“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
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Candace Owens claims Star of David originated from child-sacrificing pagan deity
Political commentator Candace Owens said on her YouTube show on Tuesday that the Star of David originated from an evil pagan deity and has only become associated with Judaism within the past few hundred years, continuing the prominent provocateur and media personality’s recent focus on Jews and conspiracy theories associated with them.
“Do you know the history of the Star of David?” she asked on her show. “I thought that that was associated traditionally, somehow, with Judaism.”
The right-wing firebrand went on to argue that, in truth, the Star of David only became associated with Judaism when European Jews decided to adopt it as a symbol comparable to the cross a few hundred years ago.
Then, when the Zionist movement adopted it in the late 1800s, that is when it became the symbol people think about today, she claimed.
However, many Jewish ancient artifacts have been found to have the Star of David on them.
There were also other cultures, including pagan ones, that used the symbol.
Additionally, the term “Magen David” — the “shield of David” — is referred to in the Talmud, although not specifically as the six-pointed star symbol.
Owens said that the true origin of what is today called the Star of David was actually the Star of Remphan, a pagan god worshiped by the Canaanites and who was regularly offered child sacrifices.
As proof, Owens showed a picture from the internet that claimed to depict the Star of Remphan as a six-pointed star.
However, there is no agreed-upon idea of what the Star of Remphan is actually supposed to be.
She went on to link these stars with demons and sorcery.
It appears Owens gathered much of the information to make her argument from Wikipedia.
“If it’s on Wikipedia … that just must mean that it’s such an irreversible fact,” she said.
In recent months, Owens has apparently latched onto the theory that there is a cabal of demon-worshiping people who have tremendous power in today’s world, and that many of these individuals either originally were Jewish or claim to be Jewish.
She does not claim that Judaism properly observed or practiced includes the evil she has discussed, but rather the people who engage in the evil — people she labels as “Frankists” — are claiming the mantle of Judaism.
Owens’ recent focus on Jewish history is a slight pivot from her previous fixation on Israel.
In a June episode of her show, Owens argued that “it seems like our country [the US] is being held hostage by Israel.”
She lamented, “I’m going to get in so much trouble for that. I don’t care.”
In the same episode, Owens claimed US Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) was “wading into some dangerous waters” when, during an interview with host Tucker Carlson, he spoke about how effective the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is at lobbying members of Congress and suggested the group should have to register as a foreign agent that is acting on behalf of Israel.
The reason it was dangerous, Owens said, was because “we know there was once a president that wanted to make AIPAC register, and he ended up shot … so Thomas Massie better be careful.”
Owens was referencing the fact that Kennedy wanted the American Zionist Council, a lobby group, to register as a foreign agent.
However, there is no evidence the group had anything to do with Kennedy’s assassination.
Weeks later, Owens promoted a series of talking points downplaying the atrocities of the Holocaust and said experiments by Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele performed on Jews during World War II sounded “like bizarre propaganda.”
Pelosi murdered Biden’s career and now she wants him on Mount Rushmore – what a shameless hypocrite!
By Piers Morgan
Nancy Pelosi has what we British would call a “brass neck.”
It’s a saying that alludes to someone so thick-skinned, it makes them utterly impervious to any sense of shame for their self-interested or hypocritical actions.
It’s an open secret in Washington that Pelosi just did to Joe Biden what Marcus Brutus did to Julius Caesar.
Of course, she didn’t actually kill him.
But she did kill his political career.
And she did it in a manner so ruthless that I’m told — on reliable authority — that Biden will never forgive her for it.
Following the president’s humiliating debate debacle with Donald Trump, Pelosi appointed herself chief assassin, albeit one who continued to support him publicly while knifing him in the back behind the scenes.
As Politico reported on July 17, quoting one of her allies: “The speaker does not want to call on him to resign, but she will do everything in her power to make sure it happens.”
And that’s exactly what she did, until Biden finally fell on the sword she’d dropped in front of him.
“Nancy made clear that they could do this the easy way or the hard way,” the media were briefed afterward, making her sound like Michael Corleone in “The Godfather Part II.”
