AMEN. And the Gates of Gaza came to New Orleans in the early morning hours of 1 January 2025, as they have repeatedly since the first attack on the World Trade Center. These Satanic Islamist beasts are here in America as well as surrounding Israel. Will Western Civilization wake up in time? These evil assholes want us all to be compelled to bow towards Mecca five times per day.
I was downtown that day. It was the fourth time Islamist terrorists had tried to blow me up. I mentioned to my wife that day, after walking across the Manhattan Bridge to Brooklyn, that it was starting to feel personal.
Perfect article.....through a recounting of past wars from biblical to modern times, it puts the current situation fully into perspective. Again, through an historical account, it also details the results of appeasement vs the results of competent defence.
It's not just about Israel, either. And more people need to understand that. Muslims that call for tolerance in the west towards Muslims practice intolerance in the east towards non-Muslims. Violence is explicitly coded into their holy text. And while people have known that for years, in the name of tolerance they still hold onto the post-9/11 lie that extremism is a small part of Islam. It is not. And it's not about hating Muslims. It's about taking them at their words and deeds and the words of their holy text that they live by. If all the countries surrounding Israel that are working towards Israel's annihilation achieve their goal, do you think they will stop there and be satisfied? No, that is not what the Quran dictates. Islam is entirely incompatible with western values, and this fight will never cease. Europe is roiling right now because of unchecked Muslim migration west and the refusal of those populations to assimilate to western values. From rape gangs in the U.K. to Charlie Hebdo in France to festival stabbings in Germany, all carried out by citizens of those countries. And now the same thing has happened in the U.S. and will continue to happen. Douglas Murray calls Islam a "death cult" and he's exactly right. Such barbarism must be met with intolerance and extreme prejudice. People need to wake up and stop letting lies about Islam being mostly benign colonize their minds.
Well said, Laura. What westerners fail to realize is that violence and mayhem against the non-believers of islam are hard-wired into the religious doctrine.
There is a rotten branch that sprung from the tree of the Abrahamic religions. While the other two usually seek peace, strive for justice and cherish mercy, the branch that bears the spoiled fruit is inimical to the doctrines of peace espoused by the others.
Only insofar that humanity submits to its rotten doctrine and submits to it will islam be what it continues to fool people into believing- that is the religion of peace.
Only one thing concerns me about this article, near the end - the reference to the enemy as Philistines. This legitimizes the anti-Semitic leftist jihadist narrative that the Palestinian Arabs are the indigenous people. They are not. The Philistines were Indo-Europeans who disappeared from history after the Babylonian conquest, never to be heard from again. Today's Palestinian Arabs are all Semites, most with ancestry outside the land of Israel. As I never tire of saying, Jews are the true Palestinians. The Philistines assimilated, or returned to Europe, a long time ago.
Thank you for the enlightening backstory. I had come across the Dayan speech in another article, but it does not specify exactly what prompted that and may have been confused with the November 1956 campaign.
That being the case, the subsequent mishandling of the post war refugees in 1967 was documented in https://prrn.mcgill.ca/research/papers/segev.pdf That was enlightening as well, as many blamed Dayan for letting refugees back in when a solution might have been to deport all after the war. (Think Potsdam Conference 1945).
The enemy wants us tortured, raped and dead. They instruct their children in this as a religious precept. They spend stupid amounts of money to attain this goal and will use their own children as shield when firing weapons.
We Ashkenzaic Jews have little history with Muslim/Arab populations. The Sefardic community has been suffering under them for 1400 years. They may know how to deal with them on terms Muslims would understand.
It's not just a question of historical experience; Ashkenazim after all experienced systematic widespread genocide at the hands of Europeans, unlike Arab/Muslim persecution which was usually local to a specific town or city.
