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I have been attending a Shabbat minyan recently that is full of Dati Israeli expats who wear neither jackets, nor hats, not ties, much less suits. It is the insides that count, not the outsides.
Trump still has not said anything about the successful attack that killed Nasrallah. I have already mentioned Trump’s family’s ties to Hezbollah. Perhaps even more importantly, Trump’s attitude is that he supports whatever Netanyahu wants — as long as Netanyahu pays for it himself, with zero US aid. Vance, at the behest of Trump, voted against the Ukraine Israel Taiwan aid package, to the glee of Putin and Xi. Trump made Vance his running mate shortly thereafter. Israel cannot afford to fight the combination of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran, but Trump doesn’t care. Watch what he does not what he says. There is ZERO question that Harris is better for Israel.
Correct. At the behest of Trump, Vance voted against aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. Putin probably ordered Trump to oppose that aid. Trump named Vance as his running mate shortly thereafter. The BEST thing you can say about Trump is that he is a Neville Chamberlain like appeaser of Putin and Xi, who are enabling Iran to evade all the sanctions and fund its proxy wars (including against Israel). More likely, Trump is fatally compromised by having had to rely on Russian oligarchs close to Putin to fund his business and his criminal and civil appeals. We do know that laundered Russian money got put into Trump’s campaign (and Trump pardoned one of the launderers.) Sadly, many Jews have been conned by Trump, just as many Italian Jews were conned by Mussolini. Most of Mussolini’s Jewish supporters weren’t alive by 1945.
“extreme liberal with near-socialist leanings”
Anyone who understands San Francisco politics knows that that is a total lie. Harris was hated by the actual extreme liberals for putting criminals in prison — and for having good relationships with AIPAC activists. Donald Trump is one such criminal who deserves free room and board.
And neo-socialism isn’t a thing.
There is a big danger here from our own extremists. What reason is there for any politician to support Israel when we engage in slanderous lies about them anyway. Harris has never been anti Israel and in San Francisco that is a political liability. Ditto Nancy Pelosi. We need to support our friends not demonize them.
“Donald Trump has a Jewish daughter”
And a Lebanese son in law whose father is a childhood friend of Hezbollah’s candidate for President of Lebanon. As the OP stated, Trump is making a big play for the Arab vote in Michigan.
“If you’re a businessman in the US you need a candidate that wants this country to prosper and not end up like Venezuela or Cuba”
Actually Argentina is now in even worse shape than Venezuela or Cuba today, thanks in part to its Trump-like President Milei. Trump’s economic policies will require printing about eight trillion dollars to pay for his tax and spending plans. That will fuel massive inflation. And if he does deport the 11 million illegal immigrants, it will cause food shortages as the entire food supply chain depends on their labor. There are only about six million unemployed persons in the US today and that means the businesses that employ five million Americans will be unable to function. This will be a self imposed Great Depression.
“Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz”
LOTS of falsehoods in that statement.
First, there is no “Democrat Party” in the United States.
“caused inflation to skyrocket”
Inflation was lower in the US than in most other developed countries. And nowhere near the highest ever. You want high inflation? Go to Argentina, led by Trump clone Milei. 237% as of the last stats. Milei’s policies have destroyed the country’s economy.
“eroded the moral fabric of the country”
Even Trump’s supporters will often admit that it is Trump, not Biden, who is the moral degenerate. He cheated on all three wives. He is the second President (after Harding) to have to pay off a mistress. He has been found liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in civil damages and is as 34x convicted felon. He had to pardon a bunch of his cronies. His own National Security Advisor was an illegal foreign agent for Erdogan and pled guilty to related criminal. We (correctly) claim Erdogan is bad so why would we support someone who puts an Erdogan agent in the White House and pardon him for those offenses?
“opened the borders”
That is a lie. People who enter the US get arrested.
“to millions of unknown and undocumented people from around the world.”
No, almost all are fleeing tyranny and criminal violence from Central and South America. The law is that if you are in the US or at a port of entry and apply for asylum, you AUTOMATICALLY get a visa to be in the US until your asylum application is adjudicated. Biden simply follows the law, unlike your Cult Leader Trump. (Did I mention 34x convicted felon?)
