COMMENTARY / OPINION
Mordechai Kedar: Know thine Enemy by Mordechai Kedar
May 30, 2013 Israel Against Terror
The Emirate of Qatar is located on the shore of the Persian Gulf, and lives on top of a large gas well. The tremendous amount of money that flows into this country has enriched its two hundred thousand citizens incredibly: they do not pay taxes, they enjoy free educational and health services and laugh all the way to the bank. The money enables them not only to purchase anything they want, but also to have a dramatic influence on the Middle East. As a result of this, the ruler of Qatar has become the most influential person in the Arab World, and he is an active partner in significant international processes.
The chief means that the Emir of Qatar uses to influence matters in the Middle East is the al-Jazeera channel, the channel responsible for overthrowing the rulers of the Arab world one after another by means of incitement that it has been conducting against them ever since it began broadcasting, toward the end of 1996. Using this channel, the ruler of Qatar disseminates the doctrine of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is destined- according to his view – to replace all of the secular ideologies (nationalism, socialism, liberalism) that have penetrated into the Islamic world. A central component of the message of the Emir of Qatar and al-Jazeera is that the state of Israel is an illegitimate entity and must be fought with all means available to the Islamic world, mainly by spreading the message that the state of Israel is an illegitimate state that was established by a criminal act and all of its deeds are sin and iniquity.
Al-Jazeera implements all of the principles of taqiyya – deception, or misrepresentation – in order to seem like a fair and balanced station, a station that calls for democracy, individual rights, minority rights and women’s rights, but this whole spectacle – produced with attractive and captivating computer graphics – is meant to advance the agenda of the Emir of Qatar: to amass power, to advance the political Islamic movement, to destroy Israel and to minimize as much as possible the influence of the United States in the world. Using taqiyya, the Emir of Qatar organizes international meetings and conferences that are meant to present a picture that is the opposite of his real agenda.
A month and a half ago I presented here my weekly article entitled “The Islamic Winter Blows into Jerusalem” in which I described the steps that the Emir of Qatar is taking in order to uproot Jerusalem from Israel. I noted there, the incredible sums that Qatar has allocated for the matter, about a half billion dollars from a fund of a billion dollars, and the various ways that money can be used to promote the unholy goals of the Emir of Qatar.
And the money indeed is beginning to have an effect: this week the al-Jazeera channel published in a news item entitled (my comments are in parenthesis, M.K.): “The Campaign in Qatar to Support the Perseverance of the People of Jerusalem (the Muslims, against Israel’s attempts to take control of the city, M.K.) ” “Ninety prizes were awarded to the public who answered the questions about al-Aqsa (mosque, M.K.)”. In this report, under the subtitle “Whoever has donated to it is as if he had prayed in it” (a quote from the Hadith, M.K); yesterday in Doha (the capital of Qatar, M.K.), the Qatari Red Crescent organized an event in support of the al-Aqsa Mosque to collect donations for the projects dealing with health and education in the blessed city and to help its residents to stand steadfast against expulsion and Judaization. As part of the operation, lectures and competitions were organized relating to the situation of al-Quds, its history and its importance for the caliphs of Islam since the days of Umr ibn al-Khattab (the second caliph, who conquered Jerusalem in the year 638 CE from the Byzantines, M.K.) until the Ottoman period.
In the event that was held in coordination with the association of the “Youth for al-Quds”, ninety prizes were awarded to members of the audience who answered the questions about the al-Aqsa Mosque and praises relating to praying within it, its spires and its gates. The Islamic propagandist Dr. Wajdi Ghuneim gave a lecture in which he clarified that supporting al-Aqsa with one’s money and time is “a very valuable sort of jihad”. Ghuneim pointed out that al-Aqsa has a very important place in Islam and it must remain etched in the memory of society because it is the place from which the honorable prophet was transported at night, it is the third most important mosque and it lies on the ground where the dead will gather before Judgement Day and from where they will arise for judgement. Ghuneim urged the public to invest everything that is dear to them in al-Aqsa and not despair of liberating it, “because victory is with those who fight for Bayt al-Maqdis (the classical name of Jerusalem, M.K.) and the surrounding area, “and G-d sustains his light even if the infidels hate it” (Qur’an, Sura 61, Verse 8).
The head of the board of directors of the Red Crescent of Qatar, Dr. Mohamed bin Ghanem al-Ali al-Ma’adid, exhorted the public to donate to al-Aqsa and to the residents of Bayt al-Maqdis, who “suffer from the most terrible oppression and upon whom many restrictive measures are used in order to force them to leave. Al-Ma’adid took care to say that the operation offers important support and that it can help al-Aqsa and its people to cope with the plans to erase (the Islamic identity, M.K.) and Judaize (Jerusalem, according to the plot of, M.K.) the thieving entity (the term meaning Israel for those who won’t even say its name, M.K.).
A War Between Cultures (The original subtitle, M.K.)
The deputy head of the Association of al-Quds Youth said to aljazeera.net that the event is held because of the war of cultures being conducted in Jerusalem between Israel and the Muslims. Muhammad Darwish added that the association participated in the campaign by disseminating the Jerusalem culture among the youth, to awaken the sense that al-Aqsa, the captive, is part of the Muslim identity and entity and can never, ever be compromised.
The association organizes conferences and lectures on the matter of al-Aqsa in mosques, schools and commercial centers, in order to connect with the various sectors of society. According to the words of Darwish, this year the association organized a competition on the situation in Jerusalem and its history, which fourteen thousand students in Qatar took part in, and he noted that the rate of participation of the youth in the competition exceeded expectations.
The manager of development of financial resources of the Red Crescent said in a conversation with aljazeera.net that the event was held to collect donations for the “Jerusalem Fund”, which (the Qatari Red, M.K.) Crescent established three years ago, and during the past three years it has raised more than twenty million rials. ‘Adel al-Baker clarifies that the function of the fund is to support hospitals and (medical, M.K.) centers in the holy city, and to give monetary support to its residents in order to help them maintain a stronghold in the city and sustain their position. He added that as long as Israel gambles that the Jerusalem families will not be able to stand up to the efforts of Judaization and the attempts to impoverish them, the Muslims must maintain contact with these families, to ease their lives and allow them to survive.
