THE metaphor, “don’t reinvent the wheel”, is oft-expressed when it revolves around demonstrable and provable outcomes. Common sense.
TRAGICALLY, such is the case when it involves the pincer-like, Islamic Jihadi horror show on the ground in Israel. Yes, whereas in the previous ten years certain political names have played musical chairs (in the U.S. and in Israel, alongside dominant Sunni/Shia interchangeable, Islamic Jihadi, terror hydras), the present-day outcome was more than predicted a decade ago.
INDEED, the below Interview (make sure to keep scrolling down until the bios of the two Interviewees appear) takes time to absorb, but its essence is more than mandatory reading.
SIGNIFICANTLY, the Intro/Question format is courtesy of the years-long, esteemed (former) Editor-in-Chief of INQUISITR, Wolff Bachner. Alas, the advice within is as follows: head to a quiet corner, put your feet up, grab a few snacks and beverages of choice – preferably, not the inebriating kind!
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Far too often, seemingly, well-educated, rational folks opine: “Peace” will break out in the Middle East, that is, if only Israel’s “war-mongers” cease and desist defending their citizenry! By extrapolation, grateful Islamic-driven barbarians, Sunni and Shia, will volte-face. Imagine that. Voila.
Now, lest anyone steadfastly clings to the above twisted hallucination – that which encompasses a pathological obsession – they must, post haste, be relegated to the sidelines of any rational discourse. In this way, they are thrown headlong into the category of “Alice in Wonderland/Down The Rabbit Hole”
While mainly attributed to Western Globalists – whose worldviews are steeped in Jew-hatred – of course, as a knock-on effect, their evil actions and biases are transmuted to Israel writ large; the Biblical, Historical, Jewish National Homeland. Naturally, the aforementioned are in lock-step with nihilistic Mohammadans.
Resultant, they operate as a force multiplier to exert a maximize amount of carnage upon Israel, as well as onto Jews worldwide. Intrinsically, it is impossible to overstate the magnitude of the threat level; that which reaches an unprecedented degree, when considering the net effect of the “red-green alliance/axis.”
Stratospheric.
But there’s more.
Unfathomably, leftist Jews in Israel (who lend a fierce tailwind to their comrades in America, as well as within the west in toto), led by fellow post/anti-Zionists, with former PM Ehud Barak as their titular head, have become the enemies within. No doubt.
Former Chief of Staff Dan Halutz says in left-wing demonstration that ministers Ben Gvir, Smotrich and Levin are the existential threat to the country and not the various terrorist organizations…..
Case closed – even though a laundry list of similarly inclined traitors incite in plain view!
Alas, if the above is not earth-shattering and heart-rending enough, the usual suspects – leftist media mouthpieces ala tv, print, online, social media fronts – stoke the fires, thereby, enflaming jihadi barbarism against Israel!
Ipso facto, chief within this pincer-like encirclement lies Meta, a/k/a Facebook. As evidenced within a compendium of analyses by this writer/author, it is imperative to absorb the below bullet-proof trails. So much so, the evil-doers within understand that they are well-advised not to threaten in this direction, that is, to cease and desist! As is known to the more legally-inclined, depositions tend to create messy and unwanted “openings” for certain secrets that are best left buried.
Now, akin to a dog-pile, yes, western academia enters the filth-ridden arena. Never-ending.
It is at this critical juncture that a backgrounder, the con-joining of so-called mainstreammedia + academia, must ensue. This is so because countless well- meaning individuals are confused re the incendiary nexus between academia and the “Fourth Estate.”
To wit, their marriage didn’t occur overnight. In reality, the courtship is decades old. Whereas it is both wholly unprofessional and morally bankrupt for professors to be injecting their political biases into their classrooms and campuses, their linkages have become welded together; that which cannot be uncoupled in our lifetime, if ever. Read: America’s Academic Cesspool: (Poisoned” Ivies Lead the Way!