“The number of ILLEGAL ALIENS that President Joe Biden and the Democrats allowed to enter the USA
is more than eleven million: > 11,000,000.”That is also a lie. There has been little illegal immigration for the past 15 years. The current wave of migrants from Central and South America are here legally. So are the Haitians in Ohio and elsewhere. Most illegal immigrants in the US are Mexican. It should be mentioned that there are about 40 million Mexicans in the US, and 3/4 are here legally either as students, businessmen, or guest workers, legal permanent residents, or dual nationals. Many have contributed enormously to the US, even in high political offices. The famous baseball great Ted Williams would be a dual US/Mexican national under current law.
The Lankford bill would have limited the number of asylum applicants, provided for fast tracking those whose applications were unlikely to be approved, and provided additional resources to adjudicate claims. But Trump ordered the Republicans to kill the bill that they themselves had written, because it would have solved the border crisis. Trump needed the border crisis to foment racist hatred. Now that there are fewer asylum applicants, Trump and Vance are now spreading blood libels against Haitians who are here legally. Trump was told before the first debate that the lie about Haitians eating pets was not grounded in fact, but he spouted it during the debate anyway. And the person who made up the lie has copped to it and apologized, but Trump and Vance continue to spout it. You are a fool if you think that there will be no negative consequences to Jews from the normalization of blood libels against others.
“Do we ever imagine a woman with word salads like Harris do some tough talking with Putin?”
Absolutely. Trump keeps calling Harris stupid, but as we saw in the debate, Harris manipulated Trump like he was an ignorant child. Putin and Xi took note as to how easy it was. Trump will give away the store and not even realize it. We know that he will do that as he surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban and before that threw the Kurds and Free Syrian Army under the bus in order to create “peace” in Syria. It is easy to create peace when you surrender to our enemies, as Neville Chamberlain did in September 1938. At least Chamberlain realized his horrible error six months later. Trump is incapable of error according to himself and his supporters.
And if you want to see word salads, just read Trump’s incoherent rants on his social media platform. Harris is Shakespeare compared to Trump.
“Some Republicans have been less so.”
Marjorie Taylor-Greene, Thomas Massie, and Rand Paul have worse records on Israel than any of the Squad members. And that is quite a (negative) accomplishment. 🙁
Trump’s extended family has close ties to Lebanon. Specifically, Tiffany Trump’s husband’s father is the son of a Lebanese billionaire who is a lifelong friend of the Hezbollah bloc’s Presidential candidate there. Her husband and Trump advisor Richard Grenell, a likely Secretary of State in a second Trump Administration, are working to organize Arab American voters in Michigan for Trump. Most of them hate Biden and Harris because of their support for Israel. Note that Rashida Tlaib is NOT supporting Harris for President.
J D Vance voted against the recent Ukraine Israel Taiwan aid bill. This incredibly pleased Putin, Nasrallah, and Xi when Trump named Vance as his running mate. 14 other Republicans voted against the bill in the Senate. Only two Democrats did. Prior to Trump, those two Democrats — Welch and Merkley — would have been savagely attacked by Republicans and they would deserve such an attack. But in the Trump world it is now considered a good thing to oppose helping friends of the US. Some have objected that we should not be aiding Ukraine. But like Israel, Ukraine was the victim of a horrible unjustified attack by a neighbor. Excusing Putin’s attacks justifies the attacks by Sinwar and Nasrallah — and by the Iranian mullahs. And there is a direct connection between Putin and the mullahs: Putin subsidizes Iran to the tune of tens of billions annually and Russia is the country that allows Iran to evade the sanctions, making them worthless. Anyone not supporting Ukraine against Russia is not supporting Israel against its enemies. It is like opposing Mussolini but not Hitler or vice versa. Russia is the reason Assad is still in power and the reason pro Assad forces including Hezbollah control Lebanon. Trump is clearly a supporter of Russia, probably a Russian asset. The recent Woodward book confirms what we have known for some time.
And it was Trump himself who greenlighted Iran’s enriching uranium without limits and without monitoring. The JCPOA was a better deal than any of the nuclear deals Nixon and Ford made with the former Soviet Union in the 1970s. It had better provisions for monitoring and it basically killed any hope of Iran having any possibility of getting nuclear weapons for 15 years. Thanks to Trump Iran probably has enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon right now.
