His body became so bloated that on one occasion he tried riding on a cart through a gate, and being too large to fit through, he hit the gate, his body exploded, and maggots spewed all over the wall
Here, some interesting news from Minn. … Somewhere between 50,000-100,000 people participated in a general strike and marched the streets in Minneapolis for the second week in a row.
We have had large-scale protests for 25 days straight here in Minnesota.
These are just a few things that may not be making the national or international news.
a beloved local donut shop Glam Doll Donuts across the street from where Alex Pretti died turned into a warming house and medic center for protestors building and maintaining the memorial site.
a 70yo independent bookstore owner DreamHaven Books down the street expressed his pain on camera, walked through a tear gas cloud, and his website crashed less than 24 hours later from too much business and donations.
the day after tear gas bombs destroyed a N-Mpls neighborhood sending a 6mo old baby to the hospital, at daybreak, a small church community cleaned up the mess of pepper balls, tear gas containers and trash so the neighbors didn’t have to wake up to the memories.
a local independent journalist Mercado Media pounding the streets everyday reporting things from the ground had a testicle removed and showed up two days later to walk with 75,000+ community members to walk the streets in -20 degree weather.
a local sex-positive adult-store The Smitten Kitten has completely transformed into a donation and distribution center.
a local pizza place Wrecktangle Pizza raised over $83K in less than a few days to support families that are sheltering in place.
tow-truck companies are donating their services to clean up the accidents and abandoned vehicles left by ICE and the city is waiving impound fees.
local multi-faith spiritual leaders are spearheading sit-ins at corporate headquarters such as Target and USBank to have deeper conversations with CEOs and boards of directors about community relief.
social workers are taking in children who came home from school with both their parents “disappeared.”
animal shelters and pet-fostering agencies are rescuing pets left alone for days or weeks after their humans were detained.
every restaurant, church, karate dojo, dance studio, school, barber shop, and other small business has created their own underground grassroots supportive network to protect their neighbors, get people to and from work, and raise funds to pay everyday bills.
women who are moms and work full-time jobs are donning reflective vests in shifts to stand watch at bus stops, city parks, and grocery store parking lots ini sub-zero temps to bear witness before going home to tuck their babies in at night.
the MN National Guard offered donuts, coffee, and hot cocoa to peaceful protesters the day after Alex Pretti died, reminding community that we are all in this together and they are here to keep the peace.
These are just a few examples. Stories like this are happening in the hundreds here, every single day!
Community is EVERYTHING!
This Substack community and the MN-Strong resistance has saved my mental health these last weeks.
Thank you for reading.
Thank you for giving a shit.
I love you.
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The fucking perverted billionaires, the power to buy or not to buy, or to sell or not to sell . . .
Canadian Tycoon Nixes Plan to Sell Warehouse for Use as ICE Jail . . . but only with a THREAT of boycott.
The threat of a boycott was also percolating; the leader of the Green Party in Pattison’s home province of British Columbia said before the sale was abandoned that she hoped consumers would spurn other businesses owned by the 97-year-old billionaire, which include grocers and automotive dealers.
Pattison’s is now the third company to say it won’t sell a property to DHS, which intends to turn them into Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers. The warehouses under consideration are in 23 different municipalities around the country, and many of them were originally designed or marketed for e-commerce distribution.
ALTMAN, man, Jew all the way through to his fucking anus: Josh Altman sounds alarm on California wealth tax, says workers would pay the price
Josh Altman tells FOX Business that hundreds of thousands of workers could suffer from ‘trickle-down’ effect [ Josh Altman was born to a Jewish family on March 10, 1979, in Newton, Massachusetts. He had a Bar Mitzvah in both the US and in Israel. He has a brother, Matt Altman. ]
“You know what a billionaire said to me once? He said, ‘You know what the difference is between 100 million and a billion? Nothing.’ They’ll be fine. It’s people that need them that are not, and we’re running them out of California.”
Altmans? All Judas’s
Oh, those House Negroes: Blood and Genocidal MONEY, those Obamas!
Alongside Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky [ Brian Chesky, the CEO and co-founder of Airbnb, is of Jewish-American descent.], the Obamas have established the Obama-Chesky Voyager Scholarship program for second-year undergraduate students and community college transfer students who are entering their junior year in the fall. The program will provide scholarship winners with real work experiences rooted in “understanding, empathy, and cooperation,” with hopes of establishing long-lasting change, according to a statement shared from the Obama Foundation on LinkedIn.
