Vol. 18.2                                         February 2025/Shevat 5785

Getting Deeper Into the Millenium

Bitachon  - Trust in God

One of the best things about this job is receiving insight from God-fearing Gentiles - b'nei no'ach. Dimitar V. Kosev, an old dear friend, a Noachide author in Kazanlak, Bulgaria, was responding to this statement:

Greater than all the prayers one can say to HaShem, bitachon is greater.

Bitachon is a major Hebrew Torah-study word signifying trust - like trustfully falling back into trust-worthy hands.

Dimitar comments: "Bitachon is not a blind sheep-like Christian trust. It is a high level of awareness that 'it could not be otherwise'."

Basically, he's saying that Bitachon is "woke" or enlightened awareness that it's impossible that HaShem isn't the "hands-on" Master of all Creation. 

We trust and believe in HaShem, in other words, because any world-view other than that would be absurd.

Getting Deeper Into the Millenium

More and more gets clearer as we get deeper into the Millenium. Even Israel’s Arab enemies may be becoming a little more aware – at least to the extent of recognizing that opposing the Jews in all things puts people in the company of the worst causes and criminals in all of human history. We're seeing early signs that the Arab bloc of 22 or 23 Muslim-ruled Arabic-speaking countries is flagging in its long-running crusade to annihilate Israel. Despite lots of howling to the contrary.

It's about time! Never has there been such a struggle: more than a score of sovereign nations ganging up on one nation, not to win a point, punish or restrict a country but, generation after generation, decade after decade, to utterly annihilate it; to enforce worldwide boycotts against it, refusing to even recognize or talk with it or do business with it, and working ceaselessly to undermine it, by all possible means, including war after war after war.

Just look at this chart:

All over a country smaller than New Jersey, or “tiny” El Salvador (El Salvador is always described as “tiny”); less than 600-times the size of the Arab countries that have been trying to erase it.

It's interesting: Cicero, the famous ancient Roman, a notorious Jew-baiter, mocked Israel's God - which is to say, God - for the smallness of the Jewish Holy Land. "He must be only a very small and weak God," Cicero teased, for only reserving such a dinky country as the Land of Israel for the Jews, "for His own glory!"  After all, what is Canaan - the Holy Land - but an insignificant dot on the map?

[We wrote before about finding this factoid in the sermons of the famous Depression-era Detroit-area "radio priest," Canadian-American Fr. Charles Coughlin. Celebrated for the founding of a great basilica, the Shrine of the Little Flower, the Church finally silenced Fr. Coughlin over his outspoken support for Nazism.]

Yet as we see, the Gentiles keep howling (Isaiah 17-24; 52:15) against Israel...

But give the haters credit for consistency. Palestinianism – keeping the Jews from fulfilling God’s mandate to re-establish Jewish life in the Land of Israel – is genuinely a rotten cause: certainly one of the worst causes ever known. Its core premise (the late leader of Hezbollah – recently blown to Hell by a Jewish bomb – passionately taught this): that the Jews being in the Holy Land is a life-threatening foreign evil in the heart of the Arab world, and the duty of every right-thinking person - particularly, of every Muslim, and every Arab – is to help destroy it. 

In this conception, which has achieved the most remarkable popularity, it would be better to have no life on the land than to tolerate an Israel. This fact is reflected in Iran's nuclear policy, indeed: better to poison the land with atomic weapons and keep anyone from having it than accept the reality of Israel. It’s why Palestinians cheered Saddam Hussein’s rocket attacks on Israel back in the 90’s, despite expecting that they carried poison gases or nuclear radiation  that would have killed them too. It’s why they cheered the rocket attacks from Gaza, the Yemenite Houthis, Iran and Hezbollah, in 2023 and 2024, that were designed to ignite fire storms and burn the recently re-born forests of the Holy Land: not because they want the land for themselves but just to wreck it for the Jews.

We expect the charm of this argument to fade over time. In fact, we think we're already seeing signs of it, even among the Arabs themselves. Who wants to be linked to such patent unholiness?

