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Tefillin for Soldiers
Even among the “awake” crowd I see 99% of the discussion is on a physical response to the situation, with 1% throwing a bone to Hashem. It needs to be the reverse. The last thing we need is more humbling and painful lessons.
Not nearly enough attention is being paid to the masses of people that are doing teshuva in various ways. People who seemed to be very distant from the Torah are having dramatic turnarounds, and those who were already on board at least in principle are trying to do more.
This is how we win. Getting a gun is incidental at best.
One of the many campaigns to strengthen our nature spiritually is being spearheaded by Rabbi Josh Friedman, who I know personally dating back to my days at YU. I met him today to find out more about it, and agreed to share the information.
The past two weeks have been crazy for me. I have spent time on one of the army bases near Gaza with our soldiers. I was in “Gaza City” as they were doing their training for going into Gaza. ה‘ יעזור!
I met with very special soldiers who are ready to accept upon themselves to wear tefillin for the rest of their lives. Please G-d they will all come home alive and safe.
Over 2,500 soldiers want tefillin! Each pair is $500. I have been doing this project for many years, but never had such a strong desire for so many pairs as we have now.
I am now running a campaign to provide tefillin for every soldier who has requested.
Please share these links with your contacts: We cannot let our soldiers down!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VjuzhLqHII
Website: https://bit.ly/ISTefillinCampaign
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ע”ש מוסדות נועם ישראל טרעבישאן
Bank Pagi
Branch 175
Cheshbon 029424
May our heartfelt prayers and tzedakah bring an immediate end to this nightmare!
Thank you,
Josh
For Those Starting to Sympathize With ‘Poor Palestinians in Gaza,’ Israel Has a Reminder BY HUGH FITZGERALD
OCT 28, 2023 2:00 PM – The Israelis have produced a 43-minute film showing what happened on October 7, with pictures of the victims’ bodies and descriptions of what happened to them. It was just shown to hundreds of journalists in Tel Aviv who had until now not been given “the ocular proof.” More on the horrific details contained in this film can be found here: “‘Eyes were gouged out, a woman’s breasts cut off and a daughter had her legs severed’: Horrific details of Hamas massacre emerge as rescue worker recounts how entire families were slaughtered,” by Rachael Bunyan, Daily Mail, October 24, 2023:
Hamas terrorists killed a husband and gouged his eyes out before going on to cut his wife’s breasts off and chop his daughter’s leg off, a rescue worker has revealed as yet more horrific details of the terrorists’ savage attack continue to emerge.
Moshe Melayev told how entire families were slaughtered in their homes by the black-clad terrorists who were wielding assault rifles and grenades as they launched their surprise attack on southern Israel on October 7.
Melayev, of Israel’s National Rescue Unit, said as he walked through kibbutzim close to the Gaza border, he saw the beheaded bodies of victims lying on the floors of their homes where they had hours earlier been drinking their morning coffee.
“I saw beheaded bodies, I saw body parts,’ Melayev told Fox News. ‘In a house there was a husband and wife and two children.’
“They killed the husband first, they took his eyes out, I saw the body myself. They cut the breasts of the woman off and they cut the leg off the girl. That’s the family that I saw with my own eyes,’ Melayev added, shaking his head as he recounted the horrors the Hamas terrorists inflicted on hundreds of families on October 7.
The rampaging terrorists unleashed horrors that defy belief, with an Israeli colonel recounting how one gunman cut open a pregnant mother’s stomach and killed her baby in front of her before they shot her in the head.
Colonel Haim Weissberg, whose job is to identify the bodies of the victims of Israel’s worst massacre, said he had seen babies with their heads chopped off, soldiers and civilians whose genitals had been cut off as well as women who were raped.
“They filmed a pregnant women, a terrorist arrives, he disembowels her, takes out the foetus, and in front of her, he comes out and massacres the baby before killing her,’ Weisberg told a delegation of Jewish community leaders from France at the Shura military base.
