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April 16, 2020 | 7,781 Comments »

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  1. ADAM-

    I am totally dismayed to read your news, and you surely know that I and my fellow members hope with all my heart that you will improve. I’ve been reading up on it and from what limited info I can get it seems that a med called GLUMETZA seems to be the most beneficial with few side effects, as well as several anti-biotics which I hope you are already taking.

    I know about nurse practitioners, we have them here too, although with socialised medicine it can take over a year to get a specialist appt.
    And some of them are pretty poor and more than a bit careless.
    Like your’s was.

    May your health improve to a degree that obviates any though of early demise.

  2. Ted and Peloni–Please rescue my reply to Edgar, which I just posted, from electronic oblivion. It was an unusually personal reply to Edgar;s highly personal query about my health. I think he , and maybe a few other Israpundit people, will want to read it. Thanks

  3. @Edgar–I deeply appreciate your concern for me and my health, And I am also moved by your remembrance of my offer to help your move. Even though I didn’t in the end provide any help.

    I did see another doctor, “sort of.” I say sort of because she is technically a”nurse practionaer, ” not an MD. However, this is a very common situation in America now, Many MDs have retired, and those who are still practicing medicine usually only practice in their specialty . As a result, very few primary care clinics are headed by MDs, .

    However, my nurse practitioner is head of the local primary care clinic inmy home town, and quite good. She order some more sophisticated lab tests than the physician I saw previously, who is a dibetes specialist. The more sophisitcated tests ordered by my local clinic head revealed a serious streptococcus infection which was seriously complicating my diabetes. She presecribed an antibiotic for me that has eased my pain significantly. But I am still very sick, suffering from frequent and uncontrollled urination.

    I also have highly elevated liver counts. Well above the cirhosses level. This will be enough to kill me even if didn’t have diabetes.

    So I just live day by day, getting through it as best I can. I spend a lot of time on the internet. Mainly checking the news every few minutes, But also watching old “classics” movies. Many of them are far better and more artistic than the crap Hollywood and the TV studios turn out now,

    So I just live day by day. Perhaps I will mireculously recover from these and several other serious ailments. Or Godd may take my life soon. I accerpt that it is in God’s hands, and try my best to enjoy every day as best as I can.

    Again, thank you for your concern, Edgar. I have always been a “loner” and I don’t have many friends , As a result, I treasure the few friends I do have, such as my friends at Israpundit.

  4. ADAM-

    Did you go to another doctor and did he prescribe anti-diabetes meds. And are you feeling better and have a more cheerful concept of outcome.
    I am not prying into your private affairs but genuinely concerned at an issue you brought up.
    I have never forgotten your generous, spontaneous offer to move my belongings without knowing even where I was living.

  6. First they came for the lawyers and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a lawyer.

    Then they came for the professors and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a professor.

    Then they came for the journalists and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a journalist.

    Then they came for the entertainers and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t an entertainer.

    Then they just stopped coming for people because we didn’t have any problems anymore.

    – popped up on my Facebook feed.
    😀

  11. A Proclamation on Jewish American Heritage Month, 2024 APRIL 30, 2024

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/04/30/a-proclamation-on-jewish-american-heritage-month-2024/

    Amazing. I think this is the only time he didn’t condemn “Islamofauxbia” in the same breath though he included the obligatory Dem blather about the TSS. Even Dem Israel supporters like Fetterman do that. I think he’s gettiing uneasy about the Jewish vote, as well, for a change.

  17. Meet Thomas “Toby” Blatt.
    Toby was one of the planners in the uprising and escape from the Sobibor extermination camp in 1943, an incident in which some 300 prisoners escaped. Most of them were captured and executed; he was one of the only survivors.

    After escaping Sobibor and surviving a harrowing time in the forests among the partisans, Toby returned to his childhood home in the Polish town of Izbitz. When he approached his house and saw that it was still standing, he was very excited. He was sure that all his local acquaintances and friends would be happy to see that he had survived the terrible destruction. He knocked on the door, and it was opened by the nanny who had raised him with devotion in his youth. He was sure she would welcome him enthusiastically, but to his shock, the door immediately slammed shut. After knocking repeatedly, her husband opened the door and yelled at him to leave, and never to return. At that specific moment, he said, it felt as if the entire world collapsed.

    In a heightened emotional state, he concocted a plot of sweet revenge.

    In his youth, his father taught about the Midrash that before the conquest of the Land of Israel by Joshua ben Nun, the Amorites buried their treasures in the walls of their homes, so G-d brought leprosy on those houses—which were then destroyed—and the treasures were discovered. This gave him an idea.

