It's the same in any lingo

בַּת-בָּבֶל, הַשְּׁדוּדָה: אַשְׁרֵי שֶׁיְשַׁלֶּם-לָךְ-- אֶת-גְּמוּלֵךְ, שֶׁגָּמַלְתּ לָנוּ
אַשְׁרֵי שֶׁיֹּאחֵז וְנִפֵּץ אֶת-עֹלָלַיִךְ-- אֶל-הַסָּלַע


How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? If not now, when? ~ Rav Hillel, Pirke Avot

This Red Sea Pedestrian Stands against Judeophobes

This Red Sea Pedestrian Stands against Judeophobes
Wear It With Pride

21 May 2010

More "Pro-Israel" Gestures From the Marack: US Joins UNAC


Another great moment for the "pro Israel" Marack Blowbama administration...the administration has announced that the Bizarro United States will join the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, another branch of the UN that is openly hostile to Israel, much like the laughable UNHRC which ignores multiple acts of genocide in places like Darfur and Tibet, and manages only to condemn Israel. This is a UN agency that cited the conflict between Israel and the Falacstinians as the main cause of global tensions. That's funny, because the overwhelming majority of Arab countries don't seem to give a crap about the Falacstinians, which would explain why they chronically leave them pissing in the wind.


I thought global tensions were being driven by oligarchists trying to snuff out liberty for their own personal gain, and their seemingly unending desire to squirt money into the hands of OPEC countries that fund the jihad against the West. Silly me. No, all the problems of the world are because Israel won't consent to the creation of a terror state in its heartland. How do these people respirate?

Well, when Chief of Kapos Rahm Emanuel told hand-picked Jewish leaders that the Blight House "screwed up" in its massaging of the Israel issue in terms that Jewish Americans would like (translation: Marack and his kapos failed to fully engage in propagandizing that they love Israel, even as we repeatedly kick the Jewish nation in the balls, while feeling up her enemies in the back of a station wagon). When he urged these Jewish leaders to "watch what the administration does," I wonder if he thought we'd all jump up and down like we got a pony for Chanukah when we found out that Muslim White House decided to tighten its alliance with Israel's enemies in the UN.

Yes, we're watching Rahm, you worthless kapo douche, and we are still unimpressed and unsurprised. You and the rest of the Marack team continue to marginalize Israel as the Blight House led Jew hate machine rolls on. Why your father doesn't beat your ass and sew your foreskin back on I have no idea. If I were your father, who served in the Irgun so that Israel could exist, I would call a press conference and kick your ass on live television.

The US boycotted the UNAC in 2006 citing fears that it would be yet another Israel-hate forum in the UN. The Marack Blight House says these issues have been addressed...what...they confirmed that it is a forum to bash Israel so they decided to join? I feel sooooo much better now.

So what's next on the pro-Israel agenda Rahm...selling plutonium to Iran? Jackass.

17 May 2010

We Should Go Home

The Falacstinian Authority, having agreed to "proximity talks," (I'm still trying to figure out why anyone thinks this farce is worth anyone's time, other than getting Carp Face Mitchell's panties in a bunch) is apparently broadcasting the message to Israelis that they should go home...to Europe so that the genocidal scumbags can move into Jewish homes and towns. Why are we supposed to be negotiating with these murderous rapists? Oh...because the world hates Israel...I almost forgot.

This is a new twist for the Falacstinians. First the Arabs tried conventional wars...how'd that work out for ya? Not so good? Too bad.

Then they tried terror. Lots of Jewish blood was shed, which Arabs always like, but gee whiz...there are still Jews in Israel. They even invented a fake nationality and a fake claim to a country that never existed. Kudos to the Arabs for getting most of the world, and even Ehud Barak to actually believe there is a "Palestinian," but alas and alack there are still Jews living in Israel.

So now they think we should move back to our countries of origin like Poland. Apparently there was no suggestion that they go back to the Arab countries that nearly 1 million Jews were kicked out of back in the 1940's. How very hypocritical. This is not the kind of intellectual integrity that we have come to expect from the people who brought us Assoud, the Jew eating rabbit. This is almost as hilarious as their claim to Meah Shearim in the wake of the death notorious Neturei Karta heretic Moshe Hirsch (may his memory be erased). While I'm sure many residents of the well known Chareidi neighborhood might be perfectly happy to be under control of the Arabs, I have a feeling that they would not want to spend the remainder of their time waiting for the Moshiach having their payot cut off, seeing their wives and daughters raped, and then being victims in the extermination of the neighborhood, which is exactly what genocidal ratbags like Mahmoud Abbas go to bed dreaming about on a regular basis...they just convince everyone that only Hamas has this dream, and stupid idiots around the world believe this, swearing allegiance to the notion of Fatah moderation.

