COMMENTARY / OPINION
A warning From Jonathan Pollard By actcom.co.il
October 16, 2024 – The situation with the US has now become intolerable and, if not confronted directly by the Israeli government, just might compromise our ability to decisively beat Hamas.
It must be understood that the contrived concern the Biden administration is expressing over the alleged “food crisis” in Gaza is nothing more than a means of preserving Hamas.
Why do I say thus? Outside of northern Gaza, where we are currently engaged in an effort to implement General Giora Eiland’s plan to isolate Hamas elements holding out in Jabalya, the rest of Gaza is overflowing with humanitarian supplies.
So, when we decided to accede to American demands and allow a food convoy into this contested region, the material was predictably commandeered by Hamas.
And this was something the US knew would happen because just last week a 30 truck humanitarian aid convoy was hijacked in its entirety by Hamas. Interestingly, the US said NOTHING about this. [Emphasis added]
[Ed.: When Iran calls the US “The Great Satan”, they are hitting the nail on the head!!]
Former intelligence chief says Israel will strike Iran’s nuclear sites By Koha
October 16, 2024 – A former chief of Israeli military intelligence has told the BBC that he expects Israel to strike Iran’s nuclear sites in one of its strikes against Iran.
“Not only do I expect this, but I also expect the international community to support us”, said Yossi Kuperwasser.
“Look at how weak Iran is without nuclear weapons,” added Kuperwasser, who was the head of intelligence for the Defense Forces.
However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reported to have assured the US president that Israel will only target Iranian military infrastructure in response to Iran’s missile attack.
According to Kuperwasser, Israel will attack several times and will not stop with one attack. He emphasized that “we must make sure that the Americans know that we have taken into account their concerns about the large-scale war”. He added that the nuclear areas will be the target in the next rounds of attacks, if not in the first one.
[Ed.: But, but, our friends and allies specifically told us not to! Perhaps we don’t need to? If we take out Kakameinei and their military installations, the Irani people can take their country back, and the nightmare will be over…]
In leaked letter, US officials ask Israel to make 15 policy changes in Gaza or risk arms embargo By Akiva Van Koningsveld
Failure to comply “may have implications for U.S. policy,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin reportedly wrote
Blin’en, Bid’en, and Nod
October 16, 2024 Israel Behind the News – If the Jewish state doesn’t take a series of measures to improve humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip within the next 30 days, it could risk “implications” for U.S. policy, potentially including an arms embargo, according to a letter from the U.S. defense and state secretaries leaked to Axios.
The letter, which Axios published on Tuesday, purports to come from Antony Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, and Lloyd Austin, the U.S. defense secretary. It is addressed to Yoav Gallant, the Israeli defense minister, and Ron Dermer, the Israeli strategic affairs minister.“Starting now and within 30 days,” Jerusalem should implement 15 policy changes to avoid a possible arms embargo, the letter states. “Failure to demonstrate a sustained commitment to implementing and maintaining these measures may have implications for U.S. policy under NSM-20 and relevant U.S. law.”Under NSM-18, issued on Feb. 23, 2023, one of the U.S. foreign policy and national security objectives is to “prevent arms transfers that risk facilitating or otherwise contributing to violations of human rights or international humanitarian law.”
NSM-20, a national security memorandum that U.S. President Joe Biden issued on Feb. 8 about “safeguards and accountability with respect to transferred defense articles and defense services,” requires the secretary of state “to obtain certain credible and reliable written assurances from foreign governments receiving defense articles.”It also directs the defense and state secretaries to “provide periodic congressional reports to enable meaningful oversight” and ensure that all defensive weapon transfers ” are conducted in a manner consistent with all applicable international and domestic law and policy, including international humanitarian law and international human rights law.”Among other measures, the letter calls on the Jewish Israel to allow at least 350 aid trucks to pass through existing border crossings daily and to open a fifth crossing.Israel is also instructed to announce “adequate humanitarian pauses across Gaza” for at least four months, rescind evacuation orders, remove a ban on the entry of “container and closed trucks,” authorize certain items with dual military use to enter and confirm that there will be no “policy of forced evacuation of civilians from northern to southern Gaza.”
The missive also reportedly expresses concerns about proposed Knesset legislation that would shut down activities in the Jewish state of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, declaring the U.N. body a terror group and stripping its staff of diplomatic privileges.
“While we share your concerns about the serious allegations of certain UNRWA employees participating in the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks and of Hamas misusing UNRWA facilities, enactment of such restrictions would devastate the Gaza humanitarian response at this critical moment,” per the letter. “We ask that you take all possible steps, whether with lawmakers or using the authorities of the Prime Minister’s Office, to ensure that this does not come to pass.”
Citing reports of abuses against terrorists captured during Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre and the Gaza ground campaign, the letter urges Israel to immediately allow the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit all “individuals detained in connection with this conflict.”
“It is vitally important that our governments establish a new channel through which we can raise and discuss civilian harm incidents,” the letter concludes. “Our engagements to date have not produced the necessary outcomes. We ask that the initial virtual meeting of this channel be held by the end of October.”
In May, the U.S. State Department issued a report to Congress about U.S. arms transfers to Israel that was deeply critical of the Jewish state but stopped short of concluding that it was violating international law.
“Given Israel’s significant reliance on U.S.-made defense articles, it is reasonable to assess that defense articles covered under NSM-20 have been used by Israeli security forces since Oct. 7 in instances inconsistent with its international humanitarian law obligations or with established best practices for mitigating civilian harm,” the report stated.
The report noted that individual violations of international law do not mean that a country is not committed to following the law. It added that Israel has several “active criminal investigations pending, and there are hundreds of cases under administrative review” about its own conduct.
In March, Jerusalem provided a written letter to Washington declaring that it abides by international law when using weapons transferred from the United States, which was another requirement of Biden’s memorandum.
The Israel Defense Forces has been fighting to defeat Hamas in Gaza since the terror group led a mass invasion of southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, murdering 1,200 people, primarily Jewish civilians, wounding thousands more and kidnapping 251 people to Gaza, where 101 remain.
Jerusalem has rejected any accusation that the IDF does not comply with international law or is interfering with humanitarian aid efforts and has accused Hamas terrorists of stealing the majority of the aid. At times, the White House and the State Department have admitted that the terror group is known to seize aid.
[Ed.: The US is not a friend to Israel. They are also not an ally of Israel. An ally doesn’t issue threats and ultimatums when their ally is at war for their very survival. An ally does not leak sensitive military information to the press. An ally does not withhold military aid. This is the behavior of an enemy. The US is just one more enemy to Israel, not an ally or a friend by any stretch of the imagination. Israel should tell them just where to stick it; where the sun don’t shine!]