Basically, the 1960’s afforded a hyper-organized group of well-funded student revolutionaries their foothold to overturn academia. Their efforts piggybacked onto an American landscape which was already on fire from various trigger points. Thus, they pounced into action across campuses, as well as throughout the national landscape. However, it must be understood that even though a cadre of student leaders were up to their necks in upending the social order by acting as campus foot soldiers, neverthess, without the imprimatur, overt or covert, of faculties and administrators, the mayhem would not have been allowed to continue apace.
That being said, though several campuses were instigators and ring leaders in all the chaos, Columbia University in New York City, most notably, deserves much of the credit.
Be that as it may, the die was cast. And it was into this nightmarish upheaval that leftist entrenchment into academia became cemented. Consequentially, so-called journalists are plucked from top journalism programs to fill rarefied openings at various media outlets. Of course, the most coveted ones are those within the big six outlets. One such prestigious program is Columbia School of Journalism, therefore, is it any wonder that leftist academia + the“Fourth Estate” have merged into a dangerous and unholy alliance – the most pernicious force multipliers operating at the edges of a multi-front, bloody battlefield waging an existential war against Israel!
Most significantly, while Israelis run hither and yon to seek shelter in protected spaces – with continuous barrages of missiles, rockets, drones, etc. raining down upon them, since 10/7/23 – a fraction of malignant actors are cited, albeit, with far too many unmentioned. In both words and deeds, they dare to blame Israel, the victim, for fighting back against an existential peril! Evil intent, on its face.
Inexorably, but for the “Lions of Zion” within the ranks of the IDF, IAF, Navy and various aces within Israel’s Special Forces, Mossad, etc., Sunni and Shia Islamic monsters would have reached their centuries-long, Koranic mandates: The eradication of world Jewry!
But don’t despair. Those who cannot join the physical battle, they, too, have an integral part to play. Indeed, front and center, stands an“Informational War Front”, of which this writer is immeasureably linked.
Conclusively, like it or not, whither Israel goes, similarly, the fate of world Jewry is barely far behind.
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Contagiously, unwittingly and obsessively, the identity of many parents (at times, grandparents) become enmeshed and forged with hoisting their kiddies into the so-called elite Ivies. Grave error in judgment. Costly. Tragic.
Stipulated, even though in the first decade of the 21st century this investigative journalist had 2 stickers adorning the back windshield of both family cars – CALTECH and MIT, respectively – for the record, since both schools were too busy ‘torturing’ their students with impossible problem sets, there was precious little time to sleep/eat, let alone run amok inciting to anti-semitic/anti-western chaos (yes, one school stood strong, CALTECH….MIT, not so much)! Afterall, the radicalized 1960’s were long gone, as documented within “Bringing Down America.”
Still yet, little happens in a vacuum. Hard as the Ivies attempt to whitewash the top-tier’s affinity for mass murderers – be they Islamic Jihadi terrorists + their communist/Marxist/socialist comrades, a/k/a the red-green alliance– well, they can run, but they can’t hide.
In furtherance to the aforementioned historical record, the following is bullet-proof:
“During the 1930s, America’s most prominent colleges and universities, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and the Seven Sisters, helped legitimize antisemitism by warmly welcoming Nazi leaders to campus, enrolling German exchange students trained as Nazi propagandists, and encouraging their own students to study in the …”
Harvard University enhanced the reputation of the Nazi regime when it sanctioned events in the 1930s attended by Nazis, a historian claimed Sunday.
“Harvard remained largely indifferent to the persecution of Germany’s Jews,” said Stephen H. Norwood, a University of Oklahoma history professor who is writing a book about the response of American universities to the Nazi party.
Norwood presented some of his findings at a conference on the Holocaust at Boston University, where he was the keynote speaker.
The university responded with a rebuttal of Norwood’s claims, which they said lacked context.
“The University was then and is now repulsed by everything that Hitler represents, and the specter of Nazism rightly inspires horror and revulsion to this day,” the university said in a statement.
Norwood claimed administrators welcomed one of Adolf Hitler’s closest deputies to a reunion, hosted a reception for German naval officials and sent a delegate to a celebration at a German university that had expelled Jews.
