Dogs are IDF's Best Friends Finding Terrorists that are Hiding

 The IDF on Sunday published a video of the Oketz canine unit’s operations in the Gaza Strip.

The dogs, equipped with video cameras, are sent to scan and map buildings before soldiers enter and locate explosives or terrorists that can harm the soldiers.

In the video below, one of the dogs named Patrick is sent into a building in the Jabaliya neighborhood of northern Gaza and finds and neutralizes a Hamas terrorist waiting in ambush for the soldiers. The terrorist can be heard yelling “Allahu Akbar!”

The second half of the video shows a dog named Toy entering a building in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City. Toy found a passageway to another building where a Hamas terrorist was lying in wait for the soldiers and neutralized him.

Buses of Migrants Bound for NY Are Being Dropped off at NJ Train Stations Evading New York Regulations

A New Jersey mayor says buses of migrants bound for New York City have been stopping at the train station in his town and others in an apparent effort to evade an executive order by New York’s mayor trying to regulate how and when migrants can be dropped off in the city.

Secaucus Mayor Michael Gonnelli said Sunday that Secaucus police and town officials had been told by Hudson County officials about the arrival of buses at the train station in Secaucus Junction beginning Saturday. He said four buses were believed to have arrived and dropped off migrants who then took trains into New York City.

The Chasid Who Established Kiryat Malachi’s Local Guard

 At first glance Assaf Peleg presented an unusual sight to residents of Kiryat Malachi. On the one hand he is dressed as a chasid, with a streimel and kapota on Shabbos, but at the same time he carries an M-16, a pistol and a telephone and gives orders to members of the local guard.

When residents learned of Peleg’s military background, they began to understand his unique position and capabilities. Assaf was a member of the crack Duvdevan commando unit, one of the toughest special operation IDF units. Peleg served as a squad commander in the unit before becoming a Baal Teshuva.

Protest Shut Down Belt Pkwy and Airtrain, CreateTravel Mayhem

Pro-Hamas protesters targeted the three major airports in the New York City-area on one of the busiest travel days of the year. 

 The hateful anti-Israel protesters yelled inflammatory chants, snarled traffic, and caused chaos as they descended upon JFK Airport on Monday. 

 The NYPD warned passengers to arrive early for any flights on New Year’s Day. 

 “If anyone is flying out of JFK Airport today, please plan to travel to the airport ahead of time. There are planned protests today and will cause delays. We don’t want anyone to miss their flights!,” NYPD Chief of Transportation Chief Philip Rivera posted on X. 

 According to the NY Post, the Belt Parkway was temporarily blocked off by police near Exit 20 to control the “Flood JFK For Gaza” protest, planned by Within Our Lifetime.

 “NYPD, KKK, IDF you’re all the same,” protesters inside an SUV screeched through a megaphone, according to video posted to X. Other footage posted to social media showed more than a dozen cars waving Palestinian flags and honking horns on the gridlocked parkway. A box truck displayed images of Israeli troops with Palestinian children, claiming “Israel has waged a war on the children in Palestine.” 

Later, some of the vehicles involved headed to LaGuardia Airport. LaGuardia’s X account also told passengers to allow extra time due to police activity. The AirTrain also had to be shut down for more than three hours. 

 Social media users voiced their outrage at the protesters clogging up traffic. “Bring bulldozers… clear the road!!!!,” Rick Gavin wrote on X. “Break out the water cannons. Enough of this…” another user said. X user James Gilmour said that the NYPD should “arrest all of them.” “Absolutely disgusting behavior. Arrest all of them. Scum of society,” Gilmour said. Another X user wrote: “Consequence, please & thx. All for protests, but not when it disrupts innocent lives.”

DIN: A Question to those Roshei Yeshiva that compare IDF Soldiers who are "Moiser Nefesh" to Garbage Collectors

 

זבולון לחוף ישכן  ..  יששכר חמר גרם

"Zevulin shall dwell at the shore of the sea"

"Yissachar is a large-boned donkey"

These words appeared in last week's parsha, when Yaakov on his deathbed blessed his children.