Weekly Commentary: Silver Lining to Blinken-Austin Arms Embargo Threat By Dr. Aaron Lerner
October 16, 2024 Israel Behind the News – When we realized that it was a mistake to rely on American supplies of one-ton bunker busters, we dug into our pockets to begin serial production of a superior Israeli model.
That was only the beginning.
The Blinken-Austin letter threatening Israel with an arms embargo as the Jewish State is in the middle of an intensive war can be expected to have a lasting impact on Israeli arms planning.
We are already scrambling to produce a large portfolio of components and ammunition, which until recently were received from Uncle Sam.
The scar left by the Blinken-Austin letter is so deep that no matter how the White House behaves after the elections, or who gets sworn in next January, Israeli defense procurement decisions will take into account the possibility of a future arms embargo.
The embargo threat also serves to put the nail in the coffin for any future “diplomatic” scheme that hinges on “ironclad guarantees” from America.
To be clear: it would have been better for us to reach these conclusions without it being the product of the Biden Administration’s “two-by-four treatment.”
But at least we can have the satisfaction of knowing that, in the long run, the embargo threat will serve to dramatically improve Israeli defense procurement decisions while avoiding nonsensical diplomatic arrangements that hinge on “ironclad” American guarantees.
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The 2024 Election IS Rigged! MARK ALEXANDER
The Demos’ master strategy to perpetuate control of the Executive and Legislative Branches – and ultimately state governments nationwide.
“We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.” —John Adams (1797)
After the 2020 election, Donald Trump declared: “We won. It was a rigged election.”
But he and his team completely missed what was rigged.
They blamed ballot-counting machines and ballot harvesting — no question the latter was happening. But an enormous amount of political capital was wasted complaining about ballot machines when the most brazen election rigging was hiding in plain sight: The Democrats’ bulk-mail ballot fraud strategy. Using the ChiCom Virus pandemic as cover, Democrats controlling some of the largest states sent ballots to the last known address of every person on voter rolls, with no authentication of who would be receiving those ballots, and virtually no authentication for who was actually casting those ballots.
In 2020, among 333 million Americans, almost 160 million (66%) of the nation’s 239.2 million “eligible voters” cast ballots, and millions were not authenticated.
Moreover, of the votes cast in 2020, 43% (66 million ballots) were by mail — and a majority of those were in states where authentication of the person receiving and casting the ballot was not required. Of all those who voted in person, 66% voted for Trump versus 42% for Biden — which is to say that 58% of Biden ballots, almost 47 million votes, were cast by mail.
Bulk-mail ballots accounted for the highest percentage of ballots cast in our nation’s history.
Do you see the pattern here?
Despite the bulk-mail ballots, Trump still received 46.9% of the vote (74,223,975) and 232 electoral votes, while 1.8% of votes (2,926,539) were for third-party candidates. And, election was closer than appearances would imply, though. Biden’s 7 million vote margin (81,283,501), giving him 306 electoral votes, was mostly those unauthenticated bulk-mail ballots in California and New York.
But Biden actually won the presidency by fewer than 43,000 votes in the key swing states of Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin. That is precisely why the Demos’ want to eliminate the Electoral College, eroding our constitutional republic into a democracy.
The lack of authenticated ballots, whether by mail or in person, significantly erodes the value of votes in states where authentication is mandated. Requiring voter IDs is the global standard, even in third-world countries. Short of universally requiring voter authentication, voter fraud will continue unabated, which completely undermines the integrity of elections.
If Democrats further institutionalize eliminating voter ID requirements for in-person and mail ballots, that will perpetuate Democrat control of the executive and legislative branches, which, of course, is their objective. That is precisely why the Demos’ House and Senate Resolutions 1 seek to nationalize a prohibition on voter ID requirements.
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Bernie Sanders must have flunked math as he spreads falsehoods on Israel By MOSHE PHILLIPS
Sanders is no fool. He knows the facts. Which means that he is knowingly hurling falsehoods in order to smear Israel.
OCTOBER 14, 2024 – Bernie Sanders must have flunked math in high school. That’s the only explanation I can come up with for his latest ludicrous claims about Israel and Gaza.
Senator Sanders marked the anniversary of the October 7 slaughter by issuing a statement in which he accused Israel of “waging total war against the Palestinian people.”
That’s right – in a statement concerning the total war that Hamas has waged against the Israeli people, Sanders had the gall to accuse Israel of being the warmonger.
It’s as if Israel launched an unprovoked invasion of Gaza on October 7, 2023. As if Israel massacred and tortured 1,200 Gazans and committed gang-rapes. As if Israel kidnapped 240 Gazans and held them in cages in underground tunnels.
The population of Gaza is most 2.1 million. So how much of the population do you suppose Sanders thinks has been killed by Israel in this “total war”?
Earlier this year, the Israeli government estimated that about 16,000 civilians in Gaza have died, as a result of Hamas stationing its terrorists, command centers, and weapons depots in residential neighborhoods, schools, and hospitals.
That’s less than 1% of Gaza’s civilian population. In other words, 99% of Gazans have somehow managed to survive the “total war” that Sanders thinks Israel has been waging.
Which means that those Gazans are incredibly resourceful – or the Israelis are really bad at carrying out “total war.”
That’s not all. There was more bad math from Sen. Sanders. In that same grotesque statement that Sanders issued on October 7, he claimed that “thousands” of children in Gaza are victims of “starvation.”
Yet there has not been a single report of any Gazan dying of starvation. Even Hamas does not seem to have claimed that anybody has died of starvation.
A big stretch when it comes to numbers
In other words, the number in Sanders’ head is “thousands” but the real number is zero. Amazing.
It’s not surprising to have one or two extremists in the US Senate or House of Representatives. They are large bodies, with 100 and 435 members, respectively. So it’s almost inevitable that there will always be a few radicals.
The problem is when one of the radicals manages to get hold of the steering wheel. Sanders was a serious contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in both 2016 and 2020. In 2016, he won 23 primaries and caucuses.
In 2020, he won 10 and likely would have won more if he had not dropped out early.
As a result, even though Sanders is officially an independent, not a Democrat, he has become one of the most powerful and influential figures in the Democratic Party.
Fortunately, his demand to stop all US military aid to Israel is not yet the party’s position – but there’s a real danger that he’s helping pull the party in that direction.
That would be worrisome in any circumstances. It’s even more troubling when one considers what’s behind his outrageous accusations about Israel “waging total war” and Gazan children “starving.”
Sanders is no fool. He knows the facts. He has staff to do all the necessary research. He knows that 99% of Gaza’s population is alive and that nobody in Gaza has starved to death.
Which means that he is knowingly hurling falsehoods in order to smear Israel.
It’s one thing to disagree with another country’s policies. It’s something very different to knowingly fabricate slurs in order to hurt that country. Bernie Sanders is venturing into very dangerous territory, with Israel in his crosshairs.
