I started the day today with more devastating news of additional holy IDF soldiers killed in this war. In their memory, and in memory of all those massacred, killed, raped, and taken captive in this war, I share the talk I gave at the beginning of the Pulse of Israel conference this past Sunday.
Shalom everyone and thank you for joining us today at our 2nd annual Pulse of Israel conference, in our beautiful, Biblical ancestral homeland Israel, in our beautiful, Biblical and indivisible capital Jerusalem since King David’s time.
This conference is taking place in the middle of an existential war that our holy IDF soldiers are currently, mostly, fighting in Gaza, and preparing to fight up North in Lebanon. However, it is really a 7 front war, against a Shiite Iran and Sunni Qatar, Muslim Brotherhood, alliance to literally destroy Israel.
It’s not just our war, but a war of good against evil, for all of humanity, where we, the Jewish people here in Israel, are literally the frontline of the whole freedom-loving world against an emboldened Marxist-Islamist revolution out to destroy the whole freedom-loving world, with the United States as it’s main target. That’s why the protests on the US college campuses also include messages about supporting the destruction of America, which Iran has been clear about destroying as well as these years, the USA is big satan, with Israel as little satan.
We, the Jewish people in Israel, are just the appetizer, the canary in the coal mine, with our holy IDF soldiers fighting on the physical frontline, as the leaders of the freedom-loving world ignore this reality and tie Israel’s hands behind our back in trying to end this war to protect us all.
And all this while we also have captives still in captivity in Gaza.
Before we begin, I just want to ask Hashem to look over our holy IDF soldiers, assist them in achieving complete victory over our enemies so that the Jewish people never experience another rocket attack or terror attack again, and that he watch over our captives in Gaza so that we can bring them all home, as soon as possible.
I just want to thank my whole staff working hard on this conference, and highlight my partner Avi Nadel, Rachel Moore and her staff for organizing this conference, our interns, my wife Rachel, my parents for helping make me who I am, my amazing children, and of course, Hashem above, for everything.
On a personal not, this conference takes place as my wife and I have two sons fighting in Gaza.
Two sons who are part of a generation of proud Jewish King-David-like warriors, a generation of heroes, a generation that demands victory, literally paying the price with their own lives, for the mistakes, weakness, appeasement and weakening of Jewish identity and sense of purpose of previous generations of Israeli and Jewish leaders.
I think it is quite clear that the war we are fighting today would not had happened if not for the mindset of the disastrous Oslo peace accords of 1993 that many of our political, military and community/organizational leaders around the world are still stuck in, unable to pull us out of.
It never made sense to give guns and land to a sworn enemy, with literal Jewish blood on their hands, while ignoring what they say in their native Arabic language to their own.
Shimon Peres and his band of Oslo merry men were right about one thing, that you make peace with your enemy, but they were totally wrong about its application, you only do so after you defeat your enemy so bad that they then come begging to surrender, under your terms, with no expectation of even being able to make any demands. You definitely do not give them guns and land to continue their genocidal agenda to destroy you.
Israel still has not had that victory over our enemies making sure they understand that the Jewish state of Israel is here to stay, with no chance of them achieving our destruction.
That is what is needed at the end of the current fighting today, the 77th year of our war of Independence, because the 1948 war of Independence has really never ended.
Every few years it is a new battle with changes to the faces and names for the enemy, but it is the same war with the same enemy, a segment of the Arab Muslim world unable to accept the reality of a Jewish state in our ancestral homeland.
The sad truth is that the Oslo peace process was never really about trying to achieve peace. Ron Pundak, one of the architects of the Oslo peace process, stated himself in an interview in 2014, that the Oslo peace process was really about Israelizing Israel, to stop Israel from turning too Jewish. That also explains Shimon Peres’ line after he lost the 1996 elections to Bibi Netanyahu when he said “the Israelis lost and the Jews won”.
Ultimately, beyond the physical war our sons, husbands, friends, neighbors, fathers are fighting right now, we are experiencing a spiritual war, a battle that we are winning, as more Jews, in Israel and around the world are strengthening their Jewish identity, strengthening their connection to their ancestral homeland Israel, and strengthening their understanding of the importance of a thriving Israel as a strong Jewish country.
It is just so sad that is has taken the horrible massacre on Simchat Torah, Oct. 7th and the growing Jew-hating antisemitism in its wake, for this spiritual process.
