Today is both Memorial Day, and Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day.
This is not a “Happy” Memorial Day kind of holiday. Memorial Day should be dignified, it is about paying respects to those who sacrificed all, who served with honor. How it morphed into a “Memorial Day Sale” kind of holiday or worse “Happy Memorial Day” kind of holiday is baffling to me. But I suspect public (lack of) education plays a role.
So I will give you a couple of musical tributes.
First Trace Adkins with Arlington
Then the late Toby Keith with American Soldier
I’m in awe of these valiant warriors that G-d created. That something inside of them that compels them to fight to protect their hearth, home and family. And I’m filled with disgust for those that abuse that nature.
All gave some, some gave all.
Yom Yerushalayim was also a day of battle. It was a great miracle, if you need background or history on what happened that great day, and some video clips (great ones) you can check out these previous columns. It’s the 28th day of Iyar. There are others, this is just a couple of them.
The results of leftist thinking and policies haven’t improved any.
And because I’m writing this, you know you’re going to get a video clip with the words that always make me cry in awe and with joy. הר הבית בידינו
Har HaBeyit BeYadenu, The Temple Mount is in our hands.
This one has good footage, English subtitles over the Hebrew words, and of course Motta Gur’s famous declaration. Around a couple of minutes.
For my second clip, Jerusalem of Gold, it has English subtitles as well.
The two do go together. Memorial Day and Jerusalem day, despite being half a world apart. Freedom, liberty and joy as embodied in Jerusalem Day are made possible in societies that hold those things to be of value, and are fought for by the heroes honored on Memorial Day.
As the hostages are slowly being returned home to their friends and family that have been in agony while they were away, wondering if they would ever come home again, and if they did what kind of condition would they be in? Would they be able to heal from the mental and physical abuse they’d suffered while they were held in captivity?
I’m sure we all remember the videos that have come out of vile groups of terrorists and thugs dragging people out of their homes, no regard for whether it be man, woman, or child the treatment was dished out by barbarians with no moral compass.
Their treatment in captivity has been inhumane, it is something that should never be allowed to be repeated and there should be the most severe of consequences for those that felt completely safe to behave this way, to think it’s acceptable and possibly even lauded. And in cases it is lauded, which tells you all about the people they are.
Some have died in captivity, some died on the way to captivity. All because of their belief system. For tenets, values and beliefs they hold to be in their very core. And those beliefs are despised by the evil group that perpetrated such evil as hadn’t been seen for some time.
Now I have a question for you, who am I talking about? Who are the hostages? The innocent Israeli civilians or the January 6th political prisoners? Which is the evil group of thugs, hamass or the FIB and Biden’s crime regime of the DOI, Department of Injustice? Toss up applies to both. Lets have a look shall we?
If you want and really interesting video on things I hadn’t heard from a Mother’s story of a J6er who son was arrested in Kenya. While he was on a hunting trip. Yep, the FIB went after this kid in Kenya. It’s kind of long, but really really interesting. And the young man from Montana saw some of the things linked above.
We know the Israeli hostages were held not just by terrorists, but also by UN workers, Falestinian “doctors”, civilians and in hospitals, private homes and tunnels. So far, we know that much so far. They were denied food, water, basic hygiene and medical care. The prisoners were sexually abused and used as forced labor. They were psychologically tortured. They were allowed no contact with family.
The ones held in solitary were held in tiny cells, the food was frequently inedible and the drinking water was brown. I believe it was the head of the DC Gulag that said she hoped the J6ers would be sent to her prison. There are stories of the prisoners being tortured, physically and psychologically, denied medical care. I’m not sure how much contact they were allowed with family.
Misplaced Trust
The Israelis
I’ve written before that most of the Kibbutzim hit were left wing. The people there truly believed they could live in peace with the denizens of Gaza. Often hiring them for work and taking them to Israeli hospitals for treatment. At least one of the hostages certainly believed they could co-exist.
Levy was seen in a viral video from the attack that showed her in bloodied sweatpants being shoved into a vehicle. The footage raised concerns she had been sexually assaulted, though her brother said that in at least the first 50 days of her captivity, she was not a victim of sexual violence, The Jerusalem Post reported. Levy previously volunteered for the United Nations, Red Cross, and Hands of Peace — a group that promised coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians.
You can not co-exist with people that hate you and elect a government to represent them that has in it’s charter they intend to wipe every Jew off the face of the earth. Nor can you make deals with them. The only people stupid enough to think you can are broccoli-brain Biden and Steve Witkoff.
The J6ers
They believed they had the right of free speech. They understood that the first amendment is setting down rights given by G-d, not man. They believed they were within their rights to go to a peacefully rally. I honestly don’t know that any of us, well, maybe the late Randy Weaver, David Koresh and his dead followers, realized how filthy and evil our own government could be. They certainly didn’t imagine they’d be set up by a corrupt, insider trading speaker of the house, the DC police and the DOI and FIB. Many of these people have been held in jail for 4 years without a trial. But needless to say, the Biden crime regime plunged the low of our country to a new depth.
Messing with the hostage releases
The Israelis
Civilians were supposed to be released first, not the way it’s playing out. A list was supposed to be given to Israel of who would be released, not the way it’s playing out. The filthy denizens of Gaza weren’t to be allowed to return yet, they’re already trying to get back in. Hamas is already back in, armed and wearing their hamass uniforms that have been in storage while they wore civilian garb. Steve Witkoff better get back over there and straighten them out. Arbel Yehud was supposed to have been released last Saturday. Hamass, said, well actually another terrorist group has her, we’ll have to get her back from them. Yeah? Really? Not our problem, give her over. Which they say they will do this week, in exchange for more terrorists and murders being released from Israeli prisons. I’m beginning to understand how Steve Witkoff wound up with a financially troubled hotel the Qataris needed to help him with. This leaves Hamass with 33 hostages. Govt. spokesperson: 8 of 33 hostages on Hamas list are dead. Since civilians were supposed to be released first I would have thought the women and young children would have been some of the first out, as they need more care, I was kind of surprised that the Bibas family haven’t been released. Those pictures were pretty well recognizable. A young mother, Shiri holding two little red headed babies, Ariel and Kfir. I suppose they might be holding on to them till last as there is quite a bit of emotion tied up in holding babies hostage. Those hamass terrorists are truly brave, no? Or, they are gone. I watched a video snippet of a man in a video conference call and during it he got a list of who was dead and who was alive. From his reaction, I’m kind of afraid they’re gone.
The J6ers
I foolishly thought when President Trump signed an executive order and said he hoped the hostages would be freed that night, they would be. Welp, nope, it’s the DC machine. Hostages have been moved to other areas where they have no family, no money, no cell phone and no one knows where they are. This is just one such case:
Message from the mother of J6 HOSTAGE Dominic Box:
“I was able to receive a call from my son Dominic Box this afternoon from a number I did not recognize and had to struggle to navigate another avenue of being able to deposit money to someplace in Kentucky in hopes that he would call back … thankfully I was able to talk with him briefly upon the 4th try …
I felt both happy to hear his voice and nauseous to know he was yet somewhere in the Midwest being held in a federal holding facility…
I cannot digest why this is happening to any person that was pardoned by President Trump 4 days ago.. Dominic’s voice sounded calm however exhausted.. He asked me if I knew ” what was going on?” And I had to say “”No” He stated that currently he came to this facility with only 4 other J6 men ..and they immediately separated them. Dominic stated ” this is the most horrible place I’ve ever been in my life” He stated that the BOP has guidelines that are not being followed under any sense of truth or justice..There are” 15 individuals all together and only 10 beds” and assumed he will be forced to sleep on the floor since he is new there . There is only “1 shower and 1 toilet inside the shower ” : ” We are given nothing .. not even a pair of socks” we “must pay for everything ” and I have nothing not even a toothbrush… ; they have only 1 telephone for all of ” us ” and there is a huge line .. ” I don’t know when I can call you back mom .. I love you ”
My eyes filled with tears .. and I began to pray again .”
Some of these prisoners are being held in other states, one was being held in Canada. Many still aren’t released. The DC gulag is still playing games, some of the men were roughed up before they were finally let go.
The Release
The Israelis
About 25 minutes long.
They were surrounded by armed hamass and yelling and jeering denizens of Gaza (known to the demoncrats and the media as “innocent falestinians” or “innocent civilians”) who have welcomed hamass back. The useless as tits on a boar hog Red Cross finally showed up in their shiny van. The Red Cross had refused all this time to deliver medications needed by the hostages. But for the cameras, boy howdy, the Red (double) Cross was there!
While I am exceedingly grateful the few captives that have been released are free, the terrible deal forced on Israel by Puddin’head and Steve Witkoff virtually guarantees more hostages will be taken, and more innocent Israelis killed because it pays off big time. In fact with the colleges “globalize the intifada” campaign, really anyone can be a hostage. I pray all the captives come home soon, alive. I can only imagine the pain the family and friends have suffered for well over a year.
The J6ers
As with the Israeli hostages, this is a pain no family or friend should have to have suffered. What these people have suffered at the hands of an American terrorist group beggers belief. While there are some videos of the J6ers being released, if it’s a “news channel” video covering it, they seem to focus more on the “violence” the “riot” the “insurrection” etc etc blah blah blah. So I will give you this one off of Twitter. This woman didn’t realize her son was coming out. This is the cry of a soul that has been tortured for a very long time. Just wounded beyond belief. And honestly, when I hear it, I feel tears welling up and I don’t even know these people, and they are just one family in over 1500, some of who have lost homes, marriages, families, businesses and some couldn’t take the pressure and committed suicide.
This can never be allowed again, not hamass, not this kind of horrible deal brought about by pressure from incompetent negotiators, or weak leadership. And I’m not discounting the horrible pressure the government has been under from the families and the left who facilitated it by trying to split the country prior to the invasion to depose Bibi. They played a big role too. The left in Israel, like the left in America don’t care if their country is destroyed so long as they take down the currently in office right wing government.
The total lawlessness of the DOI and FIB can not go unpunished. Everyone from the capitol police, Pelousy, the complicit demoncrats, the sham J6 committee who destroyed evidence, the head of the prison board (who has been fired, don’t care) the warden and the employees. Anyone who abused the political prisoners needs to be held to account. Officers that murdered innocent J6ers need to be tried for murder. There is no statue of limitations on that. There is video, it needs to be done. If it’s not, and there are no repercussions, you can bet your sweet bippy that it will be done again. After all, it had been done before with no consequences except a promotion by Christopher Wray for it’s architect. A week after the alleged Whitmer “kidnappers” were arrested, FBI Director Christopher Wray promoted D’Antuono to head of the Washington DC field office, conveniently placing him in Washington before the January 6 riot. The Whitmer ‘kidnapping hoax’ is on the brink of collapse…
There is a video by J6 political prisoner and sort of spokesman Jake Lang called “Weaponized”.
And since this is International Holocaust remembrance day and the left is still all atwitter (yeah I picked that word on purpose) about Elon Musk’s supposed “nazi salute”, may I just point out Macron of France? The left wasn’t upset about his, but then Macron doesn’t enable or support free speech. So.
We are fast approaching Hanukkah (and Christmas) both of which center around light, though for much different reasons, both also have a theme of freedom, though also for far different reasons.
But what is common, is spreading light tends to reveal things that had been hiding in the darkness, in the shadows. It seems like so much has been happening lately to shine the light on cockroaches that have been hiding in many many places. So I thought it might be interesting to shine the light of a few of them myself. After all, even a little bit of light that is shining in a dark room makes a big difference.
While these things are not all related, some are part of a common theme.
