Iran, Lebanon join victims in the forever war. Vigils continue
March 2026
The 119th vigil took place in Salisbury with over 25 in attendance, as the war intensified in the Middle East. We are in the third week of attacks on Iran as Israel and the US are bombing large areas of the country. Israel has resumed attacking Lebanon with over 800 dead. Israel seeks to destroy Hezbollah who are firing rockets into northern Israel. With Iran significantly weakened, the IDF regard now as a key opportunity finally to destroy the organisation’s activities in the Lebanon. Reporting on Gaza has been overlooked recently where the death toll now stands at 72,000 plus.
This new development has resulted in consequences which do not seem to have been anticipated. The response from Iran has massively affected the Gulf states and the movement of oil. The impact on western economies is only just starting. Some UK politicians were all for the Israeli/US action urging Sir Keir Starmer to be more pro-actively involved. There seems to be some rowing back from that as its effects became apparent. The bombing of the Shajareh Teyyabeh girl’s elementary school in, Minab, Iran killing around 170 – mostly children – has had an effect on public opinion.
The war, only three weeks old in its current manifestation, has led to a massive displacement of people around the region running into hundreds of thousands. The glee with which Pete Hegseth has spoken about the destruction of Iran is especially alarming. The objectives and timescale remain unclear.
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The phrase “מי שלמד תורה שלא לשמה, סופו ללמד לשמה” a Baraita found in the Gemara of Avodah Zarah 19a. What does it mean? The Sinai Life/Death blessing\curse revolves around ruling the land with justice vs. Par’o like judicial oppression in g’lut as the k’vanna of the bi-polar דיוק separation between לשמה – לא לשמה. Rabbi Yechuda compiled his Shas Mishna in 210 CE, some 75 years after the collapse of the Bar Kachba revolt. By the time that Rabbi Yechuda published the Mishna – the name of Judea – Emperor Hadrian, around 135 CE, had already renamed that conquered province to Syria Palaestina.
By the time of Rabbi’s Mishna the Romans had already decided to expunge the land of the Jewish people like as did the Syrian Greeks whom the Hanukka benching in ברכת המזון condemns for attempting to cause Israel to forget the Torah. G’lut, based upon מצרים – לאו דוקא, therein means תורה לא לשמה. The Syrian Greeks the first to change the name of Judea unto Palestine. This fact exceptionally important because universes separate לא לשמה g’lut oppression from Sanhedrin Court justice לשמה. Sanhedrin court fundamentally and absolutely require Yovel freedom, based upon Pesach freedom, and brit melah as the sign of this brit to rule the land with justice צדק צדק תרדוף first established at the brit cut between the pieces with HaShem & Avram לשמה.
The generation of Yehoshua established the other 3 Cities of Refuge with their small Sanhedrin Capital Crimes courts. However, the next generation abandoned this Torah and worshipped avoda zara other Gods; meaning the Tribes of Israel abandoned the Federal Mishkan as Central hub of the Great Sanhedrin and cities of refuge as the spokes small Sanhedrin capital crime courts! Whenever Israel abandons the righteous pursuit of justice in the conquered land of Canaan, qualifies as av tuma avoda zara.
לא לשמה “ulterior motives” stands under the 2nd Sinai commandment of g’lut. לשמה “sake of Heaven” – dedicates the Oral Torah tohor middot אל רחום וחנון etc לשמה; herein defines Yermia’s ברית חדש and rabbi Yechuda’s בכל לבבך chiddush in ברכות; Mishna א:א which lears kre’a shma as tefillah דאורייתא in ארץ ישראל; acceptance of the yoke of the Kingdom of Heaven לשמה – the k’vanna time-oriented wisdom commandment which prioritizes tohor middot as the dominant spirits which rule the heart over av tuma “Esav – middot” — Yatzir Ha-Rah spirits of violence hatred without cause “avoda zarah”.
