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הרב הצדיק יאיר לפיד חושש מכרת וזועק כי אסור לעלות להר הבית
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Ben Gvir with Chassidim on Har Habyis |
“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
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Harav Yair Lapid |
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Ben Gvir with Chassidim on Har Habyis |
Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s planned Mideast trip will mean more pressure on Israel to make concessions to Hamas, yet Jerusalem’s best course is to push on and finish off the terrorists.
The IDF has made significant progress, and Israel musn’t agree to anything that could jeopardize victory.
At this point, Hamas’ central goal is simply to hang on long enough for Kamala Harris to win in November and then save it from final eradication.
Iran is helping out: Its officials now claim Tehran will shelve plans to retaliate against Israel for killing Hamas boss Ismail Haniyeh if Jerusalem engages in good-faith cease-fire talks.
Meanwhile, Hamas boss Yahya Sinwar is reportedly demanding Israel cease fire now as a precondition for cease-fire talks, which would give him immediate breathing room and let him stretch out the talks for months.
In fact, Iran actually wants an excuse to hold off: It fears losing face if it doesn’t respond to the killing of Haniyah in Tehran, but its last strike at Israel was an embarrassing bust.
And if it escalates now, it risks an IDF counter-strike that could smash its oil industry, costing the regime big-time and potentially feeding mass unrest.
Israel’s destruction of Hamas may be slower than the world would like, but it’s been constant, steady and, indeed, laudable.
Lately, it’s taken out several key leaders, including Haniyeh and Hamas’ military chief in Gaza, Mohammed Deif.
Every day seems to bring a new operation that eliminates more top terrorists; why stop now?
Not to avoid an Iranian attack: Again, it’s Iran looking for an excuse to de-escalate — it wants Israel exclusively engaged with its puppets.
Meanwhile, Sinwar is nothing but an arm of Iran; his only goal is to keep Hamas alive so it can regain control of Gaza, rearm and prepare for the next Oct. 7.
Alas, President Biden and Veep Kamala Harris are OK with that.
They’re desperate for a cease-fire on almost any terms to appease the Democratic Party’s left wing, which is all-in to save Hamas.
That’s why they insist Hamas has been sufficiently wounded, and it’s time to end the war; why they claim “too many civilians” have died, without even knowing the number and while ignoring Israel’s painstaking attempts to minimize casualties.
We note that we have not once heard Biden or Harris demand Hamas stop using Gazans as human shields.
Iran’s “give us reason not to shoot” bluff, and Sinwar’s “stop attacking and then I’ll talk” stances are aimed directly at Washington, to fool it into squeezing Israel to let Hamas off the hook.
A cease-fire that doesn’t immediately bring the release of the remaining hostages simply lets Sinwar hold onto them and string out the talks indefinitely until a President Harris rides to Hamas’ longer-term rescue.
If they can maneuver Blinken into pushing Israel to give up the Philadelphia Corridor separating Gaza from Egypt, all the better: That’ll let Hamas recover even faster.
The broader American public still supports Jerusalem’s war goals: Rescue the hostages, destroy Hamas and ensure that Gaza can never again become a launching pad for terror attacks.
Israel needs to stand tough as Blinken, Biden and Harris try to bully it into sacrificing its security needs to their partisan domestic political needs.
Israel will soon begin to manufacture heavy bombs for the air force to overcome supply delays and establish independence in weapons development.
Leftist Ehud Barak, as chief of IDF staff and prime minister, touted a perverted doctrine by which Israel could depend on the United States for arms. Israel accordingly drastically reduced its domestic military production capabilities and nearly everything that it had produced domestically—from uniforms to rifles to bullets, to artillery and tank shells—was shut down and the contracts moved to the United States.
According to Israel Hayom, one of the most significant lessons Israel has drawn from the war is that it must manufacture and develop critical munitions for the IDF by itself.
Until now, Israel purchased many of its munitions from foreign countries, with emphasis on the United States, but now, according to the report, it has decided to develop and manufacture heavy-weight bombs for the Air Force, including one-ton bombs similar to the American MK-84, whose supply has been delayed for several months by direct order of the White House.
The development and production of the new bombs is expected to take between two and three years.
