Danny Dannon Complete Smackdown of the Anti-Israel UN Resolution

Obama’s appalling UN betrayal

By Post Editorial Board

Friday’s failure to veto an anti-Israel resolution at the United Nations sets a new low in the annals of American diplomacy.

It was a shocking betrayal of a firm US ally, and of longstanding bipartisan US policy — a sneaky, dishonest move by a lame-duck president to express his pique at the president-elect and land a final vindictive blow on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In the process, he sought to tie his successor’s hands in a way that no past president — especially his own predecessor, George W. Bush — has ever before done.

President Obama has now empowered the economic war against Israel, just to get even with a leader who dared to defend his own country’s best interests.

A day earlier, Egypt had withdrawn its support for the extremist, one-sided resolution condemning all Israeli activity beyond the 1967 cease-fire lines. That’s when Team Obama spread the word that it would’ve abstained — which prompted Israel’s enemies to revive it for Friday’s vote, where Washington indeed declined to veto.

Never mind that it was virtually identical to a 2011 resolution that Obama’s diplomats did veto, on the ground that the issue of settlements and borders should be decided in direct negotiations, not by a UN-imposed diktat.

Or that successive US presidents — Republican and Democrat alike — have used Washington’s veto power precisely to limit the UN’s involvement in the peace process.

As then-UN Ambassador Susan Rice said in 2011, American’s abstention was not an endorsement of settlement activity but a recognition that such a resolution “could encourage the parties to stay out of negotiations.” On Friday, though, she claimed “the situation has changed.”

Nonsense: The Palestinians still refuse to negotiate without preconditions and unilateral Israeli concessions. Good luck getting them to the table now.

Remember the furor when Trump broke with past practice — not US policy — by taking a call from Taiwan’s democratically elected president? Watch and see who slams Obama’s far greater violation of the bipartisan consensus.

Obama went ahead with this stab in the back of an ally despite the pleading of top Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill. He plainly just had to get even with Netanyahu, and with Trump — whose public intercession Thursday seemed to have indefinitely postponed the vote. Would Obama have abstained if a President-elect Hillary Clinton asked him to veto? Absolutely not.

This measure doesn’t just criticize or condemn Israeli settlements, which Obama (like his predecessors) has done repeatedly. It declares any and all Israeli activity across the Green Line — including in the Old City of Jerusalem and at Jewish holy sites like the West Wall — “illegal” and subject to international action.

In short, it’s a major step in the campaign to delegitimize the state of Israel and subject it to boycott and sanctions.

Which is why the resolution was denounced across the Israeli political spectrum, including by the leader of Netanyahu’s opposition, who called it “dangerous and harmful.”

Again, it also breaks with consensus US policy — which is presumably why the Obama crowd sprang it as a surprise, though it had to have been in the works for months, even as top Obama officials denied rumors of a coming betrayal.

Fortunately, a new president takes over in three weeks — one who doesn’t consider the UN to be a productive body and is in no rush to bend over backward to Palestinian demands.

Trump vowed Friday that “things will be different” once he takes over. We’re counting on it.

As for Barack Obama, it’s a sorry exit. But it’s par for the course for a president who has made everything all about him and his perceived slights. Which is why he’s bungled foreign policy in general — and the Middle East in particular — over the past eight years.

What a profoundly sad — and dangerous — legacy. By every measure, he has taken a giant step away from any chances for peace and betrayed a key ally. Just for some petty personal revenge.

Obama Stabs Jews in the Back and Lets Anti-Israel UN Resolution Stand!

In a dramatic vote the UN Security Council passed a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements proposed by Egypt Thursday. 

The United States abstained. 
 vote with 14 for, and 1 against the UN Security Council passed a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements proposed by Egypt Thursday. 

The United States abstained. 

Breaking: UNSC Bastards to vote TODAY on end to Israeli settlements

The UN Secuity Council will vote today on a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements after four council members again put forward the measure a day after Egypt withdrew it under pressure from Israel and US President-elect Donald Trump.

New Zealand, Malaysia, Venezuela and Senegal, who were co-sponsors of the draft resolution, have requested the vote, which diplomats said will likely take place at 3:00 PM NY Time!

Gay Hypocrisy....... Only they can abuse others

Gays ("feigelich") are always complaining that people harass them and abuse them, but they have no problem abusing and harassing others!

