Sunday, April 28, 2024
The Gullible Media Reports a big lie" “Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established.”
We now have clear proof of the adage that a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth can put its boots on.
It comes in the form of an Associated Press report that carried this headline:
“Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established.”
What a scoop!
It was so sensational that news outlets across America and the world ran with it, including CNN, ABC News and even the Times of Israel.
And why not, it was a breakthrough offering that could bring peace at last, right?
Wrong.
It was a public relations ploy disguised as an olive branch.
The way other organizations swallowed it hook, line and sinker illustrates how Hamas skillfully plays Western news organizations and gullible journalists.
The incident also demonstrates how far the AP has fallen from its days as a boring but trustworthy news organization.
Yeshivish Saying Hallel in Muslim Quarter ...bunch of hypocrites
The hypocrisy is screaming to the heavens. When the Dati Leumi guys do this and sing and dance in the Muslim quarter, the Roshei Yeshiva all scream that it" instigates the Arabs and causes bloodshed" but its ok if if they wear black hats and white shirts.
BTW this area is steps away from the Har Habayis... Mamash steps away, maybe 100 feet!
Just that you know, I'm personally all in favor of this, I think that Jews should do this 24/7 and never relinquish sovereignty on any part of Israel, as far as we are concerned there is no such thing as "The Muslim Quarter"
Iranian Rapper Toomaj Salehi Sentenced to Death Over Music Criticizing Government
Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi has been sentenced to death by an Iranian revolutionary court over songs that criticized the Iranian government, according to his lawyer and state media.
"An order for the execution of Toomaj Salehi has been issued," Salehi's lawyer Amir Raesian tweeted Wednesday.
Salehi, 33, has been arrested multiple times by Iranian forces for criticizing the regime’s corruption and suppression of protests sparked by the death of Jina "Mahsa" Amini. The 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman died while in the custody of morality police for allegedly wearing a loose headscarf.
The Recording Academy released a statement Friday evening condemning Salehi’s sentencing: “The Recording Academy is deeply troubled by the recent news regarding Toomaj Salehi. No artist anywhere should have to fear for their life or livelihood when expressing themselves through their art. Music is a powerful force for good in the world and is needed today more than ever. We stand with music creators around the globe who use their gifts to shed light on the human condition and will continue to work tirelessly to protect artistic freedom.”
Meek Mill is among artists who have also criticized Salehi’s arrest and sentencing, writing on X/Twitter, “Got sentenced to death over a song free that man wtf” on Thursday, followed by “Free toomaj!”
“We strongly condemn Toomaj Salehi's death sentence and the five-year sentence for Kurdish-Iranian rapper Saman Yasin. We call for their immediate release,” the United States’ Office of the Special Envoy for Iran wrote on Thursday. “These are the latest examples of the regime's brutal abuse of its own citizens, disregard for human rights, and fear of the democratic change the Iranian people seek.”
Salehi was initially sentenced to six years in prison for his participation in protests over the death of Amini, but was released after Iran’s Supreme Court ruled that it had identified flaws in the original sentence. The rapper was rearrested in November for revealing in a video that he was tortured and placed in solitary confinement for 252 days following his arrest in October 2022, according to a statement published by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
Nazanin Boniadi, Arian Moayed and Maz Jobrani are among Iranian actors who have been calling for Salehi’s release since last year.
“Toomaj has been arrested for the peaceful exercise of his human rights including the right to freedom of expression,” Boniadi shared in a video for Amnesty International last year regarding Salehi’s arrest.
“Toomaj’s only crime was to express his support and express his artistic voice. As a comedian, I cannot imagine a world in which artists are imprisoned for expressing their voice,” Jobrani adds in the video
Sephardi chief rabbi Mocked & Ridiculed in Chareidie Media For Saying that Success of air defense is due to yeshivas, not the IDF
Most of the air defense in this war is happening now in Lebanon and it is Bein Hazmanim, practically all Sefardie Yeshivos are closed. The Avreichim and the Bochrim are all on "tiulim"
How about that it was the Ribbono Shel Oilom? Because it certainly isn't due to Yeshiois as they are all on Chol Hamoed Trips or protesting?