6) The Constitution cannot be suspended in times of crisis and restrictions on freedoms sow
distrust in public health.
7) The prescription cannot be worse than the disease, such as strict and overly broad
lockdowns that led to predictable anguish and avoidable consequences.
Shines a light on our “public health” system doesn’t it? Also explains why “Trust the experts” has become a punch line in a joke, along with “doctors say”.
A nearly blind grandmother of five from a small farm in Missouri was arrested by the FBI almost four years after January 6th for alleged “misdemeanors” as the fallen Biden Regime makes a mad dash to punish more Trump supporters before they lose power.
The FBI arrested Suzan McClain on Thursday, December 6, 2024, for misdemeanors committed almost 4 years ago on January 6, 2021. The FBI agent who arrested her is normally assigned to a sexual crimes task force. He is supposed to be pursuing child sex traffickers, but the children being held in captivity will have to wait on the backburner because SuZan McClain trespassed four years ago.
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She is not accused of committing any specific acts of violence or vandalism. She entered the building, meandered around, and exited peacefully.
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The FBI agent told her that he had been with the FBI for many years, but this was his first-ever misdemeanor arrest. Because she is undergoing treatment on her retinas, SuZan cannot drive long distances by herself, and the federal court is a four-hour drive from her home. So the FBI agent had to drive an hour each way to pick her up and then drive four hours to and from the court. They were in court for over five hours, so the FBI agent spent over 15 hours dealing with SuZan. This is in addition to the many hours he spent building the case against her and the hours he will spend assisting the DOJ in her prosecution.
The whole thing is a travesty, and if nothing else should convince anyone never to vote for anything with a D behind it’s name. The R behind the name needs to be on a case by case basis. Sure shines a light on the two tiered justice system and Merrick Garland and Chris Wray’s priorities doesn’t it?
Hypocrisy on full display, after many years of calling Donald Trump “Hitler” a pair of show hosts from the propaganda wing of the Demoncratic party called MSDNC decided they would go literally meet with Hitler. A man they’ve vilified for years they suddenly decide to go have tea with and sit down and chat. Then they were shocked when all the people (all 12 of their viewers) were outraged they’d have tea with a man they were now convinced is evil incarnate. They may not be the brightest crayons in the box. If nothing else this should shine a light on how they lie, and they know they’re lying.
You think our neighbor to the South is a hot mess? In a move to try to compete Justin Turdeau of Canada said “Eh? Hold my beer” and flew to Mar-A-Lago to explain to DJT that 25% tariffs if he doesn’t shut off the illegal invaders flooding into our country is unbearable. DJT generously offered to make Canada the 51st state and Turdeau could be the governor. Trump trolls PM Justin Trudeau as the ‘governor’ of the ‘Great State of Canada’ amid tariff talks
Justin Turdeau, Governor of the Great State of Canada
Apparently the Turdeau regime felt the need to show his power and flex his girly muscles and show everyone who his daddy (Fidel Castro) is.
Under the leadership of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canada has fallen into the abyss of tyranny.
Although the Trudeau governments faults are numerous and date back years, a new development — gun confiscation — can be added to the list.
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LeBlanc said, “324 unique makes and models of assault-style firearms” which are now on, “the list of prohibited firearms in Canada.”
“This means these firearms can no longer be legally used, sold, or imported in Canada and can only be transferred or transported under extremely limited circumstances,” he said.
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In a remark that is beyond parody, LeBlanc told Canadians their seized guns would be going to Ukraine.
“As part of that process, the Government of Canada has committed to the Ukrainian government to identify whether some of these guns could be donated to support the fight for democracy in Ukraine.”
This is what happens when you have bureaucrats that are so stupid they believe their own gun control lies. I’m wondering who in Ukraine is going to have the balls to tell the Turdeau clown show that just because they call them “weapons of war” semi-automatics on a battlefield are going to place the ones carrying them at a significant disadvantage. I would maintain with Turdeau heading the government that Canadians should hang on to their weapons as it looks like barring DJT annexing Canada they may have their very own fight for democracy looming. Tyrants never want to face an armed populace and seeing how they behaved during the trucker’s demonstration I don’t think they’re far from that. I guess this shines the light on Turdeau and Canadian decent into dark places.
A humorous side note, look like Politico may have believed DJT was serious about annexing Canada. Shining the light on #FakeNew idiots.
And now a look at one of the most bizarrely developing series of events I’ve seen. Israel was attacked on 7 October 2023. Honestly it seemed like the anti-Israel and Anti-Semitic attacks began within days. I mean as in less than a week. All these little Keffiyot clad, incredibly ignorant little activists began marching around colleges chanting the propaganda lines they’d been fed. Ask them what river and what sea? They haven’t a clue. The cute little boy with the hip hugger pants and crop top holding the “gays for falestine” placard also needs to go over there, he could help the poor falestinians by working in a refugee camp. I’m guessing he could get by with a one way ticket. They slandered Israel and attacked and intimidated Jewish students. Students became afraid to wear symbols of their faith even as keffiyehs marched proudly all over, worn by girls in miniskirts with the black & white draped over the heads. Yep, insert eye roll here. In the Syrian civil war the figure from a March 14th, 2024 article states the death toll Syria War Death Toll Over 507,000, 13 Years On. The Lebanese civil war (in which the falestinians played a big role in starting) Lebanese Civil War
Throughout the war’s duration, more than 100,000 people were killed, nearly 1,000,000 displaced, and several billion dollars’ worth of damage to property and infrastructure sustained.
How many colleges had little villages set up then to grieve for the poor poor brown people being genocided? Oh, none. The Jews had nothing to do with it, there for it was all “over there”. But why were the poor falestinians in such dire straights? Because this is how they treat the countries that take them in. Were there marches in the streets and takeovers of college buildings after Black September?
Following Jordan’s defeat in the Six-Day War and loss of control over the West Bank, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) began to launch attacks from Jordanian territory. These provoked Israeli counterattacks, threatening the peace King Hussein hoped to achieve with Israel.
PLO head Yasser Arafat ignored Hussein’s warnings and hoped to gain control over Jordan with the support of Egypt and Syria. Fighting between Jordan’s army and the PLO began in November 1969, but Hussein hoped to avoid an escalation.
The Palestinians gradually built up what amounted to a state within the kingdom. They controlled the refugee camps, smuggled in weapons that they openly brandished, ignored officials of the Jordanian government, and undermined Hussein’s authority. The king attempted to negotiate an understanding with the Palestinians, but they were unwilling to compromise and defied his authority.
The final straw for Hussein occurred when Palestinian terrorists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) flew three hijacked planes to Jordan on September 6, 1970, and blew them up on the 12th after releasing the passengers. From that point on, Hussein’s forces increasingly clashed with the Palestinians, who were openly trying to depose him. He declared martial law on September 16 and deployed his troops to Palestinian-controlled areas.
Campus riots after that? What? None?
This is a great 4 minute summation of what happens to the countries that take in the poor poor falestinians.
These college students are so ignorant and uninformed, but they are all in by golly!
The Ivy League these daysHamilton Hall
Shining the light on the ignorance achieved by “higher indoctrination”.
But there are some that have learned. And that knowledge cost them very dearly and very painfully, and I pray they can be made whole.
Har detailed the brutal abduction from his home in Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak on October 7, 2023, moments of crisis, the rescue, and his new life after captivity.
“My views have changed drastically since October 6 and until today. I don’t trust any of them [in Gaza]. I know, in some way, they’re all involved. They’re born into hatred. Weapons are put in their hands already as babies. They don’t care about sacrificing their children if it means killing Jews. That’s their way of life,” Har told Webber.
“To achieve dialogue and coexistence, it would take generations of proper education where hatred isn’t taught. That doesn’t exist right now. There’s no one to talk to, even if we wanted to be righteous and good. Before I was abducted, I wanted to live here in peace and coexistence. We don’t hate. We genuinely try to move forward.”
As I’ve said before, the Kibbutzim that were attacked were leftist. Secular, they believed in living at peace with the Gazans and often gave them jobs and took them to Israeli hospitals for treatment. They know better now.
As the guest of the NGO-Monitor at a recent event, Douglas Murray, a highly respected public intellectual, related his encounters with journalists and the media who promote what he calls “fake news”. The first and most important job of a journalist is and should be to tell the truth. Unfortunately, as Murray explained, many so-called journalists are simply propagandists for left-wing and anti-Israel causes.
Welcome to the informational circus which media and newspapers around the world promote as “the free press,” an essential ingredient of every democracy. He cites, for example, the BBC, the NY Times, the Washington Post, and Haaretz, which portray terrorist organizations, such as Hamas, as “freedom fighters.”
Instead of clowns to amuse you, there are anti-Israel journalists. The goal, however, is the same: to create a different reality. The war against Hamas, they propose, is not about terrorist atrocities, but Palestinian Arabs who are victims of “Israeli genocide and war crimes.” It’s not about Islamic terrorism, but the denial of Palestinian Arab self-determination and statehood. It’s about “Israeli terrorism,” “the occupation,” and “ethnic cleansing.”
As Murray observes, this is a new form of Nazism in which the victims are Palestinian Arabs, not Israelis. Palestinianism has become a new civil rights movement that supports terrorism and seeks to destroy Israel. “Palestinian Arabs are starving,” they claim, while Hamas steals the supplies that are sent into Gaza and murders those who oppose them.
NY Slimes
So, about that genocide,
According to the CIA World fact book, the population in Gaza has increased by 2.02% since Oct 7, 2023. Facts vs opinion! There is no genocide in Gaza. No intent or actions by Israel to conduct a genocide. Actually the opposite, Israel has done more to protect civilians and care for civilians in Gaza while Hamas does everything to get civilians killed and to keep the aid Israel floods in from them. Amnesty International and others only weaken the rule of law and make it harder for the laws (redefining it) and courts to hold actual violators to account.
Genocide Fail
For a country that does most things really quite well, Israel is a spectacular failure in the genocide department. Either that, or they don’t know what the word actually means.
And so we shine the light on media malfeasance. They aren’t even news media, they’re an agenda driven broadcast system for the most part.
There are good things to shine the light on as well. Sadly Luis Har saw the evil for what it was only after it was too late, but there are members of the tribe that see it, and are taking positive steps.
I turned to my wife, Sam, with a weird smile on my face. She looked back at me, like, “What the hell are we doing here?”
We’re New York Jews in a gun shop. What do we know about guns? We know about bagels, about Roth IRAs, about Hamantaschen … but guns?
“What kinda gun are you looking for?” asked Adam, the owner. No clue. “You want something for bears? For deer? Target practice?” We didn’t know how to answer.
“We’re Jewish,” Sam said.
Adam stared at us for a moment, sizing us up, an uneasy tension in the air. Then, spoken with clear confidence, he said, “You’re gonna want a nine-millimeter Beretta and pump-action shotgun.”
I never thought I’d be a gun owner, but I also never thought I’d be woken up by my wife on the morning of October 7th, with her saying: “Israel was attacked. It’s bad.”
Which brings me to my closing thoughts. I was recently so very fortunate to attend a lecture entitled “The Eternal Nation”. All of it was wonderful, from a wonderful Rabbi. But the point I want to hit here is when he talked about ability, capability. As our couple in the last mentioned story did not feel they were able, capable to be gun owners. Guns have nothing to do with Oznei Haman, or Hamantaschen. The Rabbi said we are all believers, we are descendants of believers. He said G-d has given us the means to save ourselves (I don’t think the Rabbi was talking about guns exactly) and that we shouldn’t just believe it will get better, we should do our part to make it better. The lecture was on the rise of antisemitism since October 7th . He said the question isn’t “What will be?” but rather “What will we do?” Because greater evil always attacks greater good. After October 7th the IDF had a percentage of their reservists they needed to show up, and many were out of the country. 150% showed up. On their own. These are people that know what they shall do. So we don’t let the terrorists into our minds, We don’t allow our light to recede. We increase our prayer and acts of good deeds. He pointed out it’s not about our abilities, He asked if we thought Avraham, Yitzhak, Yakov, Yosef and Moshe all thought they were capable? He said no, they didn’t. But they were willing. If we are willing, G-d can make us capable.
