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Ron Jager
Ron grew up in the South Bronx of New York, making Aliyah in 1980. Served for 25 years in the IDF as a Mental Health Field Officer in operational units. Prior to retiring was Commander of the Central Psychiatric Clinic for Reserve Solders at Tel-Hashomer. Since retiring has been involved in strategic consultancy to NGO's and communities in the Gaza Envelope on resiliency projects to assist first responders and communities. Ron has written numerous articles for outlets in Israel and abroad focusing on Israel and the Jewish world.
Making America Sane Again
With Election Day just around the corner, and as voters have already begun to cast their ballots in the tens of millions, Main St. USA will make their voice heard loud and clear. That voice will resonate everywhere, and the message will be clear to all. We the American people, are sick and tired of the progressive BS (aka bullshit). Over the past four years America has become unrecognizable, all in the name of “equality”, “diversity”, and “inclusion”. These progressive terms are at the heart of the transformation of American society into a race and gender obsessed, pro-genocidal wasteland. The American public and those who will be casting their votes will not only decide who wins the Presidential election, but will vote for the candidate who promises to bring back sanity to the public discourse, common sense values and principles, and end the tyranny of progressive BS. As a result of this pervasive expectation, Donald Trump is going to be the next President and he will end the chaos of the past four years.
Blurring the distinctive differences between right and wrong, good vs evil, truth and falsehoods, law abiding vs criminal, and accountability vs impunity from law enforcement, are only the tip of the iceberg of the progressive agenda. The days of progressive Democrats defending lawlessness all in the name of social justice will soon come to an end. An ever growing majority of Americans are waking up to the realization that this assault by progressive forces has made our lives unbearable; illegal mass immigration, inflation, misguided energy policies, crime and fear on the streets, dysfunctional schools, and the rejection of traditional values have all contributed to the demise of what was once a common future and the idea that we are creating a better world for our children.
The past four years have brought to our doorsteps a progressive reality that only ten years ago would have been considered delusional. Biological men can now compete freely in women's sports as well as use women’s dressing/locker rooms as they wish. Declaring that there are only two biological genders can often make you an outcast, publically ridiculed, and can often get you fired losing one’s means of a secure livelihood. Over the past four years, over 10 million illegal foreign nationals have crossed into the United States with impunity, including criminals, terrorists, and sexual offenders. The ensuing uptick in violent crimes due to illegal foreign nationals has spread like a deadly cancer to all corners of America. The thousand fold increase in violent and hate crimes against American Jews turning the safe haven of America into open season on the Jews. White male Americans are labeled “privileged racist white supremacists”. Black Americans who don’t toe the progressive BS are labeled “Uncle Toms”. Rampant entitlement for all, other than those who are “white”, has become the norm. Anti-discrimination provisions related to “age” and “gender identity” are being legislated into state constitutions, allowing transitioning of children’s gender identity without parental consent nor parental involvement.
It is imperative that we truly understand the monumental and destructive progressive changes that are being forced upon us even in policies that would be considered non-political. A simple examination of progressive energy policies of the past four years would be a good place to start. In recent years, progressive Democratic politicians have drastically cut domestic fossil fuel production, banning gasoline-powered vehicles while shifting to renewable sources from electricity, wind and solar. Yet at the same time, they have ignored that power generation capacity and renewable energy infrastructure are not in place nor provide the capacity to achieve a realistic and sustainable green agenda. The progressive energy policies of the past four years have been based on the childish notion that we can overcome energy shortages when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine. This progressive BS thinking is ultimately unsustainable and will make daily life unbearable, especially due to national weather disasters. What the American public want is a sane long-term solution that includes national strategies for reliable power production, affordable sustainable energy and a strengthened electrical grid.
The progressive energy agenda is doomed to failure. The dramatic inflation in energy costs has been felt in our electricity bills or simply by gassing up at a local gas station, but that’s only the tip of the progressive iceberg. Much of the fertilizer used in the world today is a product of fossil fuel. Lack of fertilizer or a spike in the cost of fertilizer due to the spiraling cost or lack of fossil based energy will affect food production in the United States. If you have been asking yourself why your grocery bill has skyrocketed in recent years, and you can no longer buy your favorite food products, blame the current progressive White House.
