Are we mourning our dead in Israel...instead of working toward our goal for a peaceful life in our holy land?

 4 Elul 5783 | ד' אלול ה'תשפ"ג

From Arutz-7 article about the terrorist attack, at the scene

 

CORRECTION a few paragraphs below...

Please pray for Aryeh Leib ben Ella. He was in a pigua (terrorist attack) this morning that was in the news all over Israel (yes, even in Haaretz, which wouldn't let me see the article because I run an ad blocker on my computer!), and is still in the hospital, with surgeries and other treatments to go through. Thank G-d he's alive! 

Unfortunately, Batsheva Nigri, the kindergarten teacher who was with him in the car, died of gunshot wounds, which her six twelve-year-old daughter witnessed. 

 [The video of the 12-year-old daughter who was in the car with her, giving a eulogy (hesped in Hebrew) is HERE on Pulse of Israel, in Hebrew with English subtitles.]

Fortunately, the little girl escaped her mother's fate, although I can barely imagine the impact this will have on her, going forward. If I had seen her name anywhere, I would have added it to Aryeh Leib's, to pray for her. UPDATE: Shir'el bat Batsheva.

Full disclosure: My husband and I have known Aryeh Leib's parents almost since we made aliyah in 2007.

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TL:DR: It's a very bad idea to leave a group of people alone with no legal recourse* against enemies that live close by, or even in the same territory, as they. You never know, they might just take whatever law there is into their own hands...even if the world considers their territory "not theirs," if too many of them die at their enemies' hands.

Really, Israeli Government System, you would have had the most loyal soldiers ever in the millennial generation...but ever since you kicked them and their parents out of Gush Katif and Northern Shomron in 2005, and otherwise shown hatred and neglect toward this sector of Jews since 1967, you have finally lost their trust, and ours too. They're family, they're friends, we're bonded to them, and they, to us. 

Furthermore, the land they live on is part of Eretz Yisrael. We're bonded to her, and she, to us. 

These are the problems. Solve them. Stop making the Jewish People out to be crybabies with our heads down, and get serious about our presence here. Otherwise, go ahead and leave, as you've been threatening to do for years, anyway. We'll do just fine. God has His promises to fulfill for us, and He will.

*If you read the article linked to there, take particular note of the "partial list of where the "reasonableness concept["] was used by the courts". Nine items are included, but there have been many more in the past 30+ years.

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 I received a call from a friend as the end of my Torah class early this afternoon about the attack that had occurred this morning, urging me to spread the word and to pray for our friends' son. Shortly thereafter, when I started speaking about it to my classmates, my teacher and the daughter who accompanied her to the class and arrived late, I was informed that they knew about it because they had been delayed due to the attack, which had occurred on the road they were traveling on.

Over on the End of Days blog a while ago, we had a discussion in the comments on how we handle a fairly large uptick in murders in Israel (mixed up with other topics, of course). There is criticism especially toward people in "the territories" taking revenge on the murderers, who happen to be our "cousins."

From the outside it may look as though Jews in territories not our own are taking illegal revenge, but we all (whether in Israel or outside) must look at the situation in the Shomron (and Yehuda) in context, as a continuation of the forced separation/GERUSH (what the media called "disengagement"/hitnatkut) from Gush Katif and Northern Shomron in August 2005, and the attitude that prevailed in Tel Aviv, and its offices in Yerushalayim, before and since then. The government system has been getting away with neglecting the "settlers'" welfare since 1967 only because there weren't "settlers" before then, as we know them today...as I'm sure you're aware, dear reader.

But it seems to me that they forget that their immediate ancestors were "settlers" before Israel became a state. This is their downfall. They can't, or won't, empathize with another group of Jews in the same position they were in because the new-to-them group is religious. Not that it matters to them, but religious Jews were here before they were. (R' Yosef Caro, anyone? Shulchan Aruch? Just one of the many famous examples I could quote. But I'm not writing a book. Not today, anyway.)

Shaking my head.

To summarize, the Jews living on land that is our own territory historically and presently, fully part of Israel, have been badly abused by the leadership here, especially by the Bagatz/"supreme" court because, as Reb Dov Bear has stated repeatedly, they want the acceptance, approval and love of the evil world (not a direct quote).

I would put it as: 

They have been in cahoots — plotting — conspiring with said world to destroy the Jewish people, and Israel along with us. "The world" expresses its distinct disapproval of the expansion of our territory to include parts of the land Jews have lived in and walked on for thousands of years.

They might as well throw out their Bibles, New Testaments and Qurans. They all testify to our presence here in one way or another. Oh, heck, why don't the enemies of the Jews throw a religious-book-burning party in public, and see where that gets 'em?

From handing the Sinai, and attempting to give Yehuda and Shomron, to the enemy after the 6-Day War, to allowing the world to delegitimize the victory and the fruit of said war, WHICH WAS NOT STARTED BY US, we must remember, and exercising two sets of laws, one for "the leadership and its supporters" and one for "the rest of us," which led to the GERUSH and its evil fruit since then, is enough for them to be permanently delegitimized and exiled. Whether they leave on their own, as they threaten often, or are threatened by our common enemies to be bombed out, do you think HaShem Yithbarach would allow them back, after all they've done?

Can they even do teshuvah?

In any case, you must admit that in our day, leaving the "settlers" basically alone with the enemy and allowing said enemy to do away with whomever they please, as they please, which these "authorities" would never allow in "Israel proper" as they call it, actually legitimizes the actions of those who live there. If all these authorities ever do is "show up late to the party" (attending shiva homes for publicity, for example — a major offense even if not illegal), then it's hypocritical of them to punish the residents for acting in self-defense and even in offense, no matter how badly trained they are. The authorities should consider themselves fortunate that the majority of these residents, living on legitimate land the state will never take responsibility for, believe in G-d and derech eretz. Others in other countries in our position have done worse.

