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Sinwar is the hero of the mad Western crowds   Giulio Meotti

Known as the “butcher of Khan Younis”, Sinwar murdered twelve Palestinian Arabs with his own hands – and enjoyed it. This is the new hero of the spoiled useful idiots on US campuses. Op-ed.

May 16, 2024, 9:27 AM (GMT+3) – A dramatic new video released a few days ago showed the moment Noa Argamani, a 25-year-old Israeli girl, is blindfolded and taken to Gaza. The Daily Mail published it. Hamas took Argamani hostage while she was at the Nova music festival. Photos and videos of the kidnapping became among the best-known images of October 7.

In the new video of her, one of the terrorists can be seen putting a black hood on her head, Noa cries, squeezed between the bodies of two terrorists who are taking her away on a motorcycle, while the others around her insult and mock her.

Noa has been inside a tunnel in Gaza for over 216 days. It is difficult to imagine the rapes, harassment and humiliations she might have suffered. At best she ended up like Agam Goldstein-Almog, a 17-year-old Israeli girl who in Gaza was forced to wear a full veil and a long dress, was forced to always look at the ground, was forced to recite Islamic prayers and the terrorists gave her a name taken from the Koran, “Salsabil”. At worst, Noa ended up like Amit Soussana, raped by her captors in the tunnels.

Meanwhile, the excellent Heather MacDonald points out in the City Journal that the Western squares and campuses are full of women demonstrators. Women everywhere.

Mother Nature will have to wait: their valiant defenders are now busy fixing the Middle East. It’s fascinating to see the conversion of mad Western crowds from the cult of climate change to the anti-Israeli religion as a simple leap on the bandwagon, Greta included. They abandon the climate, the trans, the migrants and everything else and move on to Gaza.

The obsession of the upper-middle class might seem a million miles away from the bearded radical who publicly sings the praises of Allah, but they share an instinctive revulsion for Western society. One sees it as a crime against Mother Nature, the other as an affront to Muhammad.

These champions of the fight against patriarchy, heteronormativity, parenthood, bourgeoisie, family, society, capitalism, in a great mixture of poor and ideological readings, have adopted the vocabulary of revolutionaries of the past to cover the void with a pinch of rhetorical cunning and suggest that they are all “victims”, wallowing in the lazy complacency that all the so-called “progressive” media promise them, allowing themselves to be admired and admiring only themselves.

“Sinwar, we will not let you die”, they are singing in the streets of Europe, while at Columbia University they say “Hamas, we love you” and people are photographing themselves indicating Sinwar’s next targets.

Why Israel can say ‘no’ to American diktats   Jonathan S. Tobin

There’s no alternative to the alliance with the United States. But support from ordinary Americans and the GOP means Israel doesn’t have to sacrifice its security to please Biden. Opinion.

May 16, 2024, 8:51 AM (GMT+3) – (JNS) The Biden administration wants us to believe two contradictory things at the same time. Depending on the circumstances or the audience to which President Joe Biden and senior members of his foreign-policy team are addressing, they’re either committed to supporting Israel and in favor of eliminating Hamas.

Except when they’re not.

In just the last week, Biden pledged at a Holocaust memorial ceremony that he would always stand with Israel and never forget what the Hamas terrorists had done on Oct. 7. A day later, he flipped the script.

In an interview with CNN, as he’s done repeatedly in recent months, he adopted some of Hamas’s talking points about Israel indiscriminately killing civilians. He said that if it invaded Rafah—Hamas’s last stronghold in Gaza—“I’m not supplying the weapons.” The alleged motive for this stand was to prevent PalestinianArab civilians from being killed, even though the United Nations has accepted that the casualty figures Washington has been citing are not credible. This would essentially mean that Hamas’s use of human shields would give it impunity for being held accountable for its crimes.

Biden flip-flops

That raised the possibility of a complete arms cutoff to an ally at war against a genocidal foe that—previous statements notwithstanding—the administration doesn’t want to see wiped out. Making good on this threat, a shipment of bombs was not sent to Israel as part of an effort to intimidate Jerusalem into backing off and letting Hamas survive. And when Republicans proposed a bill in the House of Representatives that would essentially force Biden to send the weapons to Israel that the United States had already promised, the president threatened to veto it.

But this week, in a gesture that may well have been intended to stop the bleeding of centrist support for Biden’s re-election campaign, the administration told Congress that it intends to sell more than $1 billion in new weapons to Israel. This sale won’t include the precision bombs and missiles Israel needs to take out the final strongholds of Hamas in Rafah, without which the battle there would likely be bloodier for both sides. But the tactical vehicles and ammunition in this new batch will still be of great use to the Israel Defense Forces.

Much like the U.S. assistance that Israel received when Iran launched missiles against it last month, Biden would appear not to want to leave the Jewish state completely defenseless but also doesn’t want to give it the ability to win wars against its foes or be able to ensure its security.

All of this raises some important questions. Is Biden merely pursuing a vision for Israel’s security that doesn’t include a decisive victory over Hamas in order to pave the way for a theoretical and entirely fantastical hope for peace in the future? Or is what we are observing a slow-motion betrayal of the Jewish state in which America undermines the alliance in stages, rather than all at once, placing it and U.S. interests in the region in grave danger? And how much of what the administration is doing is mere political virtue-signaling intended to aid the president’s faltering re-election campaign?

