By Victor Davis Hanson, AM GREATNESS Aug 7, 2023
We are in the midst of one of the most radical revolutions in American history. It is as far-reaching and dangerous as the turbulent years of the 1850s and 1860s or the 1930s. Every aspect of American life and culture is under assault, including the very processes by which we govern ourselves, and the manner in which we live.
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“He’s not normal—as in not a normal politician or a normal human being.”
That was David Garrow, author of the 1460-page Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, in a recent rambling interview with Tablet’s David Samuels headlined, “The Obama Factor.” Barack Obama is the author of Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, published in 1995. On page 537 of Rising Star, David Garrow writes:
T. Belman. DeSantis begs the question of whether there was significant fraud and says “Whoever puts their hand on the Bible on Jan. 20″ is the winner. Who can argue with this. Yet it obscures the truth.
Not for a second do I believe “Biden is beating both Trump and DeSantis for a general election matchup,” as reported.
By MARY LOU MASTERS, DAILY CALLER 7.8.23
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis admitted that “of course” former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden in an interview with NBC News that aired Monday. The outlet’s Dasha Burns probed the Florida governor during the interview on whether he believes Trump’s argument that the 2020 election was stolen from him. While DeSantis conceded that he “doesn’t think it was the perfect election,” citing mail-in balloting, ballot harvesting and censorship from Big Tech companies, he said that “Joe Biden’s the president.”
T. Belman. My take-away is that no one objected to the principle of supporting the PA. Even Smotrich and Ben Gvir raised only technicalities. The Cabinet must believe that it would be more costly and difficult to get rid of the PA. They believe it is in Israel’s best interests to maintain the PA no matter how horrible it is.
Talks about normalization have been rejected by me because i said they were all propaganda. Yesterday, FM Cohen said “Palestinians are not a roadblock to a Saudi deal.” Today Netanyahu said “Palestinian issue has little relevance to Saudi deal”. Now do you believe me?
Israel National News Aug 7, 2023, 12:02 AM
Only one day after the terrorist attack in Tel Aviv, in which a Jew was murdered, the cabinet convened on Sunday to discuss relief measures for the Palestinian Authority, in accordance with the recommendation of the Ministry of Defense and the promises that Israel gave to the United States.
Although the relief measures were planned a long time ago, the timing of the discussion upset some of the ministers.
In the shadow of Israel’s internal dispute surrounding the government’s judicial reform plan, unusual cross-border incidents between Israel and Hezbollah in recent weeks and months show a noticeable rise in the probability of a war on the Israel-Lebanon border.
Israel Hayom reported that security officials predict that if such a war were to break out, it would not be limited to one front but rather be a multi-front campaign. It is not unforeseen that Gaza would also join the fray, forcing Israel to contend with terrorism in Judea and Samaria, violence and roadblocks in Israel, and additional threats as well.
T. Belman. I followed the news day by day at the time and found considerable evidence that it was a set up. Most of what I observed has been subsequently buried and had to be rediscovered.
Coincidentally, I’m sure, in the lead-up to his being taken off the air at Fox News, Tucker Carlson and his team were investigating events on January 6—the same events that are serving as the basis for Jack Smith’s creative indictment against Donald Trump. One of the things that Fox News prevented from airing was an interview with former Capitol Hill Police Chief Steven Sund, during which he told Tucker that the FBI had “a lot of operatives” in the crowd. There was more, and it all feeds into the reasonable belief that January 6 was a set-up.
By Dr Ruth Wisse,
For the past five years, I have been honored to speak at Tikvah’s annual Jewish Leadership Conference. But this year feels very different, at least for me.
The theme—“Will our children defend America, Israel, and Jewish civilization?”—is a question I would once have answered confidently: “Of course.” I had been brought up to take such national responsibility for granted. And I began my career teaching Jewish literature at a public university with the same assurance that Jewish learning can flourish in the general community of inquiry and knowledge. But the climate of ideas changed very quickly—and very dangerously. This question—about the defining spirit of young Jews—has now emerged as the great Jewish and American challenge of the hour.
