Look, when it’s just Joe “freezing,” as he did yesterday, looking out into space during a press conference and forgetting what planet he’s on, that’s one thing. But when he gets it into his head that he is going to destroy Israel’s best chance of getting back her hostages and winning this war against these rapists and murderers, that’s something else entirely.

The shift, is, I admit, subtle, so if you’re not paying attention it might have whizzed right past you. We in Israel, however, can’t afford not to be awake. The Biden administration’s approach to the hostages and a Gaza ceasefire has gone off the rails. As reported Israel Today, “Until now, Washington spoke of the release of Israeli hostages as a condition for a ceasefire. Now, Secretary of State Antony Blinken is talking about a ceasefire to enable the release of hostages.”

Let me repeat that in a language we can all understand: Israel is now going to be pressured to end the war without having achieved either of its main goals: the destruction of Hamas and the return of the captives.

Dear Mr. “this- has -to-end-before-f–ing Ramadan,” we don’t care about Ramadan. Nobody cares about Ramadan. The murderers of October 7 didn’t wait for their holy month to ramp up their violence. In case you haven’t noticed, for jihadis, it’s Ramadan all year ‘round! If our hostages are not released, there isn’t going to be a ceasefire. Read our lips. There is no Israeli government that will survive agreeing to that.  If they’ve, G-d forbid, murdered our kidnapped families in captivity, we are going to level Rafah and its vicious population, the “innocents” who murdered an Egyptian truck driver bringing them aid last week.

What disgusting people!

They’re so hungry, poor things. Right, with manna from heaven falling day and night from all over the place. They started a war and now they are siphoning off the humanitarian aid that by rights belongs to people who are really starving, through no fault of their own.

You want to see real starvation, children with swollen bellies and skeletal faces, not the Pallywood theatrics of the liars in Gaza? Then look at some photos of the poor children in South Sudan who are dying of famine after years of civil war. According to UNICEF, a staggering 14 million children are in desperate need of lifesaving assistance. “Twenty years ago, Darfur was the world’s largest hunger crisis, and the world rallied to respond. But today, the people of Sudan have been forgotten. Millions of lives and the peace and stability of an entire region are at stake,” Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the World Food Program, said.

Today, there are 18 million people across the region who are going hungry and only one in 20 can afford a single meal a day. It’s affecting more than 25 million people in Sudan, South Sudan and Chad. Millions are displaced. But nobody cares about them because there aren’t any Jews involved. Its just Muslims killing Muslims, so no one cares.

Unlike the Gazans, who brought this on themselves, the Sudanese people really are innocent. But heaven isn’t raining down aid packages on this real humanitarian crisis because UN agencies are too busy helping the bellyaching Gazans who, if you believe their sad little before and after photos, lived in paradise before Israel came it and ruined it all. Oh? They came in because you started a war? Oh, let’s not talk about that, now. It’s old news, right?

I try to avoid talking about our northern border because, frankly, it terrifies me. The rocket attack on Kiryat Shmona yesterday, in which Hezbollah sent fifty rockets across the border, destroyed property there, and killed an Indian foreign worker and injured six of his co-workers. Hezbollah has said it will destroy Kiryat Shmona. The reality of the situation – that we can no longer live and travel in all of Israel – is staggering.

I don’t know what our government is waiting for, but I have a feeling it’s tied to the progress we are making in Gaza with getting our hostages released. Israel is very focused on people, not buildings, which is why it evacuated Kiryat Shmona. But I’m not leaving my house, I tell you that right now. Hezbollah doesn’t scare me and soon they will be eating dirt like their dear friends and relatives in the south. That is, if Joe remembers that he is President of the United States, the greatest democracy on the face of the earth, and leader of the free world. Or at least that he’s on planet Earth.

I saw a video by a reserve officer in Gaza uploaded to TikTok from Khan Yunis.

“What did Hamas accomplish? Okay, they were able to murder, rape, pillage, shoot people in their private parts, kidnap innocent people. Yes, they ‘accompllished’ that. But they also wanted to free a lot of terrorist murderers from Israeli prisons, and now there are triple the number of prisoners, so that didn’t work out so well for them. They wanted to stop Israelis from going to the Temple Mount, right, they called it the Al Aksa Flood, Al Aksa is the Temple Mount, now more and more Israelis are wanting to visit and pray there. They wanted to conquer Israeli territory, but what happened,” he points over his shoulder, “is that Gaza got destroyed. They wanted to instill terror, and instead brought us unity and resilience. They thought our army was falling apart, and instead Israelis came flying back from South America to support their country. They thought the axis of evil would come together, that the whole world would stop Israel from fighting back, that Israel would be cut off, but instead all the Palestinian flag waving and protests did was wake up the world and make people look around and say: ‘Who are these people in our country and what do they want?’ I think it kind of backfired.”

The soldier’s name is Chaim Malespin. I thank him for saying all this, for helping to keep us safe, and hope he comes home to his family soon.

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