    The next morning, he returned to the scene, and again, after knocking on the door, he was chased away with shouts and threats, with the caregiver claiming that they did not know him and that the house had never belonged to him. He refused to budge. He told them that he was asking for only one thing: the diamonds that his father had hidden in the walls of the house before being deported—a story that was, obviously, false. The residents seemed to believe what he said, and this threw them into a bigger rage, emerging and beating him until he left the area.

    After about a year, Toby returned to the town, and discovered that the house had become a heap of ruins. It had been completely dismantled; the family had decided to look for the treasure—but in vain.

    Toby smiled, “This was my sweet revenge”.

    (Toby passed away in 2015 in California at the age of 88.)

    Naveed Anjum

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  21. US Election Expert: Jewish Vote is Turning Against Biden | The Caroline Glick Show

    ”
    4,088 views Premiered 3 hours ago
    As Jews are being attacked on campus and the Biden administration continues to distance itself from Israel, will the ironclad Democratic Jewish vote be affected? Will liberal Jews break with the Democratic Party because they feel unsafe in Biden’s America?

    Journalist and author Caroline Glick talks with US election expert and political analyst Richard Baehr to break down the numbers and trends and to understand if this coming US election will be unlike any other.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM5au1jEDZY

  22. “I am speaking to you from east of Rafah, from within the evacuation zones. The Israeli ‘vehicles’ are starting to enter from the eastern border. The situation is very bad”

    Faytuks News

  23. Israel says Hamas offer does not meet key demands, will keep negotiating, is moving forward with Rafah op

  28. Michael, I cant find your response to my wanting clarification. Im sure you did. Ted’s search feature does not seem to work and when I go to archives for the month of April, that does not seem to work either. I’m I doing something wrong or does this site just not have search capabilities?

  29. I saw this today. New York is 6 hours behind Israel so, yesterday, Israel time. Last day of previews, so it was only $38. Tix are $66-$86. I sat next to fellow 2nd Gen Shoah survivors. Mostly elderly audience. It was good. Satirical. Lot of gypsy jazz by Reinhardt in the ’30s – Django Reinhardt was a gypsy who was imprisoned in a concentration camp in Belgium or France but released by the Commandant, who was a fan, and spent the rest of the war in hiding* – who I was a groupie of – with his partner, violinist, Stephane Grappelli – when I was in high school in the ’70s. I had no interest in the popular music of my own time before I became a leftist. Only 6 players playing all parts as well as playing instruments. Theater was full.

    STAGE
    The Brief Life & Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria

    WHEN
    Until June 2
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    59E59 Theaters
    59 East 59th Street, New York, NY 10022, United States
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    The year is 1943. Bulgaria has saved most of its Jewish population (50,000 people) from deportation to concentration camps. A reluctant monarch, the self-effacing King Boris III stands up to Hitler, even though Bulgaria’s government has buckled under Germany. As Mark Fisher wrote in The Guardian, Sasha Wilson and Joseph Cullen’s 2020 play confronts “those awkward questions about appeasement and compromise, and the slippery line between honourable neutrality and collaboration.” Celebrated at Edinburgh Fringe and then transferred to the Arcola Theatre, in London, the show has received numerous awards. Now premiering in New York City, the small-budget production from Out Of The Forest Theatre has survived partly due to help from King Boris’s grandson, Prince Kyril, who saw the play and loved it. “My grandfather King Boris was a key part of this story,” the prince has said, “and although he didn’t live to see the end of the war, his objective to prevent the deportation was ultimately achieved.” Hannah Hauer-King directs. —Jeanne Malle

    https://airmail.news/arts-intel/events/the-brief-life-mysterious-death-of-boris-iii-king-of-bulgaria

    https://www.59e59.org/shows/show-detail/the-brief-life-mysterious-death-of-boris-iii-king-of-bulgaria/

    *Django wrote, performed, and recorded this piece on violin and guitar – he plays both parts and he only had the use of his thumb and first two fingers on his left hand from an injury in his youth – which was an odd coincidence as the music started up as I got to my seat, as though it were my theme song and I have an arthritic thumb injury – since a couple of weeks ago – making it hard to play violin, viola, guitar and piano – talk about Indra’s Net* – with piano accompaniment during the Holocaust while in hiding. A faux-cheerful blues variation on the funeral march. Blue en Mineur (1942). I have always found it very moving. Always brings me to tears.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMQGngbm6d8&

    * “People also ask
    What is Indra’s net theory?
    Indra’s Net symbolizes the universe as a web of connections and interdependences…. The net is said to be infinite, and to spread in all directions with no beginning or end. At each node of the net is a jewel, so arranged that every jewel reflects all the other jewels…. a microcosm of the whole net….”
    Wikipedia/Indra’s Net

  30. I am distraught that every mention of the “war”…ISRAEL must meetbdemands….NO ONE is demanding anything of Hamas…like—release hostages!
    Also in the attached article – superb as itis…leaves mr curious….A sentence reads:
    …”In other words, the government chose to avoid the contest between our rights that their claims and instead presented it as one of completing claims. But why even mention the Arab claims at all?” COMPLETING or COMPETING????

