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1. CHARLES SPURGEON WAS A GREAT PREACHER AMEN ❤ AMEIN ❤

   LOVE ❤ ALWAYS AND ❤ SHALOM, YSIC ❤

   MARANATHA-OUR LORD ( ADONAI ) COMETH ❤ AMEN ❤

   PLEASE ENJOY YE ALL! TIME FOR ME TOO GO TO BED YAWN ❤

   I LOVE ❤ YOU ALL EVERYONE ❤ THOUGH JESUS-YESHUA CHRIST-MESSIAH ❤ BECASUE HE ❤ LOVED EVERYONE FRIST ❤ LOVE ❤

   GOD BLESS YE ALL ❤ IN JESUS-YESHUA CHRIST-MESSIAH ❤ AMEIN ❤

   LOVE ❤ ALWAYS AND ❤ SHALOM ❤ YSIC

   KRISTI ❤ 1611AV

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2. The use of darkness and light as figures of speech to compare the saved with the unsaved is perfect. Pity and pray for those who live in darkness. Think of being lost in the woods at night, no light visible except your flashlight, the moon goes behind a cloud BANK – and your flashlight batteries die. If you’ve never been there, you may not realize how scary that is. You can’t even walk safely.
   
   “But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” ( 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 )

   Pray for those who walk in darkness. And thank God daily that you don’t if you are a born-again believer in Jesus!

   And thank you, Kristi, for always reminding the world that there is a way out of the darkness, and into eternal life – faith only in Jesus Christ only!

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   • AMEN ❤ AMEIN ❤ TODAH RABAH-THANK YOU!!  LAWN ❤ GOODNIGHT YOU ALL ❤ YAWN!!

     LOVE ❤ ALWAYS AND ❤ SHALOM, YSIC ❤

     KRISTI 1611 AV

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   • “The UN says so” is not a sufficient legal analysis. This example serves the false logic of “Appeal to Authority”. Attempts to pigeon hole, post the illegal Jordanian nationalization “West Bank”, as a “geographic term” used “internationally” fails to weight the bias of UN SC Resolution 2334 on par with UN GA Resolution 3379.

     The UN has a long history of anti-Israel activities. Hence the language “West Bank” hardly qualifies as an accurate “geographic term”. Wars and Treaties trump UN chatter-box revisionist history. The ICC and ICJ. Their decisions may assert jurisdiction under their own constitutive instruments, but that does not automatically prove that they can override Oslo’s allocation of authority, treat Gaza as under unified Palestinian control, or transform a diplomatic designation into uncontested sovereignty. Those conclusions require a separate and explicit legal argument—and remain open to substantial criticism.

     Germany’s 1941 invasion destroyed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact as a functioning nonaggression arrangement, regardless of the formal language used to describe its termination. SALT ceased to function as a respected arms-control framework once the parties no longer treated its restraints as politically operative. Trump’s withdrawal reflected a rejection of Obama’s Iran policy, regardless of whether the JCPOA was technically classified as a treaty.

     The parties’ conduct, interests, and subsequent events determine whether Oslo remains a functioning political framework. An international court cannot preserve, revive, or transform Oslo by treating it as though it were an abstract instrument detached from the parties’ actual consent and conduct. Hamas did not sign Oslo, took control of Gaza from the PA, and does not accept Oslo’s framework. Treating “Palestine” as a unified actor with uninterrupted authority over Gaza risks confusing a diplomatic label with an actual governing and treaty relationship.

     An agreement loses authority when the parties’ strategic interests and conduct show that they no longer accept it as controlling. Arafat launched the 2nd Intifada in 2000, this decision fundamentally breached the Oslo Accords as did his failure to amend the PA Charter as he formally agreed to do when signing the Oslo Accords. UN Resolutions Chapter VI or Chapter VII do not have more authority than treaties signed between allies. The UN compares to the recent terrorist attempt to slaughter Israelis during the recent 2026 Sukkot Chag, which had it succeeded might have shattered the Abraham Accords and made the UN 2 State Solution dictate to Israel – the only game in town.

     The UN can use only the powers actually given to it by the UN Charter. Those powers do not, merely because they come from the UN, automatically cancel, rewrite, or override the Oslo agreements. Anyone making that argument must show exactly which Charter power is being used, why the relevant UN body has authority over the issue, and how that power legally interacts with the parties’ existing treaty obligations. Saying “the UN has authority” – a bogus argument. The claim must identify the particular organ—such as the Security Council, General Assembly, or another body—and the specific Charter provision that allegedly grants the power.

     Propaganda rhetoric of the UN – Occupied West Bank Territories – presumes Judea and Samaria as false based upon the language of UN SC 2334. The revisionist history pretends akin to Arafat’s rhetoric that the Palestinian people trace their roots back to the Boat-People Philistines from the Greek Islands! Never in all recorded Human history an Arab Palestinian State. Refusal by UN bodies to call a spade a spade – Yechuda and Samaria prove a bias conclusion rather than an objective recommendation.

     General Assembly recognition of Palestine and British most recent boycott of Israeli private industry in Judea & Samaria prove political bias. That Israel has only responded to London and not EU countries who likewise seek to dictate a two State “Final Solution” compares to the vision of Jewish refugees treatment during the Middle Ages. The latter ‘low hanging fruit’, so too Britain after Brexit.

     Even if a UN organ has some Charter-based authority, the claimant must explain why that authority applies to the parties and how it legally affects their treaty obligations. Employment of UN Charter-based authority arguments almost 100 years after the fact compares to Xtian gospel claims of Messiah man/God over 1000 years after the revelation of the Torah at Sinai. The latter example throughout history defined through hate arousing Christ killer rhetoric. Never once did the Goyim NT ever raise the issue: How does the Torah itself define the mitzva of Moshiach? As such both the earlier NT propaganda and the UN Charter propaganda used to promote anti-Israel hatred. Appeals to UN authority do not, by themselves, establish that the Oslo agreements have been changed or overridden. That conclusion requires a specific Charter power, proper jurisdiction, and a legally reasoned explanation of how the power affects the parties’ treaty obligations.

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   • Bottom line: fools. psychopathic greed, pride and other sins, evil people, fanatics of at least two kinds, and competing interests have made the world a very chaotic place.

     Solution: none, because behind the chaos is:
     On the human level, the fallen nature of human beings which won’t be solved completely until the sheep are separated from the goats and welcomed into God New Heavens and New Earth, while the goats are interned for eternity in God’s eternal version of CECOT prison.

     On the spiritual level, the psychotic hatred of the devil and the other demons for God and all His creations and all humans (because we were created in God’s image and will take the places the demons abandoned: Jude 6: “And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.” )

     May that day come speedily.
     

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   • Shabbat a wisdom-time oriented Av commandment … as opposed to a secondary positive or negative toldot/secondary\precedent commandment which does not require k’vanna. 

     This separation between Primary נגד secondary Torah commandments the NT and Koran totally ignore.  The NT originally written in Greek and that foreign tongue represents a radically different culture custom paradigm akin to the incongruity wherein the church made their Sunday as their sabbath and the mosque did the same but different incompatibility declaring the 6th day of the week as their Jumuʿah Mubārakah! 

     Torah Jews in exile “converted” into a religion but Torah when the 12 Tribes originally accepted the revelation – a Written Constitution which mandates Sanhedrin common law federal coourts with the power of legislative review over any statute law imposed by Tribal head/governments.The idea of tawhid Monotheism which the Koran “prophet” promotes (totally at discord) with the 2nd Sinai commandment akin to the Koran declaration that Avraham bound Yishmael at the Akedah.  The Greek NT likewise failed to grasp the subtle distinction which differentiate witchcraft from prophesy.  Bil’aam the “prophet” foretold the future as did the Book of Daniel.  However Daniel excluded, in the Hebrew T’NaCH from the category of “NaCH/prophets”.  Just as Shabbat first introduced in the Aggadic creation story does not mean 7th Day as the Protestant Adventists insist but rather “Week”.  Granted that exiled Jewry “converted” shabbat into the last day of the week.  Nonetheless every Friday “evening” observant Jews make kiddush which separates מלאכה as forbidden from עבודה permitted work. 

