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Apr 26Liked by j.b

As an American Jew, lifelong Republican, and MAGA/Trump supporter since 2015 I wish I could dismiss your whole editorial, but I can't. I have always said that mainstream American Jews are their own worst enemy politically because they have elevated Liberalism to a religion above their Judaism.

Their overwhelming support for the Democrats and Biden has made the bed they now lay in.

But I would argue the following. Meir Lansky's toughness may be missing from American Jews, but it is in full force in Israel and Israelis. The world still expects the "passive compliant" Jew and the fact that a collection of Jews on a tiny sliver of their historical homeland dared to say "Never Again" and fight back with a ferocity and determination not seen for thousands of years since the Maccabees brings out the antisemitism.

A day doesn't go by that I don't question why are the Republicans so supportive of the Jews given that almost exlusively vote for their nemesis? Why are conservative pundits so pro Israel?

The answer is because it is the right thing to do! The Republicans and trump are moral, plain and simple. Democrats and progressives are amoral.

More and more Jews are taking the "Red pill" and finally opening their eyes and leaving the Democrat plantation.

Continue to support Israel

Continue to call out the vile hatred of the progressives

Continue to fight the left even if leftist Jews benefit from that despite themselves.

Because it is the "Right" thing to do!!!

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Meir Lansky's toughness may be missing from American Jews, but it is in full force in Israel and Israelis.

Lack of gun rights and taking the jab would disagree with you.

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Just curious, which of the following are Jewish? Biden Clinton Fauci Gates Hillary 0bama Pelosi Podesta

The author is really not too bright. Some Jews are leftist so all leftists are Jews... Huh? Some Christians are leftist, so - are all Christians leftist, or all leftists Christian? The logical fallacies multiply.

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My father, who lived in East Harlem, 103 St, and 3rd Ave, right above Yorkville which was a big German neighborhood, and a center for Bund activities, was part of the Jewish Cadres that shut down the the Nazis in Manhattan. He said that Lansky, Dutch Schultz, and Bugsy Siegel supplied money, trucks, weapons (baseball bats, black jacks ) and supervision " Don't hit them in the head with the bat, hit them on the shoulders and break their collar bones, then tap on the teeth, we don't want them dead, just really in pain." My father said the cops just watched it . The Jews were protected from on high,. A few years later my Dad ended up as a combat engineer in the 25th Armored Engineer Battalion attached to The Sixth Armored Division of Patton's 3rd Army and got to actually kill Nazis,

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love the whole idea of fighting back … we ve become a nation of ninnys

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Agree. Jews should be defending themselves on campus.

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swing and a miss re: "tough Jews" back in the day. Those assholes were nothing more than the antifa of their day, albeit with higher T, doing the bidding of our Satanic ruling elite to quash any populist movement that threatened their program of global domination.

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"It would be nice for the reincarnation of Meyer Lansky and his cadre of "tough Jews" to administer a long-overdue reality check to these Hamas LARPing students".

It would be even nicer if the reincarnation of hitler and his cadre of "tough Germans" administered a long-overdue reality check to those (90% of) Jews who support genocide.

But that's just wishful thinking at this stage..

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Who was the Jewish bat-wielding Nazi killer they pulled out of the brig to join the Inglorious Basterds brigade? They need more like him.

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Your heroes. Joseph Stalin and Meyer Lansky. A mass-murderer and a criminal mastermind. So, who are the bad guys again?

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Apr 26Author

Meyer Lansky, along with other gangsters helped secure New York Ports/Harbor from Nazi saboteurs, and was instrumental in Allied invasion of Sicily. He was given Medal of Freedom for his actions.

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I go to Chabad. Over 80% of my congregation is Republican. The Democrats have the Reform Jews that are dying out. Orthodox Jews are becoming the majority of Jews due to having more children and we are thoroughly on the Right.

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Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky's partner in the numbers was the one who provided help with the Sicily invasion.

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He was also a murderer, a pimp, a blackmailer and a drug-runner, but I guess nobody's perfect.

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Lansky was an innovator. He invented the numbers game, and contract killing, Murders done by hitmen unconnected with the victims made solving the murders much, much harder to solve.

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You need just a few tweaks on your AI Art to make them not look freaky on closer examination.

Distorted hands, cars sticking out of buildings etc., belie a lack of effort to refine AI as a tool instead of being It's tool.

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