FEIGLIN’S GAZA DEMAND: All Palestinians Must Leave Territory, Including Newborn Babies

 

Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin called for Gaza’s entire Palestinian population to leave the territory, including newborn babies, during a contentious interview in which he argued that residents bear collective responsibility for the October 7 massacre.

Feiglin rejected distinctions between Hamas terrorists and Gaza’s civilian population, declaring, “Hamas is Gaza, and Gaza is Hamas.” He said the territory should be returned to Jewish control.

When asked whether his proposal included everyone in Gaza, down to babies born prematurely, Feiglin answered affirmatively.

The interviewers repeatedly challenged his position, noting that Gaza’s entire population had not participated in the October 7 attack. Feiglin nevertheless maintained that residents should bear responsibility for Hamas’s actions, drawing comparisons with Germany under Nazi rule and wartime Japan.

He invoked the Allied bombing of German cities and the American atomic bombings of Japan, arguing that Gazans should be grateful he was proposing their departure rather than similar military action.

Feiglin blamed the Oslo peace process and Israel’s disengagement from Gaza for creating what he described as an extremist entity that had forfeited its right to remain in the territory after October 7.

Challenged over whether removing an entire population would constitute collective punishment and a war crime, Feiglin rejected that characterization and described his proposal as justice.

He also claimed that a newborn in Gaza would grow up to carry out another October 7 attack against an Israeli child, presenting the removal of the population as necessary to prevent future violence.

Asked where Gaza’s residents would go, Feiglin suggested Britain, Somaliland and Arab countries. He did not outline any agreements with those destinations to accept them, instead arguing that opening the borders would allow residents to leave and eventually settle elsewhere.

The interview also included disputes over election results and population figures. Feiglin initially claimed that all Gazans had voted for Hamas, then revised the figure to more than 90%. The interviewers countered that Hamas received approximately 44% of the vote in the 2006 Palestinian legislative election.

Feiglin further claimed that fewer than 800,000 people remained in Gaza. The interviewers challenged that estimate, saying most international organizations place the population above two million.

Following the interview, the hosts warned that implementing his proposals could expose Israel to serious international legal consequences.

Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Judge Who Accused Israel Of Genocide In Gaza

 

South African jurist Navi Pillay, who chaired a United Nations commission that accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, a decision likely to intensify debate over the international body’s treatment of Israel and the credibility of its accusations against the Jewish state.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Friday that Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, 85, was being honored for her efforts to promote peace and international law, particularly her role in advancing accountability for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. The committee praised her legal career, which included serving as UN high commissioner for human rights and as a judge at international tribunals. 

DIN Musings ....Bereishis

 

R' Moshe Chayim Luzzato in his hakdama to his famous mussar sefer "Mesilas Yesharim, writes:

הַחִבּוּר הַזֶּה לֹא חִבַּרְתִּיו לְלַמֵּד לִבְנֵי הָאָדָם אֶת אֲשֶׁר לֹא יָדְעוּ, אֶלָּא לְהַזְכִּירָם אֶת הַיָּדוּעַ לָהֶם כְּבָר

“I did not write this composition in order to teach people what they do not know, but rather to remind them of what they already know.”

There are dozens of midrashim on the very first verse in Sefer Bereishis, yet Rashi chose a specific Midrash to open his famous commentary on the Torah.

אָמַר רַבִּי יִצְחָק לֹֹֹֹֹא הָיָה צָרִיךְ לְהַתְחִיל אֶת הַתּוֹרָה אֶלָּא מֵהַחֹדֶשׁ הַזֶּה לָכֶם, שֶׁהִיא מִצְוָה רִאשׁוֹנָה שֶׁנִּצְטַוּוּ בָּהּ יִשׂרָאֵל, וּמַה טַּעַם פָּתַח בִּבְרֵאשִׁית? מִשׁוּם כֹּחַ מַעֲשָׂיו הִגִּיד לְעַמּוֹ לָתֵת לָהֶם נַחֲלַת גּוֹיִם (תהילים קי"א), שֶׁאִם יֹאמְרוּ אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם לְיִשְׁרָאֵל לִסְטִים אַתֶּם, שֶׁכְּבַשְׁתֶּם אַרְצוֹת שִׁבְעָה גוֹיִם, הֵם אוֹמְרִים לָהֶם כָּל הָאָרֶץ שֶׁל הַקָּבָּ"ה הִיא, הוּא בְרָאָהּ וּנְתָנָהּ לַאֲשֶׁר יָשַׁר בְּעֵינָיו, בִּרְצוֹנוֹ נְתָנָהּ לָהֶם, וּבִרְצוֹנוֹ נְטָלָהּ מֵהֶם וּנְתָנָהּ לָנוּ:

   Rabbi Yitzchak said: The Torah did not need to begin anywhere except from “This month shall be for you…” (Exodus 12:2), because that is the first commandment with which Israel was commanded. So why does it begin with “In the beginning”? It is because: “He declared the power of His works to His people, to give them the inheritance of nations” (Psalms 111). For if the nations of the world say to Israel: “You are thieves, for you conquered the lands of the seven nations,” they can reply: “The entire earth belongs to the Holy One, blessed be He. He created it and gave it to whomever was right in His eyes. It was His will to give it to them, and His will to take it from them and give it to us.”

Rashi asks: Why start the Torah with Creation when the Torah is fundamentally a book of mitzvos? Shouldn’t it begin with the first commandment—Rosh Chodesh?

His answer seems directed at the nations of the world: there will come a time that the nations of the world will claim that the Jews “stole” Eretz Yisrael. 

The Torah therefore begins by establishing that G-D created the world, and He alone assigns its lands.

Jews can then answer, "God created world and everything is His, and he decided to take it from the nations and give it to the Jewish children" 

My question is, Would any non‑Jewish nation actually be convinced by this argument?

So why does Rashi open his commentary with a statement that seems irrelevant—if not absurd—on the world stage?

The answer is simple and profound:The statement that

“The entire earth belongs to the Holy One, blessed be He. He created it and gave it to whomever was right in His eyes. It was His will to give it to them, and His will to take it from them and give it to us.”

is not for goyim at all, it's for the Jews themselves!

To understand this, one must first know in what historical context Rashi wrote this.

Rashi wrote his commentary a thousand years ago, when a major catastrophe struck the Jews which was the massacres of the First Crusade in 1096.

During the Crusade, mobs of peasants and minor knights swept through the Rhineland on their way to the Holy Land. Instead of fighting Muslims, they turned violently on Jewish communities in: Worms, Mainz ,Cologne, and Lorraine

These attacks resulted in the murder of thousands of Jews, with estimates around 12,000 killed. Entire communities were wiped out, and many Jews chose mass suicide rather than forced conversion.

Rashi was 55 years old at the time. Although his hometown Troyes was spared, the centers where he studied—Mainz and Worms—were devastated. Three sons of Rashi’s teacher, Rabbi Isaac ben Eliezer Halevi, were murdered. Rashi lost friends, relatives, and colleagues to the massacres.

And in that world, the idea of Jews returning to Eretz Yisrael was not merely unrealistic—it was unimaginable.

So imagine telling the Crusaders:

“God created the world and gave Eretz Yisrael to the Jews.”

It would have been a tragic joke.

Yet Rashi chooses this Midrash as the very first words of his commentary.

Why?

Because Rashi is addressing us—the Jews who open a Chumash, who learn Torah, who care about Rashi’s words.

כֹּחַ מַעֲשָׂיו הִגִּיד לְעַמּוֹ ........“He declared the power of His works to His people,"

Rashi is NOT addressing his commentary to Reform Progressive Jews who neither learn Torah nor Rashi,  

Rashi is addressing Jews that are frum, that are Charedim who say like the "Dangerous Bubby from Hell" in my sidebar, that  "Eretz Yisrael now belongs to the Palestinians."

 Rashi is addressing the Torah Leaders who do not recognize the State of Israel and as one just said last week that he would "rather live in Israel under Arab rule"  

These Torah leaders, echo the very words Rashi predicted and say time and again:

"“You (Zionists) are thieves, for you conquered the lands"

Rashi writes, respond to them 

"The entire earth belongs to the Holy One, blessed be He. He created it and gave it to whomever was right in His eyes. It was His will to give it to them" 

This is not a message for the nations. It is a message for Jews who have forgotten what they already know.

Just as the Ramchal wrote: “I did not write to teach what is unknown, but to remind you of what you already know.”

Rashi opens the Torah by reminding us—before anything else—of the most basic truth:

Eretz Yisrael is ours because HaKadosh Baruch Hu gave it to us.

Not because of politics. Not because of Zionists, Not because of Charedim, Not because of armies. Not because of nations. But because the Creator of the universe willed it so.