But Ashkenazim lived in Europe, which presented the illusion that rationality and enlightenment might someday overcome antisemitism. This illusion was very attractive; those Ashkenazim who didn't emphasize the absolute immutability of a Divinely-given Torah, bought into the illusion; thinking that a rational, liberal society wouldn't persecute or discriminate against its Jews. That's the thinking identified in this article
But the Arab/Islamic world never offered any such illusion; it had one place in society for the despised dhimmi Jews - at the very bottom - and never showed any sort of promise that someday that might change. Which is why Sefardim know exactly what to expect from the Arab/Muslim collective.
Nicely stated. It was only about 10-15 years ago that I began to wonder why there weren’t 50M Sedardic Jews. After all they had no Crusades, Pogroms or Nazis.
Then I spoke to various Sefardic members of our community only to find out about the small pogroms and forced conversions every 20-40 years.
We can only carry the pain of that blindness and continue on. Until the general awakening, writers like Daniel and yourself need to keep pounding out the truth.
“We are tired of fighting; we are tired of being courageous; we are tired of winning; we are tired of defeating our enemies,” former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who finished the retreat that turned over Hamas to Gaza, had told American anti-Israel leftists at the Israel Policy Forum.
In the final analysis for all his fame and bluster Dayan blinked at the critical moment and gave away the Temple Mount. Like all the left wingers he too thought the Arabs would respond positively to a friendly gesture. When in fact they only see such things as weakness and demand more. Jews can never learn.
So what’s your solution ? Expelling all Arabs from West Bank and Gaza ? Then working on the 20% of Israel who are not Jews ?
October 7 was a shock as defence against an attack from Hamas was weakened by deployments of IDF personnel to defend illegal settlers in the West Bank.
How long do you think President Trump and his Arab son-in-law are going to defend Israel if ethnic cleaning is that country’s policy. As Trump says he ends wars not starts them. His backers are in Riyadh not Tel Aviv
Exactly. The western world NEEDS to WAKE UP. They do not understand the middle east and know not what it's like to be living in Israel. I remember spending shabbat in the shelter in 1984 in the northern coast. My boyfriend had served in the Lebanon war.
As a European I've seen Holland and France being taken over by Islamic offspring and immigrants since early 90's... Thank you for writing !!!!
It seems like there is a long history of 'rational' conversations leading to the present Middle East current events.
Your Mosge Dayan quote says it well, “beyond the furrow that marks the border, lies a surging sea of hatred and vengeance..." Take a moment and picture in your mind's eye the sea surging, restless and rolling, never at rest. Pushing relentlessly at its boundaries.
Perhaps the time has come to reconsider Hashem's instructions to the Israelis when the entered the lands He was "... giving them..." Cf Deuteronomy 7 and 20. Numbers 21.2-3, Hormah, (ḥāram). Samson brought the Philistine temple down on everyone.
There has been no such place as “the West Bank” since 1967, when Israel took control of the land that Jordan had illegally seized in 1948. And the Jews who live in that land—called Judea and Samaria—are not “illegal settlers,” whatever that’s supposed to mean.
You aren't concerned about the ethnic cleansing and expulsion of 800 thousand Jews from Arab countries in 1948. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
The "Palestinian" Arabs have made it their explicit goal to ethnically cleanse and expel the majority ethnic group, Jews, from Israel. It seems that you only do projection.
I prefer to mock them mercilessly but blocking works also.
General blackjack Pershing had a way of handling his Mohammadan rebels in the Philippines involving pig flesh and sending witnesses back to their village after blackjack defiled the bodies of the jihadis with pork meat, end of subject.
Can't go to heaven after being a jihadi martyr if you're covered in pork.
