For everyone who is wondering what the election results mean:
28 October 2026
Reb Neuberger: Vayeira - The Self-Destruction of Western Civilization
THE SELF-DESTRUCTION OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
My book, “2020 Vision” (Feldheim Publishers, 2008), opens with a powerful passage from the Malbim, which reads as follows:
“In the End of Days, after the Children of Israel have returned to their Land, the children of Yishmoel and the children of Esav will unite to attack Jerusalem. They will form a world coalition against the tiny nation of Israel. But something will go wrong with their plan. The religious beliefs of the children of Yishmoel and the children of Esav will clash, and the two nations will collide and destroy each other. This is what is referred to as the War of Gog and Magog. Following this cataclysmic conflict, the Final Redemption of the Jewish People will occur with the coming of Moshiach ben Dovid.” (The Malbim on Sefer Yechezkel 32:17)
In the book, a group of Jews escapes a burning America and manages to cross the Atlantic Ocean. When their ship lands in France, they find that Europe has become a battleground between Bnai Yishmael and Bnai Esav, exactly in accordance with the prophetic words of the Malbim.
My friends, look at today’s headlines! This exact scenario is being played out today in Europe, where violent demonstrations and the rising power of Yishmoel are destroying the culture of Edom!
This week’s Parsha tells us that “Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian … mocking [Yitzchak].” (Beraishis 21:9) Rashi explains: the word “mocking” refers to the three sins of avoda zara, illicit relations and murder. Then he goes further, quoting a Midrash which says that Yishmoel took Yitzchak to a field where Yishmoel “practiced” his archery with Yitzchak as his target! Yishmoel -- who is by nature almost incapable of telling the truth -- claims, “Surely, I was joking.” (Beraishis Rabbah)
This “joke” has come down through the generations as Yishmoel’s obsession with trying to kill the children of Yitzchak. Today the “arrows” of Yishmoel are called Ballistic Missiles, and they are aimed at us, the children of Yitzchak Avinu.
“Ma’ase avos siman l’banim … the actions of the forefathers are signs for the children!”
Mishpacha Magazine recently interviewed a convert from Islam, who recounted her childhood in Beirut, where every teenager, regardless of sex, is taught to take apart a gun and put it back together in a few seconds. This is the ancient “joke” of Yishmoel!
Yishmoel thinks he is about to conquer the world and destroy Esav, so that he will become the lone power on the world stage and fulfill his ancient dream of eliminating Yitzchak, G-d forbid.
But he does not understand. “Rabos machashavos … many plans are in man’s heart, but only the counsel of Hashem will prevail.” (Mishlei 19:21) Let’s review the words of the Malbim: “the children of Yishmoel and the children of Esav will clash, and the two nations will collide and destroy each other.”
Yishmoel wants to destroy Esav and seize total world power, but, in reality, the final battle of history is taking shape, in which Yishmoel and Esav will destroy each other. Upon the ruins of their battlefield the sun will rise on the new world of Moshiach ben Dovid.
Let’s not try to hold onto the world of Yishmoel-Esav. It is dying. “Do not fear, oh worm-weak Yaakov – the people of Israel -- for I shall be your help – the words of Hashem …. Behold, I have made you a new, sharp threshing tool with many blades. You shall thresh mountains and grind them small, and make the hills like chaff … and the wind will carry them, the storm will scatter them, but you will rejoice in Hashem … the Holy One of Israel!” (Haftaras Lech Lecha)
The former great civilizations are being pulverized and “the storm will scatter” their dust. My friends, we should not be afraid of the headlines. The Almighty G-d is ushering in a world filled with light, joy, truth and purity in which He will be One and His Name One! May we see it soon with our own eyes!
Yishmoel’s Arrow: “Just a Joke”
GLOSSARY
Bnai Esav: the Children of Esau, Western Civilization
Bnai Yishmoel: the Arab Nations
Hagar the Egyptian: mother of Yishmoel
Parsha: Torah portion of the week
Esser Agaroth: The Real Winners And Losers In Israel's Elections מי מנצח ומי מפסיד בבחירות
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YNET: Israel election results: Netanyahu bloc at 54 seats as Arab parties rise to 19
With 70.7% of votes counted, Likud leads with 27 seats while Eisenkot’s Yashar! slips to 20; the Joint List climbs to 13, strengthening the Arab parties’ position as their leaders signal willingness to help replace Netanyahu, with neither main bloc holding a majority
Esser Agaroth(2¢):
By 12:00 on election day, Israel was set to break voting records from over 50 years ago. Voters were out in droves. Projections were already telling us that the Arabs were voting, in spite of previous elections in which they had stayed home, either in protest or in apathy. They did not stay home this time around. Whereas it seems that a large segment of Haredim (ultra-orthodox) continued to stay home.
Currently, Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud party with its traditional allies As of now, the joint Hadash–Ta’al party list is picking up an unprecedented six more seats, for a total of 11. The United Arab List [Ra’am] is gaining at least one more seat, making its contingen six. The Arab parties stand to hold a never before 18 seats, 15 percent of the parliament of the “Jewish” state.
The conservative, Islamic Ra’am party was the first Arab party to be part of a ruling coalition of the Israeli. It was Naftali Bennett’s government with Yair Lapid in 2021. Before then Arab parties had only supported governments, such as Yitzchak Rabin’s, from outside of the coalition.
This election has been seen as a referendum on Netanyahu’s leadership, and its failures pre-, during, and post-October 7th, 2023, the now infamous date ofHamas’s invasion and massacre, of Jews, including rape, mutilation, and microwaving of Jewish babies.
Yet, Netanyahu has rightly stated...
“We must establish a strong national right-wing government,” he added, warning against a government dependent on Arab parties, which he accused of opposing Israel’s existence. (Fox News)
The Haredi party leadership needs to release their voters. If they really care about their constituents, and not just their own power base, they need to release their followers to vote freely. Granted they are concerned about preventing exactly what happened in this election, the wasting of votes on a new party. But this might not have happened, if they had released their voters.
About 20 years ago, a Belzer Hasid claimed to me that if their Rebbe had given his followers the freedom to vote as they pleased, then Baruch Marzel, a student of Rabbi Meir Kahane hy”d, would have succeeded in entering the Knesset.
The Sephardi Haredi, Shas Party, traditionally propped up by secular and traditional, non-Ashkenazy Jews, has been consistently losing seats, since its 1999 election showing of 17 seats. It is projected to receive only six seats this time. Its votes went elsewhere.
Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Otzmah Yehudit (Jewish Strength) and Betzalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionist parties stayed around the same. The only difference is that Moshe Feiglin will return to the government, thanks to his technical block agreement with Smotrich. So, where did all the votes go?
Clearly, even right of center Jews are fed up with Bibi, and have been running around, trying to figure out how to get him out of power, without simultaneously destroying the country.
Well, guess what. They did not succeed. If Netanyahu gets pushed out, they risk destroying the country, or going to elections again in the very near future.
As much as I dispise Naftali Bennett -- who has been invoking the buzz phrase “Jewish terrorism” -- may be the other winner besides the Arabs, and their parties. The question is, if it came down to the wire, would he join a Netanyahu government, or remain a “Never Netanyahu?” He holds the reins now. How will he play it?
And what will the Arabs do with their power? Will they join an Eisenkot government? If so, what will they get in return? A commitment to support a Palestinian state? Looking the other way from illegal Arab building? An even bigger crackdown on settlers than Bibi’s?
Well, we will have to wait and see. If a government is not successfully formed by someone, new elections may be called in just over three months from now.
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