A toxic yet irreplaceable ally

Administration apologists and their critics can make arguments about how to characterize the situation. But no matter what the conclusion, the mere fact that these questions have to be asked makes it clear that Israel is, at best, locked into a relationship with a superpower ally that cannot be relied upon at present. Even if one is prepared to believe Biden’s protestations about caring about Israel, his political situation has compromised his administration’s willingness to be a faithful ally. Much of his party’s leftist base is ideologically opposed to the existence of the Jewish state and increasingly indifferent to antisemitism. That means the political juggling act the president is attempting to pull off is a gift that keeps giving to Hamas and its Iranian backers, as well as being deeply harmful to Israelis.

Summer Olympics in Paris to construct digital tracking system, requiring QR Codes to attend certain events   LEO HOHMANN

The walls of a global digital police state are being erected in the U.S. and across the formerly ‘free world’

MAY 15, 2024 – The 2024 Summer Olympics open July 26 in Paris, France, and it will be different from any other Olympic Games.

Spectators traveling to the City of Love will have their movement tracked and restricted through the use of digital QR codes.

The city’s Olympics website states:

“The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are fast approaching, and with them come their share of security measures. These include the introduction of restricted areas accessible only on presentation of a QR code.”

The website goes on to explain that:

“The JO 2024 QR code is a unique QR code that gives access to certain restricted areas set up in Paris during the Olympic Games. These areas include competition venues, Olympic villages and fan zones.

“The QR code contains information about the holder, such as surname, first name and ticket number. This information is used to verify the person’s identity and ensure that they are authorized to enter the restricted area.”

It further explains:

“The QR code will be required to enter the security perimeters set up around the Olympic venues. These perimeters will be delimited by barriers and checkpoints. The exact zones concerned will be announced by the authorities at a later date.”

This is the same system that’s being established on a mostly voluntary basis at large-venue events here in the United States, including several Major League baseball stadiums and concert halls. U.S. airports are also implementing this system. But this is the first major event I can recall, post-Covid, where entry will be based on a mandatory QR code and certain events will be placed behind digital gates.

This is a big deal. If it’s successful, you will see other venues also mandating what amounts to a digital ID system, locking non-digitized humans out of various places. Without your digital ID, you won’t be allowed through the gates.

You might be thinking well, Mr. Hohmann, I don’t plan on attending sporting events or music concerts. But that would be missing the point. Imagine if this spreads to retail stores and restaurants? Oh, wait a minute, that already happened at 10 major U.S. cities during the Covid lockdown. Now imagine if it’s implemented at grocery stores.

Resistance is the only way to stop this beast from growing into a monster of total government control over the all human movement.

The story of US Army Chaplain Oscar M. Lifshutz and the Jewish DPS’ at Camp Riedenberg in Salzburg Austria, May 14, 1948.   By Alex Grobman PhD.

7 Iyyar 5784 – May 15, 2024 – There are many descriptions of how the new state of Israel was welcomed.

US Army Jewish Chaplain Oscar [Lt. Colonel] M. Lifshutz was an officer dealing with Jewish Affairs, whose duty was to visit Jewish displaced persons camps in post-war Europe. On May 14, 1948, in Tel Aviv, David Ben-Gurion, chairman of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the State of Israel. Jews throughout the world celebrated the establishment of the first Jewish state in 2,000 years.

Lifshutz experienced the creation of a free and independent Jewish nation on a personal level, through the eyes of his fellow American troops, and the liberated Jewish DPs. His description of that event from the DP camp is especially poignant:

“At 9:00 o’clock on May 18, 1948, I visited with the leaders of Displaced Persons at Camp Riedenberg in Salzburg, Austria,” he said. “There was shouting and dancing in the parade area of this old and dilapidated ex-German barracks. The American Military Police (MP), who formerly guarded the outside gates and policed the surrounding area, were now dancing the Hora with the refugees.

Suddenly, a jeep loaded with officers drew up to the gate and a group, headed by a colonel, dismounted and headed toward the flagpole. ‘Good morning, Colonel,’ I said greeting him with open arms.’ How can I be of service to you.?’

‘This is a great day for you Rabbi,’ he quipped, ‘and I am here to see to it that we are going to do things in the right way.’’

Lifshutz sensed that the officer wanted to ensure that something special occurred.

‘What do you have in mind, sir’ I asked?”

‘Rabbi,’ he said ‘I am a Christian and I feel that I, too, have had a hand in helping to bring the Children of Israel to the Promised Land. I want to tell my children that I helped a people find a homeland. I have been away from my home for three years to regain freedom for all people. And, I am going to ask you, as a Rabbi, to help me do something.’

‘Do what,’ I asked?

He signaled to two of the MPs to come forward to the base of the flag pole. One of the Lieutenants called ‘Attention!’ and the military group froze at attention as the American flag was slowly lowered from the mast.

When the flag was neatly folded in military fashion, it was given to the Colonel, who, in turn presented it to the camp leader.

‘Please remember us,’ said the Colonel. ‘Remember, will you that a lot of my men fought and died to achieve this day. I am proud to have the honor to present you with this flag of my country, the United States of America, as a symbol of freedom.’

Thereupon, the camp leader signaled to one of the refugees, who carried a large package under his arm. He brought it forward and gave it to two of the refugees who had replaced the MPs at the flagpole. Slowly they opened the package and withdrew a large blue-and-white flag.

‘I am as my people are’   Ruthie Blum

How—and what—can we celebrate in the wake of Oct. 7?