There's a Mexican dude named El Marino who has been hunting down cartel gangsters and beating them up and filming them afterwards dressed in women's lingerie saying to the world I am a loser and a coward, many approaches to skinning the jihadi to avoid further societal afflictions
We need to understand what it is that Palestinians want. The Palestinian perspective derives from 14 centuries of Arab/Muslim perception of Jews as dhimmi, whose "proper" place in society is at the very bottom. From that perspective, Jews with rights is ridiculous; the only rights Jews might receive are those which the gracious Arab/Muslim overlord might generously (or grudgingly) allot them, to be withdrawn arbitrarily at any time. The idea of Jews with sovereignty to guarantee their rights is anathema; and such sovereignty which forces Arabs or Muslims to allow Jews' their rights is a complete overturning of the natural order.
Thus, the Palestine Cause is foundationally antisemitic; it says nothing about promoting Palestinians' welfare and everything about denying Jews some basic humanity. Which is why no Jews live under the PA; and the only Jews in Gaza are those dragged there against their will on Oct. 7th, as visible demonstration of Jews' lowliness. No terrorist stabbing an Israeli, or firing rockets at Israeli civilians, has ever stopped to think perhaps this isn't the right thing to do.
No amount of building or not building Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria will change the underlying ideology.
The solution is to stop normalizing and institutionalizing this collective antisemitism. IMO Gazans (and Palestinians more broadly) must each be forced into a choice: Either accept Israeli sovereignty as legitimate and subjugate yourself to it, even if you only have residency status under said sovereignty. Or seek your fortunes elsewhere, whether on a rubber lifeboat on the Mediterranean or in a refugee camp across from the UN building; you are not Israel's problem.
I will keep these words of Moshe Dayan close to me: “Beyond the furrow that marks the border [of Israel], lies a surging sea of hatred and vengeance, yearning for the day that the tranquility blunts our alertness, for the day that we heed the ambassadors of conspiring hypocrisy, who call for us to lay down our arms.”
Dayan was right then and today and into the foreseeable future.
It is tragic that the “Palestinians” have dug themselves into an impossibly deep hole, but that is reality. Israel cannot compromise with them or cede control of anything without — once again — being attacked.
Dayan’s eulogy is beautiful. One of my favorite speeches, I tear up every time I read it. But of course, you omit the critical portion:
“Let us not cast the blame on the murderers today. Why should we declare their burning hatred for us? For eight years they have been sitting in the refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we have been transforming the lands and the villages, where they and their fathers dwelt, into our estate.”
The original Zionists were serious people. They knew what they were doing. They dreamt a glorious dream called Israel, and gave everything and more to make the dream real. For all their many crimes, I could never hate them or lose respect for them.
How dare you butcher Moshe Dayan’s message like this. You bring only shame upon your forefathers.
To you that is the crucial part. And it is, but not how you think.
Dayan suffered from the suicidal empathy that filled so many liberals. He had to try to identify with the monsters who not only killed a man, but gouged out his eyes. It was a fatal flaw in Dayan and in so many of Israel's Ashkenazi elites including Barak who insisted that he would have been a terrorist if he had been born an Arab Muslim settler.
No one on the other side ever identified or empathized with Israelis. Or Americans. Or any other infidel enemies.
That is what being serious actually means.
Twaddle like "“Let us not cast the blame on the murderers today" is unserious suicidal empathy that leads to Oct 7s and 9/11s.
You should also read Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s “The Iron Wall” (https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/quot-the-iron-wall-quot). I hope even you will not dare accuse Jabotinnsky of excessive liberal tendencies. But this essay is quite reminiscent of Dayan’s eulogy, including in his exploration of the roots of Arab hatred.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” It’s cliché because it’s true. The original Zionists, and the Radical Zionists especially, knew both fully—even when the knowledge was uncomfortable, or difficult to accept. This assured their victory.
However, today’s radical Zionists (like you) refuse to know the enemy. This is because to do so, would require learning uncomfortable truths about yourselves, and you refuse to do that also. Today, almost all Israeli society is infected with this refusal to see. Only a few lonely voices (most notably Gideon Levy) are willing to call out the blindness. Unless this changes, your defeat is inevitable.
