COMMENTARY / OPINION
Legal Expert Jonathan Turley Says Courts Are ‘Intruding’ on Trump’s Authority in a Way That ‘Can’t Stand’ By Michael Schwarz
February 12, 2025 – Agents of the federal government destroyed the U.S. Constitution a long time ago. Today, only a shell of that document’s substance remains, and its spirit has almost entirely vanished.
Thus, President Donald Trump and his allies, including Elon Musk, owner of the social media platform X and head of Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, must defeat the Democrat-dominated establishment, including federal judges who have usurped power not granted to them by the Constitution, in order to restore some semblance of constitutional self-government in the United States.
In an interview with Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade on Tuesday, legal scholar Jonathan Turley insisted that the recent phenomenon of federal judges “intruding” on the president’s constitutional authority “can’t stand.”
The fascinating interview covered three major issues in less than four minutes.
First, Kilmeade asked about a judge’s decision to freeze Trump’s buyout offer for federal employees.
“I think that Trump is on very solid ground with the buyout,” Turley replied. “I’m still a bit baffled by what the court is doing here.”
The legal expert then correctly explained that those buyout offers fall under the president’s Article II authority.
“I’m not, even today, certain what the constitutional problem is,” Turley said.
Indeed, for no such problem exists. Anyone with a 5th-grade level of constitutional knowledge understands that the president controls the executive branch.
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Next, Kilmeade asked about DOGE having access to data from the U.S. Treasury Department.
Turley replied that while courts conceivably could address privacy-related issues, this particular federal judge went far beyond the court’s authority in denying Trump administration officials, including actual Treasury employees, access to said data.
“But I think the court really got ahead of its skis here,” Turley said. “It went way too far in shutting down Treasury officials from looking at this material.”
“I think that ultimately that can’t stand,” he added.
Finally, Kilmeade asked about a judge’s decision to pause Trump’s mass layoffs of employees at the sinister United States Agency for International Development, a CIA- and State Department-adjacent organization that has funded nefarious projects abroad and at home.
Turley responded with a useful metaphor involving Congress, the president, and naval defense spending.
“See, that’s another problem with how these cases are constructed,” the legal expert said. “You know, Congress can make decisions. They’re the ones who buy ships, but it is the president that decides who’s going to take the ship out and the crew. He could reduce the number of crew members.”
“I think that the court is really intruding significantly into the president’s authority,” he added moments later.
Readers may view the entire interview in the YouTube video below.
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The key point, of course, involves restoring the Constitution. And that requires addressing the founding document from two crucial perspectives.
First, we must understand proper boundaries, or what every American schoolchild once knew as the separation of powers.
In short, the Founders left an unambiguous record of their vision for the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. Members of each branch had the exclusive right to determine for themselves the extent of their own constitutional powers.
Tellingly, for instance, when Congress demanded that President George Washington’s administration turn over documents pertaining to negotiations that preceded the wildly unpopular 1794 Jay Treaty, Washington refused, citing his constitutional authority under Article II.
Meanwhile, no one suggested that the Supreme Court should settle the dispute by interpreting the Constitution for everyone else.
That changed in 1803, when Chief Justice John Marshall invented the concept of judicial review in the famous Marbury v. Madison case, an opinion adored by law-school graduates who worship their judges but one properly reviled by everyone who loves constitutional self-government.
Sixteen years later, in fact, former President Thomas Jefferson still did not take judicial review seriously.
“[I]f this opinion be sound, then indeed is our constitution a compleat felo de se [felon against itself]. [F]or intending to establish three departments, coordinate and independant, that they might check and balance one another, it has given, according to this opinion, to one of them alone the right to prescribe rules for the government of the others; and to that one too which is unelected by, and independent of, the nation,” Jefferson wrote in 1819.
In other words, Washington and Jefferson understood the Constitution far better than today’s federal judges.
The second crucial perspective involves the following truth: The Constitution and the deep state cannot coexist.
Thus, when Trump finally asserts his proper constitutional authority, which, in my view, he must do by publicly denying the power of the courts to infringe on that authority, he must give Musk all the support necessary to finish the job of destroying the deep state once and for all.
Gaza: Israel’s Covid 2.0 MICHOEL GREEN
FEB 12, 2025
Many are referring to the cataclysmic events of 10/7/23 as “Israel’s 9/11.”
