Hebron's heroic neighborhood

A new neighborhood's been established in Hebron, dedicated to some fallen soldiers in history:

The "Harchivi Makom Ohalecha (Expand Your Tents)" organization, which is involved in redeeming homes in Hebron, announced this evening (Thursday) the establishment of a new Jewish neighborhood - the "Shechunat Hagvura (Neighborhood of Heroism)."

The entry into the buildings, which were legally purchased from Arabs some time ago, took place simultaneously into five strategic buildings in the Jalis neighborhood, in response to gunfire last night from Arab homes in the area toward the Jewish Havat Gal neighborhood.

The new neighborhood is named in honor of seven fighters, heroes of Hebron and Kiryat Arba, who fell in battle: Staff Sgt. Yehuda Dror Yahalom, Elyakim Shlomo Libman, Sgt. Maj. Elkana Yehuda Sfez, Capt. ori Mordechay Shani, Lt. Yohai Duchan, Sgt. Maj. Yishai Netanel Greenbaum, and Staff Sgt. Amichai Yaacov Vanino.

Finally, some more success in reclaiming Israeli land, after all the trouble leftists caused in the past 3 decades. Now, some justice is being done for a change, and perhaps we even have Donald Trump to thank for that.

Insular rabbis fall back on attacking women's roles in army

Some rabbis who may be closer in conduct to the Haredis protested against women's roles in the army, and all this less than 3 years after October 7, 2023:

A group of 20 religious-Zionist rabbis sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, condemning women’s integration into the IDF and demanding his intervention in the matter to “prevent disaster.”

The letter came in response to the military’s new program, which would include women in the Armored Corps. It was written by leading rabbis in the religious-Zionist sector, belonging to the organization Torat Ha’aretz HaTova.

The letter was titled “Harm to the operational resilience and service capability of soldiers due to the expansion of the integration of female soldiers.”

I wonder if the part about "Zionist" was deliberate on the part of the Jerusalem Post? Regardless, what the "rabbis" in question are doing embarrasses the standing of anybody who's concerned about the cohesion of Israel, long after all the damage that was inflicted by leftist movements over past decades. What's irritating about this is that it doesn't sound like they care if there's danger of a lady soldier being captured by barbaric jihadists, but rather, that their presence is only a "distraction" for the male soldiers. If that's the case, it's precisely what led to October 7, 2023, because all these scumbags were doing was worrying about petty issues, yet doing nothing to educate their subjects into learning social skills and being confident in themselves, and above all, judging by personality.

The rabbis wrote that they were turning to the prime minister “out of deep concern.”

Now, when the army is marching toward a mixture of genders that is forbidden by Judaism, contrary to logic and security needs, we can no longer remain silent,” the rabbis write.

“We are concerned about the accelerating trend toward integrating female fighters into combat and maneuvering frontline units.”

“As has been emphasized more than once, the IDF is not just another army; its strength and the secret of its victory lie in the divine assistance that accompanies it.”

“Maintaining holiness and modesty in the army camp is not a private matter for the religious soldier but a fundamental condition for the strength of the entire army and for divine assistance on the battlefield,” the letter states.

The rabbis claim that if the Armored Corps were “mixed,” it would confront their religious students with an “impossible contradiction” between their faith and their operational service.

Once more, we have a case here of somebody blurring the differences between a synagogue/yeshiva and a public institution. What they're emphasizing makes it difficult for their subjects to learn to how socialize and interact with the opposite sex, and has caused untold damage for decades. There have, however, been those countering what the group did:

It said that the rabbis’ claims do not reflect the operational reality in the field where men and women serve together.

“There exists professional cooperation, mutual respect, and genuine comradeship between religious male soldiers and female fighters,” the group said.

Women played an essential role in defending the country on the day of the October 7 Hamas attacks in 2023 and during the subsequent war.

The organization noted that, after October 7, 2023, the debate about women’s integration in the army “was already settled.”

“Whoever carries out the mission and defends the citizens of Israel is an inseparable part of the fighting force. According to IDF data, one out of every five combatants is a woman.”

The group also noted that the IDF is “desperate” for high-quality recruits.

