Who Was Karl Marx? By Daniel Greenfield and we will track down your dog poo-Tel Aviv dog owners must now register their dog's DNA with municipality and Forgotten Heroes: The Jewish Resistance and Exodus 1947 By BESA CENTER and What's My Line? - 500th Episode! Julie Andrews; Martyn Green & Martin Gabel [panel] (Feb 7, 1960)
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we will track down your dog poo-Tel Aviv dog owners must now register their dog's DNA with municipality
The municipality calculated that an estimated 500 kilos of dog feces are not picked up from the street every month, and hope that this new law will work to decrease the amount.
Dog owners in Tel Aviv will now have to provide DNA samples for their dogs upon receiving or renewing their dog ownership licenses, in an effort to fight against the issue of dog feces not being picked up by owners in the street.On Monday night, the Tel Aviv-Jaffa city council approved an amendment to the Municipal bylaw, making it compulsory for dog owners to register their pets to a DNA database. This will then allow municipal inspectors to collect samples from dog feces left uncollected in the streets, and a fine will be sent by mail to the owner who did not clean up. According to the bylaw, they will also be charged for the sampling and testing expenses.The law has been submitted to the Ministry of Interior for examination, and is awaiting approval.The municipality calculated that an estimated 500 kilos of dog feces are not picked up from the street every month, and hope that this new law will work to decrease the amount."The municipality, for its part, has worked hard to eradicate the issue of collecting feces, by distributing tickets to dog owners, placing bag collection facilities in gardens and parks, establishing dozens of dog parks throughout the city, but this does not diminish dog owners' responsibility to keep public space clean," a municipality representative said.
The ratio of humans to dogs in Tel Aviv-Yafo is one of the highest in the world: 1 in every 11 people in the area owns a dog. The municipality launched their campaign encouraging owners to pick up after their dogs in April this year after it was found that during 2020 there was a significant increase in the amount of dog feces not collected by dog owners in the city, as well as an increase in residents' dissatisfaction with this hazard.In 2020 alone, 6,766 service calls were opened in the 106 Plus service center and in the 106+ app, regarding cleaning and enforcement regarding dog feces in the public space. The Green Patrol, which is responsible for enforcing the issue, distributed more than 3,500 tickets to people who did not collect their dog's feces."The cleanliness of the public space is an integral part of the appearance of the city and the municipality hopes that the municipal actions to reduce the phenomenon will indeed bring about a change among dog owners who do not collect their dog feces in the city," their statement said. "The municipality believes that through the information, enforcement and cooperation of all the city's residents, there will be an improvement in this issue, for the sake of the quality of life in the city."
Photo Credit: library of congress Karl Marx as "The Modern Moses"
Karl Marx is over two centuries old. Ideas that used to be radical have long since become stale. Socialism is about as new and exciting as the telegraph or Bernie Sanders. Marxism is most likely to be studied in the countries where, as its proponents claim, it's never really been tried.
Who was Karl Marx beyond the bearded guy on t-shirts in Berkeley and Austin?
In Who Was Karl Marx?: The Men, the Motives and the Menace Behind Today's Rampaging American Left, investigative journalist James Simpson paints a scathing picture of Marx, his disciplines, and the political movement created by the fake prophet of a real catastrophe.
Marx was "hypocritically greedy, petty, arrogant, lazy, selfish, dishonest, two-faced, lecherous, bigoted and brimming with hatred", Simpson writes, backing that up with historical anecdotes.
Does it matter that Marx was a virulent bigot, that he hated most people, and even sired an illegitimate son, kept him in poverty, and never let him go past the servants' quarters?
It might not matter if Marx were just a writer whose work was disconnected from his loathsome personality, but Simpson convincingly argues that, "progressivism's end product is merely the reflection of Marx's personality, played out to devastating effect on the world stage."
Marxism, in other words, is terrible because Karl Marx was a miserable human being.
The same holds true for much of the Left. Its theories don't just fail because they're poorly thought out, but because they're expressions of malice directed at the rest of the world.
But Who Was Karl Marx? is not a biography of Marx, so much as it's a sketch of key leftist figures, and the influence of their ideas on the present. The book may begin with Marx, but it goes on to Black Lives Matter and Antifa. It touches on Lenin's obsession with destroying his opponents through relentless dehumanization and smear campaigns in order to clarify the contemporary leftist obsession with political correctness and cancel culture.
