Notes from a Collapsing Empire

By Moshe Feiglin

This article is being written at the end my two week lecture tour of the US. Tomorrow, with G-d's help, I'll be on my way home.

I met with thousands of Jews from diverse backgrounds during this tour. Even some non-Jews came to hear my lectures. Just about all of these people are convinced that America is collapsing. Nobody believes that Obama will really manage to stop the crash - certainly not with the Robin Hood methods that he has adopted.

"Almost every day, another one of my patients is laid off," a successful dentist told me. "People who have been fired from their jobs ask me to remove all of their teeth. They simply don't have the money to treat them."

I don't believe that the dollar will be worth the paper that it's printed on," a Jewish cosmetics chain owner told me.

"Madoff has caused tremendous damage to the Jews," a successful businessman whispered to me. "Nobody talks about it in public, but Americans are very aware of the ethnic identity of the man who stole 65 billion dollars."

It looks like America is marching down the European path and has quietly surrendered to the Moslem offensive. The government department that was supposed to scrutinize the terror being exported from Syria has been dissolved. Iran understands from Obama that it has nothing to fear from America. Almost one billion dollars are being channeled to the "Palestinian" terror gangs in Israel - at the very same time that the US national debt has ballooned to dimensions that make the final collapse just a question of time.

At one of my meetings, an influential woman told me that ten years ago, a short time after 9/11, she read an article that predicted exactly what would take place in the following years. "I don't remember who wrote the article," she said to me, "but I do remember its name: America Already Lost.'"

I found the article for her, written by yours truly. I wrote it after I heard President Bush, in a national address after the 9/11 terror attack, call upon all Americans to pray for America in their "churches, synagogues and mosques." In other words, Bush was calling upon Americans to pray to the same deity in whose name the Twin Towers were destroyed. It was clear to me that the Americans did not understand the intrinsic nature of the war that had been forced upon them. They did not understand who their enemy was and thus would necessarily lose. My article precisely anticipated the American entanglement in Afghanistan and Iraq, the persistence of the Moslem offensive, the economic downturn and the fear of the Jews in its wake:

There won't be large-scale pogroms in America, perhaps small ones, but not the kind we have suffered in Europe. After all, there is something too good about the American people that won't allow it. But how will a Jew show his face in the street when every American is convinced that he has lost his job and his property, that his relatives are being killed in terrorist attacks and in endless war - all because of the Jews?

My return trip to Israel was no picnic. I sat at the airport in uncertainty for nearly 24 hours with thousands of others, until I managed to get aboard one of El Al's air shuttle flights returning the stranded Israelis home.

"If this is the line of Israeli visitors wanting to go home," I thought to myself, "how long will the line be when American Jews rush to come home to Israel?"

(America Already Lost, by: Moshe Feiglin, War of Dreams p.393)

It seems that we are in the midst of a process of rapid change in the world order. Western culture is crumbling in the face of the power of faith of the Islamic world. Post-modernism, which essentially neutralizes the concepts of good and evil, has shattered Western culture's ability to withstand Islamic culture.

The West has an absolute objective advantage over Islam - but it has lost its ability to discern between good and evil. Where there is no God there is no truth and certainly no ability to identify the enemy. The gates of the Western world are open to waves of Moslem immigration, while the immigrants themselves look with scorn upon the infidels and the sand that is rapidly running out of the Western hourglass.

The Moslem offensive already has Europe on its knees. For some time, it seemed that America would stand firm. But a nation that elects a president of Islamic background does not have what it takes to face off against the Islamic threat.

Israel must prepare to stand alone against Iran and against a very hostile world. We must prepare ourselves for a large wave of aliyah from the US and the West while simultaneously dealing with Israel's crisis situation.
We must prepare ourselves for a reality that will be very similar to Israel's War of Independence. We must understand that we can rely on no other nation but ourselves - and of course - on our Father in Heaven.

In the War of Independence, the US ignored Israel. We fought on our own. Then, too, we were facing the threat of annihilation by the entire Moslem world. We can safely say that history is repeating itself - but with one major distinction:

Unlike the previous wars that Israel has fought, the dominant element in the approaching battle is much more religious than national. In a religious war, physical power is not enough. It was not enough for the Americans in their war against Bin Laden and it wasn't enough for us against the Hamas.

We must fortify our spiritual power. In the recent Gaza war we saw that our soldiers are already equipped with faith. We must make sure that Israel's leadership will also be packing that same invincible weapon.