In life, to live with destiny's wholeness one may need to overcome a great deal of obstacles and Jews are an example of such; having the stubbornness and ability to endure suffering and not give up; after two thousand years of forced exile, having the belief that they would still get everything they deserve. The Jewish people's credence that they have the right to raise their future generations in a safe place, their own homeland, and that every Jew will be a free person in his or her homeland is the national thrusting engine of the Jewish people.

Since their first Commonwealth was conquered and destroyed and their first exile, between 598 BCE to 538 BCE, Jews have experienced rejection and persecutions.

Since 70 AD, with the devastating Roman exile of the Jews from their homeland, Jews suffered disrespect and humiliation; were disenfranchised, persecuted, and murdered, wherever they lived, and their homeland abandoned and in ruins.

For 2000 years of exile, the Jew's enemies changed names and geographic presence but were and are continuously united in their hatred of Jews and their homeland, Israel, and the zest to harm and annihilate the Jews.

Facing the crusades, Inquisition, Ottoman Islam, pogroms and genocidal attempts, and finally the Holocaust has been the Jews' perpetual survival test.

When Antisemitism and Pogroms – organized massacres, in particular of Jewish people, in Russia and Eastern Europe, became rampant, Zionism, the national liberation movement of the Jews, the world's most oppressed people, became reality.

Zionist Jews began the Aliya movement, the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to their historical Land, which is the State of Israel.

Those Jews took a difficult journey to arrive in Israel where they settled and began cultivating the land and created an economy out of what Mark Twain described in his travel book The Innocents Abroad, "worthless soil, almost deserted the country … Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes … desolate and unlovely… ." Successively, Arabs from near and far Arab states arrived to the land seeking employment and better economic conditions, which the Jews offered them.

Those Arabs brought along into the Jewish people's land Antisemitism and Pogroms, the hate, and violence from which the Jews escaped.

Israel has just celebrated 74 years since its Independence; the establishment of a 3rd Commonwealth in the Holy Land, the Israelites and Judea, the Biblical Prophets and the Almighty God Chosen people's land.

Despite the sense of independence in their homeland, Israeli-Jews have not got rid of murderous, violent Pogroms, perpetrated, regularly, by Arabs who, since the late 19^th century, entrenched themselves in the land; the country identifying itself as the Jewish people's homeland, the only Jewish state in the entire world, is not yet independent.

Since the end of the 19th century, Jews in the land of Israel have been and are being traumatized by an army of antisemitic, cold-blooded psychopath Arabs, whom the Jewish state's authorities are afraid to agitate. If it continues, this will not end well for the Jews.

Many Holocaust survivors helped establish modern Israel, the only place where they could find refuge after they were liberated from the murderous Nazi concentration camps. Sadly, these Jews had to live with anxious fear of murderous Arab violence. Their children and grandchildren have continued living in the same uneasy fear or some chose to turn the other cheek, living in total denial of the circumstances all around them.

Are the Jews in Israel suffering from Stockholm syndrome, a mechanism developed to cope with a captive or abusive situation one finds himself or herself in? Do they force themselves to cope with domestic Arab murderous violence?

Israel, time to circle back. Time to remember life 150 years ago when it was life or death matter to live in the land and finally gain independence. No room to appease or fear the Arab enemy within. Either the indigenous Jews to rule the land or the hostile to Jews out of place Arabs to rule it.

Coexistence has proven to be impossible as has been the case for the past 150 years. No matter how the appeasement generation would like to conduct life in Israel, this 'coexistence' is the Arabs' one other tool to push the Jews into nonexistence in the land.

No nation should agree to share its homeland with those who openly – verbally and physically – seek to destroy its people. The Jews and Arabs, two different worlds that only call for collision.

Slowly Israeli-Jews are being encircled and pushed out by the Arabs. Case in point is May 2021; Israeli Arab citizens' violent mob torched Jewish-Arab mixed population cities and murdered Jews.

During April 2022 much Jewish blood was spilt all over Israel. Eighteen Jews were murdered and many wounded by Arab terrorists who used knives, axes, or guns. Arabs who infiltrated into Israel from the Palestinian Authority's territory or were illegally staying inside Israel attacked Jews in Beersheba, Tel Aviv, Hadera, Ariel and Elad.

