COMMENTARY / OPINION
Chanukah Guide for the Perplexed, 2025 Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger
December 8, 2025 “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”
1.Chanukah (evening of December 14 – December 22, 2025) is the only Jewish holiday that commemorates an ancient national liberation struggle in the Land of Israel, unlike Passover, Sukkot/Tabernacles and Shavu’ot/Pentecost, which commemorate the liberation from slavery in Egypt to independence in the land of Israel, and unlike Purim, which commemorates liberation from a Persian attempt to annihilate the Jewish people of Persia.
2. NBC news, December 13, 2022: “An ancient treasure trove of silver coins dating back 2,200 years, found in a desert cave in Israel, could add crucial new evidence to support a story of Jewish rebellion…. The 15 silver coins were hidden [during] the Maccabean revolt from 167-160 B.C., when Jewish warriors rebelled against the Seleucid [Syrian] Empire….”
3. In 1777, Chanukah candles were lit, by a Jewish soldier, during the Valley Forge encampment, the turning point of the Revolutionary War, which solidified the victory of George Washington’s Continental Army over the British monarchy. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a player in the ratification of the US Constitution, paving the road to the Boston Tea Party, 1773: “What shining examples of patriotism do we behold in Joshua, Samuel, the Maccabees and t
he illustrious princes and prophets among the Jews…” On December 6, 2013, Ambassador Hank Cooper, a former Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, wrote: “We need modern day Maccabees to preserve the heritage of liberty for our posterity….”
4. According to Israel’s Founding Father, David Ben Gurion: Chanukah commemorates “the struggle of the Maccabees, which was one of the most dramatic clashes of civilizations in human history, not merely a political-military struggle against foreign oppression…. Unlike many peoples, the meager Jewish people did not assimilate. The Jewish people prevailed, won, sustained and enhanced their independence and unique civilization…. It was the spirit of the people, rather than the establishment, which enabled the Hasmoneans to overcome one of the most magnificent spiritual, political and military challenges in Jewish history….” (Uniqueness and Destiny, pp 20-22, David Ben Gurion, IDF Publishing, 1953).
5. Chanukah and the Land of Israel. When ordered by Emperor Antiochus IV Epiphanes of the Seleucid region to end the Jewish “occupation” of Jerusalem, Jaffa, Gaza, Gezer and Akron, Shimon the Maccabee responded: “We have not occupied a foreign land…. We have liberated the land of our forefathers from foreign occupation (Book of Maccabees A: 15:33).”
Chanukah highlights the centrality of the Land of Israel in the formation of Judaism and the Jewish people. The mountain ridges of Judea and Southern Samaria (the West Bank) – the cradle of Jewish history, religion, culture and language – were the platform for the Maccabean military battles: Mitzpah (the burial site of the Prophet Samuel, overlooking Jerusalem), Beit El (the site of the Ark of the Covenant and Judah the Maccabee’s initial headquarters), Beit Horon (Judah’s victory over Seron), Hadashah (Judah’s victory over Nicanor), Beit Zur (Judah’s victory over Lysias), Ma’aleh Levona (Judah’s victory over Apolonius), Adora’yim (a Maccabean fortress), Eleazar (named after Mattityahu’s youngest Maccabee son), Beit Zachariya (Judah’s first defeat), Ba’al Hatzor (where Judah was defeated and killed), Te’qoah, Mikhmash and Gophnah (bases of Shimon and Yonatan), the Judean Desert, etc.
6. Chanukah’s historical context is narrated in the 4 Books of the Maccabees, The Scroll of Antiochus and The Wars of the Jews.
In 323 BCE, following the death of Alexander the Great (Alexander III) who held Judaism in high esteem, the Greek Empire was split into three independent and rival mini-empires: Greece, Seleucid/Syria and Ptolemaic/Egypt.
In 175 BCE, the Seleucid/Syrian Emperor Antiochus (IV) Epiphanes claimed the Land of Israel. He suspected that the Jews were allies of his Ptolemaic/Egyptian enemy. The Seleucid emperor was known for eccentric behavior, hence his name, Epiphanes, which means “divine manifestation.” He aimed to exterminate Judaism and convert Jews to Hellenism. In 169 BCE, he devastated Jerusalem, attempting to decimate the Jewish population, and outlaw the practice of Judaism.
