What really dies in Gaza

What dies in Gaza are not children starving or killed by bombs, nor their parents – terrorists who do not hesitate to kill other children in the name of Allah.

No. What truly perishes are not the buildings, the human lives, nor the illusions and dreams of the miserable, suffering under the destructive judgment of the Creator, who decides which house, which family, which broken table must remain or not.

What truly dies in Gaza is the Narrative: the illusion that Israel can be harmed without consequence. However much crocodile tears are shed, the real war is not against the State of Israel or its defensive actions, but against the “right” to kill the Jew – the eternal scapegoat of all the world’s problems. And yet, the only real control in this world is Hashem’s.

This changed in 1948. The seed of the swastika bore fruit in open extermination; today, even those who did not wear it yesterday carry it gladly, even if scratched out, for the essence remains. The core reason for this hatred is that Israel introduced Hashem to the world, showed His face, and today most nations reject the Torah. Thus, the angelic face that bore it becomes a crime of hatred.

Here lies the theological delirium behind antisemitism: if the people that present God are His image, then is the people itself God incarnate in Israel?
I don’t know whether to consider it praise, motivation, insult, or sheer idolatry. It makes one reflect – for in others, Israel sees its own distorted reflection.

And yet, the tears of Gaza do not echo as much in the Arab world as in the West, immersed in the illusion of screens where an image is worth more than a thousand words, not for truth but for fiction – just another story to entertain a permanently idle public, forced into unemployment. Unemployment that destroys families and futures receives not a second of “tears” in social media reels. No, the real “problem” is the so-called “two-state solution.” But what is Jordan, if not a country made up of 80% Palestinians – Arabs who declare their antisemitism, or at best, Greeks confused beyond measure?

This is not simply a critique of antisemitic identity, but of the refusal to apply the universal law: love your neighbor as yourself. Both the crocodile tears of the West and the Arab hands stained with Jewish blood fall short of this commandment.

Here is the angelic key of God’s people – the sword that separates good from evil: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Because the battle at home is not about the Third Temple, blessed be. Nor about whether one can pray there, nor about international “permits” to build new homes in Israel. Israel’s conflict is existential. Unlike other nations, Israel must constantly justify its existence – but no other people can claim land so legitimately, for the deed of sale and inheritance was written and distributed massively in the Torah.

The very basis of property and inheritance in the world, the foundation of Western law, comes from the lentil stew of Esau that our Patriarch Israel offered. Today it is turned against us: Esau’s children cry in Gaza as in Canada. But theologically, it was not Ishmael who swore to kill Jacob, but his twin brother – who lost his head and chose to sell his birthright for a meal.

Consequently, the problem is never “how much Israel wants to be Israel.” The problem is the tears of our enemies, who can no longer kill us openly as in the old times. Now they disguise their hatred, attacking indirectly with unemployment, manipulation, propaganda, division. These forces skillfully separate people, categorizing and individualizing, putting a price on one type of suffering over another.

In truth, such “separators” do not embody humanity. They embody the negation of Hashem – the Serpent’s answer to His creation. When God said, “Let us make Man,” they said, “No.” They are the NO to God. Their crocodile tales speak clearly with their reptilian spirit.

But Adonai echad, Adonai Elohenu. Amen.