Hello, this is Rami Arne Whitney. You're listening to Jewish History Uncensored. An in-depth look at the most important issues in topics in Jewish History. This week's episode is dedicated by Ben and Talia Silver. The initial, the initial, my father, Mr. Gerald Whitney, you all say Ben Moshe. Most years, it's sort of like a, you have to think a little, like hmm, but Shum's coming. It's time to review the year. So what should we talk about? That's a lot of years. Two years ago, Queen Elizabeth had just died. So that was like a no brainer. And this year, it's even less of a no brainer. You know, it's Gazewar, and it's time to we're almost an exact year into it. Not quite. According to someone who I met, can't remember who, thank you though, for telling me this, they just stopped saying Kaddish. Whoever was saying Kaddish, the 11 months was just up. So yeah, it's just time to look at it. Now that we have a little more perspective, it's been some time since we looked at it. It's time to look at it again. And there's no question that this is an unprecedented historical event. Nothing to talk about. Absolutely nothing to talk about. In a similar way, in a certain sense, excuse me, it has a certain similarity to COVID. COVID was also unparalleled. Wow, that was crazy. I don't know, you know, how old were you uncovered? 11? No. No, no. You were like 14? Okay. Wow. I quote a good friend of mine, who is deeply involved in Makhana, an expert Makhana. Expert Makhana. Like, I'm very impressed, you know. And what I mean when I say expert Makhana, if you're listening out there, you know who I'm talking about, you know, there's general rules, there's the rules that we have to make when we run a school and we're involved in running a school. But then there's understanding that the details don't always work with those rules. And sometimes, officially, unofficially, et cetera, you've got to maneuver a little different. So this is a person involved in Krenoch who understands that. Brilliant, brilliant person. I mean, also in a practical sense. So their comment on COVID was the kids in the school who came from good backgrounds, stable situations. So it was a challenge, but they got through it. There's kids who have natural problems for whatever the reasons are. Those are the ones who were hit the worst. Because in the normal circumstances, the school could help them get through their problems and, you know, grow out of it, et cetera. But COVID, COVID was rough. We would take years to forget the full effects of COVID is going to take years. And I'm not even talking about people who have, you know, who have long COVID, et cetera. A good friend of mine had long COVID took them a long time to recover. Anyway, okay. So there's a certain shock. In other words, like the shock level in COVID was a longer period of time. Like it started a little after Purim. And I'm going to estimate, it was a solid two, three months, that we were just like, right, you're good? We were just like, what is going on, man? You know, like, what's going on? It was shocking. And the world was just like, gosh, what? Now, the Gaza war is shocking in a different way. Speaking from an Israeli perspective, the week, week and a half is at the beginning of the Gaza war, there was a certain eerie silence in the streets that had me in nostalgia, semi-nostalgically, saying, wow, this is sort of like COVID. But not nearly as serious. Not that part of it. Like in COVID, everyone, like COVID that year, Pesach, there was an egg crisis in Israel. Let's just leave it simple. There was an egg crisis in Israel. Don't ask. It was, it was just, it was just nuts. The level, the level of like, like shock and fear at the beginning of COVID was just like totally off the charts. And, and the Gaza war, you know, a lot of people took time to, some guys here in Toronto left. Most came, almost all came back. Not everybody. We lost a couple of guys. Tough luck there, there are bad news. Bad news for them. And, and, and what we call, the radio issue with some sorts. A lot of guys go home for peso, for, for, for Sughis. And some, a lot of them took, everyone took time to come back. And one of the guys who delayed his, his return, when he showed up, he ate by me a week or two after he showed up. And he said, hey, yeah. I mean, this is like a month into CO, into the Gaza war. Like, this is not a war situation in regional Ireland, which is true. It's really not. We really, you know, and I'm not, you know, whatever. I have a daughter who's in Tel Aviv. That's much more of a war situation. Not, that's nothing compared to people who live in Ashdod. You obviously understand there are people who live in, and I have a daughter who lives in Carmiel, who's pretty far north. But it's not a target for any reason. So it's like, I mean, they saw, because this past Shabbos, the Hezbollah, was shooting at SWAT, they were able to see the, you know, the, the, the missile interceptions. So my oldest grandson is 12, was like super excited by that, obviously. Anyway, the kids are, that, that level of shock is a certain similarity. It's a certain similarity. And, and, and you know, like, my, my context for this always is, this is the first, you know, like, real lesson. I remember way back when in 9/11, 9/11, 2001. So that was the beginning. Cell phone service was not quite in its infancy, but nowhere close to what it is today. And like at around 430, all of a sudden cell phones go out. Like, what's going on? What's going on? And someone, you know, someone says, someone crashed planes in the twin towers. "Come on, can you stop it?" Like, you saw me, guy tells me that. You know, like, I had heard you saw me as misunderstand. You know what you saw me as? Technically, the word means someone born in your shell line, but when, when we call you saw me, Israelis call them charmers. That means, you know, the