‘Remained indifferent’ Harvard administrators, alumni and student leaders “remained indifferent to Germany’s terrorist campaign against Jews and indeed on numerous occasions assisted the Nazis in their efforts to gain acceptance in the West,” he said.
Norwood criticized former Harvard President James Bryant Conant for failing to speak against the Nazis despite numerous opportunities between 1933 and 1937.
He said that during that time, it was widely reported that German Jews were segregated in schools, beaten in the streets, purged from universities and their businesses boycotted. The persecution later culminated in the Holocaust, in which millions of Jews across Europe were executed in Nazi concentration camps.
Much of Norwood’s presentation focused on a campus visit by Ernst Hanfstaengl, the Nazi party’s foreign press chief….
Clear as a bell.
Back to the here and now.
Into the fray, The Harvard Crimson(Oct. 19, 2024), the school’s flagship student paper, takes center stage:
Harvard Placed 3 Students on Probation For Role in Anti-CCP Protest, Documents Show
The Harvard College Administrative Board briefly placed three undergraduates on disciplinary probation for protesting Chinese Ambassador Xie Feng during an event at the Harvard Kennedy School in April.
The disciplinary charges were revealed earlier this week by the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, which released several documents obtained from the University as part of its probe into the University’s handling of the anti-CCP protest at HKS. While the three undergraduate protesters were disciplined, a student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education who was filmed physically removing one of the protesters from the event did not face any disciplinary action from his school.
Rep. John R. Moolenaar (R-Mich.), who chairs the Select Committee on the CCP, slammed Harvard for disciplining the College student protesters but not the HGSE student, accusing the University of adjusting its disciplinary response based on a student’s ideological beliefs.
“This is yet another example of Harvard’s appallingly unequal treatment of protestors based on the speech they support,” Moolenar said. “Harvard is punishing brave students who spoke out against the CCP’s human rights abuses while not only letting the student who assaulted them off scot-free but also handing him an apology.”
University spokesperson Jason A. Newton declined to comment on the investigation, writing that the University “does not comment on individual disciplinary proceedings or cases.”
Cosette T. Wu ’25, a co-founder of the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP, was placed on probation for three days by the Ad Board over her role in the protest. Wu was the first protester to interrupt Xie’s speech, which featured six protesters standing up one at a time to shout and hold up signs denouncing the CCP’s policy toward Tibet, Hong Kong, East Turkestan, the Uyghurs, and Taiwan.
The HGSE student, who helped organize Xie’s talk at Harvard, grabbed Wu by the arm and forcibly led her away from the event to a Harvard University Police Department officer standing outside the venue.
Harvard had not authorized the HGSE student to provide security during the event, according to the documents released by the committee. HUPD officers present during the incident submitted an assault and battery incident report, though Wu declined two separate offers from HUPD officers to press charges against the HGSE student, according to HUPD logs and documents published by the committee.
HUPD subsequently closed the investigation.
House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chair Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), who is separately leading an investigation into campus antisemitism at Harvard, called the University’s response to the anti-CCP protest “unacceptable.
“Whether it’s pro-Hamas or pro-CCP agitators, administrators apologize to and actually encourage some students to keep expressing their so-called ‘meaningful discourse’ at the expense of the safety of other students,” she wrote.
HGSE Academic Dean Martin R. West wrote in a May 22 email to the student that he had decided not to pursue additional disciplinary action even though he had violated the school’s policy on physical violence because the student had been instructed by an event organizer to intervene and his action was “understandable in that context.”
After the event, a flurry of social media posts publicized the identity of the HGSE student, as well as his brother and parents, who allegedly hold top government positions in the CCP.
Following the doxxing, the student returned home and missed his graduation ceremony to be with his family, according to a separate email exchange between West and another HGSE administrator in early May. West wrote in the email exchange that he believed the publicization of the student’s identity had “probably punished [him] enough.”
In the email to the student, West wrote that he felt “sorry” that the student had missed his graduation ceremony and that he regretted the “significant harm” the student and his family faced “as a result of the event.”
The College Administrative Board meanwhile began investigating the three student’s actions on April 26, according to the released emails.
