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They.MUST.GO!

They Must Go was written in 1980 while Rabbi Meir Kahane was jailed in Ramle Prison by the Israeli government under an unprecedented administrative detention order that imprisoned him without a trial, without his being informed of any specific charge, and without opportunity to know or to question any alleged evidence or witness. His crime: his philosophy concerning the danger that exists to the state of Israel by the very presence of its large and growing Arab population.

If only we had listened then. Moshe Feiglin, candidate of the Zehut political party in Israel talked about the same thing, relocating the arabs out of Israel into other Arab speaking Muslim countries. Zehut was established in 2015.

Zehut opposes the creation of a Palestinian state. Feglin claims, “there’s no demographic problem anymore. Jewish women are having more children than the Arabs. There’s going to be a Jewish majority of 80 percent between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River in less than 15 years.” He also believes most Palestinians will leave if given incentives to do so.

If only we had listened then. But there was the outcry from the antisemitic left, and those that think the middle east is like the midwest in America. It’s not. The ethnic cleansing cries only come out when it’s directed against Jews, or farmers in South Africa.

They are not like us, not in any sense of the word perhaps other than being carbon based life forms and even that may be stretching it.

As the hostages have been released Hamass has been holding ceremonies to humiliate them as they turn them over to the Red Cross uber service. Interesting, to me, side note. I heard an ad on the radio the other day from the Red Cross uber company, asking for money to help the people of California who will vote only for people that will mismanage their state. I don’t remember Red Uber asking for money to help North Carolina….NEVER give money to Red Cross.

At these ceremonies hostages have been given loot bags, been forced to smile and wave and one was forced to kiss his the forehead of his captor. These hostages have been kept in horrific conditions for around 500+ days now.

I might also point out that the American J6 hostages were kept in horrific conditions by the terrorist organizations in DC. I hope that will be investigated as well.

Hostages

They were kept in dark tunnels and in private homes, they were hidden in hospitals and some are held in other countries. I suspect by Steve Witkoff’s friends the Qataris. He sure gave the Hamass a sweetheart deal, didn’t he? They were kept without food, water and basic medical care. A young girl who was shot at the Nova music festival was operated on by a Veterinarian without anesthesia. I’m sure I needn’t add a lot of details to some of the atrocities they suffered. When the hostages were paraded out to Red Uber they looked horrible, gaunt, trying to smile bravely as demanded by the sub-humans that had held them captive. President Trump along with much of the world seems to have been horrified.

You know who isn’t horrified? Hamass. The denizens of Gaza show up in the hundreds to enjoy the show. The women handed out sweets and the children were shown the brave hamass soldiers who have now found their uniforms after having to wear civilian clothing while the IDF was in the area. It’s a big celebration. Hamass is still in Gaza, they’re still armed, all that starvation in Gaza is rather suspect seeing some of the well stocked markets and people shopping. Now yes, I’m sure there was a lot of theft of the mountain of relief supplies by hamass that were foolishly sent into Gaza. Does it trouble me? No, not really. More honestly? Not at all.

Next gen terrorists in the making

As many of the returned hostages have said, if there are 2 million people in Gaza, there are two million terrorists. Men, women and children, they are all terrorists.

The gentler sex of Hamass

As Howie Silbiger pointed out in his most recent show, The Hamas Horror Show, there were no “innocent Gazans”.

Hundreds of Gazans, men and women the trusting people of the nearby Kibbutzim had tried to help, had taken to doctors appointments, given food and jobs flooded across the border for the 10 grand apiece that hamass promised to pay them for Jews. Living or dead, didn’t matter. Because the sub-humans knew they could ransom the bodies back as well. So they grabbed anything. They also as discussed previously, murdered and tortured anything that struck their fancy. Of the Falestinians who entered Israel on 7 October, 70% were civilians.

Perhaps one of the most heart wrenching sights has been the return of the bodies of the Bibas children 9-month-old baby, Kfir, and his brother 4 year old Ariel.

The Bibas family

They were abducted with their Mother Shiri after the Gazans had killed Shiri’s parents and their dog. Their father was also abducted by Hamass and just a week or so ago he was returned alive, though very gaunt. The little coffins were paraded with great joy and victory through the celebrations of the brave hamass fighters that killed a 9 month old and a 4 year old. I’m not actually sure you can picture what this was like. Four corpses were sent back, one infant and one little boy, and elderly 83 year old man who with his wife had been a peace activist for the Arabs doing everything they could to help them. They killed them all. The fourth body was not that of the little boys mother Shiri as promised, it was some unknown Gazan woman. More on that later. The black coffins were locked, and the innocent Gazans the left around the world is so worried about gave the Israelis keys that didn’t work, and the coffins were filled with propaganda. They probably got it from Harvard. Maybe U of Penn, who knows?

