Dear Thomas Friedman

You are a Jew, and you have warm feelings for the Jewish people. You describe Israel’s war as a just war. But you’re afraid of the world.

You write an article full of empathy for Israel. But then you criticize Israel’s refusal to give away land for a two-state solution, an act which you feel would solve everything.

But it is the ‘Ge’on Yakov’ the Jewish pride, the Jewish strength, loyalty, and faith in their G-d, and the Jewish adherence, through fire and water, to their heritage and to the Torah, and their fear and obedience not to the nations, but to G-d, that has kept them surviving throughout the generations for 2000 years of exile, while mighty empires have fallen.

You place your hopes and the hopes of the Jewish people on the nations of the world; but if it was up to the nations of the world, the blood libels, Crusades and Inquisitions and other things would have G-d forbid finished us off. It’s only by the grace of G-d that we still survive and exist and even thrive.

Thomas I love you. You are a  fellow Jew, part of our people. I love you like myself, and I’m telling you to wake up and smell the coffee. It’s time to recognize the world for what it is. It’s time to recognize the Jewish people and their true strength for what it is.

It’s time to realize the true lesson of October 7. By giving away land, namely Gaza, it created a great danger for the Jewish people. And the same would happen by giving away any land, including land on the West Bank.

The answer is not to give away land. The answer is not to try to please the nations of the world. Rather, the answer is to encourage our fellow Jews, and to encourage Israel, fighting for survival, to remain true to our faith, and to remain true to the guidance that the Lubavitcher Rebbe gave — to be strong, to show the enemy that they will not get away with murder, and to not give away any land at all.

The Jewish people will triumph, we will survive, and we will do so by remaining loyal to our G-d and to our Torah, and by our fierce determination to be strong in defending our land and our people.

May you be blessed to be a true source of encouragement and inspiration to the Jewish people. And may we very soon see the complete Redemption with Moshiach, when all Jews will become united and will become aware, and also the non-Jews will become aware that there is a G-d in this world, and that the Jewish people are His chosen nation.

May it happen very soon.