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As the Midterms approach, so does the Islamist Domino Effect

With midterm elections just around the corner, the sudden outbreak of extreme violence and demonstrations in France and Italy by Muslim immigrants, pro Hamas, and pro-Palestinian supporters under the guise of students demanding change in the educational system is no coincidence. While the streets of Paris and Milano burn to the ground, former President Barack Obama, also not coincidental, spoke in Dublin Ireland to his hundreds of millions of social media followers about how Israel “stole the lands of the Palestinians” thereby appropriating the anti-Israel and anti-Jew Islamist demonstrators that have violently demonstrated not only against Israel but against Jews and Jewish supporters of the State of Israel. Obama’s timely public appearance gives justification for the rage and violence by Islamist and Muslim immigrants, Hamas and Palestinian supporters on the streets of Europe who want to destroy the very countries and cultures that have welcomed them, providing a safe haven, and the opportunity to benefit from the modern societies that have opened their national doors and borders.

Former President Obama, never a true friend of Israel who has always harbored a deep and fundamental hatred of Israel, is now unrestricted by an upcoming election, and can speak his mind freely. Obama has willingly contributed to empowering the Islamist rage taking over the streets of Europe and paves the road for similar bursts of violent demonstrations on the streets of America. Obama’s embrace of the Palestinians and their violent supporters, gives credence to those that have expressed empathy for Hamas, a terror organization that butchered, raped, burnt alive, and kidnapped hundreds of men, women, children, and infants after breaching the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip on October 7^th . Hamas is a radical Islamist organization no different than ISIS or El-Qaeda. Hamas wants to impose the law of the Sharia everywhere and does not recognize other religions such as Judaism or Christianity. Hamas will use any means, as barbaric as they are, to impose what they consider as Islamic justice. Hamas supporters in America have been given a green light to burn down the cities of America similar to what we are witnessing in Paris and Milano. Obama in his own words, is encouraging Hamas supporters to take to the streets to intimidate and humiliate America, an initial phase of the Islamist domino effect.

It was over a decade ago when Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich was asked whether he would support a Muslim for President. His answer reflected what many in Western societies do not understand. Gingrich responded by saying that the answer to that question really depends on whether the candidate was “a modern person who happens to worship Allah” or “a person who belonged to any kind of belief in Sharia, any kind of effort to impose that on the rest of us.” He concluded by stating that the former would not pose a threat to America or the Western world, while the latter would be a “mortal threat.”

Gingrich is absolutely right in making such a distinction. The danger facing America from the Hamas terror organization’s supporters sweeping the streets of American arises not from the fact that people practicing the Islamic religion are Muslim, but rather from the degree to which they adhere to the totalitarian, supremacist Islamist doctrine of Sharia. What was perceived in the not so distant past as a threat on Israel should now be understood as a problem for America and much of the Western nations where Hamas supporters have taken to the streets in masse as we have witnessed in Paris and Milano. This is nothing less than a current manifestation of the Islamist Domino Effect. By not shying away from this issue, Gingrich raised a serious concern that should worry all Americans.

Over the past 100 years, powerful and belligerent conglomerations of state and non-state Islamist forces adopted the use of terror to mount a strategic threat on the continuing survival of the State of Israel. During those years, Islamic terror was considered a threat primarily for Israel and was felt to be a consequence of the ongoing conflict between Israel and her Arab neighbors. In recent years, Hamas’ Islamist terror was not understood or interpreted as a strategic threat to America. Hamas’ representatives enjoyed the status of celebrities and were welcome to the corridors of power and intelligentsia throughout Europe and the United States.

Within the corridors of Congress, Democratic congressional representatives such as Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Jamal Bowman, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) have given their full support to the incitement and violence sweeping the streets of American against American Jews and supporters of Israel. They have refrained from condemning the calls to eradicate the state of Israel, and have not condemned the acts of violence against American Jews during the demonstrations. NYC mayor Zoharan Mamdani, and Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, relatively new politicians, never miss an opportunity to double down on their anti-Israel, pro Hamas rhetoric, and are nothing more than Islamist anti-Semites.

The rage and hatred expressed during these demonstrations will not stop with the Jews and will slowly take form against all non-Muslims. Hamas represents the latest manifestation of the Islamist Domino effect within Democratic societies. Muslim-Americans and supporters of Hamas are willingly dissociating themselves from the prevailing values, constitutional restrictions and legal regulations of mainstream America and the values of Main St. These supporters of Hamas are using their constitution right to freedom of speech to strengthen their message that Islam is not and will never be subservient to any other religion or political system. This is the true meaning of what Hamas stands for and the endgame of the Islamist Domino Effect.

