning with ourselves, we shall make today. We mustn’t flinch from the hatred that accompanies and fills the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs, who live around us and are waiting for the moment when their hands may claim our blood. We mustn’t avert our eyes, lest our hands be weakened. That is the decree of our generation. That is the choice of our lives — to be willing and armed, strong and unyielding, lest the sword be knocked from our fists, and our lives severed.”
“Roi Rotberg, the thin blond lad who left Tel Aviv in order to build his home alongside the gates of Gaza, to serve as our wall. Roi — the light in his heart blinded his eyes and he saw not the flash of the blade. The longing for peace deafened his ears and he heard not the sound of the coiled murderers. The gates of Gaza were too heavy for his shoulders, and they crushed him.”
The gates of Gaza never became lighter except when Israel won its wars. When Samson stayed strong, he prevailed, but when he allowed himself to be seduced, he lost his sight and his strength, and then in the extremity of his despair, he fought and died heroically.
In every generation the gates of Gaza would grow heavy. As they eventually would for Dayan whose tenure as Defense Minister ended when Golda Meir’s government gave in to diplomacy and political pressure from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and failed to strike first. The resulting Yom Kippur War nearly destroyed Israel and began the end of the Labor Party.
But the gates of Gaza also grew heavy on the Netanyahu government and his predecessors, prime ministers Bennett and Lapid, who focused once again on international diplomacy and building an international coalition against Iran through the Abraham Accords to pay attention.
Hamas appeared to have kept its word for two years and Israel was once again blinded and forgot, as Dayan said that, “our children shall not have lives to live if we do not dig shelters; and without the barbed wire fence and the machine gun, we shall not pave a path nor drill for water.”
Israeli leftists, convinced that the Islamic Jihadists would settle for the West Bank and Gaza, the territory beyond the ‘Green Line’, despised those Jews who lived there as ‘settlers’, messianic fanatics who were keeping up a state of war and destroying any hope for a peaceful solution. And the Israeli right, Sharon and Netanyahu, came to believe that walls were the answer. Barak had pulled out of Lebanon and Sharon out of Gaza, ceding them to Hezbollah and Hamas, but Netanyahu focused on Iran and domestic economics, convinced that walls were enough.
The Simchat Torah massacres showed that walls were not enough unless they were vigilantly manned by men who truly understood, as Dayan said, that, “beyond the furrow that marks the border, lies a surging sea of hatred and vengeance, yearning for the day that the tranquility blunts our alertness, for the day that we heed the ambassadors of conspiring hypocrisy, who call for us to lay down our arms.”
On October 7 that day came and so did the killers yearning to “tear us to pieces”.
Samson could carry the gates of Gaza, but what undid his strength was the need to believe that the people he had been fighting for so long were just like him and could become his friends and lovers. Before Samson’s eyes, like those of Roi Rotberg, were gouged out, he had lost his moral vision.
To live with the starkness of the vision that Dayan laid out 67 years ago at a dusty gravesite near Gaza is too much for most normal people. Samson could not do it and neither could any Israeli leader, from Ben Gurion, who had to step in when Sharett failed, and to Sharon, who had led the 50s retaliation raids against Muslim villages, and to Netanyahu, who wanted to focus on geopolitics rather than the dirty realities that lay before him in Gaza and the West Bank.
It is easier for most to believe that some compromise must be possible, to turn over Gaza and the West Bank, to develop joint economic projects, to meet together as individuals, as one of the abducted women, a peace activist, had tried to do, to deny a reality too horrific to be real.
By the watchfires, sentries know not to look into the flame or they will lose their night vision. Israelis, on the edge of hell, have to continue to look into the abyss. Is it any wonder that so many find pretexts for looking away, develop Stockholm Syndrome, turn on each other, or escape into fantasies of coexistence, lay down the gates and let their enemies cut their hair?
The gates of Gaza are not just here, they are everywhere that the horde on the other side lurks.
