Jerusalem Defender Ten Year Anniversary

Today is the Tenth of Teves, the Jewish fast day commemorating the siege of Jerusalem thousands of years ago. This blog was founded ten years ago to help in anyway possible to help prevent another assault on Jerusalem, only this time with our own consent. God blessed this good intention and this effort to the point that little did I suspect but just 6 months later, in writing to this blog, God inspired me to compose the Everyone Wins Peace Plan.

Everyone Wins is based on these core concepts:

1. A good peace is good for all good people. 
2. Peace does not wait for war to reset the playing field. Peace prevents war. 
3. What terrorists want is not equal to what good people want.
4. Terrorists are anti-ethical to civilization. No peace that makes sanctuary for them in strategic points of a nation's heartland has any real expectation to achieve lasting peace.
5. Only a plan that can fit into the prophecies of the messianic age can possibly have a real chance of success. A plan that, for example, would try to divide the very place that the seal of world peace, the Holy Temple is, could not possibly be effective. This emanates from a pragmatic attitude of God being real and Scripture being the best intel one could hope for. It is guaranteed to be so.
6. Ten years ago, Jordan is Palestine was a known peace plan that fit this bill at the time, but it put the power to fulfill it, in the hands of a foreign government.  The Kingdom of Jordan would have to agree.  This makes it implausible. Therefore another peace plan that retains Jerusalem was needed. One that allowed for unilateral implementation.
7. More so, Abraham, the forefather of Jews and Arabs, did not rejoice at the destruction of the wicked cities in the vicinity of Sodom. He prayed for them to be saved if there are righteous among them. Thus there is no religious imperative to treat innocent Arabs as one would terrorists. Why should they be made homeless?
8. So another method was needed. A plan that retains the land needed for the prophecies of world peace to occur, merciful towards enemies, but strong against terrorists. Someone who understands these factors should write a plan to deal with this. Also I am among the few who write on these matters publicly, who attempt to adhere to the Torah from Sinai completely.  The Torah that commands, “Do not stand still by the blood of your fellow (i.e. do not do nothing when your fellow’s life is in danger.)” (Leviticus 19:16)  I felt I had no choice but to try.
   
   So I accepted the responsibility to be open to God's inspiration on where we should go to find peace based on all these factors. God blessed me to do so. But it remains His inspiration. It must be implemented by the government of the people of Israel. But at least it is on the table.

To date no plan has come out that equals Everyone Wins. But I have to admit that this must be from Heaven. Just as beautiful music can come to the world through a highly imperfect composer, this plan somehow came through me, for whatever reason. So I wanted just to say thanks to HaShem/God for helping me to be the first to write about it.

Give thanks to the Lord because He is good, for His kindness is eternal. ...To Him Who performs great wonders alone, for His kindness is eternal. (Psalm 136:1 & 4)

It seems to me that based on the trend from 3 USA administrations we have thus far shared since this blog began, and considering that the alternative plans offered by leading Israelis in the past 10 years have been inching closer toward our way of thinking, it seems that it is just a matter of time until the things we wrote about here in this blog regarding the Everyone Wins Peace Plan, will occur as the true and lasting peace that Israel and the world needs.  But I only continue to promote the Everyone Wins Peace Plan, because there is simply no plan it's equal. This is God's project and if a better plan would come along, I remain prepared to support that instead. But as of this writing there is no true competition.

Blessed is the Lord God, the God of Israel, Who performs wonders alone. And blessed is His glorious name forever, and His glory will fill the entire earth. Amen and amen. (Psalm 72:18 & 19)

The main thing is that true peace come. May true peace come swiftly in our days. May it soon be so, by the grace of God.

Increase Pressure On Hamas

Any entity seeking statehood, whose aim is primarily the destruction of member states is obviously beyond the boundaries of civilized statehood and cannot help the world find peace.  Such an entity, should they become a state, would become more roguish than the states that currently sponsor them that have at least historic moments of normative philosophies in their international relations. 

All member states must desire peaceful coexistence or they cannot be considered member states.  While philosophical extremists can say whatever they like, terrorist ideology is beyond the pale of normative international relations. Comparable to a shopping mall; just as you need  everyone to be dedicated to avoiding violence before they enter. Similarly there is a normative expectation for an applicant state. It is a social contract expected from everyone who shops at a mall. There are reasonable expectations from applicant nations as well.  Hamas is inherently disqualified from joining civilized nations and also Israel never intended to give them Gaza. Therefore to encourage Hamas control of Gaza is illegitimate as a goal towards the path of achieving worldwide peace among nations states.