guys wear the funny coats and the funny hats. And then there was like, you know, whatever, they have their own style. So there are people whose families have been here for 100, I say they'd have to at least have been here pre-1900 to call me shambis. And there's the people who came post-World War I, even they moved your shell line. They usually didn't become part of the "you shall me" world. Like, the cover in Yeshiva, you know where that is? Like over there? That Yeshiva came to Erichistrol at around that time. And they're not the people from that Yeshiva didn't become Yeshambis. They shambis are people who came pre-1900 approximately. And they have their homeholders, et cetera, et cetera. They're great people, I love them, they're great people, but they usually don't understand American news and international news. That's not something that they get proper kiddo-kiddo-kiddo-kiddo-kiddo-kiddo-kiddo-kiddo-kiddo-kiddo-kiddo-kiddo-kiddo-kiddo-kiddo-kiddo-kiddo-kiddo. I said, "Reffal, where did you hear this from?" Like, you know, I heard them mis-say over the things they call it mikfah raid. You know, they go to the mikfah every morning and they exchange news and misunderstand things, et cetera, et cetera. I said, "When do you hear this from?" He said, "Call these chocs," and he said, "Yeah, I heard it with my own ears on closed rows." I said, "Well, maybe this is true." A couple minutes later, one of the rebellion of these sheep comes in and gives a big clap and starts saying, "To hell," and I said, "Wow, something's going on." Now, one of my brothers of all calls my wife at around the same time, and he's a real joker. Like, he's a real practical joker. He says, "Don't worry, we're all okay." And my wife thought he was playing a joker on her. No, it wasn't a joke. Okay, now I'm walking home later, post my riv, which was around, you know, 7-15-ish. And it's about a 15-minute, 12-15 minute walk from where I down my riv to my house. And normally, it's like vibrant and people all over the place. It was just quiet. And every, like, you know, 2-3 minutes, I passed a group of people talking. In a circle, talking, talking. And I knew exactly what they were talking about. And you know what I felt like, "Wow." It says, "If Hashem put his hand on the globe and gave it a little shake." Now, that was 9/11, was a little shake. Covid, Covid was a big shake to quote an old friend of mine, I heard it from his son. He says, "Yeah, my father told me." I said, "No, what? I'm not sure what did your father tell you?" He said, "I didn't think that a historical event, like 9/11, was going to happen again in my life." Okay, we're under number 3, guys. I'm not that young, but I'm not that people a lot younger than me can still remember all these things. You're not old enough to remember 9/11, but anyone over the age of 30 ish or so should remember 9/11? Approximately. They'll remember it. You have to be somewhere between 5 and 8 to remember something like that. Like, "Wow." But you know what? There's a difference. It works like this. I heard, it's a long story, but I heard it schmooze from Rabbi Maizaman. Mr. Shiba Terasimoshan? I once went to Terasimoshan a long time ago. A very fascinating idea, Rabbi Maizaman said that his comment on COVID was, "This is the first international event felt by everyone in the world since the model." Wow, okay. You know what, Rabbi? You're right. You got it. That's it. You're right. But you know what? Because of war is much more Israel-focused. You know, we say in a theoretical sense, and we say it every day in davening. We say it theoretically. You know what I say? It's very nice. The theory is beautiful. It's all nice. But there's a difference between this. I heard from a remover noctar chluta. There's a difference between what's written in a safer and what's written in you. And it's not the same thing. Keila. In other words, when we experience something, we see it as a reality. We call it home. We call it home. We call it home. And then we say, every day in Sukhidizimra, every day, or hopefully we say this in Sukhidizimra. Kufnim Qas. I'm having to knock open and I'm almost there. We say the hallelujah, sashamin ish maim hoe, ben romim, hallelujah, kamulah, sort of familiar. The third, the last one. The third, the last one. And we talk about Hashem running the high heavens. And then we get into the world. Hallelujah, sashamin al-Aritz, tannim chotahamos. Hashem, there's a Hilo, there's praise to Hashem from what happens in our world. It happens, what happens on the mountains, what happens on the hills. It's pre, what happens with this, what happens with people, what happens, tannim chotahamos. Hallelujah, sashamin, kimulah, kimulah, kimulah, kimulah, kimulah, kimulah, kimulah, kimulah, kimulah, kimulah, kimulah, kimulah, kimulah, kimulah, kimulah, kimulah, kimulah, kimulah, kimulah. And he raised the caron, literally the horn, the power of his nation up. For those of us, those are the Jewish people who praise Hashem. So there's a quall, there's a rule, the Khazal say, that everything that happens in the world happens for Khalsa, for the Jewish people. And it's a nice quall, and when COVID happened, it was happening to the Jewish people, why? I'm not, I'm still not fully sure. You know, we're sitting bikeshka sagalas, and the depths of darkness, and that's a very long discussion that we're not going to have here at all. What was that, how did that affect us specifically? I don't know, hopefully we learned lessons from it, I don't know. You know what, in the Gaza war, it didn't take a lot of imagination to understand that this is happening for the Jewish people. No imagination needed, none, none. It's happening for us, it was an attack, it was unprecedented. I mean, of course, you know, the statement that was the worst attack on the Jewish people in the Holocaust, absolutely. The statement, to