This is all public record, but the MAGA crowd lies about all of it. Trump talks the talk but his actions have the opposite effect from his rhetoric.
“why should any USA President try to save the life of Nasrallah?”
Biden praised the rsid that killed Nasrallah. Trump is still silent.
“Biden in the past appease the other side”
Trump and Vance wanted to sppease the other side by ending military aid to Israel. Vance voted against the Ukraine Israel Taiwan aid bill at Trump’s behest, to the cheers of Putin, Sinwar, and Xi. Days later Trump rewarded Vance with a VP selection.
“the whole idea of Zionism was to free Jews from the yoke of Torah and to wipe out learning Torah.”
That is a lie. The earliest modern Zionists were religious and were motivated by the desire to fulfill the Commandment to resettle Eretz Yisrsel. Indeed Zionism has been central to Judaism for three thousand years. Unfortunately the secular leftists and a segment of the Charedi world have misled us.
“COVID was a massive hatzalos nefoshos issue at the time that could be mitigated by small easy things vaccines and masks, yet some people were religiously motivated against them.”
Those people were apikorsim not to mention fools. Many of them aren’t with us today.
“being in Yeshiva learning Torah”
Somebody in Israel has to work for a living. Not everyone can learn full time. And see Rambam Hilchot Talmud Torah 3:10.
“the prohibition against women enlisting in the military is Yehareig V’al Yaavor.”
Pikuach nefesh overrides Yehareig V’al Yaavor and you know that. And without women serving in the IDF there would be another Shoah. You know that too. If Charedi men served in sufficient numbers the women would not be needed in such large numbers.
“judaism does not support the zionist military enterpise.”
Zionism is central to Judaism. And without the “zionist military enterprise” there would be another Shoah and Judaism would cease to exist in Israel.
“alignment of Iran,
China, Russia and North Korea”They have long been aligned. Trump kowtowed to the leaders of China, Russia, and North Korea and is openly supporting Russia against Ukraine. Biden has been countering all four with no help from Republicans; Vance voted against the Ukraine Israel Taiwan aid bill. It was right after that vote that Turmp picked Vance as his running mate.
“let in
millions of barely vetted migrants, overwhelming cities
and creating new crime and terror threats.”The law REQUIRES that anyone showing up at a port of entry or who is already in the US who isn’t already a US citizen who asks for asylum AUTOMATICALLY gets a visa. The only exceptions are that you have to apply within a year or your arrival and not have entered from Canada. Vetting is actually illegal under current law. But in fact these asylum applicants rarely commit crimes, unlike 34x convicted felon Trump and all his cronies whom he pardoned, such as Michael Flynn, the illegal unregistered foreign agent for Erdoğan. They know that committing a felony gets you deported.
The Lankford bill would have put limits on this and solved most of the problems but Trump knew that if the border crisis got addressed he would no longer be able to foment hatred and blood libels against migrants, so he ordered the Republicans to kill their own plan.
“PERSONAL NOTE: Between 11,000,000 and 30,000,000 ILLEGAL ALIENS!!”
More like 10 million, and most arrived from Mexico before 2009. They are essential to the food industry in the US and depeorting them will result in massive inflation in food prices and actual food shortages for many food items. Most Mexicans in the US are dual nationals.
“self-destructive war on US oil,”
More proof that you are totally disconnected from reality. The US is producing more crude oil than country has ever produced at any time in history.
“China, meanwhile, has grown increasingly aggressive,
harassing neighbors like the Philippines and Taiwan,”Vance voted against the bill to protect Taiwan and Trump was effusive in his praise for Xi when he was President. Trump also collected millions in cash from China while President.
“their beliefs are based on neo-Marxist theory, and nothing else,”
Neo Marxism isn’t a thing, proving that YOU are disconnected from reality.
‘Iran ramped up its drive for nukes as Harris-Biden
sucked up to the regime, ending key Trump-era sanctions’It was Trump who greenlighted Iran’s nuclear weapons program by ending the deal that had forced Iran to accept international weapons inspections. And it is Trump’s buddy Putin who made the sanctions meaningless, not Biden.