Forum Dvorah underscored that the arguments in the rabbis’ letter do not reflect the views of the entire religious sector.

The organization noted that data indicated that, increasingly, young religious women are choosing to undertake military service – and even enlisting in combat roles.

Despite campaigns opposing women’s integration into the IDF, a new record was broken in the past year, with approximately 4,000 religious female recruits enlisting (the equivalent of 40% of young religious women), the forum said.

Forum Dvorah called on Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz to speak in support of the inclusion of women in the IDF and “to put an end to the political spin being conducted on the backs of those who bear the burden of security day after day.”

What the insular "rabbis" did desecrated the memory of biblical figures like Deborah, and suggests that, rather than learn lessons why it's bad to be petty after October 7, 2023, they were just sticking to the shadows until they thought the time was right to strike again. That's disgusting, and they owe an apology. Finance minister Bezalel Smotrich didn't improve the situation when he echoed the insular movement's example:

The Israeli military is not a place for women, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich claimed in an interview with 103FM on Wednesday morning.

He cited a quote in which he said he would not recommend that his daughter enlist, adding, “I am proud of the products of religious education, the root of this [the desire to enlist] is the desire to contribute, idealism, the desire to give.”

Does he realize how stupid this makes him look? I'm sorry, but he's undermining Judaism's image to boot, certainly if he doesn't differentiate from what those "rabbis" did.

Interestingly, while rabbi Natan Slifkin is of a rather questionable approach himself, he did point out something eyebrow raising about the letter, such as it is:

Interestingly, after the signatures of the forty rabbis, there are signatures of twelve parents of fallen soldiers. And yet it’s only the fathers’ names that appear, not the mothers. There are only two possible explanations. One is that the mothers do not agree with increasing the burden of reservists and harming the economy. The other is that the organizers of this letter are so charedi that they do not believe in publicizing womens’ opinions.

Well that's another reason it tanks badly. If women were excluded from this campaign, then it's not altruistic. After 10.7.2023, it's time for them to change their ways, and tragically, it's unlikely they'll abandon their atrocious conduct that's not really caring for the opposite sex.

Former French culture minister, in addition to having ties with Jefferey Epstein, was a prominent member of an Islamic organization

The files about the late child rapist Jeffrey Epstein have been in the news lately, with a considerable number of prominent politicians named as close buddies of his. Now, it turns out a former French culture minister, Jack Lang, in addition to having ties with Epstein, was also a leading member of an Islamic organization in France:

French police raided the Arab World Institute in Paris on Monday as part of a probe into Jack Lang, the former French culture minister, and his daughter Caroline — after Lang’s name appeared hundreds of times in the Epstein files.

The investigation into “laundering of aggravated tax fraud” against the Langs was opened on Feb. 6, and multiple locations have been searched in compliance with the probe, according to France’s National Financial Prosecutor. Lang, 86, resigned on Feb. 7 from the presidency of the Arab World Institute — which he had led since 2013 — after his name appeared 673 times in correspondence with Epstein between 2012 and 2019, according to emails released by the Department of Justice.

Lang had requested favors from Epstein including use of his vehicle or private plane for himself or family members, Radio France Internationale reported. Caroline Lang also appeared in the statute of a Virgin Islands-based company, Prytanee LLC, which Epstein founded in 2016.

The Arab World Institute describes itself as a “symbol of the partnership between France and twenty-one Arab countries,” according to its website. The institute “generates a dialogue between cultures that have been in frequent contacts for centuries and this partnership work together there, on a day-to-day basis, to rebuild their common past.”

One can only wonder what ties an institution like that could have to Epstein by extension. Lang, I think I once heard, is Jewish, and his presidency/membership in the organization is certainly telling of what a sellout to the Religion of Peace he's bound to be. Which could explain why somebody like him was chummy with Epstein. Nobody who's a realist should feel the least bit sorry Lang's now facing consequences for his reprehensible conduct. But who knows if any serious investigation beyond this one will be conducted into what the Arab World Institute is like underneath?

Oklahoma introducing legislature to ban Islamic sharia from local courts

An important step's being taken in Oklahoma's political/judicial system:

Legislation introduced in Oklahoma would restrict the application of certain foreign laws in state courts and limit foreign ownership or control of land and critical infrastructure, lawmakers behind the measures told Breitbart News exclusively.

