COMMENTARY / OPINION
Who actually commands the American military? JORDAN SCHACHTEL
Not Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, or the top two officials in the Pentagon.
JAN 8, 2024 – On Thursday, a highly-publicized American drone strike in Baghdad took out a high ranking Tehran-backed militant leader.
It was followed by an always robust debate about the wisdom of having U.S. troops deployed to Iraq, and the positives and negatives of conducting that strike, following several weeks of ongoing unreciprocated attacks against American forces stationed in Iraq.
What we still don’t know is who exactly decided to make that decision.
Certainly, the United States has the world’s most powerful fighting force. That much remains known.
But since the inauguration of President Joe Biden, the public has been left entirely in the dark about who or what group of individuals sits atop the chain of command.
No, not the structured chain of command that you’re seeing presented in the corporate media.
This is how it’s supposed to work
The real chain of command.
Joe Biden, our figurehead president is continually degrading, both cognitively and physically, so he’s certainly not in charge. Sure, he physically signs off on military operations and what not, but the man merely holds the pen.
[Ed.: His name is Beelzebub. Google it.]
Propaganda & Its Insidious Tactics of Persuasion — Then & Now [36:16] Vera Sharav
What is propaganda? Where does it have its origins? Who utilized it in the past, and how is it abused in the present? Will it be a weapon used to further insidious agendas in the future?
From Nazi Germany to the Rockefeller Foundation, financial institutions to the military-industrial complex, the propaganda machine has its roots dug deep into our society. And its branches are wide-reaching.
Watch this damning video for a jaw-dropping, succinct and critical look at the history of propaganda and the role it plays in the time to come.
Written and produced by Vera Sharav, human rights advocate, Holocaust survivor, and founder of the Alliance for Human Research Protection. Directed by Vera Sharav and Debora Blake. Edited by Debora Blake.
Imagine being in President Trump’s shoes for a moment on J6 as you get word the Capitol is getting swarmed… Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11
6:20 PM · Jan 7, 2024 – 1.5M Views
– You were considered a near lock to be a two-term president in February of 2020
– You delivered one of the best economies ever seen for 3 years before China unleashed a lab grown virus on the planet
– You warned states repeatedly of the dangers of mass mail-in voting, but Democrats forced the measures through anyways
– You watched as election officials caved to COVID fear mongering to relax election integrity measures violating election laws and state Constitutions
– You witness 51 “intelligence officials” collude with Big Tech to censor a bombshell story about a laptop that directly implicated Joe Biden
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The Death of Henry Kissinger: A Zionist Post-Mortem THE JEWISH PRESS
Admiration and Glorification of Arab Terrorists Alex Grobman, PhD
Setting the Record Straight: Part XV
[Editor’s Note: This is the fifteenth installment in ‘Setting The Record Straight,’ the most recent series of articles from Jewish Press Online contributor, Alex Grobman, PhD]
January 8, 2024 – Palestinian Arab terrorists killed in action are accorded well publicized and elaborate funeral processions, where their pictures are prominently displayed. Dozens of young men and women are commonly seen vowing to become suicide bombers. Some of this is merely theatrics yet dying to free “Palestine” has become a badge of honor. [1]
Arab mothers of the “martyred” children are honored in the media for their willingness to sacrifice their sons. On November 3, 2022, Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas – Gaza) broadcast simultaneous events exalting these women. Amina Zahran, the mother of slain Hamas terrorists Ahmad Zahran and Zahran Zahran said at one of the events: “We do not fear death… We want martyrdom.” The mother of terrorist Khaled Jawabra, said that she has 17 children and 65 grandchildren, and that she would gladly and enthusiastically sacrifice them for the sake of Palestine and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. “Our homeland and our holy places are dearer to us than our children,” she declared. Another speaker disclosed that the “families of the ‘martyrs’ laugh and smile at their funerals because of the rewards the martyrs receive from Allah.” [2]
In June 2023, 15-year-old Sadil Ghassan Naghnaghiya Turkeman –a female Palestinian Arab terrorist and member of the Islamic Jihad– was killed during an Israeli counter-terror operation in Jenin. Naghnaghiya’s Facebook profile picture showed her holding an M16 assault rifle, and one of her posts read: “We do not love Martyrdom-death.”
