Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Why has Britain become so Intolerant
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Massacres under Syria's new Regime
SYRIAN CHAOS GROWS - The new regime led by al-Julani, which
received the blessing of the democratic governments, European countries, the
UN, and Turkey, have accelerated massacring Alawites who had been massacring
Sunnis for years. Videos of massacres, murder and humiliation are being
shared widely on Arab channels, as well as looting and kidnapping of
women.
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Quote of the day from Catherine Perez-Shakdam, executive director of We
Believe in Israel:
“Israel, Mon Amour. You are my identity, my history, my future. You are
the embodiment of a people’s unyielding spirit, the living proof that we will
not be erased. I shall never cease to love you.”
9 children in 4 years
Nachum
Fleischer is an ultra-Orthodox Jew who lives in Canada. He got married in 2020,
and 9 months later, his wife gave birth to triplets. A year and a half later,
they had triplets again. And now, just 4 years after getting married, they have
had their 3rd set of triplets. That’s 9 children in 4 years!
Direct from Gaza to donate bone marrow to 3-year-old
When
Matan Amir
registered with Hadassah’s bone marrow registry on the day he enlisted in the
IDF, he provided a saliva sample and forgot about it - until Hadassah informed
him, while he was fighting in Gaza, that he was a genetic match for a
3-year-old boy diagnosed with a rare blood disorder. Matan agreed to help. He
was released from Gaza, and underwent a pelvic bone procedure. The recipient is
doing well. After a regulatory 12-month delay, Matan hopes to meet the boy.
Matan means gift. How appropriate!
Volunteer medic injured
on Oct. 7 returns to service with ‘ambucycle’
Seriously wounded United Hatzalah emergency
medic Rabbi Chaim Sassi is back on active duty after receiving a custom-made
ambucycle that accommodates his lingering leg injury. Sassi, who also serves as
the regional rabbi for United Hatzalah in Sderot, underwent a long
rehabilitation, but was determined to get back to work. The ambucycle allows
Sassi to ride safely despite balance issues caused by his leg injury. United
Hatzalah CEO, Ehud Davidson: “Sassi is an inspiration to us all.”
Disabled rehab patients enjoy an exhilarating treat
ADI
(Ability, Diversity, Inclusion) helps the rehabilitation of people with
disability. More than a dozen war-wounded military and civilian rehab patients
from ADI Negev-Nahalat Eran recently took to the southern Israel skies with
pilots from “Ananim: Flights for the Community.” The exhilarating flights are a
metaphor for unlocking potential beyond limitations.
Golders Green boy wrote Brian Epstein’s first UK #1
Martin
Dover, who was a teacher at Carmel College when I was there, once shared with
me that he was Brian Epstein’s barmitzvah teacher. Epstein – the subject of a
new biopic, “Midas Man” – not only managed the Beatles, but also another
popular Liverpool group, Gerry and the Pacemakers. In fact, Epstein’s first UK
number one was Gerry and the Pacemakers’ “How Do You Do It?” The lyrics for
this hit song were written in Golders Green by a good Jewish Golders Green boy,
songwriter Mitch Murray.
Medical clowns shorten
hospital stay for children with pneumonia
We already know that visits from a medical
clown can help reduce stress and anxiety in hospitalised children. After
studying the impact of medical clowns on children who are hospitalised with
pneumonia, a team from Carmel Medical Center in Haifa has found that the
children spend less time in hospital if they are visited by medical clowns, who
sing and play music with the children, and encourage them to eat and drink
independently.
Bigoted vandals smash bust of Chaim Weizmann at Manchester University
In Room 27 on Floor
2 at the London’s National Portrait Gallery is a bust of Chaim Weizmann that
Sir Jacob Epstein completed in 1934. I recall a replica of this bust in Rabbi Kopul Rosen’s study in Carmel College. I thought of this bust when
I learned that bigoted anti-Zionist vandals had destroyed a bust of Weizmann in
Manchester University, where Israel’s first president worked for decades in his
chemistry laboratory.
Upgraded training base
in Jordan Valley for ultra-Orthodox soldiers
Despite current tensions surrounding the Haredi
military service exemption law, the new ultra-Orthodox brigade of combat
soldiers is set to move into its upgraded training base in the Jordan Valley in
December. The base has 4 new synagogues and specialized infrastructure designed
to accommodate religious requirements. The first ultra-Orthodox infantry
battalion is expected to be combat-ready by November 2025.
Mazal tov to the winners of the Israel Defence Award
The
Israel Defence Award is presented by the President of Israel to people and
organisations who made significant contributions to the defence of the State of
Israel. At the 2024 awards ceremony, the winners included the David’s Sling air
defence system, the Namer armoured personnel carrier, and the IDF’s
technology-enhanced target bank project. Because some of the recipients are
still working on top secret projects, the group photos of the winners featured
some winners standing with their back to the camera.
“You are my identity, my history, my future.”
Catherine
Perez-Shakdam is a French Jewish journalist, political analyst and commentator
who converted to Islam. After divorcing her Muslim husband, she now identifies
as a Zionist and as a Jew. In an op-ed in The Times of Israel headlined
“Israel, Mon Amour,” she writes: “You are my identity, my history, my future.
You are the embodiment of a people’s unyielding spirit, the living proof that
we will not be erased. You are not just the land I inhabit, but the hope that
inhabits me. You are the story we write anew, the promise we keep alive. I
shall never cease to love you.”