(May 13, 2024 / JNS) – One lesson Israelis should have internalized by now is that things can always get worse. As we moved on Monday night from mourning to celebration—when Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism abruptly transitioned into Independence Day—we’d have done well to remember what we were complaining about last year at this time.

In the wake of the Oct. 7 massacre, it’s impossible to believe that Israelis of all walks of life were treating judicial reform like a matter of life and death. Though it’s an issue that warrants serious debate under normal circumstances (whatever that means in the ever-besieged Jewish state), retrospect has a way of rendering previous concerns ridiculous.

Why the White House turned on Israel   David Wurmser, Ph.D.

The rift is all about the U.S. State Department’s desire to reassert control.

(May 9, 2024 / JNS) – The chattering class in Israel is struggling to understand American behavior. They ask: How did the United States go from supporting Israel in the first days of the war with Hamas in Gaza to essentially shielding the terror organization? The Israeli right asks: What happened to the Americans? The left asks: What has Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu done to destroy U.S.-Israel relations?

I believe I have some insight into this. I held a senior policy position at the U.S. State Department for several years. Afterwards, I was a senior advisor to the vice president from 2001 to 2007 and then to the Trump administration’s National Security Advisor John Bolton. I also served a decade in the Pentagon as a senior intelligence officer. I have learned a great deal about the mentality of these bureaucracies.

It is important to understand that the U.S. State Department is not a foreign ministry. It is a super-bureaucracy with domestic as well as foreign functions. Its power over foreign policy far outstrips that of other countries’ foreign ministries.

The Biden administration’s National Security Council is ultimately a political body, but it is not opposed to State Department policy, which is increasingly pushed by younger staffers and senior figures aligned with progressive ideology. There are also the professional foreign service officers who have invested their entire careers advancing foreign policy paradigms that are now collapsing.

Egypt’s Duplicity, the World’s Silence   by Bassam Tawil
May 14, 2024 at 5:00 am

• “A one-hundred-dollar bill does wonders with an Egyptian police officer at a Sinai roadblock who intercepts a truck packed with ‘pipes.'” — Efraim Inbar and Mordechai Kedar, BESA Center, January 22, 2009.
• This is just another example of how, when Palestinians become victims of oppressive measures taken against them by their Arab brothers, the world does not care a bit. About a decade ago, when Egypt demolished dozens of houses and buildings in Rafah as part of a campaign to combat terrorism, no one said a word against the Egyptians — or even bothered to look.
• If the Egyptians actually cared about the Palestinians, instead of blocking the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip, they could easily coordinate with Israel though alternative border crossings such as the nearby Kerem Shalom terminal.
• Evidently the Egyptians would rather see the Gazans starve; then, the international community, as usual, would hold only Israel responsible.
• That is the real problem: Where is the demand from the international community for Egypt to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip? Where are social media posts, the US college campus protests, and the op-eds condemning Egypt for deliberately withholding aid from Gaza’s Palestinians?
• Why doesn’t the Biden administration pressure Egypt, and not just Israel, to allow aid to enter Gaza for the Palestinians?
• Egypt has, in fact, been imposing a blockade on the Gaza Strip for the past 15 years…. Where are the protestors calling to stop the billions in aid to Egypt? They do not, of course, exist. The protests were never about helping Palestinians. They were always only about attacking Jews.
• This is the same Egypt that been displacing thousands of Palestinians from Rafah after demolishing their homes and is now blocking aid to the Palestinians, that has piously decided to join the South African case against Israel at the ICJ.
• Now that Israel is attempting to dismantle a terrorist group whose primary objective is the elimination of Israel, the Biden administration and many in the international community suddenly claim they are “outraged.”
• If they really want to help the Palestinians, they could begin by filing cases against Egypt and the Arab states in the region that, for many decades, have turned their backs on the Palestinians and paid billions to their governments to keep on mistreating them.

Breakdown of the Election Process Like No Other   (FULL VIDEO 50:57)   By Patty Mcmurray

May 13, 2024 7:45 am – Brilliant scholar and former Trump attorney John Eastman, traveled to Michigan on Friday night.

Attorney Eastman delivered a powerful speech on lawfare and how it’s being used against President Trump and his supporters. Mr. Eastman addressed a large crowd in Lansing, Michigan, at an event that was hosted by Michigan’s top election integrity group, MI Fair Elections, which was created by the incredible author and patriot extraordinaire Patrice Johnson.

John Eastman described the election fraud in 2020 in great detail during his speech.

The Biden regime and deep state players DO NOT want you to know this.

Enjoy!

Attorney John Eastman: Thank you all so much. I start this story when I get a call from the White House switchboard. I thought they were joking. I thought it was a buddy of mine saying, the White of the President is on the line. Can you take a call? I said, Steve, what are you doing? I did a hop-up on the phone. And the President said, “I’d like you to represent me. We’re trying to get an action before the Supreme Court of the United States.”

That normally is something that would be considered the catch stone of one’s career. My daughter thought so. She took the brief we filed in the Supreme Court, my motion to intervene on behalf of the President in the Texas versus Pennsylvania case. She had it framed and gave it to me for Christmas that year. It still adorns my office at home.

