If
you care even slightly how Jews around the world are feeling today, I’d love to
tell you.
“How
can I speak on behalf of all Jews?”
Because
I can.
That
offends you? That’s fine. Keep scrolling.
So
this is how we feel. These are only some of the many things that are making us
scratch our Jewish heads, some of the things that simply don’t add up.
The
biggest one is this.
Israel
and the Jewish people, on October 7th experienced the most inhumane, barbaric,
heart wrenching, and savage attack on our people we have ever known. I say ever
because even the Nazis were ashamed and hid what they were doing. Hamas-ISIS
live streamed it.
That
means that not only did they act like actual real life monsters but they took
pride in murdering babies and decapitating them, raping kids and mothers,
murdering holocaust survivors, and taking almost 250 innocent people hostage.
That,
in my book, makes them worse than Nazis.
Yes,
the Nazis killed more Jews. They had years. There was no IDF. The world sat
that one out. Thanks for that, world.
So
we experienced this unparalleled national tragedy and it could not possibly be
clearer who
the moral side is and who the monstrous side
is.
Someone
said “You know how you know which side is right and which side is wrong? Look
for the side that rapes women and then drives them around in the back of a
pickup truck to show off what they’ve done.”
That
should be a good indication.
I’m
going to make a confession. After October 7th, somewhere deep down, very deep,
I felt a sort of relief. I told myself “Finally, FINALLY, the world will see
the truth. Finally they will see what we’ve been seeing and saying for decades.
There is no scenario in which the world doesn’t side with Israel now.
And
now, here we are just a few weeks later. Lynches being carried out publicly on
Jews, Jewish homes being marked (again), signs declaring no Jews allowed, and
universities giving students extra credit for attending anti Israel activities.
THIS
DOESN’T ADD UP!
This
isn’t the world I knew one month ago.
How
can this be? Where is the logic?!!
Just
when we expected the world, the media, the academic world, the liberal world to
see the true nature of the Palestinian agenda, just when I had some optimism
that the world would come to its senses, they’ve completely lost their
collective mind.
It
makes no sense!!
Secondly,
I never thought that in my lifetime, in the western world, I’d ever see an open
call for genocide of Jews. Never in my wildest dreams.
But
we’re seeing it and we need to stop looking away.
Calling
for a global intifada, declaring From the River to the Sea, proclaiming that
Hiter was right, these are literal calls for the murder of Jews.
On
what planet, in what universe, do you think I, or Jews imagined they’d see
otherwise intellectual, moral, ethical people side with rape, pedophilia, murder, and kidnapping?
This
just doesn’t add up!!!!
Proportionate
response? Give them water? Give them internet? Give them electricity?
HAVE
YOU ALL LOST YOUR MIND?????
Where
is the logic here?? In what war ever did anyone demand that one side provide
infrastructure to the other side, especially when there is hard evidence that
that water and electricity is going to terrorists and not the people
themselves?
You
can’t make this stuff up.
Israel
agreed to let in food and water with one condition, that the trucks be checked
for weapons.
They
let in the trucks and they “forgot” to check? Are you actually kidding me?!
How
is this logical in any way?!! These are not natural occurrences.
We
are all watching these protests, that are more like pogroms at this point and
we’ve all just shrugged our shoulders. “Oh look, another Jew hating fest in the
streets of London and NY. Oh man that stinks.”
Are
we actually insane?? How did we accept this! How did those governments accept
this? Are there actually no red lines? What has to happen for those governments
and for regular people on the streets to stand up to this hate and put an end
to it by any means necessary?
Where
is the UN?? The head of the UN literally publicly justifying what Hamas did by
saying it didn’t happen in a vacuum?
How
are you not seeing how ludicrous this is?
UN
and UNWRA whose schools are literally being used by Hamas as terror bases are
just sitting there with their fingers in their ears yelling “Lalalalalala I
can’t hear you.”
The
tunnels. We know what they are. We’ve all seen them. We know how much they cost
to build. The lighting. The plumbing. The cement.
Billions!
Where did that money come from? We know where. From the world. From the UN.
“Humanitarian foreign aid.”
On
what planet does it make sense that you give someone billions of dollars for
one cause, they use it for another cause, in this case terror, and you’re like
“Oh yea, oh well. Let’s just send them more.”
Where
on earth is the logic?! How is this a thing that’s happening in real life? You
couldn’t even make up this script if you wanted to.
If
someone pitched a movie studio the story of Israel and this war, the script
would be immediately rejected with the response, “Sorry. This needs to be a
little more realistic for people to watch this movie. Go rewrite it.”
In
what universe does it make any sense that the west is trying to forcefully
apply their western values to radical Islamic terrorists who say, proudly,
every chance they get, that they want one thing? Dead Jews.
Someone
said this to me yesterday.
In
our western mind, we have some basic fundamental beliefs. Treat people well and
they’ll treat you well. Everyone wants to live in dignity. People are
intrinsically good.
Stop
it!!
This
isn’t the way they think.
You
can treat them as well as you want! They want every non Muslim to either become
Muslim or die! Read their damn charters for God’s sake! Listen to their
leaders! Why won’t you listen?!!
No,
not all humans want to live in dignity. Some people have other goals and those
goals are what drive them. Stop thinking if you treat Hamas well or even send
them money, that they won’t come after you next. Stop lying to yourself.
People
are intrinsically good? Yes, most people are. Except those people who have been
indoctrinated to be evil from age zero.
Do
you understand that the west looking at Hamas or ISIS through a western lens is
the equivalent of looking at a spider and wondering how it it that he’s not
acting like a snake!
They
are not the same! They don’t have the same anything. They are not the same!