State Representative Gabe Woolley introduced House Joint Resolution 1040, which would prohibit Oklahoma courts from applying Sharia law or other foreign legal systems in judicial decisions. The proposal is framed in the press release as an effort to ensure courts remain grounded in the United States Constitution and Oklahoma law.

Responding to critics who have raised concerns about religious liberty, Woolley told Breitbart News, “While we recognize that Americans enjoy freedom of religion, this resolution is a step to protect homeland security and Oklahomans’ constitutional rights — rights that Islam and Sharia law do not adhere to. Sharia law is a political ideology presented as a religion. It is a Trojan horse used to infiltrate free and independent nations, such as America, in order to overthrow them and instill and expand Sharia law principles.”

They should also come up with legislature for prohibiting garments like the burqa/niqab. And as far as I'm concerned, if the wimple worn by Catholic nuns has to be phased out in order to make it possible, and even some garments worn by ultra-Orthodox Judaist women, then so be it. The point is, even we of the west have to be consistent with our own views in order to ensure we can oppose Islamic sharia properly.

Jean-Luc Melenchon's party faces backlash for leading to murder of conservative figure at Lyon university

There was recently a murder of a conservative figure committed by Antifa anarchists at a university in Lyon, in which a representative of Jean-Luc Melenchon's France Unbowed party was involved, and now, it's leading to backlash against the communist party:

A leftist parliamentary assistant has been barred from the French National Assembly after being accused of taking part in the mob killing of a conservative university student in Lyon.

During a protest from the anti-mass migration feminist group Collectif Némésis, who gathered on Thursday on the Sciences Po university in Lyon in opposition to a lecture from far-left La France Insoumise (France in Rebellion) MEP Rima Hassan, a 23-year-old student, Quentin Deranque, was killed in an alleged act of Antifa violence.

Deranque, a conservative Catholic who had been asked by the female activist group to provide informal security from the far-left, suffered a traumatic brain injury during the attack and ultimately perished in the hospital on Saturday.

On Monday, the president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, announced that the parliament had taken the “precautionary measure” of banning Jacques-Élie Favrot, the parliamentary assistant to LFI Raphaël Arnault, after he was accused by Némésis of being present during the attack that led to the death in Lyon, Le Figaro reported. Favrot has denied responsibility for the death of Quentin.

For his part, Arnault has long been the subject of controversy, having been accused and even reportedly convicted of violent assaults against conservatives. The founder of the Jeune Garde (Young Guard) Antifa branch in Lyon was also revealed to have been placed on the government’s extremist watch list. Despite this, he was still backed by the Jean-Luc Mélenchon party and was elected in 2024 to represent Vaucluse in the National Assembly. [...]

The leader of the populist National Rally party, Marine Le Pen, said that “far-left militias, which, for years, relying on the complacency and support of parties such as La France Insoumise, have multiplied in the public space, intimidation, threats and assaults.”

“Democracy can no longer accept those who want to overthrow it,” she argued, calling for the government to ban such Antifa groups as terrorist organisations, as was done by the Trump administration.

At a demonstration in Paris on Sunday, which drew support from right-wing leaders such as former presidential candidate Éric Zemmour and MEP Marion Maréchal, attendees were heard chanting “LFI murderers!” and “LFI assassins”. Others carried signs reading “Antifa murderers, justice for Quentin” and “Young Guard terrorists”.

Melenchon's movement has really done it this time. He for starters should be expelled from the parliament, and Antifa should be banned from operating there too, just like the Muslim Brotherhood must also be banned from operations there. Monsters like Melenchon's movement are part of the reason why things have become so much worse over the years in France.

A positive message by Marco Rubio

The USA secretary of state delivered an important message while attending a conference in Germany:

“We want allies who are proud of their culture … and able to defend it,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a meeting of European politicians, generals, media, and influencers in Germany on Valentine’s Day.

Rubio’s eloquent speech got a standing ovation from the Europeans because it was a strong, diplomatic rebuke of the reckless European left-wing parties that dominate European politics. The left-wing parties hate the European citizen-led nations and are deliberately dissolving them in an acidic sea of resentful migrants, civic chaos, welfare spending, and low-tech poverty.