Two of the three students met with a subcommittee of the Ad Board on May 10, the Ad Board subcommittee report revealed. The third student declined to meet with the Ad Board. On May 17, the subcommittee submitted a report to the entire Ad Board recommending that the body “admonish” the students for “inappropriate social behavior.”
On May 21, the Ad Board notified all three students that they had been placed on “disciplinary probation” from May 17 to May 20, an offense that does not permanently appear on a student’s transcript.
The Ad Board took disciplinary action against the three students during the same week that it suspended five pro-Palestine protesters and placed more than 20 students on probation for their involvement in the pro-Palestine encampment in Harvard Yard. Many encampment participants who faced disciplinary charges had their sanctions reduced by the Ad Board several months later.
The committee’s investigation into the incident, however, leaves several of its questions from the July letter unanswered, including whether the group that hosted the April event is affiliated with the Chinese Students and Scholars Association — an organization that shares the same logo as the HKS group and is known for censoring anti-China dialogue on American university campuses.
In its response to the committee on July 31, Harvard wrote that while it was “not aware of any formal relationship between these organizations, nothing restricts students from being members of both organizations.”
Rep. Elise M. Stefanik ’06 (R-N.Y.) — one of Harvard’s fiercest critics in Washington — joined Moolenaar and Foxx in decrying the University’s decision to discipline the protesters.
“Once again, Harvard has proven to be completely corrupted by adversarial foreign influence,” Stefanik said in a statement. “Harvard is kowtowing to Communist China.”
Most significantly, on an absolute consistent basis, Harvard (with their collegial cesspools in league) has chosen to be on the wrong side of history.
Resultant, its demise (whichever way it takes place….trust, the rest of their gang will implode, too) cannot come soon enough!!
TICK TOCK……
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WITH Israel fighting an existential war on multiple fronts, it is often forgotten that there are unsung heroes.
AS per today’s spotlights: tragically deceased, these 2 heroes barely tolerated political power-brokers – with the understanding that countless heretoforore “top-dogs” within the IDF’s fighting forces created (and still do!) disaster after disaster, that is, when they gained political power. In a nutshell, they are allergic to VICTORY (see x.com below). While there are countless to cite, it is instructive to commence your journey in the here and now, effectively, with Defense Minister Gallant, no less! https://x.com/AdinaF2boys/status/1846185723747082677
INDEED, such is the case since the re-establishment of the Jewish Homeland, in 1948. In this sense, yes, as intoned “There is nothing new under the sun“, Ecclesiastes/Kohelet 1:9.
REGARDLESS, one such “hero among heroes” jumps to the forefront, and he must never be forgotten. Tsafrir Ronen, z”l, operated “behind enemy lines”, therefore, most of his missions remain classified. However, as this writer’s best friend (having met in NYC, while he was “working”, close to a decade before immigrating to Israel), his untimely death shocked to the core; cut deep into the recesses of this soul. It is detailed within, “Israel’s Hero, My Hero“.
IT is more than appropriate to take this opportunity to salute another: An American-Israeli Hero; A Warrior Who Operated on Both Fronts! https://www.copsalive.com/4544-2/
I received very sad news today that my friend, retired NYPD Detective First Grade, Mordecai Dzikansky has died suddenly of a heart attack. Morty was my friend, my colleague, my hero and a damn good cop.
Morty served in the NYPD for twenty-five years and he was a Hero, an NYPD Detective First Grade, a Husband, a Father, an Author, a Teacher, a Cop’s cop and my Friend.
He is survived by his wife Meryl and their three children Zachary, Jake, Talia
We were supposed to be teaching together at the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA) conference this week but other priorities had pulled both of us apart and in different directions, so that neither of us were able to attend the conference.
He was together with his family celebrating the sacred Jewish holiday of Purim when he died.
He worked with us at The Law Enforcement Survival Institute and was very active in trying to help other law enforcement professionals avoid, or mitigate, the traumas and hidden dangers of our profession. He suffered from many of these himself.