David ben Gurion said “In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.” And even secular people are beginning to see light. He told the story of a religious soldier in a totally secular unit. His commanding officer was totally secular. But one day the officer came to the religious soldier, very tense and upset. He pulled the religious soldier off duty and told him whatever those prayers you pray, pray them now. Pray all the prayers you’re suppose to pray, pray all the prayers and keep praying them until I come tell you to stop. That’s all you’re to do, pray!! The soldier prayed and prayed for 15 minutes with deep intensity, not even knowing what and why this request was made. Eventually his commanding officer came back. Calm, relaxed and happy, and he told him. There was a group of 3 APCs Armored personnel carriers and they had fallen into a rubble trap set by hamass. They lack the real armor of a tank, and were immobilized, basically, sitting ducks. If they came out of the units they would be picked off. Finally the lead APC figured something out and was able to move and told the others how to do it and so they all 3 escaped. Five men in each carrier, fifteen lives at stake. The secular officer said he couldn’t think of a single thing he could do to save his men. Nothing, he was beside himself. Then he thought of his religious soldier and the soldier prayed, and they were saved. Talk about spreading light! Boy Howdy! We’re like olives, sometimes life events seem to squeeze us till we feel there’s nothing left. But that’s when the olive gives it’s oil. The oil that spread light, and just a little light in a dark room makes a big difference.
There is much light shining on many things and areas right now. Some of the things being illuminated are not pleasant to see, but some we need to see before we get blindsided. So we are willing, and then we can see what G-d will make us capable of. May our lights shine bright and with joy!
Over the last couple of weeks or so, as the top stories of the day make their way through the news a couple of things have become clear, to me at least. But maybe I just need more coffee.
Story #1
The Daniel Penny trial. Mr. Penny is a Marine veteran who was minding his own business on one of the dangerous subways in New York City. How dangerous? Dangerous enough the mentally defective governor of New York ordered 750 national guardsmen to help patrol the subway system. With numbers that shock no one, sanctuary city New York has seen a 45% increase in subway arrests since 2023, and that number is from March of this year. But the poor deranged governor wants to correct large government policies by ignoring common sense and enacting even more government policies that won’t help. Her brilliant plan?
The new deployment adds to the additional 1000 NYPD officers ordered into the subway last month to conduct bag checks and follows the slashing of a conductor and other high profile crimes.
Hochul is also calling for people deemed to be too dangerous by a judge to be banned from the subway. She is pushing for a state law that allows judges to block a person from riding the subway or buses for three years if they are convicted of attacking a passenger.
So why is that so stupid? Well, back to the Daniel Penny trial. Mr Penny is on a subway when Jordan Neely a homeless, mentally ill man high on synthetic pot boarded. Mr Neely had quite the history.
According to the Post, Penny’s defense called New York court clerk Brian Kempf, who told the court that authorities had an open warrant for Neely’s arrest related to an assault conviction in 2021.
As part of a plea deal, the Post reported, Neely had agreed to participate in intensive outpatient therapy to avoid prison time for the conviction. But Neely left treatment, and a judge issued a warrant for his arrest.
That was in February 2023, according to Fox News. It was just two months before the fatal encounter on the Manhattan F train.
In other words, a police officer who encountered Neely engaged in any one of his customary criminal acts (he’d had 42 arrests between 2013 and 2021, according to Newsweek) could have run his name and found a court order to take him into custody.
But that didn’t happen, just like want the poor dear that’s governor of New York won’t happen either, because New York only arrests law abiding people for defending themselves and others, or people they don’t like. They prosecute those too.
“Some guy came in, and he’s like with his jacket off and he’s like, ‘I’m gonna kill everybody. I’m gonna go to prison forever. I don’t care,'” Penny said.
This seemed to have created some consternation among the other passengers trapped below ground in a metal tube.
And Penny had good reason to be concerned.
In the year before Neely’s death, more than 20 people had been shoved onto the subway tracks in New York City, FOX 5 New York reported previously — many of them by mentally ill homeless suspects.
But a host of prosecution witnesses, Penny’s fellow passengers, knocked massive holes in that tale, as one after another veteran subway rider described how terror-stricken they felt while trapped in the train car with the angry, unstable, threatening Neely.
One woman said she “was scared s–tless” by Neely’s behavior and recalled him yelling: “I don’t give a damn. I will kill a motherf—er. I’m ready to die.”
She stuck around after the ordeal to thank Penny for defending her and everyone else in the car that day.
Another, a high school student, said she was “so nervous” that she feared she “was going to pass out,” and said she didn’t hear other passengers’ warning to Penny to let go of Neely during the struggle.
A third said Penny restrained Neely “so he wouldn’t attack anybody” — more proof that Penny was selflessly acting on behalf of others and a direct blow to lefty claims that his actions were racially motivated.
According to The Daily Mail, two police officers confirmed that Neely still had a pulse when they arrived on the scene, but one witness, an NYPD Sergeant, testified that none of his team performed mouth-to-mouth on Neely because he was a ‘drug user.’
Per The Daily Mail:
‘He seemed to be a drug user.. he was an apparent drug user. He was very dirty. I didn’t want them to get… hepatitis.
‘If he did wake up he would have been vomiting. I didn’t want my officers to do that.
‘He was filthy. He looked like a homeless individual. You have to protect your officer,
‘I wouldn’t want my officer to get sick if the person throws up,’ he said.
Chundru, a former Miami-area medical examiner who now runs a private practice in Texas conducting autopsies in a half-dozen counties, said that he did not believe an air choke caused Neely’s unconsciousness and, therefore, did not cause his death.
Chundru said he found the cause of death to be “the combined effects of sickle cell crisis, the schizophrenia, the struggle and restraint, and the synthetic marijuana.”
Someone schizophrenic, high on K2 and involved in a struggle can die without a chokehold being involved at all, he said. Similarly, he said, if there were no health issues and the chokehold was the only factor, Neely would not have died.
Shades of George Floyd!! Goodness gracious Matilda! There was no gun involved, there was no murder, a bystander bravely put himself in harms way to protect the innocent on that subway, some of whom I’m quite sure couldn’t defend themselves, and what do the deranged leftist prosecutor (Alvin Bragg) and governor (Kathy Hochel) do? Go after the hero because I guess he didn’t just stand back and let the police handle it.
So what happens now when there are no bystanders willing to step into the gap and help fellow citizens in the hell hole known as New York City?
To be completely honest about it, I’m not sure if a unprovoked is worse or better than a provoked stabbing attack. But the third victim, the woman also later died of her injuries inflicted by Ramon Rivera, a 51-year-old homeless man with a history of eight arrests. As the article points out, don’t confuse this stabbing attack with the one that happened a few days earlier, that was a different perpetrator. It’s almost like criminals in New York realize they won’t be prosecuted. Only former presidents and good Samaritans are of interest to Alvin Bragg.
Could someone have stopped it? I dunno, it happened very close to the area of another stabbing attack just a few days before, and the Daniel Penny trial is going on. So. Perhaps people see the “justice system” in action and think I want no part of that pile of bovine feces.
It’s like the left doesn’t want people to defend themselves, gun or no, self defense is never warranted if it’s going to injure one of their precious illegal invader future voters or a criminal. Apparently the longer the rap sheet, the better.
So what does the left think is justice? Probably nothing we would recognize as such. Which brings us to
Story #3
A verdict was reached in the Laken Riley murder case. I’m sure everyone knows Laken was a wonderful young woman. She was a nursing student in Georgia who had gone out for a run in an area where she had ran before. A few minutes after she started her run, an illegal invader named Jose Ibarra attacked her. So who is Jose Ibarra? He’s one of Kammie and Joe’s babies, an illegal invader into our country.
Ibarra entered the United States illegally through El Paso, Texas, in September 2022 and was released via parole just a day after being taken into custody, Fox News reported. In September 2023, Ibarra was staying for free at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York, which was used as a temporary migrant housing center. He then took a free flight from New York City to Atlanta, Georgia, paid for with federal money under the Biden-Harris administration, the New York Post reported.
Less than six months later in February, Ibarra killed Riley, an Augusta University nursing student, while she was jogging on the University of Georgia’s campus in Athens.
Riley struggled for 18 minutes for her life as she fought the illegal invader attempting to rape her until he finally killed her by smashing her head in with a rock, repeatedly.
So now a verdict has been reached in the murder trial. I’ve seen headlines that said things like justice for Laken. He gets life in prison. Again, 3 hots and a cot on the taxpayer dime.
No, no it wasn’t justice. Georgia is a death penalty state. He cruelly and callously murdered a young woman who wanted to spend her life helping others and all he gets is free room and board for life. So why didn’t he get the death penalty? Because he’s an illegal invader and one of Joe and Kammie’s babies. And the prosecutor is a fellow traveler, Deborah Gonzalez.
The district attorney who declined to seek the death penalty against illegal alien Jose Ibarra, the Venezuelan national convicted of murdering 22-year-old Georgia student Laken Riley, is a criminal justice activist and outspoken Kamala Harris supporter.
She “takes into account collateral consequences to undocumented defendants” when charging criminals.
You can tell a lot about a candidate by the company they keep. Vote Biden to Gonzalez – The Democrat for DA #athensga. #gapol pic.twitter.com/ujsGOINczu
— Deborah Gonzalez (@DG4DA) September 15, 2020
Democrat DA Deborah Gonzalez only sought a sentence of life behind bars without the chance of parole, which the judge overseeing Ibarra’s bench trial granted Wednesday.
Although Georgia is a death penalty state, Gonzalez said pursuing the death penalty was not in the interest of “justice.”
“Our utmost duty is to ensure that justice is served and that the victim’s family is an integral part of the deliberation process. We understand that there will be those outside this office who will disagree with our decision and seek to exploit this case for political gain. However, the integrity of our judicial process and the pursuit of justice must always transcend political considerations,” Gonzalez said, according to local WRDW-TV.
Is that right Debbie? Well, what did Laken’s family say? What did they want to see done? What would have made them feel that “justice” had been achieved?
During victim impact statements, Riley’s mother, Allyson Phillips, implored Haggard to show “no mercy” in sentencing Ibarra. Addressing the judge, she said, “Your honor, I’m asking you to give Jose Ibarra the same thing he gave us when he […] showed no mercy when she was begging for her life.”
“Jose Ibarra took no pity on my scared, panicked, and struggling child,” the grieving mother said. “This sick, twisted, and evil coward showed no regard for Laken and human life. We’re asking the same be done to him.”
Riley’s father, Jason Riley, said, “The pain I feel is unimaginable,” and that he’s “haunted” by the fear she must have felt in her final moments. “The pain of not being there, not being able to protect her, is something I’ll never escape.” Riley’s sister, Lauren Phillips, cried as she pleaded for the stiffest sentence possible. “Jose Antonio Ibarra has completely ruined my life,” she said, hoping he receives a punishment that will “ruin his.”
Well, how many minutes have the knelt in the capitol for a victim of their policies and failure to do their jobs? Oh none? Right.
