What Became of Milchemet Achim?
Peloni: We are an ancient and powerful people, with the means of achieving great successes even while we face great adversity in every age. Yet, we will be consumed by the success of the plague of self destruction, bitter rivalries, and internal enmity if we can not temper the recurring trait of baseless hatred from dominating our agendas. Unity is the basis on which our survival can be charted, while our destruction will come from the contrary. We saw this in our ancient past, and as I have recently noted, and which Victor Satya captures so well below, we have also seen this in the very hours of the reconstitution of our state had begun to be realized. We can face any foe, and all of them at once as we have recently seen, but only by doing so as one people with a common purpose rather than as various factions who are too busy vying for the destruction of one another while mistaking where the real enemies lie. While noting this, it is interesting that while Netanyahu is calling for a unity govt, joining all factions in the country as one, the opposition maintains there strongest focus as being a govt which does not include the largest party while admitting that it is simply due to their great disgust of the man leading it. This campaign of division is characterized by their willingness to join with non-Zionist and shamefully compare the leadership of Raam to an actual Israeli hero. Make no doubt about it, baseless hatred is on the ballot in Octobers elections, and the choice could not be more clear. The only questions we need to consider is that, as we are facing onslaughts from every angle, and as the world is reshaping the entire Middle East, will the pursuit of sinking another Altalena be the consequence of the next election, and, if so, how terrible might the tragedy be that follows the latest example of our own divisions once more flying the flag of Baseless Hatred as our most resilient and defining trait.
A promise forged in the smoke of the Altalena now faces its greatest test—not on the battlefield, but between brothers.
Victor Satya | July 25, 2026
Tel Aviv Altlana Description: The ship Altlana catches fire off the coast of Tel Aviv. Wikipedia
Every Jewish child inherits two things before learning politics.
A family.
And a story.
Karim Khan, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
A few days after Israel entered the old city of Jerusalem in the Six Days War it cleared the most sacred Jewish place – the Western Wall of the Temple. Photo by Yehuda Greenberg, Pikiwiki Israel, CC BY 2.5, 
