My Disappointment in Humanity

A friend of mine sent me a wonderful podcast from Dr. Gad Saad about President Trump's indictment. I urge you to listen to him. It inspired me to write this blog post.

The Indictment of Donald Trump - The End of the United States?

What so disappoints me is the majority of the world’s population who are either on the Left but not extremists or in the center or even to the right of center who refuse to take a stand on this, very sad day in US history. 

They either go about their business and ignore the calamity that is taking place in front of their eyes. Or even worse, they are ok with it. 

The extreme Leftists and various other nefarious groups who are neither Left or Right but just plain evil, of course disappoint me but less so than the masses I referred to above. There will always be evil people who are hell bent on destroying the world in order to, in their minds, elevate them in some way. (ie. they will get richer, get more powerful, etc.).

Someone in the gym wanted to get into a discussion with me about this the other day. She was obvious on the Left. Normally I’m happy to have a civilized discussion on politics of any sort. The usual debates with these type of people center around why I like and support Donald Trump. They just can’t for the life of them understand why I (the cool, guitar playing, pickle ball playing, artist, fly fisherman and reptile lover) like Mr. Orange man.

But these days I'm not into having those 'friendly' discussions/debates. In previous blogs I asked out loud, why am I forced to become Donald Trump's defender? There were a million things I'd rather be doing, believe me. 

Today as Dr. Saad said, the US has definitely morphed into a typical Banana Republic. Actually I stated this after the last election fiasco whereby the election was stolen. I even predicted that so many on the Left can't wait to see their former president hand cuffed in his underwear and grabbed from his home in the middle of the night screaming. 

Any honest human being who is able to remove themselves from their emotional hatred of a person because of that person's personality,  would be able to identify a serious problem here. 

For the first time in US history, a former US president who is running to be president again in the next election is being charged with a felony without even mentioning what the charge is! There are so many problems with the indictment that I won't bother describing them here. You can surely find them on other internet sites. I'll just mention this little tidbit: The organization that's in charge of keeping elections legitimate, passed on charging President Trump on anything. 

                                            Here he is in court with his defence team.

But this didn't stop an extreme Leftist Democrat, attorney general from New York who was funded by George Soros (yes his name appears in many of my blogs lately) from charging the former president on what amounts to be a possible book keeping error. 

So back to my Trump hating friend in the gym. She declared that she didn't like him for his policies and chose being 'pro-choice' as a policy she's in favour but Trump was not. To shut her down I simply asked her if she was in favour of the Covid mandates that required every citizen to get the vaccine. I guessed that she'd say yes and she did. I said I'm also pro-choice. What most progressive women say: My body, my choice. (ie. if I want to have an abortion, I will). So I told her the same thing regarding the jab. My body my choice. I tried to show her what a hypocrite she was. But I did that to simply end the discussion. 

You see, now is not the time to debate such things. Now is the time to stand up for what once was one of the greatest countries in modern day history, the USA. Trying to lure me in to defending Donald Trump now on any policy is beyond insulting. Very similar to attending a funeral of a good person and someone is dying (excuse the pun) to tell you something bad that the dead person might have done. Or maybe a better analogy: before saving someone's life you throw out your hand but before grabbing their hands you ask them if they are sorry for some stupid thing they might have done. Simply the wrong time and place.

So, yes I'm very disappointed in Humanity right now. Regardless of how things turn out (whether or not Trump wins in court), the damage is done. By letting this clown in NY charge the former president, the US devalued itself into a Banana Republic. This is what our enemies do all the time with their political opponents.  Of course this was all done under the watchful eyes of the Biden administration. The reason is simple and obvious: They knew they had no case but did it to try to abort Trump's candidacy as president in the upcoming elections. 

To put it another way, had he not thrown his hat into the game as a Republican nominee, this insane charge would never have happened.

So to humanity, go on your merry way for now and ignore how your country is being destroyed and with it goes the rest of the world. Maybe one day after the US becomes a full on dictatorship like North Korea, you might want to kick yourself for being silent now. What you don't get is that what is happening to Donald Trump now can and will happen to you sooner or later unless you stop this now. 

 

 

Is the attack of a religious couple in Tel Aviv by protesters a sign of End of Days?

I must apologize up front for this lengthy blog post but I do have a lot to say.

Did you hear about the vicious attack by Jews on a religious couple in Tel Aviv? The Jews were part of the demonstrations. 

Probably not. It's certainly not on the mainstream media not in Israel and not elsewhere. Here's the article if you care to read it (pretty vile stuff): https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/369435

Photo of the religious Jewish man after being beaten for no reason by Jewish demonstrators

According to our sages, Jew on Jew violence is one of many terrible things that could happen during End of Days. 

