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SCREAMS BEFORE SILENCE Full Video [57:00] A documentary film on the sexual violence committed by Hamas on October 7th, Screams Before Silence is a documentary film led by American businesswoman Sheryl Sandberg, that explores the sexual violence by Hamas during the Hamas-led attack on Israel, on 7 October 2023, including events at the massacre at the Nova Festival and abductions to the Gaza Strip.
🟪RAIN? AID DROPS AND DISAPPEARING MONEY, HOSTAGE FAMILY SAYS, TARIFFS, and LEOPARD ATTACK!
August 1, 2025 Israel Realtime
✡️Erev (before) Shabbat, Parshat (Torah reading) Devarim – On the first of Shevat (thirty-seven days before his passing), Moses begins his repetition of the Torah to the assembled children of Israel, reviewing the events that occurred and the laws that were given in the course of their forty-year journey from Egypt to Sinai to the Promised Land, rebuking the people for their failings and iniquities, and enjoining them to keep the Torah and observe its commandments in the land that G‑d is giving them as an eternal heritage, into which they shall cross after his death.
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⭕ROCKET from HAMAS at Sderot, Ibim, Nir Am (near Gaza towns) area a few minutes ago. False alarm.
▪️UNUSUAL SUMMER RAIN – Israel has seasonal rains, summer is a dry season. After a week long summer heat wave, rain began to fall in several areas across the country today.
▪️GAZA AID DROPS – allowed from Egypt, UAE, and Jordan. Additional countries are joining the effort to air-drop aid in the Gaza Strip: Germany, Belgium, France, Spain, and Bahrain will drop aid to Gaza today. Among them, Bahrain will do so for the first time since the start of the war. The planes will depart from Jordanian territory to the Strip.
(From the videos we have seen, it appears the air dropped aid is NOT being inspected by Israel.)
Canada, which provided aid for a drop, noted they are spending $340 million. That’s almost 2 months income (in local wages) PER PERSON in Gaza, not per family. And that’s just from Canada. If we assume the 8 countries listed above are doing the same, that’s 16 MONTHS (local) INCOME PER EVERY MAN WOMAN AND CHILD in Gaza in aid. WHERE IS THAT MONEY GOING? [Emphasis added]
▪️FROM THE HOSTAGE FAMILY of the propaganda video released by Hamas yesterday: “Many people talk about what is happening in Gaza, about the hunger – and I ask everyone who spoke about hunger: have you seen our Rom? He is not receiving food, not receiving medicine.”
▪️US ENVOY WITKOFF – visited the US GHF operated food distribution center in Rafah, southern Gaza, this morning.
▪️GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS – ”Israel is in danger of isolation from the rest of the world – I am trying to prevent this’’.
▪️ECONOMY – Trump imposed tariffs of 15% on Israel, putting Israel in the lowest tier of tariffs. While Israel is said to have set tariffs on US products to 0%, the US responded that Israel’s 18% VAT (sales-like) tax (on all products and services sold in the country) is itself an equivalent import barrier.
▪️LEOPARD ATTACK! An employee at the Biblical Zoo in Jerusalem was brutally attacked by a leopard, seriously injured and was evacuated in critical condition.
🇮🇷THREAT FROM IRAN – a channel identified with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards published the following message: ‘In the name of alahaha, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate – And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and steeds of war by which you may terrify the enemy of alahaha and your enemy.”
🇸🇾VISITING THE DRUZE – IDF Arabic Spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, received a warm welcome in the Druze villages in southern Syria (southern Damascus province, not Sweida).
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July 31, 2025 Tousi TV
The Tragic Truth Behind Israel’s War Strategy JOSHUA HOFFMAN
Israel can’t both rescue the hostages and defeat Hamas. It’s a devastating moral dilemma, but reality always beats wishful thinking.
JUL 31, 2025
As negotiations between Israel and Hamas sputter into nothingness, what we all knew was true the whole time (but never quite wanted to admit) is that Israel cannot accomplish both of its goals in this war: rescuing all the remaining hostages and defeating Hamas.
The emotional pull of the hostages — innocent men, women, children, and elderly brutally torn from their homes on October 7th — has dominated the national psyche. Their faces are etched into posters, prayer cards, graffiti, and the very soul of Israeli society. And rightly so. The idea of leaving even one Jew behind feels unthinkable, un-Jewish, unacceptable.
But the strategic reality is colder. Hamas does not release hostages without extracting a heavy price. Every deal so far has involved a pause in fighting, the release of convicted terrorists, a return to diplomatic limbo, and a strengthening of Hamas’ narrative that kidnapping Jews works.
To recover the remaining hostages, Israel would almost certainly have to stop short of total victory, allowing Hamas to retain its grip on Gaza, if not militarily, then politically and symbolically.
Hostage-taking is not just a war crime; it is a war strategy. Hamas understood that capturing Jews, especially children and grandmothers, would send Israel into a moral spiral.
Every democratic society faces this trap: The more you care about human life, the more hostage-takers can manipulate your conscience. The pain is not incidental to Hamas’ strategy; it is the strategy. It’s psychological warfare disguised as humanitarian tragedy.
And while Israel wrestles with this moral nightmare, the world watches with cold detachment — quick to condemn any military action that risks harming hostages or civilians, yet slow to hold Hamas accountable for making them human shields in the first place.
So let’s face the two bitter truths that lie on either side of this fork in the road.
Scenario One: The hostages return, but Hamas remains.
If Israel succeeds in bringing the hostages home but fails to defeat Hamas, the cost will echo far beyond Gaza. Hamas will declare victory. It will say: We survived the mighty IDF. We outlasted the siege. And we got Israel to negotiate. Again.
A battered but intact Hamas regime would mean that southern Israel remains under threat. Kibbutzim won’t be fully rebuilt. Young families won’t return to the border. Billions of shekels in reconstruction aid will flow into Gaza only to be siphoned into bunkers, rockets, and terror tunnels. Hamas will rearm, possibly even faster than before, now buoyed by renewed legitimacy in the eyes of its supporters.
In this outcome, Israel may save some lives now, but it would be condemning others later. It would be trading today’s tears for tomorrow’s funerals.
Worse, the more Israel trades hundreds of convicted terrorists for a handful of hostages, the more it incentivizes the next kidnapping. Each deal whispers to Israel’s enemies: If you want leverage, steal Jews.
And Hamas’ survival is not just a local problem; it sends a message to Iran, Hezbollah, and other terrorist establishments that Israel can be bled and stalled. It undermines the Abraham Accords, discourages moderate Arab partners, and gives momentum to radical Islamists who dream of Jerusalem under the banner of jihad.
Scenario Two: Hamas is defeated, but the hostages are not all rescued.
If Israel succeeds in destroying Hamas — removing it as the governing power in Gaza, disbanding its military infrastructure, and reclaiming control over the narrative of deterrence — it may do so at the cost of the remaining hostages’ lives.
This is a cost that feels unbearable. And yet, from a strategic standpoint, the defeat of Hamas is not just about this war; it’s about preventing the next one and weakening Iran’s “Axis of Resistance” that has poisoned the Middle East and North Africa. It’s about ending the cycle in which Palestinian terrorist factions attack Israel, hide behind civilians, and then bargain their way back into power through international sympathy and political manipulation.
The defeat of Hamas would send a message — not just to Gazans, but to Hezbollah, Iran, the Houthis, and every other group watching carefully: Israel will not allow terrorism to pay.
