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Kimberly “Kim” Wexler MA JD

Sep 19

JULIE COOPER: [Gershom] Scholem presented Zionism – which he understood a mundane, this-worldly movement – as a necessary corrective to messianic passivity. Yet he also worried that apocalyptic currents within Zionism would eventually triumph pragmatic political considerations.

The Gaza war gives Scholem's warning about messianic deferral an ironic new resonance. Today, it is Netanyahu – the hard-headed Revisionist and supposed paragon of realpolitik – who has condemned Jews to "a life lived in deferment." On the one hand, Netanyahu is the antithesis of the passivity of which Scholem unfairly accused diaspora Jews. Netanyahu wields immense, indiscriminate and devastating military power with brazen disregard for civilian immunity, human rights and the laws of war.

Yet Netanyahu is also a master of the art of deferral. Pundits have long noted Netanyahu's compulsive tendency to put off or avoid difficult decisions. Netanyahu has always favored stasis over change, conflict management over conflict resolution. From today's vantage point, Netanyahu's ideology of the status quo may turn out to be his most consequential deformation of Israeli political discourse.

How Netanyahu Has Trapped Israel in a Messianic Timeline of Eternal War
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Kimberly “Kim” Wexler MA JD

@KimWexlerMAJD

Sep 4

“From the moment he arrived in Israel in 1971, Meir Kahane preached a shocking mixture of violent, exterminationist ethnonationalism and apocalyptic religious fundamentalism. He claimed that violence was a Jewish value and revenge a divine commandment. He agitated for the expulsion of Palestinians from all the territories under Israel’s control; the party he founded, Kach, was Israel’s first to make the idea its central policy demand…..”

But after his assassination in 1990, “Kahanism did not die. It survived—not in its fully fledged theocratic form, but as an ultranationalist vision of a land and body politic purged of a non-Jewish presence. The germ of Kahanism persisted because the conditions that produced it did not go away. To the contrary, they grew more dire. Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza became ever more entrenched, its maintenance more brutal and deadly.… In the 21st century, as the uneven gains of capitalist globalisation and the country’s hi-tech boom deepened inequality, Kahanism reemerged to provide the grammar for a reinvigorated rightwing class war. In the wake of the suicide bombings of the second intifada, Kahanism was also buoyed up by an increasingly widespread radical pessimism: that Israel is doomed to war, that this war is zero sum, and that it can end only through a total, eschatological victory – that ultimately, as Kahane was fond of saying: ‘It is either they or we.’” #MeirKahane

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Rabbi Meir Kanane said his Yeshiva:

had come to meet the tragedy that has befallen Jews and Judaism over two thousand years of exile. Because we were exiled from our own country, Judaism became changed. Perverted. It became a religion.

And it is not a religion. We are a holy nation.

The Jewish people is one that stands on two legs: nationalism and religion. Together they combine [into] a Jewish nation. A holy people.

we are a poeple that keeps the commandments. We have lost that concept.

Today you have Jews that are nationalist Jews and don’t observe the commandments. They are cripples on one foot.

Then you have Jews that keep the commandments and aren’t Zionists and don’t know what Israel is, they are cripples on the other foot.

God made Jews with two feet. They must understand that there is Judaism and the nation, and they combine to be a holy nation.

Yeshiva of the Jewish Idea, Jerusalem.

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Kimberly “Kim” Wexler MA JD

@KimWexlerMAJD

Aug 7

Remember the time Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly paid “conservative” political operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman $25,000 to smear alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein and to get the U.S. Attorney prosecuting Ghislaine removed from the case?

You don’t?

Well, read on.👇🏼🧵

In 2020, Maryland paralegal and model Kristin Spealman told Daily Mail the two men had been hired “to dig up dirt on Maxwell’s alleged sex trafficking victims” and to get U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman fired “using Burkman’s supposed influence with Attorney General William Barr.”

