23 August 2026

"Wake Up And Smell the Coffee!"

11 Elul 5786

Pollard, Feiglin, Winter, etc. - all initially showed some signs of potential leadership ability, but have now been shown to be entirely inadequate.  Democracy itself will never allow for the kind of leader the righteous Jews are expecting and deserving.  Only one out of the bunch who showed promise is actually going the distance...

Meir Ettinger has not made any public statements or taken any active stance regarding the upcoming October 2026 Israeli general election.

This is because Ettinger’s foundational, far-right ideology fundamentally rejects the democratic framework of the modern State of Israel. Rather than participating in or commenting on electoral politics, his published manifestos and blog posts advocate for the complete dismantling of secular Israeli democracy. He calls for replacing the current state structure with a biblical theocracy or "Kingdom of Israel" governed strictly by Torah law.  (Gemini)

That is the only correct answer and we who abide by the covenant with HKB"H cannot accept anything less.  When we can all agree on this point, HKB"H will send us Mashiach.

This Could be the Final Call for Teshuvah

10 Elul 5786
Shavua Tov!


21 August 2026

Elul 5786 - A Special Time to "Remember Amalek"

8 Elul 5786
Erev Shabbat Kodesh
Parashat Ki Teitzei

Persia and Amalek, Adar and Elul, ancient Persia and modern Iran - connecting the dots.  Coming days should reveal all.

Remember what Amalek did to you, on the way, when you were leaving Egypt, that he happened upon you on the way, and he struck those of you who were hindmost, all the weaklings at your rear, when you were faint and exhausted, and he did not fear G-d. It shall be that when Hashem, your G-d, gives you rest from all your enemies around, in the Land that Hashem, your G-d, gives you as an inheritance to possess it, you shall wipe out the memory of Amalek from under the heaven – you shall not forget!” (Devarim 25:17-19)

Chumash Commentary...

...it is a positive commandment always to remember their evil deeds and their ambush in order to inspire hatred of them.  By tradition, the Sages derive that Amalek's treachery must be remembered orally, and not forgotten from the heart, for it is forbidden to forget their hatred and enmity (Rambam, Hil. Melachim 5:5....).

 

~ SHABBAT SHALOM ~

20 August 2026

This Is Where "Zionism" Is Headed

7 Elul 5786 

Away from Redemption with a Torah-based righteous kingdom...


From Altneuland to the present day, a model society requires cooperation. Instead of pushing Arab-Israeli citizens beyond the political field of vision, the time has come to build a courageous alliance that can curb fanaticism and moral decline.

In Altneuland, there is an episode centered on a debate over whether non-Jews should have the right to vote in the new society. In Theodor Herzl's seminal novel, the camp supporting equal rights defeats the camp seeking to reserve those rights for Jews alone. That is no accident.

The hardly concealed message of Altneuland is that without openness and cooperation between Jews and non-Jews for the benefit of everyone living in the land, there can be no model society. Political scientist Shlomo Avineri, in The Making of Modern Zionism, also noted that Herzl portrayed Rabbi Geyer as having originally been an anti-Zionist before converting to a narrow, fanatical form of Zionism. Was Herzl not suggesting that both extremes were harmful to the Zionist enterprise?

Against the stifling sense of political inevitability surrounding talk of a "third bloc," the emerging partnership between Ra'am Chairman Mansour Abbas and former Yesh Atid MK Yoav Segalovitz, and the prospect of a Jewish candidate running on the slate of an Arab party, are especially important precisely because of their audacity and because of the horizon they open up. Talks between Abbas and Segalovitz over such an arrangement are indeed underway ahead of Israel's October 27 election.

...Building alliances between Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel is therefore not merely politically wise and culturally groundbreaking. It is also a Zionist act, at least if you consider Herzl a Zionist. And as for the value of such cooperation in halting the catastrophic inflation of a new Israeli Jewish supremacism, growing wild on the hilltops of Judea and Samaria and across social media, I need not say another word.

If you will it, I believe that only courageous cooperation with those Arab citizens who seek it can save us, the Jews living here between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, from fanaticism, from the hubris of believing we are living through an "age of miracles," from moral decline and, ultimately, from ourselves.

