Nov 4, 2024

proposal for Hezbollah

There has been talk in recent days about the possibility of a ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

I dont know if it will or wont happen, but here is what I would suggest, were anyone involved going to ask me:

As I recall, Hezbollah tied themselves to Hamas since the beginning of the war. They started firing on Israel on October 8th and claimed it was in solidarity with Hamas and the Palestinians. Anytime an agreement was proposed, Hezbollah said they would only agree to a ceasefire if it included an end to the war in Gaza as part of a ceasefire with Hamas.

If Hezbollah wants a ceasefire now, I would suggest Israel respond that they accept Hezbollah's statements from the past year connecting them to Hamas and will only agree to a ceasefire with Hezbollah if it includes a ceasefire with Hamas, and a ceasefire with Hamas will only happen if Hamas surrenders and dismantles itself and returns the hostages to Israel. 

If Hezbollah is finally feeling battered enough and wants to end this, let the pressure be on them to find a way to pressure Hamas to end it in Gaza too. All roads lead through Iran so it should not be too difficult to find a way to do this (though it might not be too easy to persuade Hamas at first) - they just have to go back to the head of the octopus and make that decision. Iran is feeling a bit battered as well. Their recent statements have changed their tune from things like we will destroy Israel and America to we just want to live in peace and not fight with anybody but it is Israel that is destabilizing the region. They clearly would love a way out of this, and Hezbollah can offer that.




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Camel Races

This past Friday Israel hosted its first ever legal camel race. (source: TOI)

The race took place down south, in the Negev. With thousands of cheering spectators. I wonder if betting on the camels was allowed.

It seems like this is one of those theories of how to deal with [certain] crimes - legalize it and make it as safe as possible and collect tax money from it, or keep it illegal and dont collect tax money and allow it to remain unsafe and dangerous with likely cruelty to animal abuses as well. Camel races have been going on a long time, though only illegally. This is the first time it was done in a legal format. Maybe Israel decided legalizing it will better regulate it, since it is happening anyway, and make some tax revenue on it.


The camel races this past Friday were set for two distances - 12 kilometers and six kilometers for young camels, with prize money offered to the winning camels. The top prize was  12000nis.

Honestly, slightly disappointing - 12 kilometers isnt even a half marathon! The camels should have been able to do better than 12km.

They have turned this into a symbol of hope and coexistence, with both Bedouin and Jewish attendees. I am somewhat skeptical about this but if it makes them feel good about themselves, all the better. Peace and coexistence will be achieved when the Jews are not just among the spectators but also of owners of some of the competing camels.

Next time, if I find out about this in advance, I will plan to go.


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Troll of the Day



great troll, though not quite sure what they are attempting to accomplish, theoretically, other than being funny and trollish..

In light of the recent incident with MK Kroizer and how that incident brought an end to Kroizer's reserve duty service, soldiers in Gaza did a similar staging and called it "The Parliamentary Office in Gaza of MK Ofir Kassif".

My first statement is in place because Kroizer was booted from miluim, not the Knesset, so this wouldnt hurt Kassif as he isnt in miluim and wont be booted from the Knesset, even theoretically (meaning, had it really been him in the picture). It is a troll, as if  Kassif's office is really meant to be in Gaza and trolling the army as well with another parliamentary office in enemy territory....



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BROKEN HEARTS - שבורי לב - Shalom Jacobs, Izzy Gilden, Akiva Daitchman, (Hanan Ben Ari Cover) (video)







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Nov 3, 2024

cloud theft brings rain

Back in 2018 the Iranians accused Israel of "cloud theft" causing a drought in Iran...

you may have scoffed back then, but we never really found out the real details of the recent Israeli strike on Iran. Israeli Air Force planes spent 3 hours in Iranian air space able to work unimpeded after taking out the defense systems. Did they take out Iranian nuclear sites or oil fields - prime targets - with such unimpeded access? It seems they didnt't.

So if Israel was not going for those prime targets, what were the air force planes spending three hours doing in Iranian air space? Are we really meant to believe they were doing such important things while not actually doing the most important things when they had the chance?

I know what I just wrote above makes little sense, but little about this incident does.

unless the Israeli Air Force went back to Iran to steal more clouds. That makes sense! The air force planes were flying around Iran for 3 hours collecting all their clouds! 

And that is why we now have rain in Israel? After spending several days analyzing the Iranian clouds, making sure they were not infected or dangerous, and then distributing them around Israel in crucial areas, it is suddenly raining! Coincidence? I think not!


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Eretz Yisrael

earlier this morning the radio show started playing this beautiful song by
Ishay Ribo
about how beautiful the Land of Israel is when the song was interrupted by the announcement of sirens and incoming rockets in various towns up north..









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IDF clarification

Regarding my earlier post about MK Kroizer in Lebanon and having opened an ad hoc parliamentary office, with the ensuing brouhaha, the IDF has now responded.

This was made into a big deal. the army responded.

Basically, the IDF Spokesperson said that in general when someone in the IDF Reserves becomes a Member of Knesset, his service is frozen (it is considered a security risk). If a specific request is made to serve despite being a Member of Knesset, each request is weighed individually depending on the reasons and the need. Several similar requests have been approved. MK Kroizer, specifically, was approved for a limited time and for a specific mission in Lebanon. Upon completion of the mission, Kroizer is meant to go back to the Knesset and his reserve duty to be frozen again.

