“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

Monday, February 24, 2025

James Carville who predicted a day before the election that Kamala would win by the greatest landslide in history now predicts Trump, GOP are in ‘midst of a collapse’ — and gives them 4 to 6 weeks to fully implode

 

Renowned Democratic strategist James Carville has delivered a stunning prediction that the Trump administration is in the “midst of a collapse” and will crumble within four to six weeks.

Carville, 80, on Friday urged his fellow Democrats to play “possum,” stay out of the way and let Republicans implode as President Trump plows ahead with his dramatic overhaul of the federal government.

“What I have said very publicly is that Democrats need to play possum. This whole thing is collapsing,” Carville mused to Mediaite founder Dan Abrams.

The elderly Dem guru was the top strategist in Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign, when Democrats soared back into the White House after 12 years of Republican rule.

His wild prediction comes mere months after Trump became the first Republican to win the popular vote in a presidential election in two decades, making gains in more than 90% of US counties.

Carville, who confidently proclaimed in October he was “certain Kamala Harris will win” and wrote a book in 2009 about how Dems would be the dominant party over the next 40 years, decried progressive hardliners who have a knack for being noisy.

“These people were just useless,” he moaned about certain progressive activist groups during the last election cycle. “They’re actually worse than useless, they’re detrimental. And they never, ever learn to shut up.

“I believe that this administration, in less than 30 days, is in the midst of a massive collapse and particularly a collapse in public opinion.”

Citing polling data, Carville argued that Trump’s approval rating has been taking a nosedive and that within a matter of weeks, Republicans will be almost completely hobbled in Congress.

That prediction comes against the backdrop of protests against GOP lawmakers such as Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.) during town hall and other events last week.

Historically, there had been similar occurrences in past off-election years such 2017 and 2010 that served as a harbinger of the minority retaking the House of Representatives in the midterm elections.

Trump, 78, has undertaken a blitz of executive actions over his first month in office and tapped Department of Government Efficiency boss Elon Musk to pursue cuts and other reforms of the federal bureaucracy.

Those actions have alienated government workers and their unions but have generally been met with much fanfare by conservatives.

Carville also suggested that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will struggle to get Republicans on board for Trump’s marquee agenda package, which has already proven to be very challenging given the party’s threadbare majority in the House.

“It’s going to be easy pickings here in six weeks,” Carville added, addressing Democrats. “Just lay back.

“We’re in the middle of a collapse. It’s over.”

Democratic leadership in Congress has been attempting to train their focus on working-class issues. But that cautious approach has drawn groans from progressives who feel that leadership has been going soft on Trump as he barrels ahead with a more ambitious agenda than his first term.

Adding to the woes, progressives have been struggling to mobilize the mass protests they drew eight years ago during the Trump administration, fueling concerns that the base is in despair.

Don’t expect Trump to blink at Iran's escalating provocations




 As the first phase of the Israel-Hamas cease-fire ends, Iran and its pawns are escalating their offenses in a clear test not only of Jerusalem’s will, but Washington’s.

  • Last Friday morning, only technical glitches stopped bombs from going off on rush-hour Israeli buses: Hundreds might’ve died. Israeli security is still investigating but believes this was an Iranian plan executed by Hamas terrorists based in the West Bank.
  • Over the weekend, the Houthis launched surface-to-air missiles at an American F-16 over the Red Sea, a first that the US military calls a significant escalation over the Yemen-based terror group’s repeated attacks on US warships in recent months.

The belated release of the remains of their mom Shiri —  after the calculated insult of turning over the wrong body —  also showed that Hamas had lied about her death as well.

On top of the ever-more-grotesque celebrations Hamas has made of every hostage release, this is all-out psychological warfare on the Israeli public —  and an obvious bid to turn the cease-fire’s second-round talks into a total impasse.

Since the Trump team pushed hard for this cease-fire, Iran and its proxies are plainly testing the new president: How much will he ask Israel to swallow —  how much pain, how many terror attacks —  in his quest for peace?

How closely will he hew to the Biden policy of pampering the Houthis?

Team Trump is talking tough on Iran and its terror proxies; Tehran is daring it to actually do something about it, clearly hoping Washington will blink.

But this administration knows these enemies will only keep upping the ante if neither Israel nor America responds.

For all President Trump has on his plate just now, we doubt turning a blind eye is on his list of options.