Civilization is a set of borders that men once carved out of the wilderness. On one side the village, on the other the wolf and the savage baying for blood. The capitals of civilization have all been blinded. They hold up signs welcoming refugees and wonder why bombs go off. They accept the rationales, capitalism, colonialism, zionism and imperialism, for these horrors, and convince themselves that this time they can trust Delilah… because what is the alternative?
“We are tired of fighting; we are tired of being courageous; we are tired of winning; we are tired of defeating our enemies,” former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who finished the retreat that turned over Hamas to Gaza, had told American anti-Israel leftists at the Israel Policy Forum.
The gates of Gaza weigh heavy on even the strongest of men, never mind the weakest of them, who are tempted to put them down, and go to Delilah while dreaming of peace. The moral resilience to bear the weight of the struggle and resist the simplistic promises of a solution.
But when we cease to see the enemy for what it is, then we lose the knowledge of what is true. We let ourselves be tied down by our enemies with promises of peace and love, but they only blind and mock us. The Lord departs from us, the Philistines deface our monuments and kill us. And then at long last we wake up, surrounded by blood and ruin, and the knowledge that we must either perish, bear the gates of Gaza forever or go to wage war against the Philistines.
crown says
Another brilliant tour-de-force, Daniel.
Makes me wish, in my deepest heart, that we still had leaders like Churchill, who could craft soaring sentences to help us face the abyss of evil that surrounds us. Instead we have little pygmy Chamberlains who are always ready to appease. The shriveled Mr Biden is our Chamberlain.
One question, though. Perhaps I am getting this wrong, but, wasn’t Moshe Dayan the one who, in a fit of insane naïveté, granted guardianship of the Temple Mount to that miserable “Waqf”?
Daniel Greenfield says
Indeed. Dayan has much to answer for. He had a moment of clarity and then it was gone.
Michael says
Daniel,
The “enemy” is you and me and our sinful nature. Before “Islam” and the “Catholic Church”: Which two primary groups chose to release a murderer instead of an innocent God-man – the Christ; Rome and Israel (what you now call Judaism…), et al And, killed God’s prophets before that. Christ, not me says:
John 14:6
New International Version
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Madeline says
You seem to have forgotten that Jesus said he laid down his life willingly, for all mankind. That was his mission. Therefore, whoever was the immediate cause of his death was irrelevant. He came here to die, to sacrifice himself for others’ sins. So if you are getting at the usual kind of Jew hatred, you might do well to reconsider it.
VOWG says
I think the gates of Hamas are the gates of hell.
Michael says
Madeline,
You don’t understand. And, this is not the forum to bring you up-to-speed. However, for God so loved the world.
Baeticus says
The Left is an enemy of Israel.
Michael says
An enemy of the world.
Hannah54 says
Even his moment of clarity left something to be desired.
I clicked the link to Dayan’s full eulogy, and it included something creepily similar to UN’s Sec Gen Guterres’s despicable “not in a vacuum” comment:
“Let us not hurl blame at the murderers. Why should we complain of their hatred for us? Eight years have they sat in the refugee camps of Gaza, and seen, with their own eyes, how we have made a homeland of the soil and the villages where they and their forebears once dwelt.”
Israel’s habit of blaming itself for Muslim Jew-hatred — and the delusion that the hatred only started in 1948 — goes back a long way.
EndPC says
Yes, but he didn’t quite come ” to terms with the nature of the enemy” that is Islam itself, its teachings of the Myth of the Night Journey of Muhammad to the Temple Mount that is clearly only a myth but makes Muslims believe Jerusalem is sacred to them, its belief that land once conquered for Allah and then lost must be taken back for Allah. Not enough debunking of that obviously fraud but extremely dangerous religion – MSM journalists sure won’t touch the subject.
Yes, Israel should, IMO esp now, take back the Temple Mount AND destroy that Dome Of The Rock that inspires the hearts of the duped Muslims. Islam is clearly not compatible with Israel (or Western Civilization) and it’s time to face it.