The continuing support for the Hamas terror organization will plant the seeds of the Islamist threat on American society from within while creating a Domino effect that will disrupt American society as we know it. The Islamist Domino Effect as personified by the supporters of the Hamas terror organization, will develop into an Islamic tsunami of political and religious intolerance for religions and ideologies in free societies that are not subservient to Islam and Sharia Law. It’s only a question of time when “all hell breaks out”!

Jews against Themselves; Israel’s coming elections

With Israel’s national elections just around the corner, the political discourse has reached an unprecedented low point exemplified by political toxicity alongside the demonization of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his many supporters who are portrayed by the mainstream progressive media as mindless baboons; intellectually deficient, primitive, and unable to understand and appreciate the complexities of the progressive agenda. Many of the political campaign messages on social media against Netanyahu and his supporters reek from a stench of racism. However, there is a silver lining to the October 27^th election day. There is a marked change, one can feel it in the air; the progressive delusion of peace with the Palestinian Arabs and the two state solution are no longer believed to be attainable by the majority of the Jewish public in Israel. The majority of the Jewish public have overcome withdrawal symptoms and detoxified from the delusion and false hopes of surrendering sovereign territory to Palestinian control. There is a translucent quality to how the barbaric Oct 7 invasion of Israel by the Palestinian terror organization Hamas, has revealed a clarity concealed for years by the left wing and progressive political parties. Since the heyday of the Oslo Agreement, the deadly intentions of the Palestinian Arabs to commit genocide against the State of Israel have been belittled or denied, aided and abetted by the progressive media, the judicial system, academia, and the state’s attorney general’s office.

Jews in Israel who identify themselves as conservatives, as religious, as Sephardim, and as Mizrachim will no longer accept the progressive agenda replete with half-truths and outright lies. Israel’s Jewish identity will no longer be subservient to politicians who pander away the very foundations of the Israeli republic as the homeland of the Jewish nation.

To understand the depths of depravation that progressive politicians have reached during the current election cycle; an example is Ret. General Yair Golan and former deputy Chief of Staff in the IDF, and the head of one of Israel’s leftist progressive parties. He has expressed a series of harsh and shocking remarks; has publicly declared his intention when elected to "remove religion from the public sphere," or his call for civil disobedience among active reserve soldiers as a legitimate response to the judicial reform legislation proposed by the governing coalition, or the outrageous lie and malicious statement reaching millions of social media followers throughout the world that “IDF soldiers kill Palestinian babies as a hobby”. At a time when the State of Israel is dealing with a an existential military campaign against no less than seven military fronts with Iran at the head of the list, and with an international campaign promoting political, economic and military boycotts of Israel by falsely accusing Israel of starving civilians in the Gaza Strip and murdering innocent civilians. The progressive calls for insubordination, and for sanctions against Israel, and deliberately harming the wellbeing of IDF soldiers during wartime are no longer just internal political rhetoric. These words and false accusations have become a threat to Israel’s state security, not unnoticed by a majority of the voting public in Israel, nor the mobs yelling for the destruction of Israel throughout the world.

Israel’s progressive politicians such as Yair Golan would be unable to survive the current election cycle without the financial and organizational assistance of progressive American Jews and organizations that actively support anti-Jewish, anti-Semitic, and anti-Israel political agenda’s primarily among representatives of the Democratic Party in the United States and radical progressive politicians in Europe as well. Not surprising, Jews are behind progressive organizations spreading blood libels against the Jews and the State of Israel and fueling the anti-Jew and anti-Israel campaign taking over the streets of America and Europe.

J Street is an organization that describes itself as “pro-Israel” and proclaims itself “devoted and committed to Israel’s future.” Yet, J Street misses no opportunities to blacken Israel’s reputation and is always on the side of international campaigns to delegitimize the State of Israel. J Street has actively endorsed Brad Lander, a Democrat who is running for New York’s 10th Congressional District. Lander, who is Jewish and an outspoken critic of the Israeli government and believes that Israel cannot be a true democracy while it continues to occupy the West Bank and Gaza (aka as Judea and Samaria), supports the restriction of US military aid to Israel, and believes that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza after the October 7^th invasion and massacre by Hamas against Israeli civilians, amounts to genocide. Lander has been endorsed by and is an ally of NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani, an outspoken anti-Semite who threatened to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu during his recent visit to UN headquarters in NYC.

J Street is not alone. Similar Jewish organizations have been proliferating in recent years both here and abroad. In the United States, they include, among others, Jews for Justice for Palestinians, Jewish Voice for Peace, Jews against the Occupation, Jews for Free Palestine, Jews for Justice in the Middle East.