fully equate it to the Holocaust, I spoke to that numerous times, no, it should not. But I'm not saying, I mean, Haastrichall, I'm denying anyone's personal suffering. I don't mean that at all, but it was not, you know, we'll get back to genocide. The Holocaust was proper genocide, you understand? The Nazis, the Germans came up with the plan. It was a major national, it was a major national, you know, major national program, programs that were running right where in a project. A major national project, how to kill Jews efficiently. And they carried it out as best as they could, if they could have killed everyone they would have or they should have not able to. Okay, they didn't get to America at all, whatever, no, no, but that was their plan. That's genocide, guys. That's genocide. Okay, you know, the Rwandan attack won, the Houthis and the Houthis, and I don't really even get names right, it's not so important. They attempted to really kill everyone there. Okay, that we can call genocide. There's no genocide, I mean, you know, let me put it this way. If there's genocide here, it's on the Arab side, because, I don't remember the guy's name, one of the Arab leaders, maybe it was a smiley, but maybe not. I didn't trace the exact quote, but it was said towards the beginning, in other words, last year, almost a year ago, late October, maybe early November, yeah, we're going to repeat. We're going to repeat the seventh of October until we got rid of all those Jews in Israel. Well, that's an attempt, that's what I call a crude attempt at genocide. That's crude genocide. It's not, it's lacking the sophistication of the Germans, but it's crude, but that's the attempt of genocide. I mean, whatever, we'll get back to it. I don't want to jump the boat, but again, we don't need much, we don't need much, you know, we don't need much, as we say, imagination to figure out what's going on here. And it's very much clearly centered on us, and this is just an example. Again, you know, it's nice when we talk about an idea in theory, but when we see it in fact, when we see it in fact, when we feel it, then we'll be able to integrate into our lives that this is a real fact. And that's an important thing, that's a lesson, it's an important lesson. Now, people ask me, and people always ask me this, "Okay, where am I? Let us not be saying about it." Yeah, okay, well, what they really need to ask is, is there any clearly open prophecy about this? That's what they're really trying to ask me. So, you know, they're starting up with me. Can you hear me? I mean, there are people out there who just like to, they're very imaginative. And a lot of them have brought a lot of people very close to them. Shmir Satora, keeping Matora, more commitment, great, and I love them. And Kalka Vod, and, you know, all the better, and I'm all for all those people. But, when we're talking about Navi, I get technical. You know, I own an off discussion in the podcasts, and with Tamidim is, "Do you have a Ritvishnashama or Khasidushnashama?" So, I have a lot of appreciation for Khasidus. But I've got a Ritvishnashama. And that means I want things to be exact. And the place that this goes, this schmooze in terms of Kiyom Navuah, it starts with Edo Selkannemnimod, with Vaisra Nava Koda, Shashemu Arach Yomim. We recognize that? Well, we should, because it's the Mizmor, it's the Shira Shoyama of Arab Shabbos. And we also say it at the end of Kaval Shabbos. Yeah, we do. Okay, whatever, you know the chasin, obviously, it's fine. My music on the Rhys Tera Wab, not going to start trying to sing any songs with it, to show you how well you know it. Edo Selkannemnimod, that literally means your testimonials are very true. What does that mean? They're very true. The Radak over there in Tehulim says, it means that when they come true, when the testimonials, when the promises of the Naveem, Yishaya, Yirmea, Muslim Yishaya, a little bit in Yirmea, a nice amount in Yikazko, a lot of parts of Trey Osar. It's about the future Hiscala's future revelation happened. There's not going to be any questions. We're not going to have to bait an argument. Is this really happening? Is this not really happening? I'll give you an example. There's a Naveemnimod, Yishaya that we read two or three weeks ago, called Kriyut Saralei, Kriyut Saralei, Kriyut Saralei. Any literally means any weapon which was made and tried to use against you will not succeed. My modern interpretation based on what we know, that means in Mghamis Gogomagog, nuclear warfare will be used, biological warfare will be attempted, all those things will be attempted. But it won't happen. Any weapon which can be used will be used, but it will not be successful. So that didn't happen? No, that didn't happen. No, Baroque, no, this, we could say this, we could say that, no, no, no. The Eidos, these prophecies are going to come so true, there's not going to be any shadow of a doubt about that happening. In a similar vein, we have a little earlier in the end of the Peitez. It says that your enemies blaspheme you, they blaspheme the delay of your Mashiach. They say to us, and the people say this today, you probably think Mashiach is really still coming. You guys really believe that's true still? Okay, so these things, yes, people are still saying that, yeah, it hasn't happened and when it happens, we're not going to be talking that way. So we never, never, never, never owed. Now we have a lesson, you know, people get people saying to me, yeah, say anything to nothing about this? Well, clearly, usually not really. This is not going to come as a bug bug, and we're not having that discussion now. We had that discussion other times, we're not doing that now. But we are going to discuss, and this is a really, really important lesson. I think a really important lesson is, you know, we're going through, we're going through