Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Explaining Trump’s “Board of Peace”
I have been seeing far too many misinterpretations and too many accusations resulting from those misinterpretations of the Trump Board of Peace.
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However, it has now been expanded into a new concept, so this is an explanation.
1. The Board of Peace idea started with Gaza as a way of getting international support for ending Hamas and rebuilding the mess that Gaza has become, and
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as a plan to create a framework for negotiating peace worldwide.
2. Members have been by invitation. Members will have seats for three years (renewable), with members contributing $1 billion not having their terms expire.
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3. This board really comes from the fact that the United Nations has been a failure at doing what it was created to do. The objections to the Board of Peace among many European nations, and especially among third-world and Muslim nations,
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have been because they fear that it will replace the United Nations organizations and, perhaps more to the point, end U.S. support for the UN, which today is 25% of its regular budget and almost 100% of most of its affiliated agencies.
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In fact, President Trump has already canceled funding for many of those agencies.
4. To correct misinformation: The Board of Peace will have no influence on how Gaza is developed.
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It is not an attempt to undermine Israel, as it cannot, and it will give no special access to Gaza to any other nation.
So, that is it."
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "October 7, 2023. - The time has come for investigations into how and why.
To understand what happened and why, one needs to look at the months before October 7.
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In 2022, the Likud and the right-leaning parties received sufficient votes to form a strong coalition, defeating the parties and party leaders who seemed to have much of a program but campaigned principally on the issue of getting rid of Netanyahu.
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Those parties benefited from the electoral advice of a company that had previously worked for Obama and at that time was advising leftist parties worldwide, using exactly the same tactics in every case—accusing their opponents of being crooks, neo-fascists, and
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Southend Friends of Israel wrote, "After Zubin Mehta boycotted the Jewish nation, Itzik Bonzel-an Israeli lawyer whose 22-year-old son, Amit, was a paratrooper killed on Dec. 6, 2023, while fighting genocidal Arab Hamas in Gaza-blasted Mehta for his gall.
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In an open letter on social media, Bonzel wrote:
'Mr. Mehta,
I heard your announcement about canceling your projects in Israel because of the Netanyahu government, and the feeling it arouses in me is not sorrow, but deep contempt.
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As a bereaved father, who gave what was most precious to him for the existence of this people, I stand before you and ask: Where do you get the audacity?
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Fox News: Rabbi Chaim Mentz explains that for 2,000 years, history shows attacks often begin with Jewish people due to persistent tropes, making them an easy target. He warns that this escalates as groups chant slogans like "from the river to the sea," accuse genocide, and 1)
turn public opinion against Jews, ultimately transforming cities and countries into Muslim-majority areas through conquest rather than peaceful integration. Mentz lists countries like Morocco, Sudan, Egypt, Jordan,
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and Lebanon as examples of past conquests, urging vigilance against similar agendas in Europe and the United States.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "I have been asked to comment on the transgender issue and on the use of puberty blockers, so
The Case Against Transgender Chemical and Surgical Alteration
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The skeletal system and the musculature are set at conception.
The brain structure is also set at conception. It has now been proven scientifically that male & female brains process information differently.
And finally, all of ether reproductive system is set at conception.
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All the puberty blockers in the world won’t change any of that.
So, medications that can change certain secondary sexual characteristics or even primary ones that are endocrine related which can be altered chemically are the only things that can be changed, and
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@misfitpatriot_ Burning a Quran in protest is generally not illegal in the US due to strong protections for free speech under the First Amendment but if it were done to incite imminent lawless action and is likely to do so, as here, under Brandenburg v Ohio, it is possibly prosecutable.
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@misfitpatriot_ Authorities can enforce time, place, and manner restrictions, such as requiring permits for outdoor fires or prohibiting fires that pose safety risks.
If the rules are content neutral they are fine.
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@misfitpatriot_ Although such acts are legally protected, they are widely condemned as offensive & provocative. Legal scholars emphasize that protecting controversial speech upholds democratic principles, even when the message is deeply offensive to many.
There's no right not to be offended.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "I have never written an eulogy, but today a friend who deserves to be remembered died. Dino Perroni, from Florence, Italy, was a good person, a calm person, a serious thinker, who I doubt ever hurt another human being in all the years of his life.
He was a man who cared for others, who had a great, subtle sense of humor, and he was a good writer.But it all comes down to one thing, I guess. He was a good person. We all lose when a good person leaves.The Jewish tradition says: Baruch Dayan HaEmet.
Yet there is also another traditional thought, which is perhaps the most important when talking about a good person:
Our memory is for a blessing. May his memory be for a blessing. In the case of Dino, I'm sure it will be."