Mixing together Dayan and Jabotinsky, and then quoting The Iron Wall just suggests your knowledge of Israel is due to some thumbnail sketches garnered from anti-Israel propaganda.
I know the enemy quite well.
It's the same enemy that America, Europe, India, Australia, and the rest of the world faces.
You choose not to know the enemy and to pretend it's some local problem with Israel.
Brilliant retelling and reminder. This is simplistic but so true history repeats itself if we fail to learn and make changes needed. Perhaps fatalistic but I do not see a pathway for peace with Palestinians. I do not see a possibility for two nations. Who can coexist with a mindset that we have seen unravel over the past 1.5 year. Where is the proof that they want to build a nation? They take the resources given to them from the world to build a war machine to kill Jews. I think people show you who they are and you better believe them.
no one is at peace in the Middle East. If the Muslim world has not figured out to live internally at peace or with Christians, Hindus and Buddhists elsewhere, I doubt Israel will either
AMEN. And the Gates of Gaza came to New Orleans in the early morning hours of 1 January 2025, as they have repeatedly since the first attack on the World Trade Center. These Satanic Islamist beasts are here in America as well as surrounding Israel. Will Western Civilization wake up in time? These evil assholes want us all to be compelled to bow towards Mecca five times per day.
as a New Yorker, they came to me on 9/11
I was downtown that day. It was the fourth time Islamist terrorists had tried to blow me up. I mentioned to my wife that day, after walking across the Manhattan Bridge to Brooklyn, that it was starting to feel personal.
Exactly, but try telling that to the Jew-haters in the west.
Perfect article.....through a recounting of past wars from biblical to modern times, it puts the current situation fully into perspective. Again, through an historical account, it also details the results of appeasement vs the results of competent defence.
Thanks, & kudos to the author.
thank you, the past is the present and the future
Thank you for this excellent article & kudos to the author.
It's not just about Israel, either. And more people need to understand that. Muslims that call for tolerance in the west towards Muslims practice intolerance in the east towards non-Muslims. Violence is explicitly coded into their holy text. And while people have known that for years, in the name of tolerance they still hold onto the post-9/11 lie that extremism is a small part of Islam. It is not. And it's not about hating Muslims. It's about taking them at their words and deeds and the words of their holy text that they live by. If all the countries surrounding Israel that are working towards Israel's annihilation achieve their goal, do you think they will stop there and be satisfied? No, that is not what the Quran dictates. Islam is entirely incompatible with western values, and this fight will never cease. Europe is roiling right now because of unchecked Muslim migration west and the refusal of those populations to assimilate to western values. From rape gangs in the U.K. to Charlie Hebdo in France to festival stabbings in Germany, all carried out by citizens of those countries. And now the same thing has happened in the U.S. and will continue to happen. Douglas Murray calls Islam a "death cult" and he's exactly right. Such barbarism must be met with intolerance and extreme prejudice. People need to wake up and stop letting lies about Islam being mostly benign colonize their minds.
Well said, Laura. What westerners fail to realize is that violence and mayhem against the non-believers of islam are hard-wired into the religious doctrine.
There is a rotten branch that sprung from the tree of the Abrahamic religions. While the other two usually seek peace, strive for justice and cherish mercy, the branch that bears the spoiled fruit is inimical to the doctrines of peace espoused by the others.
Only insofar that humanity submits to its rotten doctrine and submits to it will islam be what it continues to fool people into believing- that is the religion of peace.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Only one thing concerns me about this article, near the end - the reference to the enemy as Philistines. This legitimizes the anti-Semitic leftist jihadist narrative that the Palestinian Arabs are the indigenous people. They are not. The Philistines were Indo-Europeans who disappeared from history after the Babylonian conquest, never to be heard from again. Today's Palestinian Arabs are all Semites, most with ancestry outside the land of Israel. As I never tire of saying, Jews are the true Palestinians. The Philistines assimilated, or returned to Europe, a long time ago.
the Philistines were European colonists, and the Pallies are certainly not of their kind
Perhaps we can think of the term as a metaphor.