“We are looking for young people from every corner of this country who share a curiosity about the world and the conviction to want to make positive change within it—just like the scholarship’s founders. Students should have a passion for helping others, experience serving in or building community, and an expansive view of what’s possible through public service,” a statement on the scholarship program’s website reads.
It is a two-year leadership development and scholarship program that will provide students with access to powerful leaders and mentors, as well as global travel to engage with new communities. Students can receive up to $50,000 for their junior and senior years, per the scholarship’s website.
Furthermore, participants will be awarded a $10,000 stipend and free Airbnb housing for work-related travel during the summer between their junior and senior years. Students can curate this summer voyage to gain exposure to specific communities or build experience in their chosen field. There is also an optional in-person convening where students can connect with others in the program, build leadership skills, and gain access to expanded learning opportunities with leaders in public service, notes the scholarship website.
Beyond the program, students will join the Obama Foundation’s global community and also receive a $2,000 Airbnb travel credit each year for 10 years after graduation.
[Now it’s 5,000 years, and, what, 6 million Jews Dead in Germany, Poland, Ukraine?]
Settlement Listings: Al-Haq reported that in 2019, Chesky did not reply to requests to remove listings in illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).
Policy Reversal: After initially announcing the removal of West Bank settlement listings in 2018, Airbnb reversed this decision in 2019 due to lawsuits from hosts. As part of a settlement, Airbnb agreed to donate proceeds from these listings to humanitarian causes.
Legal/Ethical Criticism: Human rights groups and organizations like Jewish Voice for Peace have criticized the company for enabling the “dispossession” of Palestinian land.
Continued Activism: As of 2025, campaigns continue to demand the removal of listings in Israeli settlements, with advocates calling the ongoing presence of these listings in violation of international law.
Stop the Genocide is Antisemitic, don’t ya know.
Members of Italy’s right-wing League party, part of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government, have criticised the choice of Ghali to perform at the event in the San Siro stadium on February 6.
What is Ghali criticised for saying about Israel?
Ghali was at the centre of a political spat two years ago during the popular Sanremo song contest, when he called for a “stop to the genocide” in reference to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
A League party source called Ghali a “pro-Palestinian fanatic” who hated Israel and the centre-right, in comments to the Italian media.
Aya Nakamura hits back in new single at racist abuse over Olympics rumour
Ghali, who has not commented on the dispute, is likely to appeal to a younger audience more than other performers at the opening ceremony, who will include tenor Andrea Bocelli and US pop singer Mariah Carey.
Franco-Malian pop star Aya Nakamura was the target of racist abuse online when it emerged that she would sing at the opening of the Summer Olympics in Paris in 2024.
New track features lyrics ‘It’s them that don’t like me’ after far-right backlash against the idea she could cover Édith Piaf song
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Blood on her fucking Hispanic HANDS . . . U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez denied a request from Minnesota officials for a temporary restraining order, despite acknowledging what she described as “profound and even heart breaking” consequences for communities in the state.
She said “those are not the only harms to be considered,” however.
“The Eighth Circuit has recently reiterated that entry or injunction barring the federal government from enforcing federal law imposes significant harm on the government,” the judge wrote.
Why it matters: The decision is a win for the Trump administration, which has argued that “Operation Metro Surge“ has “succeeded” with thousands of arrests.
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Shoot — Gasoline, a la Molotovs. Spray them evenly, and then just a match, or a celebratory bottle rocket.
Age 76, Bruce, age 73, Lucinda!
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Press freedom groups are warning that the arrests of two independent journalists, including the veteran former CNN anchor Don Lemon, signal a chilling new crackdown on US media by the Trump administration.
Lemon was taken into custody on Thursday night by federal agents in Los Angeles, despite a magistrate judge declining to sign off on charges against him a week ago in connection with a protest at a Minnesota church against violent government immigration enforcement actions.
Georgia Fort, another reporter who covered the 18 January protest at the Cities church in Saint Paul, posted a live stream of her arrest early on Friday on Facebook.
“The justice department’s arrest of journalists reporting on anti-ICE protests is extremely alarming, especially given that multiple judges refused to approve arrest warrants just last week,” Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, said.
