Faking Genocide in GAZA

by Steven Shamrak

The Hamas ministry of Health has confirmed that the death count from the war, sparked by Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, is around 70,000. Hamas paid compensation to widows of 50,000 neutralized by IDF terrorists during the conflict. Some 20,000 civilians died during the war. This is the lowest ratio of civilian casualties during a war in a populated area!

While it is a sad reality of war, it is hardly constitutes as genocide.

There would be no lives lost if Hamas would have surrendered; if the Gazans, terrorist supporting population, would returned the hostages, instead of hiding them in their homes; or if Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Gazans didn’t viciously attack people of Israel and went on a murderous rampage (attempted genocide) on October 7th 2023? This was not really condemned by the UN, the ‘Ugly Nazi’, and international Anti-Semites!

At the same time, Egypt is exploiting Gazans who are trying to flee a war zone, extorting from $2,500 (for children) to $10,000 (for adults) to cross through their border. Egypt and Arab countries do not care about the plight of their Palestinian brothers and sisters.

The focus of the world is on Israel. Somehow the Jewish state almost immediately after it was attacked is portrayed as an aggressor by international Jew-hating bigots.

There is no outrage about the 40,000+ murdered by the IRGC in just months? Silence about conflicts, genocides, slavery in Africa. Only Israel ‘THEY’ care about!

Israel Elections on October 27

Food for Thought: by Steven Shamrak

For many years the US administrations deliberately pressured Israel not to destroy Iran’s nuclear weapon program. Playing the same game, the UN was making ‘the Historic Deals’ with Iran to ensure that the program is and remains exclusively peaceful. However, Iran has completely ignored all the deals it has made with the US, the UN and the EU! As a result, Iran was just a small step away from creating an A-bomb. Iranian leaders have stated many times their intention to annihilate Israel using a nuclear weapon. Israel must not wait any longer. The time to strike Iran is now, hopefully, this will help the Iranian people to remove despotic regime!

Israelis against Palestinian Statehood

Overwhelming majority of Israelis oppose the two-state solution while also backing peace deals with Israel’s Arab neighbours including Syria and Lebanon. The poll found that 63% of Israeli Jewish likely voters oppose the two-state solution, compared with just 22% who supported it. Among respondents who expressed an opinion, 51.3% said they believe Israel should govern Gaza. Eighty-one percent supported the existing Abraham Accords with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan.

Hamas Obstructing Gaza Aid

A senior UN official, Ramiz Alakbarov, accused Hamas of interfering with humanitarian deliveries in Gaza and intimidating aid workers. Armed men linked to Hamas forced their way into a food distribution point in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, the UN statement said. (Even the ‘Ugly Nazi’ had enough!)

Advancing Jewish Homes in Judea & Samaria

The Israeli government approved 102 new or newly recognized communities in Judea and Samaria and advanced plans for more than 40,000 housing units since 2023. The total comprises 50 new communities, 15 neighbourhoods of existing communities that were granted or slated to receive independent status, and 37 previously unauthorized outposts that were given full recognition.

Torah Study is Fundamental State Law

Israel’s Knesset passed the Basic Law enshrining Torah study as a fundamental value of the state. The legislation passed by a 63-52 vote. The new Basic Law states that “Torah study is a fundamental value in the heritage of the Jewish people and in the State of Israel.”

Quotes of the Week:

“Our message to the American people and government on their Independence Day is clear: Do not deal with terrorists. Choose the people of Iran. Two hundred and fifty years ago, America chose freedom. Today, the people of Iran are also fighting for freedom.” – Iran exiled prince Reza Pahlavi recently criticized the US-Iran MOU – Only regime change in Iran will facilitate the end of terrorist Islamist groups – Hamas, Hezbollah Hutias and others.

Being a Jew Trumps Assimilation

by Steven Shamrak

Assimilation is the biggest threat to the existence of the Jewish people! There were around 9 million Jews during the Roman Empire, similar to the number of ethnic Hans in ancient China. Two thousand years later we are just 14 million-weak (the population of Han Chinese is 1.2 billion now). After WW2 there were eleven million Jews. Most nations have at least tripled their number since then – Jewish population has increased by three million only!

There are some Judo-Christians groups that celebrate Christmas and Hanukah. There are many reform Jewish organizations, advocating changes to Jewish Halachic practice and adaptation to ‘current environment’. Usually they all disappear within one or two generations. Most Jews, who chose the path of assimilation, do not realize that the ‘Integration’ of Jews is still the official policy of many Christian Churches and organizations. By converting or facilitating disappearance of Jews they satisfy their schizoid and delusional need for acceptance and to ‘prove’ that Christianity is the true Abrahamic religion.

Not long ago, being a Jew has always meant that one is either a religious or ethnic Jew, most often both.  Our ‘Jew-loving’ neighbours in Europe had never failed to remind us about this! Jewish ethnicity, even in the total absence of religious practice, had secured the continuation of family traditions even in secular countries like the Soviet Union.

Breaking this duality of Jewish identity is encouraged by Jew-haters and anti-Semitic religious ‘nutters’, as well as by self-hating Jews, as the way to facilitate assimilation and elimination of Jewish people. You just need to ask why there are only about 14 million Jews in the world now. It is almost the same number as 60 years ago (after WW2 there were 11 million Jews)! During the same time most nations tripled or quadrupled their number.

The biggest mistake many of our rabbis and Jewish community leaders make is by insisting that Jewishness is the religious observance only. Being a Jew has always meant, for Jews and our enemies – the peoplehood, belonging to the tribe, ethnicity or nation – whichever term you feel comfortable with – combined with Judaism when it was possible! We also have the unique and advanced religion, deep seated spiritual tradition, common history and aspirations that bond us all, observant and secular Jews.

We need to focus and promote our uniqueness and be proud of it. Our leaders must do more to bring unity and purposefulness to the life of Jewish communities in Israel and Diaspora! This tradition was the only cause of our survival for two millennia of persecution in exile!