But this is what the spectacle looked like, click on the link to play it. 

gazans

The lying hamass tried to say the Bibas family were killed in an Israeli air strike and the bones might have gotten mixed up. Israel demanded the return of Shiri and suddenly the bones sorted themselves and they gave back the correct body. But they told the air strike story for another reason. The little boys were murdered. They were strangled by the arabs, either denizens or Gaza or Hamass. One in the same. Then their little bodies were battered with bricks and stones to make it look like an air strike. At least I hope it happened in that order. I don’t know but I suspect they killed them in front of Shiri. Even the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia thought the Gazans went a bit far on that display and spoke out against it.

So what was the reaction of the world? Well big cities all over the world lit up a few buildings in orange, the two little red headed babies the big brave denizens of Gaza killed. This gesture was supposed to be in solidarity. Nice. Would have been a lot more useful if these countries had actually done something right after this happened to stop it. You know, like condemning Gaza, saying no more aide, no shipments in, no money, no nothing. If they had allowed Israel to cut off water, electricity and certainly not demanded they ship food in to the demons on feet. Did that happen? No. Then you light show doesn’t impress me. But the color orange has another meaning as well.

May I just point out, in Germany during the Holocaust, there were German citizens that tried to help, hide and feed the Jews. There were those that tried to get their children to safety. There was a huge reward offered to any denizen of Gaza for information leading to the return of the hostages. Millions, they could have left Gaza and had a nice life. Do you know how many of the denizens of Gaza came forward to make a better life for their family? None, goose eggs, zero, zip/nada.

So back to the color orange. “If we had listened to the oranges of 2005, we wouldn’t have reached the oranges of 2025.”

The summer of 2005 was a highly charged time in Israel – emotionally, politically and religiously. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon made the decision to unilaterally disengage from Gaza, thus removing some 8,800 Israelis from their homes and communities that they had known for 30+ years and giving the segment of land to the Palestinians. The internal disagreement in Israel raged, as those for the move donned blue and those against donned orange.

This video is an excellent explanation of the disengagement, as well as some video of what Gaza looked like when the Jews lived there. I’ve got it set to start at the relevant part. And may I point out, this video is from five years ago!! It’s not that current.

You would think Israel would have learned, but no, they’re still expelling Jews from their homes. Now in Judea and Shomron since Jew-free Gaza has worked out so well. This article is from 2018 discussing the Nativ Ha’avot neighborhood of Elazar in Gush Etzion which is about 11 miles South of Jerusalem which was where more Jews were expelled from their homes because some left wing group made up the lie that some of the homes might maybe have been a meter into Arab land. They didn’t actually provide proof, but it’s a lot like American demoncrats, say it loudly and often and the media will amplify it. The late Ari Fuld HY”D was there live streaming it. Heart breaking. If you don’t remember Ari Fuld, here you go. I discussed his murder. Did you notice Israel has no problems kicking Jews out of their homes? Out of their cities, dragging them out by their heels? Yeah? Remember that.

So how did these demented sub-humans get this way? Well, with our help, actually. So much has come to light via the DOGE team. What all have we, the US taxpayer spent money of besides transgender operas in Ireland?

USAID (your tax dollars) was funding over 6,200 journalists across 707 media outlets and 279 ‘media’ NGOs including nine out of ten media outlets in Ukraine, WikiLeaks says.

Previously, Elon Musk has hit out at the previous US administration over wasting HEFTY sums on mass media. Which news outlets are on the list and how much was spent on them? Have a look:

The Associated Press

▪️2024: around $1.2 million

▪️2023: more than $4 million

▪️2022: more than $3 million

▪️2021: about $3 million

The New York Times

▪️2024: $4.1 million

▪️2023: about $2 million

▪️2022: about $2 million

▪️2021: nearly $3 million

Politico

▪️2021: about $700,000

▪️2022: about $700,000

▪️2023: almost $600,000

▪️2024: about $8.1 million

The BBC

▪️2024: more than $3 million

▪️2023: more than $3 million

▪️2022: about $1.5 million

▪️2021: about $1 million

And what did the BBC do with some of their money??

BBC apologizes again: ‘serious flaws’ in the making of a documentary about Gaza war

https://x.com/rachelmoiselle/status/1894651775291944999

People can’t seriously expect a “news” organization to do like investigative stuff can they? Shocked, I’m sure they’re shocked the production company was less than honest. Just because there are family members of top hamass officials in it doesn’t mean it’s biased <to the BBC anyway>.

As well as we gave money to the UN who gave it to UNRWA which taught Antisemitism in the schools. We also gave money directly to hamass courtesy of the Antisemitic Samantha Powers and USAID. This hearing was very detailed and enlightening.

https://x.com/TheMossadIL/status/1894970264682930548

This is not just an Israel problem, these people are deranged and dangerous where ever they are. They are violent, they don’t want a better life, they just want to destroy. It’s here now, and spreading due to the infected rot that is our country’s institutions of “higher learning”. Snort, snort.

Pro-Hamas Activists Physically Assault and Injure Employee at Barnard College

Pro-Hamas protesters violently assaulted an employee at Barnard College in New York City on Wednesday after they forced their way into a campus hall.