“Reporting on protests isn’t a crime – it’s protected by the first amendment. We are especially concerned about these arrests because they take place against the background of a broader effort by the Trump administration to tighten the vise around press freedom.”
Scott Griffen, executive director of the International Press Institute (IPI), echoed a similar fear in a statement that called for the release of Lemon and Fort.
“The arrests of two independent journalists doing their jobs is a shocking and disturbing escalation of the Trump administration’s campaign against the free press in America. This is an unequivocal attack on the first amendment and the American people’s right to know,” he said.
“The outcome of this case will have direct consequences for the future of free media and free information in America. IPI condemns the Trump administration’s attempts to criminalize journalism and calls for the immediate release of both journalists with all charges dropped.”
Nearly 300 journalists and media workers have been killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza in 26 months of genocidal war – or about 12 journalists every month – according to a tally by Shireen.ps, a monitoring website named after Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in 2022.
Jew Jew Jew:
It accused Seidman of launching “insulting attacks” against South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on social media as well as “a deliberate failure” to inform the ministry “of purported visits by senior Israeli officials”.
“Such actions represent a gross abuse of diplomatic privilege and a fundamental breach of the Vienna Convention. They have systematically undermined the trust and protocols essential for bilateral relations,” the department said in a statement.
“We urge the Israeli Government to ensure its future diplomatic conduct demonstrates respect for the Republic and the established principles of international engagement.”
The Fucking Nazi White Face EYES. Look at their EYES.
Elon Musk had more extensive – and more friendly – communications with the financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein than previously publicly known, according to documents released on Friday by the Department of Justice. Emails in the files appear to show the two cordially messaging each other on two separate occasions to make plans for Musk to visit Epstein’s island.
The documents include Musk and Epstein emailing in both 2012 and 2013 to determine when Musk should make the trip to Little St James. Neither exchanges appear to have resulted in Musk visiting the island, due to logistical issues.
“Will be in the BVI/St Bart’s area over the holidays. Is there a good time to visit?” Musk states on 13 December 2013.
And this abomination?
SpaceX seeks federal approval to launch 1 million solar-powered satellite data centers
SpaceX has filed a request with the Federal Communications Commission to launch a constellation of up to 1 million solar-powered satellites that it said will serve as data centers for artificial intelligence.
The company’s filing lays out a grandiose vision, not just describing these planned satellites as “the most efficient way to meet the accelerating demand for AI computing power” but also framing them as “a first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization — one that can harness the Sun’s full power” while also “ensuring humanity’s multi-planetary future amongst the stars.”
a member of a caste of sexually underdeveloped female ants or termites specialized, as with powerful jaws, to defend the colony from invaders.
a similar member of a caste of worker bees, specialized to protect the hive.
a brick laid vertically with the narrower long face out.
Informal. a person who avoids work or pretends to work; loafer; malingerer.
Uniformed Soldiers of Fucking Dirty Murderous FORTUNE:
Congress has authorized an increase of more than 30,000 active-duty service members across the force, with the largest gains concentrated in the Army and Navy. The move coincides with the Pentagon’s newly released 2026 National Defense Strategy (NDS), which calls for sharper priorities: defending the homeland first, deterring China in the Indo-Pacific, pressing allies to shoulder more responsibility, and accelerating the defense industrial base.
On paper, growth looks simple. Add people. Add capability.
In practice, expanding end strength stresses nearly every system that turns a recruit into a mission-ready service member: recruiting pipelines, training seats, schools, housing, childcare, medical readiness, maintenance, and, critically, unit leadership. The real question facing the force isn’t whether it can recruit more people. It’s whether the system can absorb them without hollowing itself out.
Niggerized fucking female whores. No health care for US, no secure housing for US, but plenty of perks for the mercenaries.
Air Force Gen. Adrian L. Spain, left, commander, Air Combat Command, and Air Force Staff Sgt. Tory Steen, a loadmaster assigned to the 418th Test and Evaluation Squadron, observe the landscape in the western region while seated on the ramp of an HC-130J Combat King II at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Jan. 10, 2026
Airmen assigned to Flights 081-097 march in the 737th Training Group’s graduation parade, at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, January 8, 2026. The 37th Training Wing, known as “Gateway to the Air Force,” is home to BMT.
