Meanwhile Rahm Emanuel the US Democrat, failed mayor of Chicago, and Obama's darling is coming to Tel Aviv to denounce Prime Minister Netanyahu for keeping Israel safe. For him the lives of Hamas and Hezbollah Terrorists are being violated while protecting Israeli citizens.
The AI picture of Herzl and Ben-Gurion on scooters is a hoot especially the top hat and Israeli shirt respectively. I'd imagine the swamp draining pioneers would be amazed at what their posterity has made of their labors.
Thank you for this excellent and thought-provoking article Adam; well done! As I read, my mind was there with you in your walk, and I agreed with everything you said as we walked together, until we drew close to the end:
“But it does mean we are living in the chapter they never wrote, working from a blueprint whose final pages are blank.”
The Tanakh provides enough details scattered throughout its pages to understand the gist of the full Play, all the way to the Final Act.
But, it seems most of the Chosen People have eyes that can not ‘see’, or hearts that can not or will not accept, that the Tanakh is the Word of God, or that the Author of the Story, the God of Israel, means exactly what He had laid down in writing by His prophets.
Tragically, this is not a problem unique to the Chosen People, though it is a stunning phenomena, given the Play is centered on them, and the Land of Israel is the major setting.
No, the phenomena is to be found throughout Judeo-Christian Western Civilization and, indeed, the world at large. There are myriad reasons underlying it, but certainly the major one is unbelief, and a very close second, found amongst professing believers, is trusting in the judgment of ‘experts’ who, in most cases, are ‘blind guides, leading the blind’.
Matthew 15:12-14 (CJB)
“The talmidim came to him and said, "Do you know that the P'rushim were offended by what you said?" He replied, "Every plant that my Father in heaven has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. Let them be. They are blind guides. When a blind man guides another blind man, both will fall in a pit."
It occurred to me after posting the above, that I had omitted a reference from the Tanakh itself in the post. There are several instances in which the true prophets spoke of those who have eyes but cannot see, or ears but cannot hear (Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Isaiah, etc.), but this one is particularly apropos:
Jeremiah 5:21-31 (Tanakh)
“21 Hear this, O foolish people, devoid of intelligence, that have eyes but can't see, that have ears but can't hear!
22 Should you not revere Me—says the LORD—Should you not tremble before Me, Who set the sand as a boundary to the sea, as a limit for all time, not to be transgressed? Though its waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass it.
23 Yet this people has a wayward and defiant heart; they have turned aside and gone their way. 24 They have not said to themselves, “Let us revere the LORD our God, Who gives the rain, the early and late rain in season, Who keeps for our benefit the weeks appointed for harvest.”
25 It is your iniquities that have diverted these things, your sins that have withheld the bounty from you.
26 For among My people are found wicked men, who lurk, like fowlers lying in wait; they set up a trap to catch men. 27 As a cage is full of birds, so their houses are full of guile; that is why they have grown so wealthy.
28 They have become fat and sleek; they pass beyond the bounds of wickedness, and they prosper. They will not judge the case of the orphan, nor give a hearing to the plea of the needy.
29 Shall I not punish such deeds—says the LORD—Shall I not bring retribution on a nation such as this?
30 An appalling, horrible thing has happened in the land: 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule accordingly; and My people like it so.
But what will you do at the end of it?”
May the Lord continue to bless, guide, protect, and redeem His people - for His glory, and the glory of His Kingdom. Amen
Brilliant BRILLIANT piece Adam. this is not a "read once and toss" piece. I shall have to go back to it often. Just so interesting. Thank you for making me think, dude. Thank you. I know I will think about it in the Fall when I do Sar El. :)
Diaspora is in critical need of leadership and vision like Herzl and Ben Gurion. Approx 12,000 Jewish organizations and no effective unified leadership while violence and hatred of jews runs rampant.