Moshe Phillips is national chairman of Americans For A Safe Israel, a pro-Israel advocacy and education organization.
Following in the Footsteps of the Nazis By Alex Grobman PhD.
14 Tishri 5785 – October 15, 2024 – After reading Benjamin Weinthal’s article entitled “Germany delays selling weapons to Israel but continues sales to Qatar, sparking criticism,” Mr. Weinthal wondered what prompted Germany to “ignore Israeli requests to purchase weapons, according to a Sunday report in the German mass circulation daily Bild.” Mr. Weinthal further questioned: hadn’t German Chancellor Olaf Scholz made a pledge of unconditional solidarity with Jerusalem after October 7? Were the Germans leaving off where their forebears started or was this just a temporary aberration?
Germany has a moral responsibility for the murder of six million Jews, and for its vital role in transmitting its anti-Jewish genocidal hatred to the Arab world, parts of which have now embraced a virulent strain of anti-Americanism.
Continuation of German Antisemitism: Germany’s Contribution to Jihad Antisemitism
In Jihad and Jew-Hatred, Matthias Küntzel, a German political scientist and historian, contends that antisemitism is part of the ideological center of modern jihadism, and not simply an additional component. He argues that “during and after the World War II, the center of global antisemitism shifted from Nazi Germany to the Arab world, above all to the radical Islamist currents in and around the Moslem Brotherhood of Egypt.” This shift did not occur only because of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Quite the reverse. The “ideology of and policy of radical Islamists” actually made the clash worse.
Küntzel points out he was not alone in recognizing the parallels between German antisemitism and that found in the Middle East. Thirty years before, Bernard Lewis, an expert on the history of Islam and Islam’s interaction with the West, said, “Since 1945, certain Arab countries have been the only places in the world where hard-core, Nazi style antisemitism is publicly endorsed and propagated.”
This profound German influence can be seen in a number of areas: the similarities between the Arab anti-Jewish caricatures and those found in Julius Streicher’s Der Stürmer; the millions of copies in Arabic of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion; many editions of Hitler’s Mein Kampf, and the pro-Hitler attitude among Arab youth. Israeli soldiers came across the Arabic Mein Kampf in many homes that were raided this past year in Gaza.
Küntzel rejects the claim advanced by many Arab writers that after 1945 the Arabs were forced to pay the price for Nazi anti-Jewish policies. He says Palestinian Arabs must share “at least indirect responsibility for the Holocaust.” It was their anti-Zionist campaigns that compelled Britain to limit the number of Jews permitted to enter Palestine. Without a place to seek refuge, Jews remained vulnerable to the Germans’ decision to annihilate the Jewish people throughout occupied Europe. Thus, a significant number of Arabs living in Palestine at the time “bore some responsibility for the impending tragedy.”
[Ed.: The moment his buddy tells him “It’s not juice, Mahmoudi, it’s Jews!”]
US Hezbollah Policy is Based on Complete Fantasy. Here’s How [55:27] Caroline Glick
October 15, 2024 JNS TV – The Caroline Glick Show
8,246 views • Premiered 4 hours ago • The Caroline Glick Show
JNS senior contributing editor Caroline Glick speaks with Middle East Analyst Tony Badran about U.S. policy towards the Lebanese Hezbollah terror organization and Israel amidst the ongoing conflict on Israel’s northern border.
Badran explains that Biden’s current policy is based on a completely wrong understanding of what is happening in Lebanon and on a fantasy of a post-Hezbollah Lebanon.
Born and raised in Lebanon, Badran will give an inside understanding of the Lebanese dynamics, what the U.S. is getting so terribly wrong and how only a military solution can lead to victory.
The Third Trump Assa$$ination Attempt & Domestic Terrorists in NC – an Attempted False Flag? Tom Renz
OCT 15, 2024 – Yesterday news broke that there was an alleged “3rd assassination attempt” that was stopped against President Trump. Today we see articles that “white men” are acting as domestic terrorists in NC by threatening FEMA officials. What’s going on?
This article is a discussion and I want to state clearly that I cannot prove guilt or innocence at this point. Nor do I know all the details of either case. That said, I have questions. Why is there such a push to report stories when only a sliver of information is actually known. Why are so are there no arrests or allegation against Venezuelan gang members but major headlines about “white males” that are likely Trump supporters being arrested everywhere. No – this article is not meant to be proof, but rather, a series of questions being asked as a cautionary tale… we all need to oppose the communist takeover of our nation that Kamala Harris represents but we must do it peacefully and lawfully.
Yesterday, the media exploded with stories of Vem Miller being arrested with the sheriff behind the arrest claiming that Vem was going to try to be the third person to make an assassination attempt against President Trump. I know Vem Miller and am also a die-hard Trump supporter (as you likely know) and this simply did not make sense. Vem knows and works with a TON of other people working hard to ensure Trump is reelected. He works with Mindy Robinson and runs the America Happens Network, he travels around the country investigating corruption and the deep state, and he is doing everything possible to ensure President Trump leads us into a strong future. In short this is NOT a person that any threat or payoff could convince to do something so insane.
- If this was really an assa$$ination attempt why did it take so long for the story to come out? If the evidence was conclusive why wait – certainly the Sheriff doesn’t seem to be media shy.
- Vem was only charged with gun charges (it’s CA so everything is a gun charge).
- Where are the other charges related to the “evidence” the Sheriff claims to have? Driving with an invalid license? Fake plates (Vem denied this)? Fake passports? Etc. There were tons of other charges that could have been filed if there was evidence and if this was an what they claimed it was do you really think they would hold back on a guy they are claiming to be a “right wing” zealot?
- What about the feds? Does ANYONE actually believe the Biden/Harris regime would have hesitated to file charges against a right-wing Trump guy for something like this if they had any opportunity at all to do so?
- Vem Miller is the guy behind the America Happens Network. He has an incredibly extensive track record of being a Trump supporter. This entire incident is as hard to imagine as if someone claimed that Whoopi Goldberg was accused of attempting the same thing against Kamala Harris.
- While Sheriff Bianco is claiming to be a Trump supporter it is not at all clear what he stands for. He was apparently okay with BLM chaos:
Ultimately I simply do not at all believe this story it real.
Fast forward all the way to today. Today we are seeing stories about “white males” with “assault rifles” threatening the good hardworking people from FEMA that are doing so much to help the people hurt by Hurricane Helene (yes I’m being extremely sarcastic). Breaking today out of NC is this story:
The story contains absolutely no details regarding the nature of the comments and ignores the numerous reports of frustration about FEMA personnel doing nothing or (in some reports) hindering rescue efforts. In fact that story goes on to state that the work being halted is nothing more than inspections. This begs the question: is FEMA actually doing anything at all anywhere in the hurricane affected area? From what I’ve heard from talking to numerous people on the ground the resounding answer is no and many are reporting that FEMA is intentionally hindering the recovery effort.
