By Ted Belman
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Everyone will be happier.
Avi Below FB post just received.
an equal ally.
These are unbelievable, redemptive times, and only put your faith in Hashem above!
Am Yisrael Chai!!!
PELONI_
Thanks for the link. I’ve just read through it. It is as I thought. The items discussed are 2-3 years old. They all predict “imminent” or specifically dated immediate events hardly one of which has occurred to this very day.
I used to call him NostrJacob, and I think now it was too flattering. Shabtai Tzvi had more truth in him, which was almost none at all.
Disappointing…and not worth of being kept except as a curiosity.
Peloni Thank you indeed.
@Edgar
Here is the link:
https://www.israpundit.org/the-voice-of-mbs/
Ted has four lists of favorite articles by Ted which are rotated at the top of the main page. Today we have “Seminal Posts by Ted Belman” showing, but “The Voice of MBS” is listed on the “Jordan Option” page, which we had showing previously upto about a week or so ago.
Where did Ted’s article on “The Voice of MBS” vanish to?
Interview with Ben-Gvir
https://www.jewishpress.com/multimedia/radio/yishai-fleisher-on-jewishpress/ben-gvirs-us-visit/2025/05/04/
New important fil, “Blindspot”
https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/05/09/campus-antisemitism-documentary-seeks-show-jewish-students-inspirational-heroes-not-merely-victims/
[So the NY Slimes and the State Department opposed U.S. recognition of Israel even then and though Harding was a Democrat, The two Senators who introduced the bill were republicans.[ Ironic that so many Jews felt the Dems were their party when it was always Republicans who were mainly championed Zionism, for example every single candidate who would lose to FDR who was an antisemite. His uncle, Teddy, a Republican, was a philo-semite.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/warren-g-harding-a-forgotten-zionist-hero-648118
@Mike I know, lets ask Witkoff what peace is.
“…Steve Witkoff, the president’s special envoy to the whole entire world, has been leaking to media and then commenting on his own leaks to the media. It’s a monologue billed as a conversation. And it has some Israelis worried…
‘….According to Israel’s Channel 12, Witkoff is leveraging the hostage families as a political cudgel against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “If until now the hostages have paid the price for the war not ending, today the price will be much heavier for Israel, and not just for the hostages,” he reportedly told the families. “President Trump is determined to move forward toward a significant deal with Saudi Arabia, even without Israeli involvement.”
Follow-up reporting from Haaretz found Witkoff debating with himself publicly: “The source told Haaretz that Witkoff’s criticism of the Israeli government was leaked at his request. Witkoff’s office denied that the administration is pressuring Israel to reach a deal.” So Witkoff is criticizing Israel, then making sure that criticism gets out to the press, then denying that he’s criticizing them at all. If Witkoff himself is also Haaretz’s source, he will have accomplished the rare feat of putting together a new Mideast Quartet consisting entirely of Steve Witkoff….”
https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/trumps-mideast-shifts-leave-everyone-guessing/
Hi, Mike Had to look up meaning of “peace. ”
Then I looked up utopia:
Hi, Sebastien.
Hi Mike! Hi Mike! Hi Mike! Hi Mike! Oy veh!
Ma shlomcha? How’s your peace?
https://www.jns.org/pulitzer-awarded-to-extremist-palestinian-poet/
@Peloni
https://aish.com/wise-men-of-chelm-fact-and-fiction/
@Sebastien
Ironic isn’t it. I believe they are building up to something on May 12, a week from now. It doesn’t make much sense to me, but I believe that is where things stand at the moment.
@Peloni So it cannot be accessed for the sake of marketing?
@Sebastien
@Shoshana reports that it is a new marketing campaign by Tablet
HS Tablet magazine been hacked? When I click on the link, theres’s an eye on a black background and it says, Curious about the truth?” and below it is a box to click on that says, “I’m interested. And the numbers: 5:12:25.
