The scale of destruction in Gaza surpasses Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Dresden. Gazans are slowly realizing that Hamas's "victory" declaration might be the cruelest joke they've ever heard. Tragically, this time, the joke is on them.
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
A "Victory" in Ruins
The scale of destruction in Gaza surpasses Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Dresden. Gazans are slowly realizing that Hamas's "victory" declaration might be the cruelest joke they've ever heard. Tragically, this time, the joke is on them.
Watch Chuck Schumer on Trump potentially issuing preemptive pardons!
FLASHBACK: Chuck Schumer on Trump potentially issuing preemptive pardons:
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 20, 2025
“That would be a gross abuse of the presidential pardon authority”
Any comment on Biden’s preemptive pardons @SenSchumer? pic.twitter.com/kNNRYMhpkU
Riots in Beit Shemesh during attempted arrest of Suspected Pedophile!
Fourteen suspects were arrested overnight in the city of Beit Shemesh during a violent riot that began during police activity to arrest a suspect for committing indecent acts on 9-year-old and 4-year-old children.
Four police officers and a medical responder were injured by the rioters and property damage was caused. During the day, the police will request to extend the detention of the suspects involved.
The incident took place shortly after 1:00 A.M. Detectives from the Jerusalem District arrested a 20-year-old suspect on suspicions of sexual abuse of minors. Immediately thereafter, a riot erupted in which dozens of violent rioters tried to prevent the arrest.
Consequently, a large number of police forces from the Jerusalem District were summoned to the scene in order to restore order and complete the arrest of the suspect while transferring him to the police station for further investigation.
During the riot, stones and other objects were hurled at the police. A stone was thrown at a medical vehicle summoned to treat a policeman injured by the rioters, shattering the vehicle's windshield and apparently causing the driver to be sprayed with pepper spray. In addition, four police officers were injured as a result of the thrown objects, stone-throwing, and other violent acts, among them a police officer who was struck by a stone in the head. Damage was also caused to several police vehicles.
The rioters did not obey orders to disperse and ispersal orders and blocked the path of a police vehicle in which a detainee was being held as they tried to convince the police to release him in exchange for calming the situation down. The police employed crowd control munitions l and arrested another suspect (39 from Beit Shemesh) for assaulting police officers and disturbing the peace.
After a great deal of effort, order was restored and two detainees were transferred to the police station in the city for further investigation. During the day, as mentioned, these suspects will be brought before the court in demand to extend their detention for the purpose of exhausting the investigation in their case.
"The Israel Police will act with determination and without prejudice in all matters pertaining to the exhaustive investigation of criminal offenses and in offenses of sexual abuse of minors in particular, and against those who violate order and lawbreakers who endanger the security of the public and the police officers in general," the police stated.
Trump’s Day One Executive Orders: Strengthening Support for Israel and Jews, Cracking Down on Antisemitism
On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump signed a series of groundbreaking executive orders prioritizing U.S. support for Israel and addressing issues concerning Jews and national security:
1. Revocation of Sanctions on Israeli Settlers: Trump repealed Executive Order 14115, lifting sanctions on Israeli settlers in Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”), reinforcing U.S. backing of Israel’s sovereignty.
2. Restoration of ICC Sanctions: Sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), removed under President Biden, were reinstated to combat perceived anti-Israel bias.
3. Foreign Aid Suspension: A 90-day halt on U.S. foreign aid programs, such as those benefiting UNRWA, accused of ties to Hamas, to reassess their alignment with administration policies.
4. Deportation of Extremism Supporters: Trump authorized the removal of visa holders engaged in pro-Hamas protests, riots, or fundraising on U.S. campuses or those who support hateful ideologies.
5. Expanded Arms Support to Israel: Restrictions on advanced weapons sales, including 2,000-pound bombs, were lifted to strengthen Israel’s defense capabilities.
These measures reflect Trump’s firm commitment to Israel, the Jewish community, and addressing global and domestic extremism.
A Wave of Trump-Demanded Departures Hits Senior Leadership at the Antisemetic State Department
A large number of senior career diplomats who served in politically appointed leadership positions at the State Department have left their posts at the demand of the incoming Trump administration, which plans to install its own people in those positions, according to current and outgoing U.S. officials.
