Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "FRIDAY WAS AN IMPORTANT -THOUGH GENERALLY IGNORED DAY

IT IS THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF AWARENESS OF FOOD LOST AND WASTE
1) This is a problem both in rich countries where uneaten food is discarded and in poor countries where foods grown are wasted and never gotten to consumers because of poor transportation and storage.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Former Secretary of State Pompeo said that the US Adminitration’s insistence that any Middle East deal include a Palestine State may make a deal impossible.
1) Israel does not ask for it. The Saudis did not demand it. The previous members of the Abraham Accords from the USA and Bahrain to Morocco never demanded it.

But the Biden Administration backed by some Europeans wants it.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "I LISTENED IN ON A REALLY GOOD DISCUSSION ABOUT THE FUTURE OF IRAN.

I won’t mention names.
1) What was interesting is on both the issue of Iran there were opinions that appeared to conflict, but thinking about it, they really did not.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "REGARDING UKRAINE — THE MEDIA ASSUMPTIONS IN EUROPE AND THE USA

WATCHING THE NEWS FROM THE USA AND EUROPE, WHETHER THE SUBJECT IS POLITICS OR THE PROBLEMS WITH THE US BUDGET DEBATE, THE UNDERLYING ASSUMPTION IS...
1) THAT THE USA HAS TO KEEP SUPPLYING MONEY TO UKRAINE, ESSENTIALLY PAYING 80% OF THE COST OF THE UKRAINIAN EFFORT.

But many Americans are asking a question. Why is the effort against Russia have to be almost entirely subsidized by the USA.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "IS THERE A CONFLICT BETWEEN A JEWISH STATE AND A DEMOCRATIC STATE?

Not really. Israel is the Jewish State and it is also a Democratic State.
1) Great Britain is a British and a Christian Nation. Yet, it is also a Democratic State. Same thing about every nation in Europe, where every nation-state has a specific cultural identity that happens to include a religious identity,
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "I WATCHED THE DEBATE. MY REACTIONS…

SOME DUDS:

Sorry, Mike Pence. The biggest loser of the debate.
1) He appeared tired, was boring, and claimed as accomplishments some things he did as a Congressman more than 20 years ago that amounted to a minor nothing.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "I DO NOT CARE WHAT Hunter Biden DID

I CARE ONLY IF IT AFFECTED AMERICAN POLICY.
1) I CARE ONLY IF Joe Biden MADE DECISIONS OR DID THINGS WITH TAXPAYERS MONEY OR TO AFFECT AMERICAN POLICY IN EXCHANGE FOR MONEY PAID TO HIS FAMILY.

And I can say the same for the rest of those in Washington DC, in Congress, in Government agencies.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "REGARDING THE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY AND ITS BEING TELEVISED.

Can it be that the Republicans are just not too smart?
1) They have given a forum by televising these hearings, to the biggest liars in the Democratic Party to spew their lies at will, to try to demonize witnesses as we saw today, and
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "LISTENING TO THE HEARINGS IN CONGRESS ON THE BIDEN CORRUPTION, I COULD NOT HELP THINKING HOW THE DEMOCRATS ARE LIKE A GROUP OF 6-YEAR-OLDS.
1) A little boy was caught stealing at the store, and when caught, he says, little Donald did it too.

It is irrelevant what Trump did or did not do to the issue of Biden's corruption - as that corruption precedes Trump and is still going on.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "SORRY, BUT I SEE THIS IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY IN CONGRESS OF THE BIDEN FAMILY AS A LOT OF NOISE WHEN THE ANSWERS CAN BE VERY SIMPLE.
1) You see, Joe Biden stated on video twice, once outside his office and again on a late night TV show, that he used US Taxpayer funds, $ 1 Billion, to coerce Ukraine into firing a Prosecutor who was investigating his son’s involvement in a company...
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RogerFroikin @rlefraim wrote terms, "SORRY, BUT I SEE THIS IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY IN CONGRESS OF THE BIDEN FAMILY AS A LOT OF NOISE WHEN THE ANSWERS CAN BE VERY SIMPLE.
1) You see, Joe Biden stated on video twice, once outside his office and again on a late night TV show, that he used US Taxpayer funds, $ 1 Billion, to coerce Ukraine into firing a Prosecutor who was investigating his son’s involvement in a company...
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "SOMETHING Chris Christie SAID IN THE WEDNESDAY NIGHT DEBATE

CHRISTIE WAS WARNING ABOUT PUTIN AND RUSSIA, and said that Putin said he regretted the demise of the USSFR, and that meant Putin wanted to reconstitute it.
1) And then he said that if we drop not defend Ukraine, Putin will rebuild the USSR and swallow up Poland.

