Trump’s epic surrender; Netanyahu’s associate allowed to leave US after arrest
US President Donald Trump is facing more scrutiny for two key developments this week. In the first development, the US State Department suspended the visa scheme that allowed children from Gaza to come to the US for medical treatment after one of Trump supporters raised objections. In another incident, a man working as a top cybersecurity department under Benjamin Netanyahu’s office was allowed to leave the IS after his arrest by the Las Vegas Police. Rifat Jawaid says that both these developments should worry US nationals.
Israeli historian Yuval Harari warns of a ‘spiritual catastrophe’ for Judaism
"What is happening right now in Israel could basically, I think, destroy, void 2000 years of Jewish thinking and culture and existence."
Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari warned that if Israel continues on its present path such a trajectory would bring a “spiritual catastrophe” for Judaism itself. Speaking during a conversation shared on the Unholy Podcast, he said the worst-case scenario could see an ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza and the West Bank, the expulsion of millions of Palestinians, the disintegration of Israeli democracy and the rise of a greater Israel built on Jewish supremacy.
Harari compared the moment to the fall of the Second Temple in 70 CE, calling it one of the most significant turning points in Jewish history. He said the danger is that this new reality would redefine Judaism worldwide, leaving Jews everywhere forced to grapple with an identity rooted in “the worship of power and violence” instead of values developed over two millennia.
It's still not too late for Judaism to denounce Zionism and make clear those are very different. It's not just Judaism either, plenty evangelical priests in the US are cheering on the ethnic cleansing. Mike Huckabee is fully for annexing the Westbank which he openly calls Judea and Samaria.
But he's right, tragically Judaism will have to bear the burden of what Neo-Zionists are and already have turned Israel into.