The Total disconnect is obvious and very sad indeed. Instead of having some Hakoras Ha'Toiv, the Chief Rabbi takes ALL the credit away from them. He should follow what he said very recently that his students would leave Israel if drafted. Please don't slam the door on the way out!
Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak stated that Israel's success in defending against the missiles and rockets fired by Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas is thanks to the yeshiva students, not the IDF, during a class on Saturday night.
"It was really a miracle," said the chief rabbi. "During the past few months, it was said to me that they threw 13,000 missiles on us from the north and the south. A very large amount. Thousands of missiles were thrown at us. There should have been, God forbid, hundreds or thousands of casualties, but thank God, while there were a few people injured - every Jewish soul is dear to us - but relative to what could have been, 13,000 missiles were thrown at our state, thank God what miracles and wonders were done for us."
"Gentlemen, in whose merit is this? The chief of staff's merit? In who's merit? It's in the merit of the yeshiva students, that the yeshiva students sit and busy themselves with Torah, in their merit the Holy One Blessed Be He did miracles and wonders for us," said Yosef.
"This is the correct outlook. When I said this a few weeks ago, there were some heads of hesder yeshivas who attacked us in the media, without shame. They spoke with the secular media. Such chutzpah (insolence). Some of the hesder yeshiva heads sent me letters, asking me to retract what I said. I told them there's no way I'm going to retract what I said," said the rabbi, repeating his insistence that the success of the army is solely due to yeshiva students.
"They protect all the soldiers. They protect the entirety of the people of Israel. It is in their merit. Anyone who doesn't believe this is a non-believer (epicuros)," added Yosef.
The Sephardi chief rabbi has come under fire in recent months for his staunch opposition to drafting haredi young men to the army.
In March, Yosef said that the haredim would all leave Israel if the draft was enforced among Haredim.
"They need to understand, all these secular people who don't understand, they need to understand that without the Torah, without the yeshivot, without the kollels, the IDF wouldn't succeed. Already the army doesn't always succeed, we saw how the army 'succeeded' on Simchat Torah," said the rabbi at the time.
Earlier this month, protesters demonstrated against the rabbi and presented him with a "Dividing Israel" award, a reference to the Israel Prize that the rabbi is set to receive on Independence Day.
The "award" stated that it was being presented for Yosef's "work in diving the nation, entrenching the polarization, and perpetuating the draft dodging of haredim." The award also mentions the rabbi's comments against army service.
A draft exemption for haredi young men ended earlier this month, with the High Court of Justice ruling last month that the government would need to end all funding to yeshivas where students were not drafted up until now.
The exemption had technically expired last year, but the government approved a resolution deferring the draft of haredim until a new law on the matter could be formulated. That resolution expired on April 1 after the government failed to pass new legislation on the matter.
Attorney-General Gali Baharav Miara stated earlier this month that the government no longer had a legal basis for not drafting haredi young men.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
The Most Feared and Least Known Political Operative in America
Susie Wiles, the people who know her the best believe, is a force more sensed than seen. Her influence on political events, to many who know what they’re watching, is as obvious as it is invisible. The prints leave not so much as a smudge. It’s a shock when she shows up in pictures. Even then it is almost always in the background. She speaks on the record hardly ever, and she speaks about herself even less.
Last month, though, on the afternoon of the day of the Republican primary in Florida, here Wiles was — sitting outside a Starbucks, at a table with an umbrella she picked for protection from the glare, wearing sensible flats and a cream-colored top and the sunglasses she likes with the lenses like mirrors, not far from the campaign headquarters of Donald J. Trump.
Wiles is not just one of Trump’s senior advisers. She’s his most important adviser. She’s his de facto campaign manager. She has been in essence his chief of staff for the last more than three years. She’s one of the reasons Trump is the GOP’s presumptive nominee and Ron DeSantis is not. She’s one of the reasons Trump’s current operation has been getting credit for being more professional than its fractious, seat-of-the-pants antecedents.
And she’s a leading reason Trump has every chance to get elected again — even after his loss of 2020, the insurrection of 2021, his party’s defeats in the midterms of 2022, the criminal indictments of 2023 and the trial (or trials) of 2024.