Even in the excruciating case that not all hostages return, Israel’s long-term security, regional stability, and deterrence would be strengthened. The lives of those lost would not be in vain. They would be memories not only of a massacre, but of a turning point.
And Jewish history reminds us that these are not new dilemmas. The mitzvah of pidyon shvuyim, redeeming captives, has always been sacred. But there have been times — during pogroms, during wars, even during modern Israeli operations — when impossible decisions had to be made. From Masada to Entebbe, we’ve chosen survival over sentiment. Not out of cruelty, but out of clarity. Not out of coldness, but out of the fire to ensure there is still a Jewish future to fight for.
Some have argued that Israel could increase pressure on Hamas through more aggressive territorial and political maneuvers — annexing parts of northern Gaza, for example, or permanently occupying strategic corridors like the Philadelphi Route to squeeze Hamas into submission. In theory, these steps could force Hamas to negotiate more urgently. But this theory rests on one fatal misunderstanding: that Hamas is a rational actor.
They are not. They are jihadists — messianic fundamentalists who thrive on death. The more death, the merrier. They worship destruction more than they value their own people. Hamas does not respond to pressure the way nation-states or even militant insurgencies do. Its leadership does not fear death, nor care about infrastructure, nor seek compromise. It seeks martyrdom. The more Gaza burns, the more they believe they are winning.
This week, one former high-ranking Israeli intelligence official even suggested that Israel try to bribe Gazans who may be holding hostages — to offer them money, protection, and a better life in exchange for freeing the captives. But that won’t work. Hamas will hunt them down and kill them. Humanitarianism is not rewarded in Gaza; it’s executed.
Their sponsors, too — from Iran to Qatar — do not bankroll Hamas for pragmatic outcomes. They fund Hamas to spread chaos, to disrupt Israeli normalization with the Arab world, to keep the Jewish state in a perpetual state of siege. You cannot out-leverage an enemy that wants to die if it means you die too.
Ultimately, there was never a version of this war in which both objectives — freeing the hostages and destroying Hamas — could be fully achieved. To get the hostages, Hamas must survive. To destroy Hamas, Israel must be willing to accept that not all hostages will make it out.
It is a cruel and unjust reality. But it is reality nonetheless.
And if Israel must choose, it must choose the path that ensures Jewish hostage-taking is not incentivized. That our enemies learn stealing humans is not a tool; it is a death sentence for your regime. That future generations do not inherit a Middle East where terrorism reigns, and murderers become martyrs.
To defeat Hamas is to reclaim the future. It is not the easier choice. It is the harder one. But it is the right one.
The families of the hostages deserve not just our sympathy, but our admiration. Their pain is immeasurable, and their voices are essential. Yet even many of them understand the unbearable trade-off: If Hamas wins, the cycle never ends. Their loved ones become pawns in a game that will be played again — and again.
Choosing to defeat Hamas is not abandoning the hostages; it’s refusing to let their captivity define our destiny. It is choosing a future where Jews are no longer hunted, no longer kidnapped, no longer bargaining chips in a game of genocidal terror.
It is not the easier path, but it is the one that ensures there will still be an Israel for their memory, and for all who come next.
July 31, 2025 Yeshiva World News
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Israel: Largely Self-Funded, High-Return US Strategic Asset Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”
July 31, 2025
*Is Israel a recipient of US foreign aid? Or, is Israel a unique force and dollar-multiplier for the US taxpayer, the only largely self-funded, self-manned, low/no-risk, high-return, democratic, stable and unconditional ally of the US, in the face of mutual adversity (Shiite and Sunni Islamic terrorism, China and Russia), and in the pursuit of mutual challenges (e.g., advancing the commercial and defense technological edge)?
*Israel is the only pro-active US ally, which is required by its neighborhood to constantly flex effective muscles against the anti-US Islamic terrorism, while challenging and constraining Russia’s and China’s aspirations in the Middle East.
*A realistic cost-benefit assessment of the annual of $3.8bn US investment in Israel – not “foreign aid” – should be assessed against the backdrop of the annual cost-benefit of overseas US military bases and the 2026 $1 Trillion proposed defense budget (which includes items that are higher-risk than the low/no-risk investment in Israel):
<According to a July 10, 2024 report by the US Congressional Research Service (CRS), “the US has at least 128 overseas bases in at least 51 countries…. The Department of Defense (DOD) provided an estimate of $31.7 billion to support overseas operations in 2023…. The figures reported by DOD may not include all of the non-military construction spending associated with overseas basing… They may exclude costs related to contingency operations, rotational deployments or training exercises involving units ordinarily based in the United States. Independent researchers have also provided alternative estimates for the total cost of U.S. overseas basing. A 2021 study by the [conservative/isolationist] Quincy Institute estimated the total cost to be $55 billion annually….”
<The Northampton, MA-based liberal National Priorities Project and the progressive Institute for Policy Studies claim that the 2024 cost of maintaining U.S. military bases overseas is estimated to be around $80 billion annually, which includes the direct costs of maintaining the bases themselves and the costs associated with personnel, equipment, and operations.
<According to the CRS report (ibid), “As of March 2024, approximately 81,000 active-duty servicemembers were permanently assigned to overseas bases in the Indo-Pacific…. in Japan (54,774 – $5.7bn; $2bn assumed by Japan)andSouth Korea(28,500 – $4.7bn; $1bn)…. 31 persistent bases and 19 other military sites in Europe…. approximately 67,200 active-duty servicemembers…. in Germany (35,112 – $7.3bn; $1.2bn), Italy (12,441 – $2.8bn; $0.5bn) and the UK (9,421 – $2.2bn; $0.8bn)…. Thousands of additional servicemembers are present in Europe on rotational deployments or other temporary assignments. Approximately 80,000 are assigned or deployed to NATO…. CRS identified eight persistent bases and 11 other military sites in the Middle East…. in Bahrain(3,479 – $1-2bn; cost-sharing, rent-free)…. and Qatar (8,000 – $2.5bn; $1.8bn)…. Thousands of additional servicemembers were present on rotational deployments or other temporary assignments…. U.S. bases in Iraq, Syria, and Jordan have also been subjected to intermittent drone and missile attacks…. Approximately 1,150 were permanently assigned in Africa…. Approximately 1,650 in Latin America and the Caribbean….”
The largely self-funded, battle-tested, high-return, reliable Israel
*Since 1967, Israel has been the most cost-effective, self-funded, militarily and commercially effective US overseas beachhead/base, manned by Israel’s own battle-proven manpower, not US troops.
*Israel’s critical, pro-active and unique contribution to the US power projection was demonstrated by the June 2025 Israel Air Force offensive on Iran, which obliterated Iran’s Air Force and ground to air defense, and eliminated key Iranian national security leaders, paving the road for the unchallenged US bombing of three Iranian nuclear installations.
*Israel has extended the US’ strategic hand, enhancing US operational flexibility in the Middle East and other parts of Africa and Asia, bolstering the stability of all pro-US Arab regimes, which have the machetes of Iran’s Ayatollah regime and the Muslim Brotherhood at their throats. Israel has monitored, constrained and deterred theUS’ global and regional rivals and enemies, while upgrading US defense and commercial technologies. Israel has shared with the US its unique battle experience and game-changing innovations. The US Air Force, Navy, Ground Forces (e.g., Special Operations, urban warfare), Intelligence and counter-terrorism, Missile Defense, electronic warfare and cyber security have also benefited from Israel’sairspace, ports, human and signal intelligence, logistics and training resources.
