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WISCONSIN (VINnews) — Jewish activist Shabbos Kestenbaum,
a Harvard graduate who has filed a lawsuit against the university
over its antisemitism, will be speaking at the Republican National Convention.

In a tweet, Kestenbaum announced that he voted for Bernie Sanders
last election, however his views have changed because of
what his classmates were doing while Jews were being slaughtered.

The Convention’s website says that Shabbos is a “lifelong Democrat”
who will be voting for president [Donald] Trump for the first time.

SOURCE: article titled: “Shabbos Kestenbaum,
Formerly a Bernie Sanders Supporter,
to Speak at GOP Convention”
by Baruch Green 2024 July 15 www (dot) VINnews (dot) com

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/israel-news/2321909/watch-kamala-harris-refuses-to-call-netanyahu-a-close-ally-in-jaw-dropping-60-minutes-moment.html

Mr. Daniel Greenfield said this:

“The idea that terrorists attack because they hate freedom,
however, is misguided,” Philip Gordon wrote in “Winning the Right War.”
“Even most of the Muslims who support terrorism and
trust Osama bin Laden favor elected government” and “personal liberty.”

[Philip] Gordon, [ex-President] Obama’s future Middle East coordinator,
explained in his book that Muslim terrorists weren’t “born evil” and
did not “hate our freedoms”, but rather feel “shame”
over the state of “a once great Islamic civilization”
surpassed by other cultures including “the local upstart, Israel.”

America was “creating conditions” that “generate” Islamic terrorism
by detaining Al Qaeda terrorists, failing to punish American soldiers
and “justifying any Israeli military action.” Gordon urged the White House
to assure Iran that we have “no intention of using military force
against Iran or fomenting internal dissent”
because “Iran’s concerns about such issues are legitimate.”

Published in 2007 by an imprint of The New York Times,
[Philip] Gordon’s book was a blueprint of the policies the
Obama administration would adopt, including blaming America and Israel,
appeasing Iran and Islamists and making Muslims feel better about themselves.
These are the building blocks of the policies that led us
to Oct. 7 [2023] and an Iranian war across the region.

Today, [Philip] Gordon is Kamala’s national security adviser,
and possible future secretary of state.

[Philip] Gordon’s hostility toward Israel and sympathy for
Islamic terrorists is a longstanding matter. Even before
joining the Biden administration, he had co-written an article
with Iran lobby figure Robert Malley, currently under FBI investigation
for mishandling classified documents, urging Biden to reverse
Trump’s possible recognition of Israel territory and
to cut political and economic support for Israel to punish it
for its diplomatic successes under the Trump administration.

Recently, [Philip] Gordon urged Israel to stop seeking victory
against Hamas and accept a hostage deal that would allow the
Islamic terrorist group to hang on in Gaza and free thousands of terrorists.

In his book, [Philip] Gordon claimed that
“though Hamas refuses to recognize Israel today,
it is not hard to imagine an eventual change in that position.”
And in 2014, he argued that a reconciliation deal
between the PLO and Hamas “isn’t necessarily a bad thing.”

In 2016, Gordon, speaking on behalf of the Clinton campaign,
appeared at a conference of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC),
widely regarded as the Iran lobby, and promised that
Hillary Clinton would veto new sanctions on Iran.
He was described as assuring the Iran lobby of the
“potential for collaboration with Iran.”
The New York Times even appeared to
list him as a “tour guide” on its Iran trips.

And [Philip] Gordon is not the only terror booster on Kamala’s team.

Ilan Goldenberg, a key member of the Kerry team
who played vital roles in the Obama administration’s
campaigns against Israel and for Iran, serves as
her Middle East adviser, and would have
a more prominent role in any administration.

[Ilan] Goldenberg complained that the Trump administration
had taken Israel’s side during the Hamas border riots
that served as a prep for Oct. 7, objected that moving
the embassy to Jerusalem had not been packaged
with similar concessions to the terrorists and co-authored
a paper with Hady Amr, who acts as Biden’s point man to the terrorists.

The paper proposed that “the United States, UNSCO,
and Egypt should work quietly in concert, engaging with Israel,
the PA, Hamas” to secure a “long-term ceasefire”
between Israel and Hamas, with Israel accepting that
“Hamas would retain some of its military capabilities.”

At one session Goldenberg urged, “You used to have 25,000,
100,000 Gazans working inside Israel. That needs to happen again.
The Israelis know who these guys are.
They can start with a few thousand work permits.
And there’s a lot of support for that
in all of the Israeli communities around Gaza.”