Some 3000 years ago the Israelites entered the Promised Land. Ever since the killing field in Israel has been soaked with Jewish blood and there is no end in sight. The Arabs, celebrating the loss of Jewish life, are threatening more such scenes.

Israel needs a courageous leader to circle back and act without any concern what anybody outside the country – whether the United States, the European Union, a United Nations body or antisemitic NGO – thinks or tells him or her to do, why and how.

No one has the right to tell Jews in Israel where on their land they can live and how to act in order to defend ourselves.

It is time for Israel to accrue unvanquished sovereignty. If not, the ingathering storm, to whom the land will belong and who will be able to remain living in the land, is gaining momentum and is getting darker. All the while the Jews are being pushed back into the Pogroms' of the 19th-century era, this time not in Easter Europe, rather in their own homeland.

The renowned Middle East and Islam pundit, Dr. Mordechai Kedar, always says that in the Middle East you cannot survive if you are not invincible. Israel's lack of invincibility while adopting despondency is a destructive formula. It kills.

If the killing field remains, the Jewish ethos of love, kindness, giving and hope will dissipate in the agony of the constant loss of innocent life.

To end the killing field, a good jump-start is to establish capital punishment law for Jew murderers.

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For the Jewish people, the Holocaust of the Second World War drew a sharp line in the sand, a line that marked the rebirth of assertive Jews. The passivity that characterized Jewish life for centuries, before that dreadful war, ended with the call "Never Again."

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The generation of Jews who witnessed the horrors of unleashed antisemitism embraced proactive defense of all forms. The newly born State of Israel adopted and nurtured that new Jewish zeitgeist to become a model of returning to Torah principles roots.

Since the Holocaust, antisemitism has been somewhat buried under the guise of guilt-ridden humanity. However, 76 years after World War II ended and the remnants of surviving Jews were liberated from Nazi Concentration Camps that thin guilt veneer became undone to bring about Antisemitism upsurge, the kind of Jew-hatred not been seen since the Holocaust.

That post-WWII Jewish zeitgeist is evolving. A growing number of Jews and Jews' supporters will not stand idly by in the face of widespread Antisemitism; they step up to shield Jews, using any available defense strategy. One such like-minded Jews are Dr. Eli Ben-Moshe, chairman, and Brian Blacher, CEO, the founder of Shield of David organization.

"Shield of David was born out of necessity," explains Eli Ben Moshe. "It started with a group of parents whose kids attended college, a place where Antisemitism is rife and growing, just as what takes place in Europe today."

Disturbed by the past few years' rise in antisemitic incidents in the United States, Eli and Brian could not stand idly by seeing people voicing the meaningful slogan "Never Again," yet, doing nothing about it.

They grew motivated to take action. In 2019 they founded Shield of David, its goal to be on every campus and help change the mindset of young Jews who encounter Antisemitism on campus; educate Jewish students to be proud Jews and have self-empowerment through tailored self-defense courses, facilitated by an organization with a presence on every campus.

Shield of David message to Congress, "your silence in the face of Antisemitism is deafening." "The quiet ones in congress bear the fault for the rise in Antisemitism in every American city," says Eli.

By teaching Jewish students the history of the Jewish People's constant fight for survival and giving them the right tools to defend themselves, when necessary, Shield of David aims for them to proudly reconnect to their roots.

Shield of David Fall 2021 plan is ambitious, offering classes on campuses, also to synagogues, to any Jewish group affected by Antisemitism as well as to any none-Jewish group who would like to learn how to stand by their fellow Jews.

"Civilized society is commanded to fight evil, more so, to teach the next generation to fight evil when evil's head has risen," says Eli.

Shield of David message to all Americans is clear: "stay together and help each other to fight Antisemitism and the hate of others."

According to Eli, speaking up is not enough. Social media post is just a post. American Jews and their supporters must confront evil. Go on the offense in every way possible. Fight legal battles, fight BDS actions and social media platforms that allow to incite Antisemitism. According to Eli, "even be ready to physically stand up when there is a fight to fight."

"Tolerating Antisemitism is not a grey area issue, rather, it is black and white, it is good versus evil," says Eli. "Good beats evil only when it fights evil." That is what Shield of David work cut out to do.

