Should the Chief Rabbi be fired?

 
In the Galut, the Rabbi was hired by the community and fired if disliked.

 Here, Liberman's Yisrael Beytenu party called for Rabbi Lau to be fired from the position of Chief Rabbi in response to a letter.

"This attempt to hold converts hostage to the haredi establishment which has seized control of the Chief Rabbinate - like the threats from the Chief Rabbi against the minister appointed over him - crosses a red line and contravenes all accepted practice.

"We call on the Religious Affairs Minister to fire the Chief Rabbi immediately and to summon him to a disciplinary hearing, just like any other state official." Pic.: The first Rabbi of Sadigura.

Population Replacement in Europe

 

There is no doubt that Europe is changing, a non-European majority is already obvious. France and other large countries are camouflaging this unsettling near future, but here and there we can see what is happening. The majority of the babies being born in Belgique are of foreign origin (left: an official planning report). But it is not like the right-wing racists think, the foreigners are not having six or eight children, they cannot even be said to have large families. The average seems to be 1.9 children/foreign mother. And not all of them are Congo Bantus, most are from Eastern Europe. The replacement is by differential fertility, the native Belges almost stopped having children. Exploited, famished rural peasants and urban proletarians replenished in the past diminishing populations, but today those classes are non-existent.  

Chinese Poison-Speak

I used to quote Der Spiegel for their venomous articles about American society and President  Donald Trump. Now it is the turn of the Chinese: Below is a quote from Global Times.

"If the US could put aside political discord for one day of the year, then Christmas should be that day. But the fact is, even a Christmas call to express holiday wishes and gratitude for US military service members around the world is still used to express extreme political sentiment. American citizens may even abuse the president with euphemistic and insulting language on the phone. Such an abnormal situation shows the morbid division in US society and an inability to resolve social problems.

"Let's Go Brandon," a father and former police officer Jared Schmeck said on the phone when US President Joe Biden and the first lady were taking calls into the North American Aerospace defense Command Santa Tracker on Christmas Eve on Friday.

"Let's Go Brandon" is a vulgar anti-Biden slogan - a sanitized version of "Fxxx Joe Biden." The slogan has become an internet sensation in the US and is especially popular among supporters of former US president Donald Trump. 

"Let's Go Brandon" shows the US' morbid division, which has almost become an incurable disease in the country. What will the country become when half of the American people's wishes oppose the other half? The current division makes the country seem as if it is heading toward an inevitable decline. In a society that is so divided, almost no problem can be resolved, nor can anything be changed."

They seem to faintly dislike America and Biden. 

Two days of NADA

 
Sunday mostly slept. Today was spent waiting for an auto part for the annual road test. 

Antigone à Quebec

Yesterday we went to celebrate birthdays in a vegetarian restaurant, and then the Cinematec Tel Aviv.  Something about an Algerian refugee family: two brothers involved in the Habibi drug gang and the pure, virginal sister, Antigone. She had to take a decision to betray her brothers or be expelled. She decided that family loyalty beats loyalty to Canada's laws. In French: 

Vivant à Montréal avec sa grand-mère, sa soeur et ses deux frères, elle est une première de classe, une jeune fille comme une autre, à l'âge des premiers amours. Mais un jour, son frère aîné, Étéocle, est abattu gratuitement par un policier trop nerveux – et le cadet, Polynice, est arrêté et menacé d'expulsion du territoire. Antigone décide alors de tout risquer pour l'aider à s'évader.

I didn't like it. 

POTASH

 

I started to make real profits on the Stock Exchange with POTASH, when the magical CEO Mr.Doyle created a worldwide monopoly and the price went up to 1000 $/ton. I speculate that we are at the beginning of a similar cycle, as the company that ruined the cartel, Uralkali is being restrained by American sanctions. Belaruskali (Bielorussian potash - 20% of world production) is being punished for political reasons (siding with Putin). I think the conjuncture is so good that is safe to take out a loan to buy ICL. 

The State of Palestine (2022)