Yanky
Fachler
yankyfachler@gmail.com +353 86 8575162
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Israel supporters post ‘rape tunnel maps’ on London Underground
October 7, 2024
Hamas’s extensive tunnel network in Gaza, much of which was dismantled by the IDF, was larger than London’s subway system.
By Vered Weiss, World Israel News
On the first anniversary of
the October 7th massacre, Israel supporters placed “rape tunnel map” posters
throughout the London Underground to raise awareness about the terror group’s
sexual crimes and to advocate for the release of hostages.
The goal of the campaign was
to put up posters at every station of “The Tube.”
Hamas’s extensive tunnel
network in Gaza, much of which was dismantled by the IDF, was larger than
London’s subway system.
Anti-Israel protesters have
often used the London Underground as a prime location to post misinformation
about the Gaza conflict.
A graphic similar to London
Underground maps on the posters suggested Gaza tunnel routes.
The text at the bottom of
the posters read, “On October 7th, 2023, Hamas murdered hundreds and kidnapped
hundreds. The UK government must do all it can to ensure the release of
100 hostages still unaccounted for after 365 days of terror.”
The campaign was intended to
counteract demonstrations involving tens of thousands of anti-Israel protesters
marching through London ahead of the first anniversary of the October 7th
massacre.
The group behind the
campaign, London Against Hamas, issued a statement, “On the first anniversary
of the unimaginable horrors committed by Hamas murderers on October 7th, 2024,
the tunnels of London Underground today have featured maps showing that
terror organization’s Rape Tunnels of Gaza.”
“Trains on every Underground
line now feature “Gaza Underground” maps, reminding Londoners for what
appalling purposes Hamas have created their subterranean network – rape,
murder, torture, further terrorist activities – as supporters call for the UK
Government to do everything to ensure the release of the 100 hostages still
unaccounted for after 365 days,” the statement continued.
On Monday, Prime Minister
Sir Keir Starmer vowed to “stand behind the Jewish community” and called
October 7th “The darkest day in Jewish history since the Holocaust.”
“One year on from these
horrific attacks, we must unequivocally stand with the Jewish community and
unite as a country. We must never look the other way in the face of hate,” the
Prime Minister said.
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Douglas Murray: A Time of War
When we planned this episode of Honestly, I thought we would be looking back at the past year from a slightly quieter vantage point. We were going to release it on October 7. But quiet is the last thing happening in the Middle East right now.
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
HOW ISLAMISTS OVERRAN MY COUNTRY LEBANON
Brigitte Gabriel tells the story of how Islamists overran her country Lebanon 🇱🇧 with the aid of Islamic countries in the 1970s. It's important to note that religion and thus religious extremism is dangerous and needs to be checked especially in Africa so that what happened to the Middle East won't Take place on the continent. This is the reason why the enlightenment and advocacy towards naturalism needs to be intensified in Africa and the world.
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
BBC’s Bowen Claims “Israel Trying to Control the Media”
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BBC’s Jeremy Bowen complains that “Israel continues to
prevent independent journalistic access to Gaza – it will do so until there is
a ceasefire and even then, if Israel remains in control of the territory, I am
not sure we will be allowed in.
I don't think the Israeli forces
are worried about whether we are safe in there or not – I think there are
things they don't want us to see and that they want to master the media
battlefield. So they are fighting on all fronts and controlling the media is
one of them.
If you look at Israeli TV, it is
focused 24/7 on Gaza of course. But what you don’t see is Palestinian
suffering. You see troops, the home front, constant reminders of what happened
on 7 October. You see the pain of the hostage families.
What you do not see are stories
of individual Palestinians, nor the colossal scale of the damage going on in
Gaza.”
So this is his point of biased view, but let’s break
this down.
- Israel’s
borders with Gaza are shut. Period.
- Foreign
journalists were previously able to enter the Gaza Strip through the Erez
Crossing, which has been closed since October 7 after Hamas destroyed it..
There is no “business as usual” for passage between Israel and Gaza for
anyone, including journalists.
- The
international media do, however, have the ability to attempt to enter Gaza
through the Rafah Crossing on the Egyptian side.
- But Bowen believes that Israel
is preventing foreign media from entering because “there are things they
don’t want us to see and that they want to master the media battlefield.
”It is arguably not to Israel’s benefit that foreign journalists
are not in Gaza. Because Palestinian stringers and agenda-driven Arab outlets
such as Al Jazeera are currently the only ones supplying all of the coverage
from inside the Strip.
- Despite
a steady flow of damaging footage from Gaza showing injured women and
children while suspiciously never showing Hamas terrorists, Bowen still
believes Israel is “controlling the media.”
But is Israel also controlling its domestic media in the cause
of ensuring its people don’t see any Palestinian suffering? Israel’s government
may wish it had some semblance of control over the country’s newspapers and TV
stations but the reality is that Israeli media is fiercely independent.
Israel is a country still traumatized by those events and for
Bowen to expect Israeli media to be broadcasting the same sympathetic content
on Gaza as his own BBC or other foreign media is both unrealistic and meant to
portray Israelis as somehow immune to the suffering of ordinary Palestinians.
How dare Bowen make such a judgment. Israelis are still
processing and trying to come to terms with October 7 and the resulting impact
on the country. Israeli TV news is now broadcasting footage of the funerals of
Israeli soldiers, many of whom were reservists who left their families and day
jobs to defend their country. Many may have lost their lives because the IDF
has used ground troops rather than airstrikes precisely to avoid causing
Palestinian civilian casualties.
Jeremy Bowen is correct: there is a media battlefield. Israel
has every right to fight on that battlefield especially when foreign
journalists like himself weaponize their news reports to assault the Jewish
state.
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