such a historical event, and it's such an opportunity, and you have to realize and remember how important this historical event is. And for that, we're going to go over to Safer Malachi. The very end, Malachi was the last of the prophets, and his third to last prophecy, or third to last prophecy of the Safer, and that's a, well, it's a, when the Nakhyomi gets there, which I'm not sure is not happening for some time, because Nakhyomi now, right now we're discussing sleeplessness. Anyone out there, whoever is not in Nakhyomi, join up. We're doing sleeplessness now, guys. You might understand some of what you're saying. That's important. Okay, afterwards we're going to get back and finish off with Malachi to the very yum-um, then we're going to go to Yushaya, and that's going to take us until Pesaka, recently, and don't even ask me what's going to happen after that, because I didn't decide yet. I probably do Ezra Nakhyomi after that, but I didn't really decide. And maybe afterwards I'll get to Treyosar, I don't know. So eventually we'll get here in Nakhyomi, and, you know, Tim Sukimadeh, I, you know, clear, learn something you don't know anything about, and help me, and help Colosar, because we'll understand it all better together. Anyway, one of the last prophecies in Malachi, that people are saying to Malachi to the Navi, "Shavavodolkiim." Eh, no reason to serve God. The United really gained that much. How much he gained? So, the Navi, as part of his answer, says, "Oz Nidburu, Yireh Hashem Ishoreh, Vyakshashasham Ishma, Vyakshashasham, Vyakashasham, Vyakshashasham, Vyakashasham, Vyakashasham, Vyakashasham, Vyakashasham, Vyakashasham, Vyakashasham, Vyakashasham, Vyakashasham, Vyakashasham, Vyakashasham, Vyakashasham, Vyakashasham, spoke to each other. Hashem heard it and wrote it in a safer. It was for the people who were important in his eyes. This is a rough, quick translation on the spot. "Vaha'u'lli al-Liamar shamsa vakasan shamsa." "You know what this is going to be for me?" "You know what I'm going to use this?" "Liamar shani o saskula and itay this is going to be a special day and I'm going to have compassion on the people who are in this safer." "What does that mean?" So the red dak says, "The people at the time were saying to the Navi, there's no real reason to keep terror because it's not really going to help me so much. How much benefit I'm going to get out of it?" The Navi says, "Mac." No, it wasn't. It says the red dak. What are they saying? The people, the response to people like that is, "Look for Hashem kakapratis." "Look for Hashem kakapratis." People are saying, "The Hashem is not involved in the world and it's no reason to keep terror. It's not going to get much anyway." No. "See Hashem involved in the world." "Aus nidbaru, aus nidbaru yuray, aus shani shawriyah, aus shani ushma, and I'll write you in a safer." "And it'll be for a special day and you'll have compassion." "Where does that mean?" So now with the flip over to Daniel, Daniel Perikidbei's Pusik Olive. Wait a second, just find it here in this Navi. And the Navi says over here, "Well, Daniel's really exuberant, but whatever." We have a discussion about that just tonight, Night Seder. And it says, "And at that time, Michal is going to come up and help you guys. Vohayza ais sa'rah. It's going to be a difficult time. Ashre'al Anya simeos goi." Jewish people never had such a difficult time. Until that time. "The ais ahi, and at that time, yimaleit amkla, your nation will survive, will escape." So one of the beforesham over there says, "The book that's written, it's discussed in se'rahm al-Ahi, aus nidbaru yuray, aus shani shawriyah, shawriyah, shawriyah, shawriyah, shawriyah, shawriyah, shawriyah, shawriyah, shawriyah, the two books are the same books." So if we can get to the highest level of seeing hashkaha, then hashkaha will kill Ya'o right us in a book. And when Michal is going to go, Mugham is the most difficult event that ever is going to happen in history, then hashkaha will have a compassion on this. So there's a lot of potential. You know seeing hashkaha is an important thing. And when we're living through such a deep historical event, it's really, really important to see the hashkaha as much as we can, to see it as much as we can. There's something very unprecedented here. Unprecedented. It's a massive historical event. And I don't think anyone's going to argue about that. Even the most argumentative, liberal Jews out there, I don't think we'll argue about that. You never know. Jews know how to argue, shawriyah, shawriyah. We're supposed to use it for good things, good things. But okay, whatever. What's unprecedented here? It's almost a year. It's almost a year that it's going on. And we can't get out of the headlines. And there's never been so much focus, concentrated focus, and criticism of the state of Israel, of the Jewish people ever, ever, in a very long time. '48, Israeli War of Independence. For the records, it's a complicated event. And because we don't have time really to talk about it properly, whoever wants me to fill in the details, I can easily do it. Let's just have to believe me, and Munis Krakamem here, that the event started in a real sense. In February '48, I know the state wasn't declared until May 14th, '48. But the pre-war, there was about seven years ago, I think it was the first time that I was living in a world where I was born. In the Civil War, there was about six, eight weeks of conflict before. And then there was from May, until May 14th, until June 18th, with a break in the middle. That was the most important part. And then after that, there was a August, September, October, a three-month break. And then we started fighting again, October 15th. And most of the key fighting, the key fighting, it means excluding the Negev. And I'm not going to get into a discussion of how important