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בגידה בתוך הצבא? ראש עיריית אופקים איציק דנינו חשף במהלך הרצאה שנשא כי “כמה דקות אחרי שמחבלים נכנסו לאופקים הוא הרים טלפון לשר הביטחון וביקש ממנו לשלוח כוחות צבא לעיר, גלנט שתק ואחר כך הגיב “יטופל”, כעבור חצי שעה שוב התקשר ראש העיר ובירר על פשר התעכבות הכוחות, גלנט שוב הבטיח: “יטופל” • החייל הראשון שנכנס לעיר הגיע בסביבות 2 בצהרים לאחר שחמישים מבני העיר כבר נרצחו • צפו במונולוג המצמרר
מאתר המחדש, כאן.

מוצ”ש פרשת בא: כנס עם צאצאי בעל אם הבנים שמחה

מערכת אשדודס

16.01.24 / 01:03

אגודת ‘קדושת ציון’, שמטרתה הנחלת אהבת ארץ ישראל בקרב הציבור החרדי, עורכת כנס ראשון בעיר אותו יכבדו בהשתתפותם הגרי”ד אלתר שליט”א, וכן נכדי ה’משנה שכיר’: המשפיעים הרב ברייער והרב ברנדסדורפר שליט”א

השבוע, במוצאי השבת הקרובה פרשת בא,  יתקיים בע”ה בעיר כנס ייחודי מסוגו, בו יעסקו באהת ארץ ישראל ובהשלכות המעשיות שיש למצווה זו. הכנס, הנערך ביוזמת ארגון ‘קדושת ציון’ הפועל להנחלת אהבת ישראל בקרב הציבור החרדי, יערך במעמד הגרי”ד אלתר שליט”א בנו של האדמו”ר ה’פני מנחם’ זי”ע, וכן במעמד נכדיו של בעל ה’משנה שכיר’ – המשפיעים האשדודיים הנודעים הגה”ח רבי יוסף צבי ברייער שליט”א והגה”ח רבי ידידיה ברדנדסדורפר שליט”א.

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The War Against the Jews ‘Corrupting’ Mohamedanism, Too (So To Speak)

Gaza Imam Vaguely Recalls Mosque Used For Something Other Than Hamas Tunnel Access, Arms Storage, Can’t Remember What

“I know it sounds bizarre.”

Gaza City, January 10 – The spiritual leader of a congregation in this embattled coastal territory confided today that his mind still contains a wisp of recognition that once, an unclear time ago, his house of worship served as a center for something that was not a weapons depot, military position, logistical materiel hub, or entry point to underground passages, but the specifics remain fuzzy.

Imam Nimr Issa of the Al-Kalb Mosque in the center of Gaza City shared with others in the mosque that he recalls a time, and it feels like a lifetime ago but was probably just a matter of months or maybe a couple of years, when non-military activities took place in the building. So much has happened in the interim, however, that he has trouble determining whether those murky memories are in fact real.

“Was it prayer?” he wondered. “Is that what I’m thinking of? I have this amorphous recollection that a mosque has, historically, served some purpose other than a base for killing Jews. Not that I oppose killing Jews! Just that I have this flash of something in the distant past, a time when we did other things here. It might explain those books and mats all over the place. But I can’t be too sure.”

Imam Issa also mentioned a cloudy sense of having preached values of self-discipline, kindness, community, and humility, but that might as well have been someone else. “Perhaps it was a badly-remembered dream,” he allowed. “Certainly in reality, the only appropriate subjects for sermons are the wickedness of the Jews, the glory of dying for Palestine, the perfidy of the Jews, the money one gets to die for Palestine, the corruption of the Jews, the pleasure one gets in Heaven after dying for Palestine, and the cruelty of the Jews.”

The imam’s colleagues at other mosques echoed the haunting sense of things having been different at some point, but none have achieved clarity on when that was, or on what, precisely, distinguished that occluded past from the universe humanity inhabits now.

“Wasn’t there something about a big rock in Arabia?” suggested Issa’s old madrassa classmate Subhi Masri. “I’m pretty sure we learned about that, about walking around it and ‘stoning the devil’ – and there are no Jews in Mecca, so we know that couldn’t be literal. I’m struggling with this, like there’s this previous incarnation we all had, in which mosques are houses of worship? I know it sounds bizarre.”

From PreOccupied Territory, here.

If Only America Had Stayed Out of WWI…

Why Stalin and Hitler Should Never Have Happened

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David Stockman’s Contra Corner

January 13, 2024

 

Herewith is a capsulized dissection which attempts to explain why Stalin and Hitler should have never happened. Accordingly, the hot, cold and Forever Wars wars that followed thereafter condemn the case for the American Empire, not make it; and they show that Trump’s America First is a far more appropriate lodestone for national security policy than Imperial Washington’s specious claim that America is the Indispensable Nation.

The Great War had been destined to end in 1917 by mutual exhaustion, bankruptcy and withdrawal from the utterly stalemated trenches of the Western Front. In the end, upwards of 3.3 million combatants had been killed and 8.3 million wounded over four years for movement along blood-drenched front-lines that could be measured in mere miles and yards.

Still, had America stayed on its side of the great Atlantic moat, the ultimate outcomes everywhere would have been far different. Foremostly, the infant democracy that came to power in February 1917 in Russia would not have been so easily smothered in its crib.Tom, AllisonBest Price: $3.74Buy New $6.43(as of 03:17 UTC – Details)

There surely would have been no disastrous summer offensive by the Kerensky government to rollback Germany on the eastern front where the czarist armies had earlier been humiliated and dismembered. In turn, an early end to Russia’s bloody and bankrupting impalement on the eastern front would also likely have precluded the return of Lenin to Russia in a German boxcar and the subsequent armed insurrection in Petrograd in November 1917. The flukish seizure of power by Lenin and his small band of fanatical Bolsheviks, in turn, would most certainly never have happened.