Special counsel Jack Smith speaks to the media about an indictment of former President Donald Trump on Aug. 1, 2023.AP/J. Scott Applewhite
Day by day, the Biden administration is robbing your right to speak freely.
This time, Team Biden wants to gag defendants from criticizing government prosecutors.
Israel National News 3.8.23
Shas chairman Aryeh Deri and Agudat Yisrael chairman Yitzhak Goldknopf have agreed in closed conversations that if the Draft Law exempting haredi yeshiva students from serving in the IDF is not passed at the beginning of the Knesset’s winter session, they will dissolve the government, Channel 12 News reported.
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen seen during an interview at the ministry in Jerusalem, June 12, 2023. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90.
The Palestinian issue will not be an obstacle to normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia, according to Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen.
Jerusalem’s top diplomat made the remarks in a wide-ranging interview with Arabic-language online newspaper Elaph that is set to be published on Monday, excerpts from which were seen by Ynet.
The Supreme Court today (Sunday) issued an interim order against the recently-passed Incapacitation Law and ordered the State to justify why it should not postpone the application of the law until the next Knesset.
In addition, it was decided that an expanded panel of 11 Supreme Court justices would hear the petition against the law after a three-justice panel discussed the petition last Thursday.
Every American’s speech is entitled to First Amendment protection. However, if the Biden administration has its way, that protection does not extend to Donald Trump. With his usual clarity and insight, law professor Jonathan Turley spells out just how foul the Trump indictment really is.
By Giulio Meotti, INN 6.8.23
When she died in 2007, Oriana Fallaci was on trial in Bergamo, Italy. A judge had seen fit to send the writer to trial on charges of. “Contempt for the Islamic religion”. The magistrate had argued that some sentences in her books are “unequivocally offensive to Islam”. An arrest warrant was also issued from Switzerland. If my friend Oriana were alive today, perhaps we would see her with shackles on her wrists.
By Victor Davis Hanson, AM GREATNESS 3.8.23
Two sets of laws now operate in an increasingly unrecognizable America.
Consider the matter of unlawfully removing and storing classified papers.
Donald Trump may go to prison for removing contested White House files to his home.
By Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer 4.8.23
My readers and I enjoy a long-time reciprocal understanding: In return for putting up with me, my florid prose, wondering where I am flying with my article but amazed that I always manage to land there, and sustaining my occasional puns, readers gain a unique honest insight into what goes through the mind of a simple authentic Jew.
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How many times can someone lie to you before you stop believing him? Popular podcaster Tim Pool applies this question to a source you might be trusting a little too much.
The audience at the dedication of the Nuclear Research Institute in Rehovot, 1958. J. Robert Oppenheimer, left, is seated next to Paula and David Ben-Gurion.Credit: Moshe Pridan/GPO
Pink is back in fashion this summer. While youngsters (of all ages) flocked to “Barbie” clad in her favorite color, others sought out the pink jersey of Inter Miami’s new soccer star, Lionel Messi. And then there is J. Robert Oppenheimer and the ruinous rumor that he was a pinko.
T. Belman. RFK JR is very pro-Israel. I just watched an interview of him in which he showed considerable historical knowledges about Israel. I began googling him to see what that was so and found this article among others. The Biden administration want to shut him up and thus accused him pf antisemitism.
By Shalom Goldman, TABLET ,JUNE 04, 2021
Robert Kennedy speaking at a pro-Israel rally at Madison Square Garden, 1967
In the months between his graduation from Harvard in the spring of 1948 and his enrollment in the University of Virginia Law School in the fall of that year, Bobby Kennedy embarked on an overseas trip at the urging of his father. Through the elder Kennedy’s Boston connections, the 22-year-old aspiring attorney landed a reporting job with the Boston Post. There, Kennedy convinced his editors to let him report from the Middle East on the Arab-Israeli war.
