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Who Needs to Atone?
By: Ginette Weiner
The second Israel became a legal nation, five Arab armies attacked Israel to destroy it. Despite their calls to rid the Middle East of Jews, Israel extended its hand for generous and more than fair peace offers, rejected each time. “Palestinian” Abbas says, “We will never accept the evil Zionist presence with any boundaries.”
If prominent Western Nations had put pressure on these “Palestinian” Arabs to sit down, negotiate fairly, and accept even one of the many peace offers, they would have had their own state for decades. But they did not. Instead, they looked the other way while putting false blame and pressure only on the Jewish State.
And now, after the worst bloody barbaric genocide against Jews since The Holocaust, what are prominent Western Nations doing? “The United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia announced the recognition of the Palestinian state, in the hope that a two-state solution will bring peace. British Prime Minister Starmer said the move is intended “to revive the hope of peace for the Palestinians and Israelis.”
Israel has only ever and still wants peace with their neighbors. But a declaration of a vague peace without specific guarantees of Israel’s security is meaningless. They condemn Hamas with no guarantees it will not re-arm and carry out its own stated threats for Oct. 7th genocide to be repeated again and again. These self righteous Western Nations who are demanding peace were quiet when Gaza spent millions building tunnels of terror, often with child labor, instead of building a community of peace, a mecca by the sea with hotels and tourists. And are quiet when the Palestinian Authority still portrays Jews as Satan with tails on its official media website (Palwatch).
Are these Western Nation’s elites who are demanding peace taking any risks to themselves? Are they offering to put soldiers from their own countries on the ground for the next hundred years to ensure Israel’s safety? No. But they want Israel to risk another genocide and possible annihilation, for “the sake of peace.” If Israel’s borders are overrun by these Arabs, and its citizens butchered, what will these Western nations do? They will do what they usually do. Cry crocodile tears, condemn Holocaust Number Two, but quietly feel relieved to be rid of those troublesome Jews and troublesome Israel. And then conduct business as usual after a short period of fake mourning.
Unless and until these “Palestinian” Arabs themselves come forth, offer to sit down and negotiate borders fairly and with a goal to live in peace, accept foreign soldiers in their new “state” to ensure radical Jihadists are not taking over, announce the full acceptance of Israel as a Jewish State, renounce their “right of return” which would flood Israel with millions of Arabs, effectively making Israel an Islamic State, the West should do what it should have been doing all along. Put sanctions on these “Palestinian” Arabs to force them to recognize and accept Israel and negotiate peace.
I can’t think of a better time to revisit the words of wisdom attributed to Albert Einstein: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” And I will ask again, how many dead Jews are enough for these out-of-touch, naive Western Nations? History shows us there are never enough dead Jews for the world. And now they want to risk more.
Ginette Weiner is a published commentator in Jewish and mainstream newspapers, has an MSW and certification in Understanding Media Bias & Israel Advocacy, HonestReporting’s 23rd Mission to Israel.
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The lights at Maimonides Park may have faded, but for the Brooklyn Cyclones and their fans, the glow of a championship lingers. For the first time since 2019, the High-A affiliate of the New York Mets captured the High-A South Atlantic League Championship with a Sept. 16 victory over the Hub City Spartanburgers.
For Justin Rocke, the team’s play-by-play broadcaster and media relations manager, the win was deeply personal.
“It was incredible. It was the first championship for the team in six years — their last year as a short-season affiliate in the New York-Penn League — so it’s been a while since they had won.”
Rocke was referring to the 2020 restructuring of Minor League Baseball, when the Cyclones moved to High-A. Other Mets affiliates include the Syracuse Mets (Triple-A), Binghamton Rumbleponies (Double-A) and St. Lucie Mets (Single-A).
Rocke has spent more than a decade in the minor leagues.
“Before this year, I had not worked for a team that made the playoffs, let alone won a championship. So this is a very cool experience for me,” he said. “It was just a special group, and a great collection of people on Coney Island this summer.”
The fan known as “Wolf”
The story of this championship isn’t just about the team on the field — it’s about the community in the stands. Few embody that spirit better than David Pecoraro, a 65-year-old superfan known to everyone at the ballpark by his nickname: “Wolf.”
He’s been a fixture at the park since the team’s early days. “I attended games in 2001 and I’ve been to games every season,” he told Brooklyn Paper. “And I’ve been a season ticket holder since 2013, right behind the dugout.”
Pecoraro’s booming voice — what he calls his “cafeteria voice” — has made him a part of the game itself. When Mets pitcher Sean Manaea did rehab starts at Maimonides Park, he told Pecoraro he could hear him from the mound.
“On a good night, they could hear me in the visitors’ dugout. So yeah, I’m loud,” Pecoraro laughed.
His game-day routine is as meticulous as any player’s.
“The first stop is stopping at the designated driver’s booth to pick up my soda coupon. Then I get into my seat. I set up my lineups with my scorecard, because I score every game I go to,” he said.
“I record the first pitch, and then I always yell at the four innings, ‘three up, three down, let’s go Cyclones!”
Section 10, where Pecoraro sits, is as much family as it is a cheering section. “We’re the most fun section. I don’t care what anyone tells you,” he said. “We’re right by the manager and the coaches. They know us, and we know them.”
Two paths to one celebration
Rocke said winning meant watching the team evolve through constant roster changes.
“The team that won the first half [of the season] looked a bit different than the team that won the championship,” he said. “But it’s very cool seeing all the hard work that everyone puts in on a day-to-day basis be rewarded with a championship at the end of the season.”
Pecoraro noticed the same. “Before the playoffs, it was almost unexpected since we had changed our roster so dramatically,” he said. “If you pull out a roster sheet from the first half to what we clinched against Hub City, it’s virtually two different rosters.”
And yet, both saw something remarkable about how the players came together under Cyclones’ manager Gilbert Gómez.
“He should get some sort of reward or something,” Pecoraro said. “God bless with that, he’s wonderful.”
The big picture
Rocke and Pecoraro agreed that the win was about more than the game itself — it was about moments that might never come again.
“It was very cool seeing how many players’ and coaches’ families came down to South Carolina for the clinching game,” Rocke said. “Especially getting to see them have those kinds of moments with them.”
Pecoraro said he cherishes watching the players grow up. “Not everyone’s going to make the majors, I know that, but those that do, I get to say I knew them then.”
“Wolf” remembers when former Cyclone and Mets third baseman Brett Baty hit his first major league home run. “They announced it at the ballpark, and I wiped away a tear,” he said.
Next season, new players will take the field in Coney Island, and both Rocke and Pecoraro will be there — one in the broadcast booth, the other in Section 10. The excitement from the championship, however, will linger, a reminder of why minor league baseball continues to matter.
“It was, as they say, an amazing summer here in Brooklyn,” Pecoraro said.
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