“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
Friday, June 28, 2024
Biden looks like a basket case in shocking debate performance — He can’t continue on
It’s a good thing for Joe Biden that the debate wasn’t held in Harlem’s famed Apollo Theater. The audience would have given him the hook and hooted him off the stage.
That’s how bad he was.
Our president is not fit to serve. Forget concerns about how old and infirm he would be after a second term.
He’s a basket case now.
Biden took the debate stage looking like he just escaped from a wax museum and spent much of his speaking time chewing his words before trailing off. Several times he confused millions with billions and ended one incoherent sentence by saying “we finally beat Medicare.”
Huh?
The leader of the free world doesn’t look well enough to have a driver’s license or dress himself.
Confused old man
*Donald Trump:* "I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence and I don't think he knows what he said either".
So how bad was it? Here’s a quote on Biden on a question on Medicare.
“Making sure we make every single solitary person eligible for what I’ve been able to do with covid, excuse me, with umm dealing with everything we had to deal with. Look, we finally beat Medicare.”
Does that remotely make sense?
Trump’s response: “Well he’s right. He did beat Medicaid. Beat it to death.”
DEMONRATS IN FULL PANIC MODE AFTER BIDEN HORROR SHOW
There is a “very aggressive panic” throughout the Democrat Party following the first presidential debate Thursday, according to panelists on CNN.
Many commentators agreed that President Joe Biden’s demeanor caused “damage” for his party ahead of the election in November. Questions were again raised about the president’s health early into the night, and some progressives called for Democrats to pick a different candidate before voters head to the polls.
Joy Reid on Biden’s debate performance: People texting with her were “very concerned about President Biden seeming extremely feeble, seeming extremely weak.”
“It started minutes into the debate, and it continues right now,” he continued. “It involves party strategists. It involves elected officials. It involves fundraisers. And they’re having conversations about the president’s performance, which they think was dismal, which they think will hurt other people down the party in the ticket, and they’re having conversations about what they should do about it.”
CNN TRASHES JOE: “Biden answers in alot of cases were not coherent. It was deeply problematic. There was real damage done that can not be undone.”
CNN’s Abby Phillips said that she agreed with King’s takeaways and that the “panic” she was receiving from members in the Democratic Party “is not like anything that I have heard in this campaign so far.”
CHUCK TODD: “Biden looks like the caricature that conservative media has been painting … you saw it before your eyes!”
Demented Ehud Barak Commits Treason Writing Op-Ed Against Israel In antisemitic New York Times
Even in the wake of the horrific massacre of Jews in Israel on October 7th and more significantly, the shocking surge of antisemitism and hatred toward Israel since then, some Jews still haven’t learned the obvious lesson to stay united as the non-Jews are not our friends.
A group of six left-wing Israelis decided to renew their divisive pre-October 7th tactics, writing a New York Times opinion article calling on the Biden administration to rescind their invitation to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to deliver a speech to Congress.
The group includes ex-prime minister Ehud Barak, the most failed prime minister in Israeli history who withdrew IDF forces from Lebanon, bringing us to the current precarious security situation in the north, and former Mossad head Tamir Pardo, who told the Associated Press in Sep. 2023, that “Israel is an apartheid state.”
They wrote in the libelous article that inviting Netanyahu is a terrible mistake” and his speech “will not represent the State of Israel and its citizens, and will reward his scandalous and destructive conduct toward our country.”
They also claimed in the article that Netanyahu is “the main obstacle to ending the war and returning the hostages.”
“Inviting Mr. Netanyahu will reward his contempt for US efforts to establish a peace plan, allow more aid to the beleaguered people of Gaza and do a better job of sparing civilians.”
“Time and again, he has rejected [US] President Biden’s plan to remove Hamas from power in Gaza through the establishment of a peacekeeping force. Such a move would very likely bring in its wake a far broader regional alliance, including a vision to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is not only in Israel’s interest but also in the interest of both political parties in the United States. Mr. Netanyahu constitutes the main obstacle to these outcomes.”
