The Jewish Brain–‘How We Jews Are Supposed to Wage War’

Instead of adopting the Torah’s approach of besieging a city with starvation, thirst, and the spread of disease, we have instead embraced the opposite approach, and then complain when the war drags on, our soldiers are killed, and our hostages suffer privation and death.

ed note–as always, several ‘protocols’ that every Gentile with a vested interest in his/her own future survival needs to know about this.

Firsto, the most obvious, which is the fact that the author of this piece is a rabbi, thoroughly skilled and schooled on what his Judah-ism teaches on a wide variety of topics, not the least of which are the rules of war as far as Judah-ism is concerned.

And note, ladies and Gentile-men, that he–in quoting his own Jewish scriptures and scriptural experts–promotes the starving to death of civilians and the deliberate and methodical utilization of disease with the same kind of casual, non-affected manner as he would discuss what kind of dressing he would put on his salad.

And no, ladies and Gentile-men, he is not an aberration or an abnormality within Mundus Judaicus as con artists such as these guys–

–would indignantly, self-righteously and deceptively claim…

He is ‘the real deal’ as far as Jews and rabbis go, and his adhering faithfully to the teachings of his Torah without mincing words or trying to run a protection racket for it means that in effect he is a ‘good Jew’ for doing so.

The next important ‘protocol’ that every Gentile with a vested interest in his/her own future survival needs to know about this is the fact that it is indeed the Torah (Old Testament) that is the basis for these ‘rules of war’ espoused by this rebbe, and even though the Talmud gets a passing mention, it is the Torah (Old Testament) that is referenced over, and over, and over again within the words of this very revealing and frightening essay.

We point this out L&G due to what is the very dangerous ‘practice’ these days on the part of certain self-declared ‘experts’ within the ‘anti-Zionist’ community of arguing that modern-day Judah-ism is some weird, new creature that broke with its original ‘holy’ teachings found within the Torah (again, the Old Testament) in favor of this ‘replacement’ religion wedded to the Talmud. These experts go even further in their ridiculous journey by claiming that all the violence that has been taking place in the Middle East since the unholy emergence of Judea Resurrecta is the direct result of today’s Jews having ‘abandoned’ the compassion, morality and love of fellow man found within the pages of the Torah, which is clearly not the case, as our rebbe makes very, very clear.

Our point in all of this L&G is that the horrible death and destruction we are all seeing today is the direct result–DIRECT RESULT–of Gentiles not doing their homework and of making sure that their I’s are dotted and T’s are crossed. They hear something that sounds good, and rather than do a little bit of independent research and rational thinking before accepting this poisoned chalice, instead they gulp down its contents and then go about their lives BUUUUUURPING it out on various websites, in comments sections and on forums, and all of it without an ounce of truth to it, and in the meantime, the people who are MOST harmed by these lies wake up to another day of unspeakable violence and carange as a result, and it costs the BUUUUUUUUUURPING Gentiles nothing, given where they happen to live.

The people of Palestine deserve the best we have to offer them in their struggle to survive, and this ‘best’ does not include half-truths or lies.

Now, as far as the piece itself, there is one item we would like to point out for your consideration, and it is that section from the book of Judges where our unesteemed rebbe quotes thus–

‘When you approach a city to wage war against it, you must first propose peace to it. If it responds with peace and opens its gates to you, then the people therein will become your slaves and they will serve you. But if the city does not make peace with you and wages war against you, then you must besiege it.’

Now, just for the sake of clarity here, ladies and Gentile-men, this is not a description of a defensive war on the part of the Hebrews/Shebrews/Israelites/Judeans/Jews, whatever.

This is an INVASION aimed at STEALING other peoples’ lands and possessions and making them slaves afterwards, and all of this based upon the original teachings in the Torah where these Space Invaders are commanded by their violent deity yahweh to destroy everyone and everything in the region. As much as the rebbe authoring this piece tries to sugar-coat the scriptures he is quoting by adding the caveat that IF the people surrender that their lives are to be spared, remember, the price for surrender is that they are made into slaves for the Jews–FOREVER.

And people wonder why there is this phenomenon known as ‘Arab terrorism’?

Rabbi Steven Pruzansky for Israel National News

When will we Jews learn to take the Torah seriously?

There are Jews who perceive the Torah as all rituals, filled with virtuous deeds that make us better people, but who derive their values from alien sources. Others embrace the lofty ideas that the Torah articulates but prefer to implement them in ways they fabricate while relying on their own judgment.

But In Devarim (Deuteronomy) 30:20, we are taught that the Torah is ‘your life and the length of your days to dwell on the land that G-d swore to give to your forefathers’.

The privilege of living in the land of Israel is dependent on our fidelity to Torah, and that is made abundantly clear in an unexpected but revealing way, (and quite relevant to current events) in this week’s Torah portion of Shoftim (Judges) ibid 20:10-12) where the Torah delineates how we should conduct our wars.