In 166/7 BCE, a Jewish rebellion was led by the non-establishment Hasmonean (Maccabee) family from the rural town of Modi’in, half-way between Jerusalem and the Mediterranean. The rebellion was headed by Mattityahu, the priest, and his five sons, Yochanan, Judah, Shimon, Yonatan and Eleazar, who fought the Seleucid occupier and restored Jewish independence. The Hasmonean dynasty was replete with external and internal wars and lasted until 37 BCE, when Herod the Great (a proxy of Rome) defeated Antigonus II Mattathias.
The reputation of Jews as superb warriors was reaffirmed by the success of the Maccabees on the battlefield. In fact, they were frequently hired as mercenaries by Egypt, Syria, Carthage, Rome and other global and regional powers.
7.Chanukah celebrates the Maccabean-led national liberation by conducting in-house family education and lighting candles – in a 9-branch-candelabrum – for 8 days in commemoration of the re-inauguration of Jerusalem’s Jewish Temple and its Menorah (candelabrum).
The Hebrew words Chanukah (חנוכה), inauguration (חנוכ) and education ((חנוך possess an identical root.
8. As was prophesized by the Prophet Hagai in 520 BCE, the re-inauguration of the Temple took place on the 25th day of the Jewish month of Kislev, which is the month of miracles, such as the post-flood appearance of Noah’s rainbow, the completion of the construction of the Holy Ark by Moses, the laying of the foundations of the Second Temple by Nehemiah, etc.
The 25th Hebrew word in Genesis is “light,” and the 25th stop during the Exodus was Hashmona (the same Hebrew spelling as Hasmonean-Maccabees).
9. Chanukah highlights the defeat of darkness, forgetfulness, disbeliefand pessimism, and the victory of light, commemoration, faith, defiance of odds, can-do mentality and optimism (darkness and forgetfulness are spelled with identical Hebrew letters: חשכה, שכחה). The first day of Chanukah is celebrated when daylight hours are equal to darkness hours – and when moonlight is hardly noticed – ushering in brighter days.
BREAKING: MIT Professor Shot and Killed in His Massachusetts Home
[Ed.: The professor was murdered not because he’s a professor of nuclear science and engineering at MIT. The article above fails to mention one important clue as to the motive. Here’s the clue: he was Jewish…]
Something Feels Very Off About the Trump Team’s Rapid Defense of Susie Wiles THE VIGILANT FOX
This is raising some serious eyebrows.
December 16,2025
Something feels deeply off about the Trump team’s response to the Vanity Fair hit piece featuring Trump’s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and people are starting to take notice.
Earlier today, Vanity Fair published a lengthy piece drawn almost entirely from on-the-record conversations with Susie Wiles herself.
The article included blunt characterizations of key figures inside Trump’s inner circle: Wiles described JD Vance as having been “a conspiracy theorist for a decade,” and labeled Russell Vought as “a right-wing absolute zealot.”
She also made less-than-stellar remarks about the president himself, telling Vanity Fair, “Trump has an alcoholic’s personality.”
When the piece became public, Wiles quickly took to social media to dismiss the article as a “disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history.
But Susie spoke with Vanity Fair “regularly” over the “past year.” Was she so naive that she really did not see this hit piece coming? And why would she hand a left-wing outlet ample ammunition to smear the Trump team by supplying them with such derogatory statements?
But the truly strange part wasn’t Wiles’ response. It was what came next.
Trump’s inner circle and cabinet members rushed in to defend her, and their posts were so exaggerated that it went well beyond helping out an ally; it resembled borderline worship.
Look at this response from HHS Secretary RFK Jr.
Susie Wiles is arguably the most perfect chief of staff in modern American history. She is the first female to occupy that position, but more importantly she is a leader who combines deftness, kindness, and compassion with a maternal toughness and discipline that elevates the entire White House apparatus.