No guns were involved in any of these stories, what is involved is self defense and defense of others. Daniel Penny could and did, and he was arrested. The lack of someone stepping in if they had been able cost 3 people in NYC their lives. And the verdict in the Laken Riley trial clearly demonstrates the left has no understanding of the meaning of the word “justice” let alone how to execute it. But I’m full of helpful suggestions. For example, justice. Deborah Gonzalez thinks justice wouldn’t be served to ask for the death penalty for one of her illegal invaders who has been supported by American taxpayers since he illegally entered the country. Fine, now she personally pays for his upkeep for the rest of her life. Put some skin in the game Debbie. Because the rest of America has already put in too much, the Riley/Phillips family most of all in this case.
No Debbie, no you didn’t give a darn about what the victim’s family wanted. You just wanted to side with your leftist heroes Kammie and Joe. You don’t know the meaning of the word “justice”. Justice would be Daniel Penny getting a heroes thanks and a key to the city. Justice would be the first citizen that saw the Hispanic construction worker stabbed could have intervened and stopped it, however they needed to do that. Justice for Laken would have been no open borders and she finished her nurse’s training and went on to fulfill the letter she wrote in her diary to her future husband.
The left doesn’t understand justice and they don’t want it. They don’t care about people, they care about power for themselves. Justice?
Sometimes you will hear people talk about Jews and the Holocaust. In the past it might be something ignorant such as “It was a long time ago, the Jews really need to let it go and move past it. No one is putting Jews in ovens these days”. This gave way to “It didn’t really happen you know” or “The Jews exaggerated the number of those killed”. How very wise General Dwight Eisenhower was. He had Congress (A legislative body from back when America had three distinct branches of government) and newspaper writers come to Europe to see and document the atrocities that had taken place in the camps.
Professor Harry Reicher talked about an episode which occurred in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust. While liberating concentration camps and witnessing sights that “beggar description,” General Eisenhower ensured the horrific scenes were captured for posterity in graphic photographs and film. Professor Reicher asserted that he grasped the impact which visual evidence was to have in the Nuremberg Trials, and foresaw the era of Holocaust denial. Video clips of concentration camps were shown
The first Nazi camp liberated by US forces was Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald (the main camp would be liberated one week later). The 4th Armored Division and the 89th Infantry of the Third US Army entered Ohrdruf on April 4, 1945. When soldiers of the 4th Armored Division entered the camp, they discovered piles of bodies, some covered with lime, and others partially incinerated on pyres. The ghastly nature of their discovery led General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, to visit the camp on April 12, with Generals George S. Patton and Omar Bradley. After his visit, Eisenhower cabled General George C. Marshall, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, describing his trip to Ohrdruf:
The things I saw beggar description. … The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick … . I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to “propaganda.”
Seeing the Nazi crimes committed at Ohrdruf made a powerful impact on Eisenhower, and he wanted the world to know what happened in the concentration camps. On April 19, 1945, he again cabled Marshall with a request to bring members of Congress and journalists to the newly liberated camps so that they could convey the horrible truth about Nazi atrocities to the American public. Within days, congressmen and journalists began arriving to bear witness to Nazi crimes in the camps.
Clearly Eisenhower knew students from Columbia, Haavaad, USC and the like.
And now everything old is new again.
You think these little terrorist supporting mush brained students at elite universities are a new phenomenon? Nopper.
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt took to the airwaves on May 26, 1940—before the French army had even surrendered—to criticize those who closed their eyes to what was happening in Europe. He also warned of a potential threat to American security: “the Trojan Horse. The Fifth Column that betrays a nation unprepared for treachery.”2
According to Roosevelt’s address, a portion of which is featured here, the methods of these “spies and saboteurs” was “to create confusion of counsel, public indecision, political paralysis and, eventually, a state of panic…. The unity of the State can be sapped so that its strength is destroyed.”
And speaking of Columbia…this time in Missouri, not the pretend university. Note this was 1936.
Priwer’s article prompted some of her classmates (whom Priwer describes as a “liberal group” of mostly non-Jewish students) to write to the American Jewish Council, asking the organization to expose the propaganda efforts of German exchange students. The resulting report (attached as an addendum to Priwer’s article) was circulated around the University of Missouri campus to warn students and faculty of a major campaign to influence their attitudes toward Nazi Germany.
Apparently, some of the nazis have continued to breed and have an impact at the University of Missouri even up until fairly recently. The latest example being the “journalism professor” Melissa Click who was attempting to throw journalists out of an event at the University by demanding students come help her, she “needed some muscle over here”. Melissa specialized in “audience studies, theories of gender and sexuality, and media literacy”. The University it taxpayer funded. Why? In the photo accompanying the article Melissa can be seen practicing her nazi salute. Actually that whole article is pretty interesting. It points out the attitude of “professors” at these taxpayer funded institutions.
And because outrageous behavior like this at taxpayer funded institutions hasn’t been addressed, it’s continued to fester and rot. Just a search on one, just one website for “Jewish Students” yields a couple of pages of results.
In my previous column I covered many of the abuses Jewish students are being subjected to on campus. These little terrorist sympathizing brain dead, specimens of human excrement have absolutely no self-awareness. None. Whatsoever. Meet Johanna King-Slutsky. No, I’m not, she’s a paid instructor. I guess that would be taxpayer paid instructor. Johanna is part of the takeover at Hamilton Hall.
Talk about unaware? She’s sympathizing with terrorists, terrorists that have indeed put Jews in ovens on October 7th. Infants no less, but that’s who Ms. Slutsky sides with, then in her revolutionary zeal demands the terrorist sympathizers be given food and water. Do we want them to die? Um, speaking strictly for myself here, while I struggle to remain neutral on the question, my kindest answer is don’t care, could go either way.
This is a part of the prayer said during every night for the counting of the omer.
We implore You, by the great power of Your right hand, release the captive. Accept the prayer of Your people; strengthen us, purify us, Awesome One. Mighty One, we beseech You, guard as the apple of the eye those who seek Your Oneness.
hamanazi captives
Four months ago in Israel over 1000 musicians met to record a song calling for the return of the hostages.
One of the other things I find interesting is they took hostages. Yep, the little hamass sympathizers took 3 janitors hostage. In another lack of awareness that FDR could have been alluding to in his speech, administrators still haven’t ended the little “Occupy Gaza on the Quad” zones. I don’t think it’s crossed their mind that they may be the next round of hostages. They truly are trying to copy their idols.
It’s been said by people far more learned than I, the Shoah didn’t start with Kristallnacht.
The specimens of human excrement running around campus (taxpayer funded) have long since turned in their “human card” when they choose to side with and support murders and butchers. Will I cut them slack because they’ve been lied to, manipulated and deceived? No. Because they’re about one lit match away from another “mostly peaceful summer of love”. Only this time they have specific targets in mind. It might be worth mentioning the aspiring terrorist’s motto “First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people” and they are already chanting “Death to America”. Alan Dershowitz recently stated on a podcast that these little aspiring terrorists are going to become actual terrorists. He knew and defended domestic terrorists back in the 60s. He guarantees, some of this crop will follow the same path.
Apparently they don’t teach history at these elite institutions of higher indoctrination. A girlfriend sent me this picture. A tip of my Stetson, Christie, and it’s 100% accurate. The start of hamass and the muslim brotherhoood was the nazis. When the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, haj amin al-husseini, met adolph hitler they formed the start of those groups. The muslim brotherhood was active in Egypt till they were outlawed. I’m not sure, do you suppose that had anything to do with the decimation of the Coptic Christians in Egypt? Either way, remember where this actually started next time a leftist tries to tell you President Trump is literally hitler. Nope, it’s their team.
The hamanazi flag
In the Shoah, there were those brave Jews that fought back, there is a Ghetto fighters House in Israel. It’s actually the first Holocaust museum in the world, and the first to be founded by Holocaust survivors! It was established in 1949, and I’ve been there. Fellow writer Y.B. Ben Avraham tipped me off to it when I went in 2015. How could I not want to see a museum about Partisans? I spent hours there, just like a little sponge soaking up everything I could about these people that were represented.
Today we have Jewish students that have said, “Enough, we’ve flat had enough!”
Within the United States, Sophie Magdalena Scholl is not the best-known resistance fighter, but her story is a powerful one. She was a key member of the Weiße Rose (White Rose)—a resistance group run by students at the University of Munich who distributed leaflets and used graffiti to decry Nazi crimes and the political system, while calling for resistance to the Nazi state and the war. On February 22, 1943, she was beheaded for treason at just 21 years old.
Quite different character than Johanna King-Slutsky, eh?
Today, we have Frat boys. While their mission isn’t the same as the White Rose society exactly, speaking out against attacks against Jews, it is similar in that it’s a refusal to let terrorists take over their schools. Lately there’s been an outbreak of the Fraternities defending the flag, challenging the pro-terrorism students and even having a parade with America proud music and flags.
I might point out the GoFundMe someone started to throw them a keg party is over half a million dollars….proving my point. No more taxpayer dollars should be spent on institutions of higher learning. If they offered anything of value people would buy it on their own. Taxpayer money only makes it more expensive, they turn out brain dead anti-human robots, with useless degrees. Then when their gender studies in puppeteering doesn’t pay the rent or re-pay student loans a corrupt junta like the Biden crime regime will pay them off, thus financing terrorism and stealing another dip from hardworking taxpayers.
During clashes between anti-Israel protesters and pro-Israel counter-protesters on Tuesday night at UCLA in California, one flag held by a counter-protester caught the eye of many.
The bright yellow flag was not that of Israel nor of the PLO, and certainly not the flag of the Hezbollah organization, which is similar in color. Instead, the flag flown by the pro-Israel counter-protester was the yellow “Moshiach” (messiah) flag of the Chabad Hassidic movement.
Perhaps this time it will be different, perhaps this time people won’t say, oh it’s not that bad. Don’t be thin skinned, perhaps this time people won’t put their heads in the sand.
But don’t worry about the little jihadi students. Apparently someone in Iran like my idea. Yes, yes indeed, they are Iran’s kind of peeps. Meanwhile their own peeps are standing in support with Israel. Which of course can get them killed. Yep, lets send the American jihadis to Iran for their free college!
U.S. — Forbes has released its newest list of “Most Desirable Employee Candidates”, which saw Ivy League graduates slip down just below carnies and the people who wash car windows at stoplights.
“We surveyed the top 500 companies in the United States,” explained lead author Dan Rollins. “Employers consistently stated they would pass over a Harvard or Columbia grad for a guy with two years of experience operating a Tilt-A-Whirl. It’s been quite a shift.”
Heroes of Our Land
I read this little book this morning. It’s about some of the soldiers that have fallen in this war. It gives their name, the company they served in, when they fell, who they leave behind, has pictures of each of them. Interestingly it also includes their last letter home, a what if written before they went into battle. They are filled with such hope and love, for their families, their country, their home. Several of them made note in their letters if they were taken prisoner or their bodies were (because the noble falestinians take bodies for hostage knowing Israel wants to bury them according to Jewish law) they forbid their families to allow terrorists to be released to get them back. They say they want no part in allowing the war or terrorism to continue. The book is both inspiring and heartbreaking.
All I can say, is don’t let their sacrifice be in vain, don’t let the millions that died in the Shoah be in vain. May the G-d of Israel guard, guide and protect her and lead her to complete victory soon. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Pray for the coming of Moshiach.
I saw a video recently that just made me salivate. Nope, not a new recipe to try, but it is something sweet and yummy.