*Israel has contributed to the US’ power-projection more than any other US ally.
*Bolstering the US’ global power-projection has been more valuable to the US than Israel’s mega-billion-dollar contribution to the US economy and defense as the battle-tested laboratory (e.g., saving 10-20 years of the F-35 Research and Development cost; total R & D cost amounts to $55bn) and the elite showroom, which has demonstrated the advantage of the US defense and aerospace industries. Enhancing the US’ power projection has also been more critical than Israel’s role as the leading platform of battle tactics formulation for the US Armed Forces; the major source of intelligence for the US (equal to 5 CIAs); and, the leading innovation center for 250 US high tech giants in the areas of AI, cyber, communications, medicine, health, agriculture, irrigation, software technologies, homeland security, etc.
*Israel’s capabilities and own power projection have provided the U.S. a strategic launch point – without a permanent U.S. base – in a most critical area between the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf. This area is the leading epicenter of anti-US global Islamic terrorism, a source of 48% of global oil reserves and a critical intersection of commercial sea lanes. Israel’s geo-strategic location and battle-proven capabilities have spared the US the need to increase its own direct presence, which would have required an annual cost of $15bn-$20bn of manufacturing, deploying, operating and maintaining additional aircraft carriers, accompanied by 5-10 ground divisions.
*US-Israel cooperation has evolved into a unique, mutually-beneficial, two-way-street, win-win relationship, responding to mutual threats and joint challenges, transcending occasional disagreements between the two Administrations. Israel has been transformed from a net-national security and economic consumer to a net-national security and economic producer, generating substantial, military and commercial dividends to the US, which exceed the highly appreciated $3.8 BN US annual investment in Israel.
Israel Moves to Sue New York Times for $10 Billion for The Blood Libel They Spread By Pamela Geller
July 30, 2025 – Israel considering sing New York Times and the journalists who blood libel-ed Israelfor $10 BILLION for the blood libel it spread, says Israeli analyst Bardugo Jacob.
This needs to happen. The New York Times has been defaming, smearing and libeling Israel for years now and set the template for worldwide Jew hating press.
Serving Two Masters: G-d or the State? By Mordechai Sones
Are state-sponsored rabbis trapped in a colonial legacy?
July 30, 2025
In the biblical Book of Numbers, twelve spies—princes of their tribes—are sent to reconnoiter the Promised Land. Ten return with a professional assessment detailing impenetrable defenses, a situation analysis so demoralizing it dooms a generation to perish in the desert.
Contents
An Office Forged by Kings, Not Rabbis
The Jerusalem Dilemma: Halacha vs. the State
The Diaspora Dilemma: The Prince in Exile
The Path to Authentic Leadership
The Midrash offers an instructive explanation for their betrayal: they acted not from fear of the enemy, but from fear of losing their own position and prestige. In the desert, they were princes; in the Land of Israel, their authority would vanish.
This ancient story of leadership compromised by self-preservation echoes with startling relevance today, not only in the Diaspora but within the State of Israel itself. The core dilemma confronts any rabbi whose authority is intertwined with a secular government, forcing them to serve two masters.
For a chief rabbi in the Diaspora, the “Spy’s Choice” is stark: as antisemitism surges, does he sound the alarm and urge his flock to leave for Israel—effectively presiding over the dissolution of his own community and position—or does he work to preserve the status quo?
For the Chief Rabbi of Israel, the conflict is different but no less profound. As a salaried state official, is his ultimate loyalty to the unvarnished truth of Halacha (Jewish Law), or to the political and military policies of the government he serves? When the state negotiates a prisoner exchange that may endanger more lives, or seeks to silence rabbinic dissent, is the Chief Rabbi a faithful spiritual guide or a state functionary?
The issue, then, is not geography but structure. The state-sponsored rabbinate, an office forged by empires for their own convenience, creates an inherent conflict of interest that threatens the integrity of rabbinic leadership everywhere it exists: Where chief rabbis come under external pressure, they often prioritize state relations over communal needs.
An Office Forged by Kings, Not Rabbis
The modern chief rabbinate is not a Jewish invention. For centuries, Jewish life was characterized by the kehilla, the self-governing community. Authority rested with the local rabbi, chosen by and accountable to the people he served. This decentralized model ensured rabbinic independence.
The shift occurred with the rise of the modern nation-state and its demand for tidy, hierarchical control. As Rabbi David Bar-Hayim has explained, the rabbis themselves never decided to create a chief rabbinate. The British Mandate authorities established Israel’s Chief Rabbinate in 1921, modeling it not on Jewish tradition, but on the Church of England.
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Just as the Archbishop of Canterbury provided the Crown with a single head for the state religion, the Chief Rabbi was to be a single, convenient representative for the Jewish population. This imperial model was stamped across the Commonwealth, from Australia to South Africa. Napoleon did the same in France, creating a state-supervised Grand Rabbinate to ensure Jewish life was aligned with the interests of the state. Globally, chief rabbis exist in about 39 countries today.
This foreign structure, designed for administrative ease and political control, fundamentally altered the nature of rabbinic authority, creating the conflicts that plague the institution to this day.
The Jerusalem Dilemma: Halacha vs. the State
In Israel, the Chief Rabbinate’s gilded cage is its status as an arm of the state. This creates immense pressure for its leaders to align their rulings with government policy, even when it clashes with Torah law.
A potent example is the mitzvah of pidyon shvuyim—the redeeming of captives. Halacha places a supreme value on this act, but with a critical caveat: one must not pay an exorbitant price, as doing so incentivizes enemies to take more hostages, thus endangering more lives.
However, when the Israeli government, facing immense public and political pressure, negotiates a lopsided prisoner exchange—releasing hundreds of convicted murderers and attempted murderers for one or two soldiers—the Chief Rabbi is put to a test. As a state official, he is expected to provide a religious imprimatur for a government decision. To publicly rule that such a deal violates Halacha by endangering more lives would be to directly challenge the state, his employer, on a sensitive matter of national security.
This pressure to conform is not theoretical. As long ago as December 5, 1995, one month after the death of Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, the Yediot Achronot newspaper reported that Israel’s Minister of Religious Affairs had proposed a governmental committee to create “guidelines for Rabbis throughout Israel regarding what they may and may not say.” The committee’s explicit function was to police rabbinic speech, particularly on topics where Torah law might contradict state law. While the proposal did not pass, it revealed the state’s underlying desire to control its rabbinate. A rabbi who knows his speech is being monitored by the government is a rabbi who will think twice before issuing a ruling that challenges state policy.
The Diaspora Dilemma: The Prince in Exile
For a chief rabbi in the Diaspora, the conflict is more existential. His success and prestige are measured by the health and permanence of his community. His entire institutional purpose is to secure a Jewish future in that country. This noble goal becomes a structural trap when antisemitism rises to dangerous levels.
The chief rabbis of France, the UK, and the rest of Europe may or may not be sincere leaders who work to secure their communities. Whatever the case, their institutional role compels them to be partners with the state, to put faith in government protection, and to champion a status quo of resilience. To publicly declare that the situation has become untenable and that Jews should seriously consider leaving would be a declaration of institutional failure. It would be an act of communal suicide, and he would overnight become the “prince” who loses his position.