But a funny thing happened on the way to the forum, as the old guy says, because apparently, in 21st-century America, you’re not supposed to challenge the status quo. You’re not supposed to challenge what government tells you. No matter how blatantly false it manifestly is. When they said masks should be worn or masks shouldn’t be worn, we’re supposed to act like they didn’t change their mind. And then it was equally the same when they said it’s okay to have 50-year-old men showing up naked in your daughter’s showers. We’re supposed to just say, Well, this is the government, they said this is okay. Or competing against your daughters in the swim meet. What’s she going to do when she grows up and wants to get a scholarship swimming or running track and she’s competing against the man? It’s not fair. It’s not American, and we need to stand up against it.

Bill Barr

And the same thing is true with elections. Bill Barr said that there was no evidence of fraud. He looked. Except when we filed a Public Records Act request asking what he looked at and getting access to the investigatory materials that he based that statement on, now the investigative materials are exempt from the FOIA Freedom of Information Act. And what you get back, normally, it says, yes, we have such materials, but it’s exempt under whatever subsection of the statute it’s exempt under. That was not the message that came back. There was a fellow that filed FOIA requests in every swing state US attorney’s office – asking for all the investigative materials that supported Bill Barr’s statement. And the answer didn’t come back. We have these materials, and they’re exempt. The message, the letter came back and it said, There are no such materials. In other words, what Bill Barr said was a lie.

As we know from US Attorney in Pennsylvania, Bill McSwain. Barr was separately telling him, calling in, saying, stand down, hand the materials over to the attorney general of Pennsylvania. Think about that. The Democrats in Philadelphia are stealing an election. You’re going to hand it over to the Democrat attorney general to conduct the investigation. In other words, the investigation is occurred.

The head of CISA said it was the most secure election in history. I mean, you can’t even say that with a straight face. I tried to sell that storyline to Hollywood. They turned it out as too implausible. No, I’m kidding. An article that just recently published based on a speech I gave at the Gatestone Institute in New York some months back called, in quotes, ‘The Most Secure Election in History.’…

…My job was to focus on the illegality, and I want to lay out the basic constitutional premise here. Article 2 of the Constitution is so clearly written that even lawyers should be able to understand it. It says that the states shall choose the presidential electors in the manner chosen by, directed by the legislature of the state. The legislatures decide how presidential electors are going to be chosen. In the first half century of our nation’s history, most of the state legislatures just chose the presidential electors themselves. You can imagine what those campaigns for state legislative office were like. It took a whole new meaning every four years because whoever got in office would be the ones choosing the presidential elector from that state. Since the Civil War, all the states, Colorado, when it first in, chose its own electors by the legislature. But since the Civil War, all the states have chosen electors in the manner by having a popular vote.

And what that means is the election code, how you conduct that election, becomes the manner for choosing presidential electors. And under that constitutional assignment of authority, plenary power, the Supreme Court had said to the state legislators, only the legislature can alter that manner. Only the legislature can decide whether we’re going to get rid of signature verification or water it down. Only the legislature can decide whether we can have drop boxes or human drop boxes. Only the legislature can decide, we’re not going to have bipartisan teams going into the nursing homes as Wisconsin required. Only the legislature can decide, we’re not going to bother making sure we have bipartisan teams at every county table in TCF Center. The decisions to alter those state election laws by county clerks, by secretaries of state, even in some instances by state courts, Court judges, were not only an illegal thing under state election law, because we’re dealing with the federal election whose power to design that system comes from the federal constitution. Those actions were unconstitutional. That alone made the election invalid. I don’t have to prove fraud politically, you want to say, and it affected more votes in the outcome because you don’t want to rest on a technicality there.

Wisconsin

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[Ed.: Do see this one!  Even though for sure, we will win the elcction in November, we will win the election, THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL that we will win the 2024 election! Think about that paradox for a moment.  It’s not hard to conceive it.  We saw exactly that in 2020. (Remember Sydney Powell (and the many others)…]

Biden Regime’s Betrayal of Israel is Not Just to Get Votes   by Robert Spencer

It’s also the result of the Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of his administration.

May 13, 2024 – The pressure on the Biden regime over its ostensible but hollow (at best) support for Israel has been high for months. The regime’s betrayal of Israel has been widely explained as a capitulation to threats from Muslim leaders that Old Joe would receive no Muslim votes in November unless he stabbed the Jewish state in the back. That consideration likely had a great deal to do with the betrayal, but the pressure also comes from within the regime: his handlers have appointed Muslim Brotherhood-linked haters of Israel to numerous positions of influence, and that influence is being felt.

The pressures from inside and outside the Biden regime ultimately emanate from the same source. Middle East Eye reported in Oct. 2020 that Biden released a video message to Muslim Advocates, the group that was responsible in 2011 for the Obama administration’s removal of all mention of Islam and jihad from counterterror training. Biden vowed: “My administration will look like America, Muslim Americans serving at every level.” Middle East Eye also noted that “while Muslims represent a small minority of the American electorate, their communities are concentrated in key swing states that Trump won by a small margin in 2016, including Michigan.”

Muslim leaders in the U.S. kept that fact firmly in mind. In Nov. 2023, Nihad Awad, executive director of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), who infamously said that he was “happy” about Hamas’ Oct. 7 jihad massacre of 1,200 Israelis, declared at a pro-Hamas rally: “No cease-fire, no votes. No votes in Michigan, no votes in Arizona, no votes in Georgia, no votes in Nevada, no votes in Wisconsin, no votes in Pennsylvania. No votes for you anywhere if you don’t call for a ceasefire now.” A ceasefire, like cutting off Israel’s arms shipment, would allow Hamas to survive. That’s why Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah) agreed with Awad: “The American people won’t forget. Biden, support a ceasefire now. Or don’t count on us in 2024.”