Michael Kunz says
Apart from Islamic Blood Lust, one of the real plusses of this butchery was the breaking up of Trump’s
good work with various Arab Nations. They even have Saudi Arabia actually talking to the worst terrorist State in the World, Iran. That alone set back the middle east, decades. I don’t trust any Islamist, but jaw, jaw is better than war, war, which is what you’d get with the destruction of the Dome of the Rock. Israel has enough problems, without being attacked again by every nation in the M/E, simultaneously, yet again!
BLSinSC says
No, they should not destroy the “rock” but should certainly regain control of the area and drive the Islamists as far away as possible! Make that area a “PEACE ZONE” open to all WORSHIPPERS! That can only happen when all act in a CIVILIZED manner! And it’s not a “plus” for SA to be in discussion with Iran unless it’s a COVERT Operation concocted by PRESIDENT TRUMP so assist in the DESTRUCTION of the mullahs in a year or so! Hmmm, maybe!?!
Brian Ozzy says
Correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t the Hadiths say Mo’s fantastical journey was only to the furthest mosque. That was probably only a few days camels ride, not as far as Jerusalem. Besides there was no mosque on the Temple Mount during Mo’s supposed reign of terror.
As usual pislam has deluged the world with another lie in order to claim something else that is not theirs. After all most of the muslim world has been stolen from the original inhabitants!
Richard Trank says
I have always believed the tragedy Islam, and its story of the furthest mosque, is its followers failed the opportunity to identify that mosque as metaphor, ie the human heart.
Lightbringer says
When Israel recaptured the Temple Mount in 1967, the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Shneerson wisely said, “blow it up,” referring to both mosques. I am one of many who would love to see that ugly, ostentatious golden dome gone; it is an eyesore on the Jerusalem skyline, dominating every image of it. When will we be rid of it?
Michael says
All,
How about the Book of Numbers, Chapter 14.
Lightbringer says
Many of our current difficulties can be tied directly to that unwise rebellion against Divine authority. It happened on the unpropitious 9th of the Hebrew month of Av, a day that has since had one misery piled up upon another.
Jews, unlike most people, blame their misfortunes on themselves and their own sins.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Definitely can’t count on the International Community. There are a lot of stories like that in scripture and such. One I read goes something like “The deer all gathered and made a pact to stick together to fight the wolves. Then a wolf howled in the distance, and the deer all scattered.”
Alex MacColl says
That sounds like Aesop.
internalexile says
Yes, maybe Trump and Ramaswamy should work Aesop’s fables into their campaign speeches.
Taylor says
Meretz, Labor and the entire gaggle of “peace now” types in the diaspora are as guilty as Hamas. They’ll never admit it, though, and instead will just claim Israel isn’t trying or giving enough. Real Jews cant disabuse them of anything and will just have to step up to the plate and do what needs to be done.
Algorithmic Analyst says
They seem to be more interested in deposing Netanyahu than eradicating Hamas.
Steve says
When the war is over, they’ll no doubt interfere in Israel’s internal politics (as Dementia Joe and Barack Hussein Osama have) by opposing judicial reform (the idea of an elitist judiciary that can run roughshod over democratically elected governments using vague, half-assed rationalizations such as “reasonableness” appeals to the Left’s totalitarian impulses). They also support BDS, the Squad and the demonization of Israel (think of Bernie, Antony Blinken, Doug Emhoff, Ben & Jerry, Thomas Friedman and Peter Beinert). These are truly JINOs (Jews in name only) who haven’t practiced Judaism in decades (if they ever did) and would never live in Israel (and thus face the existential threats posed by the policies they promote). They’re like the “Jewish” protesters who stand next to Rashida Tlaib or Greta Thunberg- they’re just there to provide a cover for OBVIOUS antisemites.
If a conservative politician used “people of color”, Muslims, LGBTQIA+ or women (if they can define them) the way these leftists used their Jewish kapos, the Left would ridicule them as tokens and Uncle Toms.
Inmate of Earth says
Palestine? What Palestine? The nation that never was. The name comes from what the Romans called ‘Philistia’. Please forgive any misspelling. They named it to insult the Jews.