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Traveler's notebook – For many, an "ohel," literally a tent, is something you erect while camping outdoors, to sleep in. However, as a sign of the deceased prominence, an Ohel, typically a small masonry building structure built around a Jewish grave that may include room for visitors to pray, meditate, and light candles in honor of the deceased, refers to a resting place of a righteous person in Judaism.

When you think about the Chabad Lubavitch Ohel, the literal sense of the word transforms. "The Ohel" of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known as the Lubavitcher Rebbe, has a greater connotation.

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson is known to be the Jewish Orthodox Hasidic Chabad-Lubavitch dynasty's most recent Rebbe. Chabad is one of the world's best-known Hasidic movements, particularly for its worldwide outreach activities, and is one of the largest Hasidic groups and Jewish religious organizations in the world.

The Ohel, located at the Cambria Heights, New York, the cemetery is where Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, a Russian-Empire-born American Orthodox rabbi, was laid to rest in 1994, next to his father-in-law, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe.

The Rebbe is considered to be one of the most influential Jewish leaders of the 20th century. He was a gifted scholar of Biblical, Talmudic and Kabbalistic studies. An authority on Kabbalah and Jewish law and a religious, spiritual leader. He graduated from a Paris engineering school and was known for his wisdom and vast knowledge on many aspects of life and subjects; he had political foresight that brought many world politicians and leaders to meet with him and he showed prophetic sagacity.

A trip to the Ohel was afforded to me by the Chabad shul I regularly attend.

Upon arriving from Los Angeles to the Ohel, in New York, I joined my Chabad-Lubavitch of South La Cienega (SOLA) rabbi and several peers. Going through the custom of writing a "Kvitlach," a personal prayer wish note ahead, arriving at the gravesite and praying, reading my Kvitlach and then tearing it up, with a deep sense of hope it will be answered, was spiritually elating. I was left with a triggering sense of repeating this custom again and again, may this wish come true.

As during his lifetime, being in the Rebbe's presence has not only a helpful, liberating effect, but it also inspires one to continue strengthening one's thoughts, speech and actions of goodness and compassion. Before embarking on a trip to the Ohel a person may even commit to do a new good deed, hoping the Rebbe to be the 'conduit' through which God's blessings can flow.

I traveled to the Rebbe's Ohel not only to pray for myself and my family's well being but also for the nation of Israel and every Jew, while experiencing the spiritual elevating moment the Rebbe's presence offered in his lifetime and now even from the Heaven above.

I can only hope that now my hopeful Kvitlach prayer comes true, to which I say, Amen!

Nurit Greenger is a writer and journalist who focuses on humanitarian issues.

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As a daughter of Holocaust survivors I am often asked how did my parents meet. My reply: they met after WWII ended in ruined Europe.

In 2014 I penned the story of my parents' rendezvous that ended in matrimony. During the last Passover, I was asked again about my parents' post-war get-together. When I referred to the 2014 story I saw a note I made to myself about a book, in Hebrew and Yiddish, titled, These We Remember: Yizkor Book of Ivenets, Kamin, and Surroundings; A Holocaust Memorial Book, about the shtetl Ivenets, where my mother – born in 1922 – lived until she was 13 years old. The note indicated that my mother's story is scripted on page 394 of the book.

When I conducted an online search I found the book's PDF version, in it a wealth of information about the shtetl where my maternal family lived.

Today's Ivenets is a small town some, two-three hours drive from Minsk, the capital of Belarus.

Growing up in a home where post-Holocaust reminiscence of despair sentiments was common it was always my plan to follow my Polish roots. I traveled to Poland in pursuit of my late father's family and their troubling Holocaust finale in Warsaw. I visited a few Nazi death camps' remnants in order to get a sense of what took place there. In 2019, I traveled to Minsk, Belarus. Destination: Ivenets. Accompanied by a knowledgeable local Jewish tour guide we drove to the shtetl Ivenets in pursuit of gathering information about the life of my mother's family and the Jewish community in that town.

At the town's entrance, there is a memorial for a mass grave. In 1942 the Nazis murdered 600 children and 200 elderly Jews from Ivenets ghetto, Kamin, and nearby towns. They shot them at the brink of the open pit, or just in it, so their bodies could fall into it and pile up. Cynically this was called the "sardines' method."

