Satmar Guy Marries Shikseh with a Galich as the Mesadar Kiddushin

Priest presiding  over the Heimeshe Wedding 

Satmar Zaloinim issue Fatwa against Rav Shteinman Shlitah and his Seforim

This is a result of the SHIT'ah of the "Failed Messiah" the holy "Rabbeinu Ha'Kodosh",  R' Yoel Teitelbaum! 

Who can ever forget the famous words of Malcom-X:

"The chickens have now come home to roost"

When you instill hate of other Jews in your ideology,  then these fruits are the ones that will ripen!

The above Fatwa signed by Rabbonim from the Zaloinie faction of Satmar rule that Rav Shteinman Shlitah is a "meises u'medeach" and should be put in Cheirum and it prohibits the Satmar animals from even glancing at his seforim and they instruct their crazies to burn the holy seforim of Rav Shteinman Shlitah, so that "there shouldn't remain any remembrance of his Apikorses"

The "rabbis" that signed the Fatwa,  call this "Daas Torah" .....and refer themselves as students of "Rabbeinu Hakodosh R' Yoel Teitelbaum" who is the founder of this hateful anti-Jewish sect!

And of course, as of this writing they are trying to backtrack and deny it .... because of the backlash of the "Oilim Ha'Torah" that are outraged by of the denigrating of one of our Gedoilie Hador!

But this is exactly how these peasants work, first they put out a Fatwa and then they deny it ....

meanwhile it's out ! 

זעזוע בעולם התורה: מכתב 'דעת תורה' תחת הכותרת "לא תאבה לו ולא תשמע אליו" מתפרסם בניו יורק נגד מרן הגראי"ל שטיינמן. 

מדובר בקבוצה של כארבעים רבנים, בהם הגאון רבי ישראל חיים מנשה פרידמן ראב"ד סאטמר, החתומים על מכתב נאצה חריף ובו הם קוראים לגראי"ל בין השאר מסית ומדיח, ומודיעים כי יש לשרוף את ספריו, עפ"ל. ראוי לציין כי המכתב לא פורסם בכלי התקשורת הרשמיים המקושרים לחסידות סאטמר, אלא בעלוני בתי כנסת וכדומה, מה שמטיל ספק באמינותו. 

במכתב העוסק בחוק הגיוס, שעבר על ידי המפלגות החרדיות - אגודת ישראל, דגל התורה וש"ס - ש"העבירו גזירת שמד נורא על כלל ישראל בחוקקם חוק לחייב את בחורי ואברכי שומרי תורה ומצוות לשרת בצבא הציוני, המבוססת על כפירה בגזירת הגלות". 

באופן מחוצף הם כותבים כי ה"שורש פורה ראש ולענה של החוק הזה והעומד בראשה הוא מנהיג מפלגת דגל התורה ה"ה אהרן יודע לייב שטיינמאן, שזה כחמש עשרה שנה שייסדו את הנחל החרדי על פיו ובעידודו למשוך בפיתויים ולהפקיר בחורי ישראל לכור ההיתוך של צבא הטמא שלהם, ובמשך זה הזמן עשו שמות בקרב ישראל ומספר גדול של בחורי ישראל יצאו לתרבות רעה רח"ל". 

בסיום כותבים כי בזה "אנו מכריזים קבל עולם ומלואה כי אהרן יודא לייב שטיינמאן הוא מסית ומדיח אלפי בני ישראל מה' ומתורתו הק' וראוי לנדותו ולהחרימו, והרי הוא מופרש ומובדל מעדת ישראל, ואסור להסתכל בספריו וצריך לבערם מן העולם כדי שלא ישאר שם וזר למין, ולמען הצלת שארית הפלטה". 

אחד מבאי ביתו של הגראי"ל אומר ל'בחדרי חרדים': "הרוצה לשקר ירחיק עדותו... אין לדיין אלא מה שעיניו רואות... ממתי רבנים חותמים בשמם על פשקוויל סיקריקי נחות?! או שזה מכתב שקרי - או שזה שייך למחלקה לבריאות הנפש!" 

התלמיד ממשיך ותוקף: "האם הם טיפלו בכל הירידה הרוחנית המצויה בקהלם - אינטרנט ועבודה עם גויות רח"ל! של נעליך מעל רגליך. טלו קורה כקורת בית הבד מבין עיניכם. וכי באמת עולם התורה בראש מעייניכם?! אולי תספרו כמה באחוזים מתלמידיכם ממשיכים לעמול בתורה אחר החתונה וכמה רבבות מתלמידי מרן ראש הישיבה הנושא בענווה מתוך חיי צניעות וקדושה נשגבת את רבבות האברכים המקדישים חיים לתורה בטהרה?" 

