For both strategic and historical reasons, the Jewish state should annex all of the newly acquired parts of Mount Hermon and formally incorporate them into Israel.
ed note–as always, a tsunami of important info that every Gentile with a vested interest in his/her own future survival needs to understand about all of this.
Firsto, a lil’ bio info on our deranged Hebraic author.
Freund is not just some conveyor-belt produced Judah-ite, ladies and Gentile-men, but rather, of the type so pickled in the radioactive brine of his Torah Judah-ism that he was once one of Netanyahu’s most important public relations advisors.
Nexto, make no mistake about what this is all about, L&G. Israel–as both a ‘state’ and as a people–is engaged in holy war, ‘Ju-had’, if you will, in stealing every square millimeter of land in the Middle East per the commandments of the religious scriptures that function as the ‘operating system’ within the Jewish brain, both on the individual and the collective level, to wit–
‘On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abraham, saying ‘To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates’… –Book of Genesis, 15:18
‘And God spoke unto us saying, ‘Go to the hill-country and all the places nigh thereunto… in the Arabah, the hill-country and in the Lowland… in the South and by the sea-shore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates…Go in therefore and possess the land which the Lord swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, unto them and to their seed after them…’ –Book of Deuteronomy 1:6–8
‘Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours, from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea shall be your border…’ –Book of Deuteronomy
‘…From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even unto the great river, the Euphrates, all the land unto the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border…’ –Book of Joshua
‘When the Lord your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, he will give you a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant…–Book of Deuteronomy
And on that note, ladies and Gentile-men, and in particular the thing involving Judaic ‘holy war’, note that in Freund’s essay below, he does not once, NOT ONCE, mention the same Talmud which an entire horde of ‘experts’ claim has supplanted and replaced the Torah, even though a 30 second examination of what is written in the Jewish press on any given day/any given moment reveals this to be not the case, AT ALL.
The Torah is the beating heart of Judah-ism, ladies and Gentile-men, and even though scholars and intellectuals have done yeoman’s work in studying and examining the various evil things found within the Talmud, the fact is, L&G, the UGLY TRUTH of the matter, is that the Talmud is but an extension of the original teachings/commandments found within the Torah or ‘Old Testament’ as it is known to Christians.
Michael Freund for Jpost
Early last month, shortly after the fall of the Assad regime in Damascus, Israel took a step that dramatically altered the strategic landscape of the entire region.
Quietly and without any prior indications, the IDF entered the buffer zone on the Golan Heights separating Israel and Syria and liberated the highest peak of Mount Hermon, raising the blue-and-white banner over the tallest mountain in either country.
And while Israeli officials were quick to insist that the move was only ‘temporary’, it would be a grave mistake to forgo this territory.
For both strategic and historical reasons, the Jewish state should annex all of the newly acquired parts of Mount Hermon and formally incorporate them into Israel.
While most Israelis think of the Hermon as a single summit, it is in fact a cluster of mountains, control over which was divided after the 1967 Six Day War.
Seven months after the end of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israel and Syria signed the Disengagement Agreement on May 31, 1974, which created a 235-sq.km. (146-sq.mi.) zone. The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force was tasked with patrolling the area.
On the Israeli side of the line, the tallest peak of the Hermon range is 2,236 meters (7,335 feet), whereas on the Syrian side the crest of the Hermon reaches a height of 2,814 meters (9,232 feet), giving the Syrians a significant advantage.
But that mountain is now held by the IDF, and its importance cannot be overstated.
By taking it, Israel has more than doubled the area of the Hermon under its control, and it now commands a mountaintop which is just 40 km. from Damascus, potentially placing the Syrian capital within range of IDF artillery.
The new foothold also provides Israel with a panoramic observation point from which it can closely monitor Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, which has long served as a Hezbollah stronghold.
On December 9, Naftali Hazony, a former Israeli fighter pilot, highlighted in a post on X some of the additional military and intelligence benefits of the move.
‘Once placed on Mount Hermon,’ he wrote, ‘Israel’s radar will see far into both Syria and Lebanon, providing early warning of incoming low-flying jets and drones. Israel’s intelligence can also leverage the peak, placing sensors to conduct surveillance and intercept enemy communications.’
Furthermore, Hazony noted that ‘any hostile force advancing toward Israel will now be exposed and at the mercy of Israel’s drones, surface-to-surface missiles, and laser-guided bombs. Residents of northern Israel can sleep more soundly knowing that Israel controls this peak.’
