Forget George Soros. Forget Israel’s legal secular elite. Forget Barrack Obama and his State Department. The left beat the right because they fought harder and with greater determination.
The only way to make Israel a holy nation is to fight their kind of battle, but a lot better.
In this regard, the demonstration in Jerusalem was an unforgettable event.
In the center of the city, over 200,000 citizens protested the injustices of a select elite forcing their minority progressiveness upon the rest of us. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich spoke. Environmental Minister Idit Silman spoke. In an act of sheer courage, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir walked through the crowd of his brothers and sisters to get to the stage and give us all encouragement.
Without foreign money, the media, or help from the deep state, in a matter of ten hours the right was able to snap its fingers and bring together hundreds of thousands of people to remind the nation of what the people want.
But it may be too little and too late.
Bringing Down Hannibal
Hannibal was a general from Carthage (North Africa) who terrorized the Roman Republic. At
one point, he was fifty miles away from conquering Rome.
How did the Roman general Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal and save his people? He didn”t
do anything creative: He spent years studying every move Hannibal made. He took the latest war tactics and technologies of Rome and applied them to Hannibal”s tactics. When they met on the battlefield, it wasn”t Hannibal vs Scipio, it was Hannibal 1.0 vs Hannibal 2.0.
That”s how Scipio won, and that”s how the Right can win.
The Left’s Winning Strategy
The left beat the right because they had no red lines.
* They were willing to bring an economic depression upon us, taking money and jobs out of the country. They were willing to tear apart the army and give Iran and their colonial militias an open net to waltz in. They were willing to demonstrate every day and never stop. They were willing to paralyze the country and keep it in hibernation mode until their demands were met.
There were demonstrations every day. They fearlessly charged the lion”s den by bringing their protests to Jerusalem. I was there and I saw it firsthand. They marched on Bnei Brak, blatantly declaring the haredim the enemy.
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They shut down the entire country. They brought us to the brink and dared anyone to call their bluff. They kept up the intensity of a thousand fires and never turned the heat down.
They had the ‘deep state’ and ‘foreign money’ on their side, but they also fought like a guerilla platoon. They were willing to drop the entire nation off a cliff for what they wanted.
We weren”t. We aren/t
They fought like mesmerized fanatics. We didn”t.
We could have, though: If by the snap of a finger, the right was able to put together 200,000 people in Jerusalem on 10 hours notice, they could have done much more much earlier.
They won, and they taught us a lesson. They taught us why in America, Europe, and now
Israel, the right is losing to the left.
They are the fanatics. They are the devout, the true believers, the real anarchists..
And we are told to feel that there is a problem with religious fanaticism, but they are fighting like fanatics. We are told that passion for the very values that have preserved and prospered civilization for 5,000 years is a form of Nazism and should be extinguished.
In order to save the world and build a nation God can be proud of, we have to take pride in being religious fanatics. We have to take pride in being far right nationalists. Our greatest asset is religious fervor. Our superweapon is pride in the Jewish Nation.
If we were to fight like them, blocking highways, clogging up Tel Aviv, threatening to make Israel detestable in the eyes of the international investment community — the way they did – we would taste the very victory they will be enjoying at their Seder tables. Especially since we enjoy an advantage they don”t.
The Hidden Advantage of the Right
There is a strength to being the second class, sug bet, of the country. We have a lot less to lose. The secular elite can talk glibly about how judicial reform will scare away 75% of venture capital investments in Israel, but who bears the brunt? Not those listed below.
Will the Yeshiva students get laid off from their studies by a strike of their deans?
Will the brave pioneers of Itamar, Carmei Tzur, and the Jordan Valley be downsized into
Rehovot?
Will a Haredi family be unable to take their trip to Bermuda this year?
It will be the leaders of the left who will see their dreams of another nine-figure exit vanish before their eyes. They can paralyze the country, but who suffers? The Right can live with a barricaded Ben Gurion airport. To the Right, the sea air of Achziv is far more enjoyable than the French Riviera and the food of Tiveria is light years ahead of anything London can offer.
These material comforts are the Achilles heel of the left, and not of the Right..
A country torn to pieces ends their dream, but we know Moshiach is still coming and the Land of
Israel is eternal. The next time they take us to the brink, it”s our duty to call their bluff.
Tough times call for tough people and our twenty-year vacation is over. Before the summer Knesset session resumes, buy yourselves six months of dry food. Demonstrate everyday if you have to. Force Bibi”s back to the wall. Make the Likud seem like weaklings, andthe left more afraid of us than we of them.
Bibi is the greatest political leader in the history of Israel. He is the Fibonacci of political calculation.
He concluded that the cost of passing the legislation outweighed the benefit once the left hijacked
the country. We need to make sure he recalculates by an open willingness to spend the next ten years
demonstrating against the left – guaranteeing perpetual paralysis.
Let”s see how long they can hold out without their espresso machines, company gift cards, and
seasonal trips to Paris.
Let”s see how far they can force the police to waste money and resources barricading us back from
fighting for a people that will not accept bread on Pesach, work on Shabbat, or gemder choice in our
schools.
Let”s see how far we are willing to fight for God.
Once we do that, and the consequences become real, Yair Lapid and his cronies will be more than eager to sit at the negotiating table.