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By Ted Belman

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April 16, 2020 | 8,793 Comments »

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  3. @Michael S

    I am so sorry to hear of your pain. I can feel your heartbreak.

    May Ha Shem comfort you in your personal loss.

    It’s hard to believe, or accept, that we may soon see the downfall of this country. I try not to dwell on it. I hope that I die first.

    The loss of Joshua’s altar is tragic.

  4. Thanks for the condolences, friends. Actually, Peloni, my grief is tripled: first by personal loss, and some things I will go on to relate, second by my dismay at the awful things happening to America, which I will also detail if I have time and room, but most of all by what Sebastien posted about Joshua’s altar. I’ll post a photo of the altar here, while it still exists, as something of a memorial:

    https://www.jewishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/The-archaeological-site-of-Joshua%E2%80%99s-altar.-696×461.jpg

    What a sad time we live in! I wish I could compel everyone, starting myself, to read the book of Lamentations, with weeping!

    I just got up from trying to sleep for the night. I was looking back in my mind, at a satellite view of Milwaukee, WI — the place I was raised, the place that was “COCIDed out” of hosting the 2020 Democratic convention; the place where the upcoming Republican convention may or may not take place.

    The last five times I went to “Brew City”, of course, was for funerals. Over the years since we moved out of there for the last time in the 1990s, whole neighborhoods had become vacant lots, empty hulks of factories lie rusting. and old shopping centers had either long ago been deserted or were fast emptying of shops. Our last remaining friends in the city were dying off, one every visit — first, in the old factory district I grew up in. That death was 2004. My wife’s friend then, a few years ago, west of Jackson Park. Then, around the time of the BLM riots in Wauwatosa, the riot in Kenosha and the Waukesha massacre, the angel of death started slaying my family — making its way, as it were, out of the Kinnickinnic Basin and the Menominee Valley, up the railroad tracks that used to serve our booming industry, and out into the suburbs: a creeping Miasma, reminiscent of the “Angel of Death” scene in the Heston and Robinson version of “The Ten Commandments”.

    Just before our last funeral visit, I was hoping to see an old pastor friend released from prison to a place near where we used to live on the West Side. He died suddenly in prison, last October.

    Still, the deadly Death Smog rolls on. It starts in Washington, DC, in the great swamp there:

    Survey: Washington D.C. Ranked Least Desirable Place to Live
    “…The survey comes after a Giant grocery store in Southeast Washington, DC, announced it will be removing name brands like Advil, Colgate, and Tide from its shelves to better prevent a spike in theft. The store also stated that shoppers will be required to show their receipts to security guards before exiting the store. Ira Kress, president of the chain, told the Washington Post that the store can no longer serve the community by keeping its stores at high risk.”
    — https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/04/washington-d-c-ranked-least-desirable-place-live-survey/

    Obama has already fled the place, escaping to the White Privilege fortress of Martha’s Vineyard. Biden quits the place every weekend, fleeing to beaches in Delaware and Lake Tahoe. Only President Trump wants to live there, for our sakes; and they are trying to kill him.

    Yes, it’s all pretty geievous; but the most awful scene in these Days of Awe, is seeing Joshua’s altar slated for destruction by God’s enemies.

  6. @Edgar Splash means fun surprise, paranoid pops. I learned it from my mother b. 1924 and her father b. 1887. It’s not an attack. But maybe it’s from before your time.

  8. MICHAEL-

    I looked everywhere but did not see that you had ANOTHER family tragedy, except now through Peloni’s post. I did not know even of the past ones.

    Be assured that I deeply sympathise with you and your family. I know exactly how you must feel as it has happened to me also as recently as last March. Just as it happens to all who have families/friends.

    But there’s nothing we can do except to accept it as a fact of life, and you are bolstered by your religious belief as a consolation.

    I give you the Jewish response on such an occasion. “I wish you LONG LIFE”. (and I can add, “happiness”)

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  9. @Michael
    Please accept my condolences on your brother-in-law’s passing. I can not relate to the number of losses which you and your family have suffered over the past few years in such tight succession, and can only imagine the difficulty with which you having to manage. I know your faith will help lead you thru it all with poise and resolve, but please know that you have my every sympathy and that you and your family will be in my prayers. Be well.

  10. SEB-

    In really don’t understand the modern lingo of you kids. When I see “splash” I think of “brandy and splash-a dash of soda water”, or a jump from a diving board into a pool or lake.