Her impeccable judgment, moral center, intuitive understanding of the President’s intentions, and her ability to translate his vision into concrete policy have earned her universal trust and respect of the cabinet, which, consequently, functions more as an unusually efficient family than as assemblage of competing rivals.
Her mastery of politics, her encyclopedic command of every issue and policy, and her ability to instantly grasp the heart of every problem rival anyone with whom I’ve ever worked. Susie—like President Trump—understands how to wield power with purpose.
Saw this post on Facebook:
An open letter to Jewish kids calling themselves anti-Zionist and saying “f$ck Israel.” by Melissa Steinberg
What I’m about to say comes from concern, not judgment.
I understand why many of you feel the way you do. You weren’t really taught why Israel exists. You weren’t taught what it means to be a people who spent centuries with nowhere safe to go. That didn’t happen by accident.
Our schools failed you.
And yes, our Jewish institutions failed you too.
Too many rabbis became afraid. Afraid of offending. Afraid of being labeled insufficiently progressive. Afraid of telling the full story. Hard history was softened. Survival was reframed. Jewish self-determination became something to apologize for instead of something to understand.
Parents, especially progressive parents, need to own this as well.
Many of us believed we were doing the right thing by emphasizing universalism, justice, and empathy, without grounding our kids deeply enough in Jewish history and reality. We assumed the foundation was strong enough to hold.
For some of you, it wasn’t.
That’s how you end up with Jewish kids raised in Zionist homes, by parents who care deeply about Jewish life, now calling themselves anti-Zionist and chanting “f$ck Israel” without fully understanding what that actually means.
Add to that the fact that so much of what you’re learning now comes from TikTok, Reddit, and Instagram, and the problem accelerates fast.
Those platforms are not neutral. They reward certainty, outrage, and simplicity. They don’t teach history. They don’t sit with complexity. They don’t show you what happens when Jews don’t have a place to go.
Those of us who are older didn’t grow up like this.
We learned from books. From teachers who didn’t skip the uncomfortable parts. From parents and grandparents who remembered what it was like to be unwanted, unsafe, or forced to flee. From stories that weren’t designed to perform well online.
So when you reject Israel outright, believing it puts you on the moral high ground, there is something you need to hear.
It doesn’t protect you.
Look around right now. Look at the violence targeting Jews. No one stops to ask if the victim was a Zionist. No one checks their politics. No one asks what slogans they posted.
They are targeted because they are Jewish.
There is no sorting system. No good Jew versus bad Jew list. No exemption for saying the right things. When antisemitism rises, you are not spared. You are simply Jewish.
That isn’t fear-mongering. It’s history.
You don’t have to love Israel. You don’t have to defend every policy or government. That’s not what this is about.
This is about the fact that rejecting Jewish self-determination has never made Jews safer. Not once. And the people applauding you now do not hate Israel more than they hate Jews. When the target widens, you will still be standing there.
This isn’t about blame. It’s about honesty.
We didn’t fully equip you. And now we’re watching you navigate a world that is far less forgiving than you think.
You don’t have to agree with me.
But you deserve the truth, not the sanitized version.
With love,
a proud Zionist
and a Jewish mom
Melissa Steinberg
How ‘CNN’ sanitizes Hamas terrorism MOSHE PHILLIPS
The word “official” is not neutral; it confers legitimacy, authority and a sense of normalcy—qualities that should never be associated with leaders of a designated terrorist organization.
December 16, 2025 JNS
Recently, CNN labeled a leader of the Hamas terrorist organization “a senior official.” This begs the question: When is a terrorist not a terrorist according to mainstream media?
Far too often, news outlets like CNN apply titles and adjectives to terrorists or mention their profession as if these are the things that matter, rather than the fact that they belong to a group pledged to commit murder.
This proclivity is not abstract or theoretical. It plays out in real time, in real headlines, from some of the most influential news organizations in the world.
CNN’s article was titled “Hamas willing to discuss ‘freezing or storing’ weapons, senior official says, amid concerns over ceasefire.” The word “official” connotes legitimacy that in no way should be bestowed upon leaders of an organization that led the terrorist invasion of Israel with its mass kidnappings, atrocities and sexual violence.