The Arab Conscience (original subtitle, M.K.)
According to the words of al-Baker, this kind of operation must be done continually, so that Jerusalem will not deteriorate from a problem that is central to the Arab conscience into an occasional event that people remember once or twice a year. According to him, he feels that the Jerusalem families derive satisfaction from continual contact with the projects and the support that Qatar offers to Jerusalem and its residents. He calls on the Arab peoples to fulfill their obligations to the holy city and its residents, who are standing strong, who are willing to suffer and are determined fighters.
According to an announcement that the Qatari Red Crescent distributed to the public, it has carried out many projects in Jerusalem during the past three years, including building a day care unit in al-Maqasid hospital and equipping it with medical instruments; building a women’s clinic, purchasing ambulances and establishing a water supply network in the village of ‘Atara.
This ends the content of the news item, which clearly indicates that Qatar is investing money in Jerusalem, the capital of sovereign Israel, as an activity directly aimed against Israel and its presence in Jerusalem.
Only one conclusion can be drawn from this news item: the Emir of Qatar has decided to begin a war to tear Jerusalem away from Israel, and this is against the Basic Law: Jerusalem, legislated by the Knesset. The Emir of Qatar uses whatever means are available to him – money and communications media – in this phase, which he uses without any constraints.
But the war will not stop in Jerusalem: the Emir of Qatar, using petrodollars, al-Jazeera and the influence that he has amassed in the Middle East and in the world at large, is trying to promote political Islam similar to that of the Muslim Brotherhood and to undermine the Western world, and its presence and influence on the Arab world and Islam, and since Israel is – according to his view – a Western colonialist project, Qatar must act in order to wipe out Israel, just as Qatar has destroyed Qadhaffi in Libya, bin ‘Ali in Tunisia, Mubarak in Egypt, Saleh in Yemen and perhaps Asad in Syria as well. To the Emir of Qatar, Israel is no better than they are, and if it was worthwhile in his eyes to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of Arabs and Muslims in order to get rid of those rulers, then money and many Muslims can be sacrificed to get rid of Israel too.
Israel must recognize the enemy, whose name is the Emir of Qatar, early enough in the war, before it is too late. Identifying the enemy belatedly might make it possible for him to grow, develop, become more powerful and take on dimensions that it will be difficult to cope with.
In the first and immediate phase, Israel must declare Qatar as an enemy state, and abolish any Qatari presence from Israel, especially the al-Jazeera channel. Just as Israel does not allow Hizb’Allah’s al-Manar channel or Iran’s al-‘Alam channel to operate from its territory, Israel must also forbid al-Jazeera to operate from its territory. There is no reason that Israel – as a state that aims to survive as the state of the Jewish people residing in its historical capital – should allow Qatar to conduct media-based jihad against Israel from within Israel. The government of Israel must say to the Emir of Qatar: “You don’t need to have offices and studios in Israel in order to conduct your jihad against us. Kindly take them somewhere else to conduct jihad against us.”
In the second phase Israel must stop the economic jihad that is being waged by Qatar as it streams funds into the sovereign state of Israel. The monies of Qatar must be defined as funding terrorism, because the Emir of Qatar is the main supporter of Hamas: he is the first Arab leader who visited Gaza under the rule of Hamas, and gave Hamas approximately a half billion petrodollars to develop the terror industry in the state of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and there is no reason that Israel should allow him to turn Jerusalem into another Hamastan.
In the third phase Israel must conduct a world wide mission to expose the involvement of Qatar in the promotion of political Islam in Western countries, which it does using al-Jazeera in English and Qatari money that flows to those Islamist organizations in the West that identify with the Muslim Brotherhood. The ultimate goal of the Emir of Qatar is to promote the agenda of these organizations, whose purpose is to impose Islam upon the whole world. This purpose became clear to all when the Qatari al-Jazeera channel was specifically chosen by Usama bin Laden to broadcast his recordings during the years that he was in hiding.
The battle against the Qatari octopus and the various tentacles that it sends out to Israel and the Western world will require a change in legislation, because the current laws, which are built on principles of personal freedom are suitable to those who accept upon themselves the rules of the game which is the Western social and political system. But the Emir of Qatar, the main promoter of the Muslim Brotherhood in the world, takes advantage of the liberal and democratic principles that exist in Israel and in the Western world in order to instill the messages of political, illiberal and anti-democratic Islam, which he believes in and wishes to promote.
In a living body, the immune system must identify every enemy in order to fight it off. A body that does not identify dangerous invaders doesn’t understand the danger that it represents to him, does not activate antibodies against them and its fate is sealed, because they grow and develop and when they are discovered, the situation is already irreversible. It is just as important for Israel to identify the enemy and stop its development before it is too late. Qatar is an enemy of Israel and the West, and all traces of its presence must be eradicated from our midst while the situation allows it. Western states are no different from Israel in this matter.
Full disclosure: the writer of these lines, as an Arabic speaker, is interviewed from time to time on al-Jazeera and presents the Israeli, Jewish, Zionist, Western position to the viewers. This does not detract from his opinion that Israel and the West must rid themselves of al-Jazeera.
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Dr. Kedar is available for lectures
Dr. Mordechai Kedar (Mordechai.Kedar@biu.ac.il) is an Israeli scholar of Arabic and Islam, a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University and the director of the Center for the Study of the Middle East and Islam (under formation), Bar Ilan University, Israel. He specializes in Islamic ideology and movements, the political discourse of Arab countries, the Arabic mass media, and the Syrian domestic arena.
Translated from Hebrew by Sally Zahav with permission from the author.
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Pakistan in Gaza: Jihad on Steroids by Khaled Abu Toameh
December 22, 2025 at 5:00 am
- If you want to disarm Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups and promote peace and coexistence between Palestinians and Israelis, Pakistan is the wrong choice.