The memorial stone reads: "In this mass grave 800 Jews from the Ivenets ghetto, Kamin and the surrounding towns were murdered and or their bodies were thrown in by the German Nazis, may their name be erased. 09/06/1942. Land, do not cover their blood and let there be no place for their cry."

The town appears poor. The ghetto compound's wooden buildings – some shabby and some received a new coat of paint – remained standing only the dwellers are no longer Jews. Most of the narrow roads were muddy, the Jewish cemetery very neglected and tombstones destroyed. In the synagogue building, turned hardware store, the place of the ark is very visible.

I walked the ghetto streets with an eerie sense of the past running through my veins. I tried hard to imagine my family's life there. It was to no avail, just emptiness surrounded me. Not one Jew remained living in Ivenets. It is a small Jewless Belarussian town.

I left Ivenets cogitating and with a heavy and empty heart; deep in my soul something was amiss. It was a visit I will not easily forget.

I am a post-Holocaust human product. The Holocaust is still vivid with me but already in a distance from my son and blearing away. As generations come and go, the memory of the horrors that European Jews lived through in the 1930s through the 1940s, move farther into the past.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" – Spanish philosopher George Santayana is credited with this aphorism.

And so the slogan "Never Again" must reverberate louder, to stop those who prefer not to remember the past from being destined to relive it.

Experts from Rachel-Katz-Gringer Z"L story in the book Ivenets, Kamin, and Surroundings:

"We were left remnants …

"My parents left Ivenets and moved to Vilna in 1935. Our contact with Ivenets continued strong. After all, my father's sister and family moved into our house and remained living there. We traveled to Ivenets very often."

"Soon political darkness spread all over the world. The Nazis conquered country after country; the newspapers were filled with horror reports no one inclined to believe because they were so incomprehensible.

"In 1939 the war broke out, Vilnius was bombed and the Russians occupied the city but not for long. The Russians handed it over to the Lithuanian government and the city was filled with refugees fleeing western Poland.

"In 1941, the Germans invaded Russia, leaving behind destruction and devastation. We were imprisoned in the ghetto and the extermination began. Before we were ghettoized, an owner of a large estate near our Ivenets, was willing to take all the risks to help us. He offered my father to come with his family and find refuge at his place. Dad hesitated and we stayed on in Vilnius.

"Two years of ghetto life was full of fear, despair and hunger. When the ghetto liquidation began, some Jews were sent to Nazi forced labor camps and some were deported to the Death Camps.

"My sister Chaya and I were separated from our parents to never see them again. We spent the rest of the war time in concentration and forced labor camps where hunger and torture were our lot."

"My sister and I survived the war. We returned to Poland – orphans, homeless, physically and mentally injured - hoping to find someone from our family alive. These were hopeless hopes. We now had to start building an independent life knowing that everything has been ruined. No parents, no family, and no friends. It was difficult to get used to the idea that from our large and extensive family no one survived.

"The earth was burning beneath our feet. Poland was no longer our home. Every stone yelled, run away, run away. We left Poland, our destination, the Land of Israel, the only place where we could rebuild our lives and be safe."

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The Haggadah covers the entire period of the Israelites in Egypt, their redemption from slavery and it delves into predicting the nation of Israel"s future.

One page in the Haggadah its words are somewhat apropos the year 2021.

We read together: We began the Seder as slaves in Egypt, tasting salty tears. Then, we raced through the desert sand and ate matzah baked in a hurry. We passed through the Sea or Reeds and escaped from Pharaoh"s army. We praised God for helping us escape and for saving our lives.

Now our job at the Seder of remembering, telling and re-living this astonishing journey to freedom has been completed.

Moving from the past to the future we ask: "how will I grow this year?"; "how will the world change?"; "how can we keep moving from slavery to freedom?" (We are now on a course to lose our freedom to modern Pharaohs).
The Haggadah ends with the Jewish people"s great hope for the future: "Next Year in Jerusalem", when Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the Jewish people is the symbol of the Jewish people"s eternity.
Fast forward to 1943

Emanuel Ringelblum was a Polish-Jewish historian, a politician and social worker, known for his Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto, called Ringelblum's Archives of the Warsaw Ghetto. Oyneg Shabbos was a code name for a documentary group in Warsaw Ghetto, led by Ringelblum, during 1939 to 1942 Nazi-Germany occupation of Warsaw.