Concurrently, the Ministry of Defense is expanding the domestic production of additional munitions, including tank ammunition (of which there is a shortage worldwide) and 155mm artillery shells. Recently, the Ministry announced a series of mega-deals, including a 1.5 billion shekel deal with Elbit for the purchase of ammunition, and the establishment of a dedicated plant for this purpose at Ramat Baka.
Prior to that, the Ministry of Defense announced another deal with Elbit Systems, for the purchase of 815 million shekels worth of Iron Sting mortar shells - a precision mortar shell that combines laser guidance and GPS. Plans are being made to maintain minimal production lines over time, in order to preserve the ability to increase production in case of need.
Additional heavy armored vehicles will also be developed, including Merkava tanks and Namer and Eitan APCs, made more urgent by the intent to open a new division.
Prior to the war, armored fighting vehicles were being produced at a rate of about 24 per year, and now production would be stepped up. In addition, as soon as possible, a comprehensive rehabilitation and maintenance program would be undertaken for the armored fighting vehicles that had been used by the IDF in the war.
In addition, the IDF is awaiting the approval of the Cabinet Committee on Procurement for the purchase of a new F-15 squadron from the United States and new Rafael-class ships for the Navy.
Opposition Leader Extreme-Leftist and anti-Torah Yair Lapid and Shas Party Chairman Aryeh Deri, an ex-con who did time in prison, have spoken in recent days, for the first time in ten years, to jointly promote a bill that would adopt Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's halachic ruling, prohibiting Jews from ascending the Temple Mount, Channel 12 News reported.
According to the report, the unusual collaboration resulted from the tensions between Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and the haredi parties, following his ascent to the Temple Mount.
In the conversation that took place between the two rival politicians, Aryeh Deri agreed to support Yesh Atid's bill, that would only be submitted after the break, during the next Knesset session.
MK Amit Halevi of the Likud responded to the announcement:
"Even a joint vote by the Knesset members of Shas and Yesh Atid together will not turn this great mitzvah into a prohibition. There is no Rabbi, including Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who thinks that those who go up to the areas built by Herod on the Temple Mount and pray there violate any prohibition, and therefore he also allowed individuals to ascend as permitted by Jewish law."
"The only thing that will come out of such a collaboration is a reward for the enemies of G-d, who are the enemies of Israel and humanity. In today's circumstances, where the most sacred site for Jews has been hijacked and turned into the center of a religion that calls for murder and barbarism supposedly in the name of G-d, it is of great importance to go up to the mountain and return it to its rightful owners, so that it can once again become a divine beacon and a source of blessing and world peace. I call on the Shas Knesset members to vote with their feet and join those that ascend the Temple Mount as permitted by Jewish law, instead of voting with their hands with Yesh Atid Knesset members against the tenets of Jewish tradition," MK Halevi said.
Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Tisha Be'ov visited the Har Habyit in Jerusalem, where he said his policy was to allow Jewish prayer at Judaism’s holiest site.
“We are here on Tisha B’Av, at the Temple Mount, to commemorate the destruction of the Holy Temple. As I said—our policy is to allow prayer,” he said.
The minister added that he had visited the Temple Mount to pray for “the return of the hostages, the peace of the soldiers and victory in the war.”
Fellow Otzma Yehudit Party member and Development of the Periphery, the Negev and the Galilee Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf joined Ben-Gvir, along with hundreds of other Jewish worshippers. Dozens of Frum people prostrated themselves in prayer, in violation of the status quo that forbids Jews from praying on the Temple Mount.
Also disturbing is the idea being promoted that men need to spend all of their time learning Torah, even at the expense of helping soldiers, going as far as explicitly calling for yeshiva students to avoid visiting them in hospitals.
We are at war. Jews around the world are up against the worst anti-Semitism in years and the best our Torah leaders can do is tell women to cover themselves? Blaming women for the horrible injuries our soldiers are facing?
At the same time, many Rabbonim are absolving those learning in Yeshiva and Kollel of all personal responsibility, insisting that they have no need to help in any direct way, and should simply continue life as usual, with perhaps adding a few more minutes to their Torah learning and saying an extra paragraph or two of Tehillim.