That phrasing is far from incidental. The word “official” is not neutral; it confers legitimacy, authority and a sense of normalcy—qualities that should never be associated with leaders of a designated terrorist organization.
What’s more is that the “senior official” CNN is touting is Bassem Naim, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, who has for years used the fact that he is a physician as legitimacy.
The problem becomes even clearer when one examines who this so-called “senior official” actually is. The media fell for Naim’s doublespeak back in 2018 in the aftermath of the shooting murders of 11 Jewish worshippers in the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. Headlines blared: “Hamas official condemns Pittsburgh attack,” but what Naim was really saying was that terrorists aren’t only Muslims.
His verbatim comments were abhorrent: “As Palestinians and as victims of the Israeli terror of occupation, we know the meaning of terror and its horrific outcomes,” and “This heinous attack, especially against a place of worship, proves that terror has no religion or nation.”
But this was not a rejection of terrorism. It was a reframing of it—one that shifted blame and relativized violence rather than condemning it outright.
In November, Naim’s son, Mohammad, was arrested by police in the United Kingdom for receiving weapons he later transported to Vienna. “Globalize the intifada” must run the family. This context matters because terrorism is rarely an accident of circumstance. It is sustained by ideology, networks and environments, including families, which normalize or excuse violence.
Getting back to Naim’s profession, it is past time to understand that “education” does not stop terrorism. Which brings us to a persistent and dangerous assumption: that education, professional success or intellectual achievement serves as an antidote to terror. History repeatedly disproves this belief.
Many of the leaders of the most bloodthirsty Palestinian Arab terrorist groups have been highly educated.
George Habash, the founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was a physician. Another PFLP leader, Wadie Haddad, was also a medical doctor and founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-External Operations (PFLP-EO).
Hanan Ashrawi, a current member of the PLO’s so-called “Executive Committee” and a leader of the Intifada Political Committee in the 1980s, has a Ph.D. in Medieval and Comparative Literature from the University of Virginia.
Abu Nidal was a Fatah terrorist who later formed what was widely known as the Abu Nidal Organization and studied engineering at Cairo University.
Ahmad al-Shugairi, the first chairman of the PLO, earned a law degree at the Institute of Law in Jerusalem.
Yasser Arafat had a degree in engineering from King Fuad I University (now Cairo University) in Egypt, where he was born.
Mahmoud Abbas, current chairman of both the PLO and Fatah, completed a law degree at the University of Damascus.
These examples are not anomalies. They demonstrate that ideology, not ignorance, is the driving force behind terrorist movements.
If the Allies had merely rebuilt Germany after World War II without completely changing German society, it would have been only a matter of time before the Nazis rose up and again threatened the free world. That’s why the United States insisted on complete denazification of postwar Germany.
Ideology is the engine of terrorism. Defeating it requires more than reconstruction or economic investment—it requires cultural and institutional transformation.
If U.S. President Donald Trump’s vision for Gaza is ever to have a chance, then we know what needs to be done by looking at history: Change the schools by eliminating Jew-hatred from textbooks and curricula, ban the terrorists and eradicate the symbols of terrorism. Such a complete transformation is the only hope for Gaza.
MOSHE PHILLIPS Moshe Phillips, a veteran pro-Israel activist and author, is the national chairman of Americans For a Safe Israel (AFSI). A former board member of the American Zionist Movement, he previously served as national director of the U.S. division of Herut and worked with CAMERA in Philadelphia. He was also a delegate to the 2020 World Zionist Congress and served as editor of The Challenger, the publication of the Tagar Zionist Youth Movement. His op-eds and letters have been widely published in the United States and Israel.
Rob, kill and destroy Peggy Tierney
DEC 16, 2025 TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
Some people are up in arms because President Trump said bad things about Rob Reiner after he and his wife were found murdered in their own home – allegedly by their own son.
You wouldn’t be upset if you knew who Rob Reiner really was and what he did to our country. Most people just know him as the son of Carl Reiner, a guy who played a character on TV called Meathead in All in the Family and who made some good movies. He’s much much more than that. Let’s do some research and connect a few dots.
