It is obscene to present Jews as spotless behind-the-glass moral creatures. God took us for his people despite our many shortcomings. To him, every one of us is immensely more important than all the dead Palestinians or Egyptians. Jewish demands of meat during Exodus or non-kosher restaurants in modern Israel are immeasurably more shocking than the bombings of all the UN installations combined. The moralists presume Gentiles to be more righteous than God: we Jews should look before them better than we are, better than we were when God took us for his people.

Jewish liberals want to assimilate, but not to become normal in the sense of acting like other nations do. Think of it: if an American Jew wants to assimilate, would not it be natural for him to ask that Israel wage her wars like Americans do? Instead, we’re asked to be suicidally humane. Here lies the answer: liberal Jews do not want assimilation, they sense that despite all of their efforts they remain distinct from Gentiles. Instead, they want Jewish national suicide, to kill the very entity which makes them uncomfortably different. That’s why, of all countries, they marched against Israel and Jew-friendly apartheid South Africa; no Jewish organization marched against Pol Pot. Jewish liberals are anti-Jewish rather than pro-anyone.

But I’m ready to jump on their logic. Jews are indeed normal people, a nation like any other; our only difference is transcendental. Jews must grab the land for their state just like every other nation did instead of agonizing over the natives’ rights. Indeed, the Torah explicitly sanctions our conquests—and no, we do not need a righteous king for that. Some very unrighteous kings of Israel and Judea conducted some very successful military campaigns. It is enough that our aim is righteous, to establish a viable Jewish state.

Liberals love the word shalom and use it as a proof of Jewish peacefulness. There is a surprise in store for them. Shalom does not mean peace, but fullness. It is related to shalal, loot. The idea of peace is alien to the Tanakh: Jews went to war over trivial issues; indeed, it is required to fight over hay if an enemy demands it. Rather, shalom is an ideal of achieving religious and material fullness.

Peace with some Arabs who happen to migrate to the Land of Israel is not a legitimate consideration. Nor is it sensible. Sephardi Jews are much more different from Ashkenazis than the West Bank Arabs are from their Syrian brethren. If “Palestinians” are entitled to a state, why are Sephardis not? Russian Jews are still more distinct—should we have a third Jewish state for them, too? Arabs have twenty-one states, Muslims—fifty-two; do they desperately need a Levantine statelet? There is no desire for justice here, but a basic desire to extinguish the Jewish state. “Palestine” must be Judenrein—all Jewish settlers must go, yet Israel must accept a third of its population Arab. Palestinian sovereignty over a handful of villages becomes more important than a defensible border for Jewish state. We did not attack the Arabs, they attacked us. Wouldn’t it be just to allocate Israel defensible borders and at least a token depth of defense? Americans trust God for their banknotes; could we trust him when he promised us defensible borders from Suez to the Red Sea, and from the Mediterranean to Iraq?

Rabbi Meir Kahane often repeated that all the Arabs in the world are not worth a fingernail of one Jewish child. This saying of his was well within halacha. Theology and nationalism deal in absolutes: to God and themselves, Jews are absolutely more important than their enemies. It’s not that N Jews are more valuable than M Arabs, but less valuable that 1,000*M of them. Theologically, we are entitled to kill the largest number of Arabs to save the smallest number of Jews. Secular nations think likewise: in WWII, the Allied commanders sought to kill as many Germans as possible and to save the American soldiers’ lives whatever the concomitant losses among the Nazis. Jews need not be ashamed of practicing the most human of all human traits: killing enemies, in the widest sense and in the largest numbers, is far preferable to dying or endangering your own people. And more than that, it just feels great to see your enemies dead.

As King David remarked, the righteous should wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.