The Winners and Losers of the Gaza “War”

Plus inspiring Torah lessons on defiance, and much more

This week's Torah class, called “A Rebellious Spirit”, is filled with inspiring lessons from the parsha and Chazal on defiance in the face of evil, which can be easily applied to our times.

The recording is available here.

Below are links to three articles from 2021 on this theme:

Pharaoh's Playbook and the Path to Redemption

Hardened Hearts

Lessons From the Golden Calf

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The Winners and Losers of the Gaza “War”

War is more complicated than ever. It's increasingly difficult to know who is really fighting whom, what is the real agenda, and even who are the actual winners and losers. I'm here to help sort through all the propaganda and spin.

Winner: The Top Layers of the Pyramid

The political and military leadership that presided over the “intelligence failure” on October 7, and was “too shocked” to do much of anything for many hours while besieged peasants mere minutes away were being systematically executed in the most gruesome ways by thousands of infiltrators who were free to roam about at their leisure...remains intact 15 months later.

They convinced a critical mass of the peasants that “now is not the time to ask questions”, satisfied the peasants with an assurance that they would investigate themselves in due time and take appropriate measures, and bought enough time that accountability for October 7 is no longer on people's minds.

The political leadership has been given a free pass, as they “defend Israel” and “combat anti-Semitism”. Not only are key IDF officers not being prosecuted for reckless manslaughter (and perhaps even more serious crimes), some of them have even been promoted.

Best of all, they hardly even bother to come up with creative rationalizations for October 7. The peasants do it for them.

Winner: Infinite Manpower and Resources

According to IDF reports, despite supposedly leveling Gaza and decimating Hamas for over a year, Hamas somehow replaced its dead soldiers. Also, despite being concentrated in a tiny strip of land with extremely limited resources and entry points, Hamas has an endless supply of weapons and ammunition, not to mention tunnels.

The vast majority of the “aid” they receive passes directly through Israel.

We are not supposed to entertain the possibility that there is any connection here, let alone collaboration at the highest levels. Properly educated people just accept whatever the media tells them and don't think too much about it.

So while most people are struggling to get by with less, we will simply declare Hamas big winners for being immune to shortages of any kind, no matter what challenges they face.

Winner: Weapons manufacturers

They're making a killing.

Loser: Religious Zionists

Thousands dead and maimed, and for what?

Did you really think the people giving you orders had any intention to resettle Jews in Gush Katif, let alone beyond?

Did you really think this time you were going to be allowed to win?

Did you really think this time they were going to prioritize your safety and wellbeing?

Did you really think this was a war to “free the hostages”?

Yes, you did.

And even if you didn't, you were too afraid to say it. You were definitely too afraid to do anything but obey and comply, as you've been conditioned to do from the moment you were born with Stockholm Syndrome.

So you spent much of the last 15 months in horrible conditions, being sent into death traps, gaining ground and then pulling back, over and over again. Your families lived in constant fear and misery while you were away, often unreachable. Your livelihoods were driven into the ground.

For what?

Thousands upon thousands of your best and brightest were maimed and killed. Everyone personally knows casualties. Funeral upon funeral, tragedy upon tragedy, families shattered, thousands of healthy bodies now shattered.

For what?

You made serving the state the primary religious ideal, serving in the IDF the most important religious duty, and being sacrificed on their behalf the holiest religious act.

Sacrifice you did, yes indeed. But for what?

The people at the top of the pyramid have decided it's time to wind down this particular “war” and move on to the next stage. They will orchestrate some absurd “hostage deal” that could have been done just the same on day one.

If you knew that from day one, would you have done anything differently?

Of course not. This is your religion.

You're the biggest losers in all of this.

And you would do it all again.

Loser: Haredim

You didn't let truckloads of executioners into Israeli towns on October 7. But they still blame you.

Had you joined the IDF in large numbers before October 7, whoever let it all happen would have still let it happen. But somehow you’re public enemy number one.

You haven't been sending Jews into death traps to be maimed and killed. But it's you they hate the most.

If you filled the country's coffers with tax money, and stopped receiving any benefits, the Dati Leumi and secular peasant slaves wouldn't receive any refunds or discounts. But they still scapegoat you.

Your leaders often make poor, tone-deaf arguments in response to all this, and close streets in protest, which makes you look like insensitive, foolish, self-centered hypocrites, even though, for the most part, you are anything but that. But you have to pretend your leaders are infallible, or close enough, or else, so you close ranks and mindlessly follow orders into traps as well. The brainwashing and uniforms are different, but the Dati Leumi and you have more in common that you realize.

You try your best to keep your own children out of the IDF, but you make it a haredi principle instead of a JEWISH principle, falling into the perfectly laid trap to isolate and destroy you over time.

You are guilt-tripped into sending yeshiva dropouts into special haredi cannon fodder units because of this, but it's not nearly enough to stem the hatred, anyway. They need more dead haredim, LOTS of dead haredim, to make it more fair.

