Rabbi Mordechai Kraft is one of my favorite speakers. He brings the connection between Satan and the Jewish nation. This is very consistent with the views of Rabbi Mendel Kessin that when the Jews fall, Satan absorbs our kedusha and gives power over to our enemies to destroy us. In his shiur, "Kabbalistic View of the Gaza Conflict", he demonstrates this relationship through gematria exercises that spell out Satan's name in various levels, versus our enemies in history, including Eichmann, y"s, Hitler, y"s, Sadam Hussein, y"s. He also points out that Satan is only doing the job that Hashem has appointed for him, which is simply, to bring the Jews to do teshuva. He also brings out the names of Yishmael's sons and interpret how each name is meant for the Jews to do teshuva.
Our long-time enemy, besides Amalek, is the Pelishtim, who lived in Gaza and continues to occupy Gaza. The gematria of their name "Peleshet", is also identical to Satan's, and their residence, Gaza, when spelled in full, also has an identical gematria to Satan's. So, basically, the message is when the Jews fall, the Satan is empowered to bring us to do teshuva through our worst enemies.
Our battle today is not with the Palestinians, they are simply the stick in which the Master uses to beat the dog. Our battle is with Satan. We have to return Kedushas Yisrael back into our hands, and in this way, we weaken the Satan, and our enemies will go away by themselves. The god of the Pelishtim, according to Rabbi Kraft, is the fly, which symbolizes licentiousness. The message is when the Jews exhibit this negative trait of licentiousness, Hashem empowers the nation whose symbol characterizes our misbehavior to suppress us. Our antidote is of course to be holy, to guard our bris and modesty. We don't have any other choice.
Source: Kabbalistic View of the Gaza Conflict
