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Ron Jager
Ron grew up in the South Bronx of New York, making Aliyah in 1980. Served for 25 years in the IDF as a Mental Health Field Officer in operational units. Prior to retiring was Commander of the Central Psychiatric Clinic for Reserve Solders at Tel-Hashomer. Since retiring has been involved in strategic consultancy to NGO's and communities in the Gaza Envelope on resiliency projects to assist first responders and communities. Ron has written numerous articles for outlets in Israel and abroad focusing on Israel and the Jewish world.
Candice Owens, a symptom of the times
Candice Owens rose to prominence as a Black conservative commentator, a MAGA supporter, and a fierce critic of the Black Lives Matter movement. It was during the 2016 Presidential campaign, when she first gained widespread national attention by embracing conservative values and aligning herself with Donald Trump. Trump’s vocal and non-stop criticism of the progressive legacy media complimented her own personal experiences and first hand exposure to the difficulties faced by black-Americans. Owen’s support for Trump at the time, particularly as a young, intelligent, and articulate Black women yet belonging to a political movement that was accused of inherent racism in the past had made her a unique persona, facilitating her natural ability to build a substantial following among Americans. Owens has millions of followers on various social media outlets, including YouTube, X and Instagram, as well as her own podcast.
At the time, Owen’s enthusiastic and public support for Trump resonated with many of her followers, particularly on issues such as the bias of the legacy media, patriotism, and the inherent racism of the progressive agenda. Owen’s combative style complemented Donald Trump’s own straightforwardness and eagerness to challenge the progressive political establishment that had lost contact with the common sense of much of the American public. Owen’s stand on abortion was especially enlightening. She spoke of the progressive support and availability of elective abortions as a silent genocide against black-Americans. She presented a convincing argument against abortions in general, especially among black women. According to Owen, 40 % of all abortions in the City of New York are among black women; more black babies are aborted than born alive. She further claimed convincingly that since 1973, 18 million abortions were performed on black women nationally and had they not, the population of black Americans would be double today.
Despite her success, Owens has no legitimate education, or expertise in politics, or public policy. She is just a person who says things. Her status is solely built on the oxymoron of a Black woman who is unapologetically against the Black Lives Matter movement. So, despite her meteoric popularity and success, the Hamas massacre on Oct 7th of last year affected Owen’s in a manner that no one could have imagined or anticipated. After the barbaric massacre of 1200 innocent men, women, children, and infants in the communities of southern Israel, Owens came to routinely promote anti-Semitic tropes and spew anti-Semitic rhetoric on her podcast and social media channels to her millions of followers. Her embracement of Jew-hatred and anti-Semitism over the past year, despite the surging level of incitement and violence against Jews on the campuses and streets of America has become counterintuitively a visible marker of the times.
In her remarks, we can get an inside glimpse into today’s anti-Semitic thinking; Owens equates Jews with Marxists who want to “rewrite” history. She claims that the “media” has tried to convince people that Stalin and Lenin were anti-Semitic but were actually “part of the Jewish cabal.” Owens has claimed that Judaism was a “pedophile-centric religion that believes in demons...[and] child sacrifice ...” She added that she is “waking people up to the fact that pedophiles are in power.” Owens has argued that people who questioned information about Kabbalists (presumably Jews) were silenced and labeled insane and insinuated that some were even killed. “They’ve realized the voices that cannot be controlled have to be shut up.” Owens posted a roughly one-minute video to X in which she accused Israel of being behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy and warned that criticizing Israel could result in being killed and added that Israel has “taken over” the U.S. “Do you think it’s normal...that basically, every person who speaks about Israel has to basically say a statement that... ‘you know I don’t want to get killed’?” she ranted in the video, which circulated widely on X. On August 18, Owens held a live broadcast on X titled “The Truth About Zionism”. In the broadcast, she began by presumably talking about Jews, declaring: “There is ...a group of people in this country who can just keep lying on people …trying to ruin people’s lives and there’s just no accountability, because then you just get to flip it and say oh, it’s antisemitism.” She then turned her focus on Israel. “It's the fact that when things happen on our soil and we find out that there is potentially Israeli involvement we are basically hushed up, called crazy.” Owens has also promoted the “blood libel” conspiracy, the false charge that Jews used the blood of Christian children for ritual purposes, which in past centuries led to Jews’ being violently attacked. She claimed that the family of Leo Frank (a Jewish man lynched in 1913 by a mob in Georgia after being wrongfully and falsely accused of murdering a young girl who worked at his factory) believed in pedophilia and incest “as the sacramental rites and they would commit these acts, things that would normally be termed blood libel were actually happening.” In a July 2024 podcast episode, Owens engaged in Holocaust distortion and denial,: “The reason why this particular episode is so detrimental to Zionism is because they have polluted American minds to believe that we must defend Israel out of morality and the evils of the Holocaust.” In July she was criticized for minimizing the Holocaust after calling Mengele’s experiments on Auschwitz prisoners “bizarre propaganda”.
