Posted on 03/04/2024 6:28:53 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Stacey Zolt Hara was in her office in downtown San Francisco when a text from her 16-year-old daughter arrived: “I’m scared,” she wrote. Her classmates at Berkeley High School were preparing to leave their desks and file into the halls, part of a planned “walkout” to protest Israel. Like many Jewish students, she didn’t want to participate. It was October 18, 11 days after the Hamas invasion of southern Israel.
Zolt Hara told her daughter to wait in her classroom. She was trying to project calm. A public-relations executive, Zolt Hara had moved her family from Chicago to Berkeley six years earlier, hoping to find a community that shared her progressive values. Her family had developed a deep sense of belonging there.
But a moral fervor was sweeping over Berkeley High that morning. Around 10:30, the walkout began. Jewish parents traded panicked reports from their children. Zolt Hara heard that kids were chanting, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” a slogan that suggests the elimination of Israel. Rumors spread about other, less coy phrases shouted in the hallways, carrying intimations of violence. Jewish students were said to be in tears. Parents were texting one another ideas about where in the school their children could hide. Zolt Hara placed a call to the dean of students. By her own admission, she was hysterical. She says the dean hung up on her.
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The author shows a lack of awareness of when the golden age of the Jews really ended. It ended when the Islamic communist mole Obama illegally occupied the Oval Office. He unleashed anti Semitism and anti Israeli policies. Obama is 100% to blame for the hate Jews are experiencing now.
Those who did that to you were in the wrong. My thought is that they didn’t understand what they were requiring you to do, recognize a Messiah that you could not recognize.
That’s unfortunate.
Yeah, I guess they found it. But it wasn't exactly what they intended? Idiots. Liberalism is a cancer and liberals are insane.
“Parents were texting one another ideas about where in the school their children could hide.”
The kids would be in my car about 10 minutes after the first text was received.
Israelis should return that shout with “From the sea (Mediterranean) to the River(Euphrates)”, the original boundaries God gave the Israelites.
The property taxes are going up? We have not raised rates for years. Your values are going up and your special taxing districts are raising rates under your nose. We are not broke. We have a balanced budget and will have one next year. Please don’t believe everything you read on Facebook or in our new Democrat newspapers here in our County.
And if resolutions mean nothing, why were so many bent out of shape?
I am seeing things that aren’t there. Are you kidding me?
Berkeley is a living hell for Jews.
Well many picked poorly and continue to including lackluster support for Israel
They have their reasons for anti pluralism
Some valid honestly
But doesn’t mean they can’t be called out like any other group and opposed and crushed
I hope some wake up
True paleo traditionalist conservative Jews outside this forum are pretty rare
Gottfried
Stephan Miller
Two come to mind
Most others on the right are soft on culture and the war we’re in
On the left they are often at the vanguard
It becomes a dog chasing its tail
It was like this in Europe forever and cost Jews terribly
Don’t try your cute little school girl crap with me.
Ask any person in this county how much the assessed valuation has gone up resulting in radical rise in taxes.
As for your silly resolutions, I will support one IF, you present one condemning Israel’s unprovoked attack on the USS Liberty during the six day war.
How about paying attention to what is local..like the invasion of the State of AZ, Mohave county and the nation. Are we allowed to defend ourselves or isn’t that a concern.
You going to support Lakes run for senate or are you back stab her like you did when you McCainiacs did for her run for governor?
They always have and many are also Jewish
The public does what leftists tell them.
““From the sea (Mediterranean) to the River(Euphrates)””
The cradle of Western Civ.
Would you please explain to me what the Board of Supervisors has to do with rising values?
Same thing is going on here that happened in NY and CA.
Funny that your from both those places.
The result will be those not able to adjust to the impending rise in rents or increased tax bill, those people will become homeless.
But those in the so called elite classes, don’t care.
All that increase in values are important to you until, you face the blight of seniors living out on the street. It is utopia to you isn’t it?
During economic downturns those in the county with foresite could freeze any increased valuation until the economics becomes favorable.
BTW of all the present homeless, 2/3rds are either mentally handicapped or druggie. The remainder are seniors and of those, half are WORKING seniors.
It is those we should be concerned about.