The 2026 end-strength increases are targeted, not uniform:
Army: 454,000 active-duty (+11,700)
Navy: 334,600 (+12,300)
Air Force: 320,000 (+1,500)
Space Force: 10,400 (+600)
Coast Guard: 50,000 (up from 44,500)
Marine Corps: 172,300 (no change)
Ignorant, Costco-ized, Infantilized, Wannabe Killers, one and all:
[Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s chief spokesman, at a media briefing in July.]
Pentagon Defends Restrictions on Media Outlets
The purpose of the new rules is to “stop activity that could compromise national security,” the Defense Department said in response to a New York Times lawsuit.
The masters of the Department of War Crimes:
I don’t think that the national brand is transforming itself into ‘Resilience’ and I don’t think that it should be our guiding star in 2026 and onward,” says Avi Feldman, Managing Partner at Mobilion Ventures. “2025 shows that eventually resilience is a supportive stratum for our main brand of innovation and scale despite obstacles.” According to Feldman, the term should not be the primary draw for investment, but rather an “insurance certificate” for the Israeli tech ecosystem proving that even in bad times, the sector can still perform well.
Following the turbulence of recent years and the stabilization of 2025, the Israeli tech ecosystem is entering a new era: The Next Leap. Feldman joined CTech to share insights for its VC Survey 2026, which invites prominent investors to discuss the topics, trends, and “leaps” expected in the year ahead.
Back to Charlie Kirk and Semen Drip Trumplandia — look at this fucking white ghoul’s fucking face. Lipless cunt.
The necessary terms include:
Issue a public statement to the SJSU community that SJSU will adopt biology-based definitions of the words ‘male’ and ‘female’ and acknowledge that the sex of a human – male or female – is unchangeable;
Specify that SJSU will follow Title IX by separating sports and intimate facilities based on biological sex;
State that SJSU will not delegate its obligation to comply with Title IX to any external association or entity and will not contract with any entity that discriminates on the basis of sex;
Restore to individual female athletes all individual athletic records and titles misappropriated by male athletes competing in women’s categories, and issue a personalized letter of apology on behalf of SJSU to each female athlete for allowing her participation in athletics to be marred by sex discrimination; and
Send a personalized apology to every woman who played in SJSU’s women’s indoor volleyball (2022–2024), 2023 beach volleyball, and to any woman on a team that forfeited rather than compete against SJSU while a male student was on the roster—expressing sincere regret for placing female athletes in that position.
Batie-Smoose says that, to her, those terms are “the bare minimum.”
“It’s a starting point,” Batie-Smoose said. “They still have to pay a big price for what they’ve done.”
Hero: San José State women’s volleyball player Blaire Fleming was named an All-Mountain West Conference honorable mention Tuesday despite an ongoing lawsuit about her participation on the team.
Fleming is the focus of a lawsuit filed earlier this month by seven women’s volleyball players, including one of Fleming’s teammates, who compete in the Mountain West Conference. The players asked a federal judge to block Fleming, a transgender woman, from participating in women’s volleyball in the conference, alleging her participation is a violation of Title IX and the U.S. Constitution.
The lawsuit also asked for adjustments to the Mountain West Conference’s Transgender Participation Policy and how the 2024 conference standings are calculated.
JewLandia, a la Unit 8200/Mossad/Epstein: They will receive ALL gifts from Jew Trump. Why do they/Jews need LTV’s in their small occupied Palestine? Greater Israel, man, blood libel.
US approves more than $6.5 billion in potential military sales to Israel, Pentagon says
The U.S. State Department approved a potential sale of Joint Light Tactical Vehicle and related equipment for an estimated cost of $1.98 billion, and another sale of AH-64E Apache Helicopters for $3.8 billion, the Pentagon said in separate statements.
MONEY. Oh, that fucking lackey: U.N. Says It’s in Danger of Financial Collapse Because of Unpaid Dues
The world body warned it would run out of money by July and have to close its New York headquarters if countries, namely the United States, did not pay annual dues that amount to billions of dollars.
Shut this fascist state DOWN.
From Fucking BLow Jobs for Semen Drip Trump and Gestapo in our Land Fox Un-News: Lawmakers in the Senate struck a deal on Friday to advance funding for the departments of Defense, Education, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Health and Human Services while passing a short-term extension for the Department of Homeland Security, the piece of the puzzle holding up funding for 2026.
