Israel – holy scribbles

Restoring the Truth

It is disheartening to learn of South Africa’s president, shamelessly, leading a crowd at an election rally, in a chant that is implicitly genocidal. “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free,” the chant by pro-Palestinian advocates and allies, is chant upheld by both the P.L.O. and Hamas, two terrorist organizations founded in 1964 with the intent of destroying Israel and claiming all of it for the Palestinians.

“From the river to the sea,” this area encompasses all of the land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. This covers the entire geopolitical land mass known as the State of Israel, replete with many cities and infrastructure, as well as a population of 8 million people, almost 2 million who are Arabs with full citizenship and rights, completely integrated into Israeli society.

Since 1948, when Israel was established as a country by U.N. vote, the Arab world rejected its statehood. Arab antipathy toward a Jewish presence in Israel began ostensibly during the British mandate, prior to 1948. This was decades before Arabs living in the geopolitical area known at that time as Palestine, under the British Mandate, began to identify as distinct people-group with nationalist aspirations; hence, they began to identify as Palestinians.

They have been used to carry out the continuing was against the Jewish people, since 198, when five Arab nations attacked the fledgling state of Israel, the morning after Israel declared its Independence. They have never acknowledged Israel’s statehood; nor, has there ever been a state called Palestine, solely of Arab people called Palestinians. What they, Hamas, and the radical Islamic nations and proxies of Iran want is a Judenfrei Israel – an Israel without Jews.

It is shameful for Cyril Ramaphosa to promote the calling for genocide against Israelis and Jews, while claiming that Israel is waging a genocide against Palestinians. It is double calumny. Humanitarian aid pours into Gaza everyday, and Israel’s military upholds a high moral standard in going at length to avoid civilian casualties. Rather, it is Hamas who committed a genocidal act against innocent Israelis on October Seventh, murdering 1200 men, women, children and elderly persons, including holocaust survivors.

The intent of Hamas to commit genocide against Israelis and the Jewish people is written into their 1980 charter. This intent is the motivation for the atrocities that Hamas and Palestinian civilians committed against innocent Israelis on October Seventh. The Gaza War is a war against Hamas, not the Palestinian people. This is why the I.D.F. takes great care, risking their own soldiers to prevent civilian casualties.

Because Hamas hides in an underground infrastructure underneath UNRA schools, mosques, hospitals and residential neighborhoods, the task at hand – to eliminate Hamas – is extremely complicated. Over 90,000 Palestinians were evacuated from Rafah by the I.D.F, before the I.D.F. operation in Rafah began. It was Israel who initially provided 40,000 tents for Palestinian civilians, weeks in advance of the operation.

There is no intent of genocide on the Part of Israel, only to eliminate Hamas, so that the ideological terror of radical Islam cannot continue to claim the lives of Israelis. The attempt to make a case against Israel, as per their bid at the ICJ (International Court of Justice) was not upheld. As if still agitated against Israel, Ramaphosa feels compelled to stir up hatred as well amongst his constituents.

His shameless and baseless accusations now give way to calls of genocide against Israel. May South Africans not be swayed by the lies and false narratives begin propagated by the ANC. Inquire into the truth, and the truth will set you free of the false claims. Israel is a bastion of hope and light to the world. Am Yisrael Chai.

Hope Abounds

When Israel sends out its signal of distress to HaShem through prayer, we know that the response will be swift, in assuring its protection. Overnight, during the unprecedent aerial threat of over 300 missiles and UAV’s launched by Iran, the third most searched word on Google was Psalms. Israel is the apple of G-d’s eye, He will not let us be defeated by evil.

Israeli along with its strategic partners met the threat overnight, successfully intercepting 99% of the aerial threats. Its partners in this event included the U.S., Great Britain and France, as well as Jordan, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. All threats were neutralized, except for two missiles that landed in Israel. Tragically, a 10-year-old Bedouin girl was injured.

As we encounter the own challenges in our lives, let us rely on the L-RD, who watches over those who place their trust in Him. And, let us consider the plight of the Israelis, who are living in the face of existential threat to the nation, as its enemies continue to strive against its existence as a nation. Both the very real threat of Iran and its proxies, including Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis of Yemen. As well as the information war, and false narratives upheld by Leftist Westies, many who are deceived in their gullibility, accepting the false narratives and lies that are strewn against Israel. Truth will prevail over lies. And, good will prevail over evil.

Shavuot 5783 – Mattan Torah

At Sinai, B’nei Yisrael (the Children of Israel) encamped as one. To the eyes of the nations at the time, this massive throng of people, trekking through the desert, may have appeared to be a behemoth, compared to oxen that tear out the roots of the grass they eat, thus completely destroying a field, without its possibility of growing back; yet, from the vantage point of heaven, the people were a divinely chosen nation, being guided into their destiny, via the many tests and trials in the wilderness.

Thus, from an external perspective, based only upon outward appearances, the two-million-person multitude may have appeared somewhat haphazard in its wandering via a circuitous through the wilderness. Yet, not so, from H’Shem’s perspective, nor from the understanding of Moses, the leader of this people.

The continual march of the Jewish people throughout history as well, has not been haphazard. The prophets foresaw our destiny, and paved the way for our understanding, so that we know that our return to Israel had a lot more to do with divine intention, than from political maneuverings. On Shavuot, we recall the giving of the Torah at Sinai, the same commandments that are in effect today, as our national constitution, so to speak, as a nation.

Shavuot 5782 – Renewal of the Faith

Thus, from an external perspective, based only upon outward appearances, the two-million-person multitude may have appeared somewhat disordered, and haphazard in its wandering through the wilderness. Yet, not so, from H’Shem’s perspective, nor from the understanding of Moses, the leader of this people.