Today, we'll look ahead to a busy legislative week. The fight over the $3.5 trillion "reconciliation" bill continues, as Democrats try to slip in amnesty provisions in the midst of an unprecedented wave of migration at the southern U.S. border. We're still reeling from the revelation on Friday that the U.S. killed an innocent man -- and 9 other civilians -- in an airstrike Aug. 29: was it just to save face for the Biden administration's disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal? Don't look to JCOS Chairman Gen. Mark Milley for answers; he's defending his calls to his Chinese counterpart in the closing days of the Trump administration. And Biden is at the beach -- after rationing Regeneron, a lifesaving monoclonal antibody treatment for coronavirus, from seven southern states in what seems to be an act of brazen political retaliation for rejecting mask/vaccine mandates. France has recalled its ambassador -- for the first time ever -- in a blow to Biden's claims to have restored relations with U.S. allies. Is there anything left of the Biden presidency? The fiscal battles ahead in Congress may well decide.
Special guests:
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) - on Afghanistan, and on beating leukemia
Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) - on the reconciliation battle in the House
Breitbart News' Brandon Darby - on the crisis at the southern U.S. border
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This week's Torah portion includes several laws about conduct in civic and personal life, the common theme of which is boundaries -- setting bounds to what one may do at home, at work, and even in the battlefield.
One noteworthy passage concerns Amalek, the evil nation that attacked the Children of Israel as they made their Exodus from slavery to freedom. Deuteronomy 25:17-19 commands Jews to obliterate Amalek's memory.
The South African government accused Israel of genocide on the basis of a story about Amalek in the Book of Samuel, in which King Saul was commanded to wipe out the entire evil Amalekite nation.
Because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted this week's portion -- "Remember what Amalek did to you" (25:17), the South African government claimed he was commanding soldiers to commit genocide.
It was an absurd and malevolent misreading of the Bible and of Jewish tradition. The commandment, as observed by Jews today, is to remember the evil of Amalek and fight ...