It's Christmas week, and it has been a bonanza for conservatives. First, San Francisco's mayor decided to reverse her "defund the police" stance and declare a state of emergency on crime. Then, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) declared himself a "no" vote on President Joe Biden's "Build Back Better" boondoggle, potentially dooming the Biden legislative agenda from here on out. What does all of this mean for 2022 -- and 2024? Plus, more news from Israel, where peace continues to break out everywhere, despite the left's best efforts.
Special guests:
Alan Dershowitz -- on looming court verdicts & the January 6 committee
Heather MacDonald -- on Democrats finally facing a reckoning on crime
William Jacobson -- on antisemitic academic efforts to boycott Israel
Avi Jorisch -- on the Miss Universe pageant and Israel-Arab peacemaking
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This week's show will be slightly different from the norm: we'll focus on clips and topics, rather than guests -- and that, hopefully, will mean more input from the callers (unless you are all watching football on opening weekend).
Topics:
- The state of the economy
- The fight against crime
- The midterm election fight
- The struggle for peace between Russia and Ukraine
- The airstrike on the Venezuelan drug cartel
- The attempt to sink Kennedy
- The war in Gaza
- The case against Harvard
- The Trump presidency
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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 ...