And that reminder was necessary a thousand years ago. It is no less necessary today.

Zera Shimshon Parshas Bereishis

 

Not only "gedoilim" are against Jews going up to Har Habayis so too are Muslims

 

In the first 16 seconds of this video, you can see a Muslim woman attempting to disrupt and harass our prayer today on the Temple Mount and how swiftly the police intervened to de-escalate and remove her.

​What often gets lost in sensational headlines is the reality on the ground: the police consistently enforce order and equal decorum for all Abrahamic faiths up here. Whether dealing with provocations from Jews, Muslims, or Christians, standard of conduct applies across the board. Respect and security for all worshippers isn't just an ideal; it’s actively maintained.

Here is a bunch of Charedim mocking the Holocaust

I doubt that they would have had curly peyos in Aushwich! 

Below watch a kid from Meah Sharim throwing rocks at cops! 

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 Charedim honor their Rabbanim and call them "gedoilim" though those "gedoilim"  say that they have "no shaichis " to over 10 million Jews, and they boast about that!

It is interesting to note that the Vayoel Moshe (מאמר ישוב א"י, סימן קמה) refers to Zionists as עמלקים!

"העמלקים התיישבו בארץ ישראל"

Aren't those the words of the meraglim? Asking for a friend.

"עֲמָלֵ֥ק יוֹשֵׁ֖ב בְּאֶ֣רֶץ הַנֶּ֑גֶב"

You cannot make this stuff up

Let's take a look at what the Gra says about עמלקים!  

(ספר אבן שלמה פרק יא, סעיף ח) 

"חמש מיני ערב רב בישראל, ובעלי מחלוקת הם גרועים מכולם, והם נקראים עמלקים"

Enough said והמבין יבון

ONE OF THE MOST HEARTBREAKING VIDEOS OF OCTOBER 7 A 5-year-old Israeli girl, trapped under heavy fire while caring for her baby sister, sees armed men approaching. She thinks they are Hamas terrorists coming to kill them. Terrified, trembling, she pleads: “Please, no.” “Are you Israelis?” “Take us.” “I am here with a baby.” Only then does she realize they are Israelis who have come to rescue them. A heroic little girl — just 5 years old — protecting a baby in the middle of unimaginable terror. Some images from that day can never be erased. 10/7 — NEVER FORGET. NEVER FORGIVE. 🇮🇱

— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) October 7, 2026

 

Karni Guez was at the head of a platoon of female tankists from the Caracal Battalion on the morning of October 7. She commanded 8 soldiers, divided between a Merkava tank and an armored support vehicle.

When the alerts sounded, she realized it was not a drill, and that something abnormally serious was happening.

Positioned near the border with Egypt, she received the order with her fighters to move north to approach the combat zone.

On the road, they encountered a first group of Hamas fighters in pickups who had crossed the border and were heading toward the nearby kibbutzim.

Karni Guez gave the order to engage the enemy immediately, and the platoon opened fire; the fighting would last nearly an hour, more than twenty Hamas fighters would be eliminated, their vehicles and arsenal destroyed, and most importantly, the infiltration wave on their position was repelled.

With this threat neutralized, Guez gave the order to move toward Kibbutz Holit. Her platoon then engaged in combat against heavily armed Hamas units attempting to penetrate the kibbutz, while maneuvering at the same time to protect wounded soldiers. During these maneuvers, the soldiers would eliminate numerous Hamas fighters, either by tank fire or by crushing them as they tried to flee.

With the threat to Holit neutralized, Guez chose to move toward Kibbutz Sufa, whose military post had been overrun by Hamas men.

With the main communication network malfunctioning, she took up position and engaged the Hamas men to slowly regain the ground.

Karni Guez's soldiers later received reinforcements from Shayetet 13 commandos, to whom they then provided precious fire support to ultimately uproot and repel the Hamas, after more than 6 hours of fighting.

They then launched a street combat operation, and house-to-house, building-by-building clearing, to rescue trapped civilians and allow them to evacuate safely. The Battle of Sufa would last in total more than 12 hours.

It was only around 2 a.m., after 19 hours of fierce fighting, exhausted and out of ammunition, that Karni Guez finally ordered her platoon to withdraw to their base camp.

The leadership and cool-headedness of Karni, who improvised alone, without communications and without orders, her battle plan throughout the day, and the combativeness, professionalism, and heroism of her soldiers saved the kibbutzim of Holit and Sufa, and concretely the entire H'evel Shalom region.