I'm old enough to remember overhearing my Sephardic old-world parents worrying on the eve of the Six Day War what would happen to the Jews if Nasser attacked. Since then much has happened, from the heroic victory in the 1973 Yom Kippur War to the way Israeli society rose up after Oct 7 to defeat all of Israel's enemies in some truly spectacular military operations (if you don't believe that, check your pager).
And I see disgraceful statistics about how American Jews have a higher opinion of Mamdani than the Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Now I understand that Ben-Gurion was right: Diaspora is indeed the disease and sovereignty is the solution. Just look at the finished products of each.
Both these visionaries are towers within Israel and the worldwide Jewish community, but they did not have crystal balls and couldn't forsee the future. Given the large families of Charedi Jews it isn't surprising their population, and thus influence has expanded greatly within Israel.
What we are witnessing is not just an isolated controversy; it signals systemic risk at the leadership level. When people in power openly normalize or defend racially charged rhetoric, it shows a deeper erosion of the standards that support social stability and international trust.
This issue is not about one statement or one individual. It is about the return of identity-based hierarchies that divide societies, weaken governance, and create long-term geopolitical tension. History has shown that when such narratives go unchallenged, they change from rhetoric into policy distortions, economic exclusion, and social unrest.
For global leaders and decision-makers, the priority must be to contain and correct issues at the structural level. This requires holding public officials accountable, strengthening international norms around responsible leadership, and integrating reputation-risk monitoring systems into political and institutional frameworks.
In our interconnected world, reputational damage does not stay local; it affects the global stage, impacting investment climates, diplomatic relations, and institutional credibility. The cost of inaction is not just theoretical; it is seen in instability, capital flight, and weakened alliances.
The strategic objective is clear: we must reassert standards of leadership that promote stability, credibility, and long-term global unity. before these isolated signals develop into systemic fractures.
You are worried about reputational damage in an interconnected world, exactly what planet are you living on, with Europe and more than 70% of the west facing islamist colonization within the next 20 years, exactly how do you see Jews surviving the onslaught of reputational damage done to Jews world wide by the disciples of pure unadulterated hate and antisemitism and their made up world of make believe!
1700 years of trying to wipe out the Jewish people is not going away because some nations who fear Iran and their own extremists more than they do a peace seeking Jewish nation signed the Abraham accords, peace is not coming to the Jews and Israel through reputational imagery, it comes through Israels ability to make war and win, it comes through the worlds third largest stock pile of smart nuclear weapons and the Samson option, reputation through capability is what will make or keep a modicum of peace for a short while, but that too will end soon.
Islams colonization of Europe is the greatest threat to the world we will ever encounter, once this is achieved they will be in possession of nuclear weapons that will be used against Israel, so make no mistake about our future, no matter how you slice this, islam will come into confrontation with the Jewish state very soon and it is going to end badly for one of us and reputational damage, investment climates, global stage affect, as well as diplomatic relations, and institutional credibility, will not mean jack if we are not ready to meet the international institutionalized hatred of Jews that has been cultivated and standardized throughout the world, while the diaspora sat on its collective backside playing nice with those that despise us in ways most of you don't even understand.
The more islam saturates the west the worse our situation becomes, the cultural lefts tolerance paradox has led to empathetic mass migration damaging every western culture and society in the world, today the west is suffering from the worst ever case of Suicidal Empathy and is at stage 5 of Islamic colonization, the rate of their colonization is rapidly reaching the point of no return, remember the crazy guy on the corner with the sandwich clapper board that read “The End Is Near”, well that clapper board is now an IPhone and social media and it is being used by islamists to indoctrinate your children as it either replaces or steals your culture and your country right out of under you, their Caliphe is coming and its up to you to either stop them, or you will be forced to become one with their vile hive style 7th century cult mentality.
Europe and the UK will be completely wiped out before 2035, there is nothing to be done other than total civil war to prevent this now, islams intent is to terminate anyone that opposes it and will commit genocide to achieve their objectives and goals to create their global caliphate!