And, let's not forget, many of the gerushim were children when it all went down. They're army age or adults now, coming up on 18 years later. I wouldn't count on them seeing the army as warm-and-fuzzy, or on their side; fortunate if they do happen to see it that way. Let's all of us put ourselves in their place and think about what we would do!

I left out many details. The revenge, as some call what they think it looks like, on Turmus Ayya is because there is no strong military presence protecting Jews in that area. We should all have had enough of letting Jew-hating "neighbors" have their way with us, whether we have protection or have to do it all ourselves. 

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I just found an article that describes what TURMUS AYYA is, from a link on my blog's sidebar. An Arab from there KILLED MY YOUNG NEIGHBOR, Yehuda Guetta, in May 2021. NO ONE from the ISRAELI government has DONE ANYTHING ABOUT IT.

What do I mean, "NO ONE from the ISRAELI government has DONE ANYTHING ABOUT IT"? "LIFE IN PRISON" MEANS NOTHING IF the next Jew kidnapped by Hamas or Hizbullah, or whatever enemy organization, is freed, means SHALABI WILL BE RELEASED TOO. 

I don't know about the rest of the world, but in the US as far back as I can remember, THERE IS NO STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS ON MURDER. HAS THAT CHANGED?

And, as far as I understand it, there is none in the Torah, either.

The Settler Intifada by FirstOneThrough

Snippet:

Palestinian-American Muntasir Shalabi, age 44, did a drive buy shooting in E49 and killed a teenager and injured two other 19-year old boys on May 2, 2021. He was sheltered by Palestinians for a few days but was ultimately captured and sentenced to life in prison. His home, in the wealthy West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, was demolished in June despite American protests. 

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The government sent soldiers into Jenin in the evening of 2 July 2023. It looks like, here (WAPO), that we've done this 5 times this year alone. I wonder if they will do it right this time. 

JUSTICE, JUSTICE SHALT THOU PURSUE!!! If Judea and Samaria fall due to the lack of diligence over the years, what do you think will happen to Haifa and Tel Aviv?

צדק, צדק תרדוף

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Reb Dov Bear responded to me as follows:

HDG: From reading and studying Sefer Yechezkel 37:15 until the end of the chapter and Zekharia chapter 12, 2 things become clear. The entire area of Judea and Samaria from the Hevron hills in the south up to Ofra and the Talmon Junction in the North (in ancient Shevet Binyamin) is the reconstituted lands of ancient Judea while all of Israel within the pre-1967 boundaries and the Hill country of Ephraim including Shilo and Ariel is the reconstituted lands of ancient Israel. So all the area around Yerushalayim to the north, east, and south of the City is to be considered "Judea".

2. Mashiach ben David will arise SPECIFICALLY in this area around Jerusalem described as part of ancient Yehudah and Binyamin as the head of some sort of para-military force to protect the "Judean" settlers from hostile forces as the Israeli Army "retreats" because of fears of international pressure and the "Almighty" dollar as the Umot HaOlam's #1 weapon forcing this retreat. Mashiach will wax greater and greater as the Israeli army retreats into its comfort zone which is defined as what Leftist Erev Rav Jews in America think is moral, totally based on what policies make them popular amongst the Western world's exponentially growing reprobate majority. Bibi (the last "melekh" described as the leader from Shevet Levi and the House of Natan in Zekh 12) will be too impotent to protect us. In this way Mashiach ben David will arise to fill the vacuum as the last leader of the Erev Rav (Armilus/Olmert) crushes the crumbling power of the Medinah to redefine itself. Sometime this week it seems he will close down Ben Gurion Airport. G-d only knows how Hezbollah will react to all this. Psalm #2 is just around the corner. 

Thankfully, a commenter later said: Apparently no retreat this time around. 

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HaShem, please send Mashiah and the Geulah System before it's too late!

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More to read:

A-7: Death toll from terror attacks this year already surpasses 2022 

Jurist.org: Israel, Counter-Terrorism, and International Law: The Analytic Challenges of 'System' by Louis Rene Beres

Israel HaYom: Needed: Military action that has a 20-year impact [A commenter on this article would prefer FOREVER, and so would I - HDG]

Israel HaYom: Israeli woman murdered in drive-by shooting near Hevron

Israel HaYom: No such thing as a lone-wolf terrorist 

Even more to read (h/t Elder of Ziyon) :

Jewish Chronicle: A vote AGAINST the "BDS Bill" (Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill) is a vote to ALLOW THE BOYCOTTING of JEWS EVERYWHERE.  | 

Honest Reporting: The Guardian Twists Facts in Settler Attack Feature; Forgets Dead Palestinian was Hamas Terrorist  

While the US calls for Israeli "restraint" it bombs terror targets around the world every day

Islamic Jihad leader: "We follow Iran's orders, and our only terror targets are Jews (a commenter there says: "Gee...he forgot to use the laundered Z term, he really admitted to targeting Jews...")

Jerusalem Post: Terrorists, not Jewish homes, cause violence in the West Bank (Editorial. I wish you would call the land area by its real name in English, Judea and Samaria! You should know better.)

A-7: Pollard: Vigilante actions are a result of absence of government counter terror policy (op-ed)

Jewish Press: Yehuda Glick on Trial for Walking Too Slowly on Temple Mount (Hey, he was shot and nearly killed in 2014 by bullets aimed at his heart. Give the guy a break!)

I could go on and on and on...but it's a pretty large post already. Thanks for reading!