Berman refused to resign, and the standoff led President Trump to formally fire and replace him. The House Judiciary Committee interviewed Berman. “The Attorney General said that if I did not resign from my position I would be fired,” he told them. abcnews.go.com/Politics/fired…

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Kimberly “Kim” Wexler MA JD

@KimWexlerMAJD

Jul 23

🔥BIDEN OFFICIAL FUNDED HAMAS WITH U.S. TAX DOLLARS

Julieta Valls Noyes served as head of the State Department Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) and simultaneously chaired the Advisory Commission (AdCom) for UNRWA, the UN Refugee Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.

In recent years the U.S. has been the largest single donor to UNRWA, with funding flowing directly from PRM. The Framework of Cooperation (functionally a Memorandum of Understanding) specifies terms and conditions, including ensuring funds are not used to support terrorism, consistent with Section 301(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act.

Noyes was welcomed to her first AdCom meeting on November 14, 2022 and served as chair until October 4, 2024. She signed, together with UN Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini, the Framework of Cooperation between UNRWA and the U.S. on May 30, 2023.

In August 2023, the Nahum Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research released an eight-minute film titled “Askar-UNRWA: Cradle of Killers” documenting how UNRWA-operated schools were indoctrinating children and young people to hate Jews and to wage Jihad against Israel. David Bedein has worked to expose radicalization in Palestine for more than 20 years.

Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups launched a rocket attack and incursion on Israel on October 7, 2023, initiating the ongoing Gaza war.

On January 29, 2024, the Wall Street Journal reported on an Israeli intelligence dossier that estimated about ten percent of UNRWA’s 12,000 staff in Gaza were affiliated or have membership in Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and nearly half of UNRWA employees had a close relative with “official ties to the militant groups, especially Hamas.”

In a follow-on report in February 2024, WSJ reported that weapons caches had been found in UNRWA schools “for years,” that Hamas had built a network of tunnels linking UNRWA facilities, and that UNRWA-provided fuel and aid was going to Hamas.

In an April 15, 2024 report for the Center for Immigration Studies, Nayla Rush asked: “What is the exact role and engagement of Noyes, a high-ranking U.S. State Department official, within UNRWA? […] Moreover, if the chair was here to assist UNRWA implement its work, does this mean the U.S. government is partly to blame for UNRWA’s failures and biases?”

In August 2024 the UN Office of Oversight Services determined that at least nine UNRWA staff members “may have been involved in the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attacks against Israel.” UNRWA reportedly terminated the staff members’ contracts.

In October 2024 The Jerusalem Post reported Hamas members take UNRWA vehicles to move around the Gaza strip, “as a form of defense, so they can move around easily…. [W]hen they get into a UNRWA vehicle and drive in it, and get things with it, the supplies, of course, then they are protected … because it’s an agency vehicle.”

Middle East Monitor reported on November 20, 2024 how three attempts to dismantle UNRWA — efforts led by the U.S., Canada, Italy, Sweden and Denmark — had been successfully thwarted by the UNRWA Advisory Commission. Beirut-based Association 302 to Defend Refugees’ Rights “emphasized that the failure of the proposals aimed at dissolving UNRWA can be attributed to the unity of the countries hosting Palestinian refugees: Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Palestine.”

In January 2025 Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, demanded that UNRWA cease operations in Jerusalem and close its office due to “widespread infiltration of UNRWA’s ranks by Hamas and other terrorist organizations.”

In March 2025, the Trump administration said UNRWA funding would be cut for one year.

Will Trump’s DOJ investigate Julieta Valls Noyes and other U.S. State Department officials for radicalizing and funding terrorists?

Was the State Department’s role in funding UNRWA a chronic, tragic failure of oversight? Or was it something more sinister?

U.S. taxpayers and the Israeli people deserve the truth. 🕊️

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Kimberly “Kim” Wexler MA JD

@KimWexlerMAJD

Jun 6

🧵/1 How did the 🌐 UNITED NATIONS organize the INVASION OF THE UNITED STATES?

