Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote: "Sun Tzu in “The Art of War, stressed winning quickly, avoiding attrition, and ensuring victory once committed, and defeating the enemy so there is no reason to make war again.
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In Israel’s history, that wisdom seems to have been ignored or not understood. And most often Israel has been stopped from defeating the enemy to the degree that war really ends.
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Israel has never been allowed to finish a war. Sometimes prevented by others from doing so. Sometimes stopped because of a lack of resources. In fact, other countries, namely the USA have stepped in to “help” Israel, which prevented a full victory.
And so war continues.
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In the past 2 plus years, since October 7, 2023, Israel has been held back from the kind of response that would destroy Hamas in Gaza quickly. People can claim the real reason was because of the need to protect civilian life in Gaza,
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or because of a lack of weapons, but that would be a false claim. Israel would have used less weaponry, less munitions, in a short war and with less loss of life, than happened by dragging it all out.
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And now, 2 years and a few months since, Hamas is still there, not disarmed, and stronger in Judea and S Samaria, and all over ther world, the enemies have managed in the extended time to turn Israel into a pariah state,
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worse in many ways that would have happened in a war of short duration. And worse, nothing is being done about Hamas outside Gaza,
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nor the fact that the Palestine Authority President has congratulated Hamas for what they did on October 7, 2023, saying it was a proud day for him.
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Another example. In 1973, Israel was attacked viciously, and a long war of attrition was the result, but again, Israel was held back, by its so called Allies, the US, UK, France, telling Israel to be patient and wait and
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a diplomatic solution would be worked out to stop the fighting. In the meantime Jews died, ammunition supplies were depleted, and Israel was at a point whether the choice was resupply (which was blocked by Europe until the US found another way) or
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a drastic solution that would kill millions in the Arab states fighting. In Washington, they decided to resupply Israel - more to avoid Israel doom day scenerios than because they wanted Israel to win.
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You see, the prevailing opinion in the West is - stop fighting, but no judgment. So a people who promises to murder all the Jews and destroy Israel and who attacks civilians, murders and rapes, and burns babies alive,
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is treated as if they are morally on the same level as countries that value life and live by moral rules.
And now Hamas refuses to disarm, and what does the West do, including Trump?
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They berate Israel from not going along while they make concessions to those that want the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas and Hezbollah to survive,
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And then there is Iran - while Israel was subjected to weeks of rocket attacks, Israel was told to not retaliate, and finally when Israel insisted that a potentially nuclear Iran had to be stopped, then the US stepped in rather than allow Israel to really finish the job...
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its own way. And today, Iran is rearming with North Korean and Pakistani help, building up an inventory of 1000’s of more powerful rockets. What will happen next?
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Predictions:
Iran will attack again, with Turkey’s help. There will be another attack by 1000’s of rockets and drones, though Iron beam will help defend Israel better than last time. And eventually, Israel will have to take action to end the Islamic Republic Regime.
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But after how much more damage and how many more deaths?
A reconstituted Hamas and associated terrorist groups in Judea and Samaria, rearmed massively via smuggling from Jordan will pick a time, October 2028, while the Americans are busy with an election campaign, and
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the next attack will come from Samaria, and Israel’s densely populated middle - terrorists rampaging through Kfar Saba, Ra’anana, and into Herzlia, killing, murdering in numbers that make October 7 2023, look small.
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And at sea, the Turks will try to grab control of the Easterm Mediterranean - attacking Greek and Israeli and Cypriot interests.
Because it is simple, when even Trump tries to make concessions so the Muslim are happy with him, and
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the alternative is the Democrat leftists, their Muslim world will see weakness, and weakness invites aggression and genocide."
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "BHARAT, YISRAEL, Magyarország, Suomi.
Some time ago, both Bat Zion Susskind Sacks and I wrote articles explaining why people should use the term in Hebrew, “Yisrael”,
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rather than the term “Israel” which when pronounced comes out like “Izreal”.
But Yisrael is not the only one that worldwide is called something quite different from what one could say is the appropriate name.
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But what if everyone started calling Great Britain, “Albion”. Would the British appreciate that? Or what if everyone would adopt the British names for places in the world like Leghorn, Italy, or the Italian names for places in France and Germany like Parigi and Monaco.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Trump has now attacked terrorists in Nigeria who have been terrorizing Christians and others, kidnapping, murdering, raping.
While I do not fault Trump for wanting to protect Christians in Nigeria from Muslim terrorism,
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I do not want the USA to be acting like the world's police force, and Trump may have exceeded his proper role as US president. The right way to go about things is to force Nigerian leaders to do what they have an obligation to do—to destroy the terrorists and
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protect all their citizens. But there is a history to this: when Christians and others in SE Nigeria, tired of being abused and persecuted, declared independence from Nigeria as the Republic of Biafra, all of the West did what?
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Among my reasons for being critical of things that have been said about Trump’s Gaza plans is maybe one of the biggest objections. The plan assumes that the Gaza Strip has to be rebuilt but without any Jewish population.
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The unspoken theory is that peace can come only if Jews are not allowed to be in certain areas. That is a dangerous antisemitic belief, even if it is not the intention for that to be.
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You see, what if Israel would say that peace depends on all Arabs being expelled from any area that is the Jewish homeland. I’m sure the world would scream.
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As long as Erdoğan rules Turkey, puts opposition leaders in prison, and claims sea and land beyond what its neighbors should allow, and
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sponsors and protects the Muslim Brotherhood and its branches such as Hamas, and terrorists in North Africa, and has troops protecting the Muslim Brotherhood government in Libya, Turkey is a serious problem for the entire region.
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So now Israel, Greece, and Cyprus have decided to operate jointly in defense of the region. Greek troops are already in Israel and Cyprus for training and coordination.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Shabbat Shalom
Vayigash
Genesis 44:18–47:27
Yehuda (Judah) approaches Yosef (Joseph) to plead for the release of Benjamin, offering himself as a slave to the Egyptian ruler in Benjamin’s place. 1)
Upon witnessing his brothers’ loyalty to one another, Joseph reveals his identity to them. “I am Joseph,” he declares. “Is my father alive?”
The brothers are overcome by shame and remorse, but Yosef comforts them instead of the expected anger they anticipated.
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“It was not you who sent me here,” he says to them, “but HaShem. It has been to save us, and the entire region, from famine.”
The brothers rush back to Canaan with the news. Ya’acov (Jacob) comes to Egypt with his sons and their families—seventy in all—and
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For those who point to Scripture, Zionism is the right of the Jewish people to be sovereign in their Jewish homeland, Eretz Yisrael. Roger Froikin wrote, in part, "Zionism started 4000 years ago, not in the late 19th century, with the promise to Avraham, Yitzchaq, and Ya’acov,
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with Moshe (Moses) 3400 years ago and the trek through Sinai to Eretz Yisrael."
This promise is reiterated multiple times in Genesis, including in Genesis 12:7, Genesis 13:15, Genesis 15:18, and Genesis 17:8.
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The promise is further confirmed to Isaac in Genesis 26:3 and to Jacob in Genesis 28:13 and Genesis 35:12. The covenant is also reaffirmed through Moses, with G-d stating that He would bring the Israelites into the land He swore to their forefathers, described as...
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