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  5. Believe Carlson falls into that category with comments he’s made and the cover-up on his interview with K West where he edited it out the anti- semitic comments on the
    interview.

  9. @Edgar

    “The ministry never distinguishes between civilians and combatants. That becomes clearer after the dust settles, when the U.N. and rights groups investigate and militant groups offer a tally of members killed. The Israeli military also conducts post-war investigations.

    The Health Ministry doesn’t report how Palestinians were killed, whether from Israeli airstrikes and artillery barrages or other means, like errant Palestinian rocket fire. It describes all casualties as victims of “Israeli aggression.”

    And they lied about the hospital. Hamas is the only source.

    https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-gaza-health-ministry-health-death-toll-59470820308b31f1faf73c703400b033

  10. I wish something could be done about Wikipaedia. Sebastien, you’re the Wiki expert, using it extensively. So DO something.

    I was looking up what they say about the Gaza War.

    The “Gaza Health Ministry”, reported a few days ago that over 17,000 civilians had been killed nearly all “women and children”.
    Also that over 350 IDF had been killed and thousands wounded..

    Further down a very weak US comment is that they don’t think the Gaza Health Ministry report is reliable.

    90% of the article is all from Gaza very little from Israel.

  13. TOI reports.

    Still reeling from the trauma of October 7, some Israelis have retreated from support for a two-state solution. A poll conducted three weeks after the attacks found 28.6% of Jewish Israelis in favor of a two-state solution, down from 37.5% a month earlier, according to Tel Aviv University’s Peace Index poll.

    At the same time, only 8.5% of Jewish Israelis backed a fully democratic, one-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians. No separate question was asked about preference for the current status quo.

    The same poll found only 24.5% of Jewish Israelis in favor of peace negotiations with the Palestinian Authority.

  14. Left-wing Jews usher in Hanukkah in NY with rally demanding a ceasefire and mourning Gaza casualties
    By Luke Tress December 8, 2023 10:12 am

    “And while only 37% of New Yorkers approve of Israel’s war effort, according to a recent poll, the Jewish ceasefire activists have the support of only a minority of their own community: 72% of Jewish New Yorkers support Israel’s war effort, while only 19% disapprove. ”

    https://www.jta.org/2023/12/08/ny/left-wing-jews-usher-in-hanukkah-in-ny-with-rally-demanding-a-ceasefire-and-mourning-gaza-casualties

  15. Chanukah, canceled
    I don’t recall public Christmas celebrations being shut down across the United States after the U.S. military entered Iraq.

    “…Moreover, this fear of being seen as siding with Israel over Hamas has not extended to Muslim-themed events and ceremonies in the United States and Canada, which continue to be held. When it comes to Muslim communities residing in these countries, there is a clear line being drawn between Hamas in Gaza and law-abiding citizens in Los Angeles, New York, Virginia and Toronto exercising their right to worship and assemble as they see fit….”

    https://www.jns.org/chanukah-canceled/

  16. Sebastien
    You’ve gotten my mouth watering for stroganoff. It mixes “fleishig” mit “milchig”, so Observant beware. Even in my more kosher-conscious days, though, I had no problem mixing turkey with cream sauce. How does one seethe a turkey in its mother’s milk? I asked my rabbi that once, and he was lost for words for a moment. Still, to each according to his own conscience, and I’m not Jewish anyway. Noodles! Mushrooms! Aah!

    Ted,
    I am surprised at nothing that comes out of the churches lately. When the Pope came out as an advocate for transgenderism, that pretty much dissolved the threshold. But if Pastor Isaac wants to see celebration in the ruins of Gaza, he should go watch the hannukiah lightings in Palestine Square:

    https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/12/IDF-lights-Hanukkah-Getty-640×480.jpg

  18. Shocking Christian news.

    The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem has cancelled Christmas celebrations.
    Pastor Munther Isaac announced that, instead of the usual Nativity display, an image of a baby Jesus lying amongst the rubble of Gaza would replace the manger scene as a message of Jesus being in solidarity with Palestinians.
    Can someone remind this anti-Semitic pastor that Jesus was not a Palestine, He was a Jew, and for this noxious priest to pose such a gruesome pantomime at a time when actual Jewish babies are buried under Gaza, dead or alive, by the Palestinians he supports, is a new example of the long tragic history that Jews have suffered at the hands of such malevolent priests,

    Barry Shaw,
    International Public Diplomacy Associate,
    Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.

  20. @Michael Yes, well, Words are like that. White chocolate has no chocolate, Korea just means South Korea, Classical Music just means Italian classical music, a civilization isn’t just the culture of a city state, and piece de resistance:

    antipasto doesn’t refer to a spaghetti hater of the male persuasion. 😀

  21. Hello, Sebastien

    Willie Mahr sounds like a dirty dog who couldn’t keep his tool in his belt. I hate the term “antisemitism” — a queer term, not really meaning what it says. The word has been much abused; but then, I can’t come up with a word that adequately conveys the horror of what it stands for.

    This Hanukkah season marks yet another anniversary of a vain person who tried to wipe out the Jews’ connection to God’s promises. God continues to be the winner.

    I wonder what the IDF will do with all those Hamas prisoners. Chances are, they’ll become part of the greater prisoner exchange fund.