Two days after Naghnaghiya was killed a posted text on Telegram channel read: “Jana Bilal Naghnaghiya, 8, speaks about her good friend and cousin Sadil [Naghnaghiya]: “Sadil was very beloved by the people, very very much, by the children and adults … congratulations on the Martyrdom, congratulations, congratulations, congratulations. I want to tell you congratulations with my whole heart, 1,000 times congratulations …Today I was happy for her, I was very very happy. Congratulations on the Martyrdom.” [3]
Involvement of Palestinian Arab teens in acts of terrorism against Israel is not a new phenomenon. Palestinian Arab terror organizations have been training children as early from the 1970s. This was also observed in the First Lebanon War in 1982, when IDF soldiers confronted Palestinian Arab youth sent by the Palestine Liberation Organization to shoot rocket-propelled grenade rockets (RPG) at them. Later, they became known as the “RPG children.” Arab teens continued as combatants in the Second Intifada in 2004 and during the “knife intifada” in 2015. [4]
In February 2023, there has been a resurgence of shooting attacks in eastern Jerusalem by young Palestinian Arabs, who are called in Arabic Ashbal al-Quds (boys of Jerusalem). They have become the “new heroes” in the war against Israel, whom they view as the enemy that must be crushed through acts of terror sand jihad. They have been incited by the Palestinian Authority on social networks, particularly on Tik Tok and Instagram and at school and home. [5]
Incitement at Summer Camps
For more than a decade, Islamic Jihad and Hamas have been conducting summer camps for thousands of schoolchildren throughout the Gaza Strip. Camps have served as vehicle to promote jihad, terrorism and armed struggle with the goal of “liberating Palestine from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea.” Campers receive military training: practicing with knives and weapons, including the AK-47, sniper rifles, RPG launchers, mortars and machine guns, instruction on hand-to-hand combat, firing rockets and kidnapping Israeli soldiers. Some lessons occur at Hamas military bases. At one camp, a boy gave a demonstration of tunnel warfare.
Children are recruited and enrolled for summer camps through Hamas and PIJ websites and social media, and at booths staffed by members of the two groups inside mosques and at other public locations throughout the Gaza Strip. Senior officials of Hamas and PIJ attend ceremonies at the start of camp and at and graduation ceremonies, where they speak to the campers.
Khaled Abu Askar, the head of Hamas’s Higher Committee for Summer Camps, declares that Hamas is very concerned about the young generation, and is eager to invest in their future. Young Palestinian Arabs, he said, are being systematically targeted to erode their belief system, conduct, values, moral behavior and patriotism. Who is responsible for this attempt to lead them astray? There is no question, Israel.
On July 8, the 2023 camp season began with 10,000 young boys and girls in attendance. The slogan for this summer is Shield of Jerusalem, signaling the children will be exploited in the fight against the Jewish state. They are being taught the art of initiating terror attacks and serving as human shields as part of the campaign to “liberate” Jerusalem. [6]
Relentless Glorification
Palestine Authority’s (PA) relentless glorification of terrorists reinforces the culture of hatred against Jews. When squares, youth centers, schools, sports stadiums in Palestinian Arab towns and cities are named after terrorist murderers elevates their actions to the level a heroic act of “resistance.” [7]
Former PA minister education and higher education, Sabri Saidam, justified the naming of Palestinian Arab institutions and public venues after murderers since “both Palestinians and Israelis honor those who they view as their national heroes, no matter how the other side views them. It is peculiar that Israel names streets and major installations after its own founders and so-called heroes, and the Palestinians are not allowed to do so,” he said, citing former Israeli Prime Ministers David Ben-Gurion and Menachem Begin. “One’s man hero is another man’s terrorist,” he said. [8]
Footnotes
[1] Steven R. David, “Fatal Choices: Israel’s Policy of Targeted Killing,” The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies Mideast Security and Policy Studies Number 51 (September 2002):11.
[2] “Hamas TV Airs Events Honoring Mothers Of Palestinian Terrorists, ‘Martyrs’ – Mother Of Slain Terrorists Says: I Will Happily Sacrifice My 17 Children, 65 Grandchildren For The Sake Of Palestine, Al-Aqsa Mosque,” MEMRI (November 3, 2022); “Palestinian Press Glorifies Mother Of Terrorist Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi, Who Expressed Pride And Joy Over Her Son’s Martyrdom, MEMRI Palestine Special Dispatch No. 10152 (August 22, 2022); “Head Of PIJ’s Women’s Framework Esmahan Abd Al-Aal Praises Female Terrorists, Mothers Of “Martyrs”: They Are Role Models, Icons Of Struggle and Resistance,” MEMRI (June 6, 2022); “Mother Of Palestinian Terrorist Recently Killed By Israeli Security Forces To Al-Jazeera: We Will Never Tire Of Jihad; The Hypocrite Jews Think They Killed Him, But He Is Alive With Allah,” MEMRI (August 9, 2022); “Father Of Palestinian Terrorist Who Murdered Three Israelis In Tel Aviv Shooting: I Am Pleased With My Son; Allah, Make Us Among The First To Strom The Al-Aqsa Mosque,” MEMRI (April 8, 2022).