    The meaning of the grinning cartoon character is beyond me. Either you’re laughing at me or WITH me….I think they’re childish and for the simpleminded.

    But I stopped laughing, atfer all it was funny -but not THAT much.

  12. SEB

    I saw only the heading in Chit-Chat and was preparing to refute and give the real causes for the chaos..until I read your rather humourous post. Maybe you expect your approaching birthday to be a real “humdinger”(1st time I’ve ever used this word)

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  13. The original Antoinette, Marie, caused the French Revolution and the continual upheavals up through today because, since she was Viennese and therefore addicted to strudel, she gave the whole country systemic periodic hypoglycemia-induced bouts of temporary insanity because she advised everyone to eat cake. She was not always so unreserved in her un-licensed dispensing of nutritional advice, technically a crime in New York State if likewise unenforced, but then I guess she just lost her head.

    So, what’s Rania’s excuse? 😀

  19. TED-

    For a guy not an “insider” he’s doing a hell of a lot of “tweetnig”, now seemingly much of it dubious. I suspected that it was a piece of hyperbole. But insider or now, I do NOT see how he would ever come to include MBS and Al-Sisi.

    I don’t see how Al Sisi would be ready to fall, because he supported Jordan. He has ruled Egypt pretty well, according to whatever news we are allowed to get. A ruler of 100 mill people ………..???
    And NO FOOL nor vainglorious boaster, like previous rulers.

  20. @Edgar.
    Abed isn’t in the inner circle as Mudar is. Regarding that particular tweet, the only name I questioned was MBS. I asked Mudar about it and he said Abed doesn’t know what is going on.
    I knew al Sisi was on the outs. Al Sisi recently supported the Palestinian cause along with Abdullah.

  22. also, don’t miss:

    Meet M. Kaleo Manuel, the official who refused to release “sacred” water in Maui, contributing to up to 106 deaths…

    “It’s been widely reported that locals tried to hose down their homes with water to protect them by the fire, but their water was shut off. By time the water was finally released, it was way too late.”

    Honalulu Civil Beat:

    “According to the sources, Manuel wanted West Maui Land to get permission from a taro, or kalo, farm located downstream from the company’s property. Manuel eventually released water but not until after the fire had spread. It was not clear on Monday how much damage the fire did in the interim or whether homes were damaged.”

  23. Life in America: You’re on your own

    Maui Emergency Chief Defends Decision Not To Activate Warning Sirens

    The “largest single integrated outdoor siren warning system for public safety in the world.” was not activated, because

    “We just don’t use sirens for fires”

    In the end, many residents and visitors said they fled Lahaina after seeing or smelling smoke coming their way. But with traffic backups and multiple road closures caused by downed power lines, some died in their cars as they tried to escape. Others pushed through smoke and flames to jump over a sea wall and into the ocean. There, they endured hours of punishing winds and smoke and watched the town burn until the Coast Guard came to rescue them.

  24. MUDAR TWEETED JUST NOW:

    An international scandal for Rania Antoinette…the plane of treasures..
    Jordanian coalition sources: Western security agencies cooperated with the Zambian authorities in tracking down and stopping the treasure plane.
    The treasures plane, which was on hold in Zambia, left Amman airport with the knowledge of Rania Al-Sarsour, carrying the looted Jordanians’ money…Egypt announced that the plane was “not Egyptian and only stopped at Cairo Airport.”
    #?????? #?????_????_?????_??????
    Rania plunders Jordanian money in broad daylight
    The plane seized in Zambia took off from Oman with 127 kilos of gold and more than 5 million dollars on board!
    ? The Jordanian Coalition’s intelligence sources: One of Rania’s biggest aides in money smuggling operations was arrested on the plane and he is a Latvian.
    ? The plane was heading to hide the money in a European country after stopping in Zambia (we cannot disclose it due to the course of the investigation)

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  26. TED-

    Did you overlook that Abedaleylah’s Aug 9th tweet below included, amongst the departing Arab leaders, Al-Sisi and MBS???

    This sounds like hyperbolic fervour to me, without much further clarification.

  29. Abedaleylah Amaala tweeted in the last 24 hours;.

    Arab and international diplomatic missions in Damascus are leaving Syria quickly. And Saudi Arabia stopped restoring the construction work to restore its embassy in Damascus. Now, at any moment, change will begin in Syria and Bashar al-Assad will be arrested

    and

    A Saudi-Palestinian political committee to re-furnish and restore Al-Aqsa Mosque in order to receive and hand over the Hashemite guardianship and bequeath it to the Saudi leadership. Abdullah II’s activities will be limited to sports and wrestling in the coming and final days of his fallen rule.