Emanuel Ringelblum arrived in Warsaw from Galicia in 1919; in 1940, 45,000 Warsaw Jews were forced to be confined in a small section of Warsaw called "the Jewish Ghetto". Ringelblum documented life in Ghetto Warsaw. The attesting documents, buried for the world to know, were found under a destroyed Ghetto building as the Nazis liquidated the Ghetto.

On Sunday, April 18, the eve of Passover 1943, the last battle of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising against the Nazis, led by Mordechai Anielewicz, took place.

Nowadays, countless Jews take for granted the good life they are afforded.

In the "Life in Ghetto Warsaw" documentation, as they fought their battle with their only weapons, words, hoping to win in the far-off future, Ringelblum wrote:

"What we were unable to cry and shriek out to the world we buried in the ground. So the world may know it all. We would [have been] the fathers, the teachers and educators of the future. But no, we shall certainly not live to see [the recovery of this archive]. And so I write my last will. May this historical treasure fall into good hands, may it last into better times, and may it alarm and alert the world to what happened in the twentieth century. We may now die in peace. We fulfilled our mission. May history attest for us."

The Nazis meant to destroy the entire Jewish people, stopped at 6 million Jews they murdered. The Holocaust ended 76 years; only now the counted Jews before Hitler"s sword began scything them down has been reached.
Seeing the horrors around him Ringelblum could only hope to win "in the far-off future."

We, Jews, exist because of those heroes who, in the not-so-distant past, chose to perish heroically. We are those heroes" who hope to win in the far-off future.

The story of Exodus has similarities to Ringelblum's Ghetto Warsaw uprising ending hope. The Israelite-Jews escaped Pharaoh"s annihilation decree and hoped to enter their promised homeland in the near or not so far-off future.

Present time or the near or not-so-far-off future must not be taken for granted.

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In the past few decades, anti-Semitism in the United States and Europe has been increasing at a troubling rate, as Jews are targeted in a myriad of ways.

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A unique group called Magen Am ("Shield of the Nation") seeks to counter this trend by providing Jewish communities in the United States with protection.

According to its website, the NGO is "dedicated to the creation of essential armed security teams within the Jewish community, comprised of licensed and trained community members whose purpose is to protect the lives of other Jews."

Magen Am USA is a community security force established a few years ago, "To train and empower the community to secure itself from within." It comprises licensed and trained community members who volunteer to protect the lives of other Jews and splits its services into two groups: security volunteers within the community, and training former IDF lone soldiers as professional security officers.

The four-month program offers training in various disciplines, including security theory, combat, stress psychology and physiology, body language, de-escalation techniques, security screening, and risk assessments.

I learned firsthand about Magen Amin when I interviewed Leibel Magel, a transfer to Los Angeles from Cincinnati, Ohio, and who served as a lone soldier in the IDF.

Magel graduated from the Magen Am Lone Soldier Veterans Program, the main objective of which is to be proactive – not reactive.

"When BDS [activists] come to campus, be offensive, not reactive" is Leibel's outlook. He said that Magn Am's training places an emphasis on how to prevent stressful environments and avoid fear-mongering, encompassing mental state, martial arts, and firearm training is as good as – or even better – than the similar training offered by the police.

Magen Am veteran training is a four-week, full-time training course, carried out by experts in intelligence, personal development, and fitness and psychology coaches.

According to group co-founder Rabbi Yossi Eilfort, the process of becoming a Magen Am salaried security professional, sponsored by the community and several institutions, gives a former lone the opportunity to become part of the community while giving the members needed sense of security.

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When Jews marked Kristallnacht's 82nd anniversary last week Christiane Amanpour, CNN's chief international anchor decided to compare Donald Trump's presidency to the Nazis' Jew-hating 1938 "Kristallnacht escapade."

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That was no slip of the tongue. Clearly, Amanpour is an unhinged Leftist reporter. The Left in the United States has compared President Trump to Hitler and other evildoers. Now Amanpour compares his presidency to Kristallnacht? Such tropes are not only vicious and do not stand for an iota of truth, they are also a clear indication that the Left and their media henchmen have gone off the rails. They have lost control of the ability to think clearly and their behavior is neither normal nor acceptable.

Considering that Amanpour universalized Kristallnacht and never pointed out that the victims of those brutal two days pogrom were Jews, her remarks were egregious and most offensive to Jews.