Palestinianism

No Torah-Jew can look at October 7th without remembering Genesis 34: a lawless non-Jew raping Dinah, Jacob's daughter; his savage people positively accepting of his animalism; wiped out by her seething Jewish brothers, who explained, "Should they treat our sister as a whore?" But the Arab peoples, in polls taken immediately after October 7th, from Kuwait to California, overwhelmingly praised the "liberation operation." Only among the Arabs in Israel did a significant minority - almost 40% - object, on the grounds that payback would hurt. But even then, only a tiny number of respondents, fewer than ten percent of those who called Hamas' attack a mistake, objected to Hamas' tactics, the raping and murder of Jewish civilians. 

Elsewhere, outside Israel, including native Arabic-speakers in America and Europe, the support for Hamas was solid: more than 80%. The people of Gaza and the Arabs in Judea and Samaria (the "West Bank") and southern Lebanon promoted endless videos of nearly delirious celebrations. Across the Arab world, these became entertainment.

Watching grizzled Arab men grinning and laughing at the videos of Jewish women and girls suffering, the killing of their dogs, and the murder of young men, was jaw-dropping.

One thing to understand about the October 7th attack: it wasn't all that reckless. Only after Israel responded did the Arabs' "wiser heads" begin denouncing it as "suicide." Hamas and the other parties to Iran's so-called Axis of Resistance [against Israel and America] really thought it would work; that they could pull off at least enough of a win to cripple - and ultimately bury - Israel. Nobody in the Arab camp really knew how Israel might respond. 

The world's Jews were indeed divided. In Israel, I myself got unwillingly caught up in a flag-waving anti-government. This generation of Israeli teenagers had never been tested in a full-fledged war. ("Will they even bring themselves to fight?") Hamas and Hezbollah had been gearing up an Israel-obliterating war for decades, sinking uncounted billions of Arab and Iranian petro-dollars into arsenals, fortifications and military training - and also, always, into fomenting hate. Iran, a profoundly misled non-Arab Muslim country of more than 90-million people, armed to the teeth and nationally committed in their "Axis of Resistance" to Israel's annihilation, cried for war. They closely coordinated with each other. With or without the help of Egypt - which, incidentally, has recently been arming ferociously against Israel, building and stocking vast underground fortifications and arsenals in Sinai, as near to Israel as feasible - and Syria, and the rest of what the Arab world calls "the confrontation states" against Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and Iran thought they were winners.

Getting the Jew-Haters Away From the Jews Foils the Arabs' Plot.

Nothing changes perspectives like losing. After the Dinah-incident in Genesis, the Gentiles of ancient Canaan acquired respect for the children of Israel. On the Jewish side, the Jews got new insight on the forces arrayed against Israel after October 7th, and the country of Israel has been fighting, rightly and truly, as if everything depends on it. 

The Jews have lost patience with our many enemies and the Arabs have acquired fresh insight into why.

Apocalypse means "unveiling," "revelation." For people with Torah-educated eyes, we've seen revealed clearly fulfilled prophecies - concrete affirmations of black-letter Torah. Only an idiot would ignore the fact that, for instance, the Torah's warnings to the Jews concerning a phony nationality, "a vile nation that is no nation" (Deuteronomy 32:21), future "sticks in your eyes and pins in your sides" if Israel doesn't get them off the land (Numbers 33:55) - God's land, the Jews' Holy Land - that they fiercely claim as theirs, isn't, after all, just airy-fairy ancient nonsense. That itself constitutes an unveiling.

Of course the unfolding promise of assembled nations joining in a world-wide conspiracy to erase even "the name of Israel" (Psalms 83:5) seems pertinent. We've seen nations like Ireland and South Africa, and hundreds of millions of idealistic youth, worldwide, take up the cause of Palestinianism. That it's a horrible cause, based on risible nonsense, phony history, absurd arguments and great tidal waves of stinking but expensive Arab propaganda profoundly lacking in truth, that a little sober consideration and maybe just a little more basic information should reveal to be nonsense, hardly affects its trajectory. Against Palestinianism, Israel's cause is very widely despised.

But the Arabs themselves may be becoming more conscious of the promise that they who oppress Israel will suffer horrible civil wars: God will "feed them with their own flesh." (Isaiah 49:26) Since, after all, today's Arab world is wracked with civil wars!  Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Morocco, Sudan… Karma's a bitch, as they say (in Hebrew, mida k'neged mida, measure for measure): people encouraging "Palestinian" envy, blood-lust and the slaughter of civilians are surprised when just exactly such evil attaches itself to them. 