I call it “Israel’s Covid 2.0.”
Covid is a much better comparison to what actually happened on 10/7 and its ongoing aftermath.
Both times, Israelis were locked in their homes, terrified of and defenseless to a roaming killer of their government’s own making.
In both depop assaults, the government’s “solution” is every bit as deadly as the original “problem” and even deadlier.
In the covid scamdemic, the “solution” was the vaccine, which ended up being exponentially deadlier than the alleged “pathogen” it pretended to eradicate. And the lockdowns, masks, “testing,” and “quarantines” groomed the cluelessly compliant population for upcoming dystopian enslavement, which will undoubtedly be the deadliest existential threat that humanity has ever faced.
In the Gaza psyop, the initial “solution” was the government’s military response and “ground missions” i.e. human sacrifice rituals which perpetuate the daily slaughter of Jews.
The next phase of their “solution” was the release of a thousand bloodthirsty murderers whose sworn goal is to continue their ongoing genocide of our people.
And now we have phase three of their “solution,” Trump’s theatrical bravado setting the stage for a new presumably bloodier phase of the ongoing human sacrifice ritual. And because of Trump and his virtually-“messianic” status, it’ll undoubtedly be at “warp speed.”
Why do we keep falling for their engineered crises and proposed solutions? Have we learned nothing from their “final solution” of 80 years ago?
For accuracy’s sake, the comparison between covid and 10/7 falls a bit short, since in the former case, the pathogen was imaginary, while the “disease” called Hamas tragically exist. However, the killing was very real. In the latter, the killings were carried out by masked jihadists in fatigues riding pickup trucks. In the former, it was carried out by masked medical executioners, doctors and nurses in white coats and scrubs. The latter used machetes and guns, while the former used ventilators and remdesivir. [1]
Moreover, the symptoms that led to the executions were real too. In the former, it was likely caused by deliberate 5G poisoning and aerial spraying but falsely attributed to a “corona virus.” In the latter, it was a deliberate and coordinated collaboration of Israel’s ruling class and its Hamas henchmen but falsely attributed to an intelligence gaffe or computer hack.
In both cases, the manufactured crisis was well-planned and rehearsed. In both cases, the population fell for the ruse, hook, line, and sinker, who proceeded to rally behind their government to “save” them. In both cases, whoever challenged the state-sponsored narrative was reviled and cancelled. In both cases, the end goal is the same: “depopulation” (i.e. democide) and digital enslavement of the surviving population.
May Hashem foil their vile plans.
Notes:
[1] Furthermore, the 10/7 terrorists left their hostages to languish and starve in terror tunnels, somewhat similar to how covid-complicit criminals condemned their defenseless patients to languish in isolation without hydration or nutrition. The 10/7 butchers tortured and dehumanized their victims, but the covid crooks subjected their victims to torturous abuse as well, albeit a bit more subtly. Hashem yeracheim.
Reining in the Courts: A Fix for Nationwide Injunction Abuse @AMUSE
FEB 12, 2025
The power of a single district court judge to issue a nationwide injunction against the executive branch is an anomaly within our constitutional structure. It is a modern contrivance that has warped the balance of power between the judiciary and the elected branches of government. The idea that a lone judge in Maine can unilaterally freeze executive action across all fifty states violates both the spirit and the structure of American governance. This practice, increasingly deployed in a politicized manner, fosters judicial supremacy at the expense of democratic decision-making and the rule of law.
Nationwide injunctions have been wielded against presidents of both parties, but the Trump administration has faced an unprecedented number of them. During Trump’s first term, over sixty-four nationwide injunctions were issued, a sharp increase from prior administrations. The trend has continued into his second term, with multiple district judges already blocking significant executive actions. The most recent example is the executive order on birthright citizenship, which two separate judges—one in Maryland, another in Washington—have preemptively enjoined before the policy could even be enforced.
These injunctions have not been limited to immigration. In Trump’s second term, district courts have intervened on an extraordinary range of executive actions. A judge recently issued an injunction forcing Trump to rehire the Special Counsel of the Office of Special Counsel, an appointee of President Biden. This unprecedented ruling effectively dictated whom the president may employ as legal counsel, overriding executive discretion. Another judge enjoined the Treasury Secretary from accessing information within his own department, an extraordinary interference in the basic operations of the executive branch. A separate injunction has forced the administration to resume funding of federal programs, mandating that Trump obtain judicial approval before making any future changes to government spending priorities. Even federal websites have not been spared—one ruling compelled the administration to restore government webpages related to sex change operations and gender ideology, a purely ideological imposition masquerading as a legal order.
