Who are the Israelis?

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Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about how Israel has been able to harness free markets and capitalism to achieve a higher GDP per capita than France and Japan; how socialism was holding the Israeli economy back; the difficulty of forming a coalition government; and what issues matter most to right wing Israelis.

 

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Has anyone here yet figured out “who are the Canadians?”

I believe they are hosers.

 

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Israel is 5th safest country in the world for tourists - study

The United States is ranked 20th on this list, earning an overall safety grade of C-, primarily because of a high homicide rate and the high risk of natural disasters.

www.jpost.com

 

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Comedian Godfrey & Jewish Activist Rudy Rochman dive deep into a conversation surrounding Black & Jewish relations, the boundaries of antisemitism in comedy,
Tribes of Israel, and Igbo heritage.

 

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It's easier to withdraw to caricatures and fiction movies
then accept moral and military defeat.

Arab supremacists are quicker to lie
about the honor of their wives,
then accept reality.

 

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They were so quick to save lives,
that they all forgot to turn the sirens
for the dance before the camera started rolling...

 

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Palestinian Terrorists Stole Body Of Druze Israeli From Hospital, Returned After Community Threatened Retaliation​

Palestinian terrorists demanded release of convicted terrorists in exchange for the body of the 17-year-old. The IDF vowed to launch “a large-scale operation in the West Bank” to retrieve the body.

After a two-day standoff, the Palestinian terrorists have been forced to return the body of an Israeli Druze they had snatched from a West Bank hospital. On Tuesday, armed men reportedly linked to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) grabbed the body of a 17-year-old Israeli boy who was brought to a West Bank hospital for emergency surgery from a car crash.

The boy, who was an Israeli national belonging to the Druze minority, “was still alive” when Palestinian gunmen stormed the medical facility and took away his body, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. “He was in critical but stable condition and removing him from the ventilator is what killed him, the father and uncle Hady Ferro claim,” the newspaper wrote, quoting his family members.

Finally, on Thursday, the Palestinian captors were forced to relinquish the body. “Tiran Fero was laid to rest in his hometown in northern Israel on Thursday after Palestinian gunmen returned his body following the kidnapping on Tuesday,” the i24News reported. “The funeral was held later that day in the town of Daliat al-Carmel, a Druze community located on Mount Carmel southwest of Haifa.”

Gunmen Demanded Release of Convicted Terrorist, IDF Vowed a ‘Large-Scale West Bank’ Military Operation​

The Palestinian gunmen, demanding the release of convicted terrorists from Israeli prisons in exchange, agreed to release the body only after Israeli Druze held large processions and threatened to enter the Palestinian city of Jenin to recover the body. “Unnamed security officials have said that the suspects are demanding the release of Palestinians imprisoned,” The Times of Israel reported Wednesday.

“Anger over the snatching among Druze Israelis intensified Wednesday night, with thousands attending a protest march and blocking off a major highway near Daliyat al-Karmel,” The Times of Israel added. “More than one member of the community cited by the Walla news site said that if Fero’s body was not returned soon, they may attempt to enter Jenin and retrieve him themselves.”




The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) also reportedly vowed to launch a military operation to retrieve the boy’s body. “In the background of the diplomacy was a warning from Israel and the IDF that if the body was not returned, Israel would launch a large-scale operation in the West Bank,” The Times of Israel reported Friday, citing an Israeli media report.

The Jerusalem Post reported the end of the standoff:

Tiran Fero, the Druze teen who was kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists in Jenin on Tuesday, was laid to rest in his hometown of Daliat al-Carmel, on Thursday afternoon.
The 18-year-old’s funeral was held in the northern Israeli town on Thursday after his body was returned to his family, following 30 hours of negotiations between Israel’s defense establishment and the Palestinian Authority. (…)
The negotiations to return the body of the 18-year-old Druze-Israeli came after close to 30 hours of intense talks between Israel’s defense establishment and the Palestinian Authority. His body was transferred at 4 a.m. to his famil in Israel through the Salam Crossing.