During Hamas' drive to continue ties with arms supplier Iran, we need to put more pressure up against their false claims to Gaza. Under international law, there is no protection for non nation entity based  terrorists who are trying to form a rogue state.  There is no international law that grants diplomatic immunity to Hamas to form a terrorist state before it has even achieved statehood.  Pro Israel advocates should emphasize this fact more often.

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Today I met Prof. Eugene Kontorovich for the first time. Though we have spoken previously, via electronic means.  I reiterated my position as taken in our previous discussion, on my view that Gaza does not belong to Hamas even under International Law. (as written about in this blog at this URL: Gaza and a One State Solution)  It was that meeting today that inspired this essay.

Unifying Temple Mount Advocacy

The Temple Mount is the heart and soul of Jerusalem and Israel. Surrendering governorship of the Temple Mount to the Waqf is not explainable from a Zionistic perspective. It is nonsensical from a strategic perspective. It is not excusable from a Torah perspective. In this Essay I do not wish to judge a religious dispute, but show an avenue to national unity that is not being discussed.

From an international perspective, there is nothing wrong in owning your land. The assumption of giving up land is an assault on Zionism. The attempt from four decades ago to falsely claim Zionism as racism was rescinded by the U.N. The U.N.'s current policy is a form of repentance for repealing Zionism-is-racism, by pressuring Israel to surrender the land of their own accord to a known terrorist supporting entity. Zionism-is-racism was lighter than attempting to force a permanent partnership with someone who wants to kill the new partner. We can't live in the mindset of the U.N., especially when it has stopped being an honest broker long ago.

The actual movement for Jewish rights on the Temple Mount should not center around the Jewish right to only pray there, but their God given right to govern and build there as well.

Not equal rights to pray, but equal rights to manage your own religion's holiest site on Earth. The Muslims do it in Mecca, the Catholics in Rome, and the Jews should do it in Jerusalem.

From an internal perspective, if it is OK to build on the Golan without asking the U.N. each time, why not on the place we are guaranteed to build on by prophecy, a prophecy that even Islam admits is true?

Israel's policy has been to ignore all world opinion on the Golan. Why should the Temple Mount be different? Do what is truly best for you.

Why take a poll of only those who do not love you regarding the Temple Mount and not ask those who do love you? Israel only seems to ask the PLO and the U.N. It does not take polls or referendums on what Israelis feel about the status quo on the Temple Mount.

The PLO has shown they want to use the Mount as a strategic spark to ignite unrest. This time even when Israel did nothing they still are trying to use the Temple Mount for violence. Therefore strategic concerns are no longer a reason to delay full control of the Temple Mount.

If you can't explain control of the Temple Mount, how do you explain control of anything? King David bought it 3000 years ago and it is at the center of our prayers.

First thing to do, you don't need to explain anything, don't let haters hate at your expense.

Second, Land for Peace is anti Zionistic. Give into it no longer.

Third, religious rights of your people matter, stop offending Jews by ignoring their right to the Temple Mount.

It makes no sense to delay this any longer, from a strategic perspective, since the violence in the streets was part and parcel of the Waqf withdrawal from the Temple Mount. It was not Israel forcing them out and then there was violence. They withdrew to make an excuse for violence.
(In basketball that would be called an offensive foul. Charging at and leaping into someone who is doing nothing wrong to draw a foul, is a foul in and of itself.)

To entrust the Waqf again at this juncture is an act of rewarding terror.  The U.N. said do it. And the Knesset accepted it, and not one referendum or poll to consider how the constituency feels about it.

The same U.N. that advised Israel to give ISIS the Golan Heights prefers the Waqf remain in control of the Temple Mount.  What does that tell you?

Israel never budged on sharing the Golan, but Israel immediately heeded to return governorship to a pro violence organization that does not allow the Mount to be a holy place for all peoples. Israel needs to no longer take advice on these kinds of internal matters from the U.N.

Prime Minister Netanyahu correctly told the world a year ago that Israel will never give up the Golan. Even more firm than Israel's right to the Golan is Israel's right to the Temple Mount. Why not apply the same wisdom there? If the Knesset feel uncomfortable dealing with religious issues, and consider themselves less religious than the Waqf, there are more religious people in Israel than there are in Waqf who would be better caretakers than the Waqf is able, who would ensure, as a matter of faith, that no violence issues forth from the Holy Mountain.