Video footage circulating on social media shows a mob of activists pushing their way into the building before assaulting the school employee.

The incident occurred during a protest against the school’s decision to expel two students for participating in a rowdy demonstration at Columbia University, according to Fox News.

Did you catch that?? Not pro-Falestine, pro-HAMASS. The terrorist organization.

Anti-Semitic Faculty Activism in on Full Display

Well over a decade ago, when I started teaching at Sarah Lawrence College, I realized that many of my faculty colleagues were anti-Semitic. Because I am visibly Jewish and refuse to denounce Israel, I have been hazed; I have been called a “white skinned Taliban” by a senior professor. I was told that I was part of a colonial, genocidal Jewish people. I have had swastikas drawn on my office door. Somehow, I was expected to do more work than other colleagues to earn their support for promotion. It became clear that my Jewish faith and heritage was a problem for large numbers of professors on campus.

Professor Gad Saad, a Jewish Lebanese refugee that previously taught in Canada can no longer teach at his university because in Turdeau’s Canada it has been come very unsafe to be visibly Jewish. It’s growing. Whenever you take in large groups of people that have no intention of taking on the ethics, customs and ways of the country the come in to, this is going to happen.

Hiding in the schools, everywhere

So, Israel has no problem displacing some people. And obviously the denizens of Gaza, Judea and Shomron certainly can’t stay. President Trump has the only workable solution, remove them. But where? Well, I listened to a fascinating podcast the other day with Tamar Yonah. Her guest was a man she’s had on before, Mudar Zahran, he’s a Jordanian that is trying to replace the King of Jordan who is not that popular. But he maintains the denizens of Gaza are Jordanian and should return to Jordan. He also had what actually might be a workable plan to deal with them once they are there. Part of his point is these denizens of Gaza are so demented (he might has said damaged, I heard demented) that they can’t be trusted around Israelis. And they won’t be sane for possibly another 30 years until they can be in a different environment and it can be bred out of them. Where they can’t earn money by killing Jews. Yes, I know Abbas said they ended pay to slay…in English. In Arabic he told the people they weren’t going to lose one penny…they just changed the name of the program. They’re like demoncrats with DIE like that. Just change the name and keep the program.

And, he has a point. After all, much of it is in the name. From Barry Shaw from the Institute for Strategic Studies:

If you thought that Palestinians originate in “Palestine” think again!

This chart gives you a hint that the vast majority are not Palestinians at all.

History teaches they migrated into the area in pursuit of better lives under the British and the Jews who were developing a barren Ottoman landscape.

This chart gives just a few examples proving that Palestinians are NOT native to the land but migrated into the area.

One prime example not on this list is Yasser Arafat born an Egyptian and lied about his own identity.

Other “Palestinian” family/tribal names not on the list include;

Sourani (Lebanon)

Qaraqi

Dibini (Lebanon)

Abayat (Saudi Arabia)

Sawara (Lebanon)

Bushnaq (Bosnia)

Qaraqi (Iran)

What’s in a name?

But he’s not the only one saying it. The Origins of Arab Settlers in the Land of Israel

The armies of seven Arab countries set out to destroy the Jewish state, which they outnumbered a hundred to one. They also persecuted the Jewish citizens who lived in their own countries for hundreds of years, forcing them to leave and take refuge in the newly created State of Israel.

The Arab nations, together with the Arab population in the British Mandate area, sought to annihilate the Jews in the region and failed. The only catastrophe for them in this scenario was that they lost the war.

As in any war, people were uprooted and made to relocate. Nearly a million Jews – who were not even involved in the hostilities – were expelled from Arab countries; and over 600,000 Arabs from Israeli territory, many of whom were actually told to leave by the advancing Arab armies.

Steve Witkoff’s little darlings that he got released from prison have shown there goals haven’t changed. Terrorist eliminated: Girl critically injured in Pardes Hanna ramming attack

But that’s not the only thing the his little buddies have been up to. I don’t know how much of this you may, or may not have heard. But there was another absolute genuine miracle in Israel recently. I mean epic. The writer is Hillel Fuld, the brother of the late Ari Fuld HY”D, and the murderer of his brother Ari was released by Steve Witkoff. In other writings he’s talked about that being so very painful to bear, and I’m sure it is. But I’m going to end with this, because frankly, after you read this? What could anyone say? I’m not putting this in italics even though it’s a quote, so it will be as easy to read as possible. It’s worth it.

But after you read this, you will understand, if you didn’t already. THEY.MUST.GO!

Since day one, I’ve been telling anyone who will listen that since 10/7, we’ve witnessed so many miracles, it’s hard to count.

Some of these miracles are easy to recognize, like how well the beeper operation went down or how successful we were at intercepting or detonating those hundreds of drones and ballistic missiles fired at us from Iran. Twice.

Other miracles were harder to recognize.

And then we have last night.

Last night was a miracle the caliber of the splitting of the sea.

