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Day 13 - Sixth Set of Thoughts on unfolding Events in Israel and now around the world. This is what you NEED TO KNOW about increasing pro-terror organizations on college campuses, Radical Islamists in London and Sydney, Hamas, the Houthis, Iran and Hezbollah. You need to know this and understand it deeply so you understand what we, collectively, are facing. This is not only Hamas. This is a global ideology and death cult that has congealed to a global movement of hate, rape and murder. It is not a far leap at this point from what happened in Be’ery and Kfar Aza to Columbia, Harvard, Sydney or London. I am sure many of you watched the video of Columbia professor Shai Davidai telling parents that universities cannot (and will not) guarantee their kids’ safety on college campuses. I am sure you have seen the video of the students at Baruch College giving the finger to signs of kidnapped children, videoing it and putting it on social media. I am sure you have heard that the Houthis want to join the fight. You have seen the US embassy in Beirut be attacked. You have seen the synagogues in Tunisia and Berlin. You have seen the streets and cars that these radical Islamists have set on fire in Berlin. You must know and tell yourself everyday that there are almost 200 people still kidnapped in Gaza including many children. You might have asked yourself, what the hell would drive people to kidnap children, to carve up a pregnant woman’s stomach (I have seen the video), to poke out the eyes and chop the heads off of innocent children, of numerous civilians ( I have seen those too). You must also ask yourself, could this happen to me, because the answer is it could. And it will, if you do not act now. Imagine if this was you? You do not need to imagine, the cases above make clear it is on its way. I want to try to help you understand the moment we are in. To do that, go back to other ideological movements. The playbook is straightforward: Build content, propaganda. Work hearts and minds. Capture academia, which includes some of the most shallow and confused smart people you can find. They work and indoctrinate people burned out on capitalism, from unstable or unsupportive families, who just need something to believe in. They invade their feeds and feed their vacuous minds and souls with a cause to sympathize with. They co-opt and appropriate symbols that disaffected people can relate to such as arch-terrorist Yehiye Sinwar using images of policemen pinning a black man to the ground to advance the terrorist Hamas cause. And, then, there is a moment where the ideology reaches critical mass and can do some real damage by activating those hearts and indoctrinated minds. That is the moment we are in now. Influencing hearts and minds and activating them is much easier today in our era of social media, the era of post truth and the era of global, instant, communication. For the last 20+ years, global radical Islam has cultivated an ideology for people to connect to, to identify with. They have been indoctrinating and cultivating hearts and minds. They have exported some of those to western countries. It shows itself in various ways: ISIS. Al Qaeda, Hamas, Pro-terror student groups, those shouting “gas the Jews”, terrorists at soccer matches, extreme left-wing groups around the world. All of these groups are deeply connected, if not the same, because they subscribe to the same ideology. Ideology is the core of the movement. It is ideology, not geography. It dresses itself in many fancy clothes but it is trying to attack a weak western world, in the middle of an economic crisis (same happened post depression) where people’s resolve is very weak. Here is another way to think about it. The PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) was a 1.0 terrorist foe. It had a command structure. A leader (Yasser Arafat) and, a priori, wanted geography. In reality, they wanted to throw the Jews/Israel into the sea. ISIS/HAMAS is a 2.0 terrorist foe. It is decentralized. It does not require command (though it certainly knows how to use it), just activation of its ideological proponents or sympathizers. Since it is decentralized, it is everywhere. Ideologies, deeply held, do not require coordination. They require a call to battle because the indoctrination is complete. Hamas’ massacre of rape, child murder and mutilation is that call to battle. They have broken the veil of fear that was restraining some of these global cells. Hamas and their doctrine is a clear and present danger to the US, to Israel and to the entire free world. The numbness of social media scrolling has normalized both the attack vector and these atrocities. The terrorists and their supporters have watched feckless university presidents equivocate and they have gained more power. They have gained more confidence. They have seen terror succeed at a soccer match in Brussels. The officials knew about the Tunisian-born radical but did not do anything for 7 years. They understand the current weak resolve of the system. Activated by the ideology, the terrorist in Brussels answered the call to battle. This is critical. If you do not root out these ideologies, such as Nazism, Communism or Radical Islam when they are small, it becomes too late. So, we need to get them off streets and off campuses, out of Gaza and out of Lebanon. We need to be firm and fierce about this. Ask yourself why did Hamas do this if they knew Israel would retaliate? The answer is that they are possessed by a nihilist death cult ideology of radical Islam. It is deep. It is pervasive and it has been driven into them for decades by the playbook. They rape, pillage, plunder and murder. They hate Jews, Christians and most peace loving Muslims too. They murdered Bedouins who serve in the Israeli army and some just on the side of the road. They sent many rockets to Bedouin towns in Israel. They hacked Nepalis and Thailandis to death. That is why when you listen to the recording of the call of Hamas and its evil twin Islamic Jihad, they are nonplussed when the rocket fell on innocent Muslims in the parking lot of the hospital. They do not care. They are totally indoctrinated. They believe that if you are not part of the movement, actively fighting, you too do not deserve to live. You are just a tool. Why is the West next? Why is Israel just the initial salvo? Because this is a global ideology that has congealed, is coherent to its sick purveyors and devotees and has been given its call to battle. This is not about politics or land. This is a global ideology that has found its moment and will stop at nothing until we obliterate it. They’re tearing down posters of kidnapped babies today, and assaulting people who have the temerity to express a modicum of sympathy for the massacred Jews. What do you think they will do tomorrow? The leap from Baruch College to Be’ery, from Columbia to Kfar Azza, from Harvard to the Houthis, is small. We must equal that resolve. This is the time for all people of conscience, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Atheists, people who love life, liberty and prosperity, to rally, to break their silence and be brave. Show courage now because if you do not, you will be next. First they came for the Jews… Links to videos in next tweet.

As Israel calling on Palestinian civilians to evacuate from Gaza city, Hamas cheif Haniyeh said in televised speech just now: “no to displacement from Gaza, and no to displacement from Gaza to Egypt.” Haniyeh is currently at the Four Seasons hotel in Doha, paid for by Qatar.

Warning, extremely disturbing content.

We debated whether or not to share these horrific images, but the world needs to know what we are up against. These aren’t “freedom fighters”. They are Hamas terrorists, but no different than ISIS terrorists. Same tactics, different names. Hamas = ISIS

Here are some of the photos Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Warning: These are horrifying photos of babies murdered and burned by the Hamas monsters. Hamas is inhuman. Hamas is ISIS.

Day #3 - Second Set of Thoughts on Unfolding Situation in Israel. First, Noni, the son of my former entrepreneur and the former Minister of Science and Technology Izhar Shay, was killed late last night. Our hearts are broken for Izhar and his family and for other families that have been destroyed by barbaric Hamas murderers, rapists and kidnappers. May his and others’ memories be a blessing and give us strength to keep fighting for life, for liberty and for a safe homeland. In their death, these brave young people have commanded us to steadfastly pursue life. In yesterday's post, I wrote "Israel is the most resilient and strongest civil society in the world. This is what gives life meaning. It tells you who Israel is. People committed to each other. We are our brothers' keeper.” Today I want to tell you about Israel's civic society. For much of the last two days many people have been coordinating between massive civilian efforts and government. Hundreds of former soldiers ("Brothers in Arms") brought their jeeps and weapons to the South of Israel, coordinating over whatsapp groups and command centers they set up in the South of Israel, have bravely saved tens if not hundreds of families who were under fire by Hamas terrorists in the communities and Kibbutzes in a ten kilometer radius outside of Gaza. Some of my entrepreneurs opened a forward command center to coordinate locating the people who were trapped, made sure the army said it was safe enough to enter and coordinated with brave jeep owners who went to rescue the families. One of our entrepreneurs has worked around the clock since early Saturday morning on his phone and laptop and literally saved tens of lives by identifying people trapped in their homes or left bleeding in fields, coordinating efforts to rescue them. Another built an app to enable civilians to reporting and confirm incidents and local needs. You cannot find a flight back to Israel in the last two days because those Israelis who serve in reserve duty are rushing to get back. Ordinary people, reservists, are leaving their jobs, rushing to get back and fight for freedom. Fight for life. Fight for good. People have rented private planes from London and elsewhere to fly reservists back since most foreign airlines have cancelled all flights. As Tal Heinrich wrote, that is what happens “when duty calls” and there is no population that duty calls to more than Israelis and particularly former Israeli soldiers. Tonight I went to visit one of my sons who is now at an army base waiting for instructions. When I arrived I could not believe my eyes: for as far as my eyes could see and more, there were cars parked on both sides of the road and on both sides of the center divide. When I asked my son whose cars they were, I learned it was reservists who had been called up, parked their cars on the road on Saturday and arrived at the base. We drove the length of the parked cars: It extended for four kilometers. The scene outside the base was wild. It was 1045PM. There were restauranteurs who pitched tents, to serve food they brought for soldiers. It felt like every mother and sister in the country was walking in with cooked food. Endless numbers of of people walked around with aluminum tins filled with food. There were young girls in long skirts walking around handing out extra pairs of socks, towels, toiletries, Red Bull and other military supplies that they brought for our soldiers. As we prepared to leave, a flatbed truck pulled up with a massive amount more supplies (Picture below). These were all civilian volunteer efforts. Most of it organized over whatsapps and on Google forms and Sheets. See the videos in the tweets below from Beer Sheba where Roni Flamer and Lev Echad (One Heart) volunteers are working through the night to get supplies for civilians affected by the barbarism and first responders in the cities and towns. Civilians bought ceramic vests for soldiers and first responders, headlamps, knee pads, drones and endless supplies of clothing, food, toiletries, bedding and more to those who have been chased from their homes and living in temporary shelter or other people’s homes. My 17 year old nephew is running a WhatsApp group of 1000 high school kids collecting food and toys for the families who have been forced from their homes. My son and son in law drove 6 hours today to pick up and deliver supplies to soldiers and first responders. My younger daughters and their friends joined WhatsApp groups for babysitters because so many men have been called up, school has been cancelled and mothers need help with kids. There are groups of doctors and nurses, people with jeeps and drones, software engineers that are building tools to report issues and verify information to reduce the fog of war, hell and uncertainty that many families are living through now since their loved ones are unaccounted for. Yesterday, the Shomer Hachadash received a request for people who know how to milk cows since those that run the barns have been called up. Teenagers are volunteering to milk cows over the coming days around the country because we need to keep the shelves stocked. This tells a larger story, one I have written about in some of my books. Governments have 20th century operating systems. Citizens have 21st century operating systems. Governments run at the rate of the pony express and maybe Windows 95. Civilians and business today run agile and much much faster. Civic self organization is power and prosperity. It is also Joie de Vivre. Governments inability to address many of our challenges is because their OS is outdated. However, in many countries, civilian society is apathetic. Not in Israel. We are a mobilized and vibrant civic society. If you followed the Judicial reform process and protests, you saw it (on both sides) in spades and now it is on full display at war time. Ministers and Ministries, Secretaries and government offices are struggling globally. Winning 21st century countries will be defined by civic involvement, civilian populations mobilized for good, motivated to create a better society, triggered to empower their fellow through fast advancing technology and human empathy. Civilian armies that bring people together to fight shoulder to shoulder to protect the ideals and people that are dear to us are critical for esprit de corps, for binding society and inspiring calls to action. It can be very messy but it is meaningful and more impactful. It is a significant and meaningful change. This means that much activity traditionally the purview of government will become more distributed. Centralization is crumbling in many ways. Agility and motivated civilians are winning. Those societies with motivated and activist populations, those that value life and are willing to sacrifice for it, will win over the next decades. Those societies with a will to live, to contribute, to build a better future for children and grandchildren will do whatever it takes. Israel has those essential components and we are motivated. With God's help, a motivated inspiring population and an incredibly strong and resilient civil society, we will win and beat back the barbarians at our gates and in some of your streets and then we will get back to building a better 21st century society.