I myself try to avoid places that are posted No Concealed Weapons. Yes, I realize the point of carrying concealed is that people can’t tell, but I figure if you don’t want “my kind” there, well then I certainly won’t offend you with my money either. The other reason I try to avoid them is it seems to me that most of the mass attacks are in gun free zones. It seems those pesky criminals don’t obey the sign clearly posted against having a weapon in their “Gun Free Zone”.
or, if you prefer a musical version (what the heck, I’m in a whimsical mood)
I’ve never quite really understood why businesses are responsible for slips, trips and falls, too hot coffee or a burgler breaking in and being injured. Yes, businesses have been sued for all those things. I would stay those are things the business really couldn’t prevent in large. Yes, if the sidewalk or walkway in front of the store is icy and they stay open for business they should clear it. And probably most business owners would do that without being told as they know if a customer falls on their icy walkway they risk a lawsuit.
But when it comes to allowing concealed carry on premises they shrink back and clutch their pearls. I’ve asked a few business owners about that and they’ve said their insurance company insists on it, but they don’t agree with it. I had one jewelry store owner tell me he had no problem with me carrying in his store and he wished I would that way if something happened there would be two of us. I guess nobody wants to be hauled to the back of a store and shot huh?
So back to Georgia’s HB 1364, it doesn’t infringe on the property owners rights, all it says if you deprive someone of the right to defend themselves with the most effective tool, then you bear the responsibility for their safety as you’ve chosen to remove their right to defend themselves should something untoward happens. This would also include parking lots.
Here’s a snippet
(1) ‘Lawful weapons carrier’ shall have the same meaning as provided for in Code
Section 16-11-125.1.
‘Weapon’ shall have the same meaning as provided for in Code Section 16-11-125.1.
A person, business, or other entity that owns or legally controls a property and has the authority to prohibit weapons on such property, including, but not limited to, such authority provided by Code Section 16-11-127, assumes absolute custodial responsibility for the safety and defense of a lawful weapons carrier who is prohibited from carrying his or her weapon, including a concealed weapon, while on such property and any other property such lawful weapons carrier is required to traverse in order to store or retrieve such weapon.
The absolute custodial responsibility imposed upon the person, business, or other entity provided for in paragraph (1) of this subsection extends to the conduct of other invitees, trespassers, and employees of such person, business, or other entity.
Any public notice posted on a property that includes language which provides that weapons are prohibited on such property shall also contain language citing this Code section and providing that any lawful weapons carrier who is prohibited from carrying his or her weapon, including a concealed weapon, while on such property shall be under the absolute custodial care of the person, business, or other entity that owns or legally controls such property.
Any lawful weapons carrier who is prohibited from carrying his or her weapon,including a concealed weapon, and who is injured, suffers bodily injury or death, or incurs economic loss or expense, property damage, or any other compensable loss as the result of conduct of another person occurring on property where the lawful possession of weapons is prohibited, shall have a cause of action against the person, business, or other entity that owns or legally controls such property and causes such prohibition to occur.
In addition to damages, the lawful weapons carrier shall be entitled to reasonable attorney’s fees, expert witness costs, and other costs necessary to bring the cause of action.
To prevail in an action brought under this subsection, the plaintiff shall show by a preponderance of the evidence that:
(A) The plaintiff was a lawful weapons carrier at the time of the incident giving rise to the action;
The plaintiff was prohibited from carrying a weapon, including a concealed weapon, on the property where the incident occurred by the person, business, or other entity that owns or legally controls such property; and
Every time I think about gun free zones, I think about Suzanna Gratia Hupp’s poignant testimony before congress.
This is a bill I’ve wanted to see in my state for a long time. If it’s the insurance companies pulling the strings, then shop owners really aren’t making their own choice anyway are they?
Let’s do the enemies first, and I’m guessing there will be no surprises as to whom they might be, but some of the actions might not be as well known. Gosh I don’t know why major media outlets aka #FakeNews are laying off people left and right…/sarcasm font.
Biden choices in funding
While many nations around the world have stopped funding the antisemitic, anti-Israel UNRWA the Obiden crime junta actually has not. I list both, because one should remember, the goal of hamass is to kill Jews the world over, not just in Israel.
The United Kingdom and several other countries announced Saturday that they were suspending funding to the United Nations’ Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA) after allegations that staff may have participated in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
Canada and the United States announced Friday that in the wake of the allegations they would temporarily pause funding to the agency, with the State Department saying that it was “extremely troubled by the allegations.” The U.K., Italy and Austria also followed suit this weekend and suspended their aid indefinitely, according to NBC News.
But not the terrorist funding Obiden junta, oh no. See, words don’t mean the same thing on the left as they do to normal people.
Similarly, you may have read that the Biden administration has frozen funds to UNRWA, the United Nations operation in Gaza, after explosive and credible allegations emerged that a dozen UNRWA employees were directly involved in the planning and execution of the October 7 Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians. The Trump administration stopped funding this deeply corrupt organization back in 2018, then Biden quickly restored the money upon taking office. Now that this move has blown up in his face, Biden has belatedly and apparently temporarily stopped the cash flow to UNRWA. But as we saw with the Houthis climbdown, there’s a catch:
Wow.@JerylBier discovered that the State Department saying they were pausing funding to UNRWA only applies to new commitments. They plan to continue to use US taxpayer money to fund current projects despite evidence of the group abetting terrorism. https://t.co/zXIfqouXVV
— AG (@AGHamilton29) January 28, 2024
On Friday, in response to allegations that employees of the UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees) had been involved in Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, the State Department announced that it had “temporarily paused additional funding” for the United Nations agency. The funding pause, however, applies only to new and additional funding, not funding already obligated before the pause went into effect on Wednesday, a State Department spokesperson told Pluribus. When asked for details on what obligations would and would not be affected by the pause, the spokesperson directed Pluribus to a fact sheet released by the State Department on January 16, 2024…The fact sheet reports that funding already committed or obligated to the UNRWA for fiscal 2024 for work in the West Bank and Gaza totaled $51 million as of January 16. Although the State Department did not directly answer questions about the amounts or the timing involved in distribution of funds, the spokesperson stated that “we are pausing any new or additional funding. Contributions to UNRWA that were not obligated as of January 24 are suspended, contributions to UNRWA obligated prior to this date remain in effect.”
Huh, color me shocked. It’s like the Obiden junta supports terrorism for both hamass and the Houthis…Course, it’s only money…taxpayer money, it’s not like it’s coming from the Biden crime family or anything.
1. UNRWA is a jihadist terror cult. For 70 years, it’s indoctrinated youth to hate, kill, and be disposable pawns in a battle to destroy Israel and beyond.
2. Thousands of it’s staff took part in or supported Oct 7th atrocities. This is a direct result of the billions in “aid” it spent on hate indoctrination and militarizing Gaza.
3. Instead of resettling its refugees, UNRWA forces them and all their descendants to be refugees forever. It indoctrinates kids to believe they must destroy Israel to ever have a home.
4. This perpetual refugee status is unprecedented and different than how all other refugees are treated – including the 100 million aided by UNHCR, the UN’s main refugee agency.
5. Israel is 0.3% of the Middle-East and is here to stay. The UNRWA jihad fantasy must end now. The rest of the region (10,000,000+ sq miles) should welcome its brethren.
6. In the past century, there were 1,000,000+ Jewish refugees from Arab countries. None are now seen as “refugees” or to have a “right to return”. They’ve all resettled in Israel or other countries.
7. Israel grants all Jews a “Law of Return” to their indigenous homeland. Most Arabs in Israeli territories came from Egypt or Jordan, which should offer them similar rights.
8. Funding UNRWA destroys the lives of Arab children who become indoctrinated with hate and violence for life. It destroys the societies where it operates, and brings forever conflicts to the region.
9. UNRWA is irredeemable. It’s aided and abetted the worst ideologies and atrocities for decades. Both Hamas and UNRWA must be eliminated for there to be a chance at real peace and stability.
Lousy organization correct? Not people you’d trust or want to be associated with, correct? Oh but if you’re the Obiden junta, they’re just the people you want.
Sure, I feel safe now
I’m sure all Americans will be as safe with the NSC director as the Israelis were with Maher Bitar at UNRWA. Sure of it…..
But the threats to innocent Israelis comes not only from Gaza, but from Judea and Shomron (Samaria) as well as the arabs there are pining to have hamass move in and “govern” them as well. No, not for the elevated standard of living they brought to Gaza, but because their charter is all about killing Jews.
So America will help her ally, correct? There is a real threat in Judea and Shomron to the people living there.
Diligently following a master plan worked out over 10 years ago, the Palestinian Authority is laying claim to large tracts of Israeli state land through illegal building. Resembling Potemkin villages, many structures stand empty, hollow, windowless, alone or clumped together. The land grab has been hugely successful because Israeli countermeasures have been so feeble, Jews living in the area tell JNS.
So the Jews living there need to be well armed to defend themselves and their towns. And the Obiden junta’s response?
The Biden administration is once again holding up licenses for selling more than 20,000 US-made M16 rifles to Israel on the charge that they would be distributed to “violent extremist” settlers, Axios reported Wednesday night.
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The sale is crucial not only to the settlers, who are only scantily armed and whose able-bodied men are serving, and dying, in Gaza. Israeli communities inside the Green Line, in the south, the north, but mostly in the center, are still vulnerable to terrorist attacks and deploy local standby response teams made up of local residents. They receive their weapons and training from the Police, and their need far outweighs the supply.
The left, in Israel and America despise Ben Gvir, he loves Israel and Israelis! Oh shock! Oh horror of horrors!! He’s handing out rifles to people in Judea and Samaria!
I heard a great definition of “settler violence” recently. I think it’s a lot like “gun violence”. If a settler is walking down a road and sees an arab stealing a sheep and the Jew throws a rock at the thief, that’s “settler violence”. If the Jewish farmer (settler) is walking down the road and sees an arab stealing a sheep and the arab throws rocks at the Jewish farmer that is also “settler violence”. See how that works? In America if a concealed carry holder shoots the criminal that was trying to kidnap or assault them, that too is “gun violence”.
And honestly, there aren’t as many of those as one would have hoped….but coming from a Hollyweird actors, that took some courage.
‘You are fighting against forces of regression, that are anti-modernity, anti-western civilization, that are determined to throw back society to medieval times.’
Now this one will be a shocker, John Fetterman! The terrorist, murdering and raping supporters of hamass showed up apparently at Fetterman’s abode and started in with their indoctrinated chant. Fetterman (a non-Jewish member of the DNC) responded by going out on the roof of the building and waving the Israeli flag. I. AM. IN. SHOCK!! This required an extra cup of coffee to revive me.
And lastly, this very moving song comes from the group Five For Fighting, it’s called “OK”. This is not a Jewish group, this is a group that looked around at the moral decay that has been exposed in America by the acts of October 7th and those around the world following it. October 7th ripped the masks off many many things, and it has become a time for choosing. Apparently this member of the music industry sees things are not “ok”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDJXo2Gn-ww
I watch with shock, horror, trepidation, and anger at how fast my beloved country is becoming 1930s Germany. For those that wondered how they would have been, how they would have acted, how they would have chosen, what their character would have been? Yeah, well, I think we’re going to be finding out.
Harassment of Jews, with pending property damage? Check.
The sad irony of the October 7th massacre is that the denizens of Gaza attacked probably the most liberal part of Israel. They killed and raped the people who felt the most compassion for them, who marched for them, who hired them, who drove them to hospitals in Israel.
For example, this is Vivian Silver.
The late Vivian Silver HY”D
The body of Canadian-Israeli Vivian Silver, one of the victims of the October 7th massacre was found.
Vivian (74) was an Israeli peace activist and leader of Women Waging Peace.
She spent years driving Gazans in need of medical care to Israeli hospitals.