Peloni
“They don’t want your love and physical help. They want their family members back, and that means accommodating Hamas, and this is what has come about thus far with the return of all but a couple dozen living hostages to go. ”
You clearly misunderstood
I was not referring to anything other than the wishes and love of all Jews and all humane people in this world
If you are becoming so hateful to me when I offer the most human emotions towards these poor people I begin to wonder…
@fquigley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand
@fquigley
@Peloni Comment disappeared
The only antisemitism Lenin and Trotsky and the Bolsheviks fought was the racial kind. They had no use for rabbis, Bundists, or Zionists and discriminated against Jews from a bourgeois family background like Ayn Rand, who they expelled from college until visiting foreign socialists asked them to allow her to graduate.
Peloni
Your bias leads you to take up positions so replete with historical errors it is hard to answer
Perhaps my remarks to Edgar will help
Edgar these two recent comments by you
“I don’t see how Trotsky always but ALWAYS comes into the conversation even if not for any perceived purpose.
He died in sordid circumstances with no followers, 85 years ago and he is not relevant today or even since. His influence died with him except for some misguided brainwashed people who still live in the past.
EDGAR G.
May 6, 2025 at 5:57 pm
TROTSKY and LENIN didn’t smash the pogromists to help the Jews except incidentally .They smashed them to bring them under their control solely and avoid loose cannons.
These two comments about Lenin and Trotsky are showing considerable bias and are not reflective of your humanitarian struggles
Lenin: he was heavily influenced by the execution of his older brother by the Czarist regime. He viewed Antisemitism as a strategy by the ruling class, Czarism, to cause division in the proletariat
Trotsky: From a semi assimilated family. There is also a strong personal issue in how he fought against Antisemitism
I would add that that same zeal was also on view in the very sharp attacks on the British and how the British put down the 1916 Rebellion.
Hi Mike S , my sister who was born in November 1952 was a guest on this show, “Birthday House” when she was a little girl. All the kids would chant ” Hi Mike” or “Hi, Mr. Mike” to the anthropomorphized microphone. I remember being told as a boy. I was 7 years younger. .
Found something:
http://www.tvparty.com/lostbirthday.html#google_vignette
This will forever be engraved in my mind as my association with those words.
https://youtu.be/8w6sRjVYkow?si=j5n-dEJpgjJOBI7h
Clare Rockmore (1911-1998, the first great theremin soloist. on Theremin,, the first electronic instrument, She was Litvak born in Vilna and studied violin with Jascha Heifetz who was also Litvak and born in Vilna in 1901. He left Russia together with his family to debut at Carnegie hall on Oct. 27, 1917 and he and they never went back. He was billed as a Russian musician. ) The Swan by Saint-Saens
https://youtu.be/pSzTPGlNa5U?si=qGnY5a10hHHp4W_7
“The instrument was invented in October 1920 by the Russian physicist Lev Sergeyevich Termen, known in the West as Leon Theremin.”
Can be sweetly lyrical, like this, or weird. Used a lot in movie sound effects such as the theme of the original “The Day stood still.”
Not to be confused withthe Ondes Martinot
“The ondes Martenot (/?o?nd m??rt??no?/ OHND mar-t?-NOH; French: [??d ma?t?no], lit.?’Martenot waves’) or ondes musicales (lit.?’musical waves’) is an early electronic musical instrument. It is played with a lateral-vibrato keyboard or by moving a ring tied to a wire, creating “wavering” sounds similar to a theremin. Dynamics and timbre are adjusted using controls in a drawer on the instrument’s left side. A player of the ondes Martenot is called an ondist.
Ondes Martenot
An ondes Martenot (seventh generation model, 1975)
Dates
1928–present
Technical specifications
Polyphony
none[1]
Oscillator
vacuum tube or transistor
Synthesis type
heterodyne
Input/output
Keyboard
72-note rail-mounted keyboard capable of producing vibrato by lateral motion
The ondes Martenot was invented in 1928 by the French inventor Maurice Martenot. Martenot was inspired by the accidental overlaps of tones between military radio oscillators, and wanted to create an instrument with the expressiveness of the cello.
The ondes Martenot is used in more than 100 orchestral compositions. The French composer Olivier Messiaen used it in pieces such as his 1949 symphony Turangalîla-Symphonie, and his sister-in-law Jeanne Loriod was a celebrated player of the instrument. It appears in numerous film and television soundtracks, particularly science fiction and horror films. It has also been used by contemporary acts such as Daft Punk, Damon Albarn, and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood.”
