Members of the media, politicians and others on both sides of the aisle swiftly condemned
Thursday, July 30, 2020
Over This We Mourn
BS"D
"Over This We Mourn"
By Binyomin Feinberg
8 Av, 5780 °° July 29, '20 Erev Tisha B'Av (Parshas Naso)
Communal Protest of Evil:
Firstly,
on occasion of the fast day of Tisha B'Av, starting tonight, Wednesday
night, we refer our esteemed readers to a previous post, https://
We
also know that "Middah Tova Merubah," i.e. Divine Reward is far more
generous than Divine Retribution is strict. As much as failure to
properly protest persecution could destroy the Bais HaMikdosh, how much
more potent is properly speaking out in rebuilding it. In this day and
age, despite the multitudinous hazards of technology, we are blessed
with the capacity to speak out against rishus (evil) like never before.
We cannot force people to listen, but many, many certain would. (We
hope and pray that these posts as well humbly serve as at least a modest
example of what can be done by concerned individuals to combat rishus,
even on the other side of the world.)
"What
can I do?" many ask. It's related from one of the Torah sages of the
previous generation that it's not that G-d gives tasks to the capable;
rather, he graces those who take the initiative to undertake vital
causes with the capacities they'll need to succeed.
In
"Kovetz He'oros" on Yevamos, Aggada, chapter 10, the world-renowned
disciple of the saintly Chofetz Chaim (d.1933 CE), Rav Elchonon
Wasserman (martyred by the Nazis, y.s., in the Holocaust), distinguishes
sharply between threats to the Jewish People that endanger our physical
survival - as was Nazism, and threats to our spiritual survival - as
was Communism. The former are in the category of a "ma'aseh HaShem,"
demanding our spiritual efforts, including repentance and prayer. The
latter - threats to our spiritual existence - demand our vigorous
efforts to resist in the physical plane.
Reb
Elchonon relates how the saintly Chofetz Chayim regretted that he
didn't actually launch a physical revolution against the virulently
anti-Jewish
What's
striking is how nowadays even a few individuals - of average capacity -
can access the wherewithal to lauch a global "Awareness Revolution" -
all without shooting a single bullet. By identifying potent stories of
courageous individuals, and leveraging related current events, one can
publicly expose all sorts of evil being perpetrated by powerful abusers,
state, corporate, and individual offenders.
We
also know that IF we do our small part properly, G-d often - eventually
- provides us with the wherewithal to accomplish far beyond what we
originally dreamed we could.
°°°
And now, for some of the latest news on innocent girls being targeted for the Israeli military draft:
On Sunday, we posted these, regarding a Ukrainian immigrant Ba'alas-Teshuva being targeted by Maitav, Kesanya Z.:
Subsequently, we learned that Batsheva D., a religious girl not even 17 years old, was recently targeted
She had innocently called the Draft Office to learn standard procedure to apply for her religious exemption from the female draft. On the spot, the army recruiter nonchalantly instructed her to come directly to a scheduled religiosity "interview," a "Rayon Dat."
Volunteers who assist girls in these matters over the past couple of years note that this is the first case in which they've seen such blatant and early-stage deception of a 16 year-old religious girl by Maitav; not only had she not stepped into the Draft Office, or even mailed in her religiosity verification affidavit.- she had not even visited the Rabbanut to obtain her religiosity affidavit to begin with - and nevertheless got summoned to a Rayon Dat.
° Explaining the "Method behind the Madness," one of the senior volunteers observed that by initiating the Rayon Dat process early, the Israeli government places any resistant girls into the "draft-complication" process ("histabchut") earlier on as well.
° It's important to realize who's being targeted here. It's not the girls who comply with the Rayon Dat, but specifically the most upright - those who don't (reminiscent of the proverbial paradigm: "No good deed shall go unpunished").
° Additionally, at an earlier age, the Rayon Dat can be administered when girls are more susceptible to being tripped up, duped into enlisting, or intimidated into enlisting.
