Moral Violence

Once upon a time, people fought evil. They understood that in order to survive the slaughter of madmen you killed the enemy. More concern was placed on the lives of one's own countrymen that those of the enemy. Thank G-d, Harry Truman bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Were it not so, Japan would have prevailed. There was no other way to snap the cruel spine of a society that cultivated the death culture of the kamikaze pilot.

And so the pacifism of restraint, in addition to the inherent diseased morality of such a doctrine, is a guarantee of failure. Look at Youtube to see the true face of the "civilians" of Gaza. These ghouls distribute candy when Jews are murdered. Such soulless bi-pedaled mammals have cast their souls away, as surely as any Hitler adoring German did during WWII. Their lives are not worth the thumbnail of a Jew.

Hypothetically speaking, even if Bibi was willing to use the full force of the IAF (and he is not), there are untold numbers of terrorists and targets within Gaza, that require the surgery of capable ground forces. Unfortunately, Bibi's unwillingness to end this fight once and for all means that he would never give our soldiers the kind of cover they need, neither on the ground nor in the air. Hamas knows this and so they will eventually agree to a ceasefire. The conditions will be ridiculous. Hamas will limit their targets to the northwestern Negev. Tel Aviv and Jerusalem will see a cessation of rockets. Until the next time. The sorry shmucks of the South  Sderot, Netivot and numerous other kibbutzim and moshavim will continue to endure what they have always endured. Abandonment by their government. The reality of daily rockets that threaten to kill their children. Destruction and terror. And the psychological consequences that lead to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

What should be done?

Biblical Warfare. Death to Hamas and Gaza's populace who dance like ghouls in the streets whenever Jews are dismembered. Death from the skies to totally crush and destroy any vestige of Hamas. Carpet-bomb the region. If ground forces are necessary, only send them with the heaviest cover. And when the dust clears bring back all of the expelled Jews to Gaza. Let the return to Gaza symbolise the first of many such actions to save Israel.

Of course this is a dream. Bibi grovels before Obama and promises continued restraint, while other nebbish politicians keep explaining to goyim that we have  the right to defend ourselves. Here's an interesting point. Those who keep spouting the right of self-defence don't really believe it themselves. That's akin to saying that we need air to breath.

Nevertheless, truth is truth even when the articulation of truth (in an insane society) precludes its expression. We need to fight wars the way the Torah commands us to do. And biblical warfare is brutal.

Death to Amalek.
Shabbat Shalom!

All Of Them Clueless

While the Arab viper grows stronger (because our mentally compromised leaders continue to feed it), and indeed grows new heads with which to bite us, the Jewish State continues to shrink and shrivel. The Arabs  kidnap our children and disappear with them into their dens, and instead of turning Fatah and Hamas into fine ash, all we hear are empty threats of reprisals, with asinine demands that the murderous Fatah corral their fellow demons. One wonders if the spirit of Chelm will compel Netanyahu to release a 1000 more terrorists as a bargaining chip for these boys.

Across the dysfunctional continuum of the Jewish spectrum, we see impotence personified. Netanyahu has the spine of a jellyfish. But we've known this for a long time. His perspective epitomises the naked weakness of the Likud, which mirrors labor in basically every regard save a few economic principles. One thing is clear. None of the current politicians have a clue about how to save these boys from the accursed Arabs.

Nor can we expect to hear an iota of Torah truth from chief rabbis whose response to tragedy is a call for Shabbat to commence 10 minutes early. What one has to do with the other is beyond me. Funny what they choose to focus on. (More localised folk suggestions have intimated that the mitzvah of hafrashat challah might be efficacious as a magical means of saving these boys.) Naturally it would be too much to expect these state functionaries  to state the Halacha outright and call for the Arabs to be thrown out. If they are incapable of stating the provocative Torah truths, then at least a call for collective t'shuvah (repentance), or an increased emphasis on ahavat yisroel (love of Jews) would at least make sense. 

Nothing will change, without an ideological revolution that wipes away the current power bases and starts the game afresh with people who fear The Almighty.  Only by following the laws of milchemet mitzvah (obligatory Halachic war) can we defeat the Amalekite Arabs. This is the obvious truth to anyone who understands Torah. Everything else is just plain rhetoric. And frankly, I don't want to hear it.

Another Opportunity

Sirens were heard today in Tel Aviv for the first time since the Gulf War.  I wonder if the leftists who were surely sipping their espressos and bemoaning the fate of Oslo, noted the irony as their drinks spilled on their laps. Are they excited about tomorrow and the prospect of having to flee to unknown filthy shelters, while terror whistles down from the heavens? The south may indeed be the periphery where primitives live, ( they are correct, after all  the Bedouins live in the South) but evidently rockets don't know that. The south is pretty damn close to everywhere.