This is the modern “Spy’s Choice.” It is shadowed by the tragic miscalculations of the 1930s, when many established Jewish leaders in Europe urged calm and faith in the state, unable to contemplate the dissolution of their historic communities until it was too late.
The Path to Authentic Leadership
The solution is not to scrutinize the personal integrity of the rabbis, but to dismantle the flawed structure they represent. The path forward lies in returning to the authentic model of Jewish leadership: decentralized, community-based, and independent of state control.
In Israel, this would mean limiting the Chief Rabbinate’s authority to areas where national centralization is necessary, such as personal status laws governing marriage and divorce in a country without a civil alternative. Beyond that, communities should be free to choose and fund their own rabbis, liberating them from political pressure.
In the Diaspora, it means recognizing that the grand title of “Chief Rabbi” is a colonial relic. True leadership comes not from government appointment, but from the trust and respect earned by a righteous paragon of integrity within his own community.
The story of the Spies is an eternal warning. Whether the temptation is to endorse a politically convenient ruling in Jerusalem or to downplay existential threats in Paris, the conflict of serving two masters remains the same.
Only a rabbinate free from the gilded cage of the state can be truly free to serve G-d and the Jewish people without compromise.
IDF officer removed after warning against danger to troops CHANANYA WEISSMAN
The waking up process is slow and costly. I’m offering a chance to accelerate it.
JUL 30, 2025
IDF officer removed after warning against danger to troops
Captain in the reserves relieved of his command after he refused to conduct a high-risk route-clearing mission in Gaza using vehicles without adequate protection, fearing troops could be hurt after recent attacks
An IDF captain in the reserves, serving as deputy company commander, was recently removed from his unit after refusing to carry out a mission on the Morag Corridor in southern Gaza, in vehicles that did not have adequate protection. According to reports, the officer objected to performing a “route opening” of the route, a daily patrol in search of explosives or threats, using open Humvees and insisted that his troops be provided with armored vehicles.
The IDF confirmed the report but claimed the Morag Corridor was ‘relatively secure’ compared to other areas in Gaza where troops regularly travelled in unprotected vehicles, including Humvees. However, the mission of opening a route, typically conducted in the early morning hours, is considered more dangerous. It involves slow driving along the route’s edges, scanning for IEDs with the aid of trackers, engineering tools to clear the margins, drone support and other measures to detect whether terrorists approached overnight to set ambushes or plant roadside bombs…
Good thing they learned all those lessons from October 7, right?
So let me get this straight. Every night terrorists can roam around planting bombs on routes the IDF uses all the time, without detection, and in the morning Jewish cannon fodder are sent to slowly traverse the road looking for explosives, while hoping they don’t get blown up. Back and forth, back and forth, rinse, wash, repeat.
Meanwhile, refusing to perform this daily Molech ritual or demanding better protection will result in imprisonment or other punishment. Because the roads are mostly safe and effective, so stop whining and just follow orders. It’s a mitzvah! It’s a national duty! It’s keeping us all safe! Arrest the haredim!
If I didn’t let the media, rabbis, and influencers who get paid by the government tell me what to think about everything, I would think people at the top are sending Jews, especially religious Jews, on pointless missions on purpose to get maimed and killed, while pretending to fight a war against an entity they are actively supporting. That would make me very uncomfortable and force me to rethink my entire life, so it’s a good thing I can let other people think for me.
People are waking up, but very slowly, and the cost per small degree of waking up is overwhelming. The learning curve really needs to accelerate, or there won’t be much left to salvage, God forbid.
A reader shared:
“Found this (below) on an online forum for frum women. She obviously doesn’t understand that it’s intentional but her awareness is commendable nevertheless. Many posters agree with her.”
I am pro serving in the IDF and protecting our country
I don’t agree with the chareidi outlook of letting others take the risk and not helping.
I do acknowledge that there are spiritual concerns but they need to be worked through and neither side is doing a good job of it.
But
What no one seems to want to discuss is that we have a huge problem with the government. The politicians (both the right, and the left) are using the soldiers as political pawns. They are risking soldier lives for Pali lives. Soldiers die because of bad decisions made up top and that is just unacceptable. I feel that it may even override the obligation to serve. My boys are not cannon fodder for them to salvage Israel’s destroyed reputation with the world. I don’t care more about what the UN says than I care about the soldiers. The aid, the Hitnatkut, the negotiating, the protecting “innocent” civilians, the supplying of fuel and resources, the release of thousands of terrorists, and and on and on and on. All the horrific decisions made by the government makes me feel that they lost their right to claim my child for their army. I don’t owe them my boys life if they don’t treasure it the way I do. Idealism is beautiful but only for EY and the jewish people. Not for a weak government who won’t do what needs to be done to protect their people. I don’t owe them that.
I’m conflicted. I believe in protecting the country and our people. I don’t believe in dying for weak corrupt politicians.
Signed a non chareidi mom with teen boys almost at draft age.
My comments:
Not dying as cannon fodder might override the obligation to serve? Whoa! Does the Torah support THAT?!
Yes, it’s a significant step in the right direction. It’s a crack in the brainwashing that we should definitely view as an opportunity. But if it took decades of collaborating with and supporting our enemies, so much needless carnage, and upwards of 20,000 Jewish soldiers maimed and killed in less than two years for nothing just to raise this question, it underscores how deep the kefirah brainwashing still is. I bet they would still react to my articles with extreme hostility. We have our work cut out for us.
When will her anger for the people she acknowledges are getting her people killed for nothing approach her anger toward charedim for not being killed for nothing?
Israel must end this war — by winning it. BOB GOLDBERG
Feeding the enemy, trading hostages for terrorists, and extending the war under the banner of morality are not acts of ethics; they are acts of madness.
JUL 28, 2025
“Brutal, comprehensive, and swift” is how Henry Kissinger advised Israel on ending the First Intifada.
In the annals of wartime diplomacy, few statements are more jarring — and more correct — than Kissinger’s quiet counsel to then-Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
Cut off the television crews, and do what South Africa did: Fight without apology, win without spectacle.
It was a hard truth delivered in soft tones. But it was truth nonetheless: When war becomes inevitable, the moral thing to do is end it — quickly, decisively, and without self-delusion.
Today, Israel is at war again. This time with Hamas. But unlike 1987, Israeli leadership isn’t being told to finish the job. It’s being told to hold back. To tread lightly. To feed the enemy, negotiate with kidnappers, and seek praise from the United Nations rather than protection for its people.
And while U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have signaled that maybe Hamas needs to be defeated entirely, we have heard that several times over the past year. I hope I’m wrong, but such assertions should not be taken seriously. Instead, the war will drag on. The hostages remain. The soldiers fall. And their families suffer. All for the sake of a delusion: that moral restraint in war means moral success.
It doesn’t. It is immoral.
Let’s start with the most scandalous contradiction in modern conflict: the belief that sending food, fuel, and medical supplies to your enemy is humanitarian. No nation has internalized this inversion more tragically than Israel. Since October 7th, it has been sending aid trucks into Gaza while its citizens bury their dead, its hostages languish in tunnels, and its soldiers fight booby-trapped corridors beneath hospitals. Israel is, in effect, the first country in history to fund both sides of its own war.
The delusion is global. The United Nations hails this arrangement as “restraint.” NGOs trumpet it as “empathy.” The media spins it as “civilized warfare.”
