The Paradox of Survival From Ancient Judea to 2026: Elections have consequences !

Harry Liberman

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Why Jewish Division Remains the Only Enemy Capable of Defeating Israel

By every conventional law of human history, the Jewish people should have vanished millennia ago. A small ethno-religious minority originating in the Levant, Jews have endured an unbroken chain of existential trauma—from ancient slavery and imperial exile to European pogroms, colonial dispossession, and the industrial genocide of the Holocaust.

Even at the darkest hour of the twentieth century, when delegates from thirty-two nations convened at the 1938 Évian Conference, Western democracies closed their doors to Jewish refugees, offering hollow sympathy while refusing to lift immigration quotas. When the slaughter began in Europe, no Allied nation bombed the rail lines to Auschwitz, and no army marched to rescue European Jewry. Post-Holocaust history teaches one absolute commandment: Jewish survival comes second to nothing, because when catastrophe strikes, no one saves the Jews except the Jews themselves.

Indigenous Roots in Judea, Not Colonialism

Long before modern ideological revisionism attempted to sever the Jewish people from their ancestral homeland, the ancient world’s greatest chronicler documented their indigenous roots. Writing in the fifth century BCE, the Greek historian Herodotus—the Father of History—identified the circumcised inhabitants of the Levant as native to the region. Centuries later, after crushing the Bar Kokhba revolt in 135 CE, the Roman Empire renamed Judea Syria Palaestina as a deliberate colonial act to erase the Jewish connection to the land. What modern activists call “Palestine” was never an ancient sovereign Arab nation; it was a Roman colonial label imposed upon Judea, later weaponized in the 1960s through Soviet KGB disinformation campaigns and Yasser Arafat’s PLO to rebrand pan-Arab hostility as a “national liberation” movement. A people cannot colonize the very land named after them—Judea—where their ancestors were indigenous millennia before modern empires existed.

The Ancient Curse of Civil Strife

Over two millennia ago, Herodotus observed how small, quarrelsome states could repel massive empires only when they overcame internal rivalry. Centuries later, Flavius Josephus documented how Judea fell to Rome—first when Hasmonean brothers Hyrcanus II and Aristobulus II invited Pompey into Jerusalem during their civil war, and again in 70 CE when rival Jewish factions burned their own grain supplies inside besieged Jerusalem. As Josephus lamented in The Jewish War, Jerusalem made “the holy house itself a burying-place in this civil war of thine,” drawing down Roman ruin only after internal hatred had consumed the city from within.

Modern Israeli history proved that when united, Israel is militarily invincible—from David Ben-Gurion rallying the fledgling state in 1948 and Yitzhak Rabin celebrating national brotherhood on Mount Scopus in 1967, to Golda Meir warning her cabinet in 1973 that the world “don’t like Jews, let alone weak Jews,” and Israel’s decisive post-October 7 dismantling of Iran’s regional ring of fire. Yet every victory has been constrained by an internal leash—embodied in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments by Dathan (Edward G. Robinson), who incited the crowd against Moses because he preferred the slave rations of Egypt over the hard responsibility of sovereignty.

A Modern Miracle and an Unmatched Contribution

Out of the ashes of Europe and the neglect of empires, the Jewish people forged what historians still recognize as a modern miracle. During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, starved of heavy weapons by an international arms embargo and invaded simultaneously by five neighboring Arab armies—including the British-armed and British-commanded Arab Legion—a nascent state fought alone for its breath. While Jordan illegally annexed and renamed the ancient Jewish heartland of Judea and Samaria as the “West Bank” in 1950—carving away nearly eighty percent of the original Mandate—Jewish pioneers took the remaining sliver of barren desert and malaria-infested swampland and transformed it into a thriving, modern nation.

This resilience illuminates an extraordinary global paradox. Though representing roughly 0.2 percent of the world’s population, the Jewish people have disproportionately shaped human civilization. Beyond gifting the world the foundational prophets and moral architecture of both Christianity and Islam—without which neither faith could stand—Jewish laureates have won 22 percent of all Nobel Prizes in history across chemistry, economics, literature, physics, medicine, and peace.

Even more starkly, it was Jewish minds—not Marxists or Islamists—who helped build the United States into the premier scientific and military superpower of the modern age. From Albert Einstein’s warning to President Roosevelt to J. Robert Oppenheimer directing the Manhattan Project, refugee and American Jewish scientists forged the nuclear umbrella that secured Western freedom—at a time when those same brilliant minds could have been building Israel from day one. And decades later, when Saddam Hussein raced to build a nuclear weapon, Israel repaid that debt tenfold: during Operation Opera in June 1981, Israeli pilots destroyed Iraq’s Osirak reactor in under two minutes, earning U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney’s famous written thanks a decade later for saving American lives during Operation Desert Storm. Meanwhile, Israel has deployed 37 international humanitarian missions since 1953, rushing field hospitals to disaster zones across five continents.