The war on truth and reality are not an accidental derangement, but a calculated strategy.
"We are actually witnessing a Communist overthrow of the United States in real time," Simpson writes. The smart set would sneer at such descriptions, the way that they did in the thirties and then the fifties. Dismissing talk of Communist conspiracies has been the way of Manhattan and Los Angeles cocktail parties for over a century. But that hasn't gotten rid of the conspiracies.
Communism, like Marxism, is a name, and leftists are adept at conspiring and branding.
American Communists created an army of front groups, a practice that Simpson also traces back to its origins. The name changes and technical distinctions are a hollow exercise and within that hollowness are some of the same terrifying beliefs and agendas that animated the Weathermen and that fuel the radical agenda of the party that used to be the Democrats.
Cultural warfare, like Marx's doctrines, is not a new idea. Neither is the reliance on identity politics or the war on truth. The Left does not create new ideas, rather it renews them.
The insistence that leftists have come up with some new ideas, when their new ideas are just the same old ones cloaked in a new flavor of identity politics or climate alarmism is gaslighting. Just because class warfare was swapped out for racial and then sexual identity politics, or because predictions of a new ice age were replaced with global warming and then the generic climate change doesn't mean that leftist agendas are new, only that they have been rebranded.
Attacking truth and reality are also strategies, as Simpson writes, "to unhinge our society from any and all anchors to reality, stability and security, to strike fear into our hearts, and to make us desperate for it to stop. I call it psychological terrorism."
As America debates critical race theory, Who Was Karl Marx? notes that Marx had called for "a ruthless criticism of everything existing". Obviously that is a privilege that the Left reserves for itself. While its activists and agitators have the right to criticise everything, they are immune from criticism. Critical race theory advances radical criticisms of America, but any criticism of it is deemed racist. The Left's idea of criticism is not a marketplace of ideas, but a cultural tyranny.
Marx's own brand of criticism was hateful, ignorant, and racist. And despite reserving the right to criticise everything, he was thin-skinned to the point of violent derangement, responding to any disagreement with frenzies of rage and vendettas that would last for decades. The revolutionary leader was, like most leftists of the period, more consumed with fighting other leftists.
While Marx took few risks, those who did soon came to regret ever trusting him.
"He laughs at the fools who repeat after him his proletarian catechism," one revolutionary later noted. Another accused him of being a secret government agent, alleging that, "everyone who engages in political machinations with Marx and his associates will sooner or later fall into the hands of the police" with "the instigators, Marx & Co. are of course sitting in London out of reach."
Such allegations might seem implausible except when you consider how Lenin was delivered to Russia in a sealed car and how Stalin acted as an informant for the Czarist secret police.The best way for a professional revolutionary to remain safe was by playing both sides.
If Marx had indeed been playing both sides, betraying revolutionaries and collecting money from government agents, he would not have been the first or the last. One of the enduring features of leftist groups is their abusive contempt for their own members and allies. As bosses, leftists are the worst slave drivers, as feminists, they turn out to be rapists, and as revolutionaries, tyrants.
As Simpson writes, "They think they can replace God. But instead, they just act out what they are at the core: entrepreneurial parasites; greedy, manipulative, megalomaniacal psychopaths."
Leftist politics is a school for sociopaths who aspire to manipulate and destroy others. The techniques laid out in Who Was Karl Marx? make it a particularly potent guide for megalomaniacs, but beyond being a guide to seizing power, the policies don't actually work.
Marxism is the Theranos of politics. It's a political pyramid scheme that promises to help its followers steal from others to create equality. And its political schemes always end the same way in tyranny, failure, and death. Evil carries within it the seeds of its own destruction and Who Was Karl Marx?: The Men, the Motives and the Menace Behind Today's Rampaging American Left is a handy guide to the evil that has manifested itself among us in all its destructiveness.
And finally to the ways we can fight back against the Left and defeat it before it destroys us.
{Reposted from the FrontPage Mag website}
Forgotten Heroes: The Jewish Resistance and Exodus 1947
July and August 2021 mark the 74th anniversary of the Exodus 1947 ship (originally named the President Warfield), perhaps the most dramatic post-WWII attempt to breach the British naval blockade and bring Holocaust survivors to Mandatory Palestine.
