By Ted Belman
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Israel Radar
The Israel Link is reporting that a child, 10 year old, first reported as a boy and later as a girl, who was struck by falling debris from a ballistic missile.
No one else is reporting the child’s death.
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99% success rate in shooting down drones, cruise & ballistic missiles by IDF.
USA & Jordan also shot down drones over Jordan, Syria and Iraq.
One injury to a Israeli Bedouin reported who was hit by falling remnants of missile.
OOPPs I was trying to give timely news update to those who do not have the ability to listen and watch Hebrew timely news. Sorry I am in moderation so this was a waste of time. My mistake.
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Iran will regret their chosen course.
Reports of more drones and now cruise missiles launched from Iran.
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Iran has launched dozens of drones against Israel.
@Edgar This is a hilarious bit. I’m kind of reminded of the negotiations between Biden/Blinken and Israel with Abbott as Biden/Blinken and Costello as Israel.
Abbott and Costello – One Night in the Tropics – 365 dollars (1940)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAkLzbq2K3I
@Edgar Not particularly ha ha funny, but a delightful find I just stumbled upon.
Fred Astaire as guest on the Oscar Levant Show. 1958
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNJWAOJT7eM
@Edgar I think this is a hilarious bit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_f6qFBQD9U&
@Edgar I know the first one as a debate between a rabbi and priest who are friends and it’s timelessly funny, I agree. I didn’t know the second one but I don’t think it’s funny.
SEB-
A Jew was discussing Rabbinic Law.
“Do you know that the sin of eating chometz on Pesach has the same penalty as the sin of committing adultery??”
“I’ve tried them both and believe me, there’s NO Comparison””.
“Psychiatrists say that Frank Sinatra’s moving on from woman to woman is a sign of deep unhappiness..
We have to be sorry for the poor guy, suffering like anything”.
SEB-
A Jew was discussing Rabbinic Law.
“Do you know that the sin of eating chometz on Pesach has the same penalty as the sin of committing adultery??”
“I’ve tried them both and believe me, there’s NO Comparison””.
The sacrifices that the US made in post War Europe, like The Marshall Plan, were not made out of altruism. They were a vital neccessity for the US to have a strong bulwark against rampantly aggressive, octupus-like grasp of the USSR, which showed its true colours long before the war ended.
Even a political neophyte like myself could see this. The East-West Berlin blockade was a perfect example/ was like a grim game of football with fatal consequences of “goals” scored.
@Michael
IF this is so, you have yet to demonstrate it.
The NATO overthrow of Ukraine rendered Ukraine a NATO colony, rather than a sovereign nation on the doorstep of a nuclear powered state, which waited nearly a decade before responding militarily as the US did spontaneously with regards to Cuba in 1962.
As to the Hashemites, that regime has waged a war against Israel since Israel was formed and created the breach in Israeli society with the war crime of withdrawing citizenship from the Pals living in Israel. Even signing a peace treaty with Israel they have continued to overtly violate that ‘treaty’ repeatedly over the years, most recently with the smuggling of guns and gold to terrorists in Israel thru the use of diplomatic couriers, and sparking the 2021 War of Riots and Rockets before that.
The illicit actions of NATO and the Hashemites are each actions of belligerents, which no sovereign nation would or should allow to go unanswered. Hence, it is not incumbent upon sovereign nations to accept such abuses as either Russia or Israel has done in these examples, but rather they should respond as necessary to maintain their sovereignty, as Russia has done, and hopefully as Israel will do.
It is far greater than a military allaince which threatens Israel, but the adoption of US aid and offshoring of Israeli munition sources solely to the US.
You wear the US upon your sleeve as if I should countenance my repulsion of the actions of that once great nation to satisfy your overstated sensitivities. I object to the belligerence of the US, as it applies to Serbia, to Libya, to Iraq, to Ukraine, to Russia, and yes, to Israel, and this is easily a limited list which could be extended. In fact, it is those people who can not appreciate the opprobrium being committed by their respective nations which lend their support to the wielding of tyranny over other nations. This is the lesson which we should all take from the sacrifice of Sophie Scholl. The notion that such actions as have been taken by the US should be ignored or accepted because you find it an abuse of your personal self is, to me, both illogical and indefensible.
My only criticism of you was that you supported the antisemitic rants made by Owens and Carlson as being in any way supportably fair, when in fact, they are nothing more than the antisemitic rants of two isolationists who believe that they can change the pro-Israel MAGA movement into an anti-Israel isolationist movement.