     The Greek NT makes no such subtle distinctions.  Not with Shabbat nor with the abstract term prophet.  For example: the Book of Daniel excluded from the NaCH\prophets because both he and Bil’aam – both mystics rather than prophets.  This fine splitting of hairs nuance under-standing known in later Talmudic legalism as pilpul … understanding the difference between like from like.  An example being t’rumah, ma’asar, and chol; a Torah tax imposed upon crops which separates the Cohonim from the Leviim who have no Tribal land-bound Yichus but like all other of the 12 Tribal lands of the Republic their “Yichus” – being the 3 son of Yaacov – determined through the father rather than the mother. The NT Hercules story – that son of God – as no Yichus to any of the sons of Yaacov.

     This type of discernment the Torah refers to as רב חסד whereas the Aramaic in the Talmud repeatedly asks מאי נפקא מינא?  What’s the distinction?  The Siddur affixs this wisdom skill to the blessing: which distinguishes between the 3 possible spirit types called tequiah, tru’ah and sh’varim which discern between the Ya’tzir Ha-Tov tohor spirits within the heart from the Ya’tzir Ha-Rah tumah spirits also in the heart by discerning not only the distinction between tohor vs tumah spirits but more physically fundamental the wind blown from the lungs necessary to blow the shofar at all on יום הזכרון – Rosh HaShanna.

     The B’HaG ruled that the ‘Aliyah’ of Av wisdom-time oriented commandments applied to rabbinic mitzvot elevates them to commandments from the Torah. Hence he ruled, as did Rashi, that visiting sick a mitzva from the Torah because it learns from the precedent of lighting the lights of both shabbat and Hanukkah – possible to raise both rabbinic mitzvot unto tohor wisdom-time oriented commandments by means of prophetic mussar as their k’vanna.

     So besides shabbat and prophet being distinct from Sunday for Xtians and Friday for Muslims and prophet distinct from mystics such as both Bil’aam and Daniel represent, so too and how much more so the pilpul separates t’shuva from repentance based upon the Torah precedent (Torah court room law a common law legal system as opposed to and by Tribal statute laws; the Book of דברים also known as משנה תורה means “Common law”.), for t’shuva being separation from blood vs blood. The blood of the goat cast off the cliff as opposed to the blood of the goat sprinkled before the פרכת which separates the Holy of Holies from the Holy place in the Mishkan. Hence the connection between יום הזכרון to יום הכיפורים.

     A forth example of distinction: The logic which defines how to study and learn both T’NaCH and Talmud/Midrashim and Siddur, a dynamic inductive reasoning which compare or contrasts similar items – akin to the two sights of a rifle which permits a sniper to shoot long distances down range. By stark contrast the lights of Hanukkah commemorate/remember the dedication made within the borders of the Independent Maccabee state free from the Syrian Greek empire to only learn the T’NaCH and Sanhedrin common law legalism by Case/Rule precedent comparison to similar courtroom precedent rulings; this reasoning defines fluid inductive reasoning as opposed to Greek static syllogism deductive logic which both Plato and Aristotle Greek philosophy promotes.

     The kavanah falsely translated as “INTENT”. The latter fails the jurisdictional bridge that pulls secondary toldot commandment/mitzvot unto primary Av wisdom-time oriented commandments which ספר בראשית opens by introducing as its Central Theme “Wisdom-time Oriented Commandments” as taught through the Prime example of Shabbat תמיד מעשה בראשית – repeated twice as emphasis in the opening blessing drabbanon of שחרית תפילה דאורייתא קריא שמע. The Rambam interest criticized the B’HaG for repeatedly promoting rabbinic mitzvot as Torah commandments but failed to discern, at least according to the RambaN’s critique made on his positive 5th commandment ספר המצוות, the subtle distinction between tefillah from tefillah – kre’a shma from shemone esrei. Akin to how mesechta ברכות debates the separation between the blessing vs the actual Torah language of kre’a shma – which constitute as the mitzva from the Torah?

     Kavanah … the vector that pulls the Toldot mitzvot unto the Av commandments. This k’vanna vector absolute distinction which separates Rabbinic mitzvot as secondary to Deoraita commandments as sealed through a static reading of the Written Torah – the fundamental error made by the Rambam’s book of commandments and his Yad statute law halachic code. By ignoring this vector, the Rambam “seals” the Written Torah, turning it into a frozen statute code of law akin to the Code of Hammurabi he Babylonianized … Greek/Romanized it into assimilated statute law which stands upon the flawed logic of making an appeal based upon authority. This basic Constitutional error defines British common law wherein the Parliamentary law defines the Constitution of Great Britain and no British court can thereafter challenge any law passed by Parliament.

     Long before the rise of the British Parliament as dominant over the King, English lords began to reject the false notion of divine right of king John through the Magna Carta 1215! Placed in context of France history – a compare & contrast between the similarities and differences between the two societies duplicates משנה תורה\common law! In 1242 the French king burned all Talmudic manuscripts within the borders of the kingdom at Paris. Whereas the king of England made a forced population transfer of all Jews from Great Britian in 1290, which the French did not do the same until 1306. The common denominator of tyrannical governments – both imposed taxation without representation upon the Jews under their domains like as did king George III upon Americans.

     The Rambam’s Yad (completed c. 1180) just before a train of catastrophes. Based upon the בנין אב precedent of the 2nd Sinai commandment, interpreted by both Moshe and NaCH prophets through the toldot commandments do not follow the ways customs or mannerism of the peoples of either Egypt or Canaan; do not intermarry with with foreign women of Midian and Ezra’s – Shomronim. In a tragic irony, Rambam’s attempt to “protect” the law by sealing it, actually prepared the ground for its destruction; his assimilation to foreign cultures shattered the “Ethical Containment Force” the opening p’sukim describe the Creation story in בראשית.

     By removing the Kavanah Vector, Rambam made the Torah appear like a static statute book—exactly what the French King and the Inquisition knew how to burn or torture unto submission. A living Constitution with a functioning court system far harder to abrogate than a frozen code. Like as did Czar Alexander II Emancipation (1861) decree; when he like Lincoln freed the peasants from their lords who served Czarist autocracy as its constitutional pillar.

     Prior to the 1905 revolution the peasants condemned their Aristocratic land stealing lords, like Arabs since 1948. (Unlike Western feudalism the Czar feared his Aristocrats so he moved them from domain to domain within the vast borders of mother Russia.) But after the Czar ordered his guards to massacre peasant protesters – this act – akin to Oct 7th 2023, pulled the blindfold from off the eyes of the peasants. The central pillar of Czarist autocracy stood upon the feudal aristocracy. The consequence of this action too “shattered the ethical containment force” of Czarist Russia whose anarchy expressed through repeated revolutions. 

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   • I Documented ISIS’s Crimes. Then I Visited Auschwitz.A historian from Mosul, Iraq, visits Treblinka, Auschwitz, and Bełżec—and returns with a demand for the Arab world.

     By Omar Mohammed
     “Go back to Poland” will be a familiar phrase to some. Since the October 7, 2023, attacks, it has been screamed at Jews across the West, intended to warn them that they do not belong—that their true homeland is the place where their ancestors were exterminated 80 years ago. Last week, Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed held a roundtable with an activist who has echoed that very phrase, calling for Israeli Jews to be sent “back to Poland.”

     An Introduction: “Go back to Poland” will be a familiar phrase to some. Since the October 7, 2023, attacks, it has been screamed at Jews across the West, intended to warn them that they do not belong—that their true homeland is the place where their ancestors were exterminated 80 years ago. Last week, Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed held a roundtable with an activist who has echoed that very phrase, calling for Israeli Jews to be sent “back to Poland.”

     Omar Mohammed first heard of this phrase when it was chanted at Columbia University’s campus after October 7. And it struck him deeply. An Iraqi historian, Omar was living in Mosul when ISIS seized control of the city. In the aftermath, he did not flee. Instead, he sat in a room one thin wall away from a senior ISIS leader, and he wrote—using his anonymous blog, Mosul Eye, to bring the terrorist group’s atrocities to millions. (To hear him tell his full story, watch our interview with him here.)