Rather than allowing the Waqf to take back governorship of the Mount, it was upon the Knesset to recognize that all this was an offer from Heaven to retake the Temple Mount to allow it to be a true house of prayer for all peoples. Not in a way that would cause war, but delivered gift wrapped. Should the Knesset continue to foolishly cave into U.N. pressure to squander this chance, and continue to deny religious rights? The right still exists for Israel to select a different governor, even today. What is your opinion on this? Who will you share that opinion with?

But this was an important historic moment nonetheless. We were reminded in practical terms, that the Waqf is only a caretaker governor organization under International Law. Israel remains the true owners, even by International Law. This gives tantalizing hope that Moshiach/messiah can come even in an avenue that would allow that age to be ushered in, without the need for any further wars. An End of Days with out lives ending. Only the right of the wicked to oppress the meek need end.

Unifying the Message

Just encouraging Jews to flock onto the Temple Mount is not likely to succeed as a catalyst for real change, as it ignores a vital prerequisite according to many, many leading Rabbis. Many consider, no prayers should be held today, only when the Temple Mount contains the House of Jacob, and the Biblical laws of cleansing and purification are in place, then can people ascend and then also is world peace guaranteed.

Ergo, some rabbis may be strongly against prayer rallies on the Temple Mount, as it is a workaround and a potential delay to the process that must be done to really fix things in the world today and enter the era of no bloodshed, politically, and religiously it is even more complex. Well, we can leave that to the experts, but we need to recognize the reality that the Jewish-prayer-now movement may not have Divine blessing to rid Israel of Waqf rule. A commandment that is fulfilled via a sin is a sin (Talmud, Sukah 30a), and ignoring most of the great Rabbis of a generation is a bad start to attempting to establish a House of Jacob.  Hence it can aggravate a lot of the followers of those Rabbis. Thus, politically speaking, it leaves half of your potential supporters at the gate before any potential prayer rally is even announced.

I am not presuming to judge this from the perspective of are these rabbis or those rabbis wrong or right.  I am simply objecting to the lack of unity currently in the movement for Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount.  I am merely trying to help light a path to unify all potential members of the movement towards the same direction by showing the side of the discussion that is not always reported on in the media. Let's not work around the great Rabbis, let's work with them. Consensus building will draw the combined energy of all lovers of Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount to combine to form a govern-the-Temple-Mount movement.

May the Knesset no longer participate in the continued appointment of the Waqf as the governing authority on the Temple Mount. May the time that the hallowed Temple Mount becomes a house of prayer for all peoples occur swiftly, in our days. May it soon be so, by the grace of God.

The Temple Mount Must Be The House of God

The Temple Mount is now free of the rule of the Waqf Authority.
PM Netanyahu wisely refused demands to remove newly installed security measures to make Moslems also face the same security rules as Jews and Christians do. Sounds fair, right? A mini intifada in the streets of Jerusalem was the reaction. Having fair rules on the Temple Mount was not Waqf policy, so if they can't get their way, the philosophy of the PLO demands violence.
“It is extremely important that a solution to the current crisis be found by Friday this week,” said Nickolay Mladenov after briefing the UN Security Council.
This is like telling a brain surgeon, "We need to use this operating room in five minutes, just make sure you finish up by then."
Israel needs to be the ones to decide the best timetable and methodology to fix this.
“The dangers on the ground will escalate if we go through another cycle of Friday prayer without a resolution to this current crisis,” he warned.
So in other words, the status quo of Waqf Authority, is not to preserve religious freedom, but a set up for potential violence whenever the PLO does not get it's way.
"'It is critically important that the status quo is preserved in Jerusalem,' he said."
But it is the exact opposite that is true. The status quo places potential intifadas all over the place, like landmines in a public park.

Let the IDF be limited no more. End the status quo, bar the Waqf Authority forever and place the Temple Mount under the control of the Rabbis of Israel as per prophecy. Why fight God-given intel? World peace is guaranteed if Israel controls the Temple Mount.

As in the Book of Isaiah
Chapter 2, verses 2 and 3: "And it shall be at the end of the days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be firmly established at the top of the mountains, and it shall be raised above the hills, and all the nations shall stream to it. And many peoples shall go, and they shall say, "Come, let us go up to the Lord's mount, to the house of the God of Jacob, and let Him teach us of His ways, and we will go in His paths," for out of Zion shall the Torah come forth, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem."
And in Chapter 56, verse 7:
"I will bring them to My holy mount, and I will cause them to rejoice in My house of prayer, their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be acceptable upon My altar, for My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples."