I hate that I agree with this
Thank you for the enlightening backstory. I had come across the Dayan speech in another article, but it does not specify exactly what prompted that and may have been confused with the November 1956 campaign.
That being the case, the subsequent mishandling of the post war refugees in 1967 was documented in https://prrn.mcgill.ca/research/papers/segev.pdf That was enlightening as well, as many blamed Dayan for letting refugees back in when a solution might have been to deport all after the war. (Think Potsdam Conference 1945).
The enemy wants us tortured, raped and dead. They instruct their children in this as a religious precept. They spend stupid amounts of money to attain this goal and will use their own children as shield when firing weapons.
We Ashkenzaic Jews have little history with Muslim/Arab populations. The Sefardic community has been suffering under them for 1400 years. They may know how to deal with them on terms Muslims would understand.
which is why it's the mizrahi vote that made Likud possible
It's not just a question of historical experience; Ashkenazim after all experienced systematic widespread genocide at the hands of Europeans, unlike Arab/Muslim persecution which was usually local to a specific town or city.
But Ashkenazim lived in Europe, which presented the illusion that rationality and enlightenment might someday overcome antisemitism. This illusion was very attractive; those Ashkenazim who didn't emphasize the absolute immutability of a Divinely-given Torah, bought into the illusion; thinking that a rational, liberal society wouldn't persecute or discriminate against its Jews. That's the thinking identified in this article
But the Arab/Islamic world never offered any such illusion; it had one place in society for the despised dhimmi Jews - at the very bottom - and never showed any sort of promise that someday that might change. Which is why Sefardim know exactly what to expect from the Arab/Muslim collective.
Nicely stated. It was only about 10-15 years ago that I began to wonder why there weren’t 50M Sedardic Jews. After all they had no Crusades, Pogroms or Nazis.
Then I spoke to various Sefardic members of our community only to find out about the small pogroms and forced conversions every 20-40 years.
And how long shall we refuse to see?
until the pain gets too severe
We can only carry the pain of that blindness and continue on. Until the general awakening, writers like Daniel and yourself need to keep pounding out the truth.
All Day Long.
Fucking Islamists are marching the streets of New York celebrating Jew Murder and calling for the slaughter of all non-Muslim Americans.
If they tried that in a city in Florida, they'd be getting their heads beaten in.
Beautifully written.
thank you
This is superb.
thank you so much
How cringeworthy was this statement.
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“We are tired of fighting; we are tired of being courageous; we are tired of winning; we are tired of defeating our enemies,” former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who finished the retreat that turned over Hamas to Gaza, had told American anti-Israel leftists at the Israel Policy Forum.
In the final analysis for all his fame and bluster Dayan blinked at the critical moment and gave away the Temple Mount. Like all the left wingers he too thought the Arabs would respond positively to a friendly gesture. When in fact they only see such things as weakness and demand more. Jews can never learn.
So what’s your solution ? Expelling all Arabs from West Bank and Gaza ? Then working on the 20% of Israel who are not Jews ?
October 7 was a shock as defence against an attack from Hamas was weakened by deployments of IDF personnel to defend illegal settlers in the West Bank.
How long do you think President Trump and his Arab son-in-law are going to defend Israel if ethnic cleaning is that country’s policy. As Trump says he ends wars not starts them. His backers are in Riyadh not Tel Aviv
my solution is realism about the Islamic Jihad that is an issue for nearly every major country in the world
Exactly. The western world NEEDS to WAKE UP. They do not understand the middle east and know not what it's like to be living in Israel. I remember spending shabbat in the shelter in 1984 in the northern coast. My boyfriend had served in the Lebanon war.
As a European I've seen Holland and France being taken over by Islamic offspring and immigrants since early 90's... Thank you for writing !!!!