‘Everything is filmed. Babies whose heads were decapitated, soldiers whose genitals were cut off, small and elderly women were raped,’ Weisberg added….
As Israel continues to bomb Hamas sites in Gaza, and the death toll mounts, the world is starting to sympathize with the Gazans. Hamas continues to put out exaggerated figures for the numbers of its dead. Remember how Hamas claimed that “500 civilians” had died in the explosion at the parking lot of the Al-Ahli Hospital, while the real figure, according to Western intelligence agencies, was between 10 and 50 dead. The American government does not accept the Hamas-run Ministry of Health’s figures about casualties. Biden at a press conference said that “I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed. I’m sure innocents have been killed, and it’s the price of waging a war. But I have no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using.”
Israel war on Hamas enters new phase: 150 Hamas tunnels and bunkers destroyed BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
OCT 28, 2023 2:30 PM – The Israeli Air Force has destroyed 150 Hamas tunnels and bunkers. But that merely touches the surface of the task ahead. Hamas leader Yehiyeh Sinwar boasted in 2021 that Hamas has 310 miles of tunnels. According to the Associated Press, “the Gaza Strip itself” is about 140 square miles.
Sinwar continued to boast during Operation Guardian of the Walls, which was launched by Israel in 2021 in response to a barrage of rocket-fire by Hamas:
They started saying that they destroyed 100 kilometers (62 miles) of Hamas tunnels. I am telling you that the tunnels we have in the Gaza Strip exceed 500 kilometers……Even if their narrative is true, they only destroyed 20% of the tunnels.
The expanse of Hamas tunnels give insight into the magnitude of the threat to Israel and also shows what Israel now faces as it moves to destroy these tunnels. Since Hamas is well known to use human shields, the cost in human lives will be large, as the mainstream media continues to incessantly crow about a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, with no interest in the threat to Jewish lives and to Israel’s existence.
The IDF says it will not allow fuel into the Gaza Strip, as it says it is used by Hamas to manage the fighting against Israel.
Israel faces the bad publicity of collateral damage boosted by Palestinian propaganda, despite the fact that countless nations have fought wars in the same way yet without the same smears.
Hamas is playing for time BY EDWARD LUTTWAK
The Israeli offensive won’t be held up long
October 26, 2023 – Hamas leaders know that once the Israeli counter-offensive starts, they will lose their greatest asset: their inter-connected tunnels. This vast warren conceals the vital operations for the manufacture, storage and launch of their rockets, and shields headquarters and rest areas from detection and air strikes. So big is the network, it has been nicknamed the Underground, after London’s.
The discovery that Hamas was going all out to build these tunnels marked the start of the Israeli army’s education in the arcane art of finding, conquering (“clearing” is reductive) and quickly demolishing them. But tunnel warfare, it swiftly discovered, is not for amateurs. Nor is it even for highly accomplished but generic “commandos” including its top echelon Sayeret Matkal. It requires specific detection and monitoring skills, ultra close-combat skills and weapons (even compact assault rifles are too long), specialised shields and respirators, as well as the very quick reactions that all first-rate soldiers must have.
Hamas knows from previous experience that the closer the range, the greater the qualitative gap between their men and first-line Israeli infantry; Arik Sharon, who ended up as Prime Minister after a brilliant military career, discovered back in the Fifties that Israelis had the edge in close combat. Even in Hamas’s hyper-successful surprise raids, that took full advantage of Israel’s grossly over-confident reliance on high-tech observation towers and absurdly few troops, they lost more than a thousand to civilian home guards with their pistols and submachine guns and a handful of soldiers.
Knowing these odds, Hamas is now doing all it can to delay Israel’s tunnel offensive by releasing hostages in pairs after lengthy talks for each batch. At two at a time, with more than 200 to go, assuming they are still alive, this approach could delay the offensive until next year, if then.