It’s bigger than that. Man on Man violence including children vs parents, etc. Not to plagiarize my blog name but the world will be upside down. One time good nations will become evil and evil may do good. We see that happening today (the US stands out as such an example). 

Letting the worst US president of all time bring the country down to its knees while trying to put one of the best US president's in jail.

Replacing the most sought after currency (US dollar) with one of the least valued currencies from China! (Oh boy!)

Men become women and women men. 

An Israeli hero was duly elected to be the leader of the Jewish Nation. A nation which you all well know is constantly facing existential threats from all of its many enemies. Yet he continues to be constantly hounded by his political foes and other nefarious organizations for years about every possible issue. Some are made up charges, some are real issues. But together they form a dangerous distraction for him (Bibi) and his coalition and their military leaders who are in charge of keeping Israel safe. 

In short, it has become increasingly hard for good people to discern the truth. 

I see this as the biggest problem facing us. Well intentioned people will be (are) sucked in to believing all sorts of  lies and nonsense. Supporting the Ukrainians at all costs (WW3) is such an example. The demonstrations, etc. happening in Israel supposedly over judicial reform is another example. 

Some of you are probably wondering why I mention the End of Days. Has Leon suddenly lost his mind? He used to stick to political, geopolitical or cultural events that often had to do with antisemitism. May I remind you again that I consider myself to be a Jewish activist (among other things). Of all things Jewish, the concept of End of Days is quite an important and serious one. But one that is barely talked about by the typical Jew on the street. Orthodox Jews understand this concept quite well (far better than I). Some religious Christians do as well. 

If we can celebrate Passover and understand its importance and meaning (and most of us do), then we can certainly contemplate this concept. As I mentioned before the End of Days is a period of time that will precede the coming of the Messiah. I keep hearing that the Moshiach is at the door.  Based on how I see the world right now, it all makes perfect sense. We could well be in End of Days!

I believe that things will get incrementally ugly (like the frog in the slow boiling pot of water) until finally all of us get the message. 

Let me make a case of exactly this...

Last night I attended an event at a local synagogue whereby they brought  a bright Israeli, to talk about what’s going on in Israel (judicial reform/demonstrations) in a supposed non-partisan way. I went as an observer, not to learn anything new as I am already well informed on the issue. I see how so many get easily distracted by unrelated issues and suffer from information overload. It’s so easy to throw shiny objects at us so we lose our focus on what I would say are often straight forward and not complicated issues. 

He was very well spoken, funny and at ease. He did a reasonable job keeping us engaged but the irony was that he never once explained the obvious facts on judicial reform. 

1. For decades the supreme court and AG held the elected officials hostage and ruled over them

2. The supreme court were self appointed

3. The proposals from the newly elected government aim to rectify these 2 dangerous policies

Since his talk was to focus on judicial reform, I would have expected him to explain in detail how the current supreme court gets appointed and what they do vs the new proposals from Bibi’s administration (how he aims to change the self appointed method to a fairer model) and what they should be doing. 

He never once mentioned the dangerous interference to Israel’s democracy from the outside. By nefarious people like George Soros, or organizations like the WEF, EU or other countries like the US. When a question was asked why the US thinks it can interfere in Israeli elections he answered because Israel relies on the US. Maybe that is their thinking but they couldn't be more morally wrong. The US also relies on Israel.  

He talked about everything else though and the crowd was very satisfied. He made sure to tell us how he and his children demonstrated often and that (according to him) Bibi made a mistake in firing his minister of defence Gallant. No reason given for his sentiment.

 

The facts by the way are once again simple. While Bibi was away on important government business, Gallant decided to stab his boss in the back and publicly call for a halt in the judicial reform process. Plain and clear dangerous insubordination that calls for his ouster. Did that raise the ire of the demonstrators? Probably. But there was no choice. Any other action would help tear down Bibi’s administration. If every cabinet member decided to defy their boss’s orders you’d have total chaos and no government. 

Although overall he made some very rational and reasonable points, he subliminally made sure that the crowd understood who the bad guys were. He called ministers Smotrich and Gvir, extremists. I might as well be listening to CNN. 

Worse still in my opinion was this point:

That the religious sector have more children than the secular sector. And since the religious sector is primarily conservative and on the Right and the secular sector is usually liberal and on the Left, it’s not looking good for the secular sector and that’s in fact what the demonstrations are about. 

Personally I found that whole idea offensive. That idea is being promulgated throughout our Jewish population and it certainly doesn’t sit well with me. 

