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Dear Messiah Watch International Member,

Rabbi Moshe Yess

In the past 7 weeks America’s plans for Iraq have gone from a relative cakewalk into an unexpected and full blown chaotic disaster. This being an election year these events will become even more highly politicized. Many agendas are operating at the same time now:

- Democrats against Republicans.

- America, believing that it is capable of authoring the future, wants to establish an Arabic democracy in the Middle East for various reasons.

- The Islamist faction of the Arab world wants to bring down the “Satanic” West and Israel.

- The Crescent of Islam is at literal war with the Star of David and the Cross.

The question is: Is this just another war like past ones or is their something unique about today’s global events?

Since the Gulf War of 1991 some learned Chassidic Jews have known that the 1991 Gulf War as well as this later 2003-2004 Gulf War are no regular wars. This war is the war of Gog Magog, Gog from Gog….or, more plainly stated, George from George [Bush.] The stakes are higher than most people can even imagine. The need to understand present world events from a Jewish Biblical perspective has never been greater.

Rabbi Schneerson associated this present Gulf war with Isaiah 63:1 after stating outright that the Messianic Era is unfolding presently. In short…this war has more to do with God’s Agenda than with America vs. Islam. But that’s a topic for a later email.

In my last email entitled “Nuclear Option” I attempted to demonstrate the need and moral imperative for America to launch a 4 sided war (allowing for no escape of the enemy) by going over the top at the outset as was done by President Truman. The points again to refresh your memory were:-

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- the Arabic world needs to be informed that an American nuclear weapon will be detonated in the Sahara Desert on such and such a day.

- that every Arabic nation will mobilize their populations to seek and destroy any and all persons even sympathetic to Al Qaeda’s “theology.”

- that failure to do so promptly will result in their countries being methodically nuked.

- publicize the “to be nuked” targets order on Al Jazeera.

Let the Arabic world thereupon clean its own garbage that it has spewed all across this globe!

Have we heard a squeak out of Japan regarding it’s imagined world domination agendas under their emperor since Nagasaki and Hiroshima?

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The reactions from our members to this email were overwhelmingly positive. One member took issue with me, however, and in a series of friendly email exchanges he basically stated that his religious upbringing prevented him from endorsing this nuclear approach in spite of the fact that 7 of his associates and friends died on 9-11. He firmly believes that (and I quote him now)…

“Justice and vengeance are God's, whomever His instrument is He will empower to do, and do well.”

This member further believes that conventional war is our only “moral” option. He believes that love is the answer. While I respect this member’s sincere dedication to the principles of his upbringing... I entirely disagree with those principles.

I am a peace loving Rabbi. Why then am I espousing a personal belief that would leave myself open to criticism of being a gung-ho nuclear war freak wanting to turn the planet Earth into glass with the ultimate fireworks display? So, if you would, allow me to share what is in my heart and understanding regarding today’s matters. There is much Wisdom for our days from the Jewish Bible crying for our attention in what follows.

Few stories in the Jewish Bible teach us as important a lesson in morality regarding what to do about the beheading of an American citizen as what is soon to be presented below. Furthermore some Jewish Religious Laws and commentary from Judaism’s Talmud respectively will also illuminate our grasp of the present circumstance we find ourselves in geopolitically and as a nation. More importantly, I will attempt to explain how these Sacred Jewish Sources indicate what is Godly, moral and, as I believe, mandatory for our days.

For starters we go to history… and there we find a compassionate Jewish King, a man named Saul, being instructed of what God demands of him via the Jewish Prophet named Samuel.

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2) Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. 3) Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not [show them no pity]; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. 5) And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley. 6) And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. 7) And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt. 8) And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

9) But Saul and the people spared [the Amalekite King,] Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

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In this above citation (so far) we see amazing things. Here are the issues contained therein and the initial lessons they convey to ourselves:-

A) God demands (through the Prophet, Samuel) the utter eradication of every man, woman and child of the Amalekites. In addition King Saul is commanded to also eradicate Amalek‘s “ox and sheep, camel and ass.”

B) This kind of war can be described as a four sided attack (allowing the enemy no possible escape) as well as the elimination of anything and everything belonging to the enemy.

C) One can properly ask: “What did the ox and sheep, camel and ass of the Amalekites do that justified their total eradication?”

D) One can properly ask: “What possible sins did the suckling babies of Amalek do to justify their death by the swords of King Saul‘s armies?”

E) An extremely strong argument can also be raised here (on the basis of normal human understanding and seemingly Godly-type compassion) to spare the infants and the animals of Amalek. Read on…we’ll soon get to what was afoot back then and afoot now.

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10) Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying, 11) It repenteth me [God expresses remorse here] that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the Lord all night. 12) And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal. 13) And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the Lord: I have performed the commandment of the Lord. 14) And Samuel said, What means then this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

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At this juncture King Saul is held accountable by the Prophet (for disobeying God’s orders to entirely eradicate all of Amalek.)

In his own self defense King Saul next attempts to justify his motives for his disobedience.