The US is also done by 2045 unless they stop islam now, it cannot and will never survive lying down legs apart letting everyone and anyone to come in and basically destroy English heritage and culture, mass migration is not immigration, a muslim is only a muslim when they have no power, once voter power is gained they all become islamists and live by their satanic warlords demands, islam is universal colonization and cultural genocide on a mass scale as it seeks to conquer lands without having to fight for them, the west is suffering from the worst ever case of Suicidal Empathy and is at stage 5 of Islamic colonization.
The west will be completely wiped out before 2045 if they do not stop this from happening now, islams intent is to terminate anyone that opposes it and islams history has shown us that they will commit genocide to achieve their objectives and goals to create their global caliphate!
I disagree about one thing, in regards to your comment that one group or the other will "win". Nope, all of humanity will lose, and that is fine with Islamists because their hate FAR exceeds their very limited capacity for common sense. The Islamist-Jewish nuclear annihilation will be the one they've been making movies about for decades. And at the end of it, someone will say to the cockroaches "here you go boys, the place is yours. We bi-pedal primates were so stupid precisely because we were so arrogant as to think we were the smartest species ever. Our mistake. 250,000 years in charge of this planet was the best we could do. Better luck to you insects". Sad but I see no other future. There is absolutely zero capacity for critical thought or consumption of facts among the Jew-Hate crowd. None. And I for one have no intention of ever saying "you know what? You hate me so much I will just let you kill me". Zero-sum game. Winner: cockroaches.
Interesting comment, Fred. Thank you for that. Sad, but completely true. Kinda what we would have in Canada if we abandoned "first past the post". So much democracy, there's no more democracy!!
Made me tearful in both a sad and joyous way. Am Yisrael chai
Same! Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱
Meanwhile Rahm Emanuel the US Democrat, failed mayor of Chicago, and Obama's darling is coming to Tel Aviv to denounce Prime Minister Netanyahu for keeping Israel safe. For him the lives of Hamas and Hezbollah Terrorists are being violated while protecting Israeli citizens.
Rahm was the Chief of Staff for the most Israel hating and Jew hating president of America to date: Barck Hussein Obama.
Hope Bibi arrests Rahm and drops him into Gaza sans parachute with an Apache helicopter from 5,000 feet.
Emoji for vomit.
Great article. Love it! Going in my “Best” folder.
The AI picture of Herzl and Ben-Gurion on scooters is a hoot especially the top hat and Israeli shirt respectively. I'd imagine the swamp draining pioneers would be amazed at what their posterity has made of their labors.
Agreed! "A hoot". Couldn't possibly have said that any better :)
Thank you for this excellent and thought-provoking article Adam; well done! As I read, my mind was there with you in your walk, and I agreed with everything you said as we walked together, until we drew close to the end:
“But it does mean we are living in the chapter they never wrote, working from a blueprint whose final pages are blank.”
The Tanakh provides enough details scattered throughout its pages to understand the gist of the full Play, all the way to the Final Act.
But, it seems most of the Chosen People have eyes that can not ‘see’, or hearts that can not or will not accept, that the Tanakh is the Word of God, or that the Author of the Story, the God of Israel, means exactly what He had laid down in writing by His prophets.
Tragically, this is not a problem unique to the Chosen People, though it is a stunning phenomena, given the Play is centered on them, and the Land of Israel is the major setting.
No, the phenomena is to be found throughout Judeo-Christian Western Civilization and, indeed, the world at large. There are myriad reasons underlying it, but certainly the major one is unbelief, and a very close second, found amongst professing believers, is trusting in the judgment of ‘experts’ who, in most cases, are ‘blind guides, leading the blind’.
Matthew 15:12-14 (CJB)
“The talmidim came to him and said, "Do you know that the P'rushim were offended by what you said?" He replied, "Every plant that my Father in heaven has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. Let them be. They are blind guides. When a blind man guides another blind man, both will fall in a pit."
Am Israel Chai, to the glory of God!
