{"id":2450,"date":"2023-01-03T10:11:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T15:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevoiceoflakewood.com\/?p=2450"},"modified":"2023-01-03T10:12:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T15:12:07","slug":"newsmix-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevoiceoflakewood.com\/newsmix-3\/","title":{"rendered":"News Mix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bibi Already Under Fire<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Incoming Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu is already facing headaches as a coordinated avalanche of negative media hits attacks his government and warns of the supposed danger it poses to Israeli democracy. The new government was expected to be sworn in today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outgoing IDF chief Aviv Kochavi expressed concerns that the new coalition would alter the military chain of command, including plans to create a new office within the defense ministry to oversee areas in the West Bank that are fully controlled by Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hundreds of business executives joined an appeal to Netanyahu urging him not to move forward with planned changes to the judiciary, which they said would harm Israel\u2019s global perception as a stable democracy, which in turn could harm business investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A group of leaders from leftist American Jewish organizations held a meeting with Israeli leaders in which they said they think the Netanyahu government would pursue policies \u201cthat are racist, antagonistic toward both Reform and Conservative Jews,\u201d resulting in a decrease in \u201cdonations to Israel from the US Jewish community\u201d and less support for Israel from young American Jews. Additionally, a group of 330 Reform and Conservative clergy pledged to ban frum <\/em>members of the Knesset from speaking at their functions and urged others to do the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latter was blasted by the Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), which represents over 2,000 Orthodox Jewish rabbis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTheir call reveals the unrestrained hypocrisy of these non-Orthodox (and anti-Orthodox) movements,\u201d said CJV president Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld. \u201cThe same people who virtue-signal their \u2018tolerance\u2019 demonstrate that they are the least tolerant of all. Anyone who speaks outside their ideological echo chamber must be canceled, censored, and banned. Israel has not, contrary to their claims, disenfranchised them. Rather, it is they who seek to disenfranchise Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CJV noted that Reform leaders met with PA president Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah long after it was known that the Palestinian Authority was giving financial rewards to the families of terrorists, and the same leaders made no move to ban Arab MK Hanin Zoabi after she called for the dissolution of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

28%<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The share of parents who say they should be allowed to decide not to vaccinate their children for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) in order to attend school has grown to nearly a third as skepticism over government edicts grows across the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A pre-pandemic study found that just 16 percent of parents said the same, illustrating how the response to the covid-19 pandemic\u2014particularly the government\u2019s insistence that everyone get the vaccine, including healthy children\u2014has increased distrust in government authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think there is more mistrust of the government, there\u2019s more questioning of vaccines, and we\u2019ve been having a harder time getting people vaccinated,\u201d said Anne Zink, chief medical officer for Alaska\u2019s health department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI find it a hard argument when the government says, we\u2019re all for individual liberty\u2026but when it comes to vaccinations, there\u2019s no such thing as \u2018my body, my choice,\u2019\u201d one person told the Washington Post<\/em>, summing up how many Americans are beginning to feel about vaccinations in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Domestic Terrorists Strike<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Law enforcement agencies are frantically searching for the people responsible for recent attacks on the electric power grids in Washington, North Carolina, and Oregon, with officials believing the string of incidents may be connected to extremist individuals or groups seeking to sow chaos in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some officials said they think the vandals could be radical environmental activists or people attempting to start a race war, but so far there is no concrete evidence for either theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In each case, someone forced their way into a fenced area surrounding power substations and damaged equipment, causing widespread power outages which took hours to repair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Federal officials have been warning that the US power grid needs better security to prevent domestic terror attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Misery at Mar-a-Lago<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not a happy situation at Mar-a-Lago, where Donald Trump is not only fighting accusations of cozying up to anti-Semites, but is now reportedly also being shunned by his own daughter and son-in-law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a report by New York Magazine<\/em> this week, Jared and Ivanka Kushner are refusing to help him with public relations as fallout continues to build over his wining and dining notorious anti-Semites Kanye West and Nick Fuentes. Perhaps more concerning for the former president, neither wants anything to do with his 2024 campaign\u2014a major blow to his prospects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jared and Ivanka played key roles in much of Trump\u2019s successes as president, including the Abraham Accords deal which established diplomatic relations between Israel and five Arab nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For his part, Trump is denying the report, calling it \u201cfake news\u201d and saying the reporter\u2019s sources \u201cdon\u2019t exist.\u201d He also maintains that he \u201cnever asked Jared or Ivanka to be part of the 2024 campaign for president and, in fact, specifically asked them not to do it\u201d since \u201cwith the fake and corrupt news\u201d and \u201chorrendous\u201d politicians, asking them to be involved is \u201cmean and nasty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump also addressed another part of the report which stated that the Trump campaign is lifeless, with nothing going on: \u201cSo funny to read and hear the fake news political pundits saying that \u2018Trump isn\u2019t working too hard on his campaign. This is not a good sign; maybe he\u2019s giving up\u2019 (even though I\u2019m leading big in the polls!),\u2019\u201d he wrote on Truth Social. \u201cWhat they don\u2019t say is, \u2018We have almost two years to go.\u2019 The rallies will be bigger and better than ever\u2026but it\u2019s a little bit early, don\u2019t you think?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China\u2019s Covid Fight Fails<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took about three years, but China finally appears to be throwing in the towel in its fight against the spread of covid-19. As nearly every other country in the world regained its senses and transitioned from blanket lockdowns to more targeted measures protecting the vulnerable and elderly, China stuck stubbornly to its \u201czero covid\u201d policy, imposing onerous restrictions on its citizens and locking down millions at the slightest hint of an outbreak. But following widespread protests, the Chinese authorities finally relented, lifting most of its covid restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reports from the country suggest it is now facing a tidal wave of infections and deaths, though state-sanctioned outlets will not report it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

