By Ted Belman
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@Edgar
You have nio comments in trash or moderation.
1000 Israeli musicians sing with one voice, BRING THEM HOME! – Homeland concert
@Bear Better to mention including Jews under Title VI and how he had to make it an executive order because the dems opposed it on behalf of our mortal enemies and how Biden delayed it by a year. And the Taylor Force Act and how Biden has been subverting it. I mentioned the latter to leftists who refused to believe pay for slay existed!
Actually, it’s not uncommon for antisemites to have close Jewish associations.
Wilhelm Marr was married to 2 Jewish women and a third who was half Jewish (they don’t say which half.)
@Seb talk about irony I was defending Trump and his policies to a leftist I was in personal discussion with on the phone.
I think I make constructive critique of him but the leftists flat out hate him with no governor to the hate! My favorite is when they call him anti-semite. I asked in response then does he hate his own daughter. The answer he does not view her as a Jew.
Ted
What happened to all my emails to Bear in Chit Chat??? They were published and on the site for hours. Now invisible
@ Seb that is cute I give you credit.
It could only happen if Biden actually is directed to the podium or microphone and given an ear piece on what to answer or say.
@Bear Bagel yer pardon but t’was a schmear.. Trump said he would like to debate Baden every night.
@Seb, I reported a fact (not a smear) that Trump chicken out in debating Haley, DeSantis…….
It was smart I agree because he would have been “smeared” trying to debate more knowledgeable articulate rivals!!! He would have been exposed!! Just like Biden who ducks debates. In fact Biden will likely not debate the GOP nominee it has been reported.
Would you not want Biden to debate Trump if they are their parties respective nominees. Trump would relish this because he is still sharper than the very senile Biden.
@Bear Since you smeared Trump as a coward for not wasting his time debating candidates who don’t have a prayer, and referred to jumping chickens, I felt that one absurd post deserved three back – I’m not an eye for an eye kind of guy, more of a Hiroshima for an eye kind of guy, rather – so, I googled Jumping chickens and posted a video of jumping chickens and another of a shake and bake commercial from 1968 which are in moderation. The other post is of a heroic coward who rescued Jews during the Shoah.
By the Way, there was a silly movie based on Coward’s exploits based on a book that ended before Auschwitz. “The Password is Courage.”
Hogan”s Heros was clearly a silly tv show based on his exploits.
And I wouldn’t be surprised if Stalag 17, the play, was, as well.
Wikipedia also says he snuck into the IG Farben section and testified at the Nuremburg Trials but only says, “he claimed” because all the witnesses were dead and he didn’t know their names.
My kind of Coward. And if Trump can be described as a Coward – incredibly – I’ll take that meaning of the word (you can tell I used to be a leftist, eh?
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I remember learning about him from a Times Of Israel article.
@Bear
https://www.yadvashem.org/blog/president-of-israel-pays-tribute-to-righteous-among-the-nations-program.html
On Dec 23, JPOST reported:
On Dec 25, Netanyahu told the troops in Gaza:
@Ketzel2 Yes, well at the end of the day, I’m sure we’ll all vote for any of the people who say the right things against the people who say and do the wrong things, so if Haley or De Santis wins the primary most of us, I for one, will vote for her or him. But, I think Trump should and will win the primary. As Peloni demonstrated, he really is the only independent candidate and that’s why they are all out to get him. You know that when he speaks, he’s not just somebody’s mouthpiece and liable to change his position at any moment. He has an amazing record, for the most part. And he thinks outside the box. That’s why he got things done nobody else could. He’s a master strategist.
This DeSantis/Trump issue reminded me of 1968. Senator Eugene McCarthy was the main antiwar candidate, and he got a lot of traction, especially among young people. So much traction that along came Bobby Kennedy (Sr.) to use the Kennedy brand to steal the issue, after McCarthy did the prep for him. McCarthy’s supporters, including me, saw Bobby as an opportunist.
McCarthy would have been a great president, and he certainly had more gravitas and scholarly credentials than Trump. But I see a parallel. Trump did the work, and DeSantis rides in on his coattails. That in itself is bargain basement opportunism, what else is he capable of? That said, I’d vote for DeSantis if Trump weren’t available, it’s just important to note his character flaw. Trump did the work and then DeSantis tried to steal it. Shameful.
@Reader In the short run, it can happen anywhere, Reader, as should be glaringly obvious. Even before Oct. 7:
https://fathomjournal.org/israel-needs-to-talk-about-the-arab-riots-of-may-2021/
Jews should definitely get out of Europe and come to either America or Israel. The handwriting is clearly on the wall there, except for Hungary, at the moment.