It starts by kicking out all of the woke governments from power.
That’s not an answer
yes it is, confront the scale of the problem, then there can be a rational conversation about possible solutions
as long as the problem is denied, then you can take refuge in delusions that sacrificing Israel will keep the rest of the world safe
It seems like there is a long history of 'rational' conversations leading to the present Middle East current events.
Your Mosge Dayan quote says it well, “beyond the furrow that marks the border, lies a surging sea of hatred and vengeance..." Take a moment and picture in your mind's eye the sea surging, restless and rolling, never at rest. Pushing relentlessly at its boundaries.
Perhaps the time has come to reconsider Hashem's instructions to the Israelis when the entered the lands He was "... giving them..." Cf Deuteronomy 7 and 20. Numbers 21.2-3, Hormah, (ḥāram). Samson brought the Philistine temple down on everyone.
! נאמר היטב
Thank you for a thoughtful and necessary post.
There has been no such place as “the West Bank” since 1967, when Israel took control of the land that Jordan had illegally seized in 1948. And the Jews who live in that land—called Judea and Samaria—are not “illegal settlers,” whatever that’s supposed to mean.
When Jordan illegally occupied that land of Israel's it destroyed and desecrated the Jewish quarter ruining 17? Synagogues?
You aren't concerned about the ethnic cleansing and expulsion of 800 thousand Jews from Arab countries in 1948. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
The "Palestinian" Arabs have made it their explicit goal to ethnically cleanse and expel the majority ethnic group, Jews, from Israel. It seems that you only do projection.
I block jihadists.
I prefer to mock them mercilessly but blocking works also.
General blackjack Pershing had a way of handling his Mohammadan rebels in the Philippines involving pig flesh and sending witnesses back to their village after blackjack defiled the bodies of the jihadis with pork meat, end of subject.
Can't go to heaven after being a jihadi martyr if you're covered in pork.
There's a Mexican dude named El Marino who has been hunting down cartel gangsters and beating them up and filming them afterwards dressed in women's lingerie saying to the world I am a loser and a coward, many approaches to skinning the jihadi to avoid further societal afflictions
"Arab son in law?" What the fuck is this stupidity you're yapping about?
"His backers?" President Trump's supporters are all American.
What does it feel like to be as stupid as you are?
Hey dumb cunt his daughter married a Lebanese guy. You this dumb that you think voters are the force behind any politician ? Truly a moron
If you want to call people “dumb cunt” please go back to Twitter. The adults are trying to have conversations here.
We need to understand what it is that Palestinians want. The Palestinian perspective derives from 14 centuries of Arab/Muslim perception of Jews as dhimmi, whose "proper" place in society is at the very bottom. From that perspective, Jews with rights is ridiculous; the only rights Jews might receive are those which the gracious Arab/Muslim overlord might generously (or grudgingly) allot them, to be withdrawn arbitrarily at any time. The idea of Jews with sovereignty to guarantee their rights is anathema; and such sovereignty which forces Arabs or Muslims to allow Jews' their rights is a complete overturning of the natural order.
Thus, the Palestine Cause is foundationally antisemitic; it says nothing about promoting Palestinians' welfare and everything about denying Jews some basic humanity. Which is why no Jews live under the PA; and the only Jews in Gaza are those dragged there against their will on Oct. 7th, as visible demonstration of Jews' lowliness. No terrorist stabbing an Israeli, or firing rockets at Israeli civilians, has ever stopped to think perhaps this isn't the right thing to do.
No amount of building or not building Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria will change the underlying ideology.
The solution is to stop normalizing and institutionalizing this collective antisemitism. IMO Gazans (and Palestinians more broadly) must each be forced into a choice: Either accept Israeli sovereignty as legitimate and subjugate yourself to it, even if you only have residency status under said sovereignty. Or seek your fortunes elsewhere, whether on a rubber lifeboat on the Mediterranean or in a refugee camp across from the UN building; you are not Israel's problem.