They showed up on October 7th and thanked her their way – massacre!
Kfar Aza and Be’eri were made up of secular leftist peacenik types. They truly believed they could be friends and co-exist with the denizens of Gaza. So when it came time for the attack here’s how that works out in real life. The nice Gazans they had employed and paid good wages, that they had eaten meals with in their homes repaid their kindness in typical faux falestinian fashion. They had scoped out the Kibbutzim very well. They knew where the men lived, they knew who if any had guns and often where they were kept. They knew how many women and children, where they usually were, who had safe rooms and where. They then passed this intelligence onto the hamanazis.
Like the Jews of Germany that thought they were living peacefully with their neighbors for years, like the Jews living peacefully in 1929 Hevron with their Arab neighbors for years. Until one day they weren’t. Their peaceful neighbors turned into a deranged mob intent on torturing and killing one and all.
This man is a Muslim Arab Israeli who works for ZAKA, what he has to say is worth hearing.
A friend of mine told me there were a couple of religious observant Kibbutzim in the area. They lock their gates on Friday night at the start of Shabbat. They were spared, it seems the terrorists didn’t want to mess with fighting to get into some place when it was easier to go to those they knew would be lax. I’m not casting aspersions, I’m just marveling at small miracles any were spared.
And one of the questions many of us have struggled with is how could this happen?? How could Israel be so caught off guard. Well, short answer is it wasn’t, exactly. You know all those leftists in charge of our military? The ones doing drag queen story hour, and saying they would call China if our former President had been preparing to take action against them? Well, Israel has those kind as well. Caroline Glick is usually very solid. This has some of the answers, but its very painful and a bit of a warning to us as Obiden’s illegal invaders continue to stream across our border.
I’ve gotten the following information from more than one source, and it seems to line up pretty consistently.
Some of the horrors Israeli hostages experienced at the hands of Hamas in Gaza:
*Executed in captivity.
*Denied medical treatment.
*Starvation.
*Women kept in cages.
*Some forced to eat toilet paper.
*Sleep deprivation.
*Forced to watch Oct 7 atrocities.
*Separation from families.
*Children branded with exhaust pipes in case of escape.
*Beatings.
*Deprived of daylight.
*Solitary confinement.
*Elderly women forced to sleep on plastic chairs.
*Children forced to whisper, not allowed to cry.
*Denied basic hygiene.
*Confined to cramped spaces.
*No idea if their families survived.
*Forced to participate in degrading propaganda videos.
*Not a single visit from the Red Cross.
NEVER donate money to the Red Cross. Not only do they have a horrid history going back to WWII, while they certify the hamanazi ambulance service Red Crescent which is used to transport and hide terrorists, they refuse to certify Israel’s Magan David Adom ambulance service. In addition to which in this case the Red Cross did not demand of the hamanazis to be allowed to visit the hostages, and when asked by the family of an elderly hostage to take her medicine (which they had brought with them) to her in captivity, they refused. Yep, the Red Cross refused to take provided medication to an elderly hostage. NEVER give money to the Red Cross.
And this is just what we know about!Prof. Itai Pesach, head of children’s hospital at Sheba, said “When the children will start telling their stories, none of us will be able to sleep at night”.
Eitan was a Hamas hostage. He is 12 years old.
Eitan was brutally beaten on the day he was kidnapped by crowds of “innocent” civilians as he was brought from Israel into Gaza.
He was bullied by Palestinian boys under the instructions of a male teacher.
In captivity, he was forced to watch horrific videos of the massacre and torture of people he knew by the terrorists from October 7th.
He also said that the terrorists threatened them with weapons when the kidnapped Israeli children were crying.
When the Hamanazis said they didn’t know where all the hostages were they may have been telling the truth. Because the “innocent denizens of Gaza” were very actively involved in the kidnapping, torture and murder of the kidnapped Israelis. They also were holding some of them in private homes. Including a UNRWA teacher who held a captive in his attic for around 50 days basically starving the captive. Another Israeli was held captive by a Falestinian “doctor”. Yeah he is suppose to be a real doctor but apparently the Hippocratic oath hasn’t been translated into Falestinian.
This is the truth about Hamas, this is the high moral imperative of the Palestinian majority.
To torment and kill Israelis and Jews. This opinion poll was done around October 7th.
A Falestinian opinion poll
Be sure that Arab leaders are not as enthusiastic about a Palestinian state solution as the US administration does. Why? They have their past to lean on –
In the early 1950s, the Palestinian leadership collaborated with the Muslim Brotherhood, terrorizing Egypt, their host country.
In the mid-1960s, the Palestinian leadership terrorized Syria, their host country.
In 1968-70, the Palestinian leadership triggered a civil war in Jordan, attempting to topple their host Hashemite regime.
In 1970-82, the Palestinian leadership instigated a series of civil wars in Lebanon, aiming to take over their host country.
In 1990, the Palestinian leadership collaborated with Saddam Hussein’s invasion and plunder of Kuwait, which was for decades the most generous Arab host of 400,000 Palestinians.
From 1939, about nine years before the declaration by Israel of statehood,
Nobody wants these flotsom of human kind including other Arab nations which share a language and religion with them. This is Saudi author and media personality Rawaf al-Saeen. It has English subtitles and is pretty enlightening coming from the Arabic side.
Also weighing in for “news sources” that use the information given to them by the falestinian health ministry, is Amjad Taha, Arabic journalist, a real one. As opposed to cnn, msnbc and NYT. You see the falestinian health ministry is hamass. It’s run by hamass and is hamass. If they’re willing to behead babies, they’re willing to lie to a gullible western media and populace about how many are dead and how they got that way.
Taha
And some of the Western Media is very very stupid. Kudos to Elyon Levy.
Knesset member Avigdor Lieberman: There are no innocents in Gaza, he’s not exactly a religiously observant Jew.
There are no innocents in Gaza.
For years, good people with good intentions and it’s safe to say naive, believed in and promoted the idea of peace between us and the Palestinians. People who believed with all their hearts in the idea of two states and thought that normal people who dream the same dream live in Gaza.
A dream that shattered into pieces on October 7, 2023.
After recovering from the initial shock of the terrible massacre and with the revelation of the evidence of the atrocities committed by the Nazi terrorists, there is no shadow of a doubt that those who took part in the attack on the Gaza Strip, provided the intelligence on the homes of the residents and led the mob in the second wave of looting and destruction, were Gazans who worked in the settlements they invaded. They made a living and ate in the homes of the massacred residents, those residents who helped them and their families when they were sick and took care of transporting them from Gaza to Israel for life-saving treatments in hospitals in Israel.
The late Vivian Silver, from Kibbutz Be’eri, was one of those people who worked for peace and for the people of Gaza. She established aid programs for Gazans, made sure the workers were paid fair wages, transported the sick to hospital treatment and a few days before the massacre organized a peace rally in Jerusalem where Israeli women marched alongside women. On the Black Saturday, she was murdered with terrible cruelty by the very people she had worked for over the years, and none of the residents of Gaza condemned the murder or expressed shock.
Some will say that the residents of Gaza are afraid of Hamas and that is why we have not heard any condemnation from them, but the scenes we are witnessing in the last few days every evening when our abductees are transferred to the Red Cross and the testimonies of those who have returned from captivity, leave no room for doubt.
Hamas receives overwhelming support in Gaza.
The enraged crowd that insults and spits on the abductees, our small children who say they were beaten by Gazans of all ages and the demonstrations of joy and support for terrorists throughout Gaza, testify to the cruelty of the population that educates its children to hate the State of Israel and trains a new generation of terrorists and supporters of terrorism whose goal is the destruction of the State of Israel for all its citizens.
Gaza is a wasp’s nest of terrorists.
There is complete synchronization between Hamas and “innocent” citizens and the story of Roni Kariboy, who was kidnapped from the music festival by the bad guys, illustrates this. Roni managed to escape from captivity and hide for a few days, until Gazans caught him and returned him to his captors.
This is probably the reason why the terrorists marked the legs of the kidnapped children with the exhaust pipe of a motorcycle in order to make it easy to identify them in case they escape.
Another evidence of the full cooperation of the population can be found in the corridors of Shifa Hospital, where the hospital director and other senior doctors helped the terrorists hide hostages and turned the hospital into a haven for terrorists. But it’s not only in hospitals that you find collaborators, also in private homes of UNRWA medical professionals and teachers where hostages were held in terrible conditions.
These things are also reflected in social networks, in the Arab world and in Gaza. 99.9% of all publications are words of praise and wall-to-wall support for Hamas and the horrible acts of October 7th.
Now someone show me where innocent people who are not involved in terrorism are hiding in the Gaza Strip.
Might there be guidance from the Torah about how such things should be handled? Why, yes indeed. In last weeks Parsha as a matter of fact!
Fifth Reading 34:1 Dinah was the daughter of Leah, whom Leah had borne to Jacob.46 Dinah was Leah’s daughter not only in the biological sense but also in the moral sense: she inherited her mother’s willingness to venture out of the safety of her tent47 for holy and righteous purposes. Confident in her ability to positively influence others—even though she was no more than a girl of ten at the time—she went out to observe the girls of that region in order to convince them to adopt the righteous ways of her family.
2 But Shechem, son of Chamor the Hivite, who was the chief of the region, saw her, took her, raped her, and abused her carnally in other ways, as well.
3 Despite himself, he was strongly drawn to Jacob’s daughter Dinah; he loved the girl, and spoke to the girl in a way he hoped would win over her heart, saying, “Look how many ornate coins your father expended just to purchase a small parcel of land.49 If you marry me, the whole city and its environs will effortlessly and automatically belong to you.”
4 Shechem spoke to his father, Chamor, as follows: “Get me this young girl as a wife.”
5 Now Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah. His sons were in the field with his livestock, so Jacob held his peace until they came.
6 Meanwhile, Shechem’s father, Chamor, went out to Jacob to speak with him.
7 Jacob’s sons returned from the field when they heard what Shechem had done to Dinah. The men, her brothers, became aggrieved and were deeply incensed, for Shechem had committed an outrage to their father Israel by raping their sister, Jacob’s daughter. Such a thing was considered socially and legally taboo ever since humanity had collectively foresworn illicit carnal relations in the wake of the Flood50 and made such acts a capital offense. Thus, Shechem’s act made him liable to the death penalty. The other residents of the city were implicated in his offense as well, for not having voiced their protest.51
8 Chamor spoke with them, saying, “My son Shechem deeply desires your daughter. I implore you, give her to him in marriage
9 and intermarry with us: give us your daughters, and take our daughters for yourselves. These marriages between our two peoples shall take place at your sole discretion: you may decide to which of our men you will give your daughters, as well as which of our daughters you will take for your men.
10 You shall live among us, and the land will be open before you; you may settle it, trade in it, and acquire holdings in it.”
11 Then Shechem said to her father and brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you tell me to give as a dowry, I will give.
12 Go ahead, demand of me an exceedingly high figure for the dowry you will stipulate in the bridal contract, and for gifts, and I will give as much as you tell me; just give me this girl as a wife!”
13 When Jacob’s sons replied to Shechem and his father, Chamor, they spoke cunningly, for he had defiled their sister Dinah.
14 They told them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to an uncircumcised man, for that would be considered a disgrace to us. In fact, when one of our people wishes to insult someone, he calls him ‘uncircumcised’ or ‘the son of an uncircumcised father.’
15 Therefore, will we give our assent only on this condition: that you be like us in that every male among you be circumcised.
16 We will then intermarry with you as you have proposed, i.e., at our sole discretion: We will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves, and we will live together with you and become a single nation.