There are two things in this world that seem to be in endless supply:
  1. Infinite Stupid
  2. Jew Hate
There should be a broadcast on Falacstinian TV. It should be suggesting that the Arabs go back to their countries of origin. Abbas's family is from Syria. Every Arab should get a free bag of Bamba to snack on for their trip over the Allenby Bridge back to their homelands. Enjoy!

And yes, the Jews should go back to their country of origin. It's called Eretz Yisrael, and I'd love to see it no longer occupied by Arabs who want to kill us.


11 May 2010

The Battle For Jerusalem...

Yesterday was Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day, in Israel. It is celebrated with parades, visits to her holy places, and of course speeches. Bibi Netanyahu gave such a speech at the Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva in Kiryat Moshe. He spoke boldly about the city and its history, its dearness and nearness to the Jewish heart, and its centrality to the Jewish Nation.

"The battle for Jerusalem is a battle for truth. With us is someone who was with me this evening and asked to come here with me, Professor Alan Dershowitz, who fights for our truth, our way of life, and is himself a yeshiva graduate.

"There can be no justice without truth and if there is a perversion of justice vis a vis our city and nation, it means the truth has been perverted, because the truth is that Jerusalem is our city and we never compromised on that, not after the destruction of the First Holy Temple, nor after the destruction of the Second. We were a majority in the city until the 9th century and we returned 2000 years later and witnessed the city's destruction once again.

"There is no other nation that feels this deeply about a city. Yet there is no other nation that has allowed such complete freedom of worship to other religions in this city. We will continue to build Jerusalem, a city that is full of life."

Beautiful and eloquent words, words we have come to expect from Bibi in moments like this. But what are words, and what is reality? The reality is that there are reports from the State Department that Bibi has reached an agreement with the Blight House on freezing construction in Ramat Shlomo until 2012. The PM's office of course denies this. It also denied the preliminary agreements regarding the Jewish construction freeze in Judea and Samaria. I take both statements with a grain of salt.

It is well known that the White House is bent on bringing down the Netanyahu government with its supposedly right wing coalition (Bibi is so left of center at this point that only a fool thinks this is a right wing government). Releasing such a statement regarding Ramat Shlomo, the neighborhood whose 1600 proposed new residences made Joe Biden clench his buttocks so tightly he nearly passed out, would certainly be a gambit to disturb Bibi's right wing coalition partners in the hopes that they would bring him down and a Livni/Barak government could take over. There's only one real problem with this. The Ramat Shlomo construction approval was not the end of the bureaucratic process. As far as I have heard the construction was not supposed to begin until at least 2012 so this whole freeze thing sounds like a lot of crap.

Then there are reports from housing officials that there is in fact a de facto freeze on permits for Jewish construction in the eastern half of Jerusalem. Only Arabs are getting permits, not Jews. This is deeply troubling and is, along with the Falacstinian Terrorkleptocracy's agreement to enter into "proximity talks" with Israel, via George Carp Face Mitchell, the best sign that Bibi is moving behind the scenes to negotiate the partition of Jerusalem. We're talking about a man who gave up Jewish authority over our second holiest city, Hevron. No betrayal is out of the realm of possibility with this guy.

As far as statements from the Prime Minister's Office are concerned, as I've said here before, Bibi's head is so large that he has multiple sides of his face to speak from. What seems obvious is that caving on Jerusalem is political suicide for Bibi. The country is solidly behind keeping the city united, and Bibi's stance against Marack has made him exceedingly popular. He has no reason to cave. But has he?

Bibi has already cemented his control of the Likud Central Committee with the vote taken to maintain lifetime positions, and freeze out the possibility of a Feiglin led coup within the party. What scares Bibi more than anything is not Igogettajob, or Marack...it's the Jews in the knit kippahs. Those guys make him crazy.

The only barometer that seems to matter is what is going to happen in Judea and Samaria in September. If the freeze is extended then it will lead to evacuation and the dividing of Jerusalem. There is no reason to extend the freeze other than that. So while I agree with and believe in the content of Bibi's message, I have no faith in the messenger. That I reserve for HaKadosh Borachu, so I continue to pray that Jerusalem will remain united, and in Jewish hands, never again given over to, or taken by our enemies again.