     But Omar’s work as a historian did not end when he escaped Iraq in 2017. A few weeks ago, he reached out to tell us that after years of hearing calls for Jews to go back to Poland, he had decided to visit the concentration camps himself. He wanted to write, he said, about being “a historian from Mosul who documented one genocide, standing for the first time at the site of another.” The piece that resulted is something remarkable. We’re proud to bring it to you today. —Jillian Lederman

     This is from Omar Mohammed’s essay, “I Documented ISIS’s Crimes. Then I Visited Auschwitz.” He describes arriving in Warsaw and taking the 175 bus before visiting Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Bełżec. The Free Press

     On August 24, I landed in Warsaw at night. I have long held that a city reveals its identity after dark, so I took the 175 bus from the airport into the center to get a better sense of it.

     Something in that ride unsettled me. I have sat in my hometown of Mosul, Iraq, a city under ISIS occupation, and known exactly what I feared. On that bus, there was nothing I could point to, and yet my body reacted as if there were. I said afterward that I had smelled the ash of the dead—literally, still in the ground 80 years on.

     I had never been to Poland. I first learned of the Holocaust in Mosul, in 2004 or 2005, when satellite dishes became easy to get after the fall of Saddam Hussein. I watched documentaries on the Second World War, one after another, recording each of them—because in those years we still lived with the expectation that anything could disappear at any moment.Around the same time, I found out that the school I had attended stood on the ruins of the Jewish school of Mosul, which Saddam had demolished in 2000. From then on, I carried the hope that I would one day stand in the camps and see them for myself. What made me go, finally, was hearing about an incident in the wake of the October 7 attacks on Israel, when a particular chant was screamed at Jews on Columbia University’s campus: “Go back to Poland.”Walter Reich, my friend and mentor, was appalled when he heard about the incident. Walter is the Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics, and Human Behavior and a professor of psychiatry at The George Washington University, where I also work, and was the director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from 1995 to 1998. Most of what I know about how societies erase their Jews I’ve learned from him. He told me that after he heard the call for Jews to go back to Poland, he decided to do just that: take his children and grandchildren to the death camp at Bełżec, where much of his family was murdered. He wanted to recite the kaddish there, the Jewish prayer for mourning.What remains of Walter’s family amounts to a field. His uncles, aunts, and cousins were gassed, their bodies dumped into pits, later exhumed and burned, the ash dumped back in. He has been going to that field to say kaddish since the 1980s.In August, I wrote to tell him that I was going to Auschwitz later that month, and within two hours he wrote back, “Have courage, Omar.” I asked him to teach me the kaddish so that I could say it there too.

     As a historian, I have spent my life on one question: What does a city do with its dead? For three years, from June 2014 to 2017, I kept a record of ISIS’s rule of Mosul from inside it, at night, anonymously, in a place where discovery meant death. I published it all on my public blog, Mosul Eye—and when the city was freed, I turned the same approach on an earlier erasure, more than 60 years before: In 1950, Mosul’s Jews were stripped of their nationality. By 1951, they were gone.
     The rule I made for myself under ISIS I carried to Poland: Trust no one, document everything. Every conversation in this essay comes from a tape recorder that, on the bus from the airport, I turned on and did not switch off.

     My first stop was Treblinka, some 60 miles northeast of Warsaw. My driver was a man from Tajikistan. I will call him Daler.
     When I told him where we were going, he asked what it was.
     He was a Muslim and had lived five years in Poland and two in Germany without anyone telling him what had happened here. I sat in the back with the recorder on the seat and understood that my plan had a flaw. I had come to Poland intending to make a demand once I returned home: I wanted the Arab world to learn the history of this place and teach it in their schools. But the first person I met—a Muslim from Tajikistan who had lived in Germany and Poland for seven years—knew nothing about the extermination camp he was driving me to see on a Tuesday morning, or what it represented.
     So, I taught him. It took two hours, most of it through his phone, English into Tajik on the screen, read at the red lights, answered in Tajik, turned back into English. Six million Jews murdered for being Jews and for nothing else. He told me Tajikistan has about 10 million people. I asked him to imagine six million of them killed, and watched him in the mirror. After a while, he said it was impossible to comprehend. “From this day on,” he said in Tajik. “I will tell people about this. I did not know much about it before. Now I understand.”

     Imagine spending seven years in Poland and Germany and not learning anything about the Holocaust.
     The structures the Germans built at Treblinka are not there anymore. They took the killing center apart in the autumn of 1943 after the prisoners revolted, plowed the ground, and installed a guard unit in a farmhouse. What remains is a pine forest and a field of 17,000 jagged stones set upright in concrete, some carved with the names of towns and countries. Some 925,000 Jews were murdered in this clearing in about 15 months.
     It is quiet in a way I have never heard, but it is not the quiet of a cemetery. In a cemetery, at least the dead have graves.
     Around Treblinka, pines grow so close together that no light reaches the ground between them. They have been growing on this ground for 80 or more years, and they are the only living things that saw all of it and are still here. Standing among them, I found it hard to breathe.
     I had asked Daler to wait in the car park and take me back to Warsaw when I was done, but he said he wanted to come with me. We walked in together. On our right was a line of concrete railroad sleepers. That was where the train cars stopped, the doors opened, and people who had been two days without water stepped down and were told they had come to a transit camp. At the platform I stood still. It was there that what I had feared most about coming to Poland caught up with me. Standing there, I could not stop asking what was in their minds, what they saw, whether at the door of the gas chamber some of them still hoped to live.
     We went on to the memorial sculpture, a granite tower at the center of the field, cracked at the top, which stands where the gas chambers stood. In front of the sculpture lies the stone that says “Never again” in seven languages. There, at the memorial sculpture, I recited the Mourner’s Kaddish.
     I had the words from Walter and the melody from a rabbi who is my friend, who had taught me to sing it the way the Jews of my country had sung it, in the Iraqi Maqam Saba. I know it is a prayer meant to be said among a congregation of 10 Jews, and I was only one person, and not a Jew. But I also know it was a genuine kaddish.
     Daler stood a step behind me, filming the prayer with his phone. When I finished, he said it sounded like the Quran. I said it is older; it is Semitic, the Aramaic the Jews spoke in Jerusalem and Babylon before the Jews of Iraq spoke Arabic, and the language the Christians of Nineveh still speak. He called his brother, right there among the memorial stones, and asked whether his brother had known about this. He had not. So he told his brother, right there, what I had told him in the car. When he hung up, he typed into his translation app, and the phone said to me: “I make a promise. Not to you. To myself, so that I do not break it. I will tell every person I meet.”
     Watching him type, I thought this might be how the prayer finds its minyan of 10 mourners: by one person telling another.

     MOHAMMED READS THE MOURNER’S KADDISH AT TREBLINKA ON AUGUST 25, 2026. (PHOTO COURTESY OF OMAR MOHAMMED)

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     We were back in Warsaw by the middle of the afternoon, and I went to a bar I had been warned against entering. “Only for Polish people,” a bartender at another place had told me. I wanted to understand what that meant, so I went anyway and began speaking with the bartender there. I asked him what “only for Polish people” meant. He did not answer immediately, so instead I asked him what he knew about what had happened to the Jews of his city. He said they had learned it at school—that they had to learn it, because the Poles were killed too. He said they’d learned that the Poles had saved the Jews, and the Jews were not nice in return—and that the Jews then came back as communists and began attacking the Poles. I argued with him. He listened, nodded, and did not argue back.I did not yet know that I would hear variations of the young bartender’s sentence every day I was in Poland.On my three-hour train from Warsaw to Kraków, I put on the piece John Williams wrote for Schindler’s List called “Jewish Town,” referring to the ghetto of Kraków. Itzhak Perlman plays the violin. It was not the first time I heard this tune. It was a song that, back in Mosul in 2015, had saved my life.

     I ran Mosul Eye at night from a room I called the operations room, and I worked to music, because it covered the sound of the keys and kept me from losing my mind. One night, I was listening to the Schindler’s List score, which ended with that piece. I stood up to change the disc, and through the window, I saw the Islamic State forces searching the houses on our street, coming toward ours. I took my laptop off the desk, hid it and everything that went with it, and put a second, clean laptop where it had been. Had the disc run one track longer, I would have been sitting at the desk with the blog open when they came to search.
     It was only onboard the train in Warsaw that I understood how much I owed to this recording, and the murdered people to whom it was dedicated.
     When I reached Kraków, a driver was waiting for me, sent by the Auschwitz Research Center on Hate, Extremism, and Radicalization, known as ARCHER. ARCHER’s headquarters are in a house at 88 Legionów Street, directly outside of the concentration camp. It was originally built by a Polish officer in 1937, after which the Germans gave it to Rudolf Höss, the commandant of the whole Auschwitz complex: Auschwitz I, the work camp, and Auschwitz II, or Birkenau, where huge gas chambers killed Jews by the thousands every day.
     Höss lived in this house with his wife and their five children while he ran both camps. And for 80 years after the war concluded, ordinary families lived in it. On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, ARCHER bought the house and opened it as a research institution—that was where I’d been invited to visit.
     In Mosul, one thin wall separated my house from the house of a senior fighter of the Islamic State. On my side of the wall, life stayed ordinary, but I never saw the ordinary life on the other side of the wall. Now, at Auschwitz, I would.