As a NYPD Manhattan South Homicide Detective on September 11, 2001, when terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center in New York City, Morty’s team of detectives were immediately dispatched to what would eventually be called Ground Zero to begin investigations.
Also at the time his wife, Meryl, worked in the 3 World Financial Center connected to the North Tower (the second to be hit by a plane) of the World Trade Center. She was just able to escape before the North Tower fell.
“Plunging Into My Own Hell”
I will never forget Morty’s words from the Foreword of his book Terrorist Cop “I had accomplished so much. Everyone said so. It was an easy leap me to read the newspaper articles about my exploits and then to imagine who would be playing me in the film. And yet, the warning signs that I was plunging into my own hell were all too apparent. There was a doctor whom I visited, who suggested in all seriousness that if I did not quit my assignment, I would soon be dead.”
Later in the Foreword, he writes: “I suppose I was burned out from the job. But, in fact, I was obsessed with my work, so obsessed that as my workload diminished, I grew even more obsessed and I entered my own isolated world; My relationships with my wife and children suffered; with time on my hands for the first time in years. I poured all my anxiety into eating and put on far too many pounds”. I was not suffering the kind of mental collapse that carried a stigma. My ailment was post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD. Somehow, the emotions that I was experiencing were easier to absorb now that I knew my situation had a rational explanation. It was all so ironic. My job was to be the voice of authority; my tasks were to make sure that the awful scenes that I witnessed would never happen again. I suffered pain from our up-close encounters with the victims. And yet here I was, a victim too”.
So, how did he get there?
Mordecai Dzikansky entered the NYPD Police Academy in January of 1983 and graduated in June of that year. Coming from a family of Orthodox Jews, Morty normally wore a yarmulke but didn’t want to stand out during his time in the Academy. Once he received his first assignment he started to wear it and became one of only three Orthodox Jews in the 40,000 person New York Police Department.
He started his police career in Brooklyn as part the Neighborhood Stabilization Unit 12 (NSU12) in Crown Heights. From the beginning he was destined to be in the limelight. A photo of him wrestling with the suspect of his very first arrest made the front page of the New York Daily News. They also misspelled his name.
Soon, he received his first permanent assignment in the 79th Precinct in the Bedford-Stuyvesant district. During the 1980’s had a high rate of daily shootings and murders. In March 1986 he was transferred to the Narcotics Division and stopped wearing his yarmulke while he was undercover. In 1988 he was transferred to midtown Manhattan to become the first NYPD Orthodox Jewish detective, and in October of 1988 he was transferred from Bedford-Stuyvesant to the Detective Squad in the Midtown North precinct as a robbery detective. In April of 1989 he was promoted to Detective Third Grade and stayed in Midtown North for the next ten years.
NYPD’s Jewish Detective
Morty knew he stood out. Many of the NYPD brass referred to him as their “Jewish Detective”, not only because he wore a yarmulke but also because in the 1980’s he became the Hebrew-Language translator for the NYPD. The moniker didn’t bother Morty because he know that he wanted to move up within the NYPD and suspected that standing out in that way could help him. He was right, because in November 1990, as a junior robbery detective, he became involved in the high-profile homicide investigation into the murder of Rabbi Meir Kahane a very controversial Jewish figure in New York at that time. After arriving at the crime scene Morty told his superiors that he believed the murder had all the earmarks of an Islamic hit. As Morty had suspected the investigation later revealed that the murder of Rabbi Kahane proved to be an assassination having to do with his extremist anti-Arab views and the Egyptian militant charged with Kahane’s murder had ties to a world-wide terrorist network. The case was marred by many, many problems that eventually revealed that the NYPD needed to improve its ability to understand and respond to international terrorism. This would change in 2002 with Ray Kelly taking charge as NYPD Police Commissioner.
Morty had a strong affection for the State of Israel. He had visited there many times and wanted to retire there. Global forces were also at play in Morty’s life, and on January 17, 1991 as the First Gulf War broke out, Iraq fired missiles into Israel. In February 1991 Morty, took a month-long vacation and joined the Israeli Defence Forces Sar-El program as an international volunteer helping at an Army base near Beersheba Israel.