Israel is composed of a very diverse group of people. Jews both secular and religious, some Ashkenazi (European origin) some Mizrachi, some rich, some poor, some highly educated, some not, etc. Arabs also secular and religious, some are Muslim, some Christian, Druze and many others make up this population. Until now, they worked together most of the time,  to make the country run. His discussion made the audience worry that if the Supreme Court eventually became run by the Orthodox community then the rest of Israeli society would suffer. Ladies would all have to wear head scarfs, men would don long beards and wear black hats. 

Essentially Israel would become an equivalent to a shariah state like Iran. He didn't state this but that was the implication.

He failed to mention that unlike the current system, the new proposals would define the job of the supreme court to judge cases, not to make laws! That’s what all supreme courts do (or should be doing). 

I think I can make this case objectively as a secular Jew but one who values Judaism. I myself stated in one of my blogs, that I would love to see a true Torah scholar sitting on Israel’s supreme court. The wisdom from such a real Jewish person is much needed there. After all if a sitting justice can be an Arab and it seems that most secular Jews are ok with that, then why not an orthodox Jew on the supreme court?

The discussion defies logic. One can say that the Arab population is exceeding at a faster rate than the secular Jewish population. If that is the case and since we currently allow anti-Israeli Arabs to sit in the Israeli parliament (Knesset) then what’s to stop them from acquiring more and more seats until one day they run the country (never mind the Supreme Court)?

In any case, the demographic predictions in Israel have been wrong, often. Historically some Jews had predicted that the Arab population would outgrow the Jewish population 10 years ago. Clearly this has not happened and hopefully never will. The experts then based their calculations on the Western world's declining population. In North America and Europe it was and remains true that we are not procreating near enough to replenish our population. But the secular Jewish population in Israel defied this trend substantially. Add to this the huge influx of secular Jewish immigrants from places like Russia, Ukraine and other African nations as well as non-Jews who continue to make Israel their home,  balance out the increase in orthodox Jews.  His premise is if not an outright lie, it's at least faulty. It's designed to inject a sense of paranoia and fear into us. Oy vey, the religious Jews are going to ruin our 'Jewish' homeland!  Can you see the irony here?

There are so many complicated factors in trying to wage predictions in Israelis future population growth that we simply can’t rely on any one’s ‘expert’ opinion. Making this as part of a case to any argument (pro or against the idea that the supreme court turning more Jewish is good thing) is a mistake. 

I point out this event because it stands as a great example of where we are today, how we think and where we're heading. I knew many people at the event and liked them all. They are all good people with good souls and good intentions. So was the speaker. But they are all playing with fire. 

Yes my friends, hold on to your hats. The blurring of right and wrong, evil and good, rational and illogical are facing us right now. Enjoy the ride if you can. 

Ben-Gvir demands government fire the Attorney General or End of Days

The attorney general of Israel appears to have more say than the Prime Minister. 

Should the Israeli government fire the attorney general? 

They must!  They have no choice. If they don’t, they are letting the enemy rule and the country will descend into absolute chaos. 

This is the ultimate decision for Bibi. He must sell this plan to the knesset, like he’s ever sold anything before… and he sure as hell has. He's good at it. He's sold himself to the citizens of Israel for years and won again and again, after all. 

There can only be one leader and it must be the duly elected PM! 

Here are 2 of her demands: 

Fire the duly elected PM of Israel (Bibi Netanyahu) because she does not like his policies.

Stop the proposed reforms (to the Supreme Court and to people like her who hold the AG job).

The former AG, Mandelblit says publicly that the current reforms proposed by Bibi's administration will cause Israel to cease being a democracy. The opposite is true. 

She was appointed when Bennett was the PM so one can guess where she stands politically. The system is so corrupt that the committee who appoints the AG is headed by the chief justice of the supreme court. So they are all pretty much on the same team and do what they want. 

If they do fire her biased, corrupt ass then Bibi, Gvir, Smotrich, et al, WIN. More importantly the citizens of Israel win (hopefully save lives - I know with every bone in my body that that’s exactly what would happen) and even the lives of us Jews in the diaspora would improve as well. Because when Israel does well, Jewish lives everywhere get better (ie. less antisemitism) and we could sure use a break from this crap right now couldn't we?

If they don’t fire her, they pretty much signed their death warrants. It might be a slow death, but it will be a death for sure. And as I mentioned above, the opposite will happen. In the end, you and I (Jew or Gentile) will suffer. 

Of course as a believer, I believe in miracles. So of course if He decrees it, anything can happen. 

