What was our strategic mistake?

One has to ask that once we decided not to utilize violence, despite being violently ripped from our homes, what else could we have done?

Perhaps the answer is that there is nothing else we could have done, or perhaps the answer is that we need to learn for the future what else we can do.

The Israelis have endeavoring mightily to achieve their assimilation attempts; they are now a nation like every other, as they too kick out Jews. And we Jews have learned the lesson that we must now treat them as such.

The Left is smugly satisfied every time they now hear a religious Jew say “Dina d’Malchuta Dina” (the law of the government is the law). Yet they don’t understand what it really means.

They think we are saying that we accept your rule, your “democracy”, even your abuse.

What they don’t understand that it means that we will now treat them like every goiyeshe government we lived under for the past 2000 years.

Yes, we will follow your rules, as long as they don’t contradict our laws.

But we will use every trick we learned over the past 2000 years to survive and flourish under your hostile regime.


When Yaacov was preparing to meet with Eisav he prepared himself in 3 ways – Doron, Tefilla, and Milchama (Presents, Prayer, and War).

The truth is that we all forgot to do the first. The other two we did spectacularly.


While Sharon was out bribing Knesset members with Ministerial seats, we just threatened.

While the EU was shelling out money to the Peres Peace Center for Subversion and the Geneva Accord Idiots, we just complained.

We forgot all our techniques of 2000 years.

While the forces of Left were out openly bribing and buying whomever they could, we promised nothing, we offered nothing.

Why wasn’t an alternative to the Peres Peace Center opened with similarly juicy positions and salaries offered to influential Israeli Industrial leaders?

Why wasn’t an Pro-Israel Accord organization formed with similarly hefty salaries and trips for undecided members of political influence?

Where is our AIPAC?

Why weren’t undecided Ministers openly told that if Sharon fires them we will provide them with cushy parachutes, so they need not worry about the day after?

Why weren’t Likud Knesset members openly conveyed the message that they will be guaranteed safe slots in the next election if they properly vote the Likud platform?

All they had were Sharon’s threats and our threats, and no fall-back positions.

In the future, until there is a Jewish government in the State of Israel the rule must be, “Doron, Tefillah, and Milchama”.


Ask yourself this, how many Jewish communities throughout our long history avoided destruction simply by paying off the right minister?