 A JetBlue airline passenger, who media outlets and a witness described as making angry remarks at the sight of Ivanka Trump on his flight, was removed from the plane on Thursday by the airline.

JetBlue Airways Corp confirmed in a statement that a passenger had been removed from a flight set to depart from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, bound for San Francisco, but provided no other information about the incident.

Another passenger on the flight, Marc Scheff, said that, when the man saw U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka, he “did a double take and said ‘Oh my God. This is a nightmare!’”

JetBlue said in a statement: “The decision to remove a customer from a flight is not taken lightly. In this instance, our team worked to re-accommodate the party on the next available flight.”

Reuters was not able to identify the passenger who was removed. Matthew Lasner, a Twitter user cited by TMZ, said his husband was going to confront Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, at the airport.

“Ivanka and Jared at JFK T5, flying commercial,” Matthew Lasner (@mattlasner) wrote in a tweet, which has since been deleted. “My husband chasing them down to harass them. #banalityofevil.”

Lasner, a professor at New York’s Hunter College, did not respond to requests for comment directed to his Twitter account, which has since been taken offline, or to messages left at his office or sent to his Facebook account.

“To do that to a woman who was on there with her children, I don’t care what your political background is or what your thoughts are, that’s not the way we as Americans need to act,” Trump spokesman Sean Spicer said on Fox News.

Scheff, 40, who told Reuters he was sitting in the row in front of Ivanka Trump on the flight, said the passenger who was later removed from the flight “started shaking.”

He said that after JetBlue staff approached the man to “make sure he was calm,” the passenger said: “They ruin our country, now try (to) ruin our flight!”

Scheff said the passenger was “clearly agitated” but did not “scream or yell.”

Ivanka Trump was en route to Hawaii for a vacation with her family, according to ABC News.

Donald Trump and his family are spending the Christmas holidays at his resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

Surprise Chanukkah Cake With a Magen Dovid in Middle

For those Rebbishe Gabboim that are closet Zionists, you can now surprise your anti-Zionist rebbe, with a mogen dovid in middle of the cake ........ that would the biggest "nes chanukah" since the Chashmonim ....also it would be "פרסומי  ניסי "

then watch the reaction!

Ingredients

Blue Cake:

1 cup all-purpose flour
1 ¾ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
¼ cup unsalted butter, room temperature
½ cup granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 large egg
½ cup milk
blue food colouring

White Cake:

2 cups all-purpose flour
3 1/2 tspDirections

Make the blue stars: Combine the flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl. In a separate bowl, cream the butter with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy. Add the sugar and mix until combined. Add the vanilla extract and egg and mix well. Add the flour mixture in 2 additions, alternating with the milk. Add the blue food colouring and dye the batter your desired shade of blue. Pour the batter into a greased 9×9 square baking pan and bake at 350F for 20 minutes, or until fully cooked. Cool the cake in the pan for 10 minutes, then remove from the pan and transfer to a wire rack. Cool completely. Use a Star of David-shaped cookie cutter or a paper stencil to cut out 2 1/2” diameter stars from the blue cake. Set aside.

Make the white batter: Combine the flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl. In a separate bowl, cream the butter with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy. Add the sugar and mix until combined. Add the vanilla extract and egg and mix well. Add the flour mixture in 2 additions, alternating with the milk.

Bake the cake: Grease a 9” loaf pan and pour 1/3 of the white batter into the bottom of the pan. Line up the Star of David stars in the center of the loaf pan, making sure they are pressed together to create a long, solid shape. Spoon the remaining white batter around the sides and top of the stars, making sure they are fully covered. Bake at 350F for 50-60 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the all edges of the cake comes out clean. This style of cake takes longer to cook than usual, so make sure to check all sides of the white cake to make sure they are cooked. If it is still raw, pop the cake back in the oven for 5 minutes at a time. Allow the cake to cool in the pan for 20 minutes, then remove from the pan and transfer to a wire rack. Cool completely.

