A Letter of Thanks to Vox Day

NOTE: I finished drafting this letter the day before the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7th and posted it eleven days later.  The contents of the following letter are essentially unchanged.

This is a letter of thanks to Vox Day from a Zionist Jew who gave up a comfortable Diaspora life and sent himself back to Israel.

Seven years ago when I found your blog there was no pressing reason in my mind to leave Australia, as I had lived there since my teens.

Thanks in part to some bitter red pills from your writings, I came to the frightening and liberating conclusion: "I have to go back".

The Vaxx-free path to Israel was four gruelling years long, but eight months ago I made Aliyah with my wife and children.

The bureaucracies here are so needlessly hard to deal with that many Jews flee in frustration and despair; to preserve my sanity I treat them as a kind of faith-testing RPG.

Day-to-day living in Israel is undoubtedly harder and also jarring to Western sensibilities, so we maintain a strict budget and an open mind.

Our nation's future is uncertain: The Deep State seems to be in total control, except maybe in the Knesset, and openly pushes every conceivable Klown World perversion on us.

But, against the odds, Jews and Judaism are thriving; our birth rate is outstanding; more and more keep the Sabbath; leftism, atheism, and statism are in decline.

Besides, it took me 24 years to gather the courage to come back home, and for all its problems, Israel is a miraculous ethnostate still worth fighting for.

I don't know what the future holds for me, my family, or my country, but I believe God wants us here and I place my trust in Him. For your part in this, I thank you Vox Day.