That is the internal, spiritual war, that is the undercurrent of the physical war, and that is why I tell people in my daily Pulse of Israel program, that we are ultimately winning this war and we will win it.
Because the Jewish people today are stronger and more united than ever before in our identity as a a proud Jewish people, and in our joint sense of national purpose in our ancestral homeland. And despite the challenges that are still to come, the trajectory is a positive one, and we will win.
The sooner more Jews join in understanding our true purpose and vision, we will achieve total victory in the physical war, and bring in the future of a proud and strong Jewish state of Israel.
Despite the crazy, traumatic times we are living in, we, the Jewish people in our ancestral homeland Israel, have a bright and strong future ahead of us. And that is exactly what our focus is tonight. So, thank you for joining us, to those of you here with us in the Begin Center in Jerusalem, or whether you are watching the livestream from tons of different countries from all around the world.
This years conference is about Next Steps, Israel’s roadmap to true independence.
Why are we focusing on that topic this year?
Well, for 2 reasons.
Reason #1, unfortunately, it is clear to see that Israel does not have the diplomatic independence or geo-political flexibility to win this war properly to protect us. With a Biden administration consistently acting as the negotiator for Hamas and Iran, and pressuring Israel to constantly appease those evil actors instead of the opposite, it is clear that we are far from having the independence necessary to protect Israeli citizens. And that is a problem that our leaders must be focused on fixing as soon as possible.
Reason #2: because I’m tired of seeing a majority of official voices for Israel, and the Jewish people, focus 99.9% of their time on trying to defend Israel against the daily barrage of lies pushed out by our enemies and pumped out by media channels and politicians all over the world.
Israel and the Jewish people must go on the offense and stop the focus on “hasbara”, trying to explain away the daily lies.
It is way past time that the Jewish people and the Jewish state of Israel focus on providing a steady and strong offense, with a vision of strength, based on our proud Jewish historic identity connected to our ancestral homeland, and cut down, at the knees, the narrative of lies piled against us on a daily basis.
Only by constantly providing a proud offense in standing up for ourselves, will we spare spokespeople and layman the time of having to run around looking for the facts to disprove the constant barrage of lies.
I will give one simple example: Anytime Israel is blamed, and shamed, for killing non-combatants in Gaza, there should only be one response from the IDF, from Israeli government officials and from Jewish organizations and influencers. Not, we will look into that; not, we take responsibility and punish the IDF soldiers involved, and not by saying say that the numbers are unreliable since they are from the Gaza Ministry of Health which is really Hamas, and hence unreliable. No, all those claims force Jews worldwide to play defense, and let Hamas off the hook.
The one response must be ‘don’t you dare blame Israel for anyone killed in Gaza. 100% of the blame lies with Hamas. This is a war started by Hamas who uses their own non-combatants as human shields. They started this war by infiltrating Israel and massacring over 1,200 innocent Israelis on Oct. 7th. And they can end this war by surrendering all their weapons and returning our captives. Anyone interested in ending the death of non-combatants in Gaza, should pressure their governments and journalists to start reporting the truth and pressure Hamas to surrender and release our captives. That is the only way to stop people from being killed in this war, started by Hamas. That should have been the response of every single IDF, government, Jewish organizational spokesperson since day 1. Yet, it wasn’t and it still hardly is.
Douglas Murray says it. Michael Rapaport says it. But most official spokespeople hardly do.
That is why our conference this year is focused on going on the offense by providing a roadmap for a proud and strong Israel, with the inspiring politically incorrect truth that people are starving to hear.
And who are we? We are the Pulse of Israel, on the frontline of the media war for Israel, providing hope, by sharing the inspiring politically, incorrect truth that is sorely lacking in the public sphere.
Now, I want everyone to come with an open mind tonight, because we have all been trained to think “realistically”.
And that “realistic” thinking has been literally killing us since the disastrous Oslo accords were signed in 1993, and continues to lead to Jews being killed today.
We were trained to believe that giving guns, land and money to known terror entities, is the realistic path to peace.
We were trained to think that appeasing terrorists and terror organizations, and literally financing them to pay terrorists aka pay to slay, is realistic, since it is the only way the international community will support us.
We have been trained to forget and ignore the fact that our Arab Muslim neighbors were massacring us here in our ancestral homeland of Israel back in the 1920s and 30s, decades before the state of Israel was established in 1948, and decades before Israel liberated Judea & Samaria in 1967 and established the first Jewish resettled communities in our ancestral and Biblical areas of Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Forget history, facts and justice that prove that the two-state solution is a dangerous delusion that totally misses the problem needing solving. We must ignore all that and be “realistic”.
