‘Ramadan is month to murder Jews; not a holy time’

 

Yair Mor of the Tikva Forum, brother of Eitan Mor, who was taken hostage to Gaza, participated in a Knesset debate on Monday and said he did not understand the discussion on easing restrictions for Palestinian Authority Arabs during Ramadan.

"Hamas destroyed the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah for us, so the simple equation is that they should not have Ramadan either. They talk to us about the easing restrictions for them, that we should reach some wanton deal before Ramadan. Why? Because it's a so-called holy holiday. So no, Ramadan is a holiday of murdering Jews. It's not a holy holiday. Who cares about their Ramadan? We care about our hostages. Because we care about the hostages, we should be increasing the military pressure, especially during Ramadan, so that they see not to mess with us," said Mor.

"I don't understand how all the Israeli media is talking about Ramadan and not about military pressure that will lead us to the hostages? Common sense says is that we should be increasing military pressure throughout the month of Ramadan. Any normal, life-seeking country, anyone who wants the hostages alive and home now, will increase military pressure, especially during Ramadan," he added.

He stressed that, "We must not agree to a partial and dangerous deal that will sentence my brother to more years in captivity, because there is talk of a deal for 40 hostages now. Any deal that doesn't include everyone is bad."

"In order to reach a deal, we must come from a position of power. We should be the local bully, not Hamas. I don't understand how they still dictate the terms of the deal to us. How come we still don't have a list of all the live hostages who will be released in any deal? I support the Prime Minister who is not willing to move things forward until we receive a list of all the hostages, whether alive or dead. Already 150 days have passed and we have no idea who is alive and who is dead. This is just ridiculous.

"I call on the War Cabinet not to take Ramadan into account in any way, [and] to increase the military pressure, because if the Cabinet says that military pressure will lead to the release of the hostages, then we must increase the military pressure," Mor concluded.

Supreme Court Unanimously Restores Trump to Ballot

 

The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously restored Donald Trump to 2024 presidential primary ballots, rejecting state attempts to ban the Republican former president over the Capitol riot.

The justices ruled a day before the Super Tuesday primaries that states cannot invoke a post-Civil War constitutional provision to keep presidential candidates from appearing on ballots. That power resides with Congress, the court wrote in an unsigned opinion.

Trump posted on his social media network shortly after the decision was released: “BIG WIN FOR AMERICA!!!”

The outcome ends efforts in Colorado, Illinois, Maine and elsewhere to kick Trump, the front-runner for his party’s nomination, off the ballot because of his attempts to undo his loss in the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden, culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold expressed disappointment in the court’s decision as she acknowledged that “Donald Trump is an eligible candidate on Colorado’s 2024 Presidential Primary.”

Trump’s case was the first at the Supreme Court dealing with a provision of the 14th Amendment that was adopted after the Civil War to prevent former officeholders who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office again.

Colorado’s Supreme Court, in a first-of-its-kind ruling, had decided that the provision, Section 3, could be applied to Trump, who that court found incited the Capitol attack. No court before had applied Section 3 to a presidential candidate.

The justices sidestepped the politically fraught issue of insurrection in their opinions Monday, but some Trump critics pointed to the silence on that topic as a victory of sorts because the court failed to absolve him of responsibility for the Capitol riot.

The court held that states may bar candidates from state office. “But States have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the Presidency,” the court wrote.

While all nine justices agreed that Trump should be on the ballot, there was sharp disagreement from the three liberal members of the court and a milder disagreement from conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett that their colleagues went too far in determining what Congress must do to disqualify someone from federal office.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson said they agreed that allowing the Colorado decision to stand could create a “chaotic state by state patchwork” but said they disagreed with the majority’s finding a disqualification for insurrection can only happen when Congress enacts legislation. “Today, the majority goes beyond the necessities of this case to limit how Section 3 can bar an oathbreaking insurrectionist from becoming President,” the three justices wrote in a joint opinion.

It’s unclear whether the ruling leaves open the possibility that Congress could refuse to certify the election of Trump or any other presidential candidate it sees as having violated Section 3.

Derek Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame University, said “it seems no,” noting that the liberals complained that the majority ruling forecloses any other ways for Congress to enforce the provision. Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California-Los Angeles, wrote that it’s frustratingly unclear what the bounds might be on Congress.

Hasen was among those urging the court to settle the issue so there wasn’t the risk of Congress rejecting Trump under Section 3 when it counts electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2025.

“We may well have a nasty, nasty post-election period in which Congress tries to disqualify Trump but the Supreme Court says Congress exceeded its powers,” he wrote.