Prior to Oct. 7 [2023], Gazans flooded Israel, scouted those
“Israeli communities around Gaza” and when Oct. 7 began,
came back with maps of the communities so that they knew
where the security teams were, which houses
had dogs and where the children could be found.

[Philip] Gordon and [Ilan] Goldenberg, who are set to play major
roles in a Harris administration, have expressed no regrets
or retractions of their past policies and positions.
Even as the Middle East burns due to Iranian terrorism,
all they have done is double down.

In a co-written op-ed headlined, “Relax, Israel — if your ally
is working with your enemy, it doesn’t make them friends.”
Goldenberg envisioned that “In the aftermath of a successful nuclear deal,
U.S. relations with Iran should shift from that of an adversary to that of a competitor.”

His position on Israel was rather different, with op-eds like
“Why Israel’s Settlement Construction Must Be Stopped”
and “How Israel Brought U.N. Resolution
on Itself With Irrational Settlement Push”.

Under a Secretary of State Phil Gordon, the Abraham Accords
and normalization with countries like Saudi Arabia, which
one of his op-eds described as an “Arabian fantasy,”
would be swept aside in a return of Obama’s non-stop
pressure campaign on Israel to create a terrorist state.

“How will it have peace if it is unwilling to delineate a border,
end the occupation, and allow for Palestinian sovereignty, security, and dignity?”
Gordon had said at a conference in Israel right after terror rockets began to fall.
“It cannot maintain military control of another people indefinitely.
Doing so is not only wrong but a recipe for resentment and recurring instability.”

After the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens by Hamas,
Gordon equated Israel and the terrorists, claimed that
both sides suffered from “racism,” told “both sides to
demonstrate reason and calm” and warned that
“calls for retribution and revenge have no place on either side.”
Finally he falsely contended that “neither side” was
“ready to make the difficult decisions required for an agreement.”

Goldenberg had similarly argued that “half the root causes
are Israeli actions, in terms of—especially just focusing on Gaza,
on the blockade. And the other half is Hamas’s choice
to use violence and arm itself in response.”

That false paradigm has been markedly present
in Kamala’s attacks on Israel after Oct 7 [2023].

Kamala’s relentless criticism of Israel’s self-defense is a preview of things to come.

Behind her escalating rhetoric are a group of anti-Israel figures
from the Obama administration. Goldenberg was one of the radicals
brought in by the Warren campaign and then injected
into the Biden administration. Gordon is a longtime State Department
anti-Israel figure from a faction whose fingerprints
are all over the policies that empowered Iran and set the region on fire.

What would Kamala’s foreign policy look like?
The presence of Gordon and Goldenberg as her close advisers
on the region shows that it would be the Obama administration on steroids.

SOURCE: article titled: “Kamala’s anti-Israel
advisers helped bring on Oct. 7”
by Daniel Greenfield 2024 July 29 www (dot) JNS (dot) org

This short article is from www (dot) matzav (dot) com:

During Thursday’s episode of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Harvard Law School
Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz commented on Vice President Kamala Harris,
a Democratic presidential candidate for 2024.

He [Alan Dershowitz] stated that [Kamala] Harris
“seemed to create a moral equivalence” and added,
“she was trying to appeal both to her left-wing,
anti-Israel people and to the pro-Israel people.
You can’t do that by creating a false moral equivalence.”

[Alan] Dershowitz said, “Let’s remember that people are trying
to make a [false] moral equivalence between Hamas and Israel.

Even the Vice President, Kamala Harris, in her statement,
seemed to create a moral equivalence between the suffering
of the Gazans and the people who were killed in Israel.

The difference is this:

The people who are suffering in Gaza are suffering as a result of Hamas.
Hamas is using them as human shields.
Hamas is the one who is taking their food away.
Hamas is the one who is firing rockets from mosques and schools.

So, there is no moral equivalence between Israel’s self-defense actions,
which are trying to minimize civilian deaths,
and Hamas’ attempts to increase civilian deaths.”

SOURCE: article titled: “Dershowitz: Harris Trying to Appeal
to ‘anti-Israel’ Crowd with ‘Moral Equivalence’ Between Hamas, Israel”
2024 July 26, www (dot) matzav (dot) com

Andrew Stein (a Democrat who served as New York City
Council President from 1986 to 1994) said this:

In 1968, I ran as a Democrat in my first primary election,
as I sought to become a New York state Assemblyman.