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15) And Saul said, They have brought them [the spared animals] from the Amalekites: for the people [King Saul’s soldiers] spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

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God did not request of King Saul to bring the animals of Amalek to be used as “sacrifices unto the Lord.” God wanted all Amalekite animals dead. Those were God’s specific orders. King Saul has just attempted to portray his disobedience to God as being driven by “piety.” King Saul double-thought God’s commandment and came up with supposedly a superior and supposedly a more “pious” plan B. But Samuel is not buying into this “pious” defense presented by King Saul and Samuel rapidly clears the air of Saul’s false “piety.”

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18) And the Lord sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.

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Yet again King Saul next attempts to defend his alleged and imagined “pious” innocence.

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20) And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and have gone the way which the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. 32) Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.

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Obedience to God is the Prime Axiom of Judaism. If one filters and changes a Command from God through the prism of human intellect (I.e. “better to spare the animals and use them as “Sacrifices unto the Lord”) one is not serving God. One, rather, has placed one’s personal understanding and imagined “superior Spiritual agenda” above absolute obedience to God. One is “spinning” God to one’s liking.

That was King Saul’s error. He rebelled, albeit in part, against his God- given mission. Under normal circumstances King Saul should have been praised for getting, let us say, 85% of the job done.

It is highly possible that King Saul’s compassion for animals also caused him to stray from absolute obedience to God. Compassion for the animals and the Amalekite King, Agag was not requested of Saul. To the contrary he was ordered to utterly destroy all. Saul disobeyed.

The lessons we learn from the above are plentiful:-

1) One’s compassion cannot be greater than God’s Infinite Compassion.

2) One’s understanding cannot be wiser than God’s Infinite Wisdom.

There is much more here than meets the eye. On the superficial, worldly level King Saul’s disobedience cost him and the Israelites dearly.

Because of delivering 85% of a 100% mission mandate God later punished King Saul. King Saul lost the Kingship…and it went to David. The Israelites were soon after devastated by the Philistines in battle and King Saul and his sons died in the process as punishment for Saul’s disobedience.. All because of the reluctance of King Saul to follow God’s orders 100%. That task seemed too harsh or inhumane to Saul‘s outlook on things. King Saul chose to temper Divine Anger via his much misguided human reasoning and imagined compassion…as we shall soon discover in a brief yet deeper analysis.

What was it about Amalek that so angered God to command a four sided war of utter destruction against Amalek? Did God know something about Amalek that King Saul was not privy to?

For our answer we need to dig deeper. Was Amalek just another hostile nation against the Jews? The answer is: “Not by a long shot.”

It is written in the book of Numbers, 24:20...

"Amalek is the first among the [Gentile] nations, and in the end he shall be destroyed." The opening phrase [to this passage] means that Amalek is the source and root of the Seven [evil] Nations [the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, and so on] - yet he is separate from them.

To spare you the long Chassidic Discourse that explains about Amalek found here…

http://www.sichosinenglish.org/books/reishis-goyim-amalek/02.htm

I will give now just its summary:-

Amalek is the Spiritual root of evil, itself. God wanted Amalek destroyed entirely in King Saul’s days. The very evil of the spiritual aspects of Amalek entered King Saul’s heart and mind…and that evil brought about the subsequent disobedience posing as King Saul’s alleged “higher insights, compassion and self-imagined morality and/or piety.”

In summary, King Saul’s disobedience prevented God’s plan for the entire eradication of utter evil at its Spiritual and physical Root in King Saul’s day. There was a window of opportunity that was missed and forfeited. That is why God was so severe in His punishment of King Saul‘s false “pious agenda” and his misguided compassion posing as “piety.”

Let me drive this home to all of you in clearer and no uncertain terms. Because of King Saul’s misguided “piety” Al Qaeda exists today. Saul’s misguided “piety” perpetuated evil and caused many deaths. For this leniency towards absolute evil was King Saul and his progeny killed by God. Saul’s “piety” cost his countrymen their blood. Saul’s self imagined compassion, piety and his outright reluctance to destroy entirely -as so ordered- resulted in God’s Wrath being sent against Saul, his sons and the Israelites.

From this narrative we readily see that one better be 100% sure and certain about one’s “piety.” False piety has literally deadly potential consequences.

The Talmud states that silence is tantamount to approval. Case in point:- If you witness evil and stay silent in its wake… then you are approving of that evil by your very silence. Justice demands that evil be protested and prosecuted by law or by war if needs be.

There is a lesson in this specific Talmud for all Americans today. The Arabic world has remained silent in the face of four Americans being Bar-B-Q’d a couple of weeks ago. Similarly…their silence regarding 9-11. So too regarding Israeli civilians being homicide bombed. So too regarding the beheading. This overwhelming pan-Arabic silence is a deafening statement. Across the globe this silence shouts out to humanity: “WE APPROVE!”

The point I am trying to make here is that the overwhelming vast majority of the Arabic world is winking at this evil. We have irrefutable evidence before us of silent Arabic approval of the beheading. A global anti-American and anti-Israel Arabic conspiracy is indeed afoot either by direct Arabic involvement or via silent approval. America is attempting to manage this by conventional war means. Weak economic sanctions were just put into force against Syria for its terrorism support. A gentlemanly “slap on the wrist” against a country that has shipped money and Jihadists to Iraq to kill American soldiers.

