There is no point in having a conversation with people who truly believe you have no right to exist. No history, no context, no truth matters when the only answer they find acceptable is your exile or your death.
I need to remember this.
People who don't know the history of this country, of this nation, of this conflict, who ignore the fact that we live in a miniscule dot of land amongst dozens & dozens of Arab & Muslim states who actively work towards our destruction despite sharing ancestry have no credibility
Walking through my town and seeing so many Jews from MENA, laughing at the insanity of calling Jews white. We are from here. We will stay here.
Israel expelled 8000+ Jews from their homes in Gaza in 2005 in an attempt to give both ppl a future without violence & begin a Pal state. Instead Hamas was elected, rockets on Israeli civilians commenced and then came the blockade in response But how many ppl commenting know that
Jews are from: Iraq, Iran, Kurdistan, Morocco, Yemen, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Ethiopia, Turkey, Spain & Eastern Europe but only after being expelled from Judea/Samaria/Jerusalem (modern day Israel/"West Bank") by their enemies (Babylon & Rome). Our DNA is middle Eastern. Literally
And now that violent mobs are trying to cross our borders with lethal intent, will anyone stop to think about how precarious our sitch is? Not likely, they will say we deserve to die because we have been dehumanized by the world once again. This is why we must have a Jewish State
You understand that the hatred of the Jewish State has been kept burning -purposely- to give people an enemy and now people are storming our borders in hopes of ending our lives. Even in Jordan with whom we have "peace". Don't fool yourself. That is what this is.
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I guess for some reason I think this needs to be said so here goes. I again had a conversation last night, brief of course, with someone who couldn't understand why I wouldn't vote Trump.
He said "I'm not voting for my kids grandfather, I'm voting for someone to run a country. So he's a complete horror show of a person but he does good things for the country."
I don't really let these conversations go on because I don't have enough time in my life for this. But I guess I have to say it out loud.
Thread: There are people in the Orthodox community who tell me I need to live and let live. But what they haven't understood, and maybe now they can start to understand, is that when you let people live by their own rules they will eventually come for you too.
It starts with the women & children because they're the easiest targets. Don't report sexual abuse, don't let women have authority, when women do start to have influence erase them, show them their place.
Don't believe in science, teach that the authorities are out to get you.
And when people in the community speak up against these practices tell people that they're intolerant, that they are culturally insensitive. Tell them to live and let live, and finally tell them they aren't one of us.
Instead of preparing a future for children, hope of grandchildren , & peace for a nation, the Pal government (whose members live well, have their children treated at top Israeli hospitals & would never send them to die), feeds its ppl a steady diet of hate & expectation of death
They train them to expect to eradicate Israel and take over the entirety of the country.
They raise them on lies, on utterly false hope.
They pay for dead Jews, the more the better.
They don't rule a nation, they rule a death cult of their own making.
According to the Times of Israel, "Three times in one day, the PA’s official television channel carried a broadcast of a song telling mothers that their unborn fetuses will be “martyrs for Palestine,” Palestinian Media Watch claims.
ok- there are videos going around that show Jewish religious extremists coughing on cops and as someone who has lived near these extremists for 13 years, I'd like to say something if you'd be kind enough to listen.
I will tell you the story in two videos.
In the first video you will see the horrifying reality of extremists that have been allowed to run according to their own rules for years. They cause tremendous pain to everyone outside their own community.
In the second video you hear other Ultra Orthodox Jews screaming from their balconies down to their neighbors who are violating lockdown, telling them they are murderers and criminals, that they are putting others at risk.
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Im going to say this because I have to say it.
All the glorious creative innovative and thoughtful halachic discussions about minyan, kaddish, Torah & Megillah reading -- it's a beautiful thing.
The rabbinic tears for the closing of the shul doors, the men's pain at not being able to pray with nine others as they have done for decades-- it's touching.
It is.
Until you compare it with the lack of creativity, innovation and deep halachic discussion when it comes to women trapped by the men who abuse them and the law and community to which they are loyal.
Then, the tears, the pain, and the creativity seems extremely cruel.
Two young women jumped off of a building early this morning in Israel. While this detail is not in the press, a source says that at least one was sexually abused & pressured by family to stop therapy. This does not surprise me, it was the first thing I suspected.
When sexual abuse isn't discussed, and worse, is covered up, when victims are shushed and left to suffer, when perpetrators are not held accountable or removed from other potential victims, we need people very few options, we abandon them
the girls were cousins, charedi. it is not unknown that sexual abuse is not spoken of in these communities and is too often dealt with quietly or not dealt with at all. I've written about this before but how many young people must we lose before the community takes responsibility