Commentaries are struggling with why Yaakov when addressing Yissacher & Zevulin mentions the younger Zevulin first.

The Rashbam postulates that since Zevulin engaged in trade using ships to trade abroad, it was Zevulin who provided sustenance for shevet Yissachar , allowing the latter to be engaged in the study of Torah, so he, Zevulin is mentioned first for he made it possible for Yissacher to go unscathed and devote himself to Torah. 

Yaakov saw fit to place a son of his who was involved in business, (not involved in putting his life on the line but involved in business,) on a higher pedestal than the one learning Torah because the businessman allowed the Torah Learner to dedicate himself to Torah, yet 3,500 years later a leading Roshei Yeshiva not only doesn't he acknowledge the sacrifice of an IDF soldier, who is protecting those learning, but compares him to a "garbage collector" 

And why did this bully ridicule the IDF soldiers?  

Because this coward is afraid that his talmidim respecting these heroes would come to admire them and maybe they would "chas ve'sholom" want to join. This frightens him! My message to him is, "if you are so worried that your talmidim would want to join them, then you have not instilled the proper love of the Torah in their souls. Someone who loves Torah so much that he makes it his "umnosoh" would never want to leave learning. You must be a very bad mechanich and a poor communicator. Leave your job in Yeshivah and become a garbage collector. 

? זו תורה וזו שכרה

Israeli MKs send letter to Biden demanding US 'share material', explain claims against settlers ..."this is a blood-libel"

Twenty-three Israeli MKs wrote to US President Joe Biden on Sunday, demanding an explanation of his administration's recent statements accusing settlers of violent acts against Palestinian residents in the West Bank.

"First and foremost, We would like to express our gratitude, on behalf of the People of Israel, for your staunch support of the State of Israel and for your unflinching stance in these difficult times," they wrote in the letter. 

They continued: 

"As members of Israel's Knesset and the Knesset Caucus to Combat Antisemitism and Delegitimization, we, like you, denounce violence against innocent civilians. We are turning to you today regarding a number of statements you made recently pertaining to a 'phenomenon' you have called upon our government to address, namely violence perpetrated by Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria against Palestinian Arabs.

The Kanievski Family Raking in a Fortune From the Late R' Chaim ... Now Sold His "rashash" Siddur for $2 Million

 

I have to laugh, the Litvishe fakers always yell that those working for an honest living are "baalei-batim' and are looked down upon by the oilam ha'Yeshivah.

Turns out that the "thumb twisters" are having the last laugh with a fantastic scheme to make money out of nothing!

For years they were taking money from everyone who wanted to see R' Chaim z"l, no one has a clue where that money went.

Everything in the house of R' Chaim z"l is for sale to the highest bidder, the lust for money in this family is one of the largest found in the Lithuanian world, in the past they claimed that the name 'Kanievsky' was a symbol of modesty, remember the articles they did on television about what the house looked like and the old kitchen is old-fashioned, so now we learn the truth because under the floors of the neglected house, they kept many millions

It wasn't too long ago that they were selling R' Chaim Kanievski's pants on ebay for mucho dollars, until the secular press mocked and ridiculed the sale, and they had to withdraw the pants, I wonder who is wearing them now?

Just recently R' Chaim's Children were fighting over the millions of $$$$$ generated from selling his handwritten Torahlech. Last week they sold his Shtreimal for $1.8 million

The Litvishe Velt sees nothing wrong with mocking those "jerks" and "jlubs" who wake up vasikin, run home to get a bite and shlep their lunch that their wives packed in a brown paper bag, come home after a full day of work, try to play with their children for a couple of minutes then run off to a shiur. These guys are looked down upon and called "baalei-batim." but they fail to see the irony of  the oilim ha'Torah selling their venerated  Roshei Yeshiva's underwear !

Give me a break! 