Like Amanpour, when her colleagues on the ideological-political Left compare President Trump and his administration to Hitler, Nazis and Kristallnacht they cheapen the meaning of these unfathomable crimes against humanity, in general, and the systematic murder of six million Jews, in particular.

Amanpour has an Israel bias slant. Her journalism's reportage on Israel and the conflict with the Arabs is imperfect and rather questionable. Amanpour twists the news to such an extent that the average viewer in Middle America gets a distorted picture of what is really going on in the Middle East. What is more disconcerting, she doesn't attempt to hide her bias, rather, she projects in your face anti-Israel dislike.

Amanpour's bias and anti-Israel attacks are stomach-turning. Hopefully, ultimately, the American people will realize that her Left-leaning network news do not present a fair and balanced reporting, especially on the Middle East.

For a long time, Amanpour has been ignoring the Jewish people's history in the land of Israel. She has also been distorting Israel's role in the conflict with the Arabs.

Andrea Levin, the director of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America documented, CNN/Amanpour's God's Jewish Warriors: The Six-Day War production in which Amanpour looks back at the 1967 conflict.

The two-hour production – one of the most malicious, biased and factually shoddy features to air on mainstream American television in recent memory – defamed Israel and falsely claimed that Jews living in their historic land are violating international law. She also compares religious Jews and Christians to Islamic terrorists.

Amanpour has a long history of close ties with Iran. She has often acted as the Mullahs in Tehran mouthpiece, directly and indirectly promoting their antagonistic agenda against Israel and the United States.

On Nov. 15, 2020, Minister of Diaspora Affairs Omer Yankelevich demanded an apology from Amanpour saying that CNN "should be a partner in the global effort to fight anti-Semitism and not fuel the fire."

Yet Jewish organizations have remained mum on this latest incident. They are all about "social justice" but not for Jews. Only the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) demanded that CNN fire Amanpour for her despicable, absurd analogy of Trump's Administration to Nazis' Kristallnacht.

Had Amanpour made an anti-black or anti-Muslim analogy, I am certain many organizations would have demanded her dismissal for spreading "hate and incitement."

On Nov. 16 Amanpour apologized for her appalling comparison, saying she "regretted any pain" she caused and admitted, "I should not have juxtaposed the two thoughts."

Enough has been written about Amanpour's notorious falsehoods about Israel and the Jewish people she has spewed and spread for years.

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Although she apologized for the fiasco she has created, the comparison of President Trump's administration to the Kristallnacht pogrom against the Jews of Germany was no accident.

If Amanpour was a conservative, a huge campaign for CNN to fire her would be growing. If CNN had any moral compass remaining, perhaps she would be sacked.

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I am voting for freedom versus Marxism/Leninism. In the long list of his accomplishments, it is worthwhile remembering that President Donald Trump got us out of the Paris Accord farce, the Pacific trade scam and he re-negotiated NAFTA. He opened our eyes to the Washington DC deep-state-swamp that must be drained. He stood by us, we, the people, against those who are supposed to represent us but they do not!

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When people question me, 'So, you are voting for President Trump to be re-elected?', my answer is simply, no! I am voting to preserve our republic and Trump was put here, by providence, to lead the movement to save our republic.

Where my vote will go: To save our republic system; to save the First Amendment and our freedom of speech, much of it has been stolen from us already; to save our freedom of speech so we will be allowed to express any opinion, now censored by big-tech and social media platforms' "fact-checkers."

To save the Second Amendment and our right to defend ourselves; my right to defend myself, my family, the right to be safe at times of peril.

To save the structure and the future of the Supreme Court so it can continue protecting Justice in the land and protect our Constitution and the Bill of Rights. To help save our judicial system; help to continue appointing federal judges who respect our Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

To help save our country from judicial political activism. Save the practice of applying justice according to the Constitution, not political preference.

To save the voting system and the electoral college; to save our freedom of religion; to help save our society from human trafficking that includes the trafficking of children; to help save the police force; bring back respect for the police force and thus return law and order to our land.

To help save the might of our military. to save our troops from fighting endless wars. Bring our patriotic boys and girls home from foreign lands and end America's involvement in foreign conflicts that have nothing to do with our country's interests.