No one has belittled the sacrifices made by the American people in WWII, though many have done so with regards to the Russian people, whose sacrifice was actually much much greater. Personally, I am beholden to all the forces and peoples who brought the Nazi regime down, but I do not hold that reverence in perpetuity. What the US has done over the last 40 years in supporting the rise of the Iranian menace and the criticisms made thereof those actions by the US are not related to nor relatable to America’s role in WWII, but should be critiqued and valued independently as I have done.
Bully for you. I couldn’t care less if you like that I raise my criticisms of America’s actions nor if you dislike that I raise my support for Russia’s reasonable response to NATO’s oversteps. If you disagree with me, speak to what I state with facts or opinions about what I state, as this results in greater learning and understanding of what we each might think.
Respond as you like, but you do seem poorly informed as to my positions on these matters.
@Michael
I’m going to go out on a limb here and take a wild guess, but I think you hate Russians.
Peloni,
There is no need to drag Mr. Rosenthal or anyone else into this. Let me simply express myself freely concerning you and Ted. If that means my post gets trashed for being “too long”, then so be it.
1. Sovereignty: Between you, who advocate Russia swallowing up its neighbors, and Ted, who advocates overthrowing the Jordanian king, I must say that both of you have a selective view of “sovereignty” — enough for me to doubt the sincerity of anything you say on the matter. Nevertheless,
2. If you consider a military alliance a threat to Israel’s sovereignty I haven’t criticized you for this; in fact, I have advocated this myself
3. The above said, you have criticized ME for advocating that, in the current duress of my own country, we should’t be squandering our resources on Israel.
4. The above are just dodges on your parts. You both should know that the heart of the matter between us has nothing to do with Russia, Ukraine or Israel; it is your repeated attacks on the US, even belittling the sacrifices we made in WWII — sacrifices we didn’t have to make for our own sake (as one here has well said, we were secure from any attack from the Nazis); but regardless of our motives or lack therof, what we did had the effect of destroying Hitler and facilitating the creation of Israel
I needn’t say more on this matter; and I have no interest in a long, running discussion on the matter. I know how you feel, and you know how I feel. There’s no need to go beyond this.
5. Concerning Russia, whether you think Israel should ally themselves with her or not, I find defenses of its current leader to be repulsive; and I’ve said as much. The continual references many here have made to other countries — Ukraine, the US, the UK, etc. do not make the Russian pig smell like a rose.
@Michael
This is as short sighted of a suggestion as it is ignorant of what I have advocated for many years. Israel needs to NOT turn its fate over to Russia and to STOP turning its fate over to the Americans. It is a SOVEREIGN nation, whose raison d’être has always been to be a nation of Jews able and capable of choosing the fate of her Jewish population without subjugating the interests of that Jewish population to the whims and interests of foreigners.
The pursuit of support from the US has only made Israel dependent upon that support, malleable to her destruction and accepting of existential threats. This is as unhealthy as it is unsustainable and October 7 has provided proof of this fact for those who needed such clarification. So, in your lack of clarity for that which I have advocated, you are now suggesting that I would have Israel trade the US dependence for that of Russia? Utter twaddle.
My following comment from two years ago and Victor Rosenthal’s article, to which it is attached, instead provides a summary of what I have advocated:
https://www.israpundit.org/israel-must-become-an-unaligned-nation/#comment-63356000248406
Israel must have no master, but must be her own sovereign, standing between empires rather than attached to them. We have assets and advantages which the various players might value should we maintain our independence, while choosing sides renders us irrelevant to our “ally” and an enemy to our “ally’s” opposition. Independence rather than dependence, neutrality and partnership as opposed to advocacy and alliance, and sovereignty rather than subjugation. These are the basis of what I have advocated, not to become a Russian toady state in place of being an American toady state.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/american-citizen-convicted-providing-material-support-isis-resulted-death-and-related
@Michael I see Poland has been asking for the U.S. to share it’s nuclear weapons in response to Russia stationing them in Belarus.
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-748554
(I was actually looking for something about the Israeli strike on the Iranian embassy in a Ukrainian paper and not only was there nothing but it was hard to get any Ukrainian news sites to come up, even when I had to go to DuckDuckGo.)
How nice. You must be happy. On 2 counts. First, you get to have your Christian Armageddon and afterword, 72 black-eyed virgins? No, whoops. Wrong crazy millenarian eschatalogical cult. Have any fun plans after the rapture when you get to heaven? Maybe get a few tips from this wonderful comedy – one of my mother’s favorite films and I like it, too –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZEbLVD72hY
Also, sharing is a very wholesome Christian value is it not?
“Share everything.
Play fair.
Don’t hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don’t take things that aren’t yours.
Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.”