- Pakistan, which does not recognize Israel, has already made it clear that it is “not ready” to disarm Hamas. According to Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar: “If the purpose of deploying an international stabilization force in Palestine is to disarm Hamas, then we are not ready for that, that’s not our job. That is job of Palestinian law enforcement agencies.”
- Dar pointed out that Indonesia, whose government has offered 20,000 troops to the ISF, was also opposed to disarming Hamas.
- Notably, not a single Arab or Islamic country has so far expressed readiness to take part in the disarmament of Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups in the Gaza Strip. The Arabs and Muslims are prepared to send troops to the Gaza Strip, but only to act as “peacekeepers” and “monitors,” not to interfere with the ability of Hamas to rearm, regroup and attack Israel again at some convenient time in the future. This, by complete coincidence, of course, is how Hamas also sees the role of the ISF.
- “It is not surprising that Pakistan – one of the greatest sponsors of cross-border terrorism and a hub of global Jihadist organisations – contributed to the military build-up of Hamas…. Hamas has its ideological roots in Pakistan. It is not only organically linked with Islamabad, but also deeply entrenched in its Jihadist patterns. In fact, before 9/11, the open ‘publicising jihad was part of the Pakistan Army’s image building exercise to present itself as fighting worldwide for the glory of Islam….’ Jihadism is an essential part of Pakistan’s political culture.” — The South Asia Democratic Forum, a Brussels-based think tank, November 3, 2023.
- Pakistan’s leaders, siding with South Africa in its prosecution of Israel in the International Criminal Court (ICC), to which Israel, incidentally, is not a party, have also accused Israel of war crimes and genocide.
- The assumption that Pakistan will help disarm Hamas or contribute to the deradicalization of Palestinians in Gaza is spectacularly misguided. The Trump administration seriously needs to reconsider its plan to allow Pakistan, and all countries with ideologies such as these, to play any role in a future Gaza Strip.
Pakistan, it seems, has stepped forward, selflessly offering to be part of US President Donald J. Trump’s proposed International Stabilization Force (ISF) in the Gaza Strip. “We’re very grateful to Pakistan for their offer to be part of it, or at least their offer to consider being a part of it,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on December 20.
Under Trump’s 20-point peace plan to end the Gaza war, sparked by the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led invasion of Israel, the primary goal of the ISF is to create a secure, demilitarized, and “terror-free” Gaza Strip that poses no threat to its neighbors. The ISF would accomplish this by enforcing the dismantlement of the Palestinian terror groups’ military infrastructure, including tunnels and weapons-production facilities. The Trump plan, in addition, calls for establishing an “interfaith dialogue process will be established based on the values of tolerance and peaceful co-existence to try and change mindsets and narratives of Palestinians and Israelis by emphasizing the benefits that can be derived from peace.”
If you want to disarm Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups and promote peace and coexistence between Palestinians and Israelis, Pakistan is the wrong choice.
Pakistan, which does not recognize Israel, has already made it clear that it is “not ready” to disarm Hamas. According to Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar:
“If the purpose of deploying an international stabilization force in Palestine is to disarm Hamas, then we are not ready for that, that’s not our job. That is job of Palestinian law enforcement agencies….
“Prime Minister (Shebaz Sharif) had agreed in principle that we would also send forces [to Gaza], but we will decide only after knowing what the terms of reference, terms of action, and mandate will be… But as per my information, if it will include disarming Hamas, then even my Indonesian counterpart has formally expressed reservations.”
Dar pointed out that Indonesia, whose government has offered 20,000 troops to the ISF, was also opposed to disarming Hamas.
Like most Arab and Islamic countries, Pakistan opposes disarming Hamas, possibly because it fears being accused by Arabs and Muslims of collaboration with Israel against a Palestinian “resistance” faction. Notably, not a single Arab or Islamic country has so far expressed readiness to take part in the disarmament of Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups in the Gaza Strip. The Arabs and Muslims are prepared to send troops to the Gaza Strip, but only to act as “peacekeepers” and “monitors,” not to interfere with the ability of Hamas to rearm, regroup and attack Israel again at some convenient time in the future.
This, by complete coincidence, of course, is how Hamas also sees the role of the ISF.
Last week, Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya, who leads a comfortable life residing in Qatar, said that the mission of the ISF should be limited just to sponsoring and monitoring the ceasefire agreement between his group and Israel. The international troops, he added, should be deployed only along the borders of the Gaza Strip, presumably to make sure that Israel does not prevent Hamas from rearming itself. International troops, he implied, were not wanted inside Gaza itself.
Pakistan’s presence in the Gaza Strip will do the opposite of contributing to the deradicalization of the Palestinians there. It is worth noting that Pakistan voted against the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine in 1947, and opposed the establishment of the State of Israel. The UN plan, accepted by Jewish leadership but rejected by Arab leaders, proposed dividing Mandatory Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states. Hamas, as well, does not recognize Israel’s right to exist and seeks to replace it with an Islamist state through violence and terrorism.
In 2020, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry stressed that recognition of Israel was still not under consideration. Pakistan has also come out against the Abraham Accords signed between Israel and some Arab and Islamic states under the sponsorship of the first and second Trump administrations. In June 2025, in fact,
“Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar,,, ruled out the possibility of Pakistan joining the Abraham Accords, stating that such a move would effectively mean abandoning the country’s longstanding support for a two-state solution to the Palestinian conflict and recognising Israel.”
In 2020, Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement that said:
“[T]he Prime Minister had clearly articulated Pakistan’s position that unless a just settlement of the Palestine issue, satisfactory to the Palestinian people, was found, Pakistan could not recognize Israel. The Prime Minister had stressed that Pakistan’s policy in this regard was rooted in Quaid-e-Azam’s vision.
“The Prime Minister’s remarks are an unequivocal reaffirmation of Pakistan’s position on the subject, leaving no room for baseless speculation.