The first term of Trump’s presidency illustrated the dangers of these injunctions. Consider the travel ban case. A single district judge in Hawaii issued an injunction that had the effect of nullifying a federal executive order nationwide. This ruling forced the administration into an extended legal battle that ultimately ended with the Supreme Court upholding the policy. But by the time the Court rendered its judgment, the policy had been in limbo for months. This effectively granted the district court judge the power to set national policy, even though their reasoning was ultimately rejected at the highest level.
The abuse of injunctions is particularly evident in cases of immigration policy. Trump’s efforts to enforce stricter border controls, modify asylum procedures, and alter the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program were repeatedly hamstrung by district court rulings that applied nationwide. The fact that these injunctions were often issued in jurisdictions known for being favorable to the political opposition only adds to the perception that the judiciary has become a partisan actor. The ability to shop for a friendly judge and obtain a sweeping nationwide order undermines judicial impartiality and the credibility of the legal system.
Some defenders of nationwide injunctions argue that they are necessary to ensure uniformity in the law. If one judge finds an executive action unlawful, they reason, it makes little sense to allow that action to continue elsewhere. But this reasoning is deeply flawed. The federal judiciary is structured to allow for disagreement among courts. Different jurisdictions can reach different conclusions, and these differences are resolved through appellate review. That is precisely how legal doctrines develop and are ultimately settled by the Supreme Court. When a single district judge can impose a nationwide rule from the outset, this deliberative process is short-circuited.
Furthermore, there is no historical basis for the kind of nationwide injunctions we see today. The practice did not become widespread until the latter half of the twentieth century, and its rapid proliferation is a recent phenomenon. Justice Clarence Thomas has noted that nationwide injunctions have little foundation in historical equity practice. The traditional role of courts is to resolve disputes between specific parties, not to issue broad legislative-like decrees.
The core problem is that nationwide injunctions distort the balance of power between the branches of government. The executive branch is tasked with enforcing the law, and Congress has the authority to craft policy. When a single unelected judge can halt the actions of the elected branches nationwide, it subverts democratic accountability. The courts are meant to adjudicate disputes, not govern by decree.
A practical solution to this issue is to require that any nationwide injunction issued against the executive branch be approved by a panel of at least three district court judges rather than a single judge. This would introduce an additional layer of scrutiny and prevent the idiosyncratic rulings of one judge from having disproportionate national effects. Moreover, such injunctions should be immediately appealable to the Supreme Court, ensuring that legal questions of national significance are resolved swiftly rather than lingering in lower courts for extended periods.
This reform would preserve the ability of courts to check unlawful executive action while curbing the excessive power currently vested in individual district judges. It would also deter forum shopping, as plaintiffs would no longer be able to target a specific judge known for ideological leanings. By restoring a more balanced approach to injunctions, this proposal would reinforce the proper role of the judiciary within the constitutional framework.
The unchecked proliferation of nationwide injunctions is an urgent problem that demands a solution. It is neither constitutionally sound nor democratically justifiable for a single lower court judge to wield the power to obstruct national policy. By implementing a panel-based approach with expedited Supreme Court review, we can restore judicial integrity, prevent judicial overreach, and ensure that executive authority is not unduly hamstrung by rogue rulings. The judiciary must return to its traditional role—resolving cases, not dictating policy.
DOGE Continues to Steamroll Bureaucracy, Expose USAID Abuses [11:22] JEROME R. CORSI, PH.D.
Former USAID Director and Deep State Darling, Samantha Power, is in the Cross-Hairs
FEB 12, 2025 – The revelation of USAID Chief Samantha Pawer’s exponential wealth growth to the tune of $30million while serving at the 180K/year post has prompted DOGE to investigate feds with improbable financial growth while in office or working at government posts. This kind of accountability has triggered the Left to the point where they are using lawfare to defend the bureaucracy and the abuses of taxpayer money. Dr. Jerome Corsi goes in-depth.