לסיום הוא מציין, "וכי כך לימד אותכם הרה"ק הויואל משה זי"ע?! וכי אתם תלמידיו?! כך לזלזל ולהתריס נגד כל שלש מועצות גדולי וחכמי התורה שהאחריות על כתפיהם?

Alan Dershowitz Brilliantly Strikes down Anti-Israel Question at Conference

Famed US lawyer and political commentator Alan Dershowitz, recently gave a talk and showed his strong passion for the Israeli state.
After his speech at a conference he allowed the audience a chance to ask him questions.

A woman of Palestinian origin gave a long winded question/statement, in which Dershowitz brilliantly shot down all her points, logically and brilliantly.

When questioned as to why 80% of residents in Gaza rely on Humanitarian Aid, Dershowitz fervently answered that there was no reason that they should live on this welfare. The Palestinians in Gaza were given so many options when Israel left Gaza with working greenhouses and other resources and that the residents of Gaza did nothing and continue to do nothing. While they can be creating a fruitful state, they continue to blame Israel for their issues.

The Palestinian woman went on to state that her family land was taken away by Israelis who settled there. Dershowitz interrupted her and said 70 years ago Jewish land was taken away by Europeans during the Holocaust, and the Jews got over it and built a state of their own in Israel. So too, the Palestinians should get over the fact that land that was taken away from them decades ago. He also said that land has been taken away from citizens in countries all over the world and the Palestinians are the only ones that still complain about it all these years later and do nothing to better their lives.

Dershowitz ended his impassioned speech with a huge round of applause from the audience, effectively shutting down any protests from the Palestinian woman.

Watch the full speech below and let us know what you think of what Dershowitz said.

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Aron Teitelbaum Monroe Satmar Rebbe Mocks his Brother Zalman Leib

Guys get your tickets for this fight!

R'  Aron Teitelbaum, Satmar Rebbe of Monroe is going to the State of Israel in 2 weeks, and mocked his brother's trip to Israel  .... stating:

"I don’t need a kabbolas ponim, no lights on the street, no notices in the street, big and small, no special vehicles and all these forms of nonsense,

I’m working to ensure that the bochurim won’t be busy with silly things like this. In the past,"he continued, “I traveled to Eretz Yisroel without noise, without propaganda"

So for those guys emailing that I shouldn't make 'Choizek" of Zalman Leib ......talk to his brother first... ok?

Satmar Rebbe, R' Zalman Leib arrives in London on a private Jet

The Rebbe arrived in the State of Israel with 5 million Dollars. He was going to distribute the monies to the Moisdes that refuse to take any funds from the Zionist Government, but it turns out that there was a lot of "shrayim" left over because he was able to take a private plane to London!

Chassidim are furious that the "rebbe" thinks that he is now a king, pointing out that he had a 15 car motorcade to take him to JFK airport, and now takes a private plane ...

This "Anti-Zionist thing" is making him a lot of money and the Rebbe is adding millions to his already billion dollar real estate holdings!

Its interesting to note that Iran also benefited from their anti-Israel stance with the USA granting these thugs billions!

David Wichs Frum Jew is the Victim of crane collapse in NYC

Daved with wife Rebecca

The 38-year-old Upper West Sider killed Friday when a massive crane fell on him was a bright, Harvard-trained math whiz, a family member said.

David Wichs’ sister-in-law, Lisa Guttman, described her loved one as “the most brilliant person ever,” adding that he was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and immigrated to the United States as a teenager.

He seized every chance he had to get ahead and graduated from Harvard University, where he majored in mathematics.

“He really created a life for himself,” Guttman said through tears. “He literally took every opportunity he could find.”

Wichs died instantly when the 565-foot crane came crashing down on him as he stood on Worth Street. He was working at the New York-based financial trading firm Tower Research Capital.

Wichs lived with his wife, Rebecca Guttman, on West 81st Street. They wed in 2013, according to records, and Guttman is currently an associate at the international law firm Proskauer Rose LLP.

She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004 before attending the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, her LinkedIn page shows.

“He was an angel. An absolute angel,” a man who identified himself as the family’s rabbi said as he left the couple’s apartment.

“He was a wonderful, wonderful person, the best, the absolute best. And that makes the tragedy so much greater.”