Biden-Harris appeasement didn't delay Iran retaliation against Israel.
Here's what really happened!It is clear that something else influenced Iran's decisions, not US diplomacyBy Amir Fakhravar Fox News
Published August 12, 2024
On Wednesday, July 31, 2024, at 2 a.m., the leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, was assassinated in Tehran, just a day after Fuad Shukr, the most powerful military commander of Hezbollah, was killed in an Israeli strike in Beirut, Lebanon.
Shukr was wanted by the U.S. for 41 years, with a $5 million "Rewards for Justice" bounty for any information about him due to his central role in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, which killed 241 U.S. military personnel and wounded 128 others.
Haniyeh also directed and celebrated the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, which resulted in the killing of 1,200 people and over 300 days of hostage-taking of hundreds, including Americans, by Hamas.
Now for the shocker!!!!!!
Kuwait’s Al-Jarida newspaper, citing an unnamed source in Iran's Supreme National Security Council, reported that a high-level American security delegation, brokered by Oman, secretly traveled to Tehran.
It was reported that a high-level American security delegation, brokered by Oman, secretly traveled to Tehran.
Their mission was to deliver a "calming and cautionary" message to deescalate the situation and ensure the supreme leader of Iran understood that the Biden-Harris administration was "kept in the dark" by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the killing of two major terrorist leaders last week.
The detailed report stated that the American delegation, arriving on a private plane from Turkey, landed at Payam-e-Khorram Airport in Karaj on Thursday and held a two-hour meeting with Iranian officials before returning to Ankara.
According to the same report,
"the delegation presented a list containing the names of ten Mossad agents inside Iran, whom the Americans believe were involved in the assassination, directly or indirectly. This was intended as a good faith initiative in response to the Israeli state's stunning strike, which was carried out without coordination with Washington." It could be one of the most valuable souvenirs given to the Iranian mullahs lately.
Although the U.S. State Department rejected the report on Sunday, later in the week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken admitted that to deescalate the conflict, the Biden administration had "engaged in intense diplomacy with allies and partners, communicating that message directly to Iran," which largely confirms the Kuwaiti newspaper's report.
Additionally, immediately after the reported visit by the U.S. delegation, "more than two dozen people, including senior intelligence officers, military officials, and staff workers at a military-run guesthouse in Tehran," were arrested in response to the assassination of the Hamas leader, according to the New York Times based on reports from two Iranians familiar with the investigation.
Iran delayed its retaliation attacks on Israel, a move for which some in the Biden administration claimed credit. However, on Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, two major events clearly demonstrated that the supreme leader of Iran did not respect the Biden administration's pleas for deescalation and did not appreciate the American overtures. On that day, Iran-backed militias in Iraq attacked an American Army base, injuring five U.S. troops and two contractors.
Simultaneously, a high-ranking Russian delegation, led by Sergei Shoigu, the secretary of Russia's Security Council and a senior ally of Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, visited Iran. The delegation included Russia’s defense ministers and several Russian army generals, who met with Tehran's top leaders.
They delivered Putin’s direct message to his minion the Comrade Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ordering him not to act recklessly by attacking Israel with outdated missiles as they did on April 13, an act that resulted in humiliation. Putin promised to soon deliver advanced weapons, including air defenses, to Iran.
Additionally, the Islamic regime of Pakistan announced plans to provide Iran with advanced ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, in case the supreme leader decides to launch a nuclear attack on Israel.
It is clear that it was not U.S. diplomacy that worked but rather Russian military and intelligence advice/orders that influenced Iran's decisions.
We are on the brink of World War III. Russia and China’s Communist Party are setting their war chessboard. Iran’s regime is likely to attack Israel with a nuclear bomb soon unless Israel, with the help of America, destroys all nuclear and missile facilities of Iran, thereby giving the Iranian people an opportunity to overthrow the weakened regime of the mullahs.
This is a very powerful AI movie about the destruction of Jerusalem and our temple and the rise of Jerusalem after it. We will start commemorating tonight with the fast of Tisha Baav. It's in Hebrew, but it's still powerful even without understanding the Hebrew. pic.twitter.com/tjjkgioNuy
— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) August 12, 2024