The point is, that in spite of the The Big Guy in absolute control of every thing that goes on in the world, he gives us humans and in particular, us Jews lots of latitude to make mistakes (sins). I’m afraid however that as someone who is connected to a wonderful haredi family in Judea (my sister’s),  I've learned that we are in fact approaching the End of Days. This a time segment prior to the arrival of the Moshiach aka the Messiah.  During End of Days (it goes by many other names) bad things will happen. The world will descend into turmoil and war. Some countries will starve. Others might not but no one will escape these bad times. Look at it like taking medicines to fight a sickness. One feels worse, sometimes much worse, before finally feeling better. 

We are slowly starting to see the world deteriorate. At almost every level. Politically, culturally, religiously and at all societal levels. Wars, some threatening WW3 are very real that can be set off by a match. Russia shooting down a US drone might bring it on. 

We should know by now that Israel faces existential wars every day of her life. The wars in the past have been mostly standard fare. One army, airforce, navy, intelligence, etc. against their enemies' forces. And in Israel's case, many enemies.

But today the dangers are much worse since many of Israel's enemies are Jewish Israelis or Arab Israelis (ie. internal). Some are members of the government who are actually calling for a coup and civil disobedience. 

Israel is a small nuclear power. It would be extremely and naively dangerous to allow nefarious leaders to gain control of our Jewish homeland. Again like the Ukraine war example above, it might not take much to set Israel off. Israel is rightly considering destroying Iran's nuclear sites. And doing it on her own without help from the US who most Israelis now realize, can't be counted on to help. 

Look around you. The world is in a desperate and dangerous place. In every continent there is serious trouble. North Korea continues to test its ballistic missiles and threatens the West daily with war. South Africa is a dangerous powder keg. 

Iran is on the thresh hold of building nuclear bombs along with missiles capable of sending them anywhere. So many states throughout the world are suffering financial crises. Many are simply bankrupt but the MSM refuse to report this and their governments keep their mouths closed. They don't want to advertise this especially while they continue to steal the last few assets from their coffers. 

We let ourselves get complacent, get sucked into scam after scam after scam. I often wonder why people are so nasty, evil, greedy, insane and oblivious. 

The ’oblivious’ are the group who have given up on rationality, reason and logic. You know, really thinking things through.  And they are by far the largest group of people on the planet right now. Many believe in the false headlines and words spoken by our governments the world over. So many countries in decline. Facing high inflation, job losses, suffering the effects of the covid era when businesses closed, schools were closed, government services closed (hospitals were packed, operations pushed back).

Some, have very valid reasons for falling into this group. Perhaps they are poor Africans fighting off enemies (likely Islamic ones). They may be excused from sending an email for a cause because they are literally dodging bullets. 

But many are just too busy playing pickle ball (I admit it, I play it a lot!) or busy with other things to either do the same research that I do or even just to simply think rationally, logically and with reason, in a calm manner. Instead they read a headline from the MSM and believe it as fact and run with it. Letting their emotions fuel them on. 

The world is in chaos and we are mostly oblivious to it. 

Like in almost every country in the world, somehow we let the worst of the worst lead us in government and in most institutions, especially in education. Finally Israelis who are mostly conservative and value being Jewish and safe voted in a real Right wing government who had the expressed policy to reform the judiciary amongst other policies. 

Most OBJECTIVE people would agree that firing the current AG needs to happen ASAP! 

But the odds are stacked against the current Israeli government. From their Leftwing President Herzog on down to their opposition party's constant demands to throw Bibi and his coalition partners out and even kill them, the current insane supreme court and of course their overpowered 'first female AG' (reminds me how Kamala Harris got elected as VP) are on constant attack mode. 

Add to this, a list of nefarious people and organizations from the outside. I mentioned them in my previous blog. By now I'm sure you know who they are. 

Bibi himself suffers from what I call 'looking in the rear view mirror problem'. He is always busy trying to make everyone happy - an impossible challenge. 

So to summarize. She needs to go. Not sure if it will happen. I hope it does.

The moshiach is in the doorway, so hold on to your hats. Get ready for a rough ride ahead!

Stop Believing the Mainstream Media and their Political Partners

It has become abundantly clear to me for the past few decades that we should not believe a word that comes from our mainstream media (MSM) or their political partners (ie. our governments). In fact, believe the opposite.

When they tell us that the economy is fine, you can bet that it isn't or that it soon won't be.

I recall beginning to learn that lesson at a young age. At the back of the Saturday comics, were an assortment of ads. I kept seeing what looked like an incredible deal. A 55 piece fishing set for only $14.95! It included, dozens of hooks, lures, bobbers, lines, a rod and reel and more! (don't ever forget the 'more!')