Again, these are reports – not proof – but if this is at all true, is it any wonder why residents would be frustrated? On a seemingly unrelated note, why was this article so specific about this being a “white male” carrying an “assault weapon?”
More importantly I think we need to look at the two incidents together. Let me ask the question no one wants to ask: is there an effort on the part of the bad guys to stoke or fake an event that would result in the public lashing out in a lawless way? An event that could impact the election?
I do not have the answer to this but I think the question is relevant and important. Please let me finish with this: We MUST do everything we can to oppose Harris and the enemies of America that are trying to destroy our children’s future and the Constitution but we MUST manifest this opposition legally and civilly. Stand and stand strong but stand in the light of truth. Do not let yourself be baited. I pray for our country.
Rifle and Koran: the new Western Woke antisemite Giulio Meotti
The left has embraced Islamism and is bringing about its own downfall when the rifles will be turned against it. Western suicidal masochism” whose root causes “are to be found more in Freud than in Marx.”
Oct 15, 2024, 11:32 AM (GMT+3) Israel National News – A demonstration in Rome that praises Hamas and Hezbollah was held recently. Seeing the flags with the rifle and the Koran in the Italian capital of Catholicism was quite impressive.
But even more so were these strange girls dressed in pink, girls who Hamas would rape, torture and impale without thinking twice as they did to Israeli women on October 7, and who brandished signs that read: “October 7 is not terrorism, but resistance.”
They seemed to have come out of the latest polemic by the Algerian novelist Kamel Daoud: “In their tragedy on the margins of the useful world, Afghan women do not reproduce the effect of the decolonized, which we want to see again in the war between Israel and Hamas. Afghan women are not veiled by the Jews. We prefer the decolonized, the decolonizers, the decolonial and its positions. In the West, neo-feminism has decided and identified who its electoral clients will be. [The neo-feminist] has long since come to the conclusion that the ‘cotton fields’ of her community are on the side of Muslims and Islamists.”
In London at the same time people were marching shouting “I love Hezbollah”. And in Paris the left in Parliament declared “Hezbollah is a component of the Lebanese people”.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is right, writing in UnHerd: “Islamism is conquering the West from within”. “Hamas does not want a free Palestine but a Sharia state” writes the Dutch novelist Leon de Winter. “First it’s Israel’s turn, then Europe’s.”
The famous novelist Michel Houellebecq went to a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Paris to see with his own eyes whether the images of the rallies that appeared on TV channels were representative. He expected to meet bearded men, Sharia fundamentalists, who can’t stand the sight of a woman without a veil. Instead there were only “bobos”, bourgeois-bohemians, his left-wing, progressive friends, confesses the author of “Submission” and “Serotonin”. Houellebecq didn’t expect to find “leftists”, his former high school and university classmates, supporting Hamas after the October 7 attack. Houellebecq speaks of “Western suicidal masochism” whose root causes “are to be found more in Freud than in Marx.”
But we would be wrong to think that they are a minority. They will be the new majority.
Young English people are for Hamas after the October 7 massacre, according to a new YouGov poll. 16 percent of young English people believe that the massacre was justified. And that comes to over a quarter, 28 percent, of “very left-wing” Britons.
A good many young Americans say Israel should be “abolished and handed over to Hamas,” according to a shocking Harvard-Harris poll, which found that 51 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 said they indeed believed in “abolishing Israel and handing it over to Hamas”.
These are crazy percentages that can be replicated, to varying degrees, in all Western countries. And why not? The professor at the once prestigious Cornell University who called October 7 “exciting” has just returned to work without sanctions.
How we got here is explained by Pascal Bruckner in the latest City Journal: “Radical Islam has become the last great political narrative of the left, replacing communism and third-worldism. The shaheed, the jihadist, the martyr of Hamas or al Qaeda replaces the proletarian, the guerrilla, the Bolshevik. The followers of the Crescent will bring the Revolution”.
The unbridgeable gaps between leftism and Islamism have been pushed aside. Now, with the new impressive collapse into Islamoleftism, with the streets invaded by the Koran and the rifle, today we are at the final act of this long war against the West. Since October 7, we have been living in an unrecognizable world.
Giulio Meotti is an Italian journalist with Il Foglio and writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of 20 books, including “A New Shoah”, that researched the personal stories of Israel’s terror victims, published by Encounter. His writing has appeared in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Gatestone Institute and Die Weltwoche. He is also a Middle East Forum Writing Fellow.
I do not want to hear Both Sides Jack Engelhard
Spare me information I don’t need at this time. And the journalistic terrorism at CBS should have all who run it hanging their heads in shame. Opinion.
Oct 14, 2024, 10:37 AM (GMT+3) Israel National News – I do not want to hear Both Sides.
King Solomon put it like this: “Too much wisdom leads to grief.”
Likewise, too much information. By way of saying, I have grown tired of News. I do not want News. Unless it’s terrific.
In other words, spare me the headline which says Gallant is off to Washington again to meet with Blinken again, which means he will come back brainwashed again.
Tell me instead the number of terrorists the IDF eliminated today. i need to know that somewhere evil is being blotted out.
Not around here, that’s for sure…here in the United States, where journalism is ruining itself and the country.
Exhibit A brings us CBS News, once the bellwether of broadcast journalism, and once featured such stars as Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow, but today?
Today they would be scoffed for “toxic masculinity.” Today, therefore, a sorority of woke women run the network.
What happened? A so-called writer named Ta-Nehisi Coates appeared as a guest on the network’s morning show, to promote his latest book.
I’d never heard of the guy, I don’t follow that gang of Leftists, even though Coates, a black man of letters, is supposed to be something special.
He is part of a protected species.
His specialty, it appears, is to reduce everything down to race…Blacks good, whites bad.
As it unfolded on the program, Coates wants everybody to know that he spent 10 days in “Palestine” with enough material to fill a book, and by saying “Palestine” instead of Israel, we already know where this is going. No surprise, then, to have him trash the Jewish State as colonialist and racist.
The Palestinian Arabs, as he sees it, after 10 days, are Black and good; the Jews are white and bad…and that’s the story of his book.
Was there anyone on the panel to refute his bigoted nonsense? Let’s turn to Rashi, and the incident of the 12 Spies.
Two, Joshua and Caleb, came back to Moses with blessings for the Land of Canaan. The others returned with a negative report.
Rashi says they already had their minds made up. “They left with bias in their hearts, and returned with bias in their hearts.”
All these centuries later, this sounds like Coates, and the many like him, including those CBS panelists who gushed with praise over this particular idiot, with such bias in his heart.
With one exception, namely Tony Dokoupil, who challenged Coates up, down and sideways, and for that, his bosses at CBS want him disciplined.
Dokoupil had the chutzpah to use true journalism at one of their Leftist darlings, which apparently goes against the network’s standards and practices.
