Now What?

The victims of the Hamas dogs: Avishai Shindler, Kochava Even-Chaim, Talia and Yitzchak Imes

May G-d Avenge Their Blood!

The five (I will count the 9 month old fetus, thank you) Jews slain by Hamas gunmen on the eve of the "Direct Talks" are buried. We mourn with their families and all of the Jewish people. In the end we are the only ones who truly care. The world does not. They were "settlers," "extremists," not worth the moisture of tears to most. I would imagine that the sick racists at Code Pink joined their Hamas buddies in celebrating the killings.

B"H they will be the last Jews to lose their lives to the Arab animals, these savage butchers who have never wanted peace, have never wanted coexistence, and whom we should have let leave in 1967 after the war of miracles saw the liberation of all of the Land of Israel to the Jordan River.

What do we do now? Bibi failed to launch a counter attack against Hamas at the behest of Ehud Barak and Military Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi. They didn't want this to undo the precious talks. The simple fact of the matter is that the Arab understands and respects one thing: strength and vengeance. If Netanyahu were a Jewish leader he would have left the United States and ended the notion of an Arab state west of the Jordan. But he is not a man. He is a dybbuk. How can he shake hands with that murderous Holocaust denier Abbas, while that sick bigot Hillary Clinton smiles? Because he is not a man.

You do not negotiate with those who want you dead. You kill them before they kill you.

What price can be paid for the deaths of 5 innocent people who leave behind 7 orphans?

Never will there be an Arab state on Jewish land.

There was an engagement of violent protest by Jews in the wake of the attack. But there was a far greater response, one that will change the course of Israel's history. The Jews of Yesha ended the construction freeze with a flurry of building around Judea and Samaria. This is their statement to Hamas. It has been the statement to the Arabs from the beginning of the Jewish redemption of the Land of Israel. We will build the land. We will have children. We will make aliyah to Israel.

But that is not enough. The Jews of Judea and Samaria are now demanding their guns. The Israeli government has severely curtailed the issuing of gun permits throughout Israel, but particularly in Judea and Samaria. Well, they want their guns, and they want them now. Yitzchak Imes, one of the victims of the cowardly act of violence by the Hamas bastards, had his license taken by police. How different might the outcome have been had he been armed? That is what everyone in Yesha is asking.

These murders have done more to wake up the Jewish people than the threat of expulsion ever could. The building will continue, a friend of mine out near Hevron helped build a massive extension on a house, and woe unto those who try and stop them now.

Keep building because the time will come when all of Israel has a leader who will see to the destruction of the occupying Arab armies, who will not negotiate with them; a leader who will annex all our lands and give the Arabs the choice of living under the seven Noahide laws or leaving.

But how do we merit this? We must call on HaKadosh Borachu. We must renew our connection to Torah. We must know who we are. We must love each other, regardless of the kippah we wear. We must stand together, as we did when we fought the wars of Hashem. When we are one, when we stand in strength against our enemies within Israel and without, when we advance the cause of the orphan and the widow, when we stand by Hashem, who can defeat us? No one. It is as it says in this week's parsha:

אֵלֶּה הַדְּבָרִים, אֲשֶׁר דִּבֶּר מֹשֶׁה אֶל-כָּל-יִשְׂרָאֵל, בְּעֵבֶר, הַיַּרְדֵּן: בַּמִּדְבָּר בָּעֲרָבָה מוֹל סוּף בֵּין-פָּארָן וּבֵין-תֹּפֶל, וְלָבָן וַחֲצֵרֹת--וְדִי זָהָב. ב אַחַד עָשָׂר יוֹם מֵחֹרֵב, דֶּרֶךְ הַר-שֵׂעִיר, עַד, קָדֵשׁ בַּרְנֵעַ. ג וַיְהִי בְּאַרְבָּעִים שָׁנָה, בְּעַשְׁתֵּי-עָשָׂר חֹדֶשׁ בְּאֶחָד לַחֹדֶשׁ; דִּבֶּר מֹשֶׁה, אֶל-בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל, כְּכֹל אֲשֶׁר צִוָּה יְהוָה אֹתוֹ, אֲלֵהֶם. ד אַחֲרֵי הַכֹּתוֹ, אֵת סִיחֹן מֶלֶךְ הָאֱמֹרִי, אֲשֶׁר יוֹשֵׁב, בְּחֶשְׁבּוֹן--וְאֵת, עוֹג מֶלֶךְ הַבָּשָׁן, אֲשֶׁר-יוֹשֵׁב בְּעַשְׁתָּרֹת, בְּאֶדְרֶעִי. ה בְּעֵבֶר הַיַּרְדֵּן, בְּאֶרֶץ מוֹאָב, הוֹאִיל מֹשֶׁה, בֵּאֵר אֶת-הַתּוֹרָה הַזֹּאת לֵאמֹר. ו יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ דִּבֶּר אֵלֵינוּ, בְּחֹרֵב לֵאמֹר: רַב-לָכֶם שֶׁבֶת, בָּהָר הַזֶּה. ז פְּנוּ וּסְעוּ לָכֶם, וּבֹאוּ הַר הָאֱמֹרִי וְאֶל-כָּל-שְׁכֵנָיו, בָּעֲרָבָה בָהָר וּבַשְּׁפֵלָה וּבַנֶּגֶב, וּבְחוֹף הַיָּם--אֶרֶץ הַכְּנַעֲנִי וְהַלְּבָנוֹן, עַד-הַנָּהָר הַגָּדֹל נְהַר-פְּרָת. ח רְאֵה נָתַתִּי לִפְנֵיכֶם, אֶת-הָאָרֶץ; בֹּאוּ, וּרְשׁוּ אֶת-הָאָרֶץ, אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּע יְהוָה לַאֲבֹתֵיכֶם לְאַבְרָהָם לְיִצְחָק וּלְיַעֲקֹב לָתֵת לָהֶם, וּלְזַרְעָם אַחֲרֵיהֶם. ט וָאֹמַר אֲלֵכֶם, בָּעֵת הַהִוא לֵאמֹר: לֹא-אוּכַל לְבַדִּי, שְׂאֵת אֶתְכֶם. י יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם, הִרְבָּה אֶתְכֶם; וְהִנְּכֶם הַיּוֹם, כְּכוֹכְבֵי הַשָּׁמַיִם לָרֹב. יא יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵי אֲבוֹתֵכֶם, יֹסֵף עֲלֵיכֶם כָּכֶם--אֶלֶף פְּעָמִים; וִיבָרֵךְ אֶתְכֶם, כַּאֲשֶׁר דִּבֶּר לָכֶם

And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt bethink thyself among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, 2 and shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and hearken to His voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul; 3 that then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the peoples, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee. 4 If any of thine that are dispersed be in the uttermost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will He fetch thee. 5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and He will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. 6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. 7 And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, that persecuted thee. 8 And thou shalt return and hearken to the voice of the LORD, and do all His commandments which I command thee this day. 9 And the LORD thy God will make thee over-abundant in all the work of thy hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good; for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as He rejoiced over thy fathers; 10 if thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law; if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul. 11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not too hard for thee, neither is it far off.

That is what we must do. That is how we reach redemption. That is how we rid the land of our enemies. That is how we achieve peace; not by negotiating with genocidal animals who shoot pregnant mothers, nor take counsel from those that say we should.

It is not too hard for us, neither is it far off.

Shabbat Shalom