First the House of Prayer must be firmly established as God's house, not a staging ground for bloodshed, and only then can it be a house of prayer for all people and only then can the era of guaranteed World Peace begin. May it soon be so, by the grace of God.

Beware the Terrorists in Diplomatic Clothing

There is still a belief that Fatah is somehow a potential partner in peace. President Trump in Saudi Arabia called Hamas a terrorist group, and yet in policy he has also declared Fatah a potential partner in peace. The sooner the real Fatah is revealed, the sooner real peace can have a chance.

If Fatah does not fully separate from Hamas and it's ways, there is no workable Two State Solution. They have been indistinguishable at times. Finding the true nature of Fatah has to be the main priority. Pressure is meaningless without a mechanism that leads to peace beneath the button to press. That mechanism is sincerity in peace making. The main concern is, is sincerity in peace making present in Fatah or not? That should be the first puzzle that the Administration attempts to solve.

To me it is clear, that Fatah is not a peace partner. They are not founded in improving the plight of their people even as a secondary agenda. Their conception of improving matters for their people is to create a front to hide their true intentions behind. They are not just a bunch of angered people who will calm with enough incentives. They are dedicated to hatred, but to guile as well. Even when not in unity government with Hamas, Fatah have continued indoctrination of their youth in violence. But they also fully understand the concept that one closes their mouth and takes foreign "peace" money even while they preserve their burning lust for bloodshed within. Keeping candies at the ready to distribute in celebration the next time an innocent non Muslim is slain. Yes, in case one did not hear the news, in Fatah controlled areas this recently occurred. Not just by Hamas in Gaza. No different than Hamas. Not just far away, but even on border towns in Samaria.

Reread what you have read in reports about Fatah and Hamas, and remember that "Palestinian Authority" is code word for Fatah, not Hamas unless stated specifically otherwise.  Do all reports only criticize Hamas but also mention "Palestinian Authority" TV indoctrinating evil to the children. Who runs Palestinian TV?  Israel had to destroy broadcast capability 15 years ago, in Fatah's seat of power, Ramallah. Before Gaza fell to Hamas. Think this through. If you longed for independence for your people, and would finally achieve independent authority to do or say what you want, what would the first thing you do be? Wouldn't you want to nurture your people in some way?  Fatah, wanted to instill hatred. FATAH desires hatred rather than improvement for their people. Their leaders aggrandize their lot while they keep their people low. Offer them better services than Hamas, to remain in power, but don't steal away the underpinnings of discontent needed to spark a war or intifada when called for according to the leadership elite of Fatah. Hamas later broadcasted from Gaza after Fatah, FATAH, first taught them how the hatred indoctrination is most properly done!

As long as the Israeli government and the West allow themselves to be deceived by Fatah because they have not considered all the possible one state solutions until a workable one is found, then true peace cannot flourish. But as soon as the truth is confronted, and accepted, the sooner a path to true peace can be found and achieved. May it soon be so, by the grace of God.

Rabbi Benny Elon of Blessed Memory

The passing of Rabbi Benny Elon is difficult for all lovers of Zion. His Jordan is Palestine peace plan was the first famous plan that did not contradict Torah prophecies. That should tell you right there how good he was to both Heaven and people; desiring peace for humans and in a way that did not risk offense to God.

PM Netanyahu said of him, “My wife and I express deep sorrow at the passing of Rabbi Elon, a lover of the land of Israel, a rabbi and educator, former MK. 

"The Rabbi was a man with a pleasant temperament, who worked in his public life both inside and outside the Knesset for the nation of Israel, the Torah of Israel, and the land of Israel. May his memory be a blessing.”

But he was more than that.

Whether or not Rabbi Elon's peace plan becomes the vehicle of the prophesied peace of the future, the outstanding character displayed to publicly stand for a kosher peace plan when everyone else could only talk about how much to divide the Promised Land, is an act of righteousness of historic proportions. It is not an exaggeration to say that he laid a foundation for a peace plan that Moshiach could accept.  A kosher peace idea became a topic of daily discourse in the secular State of Israel because of him. That is bringing the study hall to the street and allowing all to share in the ways of peace that Torah brings with it.

