12/06/2026
Shabbat shAlom Jews WHY JEWS mazal TOV.
Anyone with eyes and common sense sees a tiny country in an extremely hostile environment. And since our enemies are Arabs, it is prudent to study the Arab mentality.
We are talking about an ancient, intractable, wayward people who know how to stand their ground and achieve what they want. If not now, a thousand years later, it doesn't matter; they will have enough patience and endurance. If a goal is set before them, they simply go for it, ready to keep this course in the present and the next millennium, until the goal is achieved.
So, the Arabs have a goal: for this land to pass into their hands, of course, including Jerusalem.
Although the Jews and Arabs are quite close in origin, the Arabs are not used to taking us into account. Like Christians, they borrowed certain things from the Jewish people and have despised us ever since. Jews seemed to have lost their roots.
For our part, we believe that there is a chance to change the situation. Perhaps it came from the Ashkenazim, who founded the state of Israel according to their own ideas, without really getting to know the people who lived here.
The founders believed that it was possible to make friends and good neighbors of Arabs, and to develop and prosper with them on the basis of equality and mutual understanding. For the Arabs, it was odd and completely out of line with their worldview. They have a completely different mentality.
As a result, the two nations could not find common ground. However, for some reason, we still have hope. It is unclear where this passionate hope to establish peace with our neighbors comes from, to coexist with them as two peoples who help, support, and visit each other in a neighborly way.
They have no willingness to do this, no predisposition. It just doesn't fit in their minds.
Even in Europe, they are gradually leaning toward seizing the countries that have sheltered them, absorbing the people living there, leaving only a place for themselves.
They need a caliphate, period. No more, no less. Even if it takes two centuries or two millennia. Their ultimate goal is to have the whole globe under the green flag of Islam.
That's how they go through life: invading more, invading less. In Russia, for example, they enter very precisely, in an organized manner, quietly but steadily. They join the army, infiltrate everywhere, are ready to settle even in Siberia, and create their own centers everywhere, both spiritual and social.
In general, they can work with the local population, gradually converting them to Islam. This spread is occurring in Russia, Europe, and America, but at different rates.
Since we are seeing such a process all over the world, it is time to compare it with what is happening in our country and understand we’ll never be friends with the Arabs. They will always try to throw us out of here, for better or worse. And we will have to constantly resist them in order to stay here. Or else leave and settle down where they won't touch us.
In general, Arabs do not specifically oppose Jews, as happened in Christianity. No, they are characterized not so much by anti-Semitism as by "anti-Israelism." It cannot be said that they hate Jews more than other nations. They hate the State of Israel—it is an artificial "formation" in their eyes. It's enough for us to leave, and they will stop attacking us, even Jews abroad.
After all, if there is no Israel, then there is no need to fight us.
So, the hatred of Arabs is not directed against Jews, but against the country. And it cannot fade away. No matter what forms of persuasion we invent, no matter how many verses of the Koran we quote that speak well of Jews, nothing will work in the current situation. They only know one thing: everyone who lives here must pack up and leave, or they must be slaughtered. Such are the customs of this people: for them, a knife is like an extension of a hand.
Therefore, the war will never stop. On the contrary, we are talking about an endless, unsolvable war waged in various ways. This is clear to many researchers and knowledgeable people worldwide.
If we talk about the existence of the State of Israel, we must always be a few steps ahead of our neighbors in terms of weapons to always be ready for war, and one that will allow us to stop them immediately, since we have nowhere to retreat.
During wars, we have neither the space nor the time to maneuver. After all, every time the world falls on us and binds our hands, preventing us from completing the fight and securing peace for at least ten to twenty years. The world likes it when we strike at enemies, but it knows full well that, at a certain point, it must be stopped.
Other countries solve their problems with our hands, but then we exhaust their "norm" to the fullest, and they immediately stop us by imposing losing agreements.
Evaluating the situation realistically, we are moving further away from the concept of security. From year to year, it is becoming increasingly difficult for us to ensure the country's survival. After all, the world is taking an increasingly harsh stance toward us, and soon we will be left without any external support. Even the United States teaches us to be very dependent on them.
The majority of American Jews (not the few thousand who go to parades in support of Israel—it's a small number), of course, support this policy, because they have a problem with identity and loyalty. It would be better for them if the State of Israel ceased to exist, because then no one would accuse them of bias.
So we are left here alone before the whole world. This is no longer just a conflict with neighbors. By the way, there are also extensive ties among them against Israel, as a result of which the entire Islamic world, in one way or another, participates in our wars. Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt—who else is involved in what is happening today, besides Europe and America, which are also putting pressure on us?
However, while all this is true, there is no problem with us living in peace and friendship with all our neighbors. Not only with them, but with all the world's nations. Every country today depends on its neighbors and on the world as a whole. But as for us, the decision is ours, the key is in our hands. After all, we can change the world so that the spirit of unity, mutual understanding, friendliness, affection, and even love reigns everywhere, compelling every nation and every country to join the global unification movement.
It is the people of Israel who have this opportunity, this medicine. And we need to learn how to activate this force—the force of goodness, unity. It descends upon us, or, on the contrary, rises from within, filling everyone and obliging them to good, humane relations with others.
After all, the world needs it. In the Middle East conflict, and indeed in general human development, we have reached a major crisis, both internal and external. It covers countries and their relations, even to the brink of World War III. Everyone understands the danger of the situation, but we cannot stop ourselves. The natural development of human society brings us to the same conditions that developed on the eve of the First and Second World Wars. Now, as then, the process is moving forward unstoppably. We would not like to enter the war, but there is no way out.
The world's leading experts point to this. And what's interesting is that they don't have a solution. Neither does Trump.
For the first time in history, a clear look at universal human development shows that we are frankly moving toward a world war. We are aware of this, but at the same time, we are unable to resist, as if some force from above is shaping the situation and pushing us into the abyss.
And at the same time, it's good that we see this in advance. It is good that we understand the logical hopelessness of this situation. Indeed, at this point, the people of Israel can offer the world a method of uniting, correcting human society, which will prevent war.
Otherwise, the Arab-Israeli conflict will seem like a small thing to us when the semblance of the Arab Spring engulfs the whole world. Today, the opposition of large blocks is outlined: the West and the East, China, and South America. Later, the primordial clash between Islam and Christianity will come to the fore. And we're in the middle.
It is no longer so much historians who speak about this, as the authentic Kabbalistic sources.… We are facing a war of religions.
The war of civilizations. The war of concepts in humanity. It is divided into large–scale conglomerations, each with its own idea of the purpose of the universe, of existence, and of its place in the general system. This also applies to material values and power over the world, and is associated with spiritual power, with spiritual symbols perceived as eternal and of the highest value.
So, only we, representing the Israel category, are able to reverse the trend by invoking a basic, positive force from Above—one that supports life within it. It will be able to fill all of humanity and awaken it to unity.
After all, the very essence of this force is unity. That is why it gives life, activates inanimate, vegetative, and animal nature, and can also awaken the human degree, provided that we awaken to receive and embrace it.
Michael Laitman, Ph.D.