The next Holocaust, if there is one, will be of Israel’s 7 million Jews and Jews in America are duty bound to stand by our brothers and sisters but we are hardly in the firing line anywhere near to this extent.
It is true, however, that if there had been a Jewish state, Europe’s Jews could have left. Herzl was right.
It could happen, someday, anywhere. Israel must be as invincible, as big, and as Jewish as possible for all our sakes, in the long run. You and I, of course, will be long gone.
@Sebastien Zorn
In any country Jews are aliens with citizenships who fool themselves into thinking that it is their country and they are the same as everybody else and it cannot happen here.
@Reader or Felix Can’t remember which one of you demanded that I decide whether I am a Zionist Jew – news flash,I’m not an Israeli; I’m a fourth generation New Yorker and I never leave Manhattan if I can help it – or an American Imperialist.
In the first place, I no longer accept the Marxist paradigm of Imperialism as the highest stage of Capitalism, Leninist, actually, which he borrowed from somebody else and I don’t hate my country. I love my country and I love my ancestral homeland and I don’t see a conflict.
On the other hand, I guess you would see me as an American, actually U.S. imperialist, only Canadians call us Americans,
, because I actually worked a number of times as a lobbyist at the Council on Foreign Relations that has a building in the East 60s.
Wellll, usually I played in the lobby, sometimes I played the wedding and the reception, as well. That’s were the big money was. I made as much as 2. 3 hundred dollars, for as many hours work!
@Seb, thanks for the interpretation! Short and concise!
Do not agree with about the idol worship part. One can be a loyal to a person and not a worshiper of that person. The loyalty continues while the leader is acting according to the principles or policies one agreed with. If the leader strays from that path the loyalty maybe withdrawn.
Idol worship goes much further! The one idolized can do no wrong!
@Bear
Which was the same as asking if it’s just idol worship. Peloni answered you. He didn’t ramble at all. He said no, it’s about policy. When the aims of the movement are achieved or become clearly unachievable, it will become irrelevant, like Gingrich’s “Contract with America.” But, if it fails, America will fail.
@Peloni, first you made an assumption that I believe MAGA is idol worship. Maybe among some MAGA Trump supporters there is more loyalty to the King than the Kingdom (e.g. US Constitution). I do not think it is idol worship.
I am sorry your answer is rambling! I do not think you answered my question.
Does MAGA survive Trump as a movement?
DeSantis has been vilified for daring to run against Trump. He is likely now destroyed as a future MAGA leader because of this. Those who treat Trump as a King not a past elected POTUS are causing harm to the conservative movement.
I guess we will find out when Trump goes if a leader comes along who the Trump ONLY faithful will take to.
7@Bear
It is an interesting question to consider and the answer is an important point to query. I honestly do believe that had the 2020 election not been overthrown and thus exposing the full extent to which the Reps were actually involved in delivering the power of the US govt to the totalitarian Dems, the movement might have died with Trump’s second term and what victories he had achieved – not because it was a movement of idol worship as you and other consider it to be, but because the reforms sought out by the movement would have been made, and like Gingrich found out when he fulfilled his contract with America, the pendulum always swings back. With the Dems and Reps being so completely associated with the devastation being wrought on America, I think the repulsion which Trump expressed in his first run for office will remain going forward, but there is a catch. If Trump does not win in 2024, it really won’t matter what Americans want, as the fall of the republic will be likely irreversible and the nation will be led by those Selected from above, no less so than was Rome after Caesar (don’t take that analogy too far). If Trump succeeds in winning the election, his number one priority will be to secure the return of govt chosen by consent of the governed. This is an important and vital must have for the Republic to be re-established and the will of the people to have any effect or relevance in the future. He will, for instance, have to fight the agenda which is being pursued by the Deep State allies in making it illegal to challenge election outcomes as was signed into Florida law by Desantis this last year.
Once the Republic is re-established, the choice of pursuing the MAGA agenda going forward or allowing the swamp to slide back into power will be a choice determined by the people. For the power of the people to rest in the hands of the people, it will take an active electorate who is weary of losing that power for their children. For the power of the people to seep back into the hands of the powerful, the people will once more need only allow itself to be led, rather than to lead, by the powerful whose only interest is power and whose tempting tools are division and deceit. People are forgetful, which calls to mind the quote from Jefferson that “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants” – the reason such cataclysmic eras must be lived as we are living today is because people are poor students of history, too trusting of idolized leaders, and too timid to question why when emergencies are declared and their rights are infringed or simply negated.