Candice Owens has moved from one conservative outlet to another after leaving or being forced to leave, yet still maintains her fan base. She has a huge social media following, with over 5 million followers on X and Instagram each, and over 2 million followers on YouTube. Much of her anti-Semitic rants are reminiscent of what’s written in “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” (a fabricated text purporting to detail a Jewish plot for global domination”, published in 1903. The “Protocols” are deeply imbedded in the mindset of today’s Jew hating, anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian coalition of white supremacists, progressive-leftist activists, and Muslim-Americans. Candice Owen has joined this blood-thirsty crowd of Jew haters by giving them the platform to espouse ideas that have fueled this past year’s declaration of war on the Jews of America, and is very much a symptom of the times.
Liberating the world from Jews
Over the past year since the October 7th massacre, and for most of the past four years of the Biden Presidency, we have witnessed a spike of Jew hatred and open anti-Semitism on the campuses and streets of America, with pro-Hamas Muslims and Arab-Americans at the vanguard. During this period, many of these Muslims and Arab-Americans have made the leap from harboring anti-Semitic thoughts to physically attacking Jews, desecrating Jewish institutions, and any symbol of the Jewish people or the State of Israel. Over a relatively short time span, these Jew hating mobs have created an atmosphere of fear and intimidation that most Diaspora Jews are conscious of whenever they exit the front door of their homes.
In what was commonly referred to as “the good old days”, we were accustomed to the classical type of anti-Semitism, the “gentlemen’s agreement” type of bigotry and discrimination against Jews; residential restrictions, academic restrictions, cultural restrictions, and employment restrictions. American Jews did not condone it, but overcame it and even thrived. For the past century America was a “safe haven” for American Jews enabling the Jewish community to reach the highest pinnacles in all fields of endeavor. Yet as we move backwards to the future, and as Jews are hunted down and attacked violently in broad daylight on the campuses and streets of America, all you have to do to understand this new phenomenon is listen to the declarative pronouncements made by these mobs of Muslims and Arab-Americans as they viciously attack Jews arbitrarily for no other reason than the fact that they are Jews. They openly express that they want Jews to die, and that they want to annihilate the Jewish community as a whole. They want to “kill the Jews,” perhaps with their own bare hands, and show their actions to the world through social media.
The common thread unifying this desire for the total destruction of Jews is shared by both radicalized pro-Hamas Muslims/Arab-Americans and classical Nazi ideology prior to and during the Holocaust era. This modern alliance between pro-Hamas supporters and the Nazi ideology is only the latest manifestation of a common bond dedicated to “purifying” humanity of any Jewish presence and promoting the total destruction of Jews and the State of Israel.
Underlying this unholy alliance of Jew hatred upheld by modern day radical Muslims and the Nazi ideology now spans a period that began during the 1920’s of the previous century. The Nazi ideology spoke of “redemptive anti-Semitism”, namely a form of anti-Semitism that explains all in the world by offering a form of “redemption” by exterminating and purifying humanity from the Jews. According to this idea, exterminating the Jews will prevent them from corrupting the world any further and will enable people to be redeemed and purified. “Redemptive anti-Semitism” provides a pathway to be liberated from the Jews. It begins with physically attacking Jews, expelling Jews from their homes and communities, and ends with their physical annihilation. The manifestation of “redemptive anti-Semitism” diligently implemented throughout Europe during the Holocaust, has been passed on to pro-Hamas supporters who freely profess their hatred of Jews and the State of Israel.