°
Moreover, this "zerizin mak'dimin" schedule will grant the Army Draft
Office more time before draft age (18) to try to emotionally and
psychologically wear down the girls and their families, thereby
broadcasting to the weaker ones that it's not worthwhile to even bother
"fighting City Hall."
Bear
in mind that the Israeli military has a huge amount of funding at their
disposal to seek out and identify - and then effectively stalk and
traffic - these teenage girls, relentlessly, by virtue of the
fungibility of foreign aid obtained under pretext of national security
and legitimate defense needs.
°
This "Head Start" headhunter initiative could also be seen as part of
the broader Maitav effort to whitewash the Rayon Dat phenomenon. The
very notion of Rayon Dat, in such cases, is actually an extralegal
maneuver. It's been put into practice without benefit of due process of
law. Otherwise put, If you can't make it Law via legislation, do so by
procedural innovation. This extralegal dexterity also helps avoid
conflict with the concern over implementation of procedures against the
will of the people, because the people won't even know what hit them
until they've already become accustomed to it, and unfortunately
resigned themselves to the Rayon Dat directives as a done deal.
°°°
May we soon witness the Final Redemption in the merit of helping expedite it.
~~~
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Pro-Hydroxychloroquine Doctor Says 'Lying' Fauci Is Playing With Lives
The physician, who voiced unsubstantiated claims
about hydroxychloroquine's impact on COVID-19 earlier this week,
targeted NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci on Twitter Wednesday morning.
Revenge of the Never Trumpers: Meet the Republican Dissidents Fighting to Push Donald Trump Out of Office
https://time.com/5870475/never-trumpers-2020-election/
Jack Spielman has been a Republican his whole life. But over the past four years, he has come to two realizations.
Increasingly upset by President Donald Trump’s
“appalling” behavior, his cozy relationships with dictators and the
ballooning national debt, Spielman says his first epiphany was that he
couldn’t cast a ballot for Trump again. But for the retired Army
cybersecurity engineer, the final straw was the President’s retaliation
against impeachment witness Lieut. Colonel Alexander Vindman, who
retired in July after Trump fired him from the National Security Council
in February. Spielman decided he had to do more than just vote for
presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden; he had to persuade others to
do the same. So Spielman filmed a video for a group called Republican
Voters Against Trump (RVAT), explaining his views. “I want to do some
part,” Spielman tells TIME, “to try to correct the wrong that I did in
voting for this man.”
Trump ends press briefing after defending pro-hydroxychloroquine doctor who says virus has a 'cure'
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-press-briefing-coronavirus-hydroxychloroquine-doctor
President Trump
abruptly ended a tense press conference at the White House on Tuesday,
after he defended Houston Dr. Stella Immanuel as a "very impressive" for
touting hydroxychloroquine -- just hours after Twitter deleted the
president's retweet of a video featuring Immanuel speaking about the
drug.
At the briefing, CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins highlighted some of
Immanuel's past comments, including that alien DNA is being used in
medical treatments and that doctors want to make people immune from
religion.
She was on-air, along with many other doctors. They were big fans of
hydroxychloroquine. I thought she was very impressive. ... She said that
she's had tremendous success with hundreds of different patients. I
thought her voice was an important voice, but I know nothing about her."
Collins continued shouting questions, prompting the president to head out.
CNN
has its own history of questionable claims about hydroxychloroquine:
Last week, Dr. Harvey Risch, a Yale epidemiology professor, rejected a CNN anchor’s "ludicrous" claim that the drug is too dangerous to even talk about as a potential COVID-19 treatment.
Trump sticks by discredited hydroxychloroquine
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53575964
US President Donald Trump has again
defended the use of hydroxychloroquine to ward off coronavirus,
contradicting his own public health officials.
He said the malaria medication was only rejected as a Covid-19 treatment because he had recommended its use.
His remarks come after Twitter banned his eldest son for posting a clip promoting hydroxychloroquine.
There is no evidence the drug can fight the virus, and regulators warn it may cause heart problems.
Last month, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cautioned against the use of the drug for treatment of the coronavirus, following reports of "serious heart rhythm problems" and other health issues.
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