“What do you think we are going to do, pray?” Israeli minister Tzachi Hanegbi (Likud) shot back at a question from his host during an interview with the German outlet Deutsche Welles last week, according to an Algemeiner report.
“Are you telling me that … Israel would go ahead with a strike on Iran without the sign-off by the United States?” asked Tim Sebastian.
“If there will be a new agreement that will endanger the very existence of the state of Israel – what do you think we are going to do, pray? No, we are going to defend ourselves in any way that will be effective,” Hanegbi asserted.
Hanegbi, a close confidant of Netanyahu who currently serves as the Minister of Settlement Affairs, added that an Israeli attack would definitely be a last resort and he is hoping the US and other world powers will “apply maximum pressure on Iran to change its behavior.”
“Five years passed and we still see the same behavior, the same terrorism encouragement, the same endorsement of radical groups in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and also Yemen,” Hanegbi continued.
“We have to change the policy – and it has to happen through a dialogue between Israel and the United States.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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What an embarrassment !!
Of course you don’t sit around and MUST do Hishtadlus, but WE ALL MUST PRAY!!
Otherwise we will be in VERY BIG trouble.
This is the basics. Even the wicked Paroh said pray for me.
Out of all pictures you post one of him writing a letter in a Torah??
The Holy Torah talks all over about prayer and how important it is.
For this “person” it’s a formality and nothing to live with.
Sad
we’d be in a much better predicament if they prayed
Yes sweetheart
There will be lots & lots of prayers.
Maybe after all that, will you be able to strike.
But don’t forget who runs the world 😉
This ratcheting up in rhetoric that has been going on the last few weeks clearly has two goals in mind: to pressure the Biden administration, and to bring the Iran issue to the forefront during the Israeli elections.
If they actually intended to strike Iran in the near future, they wouldn’t be having articles published every three days about how they are preparing to strike first even without the American go ahead.
Covid has apparently not taught him enough.
Perhaps he meant that the IAF pilots would daven BEFORE they took off on their missions to destroy the Iranian enrichment facilities and sent the Ayatolah to his version of olam habah.
What a great idea!! Whatever made you think of it???
So the letter in that Sefer Torah in the photo was just a good PR stunt. He doesn’t believe that its Author is particularly relevant to us.
Very sad indeed.
Only one problem with the sefer Toirah: That one letter that he wrote is posul!. It must be identified, totally erased and re-written by a qualified soifer.