COMMENTARY / OPINION
Adin Steinsaltz
INSPIRING: Jonathan Pollard Recounts Powerful Hanukkah Stories in Prison [14:12]
Machon Shilo
Why the images of Hamas prisoners sparked outrage Jonathan S. Tobin
The murder and rape of Israelis on Oct. 7 led to a spike in antisemitism, not anger against Hamas. And yet, the world can’t tolerate photos of defeated Palestinian terrorists.
December 12, 2023 / JNS – I was poised to go on a live broadcast of WION, an English-language Indian television network, last week to discuss the war against Hamas. But before my turn to speak came, I was startled by the program host’s introduction to the segment. He spoke of images that were shocking the world and the world’s outrage about them, and gave what might be termed a trigger warning for those about to see them for the first time.
As I soon learned, he wasn’t referring to the evidence of the indescribable atrocities committed against Israeli civilians by the Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7. Nor was he even talking about the impact of the war that followed that attack on civilians in the Gaza Strip, who are being used as human shields by those very same terrorists.
[Ed.: Mike Adams, ‘The Health Ranger’, owner of Natural News, and Brighteon.com was totally outraged by ‘Israel’s genocide’ of millions of Palestinians. He still is, along with a cadre of others (I have a list). This is why you won’t see any of Mike’s shit here anymore, which is really too bad, because he has a lot of important information that I used to appreciate and share here.]
Secular Zionism, R.I.P.? by Sha’i Ben Tekoa
The Islamic resistance to free Jews has always been a holy war.
December 12, 2023 – The seeds of Israel’s twin crises of the last year – the refusal by the losers in the November 2022 elections to accept the results and the satanic rampage by functionally psychopathic Muslim sex fiends in the Muslim Brotherhood a.k.a. Hamas — are right there in one of the two founding documents of the Zionist movement, Altneuland, the second of Theodor Herzl’s two books.
The first, Der Judenstaat/ The State of Jews (not to be confused with a Judischer Staat, a Jewish state) reads like a stock offering or prospectus for his project; the politics, nuts, bolts, and mechanics of building state on land that was at the moment and had been for millennia barren wasteland.
By contrast, his Altneuland/Old-New Land was an imaginary, Jules Verne-esque time-travel fantasy to the Judenstaat twenty-years after its founding. This was Herzl’s “vision” of what life in the future state would be like. He is known in Israel as khozeh ha-medina, the “Visionary of the State” who prophesied in 1898 that it would take fifty years to come to life and in that he was jaw-droppingly correct. It was published in 1903, the year before he died at age forty-four.
But otherwise, there is zero correspondence between his vision and the actual history of the Zionist movement and modern state after him. There is no correspondence whatsoever, because Herzl seems to have been a perfect ignoramus about a) Islam b) the relationship between Jews and Muslims over fourteen centuries.
Why young Palestinian Arabs become terrorists Dr. Rafael Medoff
Young Gazans are not “driven into the arms of Hamas” by Israel; they have been indoctrinated by Hamas with their parent’s approval. Op-ed.
Dec 12, 2023, 5:12 AM (GMT+2) – U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, a retired general, says Israel is “driving” Gazans “into the arms of the enemy.” A few weeks ago, another general, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Charles Q. Brown, charged that Israel’s anti-terror actions in Gaza are turning the average person there into “someone who now wants to be the next member of Hamas.”
Generals deserve our deepest respect for their service and sacrifice. But that doesn’t mean they are always right. General George Patton used Nazi Party members in the postwar U.S. administration in Germany, resulting in his dismissal. General Douglas MacArthur was fired for defying President Harry Truman’s orders in the Korean War. General Curtis LeMay wanted to use nuclear weapons in Vietnam.
When it comes to understanding what causes young Palestinian Arabs to become Hamas terrorists, President Biden’s generals are getting it all wrong.