I fought four more tough primary races against fellow Democrats
David Dinkins and Robert Wagner Jr. as we vied to become
Manhattan borough president, and yet another in 1985 against
Ken Lipper to become City Council president. In every primary
I had to work my butt off to prove myself to my party and my constituents.
Those races made me a better public servant and a better man.

That’s what the democratic process is for — and what the Democratic Party
is all about: testing our candidates through primary contests and giving our voters a voice.
This is not happening with Kamala Harris.
And it’s one of the reasons the Democratic Party will lose to Donald Trump in November.

If they actually wanted to live up to their name, Democratic leaders
would insist on an open convention where delegates
could freely select a presidential nominee in Joe Biden’s place.

Instead, [Kamala] Harris is getting a free ride from the media
and from many in her party:
Those who failed to pass [Joe] Biden off as competent
are now highly motivated to try to position [Kamala] Harris a
s someone who’s qualified to be president.
The anti-Trump press is ready to deify her,
Hollywood donors are poised to fill her coffers,
and the left is going all out to maintain their power.

Only one problem: [Kamala] Harris is utterly unqualified for the job.

[Kamala] Harris was one of the worst vice presidents in history,
an abject failure at virtually every task except for casting tie-breaker voters
for big spending bills that caused the inflation we’re all suffering through.

Instead, she fixed it for the left — letting millions of unauthorized immigrants (*)
pour into this country and then backing free healthcare for them all.

She has no foreign-policy experience, with a background as a
California “prosecutor” and less than a full term in the US Senate.

She has not been tested on the national stage in any serious way
and got zero votes as a failed presidential candidate.

She is turning her back on our democratic ally Israel,
even as it faces attacks on three sides from
Iranian proxies who are holding Americans hostage.

Her stance only gives comfort to Hamas and signals
the continuation of weak-kneed pro-Iran policies.

This week, in her first speech as a 2024 candidate,
she promised massive new spending programs.
As a senator, she backed the full $10 trillion Green New Deal.

So a vote for [Kamala] Harris is a vote for spending that could
kick off another round of inflation, continued open borders
costing us billions, higher energy prices and electric vehicle mandates.

There isn’t a left-wing idea out there that [Kamala] Harris
has not supported, from the transgender agenda
to banning private health insurance altogether.

Her idea of freedom is joining a union,
not fostering American individualism and innovation.
Her idea of the future is expanded government handouts for virtually everything.
Despite [Kamala] Harris’ trademark cackle, her election would be no laughing matter.

All of the flaws and mistakes of the Biden-Harris administration
will be magnified if the veep [Vice President] makes it to the Oval Office.
She is nothing but the Great Pretender, the sequel.

Donald Trump has had to survive false accusations of racism,
fines meant to bankrupt him, partisan lawsuits in an attempt to jail him,
an assassin’s bullet — and now even a second
presidential opponent, after demolishing his first one.

Don’t be fooled by all the [Kamala] Harris hype: She is nothing
but a new mask for the left, a failed vice president who
in nearly four years on the job never did anything to distinguish herself.

As an elected Democratic official for 25 years,
I could not in good conscience vote for Kamala Harris.
I would have to vote for Donald Trump.

(*) NOTE: Eleven million [11,000,000] illegal aliens.

SOURCE: article titled: “I ran in Democratic primaries for 25 years
— the Kamala Harris coronation is a betrayal”
by Andrew Stein 2024 July 24, The New York Post, www dot NYPost dot com

News Reporter Rikki Schlott of The New York Post said:

With the 2024 election almost upon us, Donald Trump is gaining a new cohort of voters:
Jewish Americans who feel abandoned by the left.

According to exit polls, 77 percent of Jewish voters went for Biden in 2020.
But a recent poll from the Jewish Electoral Institute found
the president has lost 10 points on his lead against his rival.

Between college protests erupting into chants for an “intifada revolution,”
Democrats like Jamaal Bowman leaning hard into pro-Palestine messaging,
and progressive organizations like Black Lives Matter chapters
celebrating the October 7th terrorist attacks,
many Jewish Americans feel abandoned by their party.

Some lifelong Jewish Democrats feel an explosion of left-wing antisemitism
has pushed them to re-register as Republicans — and vote for Trump.

The Post spoke to four local Jewish voters who made the switch in the wake of October 7th:

[1] Melissa Chapman always considered herself a bleeding heart liberal
— but she left the Democratic party after she claims it “betrayed” Jewish people.