Islamic religious and political leaders adhere to a parallel concept that divides the world into Dar al-Islam (House of Islam) and Dar al-harb (House of War) as they broadcast daily sermons of incitement to murder Jews, promising heaven and redemption for those that carry out this call to rid the world of Jews. The Dar al-Islam are all those lands in which a Muslim government rules and the Holy Law of Islam prevails. Non-Muslims may live there on Muslim sufferance. The outside world, which has not yet been subjugated to Muslim rule, is called the "House of War," and strictly speaking is in a perpetual state of jihad, of holy war, as imposed by the Sharia law, a canonically obligatory perpetual state of war until the whole world is either converted or subjugated to Islam.
These Islamic doctrines dissociate themselves from the prevailing values, mores, constitutions, laws, and legal regulations of American culture and society. They go one step further and claim that Sharia Law is above all "human made" local rules and regulations and have no true intent to allow for real integration but want to use the freedom of Democratic societies to strengthen their message, that Islam is not and will never be subservient to any other religion or political system. Hamas, the terrorist group that occupies Gaza, is dedicated to the murder of all Jews in Israel – a goal spelled out in its charter: the end to the Jewish state and the creation of an Islamic state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. As stated in its founding document, the Hamas Charter, Hamas is committed to waging Jihad, or holy war, in order “to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine.” Its stated goal is to eliminate the Jewish state and kill Jews. That is precisely what Hamas has set out to do, and has been doing, in its present savage campaign of mass slaughter since Oct 7th.
Social media tweets and comments such as “As long as there is Jewish life in the world, peace is not possible.” have become the new norm and “redemptive anti-Semitism” will continue to radicalize Muslims and Arab-Americans to continue their crusade to free humanity from the Jews. Signs in the campuses and on the streets of America held by supporters of Hamas; “From the River to the Sea” - “Hitler was right” while waving a Palestinian flag – “Do you want to survive America? Kill the Jew snake” - “God hates Jews” – “support humanity not Israel” – “glory to the martyrs” – “let’s wipe out Israel”, are all manifestations of how “redemptive anti-Semitism” has evolved over the past four years and more so since the Oct 7th massacre. Muslim and Arab-American supporters of Hamas no longer differentiate between American Jews and Israel, no longer differentiate between a rapist and his victim, and no longer differentiate between a murderer and those murdered.
Dar al-Islam begins with the Jews only as a first step, the rest of humanity will follow.
Making America Sane Again
With Election Day just around the corner, and as voters have already begun to cast their ballots in the tens of millions, Main St. USA will make their voice heard loud and clear. That voice will resonate everywhere, and the message will be clear to all. We the American people, are sick and tired of the progressive BS (aka bullshit). Over the past four years America has become unrecognizable, all in the name of “equality”, “diversity”, and “inclusion”. These progressive terms are at the heart of the transformation of American society into a race and gender obsessed, pro-genocidal wasteland. The American public and those who will be casting their votes will not only decide who wins the Presidential election, but will vote for the candidate who promises to bring back sanity to the public discourse, common sense values and principles, and end the tyranny of progressive BS. As a result of this pervasive expectation, Donald Trump is going to be the next President and he will end the chaos of the past four years.
Blurring the distinctive differences between right and wrong, good vs evil, truth and falsehoods, law abiding vs criminal, and accountability vs impunity from law enforcement, are only the tip of the iceberg of the progressive agenda. The days of progressive Democrats defending lawlessness all in the name of social justice will soon come to an end. An ever growing majority of Americans are waking up to the realization that this assault by progressive forces has made our lives unbearable; illegal mass immigration, inflation, misguided energy policies, crime and fear on the streets, dysfunctional schools, and the rejection of traditional values have all contributed to the demise of what was once a common future and the idea that we are creating a better world for our children.
