On Israel

I do not want to be the spokesman for this war. I am not equipped as a war reporter and I do not offer you such coverage now.

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“I dedicate this report to those who have been killed, to those held captive, to those wounded of body and mind and to those brave enough to endure the fight.

I do not want to be the spokesman for this war. 

I am not equipped as a war reporter and I do not offer you such coverage now.

I have the humility to know that I do not possess knowledge enough of the factors, military or political, to offer you a temporary explanation - one which will change the moment it is spoken. 

Binary political discussions are transient, riddled with bias and misconception and what we have always worked towards here is the search of a larger truth which holds us all. 

This is however, also, “The Jerusalem Report” and I have an obligation to speak on what is happening in my home whatever the poverty of my ability, to attempt to bring any manner of perspective though it is yet undigested - to the fog of war in which we are all desperately lost.

What Israel faces, right at this moment, is a battle on several planes; the one that intensifies the New World Order shove we have been battling together these past years, the grisly one being waged in our streets, and the spiritual one we each face as we stare into the abyss of our world. 

There are powerful and harsh decrees upon us all, and only the fool rushes - not only to judge but to present himself as an authority where he has none. 

I speak to you today from a world fundamentally changed. 

Once again.

Or more accurately put, the world didn't change, it burst at the seams.

We have, all of us, - witnessed the unequivocal horrors which were unleashed upon women, upon the elderly, upon whole families and upon the young children of Israel on October 7th 2023. 

Unspeakable savagery who’s aftermath by the time of this airing will have continued to snowball to shake the rest of the world in its wake. 

For practical reasons this has been recorded in advance and as is the nature of war - the situation may have since intensified. But I emphatically pray that not.

We will be haunted by the barbary, the unfathomable torture endured, for generations. 

It mingles with the testimonies of bravery that we read about in comic books. And not only one, but dozens upon dozens of stories where everyday citizens reached beyond who they were to save, sometimes multiple lives, at perilous risk to their own. 

Read them. 

Read them not because I implore you to take a side, for it is not we who play those binary games. Read them to know a glimmer of the beauty of the people of Israel, and of what a human can achieve under the most extraordinary of circumstances. 

Believe, as we go forth into an unknown that leaves us utterly sober, that many of us too have this superhero quality inside.

Read them to know there is a powerful divine light in humanity that cannot be snuffed out by evil. 

Children, above all, continue to be fodder for the wars of man.

All of us over here, the players inside Israel and Gaza, we are real people. 

We are being terrorized and the cost to life is unbearable. 

The ravaging of humanity lies before us. 

And still, and still our leaders are left to reap it. 

I not only recognize but tear my clothes in mourning for the loss of all innocent life. 

There is nothing which I fight for more than for us to value the humanity in each other.  

Do not ask me to qualify my statements again and again to include all who suffer when I can barely do justice to describe my very own. 

It is with great trepidation that I dare say anything at all.

For the carnage is pushing humanity to the edge.

We, all of us, see the gaping holes in the narrative and the bordering fence to Gaza and we know. 

We know something is Rotten in Denmark. 

We know the components don't add up. 

We know that after four years of unprecedented tyranny, how could this be anything but the next world pivot.

Israel’s level of surveillance and security was infamous and alleged to have the capabilities to deter anything remotely like this from happening. And in fact, when one terrorist succeeds to infiltrate or one kidnapping occurs the country responds as one. 

Bitter accusations well up inside the people of Israel and would that there were a tidy explanation to alleviate them.

But there is not. 

There is no way to avoid that there was betrayal. 

Whether it was the kind of false flags or of the systemic failures, ones both deliberate and secondary, of which we have subsisted here in Israel in a band-aiding of broken systems across sectors - its revelation is inevitable. 

The people of Israel are embittered. 

Embittered at being left to the slaughter however you slice it. 

Again. 

Embittered by a government who at best has failed so dramatically to protect its citizens they have lost their faith indefinitely. 

