Everybody:
I LOVE the vast majority of what our dearly beloved National Chairman Chaim ben Pesach claims and argues for. I have never known any other political/philosophical leader who is so passionate, so principled, and so very correct. I would actually put him just a rung below the L-rd and the great heroes of the Bible, such as King David, Paul, Elijah, Abraham, Moses, etc.
I truthfully agree with 99% of what he has to say.
But...
The 1% where I do differ from him is an area where I would very much like to see some reconsideration and reflection. Chaim, if you are reading this, know that I say this out of love and not criticism, but I really think you have an overly optimistic/rosy view of Israeli Jewry. I know where you are coming from, and I know that you are trying to encourage us to give it all a 110% effort, but I do not foresee a great majority of Israelis coming around to our message, as rational and commonsensical as it is.
What I foresee is, ultimately, a situation where about 40% of Israelis (the youth and the religious) will be deadlocked against 60% of Israelis (who support the establishment), and will not prevail without a great miracle from heaven. What I am trying to tell you is that we must remember that the victory in Israel (and America) will ultimately come through the blessing of Hashem alone, and not a popularity contest.
I have zero doubt that RIGHT NOW the vast majority of Israelis are wicked self-haters. You might not disagree with that, but you would assert that they are brainwashed, do not know that we exist as a viable third option to Labor/Kadima and Likud, etc., and you might be correct, but right now, I think most of us would agree with my basic assertion. Will many more come around? I don't know. I have a gut hunch that a HUGE percentage of Israelis are conscious and deliberate self-hating kapos and will never change--maybe 40 or 50% or more than that.
History agrees with me. In the 1930s/40s, a vast, vast majority of European Jews obeyed every order of the Nazis and their local puppets/sycophants, knowingly marching to their own deaths in the ovens because they believed death as "loyal European citizens" was preferable to militant resistance. In the late '40s, when Israel was still British Nazi Fagestine, a majority of Israeli colonists (who came from communist/socialist ideologies in Europe) were kapos who ratted out Stern members to the British Nazis. All throughout ben GAYrion's (ys"vz) reign, Israelis kept their mouths shut when religious Sephardic kids were confiscated from their parents and raised to be good little Labor atheistic commies. The list goes on and on. Rabbi Kahane was kicked out of office in Israel and not a peep from the entire nation (well, there was a peep alright, a peep of jubilation from the Bolsheviks and phony "right"); you were expelled from Israel by the supposedly-religious Shas Party (the same Shas that some JTF members claim it is a sin to criticize in any way); Tatiana Susskind was charged by the "rightist" prime minister Penis Netanyahoo with "defiling Islam" and sentenced to 38 years in prison and all of the so-called rightist Jews in Arutz Seven and all the other pseudo-right cliques praised the move because it supposedly proved that "we are not like the Arabs, we enforce the law impartially", and I could go on ad infinitem.
Chaim, the entire Bible--both Testaments (for the Jews, the Tanach, and for the Christians here, the New Testament) teach that the nation of Israel, physically and spiritually, is sick and in desperate need of redemption. This goes back to the beginnings of the Jewish nation. Ancient Israelites wanted to have peace with the Canaanites, Egyptians, Philistines, Chaldeans, etc. and not fight. They just wanted to lead quiet, prosperous, undisturbed lives. They killed prophets that said otherwise, and followed all of the satanic idols that their pre-Islamic butcher "neighbors" worshipped. As punishment for this, G-d gave them over to the hands of their satanic Nazi enemies time and time again.
I love the Jewish people with all of my heart and soul because it is my own heritage, but I am not going to refrain from criticizing leftist and self-hating Jews, or minimize the problem that they are, just because it looks harsh and judgmental. The only way we will save Israel is if we are honest with our real problem, and let me tell you--our real problem is not Arab Nazis or Euronazis.
Our real problem is not even the Israeli Bolshevist government and media machinery.
Our real problem are average Joe and Jane middle-class Israelis in Tel Aviv, west Jerusalem, Haifa, the kibbutzim, etc. who figure that by selling 6% of Israeli Jews down the river the Arabs will leave them alone, taxes will go down, they can afford a nice new car, and retire early.
And no, we can't beat them through mass appeals alone. Even if forced to watch ten JTF different videos a day for the next two years, most of these fat, lazy cows would STILL hate us and demand national suicide.
We will only win control of Israel by the hand and grace of G-d. We must, must pray and encourage our brothers and sisters in the Lord, Jew and Christian, to lift up our cause to him just the same, tirelessly, day after day, night after night. We don't have any power at all, but the L-rd has infinite power, and he will do whatever it takes to bring himself glory and praise in this situation. I am not saying we should stop making videos and getting our name out, but I urge you all to remember that prayer is our most effective weapon.
Chaimfan.