21/10/2026
This Week Today
Current Events from Israel
The news report is coming out a little earlier this week in honor of our dear son Ari’s Bar-Mitzvah celebration tonight! Mazel tov!
There are unsubstantiated claims all over the internet that North Korean leader Kim Jung Un has died. It’s probably not true, but because of our similar looks, I’m waiting for the phone call from Pyongyang to come fill in for him. Then this news report would be even more lit than it already is!
Speaking of arrogant idiots ruining countries through ego and sheer incompetence, Barack Hussein Obama made some accusations against Israel this week. Nobody here cares. I didn’t even bother to look up what he even said, past the headline. Let me explain a little dynamic right now using events from this week.
Olives
As we mentioned last week, it’s the olive harvest season in Israel right now. Actually it’s a bit early, but no one really cares about the olives anyway. This is all about the Land and who controls it. There are folks around the world who really don’t want the Jews to control more (or any) of their ancestral heritage. So reporters and diplomats and other first world tools who are bored because they don’t have children are now traveling to Israel to fight with the “Settlers” (read: Jews). As they say in the South, they got learned right good this week.
Some diplomats from various Jew-hating countries that shouldn’t be allowed here in the first place got a little roughed-up in one such altercation. Mostly theater, but they got their pics and videos to show their friends back home. But the main event was with a reporter from the US. She charged ahead and almost retreated without one of her fingers. Good thing for her that it was still attached, there wasn’t going to be a Kramer to bring it back to her in a cracker jack box. Anyway, she’s probably thrilled to now be getting all the attention she craves. Now her employers at the Washington Post (disclaimer: they wrote a bs hit piece against yours truly in the past) are claiming that the owner of their garbage publication, Jeff Bezos, is going to come deal with Israel. He’d be better off using his resources to find a cure for spousal microplastic poisoning.
Here’s the kicker: the wounded demon woman has got a pretty Jewish sounding name - Levine - and is definitely not an Arab, so basically this whole episode actually displays the lack of racism on the part of the young Jewish pioneers. When it comes to defending the Land of Israel, they do not discriminate or give preferential treatment to the enemies of the Jewish People, regardless of ethnicity or whatever. Refreshing.
Now here’s the real lesson: the Israeli hellenistic authorities are now going to clamp down on the youthful heroes. Arrests have been made and harassment increased. But don’t worry, nothing serious will happen to them. When the olive harvesting season is over, these foreign provocateurs will be gone and the young Jews will still be there and there will probably be even more of them on even more liberated land. Soon they will be commemorating Hanukah and there will be extra celebrating of the contemporary victories of the Jewish People against our adversaries, both foreign and domestic.
Elections
Israeli national elections are now just one week away and it’s still anyone’s guess who will win. The polls are all over the place and obviously extremely biased based on whoever conducts them. Until this week there were at least 4 prominent parties in danger (according to the polls) of not passing the electoral threshold of enough votes to secure the minimum of 4 Knesset seats. One of those parties, on the left, just quit. Benny Gantz announced that his party, whatever it was called, would no longer be participating in the election due to lack of support in the polls. He previously had many of his candidates defect to other parties. This is definitely a smart move and good for the left.
Attention now turns to the more right-wing parties that are in danger of not passing the threshold - Noam and Amcha Yisrael. They could possibly be offered a ministerial position or something else in exchange for suspending their campaigns. If they continue to refuse and don’t pass the threshold, then tens of thousands of right-wing votes will be lost and it could easily be enough to lead to the forming of a left-wing coalition government. That threat seems quite dire, but it remains unclear if it’s enough to convince either one of these parties to quit.
One of the Arab parties, that didn’t join with the others, is also at risk of not passing the threshold, but probably won’t have any significant impact on the results either way. It’s hard to believe that any coalition could be put together at the current time that would include Arab parties. I kind of want to see someone try to do it, but would still rather just win.
Gaza
The pace of settling scores from Oct. 7th continues throughout the Gaza Strip about the same this week with more terrorists taken out on a daily basis. I’m not much of an art fan, but these scenes are just beautiful. Pure justice on canvas.
Iran
There are currently endless reports of preparations by the US and Israel for a return of fighting with Iran. Still unlikely to happen before the US Congressional elections in early November. As if tensions couldn’t go higher, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth paid a secret visit to an Israeli Air Force base this week. The exact reason for the unpublicized trip is still a mystery, but he probably didn’t come just to entertain the troops. He would have brought Shane Gillis with him if it was just for that.
While on the subject of Iran and its wickedness, Iranian journalist plant Christiane Amanpour announced this week that she’s leaving CNN. Apparently she feels that there is simply nothing more to say against the Jews that she hasn’t already said. Despite her decades-long best efforts and the active collaboration of Southern folks at CNN who should know better than to be involved with this moral rot, Israel has only become stronger and stronger through the course of her tenure! That and the cancer say that it’s time to go.
There is some apprehension among Jews in the Diaspora that if the right-wing again triumphs in the Israeli elections it will lead to more international anti-Jewish sentiment. Maybe so, but this week’s Haftarah offers some solace: “Behold! All who are angry with you shall be shamed and humiliated. Those who contend with you shall be like nothing and shall perish. You shall seek them but not find them, those who battle with you. For I, Hashem, your G-d, hold your right hand, and say to you: Fear not, I will help you”. (Isaiah 41:11-13)
-Ben Packer
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