A country of jihadi homicidal maniacs declares its intent to take revenge on you as you go into Shabbat. What actually happened? Nada. We sat in the backyard watching fluffy white clouds move slowly across a sky so blue it seemed fingerpainted by an enthusiastic toddler in love with the color.

Was I worried? No. If you must know, the only concession I made to the threat was leaving my iPad open to the news bulletins on Ynet. I will also admit, at the risk of sounding deranged, that I was almost hoping that the mullahs would try something so that we in Israel could at long last have a reason to smash their stupid, arrogant, fanatic faces to a pulp and destroy their nuclear capabilities. And if you think that Israel doesn’t already have plans ready and waiting to go, you are as dumb as they are.

I just read that among the intelligence Israel has gathered in the tunnels of Gaza are letters proving that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards has transferred 200 million dollars to Hamas through bitcoin, shell companies, and agents in Lebanon over the last few years. They are the instigators, funders, and supporters of the massacre of the Israeli people, and their plan is total genocide – first Israel, then the rest of the Jewish people worldwide. It is time we finally stopped pussyfooting around dealing with their generals and proxies and embassies on foreign soil and aimed some bunker busters directly at Teheran.

Am I worried about the consequences? What, you think it’s better to sit back and wait for them to use their billions (some of it courtesy of Barack Obama and Biden) to fund some more genocidal acts? Do you think if we don’t attack them they won’t attack us? Have you been paying attention at all at what has been going on here? What was October 7 “revenge” for? What crime did we in Israel commit against the mullahs except existing? No, the time for self-deception has got to end. This is our enemy. The sooner we direct our efforts at destroying them, the better.

I’m not naïve. Israel does expect something to happen in the next few days. As of Sunday, schools are closed, and gatherings of over 1,000 people are banned. I have a wedding to go to tomorrow. I’m planning on going. I’m going to dance. I’m going to drink wine and toast the bride and groom. The mullahs can go to hell. And if I wind up in a bomb shelter, or dead, I’m sure the Iranians aren’t going to be better off. So, Supreme leader and all your Islamic, Iranian morons you can kiss my mezuzah!

The despicable kidnap and brutal murder of Benjamin Achimeir, a fourteen year-old Jewish shepherd out with his sheep Friday morning just outside Jerusalem near the Arab settlements of Duma and al-Mughayyir has Israelis in Judea and Samaria incandescent with rage. A few of them took out their anger by rampaging through hostile nearby Palestinian settlements. They also beat up a Ynet photographer who no doubt came to collect images that would provoke the easy condemnation of Israel-haters worldwide. Unfortunately for him, but not for us, his equipment was destroyed.

And before we start weeping about exacting revenge on the “innocents,” Palestinians rioted against Israelis and security forces attempting to find the perpetrators. One Palestinian was killed. At his funeral, in a village near Ramallah, Palestinians chanted: “We are your people, Ya Sinwar! Ya Gada, come on and start a revolution… that’s what (Saleh) Al-Arouri ordered!”

But I agree with Bibi who has asked for calm to allow the Israeli army to find the murderers.  

As far as the aid packages to the Gazans, now it’s getting ridiculous. Videos show piles of food discarded by Hamas left rotting in the fields. There is no way to distribute the food until Hamas is defeated. There is no way to defeat Hamas, until Israel goes into Rafah.

Gazans report that the IDF has sent leaflets to western Rafah with the photos of 35 hostages, including foreign workers, calling on residents to transfer any information about them in exchange for a monetary reward and safe future for them and their families. The fact that there are only 35 photos is chilling. Does the IDF know something they aren’t saying, backing up Hamas who declared they can’t find 40 live hostages for a ceasefire deal?

Heartbreaking.

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