Personnel changes in the senior ranks of the department, like those at all federal agencies, are not uncommon after a presidential election, and career officials serving in those roles are required, just as non-career political appointees, to submit letters of resignation before an incoming administration takes office.
In the past, some of those resignations have not been accepted, allowing career officials to remain in their posts at least temporarily until the new president can nominate his team. That offers some degree of continuity in the day-to-day running of the bureaucracy.
One senior career diplomat who will be staying, Lisa Kenna, a former ambassador to Peru who served in senior positions under Presidents Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden, was appointed acting secretary of state shortly after Monday’s inauguration, officials said.
TRUMP TO IMMEDIATELY HALT FUNDING TO UNRWA
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order halting U.S. foreign assistance immediately upon assuming office for a second term, with UNRWA reportedly at the top of the list.
UNRWA, the United Nations agency responsible for distributing aid in Gaza, has faced repeated accusations of ties to Hamas. The UN recently admitted that nine of its staff may have been involved in the October 7 attack on Israel.
“The United States and American citizens have been some of the most generous people in the entire world,” an incoming White House policy adviser stated. “But at this point, we have to understand that foreign policy is domestic policy, and if this is not aligned with our interests, then Uncle Sam should not be opening up his pocketbook any longer.”
The executive order is one of several expected to be signed by Trump during his first week back in office. Other anticipated directives include:
• Removing insubordinate government employees.
• Reversing Joe Biden’s green energy projects.
• Keeping TikTok operational.
• Declaring a state of emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border.
• Ending “catch and release” immigration policies.
• Designating Mexican drug cartels as “foreign terrorist organizations.”
Trump’s administration has signaled an aggressive approach to fulfilling campaign promises and reshaping U.S. foreign and domestic priorities.
Trump Pardons Nearly 1,600 Jan. 6 Defendants, Calling Them ‘Hostages’
Trump, who has long downplayed the event and referred to the defendants as “political prisoners” and “hostages,” described the move as fulfilling a major campaign promise.
Trump Removes Biden-Era Weapon Shipment Restrictions on Israel
President Donald Trump signed an executive order today removing all restrictions on U.S. weapons shipments to Israel that were previously imposed by the Biden administration.
The move was hailed by Israeli leaders as a significant step in safety and security for Israel.
Is Sen. John Fetterman Switching to Republican Party ?
Rumors Swirl of Sen. John Fetterman Switching to Republican Party Amid Party Tensions
NJ Assemblyman Jamel Holley ignited speculation with a social media post stating,
“Just left a conversation and my source indicated to me that a key Democratic senator is expected to change party affiliation to Republican by next week. Wow!”
Monday, January 20, 2025
Biden Pardons His Entire Crooked Family!
Listen below to what DemonRats said about pardoning family members during Trump's First term when there was speculation that he might just do that.... he didn't
Preemptive pardons are proof of guilt, right Dems? Right media? Right?
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 20, 2025
pic.twitter.com/yu0ktHzbiW
Biden Issues Last-Minute Pardons for Fauci, Milley, and J6 Committee Members, Including Liz Cheney & Adam Schiff
In his final hours as president, Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to several individuals, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired General Mark Milley, and members of the House committee that investigated the January 6 Capitol attack, such as Liz Cheney and Adam Schiff.
Biden emphasized that these pardons are not indications of guilt but are meant to protect these public servants from potential politically motivated prosecutions by the incoming administration.
Proof Biden was never in charge, utterly selfish and America's worst President ever! A legacy of total failure
After the longest of goodbyes, the worst president in modern American history is finally, thankfully, gone.
It's been equal parts enraging and entertaining to watch Joe Biden take what he clearly feels is a well-earned victory lap: A slurry farewell address from the Oval Office, followed by a fawning exit interview in which he insisted, again and deludedly, that if he had stayed in the race he would have won.
As Biden himself would say: No joke!
And so begins the political obituary for a presidency like no other — a president who was never really there, who held office in name only, who was but a puppet for a shadowy Democrat cabal (Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, cough-cough) that installed him and ran the country into the ground.
Not that Joe or Bad Doctor Jill would ever admit as much. But that's par for the course with a family that put ill-gotten gains and an unslakable thirst for power ahead of what is good and right. Ahead of the country's best interests.
'You answered all the questions, Joe!'