In 2017, Rob Reiner founded the Committee to Investigate Russia (CIR) for the sole purpose of trying to tie President Trump to Russia so he could be indicted, arrested, imprisoned or executed for alleged collusion with Russia. IN OTHER WORDS, ROB REINER HELPED LAUNCH THE RUSSIAN COLLUSION HOAX TO STEAL THE WHITE HOUSE FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP AND DESTROY OUR COUNTRY.
Four former members of the Intelligence Community were on Reiner’s advisory board along with David Frum of the Atlantic, John Brennan and Hillary Clinton as key advisors:
Leon Panetta served as CIA director under Barack Obama (2009–2011) and then U.S. secretary of defense under Obama (2011–2013). He also worked for Bill Clinton as White House chief of staff (1994–1997).
James Clapper served as Director of the DIA (1992-1995) under Bill Clinton and Director of National Intelligence (DNI) under President Obama (2010-2017.)
Michael Morell was Deputy Director and Director of the CIA under Obama during the period of 2010-2013.
Michael Hayden was the Director of the NSA for Bill Clinton and George Bush when 9/11 happened and later was Director of the DNI and the Director of the CIA during the years of 2005-2009 and basically led the “war on terror.”
All four of these men are career intelligence operatives (Deep State) for the swamp and they ALL worked with Rob Reiner to take down our President!
Europe Fell. Australia Fell. America MUST Confront Radical Islamic Terror [20:45] Brigitte Gabriel
oDec 15, 2025 Stand Tall Israel
Radical Islam conquered Europe while most people weren’t paying attention.
Now, Brigitte Gabriel warns that America is in the same danger — and running out of time to stop it.
In this powerful full speech, Brigitte Gabriel — New York Times bestselling author and founder of Act For America — exposes the 100-year strategy designed to infiltrate Western governments, weaponize our freedoms, and transform our society from within. She explains how Europe fell step-by-step, how extremist networks now operate inside the United States, and why national leaders are ignoring the warning signs.
This is not a theory.
This is not a headline scare.
This is happening RIGHT NOW.
What did Europe ignore that we must not ignore?
Why do radical networks target democracies like the U.S.?
How far has this silent takeover progressed already?
And what happens if Americans do nothing?
Brigitte Gabriel breaks it all down — from the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, to Islamic radicalization in Western institutions, to the political influence operations happening inside the U.S. government today.
If we refuse to face the truth, we risk losing the freedoms that make America the greatest nation on earth.
But if we wake up now — if we learn the lessons Europe failed to learn —
- ➡️America still has a chance.
[Ed.: Brigitte is awesome! So too, is her recounting here of the proliferation of Islam. However, she used a term that is misleading: “radical Islam”. That is a term that Daniel Pipes coined right after the 9-11-21 attack on the World Trade Center. Pipes is a card-carrying CFR member. This euphemism, which has since crept into polite speech, implies that there are peaceful moslems, and (other) jihadi warrior moslems who are more radical. But this is blatantly not true! The term itself is a deception, a ‘taqiyah’. Islam is Islam. Islam itself is radical. Either you believe in it, or they must behead you. Islam itself must be completely eradicated for this to stop. We have the past 1,400 years, and every day in the present, to prove it.]
The Judicial Coup Exposed [11:38] Avi Abelow
Dec 15, 2025
Israel is living through a rare and consequential moment, when the hidden becomes undeniable. The country is finally seeing how an unelected legal class quietly accumulated power far beyond its mandate—and what happens when their control begins to crumble.
News Release: Ambassadors Huckabee and Friedman Praised for Bondi Beach statements
Americans For A Safe Israel www.afsi.org | info@afsi.org | 212-828-2424
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 15, 2025
Bondi Beach Statements by Ambassadors Huckabee and Friedman Praised By Pro-Israel Group
NEW YORK – A leading pro-Israel organization has come out strongly in support of statements about the Islamic terorroist attack on Jews at Bondi Beach made separately by Ambassador Mike Huckabee and Ambassador David Friedman.