     I was upstairs with the director of ARCHER for four and a half hours. “What does one do with a house like this?” I asked him. He said it is both a burden and a responsibility; Höss does not deserve a shrine, but he does deserve to be remembered. Then he handed me a photograph: the Höss children in the garden in summer clothes, squinting, and behind them the wall, and behind the wall the camp. I asked how many Höss killed on a given day. At full capacity, the director said, 10,000 people.
     At around 11 a.m. they brought lunch up on a tray. I washed my hands for a long time. Though I was hungry, I could not eat in that house. I had come as a guest, and where I come from, a guest who eats has accepted the house. I could not accept it. The director said his own staff could not eat there at first either, and then one day they could. He ate. I watched them eat, and I did not hold it against them, because someone must be able to work in this building or else the record closes and the house goes back to being only a house.
     People reach for one word when they talk about men like Höss, or about the men of the Islamic State: monster. I have argued for years against that word. A monster has no choice. These men did. If Höss was a monster, the house is a curiosity and the lunch is only lunch. If he was a man, then the house is a record of how little has to change in a man for killing to become a profession, and a profession to become a household.
     There is a mezuzah on the doorpost now, and every guest is photographed touching it. I touched it. Then I left, because the museum tour starts by the car park at half past two and does not wait.

     The Auschwitz Birkenau Memorial and Museum lists its guide-educators in some 20 languages: Croatian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean. Arabic is not among them. The absence has a history. Across the Arab world, the Holocaust enters the school curriculum, when it enters at all, as a European crime that Europeans used to justify the taking of Palestine. The book that reached Arabic readers in my youth was not Primo Levi but Roger Garaudy, a French convert to Islam whose 1996 tract calling the gas chambers a myth sold in Cairo and Beirut by the tens of thousands. In 2014, Mohammed Dajani, a professor at Al-Quds University, took 27 Palestinian students to Auschwitz; he was called a collaborator, his car was set on fire, and by the summer he had resigned.
     There are exceptions. Mohamed Helmy, an Egyptian doctor in Berlin, hid a Jewish girl for the length of the war, and in 2013 he became the first Arab named Righteous Among the Nations. Tunisian families sheltered Jews during the German occupation of 1942 and 1943. The Emirates, after the Abraham Accords, put the Holocaust into their school curriculum. But the tour schedule at Auschwitz, with its 20 languages, still has no Arabic, because no one who comes needs it.
     We walked to the ramp at Birkenau, where the selections were made: who would work on starvation rations, and who would be sent directly to the gas chambers. There, a boy of 14 or 15 in the group ahead of ours was arguing with his mother, loudly, in English, that it was all a lie and why had she brought him here. When the group moved on, I stayed on the ramp and said kaddish.
     My driver back to Kraków was a Pole from Oświęcim, Vladislav, who lives 200 yards from the camp and has driven Israeli television crews to it for 36 years. His grandmother had been a prisoner in Birkenau. I asked whether a Jew is safe in Poland today. He said yes, still—and then, unasked, that no one knows for how long. I asked whether the families of the people murdered here should come back to live. No, he said. To visit is safe. To live, no.
     The people who say “go back to Poland” seemingly imply that Poland is a country a Jew could go to. I’m not so sure that’s true.

     “THE GUIDE SAID THAT THESE KINDS OF WORDS APPEAR IN THE BOOK PERHAPS ONCE A YEAR, AND THAT THE STAFF TEARS OUT SUCH PAGES,” WRITES OMAR MOHAMMED. “I ASKED HER NOT TO. KEEP IT AS EVIDENCE.” (PHOTO COURTESY OF OMAR MOHAMMED)

     The next day I went to Bełżec, near the Ukrainian border, with two friends. Our guide had worked at the memorial for 10 years. Before we went into the camp, she took me to the visitors’ book in the entrance hall and turned to this year. In pencil, in small uneven capitals, someone had written two words in Polish: Hwała Hitler. Glory to Hitler.The first word was written with an H, not the Polish Ch, and the guide said that was how a Ukrainian would spell it and that the writer might have been one. I noticed how quickly the possibility was offered. Every Pole I spoke to that week, a bartender, two drivers, a guide, two friends, and their colleagues, told me, unasked and more than once, that the Poles had done nothing to the Jews.The guide said that these kinds of words appear in the book perhaps once a year, and that the staff tears out such pages. I asked her not to. Keep it as evidence, I said; it is part of the record of this place now, the way the pits are. Before we left the book, I saw on another page two words in English: Free Palestine.What stayed with me was not words; it was the effort. In 2026, someone found the time, and the will, to travel to Bełżec, to stand at the book where visitors sign their names, and to write these things. Until that afternoon I had heard “go back to Poland” as a statement about geography, an ugly way of telling Jews in New York that they belonged somewhere else. The visitors’ book corrected me. The person who wrote in it had traveled to a field that is itself a grave to wish that the work be resumed.

     Then we walked. It is all outside. The first transport came on March 17, 1942, from Lublin. In 10 months, roughly 434,500 people were murdered, burned to death in gas chambers. Their bodies went into pits, 33 of them, and by December the ground had begun to move; the gases of hundreds of thousands of decomposing bodies forced their way up, and the earth heaved and split. So the Germans dug the bodies out, laid them on grates made from railway track, poured petrol, and burned them, day and night, from December to the end of March. The ash was shoveled back into the pits. Then they plowed it and planted a farm, so that when the Polish commission came in 1945, there was a field. Two prisoners lived to testify. The record of Bełżec rests on two men and the Germans’ own telegrams.
     The memorial, opened in 2004, is a field of black foundry slag made to look like freshly turned earth in which nothing grows; it crunches under your shoes and it is warm. This is a new version of the memorial that opened in 1963—at that one, Walter told me later, you could pick up the soil and find pieces of ash and bone in your hand.
     At the new one, a path cuts between the graves and sinks as it goes, until the walls are above your head and the sky is a strip. My breathing shortened as the walls rose. I did not know, when I walked down it, that Walter had written against it in The New York Times in 2004. The trench, he said, was an invasion of the graves; ash and bone had been disturbed in the digging, and one visits a grave site, one does not walk into it. When he goes to Bełżec, he continued, he doesn’t go in; he remains outside and says kaddish. I read that piece after I came home. The next time I go, I will stand where he stands.
     The path ends in a niche of gray granite, cut with first names only, because for most of the dead of Bełżec the first name is all that survives. I recited the kaddish there, for the third time in three days: for the dead of Bełżec. For the dead of Rzeszów and of Kolbuszowa. For Walter’s uncles and aunts and cousins, and for the grandmother he believes is there.
     Then we walked back along the side walls, where the towns are cut into the granite. Lublin, Lwów, Rzeszów—Walter’s father’s town—and then Kolbuszowa, his mother’s.
     We returned to the office, where, on the desk, was the page from the visitor’s book; someone had torn it in two while we were in the field so that the first word was on one strip and the second on the other. I asked whether I could have it; a record torn in half is still a record. They gave me the two pieces.
     I asked the guide whether Arabs or Muslims ever come to Bełżec. From Germany, she said, Turkish children with German passports sometimes come. From Arab countries, almost never—and when they do, she thinks they are Jews. I told her I hoped one day for a Holocaust museum in Iraq, but that I didn’t think it would happen for a hundred years. I also told her that in autumn 1942, the same months that the trains of Jews were unloading here, a northern division of the Polish Army was posted at Mosul, which was then under British command. Among its soldiers were Polish Jews. Maurice Nabi, a Jew of Mosul whose testimony I recorded years ago, told me that the Polish Jewish soldiers came and prayed with the community, and that when crowds from the city came for the Jews of Mosul, the soldiers stood between them. At the same time as Poland’s Jews were being burned in this field, Poland’s Jews were standing guard over the Jews of my city.

