to speak to the consciences of other settlers in what were euphemistically referred to as “The Colonies.”   The “times” of which he wrote were the events leading up to the American Revolutionary War by which freedom and independence were extracted from a despotic dictator completely out of touch with his settlers.

We Jews are facing a similar breakdown in the Land of Israel where a showdown of biblical proportions has been building since the very founding of the Zionist movement. Israeli citizens have finally had enough, thank G_d. They are taking to the streets by the tens of thousands to demand an end to the sell out. They are putting their bodies on the line to stop a corrupt government from giving Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah training camps and artillery fields from which rockets and mortars may be launched into major population centers just a few kilometers away. I, like many of you, am sick of the pathetic capitulations, the disrespect of the People and the Torah, the corruption of the government and the judiciary, and the lack of Jewish pride, identity, and self-respect.