Category Archives: Israel Defense Forces

By Robert J. Avrech | February 5, 2014

Mona Liza — an Arab Christian and Israeli Soldier — Would Sacrifice Her Life for Israel

Tweet The Democrat party, via ObamaCare, is shredding the greatest health care system the world has ever known. In an interview with Bill O’Reilly, Obama revealed himself as a serial liar and immature kvetch who blames Fox News for his countless failures. Meanwhile, John Kerry, Obama’s secretary of state, whose primary talent is marrying immensely […]

Also posted in Arab Christian Israelis, IRS, Israel, Obama Watch, Obamacare | Tagged Arab Christians in the IDF, Bill O'Reilly, Democrat Party, Fox News, John Kerry, Mona Liza Abdo | 6 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 25, 2013

Obama Plays Knock Out The Jew

Tweet For the past several months, roving bands of black thugs have been assaulting Jews by punching them in the face. It’s called Knock Out the Jew. It’s a game. Presumably, the moron who knocks out the most Jews is the winner. Most of the assaults have taken place in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, which is […]

Also posted in Iran, Islam, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Israel, Jew-haters, Obama Watch | Tagged European Jew-Hatred, Jeremiah Wright, Knock Out the Jew | 22 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 3, 2013

“Like Dreamers” Yossi Klein Halevi’s Masterful Book About The Soul of Modern Israel

Tweet There was a time when Seraphic Secret was afraid of Yossi Klein Halevi. Flashback: High School. The mid-sixties. Brooklyn Talmudical Academy. Seraphic Secret was a less than enthusiastic student who was forever cutting classes in order to go to the movies and acquire the education I really wanted. Yossi Klein Halevi was one […]

Also posted in Book Reviews, Books, Israel, Jerusalem | Tagged Udi Adiv, War and Peace, Yoel Bin-Nun, Yossi Klein Halevi | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 2, 2013

The Shadow Iranian Commander

Tweet Currently, the American media is focused on the partial Obama government shutdown, and Obamacare. Look, the government shuts down every weekend and the world does not come to an end. Obamacare is a disaster, and it will continue to degrade medical care in America—except for the elites who have exempted themselves from this infamous […]

Also posted in Iran, IslamoNazis, Israel, Obama Watch, Obamacare | Tagged Dexter Filkins, Qassem Suleimani, Quds Force | 4 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | September 23, 2013

The IDF Units Who Will Play Key Role In Future Iran Strike

Tweet The only positive outcome of Obama’s disastrous handling of the Syrian portfolio is a new and unshakable confirmation in Israel — as well as in Great Britain, Japan, Poland, Honduras and Mexico — that Obama is a deeply unreliable ally. As Iran’s charm offensive moves forward, it has become clear that Obama is desperate for any […]

Also posted in Barack Hussein Obama, Iran, IslamoNazis, Israel, Obama Watch | Tagged American Foreign Policy, Electronic Warfare, Great Britain, Honduras, Japan, Jerusalem Post, Mexico, Russia, Syria, WMDs | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | August 27, 2013

Syria, Poison Gas, Israel, America, and Awesome Obama Guppiness

Tweet The United States is in a difficult position. We understand that intervention in the Arab Muslim world is a thankless task that inevitably leads to further hatred of America and fixes absolutely nothing. Nothing can be fixed in the Arab Muslim world because the countries there have no sense of personal responsibility. The sectarian […]

Also posted in Islam, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Israel, Jihad Watch, Obama Watch, Syria, Unit 8200 | Tagged American Intervention, Bashar el-Assad, Bret Stephens, John Wilkes Booth, Muslim Brotherhood, Poison Gas, Targeting Assad | 18 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | March 31, 2013

A 21st Century Exodus from Egypt to Israel

Tweet Tonight begins the last two day of Passover in which the Jewish people celebrate their liberation from Egyptian slavery. The IDF recently published an amazing story about Dina Ovadia, an Egyptian Jew, whose narrative is a modern Passover story. This isn’t Cpl. Dina Ovadia’s first Passover in Israel. Slowly, slowly she seems to be […]

Also posted in Egypt, Israel, Passover | Tagged Alexandria, Dina Ovadia, Rolin Abdallah | 17 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | March 3, 2013

Jewish + Black = Miss Israel

Tweet One of the up sides of being a religious Zionist is having an excuse to post photos of beautiful Jewish women. From JTA Yityish Aynaw, a former Israeli army officer, became the first Ethiopian-Israeli to win the Miss Israel pageant.

