Oh Where, Oh Where Has The IDF Gone...?

Pondering the unthinkable.

Bs'd

In a recent post, we discussed the current year, 2024/25 (תשפ”ה), and what insight, if any, we might gain from the Torah verse uniquely associated with that year.

You’ll recall that the pasuk speaks to a reality that is less than kind to our people, of a situation in which our enemies, at least, believe they hold the upper hand.

We estimate that, at present, most Jews residing in the Holy Land don’t subscribe to that belief or feel that danger. In fact, the current psychology tends to be more complacent than it should be, given the circumstances and the tremendous losses we’ve experienced to date.

[Yes, the enemy’s losses are greater, but when one considers what might have been had the Jews been led by… well, Jews — one is overcome by the wholly unnecessary toll of dead and injured.]

But that’s for another time.

Today, our goal is not to ponder counter-factuals and bemoan what could have been.

Rather, we propose going back in time some fifteen years to a piece of writing penned by our mentor and friend, the holy Provoke The Goyim, menuchato eden.

Our teacher was early, apparently, in writing about a possible IAF strike on the Iranian nookyular program, but the essence of his post remains as true today as when he wrote it.

And given that we're currently situated on the verge of such an attack, we decided to reproduce his words for you in toto below.

For those who prefer to source the original, it's HERE.

Enjoy (from 2009)…

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Before long, the IDF will attempt to destroy the Iranian nuclear capability.

It will fail.

It will fail because Hashem, the G-d of the Jews and the Creator of the universe, is a jealous G-d, and he will not brook his people – or any other – believing in false gods.

And for many Israelis, the Israel Defense Force is, indeed, such a god.

So now, the time for the IDF has come.

Its mission to neutralize the Iranian war machine will fail, and with it the IDF ‘god’ – a failed god – will die.

This will certainly leave a great many Israelis confounded and desperate, and will present them with a clear choice: to serve the One, True G-d, Hashem, Master of Legions — or to remain godless, and face a future of overwhelming anxiety and despair.

It cannot be otherwise.

For while the IDF was employed as an instrument to further the will of G-d, there was no questioning its worth or legitimacy.

But when enough Jews began believing that the salvation of Hashem’s Chosen People would come solely through this mere instrument, everything changed.

And when it was used as a tool to force the surrender of His Holy Land to His avowed enemies… with this, the Israelis went too far.

So, now the Jewish people will fear G-d – whether they want to or not.

They will fear G-d and G-d alone because the mighty Israeli Air Force will have been dealt a deathly blow. And no one will know where to turn then – save to their Father in heaven, their only true source of salvation.

And the Great Day will be near.

Wow.

We mentioned the current complacency, above, but didn't speak to the outsized arrogance of the current zionist leadership, both military and civilian — and that includes the media and its attendant retinue of elitist pundits from academia and business.

The language that emanates from that cohort is simply flabbergasting.

Never before have we seen so much chest-pounding, heard so much kochi v’otzem yadi, so much “I told you so” and “just you wait”, and “you ain't seen nothing yet”.

It's bloody embarrassing.

And it doesn’t end.

There's no mention anywhere of G-d or his chesed or any trace of a Jewish understanding of how it is we've come this far, Baruch Hashem.

As usual, Rav Kahane…

In his Perush HaMaccabi, the Rav boils down the situation to its essentials.

In his comment on the psukim that are connected to our current reality —

How can one [person] pursue a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their [Mighty] Rock has sold them out, and the Lord has given them over?

the Rav, in his inimitable style, writes (page רצ):

And at the end of days, suddenly and shockingly, the Arabs and those who hate Israel will overcome them [Israel]… and they won’t understand how it is that once a single Jew chased a thousand, and suddenly Israel became weak, seemingly against nature. Nor will they understand that both their victory and Israel’s weakness come by way of Hashem, the G-d of History…

Yet if Israel fails to comprehend this, then all the more so — how should the goyim succeed in understanding…?!

What more can be said?

May Hashem help us be worthy of the geula shleima.

Dean Maughvet