The Iran Conflict Explained - Rabbi Lazer Brody

[music] >> Is that a sham? Welcome to Amona News with your host laser Brody. Today's podcast is entitled the war of Amona and this is understanding the Iranian conflict. Well, to understand the conflict the current conflict with Iran, we have to examine recent history that a lot of people have forgotten. So let's go back 25 years to the Taliban war in Afghanistan that followed the Taliban destruction of Twin Towers in New York that the United States did not defeat the Taliban. US forces had a short-term success in ousting the Taliban regime from its control of Afghanistan in 2001. But the Taliban bounced back in a very resilient Insurgency that led to a 20-year bloody war with America lost 3,000 troops and spent nearly $1 trillion. But what did they get for those losses? Absolutely nothing. President Trump made a deal with the Taliban in 2020 and President Biden in 2021 honored that deal. Not only that, but he made a hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan that left a vacuum in power and there was a void that the Taliban quickly filled and ousted the Afghanistan the American puppet government in Afghanistan and they seized control. We ask ourselves, where did the Taliban get its strength from? That the United States military both in manpower and weapons had a tremendous advantage over the Taliban. But the Taliban had an ideological and belief commitment that was difficult to overcome. So what do we learn from this? We learn about dark side of Amona. Well, there's a common denominator common main denominator between Iran its proxies and the Taliban, Hezbollah, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis in Yemen that they all share this very intense dark side faith. And anyone who doesn't believe in their version of faith is subject to death and is considered an infidel and is open game because they believe in Jihad the holy war that eliminates infidels from the world and imposes their way of life on everyone. You either accept their way of life or be killed. And if you understand this point, then you can begin to understand what's happening in Gaza and in Lebanon and in Yemen and in Iran. Can we move up to November 26, 2024 where Prime Minister Netanyahu made a dramatic statement to the nation. Among other things, he promised victory against Hamas and he probably will achieve victory and he said and I quote, we will complete the task of obliterating Hamas. Well, that hasn't happened. Hamas now controls Gaza and it's back on its feet both militarily and monetarily and Hamas is far from disarmed as both Bibi and Trump promised that it would be. Well, Bibi also claimed that Hezbollah, its tunnels and its weaponry were also destroyed. Well, this very hour the red alert application on my computer is buzzing every 5 minutes with another missile attack or hostile aircraft infiltration from Hezbollah in Lebanon. Well, Hezbollah is also back on their feet and neither Lebanese government or the Lebanese military has any control over them. Well, just this morning President Trump declared that Iran's navy was totally destroyed and the reality on the ground is quite different or the reality in the sea. Even though Iran has lost its major vessels, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Navy which is known as the IRGC and see they still pose a threat. They utilize a form of maritime guerrilla warfare tactics with a large number of fast attack boats, small fast attack boats and explosive laden uh surface drones with the known as USVs and many submarines to harass commercial shipping and potentially cause more than a headache to the US Navy that is now blockading the Straits of Hormuz. Well, time will tell. But the fact is that Iran and its regime and the proxies are still on their feet. And now let's go back a 10 months ago to operation midnight hammer. After operation midnight hammer in June 25th when Trump ordered the bombing of the nuclear installations in Iran, he claimed that the United States totally obliterated the three nuclear sites in Iran and today we see that's not true. Although Iran's uranium enrichment program was affected that the sites in the country's nuclear ability were not completely destroyed and have since almost been rebuilt and they're even better concealed from attack. What's more, neither the midnight hammer nor the current conflict succeeded in removing the 400 grams of U-235 which is uranium enriched to 60% [clears throat] well on the way to the 90% required for a bomb. Doesn't take that much that the much time. So their nuclear program is still very much intact. What's the source of power here? We have to ask ourselves, where does Iran and its proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas and the Houthis, where do they get the power to survive against really powerful adversaries, the most powerful adversary in the world, the United States military together with Israel? Well, the answer is Amona. King Solomon teaches us that every power on Earth has an equal and opposite power. It's like a spiritual Newton's law. And if we look at Ecclesiastes chapter 7 verse 14, uh King Solomon says that this has been created and opposite this. In other words, and there is every power has an equal and opposite power. The same principle we see brought to the Zohar. Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai explains these two different sides, these two equal and opposite uh sides are the Sitra Kedusha and the Sitra Achra, the side of holiness and the side of faith. Now this is inherent in the creation of the world because without the equal opposite power, there is no free choice. The Moshe Chaim Luzzatto he or the Ramchal, he explains this in the way of Hashem that there can only be free choice where there is an equal balance of good and evil. So here we have the evil type of faith and the equivalent good type, holy type of faith. So now the dark side faith and the holy side faith. So just as with also the the dark side faith is also known as Sitra Achra, the other side. That's the other side, the opposite side of holiness. So a so-called faith that's dependent on violence and world domination and holy wars and forced observance, that's a dark side faith. The Ayatollah led regime in the Shiite Islamic Republic of Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood which is foundational to Hamas in Gaza, they all excel in this dark side of Amona and you can see that because they embrace martyrdom and teach their youth to aspire become Shaheedim, that's the martyrs. And sacrificing their lives for their faith. Now Hamas has an expression in Arabic. It says that the Israelis don't love life as much as they love death. So therefore on a scale from 1 to 100, you could rate their dark side of Amona as 95. Now this is very significant because the conclusion that we reach is profound. In order to defeat a 95 level dark side of Amona, you have to come up with at least a 96 level light side of Amona which that necessitates such a level of Amona that means uncompromising adherence to Hashem and to Hashem's Torah and his commandments. Now secular America and secular Israel are light years away from such Amona especially with their modern societies emphasis on hedonism and comfort zone. What to make things worse Israel's deep state has declared war on the very power that guarantees Israel divine compassion and that's the world of Torah and its scholars. Well, forget about American weaponry weaponry and high-tech sophistry and Israel has to in order to win have to have a mass return to Hashem which is Teshuvah. To to coming back to Hashem, coming back to his Torah and adopting full Amona and until they do, it's going to be continuation of one conflict after another just as we've seen there in Israel from every 2 years there's been another war with Gaza, something else and and we see even when we've been told that the Hezbollah has been destroyed, they sprout right back. It's just like a problem of an oncologist that it doesn't completely remove the cancer and it grows back even stronger and even more violent. So King David tells us that the sole reason that Hashem and not the Balfour Declaration and not the United Nations granted the Jewish people land of Israel was as it says it says it gives us in Psalm 105 and he says like this, King David says, he Hashem gave the land to of the nations. Calls Israel land of the nations. Israel didn't belong to the seven Canaanite nations. Why? So that the the Jewish people would uphold his statutes and observe his Torah. That is the reason we have the land of Israel. Not for some have some secular homeland or secular homeland Herzl was willing to go to uh Uganda there it somewhere else, he was even willing to to get their own land. He was even willing that to to give up Judaism all together. But no, this have to this is the holy land. This is the holy ground. And in order to hold on to it, in order to have a future here, it's all depends on Torah, all depends on emunah. So may Hashem open our hearts to emunah, and may we merit seeing the kingdom the house of David and a rebuilt holy city of Jerusalem with Mashiach speedily in our days. Amen. God bless. >> [music] [music]