We have been trained to be realistic that we must accept the existence of a historic people called palestinians who have a claim to our ancestral homeland, even though British Mandate immigration records prove that a vast majority of the Arabs came to this land in the beginning of the 20th century from all over the Middle East, proving that there is no such historic people called “palestinians”. All one has to do is check the archives of the New York Times and other media outlets before 1948 and see that all references to palestinians referred to the Jews!
But, no. We have to be “realistic” and ignore reality.
But guess what, over 7 million Jews living in a region of the world surrounded by billions of people who don’t want us here, is not realistic. Yet, we are here, a thriving Jewish state in a sea of Arab Muslim countries.
Winning the war of Independence in 1948 was not realistic.
Winning the miraculous 6 day war, and coming back to also miraculously win the Yom Kippur war, were not realistic.
The Jewish people surviving 2,000+ plus years of continuous exiles and persecution, all over the world, is not realistic.
It is time that we remember and internalize the famous line of founding Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. and I quote “In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.”
We are Jews. We are the Jewish people. We are the biggest success story of humanity, a people that returned to our ancestral homeland as sovereign after 2,000+ years of exile and persecution, and the world calls us the colonizers, the outsiders?
We should be the poster child of today’s University professors, teaching their students to learn from the Jews how to overcome oppression and focus on moving forward, instead of teaching them that we are the epitome of evil in the world today.
We are the envy of every indigenous people in the world, as we are the only indigenous nation to have returned as sovereign on our ancient, ancestral lands and holy sites.
All how is our reality one big miracle? because of one thing. The one above.
Because we defy realism. We are a people with a purpose. That is what we were chosen for. A chosen people with a chosen homeland to fulfill a chosen purpose while living in our homeland.
And that is what we need our leaders to be talking about, to us and to the world, not wasting their time fighting the daily barrage of lies spread about us, and feeling forced into “realistic” solutions like Oslo, the Gaza disengagement, ceasefires with Hamas and Hezbollah, that endanger our lives by kicking the real problems down the road and instead making our situation even worse.
So, why is this conference so important? Because other conferences that take place in Israel ignore our Jewish story and ignore our purpose as a Jewish people resettling our ancestral homeland. Instead, they recycle speakers, world leaders, failed ideas and solutions all responsible for the disastrous situation that we are in today, with an Oct 7th massacre and a small army unprepared to fight the 7 front war we are fighting without Israel’s full dependence on the United States, and on fellow Jews worldwide donating money and purchasing supplies for our holy IDF soldiers.
Ultimately, Oct. 7th didn’t have to happen.
Millions of Israelis were out in the streets warning about the disastrous Oslo “peace” process that would bring terror and death, but not peace. Millions of Israelis were protesting against the 2005 disengagement from Gaza, warning that it would turn Gaza into a terror base that would endanger all of Israel, and not turn Gaza into the Singapore of the Middle East. Millions of Israelis protested against leaving Southern Lebanon, that it would turn that area also into a terror launching pad.
But the “realistic” experts wouldn’t listen. Instead they relied on messianic dreams of peace with terrorists, relied on international promises that have been broken, on diplomatic international resolutions that have been ignored and on investing in developing defensive technologies.
Still today, most of the “realistic” political and security experts have yet to admit the horrific mistakes of Oslo, the Gaza disengagement and the South Labanon pullout.
And the biggest mistake of all, ignoring the fact that the palestinian national identity is the biggest and most successful blood libel in Jewish history, motivating people all over the Western world, with no understanding of facts or history, to attack Jews and feel socially vindicated for doing so.
This is exactly what we focused upon at our conference last year titled unmasking antisemitism behind the Palestinian national movement.
So I want everyone to begin this night thinking big, thinking different, thinking Jewish, and have an open mind to publicly voicing the true realistic solutions that we need to do to develop the true independence as a sovereign nation to defend ourselves properly.
We might not be able to implement these solutions tomorrow, or next month, or next year. But I promise you one thing, if we don’t start talking out loud about what we really need to do, then it definitely will never happen.
The change starts with us talking about what truly needs to be done. And it starts by reminding our leaders who we are and why we live here in our ancestral homeland. Because many of them need to be reminded.