But, let’s let illegals in right? Let’s give them advantages over honest people who have paid their way in society all their lives..and lots who have fought for the same country who has turned its back on them.
The last thing that should be allowed to happen is to force them out of their domiciles by increased property taxation.
And moreover. In many areas, there is no increase in services. Still have to haul water, response time for police is nearly in non existence. The tweekers rob because they know the county cops won’t do anything at all to stop them.
I am not sure where you live, but if you call the Sheriff and get no response, I want to hear about it. When there is a downturn, values go down. Remember, we are 2 years delayed. During the bad economic years, this Board decreased the property tax rate to meet the “truth in taxation” rate. That is the rate that would mean you are paying the same out of pocket as the year before. Again, the Board only has control of the County part of your property tax. The County (which includes the library and flood control districts) is only 22% of your entire bill We have no control over Fire Districts, School Districts, Water districts which are the largest part of your bill. They are led by their own elected Boards.
I agree with you about illegals. We are watching carefully to see if any of the non profits are bringing in illegals. It will not happen on our watch. Bullhead City just passed a resolution that they will not expend any resources towards illegals. It is written much like the 2nd Amendment Sanctuary County resolution I brought to the Board five years ago.
I would love to sit down and talk to you. Do not know where you live so you could come to my office or I will meet you for coffee anywhere you’d like. I know these are frustrating times. I believe this Board has done the best job with the money we have without raising the tax rate. 87% of our budget goes to mandated services. We are the only County that has no sales tax. Yet we experience the same rampant inflation as everyone else. From a paper clip tso contracts, everything has gone up.
But much of the problem is with the State. That is why I am running for State Senate. I think anyone who runs for a State position should have local government experience. I know the tricks they use to pass funding onto us. There is a lot of waste at the State.
I hope you take me up on my offer.
Property taxes should be based only on the original cost period.
I built this place for around 35 grand. Therfore, that should be the tax assessment. IF, I were to sell for say 250 grand, then THAT, becomes the assessment.
These shyster real estate agents are WAY over valuing property here in this valley.
As I explained to my district commissioner, what that does is when someone purchases such an over valued property, and if they rent it, the rent had to cover costs...taxes.
Maybe you can’t see the sense to that but what it does is puts the pressure on the realtors to keep the prices at reasonable market rates or they find that they will be responsible for the community collapse. New owners will be aware that their property taxes will reflect the buying price and not some clowns personal idea of what the property is worth.
That is why these people from wealthy areas come here to purchase. They pay outrageous prices knowing that they can get buy doing it and in the meantime speculate on the market they created
Be aware..many of these types of people have no intention of staying here long term.
Then...the issue of WATER. Do you know that the ground water north of Las Vegas is radioactive? Just an example but, that aquifer is moving slowly south to southwest. So eventually...it will reach the aquifers in towns/cities.
We keep allowing out of control development here in Eastern mohave county and some day..in the near future we will get to see a complete collapse of the communities because of ground water contamination..bacterial or other.
Instead of letting rain water run off and evaporate we should be constructing water retainment pools in every Dam drywash in the county.
Gimme an excavator and truck me the rock and I’ll show you how to do it. And keep the book learned college boys to hell away and I will have those collection pools done in short order. Those pools will allow that water to sit and filter down into the aquifer and not evaporate at the rate it does now..and after i am done with one..nobody will even know that they are there after a season.
One more concerning public safety and security.
This sheriff had better be prepared to swear in citizens for added security. These people need to be schooled on civil rights..that would also include the present county and local police.
I see a hoard of illegals coming and some are extremely violent. Illegals are NOT PROTECTED under this countries civil rights laws. By their crossing this border illegally, they give up all state and national civil rights by the violation of the law.
I live in district 4.
I am NOT a national socialist Democrat and am NOT a republican
I consider myself a George Mason conservative.
Fair enough. Thank you for responding. All good points.
Just remember this.
No matter what, throughout the world’s history, no society survived without clean reliable water.
Contaminated water from the ignorance of the failed realization that dirty water caused by the failure of a intake of fresh water collapsed every single ancient society on earth.
Take a close look at our civil war. More died as a result of drinking/using filthy water than were killed in battle.
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