Unsurprisingly, the heinous incident transpired in the Palestinian city of Jenin. The city, governed by the PLO-controlled Palestinian Authority, has emerged as a stronghold for the Iran-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist group. PIJ operatives based in Jenin have conducted several deadly terrorist attacks inside Israel in recent months.

Druze: At the Forefront of Defending Israel​

With a population of about 140,000, Druze make up less than two percent of Israel’s population. Members of this small minority have distinguished themselves in the Jewish State’s military, social and cultural life.




Unlike other non-Jewish minorities in Israel, Druze, who are of non-Muslim Arab ethnicity, have taken it upon themselves to do mandatory service in the IDF.

The official IDF website states, “[e]ighty percent of the Druze population in Israel drafts into the IDF and among the Druze soldiers who are currently serving, thirty nine percent are in combat roles.”

This is apparently higher than Jewish men’s participation rate in Israel. “Among Israeli Jews, 75% of men and 57% of women currently serve in the military or have served in the past,” according to Pew Research Center in 2016.

Palestinian Terrorists Stole Body Of Druze Israeli From Hospital, Returned After Community Threatened Retaliation

Palestinian terrorists demanded release of convicted terrorists in exchange for the body of the 17-year-old. The IDF vowed to launch "a large-scale operation in the West Bank" to retrieve the body.

legalinsurrection.com

Israel: IDF Kills Terrorist Who Masterminded The Snatching of Israeli-Druze Boy’s Body

Mohammed Ayman al-Saadi "helped mastermind the recent kidnapping of Israeli teenager Tiran Fero’s body from a hospital in the West Bank city."

legalinsurrection.com

 

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The Future of Our History​

SEASON 2022 EPISODE 48: First Malkah Fleisher quizzes Yishai about the relative safety of Israel and about Saudi wishes for the Abraham Accords. Then, North American native people’s activist Ryan Bellerose on the language of indigenous rights in the service of the Jewish tribe. Finally on Table Torah: Why Jacob was angry with the brothers who destroyed Shechem?

 

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Weekly Torah Portion - 'Vayishlah'- Brothers in arms​

Were Shimon and Levi really outraged idealists? Or were they just hotheaded vigilantes?​

ל וַיֹּאמֶר יַעֲקֹב אֶל-שִׁמְעוֹן וְאֶל-לֵוִי, עֲכַרְתֶּם אֹתִי, לְהַבְאִישֵׁנִי בְּיֹשֵׁב הָאָרֶץ, בַּכְּנַעֲנִי וּבַפְּרִזִּי; וַאֲנִי, מְתֵי מִסְפָּר, וְנֶאֶסְפוּ עָלַי וְהִכּוּנִי, וְנִשְׁמַדְתִּי אֲנִי וּבֵיתִי.

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: 'Ye have troubled me, to make me odious unto the inhabitants of the land, even unto the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smite me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.'

לא וַיֹּאמְרוּ: הַכְזוֹנָה, יַעֲשֶׂה אֶת-אֲחוֹתֵנוּ. {פ}

And they said: 'Should one deal with our sister as with a harlot?'

The debate between Yaakov and Shimon and Levi is presented as a classic confrontation of pragmatism versus idealism. Yaakov raises no moral arguments against their actions; only the realpolitik concern that in their rampage, they had endangered the family’s safety. For their part, Shimon and Levi see the world in the black and whites of the idealist. Right is right, wrong is wrong. Supported by his town folk, Shchem had raped and kidnapped Dina, held her hostage and negotiated a forced wedding. Four words: “הכזונה יעשה את אחותינו “say it all. End of discussion.

וַיִּסָּעוּ; וַיְהִי חִתַּת אֱלֹהִים, עַל-הֶעָרִים אֲשֶׁר סְבִיבוֹתֵיהֶם, וְלֹא רָדְפוּ, אַחֲרֵי בְּנֵי יַעֲקֹב.

