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David Charles's avatar

Apparently, I am the dumbest of shits on the planet, as I don’t understand why a nation that has to actually fight for its actual existence every several years gets criticized when fighting for its actual existence every several years.

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Elaine Adelman's avatar

Thank you for an overview that helps me counter the doubts I feel from an overload of’unbiased’ journalism about Israel that I consume daily. Hopefully this war will result in a destruction of Hamas’s leadership and ultimately the ‘death’ of this ideology.

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Susan Hirshorn's avatar

I just wish that for the last 75 years or so, Israel had developed her own superior weaponry, stockpiled it - and made sure that whatever this crazy world says or does, that Israel will survive and thrive. We've always had the brains and resourcefulness to do it. Our problem is thinking we can change the world without its respect and yes, fear. G-d is with us but G-d helps those who help themselves.

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rosalie donadio's avatar

"you kiss the hand you cannot bite" ... ancient Arab proverb and should provide the strategy for Israel's defense system.

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Beatrice Nora Caflun's avatar

Wonderful article !!!.....you are writing the Truth.....it's always Doble standards for us, and our beloved Israel .....thank you so much Joshua, God bless you....

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Ronda Wells MD's avatar

Sinwar should probably NOT visit Iran. 😏

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Nancy F's avatar

people say that you cannot "kill an idea". but we know that's nonsense. how long did people suffer under the "divine right of kings"? The IDF is remarkable.

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Rebekah Lee's avatar

Excellent truth-telling.

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Mark Akst's avatar

Thought your analysis hit the nail on the head. You should ask the New York Times to publish this article!

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Mike Perceval's avatar

Joshua, this piece of your work is, simply put, Excellent! I have shared it widely, in the hope that it will bear fruit that lasts in the minds of many. That may be ‘a bridge too far’, but I’ll leave that to G-d, and just keep sowing the seeds that come into my hands.

Ecclesiastes 11:1-6

“1 Send your bread forth upon the waters; for after many days you will find it. 2 Distribute portions to seven or even to eight, for you cannot know what misfortune may occur on earth.

3 If the clouds are filled, they will pour down rain on the earth; andif a tree falls to the south or to the north, the tree will stay where it falls. 4 If one watches the wind, he will never sow; and if one observes the clouds, he will never reap. 5 Just as you do not know how the lifebreath passes into the limbs within the womb of the pregnant woman, so you cannot foresee the actions of God, who causes all things to happen.

6 Sow your seed in the morning, and don’t hold back your hand in the evening, since you don’t know which is going to succeed, the one or the other, or if both are equally good.”

Numbers 6:24-26

“24 The LORD bless you and protect you!

25 The LORD deal kindly and graciously with you!

26 The LORD bestow His favor upon you and grant you peace!”

Amen…

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EFS's avatar

This phrase, "a more subliminal, subversive version of post-Holocaust antisemitism", made me wonder about a world in which the new state of Israel had been assassinated on the attempt in 1948.

I imagine there would be books extolling and mourning the loss of such a rich culture in the world. Museums displaying artifacts in similar fashion to those of the Aztecs and Incas, with little plaques extolling the lost Jewish culture. And University professors regretting the loss, and attributing it to everything but the simple truth of genocide and colonization. There's a twist.

I'm not a scholar, so I can't prove the truth of my opinion, but I believe that our refusal to capitulate, to adopt a different religion, to abandon religion altogether, to simply say to our enemies, "You're right, we should just let go of our lives", is the basis for the fever of antisemitism. The cure can't be that we disappear altogether. So we just have to keep fighting, to survive and flourish.

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John's avatar

The problem that makes Fakestinians a danger even to their fellow Arabs is Satanism of the Muslim variety.

There is our God, and there is Satan, and that's the choice, whether Satan calls himself Allah or whatever guise he presents himself in.

That basic reality combined with the efforts of the Satanic Church known as the UN to turn Fakestinian children into the killers of tomorrow is very similar to training guard dogs, who are unsafe around children or in any normal interaction with the general public.

UNWRA textbooks leave no room for doubt.

The whole schmeel is Grade A nonsense, anyone seriously investigating a disputed topic of history should have the sense to refer to contemporaneous sources, which show clearly there is no distinct Arab Palestinian ethnicity with a long history of squatting on Israeli land.

The whole thing is God vs Satan and Fakestinian supporters are not just on the wrong side of history they are on the wrong side of God.

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ron dushkin's avatar

Joshua, once again a great article. It's too bad that your "sermons" seem to be limited to the congregation. How can they be more fully disseminated to a wider audience?

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Joshua Hoffman's avatar

Thank you! We reach two million people per month right now. We rely on contributions from subscribers to expand our reach. For now, that's all we can really do. Happy to hear if you have other suggestions!

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Richard Hacker's avatar

I really like that poem at the end. I think I will use it in my next letter to the editor in my local "paper."

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Lilly Lopez's avatar

Israel is winning.

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Steverino's avatar

So what does all this bad PR teach us?

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Jennifer Jerram Lamley, MSCJ's avatar

This is my Gaza war strategy: Make Gaza a parking lot and bring the hostages home. Not necessarily in that order.

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