The Red-Green Alliance: Jews First, America Next

Yet today, Jews in America face the worst surge of violent Jew-hatred in modern history, driven by a calculated ideological convergence known as the Red-Green Alliance—the marriage of radical Marxism and political Islam. As independent investigative journalist Nate Friedman has extensively documented in his viral on-the-ground exposés across New York City and Washington, D.C., these street demonstrations are far from organic student movements. Friedman’s investigations into paid professional agitators and dark-money protest networks reveal how groups like The People’s Forum use anti-Zionism and “Palestinianism” as a Trojan horse to recruit young Americans into revolutionary Marxism.

In Friedman’s raw street interviews with pro-Hamas and pro-Tehran demonstrators, protesters openly cheer the destruction of both Israel and the United States—proving that while Jews are the immediate frontline target, the ultimate goal of the Red-Green Alliance is to dismantle the Judeo-Christian Western world and America itself. Fuelled by billions of dollars in Qatari funding poured into American universities, amplified by Chinese digital warfare platforms, exploited through porous borders, and bankrolled domestically by billionaire activist networks led by figures such as Neville Roy Singham and George Soros’s Open Society foundations, this campaign—as Friedman warns—targets the Jews first, and America next.

The Semantic Lie of “Anti-Zionism”

Behind the convenient lie that “anti-Zionism is not antisemitism,” Jewish students across elite universities have faced physical blockades, encampments, and administrative cowardice—forcing historic Title VI federal civil rights lawsuits and congressional investigations simply to secure the basic right to walk across campus safely. According to the Anti-Defamation League’s annual audit, antisemitic physical assaults and deadly weapon attacks in the United States hit all-time highs, claiming Jewish lives on American soil—from the fatal shooting of Israeli Embassy staff outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., to the firebombing of a hostage-awareness gathering in Colorado. Meanwhile, FBI hate crime statistics confirm that Jews—just two percent of the U.S. population—remain the targets of nearly two-thirds of all religion-based hate crimes nationwide.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. saw through that rhetorical mask nearly sixty years ago. When challenged by an anti-Zionist guest at a Cambridge gathering in October 1967, Dr. King cut straight to the moral truth: “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking antisemitism.”

The Fatal Illusion of Appeasement

Yet what makes this moment so perilous is the blindness of affluent, leftist American Jews who believe their wealth, Ivy League credentials, and social status insulate them from the gathering storm—and the modern Dathans who weaponize their own Jewish birth to attack the Jewish state. From Marxist politicians like Senator Bernie Sanders, who routinely attacks Israel’s defensive wars from the safety of Washington, to anti-Zionist polemicists like Norman Finkelstein, who built a lucrative career profiting from books cynically titled The Holocaust Industry while defending Hamas’s October 7 atrocities, these figures play the classic role of court Jews offering ideological cover to Israel’s enemies.

Like the assimilated elites of 1930s Berlin and Vienna, they convince themselves that attacking their own people will buy them immunity. Yet the Nazis spared no Jew—whether Zionist, socialist, assimilated, or convert. As Winston Churchill famously warned of appeasers, “Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last.” The antisemitic alligator may not eat these modern Dathans first, but it will eat them in the end—and when the crisis breaks and the streets turn hostile, those very same insulated diaspora Jews will have only one refuge and one defender to turn to: the State of Israel and the Israel Defense Forces.

After October 7, 2023, Dathan’s bargain proved lethal—sparing neither Canadian-Israeli peace advocate Vivian Silver, murdered in Kibbutz Be’eri despite decades of advocating for Gaza residents, nor Tamir Adar, the nephew of Dr. Yuval Bitton, the Israeli doctor who saved Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s life. Nor did appeasement save Senate Jewish Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, whom progressive allies he endorsed and funded—like Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed—immediately moved to oust from Senate leadershipafter the November 2026 midterms. 

As Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin famously declared to then-Senator Joe Biden in 1982, “I am not a Jew with trembling knees”—a timeless rebuke that echoes today: sorry Chuck, but there is no room for weak-kneed Jews like Schumer in the new political reality of Michigan!

And in Israel’s own October 27, 2026 election, internal political vanity once again splintered the 120-seat Knesset—leaving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud with 27 seats and his bloc with 53 against a divided opposition—when national survival demanded unbreakable unity behind proven wartime leadership.

The Verdict of Four Thousand Years

Four thousand years of survival deliver one unmistakable truth. Whether in Jerusalem, New York, or Toronto, the era of Jewish illusions is over. You cannot take the Jew out of Judea, and the nations of the world will never grant the Jewish people unconditional acceptance on their own terms. The only answer is a powerful, sovereign, united State of Israel—the exact fulfillment of the ancient biblical prophecies foretold across Deuteronomy, Isaiah, and Ezekiel, promising that a people scattered across the four corners of the earth would be gathered back into their ancestral inheritance never to be uprooted again. 

Nobody is coming to save the Jewish people except the Jewish people themselves—and only when they shed Dathan’s slave-ration mentality, believe in the truth of their own history, and stand together behind a strong, sovereign Israel will they remain unconquerable.

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