COMMENTARY / OPINION
Brigitte Gabriel says Muslim Brotherhood working to destroy US, reveals ‘secret plan’ Kevin Haggerty
November 15, 2023 – Rising antisemitism and widespread protests reportedly all part of “secret written plan” detailing Islamic extremists’ operations “to destroy the United States from within” stretching back decades.
As the founder and chairwoman of ACT for America, a grassroots movement dedicated to America’s national sovereignty, Lebanese-born Brigitte Gabriel has long warned against the threat of Islamists and jihadists to the United States and the free world. Tuesday, she connected much of the unrest seen in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel with the Muslim Brotherhood and a coordinated infiltration of every level of society to “dominate the West and establish Islamic government on earth.”
Taking to X, Gabriel posted a video referencing a document dating back to 1991 called the “Muslim Brotherhood plan for North America” as she asserted they were “working to destroy the United States from within for DECADES, this is their secret written plan exposed.”
The Muslim Brotherhood has been working to destroy the United States from within for DECADES, this is their secret written plan exposed. pic.twitter.com/2bodbC4vcg
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) November 15, 2023
Of Tucker, of Candace, and rhinos Jack Engelhard
On the campus where they walked with friends, they have none. Antisemitism needed only a scratch to surface. Op-ed.
Nov 19, 2023, 1:46 PM (GMT+2) – Ionesco’s play “Rhinoceros” takes us to a small town where one day a rhino appears causing fear and trembling among the citizens, until gradually, one by one, they all fall under the spell of this green monster and become rhinos themselves. The allure of mindless brute force was too much to resist.
A case of life imitates art.
Because imagine what it’s like for Jewish students, post Oct 7, to find their campus turned into a different world.
Before Oct 7, these Jewish kids were just like the rest. Their Jewishness was no big deal. They attended the same classes as their non-Jewish friends, rooted for the same football team, shared secrets, exchanged homework, laughed, giggled at the same jokes, with no hint that in a snap, everything was about to change.
Their classmates, their instructors, their professors had become monsters. Not all of them, but enough of them to turn the college experience into a nightmare, contrary to the expectation that the college years would be the last stage to enjoy the sweetness of youth, a time to celebrate, savor and appreciate that particular age of innocence for a lifetime.
All that’s been shattered. On the very campus where they walked with friends…they have no friends. Or, they don’t know which are these, and which are those.
Being Jewish is a big deal, after all.
On campus…those who dare…they are met with people who scowl, sneer and shriek “river to the sea” and Allah-hu Akbar.
Many of these are here on visas from Jihad-festering hell-holes and bring with them ancient grudges. The others are homegrown American stooges.
Their antisemitism needed only a scratch to surface.
The “pro-Palestinian” crowd is having it their way.
Of all those “Palestine” flags being waved in NYC and throughout America, some might rightfully ask, whose country is this anyway?
Under the guise of Islamic Studies, that is what we’ve brought into our country, and into our universities as teachers and students. (Must read Chapter 8.)
No wonder then, that so many Jewish kids are terrified…afraid to step foot on campus, afraid to attend class.
They don’t know which professors are their friends, or merely neutral, and which of them tore down those posters of the hostages being held by Hamas.
Where are the counter rallies? The one held in DC…very nice. But it changes nothing, day to day, for Jewish students, or for Jews anywhere.
As we write, some “Palestinian Arab” office is naming Jewish individuals and businesses as targets in New York City. They are calling for “direct action,” whatever that means.
Back to campus, the Jewish kids I’ve spoken to share one feeling when it’s time for class…dread and nausea.
They are waiting for their Christian and Asian friends to stand up and be counted. They are still waiting.
Or have they too changed colors…which brings us to Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, who are apparently at odds with Ben Shapiro.
Shapiro, so far as I get the story from YouTube, is disappointed that fellow conservatives, namely Tucker and Candace, are not on his side for Israel and against Hamas.
I’ve wondered the same thing. All along I’ve been fans, of Candace in particular, a black woman fearless to take on and tear apart BLM.
But where is she on Israel when Israel and Jews everywhere can use a strong conservative voice of support? Where is Tucker? Seemingly indifferent.
Their conservatism has limits, and it stops with the Jews.
Part Thirteen Setting the Record Straight: Ensuring National Media Attention By Alex Grobman PhD.