“His supporters in Israel will be emboldened by his appearance in Congress to insist that the war continue, which will further distance any deal to secure the release of the hostages, including several US citizens,” it adds.
“Giving Mr. Netanyahu the stage in Washington will all but dismiss the rage and pain of his people, as expressed in the demonstrations throughout the country. American lawmakers should not let that happen. They should ask Mr. Netanyahu to stay home.”
Thursday, June 27, 2024
Israelis Fed Up with Leftist Anarchists Have Declared "War" on Them!
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| Major Shay Kallach |
Major (Reserve) Shay Kallach, a former F-16 pilot and founder and chairman of the Netzah Israel Movement, on Thursday declared victory over two mayors who had declared a general strike in their municipalities, keeping out citizens who were looking for service. Both mayors folded, according to Kallach, when they were threatened with personal lawsuits for declaring illegal strikes.
The strikes in Ramat HaSharon and Pardes Hana-Karkur were supposed to be part of the anarchist/fascist “Day of Warning,” which included blocking traffic on major national arteries during morning rush hour, to cause rank and file Israelis anguish and financial ruin
“The most important thing we must learn is this: force will be answered with force, and this is what will stop the anarchy in the streets,” Kallach tweeted Thursday morning.
“Only wanton anarchists are capable of harming the spirit of the people during a war and we will not let them,” declared Kallach, adding:
“We call on the entire national camp to unite under the following principles:
1. A personal lawsuit will be weighed against the directors of any public company that strikes, on the grounds of damage to shareholders.
2. Any public authority that strikes will risk a personal claim against its managers and decision-makers.
3. Any business that strikes will be boycotted by the national camp. Our purchasing power is the biggest in this economy.
4. Purchasing should be enhanced this Thursday, especially in businesses owned by IDF reservists who took an active part in the war.
5. Those who can instruct their company’s purchasing managers to concentrate their procuring especially on this Thursday – God bless you.
“The people of Israel have suffered enough years from a lordly tyranny. Following the Kaplanism and the military coup attempt of ‘Brothers in Arms,’ this nation has awakened and started walking, and it won’t be possible to stop it. Remember – nations have always overthrown dictatorial regimes. This is the way.”
Of course, by “dictatorial regimes,” the reservist fighter pilot meant the Supreme Court and the rest of the permanent government of Israel.
Viznitz is asking their Kehila to Daven for the Chusid that Allegedly Spied for Iran!
SHOCK IN BEIT SHEMESH: Chassid Arrested For Allegedly Spying For Iran
A 24-year-old chassidish avreich who lives in Ramat Beit Shemesh Daled was arrested overnight Wednesday for alleged involvement in a serious case of espionage for Iran.
According to the neighbors, a large number of police forces raided his home in the early hours of Thursday morning, arresting him and taking him for an interrogation.
He was brought before the court early Thursday afternoon for an extension of his arrest.
The shocked neighbors told Chareidi media outlets that they are sure there must be some mistake as the suspect is a serious avreich from a known family. One neighbor told Chareidim10 said that the chassid is a computer expert and perhaps unknowingly worked for someone with ties to Iran.
When Gedoilei Yisrael Use Hurtful Words!
Avtalyon said, Sages: Be careful with your words… (Avot 1:11)
אבטליון אומר, חכמים, הזהרו בדבריכם
On Tuesday, the Israeli High Court of Justice issued a ruling that the government must begin drafting eligible Chareidi men into the IDF. The Court also ruled that “in the absence of a law, funding cannot be made from state coffers for yeshiva students who were not legally exempt from service."
The ruling is legally sensible, as the law that offered blanket exemptions to yeshiva students expired last June, and the Knesset has not legislated a new law in its place. The government did pass a cabinet resolution immediately before the law expired, telling the IDF not to draft yeshiva students for ten months; the Court, however, ruled that this resolution exceeded the government’s power, and was accordingly null and void. In fact, the Knesset could vote on a new exemptions law that would replace the law that expired last year, but given the political climate following October 7th, it is unlikely to pass. For that reason, there is currently no legal mechanism that exempts yeshiva students from military service - and accordingly, the Court told the government that it was obligated to implement the law.