Much the same thing has now taken place in the UK’s Green Party, led by Zack Polanski, who is gay and of Jewish descent, and who had copied Bernie Sanders by basing his identity on bashing Israel. On October 4, 2026, Green Party members passed a motion defining Zionism as support for an ethnonationalist Jewish state and endorsed a single democratic Palestinian state across historic Palestine. When a Somali Muslim man stabbed two Jewish people in an attack that Iran claimed responsibility for, Zack Polanski condemned the police officers for using force to stop the terrorist. Green Party candidates actively support Hamas and have argued that “ramming a synagogue isn’t antisemitism. A Green Party resolution was introduced and calls for ‘Zionists’ to be “hunted" worldwide demanding the destruction of Israel and threatening to ban Jews attending synagogues considered to be ‘Zionist.’

Begging to be asked; have Jews always caused the greatest damage to themselves? Over the centuries, there has been ample evidence discovered between Jewish collaborators and the world’s anti-Semites, making for a distinctive Jewish contribution to the politics and proliferation of anti-Semitism. Hellenistic Jews at the time of the Maccabees and the Destruction of the Second Temple, Jews suffered primarily because of the mutual hatred and undermining one another. During the middle Ages the apostate Pablo Christiani prevailed upon King Louis IX to compel his former brethren, per papal edict, to wear an identifying badge. At the dawn of the 15th century, another apostate, Johannes Pfefferkorn, came to prominence preaching the message that “Who afflicts the Jews is doing the will of God, and who seeks their benefit will incur damnation.” During the modern era, progressives have inverted their message to describe Jews who proclaim their love of Israel even as they slander it. Peter Beinart, dubbed as the “the soul of J Street” and claims that Israel’s worst (and sole) enemy is itself. Marc Ellis, an avid and publicly visible supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, an academician, and formerly the director of Jewish studies at Baylor University, proudly spent a Yom Kippur repenting not his own transgressions in the sanctity of a synagogue but “publicly confessing the sins of (other) Jews against Palestinian Arabs” in front of a Christian audience.

Our enemies succeed only because we weaken ourselves and offer ourselves for slaughter on a silver platter. The coming elections in Israel have evolved into a defining moment not only in Israel’s historical role but for Jews everywhere. Will the progressive forces succeed in destroying our national unity by promoting hatred of those that have learned the lessons of Oct 7^th<? In trying to prove themselves Enlighted and above others, the progressive forces with all their cohorts will only create more suffering and bring on an existential danger on Israel and Jews everywhere throughout the world.

Ending the era of Arab “Palestinianism”

Since the days of Napoleon's landing upon the shores of Egypt at the very end of the 18th Century bringing with him the modern era to the Middle East, the Islamists of the region have been unable to free themselves from the shackles of inferiority and self-destructive primal rage that typifies the hatred of modern day Islamism against Western civilization. Islamism is anti-Semitic in promoting the view that all Jews are evil. Because Jews live in Israel, it is also anti-Israeli, and it is also anti-American due to its distorted view of the Jews' role in the United States. "Jews are evil, they run America, therefore America is evil" -- this is the mantra of Islamist thinking. Over the past half century, as the Palestinian Arab organizations, and in recent years the Hamas Palestinian Arab terror organization have adopted an Islamist ideology based on an increasingly venomous anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish rhetoric.

Arab Palestinianism has evolved into the Muslim vanguard of Islamist ideology that has enlisted the Arab nations of the region into never ending cycles of wars with the State of Israel. Arab Palestinianism embodies the "right of return", the idea that all the Palestinian Arabs who have fled or were expelled from Israel in the 1948 war and all of their descendants have an inherent right to return to Israel as full citizens, effectively ending the State of Israel as the homeland of the Jewish nation. The Palestinian Arabs have been unable to utter the word “yes" when presented with repeated opportunities to attain sovereignty and an independent statehood alongside Israel.

Arab Palestinianism is the complete and full devotion to the non-existence of a Jewish state. Since the brutal and barbaric invasion of Israeli communities located adjacent to the Gaza Strip on Oct 7th, the floodgates of rage, hatred, and revulsion against Jews have also swept the streets and campuses of America. Palestinian Arab demonstrators and their supporters seem invincible and immune from being held accountable or even close to being prosecuted for assault or incitement. Police forces, district attorneys, and judicial courts adopted an overly forgiving response to pro-Palestinianism aggression, a policy that invites escalation of anti-Semitism and terror against the Jews of America. The real question that we should be asking ourselves is why modern democratic societies pander and apologize for the actions of the most radical, violent and intolerant of the pro-Palestinian Arab demonstrators. Since October 7th, we have witnessed an unprecedented intensification of violence against Jews, with no expected de-escalation in the near future. Israel, Zionism, and the Star of David have become equated with all that is evil in the world, so the logical conclusion is to rid the world of that evil by any means necessary.