They should know better. Gentiles should inform themselves enough to at least read the Bible's Book of Genesis - it should be on the reading-list in every  nation everywhere - including the general guarantees and major cosmological truths just from Genesis 12:3 and 7:29: Attention! You who bless Israel can expect to receive blessing! You who curse Israel, expect to be damned!

The cruelty and perniciousness of Palestinianism, of the Arab world's plotting to destroy Israel by creating, arming, multiplying and indoctrinating the Palestinians, subsidizing their nurseries and obstetric clinics while paying them to forge themselves into the tip of the Arabs' spear, feeding them the nonsense of Arab "true" ownership of the Holy Land, has come into better focus. While the Arabs and - more recently, Iran, along with the internationally-funded UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees) - have poured hundreds of billions into creating a phony "Palestinian" identity in the disparate, and recent, populations of non-Jewish squatters who've ever passed through the Holy Land - the claims of Palestinianism can still be seen as increasingly risible bullshit. Especially as we watch the whole Arab world and even distant Muslim countries like Indonesia refusing to extend ANY kind of welcome to their own supposed beloved brethren, desperate "Palestinian" refugees, who'd like to flee the devastation of the war that they started.

This is such a shame: Palestinianism, the most horrible of bad causes, has perverted the natural cultural hospitality and generosity of the Arab peoples so that it’s absolutely unthinkable to simply help out a Palestinian with a home or a job,  because the whole point of Palestinianism is to forge the Palestinians into the tip of the Arabs’ spear against the Jews. The Arabs’ “help” to Palesinians is restricted to multiplying their population, subsidizing their obstetric clinics and food relief – none of the “Palestinian  territories” are anywhere close to self-supporting – and arming, training them for war, and inciting them in Jew-hate. They have nowhere to go," the world cries, for the people of Gaza - fenced off from the rest of the world by the Arabs themselves!

We must note: America has shown what it's made of. I've never been more proud of America for the help we've given to the freedom fighters of Israel - and, incidentally, to the freedom fighters of Ukraine. If America hadn't stood by Israel in the on-going struggle against the lying nonsense of the Arab cause and the horrid tyrannies of Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, etc., not just with supplies but with the active help of the U.S. Navy, and other agencies, a lot more Jewish lives would have been lost. And Syria would still be a torture chamber.

One of the most ferociously anti-Israel of all the Arabs' anti-Israel "confrontation states," Syria's been in a state of declared war with Israel since Israel's founding. The degenerate Assad family would still rule Syria if Israel - with a certain amount of help from allies - hadn't eliminated Iranian air defenses and decimated Hezbollah. If the grotesque residue of a mess that is post-civil war Syria has any kind of future it's due to Israel.

People in their hatred ignore their own religion. The Qur'an itself, in the name of Allah, repeatedly declares "Palestine" to be the possession of the Jews (Suras 5:21, 10:93, 17:7, 17:104, 21:5, and probably elsewhere as well. The earth belongs to Allah, it teaches; He bequeaths it to whom He wills; and it is simply His will that He bequeathed the Holy Land of Israel to the Jews, and only to the Jews.

They also ignore plainly secular facts. The name Palestinian comes from Pilishtim, for instance; Hebrew for "invader"! Today's "Filistin" have no more connection to the ancient Philistines, or Cana'anites, than to Genghis Khan or Wyatt Earp.

Everybody with eyes has seen that the Palestinians' methods for "winning back" Palestine run heavily towards mind-boggling savagery. We're not through  suffering through the phenomenon of people who take up Palestinianism suddenly blowing up buildings and murderously driving planes and trucks into innocent people. But even beyond that, lots of people have discovered that there is nothing - not one thing - in Palestinianism that's good for Palestine or for Palestinians. At the same time, lots of Arabs have noticed that their claims against the Jews keep getting dismissed as lying garbage.

Hamas' chief hostage negotiator declared last month - the 2d week of  January - that the rape, torture and murder of Jewish civilians is "a source of  pride for our people, to be passed down from generation  to generation."  This is the kind of the thing that almost – almost – makes the other enemies of the Jews, the Nazis, the Spanish Inquisition, the Communists, the Cossacks – look relatively peaceful!

