“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.” Rav Kook z"l
Saturday, March 12, 2022
USA Amnesty director: Israel ‘shouldn’t exist as a Jewish state’
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I don't understand why everyone is getting bent out of shape by the director's statement. Isn't this the same policy of the feuding Satmar Brothers? Isn't this the policy of the Litvishe Velt in Lakewood?
Or is it only because a goy made that statement?
An Amnesty International official said that the organization is opposed to Israel continuing to exist as a Jewish state.
“We are opposed to the idea — and this, I think, is an existential part of the debate — that Israel should be preserved as a state for the Jewish people,” Paul O’Brien, the human rights monitor’s U.S. director, said in a luncheon this week with the Women’s National Democratic Club in Washington D.C.
Jewish Insider first reported the remarks.
O’Brien said late Friday on Twitter that his remarks had been removed from context, although he did not contest the quotes themselves.
“Jewish Insider’s headline claims that I and Amnesty questioned the right of Israel to exist,” he said. “I did not and Amnesty takes no position on the legitimacy of any state.”
O’Brien also said on Twitter that, “I said that while we recognize the right of self-determination for Jewish and Palestinian people as a basic human right, we take no position on the legal or political solutions that any people may take to exercise that right.”
Taking a position on whether and how an established state should continue to exist is unusual for organizations with responsibilities limited to monitoring compliance with international laws governing freedoms and human rights. O’Brien’s comments immediately drew a torrent of condemnation from Jewish groups.
“If there was any doubt about Amnesty’s credibility as a legitimate voice of authority, it is now abundantly clear that they are firmly entrenched in the cadre of extremist anti-Israel provocateurs,” William Daroff, the CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said Friday in an interview, Earlier he had tweeted that O’Brien’s remarks were outrageous. “It is clear that their true vision is a Middle East without Israel as a Jewish state.”
Biden Funding Anti-Israel NGO's to the Tune of $1 Million
The Biden administration is distributing close to $1 million to organizations to investigate claims of human rights abuses in Israel, Judea and Samaria and Gaza.
Sources who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon said that the State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) project will serve to delegitimize Israel.
The DRL is offering $987,654 to NGOs to "strengthen accountability and human rights in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza.”
The grant notice posted on the State Department website calls for groups who would focus on “maintaining civil rights documentation to support justice and accountability.”
The groups who receive the funding will be tasked with investigating alleged abuses inside Israel, Judea and Samaria and Gaza, and to document these allegations.
This would include the “documentation of legal or security sector violations and housing, land, and property rights” while also “[understanding and accessing] the forums and processes available to take meaningful action in pursuing truth, accountability, and memorialization; and/or provide psychosocial support to survivors of atrocities.”
Supporters of Israel in Congress were furious when they found out about the program, with accusations that the Biden administration is aiding the BDS movement.
Senator Ted Cruz called the funding “disgraceful.”
"The Biden administration wants to use American taxpayer money to subsidize the international NGO campaign to demonize and isolate Israel, which then serves as a basis for antisemitic efforts to boycott and wage economic warfare against Israeli Jews. Congress did not appropriate funds for this purpose and has repeatedly condemned such campaigns,” he told the Free Beacon.
Cruz called on the State Department to immediately cancel the program and investigate how it came about.
Bennett Reads DIN Tells Zelensky to Surrender!
Bennett must be reading DIN that suggested that Zelensky surrender to Putin. This plan would prevent bloodshed, and the Uman'ities will be able to return to Uman under the Russian flag. Putin will then have the time to march into Poland, Hungary and Romania.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Tuesday spoke to Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, telling him in a phone call that he suggests Zelenskyy surrender, so as to end the war with Russia.
The news initially broke on Friday, and Bennett's office denied the report.
In the phone call, Bennett recommended that Zelenskyy accept the offer presented by Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war. That offer included a long and harsh list of compromises on the part of Ukraine, a senior official in the Ukrainian government told Israel's Walla! news site.
Zelenskyy did not take Bennett's suggestion.
Police called on Julia Haart the Rebbeitzen from "My Unorthodox Life"
Things just keep getting messier.
“My Unorthodox Life” star Julia Haart’s ex-husband Silvio Scaglia filed a report with the cops accusing her of alleged “unauthorized” use of a $132,000 Bentley, reports Us Weekly.
Page Six has confirmed that the cops were contacted, but reps for Haart tell us, “Silvio does not own the car. The cops are not looking for Julia. The car is not stolen … Also, the cops have since demurred on the whole thing. It’s a civil matter.”