By the time rabbi Yechuda compiled his Shas Mishna and how much more so the Bavli Talmud sealed around 450CE, the land of Judea no longer called by that name but rather Palestine; the Roman religion of Xtianity had expunged the brit cut between the pieces and replaced it with a Harry Potter messiah “son of God”. Then the Arab caliphate slaughtered and butchered the Roman empire in the Middle East and replaced the JeZeus God downgraded to prophet with Allah. Arabs together with their Muslim converts ignore the oath brit לשמה cut between the pieces and replace Ishmael as the son dedicated to inherit the chosen Cohen status oblivious to the concept of a chosen Cohen people!
The blessing/curse opening first two commandments of Sinai serve as the basis to understand לא לשמה. Following the capture and destruction of Herod’s Temple the Romans “permitted” the establishment of a Sanhedrin in Tiberias! Akin to Napoleon’s “Sanhedrin” to give citizenship to Jews to serve as hamburger meat in his Armies! Both this and that Sanhedrin לא לשמה, simply because no Pesach/Yovel existed not in the entire history of the בית שני nor in the long g’lut which culminated in the Shoah! Therefore, the Shas Mishna compiled by rabbi Yechuda does not compile Sanhedrin common law rulings made in the past but rather serves as a model when Jews לשמה reconquer the oath brit homelands and establish the Torah as the Constitution of the Republic of Tribes which mandates a Federal common law Sanhedrin court system when Jews rule this land keeping the Yovel.
Romulus Augustulus, the last Roman emperor, collapsed in 476CE at the helm of the Germanic barbarian Odoacer. The collapse of the Western Roman empire considered by many scholars as marking the beginning of the Dark Ages which witnessed the collapse of international travel and trade. Virtually all European governments sought to restore the Roman empire. The name Czar of Russia directly refers to Caesar. In the West the crowning of Charlemagne as Emperor of the Romans by Pope Leo III in 800 CE symbolized a revival of the idea of a unified Xtian empire in the West, harkening back to the legacy of Rome. The Holy Roman Empire, established in the early Middle Ages, this entity likewise sought לא לשמה to restore the dead Roman empire, much like the Romans sought to impose the dead Syrian Greek empire by renaming Judea unto Palestine. Then in 1939 the coward Chamberlain, after betraying the Czech Republic the year previous, did the same with the Balfour Resolution and promised to establish a Arab 75% majority Palestinian state within 10 years after WWII.
Great Power 20th Century imperialism an extension of the dreams of Charlemagne and the Czar – both dead empires. Pre-’67 “neutral” England and France–Post ’67 wrote 242 in the Security Council (LBJ tied down in Vietnam), which stands on the British abomination of the ’39 White Paper which promised within 10 years after the War a 75% Arab majority Palestinian state. But both European empires as dead as Rome following the conclusive defeat of imperial ambitions of both London and Paris follow the 1956 War which terminated the great power status of both countries. The sun set on both empires. Yet the UN pretends that it establishes “international law” in the matter of a Palestinian State despite the cold hard fact that the UN Protectorate mandate of the League of Nations “Palestine” ceased to exist after David Ben Gurion declared – post the UN 181 validation by 2/3rds General Assembly validation of Jews equal rights to achieve self determination – the Jewish state of Israel. All UN attempts to re-impose the White Paper abomination, like UN 3379, 446 and 2334 null and void. The British empire dead like the Roman and Syrian Greek empires. The White Paper directly guilty for the Shoah. Any UN attempt to restore Roman “Palestine” dead.
The phrase “מי שלמד תורה שלא לשמה, סופו ללמד לשמה” – often interpreted in idealistic terms, focusing on the educational aspect of Torah study. However the Baraita means nothing not under Par’o withholding straw and beating Israelites for their failure to meet their tale of brick production. Nor in all g’lut lands because מצרים לאו דוקא. Only in the oath sworn lands can Jews observe and keep mitzvot לשמה. In g’lut Jews do mitzvot לא לשמה so when they rule Canaan they do not forget how to do mitzvot לשמה. The model to do mitzvot לשמה learns from the generation of Yehoshua who conquered Canaan and established all 6 cities of refuge/small Sanhedrin courts; as opposed to the next generation לא לשמה who abandoned Torah justice (recorded in all prophetic mussar) and worshipped avoda zarah.