the Negev was, et cetera. It was important. It is important, it wasn't as important. But the battles of the Negev were not headline-grabbing battles, you know. We're sitting here with massive headlines every week, once every other week, and we just can't get out of it. And even the Israeli War of Independence didn't have such an extended exposure of the Jewish people in everyone's face. And did it have that? It was also very different because the Western world had a lot of deep guilt about the Holocaust. Deep, had guilt about the Holocaust. There's nothing to talk about that they had to be killed about the Holocaust. And that also was coloring the political situation. And I know today it sounds like shocking, but as my father passed away four months ago, as my father says, yeah, when he was growing up, he was a young person. The media was generally speaking pro-Israel. I know today it's like, what? No, it's levels of anti, I mean, there is a small amount of the media, which is pro-Israel. But most of the media ranges between moderately anti-Israel to very anti-Israel. And that's how it is, like it or not. So, yeah, things used to be different. In 48, it was even more. And so that also, it's just a different unprecedented event of us being in the headlines and all the criticism and all that that's going on. And I call it a marathon. We're in a marathon. And it's bringing things out that don't always get brought out. I mean, it was hard. You know, this is what I call an example of from Sara Agra now. That means it's more difficult. You have to put in more effort. It has more value. At the beginning, it wasn't hard to dive in every day. It really wasn't. Trust me, the beginning people were just scared to get not as shocked and scared at the beginning of COVID. Then people were like, "Whoa, man." They were like, "Really?" Except for a very small amount of people were like, you know, not in touch with reality, as we say. Or as Rabbi David said, "Not really living in this world." Great. Whatever. You know? At the beginning of the war, it was not hard. I know a certain show. It's Israeli, Ashkenazi, Gudvax. They were having serious, fiddle gatherings every mochi shabbas for like an hour, hour and a half, all the way over until at least February. Like, you know, what we say in Hebrew, kalkevod. Most people, after two, three weeks, was like, whatever. You know, not nothing but today, I mean, some shows do it, some shows don't do it. You know, we should do it. I'm very mochi shabbat because now I have to be hazzan shabbat because my father passed away. I'm very mochi shabbat. I make sure how much, how does this show want to harm said? Because to do it in a way they don't like, it's not a good idea. So one place, they say two, but it's not responsive. Another place I usually dive in, they say one responsive. And yeah, it's a challenge. Like, of course, much more challenged. It's much harder for us to have to come in and out. But you know what? We should never forget this. You know, we had when it was last week, as the joke is, there were the beepers and the option of beepers. Option of is known for doing things like stuff. You know, the beeper attack, we'll get back to it in a little bit. That was a lot of sietta dishmaya. But they were able to carry out. It's considered one of the most sophisticated special ops attacks ever. And we don't even know the details yet. Just what was done was like, "Wow, that's shocking. You can't do something like that without a lot of schools." You know, when they were capturing, I said two episodes on the item, not this past year, you know, Machoah two years ago, the year before this. They shouldn't have been able to find them. You know why they found them? That was the cadocium of all the people he killed that came back and sunk him. And they were able to get him and get him here and put him on trial. So, over here, no, we don't have that going for us. But, yeah, it's harder to dive in. But does this as us still making effort? We'll film Sarah Agra. It's harder now. And it's not wrong if you think it's harder. It's normal, and it should be harder. But when we put in that effort, that pays off. And it's also rejected, just to make so much as happening over and over and over and over, like, we're jaded. We're jaded and dulled to the event we're living through. And we have to make that effort to see the Hashkaha and that will make us, that will hopefully get us deeper in that safer. Now, you know, it's a good thing that I've spoken about this a couple of times. So, whoever doesn't believe me, could go back and listen to the episodes last year. In the beginning of the Gaus War, I said, "If Israel has three to four months on this, I'll be impressed." Five months? I don't think it's going to go more than that. You know why I said that? I said that because if you look at every word, Israel has ever fought one of the most important factors is what is the world going to say. I don't like that, but that's a fact. And, you know, to the people who don't know who cares what the world says, let's just do it. You know, as I've said, and I'll say it again, Israel cares about its casualties of its own soldiers, obviously. And I believe Israel cares more about their own soldiers' casualties more than anyone else. And we also care about the people we're killing. And most people just don't, okay? That's a fact some life, you know. And I'm not even saying it's wrong, you know. And as a matter of fact, I think it's right. And just very briefly, you know, the U.S. dropped two atom bombs on Japan. Anyone who really knows the history knows that Japan would not have surrendered without that. So, was it justified? Yes, it was justified. Did a lot of innocent people die? Well, sort of. What are you going to do about it? It's sad. We're sad. We're tragic. But, start a war. That's what happens. What am I