Now they want him retooled and re-educated to fall in line as just another zombie, like all the rest who give us falsehood and bigotry for news and opinion.
As I said at the start, spare me this kind of news. My brothers and sisters are fighting and dying right now in Israel against terrorists from all sides.
I don’t need to be informed that by means of their telecasts the media are waging the same war of terror against my people.
I am calling out CBS News for journalistic terrorism. Israel dares to exist, and this troubles people like Coates, and those who run our media.
Kudos to Shari Redstone of Paramount, which owns the network, for speaking up for Dokoupil, who is Jewish. Redstone is a mensch.
As for the women who run CBS News, the world was a better place when you were back in the kitchen.
New York-based bestselling American novelist Jack Engelhard writes regularly for Arutz Sheva.
He wrote the worldwide book-to-movie bestseller “Indecent Proposal.” His novel, “Compulsive,” motivated John W. Cassell to declare “Jack Engelhard is a writer without peer, and the conscience of us all.” Contact here
Jonathan Pollard: BOMBSHELL: Newly Disclosed Pre-October 7 Hamas Documents
Oct 13, 2024 Machon Shilo – Watch Jonathan Pollard & Machon Shilo’s Rabbi David Bar-Hayim discuss how Israel can defeat the Hezbollah:
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[48:21] LEO HOHMANN
We need more red-blooded American dads willing to defend their daughters like this man did. Sorry the pervert lost his life but that’s the risk you take when you mess with an alpha male’s daughter
OCT 14, 2024 – An Arkansas father has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder after allegedly shooting and killing a 67-year-old pedophile who was found in a vehicle alone with his missing 14-year-old daughter.
And it gets worse. This same pervert had reportedly already raped the man’s teenage daughter once before!
Fox News reports that Aaron Spencer, 36, reported his daughter missing last Tuesday, and Lonoke County Sheriff’s Office deputies were dispatched to his home.
But as deputies were on their way to the home, they learned that Spencer had found his daughter in a vehicle with 67-year-old Michael Fosler. A confrontation ensued between the two men (I bet it did!) before Spencer allegedly shot and killed Fosler.
Deputies arrested Spencer on a preliminary charge of first-degree murder. He was booked into the Lonoke County Detention Center before being released the next day after posting bail, Fox News reports.
Sheriff John Staley said in a video on Facebook that Spencer has not been formally charged yet and that the District Attorney’s Office will decide which charges to file.
The sheriff said: “This is a tragic situation and my thoughts and prayers are with all involved.”
Spencer’s wife, Heather, said on Facebook that the 67-year-old pervert, Mr. Fosler, had a “no contact order” with her daughter for stalking and raping the 14-year-old over the summer and that she and her husband feared he might kill her. She said that she and her husband were unaware Fosler was again in contact with their daughter.
She wrote:
“We absolutely called 911 during the entire event. We had no idea this man was in contact with our child again. He was waiting on 6 to 9 felonies for what he did. He was looking at the rest of his pathetic life in jail, and our daughter was the only witness.”
She added:
“Some things we will never know, but we know that the police department afforded this predator privacy they did not give our family. Including posting our home address. I’m deeply offended by the way this was handled by the county [sheriff’s] office.”
Fosler had been arrested by another law enforcement agency in July and booked for internet stalking of a child and sexual assault, Sheriff Staley told USA Today, adding:
“I absolutely do not support predators. I’m a daddy. I have three daughters. I know she’s hurt right now, but there’s absolutely nobody I would put ahead of our children, their children, my children.”
The sheriff said deputies are looking into what happened leading up to the shooting. He told the news outlet:
“When we get on scene and there’s a homicide, it means one person took the life of another. It’s either justified or not justified. That’s what the fact finding, that’s what the investigation is going to find out.”
These charges need to be dropped or, at the very least, drastically reduced. Mr. Spencer was reacting in the heat of passion to protect his young daughter, who had already been victimized by this scoundrel once before. It’s this kind of twisted justice that has destroyed people’s faith in the system.
If more dads acted like this gentleman did upon finding his daughter in the clutches of this disgusting pedo, maybe we wouldn’t have quite so many disgusting pedos walking around preying on our children? Am I being un-Christian for saying such things? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) Guide for the Perplexed, 2024 Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel initiative”
Based on ancient Jewish sages, October 14, 2024
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1. Sukkot is a Jewish national liberation holiday. It commemorates the Biblical Exodus, the transition of the Jewish people from bondage in Egypt to liberty in the Land of Israel, and the sustained Jewish ingathering to the Land of Israel, which inspired the US Founding Fathers and the Abolitionist Movement.
2. Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles (evening of October 16 – October 23, 2024) derives its name from the first stop of the Exodus – the town of Sukkot – as documented in Exodus 13:20-22 and Numbers 33:3-5. Sukkot was also the name of Jacob’s first stop west of the Jordan River, upon returning to the Land of Israel from his 20 years of work for Laban in Aram (Genesis 33:17).
The construction of the Holy Tabernacle, during the Exodus, was launched on the first day of Sukkot (full moon).
3. Sukkot is the 3rd 3,300-year-old Jewish pilgrimage holiday (following Passover and Shavou’ot/Pentecost). It highlights faith, reality-based-optimism, can-do mentality and the defiance of odds. It is also the 3rd major Jewish holiday – following Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur – in the month of Tishrei, the holiest Jewish month. According to Judaism, 3 represents divine wisdom, stability and peace. In addition, the 3rd day of the Creation was blessed twice; God appeared on Mt. Sinai 3 days after Moses’ ascension of the mountain; there are 3 parts to the Bible (the Torah, Prophets and Writings); there are 3 Jewish Patriarchs; 3 is the total sum of the basic odd (1) and even (2) numbers, symbolizing strength. According to Ecclesiastes 4:12, “a three-strand cord is not quickly broken.”
4. Sukkot underscores the gradual transition from the spiritual state-of-mind during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur to the mundane, and from religious tenets of Judaism to the formation of the national, historic and geographical Jewish identity.
- 5. The roots of the Hebrew word Sukkot (סוכות) are wholeness and totality (סכ), shelter (סכך) and attentiveness (סכת). The numerical value of סכך (every Hebrew letter has a numerical value) is 100 (ס=60, כ=20, ך=20), representing the totality/unity of the Jewish people, history, roots, education and legacy.
6. The 7 days of Sukkot – which is celebrated in the 7th Jewish month, Tishrei – are dedicated to 7 supreme guests-in-spirit and notable care-takers (Ushpizin in Aramaic and Hebrew): Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Aaron and David. They were endowed with faith, reality-based-optimism, humility, magnanimity, principle-driven leadership, compassion, tenacity in the face of daunting odds and peace-through-strength.