The Arabs twisted it into ‘Filastin’. Again, forgive any misspelling. Even the Turks never called it Palestine, or any derivative. They called it southern Syria.
Thank the British and that useless organisation, the League of Nations (forerunner of an even more cretinous organisation called the United Nations) for the name ‘Palestine’.
Useless yobbos!
Oh, Palestine… Poor Palestine. Poor boo-boo. The country that never existed.
A bit like the unicorn, really.
internalexile says
Yobbos? Is that more British English than American? Can’t find it in my dictionary.
Steven Brizel says
The events of 10/7 seem at least for now to have caused many on the Israeli left to realize that their dreams of a two state solution are completely bankrupt and a product of their imagination
Daniel R says
Unfortunately now it has become a three-state solution. Gaza is a state-less state, a pus filled blister, a sore canker that keeps coming back. The muslim-occupied lands in Judea and Samaria is another autonomous non-state that poises a continuous existential threat to Israel. In better times, Israel will finally end up conquering these two evil non-states, getting rid of its malignant muslim population, becoming “one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all”. Just the time isn’t ripe yet.
Rebecca Valiant says
Daniel, what is the difference between civilization and the wilderness, the Jews and the philistines, moral and amoral? Isn’t it the law of G-d? Just yesterday, I watched a video where someone was asking Israeli Jews which religion was closer to Judaism, islame or Christianity. With ONE exception, they all answered islame, and that one man was heckled by all his companions. I think Jews have mistaken amoral paganism for somehing they can understand.
NAVY ET1 says
“People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
~ George Orwell
Michael says
From: William Tecumseh Sherman and the Moral Impetus for Victory
by John Lewis
“To end the motivations for war, there would have to be more than mere defeat of southern forces; the southern leadership would have to surrender abjectly. There is a difference between defeat and surrender. A defeat is a fact: One side’s ability to prevail in the fight is destroyed past the point of rebuilding; the physical capacity to continue the fight toward any meaningful end no longer exists. Surrender is a decision: The political leadership and the dominant voices in the culture openly accept the fact of defeat. Surrender is recognition of the reality of the situation, an admission of impotence, the collapse of all hope for victory, and the permanent renunciation of aggression. Under the shock of defeat, the leadership accepts the situation publicly; militant voices lose their legitimacy; civilians no longer predict victory; and the population gives up.”
History shows how peace is won.
THX 1138 says
In order for this to happen with Islam Mecca and Medina need to be bombed to rubble just as Hiroshima and Nagasaki were.
The Muslim must be shown that his god Allah is an impotent god unable to protect his most holy sites or his followers. Only then will the Muslim’s 1,400-year-old conviction of Allah’s Manifest Destiny to Islamize the world be shaken to its core.
Intrepid says
If you are so hot to bomb Mecca and Medina, get off your fat ass and run for President. But you won’t.
You never do anything yourself. You can’t even make a phone call, even with the Lutheran Social Services phone number given to you on a silver platter.
Mr. Big Talker. Mr. Tough Guy, as long as you don’t get those delicate little fingers dirty. You would rather sit on your Lotus Flower, copy/pasting the Ominous Parallels one more time.
In the final analysis…….Mr. Big Coward.
Lightbringer says
A very intelligent comment, THX. Keep the good ones coming. A long-dead philosopher does not have to do all of your thinking for you.
Yes, turning Mecca and Medina into radioactive glass is the best solution. Perhaps it would be best to implement during their festival of worshipping the black stone. And yes, many innocent people would die. They always do in war. Nobody wanted this war but the Muslims, and maybe it’s time for their intended victims to end it once and for all.
Tionico says
Sherman is cirrect in his distinction. however, he cutely manages to omit entirely HIS response to the surrender of the South in the late conflict: his very own jihadist March to the Sea, wherein he and his violent abusive underlings cut a twenty ile wide swth of utter destruction along the entire route between Atlanta and Svannah. Burning, raping, pillaging, wantonly destroying for its own sake, they cut a swath of nihilism along the entire path.