Friends and family streamed through the couple’s home throughout the day, and at one point police officers dropped off Wichs’ parents, who declined to comment.

A colleague who stopped by said he was still in shock that his generous, well-regarded friend was gone.

“Everyone who knew him loved him,” he said.

“I can’t believe it. It’s unbelievable. There was no one like him. He was unique and special. He was a very giving person.”

While at Harvard, Wichs co-chaired a men’s group that was part of the campus Hillel, a Jewish organization for college students.

“The Men’s Group is informal . . . a bunch of friends that do things together,” he said during an interview with The Harvard Crimson in 1998.

“It’s good for the kids who participate . . . people don’t have to feel awkward about their upbringing.”

Wichs and his wife were members of Kehilath Jeshurun, a modern Orthodox congregation on the Upper East Side, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

He was a donor to several charities, including Avodah, Mazon and Teach for America, the agency ­reported.

Meanwhile, Dawn Kojima, 45, of Clifton, NJ, suffered a head and leg injury during the crane collapse. She’s married and works for The Gap, according to her Facebook page.

She attended the Fashion Institute of Technology, the page shows.

Kojima was transferred to New York-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital, where she was in stable condition, police said.

Thomas O’Brien, 73, also sustained a head injury when the crane fell on his car. He was hospitalized in stable condition. O’Brien, who records show hails from North Easton, Mass., was in the city with his daughter when he was injured.

A firefighter sustained minor ­injuries in the accident.  

Shlomo Carlebach’s daughter will get rid of his stuff at an auction

Neshama with the Black Baptists Choir (guess which one is Neshama)

Neshama Carlebach will do anything for money even getting rid of her father's guitar and her grandfather's tefillin! 

Just a couple of years ago she noticed that no one from the frum community will listen to her music because of "kol isha" and so with funds rapidly dwindling, she dumped the frummies and joined the Reform community who embraced her in a big celebration...

Neshama's name which means "soul" has gotten to her head; she sings "soul music" with black  gospel choirs in  Christian Churchs', no less ...... 
and she'll sing with chimpanzees, as long as she has an audience!

She came up with a great idea. Instead of dumping the few possessions that Shlomo owned, in the garbage dump ... she will auction them off and donate the proceeds to the family's "foundation!"

Even the Shabbos silver candlesticks that Reb Shlomo's mother, who was poor as a church mouse, who held onto them for dear life, never sold them, carried them across borders, and then gave it to Shlomo's then wife as an engagement gift,   will be auctioned off  (he divorced her) .......
Isn't she embarrassed to sell something so precious ?
 And why isn't she using them?
 Even the non frum, light candles on Friday night .... Is she so cold emotionally that she doesn't feel any attachment to those candlesticks to keep it in the family instead of selling it to some stranger?  

She could have been magnanimous and donated all these items to the Carlebach Shul.... and the shul would have made a small museum in the lobby .... 
But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! 
"Lets cash in on the stuff that I don't care about!"

Up for auction are a silver kiddush cup engraved to Shlomo (as he preferred to be known) from Me’or Modi’in, Shlomo’s Moshav in Israel (bidding starts at $3,000); a silver spice tower for Havdalah given to him as a wedding gift (also $3,000); his father Rabbi Naftali’s tallis bag, from pre-war Vienna, given to Shlomo as a gift ($1,200); and silver flatware, 14 forks, nine soup spoons ($4,000).

J. Greenstein & Co., the Cedarhurst-based auction house handling the sale, estimates that the more than 30 items could bring in $100,000 or more. Neshama Carlebach, Reb Shlomo’s daughter, tells us the money will primarily go to the family-controlled Shlomo Carlebach Foundation, which has operated only in fits and starts in the 21 years since Reb Shlomo’s death. The latest “fits and starts” have to do with this very auction, originally scheduled for February, now postponed until the Carlebach family and the auction house resolve unspecified differences, though both sides say that they’re committed to the auction taking place.

No matter how poor or desperate Shlomo’s mother was, fleeing from the Nazis, she never sold her Shabbos candlesticks that she carried across borders. Now, those silver candlesticks from Europe, later given to Neshama’s mother by Shlomo’s mother as an engagement gift, is yours for the bidding.

Neshama says, “I happen to feel very whole [at peace] about the decision to sell. The Foundation is more important” than candlesticks, than a challah knife. The candlesticks, like the knife is “probably German,” says the catalogue. “Shabbat Kodesh” (the Holy Sabbath) is engraved on the knife’s  handle. “Reb Shlomo used this knife in both the home he shared with Neila (his wife) as well as in his parents home. Wear and damage from use.” Bidding starts at $1,800.

Did it hurt Neshama to sell the knife that was used to cut challah every Shabbos in the twilight of pre-war Europe, and later used by her father? Wouldn’t she want her sons to someday cut challah with that same knife, with its “wear and damage from use”?

“Anything about my father is always very emotional for me,” says Neshama. “When people pass away there is so much sentiment attached to their things because they are not actually here anymore. But my father is everywhere. He’s alive, more than any object, almost more alive than were he actually alive.”

Up for auction is the scrapbook kept by Shlomo’s mother, all the newspaper clippings and concert posters when he was just starting out in 1959 and into the ’60s. It will go to the highest bidder.

You can bid on Shlomo’s famous vest, says the catalog, the one with the “black and shiny material.”

How many pennies for a memory? On Simchas Torah, when there would never be enough Sifrei Torah (scrolls) for everyone to dance with, Reb Shlomo would hand out the holy books from his library, “Dance with the books!” He would give each particular book to the specific person whom Shlomo felt most needed the blessing contained within those covers. You might find yourself “dancing” with Moshe Chaim Luzzato, the 18th century kabbalist and philosopher.

Soon, at the auction, you could buy Luzatto’s “Yalkut Yediot He’emet” — bidding starts at $1,200. Inside the binding is a stamp from the House of Love and Prayer, Reb Shlomo’s legendary shul, located, says the stamp, at 1456 Ninth Avenue, San Francisco,” in the heart of Haight-Ashbury’s hippie kingdom in the Summer of Love. Surely there’s a story behind Theodore Bikel’s signature and phone number in Luzatto’s book, a story for a Shabbos afternoon in another world.

What are the bids for Reb Shlomo old scratched stand-up piano, the one he played by ear, or rather, the one he played by soul? Rabbi Sam Intrator, Reb Shlomo’s globetrotting manager, told us, “Shlomo couldn’t read music, but he’d close his eyes like he was davening, leaning into the piano as if to hear the music better, and on the spot compose and create — it was hishtapchus hanefesh, an outpouring of the soul.” And yet, he never played piano in public, says Intrator: “He didn’t feel proficient at it.”

You can bid on his silver esrog box, “hand spun filigree in citron shape,” says the catalogue. Greenstein estimates the bidding could reach $6,500. The esrog always meant more to Shlomo than the box. Intrator remembers, “He always held the esrog next to his heart, and brought it back to his heart, when he would do nanu’im,” the shaking of the lulav and esrog in the six directions, “sweeping the world.” His nanu’im could take 45 minutes, what could be five minutes for anyone else. Intrator remembers, “He was so engaged, so intense in what he was doing, nothing else existed; he was in another world.” Of the “four species” used on Sukkos – the willow, palm, myrtle and citron (esrog) – the esrog is symbolically associated with the heart. On his last Hoshana Rabbah, before his fatal heart attack, Shlomo lost his esrog, and was almost crying, “The esrog is your heart, I need my esrog.”

Intrator recalls visiting Majdanek with Reb Shlomo and the chevra, when  Reb Shlomo said, “Chevra, sometimes a second can be an eternity.” It was his key for saying Yizkor, as well: no schlepping, no kitsch. “When there’s an opening between worlds,” he’d say, you can’t waste time, “it’s one-two-three.” The more you believe in the Other World, he’d say, the less time is needed for Yizkor, a second can be eternity.

Intrator says, “We had a long trip ahead of us.” So, after touring the death camp, “We were back on the bus, all except Shlomo. I found him in the room with the thousands of shoes. He was wearing his long black raincoat,” bidding starts at $800. “He was shaking, davening — he was ‘somewhere else.’ He had his microcassette recorder and was recording all these new niggunim that were coming to him. The next day, says Intrator, the microcassette recorder got lost; “Those songs weren’t meant to be heard.”

On a long ago Friday night, Reb Shlomo joined several of his chevra for a Shabbos meal in a dimly lit Upper West Side apartment. No one, including Shlomo, had any money but “all we need is wine and challah,” he said. "The main thing is to be together." We splurged on seltzer, turkey slices, paper plates, and plastic forks and spoons.

Reb Shlomo was overheard saying to one of the chevra, “… Your three rebbes are Reb Nachman, the Sefas Emes and the Ishbitzer.”

“And you, Shlomo.”

Reb Shlomo, who never put on airs, said quietly, “No, I’m your best friend.”