The Jew-Haters Don't Want Their Plot Against the Jews Foiled

Naturally, people who mostly don't believe in the God of Abraham keep insisting that the Jews must give up most of the Holy Land for Palestine. This, even while the God of Abraham Himself has stated, again and again, "Don't!" "You shall not try to carve up the land that I have promised you"; "You shall not forge any kind of compact or covenant to convey away any part of the land to foreign  (non-Jewish) claimants"; "Disaster will be befall you, Israel, if you oppose HaShem in such matters." Exodus 23:32-33, Exodus 34:12, and Deuteronomy 7:2. God condemns Israel for failing to scrupulously heed this call (Judges 2:2).

Despite all the world's bellowing for Palestine, history seems to be moving visibly towards restoring HaShem's "Presence" to the Holy Land. This is a principal goal of Torah, clearly, and of all Hebrew Revelation. It seems obvious that it certainly should be important to B'nei Yisroel, the People of Israel, and B'nei Noach: all the rest of humanity, the world's nations, the goyim, who want to serve HaShem.

After all the fighting since October 7th last year, it also seems obvious that Israel needs to complete the work of making the Jew-haters understand that Israel's not going anywhere, and that their dastardly deeds must be punished. President Trump just invited Jordan and Egypt to accept some refugees from the "demolition zone" that's Gaza and they promptly adamantly refused. There are some two million people looking for housing after their people's attacks from Gaza, but the leaders of the Arabs keep insisting that "they are purely, only, the Jews' problem." So it should be obvious what they and the rest of the Arab world are up to: to destroy Israel through the bullshit of "the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people."

Israel's taken the summit of Mt Hermon in the North of Israel, from Syria. Israel doesn't owe Syria - a terrible neighbor, by every measure - any deference. The Sykes-Picot Treaty after World War that suggested borders between the Holy Land and Syria isn't holy and definitely not Divine: Israel must keep the summit, not just by Divine right but to teach the Jew-haters that their evil actions have consequences. If Syria wants to improve relations with its next door neighbor, Israel, let it restore the bones of Eli Cohen, the soldier of Israel and master-spy, to his family and his nation. And say goodbye to the summit of Mt. Hermon. They can come ski on it, as visitors, when peace comes.

Ultimately, Jews will return to Gaza. God will restore His Presence there - apart from the evil degeneracy of the Jew-hate of Palestinianism. In the meantime, as President Trump has called it, recognizing the obvious: it's a demolition zone. The people who are in Gaza now have no future there. If they try to rebuild, they - Jew-haters - will just go on to attack Israel again. So whatever they build there will fall. No weapon forged against Israel will prosper (Isaiah 54:17).

Future Generations Won't Believe This

Anybody, Noahide or Jew or Arab, who wants to see the people of Gaza thrive, should be pressing the Arab countries to take in their own people, to settle them, as citizens with equal rights, in their own vast territories. Let them stop subsidizing the evil propaganda that lies to them that their only possible future depends on eradicating the Jews.

 It's the same in Lebanon, the same in Judea and Samaria - the "West Bank" - and Jerusalem, and the same for all the Arabs in Israel. If they want to live there as loyal citizens who adhere to the basic rules of all civilization, the 7M or Seven Commandments of the Noahide Revelation, and swear sincere allegiance to Jewish Israel, they have a future there. Otherwise, who in the world would want to live anywhere near the kind of people that they have shown themselves to be? People who applaud the maiming, rape and murder of Jews, and people who are OK with it.

They need to go forge lives for themselves somewhere else, where maybe they can redeem themselves. The world has a vast capacity to be improved by the love and labor of hard-working people, and the vast territories of the Arab world could welcome scores of millions more people. The good people of the world should be doing what we can to make it happen, speedily in our time.

Ultimately, we expect Scripture to be fulfilled: that the Name of the God of Israel should be declared sovereign over all the nations - that not just the Egyptians (Exodus 7:5 and 9:16) but all the world (Ezekiel 28:26) shall know that HaShem, Lord of Israel, is God.

By Michael Dallen

Detroit

January 29, 2025

That through them [The Holy Land’s foreign squatters] I [the Lord] shall prove Israel, whether they shall keep the way of the Lord to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not. Therefore the Lord left those nations there, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered He them into the hand of Joshua.” – Judges 2:22