I am talking an open miracle that could and should have ended very differently.

Do not ask me for my source and if that means you don’t believe what I’m about to say, so be it. You can keep scrolling. But if you know my work, you know I’m very careful with what I share so if I’m sharing this, trust me, it’s based on a reliable source.

Last night, a young lady noticed a suspicious object on a bus in the center of Israel. She reported it to the driver who pulled into a station, got everyone off the bus, at which point, the bus blew up and was completely destroyed.

But that wasn’t the end of it. Not even close.

Over the hours that followed, an additional four bombs were discovered on busses, some of them exploded, others were taken apart before exploding. Some malfunctioned.

According to my source, and this was news to me, a whopping 15 buses were supposed to explode this morning. According to reports, the terrorist set the timer for 9 PM instead of 9 AM.

So is that the worst of it? Not even close.

In addition to the 15 buses, 5 suicide bombers were set to detonate bombs on the lightrail at the same time, all in the center of Israel.

So is that the worst? Nope. That’s the good part.

Where did this attack originate? Gaza? Nope. Judea and Samaria. In other words, these terrorists came from within Israel.

And here’s the kicker, and again, I am not telling you where I heard this, all of the above was intended to be nothing more than the distraction, much like the incoming rockets on 10/7. Just a distraction for the real invasion.

My source says that as those buses and terrorists blew up, massive security and emergency forces were supposed to rush to the scene at which point, there would be a massive breach of the security fence and many terrorists from Judea and Samaria would invade Israel and carry out a 10/7 2.0. Only this time it wouldn’t be from Gaza so it would be an invasion into basically every major city in Israel.

For the third time, this is not information that is publicly available. I can’t share a link and I won’t share a source. Believe me or don’t. Up to you.

It is worth pointing out that for decades, we did not have any bus explosions in Israel. We do this deal and release terrorists, some of whom were the architects behind the bus bombings during the intifada, and all of a sudden, we’re back to buses blowing up.

I can’t imagine anyone believing that that’s a coincidence.

All of this was supposed to go down during rush hour and would have caused hundreds, maybe thousands of Israelis deaths.

Even if the rest isn’t true, multiple buses blowing up like this bus during rush hour? Can’t even imagine.

Yesterday morning was one of the hardest days in Israel’s history. Perhaps the hardest. We all felt hopeless, every last one of us.

When we are in pain, God is in pain with us.

I don’t know about you, but yesterday morning, as I saw the coffins of the Bibas angels, I looked up to Hashem and asked why. Why would he cause us so much pain or allow Hamas to do this to us??

I told myself that we’ll be ok but wasn’t sure if that was true. Was God even watching over us any more? Has He abandoned us? Did He turn His back on us?

Then, as the hostages were being delivered, a beautiful rainbow appeared in the Israeli skies, a sign from the times of Noah, that God won’t ever destroy the world or let it be destroyed. A rainbow, according to Jewish scripture, is God’s way of telling us, “Don’t worry. I got your back.”

Still, though, I was just so sad and so angry.

And then the news started to hit my feeds.

A bus exploded. No injuries.

Hmm, “How does that happen?” I asked myself.

Then another bus exploded. No injuries. And a third. No injuries.

I already felt God’s presence again. I could breathe again.

And the news kept coming in. More bombs discovered. More intel. This was supposed to be the biggest attack since 10/7, maybe even bigger.

Totally thwarted.

By who? The IDF? Nope.

Shabak? Nope.

Mossad? Nope.

This was a massive attack prevented 100% by God Himself. And a very vigilant young lady who noticed the suspicious object.

Whatever Hamas planned or didn’t plan for this morning, I would not be writing these words if their plan had come to fruition. But God had other plans and after all the pain God’s children endured yesterday, He felt we needed to be reminded of His presence. He felt we needed to be reminded that He has our back, now and always. He was right. We did need it.

This event might go down in history as one of the biggest miracles the Jewish people experienced since biblical times.

“There are two ways to live life. One is that nothing is a miracle. The other is that everything is a miracle.”

Some will explain how the Iron Dome works and therefore conclude that it’s not a miracle. The same for David’s Sling and the Arrow system.

Some will explain how all of those rockets and drones not intercepted by Israel fell in empty spaces. They might not believe that that too was a miracle.

The beepers? The walkie talkies? Getting Nasrallah? Haniyeh? Deif? They’ll attribute all of that to Israel’s intelligence.

But this? What happened last night? Israel had nothing to do with it. If you don’t see this event as a miracle, there is only one explanation. You don’t want to see it as a miracle.

Open your eyes. Clean your lenses. Hashem is here with us in our pain and each day that passes, we are one day closer to Him finally revealing Himself to us, explaining why any of this had to happen, and ultimately bringing mashiach.

For now, I just wanted to recognize Hashem’s greatness and on behalf of the hundreds, maybe thousands of Israelis who should be dead right now, just say thank you.

