zahavasdad: The Poles had a very big army, with lots of weapons and training, and it didn’t do them much good. The French put all their resources into their army, and they got conquered after a few days of fierce combat. The truth is that Poland and France never recovered from World War II (which is why the FBI director hit a raw nerve when he criticized the Poles last week).
We put our resources into Torah and Mitsvos, and we are here. We won. You can say we won because the Americans were clever, and the British and Soviets were determined – but really, we won because instead of putting resources in warfare, we put it into serving Ha-Shem.
Sooner or later the Islamic world will get its act together, and the zionist dream will go up in smoke. The battle for Jewish survival is the one being waged today in the yeshivos, and homes, of the Bnei Torah – the battle being fought by the Israeli army is an irrelevant distraction.