“For a just, comprehensive and lasting peace, Pakistan will continue to support a two-state solution… with pre-1967 borders and Al-Quds Al-Sharif as the capital of Palestine.”
Pakistan’s leaders, siding with South Africa in its prosecution of Israel in the International Criminal Court (ICC), to which Israel, incidentally, is not a party, have also accused Israel of war crimes and genocide.
Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, a member of Pakistan Senate from the Jamaat-e-Islami political party, said: “I think this is not normalization, this is an occupation.” Describing Israel as an “illegal country,” Khan said Israel’s “hegemonic design and approach” was a threat to the people of the region, the Middle East, peace and the future.”
In 2020, Junaid S. Ahmad, research fellow at Turkey’s Center for Islam and Global Affairs and director of Pakistan’s Center for Muslim World Studies, commented on Pakistan’s policy:
“Moral imperatives, religious obligation, Islamic solidarity and national interests are all aligned to reject any move to recognize Tel Aviv. To do otherwise would be a betrayal of not only the Palestinians but the country of Pakistan, its people, its future – and would also be a rejection of our faith.”
In November 2023, the South Asia Democratic Forum, a Brussels-based think tank, reported:
“It is not surprising that Pakistan – one of the greatest sponsors of cross-border terrorism and a hub of global Jihadist organisations – contributed to the military build-up of Hamas…. Hamas has its ideological roots in Pakistan. It is not only organically linked with Islamabad, but also deeply entrenched in its Jihadist patterns. In fact, before 9/11, the open ‘publicising jihad was part of the Pakistan Army’s image building exercise to present itself as fighting worldwide for the glory of Islam.’ The country’s government, military and intelligence celebration of the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban – hailed as a ‘strategic victory‘ worthy of a parliamentary eulogy of Osama bin Laden by the then Prime Minister Imran Khan – underlines that Jihadism is an essential part of Pakistan’s political culture.”
Unsurprisingly, last October thousands of Pakistanis took to the streets to voice support for Hamas and its leaders. The Turkish news agency Anadolu Ajansi reported:
“Waving Palestine flags, and carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans like ‘Down with Israel,’ ‘Long live Palestine,’ and ‘Hamas we are with you,’ many children carried portraits of deceased Hamas leaders, including Ismail Hanneyeh and Yahya Al sinwar.”
The demonstration was organized by Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan’s mainstream religio-political party, whose leader called on the government to allow Hamas to open an office in Islamabad.
It is also worth noting that Pakistan’s Islamic religious schools (madrassas) have been serving as fertile grounds for militant ideologies. These schools produce recruits for groups such as the Taliban and al-Qaeda, and create a Jihadi culture that fosters a strong anti-Western sentiment. As noted by the World Research of Political Science Journal,
“Some madrassas radicalize their pupils to the point where they are prepared to engage in violent acts that they perceive as being required by their religion. Madrassa students are occasionally instructed that it is their responsibility to put an end to any ‘immoral’ behavior and take up arms against any organization that veers from the straight path.”
The Gaza Strip, which has been ruled by Hamas since 2007, already has its own Jihadi culture. Bringing Pakistanis into the Gaza Strip will only exacerbate the situation and strengthen this dangerous tide. The assumption that Pakistan will help disarm Hamas or contribute to the deradicalization of Palestinians in Gaza is spectacularly misguided. The Trump administration seriously needs to reconsider its plan to allow Pakistan, and all countries with ideologies such as these, to play any role in a future Gaza Strip.
Khaled Abu Toameh is an award-winning journalist based in Jerusalem.
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Let the Healing Begin
December 22, 2025 Brownstone Institute
By now, you know for sure that there will never be any accountability or justice for the Covid period: the lies they told, the deaths they caused, the destruction of society wrought by their protocols and fake science and fraudulent experts. It’s all tragic and terrible but such is the nature of modern politics.
That said, justice is unfolding in inauspicious ways and in unexpected theaters of action. The ACIP meetings are a main front. This previously obscure committee – designed to provide a scientific gloss to industry ambitions – has been cleaned up to become a warrior front against evil.
It is now led by many Brownstonians in a position to do something about the problem of pharma power. The battles today are mostly in media accounts – it’s Brownstone vs the New York Times nearly daily. Implausibly, the good guys seem to be winning while mainstream media and the captured scientific establishment is losing.
It is our fondest hope for you and yours during these holidays that you defy the lies of the powerful and chart your own course, embracing community and family in all the ways against which they warned only a few years ago. Anthony Fauci imagined a world of zero human connection. Justice comes through defiance of his authority over our lives.
The new year presents us with greater challenges than ever before: a broken culture marred by addiction and violence, absurdly rising medical costs, growing economic insecurity, and loss of trust in all previously commanding heights. But we’ll make it through and rebuild thanks to human connection, alternative media, and new centers of research and community such as that provided by Brownstone Institute.
Take a look at our events page, which features a fantastic new map that is very easy to use. It helps keep track of Brownstone supper clubs spreading all over the country.
On Tuesday, January 6th, the Greater Boston Supper Club welcomes Jeffrey Tucker, founder, author, and President of Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of ten books, including Life After Lockdown, and many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. His most recent book is Spirits of America: On the Semiquincentennial. Jeffrey will talk about the loss of trust in everything and the devastating consequences thereof. Get tickets here.
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Here is some content since our last email.
Arrogance, Ignorance, or Both? By Russ Gonnering. What is the relationship between education, knowledge, and wisdom? This is not a trivial question, and the ramifications are far from obvious. Our lives may literally depend on it. Let me illustrate the problem.
At the Movies, But for How Long? By Daniel Nuccio. As much as I enjoyed the film, I couldn’t help but wonder how much worse going to the movies was going to get. I couldn’t help but ask myself: How much longer would I be going to the movies at all?
Hepatitis B Vaccination of Newborns: Seriously Misleading Media Reports By Peter C. Gotzsche. They gave undue prominence and praise to the three dissenting ACIP voices and outsiders, who were depicted as experts or scientists. They didn’t check if what the critics of the policy change claimed was correct.