6 Kislev 5784 – November 19, 2023 – Suicide bombers guarantee international media attention. [1] “The media are part of the war. CNN is more important than airplanes,” asserted Malek Wabdeh, a Hizballah cultural representative [2]
Individuals who are not directly vulnerable to terror attacks are not concerned with their own personal safety, asserts political scientist and terrorist expert Martha Crenshaw. They might express sympathy for the victims, the terrorists or for neither group, but they are in not in imminent danger, because they are far removed from the area of conflict “as well as by virtue of their identity. To them, terrorism is drama. Feelings of curiosity, distress, or vicarious satisfaction of desires for vengeance” might affect their opinions. Interest in terrorism might be similar to their interest in natural disasters or criminality. Terrorists might also assume the “characteristics of a mythical enemy.” [3]
It is “undeniable,” stresses Crenshaw, there is an “entertainment value of terrorism as real-life drama—furnishing suspense and pathos.” The use of highly charged emotional words, expressions, and symbols promote intense public responses. Critics frequently claim the media fosters terrorism by portraying the act as valiant and glamorous. Other observers condemn the media’s focus on the plight of the victims, which can precipitate anxiety and extreme concern. [4]
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MUST SEE INTERVIEW with Douglas Murray: Is the West Dead? Caroline Glick
11/19/2023 – Are the massive pro-Hamas rallies throughout the Western world a sign that the West is dead? What does Israel represent in the Western psyche? Why are all members of the Red-Green alliance united in annihilationist hatred for Jews? To discuss these and other pressing existential issues that have arisen since the Oct. 7 slaughter, bestselling author Douglas Murray was my guest on the Caroline Glick Show on Nov. 12.
To watch the show on Rumble click here.
What do the Palestinians Want? Caroline Glick
11/19/2023 – For more than a generation, the Israeli left and Western leaders have insisted that the Palestinians want peace. They want a state of their own. They want Israel to leave the Gaza Strip, Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem. And once they get these things, they will live at peace with Israel.
Successive U.S. administrations have modulated their support for Israel based on their perception of the Israeli government’s willingness to make territorial concessions to the Palestinians. Those that were seen as willing to surrender Judea, Samaria, Gaza (which Israel abandoned in 2005) and Jerusalem to the Palestinian Authority were supported. Those that were perceived as unwilling to cough up land to the P.A. were ostracized, condemned and subverted.
Throughout the years, Israeli political leaders, military leaders, academics and journalists have produced voluminous reports that exposed the P.A.’s support for and involvement in terrorism. They have produced encyclopedia-length dossiers, documentary movies and intelligence reports exposing how its education system indoctrinates children from birth to embrace the cause of Israel’s annihilation and imbued the entirety of Palestinian society with a genocidal, Nazi-styled jihadist outlook that seeks the utter elimination of Judaism and Jews from the face of the planet.
Beyond a few half-hearted condemnations from U.S. State Department officials over the years—and a couple of even less committal guffaws from U.N. and E.U. officials—none of these reports, documentaries or exposés have impacted the West’s devotion to the so-called “two-state solution,” or Westerners’ tendency to blame the absence of peace on “right-wing” or “extreme right-wing” Israelis who reject territorial concessions to a society and a governing authority that aspire to wipe Israel off the map.
Over the past 30 years, Israeli leftists have at times paid lip service to the problem. But due to a combination of political interests, ideological brittleness and dependence on Western allies, the bulk of the Israeli left refused to accept the strategic implications of the absence of a Palestinian leadership—or society, for that matter—that is willing to countenance Israel’s right to exist, with or without Judea and Samaria, with or without Jerusalem.
On Oct. 7, the sadism and scope of Hamas’s slaughter shocked the whole of Israeli society to its core. Polling data indicates that there has been a sea shift of opinion among Israeli leftists regarding the possibility of peaceful coexistence with the Palestinians.
Appeasement, not Victory: Israel Has Quickly Reverted to Its Bad Old Policies by Daniel Pipes, The Washington Times
November 17, 2023 – “Everything changed” in Israel on Oct. 7. Except it did not. Despite much talk of victory by the prime minister and survey research showing the public endorses a tough new approach, Israeli officialdom and its security establishment show signs of reverting to their old failed policies, even before the bodies have been buried.
Those failed policies mean primarily one thing: Wrongly assuming that enrichment — more work permits in Israel, a larger fishing zone, outside funding — gives Palestinians something to lose, taming them and making them less inclined to aggression.
Symptoms of that sad reversion include:
The security establishment approved the entry of 8,000 West Bank workers to Israel, mostly to do agricultural work. It did so in response to Israel‘s agriculture minister assuring his colleagues that the workers had been vetted and posed no danger. That thousands of workers from Gaza had spied on Israel and made themselves complicit in the Oct. 7 massacre seemed to be forgotten.