The progressive commitment to sustainability and the so-called green energy of recent years has become unsustainable. America will have to undo these decisions and go back to coal-fired plants to keep up with energy demands. Eventually, America will have to decide whether we want to produce food or heat homes due to the scarcity and high cost of electricity , a lose-lose situation and a clear result of progressive energy policies of recent years. The progressive pipedream of climate utopia should be exposed for what it is; ending fossil based energy and replacing it with a far less reliable wind and solar energy market.
Voting for an alternative political understanding of what the American public want and need makes the coming election the most crucial election of our generation. Just to be crystal clear, progressives promote special rights yet deny individual rights; progressives ignore the will of the people by weaponizing the judicial system who empower unelected governmental bureaucrats. Progressives have adopted victimhood as a way of life. Decisions on education, health care and even how we live out our religious beliefs should be an individual choice, not wholly subservient to progressive dictates.
Let your voice be heard, it is imperative that we understand the monumental and destructive changes that are being forced upon us so that we the people, can change the future that progressive politicians are leading us towards and make America sane again. The ultimate question that we must all ask ourselves is; will I be a silent supporter of the progressive BS agenda or will I be reminded of the immortal refrain yelled by anchorman Howard Beale in the 1976 film Network. “I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!” It seems that the film, 48 years on from its release, has just as much to say about the state of America today as it did back then.
”The Curse”, the diversion, and the elimination of Hasan Nasrallah
The justified assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the terror organization Hezbollah will have a dramatic effect on the Middle Eastern region and beyond. The terror organization fully funded and supported by the Iranian regime, has been Iran’s largest proxy organization established to threaten Israel on her northern border and deter Israel from taking military action against Iran that can disrupt her nuclear ambitions. Hezbollah, had a standing armed force of as many as 50,000 fighters, and an arsenal upwards of 150,000 rockets that included short and medium range rockets, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and drones.
Over the past 10 days, Israel has not only eliminated the head of Hezbollah, but also about 90% its senior commanders and closest military advisors to Hassan Nasrallah. According to sources in the foreign media, between 4000 to 5000 of Hezbollah’s mid-level commanders, who were in charge of operating the large arsenal of weapon systems threatening Israel, were injured or killed in the coordinated detonation of Hezbollah's communication devices referred to as the “beeper attack”.
Since the October 7th attack by Hamas on Israel’s southern communities by Hamas from the Gaza Strip, also a proxy terror organization funded by Iran; Hezbollah has attacked the communities of northern Israel by firing tens of thousands of missiles on civilian towns and villages forcing the evacuations of upwards of 60,000 northern residents to temporary housing in hotels and other safe locations throughout Israel. With all this in mind, it seemed somewhat surprising that the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced that Netanyahu would be flying out to the United Nations general assembly to speak before world leaders. Many in Israel felt that the timing of his trip made no sense considering the hourly rocket attacks on northern Israel and the immediate danger of these attacks potentially leading to a regional war.
On Friday September 27th at 16:45 local Israeli time just before Shabbat, most Israeli’s were glued to their TV screens to listen to Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. During the broadcast, it became clear to most, that this was not one of Netanyahu’s best speeches, in many instances repeating previous statements concerning the danger of Iran to Israel, the Middle East, and to the world. Netanyahu relied on biblical passages that spoke about “the curse” and “the blessing” that would be incurred on those that attack the Jewish nation. Netanyahu informed world leaders that Israel would not settle for anything less than “total victory” and the end of Hezbollah forces threatening the State of Israel. Again, these important declarations were meant to send a clear message to Hezbollah and its remaining leadership, to the Iranian regime, and to the Sunni nations of the Middle East, yet nothing earth shattering and certainly did not seem to justify leaving Israel during these perilous day. In retrospect, Netanyahu’s trip to the United Nations to speak before the general assembly had one additional and strategically significant objective. For most, including Hasan Nasrallah, and the Iranian military leadership, they interpreted Netanyahu’s trip to New York, as the best opportunity and a window of opportunity to gather Hezbollah’s remaining military leadership under Iranian guidance to regroup and revise military plans for a major attack on the State of Israel. Nasrallah and his Iranian cohorts made their fatal mistake by assuming that during Netanyahu’s speech to the United Nations general assembly, Israel would not take the risk of world condemnation and attempt to eliminate the leader of Hezbollah.