Demonstration of Onde Martinot
https://youtu.be/yidV0HeVyCg?si=_e7SgXvBwCM_K8qc
Inspired by Theremin.
https://120years.net/the-ondes-martenotmaurice-martenotfrance1928/
fquigley is a winner just like in the clip from “Trouble in Tahiti” by Leonard Bernstein who he thinks stinks, hey it rhymes!
@fquigley
What you call for makes no sense.
They don’t want your love and physical help. They want their family members back, and that means accommodating Hamas, and this is what has come about thus far with the return of all but a couple dozen living hostages to go.
As I noted before, which you responded with your preferred reference to your granny and some eggs, the goals of returning the hostages and a decisive victory are in complete contradiction with one another. So they can not be addressed in unity, as one must suffer to the success of the other. Upto this point, it has been the decisive victory over Hamas which has suffered in preference of seeking the return of the hostages. But that is about to change, presumably.
Also, Edgar is right. There is no lesson from Trotsky to be useful here.
In fact, Trotsky’s heavy handed use of force over the masses would have seen the govt fall, likely thru a US orchestrated op, and the complete capitulation of Israel to her enemies, if not something far worse. What Israel lacks at this juncture is not the rule of a tyrant, but the independence to pursue its own self interest. This would not be changed by Trotsky or any other historical figure you care to name. This requires a steadfast policy of developing its own MIC, and this in turn requires the passage of time, not Trotsky.
You can hear the Jewish influences. As with Haydn, delightful alternating contrasts between Viennese and traditional Jewish sounding melodies and embellishments or riffs in jazz terms and it the syncopation does make it sound jazzy in places..
You can really hear it here because they are emphasizing the Jewish expressivity of it whereas many if not most performers emphasize the classical Viennese stylistic elements. And listen to how they use rubato to effect. Really stands out in this performance. Gloriously so.
I play both violin and viola, mostly viola – I switched – though I’ve only played the orchestral part on viola.
I don’t see how Trotsky always but ALWAYS comes into the conversation even if not for any perceived purpose.
He died in sordid circumstances with no followers, 85 years ago and he is not relevant today or even since. His influence died with him except for some misguided brainwashed people who still live in the past.
TROTSKY and LENIN didn’t smash the pogromists to help the Jews except incidentally .They smashed them to bring them under their control solely and avoid loose cannons.
Sebastien Zorn
I realise your motivation is to ward off my attacks. But save yourself the trouble.
The relatives of hostages had to be helped physically and loved, but not one inch in accommodating Hamas. That’s why clear leadership was necessary and I would have used the HISTORICAL LESSON of Trotsky and Lenin in smashing the Pogromists of Ukraine 1919 to smash up those reactionary OSLO like forces inside of Israel.
Instead Peloni dallied with the Bear Kleins of this world
It’s still the same need because it is still a question of Israeli leadership. Nothing has fundamentally changed.
Russia, the Jews and the world youth need badly Trotsky or a Trotsky and Stalinism set us back seriously in August 1940
Sebastien Zorn
On October 7 Zionism had massive support if they had played their cards correctly. An existential war against islam which Hamas represented. Step one was extricate civilians physically and the Egyptian tunnels into Gaza by al Sisi which came to light showed the way.
Then reduce Hamas to nothing militarily and politically
That’s the lesson of Trotsky in 1919 in essentially Ukraine which you never talk about
That’s why Mr Zorn you rate zero in my eyes
I have stated clearly that defeating this jihad started in ISRAEL and started with revolutionary changes there
Meaning graphically jailing of traitors and people like Netanyahu into oblivion into a home for the bewildered
By the way your films stink.
https://youtu.be/USfKJYZcUmI?feature=shared
That’s hilarious. “he hopped” is “d leg”
https://youtu.be/4xH2xGPHUTU?si=LpSVqXz9J6dKLh5s
Peloni and Edgar
It shows you are on a loser when you selectively misquote. Bad medicine for Zionism and it’s standing with Trotskyism
So please stop trying to show your granny how to suck eggs.