Rubio urged Europe’s elites to adopt a low-migration, high-tech policy that protects citizens’ valuable culture, promotes productivity and innovation, and expands wealth-creating trade with developing countries in Asia and Africa.

His speech matched Trump’s January speech to Davos leaders and Vice President JD Vance’s November comments to a TV interviewer.

For now, Europe has to prove they can deport the Islamist invaders, if they ever want to one day improve the situation. And we have to hope the USA will be willing to aid the native populations on all relevant issues.

2 lady soldiers were attacked by Haredi thugs in Bnei Brak

The extremist ultra-Orthodox 5th columnists continue their post-October 7, 2023 contempt by attacking 2 lady IDF officials in Bnei Brak, where they wanted to visit one of their colleagues:

A police unit rescued several IDF servicewomen in Bnei Brak on Sunday afternoon after they were attacked by an angry mob.

The incident involved two commanders from the Education Corps serving at the Havat HaShomer base who had arrived for a home visit to one of their soldiers. The crowd believed they were Military Police servicemembers who had come to distribute draft orders.

During the incident, a group of haredi bystanders gathered, shouting “Nazis," and tried to approach the soldiers. According to reports, there were attempts to physically attack them. In addition, a police motorbike was set on fire, and the mob overturned a police vehicle.

Police forces were called to the scene and safely extracted the servicewomen. At least three officers were injured in the riots. So far, 23 arrests have been made.

The police updated that two female soldiers had arrived to conduct welfare activities as part of their service in the IDF. Police forces rescued the soldiers, while some of the troublemakers began confronting officers and throwing trash bins into the path of the police vehicle.

As some politicians noted, this crossed every line most severely. Here's more:

IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir spoke on Sunday with the two female commanders who were attacked earlier in the day during a mission in Bnei Brak and inquired about their well-being.

“I asked to speak with you to tell you that the IDF and I stand fully and clearly behind you. No one is permitted to harm your dignity or interfere with the important mission you are carrying out. You represent the entire IDF, and you have my full backing and that of the entire IDF," Zamir told the soldiers.

He pledged that the IDF "will investigate the incident to ensure it does not happen again. A reality in which IDF soldiers - male or female - cannot move freely within the State of Israel is an intolerable reality that must be addressed."

What the ultra-Orthodox monsters did was similar in some ways to the situation with Islamofascists in Europe, where they created no-go zones for non-Muslims, Jews included. It's abominable, and can make it considerably harder to undo the damage those who facilitated the Religion of Peace's entrance into Europe caused. Interestingly enough, here's a writer who made an important point about why what's happened long after October 7, 2023 is so offensive:

If a rabbi repeatedly describes the army as a machine of spiritual destruction, he cannot wash his hands when his students treat its soldiers as enemies. Words create worlds. Halachic rhetoric shapes moral reflexes. When you delegitimize an institution that defends Jewish lives, you are playing with fire in a house filled with gasoline.

Yes, there are real tensions between Haredi society and the State. Yes, there are coercive policies that feel threatening. Yes, there is cultural arrogance on all sides. But riots against female soldiers are not a defense of Torah. They are a chilul Hashem of epic proportions.

What does it say to the broader Israeli public when black-hatted Jews scream at Jewish girls in uniform? What does it do to the fragile threads holding our people together after October 7? Do you think secular Israelis distinguish between “fringe extremists” and the rabbis who have spent decades depicting the army as a spiritual plague?

It's good to see the writer's made mention of 10.7.2023, because what the rioters and vandals in Bnei Brak did only adds injury to injury. The rioters who were arrested should face serious penalties based on that alone.

Geert Wilders says Europe may need America's help once again to stop the tyrannies it created

Geert Wilders, whose party sadly failed again to win full elections last year, has written for Breitbart that the USA may need to help Europe out of the horrific situation its modern overlords have long sunk it into:

Guess what the main topic of debate at the European Parliament in Strasbourg this week is. It is what the Euro-elites consider the most concerning issue of the moment: “State violence in Minneapolis and the rule of law in the United States.”