Make the frosting: Place the butter in a bowl and beat with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy. Add the vanilla extract and beat until combined. Add the confectioner’s sugar and beat until pale and fluffy, 3-4 minutes.
Spread the frosting onto the cake and top with Star of David sprinkles. Slice to reveal the Star of David inside!

 baking powder
½ tsp salt
½ cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 large eggs
1 cup milk

Frosting:

½ cup unsalted butter, room temperature
½ tsp vanilla extract
1 ¼ cups confectioner’s sugar
Star of David sprinkles

Satmar Anti-Israel Protester holding Palestinian flag ....stares at lady's behind!

Egypt Kicks Obama in the Ass by Withdrawing UN Resolution on Settlements

I believe that President Sisi hates Obama more than he hates the Israeli settlers, so just as Secretary State John Kerry was preparing his speech, to move away from standard US policy of vetoing anti-Israel UN resolutions,...... Sisi pulled a fast one and had the anti-Settler UN resolution shelved indefinitely, leaving Obama and Kerry holding an empty bag ....

Here read the Arutz Sheva account, but believe me that this was to slap Obama in the face, since Sisi was always looking to kick Obama in the proverbial behind!

מה רבו מעשיך השם

The United States was planning to abstain from the vote at the UN Security Council on a resolution which would have called on Israel to halt “settlement building”, U.S.-based media outlets reported on Thursday.

Several diplomatic sources told NBC News that the outgoing Obama administration had planned to abstain from the vote, which would have been seen as a slight to Israel.

Another U.S. official quoted by CNN said that the administration was actually debating whether to abstain or vote yes.

The White House was not considering a veto, the official told the network, but added that if the resolution is amended, American officials will need to review it before deciding how to vote.

Similarly, another U.S. official quoted by Reuters said there was a widespread assumption within the State Department that the United States was likely to abstain.

State Department spokesman John Kirby declined to say how the United States would have voted, or even to say whether a final decision had been made about how it would vote.

The vote on the resolution, which was submitted by Egypt, was postponed indefinitely after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi instructed his nation’s delegation to push for a delay in the vote.

Israeli officials feared the measure was likely to pass, and that the outgoing Obama administration would withhold its veto.

Both President-elect Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called upon the US mission to the UN to block the resolution.

The resolution demands a full “cessation of all Israeli settlement activities” in Judea, Samaria, and eastern Jerusalem, and also says such activities are an obstacle to “the two-state solution”.

The resolution is a unilateral move by the Palestinian Authority (PA) which seeks to undermine Israel and bypass direct peace talks with the Jewish state.

FBI After the Aronim! Leave Zaloinim Alone!

So the Big Mouth Rabbi that continues to give Mussir to the State of Israel that it violates the prohibition of "Hisgarus BeUmois" (antagonizing the Gentiles), does it himself ...... he forgot the Christian adage ...that "those who live in glass houses, shouldn't throw stones."

The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested a prominent Brooklyn Satmar community activist on Thursday morning.

The bureau confirmed that agents had arrested Isaac Sofer, who manages government relations for the Central United Talmudical Academy, the Williamsburg yeshiva system that serves followers of the politically connected Satmar Grand Rabbi Aron Teitelbaum.

It’s not yet clear what charges Sofer could face. Sofer has emerged in recent years as a leading activist among the Brooklyn-based followers of Aron Teitelbaum, known as the Aronis.

A spokesman for the Aroni Satmar community, Michael Tobman, said that he could not comment on Sofer’s arrest without knowing the charges.

The FBI raided CUTA in March of this year. The Forward reported at the time that investigators were looking into the school’s use of funds disbursed through the National School Lunch Program, which subsidizes food for low-income students.

The arrest comes just days after leading New York public officials, led by Senator Chuck Schumer, flocked to a massive event thrown by Aron Teitelbaum’s followers in Williamsburg. The annual gathering, which celebrates the release of the previous Satmar rebbe from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1944, draws thousands of Hasidim, and a litany of public officials.

Officials in attendance at this year’s Aroni celebration on Tuesday night included Schumer, acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, leaders from the New York City Police Department, New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, and many others. 
In his address to the community, Schumer said that God had given him his surname, which derives from the Hebrew word for “guardian,” so that he could be a guardian “for this great Hassidishe community here, and for Yiddishkeit around the world.”

Last week, federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged a real estate developer withconspiring to corrupt elections in connection with his effort to build a Satmar village in upstate New York.

Pigs In Shtreimels

From Rationalist Judaism

Earlier today there was a gigantic rally at the Jerusalem Arena 
against "pigs in shtreimels."

