Ultra-Ortodox Jewish men protest against attempts to change government policy that grants ultra-Orthodox Jews exemptions from military conscription in Jerusalem February 26, 2024. (credit: RONEN ZVULUN/REUTERS)
“We must not, God forbid, take them [the haredi Yeshiva students] to the army because they also pray and they also study,” the Rabbi said.
There is no evidence prayers work. Forty years ago the Christian-right deserted the Faith and Prayer Game, and set it up so the Faithful could vote on whether or not prayers – WORK! Christian leaders encourage their flocks to join the Secret Prayer’s Work Party – the Republicans Party. Rumors spread that f you were still a Democrat, God would not answer your prayers, and – CURSE YOU! The Zionist Jews copied this – Political Prayer Plan – and is why Netanyahu is barely in office.
Here’s what doomed two democracies. Zionists Prayers PROTECT Israeli Jews – who do serve their country, and thus….PRAYING ALL DAY PROTECTS ISRAEL FROM ITS ENEMIES!
“We have to believe with complete faith that the yeshiva students who study the Torah are the ones who protect the soldiers, they are the ones who protect the wounded, and they are the ones who protect the hostages,” the Rabbi noted.
But, what if the enemies – DON’T ATTACK? What use for the Prayers of Saints? Fear decreases. The Haredi don’t turn out to vote. Netanyahu – loses! The Rabbilutionist lose their political power.
Trump is selling a fancy Bible that will boost the power – OF YOUR PRAYERS! This is the Long Con – of all time! You too can be a Prayer Salesman – and sit in the Oval Office!
Welcome to the New Dark Age!
John ‘The Nazarite’
A pro-Palestine group based in Europe is ramping up its efforts for justice for victims of Israeli war crimes in Gaza, focusing particularly on legal action against soldiers in the Israeli military.
More precisely, the “March 30 Movement” is going after Israeli soldiers who hold dual nationality of European nations.
Israeli rabbi: Torah students cannot serve in IDF, they are protecting soldiers
“We must not, God forbid, take them [the haredi Yeshiva students who do not study Torah all day to the army because they also pray and they also study,” the Rabbi said.
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews who do not study Torah all day should not be drafted into the military, Moshe Tzedaka, Rabbi of Porat Yosef Yeshiva, said this week to an audience of Shas representatives, according to Israeli media.
“We must not, God forbid, take them [the haredi Yeshiva students] to the army because they also pray and they also study,” the Rabbi said.
“If they go to the army, there are many trials that they will not be able to withstand,” he added. Top Articles
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The Rabbi also stated the soldiers’ protection depended on yeshiva students.
“We have to believe with complete faith that the yeshiva students who study the Torah are the ones who protect the soldiers, they are the ones who protect the wounded, and they are the ones who protect the hostages,” the Rabbi noted.
“No yeshiva student will go there,” he said, referring to the military.
Yisrael Beytenu Chairman, MK Avigdor Liberman, wrote on X in response to Rabbi Tzedaka’s comments: “Maimonides ruled as follows, ‘anyone who puts it on his heart that he should study the Torah and not do any work and make a living from charity, is dishonoring the name of God.’
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“Maimonides also adds and writes, ‘in Milkhemet Mitzvah [war of obligation], everyone goes into battle, even a groom from his room and a bride from her wedding canopy.’”
“You, Rabbi, are engaged in a desecration of God’s name,” Liberman concluded.
הרב צדקה, לידיעתך כך פסק הרמב״ם: ״כל המשים על לבו שיעסוק בתורה ולא יעשה מלאכה ויתפרנס מן הצדקה, הרי זה חילל את השם.״ עוד מוסיף וכותב הרמב״ם, במלחמת מצוה הכל יוצאין אפילו חתן מחדרו וכלה מחופתה.” אתה אדוני הרב, עוסק בחילול השם.— אביגדור ליברמן (@AvigdorLiberman) March 27, 2024
Tensions over Haredi draft law
Rabbi Tzedaka’s comments come amid tensions in Israel’s government regarding the draft law.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s bill proposed extending the exemption from the conscription of ultra-Orthodox Jews.
Israel’s High Court of Justice granted the government a deadline for Wednesday to explain why it had not recruited the ultra-Orthodox to serve in the military.
