Michael Freund

If Israel raises its voice with confidence and persistence, its light will break through, its righteousness will be seen by the nations, and its glory acknowledged even by kings.

The clash with Hamas is not merely a contemporary conflict – it is part of a divine drama stretching across millennia.

Now is the time for Israel to step forward with clarity and moral strength by formally extending full sovereignty over Judea and Samaria.

No tyrant, no politician, no ayatollah, nor president can dictate our future. Fear no man, Isaiah is telling us, and trust only in God.

'The time for consolation is now, and the path to redemption lies before us.'

Unlike Australia, whose colonial project rests upon a 200-year history of conquest, the Jewish connection to Israel is ancient and eternal. Our ancestors are buried in Hebron on land Abraham paid for

'Well, the bombshell revelation is that Jeffrey did not commit suicide. And the government is covering it up. How much more do you need than that?'

If Poland truly wants to be taken seriously as a friend of the Jewish people and of the Jewish state, it must do more than send an ambassador and issue empty platitudes.

The haftarah of Shabbat Nahamu reminds us that no tragedy is final, no exile eternal. God does not abandon His people, the people of Israel. But comfort is not a passive process.

Both Jerusalem and Gush Katif represent, in different ways, the spiritual and national trauma of Jewish exile and betrayal – both from without and from within.