הודו לה השם כי טוב כי לעולם חסדו

Give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה האֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם הַגּוֹמֵל לְחַיָּבִים טוֹבוֹת, שֶׁגְּמָלַנִי כָּל טוּב

Blessed are you, O Lord, our God, King of the Universe, who rewards good deeds, who rewards me for every good thing

We say that blessing when we are saved from tragedy. Today, the Jewish nation was saved from tragedy.

Thank you, Hashem.

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Yom HaShoah 2019

Today is Yom HaShoah and Ghetto Uprising Remembrance Day, the 27th of Nisan.

The first Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel took place on December 28, 1949, following a decision of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel that an annual memorial should take place on the Tenth of Tevet, a traditional day of mourning and fasting in the Hebrew calendar. The day was marked by the burial in a Jerusalem cemetery of ashes and bones of thousands of Jews brought from the Flossenbürg concentration camp and religious ceremonies held in honor of the victims. A radio program on the Holocaust was broadcast that evening. The following year, in December 1950, the Rabbinate, organizations of former European Jewish communities and the Israel Defense Forces held memorial ceremonies around the country; they mostly involved funerals, in which objects such as desecrated Torah scrolls and the bones and ashes of the dead brought from Europe were interred.

In 1951, the Knesset began deliberations to choose a date for Holocaust Remembrance Day. On April 12, 1951, after also considering as possibilities the Tenth of Tevet, the 14th of Nisan, which is the day before Passover and the day on which the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April 19, 1943) had begun, and September 1, the date on which the Second World War had begun, the Knesset passed a resolution establishing the 27 Nisan in the Hebrew calendar, a week after Passover, and eight days before Israel Independence Day as the annual Holocaust and Ghetto Uprising Remembrance Day

As it is not that long past Pesach, Shimshon my puppy and I recently watched the movie The Ten Commandments starring Charlton Heston. For a few reasons I wanted to see this movie again. It really is still an amazing movie. In an age of Star Wars effects, the Ten Commandments special effects still awe me. But in the substance department, well, there is no comparison. What I do not remember ever seeing though was the opening.

And I think that is a question well worth considering in this day and age. Will we be ruled by G-d’s laws or the whims of a dictator? There are many in this divided country that very much want to see a President elected by the people deposed through any means, but all of them foul. They want power, and they planned to rule over us and his election upset their apple cart. Those forces have much help from the media, the useful idiots like #MoneyHogg and they will push their agenda of socialism and communism at all costs.

That movie I’ve “seen”.

From the Chabad web site I’ll give you an excerpt from the article The 1929 Struggle to Send Matzah Into the Soviet Union

“According to reports that have come from the entire breadth of the Soviet Union … central Russia, White Russia, Ukraine, Volhynia, the Caucasus, Bukhara, Georgia, Dagestan, the Donetsk Basin—flour for matzah cannot be found,” he wrote. “ … This year marks a new era in the lives of the Jews of Russia, a bitter era, one that has not occurred since the beginning of this deluge of suffering and troubles—G‑d should have mercy—and at this time the question of kimcha dePischa [“flour for Passover”] is a burning question.”

The Soviet grain shortage was not unintended. In a process that began slowly in 1925 and now, at the end of 1928, was picking up steam, Joseph Stalin was forcing through his national collectivization campaign and introducing his first Five-Year Plan for the economy. Farmers and peasants who had worked the land and fed Russia for generations were being forced into state-run collectives, with countless arrested, exiled or executed for resisting or to make an example for others. Productivity inevitably plummeted, bringing about food shortages, but it was not an accident.

“Coercion was the only way to attain wholesale collectivization,” writes historian Stephen Kotkin about Stalin’s position, which he took as a believing Marxist-Leninist. “The extreme violence and dislocation would appall many Communists. But Stalin and his loyalists replied that critics wanted to make an omelet without breaking eggs.”

You can hear #LipstickLenin (Alexandra Occasional-Cortez) or “Feel the Bern” millionaire Sanders saying that way all in the past, it just wasn’t perfected yet. It was in infancy.

Let’s take a look at what a reporter from MSNBC let slip. I have no idea if he still has a job or not.

MSNBC Venezuela Coverage Shows Why U.S. Founders Wanted Armed Citizenry

While covering Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s efforts to hold power, MSNBC reporter Kerry Sanders noted Maduro has the advantage of guns against an unarmed populace.

The MSBNC segment, published by The Washington Free Beacon, begins with anchor Andrea Mitchell expressing surprise that Maduro is still holding on.

Sanders responds, “Not only hanging on, but he appears to still control the military. You have to understand in Venezuela, gun ownership is not something that is open to everybody. So if the military have the guns, they have the power.”

Sanders adds, “So as long as Nicolás Maduro controls the military, he controls the country.

The average citizen of Venezuela lost around 19 lbs in 2017 and 24 lbs in 2018 I believe is what I heard.

Food, it’s such a great way to control a populace. Cow farts must be eliminated or the earth will self destruct in 10 or 12 years. Depending on if it’s Lipstick Lenin or Bozo O’Rear. Demonize food, demonize those that produce it, and how they do so, and then regulate them into starvation production.