It is not Israel that drove Gazans into the arms of Hamas or turned young Gazans into terrorists. It is the Gazans themselves who long ago chose Hamas as their leaders. Democratic elections were held there in 2006, and Hamas was allowed to participate, at the insistence of Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. Hamas won 76 out of the 132 seats in parliament.
Afterwards, Secretary Rice acknowledged she was “caught off guard” by the outcome; the result “does say something about us not having a good enough pulse,” she conceded. At the same time, Rice defended the inclusion of Hamas, on the grounds that “You ask yourself, ‘Are you going to support a policy of denying the Palestinians elections that had been promised to them at a certain point in time because people were fearful of the outcome?’”
SPECIAL HANUKKAH EPISODE: The Maccabean Revolt of 2023 | The Caroline Glick Show In – Focus JNS TV
December 11, 2023 – Caroline examines the Maccabees, Hellenists and the struggle for Jewish identity throughout history including our present moment.
The Maccabean revolt of 2023 [29:57] CAROLINE B. GLICK
(December 11, 2023 / JNS) – Caroline Glick examines the Maccabees, Hellenists and the struggle for Jewish identity throughout Jewish history, including during this present moment in the battle for Israel against neighboring terrorism.
The making of sadistic terrorists: An interview with Mordechai Kedar [1:03:20] Caroline Glick
12/11/23 – As more and more evidence comes out about the inhumane and sadistic actions of Hamas on Oct. 7, the main question is what drives Hamas? What stands behind its cruelty? Is this mindless bloodshed, or are rape and pillage part of a systematic war strategy?
In short, the answer is jihad. Caroline’s guest, Arabic scholar Professor Mordechai Keidar explains the details.
Don’t miss this discussion.
[Ed.: Although Caroline sent this out again today, this is a re-post of the interview that I posted last week. If you missed it then, so, watch it now! Kedar is great. I’d vote for him as PM. Well, same for Caroline!]
CIA, Gun Control & MKUltra: Part Three TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
DEC 11, 2023 – Back in the 1950’s, as the Cold War with the Soviet Union was heating up, the CIA became convinced that the country that could control the mind would CONTROL the world. They believed that the Communists had already discovered such a drug or technique. They weren’t wrong. They had. It began a Global race to control the mind.
In 1948, the year after its founding, the CIA created a top-secret program — Operation Mockingbird — to control the American media. That’s why President Trump calls it the fake news. Because it is literally CIA-controlled propaganda. From its inception, Mockingbird was yet another of the CIA’s illegal schemes.
The 1948 Smith-Mundt Act had illegalized the use of CIA funding to broadcast propaganda to Americans. Key collaborators that the CIA used to get around that law included Washington Post owner Philip Graham; CBS owner William Paley; Time-Life publisher Henry Luce; top editors at the New York Times, and Joseph Alsop, whose influential column appeared in more than 300 newspapers.
CIA Director Allen Dulles oversaw Mockingbird’s illegal media network until President John F. Kennedy fired him at the end of 1961 – shortly before the CIA assassinated JFK for doing just that. By then, Mockingbird was employing “some 3,000 salaried and contract CIA employees… engaged in propaganda efforts.”
In competition with the Soviets, the CIA began a top secret program in 1953 that came to be known as MKUltra. They hired a chemist named Sidney Gottlieb who was given free rein to experiment on unwitting subjects such as prisoners, patients, addicts, even johns.
Its aim was to develop mind-controlling drugs for use against the Soviet bloc in response to alleged Soviet, Chinese, and North Korean use of mind control techniques on U.S. prisoners of war during the Korean War. The CIA wanted to use similar methods on their own captives, and was interested in manipulating foreign leaders with such techniques, devising several schemes to drug Fidel Castro.
MKUltra began in 1953 and was publicly halted in 1973 by Richard Nixon. That’s why the CIA needed to get rid of Nixon – he wanted to stop the CIA. Just like JFK.
CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb headed up the CIA’s secret MKUltra, which was charged with developing a mind control drug that could be weaponized against enemies. The project was headed by Sidney Gottlieb but began on the order of CIA director Allen Dulles on April 13, 1953.
Left-Wing Jewish Magazine Rewrites History By Moshe Phillips
December 11, 2023 – An extremist historian claimed in a recent webinar that Israel practices mass rape of Palestinian Arabs. But when the radical leftwing magazine that sponsored the event later issued a transcript of his remarks, it swept that embarrassment under the rug by quietly omitting his insane allegation.
In other words, Jewish Currents magazine literally rewrote history.
This disturbing episode began when Raz Segal, a professor at Stockton University in New Jersey, appeared on a webinar sponsored by Jewish Currents last month.
In the course of the discussion, Segal made this outrageous claim:
“I do think absolutely that this Israeli government has a plan, and in a way it’s a plan that all Israeli governments have always had, of creating a larger Jewish state, a ‘Greater Israel’ with as few Palestinians as possible, right? In any kind of possible way, there is, you know, short-term intense violence, like the 1948 Nakba, right?–the expulsions of 750,000 Palestinians and the destruction of hundreds of villages in the 1948 war; and longer-term processes of violence, various, you know—mass incarceration, humiliation, sexual assault, all kinds of, you know, very well documented, Israeli mass violence; and what we’re seeing now is part and parcel of this, it is—I don’t think it has anything to do with revenge, it has something to do with a structural plan of how Israel should be as a Jewish State, right?”
(You can hear it for yourself at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ3-k2l6JIA starting at the 44 minute mark.)
Immediately after the webinar, I wrote an op-ed criticizing Segal’s disgusting accusation. The op-ed appeared in numerous newspapers.I imagine the team at Jewish Currents were embarrassed to be called out over Segal’s vile slur. Because on November 29, when Jewish Currents circulated a transcript of Segal’s remarks, its staff carefully sanitized what he had said. Here’s the cleaned-up version:
Daily Briefing Dec. 11: Day 66 – Has Hamas head Yahya Sinwar lost Gazans’ support?
Arab affairs reporter Gianluca Pacchiani describes the mood inside the Gaza Strip; environment reporter Sue Surkes on the war’s impact and a harrowing tale of heroism on Oct. 7
December 11, 2023 – Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Today is day 66 of the war with Hamas. Arab affairs reporter Gianluca Pacchiani and environment reporter Sue Surkes join host Amanda Borschel-Dan on today’s episode.
In the Gaza Strip, as casualties mount, we are hearing reports that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has lost Gazans’ support. According to testimony from former Hamas communications minister Yousef al-Mansi, “people in the Gaza Strip say that Sinwar and his group destroyed us. We must get rid of them.” Pacchiani begins by telling us who Sinwar is and how he came to power and goes on to discuss whether Gazans support him today.
Syrian-born journalist Manar al-Sharif is one of a handful of people persecuted by Hamas who managed to leave Gaza. She spoke with Pacchiani, and her experiences help explain why there haven’t been any large-scale uprising against the terrorist organization.
The small Jewish community in Cairo has decided not to hold celebrations of the Hanukkah festival in a city synagogue amid the ongoing war in Gaza. Pacchiani explains why.
Last week, environmental experts called on the defense establishment to carefully weigh the long-term environmental implications of reported plans to flood the immense network of tunnels in the Gaza Strip with seawater to flush the terrorists out. We also hear about other impacts on the environment, as well as hopes that the rebuilding of the Gaza envelope settlements will include green thinking.
We end with an extraordinary tale of bravery: Oz Davidian rescued some 120 young people trying to escape the Supernova rave on October 7, as Hamas terrorists sprayed them with bullets, making 20 trips throughout the day.
When is criticism of Israel legitimate? Dr. Alex Grobman
No democratic states should consider themselves immune to rebuke but no one should be discussing their right to exist either. Op-ed.