“I’ve always been a Democrat, and I really believed that the Democrats
were going to protect me, because I’ve done everything a good Democrat should do,”
the 50-year-old Staten Islander told The Post.
“Then October 7th happened, and I was completely abandoned.”

Chapman, a mom of two, runs a blog where she champions progressive causes,
from LGBT rights and animal rights to Black History Month.

However, after the Hamas attacks which killed 1,200 and took another 250 hostage,
prompting Israel’s military to respond in Gaza, she found herself
castigated online in the progressive social media communities she’d long been a part of.

“Even on my vegan Facebook communities, all the recipes
became about freeing Palestine, somehow,” she said.
“If you dissented in any way, you either got bullied, shamed,
or just kicked out of the group. I was literally abandoned
by every single community that I poured my heart into.”

In total, Chapman was booted from 20 online communities
and called all manner of names, from ‘colonizer’
to ‘genocide supporter’ and ‘baby killer’.

“I was told to go back to Poland,” she recalled.
“One person told me they hope that I burn in the ovens.

If you support Israel, you’re immediately considered someone
who’s supporting genocide, which is not, by definition, even true —
but it doesn’t matter because buzzwords are taking over like wildfire.”

The experience of being squeezed out of progressive spaces
caused Chapman to re-register as a Republican.

“It’s a horrible time to support Israel and be a Democrat,
and I just don’t think there’s any space for us anymore,” she said.
“As a Jew, you have to disown Israel in order
to be accepted into the Democratic community.”

The post-October 7th reaction has caused Chapman to
think often of her late father, who was a Holocaust survivor:
“If he were alive today, I don’t know what he would say.
I don’t know, but would he say this is like
what happened in Germany before Hitler took over?”

As we head into election season, Chapman “1000%” plans
to vote Republican down the ticket,
from the local level to the presidential level.

“I never thought I would be voting Republican in my entire life,” she said.
“But it’s like living in a twilight zone. As a Jew living in America,
I don’t believe the Democratic Party has my best interest at heart.”

[2] After a lifetime as a Democrat, Danny Cohen decided
his party now “has a cancer” in the form of antisemitism.

“There’s been a hijacking of the Democratic Party,” Cohen, 56 of Brooklyn,
told The Post. “Right now the Democratic Party has a cancer.
It seems like all the antisemitism is just coming out of the woodwork.”

In the wake of October 7th, Cohen changed his party registration to Republican.
“The response from the left really shook me to my core,”
Cohen, who was raised in a Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn, said.

“I can’t be part of that party anymore. I don’t want
to have anything to do with these people.

As a Jewish person, Cohen says he feels uniquely unsupported by the left:
“It’s no longer a party that is fighting for human rights
because you can’t fight for human rights, except for Jewish rights.”

Over the past year, the standup comic says left-wing antisemitism has been overwhelming.

“We have ‘The Squad.’ We see what’s going on in college campuses.
We see what’s going on during these protests.
It’s taking to the streets, and it’s getting crazy,” he said.

“I’m not saying that there isn’t any hate in the Republican party —
we have the KKK, the Proud Boys, Charlottesville — but they
can’t even hold a candle to the scale of what’s going on on the other side.”

Accordingly, Cohen is planning to vote Republican for the first time.

“I’m passionate. I’m excited about it, actually,” he said.
“It’s a fight against Jew hatred,
and so now I’m excited about voting for Trump.”

[3] Sarah Sarkin once took to the streets to protest Trump’s election
in 2016, waving an “Anybody but Trump” poster.
Now she’s voting for him in 2024.

“Being a mother and watching everything that happened in October
made me make the switch,” Sarkin, who is raising her infant son in Syracuse, said.
“Those images are still seared and tattooed into my memory,
and it was just horrifying to see some of the reactions on the left.”

Although she considered herself “as Democrat as can be”
until recently, Sarkin, 31, re-registered as a Republican.

“It was a lot of silence on the left, and that really speaks so loudly
to how a party that I once thought was for equality and
for protecting us is really not for equal rights,” Sarkin told The Post.

“Being a liberal was such a big part of my identity,
so it was a weird thing for me to switch over.
But I’m at a different part of my life now, and it’s time for me to change.”

After October 7th, the safety of her family and Jewish community
became Sarkin’s number one priority, as a voter and as a mother.