Biden regime apparatchiks have heeded that threat; some were only too happy to do so. One of the Muslims operating inside the regime, in fulfillment of Old Joe’s promise to Muslim Advocates, has been Maher Bitar, who was just appointed Biden’s special counsel. That appointment is in addition to his present duties as director of intelligence and defense programs at the National Security Council.

In his college days, Bitar was president of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at Georgetown University. In the aftermath of Oct. 7, SJP has emerged as the most active, strident, and actively menacing pro-Hamas groups on college and university campuses nationwide. SJP has no national organization, but it does have a national website enunciating its motives and goals. The National Students for Justice in Palestine site states that it is “supporting over two hundred Palestine solidarity organizations across occupied Turtle Island, we aim to develop a student movement that is connected, disciplined, and equipped with the tools necessary achieve Palestinian liberation.”

Poll: 57.5% of Muslim Americans say Hamas at least ‘somewhat justified’

Oct 25, 2023 at 9: 42 AM (JNS) -More than half (57.5%) of Muslim American respondents to a new survey agreed that Hamas was at least somewhat justified in attacking Israel “as part of their struggle for a Palestinian state.”

That group was about evenly divided between those who somewhat agreed (29.3%) and those who strongly agreed (28.2%), while 88.5% of Jewish Americans said that Hamas was not even somewhat justified.

That’s according to the general population survey that Cygnal conducted between Oct. 16 and 18. There were 2,020 respondents, and the polling firm—which earns a top rating from FiveThirtyEight—oversampled Jewish and Muslim Americans.

“They respectively make up 2% and 1% of the population—sizes that aren’t large enough in a [2,020-person] survey to be statically relevant [if they are not oversampled],” Brent Buchanan, president and founder of Cygnal, told JNS.

The survey included responses from 300 Jewish Americans and 150 Muslim Americans, he said.

Democrats, Republicans, Independents and evangelicals were proportional to the general population, and although the survey mentioned different Jewish denominations, “We weren’t trying to achieve any set quotas in these groups,” Buchanan told JNS. “Our intent was to get a view of what all Jewish Americans as a whole believe, not what individual segments within the religion think.”

Overall, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a 39.9% favorable and 25.1% unfavorable rating, while Jewish Americans saw the Israeli leader more favorably (56.9% favorable; 29.9% unfavorable) and Muslim Americans less favorably (36.2%,  39.4%).

U.S. President Joe Biden fared similarly: a 41.5% overall approval rating (notedly with a 52.7% disapproval rating), with 58.1% of Jewish Americans approving (38.8% disapproving) and 45% of Muslim Americans approving (45.8% disapproving).

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh earned significantly worse marks.

Abbas had an overall 12.9% favorable and 39.2% unfavorable rating, with 12.2% of Jewish Americans approving (61.5% disapproving) compared to 44% of Muslim Americans, who approved of him.

Haniyeh had a 9.5% overall favorability (56.1% unfavorability), with 7.2% of Jewish Americans approving and 76.4% disapproving, and 38.6% of Muslim Americans approving and 34.5% disapproving.

António Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations who on Tuesday drew fire for saying that the Hamas terrorist attack didn’t happen in a vacuum, split the difference between Biden and Netanyahu on the one hand, and Abbas and Haniyeh on the other. Overall, 26.2% of respondents approved of the U.N. leader and 23.5% saw him unfavorably, while Jewish Americans approved at a rate of 28.2% (22.4% disapproved) and 35.8% of Muslim Americans approved, while 24.9% did not.

Ali Khamenei, Iranian supreme leader, had an overall favorability of 10.6% (48.1% unfavorable), with just some 4.5% of Jewish Americans approving (70.9% disapproved) and 31.3% of Muslim Americans approving (34.4% disapproving).

“Our latest data shows that while the conflicts between Israel and the Palestinian people are not new to the American people, we have entered an equivalent to the post-September 11 era, and the sentiment among our citizens from this point forward will largely be guided by this sad and dark moment in history,” Buchanan stated in an announcement.

“This is not just due to their knowledge of the always-tense relations in Israel and the region as a whole, but also because of the added dynamics of Iran’s involvement, President Biden’s visit to Israel and an overall acknowledgment that we have surpassed critical inflection points which threaten to fuel the conflict further,” he added.

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Jonathan Pollard: The Future of the Likud   [12:25]   Machon Shilo

May 12, 2024- Discussion between former Prisoner of Zion, Jonathan Pollard and the head of Machon Shilo, Rabbi David Bar-Hayim

Life, Liberty & Levin 5/11/24   Mark Levin

U.S. Aid to Israel Hurts Israel. Biden Just Proved It.   Opinion   By Liel Leibovitz Editor at large | Newsweek | Tablet Magazine

Last July, my colleague Jacob Siegel and I wrote a piece for Tablet Magazine entitled “End U.S. Aid to Israel.” It made three simple arguments.

First, American aid is anything but. The roughly $3.8 billion that flows from Washington to Jerusalem each year isn’t a gimme—it’s a backdoor subsidy to defense contractors that may be nominally based in the U.S. but are global corporations invested in global conflict. And whereas Israelis were previously allowed to spend up to 26 percent of the aid package on domestic products, the Obama administration changed the terms to make sure not a single dollar ever left the United States. To call this arrangement aid, then, is misleading; if you want to see what real American aid looks like, follow the dollars, $75 billion of which were awarded to Ukraine in 2022 alone.