I dreamed about that fishing set for months and saved up for it diligently (cutting the grass and doing other chores). When I finally had the funds I mailed it in and a few weeks later (after checking our mailbox every single morning) I finally got my parcel. I knew something was wrong right away because the cardboard box was kind of small to hold all that stuff. When I opened it up I almost cried. It was all mickey mouse plastic crap from a country called China. I don't recall if the reel even worked. 

Since then I was so turned off advertisements of any kind and I became a huge skeptic. Even as a child I was able to discern the lies within every TV commercial. 

But then I noticed something more important. The TV shows themselves were full of crap. All of them! The news media were no longer simply reporting the news. They were opinions of what was going on in the world and biased ones at that. I loved nature shows and was a big fan of a popular show at the time called Wild Kingdom. I recall watching an episode where a black bear was fighting off a lion. It was supposedly taking place in Africa. But I knew that black bears did not live in Africa, so what was going on? Years later I found out that indeed many of the scenes in that show were fake. Even the supposedly innocuous family friendly shows like Leave it to Beaver were hoaxes. That show depicted a lovely family dealing with trivial issues that were made commercially funny. Certainly not even close to any real family that I know of or knew of then. 

Today what we see in the MSM is almost entirely fake news (to quote President Trump). 

Speaking of him, they (MSM and their political partners) tried to hang him for his collaboration with Russia and virtually any other thing they could blame him for. Fake news.

They blamed him for the demonstration on Jan 6 at the Capitol. When in fact he tried to bring in more police and security but was denied by the Democrats! Now we are finding out that the Democrats and others were in fact orchestrating that entire event in order to blame Trump and other Trump supporters (many of whom are sitting in prisons right now for participating in a peaceful protest). A demonstration protesting the stealing of a presidential election. To this day the MSM and Biden himself try to call that event an 'insurrection'. Meanwhile the very real violent demonstrations that took place all over the US (in mostly Democrat run states) were called 'mostly peaceful' despite entire police stations burning to the ground, billion of dollars worth of damage and people dying. 

The world bought into the insane, over reactive Covid mandates. We were all going to die unless we masked up, took untested shots, closed businesses, schools, stayed at home and self isolated. So many seniors died in isolation never getting to see or say good bye to their loved ones. In short the world suffered needlessly and still is. We are slowly learning about the dangers of the vaccines and other mandates that helped to destroy world economies and society at large. 

Both the Left and Right were and continue to push us to support Ukraine in it's war with Russia 'at all costs'. Barely anyone mentions the huge and sick neo nazi element within Ukraine. Or how compromised and corrupt they are and have been since day 1. Or perhaps why Putin had legitimate reasons to invade Ukraine? Or how our billions of dollars of aid are going directly into Zelenky's pocket?Or most importantly - push us into WW3 with a country who has more tactical nukes than any other country in the world (Russia)!

The southern US border is closed and well under control says the Biden administration despite millions of illegal, undocumented immigrants from who knows where pouring into that border. 

The US economy is doing great thank you says the Biden administration, despite the very clear fact that it is NOT. Recession? What recession?

Now we are witnessing large demonstrations in Israel whereby the Left (who are naively being led by nefarious organizations and individuals) are protesting their new democratically elected conservative government. The MSM in Israel is no different than ours in Canada or anywhere else in the West. It's mostly Left. Almost all of their news comes from Haaretz, Times of Israel and even the Jerusalem Post which made a left turn a few years ago. 

The supreme court of Israel has usurped the power from Israel's government years ago and has been expanding it's powers exponentially since then. They are the only Western 'democratic' country in the world today where they and their attorney general can over rule the duly elected government. They are also self appointed! 

Instead of maintaining the existing laws on the books they are now making up their own laws. One does not have to be a genius to see the danger they pose and the damage they have done to Israelis and Israeli sovereignty for decades! Care to guess where they stand politically? FAR LEFT! 

Most Israelis are conservative and therefore focus on right wing values and issues. They want a Jewish state. They want to be safe. They have seen first hand how their supreme court has behaved and are sick to death of it and them. Bibi is not perfect. Neither are Smotrich and Gvir. But Israelis voted them in. The minority are free to object, complain and even peacefully protest. But calling for civil war, trying to shut down the country and murder these guys is beyond disgusting. Keep razor focused on the important issues. Don't be led astray by minor issues and bogus claims. This new government must be given a chance to fix Israel and keep Israeli's safe. The prior self hating government of Lapid, Gantz, Bennett and others were NOT. 