But as former Israeli politician Einat Wilf brilliantly pointed out:
“There are perfectly capable people in Gaza, as we saw on October 7th. That massacre required billions of dollars, years of investment in infrastructure, leadership, strategy, and vision, of the most perverse kind. What it shows is that the people of Gaza are not lacking capacity or resources. Their problem is ideological. It is not a humanitarian crisis; it is a political project of destruction disguised as victimhood. And what does the international system do in response? It keeps funding it.”
Wilf is right. Gaza isn’t starving because it’s poor. It’s starving because its rulers choose tunnels over bomb shelters, rockets over roads, and martyrdom over medicine.
To add insult to injury, by focusing on the situation in Gaza, Western governments and anti-Jewish media make it seem that if Israel would let the UN in, all would be well. In fact, the UN has turned aid distribution into suicidal humanitarianism.
During the Syrian civil war, the UN routed over $23 billion in aid through regime-controlled agencies that funneled food to loyalists while besieging opposition areas. The World Food Programme proudly reported that it fed nearly seven million Syrians in 2021, but neglected to mention that much of that food sustained the same military that gassed its own people in Douma.
In Yemen, UN agencies were forced — yes, forced — to use subcontractors approved by the Houthis rebel council, a regime that murders women for dress code violations and lobs missiles at Saudi civilian airports. Houthis-controlled agencies like the Bonyan Foundation, linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, now act as gatekeepers of humanitarian aid — skimming money, fuel, and food before anything reaches civilians.
After the 1994 genocide, Hutu génocidaires regrouped in UN-run refugee camps in eastern Congo. There, they taxed aid deliveries, built armed militias, and launched cross-border raids into Rwanda — all under UN protection. Goma became a haven not for civilians, but for militias rearming with Western-funded rice.
In 2009, al-Shabaab was skimming an estimated 20–to–80 percent of all food aid entering its zones of control in Somalia. They used stolen UN vehicles for bombings and extracted “customs fees” from aid workers. At the peak of the famine, the UN faced a moral dilemma: Feed starving civilians and enrich al-Shabaab, or cut them off and be called complicit in a humanitarian crisis. They chose the former. Al-Shabaab chose to bomb aid convoys anyway.
In Ethiopia, both Ethiopian federal forces and Tigrayan rebels were accused of blocking, looting, and redirecting aid supplies. As in Gaza, aid trucks became pawns on a strategic chessboard. World Food Programme warehouses were raided. Trucks went missing. Rebels distributed food not by need, but by allegiance.
In each case, the same pattern emerges: Humanitarian aid, designed to alleviate suffering, becomes a mechanism for prolonging it. In this context, in this struggle, Israel’s supply of food, medicine, and other materials is suicidal.
Here’s a fact you won’t hear at the next UN Security Council session: International law is not stupid. Article 23 of the Fourth Geneva Convention permits aid to pass, but only under strict conditions: that it reaches children under 15, pregnant women, and the wounded, and that it is not diverted for military use. If there is credible concern that the aid will help the enemy, the besieging power may refuse it.
Let me repeat: Israel is not obligated to supply fuel, food, or water to Gaza. And certainly not when that aid is rerouted to Hamas tunnels or used to shield hostages.
Here’s Einat Wilf again:
“International humanitarian law was not written by pacifists. It was written by people who understood that wars must be waged, and wars must be won. It is stupid — yes, stupid — to supply your enemy while they’re trying to kill you. And Israel is being pressured to do just that.”
Indeed, the pressure has consequences. Every aid truck into Gaza buys Hamas another hour — every delay in total victory results in more IDF casualties, more hostage videos, more funerals.
Which brings us to the most dangerous moral mirage of all: hostage deals. Since October 7th, Israel’s war policy has been paralyzed by a single goal: the return of the hostages. Now, let’s be clear: The rescue of hostages is a sacred duty. Pidyon shvuyim (the redemption of captives) is considered one of the highest mitzvot in Jewish law.
But Jewish tradition is not naïve. The Mishnah (Gittin 4:6) teaches that captives must not be redeemed for more than their worth. Why? Because of tikkun olam, to prevent public endangerment. As the Talmud explains, paying excessive ransoms encourages more kidnappings and burdens the community. It’s not just a financial warning; it’s a warning against strategic collapse.
Ronen Shoval, Dean of the Argaman Institute, put it to more bluntly:
“The prioritization of hostage recovery above all else is a mistake. It signals to Hamas that kidnapping Jews is worthwhile. Hamas uses hostages as shields. They will not release them except through force. The longer we wait, the more soldiers die. The more children become orphans.”
And they have. The war has dragged on not because of a lack of military capability, but due to a lack of political will. Shoval again:
“Israel’s position right now is the worst of all: Soldiers are dying, the hostages remain, aid is flowing to Hamas, and there are no orders to win.”
This is not a war; it is a slow-motion hostage negotiation with gunfire in the background. The so-called “hostage deal” on the table — cheered on by European diplomats, editorial boards, and a small chorus of Israeli protestors — is not a plan to free all the captives. It is, at best, a theater of concessions designed to spare Hamas the fate it richly deserves.
Months have passed. Thousands of lives lost. Cities reduced to rubble. And what have we seen from Hamas? Not a single act of good faith. Not one verifiable list of hostages. Not one gesture suggesting an intent to end this horror. Just perpetual stalling, extortion, and ghoulish media manipulations.
But the real tragedy is not Hamas’ behavior; who expects morality from a genocidal death cult? The tragedy is that Western leaders and Israeli Far-Left voices continue to indulge the fantasy that if we just bend a little more, surrender a few more principles, offer another ceasefire, or release another batch of murderers, then, maybe, just maybe, Hamas will keep its word.
Meanwhile, unhinged voices in the West and Israel insist, as a headline in the Far-Left Ha’aretz blared, “Bring Back the Israeli Hostages, at Any Price.”
But the fact is, you cannot simultaneously provide a long ceasefire and unlimited humanitarian assistance (some are now urging Israel to flood Gaza with aid) and expect to destroy Hamas’ rule in Gaza and get all the hostages back. Each objective sabotages the other when pursued together.
In addition to the incoherence of the hostage-above-all ideology, there’s a missing reality check: Hamas will never release all the hostages. Never. They are its human shields, its bargaining chips, its insurance policy. To Hamas, hostages are not people; they are currency. And the moment you signal that kidnapping Jews is a winning strategy, you invite not just more terror, but a marketplace for it.
To leave Hamas intact, especially with control of humanitarian aid flowing through its tunnels and couriers, is to embolden that ideology. It is to fund it. Subsidize it. Reward it.
Every truck of fuel, every bag of flour, every ceasefire day spent resupplying Gaza is a gift to the very people who promise to repeat October 7th “again and again.” This is not conjecture; Hamas leaders explicitly said it.
What message does it send to Hezbollah, to the Houthis, to the next terror cell waiting in the wings when Israel trumpets its determination to bring back every hostage at considerable cost of blood, treasure, and social stability? That Jewish lives are negotiable. That terror works. That if you are cruel enough — if you dismember babies on camera — eventually, the West will tire and Israel will fold.
Let us be clear: Hostage rescue is a sacred duty, but not at the cost of making hostage-taking a national sport. Indeed, the Mishnah forbids paying excessive ransoms because it destroys the social order. Why? Because once you show you’ll pay any price, you’ll be made to pay every price. Again. And again.
The cost of this “hostage-first, Hamas-intact” strategy has been paid several times over.