Rabbi Elon was the Abraham of peace planners, the first author of a peace plan who did not wage a secular war against God. The Torah would only be given to Moses, but the first covenant to the Jewish people was given by God to and through Abraham. Rabbi Elon will not only be missed, he is simply irreplaceable.

"The Lord gave and the Lord took, may the name of the Lord be blessed."

The Elements of Peace for Israel

When evaluating peace plans for Israel we need to cover 3 main categories of litmus tests. If we find optimum fulfillment of these values, it is then indicative of a possible plan with real chance of success. These values are, Security, Viability, and Compassion. Security: does it secure real peace. Viability: can it be implemented in actuality. Compassion: do the good people involved still remain good at the end of this or must they compromise their principles in some way, to achieve the greater goal of permanent cession of bloodshed, Or can such noble traits be retained at all if they are not compromised for the greater good.

Security

The most straightforward category given our point in history. History has shown that only with the multi-ethnic IDF in complete control of an area are the rights of all humans in that locale guaranteed. The Palestinian Authority does not pledge rights to Jews, and it does not even guarantee rights to Arabs, especially if they are women and children. The Palestinian Authority has used security control more to further terrorism, than combat it. Territory that was entrusted to them are being used as cities of refuge for terror. The IDF therefore must have control for any peace plan to work.

Viability

If the Palestinian Authority which is essentially a sub entity governor body of the State of Israel, cannot be counted on to make a treaty for the benefit of it's own citizens, then surely another country such as the Kingdom of Jordan is unlikely to take in millions of immigrant Palestinian Arabs, as part of any peace plan. Unilateral control must be retained for a chance at workable political viability. Therefore any plan that depends on a Jordan is Palestine kind of doctrine, is a roadblock to peace making in actuality. Jordan is Palestine covers a lot of the bases of what you want in a peace plan, but it does not deliver peace, due to lack of viable implementation options in real terms.

Compassion

One should not make good people homeless. You can't evict all the Jews from the territories, nor all the innocent Arabs, and still remain the same compassionate democratic state that Israel is today. Neither can Israel whose soul is resting upon the Holy Words of the Torah, forsake land that God gave her via that Torah. So this indicates the need for A) a One State Solution with annexation followed by naturalization of all good people West of the River Jordan. Yet it would be discompassionate to naturalize terrorists as well. Like locking wild animals in within a fence containing children. Only the innocent would suffer if terrorists were trusted like good people dedicated to civilization building. Therefore, B) an exclusion of terrorists from the future united State of Israel would allow a unified state dedicated to truth, justice and the Israeli way. Not only terrorists, C) even codependents to terror are not eligible for naturalization to the State of Israel, unless they renounce terror as an option, and jihad as a goal and agree to join Israel in helping to continue to make a peaceful and vibrant nation for citizens of all races and ethnicities.

There must be no racial discrimination. Evaluation and potential rejection of applicants to naturalization should be based exclusively on their willingness or lack thereof to be civilization builders. Those who would nihilistically prefer everything to crumble so they could get their way, are not possible candidates to join a civilized nation.

For too long many peace plan ideas from the political left felt that a failure to surrender, trade, or otherwise sacrifice an aspect of who Israel is, their heritage, would be a failure to retain their humanity. But the opposite is the case. By seeking what Israel must give up, the question of what Israel must retain never entered the forefront of the conversation on peacemaking. That was the final philosophical leap necessary before true and enduring peace could be brought to the Middle East. Only through compassionate strength could peace be brought to a region with too many bullies.

Demographic concerns are mitigated by two main factors to the peace that I am suggesting. One, many Arabs do not qualify for citizenship under these above stated guidelines so the number of applicants to naturalize is significantly lower than previous projections. Two, a slow but sure staggered transition period toward full citizenship will allow immigration rates of foreign born Jews to mitigate any significant change to electoral balance within the State of Israel.

This is the Everyone Wins Peace Plan that God blessed me to compose nine years ago. If this is the preferred method for peace, by Heaven and the people, may it soon be accepted by the leadership in the State of Israel. May it soon be so, by the grace of God.