17 But if you do not heed us and circumcise yourselves, we will take our daughter and depart.”
18 Their terms were acceptable to Chamor and to Shechem, Chamor’s son.
19 The young man did not delay in carrying out this thing, since he desired Jacob’s daughter, and he was the most respected person in his father’s household.
20 Chamor then came with his son Shechem to the gate of their city, and they spoke to the men of their city as follows:
21 “These men are fully at peace with us. Let them live in the land and trade in it, for the land has ample room for them. Supply in our land exceeds demand, so letting them live here and trade in the land will not adversely affect our economy.” When Chamor and Shechem had proposed intermarriage between the two peoples to Jacob and his sons, they phrased their proposal to Jacob’s family’s advantage, allowing them to select Hivite men for their daughters and take whatever Hivite girls they wished for wives. In contrast, when they now set the proposal of intermarriage before their compatriots, they altered the wording to their compatriot’s advantage in order to induce them to consent to be circumcised: “We will take their daughters as wives, and we will give our daughters to them, both at our discretion.
22 But only on this condition will these men consent to live with us and become one nation: that every male among us be circumcised, just as they are circumcised.
23 After all, when they will dwell among us, their livestock, their possessions, and all their animals will become ours. Let us just agree to their condition and they will live among us.”
24 All the people who came out to the gate of Chamor’s city heeded Chamor and his son Shechem, and all the males who passed through the gate of his city had themselves circumcised.
25 On the third day after their circumcision, when the Hivites were in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, each took up his sword. They acted as Dinah’s loyal brothers, risking their lives for her sake, but without first consulting their father. They fell upon the city, confident in their ability to overcome the men—firstly, because of the Hivites’ weakness and pain due to the circumcision, and secondly, in the merit of their father Jacob—and killed every male.
26 They also killed Chamor and his son Shechem by the sword, and took Dinah from Shechem’s house and left. When they went to rescue Dinah, they found her agonizing in embarrassment over what had been done to her and afraid that, consequentially, no one would want to marry her; Simeon therefore promised that he would marry her, and it was only on this condition that she consented to be rescued.52
When the two brothers attacked the city of Shechem, Jacob took up his sword and bow and stood at the entrance to the city in readiness to protect his sons if any of its allies would come to side with its inhabitants.53
27 Jacob’s sons came to strip the slain of their possessions, and they plundered the city that had defiled their sister.
28 They took the Hivites’ flocks, cattle, donkeys, and whatever else was in the city and the field.
29 They seized all their money and captured all their children and womenfolk, and plundered everything in the houses.
A couple of thoughts, Dinah was TEN, TEN years old when Shechem raped her. I was attempting to explain why the actions of Simeon and Levi were responsible and reasonable. The whole town did nothing to stop the depraved Shechem from brutalizing the child, and after he did so they did nothing to confront him. So will the town continue to behave in such a manner? Yes. Of course.
I thought Lenny Goldberg had a great (if short) show on this very topic this week.
Part of the problem is people look at this situation and actions through the mind set of the mid-west. The middle East is not the mid-west.
Some of the terrorists Israel has released are again calling for the murder of innocent Israeli civilians. Already.
And the hamanazis are saying they intend to repeat October 7th.
And this is the next generation of “innocent Gazans”
We were warned.
Understand this, our country has become so depraved that when those in charge of 3 major schools of higher learning refused to say that calling for the murder of Jews is a violation of their school’s policies you know where we’re at. The best they could manage was if the terrorists actions crossed over from calling for genocide into actually committing genocide then that might maybe be a violation of their schools policies. Situation dependent you understand, of course.
There are many many people stacked against what used to be normalcy and decency. But there are some interesting solutions. I do love this short video.
This woman in Israel is known for cheerleading and supporting Hamas. She got the shock of her life when the Israeli police informed her in person that she would be relocated to Gaza—the ultimate fan experience, right at the heart of the action, the headquarters of Hamas! Israeli Arabs enjoy one of the highest standards of living in the world, even higher than other Arabic countries usually. But this woman just loves and supports the Hamanazis, and hasn’t been shy about telling everyone. So, Israel is shipping her to Gaza!! What a fabulous idea!! Look at her excitement and the look of pure joy on her face!! They’ve made her dream come true. I’d like to suggest we begin to do the same to some college students and the presidents of Harvaaaaard, MIT and Penn. I’m sure they’d love it!! T
Hanukkah starts tonight. It’s different from some of the other wars, most of them have been like what the current demoncrat party is waging. A fight against a mob and death. <humor alert>
Hanukkah in contrast, the Greeks didn’t care if the people lived, but they wanted to kill the religion and practice of Judaism. Sort of like the Obiden White House.
“It’s a simple solution,” said historic White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who is gay and black. “We have seen a sharp rise in antisemitic behavior, so our best advice to Jewish people in fear for their lives is to stop doing Jewy things and consider not being Jewish altogether.”
If you’re like me, you wonder why? Why is this happening. I really liked the explanation in this short video. It is apparent, the time is upon us, the time for choosing. What kind of people will we be? What kind of people are we? What will we contribute to society, our country and our world?Will we seek out and find why G-d wants us here at this time in this place? All questions for each of us to answer.
And with that, I will wish you all a very safe, joyous and meaningful Hanukkah!
As information comes out about the pogrom/atrocities/murders/slaughters I am filled with rage, alternating with anger, alternating with sorrow, alternating with exhaustion. So hopefully you will forgive what’s probably going to be a more disjointed that usual column. But I have to. I just do.
Part of the anger comes from watching the response of the world. The same countries that in the UN condemn Israel for nothing, now have their buildings lit up with blue and white. Yay you. Let’s see how long it lasts. Before long, the media will begin their inevitable spin. I’ve heard some already, there were no decapitated babies and children. Yeah? About 40 of them, Kfar Aza. It is unusual for the IDF to allow journalists access to such a site, and in one report I saw there was still active fighting going in parts of Kfar Aza. I did an image search on Freespoke, and it looks like many of the captions were in French. Which may account for when the muslims in France rioted in the last couple days the French police put it down hard and quick. Maybe the French are catching on to what happens, I dunno. But journalists that were there DO have photographic proof, the MSM is refusing to air it. The MSM just blathers on about “unconfirmed” “no proof”. Yeah, yeah, there is you deceptive sewer scum. That was the point of the IDF letting them in. As in WWII, when Omar Bradley said:
“It is the desire of the Theater Commander that both still and moving pictures be utilized to the fullest extent practicable as exhibits in reports of investigations of war crimes committed by the Nazis with particular reference to Allied prisoners of war both in and out of camps and to concentration camps for the purpose of recording for civilization the history of horror written by over five years of German atrocities.”
“I visited every nook and cranny of the camp because I felt it my duty to be in a position from then on to testify at first hand about these things in case there ever grew up at home the belief or assumption that `the stories of Nazi brutality were just propaganda.’ Some members of the visiting party were unable to through the ordeal. I not only did so but as soon as I returned to Patton’s headquarters that evening I sent communications to both Washington and London, urging the two governments to send instantly to Germany a random group of newspaper editors and representative groups from the national legislatures. I felt that the evidence should be immediately placed before the American and British publics in a fashion that would leave no room for cynical doubt.”
The nazis tried to hide their crimes, hamass livestreams theirs. They’re proud of what they’re doing. They expect the world to rejoice with them.
The state of Israel is our hope of preventing another holocaust. We need to do more than hope.
For now, this wiki article on the Kfar Aza seems to be fairly accurate. One report I heard said many of the dead that were killed initially were the more right wing that had guns and were trying to protect the more naive who didn’t own guns. Kibbutz Be’eri is a kibbutz located in the Gaza periphery since 1946. Its members are generally on the secular left, and it includes many peace activists. There were 250 people living there before, not sure how many are left, many are dead, some have been taken hostage.
See, it’s hard to know the actual numbers of the dead. You aren’t “dead” until your body is given a number. And some of the bodies are hard to get to, even though they can be seen. Some of the rooms in the Kibbutzim have been booby trapped. As have the bodies, where grenades have been placed inside the bodies. So in some of these places you have to have sappers come clear things before you can get the body, and then you can give it a number. This is part of why the death toll is rising slowly.
Happily this was not the way it turned out in every Kibbutz though. From a message on my Zehut group,
As I type this, Hezbollah terrorists have begun entering Israeli air spacewith gliders from Lebanon. God help them. IDF has deployed over 10K troops to the north. Like I said to MPs, I’m afraid of full scale incursion from Lebanon will occur as soon as the IDF begins its ground invasion of Gaza.
Meanwhile, the Israeli government has suspended it’s gun control policies indefinitely and began issuing permits to all applicants who are Israeli citizens and not Islamic.
On Saturday, female Israeli citizen Inbal Lieberman of Kibbutz Nir Am killed six Hamas terrorists with her AR-15 by herself, and organized her kibbutz residents to fight. They turned the kibbutz into a fortress as she issued weapons and in total killed a dozen Muslims. Because of this incident, Israel is going full 2A.
US Special Forces have now arrived in Israel, probably to coordinate rescue of US citizens kidnapped by Hamas. Pray.
If every citizen had an AR-15 with an adequate capacity magazine…
I mentioned in my previous column that Itamar Ben-Gvir has dropped mountains of gun control laws and is arming citizens. Had they done this years ago as Rabbi Kahane suggested (every Jew a .22) , as Moshe Feiglin suggested this might not have happened. But who knows? I don’t have a crystal ball.
Former PM says it was armed local groups of citizens who were the most successful in fighting off Hamas invaders on Saturday.
Yeah, I’m sure that’s true. But I doubt Francistan or Germany will pay attention. Till it’s too late anyway.
And about the US Special Forces arriving to rescue US citizens. Perhaps I should just point out, for Americans hoping their government will get them out…..
“While Poland, Hungary, Brazil, Romania, and other countries sent planes to bring their citizens home from the war zone, our government told us to fend for ourselves,” wrote Yitz Friedman.
And as long as I’m whinging about the US government, I understand Winkin (Lloyd Austin) Blinkin (Blinken) are already in Israel. The only one missing is Nod (Beijing Biden). My hunch and fear is they are not there to support Israel, they are there to rein Israel in. After a discrete period of time, of course. Say, oh, about 3 days? Maybe less. See the Xiden junta is allied with China, China gave Beijing Biden lots and lots of money. And Beijing is backing the terrorists.
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) reaction to the deadly attack on Israel by the Hamas terrorists revealed that it’s on the side of Palestine, according to Gordan Chang, author of “The Coming Collapse of China” and “China Is Going to War.”
On Sunday, China’s foreign ministry issued its first statement, expressing its deep concerns about the “escalation of tensions and violence between Palestine and Israel.” Without naming Hamas, the ministry’s spokesperson urged “relevant parties” to “remain calm, exercise restraint, and immediately end the hostilities.”
How’s about “HELL NO”. How do you remain calm among decapitated babies and children? Dead mothers with their unborn children cut out of them and the bodies left laying the the umbilical cord hooking them together? With abducted children, women, elderly? One hamass terrorist that was caught very freely admitted when asked why they kidnapped women and children, they aren’t soldiers after all, it was to rape them.
I wrote about some of the atrocities committed by the arabs in Huwara not long ago, the arabs there kill Jews almost any chance they get. They aren’t really afraid of the IDF you see, the IDF, like the American military is mostly controlled at the top by a leftist mentality. Or the lack thereof. You know who the arabs in Huwara are afraid of? The Jews in nearby cities. Those aren’t leftist Jews living in Judea and Samaria on the whole. Of course the UN was outraged by the arab attacks against innocent Jews driving on the road in their car, or in the town. Oh, sorry, my mistake. UN lashes Israel for Huwara settler violence after terror shooting
Nope, the UN was dead silent about the murder of Jews. But the Israelis in nearby towns had flat had enough. Which is partly why I don’t expect the support from “the world” to last too long.