Also posted in Israel | Tagged Beauty Contests, Ethiopian Jews, Jewish Women, Yityish Aynaw | 13 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | February 5, 2013

Bombing the Syrian Reactor: The Untold Story

Tweet Commentary has just published a fascinating excerpt from Elliot Abrams’ new book, Tested by Zion: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, a memoir of his service at the National Security Council from 2001 to 2009. There are several valuable take-a-ways from this excerpt, but for Seraphic Secret, the most important is the author’s […]

Also posted in Islamic Terror, Israel, North Korea, Syria | Tagged America and Israel, Ehud Olmert, Elliot Abrams, George Bush, Tested by Zion | 5 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 30, 2013

Israel Faces Chemical Islam — The Screenplay

Tweet Wide Angle Shots: American liberal-progressives move to disarm law-abiding American citizens. Barack Obama’s vision of a degraded American military gains traction among the elites. America supports the Muslim Brotherhood, a proudly Jew-hating, America-hating, genocidal-yearning gang of Islamic theocrat fascists. Intertitle: Somebody has to take the lead in the fight against the rising tide of […]

Also posted in Islamic Terror, Israel, Muslim Brotherhood, Obama Watch, Screenwriting, Second Amendment | Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Chemical Weapons | 6 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 28, 2013

Five Most Hardcore Female Combat Roles

Tweet It would be a great temptation to use the role of women in the IDF as a template for America’s armed forces — which have been ordered to integrate women into combat units. I think the comparison has notable weaknesses. Israel is a tiny country, the size of New Jersey, with a tiny population. […]

Also posted in Israel | Tagged 76th Battalion Combat Engineers, Carcal Battalion, Females in Uniform, IAF, Oketz K-9 Unit, Snapir Unit | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 16, 2012

Girls With Guns

Tweet In the wake of the atrocity last week at Sandy Hook elementary school, we are, once again, beng lectured by statist utopians that the problem is guns, that America is steeped in a culture of violence, that free citizens need to hand over more control to government agencies. The truths are simple and stark: […]

Also posted in Gun Control, Israel | Tagged Baltimore, Caracal Battalion, Coed Combat, Risa Kelemer, Sandy Hook Elementary School | 40 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 3, 2012

The Drones Done Did It

Tweet Seraphic Secret has just returned from a four-day trip to Israel, where we attended our niece Ariella’s wedding. We then spent a lovely and peaceful Shabbat with beloved cousins in Mitzpe Netofa, a yishuv in the upper Galilee. We are beyond jet-lagged. In fact, semi-comatose. But before collapsing in a cranky heap, we’d like […]

Also posted in Hamas, Islamic Terror, Israel, Operation Pillar of Defense | Tagged Amud Anana, Drones, Future of warfare, Heron TP Drone | 37 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 20, 2012

Operation Pillar of Defense, Day Seven: Hey, Maybe the Ethnic Cleansing of Jews from Gaza Wasn’t Such a Bright Idea

Tweet A few days ago, Seraphic Secret recalled a conversation about Gaza with an American-Israeli leftist who supported the expulsion, all in the name of rainbows and unicorns. Of course, it was not only the left who advocated expelling 8,000 Jews from Gaza in a gesture of land for peace. There were those on the […]

Also posted in Gaza, Hamas, Islamic Terror, Israel, Operation Pillar of Defense | Tagged Bret Stephens, Ethnic Cleansing, Israeli Left | 20 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 16, 2012

Operation Pillar of Defense: Massacre in the City of Angels

Tweet Update: There are Arab Muslim protests/riots in Egypt, and Judea and Samaria over, ahem, “Palestinian blood.” Let’s see, so far there have been maybe 8 casualties in Gaza. How many were civilians and how many were terrorists is not clear. But over 30,000 people, men, women and children have been murdered in Syria — […]

Also posted in Gaza, Islamic Terror, Israel, Operation Pillar of Defense | Tagged Ahron Smadga, IslamoNazis, Kiryat Malachi, Miriam Scharf, Yitzchak Amselam | 5 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 15, 2012