Then he and his trusty sidekick Sherridan went “out west” and perpetrated more of the same upon the native Americans they found.
All in the name of “preservation and progress”.
Fie on them both.
Kynarion Hellenis says
But they got they job done. Can we be picky about the character of our soldiers in time of desperate need?
We need men like that in desperate times. Their fault is they are not like George Washington who governed his considerable passions with an iron will and unimpeachable character.
Some men are made for war. There is a time and place for them.
Kynarion Hellenis says
Oh, that was sooooo yesterday!
Sherman would need to embrace soy boys, trans-women and proper pronoun protocols to get unconditional surrender from our modern enemies. The Russians and Chinese quail before them!
Annie45 says
Muslim barbarity in the very early days of Israel’s existence – before the
concept of ‘Palestinian people’ had even occurred to anyone. It is both
horrifying and interesting to read about. Islam and its fanatical mindset
are why Israelis must never let down their guard and try to co-exist with
them. But maybe that fanaticism is ultimately Islam’s greatest weakness.
One of Daniel Greenfield’s fellow journalists, Israeli Caroline Glick recently
said on Gateway Pundit – where many commenters ridiculed her because
they found her idea preposterous – that it was Hamas’ bloodlust which
caused them to fail in their mission to take down Israel for good on Oct. 7.
It seems the Hamas attack in the south was actually coordinated with
Hezbollah in the north with whom Hamas was to meet up deep inside
Israel – for a real chance at destroying the country. But Hamas unexpectedly
encountered scores of young women to rape and young men to slaughter
at a music festival at their initial attack – where their brutal Islamic beliefs
got the better of them, bogging them down and throwing military strategy
to the wind. They were able to inflict the worst carnage since the Holocaust
but because of their religious fanaticism to rape women and murder Jews-
it could have been even worse.
Jews keeping their guard up against Muslim terror in perpetuity is step one
for their survival. Understanding the mindset of such fanatics with Jews using
their own minds to strategize and survive against them is step two.
Michael says
“Jews keeping their guard up against Muslim terror in perpetuity is step one
for their survival.”
With all due respect Annie, what you propose is simply not feasible. The way in which Israel, specifically, and the West, in general, are fighting this war is not sustainable in the long run. In this manner, Israel needs to succeed every time for their survival; muslims only need to win once. As THX 1138 notes above, and correctly in my opinion, muslims must be shown that their god is impotent in the face of determined men and women willing to utterly destroy their death philosophy. Only then, when the muslim world recognizes their philosophy only brings destruction will Israel and the West enjoy peace from this barbaric mentality.
Michael Kunz says
Unfortunately Israel not only have Islam as its enemy, but millions of stupid westerners who couldn’t research a piece of toilet paper. Then there are Western Politicians! I believe that Annie is correct. Every head of the Muslim terrorist organisations must be sundered before any semblance of peace can be achieved, therefore Israel must be constantly on guard.
commonsense says
What a wonderful, insightful essay! Few would have thought to liken Israel’s situation to that of war-weary Samson succumbing to the seductive judas goat of the Philistine enemy, Delilah. As I have written previously, it is scandalous that Daniel’s writings are not more widely known.
Kynarion Hellenis says
All sin comes down to disbelief in the Lord God. Samson’s little head convinced him that marrying a gentile, in contravention of Exodus 34: 15-16 and Deuteronomy 7:3 would be okay. He was admonished (perhaps too gently) by his parents. Samson’s sin was ultimately one of disbelief – a kind of psychosis in which reality exists apart from the One who created it. Samson lived during the time of the judges, when there was “no king in Israel and everyone did what was right in his own eyes” — very dangerous because we are all idol-making factories when left alone.
Leftists are characterized by the sin of disbelief. This being so, they do not know God and neither do they understand human nature. Thinking evil can be appeased is like kissing a rattlesnake.
Tionico says
it IS possible to safely kiss a rattlesnake. Hold him by the head and kiss his other end.