Follow the money! I think we can all agree that this idiom often leads to important revelations. Billionaires like George Soros who sadly is a huge self hating Jew and wants Israel to fail, helps fund the protests and wreak havoc and chaos in Israel. He is aided by the Biden/Obama administration, WEF (world economic forum), EU (european union), Iran, Kobi Richter (an Israeli billionaire who is very concerned about Arab Jewish relations (ie. negative statements about Arabs by Jews.) Sorry Kobi but I think Israelis and people everywhere in the world have a hard time being concerned about Arab Jewish relations while Israelis are being routinely murdered! Sad to say, there are far too many others to mention. 

Biden has done very well financially as president despite the rather smallish salary a US president gets. So has his family (including his very wealthy son and brother). Obama has done fantastic. Have you seen his mansions? Hmm, I wonder where he got all that money? Pelosi and her often drunk husband love the insider trading that they get to do as elite members of the Democratic party. Zelensky has mansions all over the world while his people are suffering and many hungry. Bill Gates is doing great thanks for asking. He and his many organizations are doing their best to rid the world of.... wait for it.....people! Pfizer and the other big pharmaceutical companies have all become billionaires over night. I wonder if any state leaders, politicians or MSM got any kickbacks from them? Fauci who was responsible for one of the biggest and most dangerous frauds in contemporary times has also done extremely well, thanks to his investments in, you guessed it: Vaccines! Who knew?

Back to Israel...These entities help fund the MSM in Israel and around the world as do the Leftist governments and politicians. Most people (Jews and Gentiles) both in Israel and outside have little idea what the demonstrations are about. All they hear from our MSM is that former political leaders and even IDF generals are calling for a coup to overthrow the current government. They get only one side of the argument as per usual and formulate an opinion based on just that. 

Check out this headline from Haaretz: 

‘Biden, Help Us Please’: U.S.-Israeli Citizens Plea for Intervention Against Netanyahu’s Power Grab

Asking Biden to help you do anything is a sure fire way to fail. Even his former boss (Obama) said so (not that we need to listen to him). 

I hope and pray that Bibi and his administration stands firm and pushes his right wing policies for which they were elected. If he backs down and tries to appease the left and his enemies, they will only get emboldened. They will learn that if they don't like any policy, all they have to do is threaten a coup, threaten the leaders and try to shut down the country. Appeasement NEVER works. 

I urge people, even those with good intentions to calm down and perhaps stop watching TV and listening to the MSM.  Reign in your emotions and look for the truth. Don't stop at the first MSM headline you read (like the one above). When existential threats appear, cool, rational, reasonable and logical minds must prevail. 

And please, never believe the MSM these days!

 

While the World is Focused on Balloons, Israelis are being Murdered

I met a nice Israeli man on the beach in Florida last week. We talked about the war in Ukraine and other world events. The next day we talked a bit more about the Left vs Right and then he asked me about the balloon incident (the first one). I guess he thought that I was abreast of the latest news and he respected my contrary opinion about the war in Ukraine. But I had no idea what he was talking about. The good news about vacations is that I'm not watching any news on TV at all. Of course after a day or two I couldn't help but hear all about the infamous Chinese spy balloon. It appears that the Biden administration was all over it. He rounded up half his airforce and missiles in the effort to shoot it down. Wow, what a military feat, indeed! Now it's raining balloons all over the place....

My take away was this: How pathetic that this sweet, older, Israeli man who made alliya to Chicago decades ago is more concerned about balloons than about his former, fellow Israelis who are being murdered on an almost daily basis. 

To be fair, the MSM (mainstream media) are quite silent about the ongoing spate of the despicable murder of innocent Israeli citizens by Arab terrorists. If you search for these murders you will read headlines like 'US and EU warn Israel not to build more outposts in the West Bank as a response to the recent deaths of Israelis'. That's if they even bother to mention the murder of so many Israelis lately. 

The fact that 2 little boys and others were killed when an Arab terrorist ran into the bus stop where the boys were standing and of course minding their own business is quite irrelevant to the world.

I read about this tragic event from One Family 

They sent me the following email: 

Jews/Israelis are expendable, always it seems. Within only a 2 week period, 10 Israelis were murdered! The murders continue yet we are concerned about balloons.

Equally pathetic are the Left wing Israelis who are also very busy rioting in Tel Aviv about judicial reform. Most Israelis finally voted an outright Right wing government with the stated intent to finally reform their out of control Left wing supreme court. But so many on the Left, pushed by many nefarious NGO's funded by the likes of none other than the evil self hater himself, George Soros, the Biden administration and others and of course Israel's Leftwing MSM had the chutzpah to call for a civil war! A war not against the Arab terrorists that are murdering innocent Israelis but a war against Right wing Israelis who voted in a democratically elected Right wing administration who if left alone would definitely help stop the killing of innocent Israeli citizens (both Jew, Druze, Muslim and Christian). 