The former president is potentially a future president. And that’s because of him. But it’s also because of her. Trump, of course, is Trump — he can be irritable, he can be impulsive — and this campaign is facing unprecedented stressors and snags. It’s a long six-plus months till Election Day. For now, though, nobody around him is so influential, and nobody around him has been so influential for so long.
“There is nobody, I think, that has the wealth of information that she does. Nobody in our orbit. Nobody,” top Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio told me. “She touches everything.”
“Certainly,” said former Florida Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo, “she’s one of the most consequential people in American politics right now.”
Jamaal Bowman duped by fake ‘Chief rabbi of Gaza’
Rep. Jamaal Bowman and his campaign were duped by the parody social-media account of the fake “Chief Rabbi of Gaza.”
The phony X account of “Rabbi Linda Goldstein” is infamous for spouting anti-Zionist vitriol to ensnare unsuspecting progressives unaware that it is satirical.
The rabbi messaged Bowman about sponsoring a fundraiser for his Democratic primary campaign.
Under Hamas rule Jews were not allowed in Gaza, and the only ones there now are hostages and IDF soldiers attempting to rescue them — something Bowman evidently didn’t pick up on when he began corresponding with the account.
Bowman, a member of the far-left House “Squad,” has become one of the most vocal critics of Israel and defenders of Hamas in Congress.
He is currently locked in a fierce primary battle with Westchester County Executive George Latimer, with polls suggesting Latimer could beat him badly.
“I really hope you win, I would love to host a fundraiser with you,” Goldstein messaged Bowman in a private X message on April 11. The message prompted a reply from the congressman’s account just 30 minutes later.
“Thank you, how do we get in touch with you?” Bowman asked. Goldstein promised Bowman she has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars before, adding “my anti-zionist community can’t wait to help.”
“Hi Rabbi, this is Bowman’s staff, we’ll have a member of our finance team follow up with you,” read another direct message from Bowman’s account, noting, “We’re grateful.”
Goldstein’s schtick as an over-the-top Palestinian-loving rabbi has won her a cult following.
“I’m organizing an aid convoy to the @Columbia campus,” Goldstein posted last week. “We need: Glamp Tents; Volunteer Baristas; Oat Milk; Keffiyeh’s; Canada Goose Jackets; and Alo Leggings.”
In other tweets she has condemned Passover as Israeli “genocide” against Egyptians; and posed with photoshopped terrorists in front of a “Menorah for Justice” made of rockets.
She has urged Hamas fighters to practice social distancing in terror tunnels.
The account is operated by a pro-Israel attorney named Michael who declined to provide his last name.
“Antisemitism is a low IQ disease,” Michael quipped to The Post when asked about the exchange.
A rep for Bowman dismissed the exchange as a “standard staff response to a direct message.”
Biden Backtracks, Will Not Sanction Netzach Yehuda Battalion
The Biden Administration has backtracked and will not impose sanctions on the IDF’s Netzach Yehuda Battalion, according to a report by ABC news Friday morning.
According to the report, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrote a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson explaining that the decision was made in light of Israel’s commitment to addressing concerns over human rights violations by the IDF in Judea and Samaria.
According to Blinken, the administration’s concerns over alleged human rights violations by the Netzach Yehuda Battalion “will not delay the delivery of any U.S. assistance and Israel will be able to receive the full amount appropriated by Congress.”
On Wednesday, Ynet reported that Israeli officials believed that the US would not follow through on its announcement of its intention to impose sanctions on the Netzach Yehuda Battalion. According to that report, the administration has been pressured to reverse its decision from all sides of the political spectrum.
Secretary Blinken said on Monday that there would not be an announcement regarding sanctions against the IDF’s Netzach Yehuda Battalion, but told reporters they should “stay tuned.”
US Senator Marco Rubio warned on Thursday that the decision to impose sanctions on the IDF battalion “helps Israel’s enemies.”
“I oppose plans by the Biden Administration to impose sanctions on the commanders and troops of the Netzah Yehuda battalion,” Rubio said.
He noted, “This unit has been on the frontline against Hezbollah, which is terrorizing Israelis in Judea and Samaria, and it is now working to dismantle Hamas brigades in Gaza. In the last year, this unit has neutralized more than 30 terrorists, destroyed 69 terrorist structures, including sites used by Hamas to launch rockets at Israeli citizens, and located 3 underground sites in Gaza.”