Second, American aid is actually curbing Israel’s ability to develop its own home-grown industries. In 2020, for example, the Institute for National Security Studies, a leading Israeli think tank, estimated that reliance on American aid is costing Israel between 20,000 and 80,000 defense industry jobs. Israel’s Ministry of Defense backed this assessment, and put the nation’s subsequent lost revenue at $1.3 billion. Put bluntly, American aid is losing Israel money, and forcing it to invest not in its own essential innovation, but in failing American projects like the troubled F-35 fighter jet.

Finally, and most troubling, the aid puts Israel center stage in the age-old kabuki theater of American domestic politics masquerading as foreign policy. It enables agitators like Rep. Ilhan Omar, for example, to engage in ripe antisemitic conspiracy theories, as she did in 2019 when she tweeted “It’s all about the Benjamins,” suggesting that America’s own interests were subverted by a powerful lobby of rich Jews forcing lawmakers to send taxpayer dollars to Israel instead of to, say, Minnesota. And it allows the White House to intervene in Israel’s diplomatic, military, and even domestic decisions, threatening to hold off on those billions unless are American conditions are met.

When the piece first ran, a host of high-profile critics, including prominent lawmakers from both parties, responded by defending the existing arrangement, offering more talk of the so-called “special friendship” between Israel and the United States.

But this week, President Joe Biden showed the true nature of America’s current relationship with Israel. Talking to CNN’s Erin Burnett, the president summoned his famed eloquence when answering a question about his decision to halt military aid to Israel should the Jewish state proceed to stage an operation in Rafah. “I’ve made it clear to Bibi and the war cabinet that they’re not going to get our support if in fact they go into these population centers,” Biden said. “We’re not walking away from Israel’s security, we’re walking away from Israel’s ability to wage war in those areas.”

It wasn’t mere talk: The administration has now reportedly withheld a shipment of 3,500 bombs and other weapon systems to Israel. Appearing at a Senate hearing shortly after the announcement was made public, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called America’s commitment to Israel “ironclad,” but added that the Biden administration will not supply the munitions until it assesses and approves of Israel’s military response.

[Peloni:  Israel needs to reestablish its independence from American by ending its dependence from Amerian ‘aid’.  Bibi recognized the problematic nature of the aid back in his first term in office and committed to ending the aid within ten years.  That was in 1996.  It is most regretful that this policy commitment failed to materialize, and even more regretful that Israeli reliance upon the aid actually became more acute in the nearly three decades which have passed.  It is time to cut the ties that bind Israel’s freedom of action, threatening its raison d’etre, the defense of the Jewish people.]

The message of defeating Hamas in Rafah without Biden   Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer

It is time to tell Rich Uncle Joe and Chuck the Schumer to take their money and stuff it. They can go take weapons and stuff it. They just gave us the excuse to flatten Rafah.  Opinion.

May 10, 2024, 9:15 AM (GMT+3) – Have you ever personally been in a position in which you always relied on someone else’s financial support so that you could realize your goals and dreams? Like a father or mother or rich uncle. Or, let’s say, like a miserable dictatorial tyrannical father-in-law? (Just saying . . .)

And did that support sometimes come with strings? Strings that not only tied your hands but curtailed your dreams? (Just saying . . .)

Have you ever reached a moment in your life where you decided “Either I spend the rest of my life toeing to his every command, and later look back ruefully on my deathbed wishing I could go back in time and live the life I had wanted to live — or I tell him right now to stuff his money, and I will be liberated to return to living the life I was meant to live, to pursue my dreams? (Just saying . . . )

So you stopped being an attorney at a major law firm, where you were earning a boatload of money, and returned to being a rabbi because that was your calling? (Just saying .,.)

There is nothing in all the world that compares to standing on your own two feet, living the life you were called to live, the life you want to live, even though now struggling to make it work financially without that old standby monetary support you always had relied on, but now figuring out how to do it yourself, albeit with G-d’s primary help.

This is Israel’s moment right now.

It is time to tell Rich Uncle Joe and Chuck the Schumer to take their money and stuff it. They can go take weapons and stuff it. And then do what obviously must be done: go into Rafiach (Rafah) with guns blazing and aerial bombs dropping, and utterly eradicate Hamas, and — if necessary — flatten that region of Gaza like a tortilla. Indeed, as a humanitarian gesture after flattening the region like a pancake, drop gallons of maple syrup.

But what if innocent civilians are hurt?

First of all, which innocent civilians are we talking about?

-The ones who, in a free and democratic election supervised and validated by Jimmy Carter, elected Hamas to be their voice and actualize their dreams of wiping out Israel?

-Or are we talking about the innocent civilians who danced in the streets of Gaza every time Hamas started a war, Israel fought back until a ceasefire, Hamas declared victory, and the masses danced in the streets?

-Or the innocent civilians who danced in the streets and distributed candies to children when Bin Laden took down the Twin Towers on 9-11?

-Or the innocent civilians who crossed the border into Israel on Shabbat Shmini Atzeret of October 7 and also raped women, and also murdered babies, and also plundered every bit of merchandise from furniture to food in the refrigerators of the murdered Jews?

So which innocent civilians are we worrying about here?

-The ones who refuse to leave Rafah because Hamas wants them to stay as human shields?

-The ones who have lived for years in homes throughout Gaza with entrance points to Hamas underground tunnels etched into the floorboards of their homes, in their children’s bedrooms, under cribs and beds?