Coffee, Nicotine, and the Politics of Acceptable Addiction By Roger Bate. This essay only scratches the surface. The strange moral history of nicotine, caffeine, and acceptable addiction exposes a much larger problem: modern institutions have forgotten how to reason about risk.
The Third Big Lie of Vaccinology By Clayton J. Baker. The unvaccinated are also the segment of the population that resists the tyrannical impulses so inherent to vaccinology. Mandatory vaccination of an entire population is not imposed to eradicate disease. It is imposed to eradicate the unvaccinated.
Has Orwell’s 1984 Become Reality? By Bert Olivier. It may seem like a rhetorical question to ask whether the narrative of Nineteen Eighty-Four (or 1984), has somehow left its pages and settled, like an ominous miasma, over the contours of social reality. Closer inspection discloses a disquieting state of affairs.
The Second Big Lie of Vaccinology By Clayton J. Baker. No medical product should ever be allowed to be brought to market and administered to patients on the basis of “relative efficacy.” After all, these products aren’t marketed to consumers as “relatively safe and effective,” are they?
Everyone Lost at ACIP By David Bell. ACIP was still erring on the side of Pharma, which they presumably have to due to the sponsored-Congress problem. They may have got it right, they may not. Now the onus is on someone to do sensible prospective trials.
The First Big Lie of Vaccinology by Clayton Baker. Antibody production is not immunity to disease. The promotion of this false equivalency represents the first Big Lie of vaccinology. It should be rejected by regulators and patients alike as legitimate evidence of vaccine efficacy in the future.
Why Governments Prefer Cigarette Revenue over Safer Alternatives by Roger Bate. The POUCH Act is a beginning, not an endpoint. If lawmakers are serious about improving public health, they must resist the gravitational pull of the Sinclair Trap and design a nicotine policy that rewards switching rather than punishing it.
The Pandemic Revealed the Most Cowardly Society of All Time by Filipe Rafaeli. In terms of importance, the Covid-19 pandemic was the biggest event in human history since World War II. Since that time, nothing has caused as much fear across the entire planet as what began in 2020.
Everyone Lost at ACIP By David Bell. ACIP was still erring on the side of Pharma, which they presumably have to due to the sponsored-Congress problem. They may have got it right, they may not have. Now the onus is on someone to do sensible prospective trials.
The First Big Lie of Vaccinology By Clayton J. Baker. Antibody production is not immunity to disease. The promotion of this false equivalency represents the first Big Lie of vaccinology. It should be rejected by regulators and patients alike as legitimate evidence of vaccine efficacy in the future.
Why Governments Prefer Cigarette Revenue over Safer Alternatives By Roger Bate. The POUCH Act is a beginning, not an endpoint. If lawmakers are serious about improving public health, they must resist the gravitational pull of the Sinclair Trap and design a nicotine policy that rewards switching rather than punishing it.
The Five Big Lies of Vaccinology By Clayton J. Baker. There was a time – very recently – when mainstream medicine actively promoted OxyContin and other deadly narcotics as safe and minimally addictive. Hundreds of thousands died as a result. The bloom is off the rose for the vaccine industry.
The Pandemic Revealed the Most Cowardly Society of All Time By Filipe Rafaeli. In terms of importance, the Covid-19 pandemic was the biggest event in human history since World War II. Since that time, nothing has caused as much fear across the entire planet as what began in 2020.
Justice Jackson’s History of Shilling for the Deep State By Brownstone Institute. Jackson’s verbose monologues reveal that she understands the importance of this struggle. She knows that her benefactors depend on her denying the President from obtaining “actual control” over the agencies that the Constitution designates to his realm.
Ditch the Subsidies, Grow What Actually Works By Joel Salatin. All farmers have a choice, and the faster our society respects them enough to put their choice consequences in their hands, the sooner farmers will make more creative and innovative decisions. The crop insurance safety net prejudices decisions.
BMJ and Cochrane Hype the HPV Vaccines in the Extreme By Peter C. Gotzsche. There is no such thing as an “anti-misinformation review.” What we have are systematic and unsystematic, also called narrative, reviews. And there is no such thing as a safe drug. All drugs, including vaccines, cause harm in some people.
Who ordered the hits on Charlie & Ella? Peggy Tierney
DEC 21, 2025 TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
The Democrats (Communists) just showed me who murdered Charlie Kirk of TPUSA and Ella Cook of the College Republicans at Brown University. They can’t help themselves. They love to brag. Forget all the noise and distractions and rabbit holes and focus on the MOTIVE and you’ll see clearly what’s going on.
This newsletter covers a wealth of material in a 10 minute read – and connects lots of dots – so it’s complicated. But, I guarantee you won’t find my educated conclusions anywhere else.
State by state, America is following Canada’s euthanasia policy and here’s why… LEO HOHMANN
New York becomes 13th state to allow doctor-assisted suicide. We should expect more states to join the fray; idea is to make offing yourself a socially acceptable option when you check into hospital.
DEC 21, 2025
New York is set to become the latest state to legalize medically assisted suicide for the terminally ill under a deal reached between the governor and the state Legislature, leaders announced on Wednesday.
In an op-ed in the Albany Times Union, Governor Kathy Hochul announced she will sign the proposal after she made an agreement with lawmakers to include a series of “guardrails.”
Hochul, a Catholic, said she came to the decision after hearing from people on all sides of the issue.
She wrote:
“I was taught that God is merciful and compassionate, and so must we be. This includes permitting a merciful option to those facing the unimaginable and searching for comfort in their final months in this life.”
Long Island News reports that 12 other states and the District of Columbia have laws to allow medically assisted suicide, according to advocates, including a law in Illinois signed last week that goes into effect next year.
Look at the map below and see if you notice a pattern in the countries where killing one’s self is encouraged.