Ruled by the whims of a dictator the citizens are reduced to attacking by hand and Molotov cocktails if the supplies can be procured. They are attacked and literally run over by the dictators troops and tanks.

Ari Fuld HY”D pointed out in a 2016 radio broadcast that “Never Again” doesn’t mean anything. Because “diplomacy” triumphs over “decency and morality”. How many countries signed peace treaties with hitler? How many dead Jews since Oslo was signed? More than in all the years before it. Not even the US would bomb the train tracks into Auschwitz. People place diplomacy above morality and doing the right thing. But you can hear the whole podcast. Fools who want peace but get war.

In these days of anti-semitic cartoons and condemnation of Israel by left-wingers of all strips, countries and religions I found Moshe Feiglin of Zehut’s Yom HaShoah post very very powerful and moving. Ari pointed out how many Jews tried to reach the safety of Israel in those horrible days before and during the holocaust only to be turned away by the British. They were sent back to be murdered by the nazis. Israel, their home, the home that had lived in their hearts and the desire of their souls to return there always burned through every generation. It’s part of our identity. Here is his post translated into English.

The Holocaust is threatening us with our Jewish identity.

In the wagons to Auschwitz, the complete assimilationists from the west were crowded together with the ultra-Orthodox from the east.

When the doors opened to the smoke rising from the chimney, they realized that the decorations of heroism from the First World War would no longer benefit the civilian identity they had adopted –

And these – because here prayers and mitzvot will no longer benefit, will not be religious identity.

They took their names from them and turned them into numbers, took the family, the honor, the clothes, the hair, the human image.

In the gas chambers, devoid of any other identity, there was only one, final, absolute and unifying – like death alone, Jewish identity.

Germany, where we lived in that “gun-free” (except for the special friends) utopia where we died at the dictator’s whims.

 

Socialism, where you can vote. Once.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

H/T to my friend Aryeh from Zehut.

HaTikvah, The Hope.

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Another Place, Another Time

I guess I’ve had a couple trips down memory lane lately. Well, other people’s memory as well as my own.

I saw this iconic picture yesterday hanging on a wall and it started a conversation between me and another lady sitting there. So I looked up the history on it. Far from being faked as has been supposed by some,

Lunch atop a skyscraper
Lunch atop a skyscraper

On September 20, 1932, high above 41st Street in Manhattan, 11 ironworkers took part in a daring publicity stunt. The men were accustomed to walking along the girders of the RCA building (now called the GE building) they were constructing in Rockefeller Center. On this particular day, though, they humored a photographer, who was drumming up excitement about the project’s near completion. Some of the tradesmen tossed a football; a few pretended to nap. But, most famously, all 11 ate lunch on a steel beam, their feet dangling 850 feet above the city’s streets.

For these dudes, eating lunch, having a smoke, reading a paper 850 feet above the ground was not a big deal. Another place, another time. It’s like Sheila, can we take a picture of you feeding your animals?  Business as usual.

Then I got a email from a friend of mine with pictures of tinker toys, drive in movies, Dippity Do, Howdy Doody, saddle oxfords, and many more. All things I certainly remember. Another place, another time.

Then I had a conversation with my Mom today, and we talked about the picture in the course of the conversation. How we were as a people then. Tough, strong, brave, and we wanted to make our own way in the world. We wanted our children to have more and better chances than we did. We wanted to leave the world a better place for them. And often that was in the form of hard work, dangerous work, creative work, and sometimes war. Another place, another time.

And now, our children are “children”. In college they seek counseling from the trauma of seeing a name written in chalk. They need “safe spaces” in college, and college communications professors (fired now at University of Missouri at Columbia) trying to shut down, well, communications. They need the segregated “safe spaces” that the civil rights movement fought against a mere 50 years ago. Those struggles forgotten and dishonored. Another place, another time.

Instead of Mr. Smith Goes To Washington we have the dimocratic toddler time as they enjoy their catered in meals, bathroom breaks and publicity photo ops, rather than working to do right until they collapse. They are pitchin’ a hissy fit as they try to take rights, self-defense, endowed by our creator, not them. Another place, another time.

Dimocrat toddler time
Dimocrat toddler time

Recently a holocaust survivor publicly confronted former London Mayor Ken Livingstone about several statements, one of which was hitler was a Zionist. He made several other erroneous statements and the radio host corrected him. He knew so much that wasn’t true.

“It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.” ~~Ronald Reagan

But it was the statement of Mala Tribich, survivor of Bergen-Belsen that hit me hard.

“I find them very offensive and hurtful when people belittle the Holocaust. When they use the Holocaust to score a political point,” she said.

“I really can’t see it. They are usually people in high places. I take them as being intelligent and educated. Yet they can stoop so low to use the Holocaust to better their positions. What really bothers me is that they do it whilst there are some survivors still around. What will they do when we’re all gone?”