It occurred to me after posting the above, that I had omitted a reference from the Tanakh itself in the post. There are several instances in which the true prophets spoke of those who have eyes but cannot see, or ears but cannot hear (Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Isaiah, etc.), but this one is particularly apropos:
Jeremiah 5:21-31 (Tanakh)
“21 Hear this, O foolish people, devoid of intelligence, that have eyes but can't see, that have ears but can't hear!
22 Should you not revere Me—says the LORD—Should you not tremble before Me, Who set the sand as a boundary to the sea, as a limit for all time, not to be transgressed? Though its waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass it.
23 Yet this people has a wayward and defiant heart; they have turned aside and gone their way. 24 They have not said to themselves, “Let us revere the LORD our God, Who gives the rain, the early and late rain in season, Who keeps for our benefit the weeks appointed for harvest.”
25 It is your iniquities that have diverted these things, your sins that have withheld the bounty from you.
26 For among My people are found wicked men, who lurk, like fowlers lying in wait; they set up a trap to catch men. 27 As a cage is full of birds, so their houses are full of guile; that is why they have grown so wealthy.
28 They have become fat and sleek; they pass beyond the bounds of wickedness, and they prosper. They will not judge the case of the orphan, nor give a hearing to the plea of the needy.
29 Shall I not punish such deeds—says the LORD—Shall I not bring retribution on a nation such as this?
30 An appalling, horrible thing has happened in the land: 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule accordingly; and My people like it so.
But what will you do at the end of it?”
May the Lord continue to bless, guide, protect, and redeem His people - for His glory, and the glory of His Kingdom. Amen
Brilliant BRILLIANT piece Adam. this is not a "read once and toss" piece. I shall have to go back to it often. Just so interesting. Thank you for making me think, dude. Thank you. I know I will think about it in the Fall when I do Sar El. :)
Diaspora is in critical need of leadership and vision like Herzl and Ben Gurion. Approx 12,000 Jewish organizations and no effective unified leadership while violence and hatred of jews runs rampant.
I'm old enough to remember overhearing my Sephardic old-world parents worrying on the eve of the Six Day War what would happen to the Jews if Nasser attacked. Since then much has happened, from the heroic victory in the 1973 Yom Kippur War to the way Israeli society rose up after Oct 7 to defeat all of Israel's enemies in some truly spectacular military operations (if you don't believe that, check your pager).
And I see disgraceful statistics about how American Jews have a higher opinion of Mamdani than the Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Now I understand that Ben-Gurion was right: Diaspora is indeed the disease and sovereignty is the solution. Just look at the finished products of each.
https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/07/08/new-poll-reveals-american-jews-view-mamdani-more-favorably-than-netanyahu/
Adam, what you are describing encompasses the current West as a whole.
Both these visionaries are towers within Israel and the worldwide Jewish community, but they did not have crystal balls and couldn't forsee the future. Given the large families of Charedi Jews it isn't surprising their population, and thus influence has expanded greatly within Israel.
What we are witnessing is not just an isolated controversy; it signals systemic risk at the leadership level. When people in power openly normalize or defend racially charged rhetoric, it shows a deeper erosion of the standards that support social stability and international trust.
This issue is not about one statement or one individual. It is about the return of identity-based hierarchies that divide societies, weaken governance, and create long-term geopolitical tension. History has shown that when such narratives go unchallenged, they change from rhetoric into policy distortions, economic exclusion, and social unrest.
For global leaders and decision-makers, the priority must be to contain and correct issues at the structural level. This requires holding public officials accountable, strengthening international norms around responsible leadership, and integrating reputation-risk monitoring systems into political and institutional frameworks.
In our interconnected world, reputational damage does not stay local; it affects the global stage, impacting investment climates, diplomatic relations, and institutional credibility. The cost of inaction is not just theoretical; it is seen in instability, capital flight, and weakened alliances.