New York’s new law, the Medical Aid in Dying Act, requires that a terminally ill person who is expected to die within six months make a written request for life-ending drugs.
Two witnesses would have to sign the request to ensure that the patient is not being coerced. The request would then have to be approved by the person’s attending physician as well as a consulting physician.
The Long Island News notes that the governor said the bill’s sponsors and legislative leaders have agreed to add provisions to require confirmation from a medical doctor that the person truly had less than six months to live, along with confirmation from a psychologist or psychiatrist that the patient is capable of making the decision and is not under duress.
Of course, we know that doctors don’t always have the best track record of predicting the length of their patients’ lives. Yet, they have been granted god-like powers under these laws to approve or disapprove the termination of life.
The legislation was first introduced in 2016 but stalled amid opposition from New York State Catholic Conference and other groups. The Catholic organization argued the measure would devalue human life and undermine the physician’s role as a healer.
In a statement, New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan said Hochul’s position “signals our government’s abandonment of its most vulnerable citizens, telling people who are sick or disabled that suicide in their case is not only acceptable, but is encouraged by our elected leaders.”
HERE’S MY TAKE: We all know where this is heading. All one needs to do is look at the progression of assisted suicide in Canada. When it was first passed, there were all sorts of so-called guardrails. One by one, those guardrails have been gradually removed and the death squads get bolder and bolder, to the point where they are now considering euthanizing children. This is a path down which no society should go. Because once you open Pandora’s Box and turn doctors into killers, the possibilities for nefarious actors are endless.
And we all know who is driving this trend toward turning doctors into killers.
The technocrats and globalist power elites have already committed to a future in which AI runs our factories, our offices, our military, our churches, everything. The need for human beings just isn’t what it once was. We are all considered expendable.
That’s why you see the reckless foreign policies that invite war, in the name of keeping the peace. The reckless medical treatments that get advanced at “warp speed,” in the name of keeping us healthy. And the reckless war on food that substitutes bioengineered material for real food, then stamps it “healthy” and “safe for human consumption.”
It really doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure this stuff out. It just takes a commitment to having your eyes, ears and minds wide open, paying attention to patterns and false narratives.
DNI Tulsi Gabbard Warns About Islamic Ideology and Sharia Law at AmFest 2025 by Turning Point USA [24:41]
December 20, 2025
[Alex Grobman: A response to JD Vance. No friend of Israel. Written a number of years ago. Nothing has changed.]
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) Israel National News
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.
Ironic Antisemitism
Josef Joffe, former editor of the German weekly Die Zeit and a former visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, saw the irony in the fact that many fine people see it as beneath their dignity “in decorous western society” to acknowledge they hate Jews, yet see nothing wrong with the open avowal of hatred “with impunity” of an Israeli prime minister or any other Israeli leader.
“Lashing out at an Israeli leader does not risk the raised eyebrows that demonizing his people, let alone Jews as such, would do in a post-racist age. The irony in such a statement is the current worldwide imperative to deem everything in racial jargon, meaning that we are clearly not in a ‘post-racist age.’ Israel is constantly the focus of outrage in the media, while other countries who repress their minority populations or engage in widespread human rights violations are rarely condemned or become front-page news,” he said.
Joffe saw this clearly when haters of Israel engage in the “fleeting” denunciation of Palestinian-Arab terrorism, which they then justify by condemning Israel’s alleged “occupation” and tyranny.
Calling this an “obsessive need for moral denigration,” Joffe said it indicates that, for people who engage in this rhetoric, “Israel has assumed a special place in contemporary demonology,” one in which facts do not determine judgment, but, rather, are selected based on prejudices.
Hatred “Only” Towards the Jewish State
Often anti-Zionists argue that they harbor no ill will towards Jews, but “only” against the Jewish state. New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, a well-known harsh critic of Israel, termed the effort to equate criticizing Israel with antisemitism “vile.”
However, he said, “singling out Israel for opprobrium and international sanction—out of all proportion to any other party in the Middle East—is antisemitic, and not saying so is dishonest.”
Per Ahlmark, the late deputy prime minister of Sweden and a renowned writer, compared this approach to an individual who says he is “only” against the existence of Great Britain but is not anti-British, or really loves the Swedes but believes Sweden should be eliminated. Anyone who would make such remarks would not be believed, said Ahlmark, because “you cannot love or respect a people and hate their state.” The logic in Ahlmark’s explanation is lost on those who imagine they can separate the two feelings when it comes to Israel.
“I Support the Right of Britain to Exist?”
Even some seemingly banal statements of support for Israel may betray more sinister undercurrents. Daniel Taub, a former Israeli ambassador to Great Britain, admitted he frequently heard people say, “I’m a friend of Israel and I support its right to exist.”
It made the ambassador wonder: “Can you imagine anyone saying that in relation to any other country? I support Australia’s right to exist, or Guatemala’s right to exist—as though that somehow makes me a friend of Guatemala. In relation to what other country does a discussion or policy descend into a question mark over the very existence of that state?”
Former Canadian Minister of Justice and Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, Law Professor Irwin Cotler has frequently spoken about the enduring threats to Israel. He said he finds “the silence, the indifference, and sometimes even the indulgence” the most disturbing in the face of such genocidal antisemitism.
Fooling No One
The only glimmer of light is that those who are crossing the line from criticizing Israel into blatant antisemitism are increasingly no longer allowed to do so with equanimity.
In an address to Parliament shortly before he died, the late former Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, pointed out that antisemites rarely admit to hating Jews. On the contrary, he said, throughout history, many antisemites insisted they liked or even loved Jews.
“In the Middle Ages, they said, we don’t hate the Jews, we just hate their religion. In the 19th and 20th centuries, they said, we don’t hate the Jews, we just hate their race. Today, they say, we don’t hate the Jews, we just hate their nation-state. It’s the same antisemitism dressed up in a different gown,” he said.
And this time, they are fooling no one.