That was Jill Biden to her enfeebled dotard of a husband, who had just walked off that infamous debate stage back in June. A truly loving wife would surely have shuffled him home, held his hand and told him it was time to go.
Not Lady MacBiden. No: Her husband may have just humiliated himself and the country — not to mention showing our enemies that the leader of the free world was asleep at the wheel — but she figured she could write that off as 'just a bad night'.
That's how stupid the Democrat establishment thought the electorate was.
Attention Shul Candy Man ...Soup Company launches limited edition soup-flavored hard candy
Guys, please don't quote me on this, but rumor has it that the Baal Mashgiach of Monsey that gave the Hashgacha on the chickens that turned out to be treif, is seriously looking into distributing these candies. I also heard rumors, and this has yet to be confirmed that there is a serious well-known Rav that is in the midst of a "teshuva" that will allow people who have trouble fasting to suck these nasty things on Tisha Be'Ov!
Another "shaeilah"... is it ok to throw these nasty candies at a Chassan? I'd be inclined to allow it!
Progresso has stirred up a soup-er strange confection to honor National Soup Month.
Through the end of January, the soup giant is selling chicken noodle-flavored hard candies — “soup you can suck on,” parent company General Mills announced in a news release Thursday.
The “Soup Drops” resemble cough drops — or bouillon cubes — and come right in time for “the height of cold and flu season,” the company added.
“When you’re sick, nothing is truly more reassuring than chicken noodle soup,” said MC Comings, a vice president at General Mills, in a statement.
“So, we thought, why stop at the soup bowl?”
For $2.49 — the cost of a typical can of Progresso’s sick day comfort food — plus shipping, customers get 20 drops in a real tin, and it comes with a can of the real stuff, too.
“Enjoy the soup like never before,” the company boasted.
The candies are packed with an alphabet soup of flavors including veggies, chicken, soft egg noodles and a hint of parsley.
The announcement left some stewing.
“If the candy doesn’t get hot like soup … then sadly, I may have to pass,” one Instagram user commented on a post about the new release.
Others were boiling hot.
“This sounds nasty as hell,” one person commented.
“Ewwwwwwwwwwwww,” said another.
Puke emojis were also littered throughout the comment section.
The drops sold out within an hour of the launch but will be restocked every Thursday at 9 a.m. through the end of January, while supplies last.
Some consommé lovers are already preparing for the next drop.
“Need this in my life,” commented one.
“Please make plenty so you don’t sell out!!!!!!!!!” one pleaded.
The next batch will be available at ProgressoSoupDrops.com
Trump to suspend security clearances of 51 intelligence officials who falsely implied Hunter Biden laptop was Russian fake
Trump will repeal the clearances of the so-called “Spies Who Lie” as part of a flurry of executive orders he’s expected to sign on his first day back in the Oval Office, Fox News reported, citing a senior administration official familiar with the matter.
Federal authorities eventually confirmed that the laptop belonging to President Biden’s son was authentic, though the national security experts have said they stand by the 2020 letter they penned over their concerns of disinformation.
The Post’s reporting on the laptop leading up to the election between Biden and Trump included allegations of foreign influence-peddling, drug use and other lurid activities by the first son.
Emails from the device, which was left at a Delaware computer shop, showed that younger Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm where Hunter, 54, sat on the board.
A copy of the hard drive was given to The Post, while the computer was handed over to the FBI by the computer shop’s owner in 2019.
Following the bombshell reporting, a slew of former senior intelligence officers signed a letter alleging the lot of emails “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” without presenting any new evidence.
The Post’s reporting on the Bidens was also briefly censored on social media, but the “laptop from hell” was used by federal prosecutors and confirmed as real during Hunter’s gun trial last year.
The FBI also “verified” its authenticity in November 2019, an IRS whistleblower told Congress in a 2023 deposition.
Still, the dozens of former intelligence officials who cast questions over whether the computer’s content was legitimate either stood by their claims or declined comment when reached by Fox News last year.
A lawyer who was representing seven signatories claimed there “continues to be by many a calculated or woefully ignorant interpretation of the October 2020 letter” signed by the ex-officials.
“It served as nothing more than a warning letter of what we have known for decades: certain foreign governments — including Russia — continue to try and actively interfere in our domestic affairs and our guard must remain vigilant,” Mark S. Zaid said at the time.