And the south is only one lone front, in an endless sea of soulless Sunnis and Shiites. Tel Aviv, and everywhere else in Israel, can be hit from the north where the Lebanese and Syrian strains of Amalekite reside. Hezbollah and Hamas are one and the same, the former are simply better at killing Jews. And lest we forget, Israel is surrounded on all sides by those who would slaughter us.

Gaza must burn. Any sane person understands this. Bibi Netanyahu fancies himself a student of history. He should remember King Saul's mistake. Misplaced mercy always leads to dead Jews. Don't play into Amalek's hands. Another opportunity is in the cross-hairs. A moment to seize, a time to destroy, a time that is not for peace. A time when cruelty and blood-lust finally have a place. A time to set a final example for our enemies.

Correction. Not a time to destroy. That won't do. Hamas will only rebuild. Slowly but surely they will replenish their infrastructure of death because their demoniacal benefactors will gladly open the coffers to murder Jews. Israel needs to annihilate Hamas. To exterminate every Amalekite in Gaza, whose very breath poses a danger to the Jewish people.

Will Israel restrain its IDF soldiers even as they send them into harms way, or will they allow them to finish the job? This time around, there can be no time-table. No havlaga. No expression of the fictitious "tohar haneshek." There is no such thing. There is only war. A war of survival. A war of Am Yisroel. A milchemet mitzvah (obligatory war) run in accordance with the Halacha. This is the only strategy for victory. Faith in The Almighty and the willingness to fullfil His Will.

No doubt, Obama is working behind the scenes to stop Israel from defending herself. He will lean on Israel to end the military operation long before the job is complete. We can only hope that Bibi has done t'shuvah and turned a new leaf. If he hasn't  we will see a weak-kneed response that will impress at first with remarkable pyrotechnics, but which will soon fade into the night. And then the rockets will fall harder than ever.

Three rockets landed today in Tel Aviv. Perhaps more, by the time I write this. The time has come for the avante garde intellectuals of Tel Aviv who have all the answers, to ask themselves what their beloved Chaim Bialik would have thought of such a predicament? As they will recall, he didn't like it very much when Jewish men wilted in the face of Russian pogromchiks. Three Jews were murdered today by Hamas, because the disease of Tel Aviv's moral relatavism is shared by Israel's leaders. Evidently rockets do kill people. Now rockets are falling on Tel Aviv.

Israel's leaders needn't fear that they lack the man-power for the necessary military operations that are required. There are plenty Jews out there, both in Israel and abroad who will be there should Israel require more men. Within Israel, there are thousands of Jewish men (mostly right-wing extremists like myself), many of them with large kippot and curly peyot, who will gladly volunteer to fight the real fight when the time arrives. My readers are surely aware that I am at odds with this current Israeli leadership, as I have been with every previous one. Nevertheless, should the IDF find themselves in a position with too many guns and not enough arms, the author of this blog humbly offers his conscription.

May The Almighty protect the soldiers of Israel. Am Yisroel Chai.

Shavuot: Receiving The Whole Torah

We are about to celebrate the festival of Shavuot, which marks an unprecedented event in world history. The entire Jewish nation witnessed the mass revelation of the Torah on Mount Sinai, a claim that no other religion would dare to make. This revelation was passed down for thousands of years with the conviction that only a truly historical event could generate.  With the Torah comes awesome responsibility to follow it in entirety.

All of it. 

The laws of erev, Shabbat, brit milah, mikvah, lulav and etrog, along with the the provocative mitzvot that make many Jews uncomfortable. Such as the commandment to burn down an Ir Hanidachat (idolatrous town), and the obligation to carry out the brutal laws of Jewish warfare (during an obligatory war) which leave no citizens alive. The obligation to tear down houses of idol-worship and false faiths upon entering the Holy Land. The mitzvah to annihilate Amalek in total. 


The Torah doesn't come in slices. You need to take the whole pie. On the day that the Jewish nation accepts the entire Torah without distorting or corrupting it, we will ensure the coming of the true Messiah in our times. Following the manifestation of The Almighty's ultimate vengeance against the evil nations of the world, the Jewish nation (and truly righteous gentiles) will know true Torah peace.  The erev rav will be gone.


Chag Sameach.