Both sides had requested fast work by the court, which heard arguments less than a month ago, on Feb. 8. The justices seemed poised then to rule in Trump’s favor.

Trump had been kicked off the ballots in Colorado, Maine and Illinois, but all three rulings were on hold awaiting the Supreme Court’s decision.

Mrs Abby Stein aka Mr Stein Now Pro-Hamas Wants the US to stop Sending any Money to Israel ...

 

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Most Jews Didn't Live in Jerusalem

 

SHMUEL CHAIM NAIMAN

My family and I live in Ramat Bet Shemesh, a burgeoning city in the middle of biblical Israel’s Shfelah region. The Shfelah is the rolling hills and fertile valleys west of the mountains surrounding Jerusalem, and is part of the tribe of Yehuda’s (Judah) homeland.

When the Jewish nation originally entered Israel, some 3300 years ago, most of the Shfelah was occupied by the Philistines, an ancient sea-faring people. Even after most of Canaan became Israel, the Philistines (who weren’t exactly Canaanites) continued to live in the Shfelah - not as friendly neighbors, but using the area as a base to raid and harass Jewish cities and towns.

Finally, around 2900 years ago, a young boy named David knocked down their giant warrior Goliath with a little stone he pulled out of the Elah Stream right over the hill from our home. The Philistines retreated to their coastal enclaves (like Gaza), opening the Shfelah to Israel.

From that day onward, although King David and his dynasty ruled from nearby Jerusalem, most of his large tribe of Yehuda (Judah) lived and farmed in the Shfelah. For most of both Temple Periods, this was the center of Jewish life in ancient Israel, where regular people worked, married, raised children, studied, prayed, and squabbled over the price of eggs.

Wikipedia says the red colored area marks the Shfela. I guess that’s about right. Image credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shephelah

Perhaps that’s why I feel so comfortable hiking and camping in this area. The land here is beautiful - but less dramatic than the desolate Negev desert, the sloping peaks of the Galil, and the stunning canyons and streams of the Golan. People drank here from plain old wells.

The Shfelah feels like home.

The Shfelah feels like home.

Several weeks ago, as war raged in Gaza right down the road, I hopped off a bus right outside the modern incarnation of the Shfela’s Roman-era town of Bet Guvrin, and hopped on the trail as the last rays of daylight fell away.

Israel's War For Wellness!

by Shmuel Chaim Naiman

 Our enemies want us to stop living, caring, and connecting. They want us to see Israel as the "land that eats its inhabitants."

So even if you're not fighting Israel's wars of bodies (with tanks and guns) or minds (online and social media), you're a soldier in Israel's war for wellness.

Will you let them get you with fear, anxiety, and stress, and negative drama?

To help our people find wellness during wartime, I published this week "Land of Health: Israel's War for Wellness."

In this book (available now on Amazon, link below, and soon in bookshops in Israel), you'll discover how Israel the Land is the healthy body of the Jewish people, and join Yehoshua and Calev's response to the failed spies: "The Land is very, very good."

You'll also learn practical strategies for healthy living during times of crisis.

All with dozens of stunning color pictures of healthy living in Israel's natural world.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CTXZM4MM

Vicious Antisemitism in Sheepshead HS "The School from Hell" as DOE Lies And Says “currently no evidence that these claims are true.”

 

Jewish advocates called on the city’s education chancellor and a Sheepshead Bay principal to be removed following shocking allegations of antisemitism at a public high school.

The call came for the removal of chancellor David Banks and Origins High School interim principal Dara Kammerman during a Sunday press conference after multiple staffers outlined a series of alarming incidents, including a claim that dozens of teens had marched through the hallways chanting “Death to Israel” and “Kill all the Jews” after the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks on Israel.

“This is a school where there are things happening every day and this has become a culture where this behavior is tolerated and accepted and the [Department of Education] is OK with it. This is now a pattern, a systemic problem,” said Councilwoman Inna Vernikov, a Republican, who demanded the ouster of interim principal Dara Kammerman.

The fiery claims, previously outlined by The Post, included one teacher lamenting that she was “scared to come to work every day” after she was called a “a dirty Jew” by a student who said he wished “she was killed” in the Holocaust.

In another alleged incident, a student donning a Hitler moustache was caught on security footage going from class to class doing the Sieg Heil salute, according to employees.

“This is a place where swastikas are painted on teachers’ offices, on walls, in classrooms, on boards, on students’ laptop,” she alleged. “This has become the norm at this school. The complaints fall on deaf ears. There’s been no discipline, which is why this behavior’s been encouraged.”