“Every patriotic American should have signed that letter.”
A Trump official confirmed to The Post on Sunday the incoming president is expected to sign more than 200 executive orders after he is sworn in as president.
An email to a Trump spokesperson on Sunday night was not immediately returned.
Son Of Terror Victim Voices His Feelings About The Hostage Deal
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| Yoel Schwartz and יבלחט"א his mother, Ahuva Liba Schwartz, H'yd. |
Yoel Schwartz, the son of Ahuva Liba Schwartz, H’yd, who was murdered in the brutal Egged No. 2 bus bombing in 2003, wrote about the fact that those who planned the attack which killed his mother along with 23 others, including 7 children, are slated to be released in the hostage deal.
Abdullah Sharbati, Majdi Zaatari, and Samer al-Atrash, members of a cell that planned the attack on the No. 2 line as well the bombing of Egged Bus No. 6 in French Hill in 2003, which killed 7 Israelis and injured 20, are slated to be released in the first phase of the deal in exchange for 33 hostages.
Schwartz wrote: “Twenty years have passed since my mother was murdered in the brutal attack on Line 2 in Jerusalem. The pain and loss accompany me every day. Today I find myself dealing with an additional pain: the knowledge that my mother’s murderers, the planners of the deadly attack, are about to be released as part of the hostage deal.”
“I fully understand the longing and struggle of the families of the hostages to see their loved ones return home safely. It is a fundamental human feeling that deeply moves me.”
“Experience with deals like the Shalit deal shows that these terrorists did not abandon the path of terror. Many of them returned to carry out attacks and kill innocent people. They are not just released prisoners; they are active terrorists.”
“I daven for the safe return of the hostages but I want to remind us all of the heavy price that the release of such terrorists may exact from our society in the future.”
“But alongside that, I must voice my difficult feelings: the release of such terrorists, with blood on their hands, is not only a betrayal of the memory of their victims – but also a real and tangible risk.”
Trump and top aide challenge Netanyahu’s claim ceasefire will be temporary
By David Rosenberg, World Israel News
President-elect Donald Trump and a top aide appeared to contradict claims by senior Israeli leaders over the weekend that Israel may resume its war against Hamas after the first phase of a three-part ceasefire.
On Saturday, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionist Party) said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had assured him that despite the cabinet ratifying the three-part hostage and ceasefire deal with Hamas Friday night, the IDF would resume its operations against the terror group in Gaza after the first phase of the deal.
Netanyahu himself hinted at a renewal of the fighting, saying Saturday night that Israel is still committed to the destruction of Hamas and ensuring that Gaza never again threatens Israel’s security.
“We retain the right to return to the war, if necessary, with the backing of the U.S.,” Netanyahu said, claiming that Trump himself had endorsed a return to fighting in Gaza during a call last week with the Israeli premier.
Trump “welcomed the agreement and rightly emphasized that the first stage of the agreement is a temporary ceasefire. That is what he said, ‘a temporary ceasefire’.”
That same day, however, Trump appeared to contradict Netanyahu’s claim during an interview with NBC News.
Trump said that the new ceasefire “better hold.”
“Well, we’re going to see very soon, and it better hold.”
The incoming president recalled his recent telephone conversation with Netanyahu, saying that while he said Israel must do “what has to be done,” he also emphasized that the war “has to end.”
“Just keep doing what you have to do. You have to have — this has to end. We want it to end, but to keep doing what has to be done.”
Trump said his administration would ensure the ceasefire holds, saying the maintenance of the truce would be a litmus test of American soft power abroad.
“The United States has to get respected again, and it has to get respected fast. But respect is the primary word that I use,” Trump said. “If they respect us, it will hold. If they don’t respect us, all hell will break out.”
Hours after the interview, Axios cited three sources who claimed that Trump’s choice for national security adviser, Mike Waltz, on Saturday pledged to relatives of hostages in Gaza that the Trump administration would ensure that the full three-stages of the ceasefire will be implemented.
Hostage families have feared that the 64 other hostages remaining in Gaza not slated for release during the six-week initial phase will be left in the coastal enclave should Israel resume the war after phase one of the agreement.
Waltz assured the families that the White House would push for talks aimed at securing the implementation of the second phase of the deal as soon as possible.