But anyone wanting to do this has deeper issues than kissing rattlesnakes. Your assess,emt of Samson’s wilful violation of the law as written is on the mark. Your “and every man did what was right in his own eyes” is central to today’s social and political and economic woes.
there is only one cure: repent and believe the Lord God who made us.
Alix Brit says
The alliance of the Left – in the USA, Europe and Israel – with Islamonazis will be the end of us – until, of course, the Islamonazis devour the Far Left – which they eventually will do. Everyone: PLEASE IGNORE JOE BIDEN. He is has been a loser on most issues.
Lightbringer says
I think everyone on this forum has been ignoring Joe Biden for the better part of half a century. Not to worry about anyone taking him seriously now.
Birder says
As many commenters have already stated, this is another great article!
There will never be peace on earth until the Prince of Peace returns and His name is Jesus!
Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.
The Jewish people would use the blood of a lamb to cover their sins. (sin offering)
When Jesus died on the cross there was no longer need for a sin offering since HE was the true Lamb to cover sins.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
Tionico says
the ONLY way true peace will cometo Jerusalem is for those there to repent and trust upin the Lord Jesus.
There is very good reason God sent the Roman army under Titus to utterly destroy Jerusalem and its surrounds. The only way to end the corruption was to pull it out by the root.. Jerusalem was and conteined the very core of corruption. It was in every pore of the old Jewish system and order. The only “cure” was utter destruction, and the scattering of what little managed to survive.
It is interesting to note that the larger part of the destruction of Jerusalem came at the hands of the rebel sect, the Zealots, the same ones that arranged for the execution of Jesus. And it was clearly in recompense fir that one act that God sent Titus and his army to utterly destroy every vestige of Isreal, the Jews and their religion and corrupt system, from the face of tthe eart. That part of the world lay desolate for a few hundred years.
Michael says
The new Jerusalem.
Ed Snider says
Is more evidence required to prove that it is a fool’s errand to attempt to live with creatures so far removed from humanity as the Arabs who call themselves Palestinian? To live near them, or even in relatively close proximity? Gaza will have to be emptied of its current population to protect Israel from future mini-holocausts. Enough is fucking enough.
commonsense says
A short while ago, it was reported on several TV news channels that Israel has just agreed to daily four hour pauses in its battle to eradicate Hamas…for “humanitarian reasons,” i.e. to allow Gazans to evacuate. Hopefully, the underlying goal is to depopulate the Strip to the greatest extent possible without forcible population transfers under Israeli governance, which would cause a global outcry, even though such a move would be entirely justified. I hope that’s the reason for this decision, which otherwise seems idiotic and dangerous for Israel and for its military, 34 of whom have already been killed.
Lightbringer says
And where should Israel put them? I agree with the late, great Rabbi Meir Kahane that they must go, but where? After what they’ve done to the Arab states that took them in, who would want them?
Of course I fear that our Fearless Leader and his mighty army of Donks might just take a bunch in to the US. No Ukrainians, no Boers, none of them, but “Palestinians” will be welcome.
Walter Sieruk says
There is absolutely no limits to the vile, heinous horrifically evils that the jihadists will commit because of because of their demonic and malice-filled religion that is Islam.
Walter Sieruk says
Taking into account the totally evil nature of that jihad entity Hamas, The most appropriate, fitting and right way that this appalling and horrific murderous and destructive jihad entity , Hamas, should be dealt with defeated and even destroyed is to hit it hard , hit it long and keep on hitting it with strong powerful forceful military strikes until it’s unable to raise up again with its ugly , vicious and deadly jihad Islamic head.
Walter Sieruk says
Those brutal vicious murderous jihadists of Hamas can’t be reasoned with .They cannot and will not respond to the logic of reason. The only language that they are able to understand is that of being on the receiving end of a very strong might power of military might.
As Thomas Jefferson had, very wisely, written, “With every barbarous people…force is law.”
Lightbringer says
Thomas Jefferson knew how to deal with marauding Muslims. We ought to learn from his example and put the Navy and Marines to work doing it again, this time starting with Iran and finishing with some real fireworks over Mecca.