  31. @Edgar
    Thank you for raising this article to my attention, as I had not yet seen it.

    Honestly I do believe that these claims that they would sit by and watch their nation fall and see their people destroyed are cavalier statements of threat without any substance. That being said, these public statements of insurrection and coup’s are read around the world, and the claim made by these warriors, false or not, damages Israel in the eyes of her friends and threatens her with the rising hopes of her enemies. So, whereas I agree that these are not serious statements, the damage being inflicted by what i see as being little more than paper insurrectionists is quite real.

  32. The lead article in Arutz 7 today is that Jonathan Pollard asked the rebellious IDF Pilots if they would defend Israel if attacked and they unequivocally answered ..NO…!!

    This sounds like either “the suicide of a nation” or an attempt to play “Hardball”..
    I cannot imagine them sitting idly by when their families come under fire.
    Their training alone would instinctively mitigate against any attack on Israel as a whole.

    So what do others think abou tthis??

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  33. ABEDALELAH TWEETED TODAY:

    Oh, the bad, the bad. The distance between Ramallah and Amman is 100 km. 47 minutes driving by car. Every month, Mahmoud Abbas visits Jordan and receives an official reception, a guard of honor, a dance and a tabaqa. All this Hashemite blasphemy for Mahmoud Abbas is a message to Israel ?? that he is the Palestinian leader of the Palestinian state and that the Hashemites will remain in Jordan.

    The Hashemites are in a situation of great fear of what is coming, after it was reported that they are now at the table of official change. The soon departing Arab leaders are Mahmoud Abbas, Abdullah II, Bashar al-Assad, Mohammed bin Salman and Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

    and

    The Israeli state is protected from the global deep state. The two-state solution is a thing of the past. New Jordan is the solution without the Hashemites

  34. MUDAR ZAHRAN TWEETED TODAY:

    Sweeping changes across the Middle East are overdue, and they will begin with Jordan first. Nonetheless, some outdated globalist regional agents are trying to halt the inevitable by launching a new conflict in Lebanon.
    The recent confrontations between Palestinian factions in the Ein Al-Hilweh refugee camp in Lebanon were a failed attempt to ignite Lebanon. This was funded by a Gulf state – whose main source of internal revenue is human trafficking and money laundering. This was also the joint nasty work of the said state and the intelligence agencies of the HASHemite kingdom.
    Now both, the said Gulf state and the HASHEemite kingdom, are pushing for a war between Hezbollah and Israel. Hezbollah leadership knows it is not in its interest to start a war that will cost it dearly, even if Nasrallah does it, Israel will end both, the war and Hezbollah, in just a few weeks.
    #Jordan #Lebanon

    and

    Jordan is the beginning, the news, and the key to the entire exclusionary matrix that afflicts humans on this planet.
    Therefore, Ali Baba “king” #?????? enjoyed absolute protection from the savage globalization system, his fall meant the fall of the Kabal puppets in the entire Middle East region…
    Today, the Cabal is unable to protect itself, and Ali Baba is just the remnants of a filthy period that will soon be thrown into the pool of the stale past.
    He follows….

  35. @Adam over the years you have lost a lot of comments. Suggest you write them first in Word and save them. The just copy and paste your comment onto these pages to save you some grief.

    Friendly suggestion

  39. Michael S., I just posted a detailed attempt to explain this riot. But for some reason it was not posted. It seems to have dropped off into some electronic wastebasket to oblivion. Ted, could you please try to fish out this post from whatever electronic wastebasket it may have fallen into? Thanks.

  40. Michael S: Some sort of social media “influencer” who sent out messages on a chat room where he was a member, promising to hand out “free stuff,” including some smart phones, in a certain park in Manhattan two days ago. A large crowd of black teenagers gathered to await the arrival of the “free stuff.” Eventually, the “influencer,” who was apparently well known to black teenagers but to almost no one else, did arrive with his van and attempted to hand out the free stuff. However, most of the crowd was unable to get near the van. The first comers got all the free stuff. The disappointrf teenagerd began to riot, jumped on the van and nearby cars, went around smashing and burning cars and any other objects tey could find, and in general running wild. Its not entirely clear whether they were really upset about the free stuff or just felt like rioting and busting up things. Apparently, black teenagers have rioting and causing mayhem as more or less a recreational activity for years in New York City, and the police, afraid to be accused of “racism,” have tolerated these teenage hyjinks. Largely as a result of this lawless atmosphere, people have been moving out of New York City in large numbers.