Embittered knowing that even as we continue to piece together the remains of the dead, while hundreds of people and young children are still held hostage, public sentiment has already forgotten what came before.

And we are Embittered, deeply, at the continuation of more death and destruction.

Can you try to understand what it is to live on this tiny sliver of land surrounded by those who rise up on all sides to drive you and all you hold dear into the sea? I heard them singing it on school grounds across the US yesterday. 

What then if you cannot depend on the potency of your army to protect you for the mismanagement of those in charge? 

And at the same time, what you are never shown is the exquisite beauty of the Jewish people in its full force who in their time of existential threat, create systems of support, donations and kindness. 

If dirty pool was played - still no one “leader” is in possession of all the moving pieces and can see the full web of connections and how it will all pan out. 

There are details, details which i have seen in private conversations, of military considerations and undertakings which while not sufficient to explain a breach and atrocity of this nature, nor the time alloted for the leisurely torture of women and children and the elderly, we can still recognize that there is very much we do not yet know.  

As such, those of us in the South and beyond knew of the atrocities, of the complete desolation of entire communities long before the news was prepared to trickle report on the numbers of dead and of the terror they endured.

Those of us who speak because we must and not for personal gain must be precise and do so holding the dichotomy that both larger forces may be at play while the reality on the ground is a battle being waged for our existence.

It is a treacherous tightline to walk. 

Before we allow our “powers that be” to march us righteously into World War Three there are questions we must all demand their answers to, before one more drop of blood is spilt. 

1. How could Israel’s surveillance mechanisms touted worldwide for their technological prowess not know of an attack of a nature - not only in size but requiring complex preparations?

2. Why did it take the full force of the Israeli army so long to respond?

3. There are multiple reports that intel was offered through several sources which warned of an attack but were not acted upon OR enough. Why?

4. How did Hamas, long presented as hateful, but lo tech, thugs execute a highly trained mission that is still in progress(!)? All indications are that they received outside help - again, how so without Israel’s intelligence?

5. Do these attacks correspond with those of other native communities, those who have lived somewhat independently and uninfluenced by the world orders around them, those with strong sense of G-d and family - not government - who are an impediment to those who have big plans for said land and resources?

6. The most obvious question is Cui Bono? Who benefits from this war? How? And Why?

We will never fear asking painful questions, we only fear answering them incorrectly.

The people, remember them, the flesh and blood women and children and families of Israel face at this moment not only the urgency of an enemy who calls globally for our destruction - but of the foreign control that looms at Israel’s gates. 

Multiple US and UK warships as well as European and US troops have been placed outside Israel at the ready. 

If they were to enter, we stand to lose our sovereignty at that moment, and all we have spoken about these past years comes to fruition at an accelerated pace.  

The world is suspicious yes, of course - of “every one” and their “every action” because each instance of world calamity that has sent us recalibrating all we have ever known in four short years has been the direct result of political, corporate, and bank leaders redirecting how we transact with the world. 

The world is suspicious because they talk of nothing but lessening the load of the planet and we know that load means us. 

We stand before the sobering threat of a regional, if not world war - if it has not already begun by the time of this airing. 

Recognize the tragedy of all which has taken place, look at it in full and raise your voice in mourning. 

Then act swiftly to stop - at least your personal hate - before they tumble us into war and famine and centralized foreign power. Before those of us who remain are moved fully onto the control grid where punishments will be swift.

This war is more than the one in the news. 

It is also the one we’ve been fighting all along, that of light versus dark. 

Those who commit atrocities such as have been recorded - particularly upon very young children - can be identified as the personification of an evil which we all are at war. An evil who knows that there is one G-d but seeks to blot His light. 

Jew’s call this unequivocal evil “Amalek” and we have been fighting them since we left Egypt.

Worldwide racism. 

Worldwide, embassies have been evacuated. Synagogues, elementary schools and individuals attacked, Jewish institutions in London vandalized and US Jewish university students sent home to learn on Zoom for fear of increased violence. 