Much has been written over the past year concerning Israel’s military and intelligence capabilities and the utmost importance of revealing as little as possible of the full extent of Israel’s offensive potential. Israel has succeeded in keeping her enemies in the dark concerning intelligence infiltration not only into Hezbollah, and other Iranian proxy organizations, but also within the Iranian regime and the Iranian military as well. For this fatal reason, Netanyahu’s trip to the United Nations became the perfect opportunity to fish out Hezbollah from his safe bunker well below ground level. The diversion was executed, the fish swallowed the bait.
According to military correspondents, no less than 80 tons of bombs were dropped on four buildings in the heart of Beirut, killing Nasrallah, his remaining senior commanders, and Iranian advisors attending the meeting. The trip to New York, became the perfect diversion, allowing for the elimination of Hasan Nasrallah, who for 32 years has been at the forefront of Iran’s war against the State of Israel. His death was not just as a leader of Hezbollah, but as a Shiite figurehead integral to Iran’s goal of spreading its radical Islamic theology throughout the region and beyond. Since his death, the internet has been flooded by Sunni believers praising his death, and thanking Israel for being responsible for ending the threat on all Sunni nations.
Another significant consequence of Nasrallah’s death may very well impact the negotiations for the release of Israeli hostages being held by the leader of the Hamas terror organization, Yahya Sinwar. Until yesterday, Sinwar operated under the false assumption that Israel would eventually cut a deal with him for the release of some of the hostages allowing for his claim to victory and rehabilitation of the Hamas terror organization. With Nasrallah’s timely death, Sinwar may very well understand that if he does not agree to a deal and release the hostages, his days are truly numbered.
Many of the false assumptions and perceptions by terror leaders such as Nasrallah and Sinwar where based on believing Israel’s mainstream media reports who for the past two years have reported day after day that Israel is a fragmented society on the verge of civil war, and unable to resolve internal divisions. Instead, over the past year, hundreds of thousands of patriotic Israeli’s, have served in their respective military units, paying a heavy price, yet allowing for Israel’s destruction of the Hamas terror organization, and the continuing destruction of the Hezbollah terror organization, resulting in total victory for the State of Israel.
When Cyber Warfare met Psychological Warfare
Rigging thousands of pagers worn and used by Hezbollah terrorists and operatives in Lebanon, Syria, and other northern locations surrounding Israel to explode simultaneously, signifies even now only a sliver of insight into Israel’s offensive capabilities. With over 4000 terrorists injured simultaneously, many critically, the devastating psychological effect of the cyber-attack attributed to Israel on Hezbollah is only a pre-emptive stage in the expected war on the murderous terror organization in Lebanon. With the threat from Hamas largely destroyed and mopping up operations being executed by a relatively small IDF force in the Gaza Strip, the focus of Israel has shifted to the north. Hezbollah, the terror organization, and the Republic of Iran, a terror state have been put on notice.
Over the past year since October 7 of last year when Hamas invaded Israeli communities and army camps in the Gaza Strip envelope; Hamas terrorists savagely tortured, raped, and murdered 1200 men, women, children, and infants. Oct 7 also signified the beginning of a well-planned traumatizing psychological warfare of the Israeli public. Hamas, one of the most experienced terrorist organizations in the arena of propaganda and psychological warfare, sought to combine terror warfare with a psychological campaign that would lower the morale of Israelis, create divisions’ within the nations’ solidarity, question the need to fight and sacrifice, diminish confidence in the political and military leadership, and lastly weaken personal and community resiliency. Hamas planned its psychological operations from day one; from the cameras used to videotape the massacre and stream it online, to the use of living as well as murdered hostages as bargaining chips to keep the IDF at bay. The people of the State of Israel, and the Israel Defense Forces have shown their ability to move ahead, showing Hamas that not only have they lost the ground war and their control over the Gaza Strip, but that their psychological war against the Israeli public has failed as well.