Dr. Grobman is the senior resident scholar at the John C. Danforth Society and a member of the Council of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. Copyright. Alex Grobman
Sorry, JD, antisemitism and ‘not liking Israel’ aren’t that different Jonathan S. Tobin
Why is U.S. Vice President Vance staking out a position that aligns him with young conservative Zoomers who are against the Jews and the Jewish state? JONATHAN S. TOBIN
(Dec. 19, 2025 JNS)
Intense scrutiny comes with high office.
So when someone like Vice President JD Vance makes a statement in an interview or posts a comment on social media about a hot topic, it inevitably becomes news. And when that topic is especially controversial—antisemitism, for instance—and he’s made little or no effort not to get mired in it, anything he winds up saying or writing is likely to feed speculation about where he really stands.
And that has been the case of late. When Vance denied that Jew-hatred is “exploding” among young conservatives in an interview with NBC News and then engaged in an exchange on X with an Israel-bashing white nationalist who uses antisemitic tropes, as he has done in the last two weeks, it’s far from unreasonable to wonder about his motives.
But there’s more to it than that. Vance is the current frontrunner for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination. That fuels the belief that his every action is calculated to enhance his chances of being President Donald Trump’s successor.
An antisemitism problem
Fair or not, and though he and his supporters would deny it, that means he now has an antisemitism problem.
Any discussion about the vice president—and the question of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel bigotry—starts with his apparently unbreakable ties with Tucker Carlson. The former Fox News host and current far-right podcaster is, by all accounts, a good friend of Vance. In fact, he owes Carlson a debt of gratitude. Carlson was a significant booster of Vance’s successful campaign for an Ohio U.S. Senate seat in 2022 and then reportedly played a decisive role in persuading Trump to choose him as his running mate in 2024.
When Carlson hosted faux historian and Holocaust denier Daryl Cooper on his podcast just weeks after Vance was tapped for vice president, what followed was significant. Not only did Vance not disassociate himself from Carlson. Instead, he kept a commitment to appear with him on one of the political commentator’s live shows, which, for all intents and purposes, turned out to be a Republican campaign rally.
Flash-forward a year later, and Carlson’s flirtation with antisemitism and Israel-bashing has turned into a full-blown obsession. Vance’s buddy seems to platform virtually anyone who will demonize Israel, including floating antisemitic blood libels about its war against Hamas in Gaza or opposing efforts to stop the nuclear threat from Iran. After his chummy interview with “groyper” Nick Fuentes—a self-avowed neo-Nazi—and his attacks on Christian Zionists and even the idea of a Judeo-Christian heritage, there’s no denying that he’s become the most dangerous antisemite in the country.
But for Vance and some other increasingly disreputable voices on the right, like podcaster Megyn Kelly, the priority is protecting their friendship with Carlson. Given that distancing himself from a conservative movement that has a lot at stake in the success of the Trump administration and in the failure of the Democrats to win back the White House in 2028, Vance’s decision to stick with his friend must be seen as significant.
A crisis among young Zoomers
That’s the context for the dustup about Vance’s denial of the growing antisemitism problem on the right. That comment was enough to feed the controversy. But it only grew after he decided to engage in a back-and-forth with Sarah Stock, another person with a problematic record on Jew-hatred, and, oddly enough, to do it on the same evening that he was hosting a Chanukah party at the vice-presidential residence in Washington.
That Vance would deny that antisemitism is “exploding” among young conservatives is perhaps to be expected. But after the Fuentes interview and the subsequent blow-up at the Heritage Foundation, when its president, Kevin Roberts, refused to disavow Carlson and the growing belief that a sizable percentage of young conservatives are following the groypers, that’s no longer a credible position.
Writer Rod Dreher wrote that he was told that 30% to 40% of Zoomers who work for the administration or Republicans in Washington these days are fans of Fuentes. Heritage vice president Victoria Coates told me in an interview on my “Think Twice” podcast that she fears the true number might be double that.
The situation on the right might not be as dire as that on the left, where the intersectional base of the Democratic Party is clearly hostile to Israel and has accepted blood libels about it committing “genocide” in Gaza. But if the true number of Fuentes followers among young conservatives is even half of either Dreher’s or Coates’s estimates, then there’s no denying that the right has a crisis that needs to be acknowledged.
Indeed, a Manhattan Institute poll published earlier this month showed that some 17% of Republicans are “anti-Jewish” and hold views that encompass Holocaust denial or the left-wing myth about Israel being a “settler-colonial” state that has no right to exist. Those numbers are far higher among younger GOP voters and minorities.
Anti-Zionism and antisemitism
Vance’s exchange with Stock was equally problematic.
The vice president was partially correct. One can criticize Israeli policies without being antisemitic. After all, 10 million Israelis do it every day on one issue or another, just as 340 million Americans find fault with their government.
The problem is that the “criticism” being voiced and the attitudes that have surfaced in the Manhattan Institute poll reflect the spread of pro-Hamas propaganda that delegitimizes the Jewish state and treats its justified war of self-defense after the Oct. 7 attacks as genocide. In the current context, talk of “not liking” Israel isn’t an innocent opinion about not being enamored with the weather in Tel Aviv. It’s invariably the product of some of the lies being platformed on Carlson’s show and even on more extreme venues, such as what is heard on the podcasts of Fuentes or the unhinged conspiracy theorist Candace Owens.
More to the point, language such as that used by the vice president can be interpreted as maintaining the entirely fictional distinction between antisemitism and anti-Zionism. Anti-Zionists may claim not be antisemitic, but that is a distinction without a difference.
To deny the Jews, alone of all the peoples in the world, the right to live in peace, security and sovereignty in their ancient homeland is not an assessment about which reasonable people should be expected to agree to disagree.
To support the elimination of the one Jewish state on the planet—something that could only be accomplished by the genocide of its citizens—while having no problem with the scores of other nations that are explicitly Muslim or officially devoted to one specific faith or ethnic group is to discriminate against Jews.