Feb 20, 2023, 4:14 PM (GMT+2) – Clearly, not all criticism of Israel is antisemitic. As the late American sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset explained, no democratic states should consider themselves immune to rebuke. “Israel is a liberal democratic state,” he said, recalling that, “in ancient Israel, the Biblical prophets devised the art of self-criticism.”
A useful key in determining whether the criticism in question is legitimate or just antisemitism disguised as such was offered by journalist Edward Rothstein, who suggested examining the “standards of justice.” When they are “applied in profoundly distorted fashion, when those distortions put the literal survival of a society at stake, and when murders are taking place and explicitly encouraged declarations are being made that may even fit university standards for ‘hate speech,’ it is safe to say the rhetoric is no longer honest criticism, but, rather, antisemitism,” he said.
Recognizing What It Is
Like pornography, antisemitism is recognized as such by those who know what it looks like.
The late-Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. did not hesitate to label anti-Zionist remarks as antisemitic. On one occasion when speaking to African-American students at Harvard, he heard an anti-Zionist remark from one of them. According to reports of the incident, Dr. King “snapped at him” and said, “Don’t talk like that! When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking about antisemitism.”
The late leftist literary scholar Hans Meyer understood this as well, writing that “whoever attacks Zionism, but by no means wishes to say anything against the Jews, is fooling himself and others.” “The State of Israel is a Jewish state. Whoever wants to destroy it, openly or through politics that can affect nothing else but such destruction, is practicing the Jew-hatred of yesterday and time immemorial,” he said.
Palestinian flags flutter from the fallen cities of Eurabia Giulio Meotti
Nazi collaborator Quisling would be proud of his fellow Europeans, self-titled “wokes” and “progressives,” not national socialists. Op-ed.
Dec 11, 2023, 1:40 PM (GMT+2) – “I think the West is on the verge of collapsing in on itself. I am deeply disgusted by the situation and the behavior of the majority of politicians.”
Thus the famous French cartoonist Enki Bilal, a legend of drawing.
“We let the Trojan horse in. I’ve been telling my friends for thirty years that we’re screwed with Islamism. When the Muslim Brotherhood appeared in Afghanistan, I wrote ‘The Sleep of the Monster’, a very harsh book published in 1998 and which sold 300,000 copies; my remarks were 100 percent inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood but, at that moment, I did not want to name, and therefore target, just one religion. So I chose to talk about the three monotheisms. In twenty years, and probably less, perhaps only ten, we will no longer recognize Europe. We are witnessing the end of a world, of a great world, our West. And the end of the West hides this kind of reverse McCarthyism called Wokism and which produces hatred towards Israel, towards capitalism, towards the white man. It takes incredible blindness, even a form of intellectual hemiplegia, not to see what Islamization is. How could this have escaped the attention of young people and wokists? How can one be Wokist, that is, integrate neofeminism and Islamogoschism? I do not understand ! Have we heard from the neo-feminists about Iranian women? Do the LGBT associations demonstrating for the Palestinians know how homosexuals are treated in Gaza? Lack of culture is winning.”
Meanwhile, Palestinian flags flutter from the cities of Eurabia.
Jewish blindness to the Arab mindset Dr. Alex Grobman
Ben Gurion admitted that he was “naïve then to imagine …that the Arabs think like us.” Op-ed.
Dec 10, 2023, 3:29 PM (GMT+2) – “Jewish Blindness of to the Arab Problem”- Richard Crossman
“In Palestine I had been met every day by evidence of the Jewish blindness to the Arab problem,” asserted Richard Crossman, British Labor M.P., who served as a member of the 1946 Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry. “I was constantly reminded of the gallant politics of Vienna Socialists in 1934. There was the same misguided reliance of foreign aid, the same underestimation of the enemy, the same blind assurance a cause which is right is also strong.”