A solution we can all marvel at not only for its impotence and cowardice, but its new world response while Hezbollah calls again for day after day of rage that leaves the whole world fearing to travel. 

I ask you, whether you are sympathetic to the Jewish plight or not:

Is this the world you wish to live in? 

Where hatred comes in an Angel of Death wave that might catch us all up within? 

We promised Never Again but have fallen face first into the loop - all the opportunity we had has not enriched the dialogue or understanding of the experience of the Jews and others. Has anything in fact been accomplished?

War is lucrative. War is a business and we must learn to admit it to ourselves just as medicine is a profit driven endeavor. 

We must admit this if we are to survive. 

Mad men make big money on war. And they ruthlessly manipulate our perspectives and our emotions to carry it through. 

After all we learned there is no way around the fact that we are being played.

You and me, both. 

Why should this time be any different? 

But it is different, because what we have learned is that Israel is used as a pilot nation first, for what will happen later to you. 

It is different for me, because that which I hold dear sits in peril while so few understand the preciousness of what stands to be lost.

Those who offer contrite conclusions to the questions we all seek and yet lack, harm Jews the world over and the whole of people who seek to bring clarity to a world falling to pieces. 

Remember long ago, in Covid Era™ when independent, nuanced and researched voices were all but silenced and suppressed while only a select few “Anti Establishment” accounts, and thus narratives, were promoted and permitted to amass followers? 

Now is the time to recall that, as a few voices drown out the rest. 

I do not condone the triggered responses offering sweeping absolutes while the chaos yet unfolds. We haven't focus of the breadth of what has and is occurring, never mind being able to assess and analyze it to present a bow tied conclusion. 

Journalism is a tool or a weapon. Large platforms, who know nothing of the history and politics before or since rush to be first without rudimentary due diligence. 

Checking the pulse of a biased twitter feed and posting on what you presume Israel is capable of without the evidence to support it is irresponsible at best and it spreads the danger around for us all to experience. 

Rushing to condemn is a mob mentality. 

The reader resting on couches overseas is able to connect the dots of all that happened from the headlines alone, but being in the know and experiencing the necessity to clutch your children and hide in mortal terror are two very different realities indeed.

Israel is always and only presented as its nation state while Gaza is only referred to by the Palestinians and never their government, Hamas. Hamas’s mission statement is the complete destruction of all Jews, everywhere and to establish a caliphate which will include where you live now too. However inconvenient, it is our shared reality. 

Those who take aim in word and in weapon at Israel do so from countries further than Gaza alone. 

Can you imagine the surreal dread of Jews across the planet as we watch in real time the repeat of a history we were adamant was of the past but had a dog whistle sensitivity to all the same, one we have been repeatedly admonished for harping on. 

Can it be that Israel is the reason for the world's ills if all Jews are asked to pay the ultimate price? 

Does the breakdown in narrative not register? 

When faced with the earthquake of the world reconstructing itself and rules again. Humility.

Humility and carefully chosen words will go very far in a world that seeks always and only to divide us. 

Take with me a head bowed moment to digest - dear G-D - just look at where we have come to. 

For it truly takes your breath. 

The cold battle of psychological warfare of which we are all under siege has become piping hot, and for all our preparations to resist it, we are being endlessly manipulated.

What if the Psyop is the Psyop? 

What if the cluster of wrong people saying right things and right people exposing horrific bias is the psyop itself? 

What if the psyop is that we don’t believe the truth even when it's been deliberately broadcast for us to witness?

Atrocities akin to the Holocaust were body-camed for posterity, carefully designed and executed to send Jews worldwide trembling in fear. Its evidence may now be rejected in lieu of a wholehearted belief in a single headline of its opposite. 

Although I can also understand that the nature of what happened causes the normal human being to reject it.

We have, anti establishment and all, been so thoroughly wounded by psychological warfare that we cannot accept documented reports, hundreds of survivor testimonies, nor even the words of the perpetrators themselves. 

Flip, Flop. It leaves one breathless. 

There is a script - but the players are real.