Shavuot: Recieving The Whole Torah

We are about to celebrate the festival of Shavuot, which marks an unprecedented event in world history. The entire Jewish nation witnessed the mass revelation of the divine Torah on Mount Sinai, a claim that no other religion would dare to make. This revelation was passed down for thousands of years with the conviction that only a truly historical event could generate.  With the Torah comes the awesome responsibility to follow it in entirety.


All of it. 


The laws of erev, Shabbat, brit milah, mikvah, lulav and etrog, along with the the provocative mitzvot that make certain Jews uncomfortable. Such as the commandment to burn down an Ir Hanidachat (idolatrous town), and the obligation to carry out the brutal laws of Jewish warfare (during an obligatory war) which leave no citizens alive. Torah doesn't come in slices. You need the take the whole pie. On the day that the Jewish nation accepts the entire Torah without distorting or corrupting it, we will ensure the coming of the true Messiah in our times. 


Chag Sameach.

Unbiblical War

How not to fight Milchemet Mitzvah.

• Send legal representation with every IDF combat unit, in order to apprise them of the legality of their actions. A great morale booster.

• Use paintballs and skunk spray against rioting Arab terrorists. 

• Designate Ehud Barak as your Minister of Defense

• Don't avenge the blood of Jews killed by the PLO.

• Remind the enemy that you are unwilling to endanger "Arab citizens".

• Send 100 humanitarian trucks to the animals in Gaza on a daily basis. 

• Don't annihilate the Arab enemy when you have the opportunity.

• Don't throw the enemy out of the country.

• Harass good Jews who want to save the country. Tear down their houses in the liberated areas.

• Appease the brazen Bedouins by granting them state land. Allow them to continue to squat illegally in the Negev, and smuggle weapons, drugs, and prostitutes into Israel. Did I forget Bedouin extortion and theft?

If the above  is your cup of tea, you are Exhibit A for the self-loathing, spiritually diseased contagion, that arose amongst our people during this long and terrible galut. You are an immoral moralist who sees humanity, when you should be seeing the inhumane. The blood of dead Jews does nothing to your conscience. You are the erev rav.

Shabbat Shalom to good Jews

Richard Goldstone-Enemy of Israel: Part 2

Despite the hopes of naive Jews that the accursed Richard Goldstone would call for the nullification of his libelous report, Goldstone has since squashed any such notion. Is this Eli Yishai's idea of t'shuvah? This traitorius Shas imbecile needs to go away. How dare he invite an enemy of the Jewish people to Israel! Yishai truly represents the Shas ideology. Corrupt, incompetent, and the epitome of a chillul hashem.

 The pompous and pretentious Allan Dershowitz can step off his podium now. In the world of hellenized Jewry, Dershowitz is your ticket to respectability. First he vilified Goldstone (deservidly so, but for the wrong reasons), and then in light of Goldstone's recent statments he practically pardoned him. Now what, Allan? Presumably, another editorial to temper the last one. Dershowitz is a wishy-washy moronic Hellenist who has his head screwed on wrong. 

And then of course we have the recent JPost article from Shmuley Boteach, "Goldstone's Apology, Samatha Power's Problem with Israel", where Shmuley shows us once again, that he has no understanding of any issue pertaining to the Jewish people:

South Africans are among the world’s proudest Jews, and most ardent Zionists. So it was understandable they would detest Goldstone, viewing him a man who engaged in a blood libel against the Jewish state to enhance his standing at the UN. 

I have personally never agreed with this assessment of Goldstone, seeing him instead as a man so full of his own pomposity and self-righteousness as to be utterly blind to simple notions of right and wrong. Like Jimmy Carter before him, Goldstone is one of those well-meaning, nobly-motivated buffoon whose view of morality is that whichever party is without tanks and an air force must be the party that is just.

Yishai, Dershowitz, and Boteach. Three very different Jews who each live in their own world, entirely divorced from authentic Torah ideals. Consequently, none of these mental misfits will ever understand Goldstone. Richard Goldstone is an "informer" and a "pursuer" according to the Halachah.  And if Israel had any self-respect, they would send the Mossad to snuff this worm out. Make it look like a heart-attack. Whatever. Just silence him forever.

Richard Goldstone-Enemy of Israel (audio)

Reflections on the accursed Richard Goldstone (y'mach shmo v'zichro), who easily qualifies as both an "informer" and a "pursuer" according to the Halachah.