Ambassador Huckabee’s comments targeting Anthony Albanese were blunt and correct according to Americans for a Safe Israel (AFSI). Huckabee tweeted “The disgraceful statement from Australia PM never mentioned it was jihadist attack on Jews on first day of Hanukkah. Hope he’s ashamed of antisemitic statements past year.”
“Ambassador David M. Friedman is correct to point out that the Australian government failed its Jewish community,” stated Moshe Phillips, Chairman of Americans for a Safe Israel. The ambassador also was right to post on X.com “Massive fail by the Australian police.”
Ambassador David Friedman also tweeted “Deepest condolences to the family of Rabbi Eli Schlanger … Reportedly, Rabbi Schlanger had asked the Australian government to do a better job protecting the Jewish community. His plea apparently fell on deaf ears.”
AFSI echoes Ambassador Friedman’s comment: “I am sick of Jewish holidays that should be celebrated with joy turning into vigils of remembrance for the wounded and the dead. Enough!”
About Americans For A Safe Israel: Established in 1970, Americans For A Safe Israel (AFSI) is one of the oldest and most influential pro-Israel organizations in the United States. Its advocacy and educational campaigns serve as a potent counterweight to the rising tide of anti-Israel propaganda. AFSI is not affiliated with any political party in the United States or Israel. AFSI’s website is www.afsi.org.
The Farewell We Ignored MICHAEL T. FLYNN LTG USA (RET)
DEC 14, 2025
In 1796, George Washington did something no powerful man in history had ever done voluntarily. He walked away. He surrendered power not because he was weak but because he understood something timeless that many modern leaders have forgotten. The republic would not survive if ambition replaced virtue and if loyalty to faction replaced loyalty to the Constitution.
Washington’s Farewell Address was not a retirement note. It was a strategic warning written by a commander who had seen nations rise and collapse. He had fought a revolution against tyranny and he feared Americans might recreate it themselves under a different name.
Today, nearly every sentence reads like a prophecy.
Washington opened with humility but moved quickly to urgency. He warned Americans that the unity of the nation was the main pillar of absolute independence. He cautioned that internal divisions would invite external manipulation. He understood that foreign powers would not need armies if they could exploit domestic discord.
That warning alone should stop every modern reader cold.
According to the Pew Research Center, trust in the federal government has fallen from roughly 77 percent in 1964 to under 20 percent today. Confidence in media institutions sits below 30 percent. Public trust in Congress routinely hovers near single digits. A divided people are easier to manage and easier to deceive. Washington knew this before the telegraph existed.
He also issued a direct warning about political parties. Washington wrote that factions would sharpen animosity and open the door to corruption and foreign influence. He did not oppose disagreement. He feared an organized faction becoming an identity stronger than citizenship itself.
James Madison later echoed this concern when he wrote that the causes of faction are sown in the nature of man. Washington saw the effect before Madison defined the theory. Today, Americans increasingly define themselves not by shared principles but by tribal alignment. Algorithms reward outrage. Media profits from division. Foreign adversaries amplify both.
The intelligence community itself has acknowledged that foreign governments actively exploit domestic political polarization. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence reported that Russia, China, and Iran all engage in influence operations designed to deepen distrust among Americans. Washington warned that this would happen. He wrote it plainly.
Washington also warned against permanent foreign entanglements. He did not argue for isolation. He argued for independence of judgment. He believed America should trade with all nations but avoid emotional or ideological alliances that drag the country into conflicts not its own.
Since World War II, the United States has engaged in more than two hundred military interventions, according to Congressional Research Service data. Trillions of dollars have been spent overseas while domestic infrastructure and civic trust eroded at home. Washington feared this exact imbalance. He understood that endless foreign commitments would eventually weaken the republic from within.
A map of countries where the United States has militarily intervened (Source: Congressional Research Service)
Ronald Reagan once said that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on. Reagan echoed Washington without citing him. The belief was the same. I now believe that freedom is no more than one presidency away. Liberty is fragile when citizens grow complacent.