The strategic objective is clear: we must reassert standards of leadership that promote stability, credibility, and long-term global unity. before these isolated signals develop into systemic fractures.
You are worried about reputational damage in an interconnected world, exactly what planet are you living on, with Europe and more than 70% of the west facing islamist colonization within the next 20 years, exactly how do you see Jews surviving the onslaught of reputational damage done to Jews world wide by the disciples of pure unadulterated hate and antisemitism and their made up world of make believe!
1700 years of trying to wipe out the Jewish people is not going away because some nations who fear Iran and their own extremists more than they do a peace seeking Jewish nation signed the Abraham accords, peace is not coming to the Jews and Israel through reputational imagery, it comes through Israels ability to make war and win, it comes through the worlds third largest stock pile of smart nuclear weapons and the Samson option, reputation through capability is what will make or keep a modicum of peace for a short while, but that too will end soon.
Islams colonization of Europe is the greatest threat to the world we will ever encounter, once this is achieved they will be in possession of nuclear weapons that will be used against Israel, so make no mistake about our future, no matter how you slice this, islam will come into confrontation with the Jewish state very soon and it is going to end badly for one of us and reputational damage, investment climates, global stage affect, as well as diplomatic relations, and institutional credibility, will not mean jack if we are not ready to meet the international institutionalized hatred of Jews that has been cultivated and standardized throughout the world, while the diaspora sat on its collective backside playing nice with those that despise us in ways most of you don't even understand.
The more islam saturates the west the worse our situation becomes, the cultural lefts tolerance paradox has led to empathetic mass migration damaging every western culture and society in the world, today the west is suffering from the worst ever case of Suicidal Empathy and is at stage 5 of Islamic colonization, the rate of their colonization is rapidly reaching the point of no return, remember the crazy guy on the corner with the sandwich clapper board that read “The End Is Near”, well that clapper board is now an IPhone and social media and it is being used by islamists to indoctrinate your children as it either replaces or steals your culture and your country right out of under you, their Caliphe is coming and its up to you to either stop them, or you will be forced to become one with their vile hive style 7th century cult mentality.
Europe and the UK will be completely wiped out before 2035, there is nothing to be done other than total civil war to prevent this now, islams intent is to terminate anyone that opposes it and will commit genocide to achieve their objectives and goals to create their global caliphate!
The US is also done by 2045 unless they stop islam now, it cannot and will never survive lying down legs apart letting everyone and anyone to come in and basically destroy English heritage and culture, mass migration is not immigration, a muslim is only a muslim when they have no power, once voter power is gained they all become islamists and live by their satanic warlords demands, islam is universal colonization and cultural genocide on a mass scale as it seeks to conquer lands without having to fight for them, the west is suffering from the worst ever case of Suicidal Empathy and is at stage 5 of Islamic colonization.
The west will be completely wiped out before 2045 if they do not stop this from happening now, islams intent is to terminate anyone that opposes it and islams history has shown us that they will commit genocide to achieve their objectives and goals to create their global caliphate!
I disagree about one thing, in regards to your comment that one group or the other will "win". Nope, all of humanity will lose, and that is fine with Islamists because their hate FAR exceeds their very limited capacity for common sense. The Islamist-Jewish nuclear annihilation will be the one they've been making movies about for decades. And at the end of it, someone will say to the cockroaches "here you go boys, the place is yours. We bi-pedal primates were so stupid precisely because we were so arrogant as to think we were the smartest species ever. Our mistake. 250,000 years in charge of this planet was the best we could do. Better luck to you insects". Sad but I see no other future. There is absolutely zero capacity for critical thought or consumption of facts among the Jew-Hate crowd. None. And I for one have no intention of ever saying "you know what? You hate me so much I will just let you kill me". Zero-sum game. Winner: cockroaches.
Interesting comment, Fred. Thank you for that. Sad, but completely true. Kinda what we would have in Canada if we abandoned "first past the post". So much democracy, there's no more democracy!!
Done (thumbs up emoji :) )