Always fucking Jews in the mix of this fucking country’s downfall: Noodles, including the niggerized dude in the background:
Rep. Nicholas Begich, R-Alaska, right, pictured next to the Anchorage airport.
Back to the Jew News:
People who are exposed to certain forever chemicals may be at greater risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), according to new research.
No one knows why that is, but it could help explain why, over the past 30 years, the prevalence of MS has increased by an average of 26 percent globally. In some nations, cases have more than doubled since 1990.
MS is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system with no known singular cause and no known cure.
This new study from Sweden suggests that forever chemicals may be an overlooked contributing factor.
A Year of Betrayal: EPA Under Lee Zeldin
Administrator Zeldin has put the agency to work for polluters, putting our health and that of our children at risk.
{The Israeli and the Heroin Addict . . . A Love Story.]
So the story goes, from the beginning: AD 30 or AD
Betrayal: Judas identified Jesus to authorities in the Garden of Gethsemane by kissing him, allowing them to arrest him.
Identity: He was one of the Twelve Apostles, serving as their treasurer. The name “Iscariot” may indicate he was from Kerioth in Judea, or potentially connected to the Sicarii, a group of radical Jewish nationalists opposed to Roman rule.
Motivation: Theories vary, ranging from greed (thirty pieces of silver) to disillusionment that Jesus was not the warrior-king Messiah who would overthrow Roman rule. Some interpretations suggest he was trying to force Jesus to act, while others, based on the Gospels of Luke and John, suggest possession by Satan.
Death: Following the betrayal, Judas felt immense remorse, attempted to return the money, and subsequently died by suicide, either by hanging or by falling in a field he bought.
THE EYES, MAN.
The nose, MAN.
The Gospel of Mark gives no motive for Judas’s betrayal but does present Jesus’s predicting it at the Last Supper, an event also described in all the other gospels. The Gospel of Matthew 26:15 states that Judas committed the betrayal in exchange for thirty pieces of silver. The Gospel of Luke 22:3 and the Gospel of John 13:2 and 13:27 suggest that he was possessed by Satan. According to Matthew 27:1–10, after learning that Jesus was to be crucified, Judas attempted to return the money he had been paid for his betrayal to the chief priests and hanged himself.[2] The priests used the money to buy a field to bury strangers in, which was called the “Field of Blood” because it had been bought with blood money. Acts of the Apostles 1:18 quotes Peter as saying that Judas used the money to buy the field himself, and he “[fell] headlong … burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.” His place among the Twelve Apostles was later filled by Matthias.
Judas Iscariot, who betrayed the Son of God with a kiss, has become the most despised person in the annals of human history. His personality is the darkest in the chronicles of the world, and the name Judas itself bears a stigma, reflecting the scorn for him that burns within us. The New Testament writers disdain Judas to such a degree that in every list of the disciples given in the Gospels, Judas is listed last, with a note of contempt after his name.
Hatred for Judas was so deep in the years following the closing of the New Testament that several incredible legends about him evolved. They describe bizarre occurrences, characterizing Judas as ugly, evil, and totally repugnant. One, in the apocryphal Coptic Narrative, said that Judas, having betrayed Christ, was infested with maggots. Consequently, his body became so bloated that on one occasion he was trying to ride on a cart through a gate, and being too large to fit through it, he hit the gate, his body exploded, and maggots spewed all over the wall. Obviously, that story is not true, but it shows the high level of contempt for Judas in the early centuries.
When I was in seminary, I wrote my dissertation on Judas Iscariot. During the year that I spent working on it, and since then, I have found it extremely difficult to write or speak on. Sin is never more grotesque than it is in the life of Judas. When we study Judas and his motivations, we are prying very close to the activity of Satan. But there are valuable reasons for examining Judas and his sin. For one thing, to understand Jesus’ love in its fullness, it helps to look at the life of Judas, because despite the awfulness of Judas’ sin, Jesus reached out to him in love.
Jesus and Judas
In John 13:17-30, Jesus and Judas come head to head. We see clearly at this point the evil of Judas contrasted with the absolute purity of Jesus Christ. The diabolical deed that had been festering in the heart of Judas—the treachery he had already begun to perpetrate—was pushed to its climax, and Judas was unmasked as the betrayer.
Jesus speaks at the beginning of this powerful passage:
“If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them. I do not speak of all of you. I know the ones I have chosen; but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’ From now on I am telling you before it comes to pass, so that when it does occur, you may believe that I am He. Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.”