“אנכי” ו“לא יהיה לך” – מפי הגבורה שמענום (Makkot 24a) Moshe’s entire covenantal warning in Devarim 27–30 is nothing but the expansion of these two commandments. “ראה נתתי לפניך היום את החיים ואת הטוב… ואת המוות ואת הרע.” (Devarim 30). The entire משנה תורה-דברים common law mandates צדק צדק תרדוף as the national application of the first two Sinai commandments. Moshe’s Torah establishes the oath brit as remembered through the Avot; a national, not psychological or personal religious observance which any Jew can do in g’lut.
The mitzva of Moshiach dedicates לשמה the rule of צדק צדק תרדוף Sanhedrin common law courts. This wisdom time-oriented positive commandment must have this k’vanna of dedication. When the Moshe anointed the House of Aaron, herein defines the k’vanna of this wisdom time-oriented commandment. When the prophet Shmuel anointed both the house of Shaul and later David as Moshiach – herein defines the k’vanna of this wisdom time-oriented commandment לשמה. When Shaul failed to slaughter the king of Amalek and David failed to stand Uiah the Hittite before the Sanhedrin bar, both men profaned the dedication of Moshiach; Shaul lost the kingdom and David too lost the kingdom – initially through civil wars and later through Babylonian g’lut.
מי שלמד תורה שלא לשמה = A nation that keeps Torah in g’lut—under Par’o, Rome, Charlemagne, the Czars, the British Empire, the UN—where mitzvot are practiced without sovereignty, without Yovel, without Sanhedrin, under the shadow of foreign gods and foreign law. Mitzvot in g’lut = שלא לשמה by definition—preservation, rehearsal, memory. All the centuries of Torah שלא לשמה in exile are not meaningless. Egypt serves as the model of t’shuva – remembering the oath sworn by each of the Avot to father the Cohen brit cut between the pieces/akadah\blessing to Yaacov. Therefore, the Mishnah simply not a record of an active Oral Torah Sanhedrin judicial system—but a blueprint for future sovereignty. The first “mitzvah” following reconquering ארץ ישראל the mitzva wherein all Israeli men accept the mitzva of Moshiach צדק צדק תרדוף as the dedication of the Yatzir Ha-Tov within our hearts for all generations as the yoke of the kingdom of heaven, the k’vanna of brit melah.
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Propaganda: England, France, Russia and the UN proclaim that Israel has the right to self defense. But these imperialist powers support the Arab opinion that Jews do not have the right to self-determination. Proof: Israel won the Nakba wars of 1948 and 1967 yet post ’67 the UN Security Council passed UN 242! Thereafter UN Resolutions 446 and 2334 condemn Israeli illegal settlement of ‘occupied Palestinian territories’. The Roman empire a dead empire. Jews defeated the Nakba Arabs! Israel aint Palestine. The UN attempt to impose the slander of “Occupied Palestinian Territories’, a propaganda lie.
Its not the place of foreign country UN members, many of whom do not even hold diplomatic relations with Israel to impose the name of the Dead Roman empires’ given name to Judea after the defeat of the Bar Kochba revolt in 135 CE. David Ben Gurion named the new Jewish state – Israel. The UN condemned Jordan’s annexation of Samaria as illegal in 1950. Yet the UN after the June 1967 War refers to Samaria by the Jordanian name “West Bank” as occupied Palestinian territory, despite the 1964 PLO Charter which referred only to 1948 Israel as “occupied territory”! Therefore, all post 1967 June War UN Resolutions promote the 1939 White Paper; they seek to restrict where Jews can settle in E. Jerusalem, and Samaria, based upon the blantant lie wherein block voting UN countries pass UN GA 3379 (later repealed), which condemns Israel for its right to achieve self determination in the territories of British mandate Palestine based upon the British separation of Trans-Jordan at the Jordan River; Samaria part of the League of Nations “Palestine Mandated territories” to establish a Jewish National Home based upon the 1917 Balfour Declaration which the 1939 White Paper clearly defrauded and repudiated! Therefore the UN post the June 1967 War have openly rejected the State of Israel’s rights to self-determination within the borders of the League of Nations Palestine mandated territories.