supposed to say? So, yeah, we care. Yes. But you know what? I mean, it's not, you know, Israel cannot fight a war like this without outside supplies. It's not just the U.S., it's other countries also. And because of that, I just based on the other, like, for example. Lebanon too, went about six, seven weeks. I didn't have time to research to get the exact, maybe it was two months. Maybe it was five weeks, maybe it was nine or ten. Omert botched it. He was the Prime Minister at their time. He messed that up. He spent way too long bombing by the air because the rem of the chief of staff was an air force officer. And air force officers always think, since whatever, since the 1930s, that we can win the war all on our own. And they can't, okay? You have an enemy who's entrenched. You have to sit in foot soldiers, guys. Tough luck. It's been proven over and over and over. And I'm not saying that air force is not important, but you got to go in on the ground. And that's life. And he botched it. He had about, the U.S. was, he had a nice amount of support, about, again, six to eight weeks of support. And he sent the troops in way too late and didn't do enough. So I said, you know what? Who said, how long is this going to go on for? How long are we going to have the world? When is the world going to start screaming and yelling at us? Because that's what always happens. I don't like it, but you can't be, you know, you can't live in a, in a dream world. And even in, you know, we're not, we're not sitting. We don't have Malcoma Shia sitting in the, you know, whatever. Let's not get under all those complicated, you know, messianic questions. We have to, we have to worry about what people in the world think to an extent. It's complicated. It's very complicated. But the bottom line is, is from the most practical sense, is we need supplies. And if we didn't have supplies, we're going to be fighting the war. And we would have more casualties on our side and more casualties on the other side. You know, there's been, I think the number is around 500 now, which is incredibly impressive. We're back in Soak Aetan, which I think was 2014, but maybe it's 2016, ask, ask Robert Goldman. I think he might have fought in Soak Aetan. Ask Robert Goldman. But he'll know exactly when it was. They estimated if they would invade just Gaza City, they would lose between 500 and 1,000 soldiers. They have, they've lost what's around 500 now. I don't even know they had 500. Whatever, you can go the load if you want. Impressive. If Israel would have lost, I mean, there's, there's only so many soldiers Israel can lose. Okay. That's a blunt fact. And because they haven't lost that many soldiers, that's why they're still able to prosecute the war. With not, if there'd be too many soldiers lost, the country wouldn't support it. And, you know, the slogan in the beginning of the war was, "Yaqam natsayah." Together, we'll be able to be victorious, and we need everyone's support. And that's another factor, like, like it or not. You don't have to like your political opponents, and you could disagree with them very sharply like Jews like to do, and that's all fine. But in terms of national level policy, we live in a democracy, and we need everyone's support. Yeah, there could be some crazy nuts like, you don't love it? No, we don't have to worry about it. We don't have to worry about the people who know many significant support. Significant support, yes. We need significant support from all segments of Israel and society. And that is going to dictate what we can do and what we can't do. And that is connected, 100% connected to international situation, whether it would like it or not. And because they've been getting, because they, you know, even though they were significant military failures from worrying about using too much tech, well, there's a reason why they are not suffering so many casualties is because of accurate use of tech. And that's also disclose. Anyone who thinks, you know, the alaf base of war to quote, "Mulke." You can plan everything perfectly, but when war breaks out, it's just pandemonium and chaos. And every single plant can just go right out the door. And the small amount of casualties they've had is just 100% stress. It's because people are governing, people are learning, and we should never forget that. We should, that's also, it's crazy not to much, in many ways, unprecedented. And that's, again, that's, that's one of our lessons here. That's one of our lessons. Now, I personally believe, and we're not going to have time, maybe so because time will get back to this issue, and my manager wants me to do it, so maybe I'll do it. I'll probably do it. I usually do what he tells me. I think this is the most impressive achievement of the IDF. Hands down, puts the Six Day War and Yom Kippur War in its back pocket. Because of the complexity of the situation, you're doing urban warfare against an enemy who's trying to increase civil and casualties. And if we compare this again, you know, I said already, and I'll just repeat it again. I think the U.S. was completely justified, nuking Japan. Okay, yes, were we completely justified? Whether the U.S., I'm partially American, very American. Were they, justified? Yes, they were justified. Is it sad that people die? Of course it's sad. Usually war you don't have to worry about, but Israel does, but that will get on to that soon-ish, I hope. And this is exacerbated by the marathon. It's just over and over, and over and over, and over and over. And one of the issues which has been raised, and with hesitance, I'm going to speak about this. Let me speak about it anyway. Mr. Bin Yamini in Netanyahu has been more or less prime minister of this country for 20-ish years. 