Arabic Naturalization is Not Prelude to Destruction

Not all Arabs in the disputed territories are the problem. A right wing plan that calls for relocating all Arabs in a Kahane-esque manner is not the correct solution. By placing pressure on the innocent among the Arabs to relocate as well, that implies that they too are the problem. But really it is terrorists that are the problem. They and a lack of willingness on the part of the Knesset to annex and take full responsibility for that which belongs to Israel. The gradual annexation process suggested by the likes of Dr. Martin Sherman, I agree with, but I call for the addition of allowing for innocent Arabs to keep their homes and placing a filter to remove the terrorists.

Peace is not built on fueling societal discontent, but removing the barriers towards satisfaction of the peace loving masses on both sides of a conflict.

Removal of terrorists and their supporters from the naturalization option, and the result would be to make it a smaller naturalization process than implied and not as fearsome to consider, thus the assertion that it is a road to certain demographic doom is unfounded, in my opinion.

Some may look to a million Muslim migrants flooding into Germany and France as reason to not compromise from the absolute stance against allowing Arabs to remain in the territories.

But the Arabs are already there, if the naturalization is staged and filtered, and there are not hate-filled Arabs remaining, then there is no correlation with the German and French models. Reject citizenship to anarchists, but keep civilization builders. The good Arabs will help Israel, not be a burden.

Terrorists need to go. Compensation or no. Societal codependents to terror, who refuse peace, can be relocated under a method such as the Kahane style compensation plan Dr. Sherman suggests. But good people should not be expelled from their homes. Jew or Arab alike.

Post filtration of terrorists and their supporters, a majority of Arabs may not remain in the land, but the righteous and innocent minority should have their rights protected. For civilization to progress, good people must have their rights protected.

Must all roses be destroyed if they be found on thorn bushes? Rather, even the thorn bush should be spared if that is what keeps the roses healthy. If policy to good people is the same as the consequences given to supporters of terror, justice is surely lacking.  Israel does not need to forsake justice to gain security and peace. Indeed it must not.

Our mutual forefather Abraham prayed for mercy for sinful cities, if only a few righteous be found among them. We cannot consider a policy of quickly removing Arabs LEST we find righteous among them. That is not the legacy of Abraham, that is not who we are, and that is not what we should do.

As to the misinterpretation by some on the right that Talmudic law prohibits keeping the innocent among the Arabs, apparently based on some things that Rabbi Meir Kahane wrote. Please allow me to reassure, it is not a hindrance to naturalization, as I previously discussed 8 years ago on my blog. Whereas creation of a terrorist state from out of parcels of the Holy Land, however, would violate the prohibition (of Lo Techanem). Therefore, naturalizing innocent Arabs is kosher, giving terrorists strategic footholds in your land is not.

May this realization spread fully among those in the political right of Israel that do not yet accept this. May this soon be so, by the grace of God.

Israel Has a Right to Build in Judea and Samaria

Israel is the owner of Judea and Samaria, aka the West Bank, under International Law. Israel tried but did not succeed to give most of it away. Unless Israel does give it away, it has a clear mandate to build as it sees fit. How can Israel make any decision if it allows other governments to sway it's every micro decision.

As I wrote nine years ago, Israel has full rights, but has allowed current residents both Jews and Arabs to define the nature of the land. By only making natural changes based on population growth of Jews and Arabs in these territories, Israel is preserving the status quo. At this stage in history, however, one must ask why keep the status quo of accepting terrorists as pretend diplomats as an equal counterpart to Israeli settlers who have a natural mandate to settle where they wish within context of local property rights. Israel is not administering law and order to these territories. Neither could one in all honesty say that the terroristic Palestinian Authority is either. The Palestinian Authority has guns and Israel stays out of their way. In America we call that a street gang that the police are not cracking down on, not a legal government of a nation with equal rights.

Israel has superior rights to the land of Israel. It would have to give up those rights to mitigate that under International Law. They have not; so the rights to build where they please remain.

A right for Israel to build remains.

The current status quo is inherently laissez-fair where Israel needs to be commanding, weak where Israel needs to be strong, codependent to terror, where Israel needs to bring the Torah of Sinai to bear and not allow murders a city of refuge; rather, give refuge to the innocent and the righteous of Jews and Arabs alike.

The mishandling of the unauthorized settlement of Amona underscores the danger of this status quo. Spiritually speaking, it also creates more unhealthy pressure against the State of Israel. Israel was tacitly allowed to build as they liked in the first week of President Trump's administration. The moment they were cruel to settlers, lo and behold, they are told to limit their building plans in the territories again. No coincidence there.