The focus of UN resolutions on post 1967 Nakba Arab defeat, compare to one hand clapping. UN Resolution 446 & 2334 openly condemns Israeli settlements in Samaria & E. Jerusalem as “illegal”. This one sided condemnation denies the equal rights of the Jewish state to self determination. The racist UN imperialism ignores the language of the original League of Nations mandate Palestine when it declares an Arab Palestinian state! Never in all recorded history has there ever existed an Arab Palestinian state. UN revisionist history which condemns Israel for its “illegal occupation of an Arab Palestinian State” – therein denies Israel – the victor of both ’48 and ’67 defensive wars – wherein Arab leaders promised to throw the Jews into the Sea – the UN unilaterally rejects Israel equal rights to achieve self determination within the borders of the original Palestine mandate framed through the language of the League of Nations.
All Arab – Israeli war fought over the steadfast refusal of racist Arab countries who deny that dhimmi Jews have equal rights to achieve self determination within the borders of the League of Nations Palestine Mandated territories. The racist UN revisionist history ignores the cold hard fact that all Arab states rejected UN 181. The League of Nations Mandate did call for a Jewish national home, but it also did not create a sovereign Jewish state with fixed borders. The 1948 first Independence war did not create fixed borders either! The PLO Charter did not condemn in 1964 Jordan’s “west bank” nor Egypts “Gaza”. The Nakba defeat in 1967 Israel ruled the lands specified through the League of Nations and Britain’s Trans-Jordan the international borders of the Jewish state won through war. The language of UN 242 racist presumption that Samaria “occupied territory” – as defined through UN 446 and 2334 proves that the UN racism rejects Israel’s equal rights to achieve self-determination within the borders framed by the League of Nations and the establishment of Trans-Jordan at the border of the Jordan river.
The UN post June War focus upon “the West Bank” as illegal occupied territory – presumes that the UN internationalization of Arab Israeli wars determines the borders of the Jewish state! This racism emphatically compares to the Jim Crow law of American apartheid post WWII which Dr. King and Malcolm X opposed and defeated. The UN does not have any mandate over “Palestine” after David Ben Gurion declared Israeli Independence in 1948. Why? Palestine as a League of Nations mandate territory ceased to exist; no different than when barbarians conquered the Western Roman empire that the Roman name “Palestine” ceased to exist. The UN insistence upon the name “Palestine” seeks to invalidate Jewish self determination which named the State Israel.
The status of Samaria: The UN condemnation of Jordan annexation of their so-called “West Bank”, simply not within the authority of the UN to validate after the Arab Nakba – as disputed territory. The UN does not dispute the post WWII division of Prussia between Russia and Poland. That international diplomacy employs the term “palestine” does not determine the name of the region any more than post the 1846 Mexican American War did Mexico shape or determine the final borders of all the future states which the American army captured. When Jews lost their Bar Kochba revolt against the Romans, Caesar called the region Palestine. Israel crushed the Arab armies in both their Nakba defeats in ’48, and ’67. Attempt to impose revisionist history – a do as I say but not as I do hypocrisy simply invalid and void.
Modern “international law” no more determines the name of the Jewish state as Israel than it does the dead Roman empire name of Palestine. Any outside power which attempts to superimpose a name which Ben Gurion rejected therein despises Jewish equal rights – as defined through the Balfour Declaration – to achieve self determination. The final border map of the Jewish state not determined by some pie in the sky “international law” narishkeit propaganda. Wars and treaties signed by Israel Egypt, Jordan and possibly 27\06\26 Lebanon determine the border of the Jewish state – herein determines Jewish self-determination. No different than Prussia post WWII divided between Poland and Russia.
Israel’s international borders come from negotiated settlements, facts on the ground of military victories, and the UN does not enter into these diplomatic resolutions made between nation states which share a common border. Post ’67 UN decrees attempt to intervene into Israeli strategic interests. UN revisionist history no different than Church revisionist history which proclaims itself as the New Israel! Never in all human history has there, even for a single day, existed a independent Arab Palestinian state. UN voting blocks do not determine Israeli international borders. The Jordanian “West Bank” ceased to exist following the Nakba ’67 Jordanian surrender. Just as the Roman empire collapse terminated the name Palestine. Attempts to restore the Roman empire, such as Czar/Caesar or the Holy Rome Empire in 800CE as dead as the Roman empire itself.