  41. Sebastien, The ANC did not usually target white civilians, but on a few occasions they did. However, they did kill several thousand black civilians whom they suspected of being agents of the white regime by such techniques as “necklassing,” in which tires were placed around their necks and set on fire. Several thousand black South Africans were murdered in this way by mobs led by Mandela’s second wife, Winnie. In the region known under white rule as Natal,the ANC fought for control of the province with the traditional paramount chief of the Zulus, Buthalezi, and the party he had organized. Up to 10,000 black South Africans, mainly Zulus, are said to have been killed in this bloodbath.

  43. Someone please explain this to me:

    NEW YORK (AP) — Police in New York City are struggling to control a crowd of thousands of people who gathered in Manhattan’s Union Square for an internet personality’s supposed videogame console giveaway that got out of hand.

    Aerial TV news footage Friday showed a surging, tightly packed crowd climbing on vehicles, hurling chairs, throwing punches and scaling structures in the park. Shouting teenagers swung objects at car windows and ran through the streets.

    — https://www.breitbart.com/news/crowd-overwhelms-new-york-citys-union-square-tosses-chairs-climbs-on-vehicles/

    Huh?

  45. @Ted and that Arafat lied that he did. Also, remember that “One settler, one bullet” was the PAC’s slogan not the ANC’s. The ANC never randomly targeted civilians deliberately and always explicitly called for an inclusive non-racial society. Comparing Mandela, who did not have the blood of innocents on his hands, to Barghouti who did and was celebrated for it, is drawing a false equivalence.

    This is the problem with life imprisonment instead of death sentences for terrorists with blood on their hands. They nearly always get out. and whether or not they return to murder inc, personally, they become an inspiration to would be copy cats.

    The Left says that the death penalty is not a deterrent. They also say that about guns in the hands of law abiding citizens. They cite studies that claim that these are not deterrents which are obvious nonsense on the face of it.

    While, I condemn the ANC for solidarizing with the PLO, in its own behavior, it did not emulate it.

    In my opinion, Barghouti should never be released under any circumstances.

  48. @Ted

    So If Bibi were to blow off Ben Gvir he would at the same time lose his base.

    Bibi is a talent in a class all by himself, and some people would only vote for Bibi no matter what, but if Bibi is seen to openly betray his base, I would suggest that there would be a sizeable cost to Likud. Where they would go is another question. I question if those who previously voted for Likud would necessarily be comfortable with voting for the well vilified Ben Gvir and the Religious Zionists, so I am doubtful that he would necessarily gain all the disappointed Likud voters on this topic, but his support would certainly increase.

    If Bibi openly broke from supporting judicial reform, it could actually create a breach in the Right which could be quite damaging in the next election – recall the success of the Right was specifically due to their tight cooperation during the election while the Left remained somewhat splintered.

    That being said, for Bibi to betray his base over the topic of judicial reform, would leave him wholly dependent on gaining the support of many from the anyone-but-Bibi crowd on the Left to form a govt, something which would only be at best a temporary situation before the open rivalries once agan returned the country back to early elections. Trading Ben Gvir for the Leftists would likely further gain him the ire of many on the Right on other topics such as returning the treacherous Gantz to the DM. I don’t think Bibi would be so foolish as to do this, regardless of his support, or lack thereof, for pursuing judicial reform. It is notable, however, that Ben Gvir made the statement, as this did not come from nowhere.

  49. @Peloni.
    So If Bibi were to blow off Ben Gvir he would at the same time lose his base.
    By the way, Gvir is being vilified by the left in Israel and by Biden but I don’t see where he has done anything wrong. What he has done is stood up to them.
    He also supports a greater suppression of terrorism i.e. security for Israelis, and the retention of J&S. These are big vote getters for this government.

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  50. @Ted
    Ben Gvir makes an excellent point here. The support for judicial reform was a grass roots movement. It was the people who responded to the court being out of control and this support which was evident in the turnout for the pro judicial reform protest will only increase with time. If Likud will not support this policy, Ben Gvir or some other proponent of judicial reform will find their political support increased in the next election.