By Ted Belman
From now on comments on every post must relate to the content of the post.
Comments that don’t relate to the post must go here.
Any person who contravenes this demand will be put on moderation. Also their offending comment will be trashed.
The reason for this demand is so that people who want to read comments which pertain to the post, don’t have to wade through the chatter.
Everyone will be happier.
Sebastien
Capitalism has always used hatred of the Jews. And Marxism has defended the Jews.
Hi, Sebastien
re open primaries, California used to be fairly well spllit between Republicans and Democrats. Since they began open primaries, the Dems have had a chokehold on politics, and run the state into the ground.
ergo, not a good idea.
@Felix
Quite so. He has been since the very beginning. He is dishonest, holding to half truths or down right lies, while applying a completely different rubric to Israel as compared to Russia and Ukraine.
Colonel McGregor
https://youtu.be/B6oO8yngsjA?si=tDALAHtRvhzHay2d
Israel set it up
And
Blames Israel as catalyst for violence
Deep antisemitism there
Bear-
Sorry, of course your med history is private, and I am not asking for it. Most people have back trouble at some time and I felt it was a common subject . Thus my comments on my problem Adam’s on his, as did Sebastien on his. Michael on his etc etc. . I thought I’d missed an earlier post from you about it.
Let it drop. Apologies…………….
I’m not on any of these social sites….Too “social” for me. My children are.
The best dr on this subject is I believe my cousin in Israel Dr Stevie Jackson. If you got him, you were lucky.
@Edgar, I do not want to detail my medical history in detail on this public site. If you are on facebook I could message you or twitter.
https://www.jns.org/israels-fm-calls-for-evacuation-of-judea-and-samaria-palestinians/
Finally some common sense.
We need to start voting for individuals not parties. Primaries should be open. Case in point:
“Georgia Republican: Jewish people control everything
On white nationalist’s show, Georgia state official Kandiss Taylor said Jewish people are ‘controlling everything’
Israel National News: A Republican state party official in Georgia appeared to agree with the host of a white nationalist TV show who said Jews run the government, responding, “They’re controlling everything.”
Kandiss Taylor, who chairs the Republican Party in her southeast Georgia congressional district, appeared on a mid-February episode of “The Stew Peters Show,” whose namesake host lives in Florida and has a history of promoting antisemitic rhetoric and Holocaust denial. Peters and Taylor discussed the arrest of a man accused of vandalizing a rainbow crosswalk mural in south Florida honoring the LGBTQ+ community.
In the episode, which the liberal media watchdog Media Matters for America reported Monday, Peters said, “No more funding our own demise — bioweapons and forever wars from the Jewish lobby that basically runs our entire government. And they run this as well, don’t they?”
Taylor responded, “Yeah they run this. 100%. They’re controlling everything.”
The comments were condemned by Georgia’s only Jewish state representative, Democrat Esther Panitch, who called on the state Republican Party to condemn the exchange.
“Ok, @GaRepublicans, it’s time to show the Jewish community of Georgia that you reject antisemites. Let me know if I can be of assistance,” she wrote on X.
“We always knew she was extreme,” Panitch told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “I just didn’t realize her extremism went after Jews. I mean, I’m not surprised, but I was not aware of these specie comments.”
Panitch also told JTA that nobody from the Georgia Republican Party had reached out to her about Taylor’s comments.
“You can’t pretend to be a friend to the Jews, or to support us, and allow your officials to make these statements without any remarks,” she added.
This is not the first time this month that Taylor has been in the public eye for comments about religious discrimination. In an Aug. 17 episode of her podcast, “Jesus, Guns and Babies,” Taylor said that only Christians should be permitted to run for elected office.
“We shouldn’t be electing anyone in government — local, state or federal — that is not a Christian,” Taylor said. “That is how we take back this nation.”
In a now-deleted post from October 2023 screenshot by Media Matters, she responded to a post on X that said, “This has become very clear to anyone who can see: The Democrat Party has been overtaken by Marxist trash who hates Jews.” In her reply, Taylor wrote, “Hey, We have some Marxist trash using our R who pander to the Jews. Not much difference.”
In a statement posted to X, Taylor declared her opposition to antisemitism and support for Israel and Jews. She did not directly address the exchange with Peters.