Honor to Karni and her soldiers, heroines of Israel.

Shlomo Katz answers his critics about the "Musical Hallel"

 

DIN: Personally I don't care how someone davens, after 3,500 years there are Yidden that are going to shul to connect to Hashem, who are we to criticize how they choose to connect to the RBS"O? If you don't like it, keep your boring davening, but let others do it in their own ways. Kol Hakoved, Reb Shlomo! 

I’ve noticed that our musical Hallel on Chol Hamoed Sukkos is being discussed on social media.

Many were inspired by it. Others criticized it as being some sort of “reformation” of our Avodas Hashem.

The specific, technical question is not new. There is room for debate in the realm of halacha and minhag.

But something else has crept into this conversation, and it must be called out.

Musical Hallel is suddenly being dismissed by some as “a Modox invention.” As a “Zionist” phenomenon. As something that belongs to a supposedly “less serious” stream of Orthodox Judaism.

That’s not a Torah argument.

There is an enormous difference between a halachic debate and saying, “Of course those kinds of Jews would do something like this.”

The first is a machlokes. The second is using Torah language as cover for contempt toward other frum Jews. And we should be intellectually honest enough to know the difference.

You are 100% entitled to believe that another Torah community is mistaken. Torah Judaism has never had full uniformity of minhag, hashkafah, or practice.

But disagreement in this realm demands enough respect for another Torah community to actually engage its position.

And no - labels are not arguments.

“Modox” is not a mareh makom.

“Zionist” is not a legitimate rebuttal.

Our mesorah contains fierce machlokes. Beis Hillel and Beis Shammai were not engaged in a campaign of “let’s all get along.” They believed that matters of Torah were worth arguing about.

But they argued about Torah.

That distinction matters.

Because there is something deeply unhealthy about reaching for Torah language when what you really want to say is that you do not respect the religious world of the Yidden standing across from you.

We can argue more seriously by insisting that we defend Torah ideas with Torah substance rather than sociological cudgels.

If there’s one thing that we can learn on this 3rd anniversary of October 7th, it is perhaps that we need to recover more honest machlokes. The art of holy disagreement while still loving and respecting our brothers and sisters who might not agree with every one of our opinions.

Rav Yitzchak Yosef in panic that his Shas party is losing votes to Ben Gvir so he slanders him!

 

Rav Yitzchok Yosef the spiritual leader of Shas, saw the latest polls and they show Ben Gvir draining votes from Shas!

So he started a smear & loshon hara campaign against Ben Gvir accusing him of being behind the arrests of the Yeshiva Bochrim that are avoiding the draft! 

In the video below he chastises Ben Gvir for going up on the Har Habayis. Ben Gvir has been going up to the Har Habyis ever since I can remember, but it is election season so like a poisoned mouse, he runs around trying to besmirch Ben Gvir! No one is buying Rav Yosef's campaign tactics, and it looks like Ben Gvir is for sure going to have at least 8 seats!

אני מבין שיצא פסק הלכה חדש שמותר לשקר, לפרסם לשון הרע ולהכפיש אדם בתקופת בחירות. אני מודה שגם לא הבנתי את ההיגיון מאחורי הקונספירציה הזו. לכולם ברור שזה שקר מופרך, אבל הצורך במנדטים דוחה כנראה איסורי תורה. לראשונה, ורגע לפני הבחירות - בן גביר אשם במעצר בחורי הישיבות. כך יצא.

— אבישי גרינצייג (@avishaigrinzaig) October 7, 2026

 

 

Jews targeted in 53% of NYC hate crimes in 2026

 

Jewish New Yorkers accounted for 245 of the 463 confirmed hate crimes recorded in New York City during the first nine months of 2026, according to NYPD statistics released Tuesday. 

The figure represents 53% of all confirmed hate crimes and is 1.2% higher than the 242 anti-Jewish incidents recorded during the same period in 2025.

The NYPD estimates that Jews comprise roughly 10% of New York City’s population, meaning they have been targeted in hate crimes at a rate approximately 10 times higher than their share of the city’s population.

“The most striking trend continues to be antisemitic hate crimes," New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a Tuesday press conference, as quoted by JNS.

“So far this year, 53% of all confirmed hate crimes have targeted Jewish New Yorkers, despite Jews making up only roughly 10% of the city’s population," she said. “Those numbers are deeply concerning."