On the West Bank itself, Israel‘s commanding general there issued oxymoronic orders limiting Arab access that appeared tough but changed little. As the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council explained, “There is no entry into Israeli towns for Arab workers. They will be permitted to enter industrial areas at night only.” Do marauders and murderers carry out their crimes only in daylight?
The Palestinian Authority, which nominally governs part of the West Bank, not only offered full-throated support for the Hamas massacre but boasted of having a role in it. It also required mosques in its jurisdiction to instruct congregants that exterminating Jews constitutes an Islamic duty. Despite this, the Israeli Cabinet continues to send tax money to the Palestinian Authority. Israel‘s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, endorsed this decision, saying, “It is appropriate to transfer and transfer immediately, the funds to the Palestinian Authority so that they will be used by its forces who help prevent terrorism.” (That theme of enrichment never seems to die.)
Either Get Rid of TikTok or Just Surrender to China BY DANIEL GREENFIELD
NOV 18, 2023 3:30 PM – In its latest social experiment, Communist China decided to test an algorithm to see if it could get social media influencers and idiot kids under its control on TikTok to come out for Osama bin Laden.
Worked pretty well.
Now that the test is over, TikTok announced that the Osama trend has been shut down. But it was successful.
TikTok’s hot new social-media influencer is . . . Osama bin Laden. Yes, the terrorist who plotted 9/11 went viral this week, and not in a good way. Users have been posting videos to the Chinese-owned app, urging their followers to read bin Laden’s 2002 “letter to America,” while suggesting he was on to something. “I will never look at this country the same,” one user said.
Giving Hollywood and public school teachers control of our kids was a bad idea. Giving Chinese Communist algorithms control over our kids is a much worse idea.
“A TikTok influencer went viral this week for promoting Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America.”
Online personality and pro-Palestinian activist Lynette Adkins urged her over 175,000 TikTok followers on Tuesday to read the words of the terrorist mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks.
“I need everyone to stop what they’re doing right now and go read- It’s literally two pages. Go read ‘A Letter to America,” Adkins said the video. “And please come back here and just let me know what you think because I feel like I’m going through, like, an existential crisis right now and a lot of people are, so I just need someone else to be feeling this.”
Another TikTok user raeyreads posted the entire letter on her page which received over 640,000 views despite having only 1,300 followers.
“We’ve been lied to our entire lives,” raeyreads wrote Monday. “I remember watching people cheer when Osama was found and killed. I was a child, and it confused me. It still confuses me today. The world deserves better than what this country has done to them. Change must be made.”
Israel’s strategic imperative Caroline Glick
We need to think about what the Oct. 7 attack represents within the Iranian blueprint for the annihilation of the Jewish state. Op-ed.
Nov 17, 2023, 8:33 AM (GMT+2) – Caroline B. Glick is the senior contributing editor of Jewish News Syndicate and host of the “Caroline Glick Show” on JNS. She is also the diplomatic commentator for Israel’s Channel 14, as well as a columnist for Newsweek. Glick is the senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy in Washington and a lecturer at Israel’s College of Statesmanship.
(JNS) As of now, it appears that owing either to U.S. insistence or the Israel Defense Forces’ operational preferences, Israel is leaning towards keeping the issue of Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon on the back burner in the hopes of not having to engage Iran’s most powerful proxy force directly. The argument presented on behalf of this approach is that by defeating Hamas completely and reducing Gaza to rubble, Israel will deter Hezbollah from attacking it for the foreseeable future.
While reasonable in theory, this view appears to ignore two key aspects of the strategic equation.
1. First, we need to understand what it means that Hamas and its partners/trainers/suppliers/bosses in Iran and Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon planned this war for two years.
With two years to prepare, we should assume they gamed all possible scenarios and planned for them, including Israel’s current operation in the Gaza Strip. Israeli commentators like to insist that Hamas was doubtlessly taken by surprise by the ferocity of Israel’s response to their one-day Holocaust. But given their meticulous planning, this assertion is highly unlikely.
2. The second thing we need to consider is the nature of our enemy. Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime do not care about the societies they control. They are jihadists. In their religious war, all Muslims are obligated to participate. Some are destined to be fighters and martyrs. Some are tasked with serving as human shields. Hamas doesn’t care if Gaza is reduced to rubble if its cause of reducing Israel to rubble is advanced.
This brings us to Hezbollah. Hezbollah’s war machine is embedded into Lebanon’s civilian life. Nearly every apartment in Southern Lebanon has a room where missiles are stored and launched against Israel. The same is true of schools, mosques and other civilian structures.