Back in New York, in May of 1991, Morty met his future bride Meryl Markowitz at a Jewish event and the were married in September of 1992.
Over the years Morty’s exploits had continued to find their way into the newspapers and he was developing a reputation. Then in the fall of 1992, he was thrust into the spotlight again when he became the lead investigator in a very high-profile task-force investigation into a series of fifteen thefts of sacred Jewish Torahs from Jewish synagogues around the city. The Torah, the holiest object in Judaism, is regarded as reveling the word of God; it contains the five Books of Moses, and the thefts created a massive stir within the Jewish community. NYPD once again turned to its “Jewish detective” for help. The Torah is sacred. A Torah, if too old or torn, receives a proper burial with accompanying prayers. It is the only religious object in Judaism that requires that the congregation stand when its ark is opened, or it is held.
The case proved to be particularly difficult to solve. One of the fifteen stolen Torah’s was recovered in 1993, and two young men were arrested in Brooklyn, but it was not until a break came in 1996 when Morty and his team were able to make two arrests of the person who had stolen the other fourteen Torahs and his fence trying to sell them.
Morty was involved in many other high-profile and important cases but his life would change forever after September 11, 2001. Between January and June of 2002 40 suicide bombings had occurred in Israel. In June of 2002 Morty was selected into the NYPD’s newly revamped Intelligence Bureau. The police department was establishing overseas postings for NYPD officers in order to provide on-the-spot intelligence of foreign terror attacks, and to learn as much about the methods of radical Islamic terrorists.
From January of 2003 until September of 2007, Morty was in Israel as the first NYPD Intelligence Division Overseas Liaison to the Israel National Police. His intelligence gathering and immediate relay of key information back to NYC enhanced the Department’s ability to recognize, react to, and prevent or recover from terrorist acts. During that time he responded in person to and analyzed 21 bombing scenes in Israel and several attacks globally, including events in Turkey, Russia, Spain and Egypt. He worked with senior members of the Israeli intelligence community on joint investigations which connected New York City and the State of Israel.
Despite all of the excitement and many accolades of his long career, eventually the toll of the trauma and cost of seeing so much tragedy began to take effect on Morty. His blood pressure was sky high. He knew that he was suffering the effects of PTSD from all that he had seen throughout his career, but he felt he could fix it himself. “We’ve all seen shit” he said, knowing that all cops have witnessed more horrors than the average citizen can imagine, but like all cops, he felt he could handle it.
In January of 2008, after 25 years with the NYPD, Morty turned down Commissioner Kellys offer to stay on in another foreign assignment, decided to retire to take care of his health and spend more time with his wife and kids.
Following his retirement he published two books: Terrorist Cop: The NYPD Jewish Cop Who Traveled the World to Stop Terrorists in 2010 and his textbook on terrorism investigations Terrorist Suicide Bombings: Attack Interdiction, Mitigation, and Response by Mordecai Dzikansky, Gil Kleiman, et al. in 2011.
He worked the lecture circuit and consulted with law enforcement and academics on global security and policing topics using his expertise to provide first-hand analysis of current terror trends, lessons learned, and worldwide application to prevent and respond to terrorism.
He spent time working on his health and fitness and I convinced him to talk to other cops about working through the hidden dangers and physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual impacts that a career in police work can layer upon your life. As I said, we were both going to be speaking this week to an international audience of law enforcement leaders and trainers. We didn’t make it. Each of our lives pulled us in other directions and both of us had to cancel for different reasons.
Now I will never see my friend again. At sixty he was too young to die! All the law enforcement research I read tells us that our career has risks far different from, and sometimes far above, most other careers.
AND YET WE STILL DON’T LISTEN!
Cardiologist Jonathan Sheinberg, MD, FACC who is also a Police Lieutenant does research on early cardiac death of law enforcement officers and he reports “We’ve collected data on over 2,000 police officers and what we found is 2,000 officers have an increased risk of heart disease compared to the civilian population,” Sheinberg said. “Now, we’ve known for years that officers die at an earlier age. The average life expectancy of a police officer is 22 years less than the general population.” and “He says police officers are 25 times more likely to die from cardiovascular disease than from the action of a suspect 1.”