The
west and radical Islam have one thing in common. They both breathe oxygen.
That’s basically where our similarities end. Stop expecting them to act like
you and I act! They won’t. They never will.
Listen,
the inconsistencies here are endless.
Genocide?
Their population has grown 6x!!!
Apartheid?
A country that has literal anti Israel Arabs in its parliament and Arab supreme
court judges?
Occupation?
What occupation? We dug up our dead in Gaza before we left. There was not one
Jew there, dead or alive! Yes, we DUG up our dead. You read that right.
Why?
Because we knew deep down what they’d do if we didn’t. And today we see how
right we were.
They
want a state? Give them a state. Are you flippin kidding me?
They.
Don’t. Want. A. State!!!
Stop
it. How can you keep repeating something when they hear you saying it and think
to themselves “Why do they keep repeating this whole ‘We want a state’ thing?
Who wants a state? We had a state. Many times.
We
don’t want a state. We want no Israel. I mean it’s not like we hide our goals
so I’m not sure why the world keeps putting words in my mouth, but ok, whatever
floats their boat. 🤷♂️”
I
can go on and on. This whole conflict and especially this war is like a movie
with tons of holes in the plot. You finish the movie and start to think about
it and you say to yourself “Wait a second. That actually makes zero sense. Am I
the only who noticed that? This whole movie makes no sense.”
So
are we doomed? Do we now live in a world in which hatred of Jews is so powerful
that facts don’t matter?
“We
occupied a Palestinian state.” 😂
What
Palestinian state??? Palestine was Israel! We have coins that say Palestine on
them alongside a Star of David!
What
Arab Palestinian state ever existed??? What was the national anthem? Who was
the president?
It
doesn’t matter if it happened or not, does it? The world says it happened so it
happened.
So
are we indeed doomed?
No,
we are not.
And
I’ll tell you why.
The
fact that the world we live in is a world of lies, has no bearing on us, the
Jewish people, and our millions of supporters around the world.
We
still have our moral clarity, our lenses are still clean, and we are able to
see the truth, even if others are not.
But
on a deeper level, the logical inconsistencies and the moral relativism that
the world so loves to apply to this war, to me, those things tell me one thing.
If
I am going to look at current events through a human lens, I will, indeed lose
my mind, and start believing that I am actually clinically insane.
But
if I shift focus, and I realize I cannot understand what is happening, because
God is in control, and I can’t understand God, to me, this answers all the
questions.
I
am a human being, and I therefore have at least a basic understanding of the
human mind.
If I
understand the human mind, and I am seeing what is unfolding around the world,
then I have to throw my hands up in despair and quit.
But
if I realize that, while I understand the human mind, I lack complete
understanding of God and His plans, then I am comforted by the thought that, of
course, it makes no sense to me, because I don’t understand God‘s ways, and to
Him, this is all part of a bigger plan.
There
is a famous story of a rabbi who was on his deathbed. His students came to say
goodbye, and gave him a list of questions to ask God when he went up and met
Him.
After
he died, he appeared to his student in a dream, and told him that he
unfortunately would not be able to answer the questions that they asked,
because up in heaven, the questions weren’t even questions. It’s not that they
had answers, the questions themselves made no sense.
I
know that it is hard to understand with our finite human brains, but that is
exactly the point, we are human, and we can only understand other humans.
Looking
at the world today, it is clear that this is not being run by humans, because
no human mind can come up with the twisted reality in which we find ourselves.
Why
God does what He does? Again, I have no clue, we have no clue, we do not have
the tools to decipher why God does what He does.
Some
people view that as a cop out, I view that as the only possible way to look at
the world.
The
only tool that I have in order to try to understand God‘s ways, and perhaps
what is coming next, is history, is the Torah.
I
look at the different miracles and stories we have learned our entire lives,
and I know how this ends.
God
watched over us in the desert with the clouds of glory. He accompanied us and
held our hand until we reached our destination. He watched over Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Leah, and all the rest of our
forefathers and mothers.
He
chose us, He gave us the Torah, He loves us, He is our father, and that I know
beyond any shadow of a doubt.
How
could a father allow this to happen to His kids?
I
don’t know. I struggle with this question every day.
I
don’t know.
But
I do know, that throughout our history, we were the victims of endless
persecution, and we always, always came out on top. Why we needed persecution
in order to come out victorious? I have no clue.
Anyway,
I started off by letting you know how Jews feel around the world, and out of
all of the things I said above, to me, what I am seeing is, that Jews are
strengthening their faith around the world, coming back to their tradition,
remembering their heritage, and so many are understanding that God is in our
corner.
You,
the world, the anti-Israel world, you will go down in history, along with the
Nazi sympathizers, and the people who sided with the Jew haters throughout our
history, and were wiped off the map and forgotten forever.
How
are Jews feeling today?
Devastated.
Broken. Depressed. Hopeless.
And
at the same time?
Unified.
Strong. Optimistic. Confident.
“Israelis
will never forget October 7th.
Jews
will never forget what came after.”
I
know Hashem is here with His clouds of glory again. I know He is marching
alongside us into Gaza to do the impossible work we need to do there. I know
that God’s version of today’s clouds of glory is the Iron Dome.
I
am endlessly grateful and proud of the IDF. The IDF is God’s vehicle by which
we will win this.
God
has our back. We are marching into a man made hell on earth but right behind us
is God, and if history teaches us anything, God does NOT look favorably on
people or nations that mess with His children.
I
promise you, this has a good ending.
The
sadness won’t disappear.
The
loss won’t ever be forgotten, but we will win this and this will all end with
the Jewish people victorious!
Am
Yisrael Chai. Now and forever!