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, in recent years the U.S. has “devoted significant taxpayer funds to facilitating illegal immigration” through a network of NGOs coordinated by the UN.

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🧵/2 At the June 4, 2025 DOGE Subcommittee hearing, “Public Funds, Private Agendas: NGOs Gone Wild,” Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies Mark Krikorian testified about a vast UN-NGO network formed in 2019 to establish way stations for illegal migration.

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🧵/3 “What the Center has examined is what happened before the migrants got to the Rio Grande. In other words, how NGOs and UN agencies were paid by U.S. taxpayers to facilitate the illegal movement of migrants through South and Central America and Mexico.”

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Kimberly “Kim” Wexler MA JD

@KimWexlerMAJD

Jun 4

🔥“THE MAIN LINK IS IN CARACAS”: Tren de Aragua is an aspect of 🇻🇪 Venezuela’s unrestricted warfare against the U.S., expert says

Jose Gustavo @ArochaJG, a former Lieutenant Colonel in the Venezuelan military and national security expert at @SecureFreeSoc, responded for Fox News Digital on the recently released intelligence assessment on Tren de Aragua (TDA). Arocha says the memo, prepared by the National Intelligence Council on April 7, failed to comprehend the Maduro regime’s relationship with Tren de Aragua.

“I feel that the missing point, here, is that the intelligence report is just a narrow lens about TDA. It’s about crime and immigration, but they’re missing the warfare dimension,” Arocha said.

“They’re missing that, for the Maduro regime, the United States is the enemy — has been the enemy for years, since Hugo Chavez came to power.”

Arocha points out that the Tocorón prison, from which TDA’s leader Hector “El Niño” Guerrero Flores and others reportedly escaped during a military operation to retain control of the prison from the inmates, is not a real prison but a “palace” serving as “the epicenter of crime in Venezuela.” When Tocorón was raided in September 2023, news reports revealed Tocorón’s swimming pool, nightclub, and even a zoo — as well as tunnels allowing inmates to pass in and out of the compound.

Arocha believes the raid was staged to convince the public that Maduro’s government was attempting to regain control of the prison.

“On the contrary, the TDA has safe haven in Venezuela,” he said.

“The TDA is not a gang. It’s a [military] arm of the Venezuelan regime in the hybrid warfare strategy. That’s the missing point. And that is the point that explains how a local gang [is] now in more than 10 countries, including the United States. That’s incredible. That is not possible without a state sponsor behind them.”

Arocha says the Venezuelan regime acts as a proxy of Russia, China and Iran — “especially China right now” — to create chaos in Latin America. He said the regime exploits Russian and Chinese expertise in propaganda, spinning a narrative that “the United States is against Latin America, is racist.”

According to Arocha, the U.S. intelligence community is failing to see the full picture.

“Unrestricted warfare,” Arocha said, “means using criminals, using disinformation, using every single tool they have” short of a direct military confrontation with the United States.

“We not only have to chase criminals, but start targeting command structures, which means nodes. That is very important right now,” Arocha said.

Arocha praised U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi for pursuing a suspected high-ranking TDA leader in custody in Colombia. The Justice Department intends to prosecute Jose “Chuqui” Enrique Martinez Flores, 24, in Texas for drug offenses and for providing material support to a terrorist organization. The State Department designated TDA a foreign terrorist organization on Feb. 20.

Arocha also encourages U.S. agencies to collaborate with law enforcement in Chile, Argentina, Peru and other countries with experience of TDA, to understand what they have learned.

“We have to continue targeting command structures to totally dismantle TDA,” Arocha said. “And not only see them as criminals. Of course, we have to chase criminals outside from the street. But we also have to look for the command structures.

“And we have to put all the pieces together to have the big picture instead of the local one. And then I’m very sure that we are going to realize the missing and the main link is in Caracas.”

BBC reported Tocorón prison, when Maduro ordered it raided in 2023, was more like a well-fortified gated community than a prison compound.
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