Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Shabbat Shalom
Vayetze
Genesis 28:10–32:3

Jacob leaves his hometown of Beersheba and journeys to Haran (in SE Turkey today).
1) On the way, near what is at Beit El today, he sleeps, dreaming of a ladder connecting Heaven and Earth, with beings climbing and descending on it; HaShem appears and promises that the land upon which he lies will be given to his descendants.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim write:
"THANKSGIVING - A COMMENT
1) Thanksgiving in the USA is rather unique in the world. I do not mean that other nations do not have days where, by tradition, they give thanks for a harvest or for some other historical event.
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Barry Shaw, Israel Institute for Strategic Studies @netre25 wrote,
"ZOHRAN MAMDANI caught out by his lying past in UGANDA.

Here he is in a Ugandan graveyard rehearsing for his Israel genocide slander. A graveyard in which Idi Amin buried his dead.

Uganda?
1) Wasn't that the place where pro-Palestinians hijacked an Air France plane and flew it with its Jewish passengers to Entebbe Airport where the terrorists were protected by Idi Amin and his army before ZM was born?
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Well, now there is a new candidate for Governor of California, a man who will be a fine candidate backed by the People’s Republic of China, as he was as a congressman.
1) Erik Swalwell spent years building his career, doing nothing but knowingly slandering Donald Trump.

I guess these days that makes him a prominent Democrat and qualifies him to be Governor of California.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "I was asked — When will the economy get better, when will it be more affordable?

So, I asked a question in return.

Question: How much time does it take to burn down a large and complicated house?
1) And how much time would it take to completely rebuild it?

It would take maybe an hour to burn down the house.

It would take at best 6 months to rebuild.

The same with an economy.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Something interesting to consider regarding antisemitic and anti-Israel protests since October 7, 2023.

The Hamas/Muslim Brotherhood massacre of Jews was on October 7, 2023.
1) On October 8 and 9, there were already demonstrations in New York, Germany, the UK, France, and elsewhere, carrying specially printed expensive signs, all using the same slogans, in the streets of major cities and at universities.
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@VishBurra Steve Bannon is seeking to deflect from his close personal friendship with and his being an advisor to Jeffrey Epstein. Newly released 2025 documents, including emails and texts, confirm Bannon advised Epstein from 2018 onward on public image rehabilitation and
1) @VishBurra political strategies, highlighting their collaborative relationship amid Epstein's scandals. It is classic, don't look over there, look over here.

Have people forgotten Bannon ripped off MAGA which resulted in his 2020 federal fraud charges....
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "I oppose meeting with Hamas. It is stupid. The USA should not be doing short-sighted and stupid things. Meeting with Hamas is stupid because Hamas never has had a record of keeping agreements or telling the truth.
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https://twitter.com/GREENESJ333/status/1991120513234784460

Hamas wants one thing - the ability to take over power from the Fatah people in the Palestine Authority, and they have the popular support to do so.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Within a week of the UK under its Labour government and PM Starmer's decision to reduce cooperation with Israel—in effect, an effort to hurt Israel for daring to defend itself when it is inconvenient for Labour Party's Muslim-oriented politics:
1) This week, after Starmer attacked Indian PM Modi, claiming he was an authoritarian, India has banned a British Labour Party delegation—canceling visas—just as Israel did in response to Starmer a couple of weeks earlier.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "The Democrats openly support creating two new states, Washington DC and Puerto Rico, assuming it will mean four additional Democrat senators.
1) And in California, they have a governor who advocates gerrymandering, to guarantee that a party can win elections despite public opinion, essentially an undemocratic game.

So, let’s take a look at these tactics.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "If there is ever to be peace in the Middle East, the first thing needed is to identify the threats accurately and deal with them realistically.
1) Looking at current plans and ideas out there, the following needs a hard look.