In the aftermath of the October 7 massacre, the media and pundits have been quick to note that Israel had been warned about an attack by Hamas–years, months, days and even hours before this catastrophe occurred, shocking the nation and world Jewry to its very core. An Israeli state commission will eventually investigate how this colossal failure in intelligence occurred. Hubris, the lack of humility, negligence, arrogantly dismissing intelligence assessments of a potential Hamas military confrontation, complacency, and refusal to share intelligence with other members of the government are clear contributing factors leading to this debacle.
Citing senior IDF intelligence officer Miri Eisin, The Washington Post reported that Hamas attempted to “lull Israel into complacency” by organizing large demonstrations at the Gaza border months prior to the attack, “to get the IDF used to the sight of crowds at the border.” Hamas even shared information about Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), demonstrating its eagerness not to engage in serious confrontation.Yet it was a “blindness to the Arab problem,” and lack of historical perspective that led Major-General Aharon Haliva, IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate, and others to believe that in Gaza, “our military force and deterrence,” and efforts “to stabilize the economy, allow in workers, and improve the quality of life all have the potential to create years of quiet.” He made this prediction in June 2021, and again in September 2022, writes Yaakov Katz, former editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post.
What is the Jewish blindness? Understanding that the Arabs in Judea and Samaria and Gaza Strip do not want peace as Arabic scholar Mordecai Kedar explained. Judaism is considered a “false religion” (Din Al-Batel), while the “religion of truth is Islam “(Din Al-Haq). From this the Islamic position, it is impossible to have a Jewish state.
Destroying the Jewish state is a religious imperative. Article 15 of the Hamas Charter states: “The liberation of Palestine, from an Arab viewpoint, is a national (qawmi) duty and it attempts to repel the Zionist and imperialist aggression against the Arab homeland, and aims at the elimination of Zionism in Palestine.”
D’Souza: Why I Did Not Surrender [2:26] by Jamie Glazov December 1, 2023
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Everybody is Upset About Civilian Casualties in Gaza by Robert Spencer
But where do the numbers come from?
December 7, 2023 – The Israeli defensive action in Gaza has become, we are told, a massive humanitarian crisis, and it must stop. All the most trustworthy people in the world tell us so.
“The United States is unequivocal; international humanitarian law must be respected. Too many innocent Palestinians have been killed,” declared putative Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday. “Frankly, the scale of civilian suffering and the images and videos coming from Gaza are devastating.”
Then on Monday, the Associated Press, with a fine regard for journalistic objectivity, reported that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Soviet Union) and what it called “a robust group of Democratic senators” were “done ‘asking nicely’ for Israel to do more to reduce civilian casualties in Gaza.” These fearless solons “warned President Joe Biden’s national security team that planned U.S. aid to Israel must be met with assurances of concrete steps from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-right government.” Sanders thundered, “The truth is that if asking nicely worked, we wouldn’t be in the position we are today.” AP added, “It was time for the United States to use its ‘substantial leverage’ with its ally, the Vermont senator said.”
To buttress their indignation and increasingly shrill demands, Harris and Sanders and the rest can look to no less an authority than the United Nations. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Sunday published a chart of “Reported Casualties” in Gaza, and the numbers look grim indeed: over 15,523 deaths, with 4,257 women and 6,387 children making up fully 70% of that figure. The far-left establishment media is putting out substantially the same figures; the UK’s Guardian wrote Tuesday that “in the last three days, bombing has been heavy, and the total death toll since 7 October has risen to 15,899.”
These figures not only aroused the righteous indignation of our nation’s leftist self-appointed voices of conscience, but they moved the antisemitic Unz Review to the heights of hysteria: “We are certainly witnessing the greatest televised slaughter of helpless civilians in the history of the world, with nothing even remotely comparable coming to mind.”
Oh my, that sounds terrible indeed. But let’s step back for a moment. If you follow an asterisk down to the small print, you’ll see that the UN attributes its figures for Palestinian casualties in Gaza to the “Ministry of Health” and the “Government Media Office.” Which Ministry of Health? Which government? The UN doesn’t say, and its reticence on this point is likely due to the fact that the government and Health Ministry in question are those of Hamas in Gaza. The Guardian likewise attributes its figures to “the Gaza health ministry.” Yes, that’s right: the one that Hamas runs.