[3] Nan Jacques Zilberdik, “8-year-old congratulates 15-year-old cousin on her “Martyrdom-death”: “1,000 times congratulations,’” Palestinian Media Watch (July 13, 2023).
[4] Yoni Ben Menachem, “The Phenomenon of Palestinian Teen Terrorists,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (February 19, 2023).
[5] Ibid; “Palestinian Islamic Jihad Official Bassam Al-Agha: Arab Schools Should Teach The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion; Students Should Learn How The Jews Think,” MEMRI (August 21, 2022).
[6] Bassam Tawil “Palestinians’ summer camps to kill Jews” Israel National News ( July 21, 2023); Nan Jacques Zilberdik, “2023 PLO summer camps will highlight dead terrorists as “Moons” in the skies of “Palestine,” Palestinian Media Watch (March 28, 2023); John F. Burns “Palestinian Summer Camp Offers the Games of War,” The New York Times (August 3, 2000); “Senior Fatah Official Majed Al-Fityani: Only The Palestinians Will Have Sovereignty In Palestine, From The River To The Sea; We Will Go After The Israelis And Wrest Our Rights From Them,” MEMRI (May 29, 2022); their parents are also urged to learn how to use weapons to murder Jews, “Hamas’ Musab Al-Hashlamoun Urges West Bank Palestinians: Use YouTube, Social Media To Learn How To Use Weapons So That You Can Kill As Many Israelis As Possible,” MEMRI (November 5, 2022); “Skit By Gaza Actor Alaa Gadouha Urges Palestinians To Use Knives, Axes, AK-47s, And Cars To Murder Israelis During Sunday’s Flag March,” MEMRI (May 23, 2022); “Senior Fatah Official Majed Al-Fityani: Only The Palestinians Will Have Sovereignty In Palestine, From The River To The Sea; We Will Go After The Israelis And Wrest Our Rights From Them,” MEMRI (May 29, 2022); “5 kids on PA TV children’s show praise mass-murderer,” Official Palestinian Authority TV Palestinian Media Watch (September 22, 2021 · September 6, 2022).
[7] “Park is named after the mothers of Palestinian terrorists, to celebrate International Women’s Day,” Official Palestinian Authority TV Palestinian Media Watch (March 7, 2022); “PA inaugurates garden in boys’ school honouring terrorist mass murderers,” Palestinian Media Watch (March 21, 2022; Nan Jacques Zilberdik “PLO-member party PFLP claimed responsibility,” Palestinian Media Watch (June 21, 2017); Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, “Hamas honor Sbarro pizza shop suicide bomber who murdered 15,” Palestinian Media Watch (May 5, 2014); Herb Keinon, “The glorification of terrorism or the perpetrators of heinous terrorist acts is unacceptable under any circumstances,” The Jerusalem Post (May 28, 2017); Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, “Macabre demonstration of borders of “Palestine” by Fatah: Dying terrorist’s blood photo-shopped to form map of “Palestine,” Palestinian Media Watch (February.18, 2016).
[8] Dov Lieber and Times of Israel staff, “Defying US, Palestinian official vows payments to terrorists will continue,” The Times of Israel (June 14, 2017.); Marcus Sheff, “Fact checking the PA Minister of Education,” The Times of Israel (June 20, 2017); Times of Israel Staff, “Top PA official accuses Israel of inciting, glorifying terror,” The Times of Israel (June 23, 2017); Itamar Marcus and Maurice Hirsch, Adv., “Special Report: PA abuses goodwill of International Red Cross (ICRC) to pay salaries to Palestinian terrorists in Israeli prisons,” Palestinian Media Watch (June 22, 2017).
Dr. Alex Grobman is the senior resident scholar at the John C. Danforth Society, a member of the Council of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East and on the advisory board of the National Christian Leadership Conference of Israel (NCLCI). He has an MA and PhD in contemporary Jewish history from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Here Is What Really Lies Behind Pope Francis’s Removal Of Bishop Strickland [7:04] Dinesh D’Souza
Nov. 14, 2023 – Nov 14, 2023 The Dinesh D’Souza Podcast
I weigh in on the recent controversy surrounding Pope Francis’s removal of an orthodox bishop, which prompts the question, “who’s really apostate?”
