“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

Thursday, October 17, 2024

Sinwar Eliminated!






Sinwar's Dead Body

IDF Sending Him To His Virgins


 Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar was eliminated on Wednesday after a tank fired at a building in Rafah which was thought to contain terrorists.

After that, infantry from the 450th Battalion raided and searched the building. During the searches, the forces found Sinwar's body.

In the building where he was eliminated, there were no signs of the presence of hostages in the area. On the terrorists' bodies, the forces found cash and false ID cards.

It was reported that the confrontation with Sinwar was by chance.

The fact that he was not in the building with hostages negates the intelligence community which assumed he and the other Hamas officials had surrounded themselves with a human shield of hostages. It is believed that the hostages that surrounded the Hamas leader were those who were murdered in September.

Forces from the Bislah Brigade were those who suspected that there were terrorists in the building and a tank from the tank commanders' course fired on it.

Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant hinted at the elimination in a post on X in which he quoted the verse from Leviticus: "'You shall give chase to your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.' We will reach every terrorist and we will eliminate him." Along side the post, Gallant added a picture with an empty space between Mohammad Deif and Hassan Nasrallah.


Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Israel Has Weapons Not From the US that Will be Used Against Iran

 

Israel spent billions to prepare for strike in Iran, developed dedicated munitions that US refused to sell or doesn’t have; this includes long-range missiles fired by fighter jets & bunker busters, Walla News reports;

 some Israeli munitions may still be undisclosed, report says.

Funny: Woke Pro-Hamas Protester Rips Down Greek Flags, Mistakes Them for Israeli Flags




A protester in Montclair, NJ, sparked a bizarre incident outside a Greek restaurant when she tore down the establishment’s Greek flags, mistaking them for Israeli flags. 

The woman came in shouting “FREE PALESTINE, THIS IS GENOCIDE” and accused the restaurant owners of supporting genocide, yelling at them before realizing her mistake. Only after the staff explained the difference between the two flags did she calm down and apologize.

Netanyahu Smacks Down Macron's Idiotic Remark that "Israel was founded by a UN Decision"

 


Macron: "Israel was founded by a UN decision, so Netanyahu cannot disregard UN resolutions."

Netanyahu responds to Macron:

"It wasn’t the UN decision that established the State of Israel, but the victory won by the blood of fighters, many of whom were Holocaust survivors and victims of the Vichy regime."

Columbia prof Shai Davidai banned from campus for ‘harassing’ school officials over anti-Israel protesters

 


Outspoken Columbia business professor Shai Davidai was banned from campus after he clashed with rowdy anti-Israel protesters and confronted school officials last week during the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7 attack on the Jewish state.

The Ivy League school sent Davidai’s lawyer a letter stating that the professor’s access to school grounds was cut off as of 3 p.m. Tuesday because Columbia leaders claimed he harassed at least five faculty members during the raucous scene, violating school rules. 

“Threats of intimidation, harassment or other threatening behavior by University employees, including faculty members, will not be tolerated,” the school said in the letter that Davidai provided to The Post. 

The Israeli native, who is conducting research and not teaching this semester, is not suspended and can return to campus after he completes workplace conduct training and complies with school policy, Columbia said in its letter. 

He can still advise students remotely, the school stated.

University officials cited videos taken by Davidai and posted on social media that showed him challenging school leaders to rein in raucous anti-Israel demonstrators to no avail as he came face-to-face with some keffiyeh-clad students.

In one video, he and Patrick Oakley, a top school public safety official, went back and forth with Davidai appearing to pick up Oakley’s ID badge around his neck to get a better look of it. 

“They blocked my movement and you’re not doing anything,” Davidai said of the protesters, with Oakley insisting, “No, you’re walking into them.”

You’re not keeping Jews safe,” Davidai shot back.

Davidai, who’s taught at Columbia for five years, told The Post Tuesday night the school’s action is “nothing but retaliation.”

“It broke me,” he admitted. “It shows how Columbia is run by petty individuals.”