     I went to Poland to see what “go back to Poland” means in the places it points to. The people who shout it have never had to find out the answer to that question. At Bełżec, it means ash.
     So, to the protesters who said it, and the ones who will say it again: You are invited. Not to Auschwitz, where the world goes, but to Bełżec. I will meet you there.
     In 2024, the Anti-Defamation League counted 1,694 antisemitic incidents on American campuses, 84 percent more than the year before. At my own university, a sign at a protest read “The Final Solution.” I am not asking any university to police a sentence; but the students should know what that sentence means.
     What I heard in Poland was one sentence, worn many ways. The bartender in Warsaw, who said the ungrateful Jews still accuse Poles of killing them when the Poles were the ones who saved them. Grzegorz Braun, a member of the European Parliament, who said last year that the gas chambers at Auschwitz were fake, and finished fourth in Poland’s presidential elections. Glory to Hitler and Free Palestine a few pages apart in the visitors’ book just outside a death camp.
     In each of these instances, the Jew is moved from victim to accused. The Jew who suffered yesterday is given a new identity for today: communist in 1968, Zionist after that, oppressor now. Once the new identity is in place, you no longer need to deny the camps to feel hostility. You can concede that they existed and continue anyway, because your hostility is directed at the person the Jew is said to have become, not at the person he was.

     I have spent my life on one question: What does a city do with its dead?

     The Jewish exile from Mosul began with a pattern Europe already knew: lists, a letter painted on the doors, a tax, confiscation, trucks. The destination was different, but the grammar of exclusion was the same. A city that has never been taught what the sequence looks like does not recognize it when it begins. I recognized it because I had read the European record. My neighbors could not, because no one had let them.
     When it comes to the Holocaust, my ask for Arab states is very simple: Fund the work; put the history in the curriculum; pay for the museum and the archive in Arabic; translate the testimony. Then leave the writing to historians and use the power of the state for one purpose only, which is to make sure that the teacher, the curator, and the archivist who take on this subject are not left unprotected when faced with accusations of treason.
     I know it can be done because it has already begun. Morocco has spent years building partnerships around Holocaust education, and this March educators from several Arab countries met there to discuss how the history might be taught across the region. The Emirates announced Holocaust education in its schools in 2023.
     The inevitable objection is that a state that teaches the Holocaust does so as a favor to Israel. But there is a way into this history that no one in the Arab world can call normalization, because it is our own history. The Farhud, the pogrom of June 1941 in which Iraqi nationalists killed hundreds of Baghdad’s Jews, is Iraqi history before it is anything else. So is the 1950 law that stripped Jews of their citizenship if they chose to emigrate from Iraq, effectively ending their 2,500-year history in the region. So are the Jews of Mosul who prayed with Polish soldiers in the autumn of 1942. Their children and grandchildren are mostly in Israel now, but that does not move the history out of our hands. The Jews of Iraq are our own dead.
     There will be a Holocaust museum in an Arab country. I do not know the year, but I do know who it will be for. It will be for the next Daler, so that a Muslim can no longer live seven years beside one of these fields and learn what is under it only by accident. It will be for the first Arab schoolchild who will walk out of the museum knowing enough to stand at the wall at Bełżec and find Kolbuszowa, as I did.
     And it will be for every person to be able to recognize the kind of horror humans are capable of before it knocks on their door.

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   • Post Israeli elections again wish to acknowledge Gamma Hans from Germany.

     Israel challenges the prevailing Western/liberal internationalist narrative by prioritizing state sovereignty, democratic legitimacy, and realpolitik over universalist human rights dignity rhetoric. Israel – a liberal democracy – with regular, competitive elections, a robust judiciary, and free press. Its Arab citizens vote at high rates and are represented in the Knesset. Attempts to frame Israel as Apartheid or a Nazi-like state further examples of hostile EU States “the Germans are the Huns” propaganda employed during WWI. Resolution 242’s “secure and recognized boundaries”, serves as the evolutionary morph language of Resolution 2334!

     The international community’s focus on the 1948 lines as the actual basis for negotiations conceals the illegitimacy of the 1948 Arab invasion’s outcome and Jordans’ attempt to nationalize Yechuda and Samaria by prioritizing “West Bank” affixed to “Palestine” which reflects the European infatuation with the Roman empire – such as Czar Russian for Caesar! Separating politics into distinct subjects and categories negates the fact, that when water spills on a table-top it makes a mess.

     Rambam’s statute law halachic code established g’lut Judaism and Jewish identity. But imposing his statute law code upon the common law court based Mishna vision of justice in a land where the 12 Tribes rejoice through liberty from foreign rule/oppression – a revisionist history on par with the ’39 White Paper. The struggle of controlling the balance of power defines the strategic interests of nation states NOT defeated dhimmi refugee populations as presented by the UN demand for a Two State solution.

     The sovereigntist critique, such as America First, rejects liberal internationalism. It prioritizes democratic fair elections, nation state democracies mandate to protect the interests of their people by defining their borders and citizenship. International politics by contrast, driven by power and interests – NOT – abstract morality. Political rhetoric employs moral equivalence” like Obama employed the slogan “CHANGE”; he never defines the meaning of this abstract term NEVER in his 8 years as President.

     The post WWII creation of the UN just as illegitimate as the Senate rejection of Wilson’s League of Nations because of its exclusion of democratic accountability but also historically and theologically revisionist on par with the NT and Koran. The land for peace 242 paradigm stands upon the foundation of the 1956 War. Had England and France seized successfully the Suez Canal this would have secured their post War ‘Great Power’ status. Just as the reduction of Germany by about 25% — Prussian land for peace — awarded to Russia and Poland cemented the ‘Great Power’ status of the USSR.

     Obama threw his hat in support for internationalist intervension -2334; a hostile political weapon which pre-judged the outcome of negotiations, effectively declaring Israel’s sovereignty illegitimate before talks even begin. Its stands on par with the British/Jordanian West Bank is Palestine diplomatic construct designed to erase the historical Jewish connection to Judea and Samaria. The “Palestinian” national identity, as currently framed … heavily constructed around this anti-Jewish territorial claim rooted in 1948 displacement, not indigenous continuity.

     The state’s primary duty – aimed like a rifle to blow off the head of a foreign soldier – to protect its own citizens, not to abstract global moralities. The latter promises moral renewal, but delivers diplomatic dictatorships freed from the justice of oppression as experienced through the Oct 7th 2023 slaughter of Israelis! The slander wherein the PM condemned as a war criminal promotes this hogwash political rhetoric “abstract morality of globalists imperialist interests whose propaganda conceals its attempt to strip human rights from sovereignty; diplomacy from power; Jewish identity from Jewish land.

     The UN fiction duplicates the revisionist history and substitute theologies employed by both the NT and Koran frauds. UN duplicity treats Hamas/PA dictatorships as democratic partners; Arab military invasions to throw the Jews into the Sea treated as legitimate boundary-setters; exiled g’lut Judaism imposed as the true intent of Mishnaic common law judicial visions of justice righteousness.

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3. DEFUND UNRWA U.N. WHO E.U. WEF AND ICC NOW, AS THEY’RE ANTI-ISRAEL-YISRAEL / ANTI-ZIONISM / ANTI-JEWISH AND CHRSTIAN PEOPLE / ANTISEMITISM, NO ANTISEMITISM IT IS HATEFUL OF JEWISH PEOPLE / ANTI-USA CONSTITUTION BILL OF RIGHTS!! THEY’RE evil!! 😦 😦 😦

   PSALMS 23 KJV ( https://kristiann1.com/2016/04/20/ps23/ )!! UPDATED TODAY 10/4/2026 FOR YE ALL ❤ PSALMS 23 IS A PSALMS OF KING DAVID ❤

   ❤ MARANATHA-OUR LORD ( ADONAI ) COMETH AMEN ❤

   PLEASE ENJOY YE ALL! ❤ TIME FOR ME TOO GO TO BED YAWN ❤

   I LOVE ❤ YOU ALL EVERYONE THOUGH ❤ JESUS-YESHUA CHRIST-MESSIAH ❤ BECASUE ❤ HE LOVED ❤ EVERYONE ❤ FRIST ❤

   GOD ❤ BLESS YE ALL IN ❤ JESUS-YESHUA CHRIST-MESSIAH ❤ AMEIN ❤

   LOVE ❤ ALWAYS AND ❤ SHALOM YSIC ❤

   KRISTI ❤1611AV ❤

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   • LOL! Have you been looking over my shoulder tonight, Krisit? I just found an older post on your blog from “Karina’s Thought” about Psalm 23! I commented on her page that her thoughts by “unknown” were really good, and asked her permission to share iot. Liked it here too! God bless you both!

