Dead End

Netanyahu's futile attempts to create a coalition government continue. His attempts are futile because either he will not succeed or he will put together a very short-lived rightist government. Even though we have just been through elections, it is time for all of us to prepare ourselves for the next elections, which will likely be held within the year. The dead end that we are experiencing on the political front expresses Israel's dead end position in all major avenues of Israeli life. First and foremost, the dead end is closing in on the IDF. Two months ago, during the Cast Lead operation, we predicted an outcome that was unpleasant to accept. (Click here and here for Moshe Feiglin's prescient articles written during the Cast Lead Operation). Now, our predictions have become reality: Israel's defeat was inherent in the operation itself. The self-sacrifice of the soldiers and the army's professionalism underscored what we already saw in the Second Lebanon War. Israel's problem is not technical. It is not a lack of equipment or the product of poor planning. We are losing on every challenging front: military, social, educational, economic, health and more. We are losing because the State of the Jews cannot be just another place under the sun. There is no way that the Jews can live as a sovereign entity in their holy land while disconnected from their national activation software - the Torah and eternal values of Am Yisrael.