However, the recent governmental escapade regarding the Federman family is something that cannot go without comment.

You have a family living in Israel, a family infamous for right-wing activity. That means, the government doesn’t like them much. They lived in a home built illegally, a home no differently classed by law than so many homes of their Arab “cousins” all over Jerusalem and Yehuda/Shomron.

(I would have said Yesha, but there is no A in the equation anymore because of the insidious expulsion of Jews from their homes in Aza that caused nothing but more bloodshed).

In any case, the government, as usual, wanted to make these extremists an example. So, they sent in policemen who re-enacted a typical pogrom or aktion of Nazi proportions. 0130, little children woke up to the sound of glass shattering in their bedrooms and black-suited attackers heinously beating them and their mother. The father was already taken into custody.

If this had happened in any other place to anyone other than those espousing the right for Jews to live anywhere they want in the Biblical land of Israel, much of the world, at least the human rights activists, would be up in arms.

The progressive Israeli media, who cries for Darfur and China, would happily expel any religious Jew to substitute them with Darfurians, Chinese, or anyone else who does not believe in the G-d given right of a Jew to live in the holy land. And in this case, when covering this debacle, they prove their sickness uber alles. They cried, yes, they cried. They howled like the tattered, soulless hyenas they are, for the government to arrest a man, a neighbor, who said that “The perpetrators of this attack should either fall or be captured in battle.”

Olmert, still Prime Minister after his ostensible resignation, still perches on his bloodstained, decrepit throne and asserts that people, such as this man, are the ones truly responsible for violence. “We are sick of this verbal incitement which leads to violence. I expect to hear from the Defense Minister and Justice Minister what is to be done against these people.” I guess that robbing people, taking bribes, sending people irresponsibly to their deaths, promoting an oligarchy with only the interests of their personal bank accounts in mind, and other crimes are nothing, tantamount to this man’s words, now stigmatized. If they find that guy, he’s screwed.

Meanwhile, traumatized and bruised children ingest their fear. No doubt, these fragile, holy children are only tormented for the crime of being born to religious Jews who believe in Eretz Yisrael as a holy place for Jews. No doubt, this incident will fester in the hearts of these children who will be leaders more valiant, and more full of vicious hatred against the cowards who have perpetrated this crime against them.

I’m afraid to use stronger words, because I don’t want Shabak writing it down every time I blow my nose. They do anyway, I’m sure. I will say, however, that when first moving to Israel, I had a lot of hakarat hatov, appreciation, for the government, for the financial aid they gave me, for the IDF who are canonized in the mind of so many American Jewish children. It perturbs me that I am now so repulsed by this government, who steals from its constituents on a daily basis and employs tactics no less vicious than those of the Jewish kapo or yevsektzia against people who dare murmur a syllable against its practices.

Why us? Why afflict and oppress people who realize the destiny of Jewish identity and the land of Israel are so closely intertwined? Why are “Israeli” Hamasniks, Islamists, Arabs who burn down synagogues, leftists, anarchists and others allowed to provoke the right-wing population or just charedi Jews? These deeds go unaccounted for by the government, while one word breathed the wrong way by one of the religious can land the speaker in jail.

It’s because of one simple reason: The government fears us. They fear us because if we stand strong to who we are, we are no less dangerous than the Hamasniks. It’s not because we intend to act out physical violence. A lot of people love to talk but they wouldn’t do a thing when faced with an actual physical battle. Nor do they want it to come to that because they still believe that “people” such as the ones who sent Yasam out to abuse the Federman family have a point of the Jew in them.

It boils down to the fact that the government is scared to death of people who actually believe in something, especially those who go against this government’s own narrow self-interests, their desire for power and their hatred of Torah. They hate Torah so much because it demands they answer to Someone much more important than themselves.

It’s sad to me. Little does this government know that their success only lies in doing teshuva, which would entail working with us. So many of their children, (and most secular Israelis) don’t even know the barebones basics of Judaism. These people run away from Israel the first chance they get and quickly become as assimilated as their Diaspora brothers. If they want the country to stay a Jewish state (which I doubt), they need to start working with us instead of against us. Otherwise, all is lost, and their power will be as well.

And although I will not incite against the government for fear of the persecution I described, I am not saying this as incitement against the media, just as opinion without any action intended: I can’t say I wouldn’t be thrilled to see the evil people of the media fall in battle or be captured, especially by those they strive so hard to glamorize and vindicate. I’d rather see them do tshuva though.

In closing, I would like to wish you all a resounding mazal tov on Tzipi Livni’s lack of success in forming a unity government because of her demonic intent to divide Jerusalem. May all those with the same goal meet the same fate (at least): abject failure.