Sometimes, late at night or early in the morning, when it’s quiet and I’m alone with my thoughts, particularly if we have lost any IDF soldier, those brave nineteen and twenty year-olds who are at the forefront of the fight for human freedom today, I feel isolated and afraid.

At times like that, it is so important to remember that we are not alone in this righteous war. That the most admirable people on the planet are in it with us. Take, for example, Bari Weiss, the Jewish journalist famous for sticking it to the NY Times in a goodbye letter when she slammed the door behind her after achieving the success of a job there, the dream of every American journalist.

Bari has continued her remarkable, courageous search for a free press by founding, you guessed it, The Free Press. If you aren’t reading her wonderful blog, or subscribing, then you are missing the greatest comfort in the world when you are feeling lonely. I send you now a link to her remarkable speech, which is almost breathtaking to listen to, given at the 92nd Street Y recently, entitled “What it Means to Choose Freedom.”

What I found so moving was this simple, mostly overlooked idea, that “the state of world Jewry depends on the state of the free world. And right now its condition is in jeopardy.”

If you doubt that, then just take a look at the average Gen Z social media post and cringe at the bigotry and ignorance across the board, where seemingly education and economic status play no part in who is espousing hateful, moronic ideas based on lies.

I left America in 1971 and became an Israeli. But I was always proud to be an American too. As Mark Levin said in a speech at CSPAN, people are coming en masse to America. You don’t see Americans trying to live anywhere else. But that exceptionalism is being eroded from within as Americans forget the sources of their success and their freedoms.

I don’t think it’s too late. But it is certainly a life or death battle for America that we are involved in as Third World countries deliberately flood our nation with those inimical to our core values, and a good part of the population votes for its own demise electing incompetent, anti-American leaders.

What can I say when I read that Social Security and Medicare are trillions of dollars in debt and probably won’t outlast our generation (and that’s if we’re lucky) yet at the same time Joe Biden is forgiving student loans with the money American seniors had taken out of their paychecks for their retirement?

Israeli leadership is also in trouble, as Gantz, who joined the government in order to support the war, decides to make a separate peace by ignoring our Prime Minister and going to America to talk to Kamala Harris. He has just lost my vote.

We had two disasters in Gaza within the last two weeks where our soldiers were killed and wounded when booby-trapped houses were remotely blown up by Hamas terrorists. This is possible only because the IDF is not “cleaning” the entire area making it safe for our troops. Can this be due to American pressure? Shortly after this happened, the IDF attacked fifty terrorists positions, doing just that. So sorry we have to have these bitter experiences to renew and reinvigorate our determination to finish off the genocidal Nazi Hamas regime, despite American interference.

The attempts of Hamas to delay answering Israel’s ceasefire proposals comes from their optimism that they can ignite a fire of criticism against Israel, as they did with the phony hospital bombing that only died down because of videos showing Hamas had bombed the hospital itself. Now it’s the “Flour massacre” of Gazans on the beach, swarming over the food trucks. When the IDF interceded to prevent them from trampling each other to death, they were faced with mobs braying for their death. Soldiers shot in self-defense, aiming for legs. About ten were killed, not a hundred.

Not picking up steam, so far. So Hamas is trying again: their “Ministry of Health” is claiming another fake “massacre” in Kikar Al Kuwaiti in Central Gaza. Blah, blah.

Start a war you can’t win, refuse to surrender and release our hostages, and what do you have left? You have to cry like a baby over made-up lies for someone, anyone to save your sorry ass. Not working.

What I find particularly amusing is the conflicting tales they like to tell about Gaza. Take the before and after genre, where they show how beautiful and wonderful it was before the terrible Israelis destroyed it, completely forgetting their line about how Gaza was an “open air prison,” so they had no choice but to attack. Gee, you can’t have it both ways, folks! If you had it so good, why did you invade, rape and murder?

Don’t expect anyone to take you seriously when you get tangled up in your own lies. Take the newest propaganda announcement from Hamas that 70 of our hostages “were killed by Israeli bombs.” Well, if you want to trade hostages for a cease-fire, why would you tell us that there is hardly anyone left, which I deeply fear and am heartbroken to believe is the case?

So what, you may ask the average Gazan, is better: the parachuted aid packages from America, or from Jordan? According to Abu Ali Express, the Gazans prefer the American meals: chili, chicken noodles, spaghetti with beef. There’s even Skittles… and mini Tabasco. The Jordanians, alas, only offer instant coffee, salt, pepper, orangeade mix, tea, paper dishes, toothpicks, crackers, pickles, beans, pita and honey.

No contest. I’m sure Hamas is selling the American “free meals” for a higher price in Gaza.

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