09 May 2010

Moshe Hirsch Is Dead

The leader of Neturei Karta and all around heretic Moshe Hirsch is finally dead. This disgusting excuse for a human being, who colluded with enemies of the Jewish people like his love buddy Yasser Arafat (may both their names be erased), finally rid the world of his putrescent presence a week or so ago on Shabbat.

Neturei Karta, for those of you who are fortunate enough to never have heard of these scumbags, are a group of people calling themselves Jews. Perhaps halachically they might be considered Jews because their mothers are Jewish, but these are heretics of the worst kind who poison the Jewish soul, corrupt our nation, and despoil the teachings of Hashem out of their sick perverted need to kiss our enemies on the mouth...literally.

When you see pictures of what look like Chassidic Jews kissing Mahmoud Igogettajob and Yasser Arafat, they are members of Neturei Karta who advocate the notion that Jews stole Palestine from the Arabs, have no right to be there etc, because the Jewish people are not to reenter the land of Israel until the arrival of Moshiach, the Messiah son of David. These delusional nutbags pervert the words of our Prophets, and deny the most basic tenants of the prophecies that mark the coming of the final redemption of the Jewish people.

Moshe Hirsch, the heretic scumbag should only have died sooner. This is the man that Arafat named his "Minister for Jewish Affairs." But even in his death he continues to mock the Jewish people. This betrayer was buried on HarHaZaytim, the Mount of Olives, the holiest cemetery of our people. It is said that it is here where the resurrection of the dead will begin when Moshiach ben David arrives. In fact, this bastard is so vile, so unworthy of being buried in such a holy place that Shmuel Eliyahu, the Chief Rabbi of Tzfat, declared that he shouldn't have been buried there, but that since he had, that no Jew should be buried anywhere near him.

I would take that a step further and say he should be dug up and his rotting corpse should be dropped on Ramallah for the rats and vultures to feast on. They probably wouldn't touch him.

We pray three times a day for the destruction of apostates, heretics, and enemies of Hashem. Well, at least we got one.

19 April 2010

Yom HaZikaron 5770

Today is Yom HaZikaron, the day of remembrance to honor the men and women who have fought and died for the survival of the Nation of Israel. Wars of choice are not a luxury in Israel. Her army is not made of volunteers. They are conscripted. If they had their choice they would be in college, walking the beaches with their sweethearts, traveling the world. They would be artists, doctors, social workers, industrialists, scientists. Instead, at the age of 18, when they are really nothing more than boys and girls, they begin their compulsory service in the Israel Defense Forces, the Zahal. Service is 3 years for men, 2 years for women.

Before they go to college or begin their lives the way we do, many have had to go into battle, kill, see their friends killed, or have been cut down in the prime of their lives because Israel lives in a neighborhood where, when the neighbors say they want peace, they mean they want every Jew in Israel dead. They fight and they die for Eretz Yisrael not because they want to do so; only an idiot and a fool glorifies war and longs to fight and kill. They fight because the rockets are falling on their homes, on their friends and families. They fight in wars not half a world away, but in their backyards. They fight in wars they cannot lose because there is nowhere else to go.

So today we remember them all, and their families, who pay the ultimate price for peace.

Chazak v'baruch l'kulam.

14 April 2010

Yassam Saves Efrat From Menacing Patio

The Nation of Israel faces innumerable threats; Arab terror armies occupying the land, radical Islamic jihadists amassing rockets of greater range and accuracy, Iran's unabated quest to build a nuclear weapon, the UN's constant need to condemn Israel for defending herself, and a racist Jew hating administration running the White House to name just a few. But clearly, in the minds of the leading portions of the Israeli body politic none of these threats rank nearly as high as the one posed to Israel by a concrete patio in Efrat.

That's right, a concrete patio that was poured by a house in Efrat measuring 25 meters square and 3 centimeters thick was considered so dangerous, so menacing, that it was destroyed by 50 Yassam policemen. What was the family thinking when they installed this menacing monstrosity? Was it to be a launch pad for mortars and rockets to be fired at Arab villages? Nope. Was it to be the foundation of an extension on the house to acomodate a bedroom for Marack's worst nightmare...a Jewish baby? Nope. Was it to be the floor of a bomb factory? Nope.

It was poured by a new family of immigrants so they could host their son's bar mitzvah. That's right...for a bar mitzvah.

