Never Again Means Total Victory
Yom HaShoah 2026.
“Never Again.”
We say it every year. We teach it in schools. We build museums. We light candles. We cry over the six million.
But after October 7th, we must finally admit the painful truth: Holocaust education does not prevent “Never Again.” It didn’t prevent October 7th, and it didn’t stop the immediate tidal wave of Jew-hating antisemitism that erupted in its wake, fueled by the massacre of Jews that day.
A strong Israeli army does not prevent “Never Again.” And the very existence of the Jewish State of Israel does not prevent “Never Again.”
Jew-hatred has existed for thousands of years and will continue to exist. As we say every Passover Seder: “In every generation they rise up to annihilate us.” The enemies change names—Egyptians, Babylonians, Romans, Nazis, jihadi Muslims, all those who self identify as “Palestinians,” but the Jew-hatred remains the same.
The only thing that can prevent “Never Again” is the Jewish people listening to exactly what God told us, walk in His ways, and remove evil from His holy land.
That is the real lesson of the Holocaust and of October 7th.
On October 7th, Hamas, backed by the broader jihadi population that celebrated the massacre, slaughtered 1,200 Jews, raped women, burned babies alive, and took hostages in the most barbaric way since the Holocaust. They did it from Gaza. They did it with the open support of the Palestinian Authority, the jihadi population in Judea and Samaria, and enabled by decades of international support and funding.
Yet many in Israel and the world still refuse to call this enemy by its true name: a population with parents and internationally funded textbooks that educates its children to kill Jews, encourages them to massacre children, babies, the elderly etc. is a modern-day Amalek.
The Torah does not tell us to coexist with Amalek. It commands us to blot it out completely from God’s holy land. That is not extremism, it is divine wisdom for Jewish survival.
“Never Again” can only be achieved through total victory in this war, the kind of victory that speaks in the only language jihadi Muslims understand: decisive defeat and loss of land.
That means:
- Full Israeli sovereignty over Gaza, Judea, Samaria, southern Lebanon (at least to the Litani River), and southern Syria.
- Complete removal of the evil jihadi population that supports killing Jews and destroying Israel from all those areas.
- Resettling these liberated biblical lands with proud Jewish communities.
Only when every place from which they attacked us becomes Jewish land, without any jihadi population left to threaten us, will Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, and the rest of the jihadi Muslim world internalize that it does not pay to attack the Jews. And if any of our them ever decide to attack us, they too will lose land.
Israel is not looking to expand for the sake of creating “Greater Israel.” But if we are attacked, expansion and the permanent loss of territory for the aggressor is the only response that provides real deterrence in the language that jihadi Muslims understand.
Anything less is not “Never Again.” It is “Maybe Next Time.”
God is giving us this moment on a silver platter. The miracles we have seen in this war, the advances of the IDF, the protection of our soldiers, the ingathering of Jews even under fire, are not random. They are the hand of God moving history toward redemption, just as the Maharal explained in his commentary on the Haggadah.
We were not brought back to this land to manage conflict or to coexist with those who want us dead. We were brought back to sanctify God’s name, spread goodness, morality and Godliness by also ridding His holy land of evil once and for all.
This Yom HaShoah, let us move beyond tears and slogans.
Let “Never Again” finally mean what it must mean: Total victory. Full sovereignty. Jewish settlement on every inch of the land from which our enemies attacked us.
Only then will we truly prevent the next Holocaust.
Only then will we fulfill our divine purpose.
Am Yisrael Chai!!!
May the memory of all our murdered brothers and sisters, from the Holocaust to October 7th and every terror attack in between, be a blessing.
And may we have the courage this year to do what must be done so that “Never Again” becomes reality, not just a prayer.