So what brings up Huwara again? In my previous column there was a video clip of an elderly woman that has been kidnapped by hamass making a “Victory” sign as an hamass dropping stood next to her. Well, her image showed up in an ad for pizza in Huwara as they celebrate the massacre of the Jews.
This poor lady… These creatures are sub-animal.
But this time, this time I have something delightful for you, really!!
The Honenu legal aid organization sent an urgent letter to the IDF asking the shop be shut down. The owner had been in legal trouble before,several years before he had seriously injured a boy from Yitzhar with a rock, but was released due to lack of evidence.
You won’t have time for popcorn, but this is delightful none the less. This is the IDF destroying the store. Not a room, not just the window. The store.
You know, if the IDF had been this hard line years ago…..but again, look at who top leadership are. For now, I’ll just savor.
In America, the left is showing their true colors. For those parents who have sacrificed to send their little darlings to a “good university” here’s what you sacrifice has gotten you.
An official statement from the Hamas terrorist organization and comments from a former Hamas leader—both calling for global mobilization against Israel this Friday, Oct. 13—are raising alarm at Jewish organizations and among those who monitor the Middle East.
“The real threat here is that there is no way of knowing who, if anyone, will take up the call or if there are pre-planned actions already staged elsewhere in the world just waiting for the greenlight,” according to James Carafano, a fellow at the Heritage Foundation and senior counselor to its president.
Boy, I’m sure glad we don’t have any of those peaceful falestinians in America! And the ones we do have the obiden junta can keep an eye on them!
But the shop former shop in Huwara may not be the only place that is finally going to earn the results it deserves. For all those leftists such as BLM and antifa that have rampaged with no consequences, thought that they could do anything without consequences, perhaps something is changing.
But some of the future BLM/antifa jihadi students are beginning to re-think their signing of a petition blaming Israel for all the dead Jewish families. Not because they object to the atrocities you understand, oh no, not that. But because it could affect their future job opportunities…The suffering of others and compassion for them doesn’t exist on the left.
The backtracking is all about jobs. People want to know who these students are so that they won’t hire them.
Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman is calling on Harvard to release the names of students in the groups that signed the pro-terror statement so that employers do not “inadvertently” hire them in the future. https://t.co/Xx5un4zbmY
— Alana Mastrangelo (@ARmastrangelo) October 12, 2023
Harvard students are legit worried that their open Hamas support will affect future job opportunities with Goldman. https://t.co/OBS2H9dZlW
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) October 11, 2023
Harvard students scramble to take back support for letter attacking Israel as some CEOs look to blacklist them https://t.co/yeBNAHiSdF pic.twitter.com/Qi1M3MXEaM
— New York Post (@nypost) October 11, 2023
And this “Harvard Law Student” obviously is deeply, deeply concerned about the people that were trapped in the “safe rooms” of their houses hearing their neighbors slaughtered and could do nothing, the families that were wiped out because they were Jewish. See, some of those black and brown people BLM is always yammering on about protecting and caring about? Well, some of those black and brown people in Israel were Jewish. Black and brown people killed by arabs. And BLM supports their killers. But back to my point about the Harvard law student, it seems some CEOs not being mush headed college students and looking at the letters the aforementioned mush headed college students signed blaming Israel for hamass attacking them. And decided “Nope, nopitty nope nope. Not hiring these immoral and amoral thugs”. So what distresses Harvard law student? Not the suffering of the victims, nope the “harassment” by CEOs wanting to know who signed the letter because they don’t want to hire them. Wow.
a flawed view of harassment I’d say
And what are the future terrorist falestinian children learning in school? Oh, same thing.
Simply, they put no value on human life, not for others and not for themselves. They are a death cult.
It’s reminiscent of Golda Meir.
The Jews are concerned about life, even the abandoned dogs in the south.
And the Orthodox Jews of Chabad showing up in war zones to cheer and encourage the Israeli soldiers. I’d say they succeeded. I adorethis clip! Adore it!!
But I want to basically end with looking further back in Israeli history that Golda, I want to look back to King David.
First Lenny Goldberg “The Jewish Way in War” About 16 minutes long.
Tamar Yonah, a Israeli talk show host did a 35 minute video.
Think like a true, proud, and HEALTHY Jew. Ask yourself, what would G-d’s beloved King David do if he were facing enemies committing these atrocities against Israel? We know what the answer correct answer is:’Eat them for lunch, before they eat YOU for dinner.”King David would never kick the can down the road regarding a terror entity and the slaughtering of his citizens. As a ‘just’ king, he would never tolerate decades of murderous attacks against his people. King David wouldn’t try to ‘contain’ the terror, or ‘manage it’ as our leadership has done for decades. No. We all know what King David would do.
As he wrote in Psalm 18:
*verse 38) I will pursue my enemies and overtake them, never turning back until they are consumed.*
*v39) I will crush them so that they cannot rise; yea, until they have fallen under my feet.*
*v40) For You have girded me with strength for the battle; You have subdued under me, those that rose up against me.*
*v41) And of my enemies, You have given me the back of their necks; those that hate me, that I may cut them off.*
As for many of us lately living in a state of fear,…folks, *switch your thinking, and make THEM, afraid of US!*
! And let’s do what King David would do – eliminate these monsters once and for all!
I’ve been asked by people how can they help. So I’ll give you some different choices.
This page has links to several different well known Israeli aid groups.
Chabad is always there helping in any way they can.
Veafilu Behastara—Even when he seems hidden, he is with us.
And Kol Haolam Kulo–The quote is from Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. “All the world is a narrow bridge and the most important thing is to not be afraid.”
The visitors from Chabad showed the power of song to inspire and encourage, I will attempt to do the same. The big mercy is I’m not the one singing it to you.
Be well, Shabbat Shalom a bit early.
You may or not have seen the video recently of Julius Malema President of the Economic Freedom Fighters, a political party in South Africa with his catchy little ditty. Rita Panahi of SKY News, out of Australia recently did an excellent, and short, report on this. Since her accent is way cooler than mine, listen to this short segment from Rita.
In the clip, an interviewer asks Malema if he can understand why people on Twitter are going nuts about him calling for genocide of white farmers. Malema responds “Cry babies”. Oh.
This is not a new topic, I’ve written about it a couple of times before.
RECYCLING might want to scroll down and watch the 20 minute interview with Lauren Southern of Ian Cameron, a gun rights activist in South Africa. South Africa does indeed have gun control and therefore has become the garden of eden the gun grabbers always assure us a gun free places will become. If only all the citizens are disarmed and defenseless.
There are a couple of good Tucker Carlson clips as he interviews a couple of South Africans talking about what is going on. And the first part is talking about Zimbabwe and what happened to their country after they took all the land from the white farmers. Here’s a hint, economy collapsed and famine. That was such a winning strategy that Julius Malema has decided to repeat it..
So what’s changed that I’m writing again? Well, in a way, not much and in a way a lot. As Rita pointed out the response to the video of Malema and a stadium FULL of people chanting “Kill the Boer, shoot white farmer” from the bat guano crazy left has been to DEFEND the calls for genocide. Now the NY Slimes has a long proud history of downplaying genocide.
And yet, at the end of the war and for decades afterward, Americans claimed they did not know about the Holocaust as it was happening. How was it possible for so much information to be available in the mass media and yet simultaneously for the public to be ignorant?
The reason is that the American media in general and the New York Times in particular never treated the Holocaust as an important news story. From the start of the war in Europe to its end nearly six years later, the story of the Holocaust made the Times front page only 26 times out of 24,000 front-page stories, and most of those stories referred to the victims as “refugees” or “persecuted minorities.” In only six of those stories were Jews identified on page one as the primary victims.
Nor did the story lead the paper, appearing in the right-hand column reserved for the day’s most important news – not even when the concentration camps were liberated at the end of the war. In addition, the Times intermittently and timidly editorialized about the extermination of the Jews, and the paper rarely highlighted it in either the Week in Review or the magazine section.
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So it should be no great shock the Slimes is again downplaying a genocide. And just as Germany would have said there was no genocide going on, the genocidal government of South Africa denies it as well. Except it is.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1689268884317069312
Farm murders are happening
In the past did the left have enough soul, morals and ethics they would have condemned genocide? I think perhaps they would have, even if you had to go a ways back to find that time. But not now, now their response is we misunderstood the song. No, no, there’s not much misunderstanding Kill the Boer, Kill the farmer. That’s pretty self explanatory and since that’s exactly what’s happening I’d say both the white farmers and the murderous regime are taking him at his word. Someone recently posted to Twitter/X that this is how a farmer is South Africa has a BBQ. This makes me sooo sad, and I don’t even eat meat. But just a simple pleasure like this is fraught with peril.
Necessary elements of a BBQ for a South African farmer
I recently posted something to an Israeli political party group I belong to expressing sympathy for the white South Africans. I understand very well the love of your land, and many of those farmers are on land that’s been farmed by their family for a few hundred years. How can they sell their land and get out? Who would buy it? I guess a black would be entitled to just take it if it was for sale, and what white in their right mind would buy it, no matter how good the land is? How do they get money to get their families out to start over somewhere better? Its possibly harder than living in Shomron or Judea. I got a very wise response. Since I didn’t ask permission to quote, I’ll give you the gist; It’s like the Jews of Europe in the 1930s. Those who could get out left everything but their lives behind. Those who stayed lost everything including their lives. He said he doubted there are any sympathetic safe harbors for the whites of South Africa. He advised them to learn Spanish and try to make it to Mexico. He was joking about that last bit, I think. Upon further reflection, he might be onto something…
Another thing that is different is we are heading for a famine, remember Michael Yon’s PanFaWar? Famine follows pandemic and is followed by war. This will be exacerbated by the greens trying to ruin agriculture, as in the Netherlands right now they are seizing farm land to turn it into housing for the poor immigrants. Not sure what the immigrants, or the Dutch either for that matter are going to eat. Zimbabwe no longer has food to export. India is limiting rice exports, and in America we are injecting our food animals with experimental substances. So. Seems like a stupid idea to me, but ideologues are seldom the brightest crayon in the box. Not sure where the South Africans think they’re going to get their food, and I truly hope no country will give them aid, but we know that’s not going to happen.
Which brings me to my next point. The Biden crime syndicate, Mayorkas (yeah, I don’t even care if I spelled it right or not) and border czar Harris have imported tons of them. How many? Who knows. But we now have tons of illegal invaders who come from a country where it’s government policy you can kill the white farmer, and steal his land, because it’s no longer stealing.
So, if you want to do a politically correct genocide, this seems to be the ticket in South Africa now, and the world’s media will defend you. That’s why after covid all their credibility should be gone. But it’s not. #FakeNews
This is how Whites have been treated in South Africa for decades.
And since tonight seems to be Twitter/X night, I’ll close with this poignant warning from a South African. In case the message doesn’t come through with the video clip I’m trying to share….
In 2018 #SouthAfrica confiscated 300,000 guns from White Farmers after Constitutional Court ruled owners to relinquish weapons.
A cross for every White Farmer killed in South Africa between 2018-2022.
NEVER GIVE UP YOUR GUNS. EVER‼️
In 2018 #SouthAfrica confiscated 300,000 guns from White Farmers after Constitutional Court ruled owners to relinquish weapons.
A cross for every White Farmer killed in South Africa between 2018-2022.