This is a typical example of seeing the speck in your brother’s eye while ignoring the beam in your own. The European Union is criticizing the rule of law in America, while there are indications that Ursula von der Leyen’s European Commission has in the past two years actively tried to interfere in eight parliamentary and presidential elections on the European continent, including twice in my own country, The Netherlands.

That, however, is a topic not deemed worthy of discussion by the European political establishment.

Last week, the House Judiciary Committee of the U.S. Congress published a report about Europe’s decade-long campaign to censor speech. As part of its investigation, the House Committee issued subpoenas to ten American tech companies, requiring them to produce communications with foreign governments, including the EU.

The congressional report accuses the EU of aggressively using its so-called Digital Services Act (DSA) to pressure tech companies to remove social media content that the EU considers “disinformation,” which in practice has meant posts critical of the ruling European establishment.

Meanwhile, companies that do not comply with EU regulations are threatened with huge penalties. We have seen what the EU is capable of. Last December, X was slapped by Brussels with a staggering €120 million fine.

Guess what topic was off limits in the European Parliament this week? Indeed, Europarl was denied a vote on whether to debate the findings of the House Committee’s report or not.

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee thinks that in every European election since the DSA took effect in 2023, the EU has tried to censor speech. The House Committee fears this happened in The Netherlands (twice), Ireland (twice), France, Romania, Slovakia and Moldova.

The latter is not even an EU member, but as it is a neighbour of the bloc, Brussels seems to feel entitled to “address disinformation risks” there as well. Given that post-Brexit Britain is an even more important neighbour of the EU, there is no reason to suppose that Brussels is not capable of refraining from meddling in its elections, too.

I think what went wrong is that Roosevelt, if anyone, wasn't being altruistic when he had the USA military enter WW2, and never made any kind of case that Europe should adopt principles similar to the USA's Constitution at the time. Who knows, chances are things could've been different, even in Israel, and sadly, in the near century since, Orwellian forces did everything they could to make it harder for even the USA to fight against what's going on now. We can only there's people who're willing to battle back against what Europarliament's doing now. But recalling that sad poll news from earlier, who knows if the USA public will be willing to perform altruistically on even a topic like this?

Anti-Israel monsters protesting against visit of Israeli president in Australia are atrocious, but so is the local MSM coverage

The anti-Israeli Islamofascists in Australia predictably organized to commit violence at a location he was visiting. Herzog had the following to say to them:

President Isaac Herzog on Thursday delivered a pointed message to the anti-Israel protesters who have dogged his visit to Australia: Protest against Iran, not Israel and the Australian Jews who support it.

Addressing some 4,000 people at a large communal event on the last day of his solidarity visit, he said it was “obscure and odd” that heavy police protection was needed to ensure Jews could gather peacefully with the president of Israel, following the Bondi Beach terrorist attack in December.

“To all those protesters outside, go protest in front of the Iranian embassy,” Herzog said, adding that Iran operates an “empire of evil” responsible for mass bloodshed. Israel was “literally protecting the free world and its values” by combating that threat, he added.

One of the worst things about this incident is that the local press Down Under was sympathetic to the monsters, for whom the doors were flung wide open to live there in the years after the horror stories of sexual violence that occurred in the past quarter century and led to the Cronulla beach riots. Though here's one local columnist who did recognize what's wrong with the Islamofascists who led the whole debacle:

I have been an on-the-ground news reporter at protests in Australia and Europe.

Some became violent. One, a protest in London to oppose the Iraq War, was hair-raisingly so. [...]

The spectacle of armed police “bashing” an “innocent bystander” is usually the moment at which the thin veneer of civility peels away and some protesters become animals.

The ones who do often have no idea what the protest is about. They are professional anarchists. We saw them at work this week at Sydney’s Town Hall.

They weren’t there because they love Palestine. Most couldn’t identify Herzog in a police line-up or come close to pinpointing Gaza on a map.

They were there because they love to riot and a march in the name of geopolitical justice is a good foil for that. If it wasn’t Herzog it would be climate change. Or transgender activism.

The organisers of pro-Palestinian protests are shooting themselves in the foot by allowing their campaign to be hijacked by hooligans.

