
“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
Some things never change: The Biden/Blinken administration continues to dangerously miscalculate in the Middle East — as the White House stumbles further into the Armageddon trap that Tehran is laying in Gaza and Lebanon.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is hell-bent on achieving nuclear breakout, and is doing so by playing President Biden.
Tehran “is moving toward completion of a brand-new nuclear facility 100 meters below ground, where it could enrich uranium to weapons-grade with immunity from US airstrikes,” Andrea Stricker of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies reported last week.
The new uranium-enrichment facility, located near Iran’s existing Natanz nuclear complex, is believed to be “impervious to even the largest US bunker-buster bombs, which can reach depths of at least 60 meters,” Stricker wrote.
Khamenei knows he is holding a losing hand strategically.
Israel proved that on April 18, when the IDF pulled off an undetected strike on an Iranian air defense battery guarding the Natanz nuclear plants.
I watched the viral clip of Barack Obama taking a frozen Joe Biden by the arm and leading him off stage at their star-studded $30 million LA fundraiser, and posted on X what I suspect everyone who watched it was thinking: “So embarrassing. The Democrats can’t let this go on, surely?”
Within a few hours, a staggering 7.5 million people had viewed my post and many thousands of those had liked, reposted or commented on it.
As I thought, the vast majority shared my honestly held opinion that President Biden is no longer fit for the highest office in America.
I don’t mean that he’s too incompetent for the job, although many would say he is.
No, I mean that he’s too physically and mentally unfit to function at the extremely high level required to be leader of not just the United States, but also the free world.
When the last Democrat to occupy the White House has to literally grab the current one because he notices he’s had yet another “senior moment” and appears to be paralyzed like a statue on stage, it has to be the wake-up call everyone in the party must urgently heed before it’s too late, doesn’t it?
We’re only five months away from the 2024 general election, but what is now painfully obvious is that Joe Biden’s already cooked as a candidate.
There is not a snowball’s chance in hell that he can possibly get through another four-year term of presidency — and everyone knows it.
This is a once very eloquent, fast-talking, firebrand senator.
Abdallah Aljamal — killed by Israeli Defense Forces during the raid to free the hostages from his home in Nuseirat — was a regular correspondent for The Palestine Chronicle, an Olympia, Washington state-based news outlet established in 1999, with sister publications in France and Italy.
Aljamal’s articles for the website lamenting the evils of war continued until just before the June 8 raid — many seemingly written while Jewish hostages taken by Hamas in their Oct. 7th terror attack were captive at his house.
The National Jewish Advocacy Center, a non-profit based in Atlanta, is now demanding the Department of Justice and FBI investigate The Palestine Chronicle.
The Advocacy Center also said Aljamal had worked as a spokesman for Hamas in Gaza’s Ministry of Labor.
I find it interesting that if you really read the Chareidie View of the State of Israel, you will find it eerily similar to the Leftist view. Both are against the government, both are prepared to give back land to Arab control and finally, both are against serving in the army!
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant canceled a lecture by former Prime Minister and Chief of Staff Ehud Barak, which was expected to take place soon at the National Security College.
Sources close to Gallant stated, "Anyone who calls for refusal of any kind will not be part of the IDF in any way."
Barak had been invited to speak before senior IDF officers. The planned appearance drew significant controversy in Israel's political circles and on social media.
Minister Amichai Chikli responded: "In the midst of a grueling war, the IDF invited the leader of the inciters to political refusal, Mr. Ehud Barak, to lecture before senior officers. This is an unprecedented disgrace."
Political correspondent Tal Shalev responded to the cancellation: "Ehud Barak is a former Prime Minister, a former Chief of Staff, among the most decorated soldiers in the IDF, and also the man who appointed Gallant as Chief of Staff, but Gallant is afraid of Channel 14 and this is the result."
Channel 14 reporter Yishai Friedman responded to her: "Afraid of Channel 14? Or maybe he understands that there are officers in the IDF who are fed up with people who were a central part of Jewish civil wars?"
Jewish-owned business targeted by hateful vandalism. Miami mayor @FrancisSuarez and federal judge Roy Altman show up to help clean it up. Story on @nbc6 starting at noon. pic.twitter.com/ybgWz1tGJb
— Ari Odzer (@ariodzernbc6) June 17, 2024
A Jewish-owned bagel shop in Miami was defaced over the weekend with anti-Israel graffiti.
According to NBC6South Florida, Holy Bagels on Northwest 1st Street was spray painted with the words "Free Palestine" and "Stop Genocide." In addition, the suspect, who was caught on surveillance camera tore down a "Stand with Israel" banner that was displayed in front of the store.
Josh Nodel, the owner of the shop, told the local station that he was devastated by the attack. "We've been targeted because of hate because they know we are Jewish, we are supporters of Israel," he added.
In the face of the hateful act, the Nodel received some strong support from none other than Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and Federal Judge Roy Altman, who came to help clean up the vandalism.
"My grandparents went through the 1940s in Europe, and this is how it started, spray painting Jewish businesses, we will not allow antisemites to silence us here, to convince us that the West is broken or bad," Judge Altman told NBC6.
"I think this is meant to scare people, to try to give the impression that we don’t control our city, that our city can be overrun by acts of illegality and hate and that’s not acceptable to us," Mayor Suarez added.