Why do I have a feeling that the weasel-faced little Suicide Now douche Yariv Oppenheimer is behind this? The moron has nothing better to do than collect Euros and photograph Jews pouring concrete. He should only be deported to Sweden speedily in our days.

The mayor of Efrat, Oded Ravivi, was arrested for trying to block the tractors from ripping the vicious patio from the ground. Upon his release he stated:
“This was disgraceful and humiliating behavior on the part of the security establishment, which during this memorial period [between Holocaust Day and next week’s Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers] sees the need to employ its forces to destroy a concrete surface, while at the same time closing its eyes to the hundreds of illegal Arab houses in the vicinity.”
Since high priest of baal, the fat faced coward known as Ehud Barak, refuses to meet with Yesha leaders, Ravivi must take his complaint to the IDF Central District Commander. I'm so sure he will deliver Ravivi's message to Barak. Ravivi might also remind him that their job is to protect Jews from daily Arab terror attacks, not aiding and abetting Yassam assaults on bar mitzvah patios.

Chodesh tov!

12 April 2010

Will Marack Go Postal On France?

He very well might. Atlas is reporting that Nicolas Sarkozy has tagged Marack as being completely mental...you're just figuring that out now? Where have you been exactly?

So anyway, now that this news is out, how will the narcissist in chief handle it? We he call in the French ambassador? Will he call Sarkozy and chew him out for 45 minutes with his shoes on the desk? Will he fly to France and beat him on the head with a shoe? Will he publicly insult him and demand he give Alsace-Lorraine to Germany? Or will he just bomb France?

And check out that picture of Marack with Bibi she has up. While he clearly is being a smug douche, the look on Bibi's face seems to say, "You skinny ass douche, I was in the IDF. I could kill you with my forehead you annoying little pecker."

I told you people that if you elect a man who is on a perpetual quest to have a daddy in his life, and who thrives on public adulation to replace fatherly love that this is the kind of crap you would get. But nooooooo...you stupid leftist obambi worshipping zombie idiots believed his hopey dopey bullcrap about you being the change we've been waiting for...you people are the stupid we've been waiting for, you idiots.

Well, I guess you people are happy at least with his crapping on Israel. Your desire for sunshine, lollipops, and magic unicorns is only outweighed by your Jew Hate. At least some things are consistent. You probably can't wait for the next round of war so you can go running into the streets with your terrorist supporting friends to rant about globalizing the intifada.

Remember these stupid idiots? I wonder what they think of hopey changey pants now? Oh, who am I kidding, these parents probably have their kids chained up in the basement making clay busts of Marack to sell at the farmers' market.


The really messed up thing is that if the adults in this video finally stopped smoking the hopium, and expressed that Marack turned out to be the complete and total fraud we always knew him to be, these kids would probably report them to the police, or attack them with hot forks. That's what you get for hypnotizing children with your stupid cheese whackadoo nonsense. Of course, Marack's lunacy is probably what those people are all about so they are most likely perfectly happy, or just too plain stupid to notice.

So get ready France, 'cause you might just be getting bitch-slapped by the leader of the changey world. Enjoy!

11 April 2010

Yom HaShoah 5770

Today is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. From the time of the ascension of the Nazi regime in 1933 until its defeat in 1945, 5 million Roma, homosexuals, political dissidents, physically handicapped, and others were murdered. Six million Jews were exterminated in the single largest act of genocide in the modern era (the genocide of North and South America's indigenous peoples being the only one larger).

Centuries old Jewish communities were destroyed. Vast stores of Jewish learning were erased. Our possessions were methodically and painstakingly assembled and stored by the Nazis to be displayed in their museum of extinct races. One third of world Jewry was wiped away, this following nearly 2000 years of unremitting displacement, persecution, and massacre. The governments of the United States, Great Britain, and France were complicit in the Nazi genocide.







In 1948, the 2000 year old dream of reestablishing our sovereignty in the Land of Israel was realized when Israel declared its independence. In its fight to defend its new found independence against the hostile Arab nations that surround her, another 6000 Jews died, and yet Israel survived. Not one country sent soldiers to help defend the Jewish state, in spite of the world's supposed shock and horror in 1945 when the Allies and Soviet Union finally put a stop to death factories that they silently ignored throughtout World War II. The world was more than fine with again standing on the sidelines while the Arabs attempted to enact another genocide in Israel just three years after the end of Holocaust.