Dr. Sheinberg is a founder, President and CEO, of the Public Safety Cardiac Foundation. Besides medicine, Dr. Sheinberg’s passion is Law Enforcement. He is a licensed Peace Officer for the State of Texas, a Lieutenant on the Cedar Park Police Department, and a Special Deputy United States Marshal. He is the Assistant Medical Director of Williamson County EMS over tactical medicine and oversees the tactical medical support for the Central Texas Regional SWAT Team, Williamson County Sheriff’s Office SWAT Team and the Round Rock Police Department SWAT Team.
These are challenging times for police in the United States and through-out the world. The men and women who work in this profession are not only challenged by social activism, divisive politics, and a pandemic but also on a psychological and physical personal level. We all are aware of the danger of being a police officer, but beneath that lies a hidden danger: mental distress. A successful police career therefore involves not only surviving the danger but also psychological survival.
In his new book: Occupation Under Siege: Resolving Mental Health Crosses in Police Work, researcher and former New York State Trooper John Violanti, Ph.D. writes: “Post-traumatic Stress (PTSD) and depression appear to be prevalent in police. Police officers are repeatedly exposed to traumatic situations including motor vehicle accidents, armed conflicts, and witnessing violent death across their working lives. An estimated 7% – 19% of police officers qualify for a diagnosis of PTSD, and approximately 34% experience a number of PTSD symptoms. Depression and PTSD are often found together in officers. Several studies on police have found the prevalence of depression to be approximately 12% which is nearly twice as high as the general population. Both depression and PTSD promote poor health through a complex interaction between biological and psychological mechanisms. Police officers with PTSD or depression are at an increased risk for negative health issues such as cardiovascular disease and gastrointestinal disorders, comorbid psychological conditions as well as suicide. Officers with severe PTSD symptoms are approximately three times more likely to have the metabolic syndrome — a collection of components which increase the risk for heart disease.”
As you read this I implore you to use Morty’s life as a model for your career but MORE IMPORTANTLY to use Morty’s death as a giant RED FLAG warning you and your peers about the need to stay healthy, build resilience and spread the word about the hidden dangers facing all of us in law enforcement.
To my Friend Morty Dzikansky, I say: Rest in Peace Brother!
To all my friends in law enforcement – Stay safe and build resilience – YOUR LIFE and the QUALITY OF YOUR LIFE depend on it.
WITH DEEP LOVE, RESPECT & GRATITUDE FOR ALL THAT THE AFOREMENTIONED HAVE SACRIFICED!!
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There are certain unspoken blessings in life – aside from good health, the privilege of enjoying the loving embrace of one’s immediate and extended family – which leave an indelible mark on one’s heart, mind and consciousness.
In this respect, it was a distinct honor to intersect with Rav Meir Kahane,of blessed memory, over many years. As such, it is impossible not to go back in time and posit: What would have been this leading and iconic Jewish warrior’s immediate reaction to the barbarism of Mohammadans on 10/7?, in turn, his sage thoughts and advice on the marking of its year-long aftermath, 10/7/24?
First things first. Some backgrounder is in order, that is, as per our connection.
Having grown up in NYC, it never escaped these eyes and ears that whenever the crap hit the fan – nationally or internationally – being Jewish was not a plus.
In fact, when Rav Meir Kahane, of blessed memory, formed the Jewish Defense League (in 1968), this writer was merely a young kid, but with more than enough moxy to spare. Fascinated at the sight of throngs of Jews marching through the streets of NYC with loudspeakers, huge placards, and raised fists in the air, well, what a refreshing sight! Empowering.
As a student at a Zionist Hebrew Day School with a sterling academic reputation, the Holocaust was a core part of the curriculum – nothing was left unsaid. Therefore, witnessing “NEVER AGAIN” signage aloft and unintimidated, a mere 2 decades after 6 million Jewish souls were exterminated, was a most hopeful message during said turbulent times….yes, the anti-western, Jew-hating terrorist groups, The Weatherman and the Black Pantherswere rampaging and on the march.