“our president then slow-walked
aid and tied Kyiv’s hands on the use of US weapons.”If Vance had his way Ukraine would be getting no US weapons at all. Trump and Vance are pro Putin.
“neo-Marxist news media”
Neo Marxism isn’t a thing and the media are completely contolled by died in the wool capitalists.
“Trump is nice to Israel because of his daughter and son-in-law.”
His other son in law is from a prominent Hezbollah-supporting Lebanese family.
“what percentage of the Bolsheviks were Jewish”
The only significant one at the time of the October Revolution was Trotsky.
“Trump.cant stop praising Hungary’s Victor Orban.”
Perhaps worse, Trump is still supporting the Holocaust denier self declared Nazi for Governor of North Carolina. And Trump is still in the lead in the polls there. He is getting support from Arabs in Michigan by having his surrogates clsim that Kamala Harris is too supportive of Israel. He doesn’t hate Jews but will throw Jews under the bus whenever he thinks it will benefit him.
“any normal person sitting in the oval office would’ve done the same thing as FDR (perhaps besides sending the Jews on the St. Louis back).”
FDR had no authority to admit the St. Louis passengers. You had to have a visa issued at a US embassy or consulate in your country of birth. That was the law and had been the law since 1924. This was particularly problematic for Polish born Jews because Poland had ceased to exist in late September 1939.
“They had very valid & legitimate reasons for not doing so.
Racism, nativism, and anti-Semitism are not legitimate reasons for denying refuge to people fleeing persecution and tyranny. Calvin Coolidge was wring in 1924 and Donald Trump is wring today.
Given that Donald Trump’s platdoem is to deny refuge to anyone fleeing persecution, even from Marxist tyrants, you can pretty much drop any hope of Israelis getting refuge in the US should he get elected.
“letter from Rabbi Avraham Rice.”
There is a great biography of Rabbi Rice that quotes many .similar writings by him and others who were committed to Torah.
I. Harold Sharfman
The First Rabbi: Origins of Conflict Between Orthodox and Reform : Jewish Polemic Warfare in Pre-Civil War America : A Biographical History
Pangloss Press, 1988I think it is out of print but I found used copies on several internet sites.
Rabbi Rice came to the US in 1840. He was solidly Orthodox and was indeed the first Orthodox Rabbi with real semicha to settle permanently in the US. He remained solidly Orthodox for the remainder of his life, which was spent in the US. To imply that he was Orthodox “for a while” is motzi shem ra.
Rabbi Rice came to the US in 1840. He was solidly Orthodox and was indeed the first Orthodox Rabbi with real semicha to settle permanently in the US. He remained solidly Orthodox for the remainder of his life, which was spent in the US. To imply that he was Orthodox “for a while” is motzi shem ra.
“Jews have never forgiven FDR for closing America’s doors to European Jewry”
Liar. The law that ended legal immigration of Jews (and everyone else) from Easten Europe was signed by Calvin Coolidge in 1924. Franklin Roosevelt was pretty much out of politics at that point. Jews from Eastern Europe who would have made it to the US would have been illegal immigrants subject to immediate deportation. There was no provision for refugees or asylum in the law at that time. And had Roosevelt broken the law to give Jews asylum he would likely have been impeached and removed from office. The America First movement was that strong.
“the party of Homosexuals And Negroes are the ones who actually support the state of Israel.”
Congressman Ritchie Torres is an openly Gay Afro-Latino Progressive Democrat. There is no stonger supporter than Torres in the House of Representatives.
‘”America First” means foreign countries LAST.’
America First meant preventing the US from preparing to counter our enemies or helping our friends. Basically it meant foreign totalitarian regimes first. Trump continues in that with his praise for Putin, Xi, and Kim, and his open support of Putin’s aggression. Trump isn’t Neville Chamberlain he is Oswald Mosley.
Vance voted against aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan shortly before Turmp named him as his running mate.
The Trump team is telling Arab Americans in Michigan that Harris is too supportive of Israel.
Trump surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban. Before then, he had thrown the Kurds and the pro-democracy forces in Syria under the bus. He has said that he would not mind if Putin overran US NATO allies.