Today these same governments that did nothing and said nothing in the 30's and 40's, sit idly by while Iran methodically works to produce nuclear weapons with which it intends to destroy Israel. The president of the United States openly drags his feet and appeases Iran, and attempts to stand as an obstacle against Israel taking military action to stop the mechanics of the second Holocaust that would potentially destroy more than half of the world's remaining Jews. And while this goes on with the world's complicity, these same governments bemoan the treatment of "Palestinians" by Israel. Western intellectuals lead grotesque ceremonies like "Israel Apartheid Week" in which Israel is compared to Nazi Germany, and Azza to the Warsaw Ghetto.

Look at the images in the videos above. Then look at the water fat and well fed Arabs who march in the streets with AK-47s, who dress their children in fake homicide bomb vests and tell me Azza is a ghetto. Azza is an incubator of Jewish death that the world wails for, while it sits idly by as rockets fall on Jewish communities.

The lesson of the Holocaust for the Jew is not about man's inhumanity to man. The lesson is that the world will not only choose not defend us, they will ignore or join the efforts of those who actively seek our destruction.

The lesson of the Holocaust is that the Jewish people did not take to heart its Torah which teaches: Im ba l'hargekha, hashkem l'hargo. If someone is coming to kill you, rise up and kill them first.

Why should the Jew expect the people of the world, who have actively spent the last 2000 years attempting to exterminate us, to suddenly stand up and help us? While an endless stream of leaders and diplomats show up at Auschwitz to say the meaningless phrase "Never again," over and over like a bunch of brainless zombies, they are doing nothing to prevent it from happening again, and openly arm, finance, and support those who call for the destruction of Israel.

The resident of the White House demands Jews stop building homes. Not just Jewish homes, but the homes of religious Jews, the fastest growing population in the Middle East. What is this demand really? It is a call for Jewish birth control. It is a demand that Jews stop having babies. It is a demand that Jews stop living. And so it should come as no surprise to Jews that this man is allowing Iran to get the bomb. It should come as no surprise that he will not order the United States military to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities, despite the fact that the very Arabs he bows down to are demanding he do so. If this is a man who does not want Jews to be born, then what does he care if they die?

In the face rising Jew Hate, calls by the nations of the world for Israel to commit suicide, and Iran's relentless efforts to develop the weapons necessary to destroy the Jewish homeland, there is no alternative than to tell the world to go to hell.

We have but one Shield, one Rock, one Redeemer, and it is not the United States.

08 April 2010

Shepard Smith: Fox Sharia News Useful Anti-Israel Idiot

With Glenn Beck and Charles Krauthammer crapping on Geert Wilders on Fox, no doubt a direct result of lucrative Arab backing, and the network owner Rupert Murdoch's desire to expand operations in the Arab middle east, Fox News pretty boy Shepard Smith has license to rip into Israel with all the style and panache of a typical Jew hating douche. He even says,
"...'cause any time you say one single word that isn't 'we love you Israel' you're an anti-semite."
No Shep, it's when you make a comment like that on TV that we can extrapolate that you're an anti-semite. Your total mischaracterization of the White House created crisis over Ramat Shlomo is just evidence of either your flat out stupidity, or your efficiency in swallowing your Arab masters' talking points.

Judith Miller saying she doesn't consider herself anti-Israel is like saying, "I'm not an anti-semite, I have a Jewish friend." Judith Miller also deserves special condemnation for her contribution to the eroding of journalistic standards. Good work douchebag.

But don't take my word for it...roll that beautiful bean footage.



For some background on the story they are referencing, (while they leave out virtually every important detail), I strongly suggest going over to Caroline Glick's place to read her summation. You can also read more over at here and here.

In the meantime, enjoy Latma's latest video, a redux of the Passover song Chad Gadya entitled Chad Bayta...One Little House, on the goings on with the current nonsense in the territories. The dorky looking idiot at the beginning of the video is Yariv Oppenheimer, another useful idiot who runs Peace (Israeli Suicide) Now. He should only be deported to Sweden.

Enjoy.

At Last, A Nachshon.

In this week's Torah portion we read about Aaron's sons Nadav and Avihu, who were vaporized in the Mishkan after bringing incense before Hashem that they had not been commanded to bring, the so-called "strange fire." As a result, they were consumed in fire.