Well, here’s the thing. Uncle Joe and Chuck the Schumer won’t give Israel the precision weapons that Congress authorized, capable of pinpointing targets. So Israel will just have to make do with older weapons that sort of come close to their targets, give or take a few buildings or blocks. In the end, it’s like what my Mom of blessed memory would say when, as a finicky boy, I complained that, although I like peas and I like carrots, I don’t like it when the can contains a mixture of peas and carrots together. “David,” she z”l would say, “What’s the difference? Mixed or separate, it’s all going to end up in the same place.” Words to live by (though I still don’t like them mixed).

Same here. An embargo on precision weapons to avoid hitting unintentional targets? Eh, what’s the difference? Rafah needs to be flattened anyway.

Israel does not need America, Uncle Joe, or Chuck the Schumer. (Chuck always told American Jews that his last name means “Shomer” — Guardian of Israel. In reality, G-d Almig-ty, who never slumbers nor sleeps, is the Guardian of Israel. As we now know from Ancestry.com, “Schumer,” by contrast, means “Good for Nothing.”)

Biden ends the US-Israel alliance at a fortuitous moment   Caroline Glick

So far, administration sychophants have not succeeded in turning the American people against either the Jewish state or the Jewish people. Hamas and the U.S. positions are in complete alignment.

May 11, 2024, 10:48 PM (GMT+3) – (JNS) Delegations to the Egyptian-hosted hostage negotiations left Cairo on Thursday night after talks collapsed. A member of the U.S. delegation led by CIA director Willian Burns briefed reporters that the talks failed “due to Israel’s operations in Rafah.”

Under normal circumstances—circumstances that would see the United States siding with Israel in its demands for the release of all hostages, as well as the eradication of Hamas’s forces and its regime of terror—such a statement could easily have been interpreted as supportive of Israel’s operation in the southernmost part of the Gaza Strip, where terrorist strongholds still function.

Israel made an offer to Hamas that U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken praised as “incredibly generous.” Hamas rejected it completely, so Israel renewed its offensive entering Rafah. Nothing weakens Hamas’s negotiating position more than defeat. And now, having rejected the deal, Hamas can only expect a much worse offer from its perspective whenever talks are renewed.

Unfortunately, that isn’t what the U.S. announcement meant at all. It meant that the Hamas and the U.S. positions are in complete alignment. This isn’t new information. The fact that the United States, like Hamas, views the hostages as a means to force Israel to capitulate to Hamas’s demands—including ending the war with Hamas victorious, leaving more than 100 held captive behind in Gaza and thousands of terrorists freed from Israeli prisons—became clear last Saturday.

On May 4, Arab media outlets reported that behind Israel’s back, Burns had agreed to serve as guarantor that Israel will not renew its combat operations in Gaza in the event that a temporary ceasefire is enacted during the course of a hostage release. Israel never agreed to such a position. Indeed, Israel’s refusal to agree to an end of the war in exchange for a small fraction of the 132 hostages Hamas is holding in Gaza is the only thing preventing Hamas from rightly declaring victory in its jihad against Jerusalem.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rightly felt compelled to stop the story—and the American plot—in its tracks. He issued a statement denying that Israel had agreed to such a deal and rejecting it out of hand as a non-starter.

[Ed.:  Good riddance!]

Pharaoh comes to Washington   Jack Engelhard

Biden “forgot” Netanyahu, and became the new, harsh Pharaoh, who decrees a halt to those arms shipments that had been promised. He is not killing Jewish babies though, like Pharaoh and Tlaib and Ilhan Omar’s Hamas friends did. Op-ed.

May 10, 2024, 5:58 PM (GMT+3) – Maybe I should have titled this…A vote for Biden is a vote for Rashida Tlaib. She’s the Democrat Congresswoman who represents Ramallah and Hamas in the House.

I’ve got that wrong? Okay. She represents Michigan’s 12th District…which is the same thing that I said a moment ago, and Joe Biden admires her and loves her, so much that, especially these past few months, when he’s been seen canoodling and whispering sweet nothings in her ear. Makes sense. He needs her Michigan district to beat Trump.

Trump he’s got locked up in a New York City courtroom. Trump cannot leave, and he is muzzled by a gag order. Justice, the Democrat way.

Therefore, and presto, Tlaib is Biden’s Henry Kissinger, his chief advisor on foreign affairs, namely Israel, and as everybody knows, she is no friend of the Jews.

Neither was Pharaoh…and see now how Joe Biden is showing his true face, replicating the new Pharaoh “who knew not Joseph.”

Of course, he did know that under the older regime Joseph, as Viceroy, had re-built Egypt into a colossus. He only pretended to be clueless, and so began the years of harshness and slavery.