That is, the 20th century would not have been saddled with what inexorably morphed into the Stalinist nightmare. Nor would a garrisoned Soviet state have poisoned the peace of nations for 74 years thereafter, while causing the nuclear sword of Damocles to hang precariously over the planet.

Likewise, there would have been no abomination known as the Versailles peace treaty because it was a toxic peace of victors. But without America’s billions of aid and munitions and two million fresh dough-boys there would have been no Allied victors, as we demonstrate below.

Without Versailles, in turn, there would have been no “stab in the back” legends owing to the Weimar government’s forced signing of the “war guilt” clause; no continuance of England’s brutal post-armistice blockade that delivered hundreds of thousands of Germany’s women and children into starvation and death; and no demobilized 3-million man German army left humiliated, destitute, bitter and on a permanent political rampage of vengeance.

So, too, there would have been no acquiescence in the dismemberment of Germany at the Versailles “peace” table.

As it happened nearly one-fifth of Germany’s pre-war territory and population was spread in parts and pieces to Poland (the Danzig Corridor and Upper Silesia), Czechoslovakia (the Sudetenland), Denmark (Schleswig), France (the Saar, Alsace-Lorraine and the neutralized Rhineland) and Belgium (Eupen and Malmedy).

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From LRC, here.

The Oregon Drug Decriminalization

Walter Block: Hats Off To Oregon

By Walter E. Block
Many states have legalized marijuana, not just for medical purposes. They have also done so for entertainment, and hats off to them too. The government, nor anyone else, simply has no business prohibiting adults from imbibing whatever drugs they wish into their own bodies.Prohibition, whether of alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, heroin, or any other drug for that matter, is profoundly incompatible with the ideals of democracy (not that this system is any great shakes either, but that is an entirely different matter). Such laws are in effect stating that adults are too stupid to know what kind of substances to imbibe. But if they are that foolish, it would be a disaster, would it not, to allow them within a million miles of a voting booth. On the other hand, they are indeed allowed to cast a ballot. Those morons? The critics simply cannot have it both ways. Either the citizenry are idiots and ought to be prohibited from certain drugs, in which case they should not be allowed to vote, or, if they are, then they ought to be trusted and not be treated like children when it comes to drugs. Paternalism is fine and dandy for kids, but certainly not for adults, at least not according to the democratic ethos.So, yes, congratulations to the many states that have legalized pot for medicinal or entertainment or any other purpose.

But Oregon deserves special congratulation in this regard. It has employed this libertarian doctrine of freedom not only to cannabis, but to other, possibly more addictive drugs as well, including small amounts of cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine. However, the Beaver state now finds itself under attack for its civilized legal system.

Bret Stephens of the New York Times characterizes it as “The Hard-Drug Decriminalization Disaster.” He charges that as a result, the streets are littered with “needles, shattered glass and human feces.” According to the Atlantic Magazine, “the state experienced one of the sharpest rises in overdose deaths in the nation and had one of the highest percentages of adults with a substance-use disorder.” Tent cities abound and unconscious people are lying around.

However, to a great degree, these are just growing pains of a very civilized law. When alcohol was first legalized after the long darkness of prohibition, there were undoubtedly folk who over-used this product from a good health perspective. They still are. Should we then reinstitute this evil law, as critics of Oregon contend that the state should do with hard drugs?

Not a bit of it. Oregonians are heroic. They are a light to the multitude. Instead of rescinding this policy, the other states ought to follow its leadership.

Are there no tent cities in other states? Are there no unconscious people lying around in other areas of our great country? Are there no used needles lying around anywhere else than Oregon?

Then there is the fact that people have immigrated to Oregon to take advantage of this humanitarian law. These are not high profile, healthy, accomplished, middle class folk. They are rather those who have been mistreated elsewhere, and are now taking advantage of Oregon’s benevolent law. Part of the Beaver State’s “problem” is its own success.

Also, when legalized, the quality of the drug necessarily improves. There is the drug equivalent of bathtub gin (e.g., poisoned products) in other states where these substances are still illegal, but less and less so in Oregon, as the market starts to operate.

Under alcohol prohibition, there were deaths due to gangs fighting each other for turf. No such occurrences take place under legalization. Do we really want to go the Mexican route, where drug gangs are so powerful? Oregon, and Oregon alone, is showing the path out of that particular morass.

Oregon still has a way to go. Users of these drugs are still subject to slap-on-the-wrist penalties, similar to a driving ticket. This needs to be rescinded. No one pays any fine for availing himself of beer, wine and alcohol, and, ideally, drugs should be treated in the same manner.

Let freedom ring in all fifty states, not only in Oregon.

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Attack on Oregon’s legalization of cocaine

https://www.google.com/search?q=Attack+on+Oregon%E2%80%99s+legalization+of+cocaine&rlz=1C1CHBD_enUS796US796&oq=Attack+on+Oregon%E2%80%99s+legalization+of+cocaine&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigAdIBCTQ5OTlqMGoxNagCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Stephens, NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/opinion/oregon-drug-failure.html

Atlantic magazine: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/07/oregon-drug-decriminalization-results-ov

 

Walter E. Block, Ph.D.

Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics

Loyola University New Orleans

From The Cobden Centre, here.