It Didn't Take Long for the Demon'Rats To Attack the Black Jew Running for Santos's Seat

DIN: To disguise their real concern, which is that they are frightened that this Jewish former IDF Soldier may actually win against the Demon'Rat Tom Suozzi they came up with some lame excuse, that Mazi Pilip failed to vote in key elections. But Tom Suozzi voted with President Biden and with Democratic Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the left-wing “squad” 90%” of the time, resulting in “an open border” and “staggering inflation.” Suozzi also raised taxes by millions of dollars when he was Nassau County executive.

The Republican candidate vying for lying ex-Rep.George Santos’ vacated New York seat failed to vote for years in key elections — including for the congressional office she’s running for, voting records reveal.

GOP hopeful and mom of seven Mazi Pilip, 44, first registered to vote Nov. 6, 2012, as a Democrat, according to her voting profile with the Nassau County Board of Elections obtained by The Post.

But the Great Neck resident — still a registered Democrat and currently a Nassau County legislator — didn’t actually pull a lever until four years later, skipping three years of elections.

She failed to vote in the 2013 election for Nassau County executive, the 2014 midterm congressional elections and the race for governor, and the 2015 vote for Nassau County legislature.

Pilip — an Ethiopian native and former Israeli soldier facing off against Democratic ex-Rep. Tom Suozzi in the Feb. 13 special election for the vacant Santos seat in the 3rd District covering parts of Nassau and eastern Queens — did vote in the 2016 presidential election.

But she did not then vote in the 2017 Nassau elections, 2018 race for governor and Congress and 2019 county elections, according to her records.

The congressional hopeful did not vote again until 2020 — a presidential election year. 

She voted in the 2021 elections — when she first ran and won a seat serving in the Nassau County legislature — the 2022 race for governor and Congress and in 2023, when she won re-election.

According to voting records, after registering as a Democrat in 2012, Pilip registered as a “blank” — not affiliated with any party — April 29, 2015.

She re-registered as a Democrat on May 5, 2015 — six days later — and has remained so.

The Suozzi campaign Democrats pounced.

“Mazi Pilip barely bothers to vote, she won’t debate Tom on TV, she won’t say who she voted for president or where she stands on most of the issues, and she offers nothing but nonsensical talking points dictated to her by party bosses,” said Suozzi senior campaign adviser Kim Devlin.

“The more we learn about her – the more troubling it is. We’ve seen this kind of candidate before in George Santos — the voters in Nassau and Queens won’t be fooled again,” Devlin said.

Nassau County Democratic leader Jay Jacobs added, “If you’re going to ask people to vote for you, you should have been someone who voted for their representatives when you had the chance.”

Pilip, in a statement released by her campaign, said she regretted “having missed voting in some elections” but said constituents should be more concerned about Suozzi’s voting record when he previously served in Congress and when he was Nassau County executive.

“Voting in elections is a privilege that every voter should exercise. As a former IDF [Israel Defense Forces] soldier who fought for freedom and the mother of seven children, Mazi Pilip is committed to teaching her children and all young people the importance of having their voices heard in elections,” a campaign spokesman said.

Her camp added that Suozzi’s voting record in Congress was “deeply troubling” — claiming he always voted with President Biden and with Democratic Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the left-wing “squad” 90%” of the time, resulting in “an open border” and “staggering inflation.” It claimed Suozzi raised taxes by millions of dollars when he was Nassau County executive, too.

“We are confident that when voters look at the voting records of Mazi Pilip in the Legislature compared to Tom Suozzi’s dangerous and extreme voting record in Congress, they will support Mazi Pilip for Congress,” Pilip’s campaign said.

The race is being closely monitored by both parties, which see it as a potential bellwether for which party wins in the House later in 2024.

The seat that Pilip and Suozzo are competing for was vacated when Santos, 35, became the sixth House member in history to be expelled.

He faced allegations of campaign finance violations and the surfacing of egregious lies about his personal and professional history.