He said claims that he harassed or intimidated school officials are “crazy,” while arguing the Ivy League school hasn’t leveled the same discipline against anti-Israel students and faculty that espouse violence against the Jewish state. 

“It’s hypocrisy to the nth degree,” he said. 

“There are professors who either participated in or taught in the encampment,” he said. “Not a single professor has been fired or suspended since October 7 for antisemitism and support of terrorism.”

That includes controversial professor Joseph Massad, who called the Oct. 7 massacre “awesome” the following day. 

“He’s never been suspended from anything,” said Davidai.

Davidai also blasted the school on a social media video, directing most of his ire toward Columbia’s Chief Operating Officer Cas Holloway, who he said could “go f—k himself.”

He said he was supposed to be on campus on Tuesday for an Oct. 7 memorial organized by Jewish students before his lawyer informed him of the school’s ban. 

“It is shocking that after everything that has happened, including the resignation of its president, the Columbia University leadership continues to silence and penalize its Jewish and Israeli community members while protecting pro-terror groups,” Davidai’s attorney Mark Lerner told The Post. 

The school has faced much upheaval over the last year, including anti-Israel protesters that occupied a school building and set up an encampment on the campus green. 

Former president Minouche Shafik suddenly stepped down over the summer. 

Davidai has admittedly been an outspoken staffer, criticizing the school for not doing more to protect Jewish students during anti-Israel demonstrations.

“I am feeling broken,” he said Tuesday, but stressed, “I’m not stopping the fight – because it’s not about me.”

“I’m not a provocateur. My goal is not to provoke or get a reaction – it’s to get change going,” he added. 


Biden’s betrayal of Israel is clear weakness masquerading as policy

 

Israelis are fighting for their lives on several fronts, so naturally President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris decide it’s a good time to tie their hands and publicly threaten them. 

Whose side are they on? 

Sadly, it doesn’t seem to be Israel’s.

Nor is it America’s when they insist Israel go easy on terrorists who aim to destroy America after they destroy Israel. 

Even to call the White House approach a policy is overly generous.

It’s more of a gut reaction born of weakness that sees any expression of American or Israeli power as dangerous.

Thus their instinct is always to call for a peaceful status quo, even when it is temporary and rewards the ­enemy. 

Afghanistan offers an example of the disastrous consequences of cutting and running. 

The defeatist pattern over Israel’s war began early this year as a way to appease Muslim-American voters and antisemitic college students who wanted to feed Israel to the wolves and were angry Democrats didn’t comply. 

Election-year strategy 

As the nominee, a nervous Biden reacted by turning the screws on Israel, and later had Secretary of State Tony Blinken, who has zero military experience, dictate which targets in Gaza Israel could strike. 

Now, as the election draws close and Harris is the nervous nominee, the White House is tightening the screws again.

This time, it’s taking a multifront approach, with Washington simultaneously demanding our ally show restraint in Lebanon and Iran, and allow increased amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza. 

In other words, Israel should raise the white flag until the American election is over. 

If it doesn’t, the US threatens to join France and others in imposing an arms embargo on the beleaguered Jewish state. 

The urge to protect Israel’s enemies is doubly bizarre when they also happen to be America’s enemies. 

Yet that is the impact of the positions America is taking and the demands it’s making.

Notice that Biden and Harris are not making a single demand of any other party, and no one else faces ultimatums. 

Israel alone is being held responsible for the care and feeding of Gaza’s civilians even though Hamas uses them as human shields. 

Why aren’t Jordan and Egypt pushed to help care for their fellow Arabs?

And in what previous war was the country that had been attacked required to risk the lives of its military to care for the enemy’s civilians? 

Hamas could end the war in Gaza immediately.

Yet there are no White House demands for the terror group’s leaders to come out of their tunnels, surrender and release all the hostages, including the Americans still being held. 

Similarly, there is no demand that Hezbollah stop firing into Israel.