The real question is this: Do we want a real solution to the issues that exist, or do we want to just appear to have a solution for today that three years past will disappear in more tragedy?
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Just heard a video in which an announced candidate in California for the congressional seat to be vacated in 2026 by Nancy Pelosi, in which the candidate claimed that 'transgender men are women in every way.'
1) Does ideology make people stupid or just liars?

Because the simple fact is that with human beings the genders differ more from one another than any other mammal species.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Some of Us Remember Biafra

But what does Biafra have to do with what is happening in the world today?
1) Biafra was declared by the Igbo people of SE Nigeria because of the realization that in Muslim-dominated Nigeria, Igbo Christian (and some Jewish) Nigerians would never be equal citizens and would always be subject to violence, coercion, and discrimination.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrotw, "The worst things that have happened to the Jewish nation
I bet you will assume I will mention the Shoah, the Holocaust. Wrong. The Jewish nation has experienced worse things than that in the last 3000 years.
1) I’m also not pointing to what Rome did, from the destruction of Israel & to the end of the Temple in Jerusalem and the effect of all that on Jewish survival in the early days of the Diaspora in which 2/3rds of our people converted out, leaving the rest of us more vulnerable.
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@MaxNordau @Pimpernell13 Of course Tucker agrees with the co-host of The Young Turks', a progressive Democrat named Ana Kasperian who is an Armenian-American. Armenian was her first language despite being born in America to immigrant parents.
1) @MaxNordau @Pimpernell13 She hates Israel and the Jewish people and aligns with an anti-MAGA, isolationist, or "America Last" agenda.

Tucker Carlson was a registered Democrat in Washington D.C. from 2006 to 2020. Tucker Carlson was registered as a Democrat in Washington, D.C. from 2006 to 2020.
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Roger Froikin wrote, "Reparations for Past Wrongs?

We hear today that California and other states and a number of cities are passing laws and resolutions about reparations for African Americans because of the history of slavery and discrimination.
1) Of course, they seem not to have been too concerned with defining who should get reparations.

What happens with all these laws and intentions, I cannot predict, but it seems to me that there is another people that deserves reparations as well.

The Jewish People.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Lessons to be learned and understood

A number of posts in Facebook and Twitter talk about how Israel tried to be the nice guy, leaving Gaza in 2005. Fewer talk about why this was a horrible mistake that needs to be a lesson for the future.
1) Yes, in 2005-6, Israel withdrew both Jewish residents and IDF troops from Gaza. Farms, homes, businesses were left behind, most to be destroyed by the Arabs who did not seem interested in keeping farms and businesses, and it was all done with a guarantee from the USA and UK.
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Florence Habee wrote, "Years ago, Trump and Epstein were friends and Trump said they both like younger women which trump meant like Melania's age. NOT minors. Epstein went to Mar-a-Lago as a friend to Trump to visit.
1) He had a massage, the girl who did his massage reported him to the manager as not being a gentleman and the manager reported him to Trump and Trump threw him out of Mar-a-Lago and refused any contact with Epstein again.
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This "America First" woke right is like the left. Oprah spoke of "my truth". There is no "my truth". There is the truth. The truth is not subjective. It is objective. President Trump defined his America First policy to not be America Only.
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https://twitter.com/AntSpeaks/status/1987520556216754263

He's reset trade & is working towards peace in the Middle East by expanding the Abraham Accords. He wants to end the endless wars.
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Kevin Roberts, President of the Heritage Foundation lacks the moral compass that William F Buckley did when he said that there is no place in the Conservative movement for antisemitism and must resign.
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He has done tremendous damage by embroiling the Heritage Foundation in this scandal. In a 1990 interview, Buckley reportedly said his “greatest achievement” was “the absolute exclusion of anything anti-Semitic or kooky from the conservative movement.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "SHABBAT SHALOM

Parshat Vayera
Genesis 18:1–22:24

This Parsha is unique in that it deals with three separate issues.
1) The first has Abraham circumcising himself despite his advanced age, and the arrival of three visitors for whom Abraham, even in his weakened state, provides first-class hospitality. These visitors tell Abraham that his wife Sara will have a son.
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