FBI Director James Comey announced Tuesday that despite evidence Hillary Clinton was “extremely careless” in her handling of classified emails on a private server, the Department of Justice would not recommend charges being brought against the former secretary of state.
“Our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case,” Comey said.
Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, did not immediately respond. Her Republican rival, Donald Trump, did -- blasting the FBI's recommendation.
“FBI director said Crooked Hillary compromised our national security. No charges. Wow! #RiggedSystem” he tweeted.
The decision helps remove what was arguably the biggest threat to her presidential campaign going forward – a criminal referral that could have led to an indictment – just weeks before her party’s national convention in Philadelphia where she is set to seal her nomination as the Democrat standard bearer.
Monday, 4th of July, is not only American Independence Day. It also marks the 40th Anniversary of the incredible Rescue at Entebbe by Israeli Special Forces commandos of over 100 Jewish hostages taken captive by Arab terrorists at Entebbe Airport in Uganda. ‘Operation Thunderbolt,’ was later renamed ‘Operation Yonatan’ in memory of Yoni Netanyahu (brother of PM Binyamin Netanyahu) who was the only Israeli soldier to lose his life in the operation.
In honour of this milestone occasion, Sydenham Shul in Johannesburg, South Africa produced a short video synopsis of the raid, one of the most daring hostage rescues of all time.
The video, Miracle at Entebbe, premiered at the Shul’s recent Benny Friedman concerts in Johannesburg.
For the IDF to mount such a complicated and dangerous mission, over 2000 miles away from Israel, flying over mainly hostile countries, and to bring the hostages back to Israel safely required not only Jewish brains and chutzpah but the unmistakable protective hand of Hashem.
Rabbi Yossy Goldman, Senior Rav of Sydenham Shul, felt it was very important for the younger generation to know about such a historic event. He directed the video which was professionally produced by the well-known David Fleminger and narrated by one of the top radio voices in South Africa, Anthony Fridjhon.
Just as a point of interest, the Satmar Rebbe at that time was furious that the IDF put their soldiers at risk (not that he cared, but because this would fly in the face of his SHIT'ah that G-d does not perform miracles for Zionists).
The Rebbe was against the rescue even after the fact ....he reasoned that the terrorists would have released the hostages eventually, even though the terrorists at the time released the non-Jews and selected Jews just like the Nazis .... In addition, the fact that the Zionists were ready to put their lives on the line to save Jews that lived outside of Israel, made the Rebbe look foolish since he called the IDF and it's leaders, Apikorsim and Meenim and Tamai! This rescue was an embarrassment to the Rebbe and put him in a very difficult position, because he couldn't explain to his naive sheep that Zionists would with mesiras nefesh put their lives on the line for Jews in Entebbe!
The Rebbe got his info from his Gabbai, Yossel Ashkanazi, who also couldn't read English.....
In fact today's President of Uganda,Yoweri Museveni, declared today that "Israel was right to carry out the Entebbe Raid"
Looking back in history, only the Satmar Rebbe and Idi Amin, were against the rescue!
This is not the first time .... Years ago a Satmar boys school in Yerushaylim had all children registered in a school with a different name so that they could collect Zionist money! Now a girls school under the auspices of the Eida Hachareidis, a fervent anti-Zionist organization, was caught taking Zionist money! The ironic part is that the parents of this school pulled out their children from Bnos Rochel, 17 years ago because they took Zionist money (Chas Ve'sholom). Now, R' Zalman Teitelbaum, Satmar Rebbe is fuming because he brought money to fund schools that refused to take Zionist money .... and now they were "double dipping!" The truth is that no school can survive with the pittance of money that Satmar gives them... The Zionist are and have been the biggest supporters of Torah in Jewish history and all the Mosdos know that and to survive they must take Zionist money .... if they cannot do it openly, they take it clandestinely.
The Chachmas Lev school for girls was established seventeen years ago after parents pulled their girls out of Bnos Rochel, learning the latter was accepting state funds. There is now a storm in the Eida community after it was learned Chachmas Lev has also accepting state funds all these years from the ‘Treif Zionist government’. -
The situation is such the Eida’s Education Committee was scheduled to meet on Sunday afternoon 27 Sivan but the meeting was pushed off a day to money. The rabbonim will discuss the breach in protocol, the acceptance of funding from the ‘Medina’.
According to reports, parents realized something was wrong when they saw Education Ministry officials visiting the school. While the principal is insisting he was unaware of the funding, parents are demanding the Eida Education Committee oust him from his post. The principal’s wife and brother-in-law appear to have made the arrangement with the ministry.
The school principal has been summoned to meet with Gavaad Eida Chareidis HaRav Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss Shlita as well as will Rav Zelig Reuven Katzenelbogen of Torah V’Yirah.
Chava Mark was left in critical condition in the shooting, which killed her husband Michael and injured two of their children who were traveling with them in the car at the time.
She has been in a medically-induced coma ever since, as doctors fought first to save her life, and then to stabilize her condition. She underwent a serious of major operations for multiple gunshot wounds to her upper body. Her 15-year-old daughter, who also sustained gunshot wounds in the attack, is hospitalized with her in moderate condition.
On Saturday night, doctors announced that Chava's condition had stabilized, but cautioned the full extent of her injuries were not yet known.
The attack occurred late Friday afternoon, as the family were making their way down Route 60 in the Hevron Hills region.
The Arab terrorists who carried out the attack overtook them, raking their car with gunfire and causing it to flip, killing Michael and wounding all three passengers.
Some 20 bullets were fired at the innocent family in the attack.