7. Sukkot features the following four species (Leviticus 23:39-41): 1 citron (representing King David, the author of Psalms), 1 palm branch (representing Joseph), 3 myrtle branches (representing the three Patriarchs) and 2 willow branches (representing Moses and Aharon, the role models of humility). These are bound together, representing unity-through-diversity and strength-through-unity.
They embody four leadership prerequisites: a solid backbone (palm branch), humility (willow), a compassionate heart (citron) and penetrating eyes (myrtle).
These species also represent the agricultural regions of the Land of Israel: the southern Negev and Arava (palm); the slopes of the northern Golan Heights, Upper Galilee and Mt. Carmel (myrtle); the streams of the central mountains of Judea and Samaria, including Jerusalem (willow); and the western coastal plain (citron).
The palm branch, an ancient symbol of victory, was featured in coins from the Maccabean era (from the 2nd century BC through the 1st century AD) and the Bar Kokhba rebellion (132-135 AD). According to the First Book of Maccabees, chapter 13, Simon the Maccabee celebrated the retaking of David’s Citadel in Jerusalem with drums, harps and palm branches.
8. Traditionally, Sukkot is dedicated to the study of the Biblical Scroll of Ecclesiastes (Kohelet, ,קהלת in Hebrew, which was one of King Solomon’s names), written by King Solomon, which highlights humility, morality, patience, learning from past mistakes, commemoration and historical perspective, family, friendship, long-term thinking, proper timing, realism and knowledge.
The late Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV), the longest serving US Senator, often quoted Biblical verses, in general, and Ecclesiastes, in particular. For example, on November 7, 2008, upon retirement from the chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Committee, he stated: “’To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven.’ Those Biblical words from Ecclesiastes 3:1 express my feelings about this particular time in my life.” On September 9, 1998, Senator Byrd made the following Senate floor remarks on the Lewinsky affair: “As the book of Ecclesiastes plainly tells us, ‘There is no new thing under the sun.’ Time seems to be turning backwards in its flight. And, many of the mistakes that President Nixon made are being made all over again.”
9. During the holiday of Sukkot, it is customary to highlight humility by experiencing a seven-day-relocation from one’s permanent dwelling to the temporary, humble, wooden booth (Sukkah in Hebrew) – which sheltered the people of Israel during the Exodus.
2024 — 9/11 Anniversary Interviews of RG911 You Don’t Want to Miss! Luke Rudkowski, Donald Jeffries, and more! GAIL GAGE
Richard’s expertise, technical evidence, and speaking ability was in high demand again this 9/11 season.
OCT 14, 2024 – 63 Interviews so far in 2024 — reaching millions again this year! Thank you for supporting us!
Another year has flown by, and this year’s Anniversary of 9/11 was another sombering opportunity to bring these horrendous Deep State crimes to the forefront of humanity’s collective mind, which in turn, will hopefully lead to justice for the victims and their families, and accountability for the real perpetrators.
This past year, to me, has honestly felt like the cloaks of the Deep State lies are being torn down, one by one, with each interview and every journalist who chimes in on “What about Building 7”, or “How DID those buildings collapse like that?”
With all of the difficult truths that are being exposed about the seemingly never-ending assaults on humanity, it’s almost as though “we” have been given permission to “go there”, despite the criticism and attacks by the corrupt Mainstream Media, those who are still “asleep” and those who are simply confused and afraid to let go of their cognitive dissonance.
So, the tide seems to be turning and people seem to be steadily growing more and more hungry for truth, therefore many people are learning about Building 7 for the first time, which in turn, opens their minds to the Twin Towers . . . and then many other false flag events are “allowed in” to their consciousness, and become more legitimate to them.
How do we, here at RichardGage911, contribute to the “mass awakening” of humanity? Well, one of the major and most effective ways is for Richard to share his many years of research into 9/11 and other more recent false flags, through interviews. And one very important way that YOU can contribute, is to share the critical research reflected in these interview with the people in your world.
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We started off our 9/11 Truth Anniversary commemoration on September 1st with Ahmed Elkholy and Patrick Phillips of Geneva Academy . They didn’t want their audience to miss ANY of the critically important technical evidence, expert testimonies, and witness testimonies that Richard has developed in his extensive presentations for both Building 7 and the Twin Towers, so they interviewed him in two parts:
DOJ Fights for Illegal Aliens to Vote in Virginia By John Mills
Oct. 13, 2024 6:20 pm – Commentary
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland is now suing Governor Glenn Youngkin of Virginia for having the temerity to remove unlawful voters from the election rolls. In 2019, I made a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to my Virginia County Clerk of the Court on those rejected for Jury Duty. The Jury Duty rolls, by Commonwealth of Virginia Law, harvest the names predominantly from the Voting Rolls. There are 20 different reasons someone can be rejected from Jury Duty.
Doing basic math, there are three non-debatable categories where someone would be unlawful to be on the election roll. Yet 6% of the names were rejected from Jury Duty because they were unlawfully on the election rolls. Taking in other categories where there may be an issue with the lawful nature of the voter, applying a very low percentage of the total, the number of potential unlawful names on the rolls shot to 12% of the total on the Virginia Rolls being unlawful (again a very low, small “c” conservative percentage was applied).
One of the hard categories of illegality is not being a U.S. Citizen. How could a non-U.S. Citizen be on the Virginia voter rolls? For anyone who is not aware of it, 18USC611 “Voting by aliens”, makes it unequivocally clear that it is unlawful for a non-U.S. Citizen to vote. Yet here we are, illegal aliens are on the election rolls in Virginia, and the current U.S. Attorney General is fighting against the lawful U.S. Citizen to keep unlawful voters on the rolls.
A Constitutional Showdown – which has precedence, 18USC611 or Motor Voter?
It would have been wonderful if Attorney General Bill Barr had remembered 18USC611 in 2020. There is gross ignorance by the self-appointed “election law experts” on Federal Laws in regard to the conduct of elections. There are actually not that many Federal Laws on the conduct of elections. There is the 1965 Civil Rights Act, 1993 Motor Voter (also known as The National Voter Registration Act), the 2002 Helping Americans Voter Act (HAVA), and 52USC207 Retention of Records. But for some reason, 18USC611 is conveniently ignored, forgotten, or not known. Some bring up the caveated possible exception of 18USC611 unless “(c)(3)the alien reasonably believed at the time of voting in violation of such subsection that he or she was a citizen of the United States.” That would only apply if there was written guidance posted at the ports of entry where illegals are being brought in by the Biden Harris Team.
A constitutional showdown has been established. Which has precedence, 18USC611, which mandates only U.S. Citizens can vote, or the 1993 Motor Voter Law, which may have placed unlawful voters on the election rolls? Motor Voter requires a 90-day quiet period in advance of an Election for removal of a name – and requires the written approval of that registrant before they are removed. However, Motor Voter also imposes criminal penalties upon an individual that “deprives or defrauds the inhabitants of a State of a fair and impartially conducted election process.”