In this respect, Mansour Abbas is both a leader and an opportunity that must not be squandered. It is always possible to search with a flashlight for flaws. But this is a man who condemned the Oct. 7, 2023, attack, who has declared his recognition of Israel as a Jewish state and who, more importantly, has consistently extended a hand to the Jewish public. We must not refuse it. Abbas has repeatedly condemned the Oct. 7 massacre, and he has publicly said that Israel "was born as a Jewish state" and would remain one.
This did not appear in Haaretz, but on the "right-wing" Israel HaYom website.

Haddad has held talks with potential political partners, including Brig.-Gen. (res.) Ofer Winter, a controversial figure on the Right, as he weighs his options.

Arab Israeli activist Yoseph Haddad registered a new political party ahead of the upcoming elections and has been holding talks with various figures about joining his slate, Haddad’s office confirmed to The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.

Haddad is a vocal supporter of Israel, advocating consistently for the country on news outlets and social media. He has also gone on numerous international speaking tours.

Haddad’s spokesperson said that he has been in contact with several political figures about joining the party, including Brig.-Gen. (res.) Ofer Winter, a controversial figure on the Right who has reportedly been weighing which political framework to join ahead of the elections.

“Yoseph Haddad hasn’t hidden that he’s considering entering politics and has recently been weighing his options,” his spokesperson told the Post.

“Among other moves, he’s registered a new party with partners who believe in his path.”

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Who Is Yoseph Haddad?

AI Overview
Yoseph Haddad is 40 years old, born in Haifa. He comes from an Arab Christian family and belongs to the Greek Orthodox Church. He was a commander in the Golani Brigade. He is a journalist and activist who advocates for Israel on social media and international speaking tours. He has been recognized by Israeli media and the Israeli Foreign Ministry for his pro-Israel advocacy.

Will the "Jewish" State finally be accepted by the Nations when it has an elected Christian-Arab Prime Minister?  That's where the Zionist vision is taking us. 

19 August 2026

The Difficulty in Uprooting False Ideology

6 Elul 5786 

When I was growing up in Texas, we had this very nice grass in our yard that made for a beautiful and comfortable lawn.  It was called St. Augustine grass.  Occasionally, a foreign invader would appear - Johnsongrass - and it had to be uprooted fast before it multiplied.  The memorable thing about Johnsongrass is that it was so very difficult to uproot.  It hung on so tenaciously to the soil that it was impossible to pull up by hand.  You had to actually take a spade and dig the thing out of the ground. 

This is how false ideologies take hold in a person's mind.  Erroneous ideas, once rooted, are very, very difficult (and sometimes impossible) to eradicate.  And one always leads to another, and another, and another until, if left in place, it takes over the entire lawn.  And just like the Johnsongrass, it can prove to be poisonous.

From where I sit, Zionism is the spiritual equivalent of Johnsongrass.  Sure, it's a grass, but you still don't want it growing in your lawn.  It is itself unsightly and even more so when mixed in together with the traditional lawn grass.  It adds nothing, but it takes away much.

Johnsongrass is very detrimental to other grasses and crops. It is an aggressive, invasive weed that outcompetes desirable forage and native grasses by blocking their sunlight, stealing water and nutrients, and spreading rapidly through a massive network of underground roots and seeds.

Under stress, johnsongrass can become poisonous and produce toxic amounts of prussic acid (cyanide) following frost, drought or physical stress such as from trampling. All livestock are susceptible to cyanide poisoning, but ruminant animals are the most susceptible. Cyanide is rapidly active in cattle and can cause symptoms within five minutes after ingesting. Death can occur in as little as 15 minutes or within a few hours. Additionally, the plant can accumulate high nitrate levels and produce nitrate poisoning in sheep and cattle. The plant could develop high nitrate levels after fertilization and during drought. Horses should never graze johnsongrass because of the potential for sorghum cystitis, which can eventually cause permanent damage to a horse’s spinal cord.