We have seen quite a bit of strange fire being offered in Israel over the past year. First was the kowtowing to the Marack administration by Bibi Netanyahu when he pushed through a 10 month freeze, claiming it would soften the mood in Washington, and bring the terrorist kleptocrats of Fatah to the negotiating table so he could set about to the task of carving up the heartland of the Jewish people to create yet another terror state bordering Israel...because apparently Hamas and Jizbullah aren't enough of a problem. I personally think this was more about upsetting the religious power base in Judea and Samaria than making the White House happy.

Whatever the case, the plan has backfired completely as many of us predicted it would. Fatah refuses to negotiate, B"H, thanks to the White House and the Hate Defartment's desire to make more demands on Israel, while glad handing the Arabs and completely ignoring the fact that they commit attacks on Jews every day, not to mention the continuing rocket fire from the less "moderate" Arabs of Hamas (Remember that when you call an Arab terror faction "moderate" you mean that they only use firebombs, snipers, stabbings, rocks and axes to kill Jews...not rockets, which are used by radical Islamists like Jizbullah and Hamas...though now the idiot passing himself off as the leader of the "free world" thinks we should stop referring to Islamic radicals in terms of our national security...from now I suppose they will be known as detonationally effusive love-pixies.), and continue to teach their children that killing a Jew is better than Wii.

Then there is of course high priest of baal, Ehud Barak, who has been enforcing the illegal construction freeze with heartless brutality, and who also kicked the Har Bracha Yeshiva out of the Hesder program after its head, Rav Eliezer Melamed refused to tell his students to stop protesting the policy of evicting Jews from their homes as it is against the Torah. Of course Melamed eventually caved, discouraging his students from protesting while telling them that they should refuse to accept orders to eject Jews from their homes. So here we have two offerings of strange fire. Ehud Barak's anti-Torah policies, and Melamed's caving in to pressure to sign a declaration condemning Hesder student protests in the army, which he did in the most cowardly fashion.

Rather than signing a letter condemning Hesder soldier protests, he accepted the will of the majority of Hesder yeshiva heads that the protests should be condemned. In the end that didn't save him, and his yeshiva still got the boot from the program. As is the case when one consents to play ball with mamlachti idol worshippers, he failed to fully stand by halacha, and then got kicked in the teeth by the very force he desired to placate.

If the policy of evicting homes is against Torah, then it is the moral responsibility of every teacher of Torah to encourage their students to protest the policy and not be silent. He should have stood alone. He could have been an example, a light to the other yeshiva heads, and Hesder students. Instead, he rolled over. But it seems that at least one student of Har Bracha is showing the resolve of Nachshon.

A Har Bracha student has begun a work-to-rule strike, refusing to serve in the new Hesder track assigned to him. Facing possible jail time this young man is doing what his Rav would not: standing up to the high priest of baal in protest of the freeze, the ejection of Har Bracha from the Hesder program, and the government's anti-Torah policy of destroying Jewish homes and houses of worship. Apparently, the IDF Personnel Branch made Har Bracha students a variety of offers to get them to comply.

From Arutz-7
After the IDF Personnel Branch realized that the students would rather sit in jail than leave their yeshiva, [Uzi]Baruch [Hebrew Site editor for A-7] reports, the soldiers were apparently informed that they need not leave Har Bracha, but must merely “sign up” at another yeshiva. Only a few soldiers agreed to this arrangement, and the officers then made another offer: “Just say the name of another yeshiva, and we’ll take care of the rest.”

Most of the students agreed to this, but some holdouts remained, viewing it as a surrender to the notion that soldiers must agree to expel Jews. Some of them were therefore removed from the Hesder arrangement, and forced to complete three years in regular IDF service without yeshiva studies. At least one of them, however, refuses to accept the decree.

As of this morning (Thursday), the soldier, who serves in the Shimshon Battalion in the Hevron district, is carrying out what is known in Hebrew and other languages as an “Italian strike.” It was manifest by walking into his commander’s office, laying down his gun, and declaring, “I am not interested in leaving the Hesder and serving in the new track to which you have assigned me. I will sit and study in the synagogue or in my tent until the decision is changed.”
This one soldier is a Nachshon, a man willing to take a leap of faith in the name of defending the Torah, and HaKadosh Borachu, a young man unwilling to bring strange fire before the G-d of Israel. Perhaps his actions will inspire the Hesder Yeshiva heads to reconsider their position, and strengthen the resolve of the Hesder students, regardless of which yeshiva they belong, to continue to stand up against the illegal, anti-Torah policies of the current government of Israel.

B"H