Allowing an unlawful voter onto the rolls would rise to the “deprives or defrauds” threshold. There is a clear conflict between two Federal Laws – first, that someone must be a U.S. Citizen to vote and second, allowing someone who is unlawful to stay on the Roll, thus depriving U.S. Citizens of their Constitutionally guaranteed vote. Any rational, constitutionally-minded Citizen would concur that 18USC611 should prevail over the 1993 Motor Voter law.
Punitive Election Interference by Merrick Garland
The Biden/Harris DOJ likely had the assault on Governor Glenn Youngkin pre-written and ready to go on the October Surprise conveyor belt to ensure illegals can vote. There are likely several more lawfare suits “Teed Up” to throw sand into the gears of election integrity. All Garland’s team has to do is fill in the Governor’s Name and State, and the assault is ready to file in U.S. District Court. AG Garland is ruthlessly “depriving” and “defrauding” legal U.S. Citizens by fighting for illegal aliens to vote.
Governor Youngkin responded to Garland’s assault on the Constitution, “With less than 30 days until the election, the Biden-Harris Department of Justice is filing an unprecedented lawsuit against me and the Commonwealth of Virginia, for appropriately enforcing a 2006 law signed by Democrat Tim Kaine that requires Virginia to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls – a process that starts with someone declaring themselves a non-citizen and then registering to vote. Virginians – and Americans – will see this for exactly what it is: a desperate attempt to attack the legitimacy of the elections in the Commonwealth, the very crucible of American Democracy.”
Once again, Blacks and all lawful Citizens of Virginia are having their votes nullified – this time by the Federal Government
Virginia was held to account by the 1965 Civil Rights Act to ensure Black Americans could vote, and their rights were not undermined by Civil War-era Jim Crow laws. Now that many demographic groups, including Blacks are sharply increasing their support for Former President Trump, their votes are again being thrown into the trash bin again, this time by an over-bearing, reckless, and unlawful U.S. Attorney General.
There are two Americas – one for American Citizens and one for illegal aliens brought in by the Biden-Harris Team to steal an election.
Criminals and the malign-minded constantly evolve their tactics to manipulate or get around the law. This time, non-Citizens are given a special status and showered with largess looted from the U.S. Treasury which was taken from the American People.
Governor Youngkin is following the law and coming down on the side of the lawful U.S. Citizen in a clear conflict between two Federal Laws – one of which has been hidden in a cave for years by the experts. A state Governor must resolve this Constitutional crisis because the Federal Government is not doing its lawful, Constitutional duty.
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COL (Ret) John Mills has significantly shaped U.S. national security policy over four decades, serving in roles from the Cold War through the era of Great Power Competition. His career includes multiple combat tours, senior civilian positions at the Department of Defense, and strategic duties with the National Security Council in two administrations. Additionally, he is associated with the Center for Security Policy, and the Committee on Present Danger China. ColonelRETJohn2 on X, ColonelRETJohn on Substack, GETTR, and Truth Social.
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Pentagon issues Federal Directive allowing military to use ‘lethal force’ against Americans as video resurfaces showing Kamala fantasizing about weaponizing DOJ against U.S. citizens LEO HOHMANN
The timing of Federal Directive 5240.01 is interesting in light of the upcoming election and the government’s narrative about right wing extremists being the ‘biggest threat’ to US national security.
OCT 13, 2024 – A video clip has resurfaced from May of 2019 in which Kamala Harris advocates weaponizing the DOJ against speech the government doesn’t like, and the platforms that allow it.
In the meantime, one month before a tense presidential election, the U.S. Department of Defense has authorized U.S. military “defense intelligence components” to use “lethal force” against American citizens if requested by state or local law enforcement in an emergency situation. More on this in a minute, but first let’s get to the May 2019 video showing Kamala Harris unleashing her inner dictator.
Speaking at the annual NAACP ‘Fight for Freedom Fund’ dinner in Detroit, Harris threatened: “We will put the Department of Justice of the United States back in the business of justice. We will double the civil rights division, and direct Law Enforcement to counter this extremism.”
She went on to say she would “hold Social Media Platforms accountable for the hate infiltrating their platforms, because they have a responsibility to help fight against this threat to our Democracy. If you don’t police your platforms, we are going to hold you accountable…”
What she’s saying is chilling. She’s saying that she, or some entity in her administration, will decide what is appropriate speech and what is not. These are the musings of a dangerous authoritarian. This is the real Kamala Harris. You won’t find her talking smack like this on the campaign trail, where all we get is the warm and fuzzy Kamala who wants to help the middle class.
Holding platforms accountable for every opinion or rant placed on their platform means arrests will be made. It’s already happening in other formerly free countries. In the UK, thousands of British citizens were arrested, tried and convicted within a 72-hour period for posting photos and videos on social media that challenged the government narrative about recent rioting in the country.
In France, the government arrested the owner of Telegram, a popular social-media platform, because he refused to “cooperate” with government authorities seeking backdoor censorship avenues into his system.
This is the wave of the future, and it’s global in scope. Top U.S. Democrats like Hillary Clinton, Antony Blinken and John Kerry have all recently come out and said the First Amendment is a hindrance to establishing their globalist agenda centered on climate-change hysteria, fake elections and toxic mRNA injections for all. If you tell the truth about these issues, they call it disinformation and say it should be banned.
US national security mandates regime-change in Iran Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”
October 13, 2024 – *The US State Department has rejected the regime-change option (which would gratify most Iranians) since 1978/79, when Iran’s Ayatollahs seized power, assisted by the State Department, which had stabbed the back of the Shah, who had been America’s Policeman in the Gulf.
Instead, the State Department has embraced the diplomatic option, which has generated hundreds of billions of dollars to the Ayatollahs – notwithstanding their systematically anti-US policies – facilitating their surge from a non-leadership regional stature in 1979 to global prominence, militarily and diplomatically in 2024. Furthermore, the diplomatic option has substantially upgraded the Ayatollahs’ support of terror entities such as Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis.
*In 2024, independent of potential nuclear capabilities, the conventional military capabilities of Iran’s Ayatollahs constitute the most critical epicenter of anti-US global terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering and the proliferation of advanced missiles and predator unmanned aerial vehicles.
The Ayatollahs’ conventional capabilities are a clear and present danger to the US homeland (e.g. proliferation of sleeper cells on US soil and the tight collaboration with Mexico’s drug cartels) and national security. Since the early 1980s, the Ayatollahs have severely eroded the US’ strategic posture in Latin America. In addition, the Ayatollahs pose an imminent lethal threat to every pro-US Arab regime, especially the oil-producing regimes (e.g., Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain), aiming to seize control of 48% of the global oil reserves.