– “Everything I ever needed to know I learned in Kindergarden.” by Robert Fulghum
@Michael you missed the point about the tattoos. They’re not illegal in Russia. He wasn’t arrested for that. He was arrested for suspicion of planning to join the war against Russia and the NAZI tattoo on his shoulder was confirmation after he wouldn’t allow his phone to be unlocked But, he was stopped while crossing borders because one of his war gaming buddies had reported him to the authorities. He says, himself, he’s right wing and pro-Ukraine. What do you think would have happened to him if he had been a citizen of Ukraine and the situation were reversed, huh? Or any country at war, actually.
@Michael
https://ukranews.com/en/news/998716-poland-asks-united-states-for-nuclear-weapons
Happy now? What do you plan to do when after your Christian Armeggedon arrives and you get to go to heaven? Any fun plans? 72 black-eyed virgins. Oh, oops, sorry, wrong crazy millenarian cult.
By the way, you might enjoy one of my – and my late mother’s – favorite films by one of my favorite humorists, Albert Brooks: “Defending Your Life” with Meryl Streep
“Defending Your Life (1991) Official Trailer – Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep Movie HD”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZEbLVD72hY
Hi, Sebastien.
OOOOOH!
I don’t know if you’ve ventured out into the street lately (If I were in NYC, I don’t think I would), but most people under 40 years old have tattoos — and most of them are women! Are they criminal leaders, outlaws, and rogues? I don’t think so. Even so, live in your fantasy if you want to.
I don’t know why you feel so guilty about the Ukraine. I didn’t bring them up. Peloni made a comment, that the UK should be tried for war crimes, and I pointed out that others have committed war crimes as well — including… CENSORED
At any rate, “UK” does not stand for “Ukraine”.
Enjoy your day 🙂
@Michael From the 2nd article you just posted:
@Michael
😀 No you didn’t. You didn’t read your own article before you posted it.
— Russian Times
https://www.rt.com/news/595809-islamic-world-israel-destruction/
Notice how RT (the quasi-official voice of Vladimir Putin) blames Israel for provoking the confrontation with Iran.
@Michael So, the UN report that both sides are doing the torturing is an imaginary rabbit, eh?
Hi, Sebastien
I just provided you with the testimony of a man who was arrested for havingt a tattoo, then beaten and electrocuted. There weren’t any Ukrainians in the room. You have brought them in, like Havey the Imaginary Rabbit.
As I’ve said often, “Don’t quit your day job”
BTW, the article I quoted was from the Moscow Times.
@Micheal
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-briefing-notes/2022/11/ukraine-russia-prisoners-war
Sebastian,
Several years ago, I read “A History of the Kovno Ghetto”. One photo in it that caught my attention, was of of a line of residents queuing up to collect their ration of horsemeat. They were smiling, and obviously good-naturedly joking with one another. You might have fit in well there, keeping up spirits.
Then, chances are, you would soon be dead, no joke!
Should some people be investigated for war crimes? What do you think “war crimes” are? getting a tattoo? or beating and electrocuting someone?
I’m not saying this to brow-beat you or anyone, just pointing out the irony of the present situation.
Concerning the breakfast menu, the point is that these everyday things don’t depend on what’s happening in Israel: Without American support, Israel is very, very much alone.
Ted and Peloni, I respect your rights to your own opinions; but if you’re looking longingly for the tender mercies of Vladimir Putin, I continue to advise against it:
I assume the two of you think you will escape such a fate: If Israel turns its fate over to the likes of Putin, YOU wouldn’t find yourself on the dark side of his favor! Then again, maybe you would… It could happen.
@Sebastien
Very good point.
@Michael
@Edgar
OK, I found a contemporary source, doesn’t get anymore contemporary than this, that clearly shows that Christianity is based on a linguiistic misunderstanding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOTKDgrdvdg&t=100s
@Michael Might I suggest a repast of dry toast, stewed prunes and cream?
*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKT8QoboD1g&
* There was an Ephraim Kishon story with this premise and also the beginning of “North by Northwest” by Hitchcock. I think it’s an old Jewish joke.
10 APR 2024, ?ALERT: ISRAEL AND IRAN THREATEN NUCLEAR/ EMP STRIKES, GOLDS WW3 WARNING, FRANCE CUTS RUSSIA TALKS
https://www.brighteon.com/c008cb60-a399-4b73-b39b-b6b88f6e37a5
BTW, I’m just posting what is being said around the world. If there’s a nuclear war in Israel, I would like something like bacon, eggs and toast for breakfast, as usual. (Note the bacon: I’m not Jewish).. If it DOESN’T happen, I would like the same.