 

Biden’s 2023 failures will only get worse in 2024

By Post Editorial Board

It’s New Year’s Day, time to take stock of 2023 and consider what lies ahead for 2024 — and for President Biden, his grim past presages a harsh future in a reelection battle for the ages. 

Biden took office with expectations high: He was the man who would return us to politics as usual after the disruptions of the Trump years.

He would oversee a period of healing and reconciliation and get the country back on the right track. 

How’d that work out, Joe?

From his first days in the Oval Office, he pursued an agenda 100% driven by the most radical elements within his party. 

On the border, the economy and foreign policy, he followed cues from online activists and insurgent hard-left electeds like AOC and Rashida Tlaib.

He imposed policies that have done this country grave harm and continues to mock and disparage anyone who dares to point out that this doddering emperor has no clothes. 

The past year revealed, in all their full and ugly panoply, the consequences of Biden’s ignorant, arrogant philosophy (if you can call it that). 

Consider the migrant crisis, which he and the open-borders enthusiasts in his Cabinet manufactured. 

The past year was an utter catastrophe, as illegal migrants — including scores of names on the terror watchlist — streamed into the country.

The official tally for fiscal 2023 is 2.47 million encounters at the southern border (with at least 1.7 million “gotaways,” migrants seen but not apprehended, since 2021).

That doesn’t even begin to take into account those never spotted by CBP — or the 483,404 who have streamed in since the end of fiscal 2023. 

The strain from these unprecedented influxes is overwhelming tiny towns at the border, trapping Americans in Mexico and straining the fiscal health of cities as far away as New York to the breaking point. 

Yet Biden remains utterly indifferent, only offering bogus “action” like last week’s pointless Blinken-Mayorkas “mission to Mexico” that simply puffed the ego of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador while doing nothing to slow the illegal tide.

Then there’s the centerpiece of Biden’s re-election campaign, “Bidenomics.” 

The president and his flunkeys in the press insist that Biden’s economic stewardship has somehow been good for average Americans, that it is building the economy “from the middle out and the bottom up.”

No: Prices are up 17.4% since Joe took office.

When you isolate key expenses, the picture’s even worse. Food is up 20.3%; rent is up 18.6%; electricity is up 24.3%. 

Hezbollah may attempt to invade from Jordan

 

The IDF is fundamentally changing its operational preparedness on the Jordanian border in light of an uptick in weapons smuggling from the kingdom and the fear of Iranian-backed terror attacks that may occur along it during 2024, Israel Hayom reported on Monday.

According to the report, the scenario of reference for which the IDF Central Command is preparing is an attempt by Hezbollah, or other pro-Iranian militias, to infiltrate the Jordanian border into nearby Israeli communities.

Israel's eastern border with Jordan is 309 KM (192 miles) long, and it is Israel's longest border with any of her neighbors.

In the past two years, there has been a dramatic spike in arms smuggling from Jordan into Judea and Samaria, and the IDF estimates that Iran is behind the parcels. Over 1,000 weapons of different varieties were caught along the border.

Among other things, the smugglers bring in air-soft M16 assault rifles, which have their parts switched out in Israel to allow them to fire actual bullets.

In one instance, an Iranian-made claymore mine was caught. The IDF knows that only some of the smuggling attempts are caught. This is one of the explanations for the rise in terror attacks and the availability of weapons in Judea and Samaria in the past two years.

The IDF has already doubled the scope of its forces along the border, and its 2024 work plan is even more extensive. The IDF is expected to ask the cabinet to build a barrier along the border as there is between Israel and Egypt.

In addition, watch posts will be erected, security will be increased, and additional means will be installed to contend with smuggling and foil possible terror attacks.

In recent weeks, Israeli inhabitants of the Jordan Valley have been reporting frequent sounds of gunfire from the area of the border. In light of the residents' complaints and as a lesson from the Hamas attack, the community security squads were reinforced with the goal of stopping a possible invasion.