The past four years have brought to our doorsteps a progressive reality that only ten years ago would have been considered delusional. Biological men can now compete freely in women's sports as well as use women’s dressing/locker rooms as they wish. Declaring that there are only two biological genders can often make you an outcast, publically ridiculed, and can often get you fired losing one’s means of a secure livelihood. Over the past four years, over 10 million illegal foreign nationals have crossed into the United States with impunity, including criminals, terrorists, and sexual offenders. The ensuing uptick in violent crimes due to illegal foreign nationals has spread like a deadly cancer to all corners of America. The thousand fold increase in violent and hate crimes against American Jews turning the safe haven of America into open season on the Jews. White male Americans are labeled “privileged racist white supremacists”. Black Americans who don’t toe the progressive BS are labeled “Uncle Toms”. Rampant entitlement for all, other than those who are “white”, has become the norm. Anti-discrimination provisions related to “age” and “gender identity” are being legislated into state constitutions, allowing transitioning of children’s gender identity without parental consent nor parental involvement.
It is imperative that we truly understand the monumental and destructive progressive changes that are being forced upon us even in policies that would be considered non-political. A simple examination of progressive energy policies of the past four years would be a good place to start. In recent years, progressive Democratic politicians have drastically cut domestic fossil fuel production, banning gasoline-powered vehicles while shifting to renewable sources from electricity, wind and solar. Yet at the same time, they have ignored that power generation capacity and renewable energy infrastructure are not in place nor provide the capacity to achieve a realistic and sustainable green agenda. The progressive energy policies of the past four years have been based on the childish notion that we can overcome energy shortages when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine. This progressive BS thinking is ultimately unsustainable and will make daily life unbearable, especially due to national weather disasters. What the American public want is a sane long-term solution that includes national strategies for reliable power production, affordable sustainable energy and a strengthened electrical grid.
The progressive energy agenda is doomed to failure. The dramatic inflation in energy costs has been felt in our electricity bills or simply by gassing up at a local gas station, but that’s only the tip of the progressive iceberg. Much of the fertilizer used in the world today is a product of fossil fuel. Lack of fertilizer or a spike in the cost of fertilizer due to the spiraling cost or lack of fossil based energy will affect food production in the United States. If you have been asking yourself why your grocery bill has skyrocketed in recent years, and you can no longer buy your favorite food products, blame the current progressive White House.
The progressive commitment to sustainability and the so-called green energy of recent years has become unsustainable. America will have to undo these decisions and go back to coal-fired plants to keep up with energy demands. Eventually, America will have to decide whether we want to produce food or heat homes due to the scarcity and high cost of electricity , a lose-lose situation and a clear result of progressive energy policies of recent years. The progressive pipedream of climate utopia should be exposed for what it is; ending fossil based energy and replacing it with a far less reliable wind and solar energy market.
Voting for an alternative political understanding of what the American public want and need makes the coming election the most crucial election of our generation. Just to be crystal clear, progressives promote special rights yet deny individual rights; progressives ignore the will of the people by weaponizing the judicial system who empower unelected governmental bureaucrats. Progressives have adopted victimhood as a way of life. Decisions on education, health care and even how we live out our religious beliefs should be an individual choice, not wholly subservient to progressive dictates.
Let your voice be heard, it is imperative that we understand the monumental and destructive changes that are being forced upon us so that we the people, can change the future that progressive politicians are leading us towards and make America sane again. The ultimate question that we must all ask ourselves is; will I be a silent supporter of the progressive BS agenda or will I be reminded of the immortal refrain yelled by anchorman Howard Beale in the 1976 film Network. “I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!” It seems that the film, 48 years on from its release, has just as much to say about the state of America today as it did back then.
”The Curse”, the diversion, and the elimination of Hasan Nasrallah
The justified assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the terror organization Hezbollah will have a dramatic effect on the Middle Eastern region and beyond. The terror organization fully funded and supported by the Iranian regime, has been Iran’s largest proxy organization established to threaten Israel on her northern border and deter Israel from taking military action against Iran that can disrupt her nuclear ambitions. Hezbollah, had a standing armed force of as many as 50,000 fighters, and an arsenal upwards of 150,000 rockets that included short and medium range rockets, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and drones.
Over the past 10 days, Israel has not only eliminated the head of Hezbollah, but also about 90% its senior commanders and closest military advisors to Hassan Nasrallah. According to sources in the foreign media, between 4000 to 5000 of Hezbollah’s mid-level commanders, who were in charge of operating the large arsenal of weapon systems threatening Israel, were injured or killed in the coordinated detonation of Hezbollah's communication devices referred to as the “beeper attack”.