Son of terror victim Rabbi Mark eulogizes father: 'I’m drowning in the depth of your absence'
Joshua said on Sunday as he eulogized his father Rabbi Michael “Miki” Mark who was killed in a terror attack on Friday.
“My heart is shattered in pieces,” said Joshua as he looked out at the thousands of mourners who filled the sanctuary and study of the Otniel Yeshiva, where his father had been the director-general.
On Frida, Mark was driving with his wife and two of his 10 children along Route 60 near the West Bank settlement of Otniel where they lived. He had been on his way to his mother’s house for the Sabbath to help her celebrate her 80th birthday.
Palestinian gunmen shot at their car, killing Mark and injuring his wife Chava and two of their children.
At the funeral, Joshua said of the attack, “God took what he wants and now what should we do, who do we curse?” he asked.
Mark’s son Netaneal recalled how he had spoken with his father every Saturday and plied him with questions. “Now, who can I speak with?” Netaneal asked.
His father, he said, was a “renaissance man” who was also kind and gave endlessly to those around him. “Everything he touched turned to gold,” Netaneal said.
Mark’s daughter Orit began her eulogy by crying repeating over and over again, “Father, I love you.”
She recalled how only recently, he had hugged her and sworn her would never leave her.
“And now God has taken you,” she said.
“You added so much goodness into the world. You did so much for others and for us. You gave us everything we wanted with a full heart. You accepted us as we were. You never abandoned us, even when we did something wrong. Now we are here and you are absent.”
President Reuven Rivlin said at the funeral, “Jewish blood is not worthless. We promise - over Miki's grave - that we will continue to fight terror unequivocally, and without fear. We will fight, and we will win. The IDF and the security forces will cut down the accursed murderers who killed Miki. Nothing will cure the pain. But the light of the way that Miki paved will not be extinguished. May his memory be blessed, and may his soul be bound in eternal life."
Mark’s body was carried out of the yeshiva to slow mournful singing of the prayer, “God of mercy.”
As the funeral procession made its way along Route 60 to Jerusalem Har Hamenuchot cemetery for burial, Mark’s family stopped to say the prayer for the dead at the spot, where the terror attack occurred.
Settlers from the Jewish communities along the road stood along the highway waving Israeli flags.
The IDF had soldiers positioned all along the road and closed off the entrances to the Palestinian villages as the funeral procession passed. Unable to access the road, the Palestinians stood watching the slow funeral procession.
Mark’s wife Chava remained at Hadassah Ein Karem hospital and was not at the funeral. She was unconscious from the time of the attack and until Sunday afternoon, when she woke up. She is listed in serious but stable condition.
Mark’s daughter, 14, who sustained a gun shot wound to her stomach, was temporarily released for the funeral. One of his son’s who was also injured in the attack was sent home from the hospital on Saturday night.
Elie Wiesel, the Auschwitz survivor who became an eloquent witness for the six million Jews slaughtered in World War II and who, more than anyone else, seared the memory of the Holocaust on the world’s conscience, died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 87.
Menachem Rosensaft, a longtime friend and the founding chairman of the International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, confirmed the death in a phone call.
Mr. Wiesel was the author of several dozen books and was a charismatic lecturer and humanities professor. In 1986, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. But he was defined not so much by the work he did as by the gaping void he filled. In the aftermath of the Germans’ systematic massacre of Jews, no voice had emerged to drive home the enormity of what had happened and how it had changed mankind’s conception of itself and of God. For almost two decades, the traumatized survivors — and American Jews, guilt-ridden that they had not done more to rescue their brethren — seemed frozen in silence.
Donald Trump tried something different on Thursday, hosting about 120 people for a small-scale town hall event about trade issues in a parking lot that could easily hold 5,000.
For his trouble, he got a one-on-one exchange with an elderly anti-Semite who insisted 'Zionists' are dictating American military policy.
Warren Goddard of Portsmouth grabbed the microphone from an aide for what was to be the final question of the day, and delivered a pair of zingers.
'Number one, I'm opposed to the murder of unborn babies being legal,' he said. 'Number two, I'm opposed to our wasting our military in the Middle East on behalf of Zionist Israel.'
Trump was unflappable, staring him down.
'Lemme just tell you that Israel is a very, very important ally of the United States,' he replied. 'And we are going to protect them 100 per cent. 100 percent! They've been our most reliable – it's our true friend over there – and we're going to protect Israel 100 per cent.'
ZIONIST' CONSPIRACY: Warren Goddard, the alter kocker from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, declared that American military policy in the Middle East was being directed by Benjamin Netanyahu – but Trump insisted that he would always side with Israel '100 per cent'
The following is a transcript of the Rush Limbaugh show ..
RUSH: We have a surprise visit by Bill Clinton to the attorney general in a private plane on the tarmac at Phoenix. If it hadn't been for a local Phoenix ABC affiliate, we wouldn't know that it had happened.
"Amid an ongoing investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of email and hours before the public release of the Benghazi report, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch met privately with former President Bill Clinton. The private meeting took place on the west side of Sky Harbor International Airport on board a parked private plane," that was being used by Loretta Lynch and her husband. They're traveling around doing appearances on how the Justice Department's taking over local police departments.
Now, neither Clinton nor Loretta Lynch actually arrived in Phoenix on that plane. Did you know that? You didn't know that? The plane on which they met is not the plane either of them used to get there. It looks like somebody put that plane there so nobody would see the meeting. And again, as I say, if it weren't for this local ABC affiliate, for some reason had a camera crew out at Sky Harbor, we wouldn't know that this meeting had taken place.