This would be like the New York Times during World War II reporting massive German civilian deaths in an Allied offensive and attributing its data to Josef Goebbels’ Propaganda Ministry. Hamas obviously has very good reasons to inflate the number of Palestinian civilian casualties: the higher the numbers, the angrier Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, and Antony Blinken get, and the closer the Biden regime moves to cutting ties with Israel and isolating the Jewish state completely.
This will come to no one’s surprise, at least not to anyone who isn’t a woke millennial TikToker, but Hamas is obviously lying. A board member of the media watchdog Honest Reporting who goes by the single name Aizenberg took a close look at the day-to-day casualty figures that the UN publishes from Hamas and found a large number of significant anomalies. “It is immediately obvious,” notes Aizenberg, “that Hamas does not report ANY combatant deaths & the numbers amazingly seem to indicate that IDF bombs & bullets disproportionately hit women, children & elderly. The IDF CANNOT seem to hit too many fighting age men.” But also, “the numbers are faked.”
Hamas’ October 7 Attack on Israel: a Primer For the shocked and confused. by Danusha Goska
December 10, 2023 – Some friends on social media remain unclear about the following. What did Hamas do in Israel on October 7? Why have so many around the world responded with anti-Semitism? Let’s take these questions one at a time.
What did Hamas do in Israel on October 7?
Hamas terrorists invaded Israel and murdered, tortured, and kidnapped defenseless Israeli men, women, and children, ordinary civilians doing ordinary things like eating breakfast.
The extensive evidence of Hamas’ atrocities includes the corpses of a father and child tied together with wire and then burned alive, and twenty children tied together and burned; bodies with hacked off limbs and gauged out eyes; and bodies bespeaking gang rape so severe that victims’ leg and pelvic bones were broken. First responder Asher Moskowitz found a baby that Hamas had cooked to death in an oven. The oven’s heating element was still attached to the corpse.
Captured terrorists offered full confessions. One said, “We became animals. We did things that humans do not do.” One confessed that the corpses of young women were raped. Stephen D. Smith reports that there was “an instruction to bring back the dead body of an IDF soldier and posthumously crucify him.”
Hamas made and shared, via social media, videos. They videorecorded the murder of a helpless grandmother, and posted the video on her Facebook page, so that her loved ones would watch. A child hostage was forced to watch Hamas videos. If the child cried, Hamas members pressed a gun to the child. In videos, terrorists shoot household pets dead.
Ben Shapiro posted a compilation. A YouTube poster responded. “As a US Iraq war Vet I started to watch this episode and stopped … I’ve seen a lot, done a lot but I caved … Tears streamed down my face as I watched without stopping, without looking away, gritting my teeth … If I could return to the battlefield and join your brothers and sisters and do what I could to avenge/protect/free those that are captured I would in a heartbeat … I salute Israel … I bow my head in prayer multiple times throughout the day that this evil will end.”
“I’ve seen quite a lot in war zones I’ve covered,” British journalist Douglas Murray said. “I’ve been in Nigerian Villages when a suicide bomber goes into the church on a Sunday … I’ve seen exit wounds from children’s bodies. “But,” Murray said, the Hamas video “is by some margin worse than anything … The footage is a level of depravity that yes not even the Nazis did … Throughout the whole thing the Hamas fighters are in a state of utter elation.” They are “delighted by what they’re doing. I really don’t want to hear ‘Allahu akbar’ shouted again on my streets.” Hamas terrorists are “shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ all the way through … when they rape and murder all these young women in a room they shout ‘Allahu akbar’ the whole time. When they find a young woman hiding under a table pretending to be dead and they realize she’s alive … they’re shouting ‘Allah akbar,’ they’re so elated … One disgusting young Hamas guy shouts from the phone of one of his victims … ‘With my own hands your son has killed ten Jews,’ and the mother [and father are] all shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ and they’re so proud of” their murderous son.