As thousands of Hezbollah terrorists and operatives injured flooded hospitals throughout Lebanon, the simultaneous explosion of wireless pagers delivered a substantial morale blow to the terror organizations’ membership and leadership sowing chaos, operational confusion, and bringing the terror organization to a standstill. The simultaneous detonation of thousands of pagers has demonstrated to Hezbollah just how penetrable the organization is digitally, unable to defend against Israel’s offensive capabilities, and has also shown the dismal efficacy of intelligence capabilities of Hezbollah and her Iranian patron. The goal of Israel’s psychological warfare is understood not only by Hezbollah but also by the international community; Hezbollah will have to stand down, move her forces 15 kilometer north of Israel’s international border, and cease firing missiles and drones. After nearly a year of a war of attrition with Hezbollah while Israel’s focus was in the south, taking control of the Gaza Strip and the destruction of Hamas; the psychological message of the beeper attack is apparent to Hezbollah’s leadership. Israel has had enough after a year of tit-for-tat exchanges forcing the relocation of tens of thousands of residents out of harm’s way, and that the people of Israel and her leadership are unhinged by the psychological warfare of Hamas, are ready and willing to do what must be done to repel Hezbollah from Israel’s northern border, and deter the organization for the years to come.
The TikTok, Instagram, and WhatsApp generation might be asking themselves; what’s a beeper? What are the 'beepers' that were used by Hezbollah terrorists? The beeper, which predates mobile phones, allows users to receive messages in remote areas lacking reception needed by cellphones. The beeper which many thought had died out as a communication device was originally invented in the US in the 1920s. The beeper's operation was simple yet ingenious: when someone wanted to send a message to the beeper user, they would call the beeper center and give the message to the operator. The message would then be sent via a radio frequency unique to the user’s device. Upon receiving the message, the beeper would emit a loud beep. Initially, it was used in security and public systems in the US, especially in hospitals and emergency units. After its approval for widespread commercial use, the ‘beeper’ marked its beginning as a personal communication solution. Hezbollah, deterred and unable to defend against Israel’s digital supremacy in cellphone technology, adopted the wide spread use of beepers to coordinate and time the launches of missiles and drones into Israel, as well as to alert Hezbollah terrorists about expected IDF air force strikes.
Finally, Israel’s use of ‘beepers’ to execute a mass cyber-attack wounding over 4000 Hezbollah terrorists and operatives, has exposed the vulnerable low-tech capabilities of Hezbollah and her Iranian patron. Iran’s strategic posture has continued to deteriorate over the past year, with Hamas largely destroyed, and Hezbollah’s proxy status proving itself to be a ‘paper tiger’ rather than an effective deterrence against Israel. The impact of Israel’s psychological warfare will penetrate the consciousness or as is commonly stated, “get into the heads” of the leaders of Iran. Iran’s proxy strategy, is under increasing pressure and has failed in the Gaza Strip, in Judea and Samaria (aka West Bank), in Lebanon, in Syria, and in Yemen.
Iran’s use of psychological warfare aimed to hype their achievements via Hamas and Hezbollah has run its course and proven to be a failure. What Iran’s leaders fail to grasp is that psychological warfare may be effective against weak and failing states such as themselves and their cohorts, but it is largely ineffective and can backfire when used against a militarily powerful and regional superpower such as Israel. In contrast, Israel’s successful use of psychological warfare may very well prove to be the most effective strategy to weaken Iran’s goal of becoming a nuclear state, and weaken her goal of expanding its Islamic ideology beyond her borders.
Insanity and incitement are the new norm
Any psychiatric examination must answer basic questions concerning a patient's mental capacity. Can the patient differentiate between what is real and what is imaginary, differentiate between right and wrong, differentiate between acceptable behavior and forbidden behavior, legal versus illegal, and differentiate between good and bad?
Those Israelis protesting since the barbaric murders of the six hostages, who were on the verge of being rescued by IDF soldiers, seem to have lost that ability. Given the background of the national emergency due to the current war, ongoing since the Nazi inspired massacre by Hamas on Oct 7th of last year, one would expect that those that oppose Israel’s democratically elected government to focus their discontent on issues and policies that go against the grain of what they believe to be the proper course of action. Instead, we have witnessed an endless string of road blockings, bonfires on highways, deliberate clashes with the police, limited free movement for all Israelis, sieges on the Knesset and homes of the Prime Minister and other elected officials. These actions have all become the Left's new norm.
