Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, “Is a tragedy in the making in the Middle East?

I rate the chances quite high unless hard choices are made.

Hard choices need to be made.
1) When World War II ended, Poland expelled Germans living in areas that became Poland. The reason? Poles claimed the Germans were a threat to their culture and sovereignty if allowed to remain.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, “This is supposed to be International Holocaust Day, but it has been ruined for me.

Why, because the world, specifically the European part of the world, seems to have chosen to distort why the Holocaust happened and what it means.
1) And they have cheapened the term almost to meaninglessness. Everything today in the European media is a Holocaust, just as the word ‘genocide’ has been misused, making it impossible to understand what the Holocaust was really about.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Two things have delayed the final confrontation with the leadership of the Iranian Islamic regime.

One is logistics.
1) The U.S. is faced with the reality that the UAE and the Saudis are concerned about possible Iranian attacks against their oil-rich areas and about the problem of domestic terrorism. (Both nations have substantial foreign worker populations that are not fully trusted.)
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, “Eric Swalwell, congressman, candidate for California governor, yes, the same guy whose Chinese Communist spy girlfriend raised money for his campaigns, and yes, the same guy who knowingly lied about Trump and the Republicans and
1) has been shown to be antisemitic, now has threatened that when he is governor, he will revoke all driver licenses from employees of ICE. Though he swore an oath to the US Constitution, he clearly does not understand anything about it.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, “The political lies governments tell – Israel and settlements

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has said that Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria are illegal and should be dismantled.”
1) First of all, the ICJ has no legal jurisdiction as Israel is not a member (the USA is also a non-member). Second of all, it gets the law wrong. Why? Politics, antisemitism, double standards.

Let’s be honest. There is no occupation by Israel.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "The lies governments tell. - Israel and the settlements

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has said that the Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria are illegal and should be dismantled.
1) First of all, the ICJ has no jurisdiction. Secondly, it misleads the law. Why? Politics, antisemitism, double standards.

Let's be honest. There is no Israel business. There are no conquered territories.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Lies pretending to be history.

I just was alerted to watch a video by someone called Professor Stein, in which they list 20 different “Terrorist Groups.”
1) But not all the 20 were Terrorist Groups, and not all the stories attached to the listing are factual.

Three Jewish organizations are listed.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "It has been brought to my attention that there is a correlation between the speed of the internet service and the ability of a country to deal with and take advantage of technological innovation in an entire population.
1) Israel has a transmission rate (medium download speed) of 64 megabits per second.

But, around israel we have the UAE with an average rate of 652 megabits per second (the highest in the world), China with 160, USA with 170.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote:
“Just a thought.

China is really the ‘We Copy Nation’ (but not all copies are done so well).

A lot of China scholars have said that Chinese culture tends not to be creative, not innovative, but still imitative and adaptive.
1) As it is a culture with a tradition of ‘the nail that sticks up, gets hammered down’. ‘木秀於林，風必摧之’

But China has also grown an economy fast, having a habit of appearing to develop technological expertise by a combination of stealing proprietary information...
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "A New York State of Mind — and American Politics

If you take a close look at the differences between the Democratic Party backers and the Republican Party backers, what you see clearly is a split in policy preferences....
1) that can be seen as the difference between New York (or the largest American cities & their lifestyle & views) versus the rest of the USA. This difference also illustrates the split on issues between Europeans & Americans, the former being closer to the New York State of Mind.
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Two days ago, Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "In a debate in the last 24 hours about how to establish an October 7 Commission that the people will trust, one person implied to me that those that built Israel, meaning the old secular-socialist elite,
1) had a right to be trusted to do the job.

I disagree.

I wrote the following some time ago. Please read so you can answer the foolishness of such elitist claims.

We built this country?
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Explaining Trump’s 'Board of Peace' with Addendum
I have been seeing far too many misinterpretations and too many accusations resulting from those misinterpretations of the Trump Board of Peace.
1) 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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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Shabbat Shalom
Parsha Bo
Exodus 10:1–13:16.
1) The last three of the Ten Plagues come about in Egypt: a swarm of locusts destroys all the crops; a thick, black darkness covers the land; and finally when Pharoh threatens to kill the firstborn of the slave population as was done years before,
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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.
1) 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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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.
1) 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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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.
1) 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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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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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
1) 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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@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.
1) @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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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.

Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Shabbat Shalom
Va’era
Exodus 6:2–9:35

HaShem reveals Himself to Moshe at Sinai.
1) Explaining the four stages of redemption that have to happen: (1) remove the people from Egypt, (2) end their enslavement, (3) redeem them and acquire them as HaShem’s own chosen people, (4) then bring them to the land promised to their ancestors as their eternal heritage.
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