When Jesus had said this, He became troubled in spirit, and testified and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, that one of you will betray Me.” The disciples began looking at one another, at a loss to know of which one He was speaking. There was reclining on Jesus’ bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved. So Simon Peter gestured to him, and said to him, “Tell us who it is of whom He is speaking.” He, leaning back thus on Jesus’ bosom, said to Him, “Lord, who is it?”
Jesus then answered, “That is the one for whom I shall dip the morsel and give it to him.” So when He had dipped the morsel, He took and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
After the morsel, Satan then entered into him. Therefore Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”
Now no one of those reclining at the table knew for what purpose He had said this to him. For some were supposing, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus was saying to him, “Buy the things we have need of for the feast”; or else, that he should give something to the poor.
So after receiving the morsel he went out immediately; and it was night.
There we see Jesus and Judas—the epitome of opposites: the Perfect One and the absolutely wretched; the best and the worst. The purity of Jesus and the vileness of Judas, by contrast, became very obvious.
Judas was an ultimate tragedy—probably the greatest tragedy that ever lived. He is the perfect and prime example of what it means to have opportunity and then lose it. He becomes all the more terrible because of the glorious beginnings he had. Judas followed the same Christ as the others. For three years, day in and day out, he occupied himself with Jesus Christ. He saw the same miracles; heard the same words; performed some of the same ministries; was esteemed in the same way the other disciples were—yet he did not become what the others became. In fact, he became the very opposite. While they were growing into true apostles and saints of God, he was progressively forming into a vile, calculating tool of Satan.
For three years, he moved and walked with Jesus. Initially, he must have shared the same hope of the Kingdom that the other disciples had. He likely believed that Jesus was the Messiah. He too, had left all and followed Jesus. Certainly he became greedy, but it is doubtful that he joined the apostles for what money he could get, because they never really had anything. Perhaps his motive at the outset was just to get in on this Kingdom that Jesus would bring.
Whatever his character at the beginning, he gradually became the treacherous man that betrayed Christ, a man who had no thought for anyone but himself, a man who finally wanted only to get as much money as he could and get out.
Greed, ambition, and worldliness had crept into his heart, and avarice had become his besetting sin. Perhaps he was disappointed because of unfulfilled expectations of an earthly Kingdom. Maybe he was tormented by the unbearable rebuke of the presence of Christ. Surely it created a great tension in his heart to be constantly in the presence of sinless purity, and yet be so infested with vileness. Perhaps, too, he began to sense that the eye of the Master could see who he was and what he was. Or it may be that all those things had begun to eat at him.
Whatever the reasons, he ended in absolute disaster, the greatest example of lost opportunity the world has ever seen. On the night he betrayed Jesus, he was so prepared to do Satan’s bidding that Satan was able to enter him and take complete control of him. A few days before this in Bethany, he had met with the leaders of Israel and bargained for thirty pieces of silver, the price of a slave—about twenty to twenty-five dollars. Now his evil deed comes to full fruition on the eve of the crucifixion.
Jesus and his disciples (including Judas) were in the upper room. The vile traitor was sitting there, having already made his bargain to betray Jesus for money. He had already initiated the plan, and now he had returned to spend these moments with the disciples, looking for the right moment to betray Jesus’ presence to the Jewish leaders.
Jesus had revealed in verse 10 that He knew Judas’s heart, saying, “’You are clean, but not all of you.’ For He knew the one who was betraying Him” (vv. 10-11). Judas had been sitting there all through Jesus’ wonderful lesson on humility and washing of the disciples’ feet. Jesus had even washed his feet. He sat there, the wretched hypocrite, letting the blessed Lord wash his feet, while in his head he was plotting the betrayal of Jesus, hardly able to wait until he could get his hands on the thirty coins.
Even though Jesus knew what Judas was about to do, He washed his feet. It was only one example of the marvelous love of Jesus Christ and the way He reached out to Judas. The measures He took to win Judas even at this late hour made His love all the more wonderful. One would think the experience of having Jesus wash his feet would be enough to break any man’s heart. But not Judas’s, so cold was he. He was determined to sell the Master to the executioners.
New testimonies detail torture and abuse of Gazan detainees in Israeli jails, detention centres.
Paul Haeder, Author 