This week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government moved forward with one of the most significant Zionist initiatives in decades, allocating over $350 million to authorize and establish 61 new Jewish communities in the ancestral heartland of Judea and Samaria. This is a bold move. As usual, the international community and media went into a frenzy of condemnation, completely ignoring the continuous Palestinian rejection of recognition, compromise, and peace with Israel, and their persistent turn toward terrorism, intifada, and jihad.

We must be clear: we cannot and will not let Hamas and its terrorist affiliates steal our ancestral land or erase our indigenous connection to it.

We must be clear: we cannot and will not let Hamas and its terrorist affiliates steal our ancestral land or erase our indigenous connection to it.

Netanyahu is acting as the Caleb and Joshua of our time—faithful, resolute, and courageous enough to claim the biblically mandated and historical land, ensuring the strategic security of the Jewish people and nation. In an era defined by Hamas’s persistent refusal of peace and coexistence, the moral, legal, and biblical clarity of our presence in Judea and Samaria is absolute. We are fully within our rights, and we bear a profound historical responsibility, to build, protect, and secure the Land of Israel.

At this volatile crossroads, Parashat Shelach arrives with striking clarity. While the international community debates borders and cross-examines our indigenous rights, the Torah offers a definitive........

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