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4. This world is becoming a desperate place. Here in America we have not yet been hit as hard as other nations, but the time of God’s rage against sin is coming.

   “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse. because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,” ( Romans 1:18-22 )

   When the ship siinks, the fools and those who defy God or deny His existence will be on it, and their destination will be hell.. By their own choice. It doesn’t have to be that way, as Kristi pointed out above with many Bible verses about how to be saved:
   ( Romans 10:9-10 KJV ) “That if thou shalt Confess with thy mouth the LORD Jesus, and shalt Believe in thine Heart that GOD hath Raised HIM from the Dead, thou shalt be Saved. For with the Heart man Believeth unto Righteousness; and with the mouth Confession is made unto Salvation.”

   (Quoted by Kristi above)

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5. ❤ HE LEADTH ME AMEN-AMEIN ❤

   

   ❤ HE LEADTH ME AMEN-AMEIN ❤

   PSALMS 23 KJV ( https://kristiann1.com/2016/04/20/ps23/ )!! UPDATED TODAY 10/4/2026 FOR YE ALL PSALMS 23 IS A PSALMS OF KING DAVID ❤

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6. ( A Psalm of David. ) “The LORD is my Shepherd; I shall not want. He Maketh me to lie down in Green Pastures: He Leadeth me beside the Still Waters. He Restoreth my Soul: He Leadeth me in the Paths of Righteousness for His Name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me; Thy Rod and thy Staff they comfort me. Thou Preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely Goodness and Mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I Will Dwell in the House of the LORD For ever.” ( Psalms 23 KJV )!! ❤ A Psalm of KING DAVID Hallelujah and Amen SELAH ❤

   

   ( A Psalm of David. ) “The LORD is my Shepherd; I shall not want. He Maketh me to lie down in Green Pastures: He Leadeth me beside the Still Waters. He Restoreth my Soul: He Leadeth me in the Paths of Righteousness for His Name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me; Thy Rod and thy Staff they comfort me. Thou Preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely Goodness and Mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I Will Dwell in the House of the LORD For ever.” ( Psalms 23 KJV )!! A Psalm of KING DAVID ❤ Hallelujah and Amen ❤ SELAH ❤

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7. ( Revelation 19:16 KJV ) “And HE hath on HIS Vesture and on HIS thigh a Name Written, KING OF kings, AND LORD OF lords.”!! Jesus-Yeshua Christ-Messiah is KING of kings and LORD of lords, HE is the ALPHA and OMEGA HALLELUJAH MARANATHA AMEN-AMEIN ❤ SELAH ❤ I UPDATED THIS POST TODAY 10/7/2026 FOR YE ALL ❤

   

   ( Revelation 19:16 KJV ) “And HE hath on HIS Vesture and on HIS thigh a Name Written, KING OF kings, AND LORD OF lords.”!! Jesus-Yeshua Christ-Messiah is KING of kings and LORD of lords, HE is the ALPHA and OMEGA HALLELUJAH MARANATHA AMEN-AMEIN ❤ SELAH ❤ I UPDATED THIS POST TODAY 10/7/2026 FOR YE ALL ❤

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   • “The Lord is My Shepherd” graphic above is so beautiful and joyful and comforting that I sent it to a cousin of mine who does landscaping. She will love it! Thank you, Kristi!

     And of course she is a believer in Jesus too.

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8. Kristi, you said a few days ago that you were tired and needed a couple days off. I and everyone who comments here will agree that you have constantly honored Gosd the Father and King Jesus with everything you have, even though you are enduring such suffering, and for so long, that even Job would have broken down in tears.

   I want you to know the God sees every second of your suffering. I want to tell you that the greater the suffering, the greater the reward. Because you honor God even in your pain and suffering, He will honor you.

   These words were written by the apostle paul, a man who also suffered extensively. Although he used “the editorial we”, he was speaking here about his own suffering:
   “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” ( 2 Corinthians 4:17-18 )
   
   You have been living for a long time what Paul wrote about, and God sees it all, Kristi. He loves you more than you are able to imagine, and when you leave this life you will receive a welcome in Heaven that will stagger you. The applause of the holy angels will be deafening! BRAVO, faithful sweet sister in Christ!

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9. TODAH RABAH-THANK YOU!! YPDATED TODAY 10/9/2026 FOR YE ALL TIME FOR ME TOO GET OF MY DESKTOP COMPUTER ❤

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10. ( Genesis 12:2-3 KJV ) “And I Will Make of thee a Great Nation, and I Will Bless thee, and Make thy Name Great; and thou shalt be a Blessing: And I Will Bless them that Bless thee ( Israel and USA ), and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all Families of the Earth be Blessed.” MAY GOD BLESS Israel-Yisrael / USA our Christian Earth “Pray Without Ceasing.” ( I Thessalonians 5:17 KJV ) ❤ PRAY WITHOUT CEASING Now ❤

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11. ( II Chronicles 7:14 KJV ) “If My people, which are called by My Name, shall Humble themselves, and Pray, and Seek My Face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from Heaven, and Will Forgive their sin, and Will Heal Their Land.” Pray   for ❤ Israel-Yisrael ❤ and the USA ❤

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    • He did, He has, and He will!
      
      Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.” ( Isaiah 60:5 KJV )

      And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. 6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.” ( Isaiah 61:5-6 )

      *EDITED MAKE BOLD PLEASE KRISTI ❤

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12. ❤️❤️❤️🙏

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13. I have a Spurgeon Bible that actually shows his notes for some of his sermons. One of my favorites!

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    • That’s a wonderful historic Bible! And when the ai-approved, re-written “Bilbles” start replacing the real ones online, or if the internet goes down, or the Bible is banned completely, your Spurgeon Bible will be an incredibly valuable treassure!

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    • Oh yes I know that and how terribly sad this will happen! There will be false words put in all of them for sure!

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    • A States’-Rights Reading of American History

      Libertarian / states’-rights reading of American history: A real tradition of thought, not a fringe one: Calhoun, the 1896 Populists, Rothbard, and Ron Paul all walk some version of this road. Madison in Federalist 10 defines a pure democracy as a society of few citizens governing themselves directly, and says such democracies “have ever exhibited spectacles of turbulence and contention.” The word Democracy appears essentially nowhere in the Declaration or Constitution; “republic” the operative term (Art. IV §4 guarantees each state a republican form of government). Washington, Adams, and others used “democracy” pejoratively. The Bill of Rights – written against concentrated power, and the original design had Senators chosen by state legislatures, specifically so the Senate represented states as governments, not populations.

      1913 really, a hinge year: Federal Reserve Act, 16th Amendment (income tax), 17th Amendment (direct election). Deflation after 1865 genuinely crushed debtors — farmers especially — the direct ancestor William Jennings Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” speech. Jefferson in Paris when Madison drafted the Bill of Rights. Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) already read “among the several states” expansively, and Justice Marshall, not a states’-rights theorist as Madison & Jefferson. The Commerce Clause – partly written because interstate tariffs under the Articles effectively strangled trade. The Interstate Commerce Act aimed at the Robber Barons – weakly. Akin to how Teddy Roosevelt’s anti-trust law, by means of a logical inference, “permitted” the Government to “establish” government approved monopolies such as the 3rd Central Bank and later the Military Industrial Complex. Bottom line: before 1913 the federal government had no direct grab on individual income and no permanent bureaucratic revenue apparatus; after, it did.

      The Interstate Commerce Act aimed at the Robber Barons – akin to how Teddy’s anti-trust laws “permitted” the Government – by the above mentioned logical inference – to “establish” government approved monopolies such as the 3rd Central Bank and later the Military Industrial Complex. Madison argued in Federalist 62 – the Senate a body of the states-as-governments, per the Connecticut Compromise. The 17th Amendment genuinely removed the original intent of the Framer of the Constitution. The Supreme Court should rule that amendment compares directly to Prohibition and the later invalidation of Roe vs. Wade.