RS says
At some point in history people have to come to grips that they cannot appease those that want to end their lives and their country!
Phil Lipofsky says
An experiment:
Islam 101
http://media-quest.com/Islam101.pdf
Read 11 pages, starting from the middle of pages marked 4 thru 14.
Experiment: Anyone who learned something fundamental regarding Islam give a thumbs-up. Its anonymous. Its a test to see how well the readers here, likely the most knowledgeable of Islam, already know the fundamental concepts of Islam.
ONLY Thumbs-up from readers who learned something fundamental from the 11 pages.
NO Thumbs-up if you learned nothing fundamental.
Of course anyone can post reply comments.
“Learn about Islam. That is the most important thing for people to do. Learn who it is that you are not.” – Samuel Lurie
Madeline says
Absolutely correct. Without an understanding of Islam, everything is disconnected, which makes it seem less terrifying.
Some people have the stomach to understand a life threatening movement like Islam. But most people don’t. Their cowardice impedes the strong.
Kynarion Hellenis says
The strong are not impeded by cowardice. Our government is complicit. Our CIC is complicit.
Lightbringer says
Sun Tzu said, “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” The reader can either look up or extrapolate what he said about not knowing your enemy or yourself.
John Blackman says
muslims love death , oblige them .
mj says
Very dark but finely woven tapestry of truth.
We like to think of truth as light.
But this truth is dark.
May it be the dark just before the dawn: “May the Merciful bless the State of Israel, the dawn of our redemption.”
Dear God, Protect Your people. Bring everlasting peace to Yisrael.
John says
Just Stop It.
Read Ezekiel Chapter 21, if you are so inclined, to actually read Hebrew scripture
Has anyone considered that the United Nations will come in and establish so=called peace forces and reside in the land and become “the disgusting thing”…where is this heading?
TruthHurts says
Daniel,
Appreciate you so much for being a wonderful wordsmith and laying out things exactly as they are.
Regretfully the cycle of doom for Israel is repeating itself:
1) Jews get murdered
2) There is an initial outcry
3) Jews retaliate
4) antisemites the world over are outraged
5) The US support for Israel wanes overnight due to pressure from those that embrace evil and self-loathing “stockholm syndrome” delusional Jews like NYT columnist Thomas Friedman.
6) The media only begins to report disproportional Palestinian casualties
7) A useful Sonderkommando like Blinken, urges Israel and then orders Israel to ceasefire before the enemy is destroyed.
8. Israel is perceived as weak and the antisemites demand war crimes prosecutions only against Israel
9. An outpouring of millions or billions of dollars is freely given to the terrorist aggressors.
10. The terrorists “build back better.”
11. The next attack on Israel is planned that will result in the death of more Jews than the last attack.
REPEAT REPEAT REPEAT until “From the Land to the Sea” is reality.
The cycle can only end through peace by strength and deterrence. Sadly, it will never happen.
Lightbringer says
It would happen if Netanyahu could do what he knows needs to be done. But he, like Trump, is tied down by the Lilliputians of his own country, the traitors within, who are determined at all costs to stop him, and to hell with the country and the future of humanity.
Walter Sieruk says
To understand the nature of the jihadist enemy who are members of that murderous jihad entity, Hamas, is to realize that the reason that the jihadists of Hamas are so very brutal callous cruel dangerous and deadly is because, as the Bible reveals, they have had “their own conscience seared with a hot iron.” First Timothy 4:2. [N.K.J.V.]
For them, that “hot iron” is Islam.
Walter Sieruk says
One way to understand the nature of those misery and deadly inflecting jihadists of Hamas is to realize that they are of the same horrendously appalling character of those ancient villains described in the Bible.
Which reads “There feet are swift to shed blood; destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace have they not known.” Romans 3:15-17, [N.K.J.V.]
Lightbringer says
Brilliant, as many commenters before me have said. I come late to every party so no one reads my comments, but I had to add my own good wishes and blessings to one of my favorite young writers.