This week, we will discuss the latest in the ongoing war of self-defense that Israel is waging against the Palestinian terror group known as Hamas. We'll touch on a few other topics as well.
In the first hour, we'll focus on the next phase of battle -- Israel's imminent ground invasion, the threat from Lebanon, the potential that Iran will intervene, and the U.S. response (two aircraft carriers).
We'll speak to human rights expert Anne Bayefsky to discuss international law, as well as the United Nations, and how it has failed to defend Israel's right to self-defense against murderous terrorists.
Next, we'll talk about the home front -- the protests, on either side, and the threat of radicalization. Jews last week stayed home from school; a crazy man in Illinois murdered a Palestinian. What gives?
Finally, we'll talk about what this means for American politics. The left has gone crazy in its anti-Israel stance, but there is a resurgence of anti-Israel sentiment on the right. I'll take on both of these.
Thanks for joining me.
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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 ...
