A Shared Pain

Israel’s Continued Trauma Isn’t Theirs Alone

The news of the execution of 6 Israeli hostages is particularly heartbreaking for me. 

Hersh Goldberg (23 years old), Eden Yerushalmi (24 years old), Ori Danino (25 years old), Almog Sarusi (26 years old), Alex Lubnov (32 years old), Carmel Gat (39 years old) were executed in Rafah a few days ago. Yes, the same Rafah that the faux-human rights activists and useful Iran-supporting idiots drew attention to, but for all the wrong reasons. The same Rafah that the same people have nothing to say about now. 

Maybe it's because of the fact that October 7 did not have to happen. Or that leaders and nations have prevented Israel from doing what she needs to do to end this war and rescue her people. 

Or maybe it's because one of the dead is Hersh, an Israeli-American citizen and so another reminder that, just like the execution of Tanzanians Joshua Mollel and Clemence Felix Mtenga who were also killed by Hamas during and the post the October 7 atrocities, the evil that Israel and the Jews face is an evil that cares nothing about identity politics. It's an evil that rages across the Middle East, Africa and is sadly being made to feel at home in a place I now call home, the US.

G-d be merciful!

Maybe it's because of the incomprehensible reality that Jews are the canary in the coal mine and instead of doing all that we can to fight this, because it's the right thing to do and because we non-Jews are next, too many willingly choose to be silent. In their silence, their cowardice, and their complicity, they prop up the current perverted reality of what is "human rights", "justice", "truth".

I cannot imagine the pain and the continued trauma 💔 As tears roll down my own face, I pray that, per Psalms 23:4, even though Israel and the Jewish people walk through the darkest valley of death, that Hashem's rod and staff will bring comfort.

MAY G-D ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED.