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Tevet 19, 5769, 1/15/2009
G-d's Hidden Warriors
Shimmi. Fair Lawn- NJ === subject: KEYBOARD WARRIOR SUCCESS content: Hello Yishai, this is Lester again from Philadelpia. Remember me? I'm the poet who at times has sent you some of my poetry. This is the first time I have written you in quite awhile. Hope all is good with you and yours. Well here we are again.. WAR, and all I can do here in the great USofA is hope and pray that Israel and its people keep up the fight and not let up till its ememies are totally and utterly destroyed.(Seems like I heard that phrase somewhere before) You have to keep it up no matter what the consensus of the so-called international community is. I think of Israel, and I pray for Israel ever day. There has not been a day in the last 3 years where a thought of Israel has not entered my mind. And I'm not Jewish. I can't even began to explain where my love for Israel comes from. It just seems to me to be a totally right and natural felling to have. Praise God. In down town Philadelphia,last Friday there was a pro-Israel rally here in Love Park that I had checked out on my lunch break at work. Over 2,000 supporters attendend and it just made me so happy see that there are a lot of people in this area who love and support Israel in it effort to defend its self and bring about an end to Hamas. There were notable speakers there and it was great. Let me also say that I'am a avid listner to INRadio and to all the commentators on the show and through Eve, Tovia, and your Kumah.org website I've learned to become a "Keyboard Warrior". You know its amazing what the power of the word bathed in truth, fact, knowledge and wisdom can do. Yishai, I have gone onto the Youtube video site where there is such vile and anti-Israel comments being spewed about that it would make your hair stand on end. So I begin to comment from a pro-Israel point of view armed with scripture, history, wisdom, knowledge and truth, and I noticed that the haters amazingly begin to fade away and after awhile there no longer there.I couldn't beleive it. It's gotten to a point on some video pages that were once filled with hate that now, basically I'm the only one left that's commenting, which only inspires me to go to another video. Yishai I'm telling you it works and I hope you and the others will press the issue that we need more "Keyboard Warriors" that can spread the truth, but remember it's essential they must come armed and prepared. Thank God that Mr. Rubin came up with this idea. The one I'am currently on now is "ISRAEL GAZA WAR,AN ARAB VIEW". Check it out for your self,and you'll see what I'm talking about. Its unbelievable. My commentator name is lestmbly. Well Yishai it been great writing you again and keep up the all the good work that you and all the others do. May God Save Jerusalem And Bless His People In the Land of Israel Shalom, Lester === subject: US & UN content: Dear Yishai and all of Arutz Sheva, The stand that the US has taken with the UN resolution is shameful. At this point I am ashamed to say I voted for Pres. Bush. Not just once but twice! This man is a disgrace to the written word of G-d. He is sealing the fait of the US and it is not good. Just remember there are many like me supporting Israel. Many of us are going to demonstrations to show Israel are support. I am sad for myself because I have loved my country. Watching it deteriorate in front of my eyes is sad. If we are not a blessing to Israel -- G-d will remove His blessings from this country. Without His blessing this country is nothing. Yet with this same action may be the best thing to happen to Israel. Psalms 121 tells us that our help comes from the L-rd. Therefore, Israel will be required to look towards G-d and no one else. That is where your help comes from. I personally think the US has actually hindered you greatly. So stand tall and tell everyone to go take a flying leap.... Please, do not forget the Christians who love you and will stand strong with you. Many of us have no ulterior motive other than to encourage you to be the best people of the Jewish faith you can be. Obey His voice, His commandments and statutes and believe in the promises given to you through the Prophets. I enjoyed your interview with Joe the plumber. My prayer is he will see and have true biblical revelation of the importance of Jews in the land of Israel. Do not forget it is your inheritance so hang onto it tight. Love you all, Geri === 
