Gog U’Magog

Lebanon has no interest in joining this war. It’s Hezbollah. Syria has always been aligned with the Iranian regime. As much as Turkey has been praising Hamas, it was reported that Turkey asked Iran not to escalate the conflict. Russia is way too focused on its war in Ukraine to get involved. Really no leader in the Middle East wants this to escalate besides Iran.

You much be young. From roughly 1947 until 1991, the United States (and the world) was always within 15 minutes of sudden death (time for a rocket to appear on radar until explosion of the warhead). Both the United States and the Soviet Union (a earlier version of Russia, but much worse) kept a large number of bombers in the air ready to destroy any survivors of the first barrage of ICBMs. Many thought that 1991 was the “end of history” and the world was entering an era of peace, democracy and prosperity – we were mistaken. World wars are not pleasant, but they aren’t “Gog u-Magog”. If you are worried spend less time on the internet, and more time doing something useful. Based on past experiences of our community, Torah and Mitsvos get better results than worrying about what Biden, Trump, Putin, Xi, not to mention Bibi, are up to.

Its bad enough when some jerk in EY talks about “nuking Gaza”…..Its even worse, when ostensibly intelligent yidden in the CR normalize that type of Trumpian (“I’ve got a bigger button than you”) rhetoric in response to a real existential threat. If EY were to use nukes, it would go down in flames with the rest of the Middle East. (And yes, at that point the Ravens become irrelevant).