There is a silver lining to this latest spate of murders. The wife of the orthodox Jewish family who survived the tragic murder of her 2 sweet boys, set an incredible example of strength for all of us. She of course is a strong believer in G-d and her strong faith prevents her from succumbing to simply giving up on life despite her worse nightmare. This is an excellent opportunity for us to look at religious Jews (Haredim) in a new positive light. And perhaps shake us out of our complacency. 

Here she is in this short clip explaining her feelings:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zq8xNnup-i0

Here is the translation: 

A group of teenage boys came to comfort the mourners.

They told over the pledges they plan to take on for the souls of the two children.

"I'll put on tefillin every day."

"I'll honour friends."

"I'll keep the Sabbath."

"I'll work on keeping the Sabbath and honouring my parents."

Mother of the 2 murdered boys:

"Thank you so much!

We derive much strength from you sharing with us this difficult time.

We feel that this is really a tragedy for the whole Jewish People.

I would like to say to you that you are young boys whose life is before you.

It appears that our boys have already fulfilled their mission in life.

They cannot learn any more Torah.

You, however, can always continue to learn and to grow.

I would like to share with you a small story.  Yaakov, for every little favour, would say 'Thank you!'

One day I told him, 'You are a Jewish boy."  Jews say, 'Thank you.'

(In Hebrew the word for 'Jew' is 'Yehudi',

which has the letters of the word 'Hodaya' which means ''Thanks-giving').

In our home we are accustomed to say

'Don't say 'Oof!', say chapter 'kuf.'

(The  numerical value of the Hebrew letter kuf is 100, and the reference is to the 100th chapter of Psalms, which is a Song of Thanksgiving.)

This is something we can all take on.

It's not very difficult.  When something upsetting happens to us, or something 'doesn't work out', remember that all that happens is from God and He is with us. 

Be grateful and say 'Thank You.'

Thank you to each one who takes on a pledge to strengthen his faith and good deeds.  It wiil surely be a merit for my husband's recovery from his wounds, and a merit for all of our nation."

The crowd answered "Amen!"

What should Schools Teach?

I recall going to a YMCA gym in downtown Toronto years ago. It was small and its layout was compact. When I went to the spin room to do some cycling on a stationary bike I was at first taken aback at how close the bikes were to each other. The sweat from the guy next to me hit me in the face. Not pleasant. But what really bothered me the most was the lack of music. There was none. I asked around why was there no music. The gym I normally went to (JCC - Jewish Community Centre) played music constantly which added a great vibe with which to work out to. They told me that some months prior, some members got into a squabble about the type of music that should be played. Some liked rock, others classical. Since they couldn't settle their debate, they decided that no music would be played in the end.

Certainly it wasn't the perfect solution but sometimes we must settle for an imperfect solution.

In our schools today, a lot of focus has been on sex. Ie. transgender studies, gay studies and a myriad of other sex based topics. Some many might view as legitimate. Some might be as so over the top, they are considered obscene. 

Here, where I live in Ontario, Canada, our school board has become a sad joke to the world. A male teacher who identifies as a woman, has been wearing huge, prosthetic breasts while teaching in a public school. I would have thought that the principal, school board, government officials, parents and students alike (ie. everyone) would agree that this was not appropriate 'attire' for a teacher. But then I would be wrong. Because the school board sided with his right to wear them. I know, I can't be making this up can I?

Here is the full article about him. I'm not sure what his preferred pronouns are (perhaps 'it'), nor do I care.  https://www.blogto.com/city/2022/09/ontario-teacher-prosthetic-bust-school-board-defends/

Of course a topic near and dear to my heart is the decades long attack on Jews and pro-Israel students and teachers within our school board and universities, especially in Toronto. I have blogged about this repeatedly (In My Own Backyard). It appears that despite our best efforts to stop this sort of discrimination whereby only anti-Israel views are acceptable in our education system, we are no further ahead in this fight. Believe me, I'd love nothing more than true, open debate about Israel and the Arab states at large but since it's blatantly obvious that this is not happening, hasn't happened and doubtful that it will, it's best just to keep politics out of the education system. 

We have all read so many articles on what's going on and I'm sure we all have an equal number of diverse opinions as to what should be permitted and what should not be. I can guess that whatever solution one school board or parent might propose, it would most likely be shot down by another school board or parent.

So I propose another imperfect solution. Let's focus instead on teaching our children the basics. The core studies that have been the fundamental learning subject for our children for thousands of years. It began with reading and writing. It then went on to include subjects like arithmetic, science, history and geography. Most schools includ art, music, gym and shop. At higher grades, accounting, chemistry and computer science and other subjects.