To save the world from unnecessary wars; continue peace talks wherever possible, including the continuation of Middle East stabilization and peace talks. To help save the dignity of our veterans who risked their lives and have fought for our republic so the American people preserve their freedoms.

To help save our country from foreign infiltration; have secured borders and stop illegal immigration. To save our jobs – end outsourcing our manufacturing and jobs to other countries

To save our future generations; for the unborn to have the opportunity to be born, live, and enjoy the exceptional life this republic offers to all. To save our country's prosperity, the continued growth of the 401K retirement plan and the strength of the stock market.

To save the respect for our flag and national anthem from the disrespect of the Democratic Party and its followers.

To save our country from destroying itself. To save our country from self-forfeiture.

To save the future of our republic, my country, and thus give our today's children the same, or better country we inherited from our parents. To save the future.

To save our republic from the Democrat Party's revolutionary forces that tell us they intend to destroy our exceptional way of life.

To save our freedoms, liberty and the right to pursue the utmost happiness today, tomorrow, and in the near and far future.

Ask yourselves: Will you be voting with me?

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When the Soviet Union collapsed in the 1990s, all former Soviet satellite-republics, including Azerbaijan and Armenia, broke away from Moscow and gained independence.

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Russian political leaders, especially its current president Vladimir Putin, haven't hidden their regret for the dissolution of the USSR. Putin deplored the collapse of the Soviet Union as, "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe" [of the 20th century].

Along with its neo-imperialistic "near abroad" concept, referring to the newly independent republics that emerged after the Soviet Union's dissolution, Russia still considers the South Caucasus, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, its exclusive influence zone.

In the absence of a proactive European Union and US leadership in the Caucasus, Russia has become increasingly aggressive in the region, chiefly concerning the Armenia-Azerbaijan long-standing conflict.

The conflict began in the early 1990s when Armenia, aided by Russia's military, invaded, and during which ethnically cleansed Azerbaijan's Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven adjacent districts. One million local Azerbaijani civilians were forced to flee their ancestral lands, to become internally displaced people inside Azerbaijan.

Despite four UN Security Council resolutions condemning Armenian's occupation and demanding all of the Armenian troops' immediate withdrawal from Azerbaijan's occupied lands, Armenia's belligerence continues. Under military occupation, Armenia illegally holds around 20% of Azerbaijan's sovereign territory while the forcibly displaced Azerbaijanis hopefully wait for Armenia's greenlight to allow them to return to their homes.

Since Russia's military and financial aid to Armenia helped carry out the invasion to Azerbaijan, and Azerbaijan being the first South Caucasus country to have kicked the Russian military forces out of its territory, one can say, this was the "price" Azerbaijan paid for gaining independence.

In the years after Armenia's invasion, though struggling with Armenia's illegal occupation of its territory and carrying out its commitment to see to the internally displaced Nagorno-Karabakh Azerbaijanis welfare, the Republic of Azerbaijan has become the South Caucasus region largest economy and the West's most important ally and partner. Unlike Armenia, Azerbaijan refused to be part of any Russia-led military-economic union.

Over the last 30 years, Russia has continued to arm Armenia. Russia's military base in Armenia is among its largest in the world. Russia owns 80% of Armenia's economy and its military forces guard Armenia's borders and airspace. Armenia is also a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the Russia-led anti-NATO military block and the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).

Several strategic oil and gas pipelines, most essential to Azerbaijan's sovereignty and economy, as well as to Europe and the United States pass through Tovuz district. The South Caucasus natural gas Pipeline (SCP), a key part of the Southern EU Energy Corridor, passing through Tovuz, Georgia, Turkey and Southern Europe routes, which is due to become operational in few months, will deliver Azerbaijani gas to European markets via Trans-Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP) and Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP).

Bypassing both Russia and Iran, this pipeline will deliver non-Russian-non-Iranian natural gas directly to Europe's consumers' market, helping reduce Europe's dependency on Russian gas and improving the continent's energy supply sources' diversification.

Seeking to maintain energy deliveries control to Europe via its own networks, Russia fiercely opposes the SCP project. Therefore, it is no coincidence that Armenia's latest military adventure against Azerbaijan's vital Tovuz district took place a few months prior to this strategic gas pipeline's completion.