As time progressed, in young adulthood, a friendship was formed between this writer and the Rav’s personal attorney; his most trusted advisor, too. This meant that access to the Rav was assured, as requested, when in NYC.
In fact, “The Opening of Jihad on US Soil” (November 2005, Israel National News) was an outgrowth of this relationship and (unlimited) access thereof.
As excerpted:
The logical conclusion that Rabbi Kahane’s supporters drew from his murder was crystal clear. Strangely, it coincided with the assessment of the Islamic jihad: if they can eliminate a problematic “radical” rabbi on US soil and get away with it, then the hitherto invincible and impenetrable US would become open for their jihad…..
Atop of all that, it was this writer’s beloved brother, Mordecai (a/k/a Morty) Dzikansky, of blessed memory, NYPD Homicide Detective, First Grade, who was tasked by the Police Commissioner to track down the Rav’s assassin(s) – at the Marriott Midtown Hotel, 1990, and with every resource at his disposal.
Mordecai Dzikansky, one of NY’s Finest’s finest, is dubbed ‘the terrorist cop’. He searched for Kahane’s killer, liasoned with Israel….
In 1993, after a rash of synagogue burglaries in the Metropolitan area, Detective Dzikansky was selected as lead investigator of the then newly formed specialized Torah Task Force. The task force affected numerous arrests and successfully recovered many of the sacred Torah scrolls.
In addition, Detective Dzikansky was selected to work on terror related investigations, including the murders of MK Meir Kahaneand Ari Halberstam (Brooklyn Bridge murder)…..
Suffice to state: The Rav’s assassin’s were rounded up, interrogated to the max, and, as is said, “spilled the beans.”
Back to the two-tier query: What would have been this leading and iconic Jewish warrior’s immediate reaction to the barbarism via Mohammedans on 10/7?, in turn, his sage thoughts and advice on the marking of its aftermath, 10/7/24?
As to the first; the day which is forever marked in infamy and in Jewish history:
The Rav would not have been surprised at all. In fact, had it not taken place, that would have been the shocker!
In a nutshell, his clarion call for worldwide Jewry was crystal clear, straightforward and never wavered: An upright, proud Jew who bows before no one but the G-d of Israel +Barzel (iron-fisted courage, strength, and the like!) will lead to victory over the enemies of the Jewish people. Conversely, Israel’s leftist-driven, appeasing, so-called security leaders left “the barn doors wide open”, thus, “stampeding Mohammadans entered her gates.”
For, in reality, when courageous IDF look-outs and scouts on the southern border queried the Southern Command re Jihadi formations ready to burst through the gates, well, this was (part of) their response:The southern community leaders contacted the IDF and asked if, in light of these threats, the planned festivals and holiday events should be held.
Military sources responded that the events should take place, explaining, “Everything is fine. On the contrary – we are headed towards the area becoming quieter. Money is flowing into Gaza and workers are coming into Israel.”
Again, clear as a bell.
As per the second part of the so-called channeling of the Rav:
Dear Jews, dare NOT despair! Israeli forces are lions and have proven themselves to be worthy of attaining victory through Barzel!
Most significantly, ask yourselves: Is it any wonder that Israeli leftists/appeasers tarred and feathered him with the epitaph: “radical?“ In turn, the aforementioned lent a “kosher” stamp of approval to boot him out of the Knesset, thus, they set the stage for American and globalist leaders to incite to his assassination!
Moreover, as an ardent admirer and follower of the blessed Rav, it is urgently recommended to absorb a few of his inspirational books – sans any poppycock.
Conclusively, in tandem with following the above righteous Jewish principles, this writer is reminded of a famous quote from one of America’s legends; a hard-charging warrior of yesteryear, William Jesse McDonald, a Captain of the Texas Rangers.
As a man “who would charge hell with a bucket of water”, it was engraved on his tombstone: “No man in the wrong can stand against a fellow that’s in the right and keeps on a-comin’.”
AM YISRAEL CHAI!!
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Mordecai Dzikansky
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