Hi Yishai. Glad to see you and Malkah have a blog, though I was disappointed that my first post on it was deleted. In any event, I still decided to send a picture of my Pro-Israeli expression that I have on my front door. I live in an apartment building with a strict lease and flags are not permitted on the windows or doors. So in its place I have two postcard sized expressions. The first is a picture on the door is of the Kotel and a quote from Psalm 122:6, Pray for the peace of Jerusalem..." There is a small flag in the picture so perhaps this counts as having a flag on display to show my support of Israel. The picture below it is also of Jerusalem and has the famous quote from Genesis, "I will bless those who bless you..." Immediately upon opening my front door everyone sees the blue and white Magen David that I have on the wall. It's in their direct line of vision and believe me people notice it. It was originally designed as a window ornament but I just can't make it stick on the window. Miraculously and oddly it does stick, with only tape, were I've had it for the past three or four years. My mother gave it to me a few years before her death in 2003, when I really started expressing a desire to convert to Judaism. When she gave me this and a pendent with a Magen David I immediately recalled an episode of All In the Family where Archie Bunker gives his little Jewish niece whose mother was Jewish a Magen David necklace. He tells her that to give someone a gift like that you have to love everything about that person. It's a very touching episode. So I don't exactly have an Israeli flag in my window or on my front door. Still, to have any public expression of support for Israel you have to love everything about Israel, which I do. Even if I don't have a flag. That's all I meant in my comment when I asked if a Magen David counts. Nothing sarcastic at all. I'm sorry if it came across that way. On one of your radio shows a listener wrote something to indicate that his support was conditional, that he'd withdraw his support if blah blah blah. There are no conditions with me. My support is 100-percent unconditional. My family as well. My brother, who is an Army National Guard recruiter, has supported Israel for years, long before it became popular for Conservatives to support Israel. His support can probably be summed with something you said on your radio show--this war with Gaza is a super just war. Ahavat v'shalom,
PJA, NY === Tom
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Tevet 17, 5769, 1/13/2009
Latest Batch of Emails and Pics
Shalom Malkah (Shalom Yishai), So check it. I live in downtown Portland, Oregon which is a very liberal place. I have also seen that we have had major pro gaza protests 3 blocks from my home. (they're lucky i have a day job....) I put my flag in the window on day one of the conflict, knowing I'd be proud to get a brick through it, if it in fact came to that. Shalom, Ben from Portland
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Mr Yishai,
Great show. I am writing because you made a brilliant observation that i had not considered-that America was about the same age as Israel is now when confronted with an ideological war. I am pleased that Israel at this time is remaining unified in its resolve. I hope that the war will keep Israel unified and not result in the giving away of more land. Though its been difficult to watch the events taking place in Israel, I remain hopeful that more and more people will begin to understand the ideological war that is taking place between freedom and tyranny.
I kept thinking about lincoln's speeches and wow what a parallel-especially the "house divided speech". Lincoln had an absolute genius for stating his case with eloquent simplicity. Though people have argued that Lincoln was not "religious", I do not believe this to be true. I believe he was absolutely a man of faith, perhaps not a "christian" in the traditional sense-but more pragmatic, so to speak.
I live close to Lincoln's boyhood home in Gentryville, IN. When I was growing up, he was one of my heroes and I enjoyed reading books about him.
During his formative years, Lincoln had a deep love for learning and books in a time and place when books were largely scarce. It is reputed that the ONLY book the Lincoln's owned was the family BIBLE. While some argue that Lincoln's religious inflections were simply used for rhetorical purposes in his speeches-I most fervently disagree. When a man eschews popularity for the cause of a greater good, with full knowledge of the vehement hatred of the oppostion, then that man is propelled by the greater good itself. I submit that, like the founding fathers, from an early age the principles of the law and the prophets were etched upon his soul with no less than an iron pen, and that Lincoln referred to them and spoke of them not simply to address the demographic, but because he simply could not do otherwise!