Her local mom’s group chats were flooded with panicked posts
about safety, local protests, and whether or not to send kids to school
on the “International Day of Jihad,” called for by an ex-Hamas
leader on Oct. 13. Out of fear for their security, Sarkin and
her husband also decided to become first-time gun owners this year.

“I had never even held a gun, and it was scary,
but we wanted to learn how to protect ourselves,” Sarkin said.
“This became very real for us very soon. It happened in Israel,
but it can certainly happen here.”

As November nears, Sarkin plans to cast her ballot for Trump
because she believes his commitment to Israel is more resounding.

“At least for me, I need someone who’s a fighter and who knows where they stand.

[4] Marin Faiella: ‘I’ve never voted Republican before’

Marin Faiella has never voted Republican in her life,
but this November she’ll be casting her ballot for Trump.

“I think at the end of the day, it’s clear whose policies are aligned with a safer,
stronger allied relationship with Israel,” she told The Post.

Faiella has always considered herself staunchly pro-choice
and generally progressive. But October 7th upended her priorities.

“My number one priority is overall safety and security for myself as a Jewish person,” Faiella said.
“If your basic 101 safety isn’t in place, then you can’t really advocate for any additional rights.”

Faiella, who lives in the West Village and works in real estate,
says pro-Palestine demonstrations in New York City have been a wake-up call.

“I saw what was on the streets — celebrations, people shouting
and dressed as terrorists here in New York City,” she recalled.
“After October 7th, I was just scared to death,
in terms of being a Jewish person in the city.”

The progressives’ reaction to October 7th inspired her to change
her registration from Democrat to Republican last November,
but she says “the writing has been on the wall.”

“There were plenty of warnings that were preludes to what
we’re seeing out in the open now, like Bella Hadid and
the woke crowd that have been all in on Free Palestine,”
Faiella said. Hadid is of Palestinian descent.

Although she was initially conflicted about re-registering
as a Republican, she is feeling confident in her choice.

“I’m not anti-Democrat, but I’m definitely anti-extreme Democrats,” she said.
“I continue to feel more and more confident
and comfortable in my skin and my new affiliation.
I can always change back, but this is where I feel
it’s appropriate to be at this point in time.”

For Faiella, it all comes down to fundamental safety for the Jewish community.

“We could be Germany [in the] 1930s if we didn’t have
the government and law enforcement on our side,” she warned.
“If that ever changed, we wouldn’t be safe here anymore.”

SOURCE: article titled: “Meet the Jewish Americans
who feel abandoned by the Democrats, now voting Republican for the first time”
by Rikki Schlott 2024 July 9, The New York Post, www (dot) NYPost (dot) org

Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz of Matzav dot com said:

“The Democrat Party that controls the White House and Senate
is openly anti-Semitic and hostile toward Israel and Jews.

It is led by a weak, incompetent leader, who caused inflation to skyrocket,
eroded the moral fabric of the country, and opened the borders
to millions of unknown and undocumented people from around the world.”

SOURCE: article titled: “Truly Historic”
by Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz 2024 June 27 on Matzav dot com

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PERSONAL COMMENT: The number of ILLEGAL ALIENS that
President Joe Biden allowed to enter the USA is
more than ten million: > 10,000,000.
They include: convicted criminals, members of violent
gangs that sell illegal drugs, Chinese spies, Chinese soldiers,
Chinese Police Officers, and people with infectious diseases.

from Mark Matson and matzav (dot) com:

Mark Matson, a financial expert and author of
Experiencing the American Dream,
shared with Breitbart News his strong views on how
Vice President Kamala Harris’s policies could jeopardize
the American Dream, calling them a “destroyer” of that ideal.
….
He referred to a Wall Street Journal study
that defines key components of the American Dream,
such as: home ownership, starting a family
and raising children, sending children to college,
and enjoying a secure retirement.

“All of these things became more difficult under this
[Kamala Harris] administration,” [Mark] Matson remarked.

Matson further criticized [Kamala] Harris’s policy proposals,
including higher taxes, price controls, and increased regulations,
all of which he believes stand in opposition to the American Dream.

“These policies,” [Mark]Matson declared, “are an American dream destroyer.”
….
[Mark] Matson emphasized the need to preserve
the Trump-era tax cuts, warning that their expiration
could result in tax hikes of 20 to 30 percent for Americans.