  22. “Wilhelm Marr (1819–1904), the German journalist credited for introducing the word “antisemitism” into wide circulation, at one point referred to himself as its patriarch. Ironically, he was also so obsessed with Jewish women that he married three of them.”
    So, the next time, somebody comes up to you and assures you they can’t be an antisemite because they are married to one and then tries to convince you that Jews are really Khazars or Israel is really bad for any reason at all, even dredging up controversies from 75 years ago, for example, bear this in mind.
    Oh, yes. For most of his career, he was a leftist. See Wikipedia.

    http://perspectives.ajsnet.org/patriarchy-issue/imaginary-letters-by-the-wives-of-wilhelm-marr-patriarch-of-antisemitism/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Marr

  26. Seb-

    Max Sxhmeling , about whom I know a lot, nearly all his career, was NOT a Nazi, although he had to fight in the army..

    I have the book in which Joe Louis half kills him in their return bout. He later be-friended Luis and kept him in cash. He became a champagne salesman and later a multi- millionaire entrepreneur. He was one of the good guys and lived to be around 100.

    Yes, he saved several Jews, His manager of many years Joe Jacobs was a Jew. and describes in humourous terms his meeting with Hitler, saluting him with the hand holding one of his eternal cigars..

    That return fight with Louis was one of the most important of the 20th cent, although lasted less than 1 round. HUGE leadup and publicity and MORE…It was only THEN that Max Baer,(not a Jew-only partly) began to wear a Magen David on his trunks.

    It showed the Nazis were not “supermen” as Hitler had been touting.

  30. @Honeybee Found this:

    …Max Schmeling – the former champ soundly defeated by Star-of-David-clad Jewish-American boxer, Max Baer (father of the actor who portrayed Jethro on The Beverly Hillbillies)….historically associated with the Nazi regime – not only defied Hitler and the Nazis, but also saved the life of two Jewish children who might otherwise have been murdered by them…

    https://www.ifcj.org/news/stand-for-israel-blog/from-heavyweight-champ-to-holocaust-hero

  32. From Patrick Byrne:

    Just letting the nation know that somewhere in the country, I won’t say which state or official, but somebody key has just flipped on superiors and is spilling guts.

    Lesson for all Election Miscreants:

    “Roll early role often.”

  37. https://nationalfile.com/charlie-kirk-suggests-netanyahu-issued-stand-down-order-to-idf/ Charlie Kirk’s remarks about Israel in 2023 were apparently delivered on Daniel Bet-David;s site , not on the sites linked by Michael S and Ted. Kirk did deliver a speech expressing his love for Israel in Jerusalem in 2019, some years before the current war. I did find that speech moving. It still remains a mystery, however, as to why Michael S and Ted posted misinformation about where to findthis speech.

  38. Those on Israpundit who carry on a campaign of disinformation on behalf of CIA, wittingly or not, in favour of Ukraine are helping the enemies of Israel. This is because the roots of the Ukrainian extreme right wingers go back to the Ukrainian Fascists who led the Holocaust along with the Nazis. This is all carefully documented. I name Michael, Bear Klein, Adam Dalgliesh and Laura. This certainly weakens Israel now in the present.

    The site Michael has just referenced is definitely CIA and MI6. It is called The Insider or ins.ru and is located in Latvia.

    To take any of its information as truth is to greatly weaken Israel.

  41. @ Michael @Ted There is no speech about Israel in on the second web address that Michael sent me any more than on the first. Neither of these flashpoint podcasts has anything about Israel except for a few casual references. Definitely no “keanot adress about either of them. Both flashpoint podcasts focus exclusely on American politics and religion, not Israel. Why do you guys keep lying to m: Are you just teasing and making fun of me? My feelings have never been hurt this badly by anything I have ever read on Israpundit before.

    Please give me the accurate web page where you saw the Charlie Kirk’s speech about Israel/ And please explain to me why you have lied twice to me.

  42. Today the PMs Office issued a glowing announcement addressed to the Gaza Citizens, painting a glowing future of sea front, palm trees (?) and prosperity if free of Hamas,

    If true , and not just propaganda to drive a wedge between the public and Hamas, It surely means the end of Netanyahu.
    Gazans are implicitly involved in the Hamas terroristic activities and support them, actively taking past in the Oct Massacres and looting.

    It said NOTHING about destroying the existence of Hamas, which has been one of the PMs most reiterated Mantras.

  44. @Ted @Michael For goodness sake, please help me to find this alleged Keynote speech of Charlie Kirk. I went to the podcast that you linked and I couldn’t find a keynote speech or any speech about Israel. But obviously you did fina a keynote speech somewhere. Please help me to find it.

  45. @Michael– I listened patiently to to the Charlie Kirk podcast that you provided a link to and I didn;t hear a word about Israel. Where is his supposed :”keynote speech” on this podcast? The podcast that you provided a link to doesn’t contain any reference to Israel that I can find. Please clarify.

  47. I’m not condemning you if you go to a Starbucks but if you go to a Starbucks insidea target, we have ti talk.

    😀
    opening pastor’s remarks in Charlie Kirk video

    It s long been my theory that just as Christian churches offered economic security to musicians, they did the same for standup comics.