After the meal we threw the plastic forks and spoons into a garbage bag. Who knew?

Then Reb Shlomo spoke of Torah, and lesser things, until the wee small hours.

Priceless.

Ben & Jerry's Coming Out With Pareve Ice Cream!!

The Rebbelich are very excited about this new product; they will now be able to offer Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream at the friday night tish...

But Chassidim are not so happy, they are worried that the new Ben & Jerry "Chunky Monkey" will be so delicious that the Rebbe will eat it all up and leave no "shrayim!" 

Others have suggested that there is no way a Rebbe will eat an ice cream with the flavor named after a "monkey" .......a non kosher 'chayeh" ..... 
This reason has been shot down by a a chusid telling me "dee behimeh, de  Rebbe can always  eat the "Chocolate Fudge Brownie" .....

A Satmar friend of mine remarked that no matter how great Ben & Jerry Ice Cream is, it's not "nogia" to the Satmar Community, since Ben & Jerry are strong supporters of Israel and are selling their ice cream in the "shetachim" !!  
Nu nu!

Litvacks and the big brim yeshivishe guys  won't touch the stuff because it's not "yoson" it's still new!

Only time will tell!

Ben and Jerry’s is coming out with four pareve ice creams, the Vermont company announced on Wednesday.

Actually they called it vegan not pareve.

And the ice creams are technically called “frozen dessert” because ice cream needs to be dairy to be called ice cream. Dairy generally means it has to have a certain amount of milk fat.

The four flavors are made from almond milk.

So when will it come out?

Four to six weeks.

Among religious Jews the appeal is for Shabbos and Yom Tov desserts and among the Cholov Yisroel crowd – it is super welcome news.

“We’ve definitely had a large demand from our consumers to have a non-dairy offering,” says B&J spokesperson Lindsay Bumps.

Two of the new pareve flavors are non-dairy versions of existing Ben & Jerry’s classics — Chunky Monkey and Chocolate Fudge Brownie.

The other two are P.B. & Cookies and Coffee Caramel Fudge.

All four will be available to purchase as pints.

The blessing recited is shehakol. The question is, “Do we recite a shehecheyanu?”

Satmar IDF Soldier speaks to Reporters in honor of Satmar Rebbe Visit

Satmar Rebbe's grand child Chaim Meisels is the only Satmar grandchild, to give something back to the Jewish people "lishmah"...
So in honor of the visit of R' Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, Satmar Rebbe, it's only right that we hear what he has to say....
notice he speaks the Holy Language Ivrit pretty well ....speaks it better than English 
Kol Hakovod R' Chaim ...

An Open Letter to the Un's Kock im- Uhn

by Yishai Fleisher

Dear Mr. Ban Ki Moon,

No one missed the double entendre of your recent New York Times article titled, “Don’t Shoot the Messenger, Israel,” which had the chutzpah to both accuse Israel of being hot-headed and insinuate an itchy trigger finger. And yet, amidst this thinly-veiled smear, you went on to suggest that you had offered Israel an important “message” — that we should rush to seal a two-state deal — as if we had never heard of this before, or anyone in the region still thought it was a useful idea.

No one in Israel is going to shoot you for your trite and obsolete “message,” but we must shoot down the fallacious and hypocritical assertions of your article. Please allow me to elaborate:

First: Repeating the word “occupation” many times may sway the ignorant, but it is nothing but an outrageous lie. Israel is not in occupation in the West Bank at all. The West Bank — or what we call Judea — is the heart of our ancestral homeland. This was affirmed by the League of Nations, the predecessor of the United Nations, which recognized the historic rights of Jews in Judea. Indeed, because this is our beloved native land, many Jews (400,000 at last count) chose to build their homes and their lives here.

Yet Jews are under attack in Judea, which is why we have deployed our army. If no one ran at Jews brandishing a knife, or mowed down Jews with automatic weapons while they sat in traffic, there would be no need for an army presence, and the “feel” of occupation would disappear. It’s just that simple. Stop threatening the life and limb of Jews, and you’ll stop feeling occupied. Keep denying the Jewish right to live in our ancestral lands and keep savagely attacking us, and it will keep feeling like there is a mighty Jewish army on your neck.

Mr. Ban Ki-moon, it is you who are keeping the Palestinians under an “occupation” of lies, because you keep telling them that Jews don’t belong in Judea, and thereby spread the false hope that one day Jews won’t be there. But that is simply not the case. Israel will always be in Judea because, whether you understand it or not, it is at the heart of our identity. Now it is up to local Palestinians to decide: do they want to listen to you and live in denial and strife forever, or accept the truth, and live in peace?