*In 1978/79, the State Department deluded itself that Ayatollah Khomeini would be controlled by moderate advisors, distancing himself from Moscow, focusing on introducing liberty to the Iranian people, refraining from the exportation of the Islamic Revolution, evolving into an Iranian edition of Ghandi.
In 1978/79, the State Department policy doomed the pro-US Iran, transforming it into a venomous anti-US octopus with its tentacles stretched from the Persian Gulf, through the Middle East and Africa to Latin America and the US homeland.
In 2024, irrespective of the Ayatollahs’ rogue track record, the State Department is still convinced that they could be reformed. Foggy Bottom avers that diplomatic and financial bonanzas could induce the Ayatollahs to accept peaceful-coexistence with their Sunni Arab neighbors, become good-faith negotiators, and to abandon their religiously fanatical vision, which mandates the destruction of their “apostate” (Sunni) and “infidel” (Western) enemies.
*In 2024, the State Department’s rejection of regime-change in Iran could doom (any day!) Jordan’s pro-US Hashemite regime, which is increasingly besieged by the Ayatollahs’ conventional capabilities (subversion, terrorism, drug and arms trafficking), in collaboration with their Syrian and Iraqi terror proxies, Jordan-based Moslem Brotherhood terrorists, Palestinian terrorists (including Hamas) and 2 million Syrian and Iraqi refugees in northern Jordan.
*The toppling of the pro-US Hashemite regime would transform Jordan into a major platform of anti-US global terrorism, igniting a volcanic ripple effect in Israel, transforming its most critical and peaceful 310-mile-long Jordanian border into the most vulnerable and explosive border. In addition, this would pose a lethal threat to the pro-US Egypt, bolstering the anti-US and anti-Sisi Ayatollahs, ISIS and Moslem Brotherhood-controlled terrorism in the Red Sea, Sinai and Egypt mainland. It would also threaten the survival of Jordan’s southern neighbors, the Arabian Peninsula Arab oil producing regimes, which could accord the Ayatollahs control of 48% of the global oil reserves.
*However, the Israel-Arab peace process would be dramatically advanced by a State Department’s realization that the Ayatollahs are not partners for a diplomatic option, but rather a target for regime change. Thus, a regime-change in Iran (which would advance human rights and liberty for all Iranians) would bolster the posture of deterrence of the US and Israel, remove the Ayatollahs’ machete from the throats of its Sunni Arab neighbors, and reduce the Saudi and the UAE courting of China and Russia. This would eliminate the major hurdle on the path of Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham Peace Accords, possibly followed by Indonesia, Oman and even Kuwait.
*The State Department’s rejection of the regime-change option – underscored by the suspension and softening of economic sanctions and the timid response to the frequent bombings of US installations (also in Jordan) by the Ayatollahs and their proxies in Yemen, Iraq and Syria – has been interpreted, in the Middle East, as a preference for short term diplomatic convenience over long term national security. Moreover, it has been discerned by all actors in the Middle East as a suspension of disbelief, hesitancy, a non-realization that rogue entities bite the hands that feed them, while undermining the US posture of deterrence. This has energized anti-US terrorists, threatening the survival of all pro-US Arab regimes (e.g., Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt), and driving them closer to China and Russia.
*The 45-year-old State Department’s rejection of the regime-change option, in defiance of Middle East and global reality, has bolstered the anti-US capabilities of Iran’s Ayatollahs, undermining US homeland and national security, reflecting Foggy Bottom’s assumption that the Iranian leopard is amenable to changing spots, not merely tactics.
KAMALA HARRIS’S UNSAVORY SUPPORTERS by Martin Sherman
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security has chosen to twist and distort its alleged focus of inquiry.
October 7, 2024 Israel Unwired – (JNS) Recently, a distressed Twitter/X message from a well-known Israeli-Australian human rights jurist, Arsen Ostrovsky, caught my eye. It dealt with an institute, which I must confess, I had never heard of previously, but perhaps that is merely a testament to my ignorance.
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security professes to be dedicated to the study of the grisly topic of “genocide” and what so appalled the eminent lawyer was the bizarre manner in which the institute, which bears the name of the man who originally conceived the term “genocide,” has chosen to twist and distort its alleged focus of inquiry. With evident dismay, Ostrovsky tweeted: “Quite incredible that @LemkinInstitute, named after Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term ‘genocide,’ would now be shilling for jihadists of Hezbollah (and Hamas), who would seek to carry out another genocide against the Jewish people! Shame on you!”
There is much to justify his consternation. After all, the institute issued a statement that reeks of unadulterated Judeophobia, condemning Israel’s response to an unprovoked and barbarous massacre of its civilian population by the Islamo-fascist terror organization Hamas with the eager complicity of the Gazan population at large.
The institute appears willfully blind to the fact that Israel is engaged in a conflict—not of its choosing—with two terror organizations that are backed by a global state sponsor of Jihadi terror, all of whom have the explicit intent of genocide (the express intent of eliminating the Jewish state and its Jewish inhabitants) brazenly emblazoned across their publicly professed positions. In fact, the obliteration of Israel is a major part of the raison d’être of Hamas, Hezbollah and the theocracy in Tehran. Yet on its X account, the institute shamelessly accuses Israel of being a “genocidal state that is completely out of control,” alleging that it is “supported by a Western world that is, in large measure, too racist and Islamophobic to care.” Similar toxic tirades appear on the group’s website and LinkedIn account of its executive director.
Conflating ‘chalk and cheese’
It should be remembered that when Lemkin coined the term “genocide,” it was against the ghastly backdrop of the Holocaust, a mega-tragedy involving the meticulously planned and purposely perpetrated annihilation of millions of non-combatants, particularly Jews, for no other reason than their ethnic origins. Israel’s action in Gaza differs vastly from anything that can be associated, even remotely, with those comprising genocide.
After all, what genocidally inclined villain would take the painstaking –some would say decidedly ill-advised—efforts that Israel has taken to protect enemy civilians? Indeed, authoritative military sources such as Richard Kemp, the former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, and John Spencer, West Point U.S. Military Academy’s urban warfare expert, have stated unequivocally that Israel has achieved the lowest ratio of civilian casualties in the history of urban warfare. Moreover, the Israel Defense Forces have regularly pre-warned Gazan civilians to vacate certain areas and arranged for safe passage of non-combatants out of combat zones to designated sanctuary areas. Israel has also conveyed more than a million tons of humanitarian aid, including food, water and medical supplies, to the Palestinian residents of Gaza.
Perversely, it is difficult to conceive of conduct any less consistent with the practice of genocide.
Caricaturizing and miniaturizing
Indeed, not only has the Lemkin Institute blatantly evaded mentioning that much of the Gazan death toll is due to the actions of Hamas leadership, which not only used its civilians as human shields but actively urged, threatened and physically prevented them from evacuating war zones for safer locations.