Since last October, when Israel launched its war on Gaza, the group has filed more than a dozen cases at local courts in the Netherlands and at the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Its latest case was filed at the ICC last Friday against Yoel Ohnona, a French-Israeli soldier, on charges of torturing Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
Haroon Raza, a lawyer representing the organisation, explained that the Movement’s “only goal … is to have everyone who is directly or indirectly responsible for war crimes and genocide in Gaza prosecuted and eventually behind bars.”
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The group’s latest complaint against an Israeli soldier came shortly after Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth reported on how the Israeli army is increasingly worried about the growing number of legal cases against its members.
According to the report, the Israeli army has recruited dozens of legal advisors for its Military Prosecution unit and turned its international law department into a division.
These steps, according to Raza, indicate that the Israeli army is now aware that “this will be a problem (it will face) … for the first time in modern history.”
“So, something will happen and something will change, and the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) are worried and their soldiers are worried,” he told Anadolu.
Complaints against soldiers and officials
Raza said the “March 30 Movement” has filed at least 17 complaints with prosecutors in the Netherlands over dual nationals taking part in “the Gaza genocide”.
Earlier this month, the Movement listed the names of 11 Dutch individuals currently serving in the Israeli military against whom it has filed cases: Abel Yannai Bolink, Leah Rachmani, Sjib Vlaming, Jacob Vlaming, Ronny Katz, Jisjai Bloemendaal, Rouf Leraar, Jonathan Aharoni , Daniel Kipnis, Jonathan Ben Hamou and Romi Kipnis.
All of them “are implicated in various capacities related to accusations of genocide and other severe offenses,” the organisation said in a 2 March post on X.
“Dutch law stipulates that if you have dual nationality with Dutch nationality and you commit a crime anywhere abroad, the Dutch authorities do have the possibility to arrest, prosecute and convict you,” said Raza.
Other cases filed in the Netherlands include one against Akiva van Koningsveld, a Dutch-Israeli settler living in an illegal Israeli settlement.
A complaint was also lodged against Israeli President, Isaac Herzog, ahead of his recent visit to the Netherlands.
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At the ICC, the group has filed five cases against various individuals, including Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, his ministers and officials in the War Cabinet for war crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of genocide, said Raza.
The group intends to soon lodge complaints in Belgium, France and Switzerland against their citizens in the Israeli military, he added.
“Europe is the focus because of the jurisdiction, and because of the fact that many of these IDF soldiers do, in fact, live in Europe,” he said.
According to the lawyer, there are more than 4,000 French soldiers currently serving in the Israeli military.
His figure was in line with one presented by Thomas Portes, a French lawmaker from the La France Insoumise party, who said, in December, that he had asked the government to investigate reports that “4,185 French-origin soldiers were with the Israeli army in Gaza”.
‘Every step they’re taking is a war crime’
Raza explained that the charges being brought against these people “have to do with genocide or other war crimes, crimes against humanity, or aiding or betting or being complicit.”
They include torture, attacks on hospitals, ambulances and civilians and starving the civilian population, he said.
The complaints also focus on violations such as using “dumb bombs”, or unguided munitions, in residential areas, as well as the use of the banned white phosphorous bombs, he said.
“It’s regarding everything that the IDF is doing. Literally every step they’re taking is a war crime or a crime against humanity,” he added.
The group, he said, is asking authorities to “investigate, arrest, prosecute and convict them, but also take away their passports”.
‘Clear-cut confessions’ on social media
About the evidence against these individuals, the lawyer pointed out that the defendants have “been sharing everything via social media”.
READ: Israeli army storms Nasser, Al-Amal hospitals in Khan Yunis: Palestinian Red Crescent
“I mean … there are clear-cut confessions. “They’re giving us information themselves, actually,” said Raza.
He said the soldiers, both men and women, have been “spreading evidence against themselves on social media via WhatsApp, via Signal, via TikTok, via Instagram.”
That “makes it all the more easier for us to compile and file cases against them,” he added, condemning their “shameless” actions.
‘People are behind us’
On his expectations for these cases, Raza said it was likely that some will be rejected or dismissed at the initial stage, particularly due to political considerations and the “Zionist narrative”.