Washington also emphasized morality and religion, not as dogma but as cultural anchors. He argued that national morality could not prevail without religious principle. Whether one agrees or not, the data is striking. Studies from the General Social Survey show that civic participation, church attendance, volunteerism, and community trust have all declined steadily since the 1960s. Social capital has collapsed. Washington warned that laws alone cannot sustain freedom if virtue disappears.
Thomas Jefferson later wrote that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. That vigilance begins not in Washington, DC, but in the character of the people themselves. Washington believed that, too. He trusted Americans, but only if they remained educated, engaged, and morally grounded.
Perhaps the most haunting part of the Farewell Address is Washington’s fear that Americans would forget why the republic was created in the first place. He warned that power once centralized would never willingly return to the people. Modern administrative states now issue tens of thousands of regulations annually. According to the Federal Register, over eighty thousand pages of rules were published in recent years. None are voted on by the people.
This is not accidental. It is structural drift. Washington saw the danger before bureaucracy had a name.
What makes the Farewell Address so powerful is not that Washington predicted every modern issue. It is that he understood human nature. He knew ambition, pride, fear, and convenience would tempt citizens to trade liberty for comfort and principle for security.
John Adams warned that the Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people and was wholly inadequate for the government of any other. That was not an insult. It was a responsibility statement.
Washington trusted the people enough to warn them honestly.
You can read the full original Farewell Address here and judge for yourself whether America listened or ignored him.
George Washington, “Farewell Address,” 1796 | The American Yawp Reader
This speech should not be treated as a historical artifact. It should be treated as a field manual for preserving a republic under stress. Washington did not write to flatter future generations. He wrote to challenge them.
The real question is not whether Washington was right. The evidence suggests he was. The question is whether Americans today still believe they are capable of self-government or whether they have quietly surrendered that duty to factions, institutions, and distant power centers.
Washington walked away so the republic could live.
What are we willing to walk away from to save it now?
Bondi Massacre: The Unexpected Alliance Waging War Against The West (Josh Hasten W/Moshe Feiglin) [27:04]
Dec 14, 2025 Judeacation | JNS TV
Former member of Israel’s Knesset Moshe Feiglin makes a bold claim: the real war isn’t just with Hamas, it’s a global identity war between civilization and two destructive ideologies: radical Islam and progressivism. From the shocking silence of feminist groups on October 7 to the collapse of Israeli deterrence and Western values, Feiglin tears into the ideological rot hollowing out the West and Israel’s own military and political elite. He explains why modern Zionism has lost its soul, why anti-Semitism can’t be fought with Hasbara and why reclaiming Judea, Samaria, Gaza and our faith is the only path forward.
🚨BREAKING: T*RROR ATTACK IN AUSTRALIA! Islamists Open Fire At Menorah Lighting [1:03:05] Yishai Fleisher
December 14, 2025
News Update. Yishai breaks down the horrific terror attack on civilians at a Chanuka Celebration in Australia…
🚨 BREAKING: Jews ATTACKED In Amsterdam At Hanukkah Concert [26:28] Mahyar Tousi
December 14, 2025 Tousi TV
Middle East Expert: “Most People Have No Clue What’s Coming Next…” [6:23] Mordechai Kedar
He’s Spent 30 YEARS Studying HAMAS — What He REVEALS Is TERRIFYING [35:36] Mordechai Kedar
Dec 12, 2025
Dr. Mordechai Kedar has spent more than three decades studying Hamas, Islamic ideology, Iran, and the rise of political Islam. In this explosive interview, he reveals what Hamas truly wants — and why their war has nothing to do with borders or human rights.
👉 This isn’t a political conflict. It’s a religious war.
Hamas believes a Jewish state must never exist — not in Tel Aviv, not in Jerusalem, not anywhere. Their goal is the elimination of Israel and the expansion of a global Islamic caliphate. And if Israel falls… the West will be next.
In this video, Dr. Kedar breaks down:
• Why Hamas says Judaism was “canceled” and must stay dead
• Why Israel is considered the “Small Satan”
• Why America and Europe are the “Big & Middle Satan”
• How Iran uses terror militias to control the Middle East
• Why many Arab states secretly support Israel
• What the fall of Israel would unleash on the world
• The ideological war that the West refuses to see
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