SOURCE: article titled: “Financial Expert: Kamala Harris’s Tax Policies
Are an ‘American Dream Destroyer’”
September 15, 2024 www (dot) matzav (dot) com

Congresswoman Elise Stefanik said:

“Because as bad as Joe Biden is, Kamala Harris is worse.
Kamala Harris won’t merely withhold support for Israel.
She will actively undermine Israel’s self-defense….”

She [Congresswoman Elise Stefanik] went on to
praise Trump effusively for his long,
historic track record of supporting Israel.

SOURCE: article titled: “Stefanik Slams Kamala,
Praises Trump at pro-Israel Summit”
by Baruch Green September 22, 2024 www (dot) VINnews (dot) com

James Bickerton wrote this in Newsweek Magazine:

Famed attorney Alan Dershowitz has announced his departure
from the Democratic Party following what he called the
“most anti-Jewish, anti-Israel, anti-Zionist convention”
he has experienced.

The lawyer and Harvard Law professor emeritus made the announcement
during an appearance on the Talkline With Zev Brenner podcast
shortly after the Democratic National Convention,
which took place in Chicago from August 19 to August 22.
….
During his interview with radio host Zev Brenner, Dershowitz said:
“I am no longer a Democrat. I am an independent.” He added,
“A lot of things pushed me in that direction,” citing Vice President
Kamala Harris’ decision not to preside over Netanyahu’s address
to a joint session of Congress in July
and rhetoric at the Democratic National Convention.

“I was disgusted at the Democratic National Convention.
Absolutely disgusted,” he said.

Dershowitz continued: “They had more anti-Jewish,
anti-Zionist people who were speaking, starting with
[Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]—a miserable anti-Zionist bigot.

“Then, of course, they had [Senator Elizabeth] Warren,
who is one of the most anti-Jewish people in the Senate.
Then they had Bernie Sanders,
one of the most anti-Jewish people in the Senate.”
….
The lawyer [Alan Dershowitz] also said that had Pennsylvania Governor
Josh Shapiro not been Jewish, he likely would have been chosen
as [Kamala] Harris’ running mate.
“I understand that if his name were John Sheppard,
not Josh Shapiro, he would have been the democratic nominee,” he said.

SOURCE: article titled: “Alan Dershowitz Quits Democratic Party,
Slams ‘Anti-Zionist’ DNC”
by James Bickerton, for Newsweek Magazine, 2024 September 7

You forget to mention that Donald Trump has a Jewish daughter
(who he loves very much) and JEWISH GRANDCHILDEN.
That is a big omission, in my opinion.

You also forget to mention that that Kamala Harris is a SOCIALIST,
and/or a member of the “Progressive” political far-Left.

The Socialists and/or the “Progressive” political far-Left
both want to WIPE ISRAEL OFF THE MAP.

Notice that the Socialists and “Progressives” do not merely
want Israel to get news laws or a new Prime Minister;
they want 100% of Israel to be 100% eliminated, PERMANENTLY,
and replaced and an Arab-Muslim-Terrorist dictatorship,
where Islam is the ONLY truly tolerated religion,
and Jews either do not exist at all,
or exist as a relentlessly persecuted minority, with no rights.

Obviously, the Socialists and “Progressives” do not care,
if they inflict another Holocaust on the Jews of Israel.

That is what Kamala Harris and her political friends believe in.

Regardless of what Donald Trump’s flaws are,
at least he does not want to cause another Holocaust,
nor does he want to replace Israel with
a brutal Arab-Muslim-Terrorist dictatorship.

YWN can improve by approving comments faster.

Also give people the ability to delete their comments.

I wish the entire Yeshiva World News community,
all employees and all readers, only good decrees
on Rosh HaShanah, and a very easy fast on Yom Kippur.

James Bickerton wrote this in Newsweek Magazine:

Famed attorney Alan Dershowitz has announced his departure
from the Democratic Party following what he called the
“most anti-Jewish, anti-Israel, anti-Zionist convention” he has experienced.

The lawyer and Harvard Law professor emeritus made the announcement
during an appearance on the Talkline With Zev Brenner podcast
shortly after the Democratic National Convention,
which took place in Chicago from August 19 to August 22.
….
During his interview with radio host Zev Brenner,
Dershowitz said: “I am no longer a Democrat. I am an independent.”
He added, “A lot of things pushed me in that direction,”
citing Vice President Kamala Harris’ decision not to preside
over Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress
in July and rhetoric at the Democratic National Convention.

“I was disgusted at the Democratic National Convention.
Absolutely disgusted,” he said.