Instead, Lebanon’s prime minister said he has “received American guarantees” that Israeli strikes in Beirut, Hezbollah’s stronghold, will be reduced, according to Al Jazeera. 

Neither the Arab outlet nor Israeli media say who made the guarantee, but suspicion falls on Blinken, the errand boy who has led the charge against Israel all along. 

Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin even wrote a Sunday letter threatening to withhold arms shipments if Israel doesn’t increase the humanitarian aid to Gaza within 30 days. 

Biden/Harris Economic Policies in Action: Walgreens To Close 1,200 Stores As US Pharmacies Struggle To Define A New Role


 Walgreens is planning to close around 1,200 locations, as the drugstore chain and its rivals struggle to define their role for U.S. shoppers who no longer look to them first for convenience.

Drugstores that once snapped up prime retail space in towns and cities across the country are in retreat. They’ve been battered by shrinking prescription reimbursement, persistent theft, rising costs and consumers who have strayed to online retailers or competitors with better prices.

The boost they received from taking the lead on vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemic has long since faded.

Walgreens’ announcement Tuesday morning comes as rival CVS Health wraps up a three-year plan to close 900 stores and Rite Aid emerges from bankruptcy, whittled down to about 1,300 locations.

As the companies retract, they raise concerns in many communities about access to health care and prescriptions.

Drugstore leaders and analysts who follow the industry say smaller versions of these chains have a future in U.S. retail, but they’re still trying to understand how that will play out.

“They’ve really got to rethink how they do business and, most importantly, what they mean and what value they bring to the customer,” said Neil Saunders, managing director of consulting and data analysis firm GlobalData.

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc., which runs about 8,500 stores in the U.S., said in late June that it was finalizing a turnaround plan in the U.S. that might lead to hundreds of store closings.

The company said Tuesday that it will start by closing about 500 stores in its current fiscal year, which started last month.

Walgreens didn’t say where the store closings would take place. It will prioritize poor-performing stores where the property is owned by the company, or where leases are expiring.

CEO Tim Wentworth told analysts Tuesday that the majority of its stores, or about 6,000, are profitable and provide the company with a foundation to build on.

“This solid base supports our conviction in a retail pharmacy led model that is relevant to our consumers, and we intend to invest in these stores over the next several years,” said Wentworth, who became CEO nearly a year ago.

Wentworth said the remaining Walgreens stores will help the company respond more quickly to shifting consumer behavior and buying patterns. The company also is taking another look at what it sells in its stores and planning to offer more Walgreens-branded products.

Walgreens also is experimenting with some smaller stores that would be less expensive to operate.

Satmar Official Airline the Luftwaffa fined $4 Million for Treatment of Orthodox Jewish Passengers on a 2022 Flight

 

The United States fined German airline Lufthansa $4 million for its treatment of a group of Jewish passengers who were denied boarding a 2022 flight in Frankfurt after they had flown to Germany from New York.

The U.S. Transportation Department said Tuesday that the fine is the largest the agency has issued against an airline for civil-rights violations, although Lufthansa was given credit for $2 million for compensation it gave the passengers, cutting the fine in half.

The department said most of the 128 passengers who were denied boarding “wore distinctive garb typically worn by Orthodox Jewish men.” Although many did not know each other and were not traveling together, they told investigators that Lufthansa treated them as if they were a group and denied boarding to all over alleged misbehavior by a few passengers.

They were among 131 passengers who were flying from New York through Frankfurt to Budapest to attend an annual memorial event to honor an Orthodox rabbi.

Some said flight attendants told them on the first flight about the requirement to wear a face mask and not to gather in aisles or near emergency exits. The Lufthansa crew members did not identify any passengers who failed to obey their instructions, which the airline said was due to the sheer number of violations and because many traded seats during the flight.

The captain alerted Lufthansa security about misbehavior among the passengers, which set in motion the steps that led to their being denied boarding on the connecting flight, according to a consent order in the case.

Lufthansa rejected “any allegation by the Department that the events in this matter resulted from any form of discrimination” and disputes that any employee acted on bias, but it acknowledged “errors in company procedure and communications.”