Since the October 7th attack by Hamas on Israel’s southern communities by Hamas from the Gaza Strip, also a proxy terror organization funded by Iran; Hezbollah has attacked the communities of northern Israel by firing tens of thousands of missiles on civilian towns and villages forcing the evacuations of upwards of 60,000 northern residents to temporary housing in hotels and other safe locations throughout Israel. With all this in mind, it seemed somewhat surprising that the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced that Netanyahu would be flying out to the United Nations general assembly to speak before world leaders. Many in Israel felt that the timing of his trip made no sense considering the hourly rocket attacks on northern Israel and the immediate danger of these attacks potentially leading to a regional war.
On Friday September 27th at 16:45 local Israeli time just before Shabbat, most Israeli’s were glued to their TV screens to listen to Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. During the broadcast, it became clear to most, that this was not one of Netanyahu’s best speeches, in many instances repeating previous statements concerning the danger of Iran to Israel, the Middle East, and to the world. Netanyahu relied on biblical passages that spoke about “the curse” and “the blessing” that would be incurred on those that attack the Jewish nation. Netanyahu informed world leaders that Israel would not settle for anything less than “total victory” and the end of Hezbollah forces threatening the State of Israel. Again, these important declarations were meant to send a clear message to Hezbollah and its remaining leadership, to the Iranian regime, and to the Sunni nations of the Middle East, yet nothing earth shattering and certainly did not seem to justify leaving Israel during these perilous day. In retrospect, Netanyahu’s trip to the United Nations to speak before the general assembly had one additional and strategically significant objective. For most, including Hasan Nasrallah, and the Iranian military leadership, they interpreted Netanyahu’s trip to New York, as the best opportunity and a window of opportunity to gather Hezbollah’s remaining military leadership under Iranian guidance to regroup and revise military plans for a major attack on the State of Israel. Nasrallah and his Iranian cohorts made their fatal mistake by assuming that during Netanyahu’s speech to the United Nations general assembly, Israel would not take the risk of world condemnation and attempt to eliminate the leader of Hezbollah.
Much has been written over the past year concerning Israel’s military and intelligence capabilities and the utmost importance of revealing as little as possible of the full extent of Israel’s offensive potential. Israel has succeeded in keeping her enemies in the dark concerning intelligence infiltration not only into Hezbollah, and other Iranian proxy organizations, but also within the Iranian regime and the Iranian military as well. For this fatal reason, Netanyahu’s trip to the United Nations became the perfect opportunity to fish out Hezbollah from his safe bunker well below ground level. The diversion was executed, the fish swallowed the bait.
According to military correspondents, no less than 80 tons of bombs were dropped on four buildings in the heart of Beirut, killing Nasrallah, his remaining senior commanders, and Iranian advisors attending the meeting. The trip to New York, became the perfect diversion, allowing for the elimination of Hasan Nasrallah, who for 32 years has been at the forefront of Iran’s war against the State of Israel. His death was not just as a leader of Hezbollah, but as a Shiite figurehead integral to Iran’s goal of spreading its radical Islamic theology throughout the region and beyond. Since his death, the internet has been flooded by Sunni believers praising his death, and thanking Israel for being responsible for ending the threat on all Sunni nations.
Another significant consequence of Nasrallah’s death may very well impact the negotiations for the release of Israeli hostages being held by the leader of the Hamas terror organization, Yahya Sinwar. Until yesterday, Sinwar operated under the false assumption that Israel would eventually cut a deal with him for the release of some of the hostages allowing for his claim to victory and rehabilitation of the Hamas terror organization. With Nasrallah’s timely death, Sinwar may very well understand that if he does not agree to a deal and release the hostages, his days are truly numbered.
Many of the false assumptions and perceptions by terror leaders such as Nasrallah and Sinwar where based on believing Israel’s mainstream media reports who for the past two years have reported day after day that Israel is a fragmented society on the verge of civil war, and unable to resolve internal divisions. Instead, over the past year, hundreds of thousands of patriotic Israeli’s, have served in their respective military units, paying a heavy price, yet allowing for Israel’s destruction of the Hamas terror organization, and the continuing destruction of the Hezbollah terror organization, resulting in total victory for the State of Israel.