My Loyalties are to The Holy Land, by Shoshanna Silcove

  My first loyalties are to Hashem, the Rebbe, the Holy Land and the Jews, and not to a state modelled after non-Jewish ideals and forms of government, not to a state that does not even include all of the Holy Land. This in no way implies I am not supportive of Israel's full and final victory. In fact, I feel many Israeli governments have not been strong enough in defense of the Holy Land, leading us to this horrifically weakened state.

The only true Jewish leaders are those with fear of Heaven and belief in Torah and mitzvos. Secular political leaders are not true Jewish leaders. They have political and military power, and they often do good and heroic things for Jews, but they are not true Jewish leaders we can fully trust.

All our trust and faith must be in leaders with a fear of Heaven, but foremost in Hashem, and we pray and ask Him to open the eyes of the politicians and generals who have tremendous responsibility and power in their hands, that they come to recognise Hashem and call out to Him for help and miracles. We pray that Hashem helps them to make the right decisions, and lead the Jews to full and final victory while protecting Jewish lives.

At this time of war I fully back Bibi and his Generals. May Hashem give them the moral courage needed to stand up to the nations' pressures against Israel's attaining a full and final victory. Hashem tells us what is moral. It is immoral to be concerned about the humanitarian suffering of one's enemies because, according to Torah, this puts our own soldiers in harm's way and causes more Israeli casualties. The moral war is the one fought quickly, without hesitation, to vanquish the enemy completely until they offer total surrender, and until that happens we have not won.