Lufthansa reached a settlement with most of the passengers in 2022.

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Frieda Vizel Ex-Satmar Yente Wants to start a YouTube channel to Explain the "Frum Anti-Zionist View!" to Goyim!

 


אבינו מלכנו סתם פיות משטינינו ומקטריגינו

On May 23 of this year I posted an article about the ex-Satmar Yente, Frieda Vizel. It’s ( כדי) worth your while, to read it!

In that article, I commented that this Satmar-Katchke, though she left the community is still an anti-Zionist!

 The Satmar Rebbe z”l managed to instill such hate against the only Jewish State in the world, that even if one leaves this cult they cannot isolate their hate against Zionists, and though she is an admitted “Mechallel Shabbos” she cannot take “anti-Zionism” out of her system. In fact she wrote on her blog that OTDs are anti-Zionists since “Israel commits atrocities against Arabs!”

It’s been 45 years since the passing of the Satmar Rebbe, and the Zionist State of Israel has become the home of the majority of the Jewish people. There are now 7.5 million b"leh living in Israel. There are more Torah institutions in Israel than anywhere in the entire world! More Torah is being leaned in the Zionist State than at any time in Jewish history! Though the Satmar Rebbe z”l issued a “fatwa” against Hebrew and prohibited speaking the language, he referred to it as "tumei". Millions of Jews speak the language and the majority of them cannot speak any other language. In fact, even the virulent anti-Zionist Chassidim in Israel speak Hebrew! You cannot possibly live in Israel and communicate with anyone unless you speak Hebrew! You cannot possibly do business with the banks if you don't speak Hebrew. Shiurim in the finest Yeshivois are given in Hebrew!

Frieda Vizel’s Blog and Utube channel cater to Goyim, the video that I posted on my May 23 post had 14,000 views and 1.2 thousand likes. In it she states that is totally dumbfounded that Goyim hate Jews and equate all Jews to Zionist Jews! She couldn’t understand why she got hate mail on a binary video like Kosher Phones!

Well, it’s four months later, and she is still amazed that goyim hate her guts and wish her ill!

In the video (link below) on the 26:59 mark she is “surprised” that even though her videos are primarily about Jews that hate and loathe Israel, the Goyim making comments are not distinguishing between those frum Jews that hate Israel and those who love Israel!

I sincerely believe that she is a very kind and gentle soul, and doesn’t have a bad bone in her body; but having said that,  this is what makes her so dangerous!

 Thousands of her Goyishe followers have the highest respect for her and she now wants to take advantage of that respect to make sure they understand the differences among the Jews!

In her video she lumps all "innocent victims" together,  she G-d forbid, would not express feeling bad for "Jewish Victims" she must lump women raped and mutilated with Arab "victims" who overwhelmingly elected a terrorist government, and launched over 100,000 missiles on Israel without one Jew living in Gaza in 20 years! She feels for all "victims" equally! How absurd! 

 How sick! How twisted!

She now wants to explain to her followers (30:03 mark) that not all Jews love Israel, that there are Religious Jews who believe that Zionism is the cause of the Holocaust and that the Zionist State should not exist!  She now wants to “separate” Jews and make clear to the Goyim “that we have nothing with Israel.” She wants through “hasbara,” to clearly mark a line of demarcation between those who are Zionists and those who are not! She naively thinks that the Goyim will through her UTube channels understand the difference!

She cannot get through her thick skull that Goyim hate all Jews! Period!

99.9% of all secular media and many Frum Media, expound the anti-Zionist View, Frieda believes that that is not enough, she has to put another UTube channel to make sure the Goyim get it! 

UPDATE: I Understand that she took the video off but you can still watch it at this link:

https://youtu.be/aTkJpC3h7cg

The video garnered 14,000 views she is no small fry she has 70.1 thousand subscribers, and she has already made 246 videos! 

You can respond to her 

mail @ friedavizel .com

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