Dershowitz continued: “They had more anti-Jewish,
anti-Zionist people who were speaking, starting with
[Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]—a miserable anti-Zionist bigot.

“Then, of course, they had [Senator Elizabeth] Warren,
who is one of the most anti-Jewish people in the Senate.
Then they had Bernie Sanders, one of the most anti-Jewish people in the Senate.”
….
The lawyer [Alan Dershowitz] also said that had Pennsylvania Governor
Josh Shapiro not been Jewish, he likely would have been chosen
as [Kamala] Harris’ running mate.
“I understand that if his name were John Sheppard, not Josh Shapiro,
he would have been the democratic nominee,” he said.

SOURCE: article titled: “Alan Dershowitz Quits Democratic Party,
Slams ‘Anti-Zionist’ DNC” by James Bickerton,
for Newsweek Magazine, 2024 September 7

Kuvult, thank you for answering my question.

I wish you only good decrees on Rosh HaShanah
and a very easy fast on Yom Kippur.

The NY Post Editorial Board said this:

If President Biden had any decency, he’d limit his United Nations
speech Tuesday to two words: “I’m sorry”.

Kamala Harris should echo that.

[President Barack] Obama Defense Secretary Robert Gates
once warned (all too rightly) that Biden had been
“wrong on nearly every major foreign-policy and
national-security issue over the past four decades.”

Over the past four years, Joe and Kam [Kamala Harris]
have continued that pattern, leaving the world
facing its most perilous threats in decades.

Start with the disastrous bugout [disorganized retreat]
from Afghanistan, executed in blatant defiance of every
military adviser and the plan left in place by the Trump team.

That bugout enabled the Taliban to triumphantly retake control
of the country, humiliating America and seizing billions
in weaponry our forces left behind —
erasing all the progress made in 20 years of fighting.

Worse, it sent the message that Washington can’t be trusted
as an ally, that aggressors could get away with almost anything.

And [Kamala] Harris brags that
she was the “last person in the room,”
backing Biden made when he made that fatal decision.

It was downhill from there:

[1] Russia seized the opportunity to launch a fresh invasion
of Ukraine as Biden signaled that, as a “minor incursion,”
would be OK; our president then slow-walked
aid and tied Kyiv’s hands on the use of US weapons.

[2] Iran ramped up its drive for nukes as Harris-Biden
sucked up to the regime, ending key Trump-era sanctions
that had strangled the Iranian economy
and sending billions to Islamic Republic outright.

[3] Its cashflow restored, Tehran upped its funding of
terror groups, and helped Hamas plan and launch the
October 7 [2023] massacre, triggering the Gaza war.

[4] Iran also boosted the Houthis, who have now
shut down the Red Sea to Western shipping.

[5] And Hezbollah, which has fired nearly 9,000 rockets
and drones at Israel since October 7 [2023]
and is now threatening an all-out war.

[6] China, meanwhile, has grown increasingly aggressive,
harassing neighbors like the Philippines and Taiwan,
militarizing islands in the South China Sea
and aiming to control shipping lanes.

Beijing has also reasserted its intention to
reclaim Taiwan soon — by force, if necessary.

[7] To make up for their self-destructive war on US oil,
and thinking dictator Nicholas Maduro would allow
a fair election, Harris and Biden lifted oil sanctions on Venezuela
— only to see Maduro steal this year’s election.

[8] [Joe] Biden and Border Czar [Kamala] Harris let in
millions of barely vetted migrants, overwhelming cities
and creating new crime and terror threats.

PERSONAL NOTE: Between 11,000,000 and 30,000,000 ILLEGAL ALIENS!!

[9] One of the scariest developments: the alignment of Iran,
China, Russia and North Korea against the West — even as
Team Harris-Biden has shrunk the US military
and focused it more on pronouns, less on fighting enemies.

Now the world’s on the brink of an all-out war
in the Middle East that could well rope in America.

And another if Russia defeats Ukraine and
then looks to expand its hegemony further.

And still another when China makes a play for Taiwan.

“Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f – – – things up,”
President Barack Obama reportedly warned years ago.

Sadly, America’s voters did just that in 2020,
and now the entire free world is paying the price.

SOURCE: article titled: “Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
owe the world an apology for the perils they’ve created”
by NY Post Editorial Board, 2024 September 23

from matzav (dot) com:

The New York Times has acknowledged that
statements made by former President Donald Trump
regarding Vice President Kamala Harris’s support
for taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries
for “illegal aliens” in custody were “essentially accurate.”