In human terms, the waiting is excruciating. And with 360,000 reservists recalled to duty alongside the additional 160,000 on active duty (the entire British army numbers 80,360 including the Ghurkas; the US Army, 452,689), there is also the very practical consideration of what happens when you keep a great part of the labour force away from its jobs, and parents away from their families. But the solution here can been found in the very thing that makes Israel so vulnerable: its size. It is small enough that batches of troops can be released from their unit deployments facing Gaza and allowed to go home to live and work, but still be back in a matter of hours if called to launch the offensive. They are certainly not needed to defend now that the defences are wide awake; today there are guard units all along the perimeter, where they should have been all along. (Overconfidence is also an Israeli trait: on October 6 1973, when the Egyptian army crossed the Suez Canal with tens of thousands of troops, there was a paltry 411 Israeli reservists holding 17 Canal-side forts).
What is Israel’s next move? BY DAVID PATRIKARAKOS
The first wave of the invasion has begun
October 29,2023 – The news that mobile networks had gone down in the strip was the clue that something was imminent. Then, last night, just under three weeks after the 7 October Hamas massacres, Israel announced that its ground forces were “expanding operations” in Gaza. Aerial bombardment of the strip was heavier than anything since the war began; more ground troops are pouring across the border.
It all came as a surprise. The government’s war cabinet is not even scheduled to meet until Sunday (which could, of course, be a deliberate misdirection). And I’m told soldiers on the Northern border are receiving weekend leave (subject to immediate recall), which would not normally suggest that a full-on invasion is happening.
Europe Facing Civil War? by Drieu Godefridi
SATURDAY, OCT 28, 2023 – 07:00 AM – In Vienna, London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels and dozens of other European cities, demonstrations “in support of Palestine” were organised even before the Israelis responded the jihadist pogrom perpetrated by Iran-backed Hamas on October 7, while the corpses of more than 1,400 Israeli victims — tortured, raped, murdered and mutilated, babies decapitated or burned alive — were still warm. According to a JNS report:
“[T]he IDF on Monday [Oct 23] published two segments from the interrogation of Hamas terrorists who participated in the massacre..
“‘The purpose of entering Israeli territory… was to kidnap civilians; they want as many hostages as possible,’ one of the terrorists revealed. He added, ‘They [Hamas] promised us that whoever brings a kidnapped person will receive an apartment and $10,000.'”
All the same, each and every one of these demonstrations in Europe was the scene of hate-filled slogans against Israel and Jews.
In Brussels, those slogans were shouted, and the atmosphere of violence and blood-lust was everywhere. Around me, surrounded by about 2,000 hate-filled demonstrators, a group of a dozen young Arabs were shouting “Death to the Jews” and “Death to Israel”, all the while exchanging knowing smiles and a few jokes. One of them ordered me to stop filming. I did.
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger explained in an interview recently that Europe had made a serious mistake by creating within itself, through mass immigration, populations that reject all its norms, values and a “constitutional basis”. He deplored the fact that in 2023 in Berlin, almost 80 years after the Holocaust, people, with complete impunity, are shouting “Death to the Jews” in the streets.
In the hours following the revelation of the butchery committed by Hamas, a wave of racist violence and attacks began in Europe, especially in France. Against Arabs or Muslims? Not at all. Against Jews, of course. In Europe, Jews are still the victims of hatred and violence. Apparently it is a way for our local pro-Hamas Europeans to celebrate the jihad pogrom of October 7.
Even though the media have been warning us for 30 years about the risk of violence against Muslims, in deeds and figures, our Jewish fellow citizens are infinitely more victims of violence and abuse than are Muslims living in Europe. Already in 2015, Jeffrey Goldberg warned in The Atlantic: “In 2014, Jews in Europe were murdered, raped, beaten, stalked, chased harassed, spat on and chased for being Jewish.”
I feel a certain fatigue towards those who hold Israelis and Arabs equally responsible. Not just the European Left, which often no longer takes the trouble to hide its anti-Semitism. No, also those on the right who, out of cowardice or ignorance, tell us that Israel had it coming.