“I have been made aware of the Media Matters hit piece on me,” Taylor wrote. “I want to state unequivocally that I support the State of Israel, that I support the Jewish people around the world, and that I categorically reject antisemitism in all forms. I have been proud to stand with the Georgia Republican Party on supporting Israel and rejecting antisemitism whenever and wherever it occurs.”
To Panitch, Taylor’s statement isn’t enough.
“This isn’t an apology,” Panitch said. “The fact that she’s in leadership at the Georgia GOP says that they do not take the antisemitism within their ranks seriously. They can use whatever platitudes they want, which I appreciate for them saying anything, but if they’re going to allow their members to say that Jews control the world, without any repercussions, then they’re just words.”’
https://www.newsrael.com/posts/mwii9tonc9
Tanna,
I think you mistook my BOLDFACE for the word BOTH, for “emotion”. I’m a baby boomer, strictly pre-Ipad, etc. I also do a lot of composing in Notepad, which does not have facility for expressing emphasis.
On the other matter, I don’t want to get into a deep doctrinal discussion about “God’s control” and “free will”; but briefly, I do not believe we are puppets of the divine realm. If God wanted puppets, he would have made us with AI, and would be terribly bored.
Michael, I think you missed my point. No need to get a emotional over it. God’s in control. Z-man nor Putin could lift a finger if God did not allow it. We humans are not able to see what is being worked out and where it will put God’s People in the next few years.
BEAR-
I missed your post about your back trouble. I myself have had a disc op which, done by the best medico in Canada was a mess and had to be redone after 6 weeks. over scar tissue it was a problem, left my ankle nerve reaction absent,
what was your problem? Similar or diff. Likely diff as i had no rehabilitation to undergo. Of course it was back in the mid 90s.
@Bear
Best news possible! Glad to hear it.
@Peloni, thanks for the kind words about my back. Yes I am progressing very nicely working out daily. The physical therapist fired me as I no longer needed his help!
@Bear
Good to have you dropping a few comments of late. I hope your back recovery is coming along well.
Michael, I am aware of what you wrote.
Bear,
There is a large body of evidence that the Jewish temples were located directly under Al Aksa (the Holy Place being beneath the courtyard between the Western Wall and the Fulda Gates q.v.); and there is no concensus among Jewish scholars concerning this location. On the other hand, the Muslim side considers all of Israel, including the entire “Temple Mount” complex, to be part of “Al Aksa”. In short, BOTH sides are willing to go to war over ANY part of the Holy Land.
Hi, Tanna
I’m a Vietnam Era vet — fortunately for me, not in Vietnam.. I understand “war movies”. They cease to be movies when you get shot.
BTW, I have never criticized Peloni & Ted’s depiction of the nefariousness of Zelenskyy, Biden, Netanyahu, and just about everyone else; and I am especially off-put by the pro-Ukrainian camp’s extremely biased commentary against MAGA supporters. That said, I beleive the repeated lies and excuses of the “Pro-Putin” camp here are repulsive. Russia and Ukraine are at war with each other, and are expected to misinform; but that doesn’t excuse Israpunditers for being Putin’s useful idiots (unless they are indeed his agents).
Without venturing off into the supposed “moral purity” of either side, no amount of misreporting can cover up the fact that Ukraine has made significant gains in over 1200 square kilometers of Russian sovereign land; nor can they disguise the fact that Russian gains in eastern Ukraine have been negligible — and won at incredible loss of men and materiel.
I am for Jews being able to pray on the Temple Mount. That said not in or directly adjacent to the Al Aqasa Mosque. That is simply a war starter and benefits no one.
Israel does not currently have the funds nor need to build a State Temple on the Temple Mount. Let us do our sovereignty wisely!
Build more Jewish Towns all over the Land of Israel from the Galilee (and Golan) to the Negev including Judea & Samaria. Find ways to help Arabs in Gaza, Judea & Samaria, Jerusalem find homes in other countries.
Build up our defense industries and find ways to get the Haredim on board to increase the size of the IDF. These are bigger priorities than a Temple at this point in time.
Hostage rescued from Gaza in daring raid after 326 days in Hamas captivity!!
https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/08/27/qaid-farhan-alkadi/
Michael, sorry for jumping in, I thought Peloni might need a smoke break.
When is fair ever part of a war? Was the UN, USA ever fair in their dealings with Russia? You need to read RFKjr’s speech. He’s a democrat and he get’s it.
