But hear it I did, and I think it was on public radio to boot.

In discussing the eruption of the Icelandic volcano, the news moderator concluded by saying, "do you think Mother Nature is letting us know she's angry at us?"

People, people, people.

When are we going to get it?

And why, why, why hasn't the world gotten it yet?

I've been told by rabbis that we are not allowed to theorize or say the reason something seems to be happening, especially if that something is borne of 'natural' causes.

So I won't theorize, I'll just ask you.

Doesn't it seem obvious that the world's natural upheavals are an act of G-d?

For, after all, Judaism teaches that G-d is one, the sole orchestrator of the world's magnificent symphony. And so Mother Nature is one of the many vehicles that He uses to reveal His miracles.

So doesn't anyone out there wonder if perhaps G-d may be expressing His displeasure with us for messing with the Holy Land?

After all, G-d told us the parameters of the Land He gave to us and, after all, this is not some plan cooked up by the current Israeli administration, nor by the founders of the state 62 years ago, nor by the victors in the defensive battle that came to be known as the Six Day War.

This map of the Holy Land, these parameters, these boundaries, have been known for more than 5,700 years. Not 2,010 years, but 5,700 years.

We've been around for a long time. And we've been there, in our sacred, precious Land for a long time. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Sarah, Rivka, Leah and Rachel, Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Tarphon, and Sports Illustrated model Bar Rafaeli, and lots and lots of us in between.

And despite our very rich, incredible history, the students of history appear not to have learned its lessons.

What we are doing with Iran reminds me of when a relative used to mock my fears of our dark, dank basement, and open the cellar door and call down, "yoo hoo, burglars, she's coming in."

Once again the powers that be are making the same mistake with Iran that their much maligned predecessors made with Saddam Hussein for way too long before finally attacking Iraq in 2003.

While the world dances around talking about sanctions against Iran, the smirking Mr. Ahmedinejad has unflinchingly, continuously deflected all overtures for dialogue, and instead, has steadfastly continued to take steps toward building a nuclear weapon.

And concomitantly, there has been little outcry at Syria's supplying Hezbollah in the north and Hamas in Gaza in the south.

Ostensibly, the appointment of Robert Ford as U.S. ambassador to Syria was recently done to help curb the tide of the dispersement of armaments, but it certainly seems to be too little, too late.

So, too, the summoning of Syrian ambassador Imad Mustafa to the State Department and the figurative slap on the wrist he received.

Any mention of enforcing the law regarding violation of UN Resolution 1701 which stipulates that there will be no weapons or authority in Lebanon other than that of the Lebanese state...?

Any mention of the brigade of arms trucks moving non-stop for the past three and a half years between Syria and Lebanon, bringing Syrian and Iranian weaponry to Hezbollah in Lebanon? And this time the arsenal includes Scuds and surface to air missiles which would impede Israeli military aircraft.

So, yes, sure, it makes a whole lot of sense to give the West Bank to the Palestinians, (instead of expecting the peace loving King of Jordan to receive his own brethren, since many Palestinians are actually from Jordan) because then we're only surrounded on three sides by seething masses of people who simply do not want Jews and Israel to exist.

While the fourth side is relentlessly under attack as terrorists infiltrate from the Mediterranean Sea.

Suicide is prohibited in the Bible.

Yes, so let's keep bowing to the Arab world and let's keep not so secretly hog-tying the leaders in Jerusalem, preventing them from again defending not only Israel, but the entire world from disaster.

And then let's act shocked and dismayed when Israel makes moves to preserve the integrity of her own capital.

As Israel's Minister of Strategic Affairs Moshe Ya'alon recently commented, "if we are talking about cooperation and peace, why do the (Palestinians) want the territory they receive to be ethnically cleansed of Jews? Why do those areas have to be Judenrein? Don't Arabs live here in the Negev, in the Galilee? Why isn't that part of our public discussion? Why doesn't that scream to the heavens?"

Ya'alon stressed that 'no settlements' should be removed and that the country's previous withdrawals from Lebanon and from Gaza strengthened Hezbollah and Hamas respectively. "That is opposed to our strategic interests and the strategic interests of the West," he said.

"We disengaged politically from Judea and Samaria and physically from Gaza," he told the Jerusalem Post. "The policy of the Netanyahu government is that we don't want to rule over them (the Palestinians) but not ruling over them does not mean we have to withdraw to the 1967 borders, which are indefensible borders; or that we have to divide Jerusalem in order to bring Hamas snipers into Jerusalem.

"Those who want to continue the Oslo process, who want us to continue to give and give and give, without a Palestinian willingness to recognize our right to a national home, are cooperating with the phased plan for Israel's destruction."

In Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Yom Ha'atzmaut message to his Cabinet, he cited Theodor Herzl, who helped to found the state, saying, "he took a dispersed and powerless people and motivated them to gather in return to their country to re-establish its sovereignty and its creative power.

"Herzl foresaw the evil; he understood what was going to happen in Europe... he wrote repeatedly about the catastrophe that would come. He believed that the emigration of Jews to their country and the building up of their country ... was the order of the day, an order to rescue the Jewish People and an order for them to flourish anew. He saw no contradiction here - rejecting the bad and building up the good.

"I think that it is important that every boy and girl In Israel (and all over the world) know about the father of our country...

"On June 11, 1901, Herzl said, 'Do not rely on the help of foreigners nor on that of benefactors; do not hope that stones will become soft. Because benefactors give humiliating donations at most and stones do not soften. A people that wants to stand upright must put all its trust in itself alone."

Or rather, put all our trust in G-d alone.

For He is the one that made us members of a holy nation, wherever we may be at this moment.

We are one nation. We yearningly, hopefully say at the Passover seder, at the conclusion of Yom Kippur prayers, and in so many of our private and public prayers-we beg the one G-d for the awesome privilege to return to live in the one Land that G-d gave to us and to have the sublime joy to continue to perform mitzvot, conduits of connection with the Holy One, as lovingly commanded in the one Torah of the holy nation of Israel.

And as we utter each time we say the Aleinu prayer, "on that day He will be one and His name will be one."

The Torah of Israel, G-d's gift to us of the blueprint for the world, embodied by the people of Israel, each and every one of us, in the Land of Israel.

And until that happens, and as long as politicians who blindly fail to see the truth, politicians who just don't get it, chastise our unbelievably courageous and wise leaders or try to impose cerebral so-called "plans for peace," we better duck and cover.

Is it earthquakes, floods, forest fires, record blizzards in Washington D.C., or volcanoes erupting all over the EU ...?

Like it says in the TV commercial, "it's not nice to fool with Mother Nature."

And it's far, far more foolhardy to mess with Mother Nature's, and our, loving Creator.