Azeri President Ilham Aliyev, asked Putin to clarify the nature of the shipments to Armenia, considering that Moscow is one of the OSCE Minsk Group's three co-chairs, tasked with resolving the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict – not aggravating it.

Almost daily a Russian Ilyushin Il-76 strategic airlifter, flying over the Caspian Sea and via Iran, lands in the Armenian capital of Yerevan with assorted Russian weapons. Is it becoming obvious that Russia is preparing Armenia for a fight with Azerbaijan?

Azerbaijan claims that Armenia sides with Russia in Syria, actively participates in Syria's conflict, and is also dealing with the "black trade" weapons' purchase from Syria.

Iran, always suspicious of Azerbaijan's secular governance and the country's being US and Israel strategic partner is a willing participant in this dangerous energy gambit adventure in the Caucasus.

The latest developments in the South Caucasus, especially Russia's neo-imperialist policies and arms deliveries are alarming. Considering Azerbaijan's geostrategic and geo-economic importance and its significant role in connecting Central Asia with the West, the United States and Europe should be alarmed by Russia's continuing weapons shipments to Armenia.

Without some sort of diplomatic intervention, unrest may erupt in the South Caucasus region from which only Russia can benefit.

Nurit Greenger is a writer and journalist who focuses on humanitarian issues.

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The November 2020 election is considered to be the most important and consequential election for the West as a free society, yet the American media network is silent.

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The media knows that Biden will not be able to debate, as required of a presidential candidate, therefore, they "advise" him not to participate in debating President Trump while, of course blaming the incumbent president.

How did it happen that all those who belong to the American media network know that Joe Biden is an alleged serial harasser, but the 'Me Too' force's shrieking voices suddenly disappeared, even the one female who claimed that Biden raped her?

How did it happen that the most dangerous communists, anarchist progressives and Islamists took over the Democrat Party, just as with the Labour Party in Britain, but the American media networks pretend that everything is business as usual? Same old, same old.

The media ask no questions and print no reports.

Why is everyone pretending that it is okay for Rep. Ilhan Omar, often criticized as an Islamist, to openly support the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a fig leaf for the Muslim Brotherhood organization in the United States?

The media ask no questions and print no reports.

Why the American media does not report that J Street, an anti-Israel organization that supports Ilhan Omar, the Somali Muslim who opposes the existence of the State of Israel, invited her to their last conference? And what's more, the intractable media categorize J Street as a pro-Israel organization? This hostile organization continues to act against Israel while neglecting the American Jewry that is exposed to uninhibited anti-Semitism, facts that do not appear in the media.

The media ask no questions and print no reports.

In the United States' "media" everyone knows that Bill Clinton has a much-whispered connection to Jeffrey Epstein's pimping island scandal with young ladies. But the media does not deal with this issue and every possible report on the matter is silent. What really happened on this island may lead to a political atom bomb explosion. Could some political heads be guillotined politically? What was the role of Epstein's famously known personal friends in these matters?

We don't know the answer to these questions because the media ask no questions, do not investigate, and print no reports.

The media and its operators know about these questions but they are deliberately uninquisitive. It is a concealing and silencing media network that is not earnestly reporting.

The media are actually the "Ministry of Truth" without the truth. It appears as the most serious fraud in the history of the United States that has been going on. The mainstream media, which used to act as a watchdog, is sleeping quietly on its job. As the Latin saying goes, 'dum tacet clamat' meaning, though silent, he speaks. Or in other words, the media silence speaks volumes.

Joe Biden is the Democrat Party's hopeful to become the United States 46th president. But Joe Biden is certainly suffering from the loss of cognitive mind, which can easily be seen in his recent appearances' videos. In older appearances' videos, with young girls and women, Biden appears to be a serial sexual harasser.

While Joe Biden served as the US vice-president, by his own and his son's actions he appeared to be one of the poles on which the Washingtonian corruption swamp stands. We may need to wait until Joe Biden indicts himself, because the media will not ask questions, will not dive into the swamp. At times, Biden does not even know where he is, and sometimes, he doesn't know for what job he is running.

The American media know all about Joe Biden, but Joe is their man, so there will be no hard questions, and no reports.

Is it possible that every mainstream journalist has been sucked into the Washington swamp? Or, are many of them just afraid of losing their job, and prefer to ditch their integrity rather than their paycheck? Either way, the people's trust in journalism is abysmal.

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