En la foto, el legendario jefe de la mafia judía Meyer Lansky (4 de julio de 1902 – 15 de enero de 1983) con su hija en el Muro de las Lamentaciones.
Siempre decía que no quería morir sin ver Jerusalén.
Lo llamaban un “genio criminal” porque, mientras caminaba por la delgada línea de la ley, nunca cruzó el umbral que lo llevaría al castigo.
Cuando la mayoría de los países europeos impusieron un estricto embargo a los suministros de armas al joven Estado de Israel, y Estados Unidos mantenía la neutralidad, fue Lansky quien descubrió cómo ayudarnos.
Tras el fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, las armas que habían sido asignadas a Europa y la URSS bajo el programa de Préstamo y Arriendo fueron regresando gradualmente a Estados Unidos. Gracias a las estrechas conexiones de Lansky con los jefes de los puertos de Nueva York y Nueva Jersey, esta valiosa carga fue redirigida a Haifa para ayudar a Israel. (Más de la mitad de las armas eran completamente nuevas.)
Once minutos después de la proclamación de la soberanía del Estado israelí, Lansky transfirió oficialmente una enorme suma de dinero a la cuenta del nuevo estado. Inmediatamente después de un evento significativo en la historia de Estados Unidos —la apertura de Las Vegas— Lansky se comprometió a transferir una décima parte de las ganancias de las operaciones de casinos a Israel.
Y cuando Teddy Kollek compró secretamente cinco aviones en Estados Unidos que eran vitales para Israel, la aduana, a “petición” de Lansky, “no notó” el contenedor en el que las partes de esta carga se enviaban a Israel.
Se cree que fue Lansky quien pagó por las armas del Altalena.
A pesar de todos sus méritos, Lansky, que vivió en Israel de 1970 a 1972, le fue denegada su solicitud de repatriación a Israel bajo la Ley del Retorno. Tuvo que regresar a Estados Unidos, donde fue juzgado por evasión fiscal. El nieto de Lansky cree que se le negó la ciudadanía a petición de Nixon. Pero Lansky nunca guardó rencor contra Israel, y durante la Guerra de Yom Kippur donó un millón de dólares a Israel.
Meyer Lansky es el prototipo de muchos personajes literarios, incluido Meyer Wolfsheim en El gran Gatsby de F. Scott Fitzgerald.
RT @Aaron710David
In Buddhism we understand that every action comes with a consequence. Due to my decision to stand up for my Jewish friends I am losing a few people from my life. Today I parted company with Tony Pontius who has run my record label BGP for a number of years. I wanted to release 'We Will Dance Again' but he was unequivocal and said 'I want nothing to do with this song' and I responded 'ok, we are done'.
When someone is gutless it really does not hurt to say goodbye. My faith in humanity will not diminish and the truth will always win.
I will release it!
@StompWompin
I want to say a heartfelt thank you for handling such a heartbreaking task with so much grace,love and dignity over @LiquidFaerie passing.
It takes an incredible heart to do what you have done,thankyou for taking care of everyone even while you were hurting.
❤️🫂❤️
🚨 THIS is the speech that should terrify every American.
Senator Tim Sheehy just dropped the most brutal, unfiltered truth about Iran you’ll ever hear.
For 47 years the Iranian regime has been hunting us — vaporizing Marines, skinning Americans alive on camera, cutting our troops in half with EFPs, and celebrating every death.
They don’t care who you voted for.
They don’t care where you live.
They want every single one of us raped, burned, and cut into pieces.
This isn’t politics.
This is a death cult that has been at war with America since 1979… and we’ve been pretending otherwise.
Watch the full speech.
Every. Single. Second.
Then share it.
Because the regime that did this to our brothers is still standing.
Iran has never paid the real price.
It’s time they do.
On This Day — July 23, 1944: The Red Army walked into hell, and the world could no longer deny the industrial murder of the Jews.
Soviet soldier Bernhard Storch was among the first to enter Majdanek.
“We entered very carefully … barbed wire all around. We still thought it was an army barracks.”
Then they saw the chimney. The mountains of human ashes. The warehouses overflowing with clothing.
And then the shoes.
A vast open storage hall, floor to ceiling, filled with thousands upon thousands of pairs of shoes that were carefully sorted into men’s, women’s, and children’s.
Finally the “showers”: cement rooms with fake shower heads, peepholes in the steel doors, openings in the ceiling for the gas.
Majdanek was the first major Nazi death camp liberated largely intact. The evidence was still there: the gas chambers, crematoria, and the remains of hundreds of thousands of murdered Jews and others.
This was the moment the world got its first undeniable look inside the death factories.
The shoes. The ashes. The “showers.” Never forget what they found. Never allow it to happen again.
When you post in support of Israel it opens your eyes to how much insanity there is in the world, and I don’t use that word loosely.
Thousands and thousands of hysterical replies bristling with baseless ill-informed fury.
It’s astonishing to me how people can be so wilfully misled, how completely they have absorbed the Hamas propaganda. It’s as if their brains have been infected by a virus.
I can barely imagine the rock hard focus it takes to maintain your sanity as an Israeli Jew. They’ve got to be the toughest people on earth.
Tisha B’Av begins tonight.
We mourn the destruction of the Temples, exile, and centuries of Jewish loss.
We fast. We sit low. We read Eicha and Kinot.
Not to surrender to despair.
To remember who we are.
They tried to destroy us.
We rebuilt.
Tzom kal.
May this be the last Tisha B’Av of mourning.
🚨The Sumud flotilla crew returned from their leisure cruise to Israel, back to Spain.
Once back in Spain, the group wanted just one more provocation. One more moment in the spotlight.
So they went brutal on the Spanish (Basque) police.
In return, the policemen welcomed the activists home with an intimate encounter with the airport floor. 😂
Our beautiful @LiquidFaerie loved 🇮🇱 and loved nature.
Will be planting a tree in Leah’s name through the JNF UK project.
If any of you or groups of you together, want to do the same here’s the UK link but there will be similar organisations doing this worldwide.
https://t.co/L2Jeh4C3l9
Fly high Leah 🙏🙏
Since no one else will tell you this, I will.
Unlike the Quran or even the New Testament, the Talmud is not a rule book.
The Talmud is not the bible and Jews do not look to the Talmud for guidance on life.
The Talmud is a massive collection of debates between individuals. That’s all.
So, first of all, those who say they read the Talmud are lying. It takes Jews who learn a page of Talmud every day seven years to complete it so no, those who maliciously quote the Talmud did not learn the Talmud in its entirety. Not even close.
Second of all, quoting some obscure statement from the Talmud is both dishonest and dangerous.
Yes, there are definitely some weird things in the Talmud, but again, it is totally hypothetical and not in any way instructional.
Third of all, you have this massive collection of tractates that are debates between rabbis and Jewish scholars. That should tell you all you need to know about the diverse nature of Judaism.
Presenting Judaism as if it’s one set of rules followed by all Jews is again, a blatant lie used to vilify Jews.
So, no, Jews don’t think they are superior to other nations.
No, the word “Goyim” is not derogatory. It simply means ‘Nations’.
And no, none of the strange things mentioned in the Talmud about slavery, sex, marriage, or other things are applicable or relevant for modern life.
Judaism is a religion that doesn’t look to convert others as opposed to the other major religions.
Jews don’t think they’re better than anyone else. “The chosen people” doesn’t mean we think we’re better. It means we take on more responsibility and try to be a light unto the nations.
So the next time someone tells you how evil the Jews are and they use the Talmud as evidence, ask them what tractates of the Talmud they’ve learned and whether the Talmud is a legal framework or a theoretical one.
Watch how they stutter and fumble their words.
See this image? That is the Talmud.
There is no one to say Kaddish for Lindsey Graham. He had no wife. He had no children. He dedicated his entire life, mostly for us. We are his children.
Lindsey loved the Jews more than the Jews loved themselves. He traveled the world, from country to country, and fought like a lion for the State of Israel. He wasn't even Jewish himself. He simply believed with all his heart, with all his might, that it was the right thing to do.
Now, we the Jewish people must say Kaddish for him. Kaddish for the greatest Righteous Among the Nations of our time. Perhaps even Kaddish for many of his battles on behalf of the Jews. I wish successors would rise for him. But for now, the situation in the American Congress is not encouraging, to our regret.
We will always remember you, Lindsey. Rest in peace on your bed. We all love you.
The Jewish people.
To the drooling conspiracy cretins screeching that Israel steals organs: Relax, geniuses, that echoing, dust-filled cavity between your ears isn’t evidence of a Mossad heist.
You were born that way: factory-default, brain-free, and proudly running on backup fumes.
The Jews didn’t take your brain, nature just forgot to install one.
Former hostage Rom Braslavski:
"This is Talal Abd El Aal. Or, as I know him - Abu Youssef.
This is the man who weighed 100 kilograms and jumped on my neck while I was severely malnourished. This is his face. This is his hand. This is him. This is the man who forced me, while my hands and feet were tied and my body was covered in bruises, when I was very close to dying, to open my mouth so he could spit into it.
This is the commander who was in charge of me and led the terrorist cell that held me captive for an entire year. This is the commander who gave the order: "Tie up Abu Salem (me) and abuse him."
This is the man who, by his own orders and with his own hands, abused me and nearly killed me several times. This is him. Enjoy hell, you piece of trash."