As of July 2025, 895 Israeli soldiers, officers, and reservists have been killed in this war, including the initial massacre and ongoing operations. There 315 widows and widowers who will spend the rest of their lives speaking to tombstones. There are over 600 orphans who will never again celebrate holidays with a parent.
The Defense Ministry announced on Sunday that the number of injured in the current war has surpassed 16,000, including amputees, those with brain injuries, and hundreds who lost eyes, limbs, or mobility. They are not just numbers; they are men and women who will never hold their children with both arms again; they are newly paralyzed veterans who once stormed enemy lines but now struggle to climb stairs.
Combat-related PTSD cases soared in the first months of the war. Over 1,600 soldiers began showing signs of psychological trauma by January 2024, and 76 percent were sent back to the front lines after receiving “treatment in the field.” The suicides continue — quiet, solitary casualties of a war we refuse to finish.
It is painful to say, but I believe it to be sadly true nevertheless: Placing a premium on releasing all the hostages (a delusion as deep as that which brought Oslo Accords into being) ignores a costly moral calculus: that trading temporary respite for enduring threat ensures more death, more captives, more war. Hamas has never bargained in good faith. It has played the hostage card with masterful cruelty, extracting fuel, food, ceasefires, and diplomatic paralysis in exchange for mere lists, photos, and promises.
It is time for a brutal truth: a war not waged to win is a war waged to lose. Feeding the enemy, trading hostages for terrorists, and extending the war under the banner of morality is not moral; it is madness. The kind of war that ends terror is not the one that wins applause at the UN; it is the one that breaks the enemy’s spine and sends a message: never again.
Henry Kissinger, though controversial, understood this. The best wars, morally and practically, are the ones that end quickly. The worst are those prolonged by false mercy. Humanitarianism that fuels murder is not compassion; it is complicity.
We are told to pity Gaza. To fund its people, rebuild its infrastructure, and treat its leaders as partners. But Gaza, as Einat Wilf warned, is not a humanitarian crisis. It is a militarized theocracy, armed to the teeth, fanatical in purpose, and funded by those who still believe that all suffering is innocence.
It is not.
Hamas, and the many Gazans who support Hamas and eagerly participated in and cheered the slaughter and circus like release of previous hostages, chose suffering and have weaponized death, destruction, and deprivation. It is not Israel’s legal or moral responsibility to resupply Gazans any more than it was the Allied Forces duty to care for Germans or Japanese civilians left to live among the ruin and rubble wrought by their respective death cults.
It is time to end the illusion. End the hostage deals. End the fuel transfers. End the food and medicine deliveries. End the other countries that condemn Israel and yet shut their borders to Gazans. End UN complicity in terror.
And end the war the way just wars are meant to be ended: by winning it. Wars end not through charity but through clarity — by defeating the enemy, breaking its will, and ensuring it cannot rise again.
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Bob Goldberg I co-founded the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (CMPI) in 2005. And I led Manhattan Institute’s Center for Medical Progress and its 21st Century FDA Task Force. |
Jerusalem Municipality Demands From Police: Halt Use Of Skunk Water Cannon Immediately
[Ed. : Skunkwater isn’t milk and honey, people... THEY SHOULD STOP SPRAYING IT ON JERUSALEM’S JEWS! DUH.]
VP Vance: “Israel must let more aid into Gaza and defeat Hamas”
“I don’t know if you’ve all seen these images from Gaza, you’ve got some really, really heartbreaking cases, little kids who are clearly starving to death. Israel’s gotta do more to let that aid in—and we’ve also gotta wage war on Hamas so they stop blocking it,” said Vice President J.D. Vance.
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[Ed.: Vice President Vance is a full-fledged, pea-brained idiot! He has as much insight into mideastern affairs as the President’s ‘Special Envoy’ to the Qatari lead peace talks, Herr Nit-wit-kopf! Boy, that Trump really knowS how to pick them (every time,) no? At least he’s consistent! BTW, Trump just instructed Israel to stop defending the Druse in Suwayto Syria, because Saudi Arabia explained to him that they are trying to make Al Jolani into a statesman, and not the terrorist that he is. Trump was merely complying with the Saudi request because after all, we all just want the Abraham Accords and Kumbaya.]
HUMAN SACRIFICE, NEW GAZA PLAN? DRUZE NEED AID, and the LEFT NON-PLAN?
July 28, 2025 Israel Realtime
( VIDEO – this is how the UN “distributes” aid in Gaza, when it is not directly hijacked by Hamas it is swarmed and looted. )
▪️OpEd: HUMAN SACRIFICE
Over the past few days we saw yet another blood libel perpetuated by Hamas, namely “Gaza is starving, see the starving (child, one).”
Reality does not matter: the starving (child, one) was not in Gaza, he was in Italy, he is not starving – he has a horrible medical condition, and he was evacuated from Gaza by Israel for treatment. Irrelevant.
If examined with even a slightly critical eye, we see that Hamas has progressed from human-shields to human-sacrifice. The population is intentionally stressed by Hamas, the aid agencies intentionally hindered from being effective, and the population, having lost everything, wants to partake in the free bounty from Heaven, I mean from the UN, before it is stolen and sold back to them keeping them fully impoverished.
The young men go, en masse, as roving bands to hijack, loot, and fight for the free bounty – battling Hamas, battling tribal groups, and battling each other.
Some are hurt, some are killed. This is INTENTIONAL, as these HUMAN SACRIFICES provide Hamas with the means to smear Israel, pull on the humanitarian triggers of the Western nations, and the anger and honor triggers of the Arab and Muslim nations.
A hundred civilian lives got Hamas all the aid they could desire, control of the majority of the aid, and intense pressure on Israel from the US, UK, EU, and anger in the streets directed at Israel in Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and more.
( Although it may actually destabilize the Egyptian regime with Hamas now pushing a “rush the Gaza border from Egypt” theme. )
We’ve seen this propaganda scenario again and again. Sadly neither the IDF nor the Israeli government has teams ready for QUICK responses to these media attacks. That’s a major failing in two ways: one, Israel takes the hit with no defense, and two, Israel never fights back on this battle field.
We must stand up and say loudly, HAMAS IS KILLING THEIR OWN PEOPLE, setting up the scenarios that guarantee it WILL happen. It should be spotlighted, BUT it must be responded to within A FEW HOURS, otherwise the lies stick.
▪️INTERNAL POLITICS – Yesh Atid’s leader MK Lapid in a statement: “The government has failed in Gaza. The military campaign has gotten out of control. The war must be ended in exchange for a comprehensive ceasefire and a comprehensive hostage deal. This is not an absolute victory, it is an absolute disaster.”
.. Amit Segal (political analyst/journalist): Lapid proposes to “eliminate Hamas from the perimeter” This is a proposal that could have been discussed if there was someone on the other side who agreed. In practice, Lapid, Lieberman, and Bennett all propose to accept a proposal that no one on the other side agrees to: ending the war with Israel within the perimeter of Gaza.
As long as there is no such scenario on the table or that is acceptable to the enemy, the question arises again: so what then? Do you support a complete withdrawal, and if not, what do you support?.
▪️CIVILIAN DIES FROM IRAN ATTACK – An 85-year-old man who was critically injured by the Iranian missile strike in Rehovot has died from his wounds. May his family be comforted and his memory be a blessing.