  31. @Reader

    I sure hope this is wrong

    Indeed I share your hopes.

    Always good to hear from you, by the way.

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  32. @peloni

    Time to move into Rafah

    It sure is, BUT:

    Report: Hamas agreed to Egyptian ceasefire proposal
    Asharq Al-Awsat claims Israel removed opposition to releasing certain terrorists, US guaranteed full withdrawal from Gaza and an end to the war.
    Dalit Halevi May 4, 2024, 10:37 PM

    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/389396

    I sure hope this is wrong but there is a very good chance that Israel did cave in to the US demands again.

  33. Hamas official says no hostage deal without explicit end to war as talks set to resume

    Time to move into Rafah

  34. Funny AOC Facebook Meme: I’m against civics in school unless we study other cars. I mean, why should we show favoritism towards Honda?” 😀 😀

  38. @ Michael

    Tora! Tora! Tora! (Japanese: ?????????) is a 1970 epic war film that dramatizes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The film was produced by Elmo Williams and directed by Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku, and stars an ensemble cast including Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, So Yamamura, E.G. Marshall, James Whitmore, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takahiro Tamura, Wesley Addy, and Jason Robards. It was Masuda and Fukasaku’s first English-language film, and first international co-production. The tora of the title, although literally meaning “tiger”, is actually an abbreviation of a two-syllable codeword (i.e., totsugeki raigeki ????, “lightning attack”), used to indicate that complete surprise had been achieved.[4]

    Wikipedia

  40. Agree

    I disagree that they are dumb, but rather that they have an altogether decided agenda to which they remain faithful, which makes them distort rationality as they try to support that agenda, no matter how out of touch with reality it might require them to appear. And while they are not dumb, they are very dangerous.

  43. @Laura

    they are beyond stupid and out of touch with reality to say the least.

    I disagree that they are dumb, but rather that they have an altogether decided agenda to which they remain faithful, which makes them distort rationality as they try to support that agenda, no matter how out of touch with reality it might require them to appear. And while they are not dumb, they are very dangerous.

  45. @Edgar
    TIME reported last month that over $70 million had been raised for individual Gazans thru Go Send Me. They reported that this sum was related to about 12K accounts which does come to be a bit more than the $5,000 amount per account you mentioned to move some 12K Gazans across the border.

  47. HAS anyone seen the Blinken demands in Arutz 7 yet,

    The terms …3 hostages every 3 days total 33 hostages in 40 days of ceasefire, and then other terms for the rest, plus a PERMANENT Ceasefire.

    Utterly disgusting. If the PM agrees to this his govt will fall and he’ll be out of politics permanently.

    He must have caveats and other plans which allow his to continue the war by other means. Vital…..!!

  48. @edgar

    “pilpulim and pinpricks”

    Marvelous! Be a great title for a satirist’s or movie/theater/literary critic’s column or blog. Gratifying to see I’m beginning to rub off on you, my earnest pupil. 😀

  49. PELONI,

    Surely that aid would be very limited, not as to numbers but as to individual amounts. Only a small portion of the $5000 for each person.

  50. SEB
    I was referring to conquered peoples, not a handful of Jews who had a temporary successful rebellion, and would not be free and independent for 40 years, and then only because of internal Greek problems. And it lasted only a handful of years before the Romans were invited in.
    They were only autonomous to a limited degree .

    Surely you must have read something about this in Zeitlin, I don’t recall if he particularised but he must have written something.

    so keep up the pilpulim and pin pricks-you get NO satisfaction as I don’t give a hoot what you think. Truly.

    ***Why were the Romans invited in????**** Interesting…….!

    The two sons of Shulamit succeeded, The eldest Hyrcanus to the Rule and the Aristobulus to the High Priesthood. Originally Hyrcanus inherited both.

    Antipater, Herod’s father was involved at the time with Hyrcanus, and got him support from Nabataea.

    Hyrcanus was TOTALLY unsuited to be the Ruler, Aristobulus was totally unsuited to be High Priest. Therefore there were clashes with supporters and constant unrest If they’d reversed their positions it would have been perfect. But it became a Civil War which ended when Pompey just happened to stroll by. They both went to him to arbitrate,

    And the biggest bribe won.

    From then on, it was Roman Province.