I will give Joe Biden the credit that he refused to give Donald Trump: I congratulate him on killing Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
It's sort of incredible, looking back, that Biden dared to claim that the U.S. got ISSI leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in spite of Trump, or that Trump's decision to nail Iranian terror general Qasem Soleimani was a bad idea. Biden even turned the latter into some kind of campaign talking point. What a disgrace.
The media largely agreed with Biden, but is now celebrating his achievement. That proves both media bias, and the fact that Biden is a real jerk.
I could gripe about the unfairness of it all, and return the ill treatment, or I could just refuse to stoop to that level, and not let politics control patriotism.
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 ...