▪️NEW GAZA PLAN? Initial leaks (unconfirmed): Netanyahu’s plan calls for giving Hamas several days to agree to a ceasefire or begin annexing parts of Gaza. Supposedly has Trump administration agreement.
🇸🇾SYRIAN DRUZE – demonstrate requesting humanitarian aid and “we want Israel!”
🇱🇧LEBANON vs SYRIA – Cross border clashes reported between a Lebanese Hezbollah clan and the Syrian Government forces in the village of Al-Masriyah on the Lebanese-Syrian border.
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Graham Says When Trump Said “Finish the Job” It Means Do to Gaza What U.S. Did to Tokyo and Berlin
[Ed.: This appears to be Trump giving IINO ‘the green light’ to go ahead and decimate Hamas and finish this so-called ‘war’ that has lasted almost three years with no end in site. But that does not mean that IINO will do it. If they haven’t done it by now, that must not be in the plan…]
Is Israel Attacking Christians and Churches in Gaza and the “West Bank”?
[Ed.: So, the moral of the story is that Huckabee and Matt Gaetz need to be more careful in the future about sticking their foot in their mouth…]
🟨HEROS HAVE FALLEN, GAZA AID RESPONSES, SELFIE BOAT CAPTURED, the RAFAH MILITIA SAYS
July 27, 2025 Israel Realtime
⚠️HEATWAVE CONTINUES – very high temperatures, take heat precautions. Normal summer temps should return on Tuesday.
▪️3 HERO SOLDIERS HAVE FALLEN – in battle in Gaza:
Amir Saad, 22, from Mianuch-Jat
Inon Nuriel Vana, 20, from Kiryat Tivon
Betzalel Yehoshua Mosbacher, age 32, from Avnei Eitan (died from his wounds received 8 days ago)
May their families be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem, and may G-d avenge their blood!
▪️ON GAZA AID – The Tzav 9 movement and families of hostages sharply attacked the “humanitarian ceasefire” this morning (Sunday), claiming it will lead to the death of fighters and worsen Israel’s situation in the war, following the concession of many pressure levers against the terrorist organization Hamas and the transfer of tens of thousands of aid trucks to it.
A hostage family member: “A black morning for the State of Israel. Right-wing ministers said they would remain in the government as long as no red lines are crossed. What lines are redder than this?! Abandoning hostages, free aid, water to the Strip, prioritizing Hamas over hostages, fighters, and Israeli civilians, what else needs to happen?”
Tzav 9: “10 hours of wordwashing called a humanitarian ceasefire. Don’t be fooled; it’s 10 hours of Hamas terrorist organization recovery. 10 hours of losing more and more pressure levers. 10 hours of surrender, weakness, and losing war achievements. No forgiveness for weakness in the face of terror.”
CB News: With the help of a fake hunger campaign, Hamas caused the Israeli government to back down and give up many of the things included only in a hostage deal. The captives are the only ones who are hungry and suffer every day, yet the Israeli government chose to give up many of the pressure levers.
On air drops: UNRWA claims that food air drops are dangerous and ineffective. [Emphasis added]
▪️SELFIE BOAT CAPTURED – Shayetet 13 fighters took control of the selfie boat Handala, loaded with activists attempting to ‘break the Gaza blockade’. The ship will be towed to Ashdod port, the pro-Palestinian activists will be arrested and deported.
▪️THE RAFAH MILITIA SAYS – Yasser Abu Shabab, head of the armed militia fighting Hamas and located in Rafah (south Gaza), in an article for the Wall Street Journal: While most residents of Gaza still suffer as the war between Israel and Hamas continues, for thousands of people in East Rafah the situation is different – for them, the war is already over.
In this area, there are no casualties from airstrikes. There is no crowding at aid distribution points. There is no fear that Hamas will plant explosives in homes. People can sleep peacefully without fearing they won’t survive another day.
This should not be the exception; it can be the situation for all Gaza residents. Most Gazans do not want Hamas rule, but despite their hatred of Hamas, they still fear it. Following protests earlier this year, there were protesters who were killed, tortured, and disappeared.
After the success in Rafah, independent zones can be established in other places.
🇮🇷IRAN ARMS UP – Senior Iranian official: “The world needs to know that Iran received the Su-35 from Russia this week, our air force will soon begin to defend the homeland – and we will advance it just like our missile corps.”
🔹EGYPT ARMS UP – The U.S. is heading towards a huge deal to sell air defense systems to Egypt worth about $4.7 billion, with the deal going to the U.S. Congress for approval.
🇸🇾SAUDI ARABIA TELLS ISRAEL ABOUT SYRIA – messages were conveyed in Saudi Arabia to Israel not to harm the rule of Syrian regime leader Julani.
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[Ed.: IMHO, the Israeli military ‘leadership’ are worse enemies than the God-damned Arabs. Not our soldiers, they are merely the cannon-fodder. “Jewish blood is cheapest in the land of IINO” – quoting myself.]
[Ed.: Possible ‘Land Corridor’:
The Fallacy of ‘Land for Life’ By Mordechai Sones
It is an attempt to edit the schematics of reality, to apply the failed logic of secular diplomacy to a situation that has already transcended it
July 27, 2025
If the return of the Jews to their land was the singularity that confirmed the Torah as the authentic blueprint for history, then the questions that followed its birth became the most critical tests of our understanding.
Contents
The Land as the Blueprint’s Foundation
The Perversion of a Sacred Principle
A Formula for National Suicide
With the blueprint validated, ignoring its specific instructions is no longer an option. The most urgent of these instructions concerns the physical integrity of the land itself. Once restored to Jewish sovereignty, what does the Creator’s operating manual say about its borders?
The answer is unequivocal, and it stands in stark contrast to the entire framework of modern secular diplomacy. The blueprint dictates that once the Land of Israel is under Jewish control, the surrender of any part of it is forbidden. This is not a political preference or a nationalist talking point; it is a fundamental principle of Halacha, or Jewish law.
Yet this principle has been challenged from within, using one of the most sacred concepts in Judaism: pikuach nefesh, the commandment to save a human life. This has led to the contention that land may, and indeed must, be sacrificed to prevent war and save lives. This argument, however, is not only a misreading of Jewish law; it is a logically flawed formula for national suicide.
The Land as the Blueprint’s Foundation
In the secular lexicon of international relations, land is a commodity. It is a bargaining chip to be traded for other assets, primarily security or peace. Borders are lines drawn and redrawn by treaties, wars, and political expediency.
Within the Torah’s paradigm, however, the Land of Israel is not a negotiable asset. It is an essential, holy component of the divine covenant, the physical stage upon which the drama of Jewish destiny and the universal mission must unfold. Its restoration to the Jewish people was not a geopolitical accident but the fulfillment of a core prophecy, the central proof of the blueprint’s validity.
Therefore, the laws governing the land are absolute. Halacha is explicit that a war to retain control over the land is not only permissible but obligatory. The integrity of the nation’s sovereign territory is inextricably linked to the integrity of its divine mission. To treat the land as divisible is to treat the blueprint as negotiable. It is an attempt to edit the schematics of reality, to apply the failed logic of secular diplomacy to a situation that has already transcended it.
The Perversion of a Sacred Principle
The primary argument used to circumvent this absolute principle is the appeal to pikuach nefesh. In Jewish law, the preservation of human life is a supreme value, so powerful that it overrides almost every other commandment. It is a principle of radical compassion, a testament to the sanctity of the individual.