SOURCE: article titled: “NY Times Admits Trump Is Right:
Harris Backed Gender Surgeries for ‘Illegal Aliens’”
2024 September 14 www (dot) matzav (dot) com

Dear Menachem Shmei,

I thank you very much for your excellent Torah sources.

As you correctly said, those statements are similar
to what the OP said, but none are exact matches.

Most people don’t know this, but I have done HUGE research
into the topic of Tefilah, always focusing on precise Torah sources.

I NEVER found ANY Rabbi or Torah book which says exactly
what the OP said, even though I did enough research to write
several books on the topic of Tefilah, and I strongly suspect
that his quote is not written in any Torah book.

I am tired of reading the ridiculous messages that “bael teshuva”
writes in this Coffee Room. His messages are low-quality,
and never should have been approved by moderators.

I strongly suspect that “bael teshuva” is NOT a real Baal Teshuvah;
I suspect that he falsely uses that name as part of a sick stupid joke,
in which he hopes to make people laugh at real Baalei Teshuvah,
because Baalei Teshuvah are like orphans, who have nobody
to defend them when people laugh at them or ridicule them.

I wish you good decrees on Rosh HaShanah,
and a very easy fast on Yom Kippur.

Sincerely,
SQUARE_ROOT

“…smile before you pray better it is then tzedaka…”

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In what book is that written?
Who wrote that book?
Chapter number? Page number?

Dear Sam Klein,

Please add this onto my previous message:

There is NO GUARANTEE that all members of Hezbollah and Hamas
are Bnei Yishmael, even if all of them speak Arabic as their native language.

Many of them could have Persian ancestors, or European ancestors,
or Black African ancestors. Some Europeans came to North Africa
and their descendants are now Arabic-speaking Muslims.

When Islam conquered North Africa and the Middle East,
native languages were replaced by the Arabic language,
and non-Arab nationalities were forgotten, because native
nationalities were conquered and converted to Arab culture.

Therefore, we cannot assume that any members of
Hezbollah and Hamas are Bnei Yishmael, even if all
of them speak Arabic as their native language.

Some of them are Bnei Yishmael, but some of them are not.

Again, I wish you very good decrees on Rosh HaShanah,
and a very easy fast on Yom Kippur, for you
and for your entire family, and for all Jews everywhere.

Sincerely,
SQUARE_ROOT

Dear Sam Klein,

I hope that you feel very well,
and I wish you very good decrees on Rosh HaShanah,
and a very easy fast on Yom Kippur.

Hezbollah and Hamas want to KILL 100% of the world’s Jewish population.

Even those Jews who never visited Eretz Yisrael,
Hezbollah and Hamas want ALL (100%) JEWS DEAD.

This makes Hezbollah and Hamas AMALEK,
even though their yichus is from the Bnei Yishmael.

Stated another way:

Hezbollah and Hamas want to KILL 100% of the world’s Jews..

Even those Jews who are non-Zionist,
even those Jews who are anti-Zionist.
Hezbollah and Hamas want ALL (100%) JEWS DEAD.

This makes Hezbollah and Hamas AMALEK,
even though their yichus is from the Bnei Yishmael.

Explained another way:

Hezbollah and Hamas want to KILL 100% of the world’s Jews..

Even Jewish women and old people.
Even Jewish teenagers and children and infants and babies.
Hezbollah and Hamas want them ALL DEAD.

Hezbollah and Hamas want 100% of them to be 100% DEAD,
because this is what ISLAM teaches them.

This makes Hezbollah and Hamas AMALEK,
even though their yichus is from the Bnei Yishmael.

Again, I wish you very good decrees on Rosh HaShanah,
and a very easy fast on Yom Kippur.

Sincerely,
SQUARE_ROOT

Destroying Amalek is one the Taryag Mitzvot (the 613 commandments of the Torah).

Hamas and Hezbollah are the Amalek of our generation.

Therefore, destroying Hamas and Hezbollah is one the Taryag Mitzvot.

UJM does not seem to remember that the Gedolim who condemned
“The Zionists”, also condemned the USA as “the treifa medina”.

Why does UJM want to move Jews from Eretz HaKodesh,
where living there is a great merit, to the USA,
which was condemned as “the treifa medina” by the Gedolim?

Maybe no Jews should live anywhere in the USA,
because Gedolim who lived 100+ years ago
condemned the USA as “the treifa medina”?