White House Censored Covid Info<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biden White House pressured Twitter to both \u201celevate\u201d and \u201csuppress\u201d users based on their stances on covid-19, ultimately \u201ccensoring info that was true but inconvenient\u201d to policy makers, the latest edition of the \u201cTwitter files\u201d revealed this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The coercion campaign during the pandemic began with the Trump administration, which asked Twitter to crack down on stories about panic buying and \u201cruns on grocery stores\u201d in the early days of the outbreak, but was stepped up under Biden, whose administration was focused on the removal of \u201canti-vaxxer accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest iteration of the Twitter files reveals how deeply enmeshed the federal government is in much of the news that we read and how it manipulates the media into pushing narratives that fit the agenda of those in power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congressman Exposed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Representative-elect George Santos from Long Island admitted this week that he had fabricated chunks of his r\u00e9sum\u00e9 which he had pitched to unwitting voters. For instance, Santos confessed that he had never worked for Goldman Sachs or Citigroup, nor did he graduate college, and he lied about being Jewish, writing on his campaign website that his family \u201cfled Jewish persecution in Ukraine, settled in Belgium, and again fled persecution during World War II.\u201d None of that ever happened, and his family has been Catholic going back generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While exposed and disgraced, Santos says he will not allow the shame to impede his job as a congressman. \u201cI am not a criminal,\u201d Santos said. \u201cThis will not deter me from having good legislative success. I will be effective. I will be good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opinion: <\/strong>The Bothersome Border<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States is currently grappling with the prospect of a complete meltdown at the border. The fate of Title 42, or the Remain in Mexico policy\u2014the pandemic-era edict that became the pillar of Trump\u2019s border enforcement\u2014is currently before the Supreme Court, and once it ends, tens of thousands of migrants are expected to come flowing into the US. How that will be dealt with is beyond anything anyone knows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are two things to keep in mind regarding this crisis. First, the Biden administration is consumed with shifting blame to others rather than attempting to find a solution to the impending crisis. Border apprehensions are already running at an eye-popping 7,000 a day, and experts expect that number to climb to some 18,000 a day once Title 42 ends. Yet, the Biden administration still points the finger at Donald Trump\u2014two years after he left office, during which the current president did nothing to solve the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The White House press secretary insists that Biden had been saddled with the \u201csystem that was set\u201d by Trump, Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas complains that the president \u201cinherited a broken and dismantled immigration system,\u201d and Biden himself whines that he was handed an \u201cawful mess at the border.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s interesting about all these claims is that the failure with which they say Trump handled the border magically didn\u2019t become apparent until he left office and his border policies were largely decimated by the Biden administration. Strange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden declared himself a sworn enemy of Trump\u2019s border policies and destroyed as much of them as he could, and now that migrants are streaming through the border like water through a sieve, he still <\/em>blames Trump. That takes chutzpah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there\u2019s a second point that I think we should be cognizant of, and that is that many of these migrants truly deserve our compassion. I know it\u2019s not the conservative thing to say, but the reality is that many thousands of them are attempting to flee communism, cartels, and violence, and if they were our brothers and sisters, we\u2019d turn the world over to help them. Many are truly refugees seeking a better, saner life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you look back to the 1930s and 1940s, a lot of the same reasons to keep immigrants out of the US today were used to bar Jews from fleeing the Nazis by coming to America. I am in no way suggesting that those trying to get into the US today are facing the same mass extermination as my ancestors did, but we can, and I think should, at least give some thought to their plight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It may not be the \u201cconservative\u201d thing to do, but when our own history demonstrates so starkly how tough immigration policies could negatively affect people, we should at least have the presence of mind to be aware of the unfortunate circumstances many of these people are struggling with. It\u2019s the humane thing to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quote:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am not implying that Israel is capable, I am saying it is.\u201d \u2014former Mossad intelligence chief Zohar Palti<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Palti warned that Iran is now \u201cdays or weeks\u201d away from enriching uranium to weapons grade, which \u201cdoes not mean they can immediately build a nuclear weapon\u2026but it\u2019s very bad, and we\u2019ve never been closer to it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Palti added the above quote, saying that he is 100 percent certain that if Iran manages to enrich uranium to weapons grade, Israel has the military capabilities to destroy the rogue country\u2019s nuclear facilities. He added that Israel will have to make \u201cserious decisions\u201d soon about a preemptive attack on Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jerusalem Bombing Terrorist in Custody<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An ISIS-affiliated Israeli Arab from Yerushalayim was taken into custody after being identified as the sole individual responsible for the bus stop bombings in the city on November 23 which killed two people, Aryeh Schupak and Tedasa Teshuma Hy\u201dd<\/em>, and wounded nearly two dozen others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Shin Bet said Eslam Froukh manufactured the bombs using online guidebooks and planted them himself. He was planning to set off a third bomb as emergency personnel treated victims at the second attack in Ramot but ran into \u201ctechnical difficulties.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the days following the attacks, IDF forces discovered items used by the terrorist in the attacks as well as additional pipe bombs and a makeshift submachine gun he planned to use in future attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the course of their investigation into the double bombing, the Shin Bet also uncovered a plot by an individual to carry out a separate attack in Yerushalayim. That terrorist, who was not involved in the bus stop bombings, was taken into custody, but no further information was given.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFollowing a wide-ranging intelligence effort and investigation, the security forces have apprehended the reprehensible terrorist who carried out the double bombing in Jerusalem\u2026\u201d said Prime Minister Yair Lapid. \u201cIsrael will find every terrorist who attacks our citizens and will deal with them to the fullest extent of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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