‘When you approach a city to wage war against it, you must first propose peace to it. If it responds with peace and opens its gates to you, then the people therein will become your slaves and they will serve you. But if the city does not make peace with you and wages war against you, then you must besiege it.’

The medieval Jewish scholar Rashi, citing the Sifrei 200:5, defines a siege: ‘you are entitled even to starve it, to make it suffer thirst and to kill the inhabitants by mortal diseases.’ That is a siege, and that is a key to victory. That shows the enemy strength and resolve and is designed to induce unconditional surrender which spares lives on both sides.

Rashi, in a previous verse, notes that this tactic applies to an ‘optional war,’ for conquest; how much more so would this apply then to a war of self-defense forced upon us by a brutal and evil enemy that invaded our land, murdered innocent civilians, raped our women, pillaged, ravaged, and kidnapped as many of our people as it could?

Was the Torah concerned about the welfare of enemy civilians?

In a word, no, except to declare that all their suffering could be averted by surrender of the hostile forces.

Instead of adopting the Torah’s approach of besieging a city with starvation, thirst, and the spread of disease, we have instead embraced the opposite approach, and then complain when the war drags on, our soldiers are killed, and our hostages suffer privation and death. Instead of starvation we provide our enemy with food, instead of thirst we furnish them with copious amounts of water and fuel, and instead of ‘spreading disease’ we inoculate them against the polio virus. In its worst corollary, we give the enemy everything they are depriving of our hostages.

Rather than make the enemy surrender, succumb, and become subservient to us, we argue amongst ourselves how quickly to (again) abandon Gaza. And we wonder why we have fought over Gaza seven times and never succeeded in achieving any resolution.

It is because we have scorned the Torah, hear the above verses without considering their relevance to us, and think that the Torah is silent on the conduct of war.

We think that the problem will just go away. Here again Rashi counsels us otherwise. ‘If you don’t make peace with it, it will eventually make war against you,’ to which Rashi comments, ‘Scripture is informing you that if the enemy does not make peace with you, it will in the end make war against you. If you leave it alone and go away you will solve nothing and only hasten an attack against you.’

That has been the Gazan reality for almost seventy years, except when we controlled Gaza. Whenever we ‘leave it alone and go away,’ it becomes a nest of terror and a springboard for deadly attacks on Jews. It would be sobering to say that we have learned this lesson the hard way but, unfortunately, we have not yet learned that lesson at all.

Far be it from me to advocate a siege against Gaza, which would violate the chimera known as ‘international humanitarian law,’ most forcefully utilized as a weapon against Israel and only Israel in the world’s effort to thwart an Israeli victory. An unlikely voice has emerged who articulates similar thoughts – retired Israeli General Giora Eiland, former head of the National Security Council, and, ironically, one of the architects of the expulsion of Jews from Gaza in 2005.

Eiland said this week that Israel should cut off northern Gaza, evacuate all non-terrorist residents, and impose a siege on the territory to starve out the several thousand terrorists hiding there. They will be given a choice – ‘surrender or death’ – and he suggests that such is compatible with international humanitarian law once the civilians leave. If the civilians choose to stay, then they suffer the same fate. ‘And this is the optimal way to end a war with the minimum number of casualties.’

Many months ago, Eiland expressed similar sentiments in even stronger language: ‘What happened on October 7 is that the State of Gaza went to war against the State of Israel. State against state. Now, the state of Gaza does have vulnerabilities. It doesn’t have sufficient fuel, food, and water of its own. You can impose a legitimate boycott on that state until the state returns all of your hostages. Humanitarian for humanitarian.’

The reluctance to fight this war along these lines was an epic mistake, notwithstanding the pressure from the US and others to prioritize Gazan civilians over the fate of our hostages or the welfare of our soldiers. We should have pushed back against the West’s bathetic but depraved ideas of war at the very beginning – but even now it is not too late.

Continuing to supply Gaza with food, water, and fuel pursuant to the illusion that this material is reaching the civilian population just prolongs the war. It also fosters the impression among Gazans that Hamas is still in control. That is no way to win a war.

In truth, as the Talmud (Bava Kamma 46b) puts it, ‘why do I need a verse? It is logical!’ We should not need the Torah to teach us the obvious point that strengthening our enemy during a war or abandoning the territory we have conquered is no way to win. And yet, apparently, we do need the Torah even for that – to teach us the Jewish ethic of war, to teach us how to wage war, and to teach how even to bring our enemies to reconciliation and peace.

There are no shortcuts and no guarantee of short-term success. After several millennia of existence, we are still learning that we forsake the Torah at our peril, that a complete and wholehearted commitment to Torah is, indeed, our lives, the length of our days, and the only tried and true formula for our eternal sovereignty over the land of Israel. We should take it seriously – during this month of Elul and thereafter.