The ‘west bank’ ceased to exist with the Jordanian Nakba defeat just as Constantinople ceased to exist when the Ottomans made Istanbul their Capital. Israel changed the UN condemned Jordanian “west bank” back to Samaria. The territory did not disappear, as as did the Roman empire. Jews rule Samaria not the dead Roman empire. That the UN and most states with an agenda still use “West Bank” means as much to Israeli self determination as Americans voicing opposition to Russian policies in the current Ukraine war!
International recognition of borders, settlements, and the legal framing of the territory compares to the abomination of Chamberlains betrayal of the Czech Republic in 1938 and its puke White Paper in 1939. Munich, a direct great-power handoff of a sovereign state’s territory; the 1939 White Paper, a British policy reversing parts of the Mandate – no different from the UN revisionist history of UN Resolution 446 and 2334. The UN dog chasing its tail Fourth Geneva Convention – Article 49(6) – has nothing to do with the Arab repeated attempts to complete the Nazi genocide of Jews! The UN “law of occupation” follows the Arab racism which emphatically rejects Jews equal rights to achieve self determination in the Middle East.
Just as the UN did not condemn the Allied imposed forced population transfer of native German populations in Prussia, it cannot thereafter pretend that it can impose Article 49(6) upon Israel after the Nakba defeat to throw the Jews into the sea in ’67. Attempts to make revisionist history which pretends that Israel post ’67 and Prussia post WWII must stand upon different scales of judgment — utter and complete narishkeit.
Prussia was a postwar defeat and territorial settlement imposed by the victors; post ’67 the UN imposed a cease fire which prevented Israel doing the same to the Nakba Arabs! All Arab Israeli wars have experience international outside interference. Any attempt to deny this fundamental historic fact constitutes as revisionist history. Israel’s peace with Egypt, Jordan, the Abraham Accords determines its borders. Not imperialistic revisionist history UN GA 3379 narishkeit of UN SC (Chapter VI) declaration which condemn Israeli illegal settlements!
President Trump’s Abraham Accords came in conjunction with Washington recognition of Isrsael’s Capital of Jerusalem in 2017 and recognition of the Golan Heights as Israeli land in 2019! This negated and uprooted UN 2334, in favor of Israel making peace with Arab and Muslim nation states and relegated the dhimmi stateless Arab refugee “1964 Palestinians” as secondary to achieve stability in the Middle East. Post the Oct7th 2023 Abomination War the Trump Gaza Board of Peace excludes Russia, France, Britain, the EU and the UN. Hence the Trump Administration rejects Obama’s UN 2334 just as and equal to Obama treaty with Iran.
Post ’48 Arabs received Israeli citizenship. No Arab country as repatriated its dhimmi Arab Nakba refugees! Who respects the League of Nations Palestine mandate and who despises this mandate? The UN Partition Plan was recommendatory, not binding. UN 446 and 2334 pretend a “binding condemnation of Israel”. Jordan’s 1950 annexation of the West Bank was recognized only by Britain and Pakistan. The 1949 lines were temporary armistice lines, not borders; post Nakba crushing defeat of Allah the dead God in 1967 -became the baseline for later negotiations.
Israel did not give citizenship to post PLO charter Palestinians as given to post ’48 Arabs. It placed the recapture Samarian territories under military law. Attempts to declare military law post PLO terrorism as a “hostile army” revisionist propaganda. Judea and Samaria the heart and soul of the Judean and Israel kingdoms. UN Resolutions (chapter VI) 446 and 2334 employ “occupation” as a moral judgment as if the UN equal the dead Xtian churches in Europe!
Simply not the place of pre-war neutral England and Paris betrayal of their alliance with Israel to later “impose” post Israeli victory the language not “all the territories”. Any more that the SC POPE to declare the settlements have “no legal validity”; the West Bank is “occupied Palestinian territory”. Narishkeit! Never an Arab Palestinian state in all Human history.