So Joe Biden was forced to quit his dream job, the one he had fought so ardently to get his whole political life, and the one he never had any desire or intention of voluntarily giving up.
By backing out of the 2024 race, just four months before the election, and six months before the end of his first term, Biden instantly entered the pantheon of biggest-ever presidential losers.
In the process, he also became a global laughingstock — an object of ridicule, mockery and embarrassment that reportedly left him feeling utterly crushed.
Yet on Sunday, there was his assassin, Nancy Pelosi, popping up on “CBS News Sunday Morning” to call for him to be added to Mount Rushmore, the great American stone shrine to democracy that features 60-foot faces of four truly great American presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.
“Such a consequential president of the United States, a Mount Rushmore kind of president of the United States,” Pelosi sighed about Biden to interviewer Lesley Stahl, who was so startled, she retorted incredulously: “Are you really saying that he belongs up there on Mount Rushmore? Lincoln and Joe Biden?”
“But you got Teddy Roosevelt up there, and he’s wonderful,” Pelosi insisted. “I don’t say take him down, but you can add Biden.”
Like I said, she’s got a brass neck.
In fact, it would be hard to think of any female politician in American political history whose neck is made of a stronger metaphorical alloy of copper and zinc.
But she’s also got a forked tongue.
“No, I wasn’t a leader of any pressure party,” she lied when Stahl asked if she’d led the plot to topple Biden. “Well, let me say things that I didn’t do. I didn’t call one person. I did not call one person. I could always say to him, ‘I never called anybody.'”
I laughed out loud when she said that.
Monday, August 5, 2024
Elimelech Stern a Viznitzer Chusid from Beit Shemesh Finally Admits that he knowingly Spied for Iran
Elimelech Stern, a Chasidic resident of Beit Shemesh, admitted during a Shin Bet investigation that he realized at a certain point that he was communicating with Iranian agents, Avishai Greenzeig disclosed on Monday evening on Kan Reshet Bet.
During his investigation by the Shin Bet, Stern said: "I realized that 'Ana' (undercover name of the Iranian agent) was probably something bigger, something with the arms of an octopus, and I began to worry about myself as well. I was afraid that if I contacted the police, I would be putting myself at risk." When further questioned, he admitted, "I suspected that they might be from enemy countries."
When asked why he continued to accept missions, even though he realized that it was a terrorist organization, he replied that he did it "possibly to earn a bit of money."
During one of his investigations, Stern broke down and said: "I know I was wrong. I failed big time. It's more that I continued with her, and didn't overcome my fear and go to the police station."
"I realized that there is an organization behind this thing and that's why I preferred Telegram, because it's encrypted. And no one can be, I realized that there is something problematic. Something here is not kosher, and I will not publish that I did it. Something between the drops is not kosher."
Contrary to what he said during the investigation, his lawyer claimed that he is a Vizhnitzer Hasid, who has not studied Hebrew or English and, therefore, relied on Google Translate, which made it difficult for him to understand that he was talking to a foreign agent.
Regarding the missions he received, he said: "I had two options, either she is outside of Israel and she plans to cause chaos in Israel, or she is from the anarchist left side of the spectrum and she plans to cause chaos.
Mossad Pushing for Preemptive Strikes
Since 1967, Israel’s strategic and military orientation gradually marginalized the option of preemptive strikes, and anticipation gave way to a defensive concept that essentially relied on the ability to discover what the enemy was up to, rely on warning signs and be able to react in time.
This system, as is logical, placed the emphasis on good — excellent — intelligence, both via external, internal and military channels. And this system, as we know, dramatically blew up on Oct. 7, when Hamas, against all expectations from Israel, launched an invasion on Israeli soil in a spree of blood, barbarism and destruction. There are still many today who wonder how such a failure of intelligence was possible, unable to correctly interpret the signals coming out of Gaza and prevent such a large-scale attack. As in the U.S. with Al Qaeda on 9/11, I imagine that part of the responsibility lies in groupthink, lack of imagination and bureaucratic reluctance to confront disruptive options.