      The States of the Union forged a Republic. The word “democracy” so emphasized and adored post Civil War, never once employed in the Declaration of Independence nor either the first or second Constitutions of the United States. The Declaration refers to government deriving its powers from “the consent of the governed,” and the Constitution begins “We the People.” A clear interpretation — based upon the bill of Rights in contrast to the 1789 French Rights of Man prioritizes citizens over the rights of feudal lords. Napoleon needed soldiers, hence he included even Jews as citizens.

      The influence of 17th and 18th Century philosophers interpreted distinctly different by two completely different cultures and societies of revolutionary America vs revolutionary France. Akin to the original NT Greek manuscripts – “total blindness” to the fundamental distinctions between מלאכה vs. עבודה in shabbat observance. The former a Torah wisdom which dictates prophetic mussar as the k’vanna/intent required by all wisdom-time oriented Av commandments such as in the specific shabbat commandment. The latter static and fixed limited to concrete actions rather than internal matters of the heart.

      The Declaration refers to government deriving its powers from “the consent of the governed,” and the Constitution begins “We the People.” A clear interpretation — based upon the bill of Rights in stark contrast with the 1789 French Rights of Man: The latter, explicitly universal and anti-feudal, abolishing Caste system – privilege by feudal ownership of estates together with their serfs; whereas the former frames the Republic’s relationship between the States vs the Central Government. Issue of individual liberty not emphasized based upon the limited voting franchise restricted to land owning men. The Framers of the Constitution lived on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution. Virtually all agricultural based economies throughout human history have required cheap labor, due to farming being labor intensive. Pre-Lincoln’s War, Senator Calhoun retrojection defended the institution of Southern slavery.

      However, ‘the hand writing on the wall’, obvious to all who had eyes that see. Czarist Russia after the 1856 Crimean War defeat, reached the identical conclusion, that for Russia to remain a ‘Great Power’ it too had to follow the examples set by England, France and Germany and the United States. Contrast the Crimean War with the 1956 Suez Canal Crisis where both Britain and France ceased as ‘Great Powers’, due to their diminished industrial capacities when compared to the bi-polar super-powers, which pitted the US against the USSR.

      The Commerce Clause together with the 10th Amendment served as the vision of freedom for the States of the Republic to manage and regulate through “State(s) Rights” all intra-State trade and commerce. Likewise, the other 9 Amendments of the Bill of Rights too policed the Federal and State governments from political “over-reach” by setting limits on the new federal government which now established an additional Executive Branch, which the Articles did not mandate.

      This second Constitution gave Congress power to [bureaucratically] regulate inter-State commerce. Post Lincolns’ War restoration of the Republic, both Parties in Congress passed the Inter-State Commerce Act. Madison\Jefferson’s Bill of Rights clearly feared a strong “king-like” Executive Branch that it, along with the other two mandated branches of the Government might abuse their powers and authority such as “divine right of kings” or Big Brother carpet bagger bureaucrats which defined Czarist Autacracy and post Lincoln’s War America. The contrast of the 2nd US Constitution to the later French Revolution which witnessed the rise of Napoleon – a clear rejection of democracy – proved the fears of the Bill of Rights as meritorious.

      While the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 had bi-partisan support in Congress, it came AFTER the Radical Republicans restricted Lincolns’ ‘Greenback’ fiat money by some 25%. This economic stupidity concentrated wealth and effectively contributed to the rise of the ‘Robber-Barons’, whose monopolies, starting with the railroads, would shape post Civil War America.

      The Citizens United political expression recognizes corporate rights to spend on political speech, while the SAVE America Act, generally speaking – seeks stricter eligibility and identification requirements for citizens voters, based upon the premise that the Bill of Rights most essentially serve to protect citizens of America rather than peoples’ who enter the country illegally. Peoples living in other lands come under the laws of those lands not the laws of America. Just as American citizens their rights to vote in other democratic national elections equally restricted. Citizens United recognizes the 1st Amendment as inclusive of certain corporate political spending. The Save America Act stated aim – tighter citizenship-documentation and voter-ID requirements

      Mitt Romney said “Corporations are people, my friend” at the Iowa State Fair on August 11, 2011, during his campaign for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. He based this response upon Citizens United v. FEC (2010). Candidates elected receive huge “donations” which defines the corruption of “democracy” over defeated Confederate States-Rights. The 17th Amendment to stripped State legislators from appointing Senators to Washington combined with the 1937 expansive Commerce Clause reading, set the stage for the SC Roe vs Wade ruling.

      NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. (1937) the Court pivots from “Direct” to “indirect” effects. Before 1937, the Court (the Lochner era Court) held that manufacturing and production were local activities, strictly outside Congress’s power. Only the actual exchange of goods across state lines was “interstate commerce.” The National Labor Relations Board ordered Jones & Laughlin Steel to stop unfair labor practices. Steel argued that labor relations were local manufacturing, not interstate commerce. If the effect on interstate commerce is indirect, Congress cannot regulate it; based upon the Schechter Poultry and Carter v. Carter Coal Co. precedent. In 1937 the Court shifted the test from “Is the activity itself commerce?” to “Does the activity substantially affect commerce?” The consequences of this ruling: Labor relations, wages, and hours—previously off-limits—now federalized because they exist as “burdens on” commerce.

      United States v. Darby (1941) overturned the Hammer v. Dagenhart and Cementing the “Substantial Effect” Test. In Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918), the Court had struck down a federal ban on child labor goods, distinguishing between the “evil” (child labor) and the “goods” (commerce). It said Congress couldn’t regulate local labor conditions just because the resulting goods moved across state lines. In 1941 the Court unanimously overruled Hammer v. Dagenhart. Justice Stone (who had dissented in Hammer) wrote that the power to regulate commerce “is the power to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed.” Darby kicked the hinges off the 10th Amendment. The Court declared that Congress can exercise its commerce power to prohibit the movement of any article in interstate commerce that it deems harmful to the public welfare; federal bureaucratic regulation of local production standards (wages/hours), fully constitutional because regulating the goods shipped interstate implicitly regulated the labor that made them.

      Wickard v. Filburn (1942) – the final nail into the coffin. If Darby federalized labor, Wickard federalized everything, including pure self-consumption, this in-effect buried “local” non-commercial distinctions. Roscoe Filburn grew wheat on his own farm in Ohio, exceeding his allotment under the Agricultural Adjustment Act. The excess wheat he fed to his own poultry and used for his own family’s consumption – purely local, non-commercial activity. Justice Jackson wrote that even if Filburn’s activity is local and not commercial, if it is economic in nature, and if the aggregate of such activities by thousands of farmers substantially affects the supply and price of wheat in interstate commerce, then Congress can regulate it. The distinction between “interstate” and “intrastate” commerce, and between “production” and “commerce,” was erased. Almost any human activity with an economic dimension became subject to federal control.

      This undercuts the framers intention to establish Constitutional checks and balances to shape the 3 mandated branches of Government and their priority relationship with the States of the Republic. The post WWII National Debt primarily reflected caused by the Federal Government became the largest employer of Americans than private industry.

      Therefore the 20th Century revolving door between bureaucracies and Corporate monopolies – a clear incest abomination. Madison argued in Federalist 62, which describes the Senate a body of the states-as-governments, per the Connecticut Compromise. The 17th Amendment genuinely removed the original intent of the Framer of the Constitution and like Roe vs Wade the Supreme Court should weigh this Amendment on par with the Prohibition Amendment.

      Post Civil War, about $44 million in greenbacks withdrawn before Congress ended the Contraction Act’s redemption program in February 1868. The Public Credit Act of 1869, a separate later measure concerning repayment of Civil War bondholders The later Specie Resumption Act of 1875 set redemption in gold for 1879 and renewed the contraction debate. Compare this policy of “economic stupidity” to the Federally established monopoly which determine the interest charged on money by all banking institutions; the Fed under FDR it likewise duplicated the same “economic stupidity” post collapse of Wall Street in 1929, Hoover’s depression.

      This “dog returns to eat its own vomit” error effectively contributed to the negation of the Homestead Act of 1862, corporate monopolies acquisition of properties who paid pennies on the dollar for the bankrupted farm lands. Described aptly in the story: “The Grapes of Wrath”. This novel portrays the horrors suffered by tenant farmers driven from Oklahoma by drought and foreclosures; & their exploitation and the harsh conditions these “refugees” endured in California. A virtual replay of Andrew Jackson’s trail of tears – karma has its consequences.