Post WWII the Allies transferred some 18 million Germans and transferred Prussia (the heart and soul of the 2nd Germanic empire) to Poland and Russia. The name “Palestine” reintroduced by French mapmakers due to the fact that the “Sick Man of Europe” bankrupt. Post WWI League of Nations dominated by its creaters the allies who won the war. The US did not join the League of Nations because the US Senate refused to ratify Wilson’s treaty obligations.
Just as Italy, Jordan and Pakistan did not exist in antiquity, so too and how much more so Judea the name till the Bar Kochba revolt disaster! Not the place for foreign states to attempt to determine Israeli strategic interests and diplomacy because to do so invalidates Israel’s right to self determination.
The fraud post 1945, the UN Charter prohibit acquiring territory by war. Post WWII Poland Russia and the Czech republic acquired territory through the Nazi defeat. The fraud of “international law” utter propaganda. Israel not a ship floating in the sea of international waters.
Jordanian occupation of Samaria imposed authority of a foreign army according to the UN 1950 condemnation. By 1964 the establishment of the PLO changed the post war ’67 Arab refugee populations into terrorist supporters. Hence Israel did not nationalize ’67 Samaria because it refused to give citizenship to dhimmi Arab refugee terrorists. The post‑1945 norm codified after those Allied decisions seeks to impose one set of rules for great power domination of the Middle East – as if London and Paris won the ’56 War and succeffully seized control of the Suez Canal; and a different set of rules for the peasant States of the Middle East.
The unification of both Italy and Germany post the US Civil War witnessed permanent changes to their international borders post both WWI and WWII. Arab terrorism has its consequences. The fictional post ’64 Palestinians, especially after the Oct 7th 2023 Abomination surprise attack have lost the mandate form heaven. Arab countries have to establish a Palestinian state from within their own borders. Israel catagorically rejects a Palestinian state cut out of the hide of its own rule. Nakba Arab disasters have their consequences. UN biased block voting cannot abra kadabra make these crimes magically disappear and condemn Israel guilty of genocide!
Legally, post Shoah Israelis reject foreign courts to determine European racisim known as “the Jewish problem”. Israel rejected based upon the Torah oath “NEVER AGAIN” not to sign the Rome Treaty. Israel rejects post the White Paper abomination any European imperialism known as “Two-state solution”… divide and conquer. Israel rejects the British division of India and Pakistan. Israel rejects the British division of Iraq and Kuwait. Israel rejects the post war Allied division of Korea and Vietnam. Foreign states do not determine the legality of Israeli strategic interests any more than does the UN determine the strategic interests of the two great power the US or Russia.
Post the Bar Kochba disaster Rome imposed collective punishment upon the Jewish survivors. Post the Oct7th Abomination Nakba victory over Hamas, Hezbollah, Assad, and the Mullahs of Iran the victors dictate the terms of unconditional surrender not the wanna be European 2nd rate powers who lost their attempt to dominate the balance of power across the Middle East when they failed to seize control of the Suez Canal in 1956; had they won that war – the UN would have become mute because of their veto in the Security Council.
The argument that civilians are not responsible for terrorism as flat chested as a grown woman wearing a AA bra! Gazans elected Hamas and rejoiced handing out candy and sweets immediately after Oct 7th. The US bombed civilian populations in Dresden and Tokyo and dropped two atomic bombs when Japanese civilian populations had nothing to do with the Pearl Harbor surprise attack on Dec7th 1941. Millions of Germans lived in Prussia and the Czech Republic for generations, what’s good for the goose good for the gander. The Arab ’48, and ’67 – throw the Jews into the Sea = total war. Actions have their consequences. Revisionist history just a bald face lie. Post 1964 Palestinian political opportunism cannot come at the cost of Jewish self-determination and repeated Arab Nakba defeats.
Post WWII Germans in Prussia – the heart of the 2nd Germanic empire prior to their WWI defeat their civillian did in point of fact lost their legal status as civilians. Just as foreign states do not determine the borders of Israel while sitting in the UN so too and how much more so international law does not compare to the BC AD mythology of the Xtian churches!
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