“These impending sanctions are an effort by President Biden to appease Israel’s enemies, including the antisemitic mobs terrorizing college campuses across America. But it will stigmatize the entire IDF and encourage Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Iranian regime,” Rubio concluded.
Friday, April 26, 2024
University of Texas-Austin Doesn't Take any Crap from Pro-Hamas Demonstrators.. Clears Them Out!
Blue states take quite the opposite approach. They've taught young people to disrespect the rule of law by ensuring there are zero consequences, so now the young militants are running roughshod over Columbia University, New York University and Yale University, among many others.
The difference simply is the location in which these students are protesting, as formal education seems to have cultivated current generations nourished on left-leaning ideology designed to destroy the fabric of our nation and any hopeful future that we could have. We are, in essence, eating ourselves from the inside out by design.
Columbia & Other Univ Pro-Hamas Demonstrations Have 'foreign assistance' with Coordinated Tents Etc.
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s city officials question who’s funding anti-Israel protests broiling with antisemitism at Columbia University and New York University and point to the nearly identical tents used at these "encampments" occupying campuses, one expert tells Fox News Digital the apparent organization and recent student "training sessions" suggests "foreign assistance."
"I think there is good reason to suspect that there is foreign assistance and coordination that's fueling the campus protests," Dr. Jay Greene, a senior research fellow at the Center for Education Policy at the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, told Fox News Digital, there are "enough signs to make it reasonable to suspect that that is occurring."
Anti-Israel protesters at NYU admit they have no idea what they’re protesting: ‘I wish I was more educated’
🚨VIDEO: A REAL interview we had at NYU:
— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) April 24, 2024
QUESTION: "Why are you protesting?"
PROTESTER #1: "I don't know. I'm pretty sure there's something about Israel [turns to another person] Why are we protesting?"
PROTESTER #2: "I wish I was more educated."
PROTESTER #1: "I'm not either." pic.twitter.com/8aB2ZoTCCk
Two Columbia University students who rushed to join NYU’s violent anti-Israel rally are going viral after admitting they had no idea what the protest was about — and wished they were “more educated.”
The unidentified students rattled off their clueless rationale on the steps of the NYU campus in downtown Manhattan as a slew of NYPD cops clad in riot gear stood in the background, as seen in footage viewed more than 3 million times since being shared by former Mayor Rudy Giuliani late Wednesday.
“I think the main goal is just showing our support for Palestine and demanding that NYU stop … I honestly don’t know all of what NYU is doing,” one admitted when asked about the protest’s purpose.
Asked if there was “something NYU is doing,” the student meekly replied: “I really don’t know, I’m pretty sure they are…”
She then turned to her friend and asked, “Do you know what NYU is doing here?”
The friend, who was wearing a face mask, then bluntly asked: “About what?”
“About Israel. Why are we protesting, here at NYU specifically?” the student asked.
“I wish I was more educated,” her friend confessed.
The person interviewing the pair continuously moved the camera back and forth to capture the ridiculous exchange.
ICC's vicious smear tactics against America’s allies ..British Prosecutor Trying to Get Netanyahu Arrested !
In the next few days, something unprecedented is going to be attempted.
A British prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague called Karim Khan is going to try to bring a war-crimes case against an American ally.
Specifically, Khan wants to bring individual cases against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and a head of the Israeli army, most likely the chief of the general staff.
If this happens, it will throw kerosene onto the already flammable international situation.
And further ignite things here at home.
All those expensively educated know-nothings currently hunting down Jews on American campuses will imagine they have even more license to do so.
It will encourage all the antisemites who have crawled out of the sewers in recent months.
And it will be a grotesque smear and slander against the state of Israel.
Netanyahu is a democratically elected leader.
Gallant and the leadership of the IDF lead a citizens army.
Therefore, any indictments against them will constitute an indictment on the state of Israel itself and the Israeli public as a whole.
It would be a grotesque boundary-crossing by the ICC.
Of course, Khan is attempting to do this having done no investigation and having gathered no information.
He will be taking this dangerous move for reasons of pure politics and prejudice.
Political motives
Before he takes this step, there are a couple of things that he — and the American public — should consider.
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