And they’re putting a bullet in their other foot by choosing the wrong moment to make their point.

I don’t know what the right moment is, but I know it’s not when Israel’s President is in Australia to pay respect to the victims of a national tragedy.

Well that's correct. There's a whole cottage industry devoted to pandering to violence-worshiping monsters out there, one that doubtless even includes predators who blame victims, including the people who were murdered in the Columbine bloodbath in Colorado in 1999, recalling a creepy character from Maine who did something like that a quarter century ago on an online forum. As I've long since been aware, a northeastern region like Maine's long been a subject of leftist indoctrination, so it may not be too surprising you could have people there who're hostile to Israel and even the victims of September 11, 2001. But it's still obviously as sad as it's repulsive. And this is a similar situation now going on in Australia.

Male transsexual misogynist in Canada murdered 9 people

Another mass murder committed by a man living as a transsexual occurred in Canada, with mainly women paying a heavy price:

The mass shooting spree by Jesse Van Rootselaar, an 18-year-old man, in Tumbler Ridge in Canada, had a pattern. He murdered his mother, who had been supportive of his delusions that he was really a woman, and his 11-year-old stepbrother.

Then he went to a school and killed a 39-year-old ‘female educator’, three 12-year-old girls, two boys and another 12-year-old girl is reportedly fighting for her life.

There’s a pattern here.

Jesse, who had been convinced that he was a woman, but knew inside that it was all a lie, put on a dress and went off to target women and girls. Most of his victims were female, which was something that he could never be, and that’s probably not a coincidence.

That his mother defended his delusions didn't change his view of actual women:

The mother who was murdered by her school-shooter transgender son in Canada defended trans rights and urged her followers to stop “spewing bulls–t” online in a resurfaced Instagram post.

Strang blasted online critics and warned that hatred is pushing transgender kids toward suicide — adding that such rhetoric makes them look “dumb.”

“Do you have any idea how many kids are killing themselves over this kind of hate. Please STOP the bulls–t!”

Her son, an 18-year-old ex-student, launched his horrifying attack at a private residence in the sleepy rural community of Tumbler Ridge on Tuesday afternoon before continuing the carnage at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, where authorities said he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Six people were found dead inside the school, and the bodies of Van Rootselaar’s mother, 39, and stepbrother, 11, were discovered in a local residence, cops said.

One of the saddest things besides this is that the RCMP described him by his "preferred pronouns", and thus beggaring the query, does somebody who commits such a heinous crime deserve to referred to in such a bizarrely Oedipalian manner? And another thing that's disgusting is that Israel National News actually went along with this pronoun propaganda, suggesting they're falling back on mistakes they made in the past, or lurching towards a leftist approach. Some of the commentors to the article were offended, and one said:

Disappointing and wondering who is writing this I expected a borrowing from a lefty news site like AP or Reuters but nothing it’s from A-7. Maybe I’ll look into Israel 365 more. If A-7 doesn’t correct itself . We all make mistakes let’s see if this site owns up and isn’t signaling a turn left.

Perhaps a reevaluation of them may be in order.

An upcoming Congressional hearing on banning sharia in the USA

Janet Levy talks about an upcoming panel in Congress on banning Islamic sharia in the USA:

Whenever patriots rise to defend America from radical Islam, liberals dismiss them as alarmist or Islamophobic. Therefore, criticism is likely to increase after the February 10th Sharia Free America hearings of the House Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government. But not only is the threat real, it also grows stronger from apologists who insist that Islam is a religion of peace, even though Islamist groups openly swear by its medieval tenets of world conquest.

Fortunately, many House Republicans are standing against this growing threat. In less than a month, 26 representatives from 17 states have joined the Sharia-Free America Caucus, led by Representatives Keith Self (R-TX-3) and Chip Roy (R-TX-21). Their goal is to protect the Constitution and defend individual freedoms and the American way of life by passing laws to prevent sharia from invading our civic life and courts.

Read more. This is something that must also be taken to Europe, Africa, Asia and even Latin America, because who knows how much horrific influence of the Religion of Peace can be found in any part there? The time's come to deal with this properly, and the House hearings are just the beginning of what's needed.