Dov Hikind, who served in the Assembly for decades as a Democrat before retiring in 2018 and switching his political affiliation to Republican last year, called it the “school from hell.”

Hilkind blasted students who allegedly distributed flyers last week for a “Vigil of the Martyrs of Palestine” at Brooklyn College

“Are those martyrs also the Hamas terrorist Nazis that butchered 1,200 Jews on Oct.7?” he asked. “I assume so.

“When a teacher says ‘I live in fear going to work everyday,’ should anyone live in fear of going to work?” Hilkind added. “Especially in a public school, a public high school where are tax dollars pay for everything.”

Advocates claim that no serious discipline has been doled out by interim principal Kammerman, who Hikind said issued a letter to parents allegedly telling them “not to worry” because she herself is Jewish.

The Jewish advocates called for her removal as well as the firing of Banks as the DOE chancellor

“Banks does nothing and he will do nothing,” said Hikind, as he citied a DOE statement from the front page article of Sunday’s Post.

Kammerman did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Post.

The DOE said it will investigate the antisemitic allegations, adding there is “currently no evidence that these claims are true.”

In response to the statement, speakers at the rally accused the nation’s largest school district of “gaslighting” the Jewish community.

Massive boulders rush down Peruvian mountainside, crush trucks in shocking video

 

NATURE:

Boulders falling onto a traveled road in San Mateo, Peru. pic.twitter.com/BxveowElCF

— Orbital News (@orbital_news) March 3, 2024

 An avalanche of massive boulders tumbling down a Peruvian mountainside smashed a pair of trucks Saturday in a jaw-dropping moment that miraculously didn’t kill anyone. 

The giant, fast-moving rocks tossed one of the trucks like a bowling pin — sending it into the air and flipping it on its side in shocking video footage.

The drivers of the two commercial trucks survived, but their cargo was crushed and a stretch of Central Highway in the San Mateo district of Huanchor was destroyed, CNN Chile reported. 

Dashcam footage that captured the destruction shows one boulder the size of a car fly down the mountainside directly into a truck, tossing it in the air after it strikes it.

A steady stream of tumbling rocks followed and another large boulder rushing down the mountain crashed into the roadway directly in front of a second truck, leaving a huge hole in the roadway, according to the clip.

Photos of the aftermath show dozens of stones in varying sizes littered across the roadway, along with the wreckage from the two trucks, including one on its side.

It took about four hours to clear the road, Peruvian outlet La Republica reported.

Authorities were investigating the cause of the incident. Officials believe heavy rainfall in the area might have destabilized the ground, CNN Chile and La Republica reported.

More than a year ago, the country faced tragedy when dozens of people were killed from landslides due to steady rain. 

Nikki Haley wins the District of Columbia’s Republican primary, gets her first 2024 victory

 

Nikki Haley won the Republican primary in Washington, DC Sunday — cinching her very first 2024 primary victory against frontrunner Donald Trump.

Haley, 52, was declared the winner by the Associated Press after taking all 19 delegates at stake in a GOP primary that took place in one of the most heavily Democratic jurisdictions in the country. 

DC counts just 23,000 registered Republicans.

“Who says there’s no Republicans in DC, come on,” she joked with supporters during a campaign event in the nation’s capital on Friday. “We’re trying to make sure that we touch every hand that we can and speak to every person.”

Haley’s spokesperson noted that her victory makes her the first woman to win a Republican presidential primary contest in US history.

It also marks Trump’s first 2024 primary loss — though he’s expected to sweep this week’s Super Tuesday contests.

Despite her losses up until this point, Haley, the only remaining Republican challenger to the former president, has vowed to stay in the running at least through the 15 Super Tuesday races.

Meanwhile, Trump, 77, seemed unbothered by his very first loss.

He sarcastically congratulated the former South Carolina governor on being named “Queen of the Swamp by the lobbyists and DC insiders that want to protect the failed status quo” in a statement Sunday night.

Trump won his last DC primary when he ran uncontested in 2020 but lost at a distant third four years earlier behind Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and former Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

Haley has repeatedly argued during her campaign that she is the only Republican between her and Trump who can beat President Joe Biden during the general election.

But Trump has won over Republicans time after time, causing all other GOP presidential candidates to drop out and endorse him. He recently dominated Haley in caucuses in Missouri, Idaho and Michigan and is expected to easily sail to become the party’s pick to run against Biden.

DemonRat Carville "It will be Benjamin Netanyahu’s fault if Biden loses the election in November"

In an appearance this week on MSNBC, veteran Democratic political strategist James Carville made a stunning statement. Speaking of the uncommitted vote in Michigan, Carville said that it will be Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fault if Biden loses the election in November.