And there is more proof of prejudice. Carlson continues to declare that the fictional “genocide” being committed by Israel is the most urgent of issues. At the same time, he remains unconcerned by the fact that the Palestinians intend to continue their murderous onslaughts against the Jews, all while downplaying and denying that genocidal assaults on Christians are right now being waged by Muslims in African countries.
A political calculation
The vice president is clearly treading in dangerous waters. But that begs the question as to why he’s doing so.
The only logical answer? It seems that similar to the leadership of the Democratic Party, he has come to the conclusion that it’s good politics.
Democrats have embraced open antisemites like New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, whose short political career has revolved around his obsession with destroying the Jewish state, not to mention the members of the left-wing congressional “Squad” who are treated like rock stars by their voters, as well as the chattering classes.
By contrast, the Republicans had become a lockstep pro-Israel party in recent decades, with only libertarian outliers like Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) or erratic extremists like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) being exceptions to a pro-Israel consensus among GOP officeholders.
But Vance, a savvy political player and someone, in contrast to Trump or veteran conservatives, who is very much attuned to online trends, is sensing that the tide is shifting against the Jews among younger Republicans.
This generation has largely been indoctrinated in the same leftist ideologies like critical race theory, intersectionality and settler-colonialism in K-12 schools and colleges that grant a permission slip to Jew-hatred as their liberal compatriots. And they are swimming in the same sea of anti-Jewish prejudice and Israel-bashing that the algorithms of TikTok and other social-media platforms enable.
Their vulnerability to these toxic myths and lies is partly due to their addiction to the internet, as well as the product of the deleterious impact of the COVID pandemic isolation they suffered.
But if Vance aspires to become president, then voters have a right to expect him to do more than appease or validate these prejudices, as did his predecessor, former Vice President Kamala Harris. And for him to argue that antisemitism isn’t that big a problem or that it’s OK to “not like” Israel in the aftermath of two years of a post-Oct. 7 surge in Jew-hatred that culminated in the massacre of 16 people on Bondi Beach in Australia isn’t just bad taste. It’s not unreasonable to conclude that he is dog-whistling to Fuentes fans and other young antisemites that he’s on their side—or at least doesn’t openly oppose them.
The jury is still out about whether that is as smart a political move as he may think it is.
For those who spend their days on X or TikTok, the views of Carlson or even the groypers may seem normative. But in contrast to the situation with the Democrats, the GOP base, which is dominated by evangelical Christians, remains solidly pro-Israel. So, too, are the majority of Republican voters and even most Americans.
What voters want
Working-class Americans of all races who played a decisive role in re-electing Trump to a second term agree with Vance on immigration and share his skepticism about the European establishment’s disdain for democratic norms that interfere with policies that undermine their national sovereignty. But they’re not going to turn out for him if he becomes too closely identified with extremism and hate.
In a 2024 speech to the Quincy Institute, Vance made a strong case for Israel as the perfect “America First” ally for the United States because of its strength, technological prowess and willingness to defend itself. He’s also consistently denounced antisemitism.
Still, he seems to be drifting away from that principled stance in less than a year as vice president. He seems to think that the political future belongs to ignorant young voters who have been spoon-fed anti-Israel and antisemitic propaganda for years. Whether or not that’s a correct analysis of the 2028 electorate, it’s feeding a crisis that is both undermining Jewish security and harming an alliance that benefits the United States.
JONATHAN S. TOBIN Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of the Jewish News Syndicate, a senior contributor for The Federalist, a columnist for Newsweek and a contributor to many other publications. He covers the American political scene, foreign policy, the U.S.-Israel relationship, Middle East diplomacy, the Jewish world and the arts. He hosts the JNS “Think Twice” podcast, both the weekly video program and the “Jonathan Tobin Daily” program, which are available on all major audio platforms and YouTube. Previously, he was executive editor, then senior online editor and chief political blogger, for Commentary magazine. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of The Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia and editor of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. He has won more than 60 awards for commentary, art criticism and other writing. He appears regularly on television, commenting on politics and foreign policy. Born in New York City, he studied history at Columbia University.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of JNS (Jewish News Syndicate). Follow him: @jonathans_tobin.
Corsi Speech: Silent No More, Part 2 [13:27] JEROME R. CORSI, PH.D.
..How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller’s ‘Witch Hunt'”
DEC 20, 2025
Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller’s “Witch Hunt”
Bestselling author of Killing the Deep State Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D. meticulously details the psychological torment he was subjected to in what the media has simply called, “The Mueller Investigation.”
In late 2018, in an FBI closed conference room with no windows, Dr. Corsi was confronted for hours upon hours at a time by detailed questioning about events that occurred in 2016. Dr. Corsi’s inquisition was worthy of the Gestapo or KGB, designed to break even the most cooperating witness. Over a period of two months, three of Mueller’s top prosecutors and an army of FBI agents—up to nine government officials at a time—questioned Dr. Corsi with his attorney, David Gray.
Throughout this harrowing ordeal, Dr. Corsi handed over his personal computers, his cell phone, all of his email accounts, his Twitter account, and his Google account. Finding no “smoking gun,” Mueller’s prosecutors blew up the meetings. Dr. Corsi refused to lie to the prosecutors to give them the ammunition they needed to prosecute Roger Stone, and as a result he was told he would be charged with a criminal offense for lying to the FBI and the Special Prosecutor.
At seventy-two years of age, Dr. Corsi was subjected to extreme mental anguish, imagining that he may never see his family again as a free man.
Rather than conducting an honest investigation, Mueller’s Special Prosecutors reinforced a prefabricated narrative aiming to charge President Trump with Treason. Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller’s “Witch Hunt” exposes the inner workings of this governmental escapade, and clearly states why Mueller has no case against the President.
Dr. Corsi creates a compelling case indicating that the entire matter is an investigation in search of a crime—to force lying testimony from witnesses if that’s what it takes to achieve Deep State political objectives.
God’s Five Stones Website: https://www.godsfivestones.com
Corsi Nation Website: https://www.corsination.com
The Truth Central: https://www.thetruthcentral.com
