The other night I was invited to hear a presentation by MK Ohad Tal of Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionist Party. The audience was comprised of English-speaking seniors who never seemed to have learned Hebrew. I was absolutely shocked by what the speaker fed to a gullible crowd of voters – men and women who are staunchly Zionist but somewhat disconnected from much of what is happening owing to their lack of Hebrew language skills and access to critical media and other information sources.

But Mr. Tal’s oration was an eye-opener for me as I had long wondered how exactly his party (especially his party) can rationalize their underwriting of the draft evasion law that is being cooked up by Boaz Bismuth at Bibi’s behest.

Following is the letter I sent the next day to the organizer of this event, a man I respect and who surely had the best of intentions when arranging this gathering.

I – and I am hardly alone – was vastly more disappointed by last night’s presentation than I imagined I would be.

No one really expects to acquire great enlightenment from a Smotrich flunky. But we also don’t expect the sort of stale cheerleader smoke that one might have been subjected to at a Flastbush Hadassah luncheon in 1967.

The litany of miracles was pathetic. Indeed, the ONLY miracle is that Israel survived October 7th, and certainly no thanks to a governing coalition comprised primarily of men who have little or no skin in the game (past, present or future) in the defense of our country.

Bibi’s government was asleep on........

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