Understand something about war. Until one side or the other has had enough and call for peace, the war continues. Bottom line!. the number who die is never figured into the equation. If one or two life’s is acceptable, why not 1 or 2 million. If the cost had been counted, the bully would have never started the fight. You do not seem to understand who the bully is. The bible tells us we are all just dust and grass. Isaiah 40:1 and following, it’s all gonna work out just fine.
Z man seems to be the useful idiot in this current war movie.
Below an article to mess with your faith.:)
https://substack.com/@jaredabrock/p-148142259
Hi, Peloni.
You kind of lost me, with this “fair” business. People are dying. The Russians invaded Ukraine in Feb. ’22, and continue with their occupation. They are throwing their own young men, like so much human hamburger, into a conflict that has no meaning to them, other than one of the few ways in non-big-city Russia to keep body and soul together — for a while. They are losing, on average, 1200 men per day, killed and wounded. The Russians have devastated entire areas of Ukraine, including hospitals, schools, power plants, the life and livelihood of the country.
There is no “fairness” in this business,
@Michael
That is not fair. As I have noted many times, Zel initially exemplified moral courage in the months following his election, when he advocated for peace even as his life was openly threatened. Indeed, people no less infamous than Dimitri Yorash, head of the Right Sector and later leader of the UDA (the paramilitary group which refused to be included in Ukraine’s army) threatened to hang Zel if he acted on his peace initiatives. The first betrayal of Zel’s moral courage, however, came following his visit to Zelote when the Nazis in his govt, his army, and his allies, stood up and threatened his life. Within 24hrs, Zel held a meeting with all of the Nazis and radicals, and that was the end of the Zelote initiative. Despite this, however, Zel had already named Sergei Sivokho to implement his National Platform for Reconciliation and Unity. This was an immensely important opportunity for Ukraine to come together and prevent the war which ultimately came from not addressing the underlying issues between the ethnic Russians and the Ukrainian Monists. Unfortunately, this effort was quickly abandoned after Sivokho was publicly attacked at the initiating ceremony for this project, following which Zel dismissed Sivokho without so much as a single charge or complaint being launched against the Nazis who attacked him, despite the fact the entire event was televised.
I have written about these events many times, and I do believe it is a strong indication of Zel’s initial interest in pursuing his campaign commitments, but the Nazi element in Ukraine is quite strong, and remains quite dangerous, and Zel folded his peace initiatives afterwards and never looked back. HIs failure to stand up to these elements and later to the Biden administration, led to all of what I wrote below. I maintain that he knew full well what he was doing, and still did it, and that he is all that I describe him to be. If you disagree, perhaps you will explain.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/en
I just read about Ben Gvir’s plan to build a synagoge on the Temple Mount.
His plan has been opposed by Saudi Arabia and others. They claim that Jews have not right to be there.
I totally support Ben Gvir.
I mentioned in my 2017 conference in Jerusalem and many times thereafter, that the Muslims always refer to defending the Al Aksa Mosque and never about defending the Temple Mount.
I suggested that the Temple Mount be divided between an area aroung the Al Aksa Mosque, which would be allocated to the Muslims, and the rest of the Temple Mount which would be allocated to the Jews.
I stand by that.
Adam,
I understand Peloni and his ZDS. It’s called “Z-man bad!”
This is his reason for supporting one of the world’s worst dictators.
Logico! Capiche?
https://matzav.com/kamala-harris-met-secretly-with-radical-anti-semitic-dearborn-michigan-mayor/
@Adam
Funny, I thought you would never ask.