But they will still hate you.

More than they hate the IDF that abandoned them, and the generals who send them into death traps, and the government that taxes them to death, and the state that persecutes them, and the executioners who did the dirty work on October 7 — they hate you most of all.

Loser: Wakefulness

The minute October 7 happened, most Covid activists forgot everything they learned the previous few years and fell right back into line. Suddenly they believed every official narrative. Suddenly they trusted the corrupt media for all their information and perspective. Suddenly they supported the same tyrants and institutions that poisoned them and terrorized them during the Covid era, and counted on them to keep them safe.

At the same time, they turned against the minority of their friends who were skeptical of all the above and tried to warn them. The majority of “awake” people quickly started behaving just like the very “sheep” they previously disdained, mocking, abusing, censoring, and ostracizing those who challenged the official narratives —even calling them conspiracy theorists!

Those red pills sure wore off quickly.

On top of everything, these “awake” Jews were shocked that many of their gentile “friends” from the Covid era stabbed them in the back. Turns out they hated Jews all along, and were just using these “awake” Jews for their own agenda.

You know what? Considering how the “awake” snapped back into state-serving cultists the minute the “war” started and turned against their friends, it serves them right.

Winner: Evil science experiments

All the above was only possible thanks to an ever-growing body of experiments on the population to control and manipulate individuals and entire populations. This has been going on for quite some time, but we're not supposed to think about what's being done with all this knowledge, let alone that it's being used against us by the people in power, let alone that we are at all susceptible to their ploys.

Heil science.

Winner: Erev Rav and Amalek

Imagine this. You got to plan and coordinate the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. You let hostages get taken, using them as the pretext to decimate thousands more Jews for the next 15 months in death traps, and accidents, and friendly fire incidents (they believe it!), then you taxed the survivors even more, and released thousands of the killers you contracted in exchange for the hostages you let them take.

All that, while you turned Jews against each other in the name of “unity”, turned everyone against haredim, and made Jew-hatred great again.

Meanwhile, the Jews support you more than ever, and decent gentiles stand with you as if you are heroes.

Bravo.

Loser: Families

Daddy is away in death traps. If he is extremely fortunate he will come home without permanent injuries and severe trauma. Mommy lives like a widow and hopes she doesn't become one. Children are traumatized and damaged in so many ways.

Many marriages will break up from all the stress and trauma.

Many thousands of young men who were maimed are now far less likely to marry and have families.

Many thousands of young women have a severe shortage of healthy men to marry.

But hey, we sure showed Hamas. Right?

Winner: Magic missiles

Somehow a ragtag group of terrorists in Yemen, who have more than enough of their own problems to deal with, are managing to fire missiles thousands of kilometers into Israeli cities. Why are they doing this? How are they doing this? Don't ask questions.

How is it that these missiles are doing all sorts of crazy tricks in the air, like getting intercepted outside of Israel, yet have fragments keep going north, then take a left turn and land in Beit Shemesh and Rehovot? Don't ask questions.

How is it that fragments never land in neighboring countries, and the only evidence we have that these missiles are really coming from Yemen is the word of liars and stock footage of missiles being launched from some desert location? Don't ask questions.

How is it that missiles from Gaza, Lebanon, and now Yemen never strike premium targets, like high-tech skyscrapers in Tel Aviv, enclaves of the rich and famous, or even a 5G tower, yet have no trouble finding the peasants on the ground?

Could it be that these missiles are really coming from someplace very close to their targets, from the same people who have done much worse things to their slave population? How dare you, you conspiracy theorist?

Loser: Charitable people

They couldn't have done it without your generous donations to feed and clothe the soldiers, and all those barbecues and concerts to give them emotional support to keep going into the meat grinder for no clear reason, purpose, or endgame.

Many of them got limbs blown off and returned for more. Others would have told them they sacrificed enough, and for what? But YOU gave them the “courage and strength” to keep sacrificing more, because we have to bring them home now, and together we will win, and victory means fighting until the bitter end, and it's a mitzvah.

And you'll do it all again.

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The Israeli government sponsors Bring Them Home Now, which stages protests against the Israeli government.

It's okay to admit you were fooled, rethink everything, and change direction.

Frankly, it's an obligation.

From the Slimes of Israel.

Mother of soldier who was killed for nothing demands more mothers send their children to die for nothing. There's no operational objective. They just want haredim to die.

In the olden days, mothers who sacrificed their children to Molech were similarly furious at those who did not.

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When they say they are releasing terrorists with blood on their hands as part of some staged "hostage deal", they are not referring to the people responsible for letting thousands of executioners run amok on October 7, and the people responsible for sending thousands of Jews into death traps, and the eugenicists in the "Health" Ministry, and the media who spread their lies and turn the people against each other, and the CIA/Mossad/Shabbak goons who torture and assassinate people, and the influencers and controlled opposition who run interference for all the above.

Just wanted to clarify that so there is no misunderstanding.