20-x years, whatever. Let's not worry about it. There's small areas, times when he wasn't. There's a truism and a democracy that a person should only be in power for around 10 years. Why that's true? I don't see why I'm going to put that into a podcast in the near future, but maybe we'll talk about it. If a lot of people out there tell me they want me to explain why I believe that's true, I have a lot of historical evidence to it, and it's an interesting question why I believe it's true. And I believe it means it's my conclusions based on historical knowledge, constitutional understanding, etc. That's what I say. Now, let me just, you know, I very much don't like the irrational anti-Bibi people. And I sort of say, "Bibi is like a Rhodesia Rabbi." Some people think he's cute little about to become a Shia, and other people think that he's the devil himself. No. He's an accomplished person, accomplished politician. There is a problem, though. And anyone who does not think this is true, I know his wild Khasidam Urganir. I mean, if you want to send me some hate mail, I'm happy to hear it. Gayle. Let's just give you some historical context. In 1981, in the middle of an election, Meghan Minacham Meghan got information about the Iraqi nuclear reactor. And with a lot of hesitation, he ordered an operation to knock it out, because he accurately, accurately understood that if he loses Shiman Paris, who is also a big Khasidam Shireba, you know, in other words, some people love him and some people hate his guts. And that's not just right versus left in Israel. Let's just leave it simple. Again, too deep into a podcast. Explain why I'm saying that, but that's facts of life. Some people hate it. Jim and Paris just guts. So, Meghan accurately calculated that Paris won't have the guts to do it, whatever. And I believe he was right. I don't think anyone can really contest that. And he had a lot of hesitation, because it was a middle of an election. And it looks like a cheap ploy. But he did it anyway, because he felt it was the right thing to do. And Paris, of course, raised the topic. You did that just to get votes. So, you know what, I'm knocking Meghan's head back? He said, "Anyone who knows Me, who knows what I've done in the last 40 years of my life, publicly, knows I would never risk a soldier's life for personal benefit." And everyone in Israel understood, except for that Meghan Haters, the real Meghan Haters, understood that was a true statement. BB cannot say that, okay? His latest shenanigans, trying to put Guido and Sar in as Minister of Defense, in the middle of a complicated war, with another complicated war possibly going to happen or not happen. We haven't done so much more complicated stories. It's too late to explain why. Are you out of your mind? You don't think anyone out there can see you're doing this for political reasons? I mean, come on. I mean, really, by that. It's just deep, incredible irresponsibility that, in my opinion, should not be limited to which party you are connected to. I hope some people in a little could think this. I have no idea. I would hope to think that some of the Kharini have recognized this way, but I have no idea either. And I know that the Kharini parties were founded as special interest groups, as your footners, that's all said. And I understand that. And normally, generally speaking, they do not have, they do not feel they have an obligation to worry about something like this. But this is such rank irresponsibility. In my opinion, anyone who could do something has an obligation inside their obligations to the Jewish people at large, and anyone who thinks that the Jewish issue of the Jewish community established within the state, in the land of Israel, is not connected to Israeli security, needs to have their mind examined. So, yeah, this is part of the marathon. In other words, this is a marathon of, you know, in the beginning, and, you know, as someone who I was speaking to about it, one of my sons, my oldest son, actually. I hope you're listening up there, you so. He's commented, "Yeah, but Bebe is the most experienced in those, "but he's doing better than anyone else." Well, he's sort of right. I don't totally disagree with that statement. The butt afterwards of it is, is Bebe cannot tell anybody seriously that he's doing what he thinks is best for everybody, because people know that's not true. Trying to put, you don't sire as defense minister? Are you nuts? I don't know if that should be done in a non-war situation. But no, but in a war situation? Are you crazy? The guy? I mean, I didn't Google him to see what his rank was when he did his mandatory service, but he didn't go far in the army, and that's fine. But he was never involved in this industry, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. It was just, that's incredible irresponsibility and just sort of shocking, and has to do with, it's a marathon, and as much as everyone wants to cooperate in theory, it's straining our ability to cooperate and do things together. That's problematic, but we just have to go on. We're going to go on, and hopefully we'll get a lot of, we'll get a lot of Seattle-Dishmaya. We've had a lot of Seattle-Dishmaya, and hopefully Hashem will help us keep on going and get on to the best possible situation. Now, I have here the phone, Kekira. For those of you out there who did not sit in your shivers a long time, Kekira means, do I understand it this way, or do I stand it that way? Oh, you have a question, whatever. You know, I can give a lot of examples, if you want to know, that's what we're like. That's Tamutuk learning, Tamutuk logic. So, my Kekira is like this. What was more shocking? The President's debacle, the President's, the Ivy League President's debacle, what was it last February? When was that? You remember? No, February-ish? Whatever, approximately. Or the International Court of Justice in the Hague or somewhere in the Netherlands, like entertaining the question of Israel committing