You only have to go to court if you don't want to compromise. By failing to find a compromise with the residents of Amona, Israel has failed to retain control of their own territory, this time giving over control not to a peace process, but to a court order. If for example any residents that are accused of squatting were allowed to promise to pay double market value to remain on the disputed territory, how many property owners would disagree about compromising? Not enough was done to keep this out of court, and keep it from getting out of control. And now Israel is reliving the nightmare of the Gush Katif evacuation, and suddenly Trump's spokesman sounds not much different than Obama's.

Israel needs to never again evacuate Jewish communities from the land upon which they live.

Never again.

If Amona was such a mistake, how did all those homes and buildings get built in the first place? Laissez-fair where there needs to be control. Cruel where there needs to be mercy. Seeking a deal with nations where there needs to be internal decision making.

We need rulers who do not merely speak politely about sages, but wisely pursue policy like them as well.

If the current government would blame this all on pressure from the Obama Administration. Then from now on, we can expect and rightly demand only wise, merciful and coherent policy from the Netanyahu Administration. If they would show wisdom in their policies, then the time to begin is now.

May the wise soon rule over Israel and the reign of fools come to an end. May it soon be so, by the grace of God.

UN Resolution 2334

The attempt to stop building within the capital of the State of Israel, known as UN Resolution 2334, is an illegal resolution that should be ignored. Could we accept Zionism equals racism? Neither can we accept this assault on the city of Zion itself. Likewise, this resolution should and must also be repealed. Jerusalem is a human right of the Jewish people. There can be no negotiations that deny that as a starting point.

The Holy Temple that Jews pray 3 times daily for it to be rebuilt stood in Eastern Jerusalem. The Palace of King David stood there. No city of Palestinian Arabs ever existed there. By the grace of God, the League of Nations granted it. The State of Israel annexed it long ago. The reasons are multifarious why the resolution is wrong, the reasons in favor of the resolution are either based on romanticism in peacemaking or downright hatred.
John Kerry claimed that Israel was in danger of becoming a Unitary State. Essentially he was saying that the Obama Administration had to put a diplomatic threat looming over Israel lest it become a state just like... France or the UK.?!?

Yes, France, the UK, Spain and Japan are all examples of Unitary States. It is the normative form of government in the world today.

Is this Kerry statement an intended contempt for most of our allies or merely utter foolishness? Either way, there were a lot of words put out to explain this resolution, though none of them were about justice, and there was no logical foundation from a perspective of the rights of Israel or the pursuit of true peace.

Neither did this resolution comply fully with the very charter of the UN itself.  Can a band of nomads move to the Ural mountains and claim it for themselves? Would Russia lose it's historic core lands merely because such nomads had allies at the UN. The very charter of the UN was built to not allow that. This exception to the rule (Resolution 2334) is dangerous for all countries and should not remain active not only for Israel's sake. As I wrote previously, 
"It is not logical to argue that the framers of the United Nations intended to create institutionalized chaos in contradiction to half of the principles the entire organization is predicated upon."

You do not have to say that Obama hates Israel. Perhaps it was a romanticized view of the two state solution that America's ally PM Rabin had died for.  But it is an unworkable notion that has brought death an misery in its wake, not peace, nor even the hope of true peace. Many have died during the two decades of the Oslo Accords. The only way to end that cycle, the only way forward is without the Two State, anti solution.

You may argue that there are Israeli political movements still attached to a two state solution. Then can we agree that it should be the choice of Israelis on what direction they should go? Not if you respect Resolution 2334. Only if you do not can you still choose one or two state solutions. Otherwise it is not longer about your choices any longer, is it? Reject the decree.  Under International Law, it cannot override Israeli Jus Cogens.

But I would argue, consider the source of this, and that this is a major proof that a two state solution is completely misguided at this stage of matters, with the Palestinian Authority's history of being a nemesis, not a partner towards peace. Strengthening a nemesis will not bring peace, only the strengthening of a nemesis. Why does the PLO still bother Israel? Because Israel chose to pursue a two state solution with unrepentant terrorist leaders in diplomatic clothing. That is the core of this, and support of a two state solution at this stage of things is inherently wrong.

It's not about what you ideally want to do, it's about the consequences of such actions under the circumstances. As if to practice codependency to terrorists. It's not good for Israel to create such a neighbor. It's even worse for the Arabs living under such a regime. Don't allow international pressure to make you support such evil injustice.

Get yourself far from the edge of that precipice and come back towards safety. May it soon be so, by the grace of God.