Biden and Schumer’s pivot away from Israel is already backfiring

 

The trouble with living in a bifurcated political culture isn’t just that everyone seems to be living in an ideological bubble. We’ve seen how this coarsens and embitters public discourse. But in the last week, it’s now clear that this isn’t just something that impacts the way ordinary citizens interact with each other. It’s also leading politicians to make some terrible decisions.

That’s the best way to understand how President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer walked into a political trap of their own making when they decided to attack Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Very Emotional Video of Soldier Homecoming

 

"Ketanim" Sign Kol Korah that Children Should Not Dress Up as Soldiers or Police on Purim

 

DIN goes to Rebbe's Tish

 

Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire cuts ties with Candace Owens following Israel-Hamas comments

Candace Owens will no longer appear on Ben Shapiro’s conservative news website The Daily Wire, it was announced on Friday (22 March).

Controversial author Owens joined the media company in 2021 before falling out with co-founder Shapiro last year over her views on the Israel-Hamas war

 “Daily Wire and Candace Owens have ended their relationship,” Daily Wire co-founder Jeremy Boreing tweeted on Friday morning.

“The rumors are true—I am finally free,” Owens shared on her own X account.

Representatives for The Daily Wire and Owens did not immediately respond to The Independent’s requests for additional comment.

The United States Abandoning Israel in the United Nations

 

The United States is preparing to abandon Israel in the United Nations with a draft resolution that calls for release of hostages dragged into Gaza by Hamas terrorists on October 7 — but also calls for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and the terrorist organization.

Not a temporary ceasefire during which increased humanitarian aid would be “surged” to the enclave, and during which hostages would be freed.

Blinken announced Wednesday that the United States has submitted a draft resolution to the UN Security Council calling for “an immediate ceasefire linked to the release of hostages” in the Gaza Strip, according to a report by the Saudi Al-Hadaath news outlet.

“We’re pressing for an immediate ceasefire tied to the release of hostages,” said Blinken, who was in Jeddah for meetings with Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister and other officials.

“We actually have a resolution that we put forward right now that’s before the United Nations Security Council that does call for an immediate ceasefire tied to the release of hostages, and we hope very much that countries will support that,” Blinken said. “I think that would send a strong message, a strong signal.”

Such a message does indeed send a “strong message” that the US no longer “has Israel’s back” in the United Nations, despite all declarations of America’s “unbreakable bond” with the Jewish State.

Zera Shimshon Parshas Vayikra

 

Hamas Threatens To Kill Anyone Working With Israel To Establish New Palestinian Government In Gaza

 

Israeli and Arab officials have revealed that Israeli security officials are quietly developing a plan to distribute aid in the Gaza Strip, which could eventually lead to a Palestinian-led governing authority. The plan has sparked a fierce backlash from Hamas and created divisions within Israel’s war cabinet.

According to officials, a top Israeli defense official has held talks with Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan to build regional support for the effort. The plan involves enlisting Palestinian leaders and businessmen with no ties to Hamas to distribute aid, which would enter Gaza by land and sea after Israeli inspection. The aid would be stored in large warehouses in central Gaza and distributed by Palestinians.

Once the war is over, the aid officials would assume authority to govern, backed by security forces funded by wealthy Arab governments. The effort aims to fill the power vacuum left by Israel’s invasion of Gaza following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

However, the plan faces obstacles and lacks the support of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who opposes working with Fatah, a rival party to Hamas seen as supporting terrorism.

Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian, head of the Israeli security arm overseeing civilian affairs in occupied territories, sees the aid effort as crucial to Israel’s plan to evacuate Rafah, Hamas’ last stronghold. The aid network would feed 750,000 to a million people in displacement camps planned for absorbing Rafah’s population.

Hamas has responded with threats, labeling anyone working with Israelis as traitors and threatening them with death. Several Palestinian families once open to the idea have withdrawn in recent days.

‘After The Rabbi (Rabbi Yosef) Spoke, My Wife, A Bereaved Mother, Cried For 24 Hours’

 

Rabbi Tamir Granot 

 “It would hurt me if anyone said this but when I hear it from a rabbi, a leader, who represents all of the Jewish nation, it hurts more,” says Rebbetzin Avivit Granot, the wife of Rabbi Tamir Granot who heads Yeshivat Orot Shaul and the mother of Captain Amitai Tzvi who fell in battle on the 15th October. She is referring to the recent statement by Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef that “The tribe of Levi are exempt from army service and cannot be taken under any circumstance. If they force us to go to the army, we will emigrate abroad.”

Rabbi Granot said that he was forced to respond “for the sake of the honor of the Torah and for the sake of my wife’s tears. Your words about conscripting yeshiva students caused her to cry for 24 hours.”

“I ask you, honored rabbi- Did Amitai err? Is he lying under the ground of Mt. Herzl for nothing? Should he and all of his friends lying there with him have stayed in yeshiva and left the Mesirus Nefesh to the secularists? Or should he have gone abroad to study Torah and not enlisted?

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