Native to Turkey, the grass was introduced in the southeastern U.S. in South Carolina in the early 1800s. Johnsongrass is named after Colonel William Johnson, who planted the species on his river bottom farm in Alabama around 1840. Since its introduction, the grass has spread throughout the southern U.S. and is now listed as a noxious weed in 46 states. It is so highly invasive and yield-limiting in crops that it ranks as one of the 10 worst weeds in the world.  (Source)

The very fact that there are Chr*stian Zionists and Arab Zionists is a good clue that Zionism is not Jewish.  But, it IS Israeli!  The IDF is not a Jewish army, but it is the Israeli army.  The Knesset is not a Jewish institution, but it is Israeli.

The Zionists did not create a Jewish State here, but they did create an Israeli State - not Judea, but Israel!  And it is a nation of a mixture of Jews and gentiles - Chr*stians, Muslims, and many others.  Its laws and values are Western-oriented and disconnected from the Torah of the Jews.

What is Religious Zionism then but Zionism practiced religiously!!!!

Those who practice this hybrid religion would have you believe that everyone who is anti-Zionist is an enemy of the Jews.  That's a clump of Johnsongrass growing in your brain.  

ALL of the "-isms" will eventually be uprooted and cast into a heap for destruction.  Torah, and the Jews who faithfully cling to it, are all that's eternal.

14 August 2026

"The Alien, Non-Jewish Opposition to 'Religious Coercion'”

1 Elul 5786
Rosh Chodesh/Erev Shabbat Kodesh
Parashat Shoftim 

(Excerpted from The Jewish State - Rabbi Meir Kahane)

...The Jewish government, the king and the police apparatus were mainly intended to run the Jewish State as a theocracy in accordance with G-d's mitzvot.  Regarding the verse, “Appoint yourselves judges and police [officers] (Deut. 16:18), R. Eliezer ben Shamua says (Sifri, Shoftim, 144), “If there are police, there are judges. If there are no police, there are no judges.”  The intent is clear: If there are police to enforce the judge's Torah rulings, then the judges' word will endure.  Otherwise, it is as though there are no judges.  Their rulings are then nothing but a farce.  In essence, G-d commanded that there be governmental coercion so as to ensure that the people follow G-d's path.  G-d scornfully cast off of Himself and of us the alien non-Jewish opposition to “religious coercion”, opposition that is nothing but rebellion against G-d and His decrees.  Sefer haChinuch wrote (Mitzvah 491): To appoint judges and policemen who will coerce mitzvah observance and restore to it by force those who have strayed from the truth.  They will command regarding what is appropriate to do and will prevent unsavory acts from occurring, and they will uphold punishments against violators until people cease to relate to the mitzvot and prohibitions according to how they personally interpret them. This concept stands in absolute opposition to the alien culture and to the licentiousness and abominations at its core.

...For Jacob, however, there is only one truth, and it does not matter whether the whole world differs with it, because it is impossible to decide against the truth.  Even if, to our great chagrin, most of Israel choose falsehood over Torah, that does not matter, since Jacob already has the truth.  Thus, it is explicit that among Israel there is just one viewpoint, that of Torah; and even if a majority of the Jewish People differ with it, their view is considered deviant and is discounted.  A great rabbi once gave a reason for this: The law is that we do not follow the majority when there is testimony for the opposing view; and since Israel saw the Sinai Revelation with their own eyes, confirming G-d's existence, no majority in the world could decide anything against this testimony (See Torah Shlemah, Shemot, 23, se'if katan 38).  R. Chama's comment[...] - “If one of them sins, it is attributed to them all” (Midrash HaGadol, Shemot, 1:5) - ...] serves to establish the other side of the rule that there is one truth, and not two.  Not only must the righteous minority not surrender to or tolerate the erring majority, but they have a duty to protest against them.  Not only must they not accept their viewpoint, but they must also demand that they correct their error and accept G-d's viewpoint.  The mutual responsibility which exists among the Jewish People requires every Jew to share in the fate of his fellow; and if he does not protest the sins of the individual, let alone those of the community, he, too, will be punished.

Do you see any wiggle room here that would allow a Torah-observant Jew to actually vote his support for any non-Torah observant leader or party?

The thinking of the vast majority of Jews in this generation, especially in Eretz Yisrael in regard to the State, is so corrupted, that the vast majority measure the worth of a leadership candidate by his adherence to right-wing ideology rather than how strictly he conforms to the Torah ideal.  

