No, this is not just small-minded tit-for-tat with one of the people most guilty for our crisis today. From the time that Rabin shook Arafat's hand on the White House lawn, the State of Israel has been captive to the leftist mantra that we cannot fight and thus cannot win. Rabin used to scornfully mock those who would warn that his policies would result in missiles in Ashkelon.

How can we reverse the Rabin mindset that has brought us the missiles? Maybe the first step is to find new names for all these neighborhoods, highways and buildings.

Photo: Kassam in the Rabin neighborhood of Sderot, after it caused major damage there on the anniversary of Rabin's death. (Ynet)

Manhigut Yehudit doesn't have solutions within the parameters of the existing situation - not for Sderot and not for anything else. You can't go to a doctor with a massive heart attack and ask for a band-aid because you have an important meeting in half an hour. If you do not understand that you are having a heart attack, and if you don't understand that the doctor can help - all that the doctor can do is try to explain your situation and prepare the emergency room for when you come back.

We do not suggest running away. On the contrary. Manhigut Yehudit is the only group that tells the truth and proposes a real solution. In the meantime, Israel, sick with Oslo-itis, prefers the band-aid that costs the lives of  soldiers in Gaza and civilians in Sderot.

Manhigut Yehudit supports all those people who are giving of themselves to help their brothers in Sderot - and as individuals, many of our members are helping to the best of their abilities. But as a movement that proposes a national solution (and not personal aid) we have nothing to suggest until the patient understands that he is seriously ill and comes for treatment. If we give him the band-aid that he requests, are we helping him or hurting him? If Israel's public would demand the evacuation of Sderot's children, as has been done in the past in other shelled cities, the responsibility for the security of its citizens would once again be set firmly at the doorstep of the government - and not with the charity organizations.

Manhigut Yehudit's responsibility is to prepare all the tools for authentic Jewish leadership so that they will be ready when the public is ready to use them. That moment is rapidly approaching. Everybody already feels the illness, but only few recognize the cure. Nevertheless, one quarter of the Likud has already voted for faith based leadership, and many more are joining all the time.

What is our solution? We have no solution within the parameters of Peres' assimilation fantasies. But when the Nation of Israel will be ready for the Jewish solution - we will be here for them.
 

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Adar I, 5768
March, '08

Translated from the NRG website.

Have you ever been on a military maneuver, climbed a mountain, and then, as you try to catch your breath, discovered that you are sitting on top of the wrong mountain? I don't think that anybody who has passed through IDF officers' training has not had that experience. After the searing moment of realization sinks in, there is no choice but to go all the way back down and then to climb up the right mountain. One thing is for sure. There are no shortcuts, and before you can ascend the right mountain, you must go all the way back down to the bottom of the wrong mountain.

That is more or less what is happening now in Israel. Two thousand years of exile had passed until we reached the absolute bottom of the mountain - the place where killing a Jew was just like killing a mosquito. And then, approximately one hundred years ago, the Nation of Israel began to search for its fitting place in history. Paradoxically, the very religion that had preserved the Jews during the two thousand years of exile, was perceived during that period as the obstacle to returning to history. The national culture that had contracted to 'religion' when the Temple was destroyed and Israel exiled could not unzip itself like a computer file. Culture takes time, and likely hundreds of year will pass until the Torah will truly be our national culture.

But the historical alarm clock was ringing. It was time for the the Jews to return to the Land of Israel and to become a nation once again. Those who managed to get the most energy together and to begin the climb up the mountain were Jews who had rejected their religion. The mountain that they chose to climb on their ascent back into history was not the Jewish identity mountain. It was the normalcy mountain. It is easy to understand why. They reasoned that they would establish a state just like all the other enlightened states, join the family of cultured nations, be rid of the Jewish exile hunchback and be a nation like all other nations.

The success of Zionism was dizzying. We miraculously reached the summit of the mountain. It was no longer possible to kill the Jews like mosquitoes. Just the opposite. The Jews had learned to be superior warriors.

The ascent had been successful. But more or less about the time of the Yom Kippur War, the first signs that we had climbed the wrong mountain began to appear. It turned out that even after the amazing victory in the Six Day War, the neighbors still did not recognize our right to exist. The anti-Semitism that reminds us of the Judaism that we so wanted to forget and that Herzl promised would disappear as soon as we established a state - simply changed its form. We tried to fool ourselves and flip a different switch. Instead of being a normal nation by conquering the land, we would be normal by surrendering it. We convinced ourselves that the hatred of Israel stems from the "Occupation" and the settlements, and that if we just retreat to the pre-Six Day War lines, we will finally merit our longed-for normalcy. But the more that we destroyed the settlers and disengaged from the land, the more the hatred grew. Worse yet, the price of the blood of our children began to decrease. Currently, the murder of a Jew in Sderot or Ashkelon has once again become a trivial matter which we must accept.

So now what do we do?

For ten years, Manhigut Yehudit has been trying to explain that we are climbing the wrong mountain. When Rabin shook Arafat's hand, we warned that rockets would explode in Ashkelon. When nobody listened, we blocked the roads. Nothing helped. Reality has proven time and again that we were right. But the illusion that we had finally discovered the secret to turning into a normal nation is very strong. Now we are sliding down the mountain, nearing the point at which even here, in the Land of Israel, in our super-high-tech normal state, armed to the teeth - killing a Jew is like killing a mosquito. And the world accepts and justifies it.

I read an interview this week with Professor Ze'ev Tzachor, the dean of the Sapir College in Sderot, where a student was killed by a Kassam last Thursday. (This is the same college at which an Arab lecturer forced a student out of class because he was dressed in his army uniform). Professor Tzachor explained how his British colleagues rationalize the reason for hatred of Israel in England:

"We had dreamed of a place in which the new Book of Books would be written as a prelude to world-wide redemption. After all, you are G-d's treasured nation and the world has expectations. But look at what you have done."

Do you understand? The world does not expect us to be normal! The world expects us to be ourselves and to develop our unique culture so that we can be a source of inspiration and hope for all mankind. In the eyes of the world, when we insist on being 'normal,' we lose our very right to exist!

So now we are sliding down the slippery slope. Gush Katif, Sderot, Ashkelon. Everybody knows that sooner or later, it will get much closer to home. But unfortunately, we have not yet reached the bottom of the mountain. When we do get there, we must be sure to begin our climb up the right mountain. Not the mountain of 'normalcy,' but rather, the mountain of Jewish identity.

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The problem is that those Israelis who do not know history do not understand what we are doing here in the first place. They don't understand what they are fighting for, either. Well, everything is in the computer, anyway. Maybe we can send the computers out to fight? On second thought, maybe that is part of the problem?

Peres has good reason to try to banish history studies. If Israelis don't study history, they won't find out that Peres promised that "There will be no more Katyushas."

Moshe Feiglin in Ashkelon ( 27 Adar I, 5768 – March 4, '08)

Moshe Feiglin and a group of former Likud MKs visited Ashkelon on Tuesday. The group met with Ashkelon mayor Ronny Mahatzari, who surveyed the situation in Ashkelon. After the meeting, Moshe Feiglin commented that the common denominator between all the people in the group is the fact that had all fought against the 'Disengagement' and warned of the dire consequences of the move. "It is unthinkable that those guilty of bringing the 'Disengagement' upon us will continue to run the country and to bring new catastrophes on Israel," Feiglin said.

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Wednesday, 5 Adar II (March 12) Nahariya
Discussion with Michael Fuah, Rabbi Dudi Spitz and Rabbi Itzik Feiglin (Hebrew)
Place: The home of Malka Cohen
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