Inciting against Netanyahu, calling him a murderer and publically demanding that he be shot, hanged, or disposed of in any manner whatsoever have also become their new norm. The Cabinet has been falsely labeled a “death cabinet” that cares only about its own political survival, despite the successful release of tens of hostages in a deal, and heroic rescue operations authorized by the cabinet and elimination of Hamas leaders.
The demonstrators choosing the path of lunacy and incitement have, however, lost the support of the majority of the nation. They have become wilder and more violent, unable to present a convincing fact-based argument, while crossing the lines of acceptable behavior. They have knowingly adopted the use of terminology that reeks of incitement and blind hatred. Their actions clearly do not differentiate between good and bad or right and wrong. They have publicly labeled Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel’s No. 1 “enemy of the state”. They have absolved Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas and the one responsible for the Oct 7th massacre, of any semblance of accountability for his murderous actions.
Hiding behind the poster pictures of the hostages, the demonstrators have done everything in their power to facilitate the collapse of public order, all for the sake of bringing on early elections. Despite these actions, most of the general public has remained united, understanding the impossible conditions and pressures being brought upon Israel’s government; domestically as well as internationally.
The political parties heading the opposition, the progressive mainstream media, and the judicial system, have all lined up behind these forces of insanity and blindly supported this attempt to tear the country apart. These efforts to normalize insanity and incitement have unequivocally failed, let there be no doubt. The forces of surrender, appeasement, and insurrection can boast one major success although they have lost the trust of the general public. They have paved the way for fanatical thinking to rule the streets, social web and airwaves.
American Jewry in WWII
Many have described the enormity of the Oct 7th massacre as the single most murderous attack on Jews since the era of the Holocaust. This association has raised questions about the behavior of American Jews towards President Roosevelt and the heads of the US Army after they rejected demands to save innocent Jewish men, women, and children taken captive, tortured, and murdered by the Nazis. President Roosevelt refused to bomb the Auschwitz concentration camp, the gas chambers, or even the railroad tracks transporting millions of Jews to their deaths during World War II. Such desperate requests to bomb Auschwitz increased significantly in the spring of 1944.
At that time, circumstances combined to make bombing the Auschwitz death machinery and the railways leading to it from Hungary critically important and militarily possible. In mid-April, the Nazis began concentrating the 760,000 Jews of Hungary for deportation to the killing center at Auschwitz. Yet, despite the calls to prevent the expected genocide by destroying Auschwitz, FDR refused, and the majority of Hungarian Jewry were annihilated in the crematoria of Auschwitz. The refusal to authorize bombing missions made the German killing effort possible and much easier.
Yet, despite President Roosevelt’s refusal to bomb Auschwitz and save many of the Jewish victims in the final year of the Holocaust, there is no historical record of demands to have President Roosevelt shot, forcibly removed, or burnt in effigy. No calls from Jews or anyone else demanded early elections or the replacement of the President in the midst of a war. No one blamed Roosevelt for the deaths of the 6 million Jews, that blame was placed solely on Hitler and the German nation. In today’s Israel, it’s the very opposite; blame the Prime Minister, blame the government, blame the victims.
The Oct 7th massacre has brought together and unified the rest of the people of Israel. Although you would not know it from the mainstream media, most Israelis understand that the continuing war of terror launched by Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, and additional proxy terror organizations poses an existential threat for the State of Israel; Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike. Leaving Hamas standing on its feet in the present will exact a heavy price for Israel in the future and must be rejected as an option. Our enemies in Iran and Hezbollah are watching, unsure if Israel will surrender to the forces of appeasement from within.
Prior to October 7th, Israel showed restraint, believing that our neighbors preferred peace to war. The October 7th massacre changed the perception of most Israelis, that majority which would pass the psychiatric test at the beginning of this article. Despite the raucous voices of lunacy and incitement, there seems to be a general realization that Israel must stop empowering the genocidal appetite of Hamas and destroy once and for all the instigators of the ongoing war of terror from Hamas in the Gaza Strip, from Judea and Samaria (aka 'West Bank'), and from Hezbollah in the north.