Fight against the Merciless Nation
The situation in which Israel finds itself is not new; it is but a particularly vivid example of its position in the world, and not only since 1948 or 1920. Edom and Ishmael for millennia have acted to slander, pillage, and murder Jews “saying, ‘come, let us blot them out from nationhood that Israel’s name not be remembered anymore” (psalm 83).
As the psalmist states explicitly, this covenant against God’s people, whether it is de facto or explicit as in the Euro-Arab Dialog (see Eurabia by Bat Yeor), at the UN and in many bilateral military agreements is in fact a covenant against the Almighty. “For Hashem’s portion is His people: Jacob is the measure of His inheritance” (Deuteronomy 32:8).
I have read that a favorite tehillim (psalm) of Rav Avraham Yitzhak Kook reflects the position of Israel today and for millennia: “Judge me, God, and fight on my behalf against a merciless nation” (psalm 43); and that the Rav would sing this tehillim with an especially sweet and soulful intonation.
He must be singing this prayer in the heavens these days, a small but crucial part of his service in the eternity of the World to Come…
Israel the land and the people has been attacked yet again, is being warred on by merciless nations, Ishmaelites armed, equipped, often trained by the nations of Edom that also handle most of the diplomatic apologetics and justification for Islam, even though it is their mortal foe. Such is the hatred of Esau for Israel that the past century consists largely of their re-ignition of global jihad and its direction against the Jewish people. Both of these ancient adversaries are merciless to Jews and howl when there is even a very limited Jewish military response to wholesale rocket attacks on cities of Israel. “Your enemies howl like dogs around the city…”
They continue to expect that Jews accept almost any punishment or assaults without striking back. This is the ‘just get into the cattle cars and stop complaining’ model that we thought had reached its horrid nadir in the shoah.
Alas, the “humanist” nations of the post-Scriptural West seem never to tire of re-formulating this demand. Having been attacked for decades, indeed for centuries, from single murders or young hitchhikers or infants, to mass bombings at restaurants or Passover seders to showers of rockets Israel is lectured that it must never “escalate the cycle of violence,” that is, “Jews, — don’t dare strike back and strike fear that deters into your foes. We want you to be attacked again.” This is the de facto and obvious message every time an order is received from the State Department or EU to “relax the checkpoints” that prevent Arab drive-by shootings and bombings; or to give yet more land to jihadist enemies who pillage and murder Jews, dispossessing them from the Promised Land.
This is why the war against Israel does not end; this is why the nations conspire with cowardly Israeli elites to produce governments that comply with the road maps to Israel’s extinction.
In order to find and enjoy peace, IsraeI must declare and wage all-out war on these merciless nations. “Just as they show no mercy to you, so you shall show no mercy to them.” And the definitive code of Jewish law, the shulchan Aruch states, “When they are gathering to attack you, kill them first!” It now is plain to the entire world that Syria, Iran and their militias have gathered (indeed they often boast of it) not only to attack but to utterly destroy the nation of Israel.
“Kill them first!”
The wicked nation that murdered the young hitchhiker, Eliahu Asheri, the grandma and little grandson in Tzfat, the nation of homicidal savages that murdered Koby Mandel and his friend near their homes in Tekoa must be obliterated without mercy as David HaMelekh teaches in psalm 18.
“I pursued my foes and overtook them and returned not till they were destroyed. I struck them down and they could not rise… I cut them down, I poured them out like mud in the streets…”
That is the pattern for Israel when it goes to war against those who gather against it. Destroy them till they cannot rise and then there will be peace. Then and only then will Israel enjoy the blessings of peace…
King David is our greatest teacher on how to create the conditions in which the teachings of Moshe and the Holy One’s commandments can flourish. Destroy the enemy nations. This indeed is how Moshe instructed Joshua: “be strong and of good courage.” And as Joshua and Caleb called out to the entire House of Israel regarding their enemies in the Promised Land: “Those people are like bread for us,” now as then. “Let us go up and conquer for we surely can do it!”
Every rocket that falls on Israel demonstrates the bad faith of the Israeli government, its failure to fully fight and win the wars of the Jewish people “against the wicked nations” that afflict it. The war most be won and total victory achieved in order for peace to reign.