This week in Israel is very different beginning with last night’s Yom-Ha’zikaron-Day of Remembrance. It is a night when the entire country stops whatever it is doing and pays tribute to all who have given their lives for the people and the land of Israel. It is a chance to recognize the sacrifice soldiers and families as well as victims of Arab terror have made so that we can live in this land as a free Jewish people. Most will be taking the time for Hakarat Hatov-recognizing the good that has been and continues to be done for us by those who we have lost, those who keep us safe and most of all, the Creator of All Things. There will be segments of society that will not show this sort of gratitude on both sides of the political aisle. I won’t delve too much into that, but there is a greater point I wanted to write about today.

Please understand. When I write these words below I am primarily talking to myself. Yes, it addresses our society as a whole, but the main subject of this piece is me and the things I must do to fix the issue that follows.

It is no secret that the world around us is closing in on the Jewish people. Lift your head up and keep your eyes open and you can see it happening without too much effort. Historically speaking, when anti-semitism is no longer a secret, but is instead out on the street in open dialogue, it never goes away. You can simply ignore it is happening and pretend it will, but I don’t rely on optimistic utopia, I deal with historical facts. I fear this will not get any better for our people and usually when this kind of thing happens it culminates with something drastic, G-d forbid, before the world belatedly pauses to acknowledge their complicity. However, this time the main driver of the hatred is not being driven by any western country with a history of Judeo-christian values. Those countries, albeit on rare occasions eventually, if only for a moment, snap the world back into a moral place of retrospection. This time the main disseminator of this hatred is coming from Muslims. This happens to be a whole different kind of hate. They are not the only participants in this tragedy but between cash they have spent on podcast proxies, bots and a naive ignorant public, the muslim world has laid the groundwork for decades investing tens of billions, if not hundreds of billions into this moment and they will not let it pass without attempting to do away with our people once and for all (Heaven forbid). They spread easy debunk-able lies amongst a willing social media public and before you know it, many of our own people have fallen for the subterfuge dressed up as progressive moral superiority.

While we must fight back on those same platforms, there is something that we are obligated to do which is far more important. We need to hold our Jewish leadership accountable both in Israel and outside of it. We need to demand they stop bickering like children and coalesce around each other. We need to stop attacking one another and stand together as one people with one voice. We have no more time for the petty squabbles over funding or allocations. Figure it out in the spirit of a........

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