Her reps added, “The cops initially engaged. Identified the whole thing as part of an acrimonious divorce and walked away. The car remains in place.”
According to Us Weekly, police showed up to take the car into custody on Friday, showing up to Haart’s parking garage with a tow truck, but did not wind up taking it.
The pricey car has been just one source of contention since Haart was fired as CEO of Elite World Group at the beginning of February. She filed for divorce just hours later.
Last month, Page Six exclusively reported that Scaglia — who purchased fashion and talent agency Elite World Group in 2011 and named Haart co-owner and CEO in 2019 — had accused her of keeping the Bentley two-tone red black Mulsanne without permission.
SW Vestry Cars – an LLC company tied to Elite’s holding company, Freedom Holding – allegedly sent a note to Haart on Feb. 21, asking for the immediate return of the luxury car, a source told us.
Scaglia guaranteed the lease with Manhattan Motor Cars, according to documents obtained by Page Six, which reveal the deal was done through SW Vestry Cars.
Friday, March 11, 2022
The Pathetic Voting Record of Ukraine vis a vis Israel in the UN
Thursday, March 10, 2022
No אב הרחמים liars this week
Saudis, Emiratis, Refuse Biden’s Phone Calls
The White House tried unsuccessfully to arrange calls between President Biden and the leaders of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as the US was attempting to forge international support for Ukraine and tame the surge in oil prices, Middle East and US officials told the Washington Post on Tuesday.
The refusal of Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman and UAE Crown Prince Muhammad bin Zayed to take Biden’s call happened in recent weeks, when officials in these countries have increasingly criticized US policy in the Persian Gulf. Biden eventually spoke with the 86-year-old King Salman, bin Salman’s father, and their conversation dealt with the long-standing partnership between their two countries. The Emirati Foreign Ministry said that the conversation between Biden and the country’s regent was postponed.
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Full Interview of Monster Walder's Victim (In Hebrew).... Heart breaking! Walder's Wife asked her to keep it quiet and deny it ..Mrs Walder Knew this all along!
One of the victims of Chaim Walder who testified to police against him in 2008 has gone public on Israeli television and described her experience.
In an appallingly candid and jarring interview, Romi Schwartz, now a woman of 40, described how as a young woman of 17, distantly related to Walder by marriage, she was referred to him and subsequently repeatedly abused by him.
Romi was the only one of Walder’s victims to complain against him in the police. It took a few years for her to gather courage and complain against Walder, who was already a celebrity figure in the chareidi community. However despite testimonies which supported her version of events, police closed the case due to lack of evidence. Walder’s family later contacted her and paid her to sign a non-disclosure agreement which would prevent her from telling anyone, both private individuals or media of any complaints she might have had against Walder.
Bracha Walder tried to renew the agreement recently when stories began to emerge about her husband’s errant behavior. However Schwartz elected not to remain silent any longer and was apparently one of the women who referred to the Beis Din of Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu and told her story. In 2015 she had even contacted Channel 13’s Anat Goren but elected not to publicize her story, possibly after signing the non-disclosure agreement. On Tuesday her story was finally made public on Channel 13.
Schwartz had been referred to Walder after herself being a victim of abuse from her father (her parents divorced when she was a child) and having difficulties after a hurried marriage at age 17. Walder’s wife was a cousin of her husband, who thought that Chaim could provide therapy for her. However Walder instead developed a relationship with her, constantly trying to model himself as her protector, and constantly flattering her but at the same time exploiting her weakness and lack of self-worth to abuse her.
Walder continued the abuse and exploitation for an extended period, despite Schwartz being a married woman and mother of a child. Schwartz, who came from a hasidic background, said that at the time she did not understand that she had been raped and only later, in 2008, complained to police together with her former husband Yermi who also upheld her testimony. (He later divorced and recanted his testimony on her behalf). Schwartz later remarried but now lives a secular lifestyle with her five children- two from Yermi and three from her current husband Yuval.
Walder denied a relationship with Schwartz in the police interrogation, but still gave intimate details about her and could not explain why she knew about his office or had met him in a hotel and instead claimed that “she is angry with our family”. Despite the obvious warning signs, police closed the case without making any further investigation of her complaints.
Schwartz received a letter from Walder’s lawyers prior to the Channel 13 revelation. The lawyers said they will sue her to return 500,000 NIS, the sum she was paid to remain silent “forever”.