Perhaps this is not what you meant by your question, but fill free to pursue this conversation further if this is the case.
@ Peloni or any other MAGA identifiers.
Question Post Trump Era does MAGA live on as a movement is this just a Trump loyalist movement in your views? Meaning if Trump loses the election or wins and finishes his term does MAGA survive or just wither away?
@Ted
This is the email listed for Dagan on the http://www.shomron.org.il website:
yosid@shomron.org.il
Does anyone have the email for Yossi Dagan?
@Michael Felix Navidad to you, too. (I didn’t know it was his birthday. Nobody tells me anything. I get no respect. Happy Birthday Felix.)
https://tenor.com/view/birthday-getting-old-rodney-dangerfield-funny-dance-birthday-cake-gif-11971086
@Bear No ifs, bots or ads
@Seb, in Israeli slang Turkish Coffee is know as Botz (Mud).
I think they should just have renamed it Botz Yisraeli (Israeli mud).
ULTRA RIGHT BEER is a$500,000 hit in just 12 hours!
https://www.foxnews.com/media/woke-free-beer-company-rakes-500k-12-hours-trump-mugshot-cans-people-tipping-point
Feliz Navidad!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1739016667378635222
“Israel’s favorite coffee is turkish no longer” (Because Turkey supports Hamas so that would be another good resettlement location.) I recall Bush Jr. renamed French Fries, what they call Pommes Frites, Freedom Fries.
I don’t recall. Did Biden pardon these turkeys last Chuseok?
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/middle-east/turkey/israels-favorite-turkish-coffee-is-turkish-no-longer/2023/12/25/
@Bear in the article you cited, the author says there are no carrots to offer categorically but then concludes with
Which sounds very Trumpian. In fact, they have both expressed admiration for one another. But, he left out Iran, which I consider a greater threat than either. Russia and China are rivals. Iran is Nazi Germany, an existential threat to Israel and the U.S. A mortal enemy. The state not the people. We should be doing everything in our power to promote insurgency and revolution in Iran. We should be supporting every separatist movement. While cutting off their economic lifeline. A big problem is with all the legal and illegal jihadist immigration, we don’t know where all the sleeper cells are or when or where the next 9/11 atack will be or the signal for it.
@Michael Christmas Cheer for ya’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUwuzZISgwc
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/
Russia employing African mercenaries to fight in Ukraine
https://en.defence-ua.com/news/russia_seeks_african_mercenaries_to_bolster_its_forces_in_ukraine-8978.html
Welcome to Colonialism 2.0.
Tens of Thousands of Chinese Communist Military Stationed Overseas
https://youtu.be/T7SziUoeVpk
A year old, but loaded with pertinent details.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/382475
He would have my vote.
Reuveni
It’s a well know fact that the US grabbed a slew of scientists after thee War. Von Braun comes to mind, and he had dozens of colleagues who also accompanied his or later were rejoined.
It was because fo the already impending Cold War where Russia was the REAL antagonist. The differences began almost as soon as the Revolution occurred but were laid aside -but not forgotten- to join against Hitler. It was especially obvious when Truman hurridly recognised the new state of Israel (only de facto) minutes before the Soviets did, Ge jure.
@Edgar,
It has been posted often that the CIA has a department dedicated to ensuring that no (woke-speech) disinformation makes it to public viewing on Wikipedia. I’d keep that at the back of my mind when visiting their Website. There have also been numerous postings claiming that the CIA grabbed a lot of Nazis from Germany and embedded them predominantly in the deep state.
There they have lots of power while remaining out of view.
American Jewish Committee
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/left-vs-right/sen-fetterman-rejects-the-progressives-gung-ho-on-israel/2023/12/21/
@Sebastien Zorn
Thanks for the who-is-running-what links, I really didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at the content.
I’ll send them to some people I know who are convinced that replacing politicians always cures problems.
When the Baltic countries were accepted in the EU, they had to sign a clause demanding that they return the properties of the people who used to live there before the end of WWII.
Guess who these people were – the Volksdeutsche – the Germans who used to live there, and a few of them did come back to reclaim their properties throwing out the people who had lived there since the end of WWII.