Elon Hamas Collab: Elon Negotiating With Hamas Terrorists To Provide WiFi By Pamela Geller
October 28, 2023 – After negotiating with Hamas (the terrorist organization governing Gaza). Elon Musk
confirms that Starlink will support “internationally recognized aid organizations in Gaza,” which are controlled entirely by Hamas terrorists who massacred 1,400+ people in Israel.
He is either clueless or complicit. Either one is appalling.
Elon, FAFO: Israel Will Use All Its Means to Prevent the Use of Starlink Satellites in Gaza By Pamela Geller
October 28, 2023 – It came as a shock when Elon Musk announced he would provide wireless communication to Gaza (invariably Hamas): Elon Hamas Collab: Elon Negotiating With Hamas Terrorists To Provide WiFi
Israel is still counting body parts and lack of wifi is …… a humanitarian crisis? Disgusting.
[Ed.: It’s not news that Elon Musk is a snake in the grass.]
Israel Is All In To Survive By Christine Dolan
“War for Humanity,” says Netanyahu, Gallant and Gantz – Hamas’ Sinwar Responds
October 28, 2023 – Israeli’s top leadership stands firm, “stronger than ever,” stated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he was joined by Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Bennie Gantz, the Leader of the Opposition party, who is now part of the Israeli War Cabinet. Each individually gave a statement in Tel Aviv on Saturday evening.
Gantz’s participation sent a powerful message to Israelis, the entire global community, and Hamas leader inside Gaza, who perhaps is the most important person holding 200 international hostages in captivity.
Gantz had been sacked by Netanyahu earlier this year when Gantz publicly stated that Netanyahu’s push for judicial reform was tearing the country apart and putting Israel’s national security at risk.
Gantz’s presence with Gallant and Netanyahu on the world stage publicly could only be a severe punch to the gut for Yahya Sinwa, who was hoping that internal politics would weaken Israel.
Sinwar is now the leader of Hamas inside Gaza. He was one of the 1,027 prisoners in Israeli jails exchanged for one Israeli held in captivity for 5 years.
Each of the Israeli individually addressed their nation followed by a joint press conference after Israel’s conscious decision to increase its escalation of the second phase of the Israel Hamas conflict. For two nights, Israeli forces entered Gaza and retreated. Last night the IDF entered Gaza and they are still there.
Their messages were given with clarity and purpose.
The Israeli troops have entered the Halls of Evil and on a mission “to eliminate Hamas and bring back the hostages… this is our Second War of Independence,” stated Netanyahu. “The people and leadership are behind the troops…we fight for protection of our home land on land air and sea.
“This is the mission of our lives. This is the mission of my life, emphasized Netanyahu.
Netanyahu’s address on Saturday was different than earlier this week. His first was more a rallying cry. Saturdays’ message was the strongest message to the world – almost Churchillian in nature.
IDF expands Gaza ground operation, reiterates urgent call for civilians to move south RICKY BEN-DAVID
October 29, 2023 – 2 soldiers wounded * PM blames security services for Oct. 7, deletes statement amid outrage * Cellular, internet services in Gaza gradually return * Aid in Strip to increase
Israel at war: What happened on days 21-22?
Israel October 29, 09:52 AM = 1,400 Israelis murdered since October 7 massacre, including 311 soldiers • Four out of 230 known hostages released by Hamas
WATCH: IDF shares proof of Hamas terror base built under main Gaza hospital By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
“Hamas wages war from hospitals,” the IDF spokesperson stressed.
OCTOBER 28, 2023 22:09 – IDF Spokesman Daniel Hagari shared a video that showcased an intricate network of passageways and chambers deep beneath the hospital and other civilian buildings – where innocent Gazan civilians receive medical care and other services – such as mosques, UNRWA centers, and more. Hamas uses these buildings as shields for its own military efforts.
Hamas uses hospitals, mosques as shields for underground terror network
Inside Al-Shifa specifically, Gaza’s largest hospital with 1,500 beds and 4,000 employees, “Hamas also has an entrance to its terror tunnels from inside hospital wards. From different places inside the hospital, you can enter underground tunnels.
