I'm not just defending my old boss here; I'm defending sanity. What could Bannon possibly know about the January 6 riot (a.k.a. "insurrection)? He left the administration more than three years before it happened. He's not mentioned in hundreds of federal court documents in trials of rioters. Nor is Kash Patel, the former Trump national security advisor who caught Democrats in their unmasking scandal. But he's also been subpoenaed about January 6.
The clue here is the involvement of Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the execrable House Intelligence Committee chair who lied to the public about his role in the engineering of the first Trump impeachment, broke his pledge to make the so-called "whistleblower" available, and spied on fellow committee members. Schiff has always wanted to get Bannon, and hates Patel for blowing the whistle on the Democrats for abusing their power in the Russia collusion hoax.
The public is being told that these subpoenas are so important that they warrant criminal referral when defied. In fact, what these subpoenas demonstrate is that the January 6 commission is nothing more than a totalitarian show trial, and anyone involved in them -- especially Republicans Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger -- should not only be ashamed but should be voted out of office and opposed vigorously if they ever seek public office again.
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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 ...