G-d bless the brave men and women of the IDF,
Gordon
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Yishai, Shalom, I thought your defense of serving in the IDF was very well stated. But you're critics were not convinced. As long as the state continues its current policies, they will remain in the goldene medina. Well, perhaps their goldene medina now has a slightly different yellow hue, that of bananas.Or as one columnist put it, the US is a banana republic without the bananas. For example * President-elect Obama has never proven that he is a native-born American citizen as required for the presidency.There is much evidence, whether he was born in Kenya or took on Indonesian citizenship, that he is not qualified.Yet every challenge brought to various federal courts have all been denied. *The $700 bail-out bill. It was supposed to be "for Main St., not Wall St."Yet, Henry Paulson took the money and gave it to his friends on Wall St. When Leslie Stahl asked Congressman Barney Frank about how Americans were looted of $700 billion for nothing, here's what he said: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/11/60minutes/main4663945_page2.shtml "Secretary Paulson is refusing to use that money that Congress voted to reduce foreclosures. The bill says he’s supposed to. He won’t do that," Frank says.
"You wrote the bill," Stahl points out. "You’re, quote, 'the smartest man in Congress.' How did it happen that you wrote a bill that the secretary of treasury has the power not to fulfill in the way you wanted it fulfilled?"
"Because there’s a metaphor that works here: you cannot push on a string. There’s no Constitutional way to force them to do things," Frank says.
"But didn’t you write the bill in a way that allows him to do this? And you could have written it differently," Stahl remarks.
"No. There’s no way you can force people to do things," Frank says. Really, Barney Frank, there's no way that Congress can decide what is done with the taxpayer's money. Is America really a constitutional republic or an oligarchy, an reverseRobin-hood state, where the poor are robbed to further enrich the wealthy ? kol tuv, Dan ===
SUPPORTING ISRAEL FROM KANSAS CITY KANSAS USA MAY YOUR VICTORY BE SWIFT OVER YOUR ENEMY. MAY THE LORD GOD
GIVE YOU GREAT VICTORY WE LOVE ISRAEL AND PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF
JERUSALEM
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SHALOM FROM TEXAS !
OH YES , MY HUSBAND AND I ARE VERY MUCH IN SUPPORT OF ISREAL. MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU ALL AND PROTECT YOU, MAY HE SMILE DOWN UPON YOU AND BE GRACIOUS TO YOU.AND GIVE YOU HIS PEACE . AMEN
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Tevet 16, 5769, 1/12/2009
More Boring Fluff
SK wrote: "You've failed, Yishai: your blog really is boring. What do these cutesy animations and slogans get you? You've had several days to review the TBs, and you find nothing worth serious comment?
The only thing interesting (and horrifying) here is that you are capable of doing better. Your failure to do so derives, apparently, from wilful, transcendently arrogant smugness. This smugness is remarkable when one considers that you have no action plan for waking up the average Israeli, and yet Israel will be destroyed if you do not do so.
Rather than articulate some plan, you advocate that even more Americans wave Israeli flags, as if this were in short supply in America. Would you be able to give a statistical structure to your "plan" in the form of equations? Or do you simply not care to think about cause and effect?" ======= So, a few comments: 1. To all those talkbackers who deride SK and Vienna Mike - please stop it. If anything is clear about these two people is that they give a damn. Which is more than I can say for many people. Maybe I don't always appreciate their harsh tone, but I appreciate the sentiment. Plus, the harsh tone does have the added benefit of making you stand up and notice, and it makes my blog more popular to boot. I am not kissing up to them, but I certainly don't think they need to be derided for their passionate writings. However, I have never been smug, and there is no reason to call me names. 2. This is no excuse, but I the reason I have not written out my whole philosophy on Israel in the first two blogposts is because I am also busy doing other things. I do 6 hours of radio a week, speaking gigs, chesed gigs (like the Sheva Brachot my wife and I threw for friends last night). This all in addition to being a dad, managing the radio station, and in general being a grown up which includes dealing with finances, health, exercise, leisure, and not to mention, trying to keep the commandment of learning Torah day and night. So Mike and SK, I do appreciate the immediacy of your demands, but let this blog develop and I do hope that with time we can come with some useful ideas. 