Mosab Hassan Yousef is the grandson of a popular imam and the son of a founder of Hamas. In a November 20, 2023 UN speech, Yousef said, “Imagine a ten-year-old child. I disobeyed Hamas. I was tied to a post. I was whipped by a top leader of Hamas with an electric cable. With every lash I lost my breath until I lost my consciousness. This is how they wanted me to become a violent savage like them.” Years later, in prison, Yousef worked as the scribe for Hamas torturers. He recorded men shoving needles under their fellow Arabs’ fingernails and burning their bodies with cigarettes and melting plastic. “I had to die many times in order to transcend this mentality.”
Yousef described viewing Hamas’ October 7 video. “Something fundamental in me changed. I think my life changed forever. I thought that I had seen the worst of Hamas, but nothing like this. What I saw was very clearly a genocide … what I saw, I could not sleep last night. I was filled with rage. I don’t know if my physical body can carry such trauma.”
“Some of the audience whispered, ‘Make it stop,’” The Daily Mail reported after international journalists watched Hamas video. “I leaned against a wall and cried,” one said. Some vomited. “I certainly hope I never see any of the extra footage again,” one wrote.” In photos of the audience, journalists are seen with their hands over their mouths or their arms wrapped across their stomachs.
New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand spoke to a special session of the United Nations. “The horrific acts committed on October 7th by Hamas are truly indescribable … the footage … takes your breath away at the sheer level of evil … You can’t unsee when you see it, and it haunts you, like no other image you could ever see … The barbaric acts are acts beyond what we have seen from ISIS, Al Qaeda … what has happened to women, the types of dismemberment, the types of sexual violence to degrade them, to bring fear in their final moments, to bring fear in the eyes of those who had to witness the atrocities, is unspeakable … the international community’s reluctance – even refusal – to condemn, or even acknowledge [Hamas atrocities] doesn’t just strike fear in the hearts of Israeli women, it strikes fear in the hearts of every woman and girl around the globe.”
It’s Obama’s Middle East Mess Forwarded with introduction by Bill Narvey
Those of us who follow American politics, especially as it concerns Israel, if we didn’t realize it before Obama’s election to be President of the U.S., we certainly began to understand it soon after he came into the WH that he was not quite the pro-American president most Americans thought he was.
In June 2009, Obama traveled to Cairo, Europe, and the United Nations to “apologize” for past American actions and attitudes, which he claimed helped create divisions between countries. Critics quickly dubbed it his “apology tour.” It was during his infamous apology tour that he revealed albeit unwittingly I suppose that he was not completely in touch with American values, pride and patriotism. Obama made a number of “apology” tours thereafter as well as just statements to that effect.
American Jews certainly soon thereafter learned Obama was not and would not be the kind of solid pro-Israel president they thought he would be.
In July 2009, at a closed meeting between Obama and select Jewish leaders (excluding ZOA and other conservative Jewish leaders) Obama advised them that he wanted to put daylight between America and Israel. Indeed, that is what he began to do including often showing contempt for then PM Netanyahu and at times with his words and deeds stabbing Israel in the back.
Obama’s left wing ideological personal and world view, some would say close to radical left wing view, also became increasingly apparent.
Below is the full text of Sean Durn’s article in the Washington Examiner that makes a solid case that the great problems in the Middle East that the West now has to deal with are of Obama’s making and it is getting worse under Biden who is doubling down on Obama’s efforts to appease Iran which only weakens America in the eyes of America’s enemies and America’s enemies are emboldened accordingly to attack America and harm her best interests.
That case includes that Obama set the stage for empowering Iran and better financing its terrorist proxy business to the prejudice of not only Israel, but Arab States as well and Biden’s policies to emulate Obama’s have made things much worse.