It was Trump who greenlighted unlimited uranium enrichment for Iran when he killed the deal that forced Iran to allow international weapons inspections. He imposed sanctions, but knew that they would be ignored because his buddy Putin is an ally of Iran who assists it in sanctions evasion.
Trump doesn’t hate Jews. But neither did Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin, or Neville Chamberlain, all of whom thought Hitler yemach shemo could be appeased. But Trump is clearly an ally of Putin and either doesn’t understand that Putin and the Mullahs are like Hitler and Mussolini or doesn’t care. And note also that Mussolini didn’t hate Jews either.
“President Trump was tough on Iran and brought them to the verge of bankruptcy”
The opposite is true. His killing the JCPOA was greeted with enthusiasm by the mullahs as it greenlighted them to resume unrestricted uranium enrichment. And Trump’s unwillingness to confront Putin allowed Putin to make the sanctions on Iran meaningless and in fact Putin subsidized Iran to the tune of tens of billions of dollars every year. Furthermore, Trump’s entire business empire depends now on Russian oligarchs for financing so Trump is in no position ever to say no to Putin. Trump also was personally paid millions by the Chinese so he owes Xi. Vance voted against aid to Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel so you can understand why those countries’ history is.in jeopardy should Vance ever become President, which is likely given Trump’s age and obvious failing mental condition.
Greenfield is one of the most articulate far right extremist propagandists. I wish I could write as well. Unfortunately, most of what he writes has only a tenuous connection to reality.
“People from the Riverdale community speak of the reverence the 2 Manhigei Hador had for each other”
I *personally* observed that when R’Ausband visited R’Willig’s shul, which was often.
I have personally seen ChatGPT mske up stuff.
“having an integrated ALS system”
For most conditions BLS is superior. You are better off just getting to the hospital faster.
“there were no established schools for girls”
There were Jewish schools that educsted girls in Germany snd in America before Sara Schneirer was born. Unfortunately it took another two generations to turn things around in Eastern Europe and who knows many more it would have taken had it not been for Sara Schneirer.
“Kamala already showed her attitude towards Israel”
Indeed the Trump camp is attacking Harris for being too supportive of Israel. But only among Arab Americans in Michigan.
“What all of these people have in common, is that they want
to see the State of Israel 100% eliminated, and permanently.”Nonsense. Israel’s biggest advocates in Congress are John Fetterman and Ritchie Torres, solidly on the Left to Far Left. And the liberal Joe Biden has made it clear that he will defend Israel with the US military if Irsn attacks. MAGA folks on social media are trashing Biden for this.
Trump surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban. Bangladesh kicked out a dictator who hated Israel; why is thst s bsd thing?
“Trump is questioning the 13 soldiers dying in Afghanistan, for how many COVID deaths is he responsible for downplaying in the beginning the affect of ir?”
Well Justin Trudeau didn’t downplay anything and Canada’s COVID death rate was 60 percent lower than the US. Had the US had Canada’s death rate, 700,000 fewer Americans would still still be with us. As the US is about 2 percent Jewish, that translates to well over ten thousand unnecessarily dead Jews. Only in his wildest dreams would Sinwar imagine that he could be responsible for so many dead Jews.
“The problem is that the vaccine had many risks as well;”
No it didn’t. Huge clinical trials proved that neither the Pfizer nor the Moderna had major side effects.
Those who refused vaccines are still dying at a higher rate. Arizona has a Democratic Attorney General today because more Republicans than Democrats refused the vaccine — partly because the previous AG was a COVID disinformationist. Killing off your voters is bad campaign strategy. And the new Democratic AG has indicted a bunch of Trump cronies. Junk science has consequences.
“Trumps team developed vaccines at unprecedented speed and started distribution,”
Trump fired the guy in charge. And it was more Fauci’s team that helped with the development of the Moderna vaccine. However, the Pfizer vaccine was developed with no government assistance and it was available earlier. Trump refused to allow Moderna’s vaccine to be sent out of the US even though he did NOT have a distribution plan. Pfizer sent huge quantities of its vaccine to Israel, angering Trump and saving lots of Jewish lives. Albert Bourla is the greatest living Jew.