Michael Burwick

Insane reality… Three years after October 7, the center/left wing political bloc in Israel is ecstatic about forming a government entirely dependent on anti-Israel Arab Knesset members who sympathize with Hamas and celebrated the Oct 7 massacre and mass rape of our people. What a disgrace. What a pathetic moral low. Now let’s take a step back… This is where Israel should have been today. The war in Gaza over. Hamas obliterated. All jihadis in Gaza no longer in Gaza. Gaza's jihadist threat eliminated, with Israel in full control and Jewish communities being rebuilt in Gaza. A nuclear Iran relegated to history, its jihadist Shiite regime toppled through a coordinated American-Israeli strategy supporting Iranian resurgent forces on the ground. That was the victory we should have pursued after October 7 that should have been accomplished long ago. Instead, three years since the Iranian/Qatari funded invasion and 7 front war against Israel, those objectives remain unfulfilled. Why? I suspect American pressure and Washington's determination to accommodate Arab Muslim governments played a significant role. And now Israel faces another extraordinary political crossroads. Gadi Eizenkot, who has advocated for making a deal with the evil Shiite Iranian regime, allowing 150,000 Gazans into Israel on work permits and withdrawing Israeli forces from Gaza, Lebanon and Syria in favor of international security arrangements, is seeking to become prime minister. As it looks unlikely that both Ultra-Orthodox parties will join his government, his potential path to power depends on the support of 19 Arab-party Knesset members who literally support the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state. Meanwhile, Yair Golan announced “negotiations” with the Muslim Brotherhood Ra'am party to get them to publicly recognize Hamas as a terrorist organization. But how stupid does he think we are? Very. Trusting a Muslim brotherhood jihadi is not a security strategy. Islam believes in Taqiya, lying to the infidel to pursue jihad. Never believe a jihadi saying what you want to hear. What matters is whether political partners genuinely reject Hamas's violence, ideology and objectives. They don’t. The Ra’am party are jihadi supporters themselves. We have already experienced the consequences of a government dependent on Ra'am. During the Bennett-Lapid government, even tree planting in the Negev became a national political crisis when Ra'am threatened the government's survival. On top of that, it stopped the Bennet/Lapid government from attacking Hamas, and it funneled around 53 million NIS in government funding to Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas supporting organizations! A government that prioritizes international guarantees over Israel's independent ability to defend itself would represent precisely the strategic approach I believe October 7 exposed as dangerously inadequate. But that government has not been formed. And it may never be because most Jewish Israelis understand how dangerous it is to rely on 19 seats of anti-Israel parties that, according to Israeli law, are actually forbidden to sit in Israel’s parliament. More importantly, our future is bigger than any election, coalition or prime minister. We survived the Oslo years. We survived the Gaza disengagement. We paid heartbreaking prices for decisions made by governments that, in my view, fundamentally misunderstood and ignored our jihadi enemies. Yet today, despite the terrible losses, Israel is stronger than it was decades ago. Why? Because the story of the Jewish people is not ultimately the story of our politicians. It is the story of a nation returning to its homeland after 2,000 years, rebuilding its sovereignty, rediscovering its faith and witnessing extraordinary miracles. I believe even this political uncertainty is another stage in our national awakening. We must learn from history, confront jihadist threats without illusions and insist that Israel's security never depend on promises from others. So do not despair. Strengthen your emunah. Strengthen your gratitude. Share the truth. The redemption of the Jewish people was never going to be a straight line. These are redemptive times, and we will overcome the blindness of the political center/left leading these disastrous steps to a government relying on parties that want to destroy Israel. Our responsibility is to keep moving forward, with faith in Hashem, moral clarity and the determination to build the Jewish future we have waited 2,000 years to reclaim. God above protects us, though we can never rely on his miracles. Strengthen your faith. We got this! Am Yisrael Chai!!!