However, he asserted that the group will file appeals in higher courts.
Chances of success are higher in Belgium, he said, explaining that laws there have the scope and power required to prosecute such cases.
“What we’re looking for is at least one precedent. “As soon as we have one conviction, even one arrest and one proper investigation … we are positive and we are confident that the other jurisdictions must follow,” said Raza.
The lawyer, who has been pursuing legal cases against Israel since 2008, believes the tide is changing, especially in terms of political narrative and public support.
“I think it’s the first time in history that we really see that people are behind us regarding these cases,” he said.
People are waking up to the actual meaning of Israel and what it is doing since 1948, said Raza.
“I think that it is quite clear that the public outrage is gaining momentum,” he added.
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The Oyoun cultural centre in Berlin-Neukölln is losing its €1m a year funding after it made statements on Gaza. Photograph: Steffen Roth/The Guardian
‘Free speech is a facade’: how Gaza war has deepened divisions in German arts world
Strong pro-Israel consensus among political leaders has led to conflict with Berlin’s diverse cultural sector and a fraught debate over antisemitism
by Philip Oltermann European culture editor
Mon 25 Mar 2024 03.00 EDT
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Two weeks after Hamas’s brutal attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, Berlin’s senate for culture commissioned a legal report to establish whether a cultural centre in the German capital’s Neukölln district had violated the city’s antisemitism prevention guidelines and should lose its funding as a result.
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question were several statements that the cultural centre had posted or shared on its social media channels in response to Israel’s retaliation against Gaza – including phrases such as “apartheid state” and “settler colonialism”. The investigation was also, however, looking at the centre’s plans to host an event one wouldn’t ordinarily suspect of meeting anyone’s definition of antisemitism: a wake hosted by a Jewish organisation to commemorate the victims of 7 October.
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Trump selling ‘God Bless the USA’ Bibles with singer Lee Greenwood
WASHINGTON – While seeking money to finance his campaign and pay his legal bills, Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday began hawking a unique product: the Bible.
Posting a sales video on his Truth Social platform, Trump said: “Happy Holy Week! Let’s Make America Pray Again. As we lead into Good Friday and Easter, I encourage you to get a copy of the God Bless The USA Bible.”
Trump’s partner in this venture is musician Lee Greenwood, whose anthem “God Bless The USA” opens Trump’s political rallies.
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The God Bless The USA Bible – at $59.99 – includes the U.S. Constitution, the amendments that make up the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, the Pledge of Allegiance and a “handwritten chorus” to “God Bless The USA.”
The Bible’s website claims the book “is not political and has nothing to do with any political campaign.” However, it’s not clear how much the former president was paid – or will be paid – for sales of the product.
Trump’s sales pitch immediately outraged his political opponents.
Sarafina Chitika, a senior spokesperson for President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, said in a statement that “The last time the American people saw Donald Trump hold up a Bible it was for a photo op after he tear-gassed American citizens demonstrating against white supremacy.”
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“Unrepentant grifter Trump is so desperate for cash that he’s selling a ‘God Bless the USA’ Bible,” the anti-Trump organization Lincoln Project said on X. formerly Twitter. “How much money do you think Trump gets off each sale?”
The group Republican Voters Against Trump said on X that “Donald Trump is observing Holy Week by selling ‘the only Bible endorsed by President Trump’ for $60. For a seasoned grifter, *everything* is an opportunity.”
The move also reminded Trump’s critics of a chapter from his term in office. While Trump was president, law enforcement officials aggressively forced protesters out of a park near the White House, and Trump then walked to a nearby church and took a photo raising a Bible. The bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington criticized Trump after the moment.
The former president’s most recent product also comes as he’s trying to finance his campaign and pay his legal bills. Trump began selling Bibles a day after a New York appeals court lowered his bond for an appeal of a civil court decision holding him liable for bank fraud. The former president has until nest week to post a bond of $175 million.
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Trump also posted a $92 million bond tied to the defamation lawsuits brought by columnist E. Jean Carroll.
Additionally, the former president trails President Joe Biden in terms of campaign funds.
The video released by Trump on Tuesday is as much political as spiritual. He said, without any proof, that “Christians are under siege” these days, and their values are being threatened.
“We must make America pray again,” Trump said.
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