Netanyahu knows Oct 7 is on him, but sees blame all around By Ariel Kahana
Anybody paying attention to him, both in his open announcements to the media and in closed briefings, fully understands that he recognizes that he is responsible. When he was presented with what former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said about responsibility, his reply was, “Nothing has changed.”
11-16-2023 18:21
1. Five weeks after the outbreak of war on Simchat Torah, there is still no real pressure from the West on Israel to put the brakes on. And as far as we are concerned, the West calls the shots. In practice, the opposite is true. The US, Great Britain, and even the EU have all justified the Israeli objective of eliminating Hamas’ control of the Gaza Strip. “The terrorist organization Hamas, or any other terrorist organization for that matter, cannot rule in Gaza,” were the words uttered this week by none other than Ursula von der Leyen, the President, of the European Commission, an entity that is not really known for backing Israel’s wars.
There are indeed certain differences as to the question of when and under what circumstances it is correct to have a “humanitarian pause” in order to promote the release of the abducted Israelis. There is an expectation in the US that water, food, and medications should be allowed to enter the Gaza Strip – which Hamas then lays its hands on – much more than we would like to see enter, if it was purely up to us. The Americans are also speaking to us about allowing fuel to enter the Gaza Strip.
But there is no real pressure to stop the current military action there. The pressure exists purely in the TV studios, which are breaking records of demoralization and sowing discord among the people at wartime.
The Western states have a variety of reasons and interests to support the objective of Israel’s war. Moral identification, concern over similar outbreaks of violence in their own countries, responsibility for their own nationals who have been abducted, and the eternal fantasy that once the dust of battle has settled, a Palestinian state will finally be established. This last item will not happen, and the day will come when we will have to argue the toss on this point with those who are currently backing us. But for the moment, whatever the argument might be, and in contrast to all the previous rounds of violence and wars we have come to know, the relevant international players do not want us to stop, on the contrary, they are willing us on to continue.
This approach grants Israel long-term political breathing room, enabling the IDF to move ahead slowly and carefully, but with the full extent of its military might. There are other reasons to hurry, above all the economic costs borne by Israel’s homefront and its stamina. But, as far as the diplomatic-security aspect is concerned, this will not be a replay of the Six-Day-War, nor a Six-Week-War, but more likely a Six-Month-War.
2. At a time when the Israeli population is taken up by the war and understands that politics can wait, a small, radical and boisterous group refuses to cease shouting, “Bibi, Bibi.” There are two focal points for this. One, opposite the prime minister’s residences in Caesarea and Jerusalem, and the other one in the Channel 12 News and Channel 13 News studios. The war effort is currently at its peak. About 1200 people have been murdered. Some 200 thousand have been evacuated from their homes. Dozens of towns, villages, and rural communities have been abandoned or burned. The education system is currently working on two cylinders only. The economy is shaking, and they remain adamant, “Bibi, Bibi, assume responsibility, assume responsibility.” As though, were he to say the magic words, this would bring the dead back to life. As if there is one leader in Israel who can honestly say, “This wouldn’t have occurred during my shift.”
My personal opinion has been and still is that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should say “I am responsible.” This would contribute to national unity and remove this issue from the public agenda. But he, for his own reasons, has chosen not to utter those explicit words. That remains his right, of course. Now, let’s move on.
Let’s Agree to Disagree JENNA MCCARTHY
If you think our medical system is doing a bang-up job, perhaps we aren’t watching the same movie.
NOV 16, 2023 – I love this post. Not only because it was written by one of my favorite people ever (the co-writer of my book, Jenna McCarthy), but also because it is funny, brilliant, and powerful. Because of it’s content and focus, I have decided that from now on, Jenna will be my “Anger Translator.” Not that I need one in private, but I do try my best to keep my cool in public (sometimes unsuccessfully). If you don’t get the joke, watch this brilliant sketch by the comedy duo Key and Peele: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGcro2mWJms – Pierre Kory, MD, MPA
This week on this very platform, I wrote a post about the media’s deafening silence on the #DiedSuddenly phenomenon. It’s a hard case to argue, frankly, as a) there’s undeniable proof it is happening at exponentially-above-normal rates around the world, and b) you won’t hear a peep about it in the news.
As always, 99% of the comments were in support of my stance. (I’m not suggesting I’m spot-on 99% of the time, incidentally; I’m merely pointing out that my subscribers tend to be of like mind. You know, since they subscribe.) But there’s always at least one outlier; a well-intended lone wolf who seemingly swings by to defend Pharma, call me delusional for not buying into the carefully crafted hype, or both.
This week it was Linda, a retired RN, whose publicly posted comments included the following:
