pjfny

Former wall street trader (JPM)- New York and London-fixed income derivatives and forex , global macro focus. Financial mkts, Pro-Israel, atheist & exiled Swede

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

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.

[pjfny @pjfny]

@JewishWarrior13 "according to Barak Ravid"....enough said

[pjfny @pjfny]

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[CONSTITUTION X 🇺🇸 @ConstitustionX]

🚨 BOOM! Stephen Miller just TORCHED CNN live 🔥
CNN: “This is an undocumented migrant…”
Miller: “Were they here ILLEGALLY?”
CNN: “I want this to be a good faith discussion…”
Miller: “When you use language designed to obscure the truth, that’s NOT good faith. An ILLEGAL ALIEN is an ILLEGAL ALIEN. They’re not an ‘undocumented migrant.’
Why is this so damn hard for the media to understand?
Call them what they are — ILLEGAL ALIENS — or stop pretending it’s a “good faith” conversation!
America is DONE with the word games.
🔥 RT if you’re sick of the lies! Tag a friend who needs to see this! 🇺🇸

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

This video wins the internet for today 🤣

Watch till the end

[pjfny @pjfny]

@ratlpolicy Do you really think opening the Strait is costless for the US....similarily to funding NATO (big part) for Europe??

[pjfny @pjfny]

@firstadopter Do you really think freeing the straight is free of costs??

[Yisrael official 🕎 @YisraelOfficial]

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Spot on!

[@JudeanGeneral ll 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @judeangeneral2]

@Osint613 Who is fighting to give the IRI jihadists more time.
Pakistan 🇵🇰🥷
Qatar 🇶🇦🥷
Turkey 🇹🇷🥷
Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦🥷

All jihadist countries.
All the enemy.

Fuk the IRI.
End their terror regime.

[Dave Rubin @RubinReport]

There is literally no faker more ridiculous pander schmuck in all of politics than @RoKhanna.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

It seems like a good time to remind you that if you're a young person who turned against Israel in the last five years, you were the successful target of a coordinated influence operation meant to turn you into a useful idiot for Islamo-Leftist causes.

[Mark Changizi @MarkChangizi]

Free Palestine by eliminating Hamas.
Free Lebanon by eliminating Hezbollah.
Free Iran by eliminating the IRGC.

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

See, here's the thing: I don't really care about personal drama.

I've said repeatedly that Charlie and I weren't best friends. Maybe you were best friends with Charlie. Maybe not. I don’t know, nor do I care.

For ten months, you’ve been slandering Charlie's wife, his friends, and all of the people he worked with. You're working to acquit his murderer.

You're spreading conspiratorial poison for cash.

That’s something anyone of decency should condemn.

The fact that so many are unwilling to do so is demonstrative of widespread cowardice, stupidity, wickedness...or all three.
https://t.co/MBBTs8kJEJ

[ד״ר עינת וילף Dr. Einat Wilf @EinatWilf]

Have you noticed that Palestinians never seem to have “good friends” telling them “hard truths” such as: “The war you have been waging for more than a century against Jewish self-determination has been a disaster, brought nothing but bloodshed, and has been a complete failure”?

[Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil]

Cont.
Because the very activists he appears to be courting have repeatedly shown that gestures of criticism toward Israel are never enough.

Today's applause quickly becomes tomorrow's accusation.

The standards continually change.

The loyalty tests never end.

Recognizing Israel's legitimacy is itself unacceptable to many of the loudest activists in this movement. Supporting Israel's existence while criticizing its government may satisfy moderates, but for those who reject Zionism altogether, it simply places you on the wrong side.

As Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League has warned in different contexts, antisemitism has a way of reducing Jews to their identity regardless of how closely they align themselves with a particular political cause. For some extremists, no amount of ideological agreement changes that.

That is the tragedy of appeasement.

You believe you are buying acceptance.

In reality, you are often only postponing rejection.

Rahm Emanuel may believe this speech improves his standing inside today's Democratic Party.

Perhaps it earns him favorable headlines in activist circles.

Perhaps it convinces some that he is willing to challenge Israel.

But if his goal is to satisfy the movement that increasingly defines ideological purity by opposition to Zionism, history suggests he is making a profound miscalculation.

He risks alienating many of those who have stood with him for decades without winning over those who never intended to embrace him in the first place.

That is the danger of feeding the alligator.

Eventually, it gets hungry again.

[Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil]

Rahm Emanuel Came to Israel to Feed the Alligator

There used to be a familiar tradition in American politics.

If you were preparing to run for president, you came to Israel.

You stood beside Israeli leaders. You spoke about the unbreakable alliance between the United States and Israel. You reminded Americans that Israel was America's closest democratic ally in the Middle East. You met Jewish leaders, reassured pro-Israel voters and donors, and returned home having demonstrated that supporting Israel was both morally right and strategically wise.

That was the old Democratic Party.

Today's Democratic Party is rapidly becoming something very different.

Its loudest voices no longer celebrate the U.S.-Israel alliance. They question Israel's legitimacy. Many refuse to visit Israel altogether. Increasingly, the party's energy comes from an activist coalition that views Israel not as an ally, but as the embodiment of Western oppression.

This coalition has become extraordinarily effective.

It does not merely argue.

It intimidates.

It does not seek debate.

It seeks ideological conformity.

Those who refuse are branded racists, colonialists, fascists, or supporters of genocide. Careers are threatened. Institutions retreat. Politicians learn that silence—or worse, agreement—is often the safest political option.

The result is that a vocal minority increasingly dictates the boundaries of acceptable opinion.

Rahm Emanuel belongs to a different political generation.

He comes from the old Democratic establishment.

He understands the historic alliance between America and Israel. He understands why Israel matters strategically. He understands the history of Palestinian rejectionism. In his own speech, he acknowledged October 7, acknowledged Hamas' atrocities, and admitted that Israel repeatedly offered peace only to receive terrorism in return.

None of that was new.

What was new was what came next.

Instead of coming to Israel to strengthen the alliance, Emanuel came to lecture Israel.

He accused Israel of becoming a diplomatic liability.

He warned that unconditional American support must end.

He proposed sanctions against Israeli citizens, Israeli officials, companies, and banks connected to settlements.

He argued that Israel had become isolated because of its own choices.

It sounded less like a speech to Israelis than a campaign message directed at an entirely different audience.

That audience was not sitting in the room.

It was watching from American campuses, activist organizations, progressive media outlets, and the increasingly influential ideological wing of today's Democratic Party.

Israelis do not vote in American elections.

The people Emanuel was trying to persuade do.

The speech was not really about convincing Israelis.

It was about demonstrating to an increasingly anti-Israel political base that he is willing to confront Israel publicly.

In other words, he came to Israel to feed the alligator.

There is an old saying:

When you feed an alligator, you hope it eats you last.

That has become the strategy of far too many establishment politicians.

Rather than confronting ideological extremism, they accommodate it.

Rather than defending long-held principles, they move the line a little further each time, hoping today's concession will prevent tomorrow's attack.

History suggests otherwise.

The activist coalition that increasingly dominates parts of the Democratic conversation is driven by ideological purity. Every concession becomes the starting point for the next demand. Yesterday's ally becomes today's target for failing the newest ideological test.

Rahm Emanuel appears to believe he can stand in both worlds.

He can come to Israel, maintain relationships with the pro-Israel establishment, reassure traditional supporters of the alliance, and then deliver a speech harsh enough to convince the activist left that he is one of them.

That is an extraordinarily risky political calculation.

[Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich]

No, we should not be selling F-35 fighter jets to Turkey

[Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon]

A Nazi tattoo they could forgive.

Roughing up his girlfriend? No problem—she's a Republican.

Living off government benefits and his rich mommy and daddy while pretending to be working class? That's just the profile of your average DSA member.

But then Platner committed the gravest of sins: He started to slip in the polls.

My column: https://t.co/tWj3mtBw2r

[leekern @leekern13]

Netanyahu is irrelevant to the fundamental problem here

War preceded him and war will remain when he is gone

It is narcissistic, masochistic and racist to believe the war is exacerbated, or can be solved, solely by what Jews do or don’t do here

It is racist towards Jews AND muslims

Racist towards Jews because it blames them entirely for all problems

Racist towards muslims because it regards them as sub-human idiots with zero agency

The problem is, muslims are removed entirely from the calculations of simple-minded thinkers such as this boy - as if Israel’s enemies didn’t, do not and won’t continue to have a say in why the Middle East is how it is

This young lad is engaged in an act of safe, narcissistic peacocking

He pressures Jews because he knows they are rational and can be dialogued with

But he brings no frank talk or “hard truths” to the muslim world because he is a coward

He knows deep down there is a far greater obstacle to overcome in the muslim world - greater intransigence, greater bigotry and greater fetishisation of jihad and violence than anything the Jewish state could even come close to in a dream

He doesn’t have the courage, grandeur, or intellectual honesty to take that to task

Which is a shame - because until that happens, kids like Rahm are playing the game of posture, not progress

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

Rahm, like all the Democrats these days, is pretending the impediment to peace is Israeli intransigence.

There is no partner for peace on the Palestinian side. There has not been a single overture. There is no credible diplomatic solution on the table that can ensure Israelis a secure Jewish state.

Democrats never tell Palestinians and their activists to tone down their rhetoric when they chant for the destruction of Israel. Democrats never tell Palestinians that the window is closing if they don’t push for peace. Democrats never tell Palestinians that their security situation is worsening due to their conduct.

What the Palestinians are hearing from all of these leaders is that if they stay the course and keep Israel locked in a state of globally unpopular war, then Israel will lose international support and will be destroyed.