In Tanach, Sefer Shoftim, [the Book of Judges] chapter 5,
the Prophetess Deborah [Devorah HaNeviyah],
sings a Divinely-inspired song.
In chapter 5, verses 12 to 16, she publicly praises
those Jews who fought against the enemies of Israel.
Then she publicly REBUKES those Jews who did
NOT join the fight against the enemies of Israel.
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In Tanach, in Sefer Shmuel Aleph, chapter 18, verse 7,
we see Shaul HaMelech and the General of Shaul’s Army,
David ben Yishai. (This was before David became King.)
They are both returning home from recent victory in war.
We see the Jewish women publicly praising both of them:
“SHAUL HAS SLAIN HIS THOUSANDS AND
DAVID [HAS SLAIN] HIS TENS OF THOUSANDS.”
From this we see that the soldiers who fight our enemies
deserve to be publicly praised and thanked.
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Babylonian Talmud, tractate Sanhedrin, page 72A:
“If you see someone coming to kill you,
then arise and kill him first.”
EXPLANATION: Hamas and Hezbollah are trying
to kill as many Jews as possible, and they have
been doing that for at lesst the past 20 years.
Muslims, in general, have a history of killing Jews
that goes back more than 1,400 years into the past,
all the way back to Mohammed, who Muslims
believe to be the greatest prophet and the perfect man,
who actions must be immitated by all Muslims.
Mohammed ordered that 800 Jewish prisoners of war
all be beheaded., and their orphans made into slaves
and their widows used for immoral purposes.
All this was 1,200 years before the first Zionists.
So do not say that Zionists causes Muslims to hate Jews.
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Once full-scale war broke out after the State of Israel
declared its existence on May 14, 1948 [CE]
Reb Shraga Feivel’s [Mendlowitz] thoughts
were never far from Eretz Yisrael.
A group of students saw him outside the Mesivta building
one day, talking excitedly with Rabbi Gedaliah Schorr
and gesticulating rapidly with the newspaper held in his hand.
“If I were your age,” he told the students,
“I would take a gun and go to Eretz Yisrael.”
SOURCE: Reb Shraga Feivel: the life and times of Rabbi
Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, the architect of Torah in America
(chapter 26, page 338) by Yonoson Rosenblum for Artscroll / Mesorah,
year 2001, based on Aharon Sorasky’s Shelucha DeRachmana,
ISBNs: 157819797X, 9781578197972, 1578197961, 9781578197965
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During the last year of his life [secular year 2000 or 2001],
one person asked Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZTL ZYA,
if we Jews should pray for the Israeli Army.
Rabbi Avigdor Miller gave this answer:
“IF THEY ARE FIGHTING TO DEFEND US,
THEN WE SHOULD PRAY FOR THEM.”
Those were his exact words, which I personally witnessed.