As anti-Semitic attacks are on the rise world wide, entire political parties are openly anti-Semitic, anti-Israel or both, and it’s accepted or excused. They say things that would have gotten them shunned, kicked out of the political arena or the papers would have been chewing them up with the facts of their lies. Another place, another time.

Our wonderful Nicki and I exchanged some e-mails today talking about Moshe Feiglin, and she nailed it.

I just think it’s a sad state of our world that we actually hold men such as this as heroes. They should be the NORM. They should be the rule, not the exception, ya know?

And they did used to be, in another place, another time.

And so, someday the survivors will be gone, and then what will they (the liberals, the anti-Semites, the anti-Israel people) do? They will be confronted by me. And they will be confronted by Zelman’s Partisans, and they will be confronted by good, strong and brave people everywhere. People that seem to come from another place, another time.

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Zehut, The Politics of Identity

by Sheila Stokes-Begley

When many people go to Israel, the want to see the historical sights. I do as well, especially military museums. There will most likely be a column on that. A lot of people want to eat the fabulous
food. Yes, me too. They want to shop, I’m SO there, especially when you talk about Yafo. They want to swim, did that. But what I really, really, really, really wanted to do, was interview Moshe Feiglin. At
which most tourist are probably saying “Excuse me?” But that was one of my very highest hopes for this trip. And I was successful.

I first learned about the former MK (Member of Knesset) when in response to something I had written my wonderfully kind team mate Y.B. sent me a portion of a Torah Thought from Mr. Feiglin. I loved it! I asked for more info and Y.B. told me who had written it and who he was. I did online research and signed up for the Manhigut Yehudite newsletter and was soon getting my own copies of Torah Thoughts included with each newsletter which I very much looked
forward to receiving. Each newsletter included Torah and politics. Does it get any better? Well, also a Dry Bones Cartoon. That’s pretty good too.

Last year I got to interview Mr. Feiglin by phone, and it was a great interview. This year it was in person. I feel very blessed.

So why my fascination? My respect first blossomed when he was writing articles calling for the Israeli government to make it easier for everyday Israelis to get weapons permits. Gun Control? Or Citizen Control?

With all that has been going on in Israel, I had a lot of questions for Mr. Feiglin. Especially since he along with the support of a lot of everyday people have founded a new political party. Zehut, which means “Identity”. Zehut is unusual in that they also allow people from places other than Israel to join. And with that I tell you I am a proud card carrying member. Well, I will be when my card gets here, but I am.

My first question was why form Zehut? Was it in response to the betrayal of leadership in politics? They campaign on one platform and then when elected turn and go another direction?

Feiglin: The average Israeli feels disenfranchised from their Jewish identity and the concept of a Jewish state. (I believe he said in a recent poll that 80% of Israelis identify as Jewish first, and as an Israeli second). The disenfranchisement started with the Oslo accords and now takes the form of things like a Judge appointed to the High Court who refused to sing HaTikvah, the Israeli national anthem after being sworn in. It shows in an army which is now refusing to allow soldiers to grow beards, “too much Jewish”. And very sadly when a Yad Vashem guide pointed out that the murder of Gil-Ad Shaer,16, Eyal Yifrah, 19, and Naftali Fraenkel,16 had occurred in Gush Etzion because they were Jewish. (That would seem evident to
me, but I guess political correctness can run amuck anywhere). Israel is a Jewish democratic state, but 10% controls the power and it is eroding Jewish values.

I have a few questions about everyday Israelis being allowed to carry weapons. Why are there areas where people are not allowed to have carry permits? A buddy moved from Jerusalem where he could carry, to Tel Aviv and now he can’t. He’s no less qualified in Tel Aviv. Yafo which suffered a terrorist attack is certainly within walking distance of Tel Aviv, I’ve done so! Why aren’t the military allowed to carry off duty, and why after people are out of the military can they not automatically be allowed to carry a weapon? As it turns out, the answer to all these questions are the same. Mr. Feiglin is very good at seeing the big picture and summing it up.

Feiglin: Because the concept of freedom is wrong. It should be the concept that the right of self- defense is G-d given! In Israel they believe that the right is given by the state. And if the state can give you the right to self defense, they can take that right away. In America they had the right concept, although they are losing the mindset. They believed anyone should be allowed to own guns unless they showed they were not to be trusted with them. (I pointed out that the UN does not believe self defense is a human right at all. Considering how anti-Israel the UN is, that is really not a good
combination). Zehut believes in planting in the Israeli mind the concept of true freedom. That everyone is responsible to defend their life, that of their family and the nation. Of course, there are those that oppose this. When I was in the Knesset I fought for more people to be allowed to carry. There were 150,000 people licensed to carry. But the Knesset wants to decrease that till terrorism decreases. You have the state as “Big Brother”.

What about the shooting in Hevron? (Sheila’s article on this incident) WHY is this soldier being prosecuted? Didn’t the fact that the video came from B’Tselem raise suspicions? This produced a wealth of information. This is so much more to this than a simple case of Katie Couric media malfeasance. I really think you should go read Moshe’s whole article on this topic, but here is what we covered.