My dislike of Zel stems from him being a bad person, a weak man, and a manipulative war profiteer of the slaughter of his own people in a war which he was suppose to have prevented by ending the Ukrainian civil war which he not only continued but intensified. Hence, in no way, small or large, do I see any resemblance between him and any podcaster, blogger or citizen of Ukraine. He promised peace, and he brought about war, a war which he not only had no chance of winning but had impossible odds of not seeing Ukraine swallowed whole by the Russians as the Ukrainians were simply slaughtered to satisfy the maniacal goals of the Washington Neocons who sought to regime change Russia at any price, and failing that, to see the Russian military exhausted. And through it all he has had the arrogance to demand the assets of unrelated parties to satisfy his master’s goals, not the least disturbing of which has been his repeated reproach of Israel to aid his wretched nation in its pursuit of his globalist goals. He has the temerity to celebrate Nazi war criminals in his own state, men who openly participated in the Holocaust, while claiming that “”Eighty years ago, we saved Jews”. Of course, he uses his claim to being Jewish when pandering for war booty from Israel, but when it comes to defending Israel’s right to exist or defend herself, he joins his own enemies in condemning the Jewish State for doing so. He condemned Israel for limiting the number of Ukrainian Gentiles as refugees admitted to Israel when in fact, Israel should have taken NONE of them. Then there is his authoritarian acts to banish the publication of Russian only papers, the sequestration of political opponents, his use of Nazi Biletsky to gain public support, his banishing an entire religious order and stealing their assets. His refusal to stand for election as his term expired and refusal to release the power of his expired premiereship to the head of the Ukrainian Rada….For all of these reasons, I dislike Zel intensely. In fact, there is NOTHING which makes me not shutter at the thought he is a Jew, that he was a peace advocate, and that he was a leader of a democratic nation (even a broken democratic nation such as Ukraine has always been). In any event, there are a good many other reasons which I could list such as the economic or munitons fallout of his pointless war, or the likely wrath which the Ukrainians will likely show the Jewish community in Ukraine after Zel falls from power, one way or the other, but I think I have explained well enough my dislike of the man.
I’ll get you some sources for what we spoke about before, but it will need to be later.
From the Ukraine parallel universe:Peloni, can you give me the sources for all of these allegations that you make against Zelenskyy? I have not seen even one of them in any of the fairly numerous sources that I consult daily concerning the Uksraine war. I would like to check out these sources for myself, since I don’t think I have ever heard of them. Thanks.
P.S what distinguishes your hatred for Zelensky from that of other pro-Russian bloggers and podcasters that I have occasionallylistened to on youtube is the extremely, personal passionate and intense character of your hatred of “Z.” Is he a cousin or half brother or something with whom you have never got along since early childhood?
LANDSLIDE’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9vShlnNr8Y
@Sebastien
I had to remove your comment regarding Phillip’s article. She has requested that we not post her material. Hence, while it is regrettable, it remains necessary that we oblige her request. I hope you understand.
I agree with Edgar and peloni about the decline the quality of Israel’s senior officer corps since 1967. 1957. However, we also should remember that UitzhakRabin, who was chief of staff in 1067 in the run-up to the war , collapsed from “nervous exhaustion:” during the run-up. amd his deputy, Ezer Weizman, a future president of Israel, had to take over for him for the rest of the run-up and the war itself. Maybe not such a bad thing, since Weizman was a senior officer in the IDF air force, which played a crucial role in the Israeli victory. Yhe cabinet appointed Moshe Dayan, a familiar figure to the Israeli public because of his leadership role in the 1948 and 1956 wars, and the counter-guerilla campaign between them, was appointed Minister of defense shortly before the Israeli pre-emptive strike, replcing the prime minister, Levi Eshkol, who had simultaneously held the defense portfolio as well. Dayan didn’t do much but swagger and make belligerent statements during the war, but the Israeli soldiers and civilians, liked his defiant gentures and found him a reassuring presense. Just a rminder that the IDF’s senior leadership wasn’t perfect in 1967, and in that sense was perhaps comparable to out present flawed military and political leadership. But we won in 1967, and with the help of Hakadosh Boruch Hu we will win this time as well.
@Edgar
Quite true. Many things are of course different today from where they were in 1967, but the lack of steel in the General Staff would certainly be counted as among the most detrimental changes to be counted upon.
PELONI-
This is a strong indication of the weakness of the General Staff, and Gallant.
They waited to “absorb 200 strikes”..BEFORE they responded.
Definitely nor the IDF of 1967. We may never see its like again. G-d Forbid.
As I predicted some on this site would try and deflect from the Russian crimes and treatment of journalists.
Those same Russian’s are the allies of those trying to destroy Israel, including Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah!
Putoni 1986, as you said to Bear,
You continue to dodge my own question,
WHERE’S THE MAP???
150 Hezbollah launchers have been destroyed in Lebanon which prevents the potential launch of thousands of rockets.
Israel is currentyl conducting preemptive strikes on Hezbollah after absorbing 200 missile attacks today.
@Bear
As you have gone to great lengths now (no less than 5 additional comments) to share some more anti-Putin propaganda, perhaps you will answer my rather simple question.