Second: The idea that jihadism against Israel is the natural result of the “oppression” of the Palestinians is nothing but a false pretext, a masquerade, a ruse. Jihadism is a supremacist form of Islamic ideology that is sweeping the Middle East. It was trying to destroy Israel way before Israel was in the West Bank. Jihad seeks to destroy Yazidis, Copts and — especially — moderate Arabs who don’t share the same rigid world view. The many wars and thousands of attacks against Israel stem from jihadism ,which rejects the reality of a Jewish Israel in a Muslim Middle East — or anyone else in a Muslim Middle East, for that matter.

Luckily for the jihadists, they have you to give international credence and political cover to the notion that: “No one can deny that the everyday reality of occupation provokes anger and despair, which are major drivers of violence and extremism.” Is it the Israeli occupation that drives the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia, and ISIS in Syria and Iraq? Is it the Israeli occupation that brings about jihadist attacks in Europe? Of course not. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, your assertions to the contrary insult the intelligence of a world that is now feeling the brunt of global jihad.

Third: Your concern for the Palestinian Authority and its imminent collapse is heartwarming and admirable — especially if you are a member of that organization which idolizes murderers, engages in routine torture of its own citizens, is known to be corrupt to the core, and has defrauded the international community out of hundreds of millions of dollars. The PA has offered nothing but lies and murder to Jews — but it is so much worse to its own Arab citizens. Many Arabs I know in Hebron and eastern Jerusalem are praying to Allah the He take the PA off of them and their children. These Arabs want a decent life, the way it was before the dreaded Oslo Accords, which put them at the mercy of your exalted Palestinian Authority. Many Arabs curse you and your “human rights,” which empower the worst terrorists to suppress them and brainwash their children to jihadism. Truth is, most Palestinians are tired of the “harsh, humiliating and endless occupation” — of the Palestinian Authority!

Mr. Ban Ki-moon, living under the repressive PA is like living in an authoritarian mind-numbing North Korea — while right next door, in Israel, land of rights, progress, and possibilities, Jews and Arabs live in the region’s South Korea. Yet you, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, who hail from South Korea, are a proponent of a North Korean-like terror regime for Arabs and you ask that “Israeli authorities…. unequivocally support the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian institutions.” Nothing like the UN to fix problems.

Fourth: It’s going to be hard to hear this but… the Oslo Accord’s land-for-peace, two states living side by side, is dead — and it was from the get-go. Offering one’s beloved homeland for peace comes off as spineless and wimpy, and has not earned us the respect of our Middle Eastern neighbors. The two-state idea was based on the premise that Jews would happily forego their own historical heritage and forget Hebron, Bethel and the Temple Mount, in exchange for the promise to be allowed to live. But the problem is that if there ever was a historically conscious people, it’s the Jews. We were never, and are never, going to stop remembering, yearning and fighting for our homeland, which is inextricably intertwined with our very Jewishness.

So now, two-state has flatlined, and only fuddy-duddies like yourself, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, continue to obsess over reviving it. While you peddle it as the ONLY solution, there are many other workable ideas for a better future.  It is time that one-trick ponies like yourself exit the scene and leave the indigenous peoples to handle it themselves.

Fifth: While, as explained, we are not engaging in “occupation,” you and your organization, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, are engaging in preoccupation. While the quarter-million Syrians who have been killed in the last five years dwarf the number of Israelis and Palestinians killed in all of our conflicts, you are writing letters about Israel in the New York Times. While an estimated 200,000 prisoners are incarcerated in prison camps in North Korea, you abandon your own region to make speech after speech about ours.

And though your job title would imply that you have a right to stick your nose into everyone’s business, it would be nice if you had any success whatsoever to back up your arrogance. Here, in the Middle East, Arabs and Jews — except those who are employed by your bloated organization — think that the UN is an abysmal failure. Your schools here teach jihad that sends teenagers to die; in your camps you keep Palestinians in perpetual refugee status; and you deny Jewish history with your culture-usurping UNESCO, which decided that the ancient Tomb of Rachel in Bethlehem should really be called the Bilal bin Rabah mosque.

In short, thank you for publicizing your “message.” In return, we have a message for you: we find your agendized diatribe to be obsessive, ignorant and outdated. Don’t be surprised if Palestinians keep praying for the Palestinian Authority to collapse, and we Jews just keep on “occupying” our own home. It is we, people of this region, who will resist your message and your formula for endless war.