That “worse” includes Iran’s direct role in financing, planning and training Hamas to launch its evil terrorist attack on innocent Israelis on October 7th, a day that will live in infamy and the counter offensive response of Israel to destroy Hamas entirely.
All so called innocent Gazan Palestinians maimed or killed by the IDF are ALL ON HAMAS’ HEAD for they have against all international law have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity by using non-combatant Palestinians as their human shields.
It’s Obama’s Middle East mess
It’s Obama’s Middle East mess by Sean Durns | Washington Examiner
November 17, 2023 06:15 AM
The war against Hamas should bring with it a paradigm shift Howard Rotberg
For far too long, Zionism has been stuck in a defensive mode. Op-ed.
Dec 9, 2023, 11:09 PM (GMT+2) – Watching the protests in American and Canadian and European cities where predominantly young people call for a genocide of the Jews in Israel – “From the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free” – one is struck by some important facts.
First, a lot of the protests are in universities and while Antifa and other anti-liberal groups participate, one can assume that the protesters have a high representation among Muslims and/or university students. Looking at the female protestors, anywhere from 50% to 75% are wearing hijabs.
Second, university professors, mainly in Middle Eastern studies and gender and diversity studies, are indoctrinating their students to hate Israel and Jews everywhere.
Third, while many may be in a country on student or other temporary visas, looking at the population figures for Muslims in the West, they are a growing presence and a growing influence. Surely if we allow people with vile opinions into the country, we must be prepared to live with the consequences once they assume elected office.
Third, this growing influence can be seen in American Muslim areas like Dearborn, Michigan and Minneapolis, Minnesota..
“We’ve Never Had Bribes At This Level”: Giuliani On The Biden Impeachment Inquiry [11:30]
Hunter Indicted AGAIN! Also–Judicial Watch VICTORY–DC Cleans Election Rolls! Tom Fitton Judicial Watch Dec. 8, 2023
[Reposting] TUCKER: The Alex Jones Interview [1:31:50: 2:46 Alex Jones predictions; 15:07 De-platforming; 21:59 Dividing us on race; 25:37 The border; 28:09 Austin; 32:12 New; World Order; 42:09 Brian Stelter demon video; 50:57 Depopulation; 1:07:51 Food; 1:13:51 Whiskey; 1:16:22 Presidential election ] 6:00 PM · Dec 7, 2023
[Ed.: One good method of getting to see this very informative interviews, is to watch it in short sittings of 10-15 minutes each. I got to watch the whole thing between two sundowns! It’s an important interview.]
Leo Hohmann: Enjoy this Christmas Season — It May Be the Last One We Have to Celebrate in ‘Normal’ Times — WEF Warns 2024 Likely to Bring ‘Cataclysmic’ Changes By Leo Hohmann
Dec. 9, 2023 4:00 pm – World War III, cyber-attacks, and economic meltdowns could change life forever; all three scenarios are simmering and ready to explode.
Chanukah is underway and Christmas is just a couple of weeks off. Another year will go by the wayside.
As we approach December 31, you will hear people chirping on social media that they are glad such a bad year is fading into the rearview mirror and how much they are looking forward to brighter times in 2024.
These people are not awake. Don’t get lulled into their fantasyland.
It’s more likely that we will look back on 2024 as perhaps the last year in which we enjoyed a somewhat normal life here in America, still perched atop the global order and enjoying all the benefits of that status. Our dollars still buy food for our Christmas table and energy to heat our homes, even if it’s more expensive than in previous years.
With the world’s superpowers remaining at loggerheads as to how we move forward into a new era marked by artificial intelligence and digital currencies, we can count on being moved closer to World War III next year, if not fully embroiled in it. And living through war and economic upheaval is never easy.
The Luciferian globalist elites have done their best to lay hints of what they plan to hit us with next in their list of conjured-up crises. They talk a lot about cyber attacks.