Just like in the times of "Yerovom ben Navot" Security forces recommend restricting access to Har Habyit

 



After the demise of Shlomo Hamelech, there was a civil war in Klall Yisrael and the nation split, Rechavim, son of Shlomo Hamelech reigned over two and half shevatim and the Aseres Hashvatim were under the leadership of Yeravam ben Navot! Yeravom at first was a nice guy, in fact, the gemmarah calls him an "Adom Gadol", the gemmarah in Sanhedrin 102 states:

תורתו של ירבעם לא היה בה שום דופי    "The Torah from Yerovom had no defect!"

Can you imagine? ....very difficult to digest this, but what was his biggest sin? 

He stopped his citizens from going up to be "Oleh Regel" I know that there are Gedoilim that prohibit Jews from going up to the Har Habayis, but there are many Gedoilim that say that it is a mitzvah in the here and now! 

I don't want to really get into this now but there was a Chashiver Rav, also an Adom Gadol, in the States, that didn't even let his followers go to the Kotel! 

If there are Jews that have a Rav that permits them to go up to the Har Habayit then כל הכבוד ! 

 I know I'm going to get a million e-mails bringing me proof from Rabbanim, even the Psak of Harav Kook z"l that prohibited it, and I have explanations to all of that, but now is not the place to discuss it. But I find it interesting, that suddenly those who mamash curse Rav Kook z"l, suddenly bring him as proof if it follows their agenda!

Just last week Rav Landau in a rant dismissed Rav Kook, as if he was a piece of garbage רחמנה לצלן ! I plan to dedicate a post on what he said! 

Ironically the Chareidim against going up to the Har Habayis are now on the same page as the Zionist Government and the Arabs!


Security agencies will recommend that the government limit the number of worshipers who are permitted to visit the Temple Mount during the month of Ramadan, Channel 12 News reported on Sunday evening.

According to the report, the restriction will apply to men over the age of 55, women over the age of 50, and children under the age of 12.

In recent days, Defense Ministry, Israel Police, Shin Bet, IDF, and Prison Services have held discussions and formulated recommendations regarding the policy for visiting the Temple Mount during the month of Ramadan.

It was reported that the goal is to allow Muslim worshipers freedom of worship, in accordance with security restrictions.

This involves a slight change from last year's policy, but a significant change from the situation in previous years, which included a reduction in the ages of those permitted to visit the Temple Mount.

Israeli officials told Channel 12 News that "the explosiveness of the Ramadan holiday will depend mainly on the situation that develops in the Gaza Strip. If there is a ceasefire, they estimate that the situation will calm down, and if not, they will prepare with much larger forces for fear of escalation."

Be'er Sheva Mayor: 'Hide our Tefilin? What's wrong with us?'

 

Mayor of Be'er Sheva, Rubik Danilovich, responded with surprise and sorrow to requests to remove Tefilin stands from public areas.

The stands are a common sight in Israel, consisting of seveal pairs of Tefilin on a small table to allow any who need to do so to fulfill the daily commandment to don Tefilin. The stands frequently include prayer books and occasionally a charity box to donate to their upkeep. They are maintained most notably but not exclusively by the Chabad movement.

Mayor Danilovich related how a woman said "Mayor, you know there's Tefilin on the guard's table at the public school?' He replied, "So what?" The woman claimed "He's forcing the kids to wear Tefilin."

"I asked her: Excuse me, has Tefilin become something in the Jewish state that we need to hide? To conceal? It's absolutely fine if you are less religious and your lifestyle is secular, do you want me to order the school guard to hide the Tefilin?"

"There is no place to fear or shy away from Jewish symbols in a Jewish state. If a child wants to lay Tefilin, let him do it; what's happened to us? Why are we here in this Jewish state? What have we forgotten? You don't have to be a religious Jew, there's a certain value that connects all of us even if you're not a man who wears a kippah, do we want to be just another Western country without any common moral foundation among us? Judaism connects us all, a Jewish state first and foremost," he concluded.

in Germany Merz from the Conservative Party Claims Victory

 

Friedrich Merz, with the microphone, the candidate of the mainstream conservative Christian Democratic Union party, shakes hands with Markus Soeder, leader of CSU and Minister-President of Bavaria, at the party headquarters in Berlin, Germany,

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives were on course for a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, while Alternative for Germany nearly doubled its support, the strongest showing for a far-right party since World War II, projections showed.



Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for his center-left Social Democrats after what he called “a bitter election result.” Projections for ARD and ZDF public television showed his party finishing in third place with its worst postwar result in a national parliamentary election.

Merz vowed to move quickly to put together a coalition government. But it wasn’t immediately clear how easy that would be.

The election took place seven months earlier than originally planned after Scholz’s unpopular coalition collapsed in November, three years into a term that was increasingly marred by infighting. There was widespread discontent and not much enthusiasm for any of the candidates.

The campaign was dominated by worries about the years-long stagnation of Europe’s biggest economy and pressure to curb migration — something that caused friction after Merz pushed hard in recent weeks for a tougher approach. It took place against a background of growing uncertainty over the future of Ukraine and Europe’s alliance with the United States.

AfD’s candidate for chancellor, Alice Weidel, said that “we have become the second-strongest force.” The party’s strongest previous showing was 12.6% in 2017, when it first entered the national parliament.

She said that her party is “open for coalition negotiations” with Merz’s party, and that “otherwise, no change of policy is possible in Germany.” But Merz has repeatedly and categorically ruled out working with AfD, as have other mainstream parties.

AfD co-leader Tino Chrupalla told cheering supporters that “we have achieved something historic today.”

“We have gained 100%,” he said. “We are now the political center and we have left the fringes behind us.”

Scholz decried AfD’s success. He said that “that must never be something that we will accept. I will not accept it and never will.”

More than 59 million people in the nation of 84 million were eligible to elect the 630 members of the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, who will take their seats under the glass dome of Berlin’s landmark Reichstag building.

Judge Orders Anti-israel Protesters to Pay Rabbi $182,000 Over False Stalking Claim

 


Hazami Barmada (center) and Atefeh Rokhvand (right) protesting the Israel embassy

A judge in Washington, D.C., has ruled against two anti-Israel activists who sought a restraining order against a rabbi, ordering them to pay $182,000 in legal fees after their claims were deemed baseless.

The dispute began when Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld regularly prayed outside the Israeli embassy, where activists Hazami Barmada and Atefeh Rokhvand had been leading protests. They accused Herzfeld of stalking, but the judge found no evidence supporting their claims. Instead, video footage reportedly showed Herzfeld engaged in peaceful prayer while Barmada used a megaphone to taunt him.

Judge John McCabe determined that the activists’ legal action lacked merit and that Herzfeld’s presence at the location was protected under free speech laws. His ruling cited the District of Columbia’s anti-SLAPP statute, which protects individuals from lawsuits designed to suppress political expression.

Barmada and Rokhvand have been involved in high-profile demonstrations, including outside the residence of a U.S. government official. Court filings noted that their protests included disruptive tactics such as throwing red liquid at vehicles entering and leaving the premises.

The decision marks a significant legal setback for the activists, reinforcing protections for peaceful expression in public spaces. Herzfeld had also filed a separate civil lawsuit, alleging that protesters attempted to disrupt his prayers by using high-decibel sirens.




Sunday, February 23, 2025

Israeli Air Force jets currently flying over Beirut during Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral

 


Nasrallah and Safi Al-Din’s Coffins Enter Beirut Stadium for Funeral

The coffins of Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safi Al-Din have been brought into the stadium complex in Dahieh, Beirut, ahead of the funeral ceremony.


Defense Minister Israel Katz: "Israeli Air Force Jets Over Beirut Send a Clear Message"

Defense Minister Israel Katz:
"Israeli Air Force jets currently flying over Beirut during Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral are delivering a clear message: Anyone who threatens to destroy Israel and attacks Israel—this will be their fate."

Associated Press Stated that "Bibas Family DIED in captivity" Trump Jr Corrects Them !

 



Trump Jr. Slams AP’s Wording on Bibas Family:
Donald Trump Jr. criticized the Associated Press for stating that "Shiri Bibas and her children died in captivity," correcting them: 

"They didn’t die in captivity, they were murdered. Fixed it for you."

Response to those who yell "what about the babies in Gaza that Israel killed… don’t you care about them’…


First watch the moment Shiri Bibas and her babies were kidnapped! 

 

 


Ahead of Germany’s Crucial Elections, Thousands of Jihadists Rally for Sharia Law

 





Ahead of Germany’s Crucial Elections, Thousands of Jihadists Rally for Sharia Law

As Germany heads into a pivotal election today, thousands of jihadists have taken to the streets, demanding the implementation of Sharia law in the country.