What i said was
“I try to understand as clearly as I can
Hamas must be destroyed expelled etc. and this is the way the only way to save the hostages.
It is a Unity. They go together.
I will not talk ever about hostages being secondary.”
I am a Marxist and a Trotskyist and I will not place the hostages secondary but equal. ”
Out of that Peloni the master of excision excised SEVEN words
Moreover I said to Reader a comment in the days after October 7 that Israel must not fight on the ground prepared by the enemy.
Israel did exactly that. I remember all the carry on at the border of Zionism in action . I remember Bennett showing up bursting with fat out of his uniform. Big deal
They were gung ho doing what I warned Reader they must not do.
So it became clearer then that the Zionist leadership had betrayed the people of Israel and this had caused October 7…
Not Hamas at all they didn’t betray. They acted out their hatred the same as Banderaism has done to Jews for over a hundred years.
My constant refrain to Peloni…clear up and act on your own website. But Peloni is the talker par excellence.
Moreover in the same vein I wanted revolutionary action in Israel
A Trotskyist party if alive in the sense of existing would have acted in a totally different way
Inside Israel martial law to end the counter revolution which took up again and based on miseducated relatives of hostages, not all but a goodly number
A new leadership to be given power based on the commanders I saw in action on the Gaza seashore…if they would work with us Troysky people that is.
Netanyahu gone. All connected with the treason like Barak in prison and they were numerous
Blow away El Sisi’s miserable border.The whole Gaza population in Sinai fed by Arabs if they wanted to.
Mobilise all of the Israeli population as well as America to finish with Palestinism in all areas…as seem to be partially doing now, although cannot be sure of anything with Netanyahu and Glick still there. And it is years late with many dead Jews.
You cannot say Trotskyism has no strategy. In 1918 to 1921 Ukraine Pogroms we proved different. We literally wiped the floor of the Pogromists.
Peloni you are part of the Zionist ascendency. I am not. I am prepared for revolution. You definitely are not.
Don’t talk to me about strategy or tactics. You do not understand my and THE history of the Trotsky tradition. The complete maestro of strategy.
My tradition wiped out the Pogromists in 1919 and to crown it all young Jews flocked en masse to Trotsky and his RED army. Not a feature in Pelonis discussion circles.
You understand nothing about the needs of this coming era.
FURTHERMORE YOU WILL NOT LEARN
– Yohay Sponder
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1De3XKVgAU/?mibextid=wwXIfr
FELIX-
They cannot be equal. 850 IDF heroes have already given their lives to the Gaza War much hindered by concern for almost invisible “civilians” and hostages ………….
I’d rather see every hostage dead, that is, the remaining 23-4 than another 100 IDF. For me the logical desired outcome is clear.
With NO decisive permanent Hamas destruction, NO Potential hostage will EVER be safe in Israel and the Diaspora.
Netanyahu and the govt are 100% RIGHT……RIGHT…..; Hamas destroyed Number ONE.
If you cannot see that , whilst your sentiment is a credit to you, your visions of overall strategic benefits are woefully lacking, which surprises me, seeing that you are a considerable thinker and theorist as well as activist ..for GOOD not EVIL.
@fquigley
Actually, they are in fact contrasting objectives. The plight of the hostages are still holding Israel back from victory, and even as the war proceeds, and the offensive is expanded, it is clearly stated that the purpose of doing so, and doing so in so delayed a manner as has been pursued, has been to apply pressure to Hamas to release the hostages at the expense of achieving a decisive victory.
Edgar
“PELONI and I are absolutely right and any who disagree are totally wrong and can’t see the wood for the trees.”
I try to understand as clearly as I can
Hamas must be destroyed expelled etc. and this is the way the only way to save the hostages.
It is a Unity. They go together.
I will not talk ever about hostages being secondary.
I am a Marxist and a Trotskyist and I will not place the hostages secondary but equal.
JNS Conference Sovereignty Forum
https://youtu.be/0n1xB2xRE_g?si=xITzCTrMJGLEzAL6
https://www.youtube.com/live/FrKn9eHb_9s?si=P8XLvz9ZNqTHF87E