Operation Amud Anan AKA Pillar of Defense

Tweet Israel’s current operation against the Islamic terrorists in Gaza — Hamas and affiliates, supported and financed by Iran — has been translated into English as “Operation Pillar of Defense.” This is a poetic translation which fails to convey the true meaning and purpose of Israel’s military operation. The original Hebrew is, עמוד ענן, “Amud […]

Also posted in Barack Hussein Obama, Gaza, Islamic Terror, Israel, Operation Pillar of Defense | Tagged Amud Anan, Muqata, Pillar of Defense, Rashi | 5 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | September 4, 2012

Obama Proposes Secret Deal With Iran

Tweet The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reports that the Obama Administration has sent a secret message to Iran through two European nations that the United States will not back or support an Israeli strike on Iran as long as Iran refrains from attacking U.S. interests in the Persian Gulf. In short, Obama is trying to […]

Also posted in 2012 Election, Iran, Israel, Obama Watch | Tagged Appeasement, Joint U.S.-Israeli Military Exercise, Martin Dempsey, Oil, Persian Gulf | 12 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 8, 2012

Rescue at Entebbe: An Interview With the Chief Pilot

Tweet From the IDF blog: Brig. Gen. (res.) Joshua Shani was the lead pilot in Operation Entebbe, flying the first C-130 Hercules cargo plane with the entire rescue force on board. This week, for the 36th anniversary of the rescue operation on July 4th, he agreed to answer a few questions.

Also posted in Entebbe, Israel | Tagged Israeli Air Force, Joshua Shani, Raid on Entebbe | 6 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 18, 2012

Egypt: And Now It Begins

Tweet The mainstream media invented a feel-good narrative called The Arab Spring. In this soft-focus tale, a multitude of young, freedom-loving tweeters, fed up with the fossilized Arab regimes, were bravely ushering in Jeffersonian democracy. Seraphic Secret, along with other bloggers and writers who actually understand the Middle East, warned that the aspiring Arab Muslim […]

Also posted in Egypt, Hamas, Islamic Terror, Israel, Muslim Brotherhood | Tagged Arab Spring, Barry Rubin, Salafists, Sinai | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 13, 2012

YAMAS – Israel’s Special Counter Terrorist Unit

Tweet Yamas (Hebrew: יחידת המסתערבים‎, Yehidat HaMista’arvim) is an undercover special operations unit attached to the Israeli Border Police (Magav). YAMAS is one of the most elite counter-terror units in the world. The primary work of Yamas is intelligence gathering and surveillance in order to target and eliminate mortal threats. The host of the show, […]

Also posted in Counterterrorism, Israel, War, Weapons | Tagged Chris Ryan, Magav, SAS, YAMAS | 6 Responses

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I'm an Emmy Award winning screenwriter. I'm also an observant Jew, a religious Zionist, a conservative Republican, and a member of the NRA. I've been writing and producing in Hollywood for over twenty-five years. But the focus of my life is my family: my radiant wife, Karen—with whom I have been in love with since I was nine years-old—and my two daughters, who, thankfully, look like Karen. Not too long ago, we had three children. But our son, Ariel, died at the age of twenty-two from cancer. We miss him terribly. We think about him practically every minute of every day. People tell us that time heals, but Karen and I know this is not true. Time grinds away doing its terrible work. Ariel is gone. Yet absence becomes presence.

Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
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Memorial Lectures
Young Israel of Century City

Tenth: June 9, 2013
David Horowitz: "The War Against Judaism on the University Campus." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 16MB)

Ninth: June 3, 2012
Joel B. Pollak: "The Mainstream Media's Betrayal of Israel." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 15MB)

Eighth: June 5, 2011
Yossi Klein Halevi: "What is Expected of a Survivor People: Lessons My Father Taught Me." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 18MB)

Seventh: June 13, 2010
Dennis Prager: "Happiness is a Mitzvah, Not an Emotion." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 80MB)

Sixth: June 21, 2009
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky: "Conformity in Jewish Life: Vice, Virtue or Affectation?" Blog Post | Audio (mp3 64MB)

Fifth: June 15, 2008
Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl: "What Was the Rosh Yeshiva Reading: Intellectual Openness in 19th Century Lithuania." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 70MB)
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