It Wasn’t a Deal – It Was a Crime
Translations of this item:
- The decision by the Israeli government to make significant concessions to the Hamas kidnappers should never be called a “deal.” It was an extortion…. The kidnapping was a crime. And the extortionate demand was an additional crime.
- When a terrorist group “negotiates” with a democracy, it always has the upper hand. The terrorists are not constrained by morality, law or truth. They can murder at will, rape at will, torture at will and threaten to do worse. The democracy, on the other hand, must comply with the rules of law and must listen to the pleas of the hostage families.
- Especially complicit, with blood on their hands, are supporters of Hamas on university campuses who chant for intifada and revolution. Also complicit are international organizations, such as the International Criminal Court, that treat Israel and Hamas as equals.
- [L]et us put the blame for ALL the deaths in Gaza where it belongs: on Hamas and the useful idiots and useless bigots who support murderous terrorists.
The decision by the Israeli government to make significant concessions to the Hamas kidnappers should never be called a “deal.” It was an extortion. Would you call it a deal if somebody kidnapped your child and you “agreed” to pay ransom to get her back? Of course not. The kidnapping was a crime. And the extortionate demand was an additional crime.
So the proper description of what occurred is that Israel, pressured by the United States, capitulated to the unlawful and extortionate demands of Hamas as the only way of saving the lives of kidnapped babies, mothers and other innocent, mostly civilian, hostages.
This was not the result of a negotiation between equals. If an armed robber puts a gun to your head and says, “your money or your life,” your decision to give him your money would not be described as a deal. Nor should the extorted arrangement agreed to by Israel be considered a deal. So let’s stop using that term.
When a terrorist group “negotiates” with a democracy, it always has the upper hand. The terrorists are not constrained by morality, law or truth. They can murder at will, rape at will, torture at will and threaten to do worse. The democracy, on the other hand, must comply with the rules of law and must listen to the pleas of the hostage families. The result of this exertion was bad for Israel’s security, but good for the hostages who remain alive and their families. The heart rules the brain, as it often does in moral democracies that value the immediate saving of the lives of known people over the future deaths of hypothetical people whose identities we do not know. This tradeoff is understandable as compassionate, even if not compelling as policy.
If every democratic nation adopted a policy of never negotiating with terrorists, it might discourage terrorism. But every nation submits to the demands of kidnappers and extortionists, so terrorism and hostage-taking have become a primary tactic of the worst people in the world. And the rest of us are complicit.
Especially complicit, with blood on their hands, are supporters of Hamas on university campuses who chant for intifada and revolution. Also complicit are international organizations, such as the International Criminal Court, that treat Israel and Hamas as equals. These supporters of terrorism encouraged Hamas to hold out for many months in the belief that their support would pressure Israel into making more concessions.
The students of terror – the university students who are encouraging Hamas into continuing their murderous ways – must be held accountable for their complicity in evil. Though they may have the same First Amendment rights as Jews do, they should be treated with the same contempt that Nazis, the KKK and racist supporters of violence are treated. The First Amendment does not give them the right to be hired by decent employers.
The First Amendment gives employers the power to refuse to associate with supporters of Nazism, Hamas terrorism or other evil groups. American law criminalizes giving material support to designated terrorist groups, which include Hamas and Hezbollah. Morality, as distinguished from law, should deem immoral providing any support — material, political, economic or demonstrative – to any terrorist group such as Hamas. Yet both the presidential and vice-presidential candidates of the Democrat Party urged people to listen to the messages of these protestors. They would never say that about demonstrators who favored lynching blacks or raping women. But Hamas does lynch Jews and rape Jewish women. There is no moral difference.
Let us welcome the news that perhaps 33 of the 98 hostages may be released, some of them alive, with the realization that what Hamas extorted from Israel in return for these releases may well endanger Israel’s security in the future and cost still more innocent lives.
And let us put the blame for ALL the deaths in Gaza where it belongs: on Hamas and the useful idiots and useless bigots who support murderous terrorists.
Ori Ansbacher's Rapists and Murderer will be released!
The ‘deal’ includes releasing Arafat Irfaiya, the man who brutally raped and murdered Ori Ansbacher. I fear she will not be his last victim.
These are the heroes of “Palestine”. Take a good look. This is who the children of “Palestine” look up to.
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