SO, MY QUESTION IS THIS: SHOULD ANYONE VOTE FOR A MAN WHO DOES NOT KNOW THAT POLAND WAS NEVER A PART OF THE USSR?
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "SUKKOT - A COMMENT

We are told that Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles or in some translations the Festival of Booths, known also as the Feast of Ingathering, is a biblical Jewish holiday celebrated on the 15th day of the seventh month, Tishrei.
1) We are also told that it started as an agricultural festival, celebrating a bountiful harvest and offering sacrifices of thanks for the harvest.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "THE CASE OF SENATOR MENENDEZ IS INTERESTING.

Remember, he is considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
1) The prosecution has accused Menedez of selling secrets to Egypt which the indictment describes as a despotic regime and has characterized money found in his home as evidence that he has done something wrong.
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Jonathan Pollard: US Visa Waiver deal is a nightmare

Our leaders have forgotten that their loyalty should be to the Land and People of Israel. Opinion.
1)
israelnationalnews.com/news/377466 "At first glance, the US-Israel Visa Waiver deal seems rather innocuous. After all, what could be wrong with the free movement of people between 2 allies?

But the hyphenated Americans this agreement is meant to cover are some of the most vicious anti Semites 1 could imagine.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "THE CANDIAN PARLIAMENT, LED BY PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU HAS ELEVATED A NAZI TO HERO STATUS.

This Nazi was praised for, as a U&krainian, fighting Russia in World War II.
1) Sorry, but one cannout excuse this by reminding Canadians that many Ukrainians joind the NAZI army to both fight Russia and to be some of the most vicious guards at Death Camps.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "SCARY POLLS

A RECENT POLL OF DEMOCRATS IN THE USA HAD IT THAT 50% SAID THAT FREE SPEECH SHOULD BE LIMITED UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS AND THAT ONE OF THOSE CONDITIONS WAS IF THE GOVERNMENT BELIEVED IT WAS DANGEROUS.
1) 75% OF DEMOCRATS SAID THEY BELIEVED THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD CENSOR SOCIAL MEDIA

33% OF DEMOCRATS CLAIMED THAT THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD DECIDE WHAT RIGHTS PEOPLE HAVE
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BREAKING: Brooklyn City Schools Superintendent Dr. Theodore Caleris announced the resignation of head football coach Tim McFarland in a statement this afternoon.
1) "The Brooklyn City Schools accepted the resignation of Head Football Coach Tim McFarland on Monday morning, effective immediately, in light of an incident where the coaching staff used a designated play-call referencing the word “Nazi” at this past Friday night’s football game
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "YOM KIPPUR

יום. כיפור

Sometimes it is interesting to play around with Hebrew terminology and see what happens. Take Yom Kippur – לכפר The Day of Atonement - and the term “to atone”,
1) which itself means to do something responsible to make up for something one did irresponsibly or wrong and hopefully, everyone will make the כפר – the village or area, a better place to be once people have acted responsibly and atoned and ended an atmosphere of coldness and
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "YOM KIPPUR IS MONDAY, AND EVERY Yom Kippur MEMORIES FLOOD BACK OF Yom Kippur 1973, HEARING THE AIR RAID SIRENS WAKING ME UP EARLY IN THE MORNING BECAUSE WE, IN ISRAEL, WERE AT WAR.
1) I guess that everyone who is now over age 60 who was in Israel at the time, remembers and shares this memory.

For me it was the first war I experienced where I had a wife and baby, got some clothes on, and ran down 6 floors to the Bomb Shelter
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "THIS SHOULD ACCELERATE. IN JUDEA AND SAMARIA, IN THE GALIL AND NEGEV."

Hezy Zeke Armon wrote, "Construction in Judea-Samaria.
1) Building permits and construction starts reached a record high in Judea-Samaria, while the rest of the country actually saw a decline.
If construction starts in Judea-Samaria, increase from the 2022 figure of about 2500 units, to 4000 units this year, and
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