Great article! No one should talk about the day after without having seen the effects of Hamas on the Gaza Envelope
I will keep these words of Moshe Dayan close to me: “Beyond the furrow that marks the border [of Israel], lies a surging sea of hatred and vengeance, yearning for the day that the tranquility blunts our alertness, for the day that we heed the ambassadors of conspiring hypocrisy, who call for us to lay down our arms.”
Dayan was right then and today and into the foreseeable future.
It is tragic that the “Palestinians” have dug themselves into an impossibly deep hole, but that is reality. Israel cannot compromise with them or cede control of anything without — once again — being attacked.
Dayan’s eulogy is beautiful. One of my favorite speeches, I tear up every time I read it. But of course, you omit the critical portion:
“Let us not cast the blame on the murderers today. Why should we declare their burning hatred for us? For eight years they have been sitting in the refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we have been transforming the lands and the villages, where they and their fathers dwelt, into our estate.”
The original Zionists were serious people. They knew what they were doing. They dreamt a glorious dream called Israel, and gave everything and more to make the dream real. For all their many crimes, I could never hate them or lose respect for them.
How dare you butcher Moshe Dayan’s message like this. You bring only shame upon your forefathers.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/moshe-dayan-s-eulogy-for-roi-rutenberg-april-19-1956
To you that is the crucial part. And it is, but not how you think.
Dayan suffered from the suicidal empathy that filled so many liberals. He had to try to identify with the monsters who not only killed a man, but gouged out his eyes. It was a fatal flaw in Dayan and in so many of Israel's Ashkenazi elites including Barak who insisted that he would have been a terrorist if he had been born an Arab Muslim settler.
No one on the other side ever identified or empathized with Israelis. Or Americans. Or any other infidel enemies.
That is what being serious actually means.
Twaddle like "“Let us not cast the blame on the murderers today" is unserious suicidal empathy that leads to Oct 7s and 9/11s.
Moshe Dayan was a peacenik liberal? Maybe read about him before you spout off nonsense? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Dayan
You should also read Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s “The Iron Wall” (https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/quot-the-iron-wall-quot). I hope even you will not dare accuse Jabotinnsky of excessive liberal tendencies. But this essay is quite reminiscent of Dayan’s eulogy, including in his exploration of the roots of Arab hatred.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” It’s cliché because it’s true. The original Zionists, and the Radical Zionists especially, knew both fully—even when the knowledge was uncomfortable, or difficult to accept. This assured their victory.
However, today’s radical Zionists (like you) refuse to know the enemy. This is because to do so, would require learning uncomfortable truths about yourselves, and you refuse to do that also. Today, almost all Israeli society is infected with this refusal to see. Only a few lonely voices (most notably Gideon Levy) are willing to call out the blindness. Unless this changes, your defeat is inevitable.
Mixing together Dayan and Jabotinsky, and then quoting The Iron Wall just suggests your knowledge of Israel is due to some thumbnail sketches garnered from anti-Israel propaganda.
I know the enemy quite well.
It's the same enemy that America, Europe, India, Australia, and the rest of the world faces.
You choose not to know the enemy and to pretend it's some local problem with Israel.
Brilliant retelling and reminder. This is simplistic but so true history repeats itself if we fail to learn and make changes needed. Perhaps fatalistic but I do not see a pathway for peace with Palestinians. I do not see a possibility for two nations. Who can coexist with a mindset that we have seen unravel over the past 1.5 year. Where is the proof that they want to build a nation? They take the resources given to them from the world to build a war machine to kill Jews. I think people show you who they are and you better believe them.
no one is at peace in the Middle East. If the Muslim world has not figured out to live internally at peace or with Christians, Hindus and Buddhists elsewhere, I doubt Israel will either
Golda said if someone says they want to kill you you should believe them. Sadly too many Jews can’t accept this simple truth.