Arab Palestinianism equates the State of Israel with colonialism, imperialism, racism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and Nazism. These baseless accusations are a knowingly mendacious libel, some chosen for their Holocaust associations. As a result we are stuck in a cycle where Israel is never allowed to win and the Palestinian Arabs are never allowed to lose, which is, as you can see, a guarantor of never ending repeats of wars and terror. The way that wars actually end is one side clearly losing, sometimes even officially surrendering, and one side clearly winning, operating based on the acknowledgement of defeat and victory. Arab Palestinianism has created an unsustainable and self-defeating reality where they are the only belligerents in the world who are constantly allowed to go back to square one. They attack Israel, they fail to defeat Israel, and then they are restored to the conditions prior to when they attacked Israel, till the next round. Israel is the only nation on the planet that is expected to wage wars without waging a war. Israel has a right to defend itself, but only conditionally, and so effectively Israel has no right to defend itself. When Israel wages wars, it does so under a prejudicial international magnifying glass creating a myopic perception of winners and losers, with Israel always being the loser. This historical injustice ended on Oct 7th and as a result, Palestinianism will come to an abrupt end.

Arab Palestinianism was created for the singular purpose of destroying the Jewish state. Early sponsors included Hitler’s’ Nazi government with extensive cooperation documented between Nazi and Palestinian leaders of the 1930’s and 1940’s of the previous century. Next came the Sunni Muslim nations that established a pan-Arab front against the State of Israel until their defeat by Israel. Then came the Soviet Union until they were defeated in the Cold War by the United States.

Over the past two decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has become the main sponsor of Arab Palestinianism. Both the United States and the State of Israel have expressed that the main goal of the war with Iran is the Ayatollah regime collapse. An important historical observation shows that nations that became obsessed with anti-Zionism, which is, again, merely a politically correct mask for antisemitism, always end as failed societies. Anti-Zionism, historically speaking is the ideology of losers. It’s the ideology of societies that do not solve their internal problems but instead blame the Jews.

Israel has almost destroyed Hamas, almost destroyed Hezbollah, destroyed the Syrian Army, assassinated the leadership of Hamas, of Hezbollah, and of Iran. Israel has created a new reality in the Middle East in which the Sunni Muslim nations of the Middle East have begun to recognize the State of Israel as a regional superpower that no longer accepts the evil of Arab Palestinianism as seen by the world on Oct 7th. Arab Palestinianism has run out of sponsors, and Middle East nations will no longer mortgage their strategic interests to its fate. Regime survival, regime security, and material gains have taken precedence over ideological solidarity. The era of Arab Palestinianism will soon come to an end.

Danny Lewin H'yd: The very first victim of 9/11

Danny Lewin first walked into Samson’s Gym in Jerusalem in 1985 accompanied by his best friend, Aviad, the son of Peace Now pioneer activist Janet Aviad. Despite Danny not yet being 15, he came armed with a series of questions about Jerusalem’s legendary fitness facility, the first of its kind in Israel, and the much-talked-about new attraction in Israel’s capital. After asking about the equipment, the rates, the hours, and the type of workout program that he had hoped to get from one of the muscular instructors who seemed to epitomize the gym’s name, Danny asked a question that would seem haunting a decade and a half later. “Why are there no Arabs here and what are you afraid of?” His question seemed more a comment that stood to support the argument that would soon follow when his close friend brazenly challenged the gym’s unspoken policy.

The gym owner’s responded in his typically blunt manner: “Because we don’t want any trouble—”; yet, before he could further clarify, Danny Lewin boldly asked again: “What about the good Arabs?!”

Less than a month into their initial three-month membership, Aviad dropped out. The sport was simply too demanding. Danny, on the other hand, became more and more committed, visiting Samson’s Gym even on the days he didn’t train. He saw it as his home away from home, convinced that it would serve as the vehicle by which he would transform his life, helping to develop a finely-tuned body that complemented his noticeably gifted mind. His friends marveled, and the mirror reflected evidence of the rapid development of a determined, motivated, and aspiring muscle man.