The event, under the auspices of the charedi Gedolei Torah, was for 
Beis Yaakov girls. The purpose was to dissuade them from attending
 any of the numerous academic higher education programs for 
charedim that have sprung up in recent years, such as Machon Tal,
 Adina Bar-Shalom's Charedi College of Jerusalem (soon closing due
 to lack of enrollment), Strauss Campus Afikei Lomda, Mivchar, and 
so on. (There is currently a furor raging over funding of 200,000 
shekels for this event that was promised from the Jerusalem 
Municipality.) 

Adina Bar Shalom (a pig in a shtreimel?) with her father

Rav Baruch Shapira introduced the program by relating a conversation that he had with Rav Steinman about the event. Rav Steinman said, "Charedi academic programs?! It's like a pig in a shtreimel!"

(Note that Rav Steinman spoke down the road from my home a few years ago, and stated that there is no relationship between secular education and income.)

Rav Chaim Kanievsky sent a message: that he blesses anyone who 
studies only in Beis Yaakov and not in an academic program, that 
they will have easy and abundantparnasah.

Rav Gershon Edelstein stressed that parnasah is entirely in the hands
 of Heaven and is determined on Rosh HaShanah by one's spiritual 
merits. Accordingly, he said, those girls who go to Beis Yaakov will 
receive parnasah, good shidduchim, and everything else that they 
need, whereas girls who leave that framework will not be successful 
at this. (One cannot help but wonder how he could say something 
that is so clearly factually incorrect; indeed, if it was true that Beis 
Yaakov graduates make a parnasah and those who go to college do 
not, then there would be no need for such a rally in the first place!)

Rav Yitzchak Zilberstein (author of the popular Veha'arev Na/ What 
If series) gave a Torah insight: Why did Rachel Imeinu sit on Lavan's
 idols rather than burn them? He explained that the point was to 
disparage them, to show that the "wisdom of other nations" has 
nothing to offer us. (See this post from Rabbi Josh Waxman about 
Rav Zilberstein's position that Jews and non-Jews have different 
numbers of teeth.) We must teach our daughters, he said, that a 
Jewish home that is clean of any hint of foreign wisdom, and teaches
 only Torah, will never be harmed.

Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch of Slabodka Yeshivah delivered a much 
more honest presentation. He stated frankly that modern charedi 
society puts people in a difficult position - the women do not earn 
enough of a salary to support the family and the husband is in kollel. 
He noted that there is talk of funding coming from wealthy donors in
 America, but admitted that there is no good solution. However, he 
said, the reason why it is nevertheless forbidden to attend academic 
program is because of the deleterious effect that this has on one's 
spiritual life.

There is no question that Rabbi Hirsch is correct. Once a person steps
 out of the daled amos of the yeshivah or Beis Yaakov, they are 
exposed to all kinds of influences and ideas that run contrary to 
charedi and Torah values. I don't understand how there are people 
that deny this.

On the other hand, im ein kemach, ein Torah. We have to earn money,
 work, and build up society. If charedim are going to radically diverge
 from tradition by sending everyone to kollel, then the women have 
to shoulder the workload of both partners (while also giving birth and
 raising children). And it's just not possible for charedi society to 
accomplish that if everyone only attends Beis Yaakov. As Rabbi 
Hirsch acknowledged, what Rav Edelstein said is just not true.

Rabbi Hirsch said that the spiritual price is too great to pay, and 
charedim must consign themselves to ever-worsening economic ruin.
 Others will disagree with that judgment. There's always risks and 
dangers in life. It's dangerous to fight in a war, but we still need 
soldiers. And it's dangerous to go to college, but we still need to 
provide for our families and build up society.

These are difficult decisions for young women to make. They are 
certainly unlikely to choose academic programs when the people that
 they are told to revere as Gedolei Yisroel tell them that if they do so,
 they will not attain parnasah or good shidduchim. I am always 
amazed at how people who would very much want their children to 
obtain academic qualifications nevertheless send their children to 
institutions which teach them to revere the Charedi leadership as 
their Gedolim. And then they are surprised and dismayed when their
 children and grandchildren don't get an academic education and 
can't support themselves!

(See too this post: "Gedolei Yisroel Insist On Economic Ruin For Charedim, All Israel")