And they journeyed; and a terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob

At first glance, the Torah seems to agree. Yaakov has no retort. His fears for the family’s safety turn out to be unfounded. G-d protects Yaakov and his children - no calamity befalls the nascent Jewish people. Reading the story, one can argue (as Shimon and Levi probably did) that “the terror of G-d” protecting them was in reward for their bold and direct action in the service of justice. Not only had they not endangered the family, they had actually saved it.

Some fifty years later, Yaakov finally responds:

שִׁמְעוֹן וְלֵוִי, אַחִים--כְּלֵי חָמָס, מְכֵרֹתֵיהֶם.

Simeon and Levi are brethren; weapons of violence their kinship.

ו בְּסֹדָם אַל-תָּבֹא נַפְשִׁי, בִּקְהָלָם אַל-תֵּחַד כְּבֹדִי: כִּי בְאַפָּם הָרְגוּ אִישׁ…

Let my soul not come into their council; unto their assembly let my glory not be united; for in their anger they slew men…

Pragmatism plays no part in Yaakov’s deathbed reprimand. Violence was wrong, innocent people were killed. End of discussion.

Had Yaakov thought this all along? If so, why did he not repudiate Shimon and Levi immediately? Why did he wait fifty years to speak his mind? The Midrash Raba finds the answer to these questions in one word of Yaakov’s rebuke. Commenting on the word “אחים”, “brethren” The midrash comments:

שמעון ולוי אחים, אחים לדינה ולא ליוסף...Shimon and Levi are brethren – to Dina, not to Yosef…

In that four word commentary, the Midrash asks that we examine who Shimon and Levi really were and what laid behind their actions. Were they really outraged idealists willing to risk their lives in order to see justice served? Or were they just hotheaded vigilantes for whom blood was cheap. Are their actions to be viewed as justified killing or as inexcusable violence?

Yaakov was initially silent in the face of their response because he did not know the answer.

“Brethren - to Dina, not to Yosef…”

However, with the passing of 50 years with everything that had occurred in the interim, Yaakov knew all too well. Having discovered the violence that they had planned for Yosef (who, if not Shimon and Levi, had called for his death at the pit?), Yaakov understood what their true motivations must have been when they had killed the inhabitants of Shechem “in their anger”. By plotting to kill Yosef, they showed that the moral stance they had taken in their defense had been a sham. Violence, not justice, was their ideal.

Rationalization, in a quip attributed to Freud, is the substitution of a “good” reason for the real reason that lies behind our actions. Yaakov, Shimon and Levi – all of us – live in a world of gray, of morals at conflict, with choices and decisions to make. We, like Shimon and Levi, can find the appropriate good reason to explain away even an inexcusable act. “Brethren - to Dina, not to Yosef…” calls on us to uncover the real reasons that fuel our decisions and, in the process, to discover who we really are.

Vayishlach: Brothers in arms

Were Shimon and Levi really outraged idealists? Or were they just hotheaded vigilantes?

www.israelnationalnews.com

Ben Gvir Submits Bill Making Him Police Commander in Chief

The amended clause essentially deprives the police commissioner of his independence.

www.jewishpress.com

 

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Two Israelis save injured camel in trunk of their car

On the way near Nahal Chaver, Chagai Tal and his friend Shachar found a group of Bedouins spreading out a blanket for a wounded camel that was apparently hurt in a rock slide.

www.jpost.com

 

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Thousands at funeral of Rabbi Strenberg, Har HaMor Yeshivah |
New Torah Scroll celebration at Homesh Yeshivah

 

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Minute of Wisdom - Ehad Mi Yode'a?

'Eden and 'Oded go out for street trivia in Mahaneh Yehudah market, Jerusalem

 

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Any terrorists or weapons in those ambulances?

 

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Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about how Israel has been able to harness free markets and capitalism to achieve a higher GDP per capita than France and Japan; how socialism was holding the Israeli economy back; the difficulty of forming a coalition government; and what issues matter most to right wing Israelis.

Israel is the mooch capital of the world. It runs on OPM.

 

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