In all such cases, the person is told to not make anything public about being an MK or public servant  with his reserve duty service. Kroizer committed to this as well. The head of HR in the IDF decided due to the violation of this commitment to terminate the reserve duty allowance. However, because MK Kroizer claimed he neither photographed the image nor sprayed the graffiti nor distributed the photo and it was all done by others and it was done after completion of the approved mission MK Kroizer will be granted the 8 days of R&R he was qualified for.


 




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ICONIC JEWISH WOMEN

ICONIC JEWISH WOMEN

A STORY BY DR. HAROLD GOLDMEIER

Harold.goldmeier@gmail.com

972 50 2619116

Harold Goldmeier teaches international university students at Touro College Jerusalem. He is an award-winning entrepreneur who received the Governor’s Award (Illinois) for family investment programs in the workplace from the Commission on the Status of Women. He was a Research and Teaching Fellow at Harvard, worked for four governors, and recently sold his business in Chicago. He is a managing partner of an investment firm, a business management consultant, and a public speaker on business, social, and public policy issues.

 

Young girls and women give short shrift to exercises on building self-confidence and esteem. They suffer through awkward years around bat mitzvah time absorbing ideas about themselves that can squash their confidence for a lifetime. A plethora of women’s magazines have tried for decades to address the issue. Forbes talks in numerous articles about how business leaders lacking self-confidence nurture fear and limit risk-taking. A Harvard Business Review study goes further; self-satisfaction with the trajectories of women’s lives and careers is intimately linked to their self-confidence and self-esteem.



Author Dr. Aliza Lavie published a new book shining a light on the subject. She gives overdue gravitas and attention to Iconic Jewish Women (Gefen Publishing House, 2024): 59 Inspiring, Courageous, Revolutionary, Role Models for Young Girls. It is a book every girl ought to have in her library. Read it when you are 12 and again at 18, 35 and 65. Each reading brings new insights. The exercises can enhance the self-confidence and esteem of women as extrinsic events reshape the image and roles of women in religious, spiritual, political, and cultural milieus.

 

This is also a workbook. Be prepared to put in effort to build and repeatedly rebuild self-confidence and self-esteem. “Each chapter in this book tells the story of one inspirational Jewish woman (among dozens) and then suggests four different ways in which you can mark your bat mitzvah in her honor and make your own contribution to the world around you.”

After each short biography, Lavie wants the reader to figure out how to give back, see something new, and escape your comfort zone. The biographies are brief but poignant and impactful. Iconic Jewish Women has 322 pages of bios, suggested projects, and another three pages of lists of women who make a difference in world events and daily life. Mentors give advice. But heroes emotionally tie one to actions. Lavie offers inspiring examples from Biblical characters who shaped Judeo-value and belief systems through modern social justice leaders and scholars.

 

The book centers around the reader celebrating her bat mitzvah. Lavie’s history of the bat mitzvah is fascinating as is her telling of ways the bat mitzvah is celebrated around the globe. Lavie covers ancient through contemporary women. Lavie’s timeline and glossary should be of interest to history buffs and the inquisitive of every faith.    

 

A personal word from my lifetime of experience. Violence against women crushes their self-confidence and self-esteem. Rape and torture are tools of war, but every day we learn about sexual assaults in domestic and workplaces. A host of Lavie’s iconic women confronted violence against them like an undercurrent in every generation. The stories might help those with shaky self-confidence and self-esteem.  

 

 

The bios are organized alphabetically but looking at them generationally little changed for women until the 1920s after global economic industrialization. Lavie’s collection demonstrates how women with self-confidence changed the world and the opportunities for Jewish women, from Queen Esther and Rachel to “Battling Bella” Abzug. We cannot forget Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks because the success of the U. S. Civil Rights Movement was the greatest gift of freedom to Jews and Gentiles. It spawned the Jewish Power Movement solidifying the community’s independence and use of self-defense to solidify the State of Israel by building self-confidence and self-esteem among Jewish immigrants and their children. It opened doors for any Jewish girl or woman to turn dreams into reality. Jewish females were inspirational founders and leaders in social justice causes. But men still fail at giving women their due.

 

The IDF field observer teams monitoring Israel’s border with Gaza, overwhelmingly women, were ignored by male commanders, their pleas dismissed, and the world’s future changed forever. Interviewees from the unit share insights revealing how men ignored women shattering their self-confidence and esteem.  We hope there is a next edition which includes their stories.

 

In our opinion, Alice Lavie’s bio should be included in the next edition. Lavie is a Ph.D., former Knesset member, Film Council Chair, and advocate to end sex trafficking. Our own Bais Yaacov-educated daughter rose to advanced investigator of child sex trafficking adding to my admiration for Lavie’s iconic career. The cover of the book inadequately conveys the message. Iconic Jewish Women in no way slights men but the book tells much of the rest of the story of how women helped build Jewish life and Israel to the high point in self-confidence and self-esteem we are today.

 



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Picture of the Day



MK Yitzchak Korizer (Otzma Yehudit, while serving his reserve duty in combat in South Lebanon, opened a "Parliamentary Office"

MK Kroizer has been booted out of miluim due to the posting of this picture. As of this writing I dont have further details nor an understanding of why but my presumption is that the army, all armies, is all about discipline. Many soldiers got away with similar shenanigans in Gaza for a long time but eventually the IDF started cracking down and putting an end to it.


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Halacha Headlines: 11/2/24 – Shiur 487 – Should Rabbanim be teaching girls and women? (audio)










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Bill Clinton addresses Israel–Hamas war at Kamala Harris rally in Michigan (video)







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