Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "ISRAEL HAS SENT A REPRESENTATIVE TO THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT ?
A wise move ? I don't think so.
Israel, like the USA, is not a member of the Court and the Court has no jurisdiction over Israel.
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Considering the evidence that the makeup of the Court is hostile to Israel and antisemitic, that is fortunate that it has no jurisdiction where Israel is concerned.
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But, if Israel sends a representative to the Court .-- would that be seen as de facto recognition of the Court's authority even over Israeli affairs?"
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "It is time to bring back the 'Boarding House'.
Those that watch old movies, perhaps will remember what a boarding house is. But to explain what it is for everyone else…..
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A Boarding House was generally a large older home or building where the owners, usually older and in need of extra income, would rent out rooms, provide utilities, communal meals at least three times a day, for minimal rent. Often residents would share chores.
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Most often a Boarding House would be sort of something between a retail deal and a family, but providing many of the comforts (friendship, caring, responsibility) one associates with family.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "THE NEW INDIA-USA TRADE DEAL - A BRIEF LOOK
I waited until I could read it and I am very happy to see a lot of positive elements, especially considering how in the past US-India relations were often at odds,
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partly because of Indian protectionism and party because of political considerations on both sides, both of which were essentially without much sense.
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In short, the new agreement opens the door to a lot more trade between the USA and India in addition to a lot more investment into development in India. Tarriffs are to be lowered, with the prospect of further reductions as time passes.
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Nostra Aetate, Israel, and the Boundaries of Catholic Faith
In recent years, a rising number of voices—especially in online spaces—have attempted to discredit Nostra Aetate, the 1965 declaration of the Second Vatican Council...
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on the Church’s relationship to non-Christian religions and, above all, to the Jewish people. Some portray it as a betrayal of tradition, others as the product of infiltration or corruption. These claims are not only historically false.
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They are theologically dangerous. What is at stake is nothing less than whether the Catholic Church remains faithful to Scripture, to its own Magisterium, and to the moral truth it painfully recovered in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
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For too many years to count and to anyone who would listen I stated the obvious. Jonathon Greenblatt destroyed the ADL because he is a partisan hack who weaponized antisemitism thereby making the word meaningless to those wrongfully accused. 1)
He is a huge part of the problem. He allowed critical race theory to be taught flipping Jewish history on its head calling us occupiers/oppressors in our own indigenous homeland. He allowed antisemitism to be taught.
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Then he allowed DEI and ESG to discriminate against Jews and for this Jew hate to be spread to every social justice group. Eventually his solution after it was way too late and a dumb idea, was to include us in the Oppression Olympics.
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Roger Froikin wrote, "There is an ancient Chinese proverb.
A good parent gives his child "roots" and "wings".
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One of the main reasons that the Jewish people survived and preserved their identity was because of the Torah that built these "roots", and the emphasis on learning, on education,
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created the mental flexibility that allowed the Jewish nation to deal with adversity without losing who we are, and allowed us a better quality of life than our neighbors in every area of our lives and in every period.
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How they relate to one another is for their peoples, but, minimally, this is about ethnic respect and freedom among groups and a real permanent peace with India,
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by ending the Pakistani leadership using India as a scapegoat for its inability to develop their country & build prosperity.
Frankly, there is nothing holy about the borders that the imperialist states drew for their ability to continue to take advantage of former colonies."
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