Feiglin: This is a war of Israelis and Jews. It’s the soul of the Israeli, for what comes first, a concept of citizen or Jewish state. It’s been going on a long time. For the Israeli (in this comparison, sounds to me like your typical “enlightened” leftist who doesn’t have good sense about how this will play out) it’s the citizen, not Jewish state or identity. It was certainly evident when the Eichmann trial took place in Israel in 1961. A Jewish writer Hannah Arendt wrote a book, “Eichmann In Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil,”with basically the premise that Eichmann was just there, wrong place, wrong time. Can’t blame him, can’t blame anyone but Hitler. Anyone would have acted the same. Apparently some Israeli “intellectuals”
felt the need to agree.
This kind of thinking is evident in the IDF today. The former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon recently said that “If someone rises to kill you, kill him first” is not the IDF’s strategy. The Deputy Chief of Staff equated those who subscribe to that value with Nazis. He would rather lose soldiers who protect citizens than kill terrorists. There is no difference in the value of the life of a person just out doing their shopping and the terrorist that comes to kill them. Certainly had nothing to do with ideology, right? But yet today some Arabs want to kill any Jew, soldier, civilian, man, woman, child or baby, it doesn’t matter. It IS the ideology. When Arafat was sick in Ramallah I had a sign on my car that said Hurry up and kill him before he dies. For someone that had that much blood on his hands to die in his own time is immoral. For terrorists to go to trial is immoral. A healthy Jewish response is you kill the attackers. You kill the terrorists that have
declared their own war on Jews. After the soldier killed the terrorist, the stabbings stopped. He did more than all the speeches.

What about the Temple Mount, Har HaBeit? Why are the Israeli police so quick to remove Jews? One young boy was even recently removed not for saying anything but because he had tears in his eyes. And for those that wonder, yes I did express my opinion of Moshe Dayan’s decision.

Feiglin: It has to do with losing identity. We must let Jews have their identity on the Temple Mount. There are those replacing Jewish identity, and they fear what Israel will become with it’s Jewish identity. Arabs do not really have an identity so much as filled with hatred. It’s in their textbooks, their schools, mosques, social media and how they are raised. If Israel disappeared from the map, there would be no more “Palestinian”. Their reason for being would be gone. The first Zionists were colonialists from Europe, and they just wanted to be one big happy family. They didn’t understand the Arab mindset. Most Israelis are Jews first, Israeli second but they are being led by a minority that doesn’t have that mindset.

What about the Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) or as I call it (BS) movement? Has it had an effect? Is it just plain anti-Semitism in increments?

Feiglin: BDS is about the delegitimizing of Israel. When did the holocaust start? (He did ask me this, and I thought for a second and answered “the night Hitler was conceived”) That was the correct answer. When Hitler spoke again and again against the Jews it had it’s effect. In 1939 or 1940 when Jews ran to their neighbors to hide, they were killed. It was about eliminating the right of Jews to exist. Israel has to attack Iran, there is a real danger of Jewish history being written in Jerusalem. Not Warsaw. It’s needed to make a moral point. There is a correlation between the speeches made in Iran 12 ½ years ago by Ahmadinejad and the delegitimization of Israel, and it’s growing.

My last question to him “We’ve had a possible Kenyan as a president, at least someone not really raised as an American, I think we should try having an Israeli for a President, would you run?”

Feiglin: I’ve been asked about the current election. My answer is it doesn’t matter which one wins. If Israel will do what is best for Israel, then all will be better.

I started this interview by telling him that I felt like I cared more about Israeli lives than some Israeli politicians did.

After talking to him, I am quite certain that is not how it is when it comes to Mr. Feiglin. He has a very sound political platform based on a Jewish identity in THE Jewish state, living by Jewish laws and principles. Laws that will protect the innocent, laws that will allow every citizen living their daily lives be it in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Be’er Sheva, Judea and Samaria to know their lives are worth defending and giving them the means to do so. It will allow the IDF to return to being the fine army it was meant to be and not a social experiment.

Zehut is a party based on knowing who we are, and what we are, and where we belong. And embracing it!

Honestly, I think there is a lesson in this for Americans as well. Because I’m very, very tired of having values that the majority of U.S. believe in being derided and told “that’s not who we are”.
Yeah, it is. And as the politicians and their compatriots in the media crank up to hype another round of gun control tripe, we would do well to remember it. It makes me think so much of “You can live
by G-d’s law or die by man’s.

I want to thank three wonderful people, Aryeh Sonnenberg who is the international director of Zehut and so warmly welcomed me when I joined. He put me in touch with Shmuel Sackett (who I got to talk with on the phone, really) who set the meeting up with Moshe. Shmuel also writes excellent articles. And I very much want to thank Moshe Feiglin for giving me an hour of his very valuable limited time. And since I often like to close with a video, this one is perfect!

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