Citing this concept, some have argued that if surrendering territory could avert a war, then Halacha itself would demand the concession. To refuse, they contend, would be to sacrifice lives for the sake of soil, a clear violation of the Torah’s most cherished moral principle.
On the surface, this argument appears humane and compelling. It cloaks political calculation in the language of religious piety. But it rests on a profound and dangerous misapplication of the principle, moving it from the realm of individual ethics to national strategy without recognizing that the logic governing the two is entirely different. It mistakes the avoidance of immediate conflict for the preservation of life itself.
A Formula for National Suicide
When applied to national sovereignty, the “land for life” argument becomes palpably absurd. It creates a strategic incentive for Israel’s enemies to maintain a constant state of belligerence. If a nation signals that it will surrender territory every time it is threatened with war, it guarantees that it will be threatened with war endlessly. Each concession, rather than buying peace, simply becomes the starting point for the next demand. The enemy is encouraged to adopt a strategy of permanent extortion, where the threat of violence becomes the most reliable tool for achieving its aims.
Viewed in this light, the invocation of pikuach nefesh to justify surrendering land is a formula for national suicide. It is a policy that ensures perpetual instability and weakness. It does not save lives; it endangers them by emboldening aggressors who learn that their threats will be rewarded. A nation that will not defend its borders is a nation that will ultimately have no borders to defend. This logic transforms a principle designed to save lives into a mechanism that guarantees the eventual destruction of the national home, which is the ultimate guarantor of those lives.
The True Mandate for Survival
The correct application of pikuach nefesh on a national scale requires a more sophisticated and courageous understanding. The true preservation of life for a nation is not achieved by avoiding every potential conflict, but by ensuring the nation’s long-term strength, security, and deterrence. It is the existence of a strong, sovereign, and defensible Israel that saves Jewish lives on a mass scale.
Therefore, the Halachic mandate to hold the land, even at the risk of war, is the ultimate expression of pikuach nefesh. It is an act of national self-preservation. It establishes that threats will be met with resolve, not retreat, thereby discouraging the aggression that leads to war in the first place.
True peace and the genuine saving of life are achieved not through weakness and compromise on core principles, but through the courage to uphold the divine blueprint.
The path to security lies not in appeasing those who would destroy the nation, but in faithfully and fearlessly implementing the very laws of history that brought the nation back to its land.
🕑 July 27, 2025 — 12:30 AM (Israel local time) Israel Realtime
🛬 In a coordinated move to address humanitarian needs in Gaza, the IDF resumed aerial aid drops on Saturday evening. The operation, conducted in partnership with the Israeli Air Force, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), and international organizations, included seven pallets of essential supplies such as flour, sugar, and canned goods.
Alongside the airdrops, the IDF announced the establishment of designated humanitarian corridors to allow safe passage for United Nations and aid organization convoys. These routes are intended to facilitate the delivery of food and medicine to civilians in high-density areas. The IDF has confirmed it is prepared to implement temporary humanitarian pauses in active combat zones to enable aid access without compromising security.
The IDF announced it would implement an 8-hour temporary ceasefire to allow the United Arab Emirates and Jordan to carry out humanitarian airdrops over Gaza. The IDF also indicated that such pauses may be repeated periodically as needed to facilitate continued aid deliveries.
This week alone, over 250 aid trucks have been offloaded, adding to hundreds of others currently waiting at the crossings. Approximately 600 trucks have already been distributed by UN and international partners. The IDF, through COGAT, is continuing to work with these organizations to expedite collection and distribution of the remaining trucks.
In a significant infrastructure step, the IDF—following political authorization and in cooperation with the Israel Electric Corporation—connected the “Kela” power line to Gaza’s southern desalination plant. This will increase clean water production from 2,000 to approximately 20,000 cubic meters daily, serving nearly 900,000 residents.
The IDF reiterated that claims of starvation in Gaza are part of a disinformation campaign driven by Hamas. “There is no starvation in Gaza,” officials stated, emphasizing that food distribution responsibility lies with the UN and global aid agencies. Israel called on these bodies to enhance their efficiency and prevent humanitarian aid from being diverted to Hamas operatives.
Despite humanitarian efforts, military operations in Gaza remain ongoing. The IDF stressed: “We will continue to act in the Gaza Strip to dismantle Hamas terrorist infrastructure, recover the hostages, and eliminate threats both above and below ground.”
Israel is also coordinating airdrop efforts with Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. These joint operations are aimed at delivering urgent aid, though experts warn that airdrops are expensive, limited in capacity, and carry inherent risks. International voices continue to advocate for the opening of secure land crossings to scale up humanitarian access.
This initiative reflects Israel’s dual strategy: advancing humanitarian support while maintaining firm military pressure on Hamas.
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[Ed.: Yes, we are crazy for doing this, but no one can accuse us of “starving the Gazans”, or of “genocide”. We don’t kill them, Hamas does. On the other hand, we actually should have killed them (read: decimate to the last man,) because they all participated with Hamas in killing us and torturing and starving our hostages, all the while celebrating it! SINCE WE DIDN’t ELIMINATE THEM: our One God, Hashem, will punish us by death. It just pisses Him off to much to resist.]
🕑 Jul 26, 2025, 10:44 PM (Israel time) Israel Realtime
🎗️ Amit Segal reports a coordinated shift involving Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Trump, and Senator Rubio, responding to Hamas’s ongoing obstruction of hostage negotiations.
According to Segal, the three leaders recently held a phone call where they reached a unified conclusion: Hamas has no real intention of reaching a deal in this round of talks. Despite claims circulating even within Israel, they believe Hamas is deliberately stalling in hopes that global and domestic pressure will eventually force Israel to halt the war unconditionally.
President Trump and Senator Rubio reportedly view the current state of negotiations as a strategic manipulation by Hamas. They argue that the group is exploiting the stop-start nature of hostage exchanges to drag out the conflict indefinitely and push Israel into an unfavorable ceasefire.
As a result, Israel is now considering several escalatory options. These include direct action against Hamas leaders abroad, particularly in Qatar—possibly through targeted assassinations or joint U.S.-Israel extradition demands. Both governments assert that Hamas leaders have committed war crimes, pointing to the massacre of over 1,200 Israelis, including dozens of American citizens.
Another potential measure under discussion involves threatening Hamas with land seizures or exile if the hostages are not released within a specific timeframe. These moves reflect growing international support for Israel to take decisive steps, with Trump and Rubio effectively giving Israel a green light for a major strategic shift.
Segal stresses that there’s a misconception circulating—especially in media narratives—that Hamas is ready to end the war while Israel seeks to prolong it for political reasons. He firmly rejects this, saying: “This portrayal of Hamas wanting to end the war, and the cruel Israel, which for political reasons wants the war to go on forever is simply false.”
He explains that Hamas’s core demand—a complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza with no security buffer near Israeli communities—is a non-starter for every Israeli leader, including opposition figures like Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett. Even those who support disengagement have publicly acknowledged that some form of security perimeter is necessary.
If the joint statements from Netanyahu, Trump, and Rubio reflect more than a negotiation tactic to pressure Hamas and demonstrate U.S. backing, Segal warns that Israel is on the verge of a significant turning point in the war.
❗️ Meanwhile, Hamas has reportedly entered a state of heightened alert. A Hamas official has claimed that orders were given to their fighters stating that if Israeli or U.S. forces attempt a rescue operation, “The hostages should be neutralized.”
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