3. Now to (some) of the issues: Some of SK's and Mike's points are spot on. Without real direction, this war and this country will go downhill. However, we should never forget the issue of demographics, that is, Jewish demographics. Last year over 50% of first graders in Israel came from observant homes. There is more Torah in today's Israel then has ever been in Jewish history. Our state was founded by people who believed that they can create a new Jew who has broken from the shackles of Galut Jewry and is free from religious obligations. Ironically, but not surprisingly, they were dead wrong as today's Israel is a bastion of Torah and Torah-thinking. So one of my core beliefs is: We just have to hold on. The anti-Zionist elements will fade away - they will simply expire with time. So just hold on, keep having kids, educate them, build Jerusalem, ingather the Jews, and just hold on. 4. Regarding flags: It's not meaningless. Look at this story: German Police Removed Israeli Flag 'To Calm' Muslims: "During the demonstration, which went through our street, the police broke into our flat and removed the flag of Israel, the statement of the police was to de-escalate the situation because many youth demonstrators were on the brink of breaking into our apartment house." So you can see clearly that the flag of support infuriates the bad guys and has meaning. When people put up the flag they put themselves on the line for Israel. 5. I believe that one of the key steps to changing Israel is education. We have been un-educated from knowing our Biblical roots and our Jewish mission. We must reverse that trend. I believe that the army is a key place for Zionist education. The army is always more nationalistic and Zionistic then the rest of the population. The army also know how to indoctrinate... I mean teach. See the great work that has been done by the Chief IDF rabbi who has said: Army rabbinate needs to inculcate Jewish values. I have more to say about this, but I will leave it for another blog post. 6. Practicality. Every one of us needs to ask a simple question: If I love Israel, then what can I do about it? Because this blog and this station appeals mostly to Americans, I often limit myself to addressing the practical things that Americans can do, namely, encourage Aliyah and make Aliyah. Why Aliyah? Because there is more to Israel then meets the eye and what Israel really needs to return to its true roots is its sons and daughters. I believe that the very ingathering itself will make all the difference because the Jewish soul will awaken when the body of Israel is complete. That is why I am always pushing the Aliyah button. And, I am constantly being rewarded with seeing that awakening take place. People are constantly stopping me and telling me that our radio station and Kumah have inspired them to make Aliyah. It's really working. 7. More practicality for American Jews. It's time to break with America. America is clearly breaking with Israel. See Anne Bayefsky's "Shame on Bush and Condi" in which she writes: "Betrayal. No other word describes the reversal of American foreign policy that took place on the night of Jan. 8 when the U.S. refused to veto the Security Council resolution on Gaza. A president whose friendship and alliance with Israel once appeared honest, perceptive and unshakable, decided two weeks before leaving office to throw Israel to the wolves. The resolution calls for a ceasefire in Gaza and does not even mention the word "Hamas."" In short, America backed the Arabs and Iran instead of us. America is holding us back big time and we must cut loose. Moshe Feiglin said on my show that for every gun that Israel gets from the US, our enemies get 5. They are holding back our people, they are supplying and backing our enemies, and they are limiting our reach. American Jews must stop believing that by supporting America they are supporting Israel - the opposite is the truth. It's time to stop taking American money and it's time to be independent. For Israel to thrive, we need to start being our own superpower and not be a client state. That is all for now, but we have much more to talk about. Yishai
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Generation Z
by Yishai & Malkah
The New Age of Zionism Has Begun - Join Us!
Yishai and Malkah Fleisher are Zionists, activists and turned-on Jews. They met at Cardozo Law School in Manhattan as students, got engaged, and flew to Israel to get married in Hebron. Malkah is originally from Sherman, Texas and is a graduate of George Washington University with a degree in Political Communication. She hosts a variety of shows at Arutz Sheva's Israel National Radio, including the Eishet Chayil Show. Yishai is an internationally recognized lecturer, show host, and columnist and has been featured on CNN, Al Jazeera, the BBC, and other international and Jewish media. Yishai was an IDF paratrooper and studied Poli-Sci at Yeshiva University. Yishai co-founded Kumah, a grassroots organization dedicated to encouraging American Aliyah. His writing and Zionist efforts landed him a job at Arutz Sheva's Israel National Radio. Today he hosts the "Yishai and Friends" show and is the Director of Programming of the station. Israel National Radio Kumah - The Neo-Zionist Lobby Aliyah Revolution - The Movie Join Yishai on Twitter Join Yishai on Facebook |
