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The colonizers

Posted on May 12, 2024 | Leave a comment

That’s what the anti-Israel, pro-Hamas, protestors on American college campuses call the Israelis these days. Actually, Eretz Israel, Hebrew for the Land of Israel, was the 2,000+ years old birthplace of the Jewish people. Making the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians the actual colonizers, coming late to the party.

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The Yom Kippur War

Posted on September 17, 2023 | 2 comments

This Yom Kippur (on Sunday, Sept 24) is the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. When Israelis were interrupted in their synagogues and fasts by familiar sirens (not really heard since 1967) announcing Arab attacks: this time in the Sinai Desert on the south by the Egyptians and in the north on the Golan Heights by Syria.

The Israel Defense Force was taken by surprise and things went badly for the first four days, with territory lost and front line troops taking heavy casualties. U.S. airlifted shipments of ammunition and equipment on the fourth day enabled the IDF to go on a full-scale offensive. But Israel had mobilized two armored divisions of mainly M-48 and M-60 tanks in less than 24 hours.

The IDF gradually turned the Syrian advance into a rout to within 35 kilometers of their capital of Damascus. The Egyptians were likewise compelled to retreat close to their capital of Cairo. And then we got the Arab Oil Embargo which turned our economy upside down and lots of diplo back-and-forthing which I won’t bore you with.

My favorite story from the war is that of Zvika Greengold, a 21-year-old captain (or lieutenant depending on the source) who commanded a Centurion tank on the Golan, one of only eight soldiers of the war awarded the Medal of Valor, Israel’s Medal of Honor.  He fought off the advance of a Syrian tank brigade with his single Centurion, which he dubbed on the radio as Zivka Force, until help arrived.

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Few untouched in Highland Park

Posted on July 7, 2022 | Comments Off on Few untouched in Highland Park

It’s a small town of about 30,000, about half of them Jewish. And whether or not the young shooter was/is antisemitic, even the survivors are devastated.

Via The Times of Israel

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Jewish Highland Park the target

Posted on July 6, 2022 | Comments Off on Jewish Highland Park the target

Accused mass shooter Bobby Crimo “also attempted a rehearsal of the July 4 shooting weeks earlier when he tried to enter a Highland Park synagogue during Passover just two blocks from where he ultimately attacked the parade. He was forcibly asked to leave by the temple’s armed security. He is a manifestation of all the left stands for, including wokeness, gender fluidity, and anti-Semitism.”

Glad to hear the synagogue had armed security, but many of them do nowadays.

Via Rabbi Michael Barclay on PJMedia

UPDATE: Meanwhile, in Israel, a Jewish family was massacred at Shabbat dinner.

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Yom HaShoah

Posted on April 27, 2022 | Comments Off on Yom HaShoah

Holocaust Remembrance Day begins this evening, commemorating the closing of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp in Poland, the largest of many run by Nazi Germany which murdered 6 million men, women and children. It’s a somber day in Israel, where about 200,000 aging Holocaust survivors live, and about 20 percent of the young are polling as fearful of another one. Those over age 45, having seen more of life, don’t. But anti-semitic incidents are increasing across the U.S. and around the world. The old, irrational hatred lives on.

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Antisemitic Bigots

Posted on February 23, 2022 | Comments Off on Antisemitic Bigots

That would be Black Lives Matter. Who else? After trashing L.A.’s Jewish businesses, one of their black nationalists tried to assassinate a Jewish candidate for mayor of Louisville, Ky. He failed and BLM sprung him from jail. Of course.

“Black Lives Matter is a racist and antisemitic hate group, and (Quintez) Brown’s increasingly hateful and antisemitic views were not out of line with his fellow black nationalist bigots. BLM’s decision to bail him out of jail is evidence that the hate group continues its support even after the shooting.”

Them and a few of their celebrity backers, like Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream, Schitt’s Creek star Dan Levy and others you’ve probably never heard of.

Via Sultan Knish

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Rabbi rescued hostages, not FBI

Posted on January 18, 2022 | Comments Off on Rabbi rescued hostages, not FBI

“The hero rabbi held hostage in his Texas synagogue has credited active-shooter training for helping him save his congregants — revealing Monday that he threw a chair at the terrorist so they could finally escape.”

Video shows them running out a door, before the flash-bang grenade and gunfire erupted. But in most media, the FBI is getting credit for the rescue.

Via New York Post

UPDATE: WSJ’s assistant editor James Freeman has a good opinion piece on the rabbi’s actions headlined: Good Guy With A Chair.

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