You may agree that Chareidim should be drafted (in whole or in part) or you may disagree. However, it is difficult to argue that the Court’s decision was unreasonable. Israel is a state in which the law is taken seriously; the Supreme Court’s decision, while obviously troubling to many, is unquestionably a sensible interpretation of the laws currently on the books.
Later on Tuesday, Rabbi Dov Landau, widely considered to be the senior leader of the Lithuanian Chareidi community, said that,
“The courts - all of them together - cut off the basis of the budget for yeshiva students and kollelim - they cut it off with anger, wickedness, and malice. They hate those who learn Torah… Look, they hate and want to destroy the Torah world in the Land of Israel… I repeat: the evil authorities in the Land of Israel and all the haters from the courts, and all the ‘wicked among the wicked’ there who hate the Torah and those who learn it with a terrible hatred that cannot be described; and they are going to destroy everything, they cut the budget and the budget they cut needs to be filled…”
I have been vocal in saying that the system of blanket exemptions is unfair, unreasonable, and untenable. I believe that some of those who are in yeshiva should be given military exemptions, but the current system needs to be overhauled.
I know that there are many people who strongly disagree with me. I think they’re wrong. I am convinced that they are advocating policies that are ruinous for the State of Israel. I believe that their interpretation of the Torah is very mistaken, and that, in the words of Rabbi Nachum Rabinovitch zt’l, “‘Torah of truth’ does not tell us to hide out in the beit midrash, but instead helps us to understand that if we do not protect ourselves, our land, our birthplace - no one else will do it for us.” The people who think otherwise are hurting us all.
Yet I would never say or think that those who believe in blanket military exemptions are “evil authorities.” I would not dare to suggest that those with whom I disagree are all motivated by hatred, or despise the State of Israel, God forbid.
Nevertheless, this is the language which Rabbi Landau used on Tuesday night - language, unfortunately, which is far from unique among the Chareidi leadership, as well.
I certainly don’t question Rabbi Landau’s massive Torah knowledge, and I have every reason to believe that he lives a righteous life dedicated to Torah and mitzvot. But I still cannot accept his declaration that the High Court of Justice was acting “with anger, wickedness, and malice.” How can we sit quietly when he describes the courts and political leadership as “evil authorities in the Land of Israel and all the haters from the courts, and all the ‘wicked among the wicked’ there who hate the Torah and those who learn it with a terrible hatred that cannot be described” - all for the crime of interpreting the law in a reasonable manner? Even should someone disagree with their legal reasoning, Rabbi Landau went much further and brutally denigrated not their opinions, but their character and motivations - something which Rabbi Landau could not possibly know.
Why should we care what he says?
Because thousands of people look to gedolim like Rabbi Landau for guidance, and model their own actions on their behavior. When leaders speak in a manner which is beneath them, and insult the character of people with whom they disagree, they normalize such discourse and further corrode civil society. When this takes place in a Torah community that values deliberate speech and condemns slander, the tragedy is compounded.
When I taught Gemara in yeshiva, I was fixated on the diyuk - that is, the careful reading of every word and sometimes every letter, knowing that Chazal and the great Rishonim wrote in such a careful manner that every letter was meaningful. The Vilna Gaon was reputed to have read the first eight chapters of the Ramchal’s classic Mesilat Yesharim and said that he could not find a single unnecessary word. The words of great sages are taken very seriously; thus they have the responsibility to speak with care, honesty, and precision.
If only some of the great sages of our own time would take this lesson to heart.
And if the sweeping statement that these judges are “the ‘wicked among the wicked’… who hate the Torah” was indeed said with care, honesty and precision? Then our problems are even worse than I imagined.
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