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A Pop Quiz For The RCA

Disclaimer: The following post should not be taken as an attack against individual rabbis within the RCA. My problem is with the organization itself, which purports to represent  a segment of the "orthodox Rabbinate", and then releases a statement that is contrary to Halachah. A rabbinical organization has an obligation to formulate a statement from a Torah framework, without resorting to the kind of politically correct nonsense that one expects to hear from the Anti-Defamation League. Naturally, I have zero confidence in the RCA, which leads me to my next point. If there are individual rabbis within the RCA who disagree with the official position, I believe they have an obligation to publicly state their opposition and then rescind their membership. In this manner, they will be able to distance themselves from an egregious desecration of The Almighty's name. As a general rule, in the interest of maintaining respect for the Torah, one should accord respect to the individual rabbis within the RCA (Most of them anyway. Some have gone off the deep end.), despite the collective chillul Hashem of the organization's statement, which cannot go unanswered. Yahadut maintains that whenever there is a desecration of G-d's name, one cannot remain silent.


As Ricky Ricardo would say, the RCA has some "splainin to do." I'm still waiting for a comprehensive Halachic statement from the RCA which addresses the issue of renting and selling property to non-Jews in the land of Israel. After all, they were the ones who interfered when several Tzfat Rabbis stated the Halachic prohibition of selling or renting property to Arabs  in Israel. According to the RCA, the issue is more "complex", yet in their entire statement they neglected to mention even one Torah source. Somehow, I don't think that Rav Soloveitchik (of blessed memory) would have authored such a statement (whatever his position would have been). So much for their commitment to "Halachic Man." So I'm waiting for something more substantial from the RCA. Something with meat in it. Perhaps there are sources that the Tzfat Rabbis are unaware of. I want to see these sources. Don't lecture us, without giving us a proper shiur. 

No. There were no Torah sources, but there were a lot of tired cliches from the PC obsessed RCA. Instead of Halachah, we were lectured on the need to show "special sensitivity to societal realities, widely-held ethical principles, and historical injustices." The RCA noted that, " it is wrong and unacceptable to advocate blanket exclusionary policies directed against minorities of other faiths or ethnic groups. Of all people, Jews should know that such practices are beyond the pale, having ourselves suffered from them in the past." Very moving of course, but what about the Halachah? 

I'm not finished with the RCA. I've got a pop quiz for them. Open book, in fact. It shouldn't be difficult for anyone who underwent the rigors of semicha (rabbinical ordination). The questions may seem a bit disjointed, but I assure you they were chosen with great deliberation. I wrote them because I am concerned with the theoretical mindset behind this recent RCA statement. The purpose of the quiz is to get a sense where they are coming from. Obviously, the "7 Nations" are not around anymore (see question 1) but a response to the question will tell us a lot about the hashkafah of the individual members. To ascertain if they are more modern than orthodox. To gauge their perception of yahadut. (I'm considering emailing this quiz to the RCA, with a request to take my test. I don't expect that any of them will oblige me. Of course, my readers can also print up this post and hand it to their local RCA affiliated Rabbi. With respect of course. Always with respect.) 

The Jewish Fist Pop Quiz: Answer the questions as detailed as possible, citing any and all classical Torah sources that are available. Feel free to bring in the Acharonim.

1. What was the Halachic mandate regarding the "7 Nations", when the Jews first entered Israel? 
2. What were the Jews required to do with the rampant idolatry (temples, altars) ?
3. What is a ger toshav? What are the criteria for becoming a ger toshav?
4. What is the Halachah regarding selling or renting property to non-Jews in Israel? (What did you expect, that I wouldn't ask this?)
5. What is Judaism's classical approach to individuals who want to convert Jews to another faith? 
6. May Jews date or marry non-Jews? 
7. What is a milchemet mitzvah? How does the Halachah instruct us to treat the enemy, during a milchemet mitzvah?
8. In your opinion, was Matityahu, the Hasmonean priest, correct in slaughtering the idolatrous Jew in Modiin? If yes, what halachic justification can be cited for killing a man without following the standard halachic procedure of justice?
9. The Torah speaks of an ongoing war "from generation to generation" against the nation of Amalek, including an eventual final showdown where Amalek is obliterated. How do you rationalize the original mandate (as well as any implications for the future) which calls for collective annihilation against seemingly innocent members of society? In your understanding of the issue, will the future war with Amalek require us to slaughter men, woman, and children? 
10. Is Israel's current democracy consistent with the Halachah? Theoretically, would it be proper for an Arab to become Prime Minister if Israeli demographics were to change? What should a religious Jew do when the secular state of Israel engages in actions that contradict or violate the Torah? May one evict Jews and tear down Jewish homes?

Oh, and one last thing, before I forget. I expect Torah answers to these Torah questions.

On Peace Treaties (audio)

Reflections on biblical warfare and the Torah's definition of "peace terms."