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The Betrayal of Israel by the US Administration Is Almost Complete   by Guy Millière
May 12, 2024 at 5:00 am

• The Biden administration does not appear ever to have issued the slightest threat, warning or ultimatum to the authors of the war: Hamas, Iran or Qatar.
• US Senator Chuck Schumer, after declaring himself a friend and defender of Israel, suggested overthrowing Israel’s democratically elected prime minister, and — as if Israel, and not America, were within his jurisdiction — called for new elections.
• Meanwhile in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, where anti-government demonstrations began again, one of their leaders, Ami Dror, revealed on social media that the demonstrations and riots are part of a plan by the Biden administration to bring down the Netanyahu government…. The US State Department has, for more than a year, been providing financial support for protests hostile to the Netanyahu government.
• Biden, it seems, is frustrated that Netanyahu is objecting to humanitarian aid — which basically resupplies Hamas. Hamas, Israel’s argument goes, released hostages only after unremitting pressure. Relieving that pressure by backing Hamas makes the probability of seeing any more hostages released less likely. Biden is also reportedly frustrated that Netanyahu, for some inexplicable reason, objects to the creation of a terrorist Palestinian state next door.
• One cannot leave aside that the Biden administration, through ignoring sanctions on Iranian oil, has allowed the Iran’s regime to earn up to an estimated $100 billion… Without those funds, the massacre of October 7 would not have been possible, Hezbollah would not have been able to fire so many missiles into Israel from Lebanon, and Iran itself would not have been able to launch more than 300 drones and ballistic missiles at Israel in April, and to attack US troops more than 150 times on, just since October 7, 2023 — evidently in an attempt to drive the US out of the Middle East.
• The Biden administration, it seems, does not want a definitive end of the conflict — as with Ukraine as well — especially if the end would entail the defeat of Hamas or Russia. Hamas is a protégé of Qatar and Iran, the world’s two leading state sponsors of terrorism. The Biden administration has been rewarding them — Iran with money and Qatar with renewing its protection by Al-Udeid Air Base, headquarters of America’s CENTCOM, as well as controlling the new terror pier the US has built in Gaza At the same time, the Biden administration is falsely accusing Israel of violating human rights.
• The Biden administration may even be complicit in the arrest warrants for Netanyahu and other Israeli officials that might be issued by the International Criminal Court – possibly as a way to dispense with him.
• The mullahs are, in effect, using their proxies – Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and so on — as their “human shields”.
• The Biden administration has placed the existence of Israel in danger to protect Biden from the dangerous voters of Michigan.
• Worse, with the Biden administration now having come down squarely against Israel and on the side of Iran, Qatar and Hamas, they have to feel no inclination to agree to anything. Why should they? Iran’s mullahs have a new proxy, the United States, backing their terrorism for them.
• Even worse, at almost the same time as the US told Israel it was withholding arms shipments that Congress had already approved (a move for which Democrats tried to impeach then President Donald Trump), the Biden administration waived sanctions for arms purchases by Lebanon, Qatar and Iraq — countries that host groups working to destroy Israel.
• Worst of all, if you are Ukraine, Taiwan, China, Russia, Japan – just about any US ally or foe — you probably cannot avoid thinking something like: We have watched the supposedly mighty US surrender Afghanistan, its ally of 20 years, to a bunch of terrorists, the Taliban. Now we are watching the US surrender its closest ally in the Middle East, Israel, the only democracy there, to terrorists: to Hezbollah in Lebanon with 150,000 rockets and missiles pointed at Israel, and to Hamas in Gaza by sending “humanitarian aid,” that will used by terrorists.
• Where are any prosecutions or sanctions by the UN and international courts for war crimes and human rights violations on countries such as Qatar (here and here), China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Nigeria, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Yemen and Sudan?
• Currently, the Biden administration appears to want three things: Netanyahu OUT – reportedly to be replaced by a puppet who will do whatever the US tells him; a terrorist Palestinian state IN, and to preserve Iran and Qatar’s client, the terrorist group, Hamas. So far, all the pressure from Washington has been on Israel, none at all on Hamas or on its patrons, Qatar and Iran. The fighting could indeed stop tomorrow if either of them or the US seriously ordered Hamas to stop fighting and immediately return the 132 remaining hostages.
• Did the Biden administration even ask?

CHAPTER 18: American Marxism: The Biden Regime—Obama’s Third Term   by Linda Goudsmit
Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier—Reality Is (forthcoming release June 2024)
Globalism is a replacement ideology that seeks to reorder the world into one singular, planetary Unistate, ruled by the globalist elite. The globalist war on nation-states cannot succeed without collapsing the United States of America. The long-term strategic attack plan moves America incrementally from constitutional republic to socialism to globalism to feudalism. The tactical attack plan uses asymmetric psychological and informational warfare to destabilize Americans and drive society out of objective reality into the madness of subjective reality. America’s children are the primary target of the globalist predators.

May 12, 2024 –  Karen McKay (Chapter 17) described with precision the cultural terrorism Marxist George Lukács brought to Hungary as deputy commissar for education and culture in 1919, and Marxist Barack Obama brought to the United States as president in 2008. The ideological motivation for cultural terrorism is purely political, and it is documented in America by W. Cleon Skousen, a former FBI employee, in his 1958 book, The Naked Communist.[i] Skousen lists forty-five communist goals that promote social progressivism, internationalism, societal collapse, and imposition of communism worldwide.

On January 10, 1963, the forty-five communist goals were read into the United States Congressional Record to archive them for future generations. The goals that articulated and exposed the thinking and strategies of the political elite sixty years ago are the same goals and policies being implemented collaboratively by today’s radical leftist Democrat party, corrupt Republicans (RINOs), the colluding media, and the globalists who pull all of their strings. Some of the familiar names are Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, Mike Pence, George Soros, Bill Gates, and Klaus Schwab.

Of particular interest in this chapter are Goals 24, 25, 26, 40, and 41:

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free   speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as “normal, natural, and healthy.”

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

The first Marxist president of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, governed in accordance with socialist Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals (Chapter 14), not the United States Constitution. During his eight-year term, every government institution was politicized to move the country toward socialism.