The ship, with over 4,500 Jewish refugees on board, left the French port of S̬te on July 11, 1947. It was intercepted by the British, and after a determined resistance its passengers were returned to Port-de-Bouc in France on three deportation ships. The refugees refused to leave the French coast, and stayed on the ships under difficult conditions in the heavy August heat. They were ultimately led by force by the British to Hamburg, Germany Рthe country that had just slaughtered six million of their brethren.
The affair, which shocked the world, received extensive media coverage and has been the subject of much research and subsequent creative endeavor, including novels and films. There is much to focus on: the Briha (clandestine escape from Europe to Mandatory Palestine) movement, the clandestine immigration (Aliya Bet) movement, the survivors themselves, the emissaries from the Land of Israel, and the crew of the ship. Much has also been written on the political circumstances surrounding the affair as well as its implications with regard to the struggle for the creation of the state of Israel.
All these efforts are entirely appropriate. It is regrettable, however – and historically unjustifiable – that the major involvement of the heroes of the French Jewish resistance is almost entirely absent from the numerous publications and commemoration ceremonies relating to the Exodus affair as well as to the broader struggle for the creation of Israel.
The Jewish Resistance organization in France, which included, inter alia, Zionist networks such as the "Jewish Army" and the "Zionist Youth Movement," participated in the rescue of tens of thousands of Jews in France during the Nazi occupation through the fabrication of forged documents, the hiding of children and adults, and the smuggling of convoys to Switzerland and Spain.
At the end of the war, David Ben-Gurion appointed Avraham Polonski (Monsieur Pol), a leader of the Jewish resistance in France, as commander of the Hagana in France and North Africa. The volunteers who joined the organization, mostly veterans of the Jewish resistance, participated in many critical activities: the Briha; clandestine and legal immigration; the forging of documents; the transfer of arms to the Yishuv; and the setting up of communication systems, immigrant camps, and military training camps. They provided the emissaries from the Land of Israel with money, manpower, certificates, accommodations, and contacts with French authorities. These contacts were particularly important as the French security authorities, motivated by human considerations, often turned a blind eye to the "illegal" immigration of Holocaust survivors. Later, many veterans of the resistance made aliya and participated in the War of Independence.
Members of the Hagana in France and North Africa under Polonski's command were involved in the Exodus operation from its early stages: they forged travel documents, assisted in the transporting of survivors to the Strasbourg-Mulhouse border, recruited medical students, organized the reception of refugees by the Red Cross, and accompanied the refugees on their journey from the border train stations to Marseilles.
Members of the Hagana in France, under Polonski's leadership, also played an important role in preparing accommodations for the refugees. By leveraging their contacts and making bribes, they even managed to overcome the obstacle of a truck drivers' strike in Marseille by obtaining their leaders' consent to transport the refugees to their destination in Sète. Following the arrival of the three British deportation ships to Port-de-Bouc with the Exodus passengers, Polonski's team assisted in preventing the British from forcing the passengers to disembark.
The team followed British agents on the coast, sought help from French trade unions, and provided supplies to the survivors on the ships. Throughout the operation, a central communications system, stationed in Paris, enabled contact among all the actors.
It is a great injustice that the enormous contribution of the veterans of the French Jewish resistance to the creation of the state of Israel has been almost completely excised from Israel's collective memory. One possible explanation for their excision from the narrative regarding the Exodus affair could be the patronizing attitude of the emissaries from the Land of Israel and their emphasis on their own contribution. It could also relate to the tendency of Jewish resistance veterans to keep their postwar activities secret, which many of them did for years afterward.
This injustice should be corrected. The contribution of the French Jewish resistance – not only to the Exodus affair, but to the very creation of Israel – deserves to take its proper place as an integral part of Israel's historical pantheon.
(Dr. Tsilla Hershco, a senior research associate at the BESA Center, is the author of Those Who Walk in Darkness Will See the Light: The Jewish Resistance in France During the Holocaust and the Creation of Israel, 1940-1949)
What's My Line? - 500th Episode! Julie Andrews; Martyn Green & Martin Gabel [panel] (Feb 7, 1960)
MYSTERY GUEST: Julie Andrews
PANEL: Arlene Francis, Martyn Green, Dorothy Kilgallen, Martin Gabel