There was something special about Danny; he radiated a sense of independence more fitting of someone twice his age. Only weeks into his membership, he asked if he could get a job at the gym and join the small team of instructors who were already well recognized as they walked the streets of Jerusalem wearing the coveted Samson’s Gym trainer tee shirt. Not taking no for an answer, he asked again a few weeks later. And yet again, a few weeks later, offering to “do anything” to become part of the team. Anything! And so it was. Still new to the iron game, 15-year-old Danny Lewin rushed to Samson’s Gym from school every day—to sweep the floors, mop the showers, and, yes, to clean the toilets. He could finally call himself part of the Samson’s team. A year and a half later, the now-muscular Lewin was ready to be an instructor—training a cadre of Jews, young and old, to believe in themselves and their inner strength that they possess.

After breezing effortlessly through high school and the challenging matriculation exams, Danny volunteered and served in Sayeret Matkal, the IDF’s most coveted elite commando unit. He married at 21 and raised two young boys with his wife. He completed his B.S. from the Technion, working long hours as a teaching assistant and as a researcher for IBM in Haifa.

In 1996, Danny accepted a scholarship to study computer science and mathematics at MIT. Two years later, while working on his Ph.D., he founded Akamai Technologies which offered a new and revolutionary way to deliver content over the Internet. By 2001, Danny was widely recognized as one of the most influential technologists of his generation. One well-known trade publication ranked him as the seventh most important technologist in the world. His impact on people was so strong that, even today, battle-hardened CEOs and IDF sharpshooters get choked up when talking about him, in part, because his rise was so quick, so spectacular, and so tragically short.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, Danny Lewin boarded American Airlines Flight No. 11 in Boston, expecting to reach Los Angeles. Instead, the flight was hijacked and commandeered by Arab terrorists, crashing into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. On that fateful flight, Danny Lewin became the very first victim of the largest terrorist attack in history in which more than 3,000 Americans died. An internal memorandum of the Federal Aviation Administration says “that in the course of a struggle that took place between Lewin, a graduate of Israel’s elite commando unit, Sayeret Matkal, and the four hijackers who were assaulting that cockpit, Lewin was murdered by Satam Al Suqami, a 25-year-old Saudi.”
Sometime after the attack, the Lewin family in Jerusalem received a telephone call from the FBI offices in New York. On the line was the agent responsible for the investigation of the attack on Flight 11. He told Danny’s parents that there is a high degree of certainty that Danny tried to prevent the hijacking. The FBI relied, among other things, on the testimony of the stewardess Amy Sweeney.

Sweeney succeeded in clandestinely getting a call out during the flight to a flight services supervisor in Boston, from the rear of the plane: “A hijacker slit the throat of a passenger in business class and the passenger appears to me to be dead.” To this day the American investigators are not convinced that Danny Lewin was murdered on the spot. An additional stewardess, Betty Ong, who succeeded in calling from a telephone by one of the passenger seats, said that the passenger who was attacked from business class seat 10B was seriously wounded. It turned out that 10B was the seat of Danny Lewin.

The Lewin family, Danny’s parents and brothers, have no doubt that Danny battled the hijackers. And it is for them a tremendous consolation. “I wasn’t surprised to hear from the FBI that Danny fought. I was sure that this is what he would do,” Yonatan, his younger brother, said. “Danny didn’t sit quietly. From what we heard from the Americans, the hijackers attacked one of the stewardesses and Danny rose to protect her and prevent them from entering the cockpit. It is a consolation to us that Danny fought. We see it as an act of heroism that a person sacrifices his life in order to save the lives of others. That battle in the business section ended quickly. Lewin was overcome and bled to death on the floor. Two additional flight attendants were knifed and the captain was murdered. The hijackers were already inside the cockpit. They announced to the passengers to remain quiet in their seats.

As we fathom the tragic details of the incredible life journey of Danny Lewin, Hy’d, from mopping up the locker rooms of Samson’s Gym in Jerusalem to the pinnacle of the high tech industry in America, I am reminded of Danny’s question back in 1985, “What about the good Arabs?” Indeed, as we grasp the dimensions of 9/11 from a 25-year perspective, where were these “good Arabs” who rejected this compulsive need to murder one’s way to Islamic glory? Where are they today?

Danny Lewin H'yd –father, son and husband, a veteran of the Israel Defense Force’s elite commando team, the outstanding graduate of Israel’s Technion Institute, an accomplished PhD student at MIT and co-founder of the Internet giant Akamai Technologies will be forever remembered for his heroic attempt to prevent the hijacking of Flight 11 becoming the very first victim of 9/11.

*this article was prepared based on the personal testimony of Mr. Meir Jolovitz, the legendary founder of Samson's Gym in Jerusalem

**this article was cited as a footnote in Wikipedia for being the very first source ever, to personally name by name the very first victim of 9/11.