Germany is suicidal, this is the only fitting description of its behavior.
for limited time only.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-shift-latvia-and-lithuania-to-pay-holocaust-survivors-heirs-for-stolen-property/
Irony alert:
@Reader https://www.frontpagemag.com/whos-running-america/
@Reader It’s the opening episode of “Yes Minister. Here it is:
https://youtu.be/IpF0OXJYhCw?si=6hWHKAVKwnTkKfEQ
“Yes Minister is a British political satire sitcom written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn. Comprising three seven-episode series, it was first transmitted on BBC2 from 1980 to 1984. A sequel, Yes, Prime Minister, ran for 16 episodes from 1986 to 1988. All but one of the episodes lasted half an hour, and almost all ended with a variation of the title of the series spoken as the answer to a question posed by Minister (later, Prime Minister) Jim Hacker. Several episodes were adapted for BBC Radio; the series also spawned a 2010 stage play that led to a new television series on Gold in 2013.
Set principally in the private office of a British cabinet minister in the fictional Department of Administrative Affairs in Whitehall, Yes Minister follows the ministerial career of Jim Hacker, played by Paul Eddington. His various struggles to formulate and enact policy or effect departmental changes are opposed by the British Civil Service, in particular his Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby, played by Nigel Hawthorne. His Principal Private Secretary Bernard Woolley, played by Derek Fowlds, is usually caught between the two. The sequel, Yes, Prime Minister, continued with the same cast and followed Hacker after his unexpected elevation to prime ministerial office upon the retirement of the previous officeholder.
The series received several BAFTAs and in 2004 was voted sixth in the Britain’s Best Sitcom poll. It was the favourite television programme of the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher.[3]
Plot
The series opens in the wake of a general election in which the incumbent government has been defeated by the opposition party, to which Jim Hacker MP belongs. His party affiliation is never stated, his party emblem is clearly neither Conservative nor Labour, and his party’s political colour is white. The Prime Minister offers Hacker the position of Minister of Administrative Affairs, which he accepts. Hacker goes to his department and meets his Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby, and Principal Private Secretary, Bernard Woolley.
While Appleby is outwardly deferential towards the new minister, he is prepared to defend the status quo at all costs. Hacker and his party’s policies of reducing bureaucracy are diametrically opposed to the Civil Service’s interests, in which staff numbers and budgets are viewed as merits of success (as opposed to sizes of profits or losses in private industry). Woolley is sympathetic towards Hacker but as Appleby reminds him, Woolley’s civil service superiors, including Appleby, will have much to say about the course of his future career (i.e., assessments, promotions, pay increases), while ministers do not usually stay long in one department and have no say in civil service staffing recommendations.
Many of the episodes revolve around proposals backed by Hacker but frustrated by Appleby, who uses a range of clever stratagems to defeat ministerial proposals while seeming to support them. Other episodes revolve around proposals promoted by Appleby but rejected by Hacker, which Appleby attempts by all means necessary to persuade Hacker to accept. They do occasionally join forces in order to achieve a common goal, such as preventing the closure of their department or dealing with a diplomatic incident.
As the series revolves around the inner workings of central government, most of the scenes take place in private locations, such as offices and exclusive members’ clubs. Lynn said that “there was not a single scene set in the House of Commons because government does not take place in the House of Commons. Some politics and much theatre takes place there. Government happens in private. As in all public performances, the real work is done in rehearsal, behind closed doors. Then the public and the House are shown what the government wishes them to see.”[4] However, the episode “The Compassionate Society” does feature an audio recording of Yesterday in Parliament in which Hacker speaks in the House of Commons, and other episodes include scenes in the Foreign Secretary’s House of Commons office (“The Writing on the Wall”) and a Committee room (“A Question of Loyalty”).’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister
The whole series can be watched on various for pay platforms if you google it.
@Sebastien Zorn
Could you post again that funny video about a British politician who thinks he is a free agent but in reality is forced to do everything his advisers want?
I am sure I bookmarked it but I cannot find the bookmark anymore.
@Michael
More than you, apparently.
Sebastien, we know God has a sense of humor, because He allows humans to run countries like the US and Israel; and because He even thought of making you and me. Nevertheless, don’t push him. You actually might need Him someday.
I’ really fed up with Arutz 7 making a lengthy report of the timeline of multiple warning alarms at every twitch, and in particular, that in answer to a missile from Lebanon or where-ever, Israel immediately responds to the source. presumably expecting to destroy the shooters.
We almost never hear the results -if any- of the immediate responses.
They seem not to have realised that most of these missiles are fired from the backs of trucks, and that when the Immediate (relatively) return fire arrives it lands in empty space, with the truck mounted artillery already 5 miles away.