Check out my new film “Police State” to see what the Left is doing to our country – and what we can do to stop it. https://policestatefilm.net
Dinesh D’Souza is an author and filmmaker. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he was a senior domestic policy analyst in the Reagan administration. He also served as a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
He is the author of many bestselling books, including “Illiberal Education,” “What’s So Great About Christianity,” “America: Imagine a World Without Her,” “The Roots of Obama’s Rage,” “Death of a Nation,” and “United States of Socialism.”
His documentary films “2016: Obama’s America,” “America,” “Hillary’s America,” “Death of a Nation,” and “Trump Card” are among the highest-grossing political documentaries of all time. He and his wife Debbie are also executive producers of the acclaimed feature film “Infidel.”
“It’s A False, False, False, False, False Flag World”: Luongo On Where Do We Go From Here In 2024, Part 1 by Tom Luongo
SATURDAY, JAN 06, 2024 – 07:00 AM
Where do we go from here
Terror in Rue de St. Denis, murder on the periphery
Someone else in someone else’s pocket
Christ knows I don’t know how to stop it
Poppies at the cenotaph, the cynics can’t afford to laugh
I heard in on the telegraph there’s Uzis on a street corner — Marillion, White Russian
Last year I finally gave in to the pressure and did a 10 Predictions for 2023 post. I’m not a huge fan of these things, but getting out of your comfort zone is never a bad thing. So, let’s look at the scorecard and update things.
INTRODUCTION: Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier––Reality Is by Linda Goudsmit
January 7, 2024 – The purpose of this book is the defense of America’s children.
The globalist War on America is a war of attrition. I am 76 years old. My generation of American patriots is dying. My children’s generation of indoctrinated millennials is transitional. My grandchildren’s generation is the targeted prey for the globalist predators. Everyone else is just in the way.
Children are the future of every society on Earth, which is why America’s youngest children are globalism’s primary target. The battlefronts for children’s minds are education, medicine, and the media. This axis of collaboration seeks to separate children from the protection of their parents and psychologically groom them to become compliant citizens in globalism’s New World Order, without their parents’ knowledge or consent. Psychological warfare is attempting to change the way children think and process information, while simultaneously eliminating parental authority. It is an attempt to change the hearts and minds of America’s children.
My goal is to raise public awareness about globalism’s psychological, informational, asymmetric War on America, on the American family, and most specifically, on America’s precious children. Globalists have already infiltrated America’s educational industry and weaponized education to shatter families, destroy children’s individual identities, including their sexual identities, and replace parental authority with governmental authority. Schools are the combat zones, and teachers the vanguard for indoctrinating America’s children.
The future of America lies in the ability of our nation’s children to become rational, autonomous, psychological adults with developed critical-thinking skills. For this reason I wrote an illustrated children’s book series, Mimi’s Strategy. The books are my personal commitment and patriotic effort to teach young children the critical-thinking skills that will protect them, empower them, and ensure American freedom for generations to come.
Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier—Reality Is exposes the methodology being used to advance globalism’s War on America. In order to transform America from constitutional republic to socialism to globalism to feudalism, it is necessary to obliterate the psychological adulthood of America’s chronological adults, and to prevent America’s children from developing into psychological adults. Why? Because freedom is an adult enterprise. A nation of children and childish adults cannot sustain itself. It does not possess the critical-thinking skills required to preserve a constitutional republic.
As I look back over the last several years, it is clear to me that Anthony Fauci’s COVID-19 political medicine protocols and the Biden regime’s lawless anti-American policies are both orchestrated, coordinated tactical operations in globalism’s War on America. Their interrelated domestic policies have been instrumental in weakening the national economy, national security, national defense, public health, and military readiness, while simultaneously strengthening America’s commitment to globalism’s internationalized mandates that comport with United Nations 17 Sustainable Goals, Agenda 2030, and the World Health Organization’s centralized international control.
Political medicine protocols and the Biden regime’s policies both utilize the tactical methodology of fear-based psychological regression. Why fear-based? Because fear is arguably the most mobilizing and destabilizing human emotion. If you frighten people enough, you can get them to believe and do almost anything.
Consider Voltaire’s famous remark, “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Now consider some of the absurdities Americans accepted as facts during the COVID-19 madness: the necessity for lockdowns, masking, social distancing, school closures, business closures, church closures, social isolation, and especially acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccines that are not vaccines. In fact, Covid jabs are experimental gene-altering mRNA treatments that were never properly tested for safety and require continuous boosters, including jabs for babies.