And that is precisely why it is essential that Israel hold on to the Hermon until the end of days.
On December 13, Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered the IDF to make preparations to remain on the Hermon over the winter, which suggests that the army is in no hurry to depart.
But on December 17, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went to the peak of the Hermon, where he held an operational briefing with military and security officials, and said: ‘We are holding this assessment in order to decide on the deployment of the IDF in this important place until another arrangement is found that ensures Israel’s security.’
This position might have been a reflection of pressure being applied by the outgoing Biden administration in Washington.
Five days before Netanyahu’s statement, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters that while America backed Israel’s operations in Syria to defend against potential threats, he had ‘every expectation’ that the taking of the Hermon would only be temporary.
Fortunately, Sullivan’s job and the positions he espouses are at this point truly temporary, since on January 20 the new Trump administration will take power, which may provide an opening for Israel to assert its sovereignty over the Hermon.
After all, it was during Trump’s first term that Washington recognized Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan, so perhaps that could soon be extended a little farther northeast.
Israel has always had an historic and religious claim to Mount Hermon
BUT THE Jewish state’s claim to the mountain range is not only a matter of military necessity. It is also firmly rooted in our people’s history.
The Hermon is mentioned a number of times in the Bible, such as in the Book of Joshua, the Psalms, and the Song of Songs, and in Deuteronomy (3:8), Moses recounts how the Israelites captured the lands of the Emorite king Sihon and Og, the king of Bashan, ‘from the brook of Arnon to Mount Hermon.’
The verse which immediately follows says, ‘the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion ,and the Amorites call it Senir.’
Rashi, the preeminent biblical sage notes that yet another verse in Deuteronomy (4:48) lists Mount Sion as an additional name for Hermon and asks why was it necessary for scripture to tell us all of these various appellations.
His answer, written more than 900 years ago, resonates no less strongly today: ‘To extol and praise the Land of Israel, that there were four kingdoms priding themselves in it, with one saying ‘it shall be called by my name,’ and another saying ‘it shall be called by my name.’’
In other words, everyone wanted the Hermon, but it was – and remains – part of the Land of Israel.
Amid the chaos now prevailing in Syria, where a former al-Qaeda affiliate has assumed power, the existential need for the Jewish state to retain the Hermon has never been clearer, a sentiment shared by a consensus of Israelis.
Perhaps that is why, when King David famously extolled ‘brothers dwelling together in unity’ in Psalm 133, he likened it in verse 3 to ‘the dew of Hermon, that comes down upon the mountains of Zion, for there God commanded the blessing of life forevermore.’
The problem starts with taking the Old Testament as an historical document. There have been a number of books written that show there is nothing in Egyptian or Assyrian records that support the claim that the “Kingdom of Israel” ever existed. Here is one of those more recent books: https://ia601603.us.archive.org/1/items/dlopf/Egypt%20Knew%20No%20Pharaohs%20Nor%20Israelites%20%20.pdf
ed note–We agree with you, very little (or none) of the Jews’ Torah (Old Testament) should be taken as historical and archeological fact, and especially anything that creates the illusion that there is a supreme, all-knowing ‘deity’ that favors the ‘children of Israel’ above everyone else and who rains holy hell down upon the heads of those peoples that refuse to acknowledge this theory.
But this is not the issue, i.e. whether or not there is any historical or archeological ‘proof’ that any of the tall tales found in the Jews’ religion can be supported by objective science.
Rather, what matters is that THEY believe it is real, no different than someone who finds a spent lottery ticket on the sidewalk from 10 years ago that just so happens to match the numbers on that day’s numbers and believes that he is a millionaire and Yahweh help anyone who refuses to hand over his bag of cash.
Your point is well taken–the Jews, Hebrews, Israelites, Judah-ites, whatever we want to call them, have no scientific claim to the smallest, slightest speck of earth anywhere on the ENTIRE PLANET, much less within historic Palestine, but what matters is that THEY believe that they do, and they are prepared to go ‘all the way’–meaning WWIII/Armageddon–in cashing in on that lottery ticket they found blowing around 3,000 years ago.
Ezekiel 6
Doom for the Mountains of Israel
1 The word of the LORD came to me:
2 “Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel; prophesy against them
3 and say: ‘You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign LORD. This is what the Sovereign LORD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.
4 Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will slay your people in front of your idols.
5 I will lay the dead bodies of the Israelites in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.