“Right now, terrorists move freely in Al-Shifa hospital,” Hagari continued. “Hundreds [of terrorists] fled to the hospital to hide after the massacre on October 7.
War Criminal Dead: Israeli Forces Eliminate Hamas Operative Asem Abu Rakaba the Terror Leader Responsible for Paragliders Flying into an Israeli Concert to Murder Nearly 300 Youths By Jim Hoft
Oct. 28, 2023 8:00 am – On Saturday morning, three weeks after the Hamas massacre of Jews inside Israel, Asem Abu Rakaba, the terror leader responsible for planning the October 7 massacre and commander of Hamas’s paraglider units that attacked the music festival in southern Israel, was eliminated.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists flew paragliders into the Nova dance party and slaughtered nearly 300 of the 3,600 partygoers at the party around 6:30 AM.
The killers also raped the young beautiful women and took dozens of hostages both young men and young women. Their whereabouts are now unknown. It’s been three weeks. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Israel will keep electricity and water from Gaza until all the prisoners – over 220 – are returned to Israel by the barbarians.
HERE WE GO: Thousands of Israeli Troops Storm into Gaza as “Rolling Start” to Ground Invasion Reportedly Begins to Wipe Out Hamas (VIDEO) By Cullen Linebarger
Oct. 27, 2023 7:00 pm – The ground invasion to wipe out Hamas once and for all has reportedly begun.
Two US officials have told CBS News that Israel has begun a massive incursion that appears to be a “rolling start” to the ground invasion to annihilate Hamas.
Moreover, US officials tell CBS the invasion will occur in phases and not be one single ground operation.
JUST IN – US officials:
The Israeli ground incursion will be phased and will not include a single intensive operation
There appears to be a rolling start to the ground invasion in Gaza by Israeli military forces
Source: CBS pic.twitter.com/JINLCT3RT7
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) October 27, 2023
This incursion is particularly massive. Axios political reporter Barak Ravid confirmed to CNN that thousands of Israeli soldiers have already stormed into Gaza from the north within the past two hours.
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Barak Ravid to CNN: thousands of Israeli troops have entered Gaza from the north in the past hour or two, a significantly bigger incursion than previous ones
— Steve Lookner (@lookner) October 27, 2023
BREAKING: Thousands of Israeli soldiers have entered Gaza
— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) October 27, 2023
In addition to the ground activity, Israeli forces have launched heavy airstrikes on Gaza within the past few hours.
WATCH:
[Ed.: Yes, there has been “a limited incursion into Norther Gaza,” but the main offensive is still being carefully planned. No, “it“ has not yet begun.]
“400 Body Parts” By Pamela Geller
October 27, 2023 – A radio interview this morning with the director of Israel’s Institute of Forensic Medicine describes the current situation.
There are 400 parts of bodies left unidentified. There are no longer whole bodies left. Just a collection of body parts.
Body parts belonging to 400 different people.
The difficulty of identifying what and who they are is enormous to the point of being impossible.
Hundreds of people will never be formally identified, won’t get a dignified burial, and their loved ones won’t get to go to their funerals or be able to mourn at their graves.
Bodies of couples and of parents and children who were tied together with rope and then burned alive.
Entire families that were burned alive and burned beyond all recognition, to the point that extracting DNA is physically impossible.
At a time when people are demanding humanitarianism for Gaza, Israelis see humanity and Gaza as two words that do not belong in the same book, let alone in the same breath.
People around the world talk of a Palestinian state, but what Israelis see is a murderous people that sanctifies and revels in the murder and torture of Jews in their own homeland.
How can you make peace with a people like this?
⚠️ STATE OF EMERGENCY: Israel’s firefighting services have gone into full emergency mode across the country due to heightened missile threats on multiple fronts.
This follows “the imminent danger of the expansion of the threats at all fronts”
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