When politicized medical absurdities are accepted as medical science, atrocities are committed in the name of science. So, when parents surrender their authority and common sense to the “experts” and are convinced of the efficacy of these medical absurdities, the parents commit atrocities against their own children with the help of their doctors and therapists, who are actually ideologues, not doctors and therapists. Parents force their young children to be jabbed with vaccines that are not vaccines, and wear masks that restrict oxygen and are entirely useless against viruses. Why? Because parents are frightened.
Revealing The Next Ruler of Gaza [10:10] The Tom Nash Report
[00:48 – 01:36] Gaza After The War Alternatives
[01:37 – 02:23] Political Dilemma
[02:24 – 03:06] Hamas’ Popularity and Political Shifts
[03:07 – 03:56] US and Israeli Strategy
[03:57 – 04:49] The New Potential Ruler of Gaza
[04:50 – 05:49] Dahlan’s Political Influence
[05:50 – 06:47] Dahlan’s Recent Statements
[06:48 – 07:58] UAE’s priming of Dahlan for a leadership role
[07:59 – 08:49] Conclusion and Speculation
Jonathan Pollard: Benjamin Netanyahu’s Capitulation in Gaza [15:30] Machon Shilo
[Ed.: This is why I refer it it as IINO! Israel should first annex Gaza in its entirety and clean up Gaza by disinfecting it from all germs and bacteria with massive amounts of Lysol. Then, Israel will return it to being ‘Gush Katif’ in its pre-disengagement levels, which produced 63% of Israel’s exports. No Arabs will be permitted entry as supplemental workers, or for any other excuse. This is the land that the God of Israel has given us, and we are not to negotiate its ownership or desecrate its purity for any reason. We should have gleaned that from the consequences the last time on Oct. 7th, and the first time, after Ariel Sharon’s Gush Katif ‘disengagement’ August 17, 2005. But even now, we still don’t get it. Because we don’t get it, we will be whacked again, and the next time will probably be the last time. How much patience, benevolence, and forgiveness for disobeying Him do we expect from our Creator? Thanks must go to our IINO military elites and government refusing to win against our enemies.]
“US Foreign Policy Is a Scam Built on Corruption” JOHN LEAKE
Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs reminds us that war is a racket.
JAN 6, 2024 – Major General Smedley Darlington Butler was, at the time of his death in 1940, the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. During his 34-year career, he fought in the Philippine–American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Mexican Revolution, and World War I.
However, at some point after World War I, he began to have grave doubts about his profession. Over time, with study and reflection, he concluded that he had NOT spent his life fighting and killing for the American people, but for special interests in New York City and Washington.
As he memorably stated it in his 1935 book, War is a Racket:
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
Though war is indeed profitable for the financiers and industrialists who champion it, it is invariably a disaster for a free citizenry. As James Madison remarked in a 1795 pamphlet:
Of all the evils to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops every other. War is the patent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, and debts, and taxes, are the known instruments for bringing the many under the dominion of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds are added to those of subduing the force of the people! No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
I thought of Butler and Madison this morning when a friend in Boston sent me an essay by Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs that begins as follows:
US Foreign Policy Is a Scam Built on Corruption
The $1.5 trillion in military outlays each year is the scam that keeps on giving—to the military-industrial complex and the Washington insiders—even as it impoverishes and endangers America and the world.
On the surface, US foreign policy seems to be utterly irrational. The US gets into one disastrous war after another — Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Ukraine, and Gaza. In recent days, the US stands globally isolated in its support of Israel’s genocidal actions against the Palestinians, voting against a UN General Assembly resolution for a Gaza ceasefire backed by 153 countries with 89% of the world population, and opposed by just the US and 9 small countries with less than 1% of the world population.
In the past 20 years, every major US foreign policy objective has failed. The Taliban returned to power after 20 years of US occupation of Afghanistan. Post-Saddam Iraq became dependent on Iran. Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad stayed in power despite a CIA effort to overthrow him. Libya fell into a protracted civil war after a US-led NATO mission overthrew Muammar Gaddafi. Ukraine was bludgeoned on the battlefield by Russia in 2023 after the US secretly scuttled a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine in 2022.
To understand the foreign-policy scam, think of today’s federal government as a multi-division racket controlled by the highest bidders.
Despite these remarkable and costly debacles, one following the other, the same cast of characters has remained at the helm of US foreign policy for decades, including Joe Biden, Victoria Nuland, Jake Sullivan, Chuck Schumer, Mitch McConnell, and Hillary Clinton.
