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Excerpt from Mishpacha Magazine:

While Yishmael possesses spiritual merit, Hashem explicitly promised Avraham that “lo yirash ha’am hazeh, this nation (of Yishmael) will not inherit the Land” — not then, not now, and not ever.

This painful realization on the part of Yishmael has led to them spilling rivers of Yiddishe blood and perpetrating indescribable horrors, but none of that will change the facts on the ground. This Land will never belong to them.

Many years ago, there was a time when Arab terrorists were hijacking planes going to and from Eretz Yisrael and holding Jewish passengers hostage. One such hijacking, in Elul 5730/1970, targeted the rosh yeshivah of Yeshiva Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin, Rav Yitzchok Hutner, along with his family and some students. The hostages were held for several weeks, and the entire Torah world was galvanized to do everything possible to ensure the safe return of Rav Hutner.

At the time, the father of one of my childhood friends and neighbors was not only a very prominent pulpit rabbi in the Bronx, he was also a well-connected person in Washington. In addition, Rabbi Shalom Rubin had been one of the first students of Yeshiva Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin. Rabbi Moshe Sherer z”l, the legendary askan and head of Agudath Israel, led the efforts to save Rav Hutner, who was not in good health at the time. Rabbi Sherer called Rabbi Rubin and authorized him to travel to Washington and reach out to all his contacts, to bring international pressure on the countries responsible for this tragedy and to work for the release of the Rosh Yeshivah.

After several weeks of nonstop shtadlanus at the highest levels, word came that the Rosh Yeshivah and his family and several students had been released and were en route to the United States. Due to his integral role in this effort, Rabbi Rubin was given permission to go onto the tarmac to be one of the first to meet the Rosh Yeshivah. Rabbi Rubin called his son Moshe, who was in my home at the time, and told him to get ready as he would be picking him up to come with him to greet the Rosh Yeshivah — and he invited me to come along.

As we were waiting for the plane to come to a stop at the gate, we saw the door to the terminal open and watched as the gadol hador, Rav Moshe Feinstein ztz”l, took his place as the first to greet Rav Hutner upon his arrival. From my vantage point, I watched the Rosh Yeshivah emerge from the plane in very weakened condition, and I saw Rav Moshe literally run to him. They hugged each other while crying with much emotion and relief. I saw Rav Hutner whisper something to Rav Moshe, who nodded his head in agreement, and then Rav Hutner was escorted to the waiting ambulance.

On the way back home, I asked Rabbi Rubin what Rav Hutner had told Rav Moshe. He answered that Rav Hutner said, “I looked into the eyes of the captors and saw in them the burning anger at the fact that ‘lo yirash ha’am hazeh,’ they will never inherit the Land.”

See the rest of the article here…

From Reuters (still waiting for the OTHER inside accounts…):

Three survivors of the assault on Be’eri with military experience said the Israeli forces operating in the kibbutz engaged Hamas but seemed disorganized. No one seemed to have overall command of the troops and the efforts to clear out the Hamas fighters didn’t seem systematic, they said.

When Yoel got home he found his family sheltering in the safe room in their apartment at the top of a two-storey block. Armed with a pistol and 12 bullets, he decided to remain outside on a terrace to keep guard.

From his perch, he said, he “continued to see terrorists” while army forces came and went. The Israeli troops seemed ineffective. “No one was in control. It was a big, big, big mess.”

Despite the presence of Israeli soldiers in the kibbutz by early afternoon, Hamas gunmen were still killing residents in their homes.

The killers weren’t confronted, but you bet a freelance rescue team of two brothers was! Protocol, Chain of command, centralization, fighting anarchy, Mamlachtiut, and so on:

Through the night, the Klemenson brothers and their nephew kept running into groups of soldiers who were fighting the Hamas gunmen and extracting residents. “Who are you,” the soldiers would challenge them.

“We’re with the 60. We’re with the 50,” Menachem said they told the soldiers. The unit numbers were made up, but in the chaos the ruse worked as the harried soldiers left them to their freelance rescue mission.

Read the rest of the Reuters report (very graphic in every way) here…

Remind me again, why in the world is ANYONE entering that evil, incompetent, fake army but real meatgrinder?!

אין פנאי לערוך ולהגיה את הדברים הבאים, אבל נלאתי כלכל ולא אוכל. הגירסה הקצרה: אמנם נכון מאד שאין “להתגייס”, אבל חובה להגן על עם ישראל כפשוטו בהרבה מאד דרכים לכל מי שהיכולת בידו. ו”כל מקום שיש שפיכות דמים אין חולקין כבוד לגרד”ל”.

בתגובה לכתבות הראשונות נגד הרב דוב לנדא, העירוני שלא ראוי להשיג אנונימית (כאילו יש ברירה!). באמת מותר כיון שאין כאן גלוי חדשות והנידון פרסם דברי עצמו, רק הסבר עובדות ידועות באור אחר.

ובדרך רמז, אדרבא, המחוסר “שם” כאן זה הגרד”ל וכמ”ש הרב יצחק ברנד שליט”א במקו”א:

“והדבר פשוט, שאם פוסק לפי המציאות של פעם ולא לפי המציאות של עכשיו אין זה שופט שבימיך, אלא שהוא רק חי בימיך אבל באמת הוא שופט של דור שעבר.”

כבר כתבנו בענין מכתב הקודים:

הרב דוב לנדא מדבר בקודים

[*] ז”ל השגת הראב”ד על הקדמת ספר יד החזקה (וכמובן, תירוצי המפרשים בדעת הרמב”ם לא שייכים כאן):

השגת הראב”ד – א”א, סבר לתקן ולא תיקן, כי הוא עזב דרך כל המחברים אשר היו לפניו, כי הם הביאו ראיה לדבריהם, וכתבו הדברים בשם אומרם, והיה לו בזה תועלת גדולה, כי פעמים רבות יעלה על לב הדיין לאסור או להתיר, וראייתו ממקום אחד, ואילו ידע כי יש גדול ממנו, הפליג שמועתו לדעה אחרת, היה חוזר בו. ועתה לא אדע למה אחזור מקבלתי ומראייתי בשביל חבורו של זה המחבר. אם החולק עלי גדול ממני, הרי טוב, ואם אני גדול ממנו, למה אבטל דעתי מפני דעתו. ועוד, כי יש דברים שהגאונים חולקים זה על זה, וזה המחבר בירר דברי האחד וכתבם בחיבורו, ולמה אסמוך אני על ברירתו, והיא לא נראית בעיני, ולא אדע החולק עמו, אם הוא ראוי לחלוק אם לא. אין זה אלא כל קבל די רוח יתירא ביה.