We live in an age of totalitarians. Best that we not confuse this reality as being only present among those who we oppose. To be certain, the despotic sweaty green tshirt guy is not the least of such totalitarians, as he has banned religions, encarcerated clergy, imprisoned and beaten political opposition before ransoming their release, banned the publication of unauthorized language publications and schools, overseen the publication of a public execution list of politicians, opponents and journalists, and allied himself with neo Nazis while also celebrating a literal living WWII Waffen SS officer. Quite an impressive record as totalitarians go, actually.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/12/russian-exile-journalism/
Evan Gershkovich: Updates on the Freed WSJ Reporter.
This Jewish American Journalist was imprisoned by Russia with made up charges.
https://www.wsj.com/news/evan-gershkovich
https://news.sky.com/story/marina-ovsyannikova-former-russian-state-tv-journalist-has-fled-country-after-escaping-house-arrest-lawyer-says-12723068
Continue https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/journalists-flee-russia-putin-cracks-ukraine-invasion-rcna19959
I know there will be those on Israpundit in denial or trying to divert attention away from the evil Russian treatment of journalists by badmouthing Ukraine whether truthfully or not. Whatever Ukraine does in this war to defend themselves including at times war disinformation does not excuse the Russian invasion and tyranny towards any reporter disseminating information that does not meet the official Russian allowed parameters.
The dangers faced by journalists in Russia have been known for years, and unfortunately, there have been cases of journalists being killed. Here are some notable incidents:
Anyone who believes the press in Russia are free to report what they want and not the approved Putin narrative is at best naive or part of the Russian propaganda spinners in the west or just has their head in the sand because they do not want to hear the truth.
Some examples that were newsworthy.
The dangers faced by journalists in Russia have been known for years, and unfortunately, there have been cases of journalists being killed. Here are some notable incidents:
Anyone who believes the press in Russia are free to report what they want and not the approved Putin narrative is at best naive or part of the R
@Adam
Parallel universe indeed. I will shortly have more to comment on the subject of Kursk, and which has an interesting relevance to something you stated hear. Later…
@Bear
So there are reports of Russian reporters being thrown off rooftops, but you seem oblivious to the Ukrainian reporters who were placed on an sanctioned Ukrainian website which marked them for death. Also, don’t forget the tragedy which befell Gonzo Lira, a man who gave me ample reason to dislike, but who was in fact not only a journalist but an American. Yet Lira was checked into the Ukrainian prison system alive, and yet he checked out dead a few weeks later.
So your tale about Russia and its reporters is not terribly shocking and hardly unique in this Borderlands war even if it is accurate, which wouldn’t surprise me to be honest. I am curious if you have an opinion on the treatment of Ukrainian reporters who have been hunted down and murdered, or on the fate of the defaming Gonzo since you raised the one sided subject of the plight of Russian journalists.
@peloni: a report from t Ukrainian parallel universe. The Ukrainians claim that their soldiers morale remains high even though they are fighting Russian soldiers who are both far more numerous and on the whole better armed than they are. There is some confirmation for this description of the Ukrainian soldiers from what the Ukrainians call Russian “military bloggers,” who post mainly on Telegram sites. Ukrainian sources quote some of these bloggers as saying that the Ukrainian resistance is fierce and unrelenting, and that the Russian high command has not given the Russian soldiers enough high-quality military eqipment, and sometimes not even enough food and clothes, to fight effectively. While admitting that they are suffering heavy casualties, the Ukrainians claim that the Russians are suffering even more casualties and even more losses of tanks, artillery, armored vehicles, etc. Here too, they claim that the Russian military bloggers, whose voices the Ukrainians sometimes record in order to prove their authenticity (it doesn’t prove their authenticity to me because I don’t speak Russian. But Western journalists reporting from the scene generally support the Ukrainian version of events, although this is no surprise. However, they also sometimes film scenes of Ukrainian troops dug in in trenches and taking heavy fire, but also resisting fiercely. These film clips look authentic to me.
While the Russians have been making steady progress in the Donbass during their summer offensive, it has also been slow progress, according to the map-making sites that map the war on a daily basis. The Russians are still not even close to having captured or recaptured 100% of the Donbass according to the military map-makers.
The war sounds and looks very much like World War I, another war that was fought in trenches, in which both sides were able to make only slow progress, Back more than 100 years into the past. Incredibly tragic.