By Divine Providence America is the world’s superpower. It is my understanding and opinion that although America has not received a direct Command from God to eradicate the Arab world, its infants and animals…the failure of this administration to follow the nuclear option will have disastrous consequences for this country…as it did for King Saul and the Israelites. Why so?

Slowly but surely America is beginning to grasp the hard lessons learned by the citizens of Israel from endless floods of Jewish blood upon the soil of the Holy Land.

Know with a certainty that compassion for the seeming “innocents” amongst the Arab nations is misguided and false “piety.” The Laws of Judaism state that enemies with murderous intent at your borders must be pre-emptively killed. This Law supercedes specifically the Commandment “Thou shall not kill.” We are to live by the Bible not die by it. Eradicating our enemies is our duty not God’s.

Furthermore, we see from God’s commandment to King Saul to kill entirely even Amalek’s babies and animals… that U.S. “moral” consideration for these presumed and perceived “innocents” should not hinder America’s duty:- the total annihilation of Arabic incubated evil posing as “theology.” The overall Arabic silence against the outrages we have all seen no longer allows them to be classified as innocents. Their silence incriminates them. No question here.

The member I was emailing accused me of prejudice against the Arabic world for my views. He stated:-

“…your condemning all Arabs is pretty prejudicial. Akin to saying that all blacks are violent, all Mexicans are lazy, and all Jews are cheats. Or, to put it in perspective to a saying we have down South: "Southerners hate blacks as individuals. Yankees hate blacks as a race." I am a Southerner, and I take all as individuals. No group is evil, just the few who give the rest a bad name.”

Yet again the wiles of Amalek dons the cloak of seeming “morality.” King Saul’s error revisited and repackaged under the label of politically incorrect and forbidden alleged “prejudice.”

Applying this logic to King Saul’s days this same member would argue with God regarding Amalek’s entire elimination… claiming that only certain person’s in Amalek were giving Amalek a bad name. God knew otherwise.

The irony here would be comical were it not so tragic. The Talmud’s comment regarding silence in the face of evil being actually silent approval…speaks volumes. The enemy is beyond doubt pan-Arabic in dimensions. My position is not prejudice driven. It is empirical fact. I have no prejudice. I have reality contact.

I sincerely believe that America has yet to appreciate the magnitude of the enemy it faces. I am watching internal chaos rule the day here in the USA. A handful of America’s 135,000 military in Iraq humiliate some Iraqi prisoners. America immediately launches a national self-flagellation frenzy in response to pictures. Focus on achieving the war’s victory is now shifted to cleaning up the entire U.S. military of its less than 1/100th of 1 percent imperfections. American troop morale tanks. Score a big one for the terrorists. Momentum towards U.S. victory is lost.


What are we confronting here in actuality vis a vis UBL, other Islamists, Gulf Wars 1 and 2, and the pan-Arabic silence in the face of all of this? We are facing the greatest evil to ever raise its head in the history of humanity. We are facing Amalek in his final and most powerful manifestation and effort to topple Godliness in this world.

It is this Rabbi’s firm opinion that America needs to sober up fast from this “morally acceptable,” conventional, 3 sided war. Such being a “false piety” based war at the expense of the blood of its citizens at home and abroad.


How dare this country put emphasis on diplomacy and sanctions! They have already failed miserably. As I type these words more and more young Arabs enlist to die for Al Qaeda. Our borders are Swiss cheese. Amalek lives. He resides in the Arabic Nations. He also resides in our lack of resolve and focus to effectively take care of necessary business via an overwhelming display of nuclear power as was properly done by President Truman. President Truman ignored the pleadings of liberal opponents. He ignored morality claims. He ignored those presenting conventional war approaches. President Truman could not afford these luxuries of thought. He had a war to win to save the blood of his countrymen.

The reason this country was Divinely established as a superpower was to allow this superpower to destroy evil by any and all means at its disposal.

In a Prophetic prayer spoken circa 1991 Rabbi Schneerson stated:-

"...may G-d grant that country [America] success in its war against Basra [Iraq] and may we soon merit the fulfillment of the Prophecy, "Who is that coming in soiled garments from Basra?" with the coming of [the Final] Redemption."


From the above prayer I personally grasp that America’s needed defeat of Basra (a reference to present terrorism) is very much the same as King Saul‘s needed utter defeat of Amalek.

But tragically, like King Saul did…we are waging a 3 sided war.

Again the quote from one of our members:-

“Justice and vengeance are God's, whomever His instrument is He will empower to do, and do well.”

To whit I reply publicly: The USA is God’s empowered instrument. Now the matter is “Will we do and do well?”

The future existence of America literally hangs in the balance here.

In spite of the present war in Iraq terrorism is still growing faster than conventional war can eliminate it.

Do we wish to make King Saul’s fate our own?

Rabbi Moshe Yess