Gov. Noem Proclaims “Shine a Light, Breaking Bread Week” to Honor Israel and the Jewish People
PIERRE, S.D. – Today, Governor Kristi Noem proclaimed the week of December 11, 2023, as “Shine a Light, Breaking Bread Week.” This week honors the State of Israel and South Dakota’s friendship with the Jewish people. You can read the full proclamation here.
“South Dakota has a long history of being allied with the State of Israel and the Jewish people,” wrote Governor Noem in her proclamation. “Since the October 7 attack on unarmed civilians in Israel, antisemitic incidents have increased here in the U.S.”
The State of South Dakota has long stood with the State of Israel. In 2020, Governor Noem issued an Executive Order to prohibit South Dakota Executive Branch Agencies from contracting with entities boycotting Israel. Governor Noem also declared the week of November 28, 2021, “Antisemitism Awareness Week” and proclaimed February 24, 2022, “Israel Relations Day.”
“’Breaking Bread’ embodies the essence of sharing culture, finding common ground, building community, and preserving traditions,” continued Governor Noem. “South Dakota remains committed to ensuring all people feel safe to share culture, discuss their beliefs openly in their communities, and are welcomed in our state.”
This week – the week of December 11, 2023 – is “Shine a Light, Breaking Bread Week.”
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we shall join you in this. very good thoughts.
To be fair, there has been an incredible amount of civilian and child casualties throughout this conflict. We can support Israel, but also can say you need a more targeted attack and actual results instead of these paid endorsements and TV commercials. Is it really still popular with the hard line GOP, the same one that pre-Hamas attack was claiming to be the party of peace and pointing the finger of war at Biden? This is quickly losing public support, you can only justify killing so many women and kids before people start raising an eye. The justification videos, like at the hospital, tell the tale of propaganda, they are being reckless and are more concerned about revenge. We were as well after 9/11, and look where it took us. Let them (Israel) do what they want, but why take us into another 9/11 hole by funding the whole damn thing? Great Britain, France, etc. didn’t financially support our war (remember freedom fries), why would we support Israel’s? We can have their back without paying for it all upfront…..
“you need a more targeted attack”
Kind of hard to do that when these terrorist cowards use civilians as shields.
“civilians as shields.”
This was a propaganda line from like 6 weeks ago. Consider one of our US based school shootings, do we blow up the school with everyone inside because a shooter is in it, or do we plan a more targeted attack? We don’t blow up the school, or the city block, because we value kids that are not the shooter, even though we could call those kids “human shields”. This isn’t a partisan issue, its a right or wrong issue, and at some point too many dead kids is enough. Not sure why so many “Christians” feel these dead kids are acceptable, but will make a major fuss over the “unborn” dead kids.
First, the Israeli response to go after Hamasaki is completely different than a school shooting. Two, it’s painfully obvious you haven’t been in combat against the animals. Three, G F Y.
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1. The premise of this comment chain: “you need a more targeted attack”
2. “the Israeli response to go after Hamasaki is completely different than a school shooting” – as it pertains to the premise (point 1), how so?
3. “it’s painfully obvious you haven’t been in combat against the animals” – Even if you are a former IDF member (which I doubt you are), this has nothing to do with the premise (point 1), and is just ad hominem. Furthermore, you claiming the school shooters are not “animals”, and that the first responders are not fighting the same horrific violence as those in a war zone, is a “painfully obvious” complete fantasy.
4. If you are going to be this big of a snowflake, maybe get off the internet for a while.
1. OK, so when Hamas places rocket artillery batteries on the roof of a hospital, on the roof of a school, in the playgrounds of a daycare centers, or uses any of these buildings and others placed in the middle of neighborhoods for munitions storage (by the way these actions are the very definition of using human shields), what do you propose as a “more targeted attack” to prevent these sites from being used to drop high explosive ordinance on the Israelis and killing Israeli citizens? What would you do other than what the Israelis have been doing? In this instance I think the Israelis are the experts being that they must live with this shit-show every day and are fighting for their survival. So, what would you do based on your ideological views of the world as it should be, that you have developed in relative comfort and safety and out of the line-of-site of those that want to kill you every single day?
2. Is it that you aren’t smart enough to see the difference or are you just being obtuse or is it both? If you can’t/won’t see the difference I’m not wasting the time explaining it to you. You will take something I post and either twist it or will make something up that I didn’t post, just as you did for #3.
3. One doesn’t have to be a former IDF member to know how this group operates to realize the sort of depravity that is radical Islamic terrorists. Ask anyone who went to Iraq and was involved in urban warfare in the early phases of the war. US forces may have been fighting an organization by a different name but the flavor of radical islam was the same.
“Furthermore, you claiming the school shooters are not “animals”, and that the first responders are not fighting the same horrific violence as those in a war zone, is a “painfully obvious” complete fantasy.” Show the statement where I made this BS claim you are attributing to me. Cut and paste the very words I posted that state the accusation you are making of me. I didn’t make that claim, the subject at hand was Hamas and that is what I was referring.
4. Snowflake….no. However, I am tired of seeing liberal know-it-alls like yourself post BS with no clue as to what you’re talking about and devoid of reality.
As an aside, the pressure put on the govs remaining staff to get her on national tv must be exhausting. Nothing wrong with this proclamation but day after day after day there is a drum beat, having largely nothing to do with SD, trying ooh so hard to garner our gov some national attention.
I respect any religion or government that doesn’t target civilians with military assets.
I respect any religion that maintains open roads to free markets while respecting individual Liberty.
I respect any idea in keeping with the notion that our money should be spent on .. well .. us.
Why only do a few of our lawmakers hold similar values? This seems to be a easy majority consensus. Perhaps we need to add to this list:
I respect the idea of lawmakers representing all people, and not just those that “donate” to them.
Even on a state level, when WE THE PEOPLE, tell them this and we try to limit the lobbying money, those 105 lawmakers take it upon themselves to overturn and ignore that (IM 22). We need to reduce money in politics to represent people, not the money.
i respect long time allies, and appreciate my ability to support them when they are faced with a dire serpentine existential threat. not a fan of the horror of war, but if you enter a war without the intention to win it you may as well surrender.
It is a terrible war of attrition. Israel cannot exist with Hammas on one border and Hezbollah on the other. There is constant terrorism and the threat of terrorism. The old PDL still rules Palestinians on the West Bank, now occupied by Israel. There still is some hope for for some kind of autonomous Palestinian State in the region but it cannot be a belligerent terrorist operated state.
In line with the governor’s proclamation, the upcoming Session will see introduction of a resolution reaffirming support for Israel as well as antisemitism legislation.