In North America we spend billions of dollars on education every year. Yet studies year after year show that our children are near the bottom in the academics, world wide. Countries much poorer than ours are teaching their children at a much higher standard than we are. Could it be because we have lost our way? Could it be that we are fighting amongst ourselves on topics that should really be taught by the parents of the children if at all?

I think so.

More Evidence: That the world is Upside Down

I thought I'd have some fun (sort of) with my blog title. So the following is a short list of the latest news items that will prove that the world is in fact upside down. In reality however, there is nothing funny about any of these news items.

                                            Upside down world

So in no particular order, here goes:

The United States announced humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan. Apparently the 2 trillion dollars in aid (both military and other)  that the US has given them over the years was not nearly enough. Neither were the billions of dollars of the latest military weaponry that the US left them after they killed some US soldiers. Good news though. The US confirmed that their weaponry often breaks down due to the hot, sandy weather there. No more worries....

In order to avert WWIII with Russia, the US is now supplying Ukraine with the latest missile defence systems that only American soldiers can operate.  Apparently the 54 billion dollars they've given to Ukraine wasn't enough. 

In order to stop Iran from its completion of nuclear weapons which it has clearly stated that it wants to use them against both the great satan (US) and the little satan (Israel) and other states (Europe), the US and the EU continue to fund the worlds greatest terror state (Iran). Apparently the 1.7 billion dollars Obama gave Iran in cash, secretly overnight, was not enough. 

Americans and others in the West wish to help young children deal with severe depression and even suicide by offering and often pushing them into sex change operations with or without their parents approval. Offering a different opinion can land you in jail.

Following the science on Covid. There is much debate about the efficacy of the vaccinations available today. But having an opposing opinion or even questioning some of the supposed 'facts' about them (or other medicines) pushed by the very pharmaceutical companies that produce them, can land you in jail. This also applies to the strict mandates that the world (most of it) has undergone, such as closing schools, businesses, restricting travel and forcing the elderly to die alone in isolation. 

In order to save the planet, most countries in the West are pushing to get rid of fossil fuels and replace them with wind and solar power. Honest scientists will agree that not only is this not feasible at this time (maybe never), but attempting to do this now will cause misery and death to many on the planet. It already has. Recall the terrible Texas freeze because they thought they could replace oil (which they have in abundance) with wind turbines? What a disaster - they are still paying for it. Or how about Germany who laughed at then President Trump who warned them not to rely on wind or solar or Russian oil? Get your sweaters on....

The Supreme Court in Israel has outlawed the late Rabbi Kahane's, Kach party (the most pro-Israel, Jewish political party there ever was) but allows many vile antisemitic, anti Israel, Arab parties in its parliament (Knesset). 

President Biden suggested that Russia blew up its own multi billion dollar, under water,  natural gas pipelines. Hmmmm...

We have a president in the USA who rarely knows what day it is (I wonder if he knows the codes to their nuclear missile bases?) and a PM in my country, Canada, who like Biden gets everything wrong. Coincidence? I don't think so. Think WEF.

I got kicked off the Times of Israel blog because I had the audacity to accuse George Soros as an antisemite and a war monger. Their response: He's Jewish and he gives a lot to charity. They forgot to mention that he donates to their newspaper. 

According to the Biden administration, we are not in a recession. Sometimes he does change his mind. His proof? He still gets to fly on his helicopter anytime he wants and eat any flavour of ice cream he desires. 

CNN was the #1 news outlet from the US reporting on the war from Ukraine until it accidentaly filmed a Ukrainian soldier doing a nazi salute. Then they got kicked out.

Despite the tons of evidence that the US presidential election was stolen, the Democrats and other nefarious organizations and foreign entities have been and continue to crucify President Trump. Absolutely no let up from them. Meanwhile, just about every person who wanted to speak up about the corrupt Clinton Foundation have mysteriously died. As secretary of state she got away with using her personal phone for sharing top secret info and then destroying the evidence. Letting American's die a horrible yet avoidable death in Libya was another unforgettable achievement. 

But the Biden family has been arguably more criminal than the Clinton's. President Biden and his family (especially his son Hunter) have been compromised by just about every state government in the world. He has every government agency plus the mainstream media protecting him and his family from justice. His overt criminal behaviour gets an A for chutzpah!

Speaking of President Trump, who was the most pro-Jewish and pro-Israel president in modern times, most Jews (especially reform) accuse him of being an antisemite and comparing him to Hitler!

I could go on and on but I'll stop here (for now).

Happy Hanuka and Merry Christmas!