genocide because the South Africans of all people. I mean, South Africa, South Africa, for you out there who do not know any South Africans, y'all. South Africa is a semi-inarchal state that there's no law in. And what do I mean by that? Anyone who made real money in South Africa does not matter what color they are, has to hire private security because people will come and rob them and kill them. They are wonderfully civilized. They're accusing Israel of genocide. And the International Court of whatever, whatever, took the question seriously and had, of course, a lot of proof from a lot of anti-Semites who work for the UN. Yes, maybe, maybe this, maybe that. Come on, I mean, come on, it was which one was more shocking. So you obviously see that I'm more shocked by the, by the President, the Ivy League President's debacle because, you know, they are, how am I supposed to say, educated people, one of them was Jewish even. And besides everything else, they're being very public and I know that American politics is madly, madly polarized. And I know the key Congresswoman who is interrogating is a Trumpist. I'm aware of all that and I'm aware that non-Trumpists, Democrats, you know, need jerk reaction to Trumpists just to argue with them. Whenever it was not getting into all those technical details now, that's, whatever, this is welcome to the late, you know, to the early 21st century. This is where we're holding, unfortunately. But still, I mean, really bad, you know, like, you're not worried about your donors. You know, like, forget this, forget that, forget the next, you know, most, a very significant amount of people in the Jewish world were very deeply, very deeply touched by this. And, you know, really get that. So I was, I found that very shocking. That was one of the most shocking that is, in a sense, it's just deeply shocking. Now, you know, it's just certain dualism here that in one sense, poor Hashem, and this has to do with Yahreh Natsayah, and the amount of learning and the amount of dovening and the improvement in the, you know, the general spiritual improvement in the state of Israel in the last 20 years, 30 years. You know, we're still going on poor Hashem and getting places where no one can believe we could get to. And I'm not, I'm not worrying about technical policy right now. I'm just talking about what has happened. But we're, there's still a deep feeling of, of who I'm bad on Yeshka. That we really know that the majority of people out there in the world believe that the genocidal nonsense. It's like utter nonsense. Again, the Nazis were genocidal. It was a major national plan, and they put in as much detail into and tried as hard as they could. They invented a better type of crematorium. You know why? You know what the biggest problem with genocide is? It's getting rid of the bodies. That's real genocide. That was, you know, I don't want to get daved, spoken about that, Yamashoa episodes on and off. That's the biggest problem. And they invented German ingenuity, a crematorium that can be run not and stop and will not burn itself out. To quote Riff Benning Commons and she'll be like, wow, those people in his personal opinion, I think he's right, that they should be, they should be taken to court over, you know, over, over all cost profits for coming up with such a patent, which is obviously only needed for genocide. That's real genocide. I mean, whatever. The utter, utter ridiculousness of that is crazy. But this is, that the Jewish people in the sense are alone. And that's something we should feel now. Again, that's like, again, that's a long process. It's a marathon, but this is something we can feel. We have to see it, look at it and feel it, and look at it and feel it. Then we can integrate it into our lives and it can help us appreciate the truth of terror. And I'm going to be with Qatsar a lot now, because it's time to be with Qatsar some, but my father, Haryne Kaparas Miskaval, was always very impressed when he found points like this in terror. I remember a long time ago, it means in the mid, mid-ish 70s, I think I'm almost certain, I'm 99% sure we were still back in Huntsville, Alabama. And one of the things that touched my father very deeply, is there's a difference between, you know, Qibud, Siskaval, and Sivikul and Simaka, and it says, "I'mo of a view to Raul." It says, "honoring your father and your mother," but it says, "fear your mother and your father." Why does it say, "Why does it switch your mother and father?" Because a person naturally respects his mother more, because your mother is sweeter and nicer and helps you and does so much for you. But a person naturally fears your father more, because men are more powerful, and the terror therefore flips it over, and that point made a very, very deep impression of my father. And I cannot tell you that that's why he became religious, but that was part of it. When he saw things like this, events, phenomenon like this, that the terror describes in such a clear and accurate fashion, he saw that as a way to appreciate truths of terror. So that's what part of our marathon here, is we get to other parts, truths of terror that we can appreciate, the truth of terror that amo vada yushkhan, that we really are one, and our only real source of true support is Hashem. We need to learn all the lessons as best as we can, implement the lessons into our life, strengthen our amuna, strengthen our commitment. And with all this, we should really be zukta this year, to hear a lot of good and a lot of peace for us and for all of cause. Thank you for listening to Jewish History Uncensored. If you can give us a five-star rating and recommend us to your friends, I'd really appreciate it. All comments are welcome at Jewish History Uncensored at gmo.com. I'll do my best to address them in future episodes. See you again next week. [BLANK_AUDIO]
