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Very nice, but let's get context please. Comparative religion means checking Jewish eschatology against Christian eschatology. Last I checked, our Christian eschatology is that Christ (Messiah) will rule all governments and no government will exist that isn't part of his reign, which is almost exactly what the rabbis say too. The first video only makes one reference to the US, as ending when Messiah arrives, but it's not hard to find Christians who say the US will end when Messiah arrives too. My view is it will either be destroyed or it will be handed over peacefully to him, though when I was more premill dispie I was pretty confident of the former.
The second video does include one guy saying Is. 63:1 about Messiah coming from Edom means that the people Messiah is destroying will be Edom (it doesn't say that) and that Edom here means Christianity (it doesn't say that) because of a kabbalistic form of anagram, saying that Esau ('Esav to Ashkenazim) is the same as Yeshua. Well, the fact is that Esau is three letters and Yeshua is four, namely a yod plus the other three letters rearranged. So this kind of anagram while deleting one letter is about the weakest form of wordplay available to the kabbalists. It's neither stated theologically nor explicated rationally.
That is, the view that Messiah will crush Christian faith in Messiah is a fringe kabbalistic idea, and if this guy is actually a rabbi I'd love to know who he is and find out what he actually believes and put him on a list of actual Jewish testimonies about Jesus. Arab obscuring of sources doesn't help. It's not what Jews believe but is one fringe view that changes the main meaning of Isaiah that Jews do believe (about Messiah conquering the world partly from the Jordanian region). Once again, everyone quoted in both videos falls far short of the hype spoken around them. Nobody said "we Jews destroy Christianity" and what was actually said is so close to the destruction of statism that is lauded in Christian nationalism or reconstructionism that it's eminently ignorable.