The psyop is that truth never lies in clean divided trenches. 

It is found in the impossibly complex fusion of man’s conspiring to act and most mundane of all, failings. It is crucial to our sanity that we understand this.

What does it mean to be a light unto the nations? 

Perhaps it is that we light up what is in people’s hearts for all the world to see.

It is this light of Torah that demands of us to value life above all and is in fact the basis of all we are taught. 

Of the Jews I believe that when we fail in our charge, too badly for too long, then God allows the unleashing of a unique catastrophe upon us, not just our murder, but a visceral tearing apart. 

We must oust those from within who have turned to the worship of that which produces death and darkness so we might return to our mission of value of Life as essential to it. 

Without it we are offered no protection from the only source we need - in G-d.

But we cannot do it without you. 

We are each obligated to take it upon our communities to purge the prejudices and hypocrisies therein - so we might finally come together with components of higher intention and integrity. 

Pardon if you will, a reality check. 

There are in the world today, roughly speaking, some 2.4 billion Christian, 1.91 billion Muslims, 1 Billion Hindus and, among others, some 15 million Jews.

Just to put things in perspective. 

I feel bold enough to posit that we might not take all the credit.

The reason we could during CovidEra for the first time ever use the Holocaust as a comparison was because we thought it was finally clear, they come first for us and then for you. 

The threat to the Jewish people is no hyperbole. 

Having connected across the world to so many of you - i believe that as the darkness has garnered strength - so too have the men and women of sound mind and light. 

I see you and I hear you and you give me strength.

In this battle for civilization, we the people are not defined by our leaders. 

Israel in its modern inception has been a state of experimentation; medical, social, technological. They show no good faith by enacting laws now as they have to micromanage speech and send you to jail if you question the gaps too strongly. 

NSO company, that of Pegasus spyware infamy, along with Rayzone and others like AnyVisionare have come to save us with more surveillance which didn't save us in the first place.  

More surveillance makes for more sophisticated criminals and we will never arrive at a place of safety. 

It is my belief that Israel, at least, once emerged from this devastation will be rebuilt not only as a smart city but a fully plugged in smart nation, igniting the network of internet of things and bodies of which we have watched oncoming. 

So much beauty and pain and mismanagement in this tiny country whose name doesn't fit on its crescent shaped space on the map. 

The connection between the Torah, Jewish people and the land of Israel is inseparable. It is inside our hearts and our souls, it manifests in our flesh - it is an experience you cannot judge for yourself but will need one of us to tell you our story as only we can. 

This nation state of which so many hold disdain frequently acts antithetical to Judaism. We are no more our government’s ill than you, yours. If you have been convinced to view Israel as an exception to the rule, then the problem is not from outside, but from within. 

In February 2021, witnessing the destruction of the values we built our lives upon, I inadvertently made a call to the world. A still small voice burst out - and lo behold - it was received by so many. For the first time, and in a way that had not happened before it, Israel was united with the rest of the world in a profoundly human way. 

It was the moment when a long sat potential became viable. 

When, in sharing the pain of destruction of our lives as we knew them, we could see one another as individuals, as holders of hearts and souls. 

We have already forgotten, but if we remembered once, we can do so again.

Again and again these four years past it has been demanded of us to define what it is that truly makes us human. 

What is the common denominator that all people share?

It is my opinion that the question we asked long ago was answered then. 

It is our empathy - above all else - that makes us human, that makes us humane.

As the interference into our human elements become increasingly invasive and inescapable, it is this empathy, this soft tissue of humanity that we will need to hold tight to maintain its shape.

It is empathy which we see our ‘powers that be’ so breathtakingly lack - so far have they removed themselves from our great throbbing humanity - they have forgotten how to be human. 

It is this primary empathy that we call out to act now and today with integrity and with all we have learned of the world and of one another.

This, right now, is the time and it is we who are being called.

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Watch Ilana Rachel Daniel for The Jerusalem Report on the Children’s Health Defense (CHD) network, October 25, 2023.