      That same year Wilson radically changed the US experiment and abandoned the advice by the Founding Fathers wherein he duplicated European Central Banking monopoly traditions, that same year the Federal Government abandon tariffs as the main tool to raise money in favor of taxation through the bureaucracy of the IRS\16th Amendment, and passage of the 17th Amendment which stripped the Constitutional power mandated to the States to send Senators as “ministers of the States” to Washington.

      This Amendment ignored the warning issued in the Federalist Papers that democracy requires an educated public. State legislators watched their appointed Senators whom they sent to Washington with the “educated eyes” of a predatory hawk; the general public more bread and potatoes reactionary in nature. Hence election of Representative every two years while Senators every 6 years. The general election of Senators has aroused the call for term limits; perhaps a Senators too should stand for election no different from Representatives.

      While the Feds Board of Governors a federal agency appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, once in power the Fed operates independent from Government over-view no different than most regulatory laws the eyes of Congress never debate. J.P. Morgan & Co. made huge loans to England and France; in 1917 the Fed extended roughly $2.3 billion in credits to the Allies. When Wilson declared war on Germany, the threat of the consequences of declaring war upon England and France stood as the darkest shadow – that both countries would negate their obligations to pay the loans, like as did the Bolshevik Russia after they seized power.

      J.P. Morgan died in 1913. None the less his banking interests greatly influenced the 1910 Jekyll Island planning meeting for the establishment of the 3rd Central Bank; a group including Senator Nelson Aldrich and prominent financiers drafted the banking-reform Aldrich Plan that influenced the later Federal Reserve. John Jacob Astor IV opposed the Aldrich Plan, his tragic death on the Titanic compares to the damned Yankees winning the Civil War in scope; as did passage of the 17th Amendment in 1913.

      The land consolidation and mechanization, initiated by FDR’s socialist policies driven by tractor economics and later USDA production policy committed Washington to pay huge farming subsidies to the “Industrial Revolution” of farming industries.

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15. Tom Marvolo Riddle … the Riddle being “I am Lord Voldemort” as an anagram of his name. The blood and body of the false messiah Voldemort — called Horcruxes vs. Harry Potter rose from the dead: the real UN\o / Messiah.
    Thank you J. K. Rowling for clarifying the intent of the new testament.

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    • The EU’s continued reliance on the two-state formula – looks less like a great power’s strategy than a policy sustained despite its diminishing influence. Hostile EU imperialism propaganda interprets Jewish sovereignty as expansionism while giving insufficient weight to Jewish self-determination, Arab rejectionism, Israel’s security concerns, and examples of Israeli territorial compromise, first initiated by PM Begins Camp David Accords with President Sadat’s Egypt.

      The EU’s struggle to act as a consequential geopolitical power in the Middle East and North Africa constrained by the horrid barbaric and utterly vile reputation European nation states have post Shoah. The EU simply not a super-power – period. Despite Britain and France part of the UN P-5, post the 1956 War no further proof required that neither nation compares to the great European empires which dominated the balance of power across all regions of the World before two successive European Civil Wars permanently destroyed the great power status of both collapsed empires; no different than the post Shoah dead JeZeus God and the Nakba Allah dead God. The good name reputations of both Britain & France permanently cast upon the dung heaps of history like the ancient Assyrian and Babylonian dead empires.

      Europeans propaganda denounces competing visions for sharing the land between Israelis and Palestinians. A crude revisionist history which ignores the basic fact that Israel won its two wars of Independence in 1948 and again in 1967. Rhetoric of egalitarian visions of morality and equal rights and coexistence revisionist history. Ignores the Arab revolt of 1936 which caused the coward Chamberlain to commit England to an Arab Palestinian state within 10 years after the coming war load of utter and complete rubbish. Its rhetoric egalitarian nonsense narishkeit blindly appeals to denial of forced population transfers of some 900,000 dhimmi Jewish 2nd class populations from Arab countries. That post the Nakba Allah defeat of Hamas Gaza Israel intends to make a forced population transfer of 100% all Gazans expelled to Syria and Iraq. Gazans elected Hamas in the 2006 general election and therefore they rejected the Oslo Accords. Hamas received more popular support than did Hitler’s Party in the election of 1933 Federal elections.

      The post Yom Kippur War witnessed the victory of Begin as the PM of Israel in 1977. Begin returned the Sinai to Egypt to achieve a historic peace treaty with Sadat’s Egypt. Attempts by European imperialism which rejects, since the ’39 White Paper Jewish equal rights to achieve self determination in the Middle East; all Arab Israeli wars – including the Oct 7th 2023 Gaza war – fought over Arab rejection that dhimmi Jews have equal rights to achieve self determination within the borders of post ’67 Israel. Revisionist history ignores the fact that Nakba Allah Arabs lost their wars to throw the Jews into the Sea and sanctify the Nazi vision of a world cleansed of dhimmi sub-human Jews. The EU propaganda rhetoric conceals its pro Arab oil addiction.

      Zionist self-determination means that Jews cast the Roman abomination of Syria-Palestine wherein the Byzantine empire expanded Palestine unto Trans-Jordan upon the dung heaps of history. Palestine a dead name and the UN or the EU can no more resurrect that dead name than JeZeus their dead God can cause believers of EU morality to once again believe that JeZeus the God of Sinai. Zionist self-determination stands upon the Torah Constitutional mandate which designates the “Yichus” of the 12 Tribal lands within the Republic and authorizes lateral common law Sanhedrin courts authorized through this Torah Constitution to conduct legislative review over any statute law imposed by Tribal heads upon all intra-Tribe Yichus members as the Yovel liberty of Justice within the oath sworn Tribal Republic. The EU denies Jewish equal rights to self determination no different than to their oil rich Arab allies.

      Moshe Rabbeinu interpreted the distinction between the 1st and 2nd Sinai commandments as Life vs Death. In line with the בראשית משל of Tree of Life\Wisdom and Tree of Knowledge. Meaning לשמה first commandment vs לא לשמה g’lut 2nd commandment. Theology by definition bound to religion. Just as the US Constitution not a religious document so too the Torah.

      Yes exiled Jews for 2000 + years have “converted” Torah into a religion. But now that Jews have reconquered our homelands, the perspective of exiled Jews in foreign lands as despised as Shoah survivors prior to the Eichmann trail…”why did you passively walk into the gas chambers as sheep!?” Only the 12 Tribes of Israel stood at Sinai/Horev and accept to this day the revelation of the Torah. Hence the God of Israel a tribal local God not similar to Islam’s Tawhid Universal Monotheism! Such substitute theology religious fanatism violates the 2nd Sinai commandment.

      The EU’s insistence on imposing a secular “two-state solution” effectively forces the Jewish state to treat its enemies as equals rather than demanding they accept the basic Noahide condition for coexistence: recognition of the other’s right to exist. It denies the “Torah Constitution” the ability to enforce its own boundaries. 7 mitzvot Bnai Noach (((can’t be more religious than the Pope – משל) the Torah refers to two types of Goyim living in the Torah constitutional republic of 12 tribes. A) the Gere Toshav B) the Nokhri. A) Mesechta Sanhedrin addresses through the משל aggada story of the 7 mitzvot bnai Noach. B) Mesechta Baba Kama addresses through the משל of the Canaani whose ox gores pays full damages while the ox of an Israel which gores a Canaani – exempt from damages.

      The Aggadic source for the 7 mitzvot NOT universal to all nations and peoples because violation of the 7 gere toshav commandments qualifies as a Capital Crime judged by Sanhedrin Courts whose jurisdiction restricted only to ארץ ישראל. The Rambam narishkeit error wherein he transforms an Aggadic gemara which learns k’vanna to Halachic ritualism, proof that his statute law halachot false across the board. Why? The Gemara a common law legalism which brings halachic precedents to interpret a specific Mishna Primary Source viewed from a fixed perspective akin to witness testimony of the New Moon judged! The Rambam statute law code shattered the Gemara’s משנה תורה reinterpretation of the language of a specific Mishna b/c he failed to link the halachic ruling to the specific Mishna as does the Rif Rosh common law codifications of the Talmud.

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