The tragedy of our times is that very few Jews can see how unworthy we are of redemption right now.  How many of us are ready and willing to accept everything that the Torah demands of us without argument or disagreement or complaint.

Elul is the perfect time to work on getting this right.

~ SHABBAT SHALOM and CHODESH TOV ~

13 August 2026

"Crisis" in Qusra

30 Menachem Av 5786
Rosh Chodesh

Huckabee fancies himself the Roman Governor of the District of Palestine...  Maybe he is a gilgul of Pontius Pilate.  

Note how he is really pushing that "terrorist" label for Jewish self-defense!!

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The roots of the crisis

At the center of the current controversy is the Tel Talpiot outpost, near the Palestinian villages of Qusra and Jalud. The outpost has been evacuated several times over the past two years, but each time settlers returned to the site and reestablished it.

The latest escalation began in recent days, when the settlers went beyond simply returning to the original outpost site and began expanding their presence. They erected tents very close to homes in Qusra, including one directly on a Palestinian access path. Local residents said the new Israeli presence had frightened them and, in practice, restricted the movement of several families.

IDF response

The IDF responded forcefully. Even before the tents were evacuated, the IDF Spokesperson issued an unusually severe statement describing the settlers' actions as "illegal, reprehensible and unacceptable activity that harms the residents of the villages and the fabric of their lives."

In response to the tensions, the IDF took several significant steps.

A closed military zone order was imposed on the area, barring entry to anyone who was not a local resident. On Wednesday, IDF and Border Police forces arrived at the site, closed down the tent erected on the access path and evacuated the position. The military also decided to reinforce the sector with an additional infantry battalion in an effort to restore order and operational control and prevent further incidents, while placing additional forces on alert.

Troubling incidents on the ground

The events in Qusra also included several other problematic incidents. Footage circulated in recent days showed soldiers who had arrived at the site praying together with settlers inside one of the tents. The IDF said the incident was under review and made clear that if reserve or active-duty soldiers were found to have participated in illegal activity, they would face disciplinary action.

The US angle
Huckabee's comments have now added an extraordinary diplomatic dimension to what had been a local incident. The US ambassador, long identified with strong support for Israel and the settlement movement, used the highly charged term "Israeli terrorists" and disclosed that the US Embassy had approached Israeli authorities and asked them to remove those involved.

...The Qusra incident, which began with the reestablishment and expansion of an outpost that had previously been evacuated, has thus become an issue involving both the IDF and the US Embassy in Israel.

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Further: Diplomatic Clash Over A Shed In The Shomron:
Residents Reject “Siege” Claim; Huckabee Issues Harsh Statement
The media has been in an uproar for several days over an Arab from the murderous Palestinian village of Qusra who claims that “settlers are laying siege to his home.” The incident has developed into a major diplomatic clash, especially since one of the members of the Palestinian family holds US citizenship. 
...It should be noted that the Palestinian homeowner at the center of the incident has been involved in multiple violent attacks on Jews.

Local Jewish residents reject the account that the house is under siege and argue that the picture being presented in the media and on social media is partial and detached from the security and regional context on the ground.

A source familiar with the details told JDN News that the house in question is not located within the built-up area of Qusra, but in a remote location on Jabal Ein Eina, which overlooks the entire Shiloh bloc and is considered a strategically significant point in the area. According to the source, the scattered Palestinian structures in the area were built as part of an effort by the Palestinian Authority and nearby villages to establish a foothold on the strategic mountain.

“There was no siege whatsoever on the house,” the source said, saying that the structure was erected nearby for Jewish shepherds to use for shade during the summer. He added that the residents of the house were able to enter and leave and that no one prevented their movement.

It's well worth reading the whole long article.  Some reports remark on the "surprise" experienced by Huckabee's strong reaction considering his "love for Israel" and "support for the settlement enterprise."

This is not the first time we've seen this.  Have we already so soon forgotten the "burned church" blood libel that he condemned and never corrected once the facts were out?

The fact is that all of our Eisavian "friends" only "love" and "support" us as long as we look like them. talk like them, behave like them and take our orders from them and never attempt to exceed the limitations they impose on us.

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~ CHODESH TOV UMEVORACH ~