President Trump set the perfect trap for the far-left. D PARKER
It’s been a thing of beauty to see President Trump set up a virtual brick wall for the far Left and see them obligatorily run straight into it at full speed.
FEB 12, 2025 – It seems apparent that there’s something about the current process with DOGE and the draining of the swamp that is the Deep State that makes you think that President Trump has set up a perfect trap for the Left based on their authoritarian tendencies. You only need to look at the evidence to see that he’s set it up so they entrapped themselves. It’s even more hilarious that they can’t do anything about it.
Start with the fact that people with projective tendencies always assume others have the same mindset. In this case, it was Candidate Trump talking about retribution and the Left merely thought it was what they were projecting — namely going after them, when in reality he’s going after their raison d’être for living — forcibly taking taxpayer dollars and transforming society into their ideal of a communist ‘Utopia.’
They were wrong, as usual. And now they’re paying the price.
Because when you get right down to it, this highlights the fundamental differences between the authoritarian Left and the pro-freedom Right. We see government as a necessary evil, akin to fire in that it’s only useful when it’s limited and under control. Well aware that as governmental power and control expand, fundamental freedoms shrink. This is why you keep government as small, localized, and limited as possible. Because as it grows bigger and bigger, with far too many moving parts, it becomes very difficult to figure out what is going on at any given time.
Contrast the viewpoint of limited government conserving individual liberty with the leftist viewpoint. For the far Left, the government is their magic solution to every problem known to mankind — as long as they can extract or print enough money to force their solution on everyone.
The Left sees government as a way to transform society into a collectivist ‘Utopia,’ expanding governmental reach into every possible aspect of life. Somehow, they think that unlimited government is the key to remaking society into their vision of perfection.
So, when candidate Trump talked about retribution, his plan was the dismantling of the governmental leviathan, aiming directly at where the Left lives. Contrasting with their worldview in which they live to buy votes and try to transform society with taxpayer dollars. They thought he was going to come after them, and they were correct. But he’s going after their fundamental way of thinking that will shrink the budget and be wildly popular with the people.
They’ve spent years taking our hard-earned dollars — that they think they’re entitled to take — and doling them out to their pet projects and their own pockets. President Trump is going after this process directly, hitting them where they live.
Trump set them up to be on the losing side of the argument. He chose an agency that hardly anyone had heard of before, that from all outward appearances is a massive money laundering scheme for the far Left, and forced them into the untenable position of defending wasteful government spending. It was more than hilarious to see them try to defend the indefensible. Even worse for them is the fact that they had no other choice in the matter — they had to defend the funder of their pet under-the-table projects, even though it would take away their thunder for future fights. They were obligated to defend USAID, placing them in the position of defending:
- $7.9 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid “binary-gendered language”
- $20 million for a new Sesame Street show in Iraq
- $4.5+ million to “combat disinformation” in Kazakhstan
- $1.5 million for “art for inclusion of people with disabilities”
- $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
- $6 million to “transform digital spaces to reflect feminist democratic principles”
- $2.1 million to help the BBC “value the diversity of Libyan society”
- $10 million worth of USAID-funded meals, which went to an al Qaeda-linked terrorist group
- $25 million for Deloitte to promote “green transportation” in the country of Georgia
- $6 million for tourism in Egypt
- $2.5 million to promote “inclusion” in Vietnam
- $16.8 million for a separate “inclusion” group in Vietnam
- ~$5 million to EcoHealth Alliance, one of the key NGOs funding bat virus research at the Wuhan lab
- $20 million for a group related to a key player in the Russiagate impeachment hoax
- $1.1 million to an Armenian “LGBT group”
- $1.2 million to help the African Methodist Episcopal Church Service and Development Agency in Washington, D.C., build “a state-of-the-art 440 seat auditorium”
- $1.3 million to Arab and Jewish photographers
- $1.5 million to promote “LGBT advocacy” in Jamaica
- $1.5 million to “rebuild” the Cuban media ecosystem
- $2 million to promote “LGBT equality through entrepreneurship” in Latin America
- $500K to solve sectarian violence in Israel (just ten days before the Hamas October 7 attack)
- $2.3 million for “artisanal and small scale gold mining” in the Amazon
- $3.9 million for “LGBT causes” in the western Balkans
- $5.5 million for LGBT activism in Uganda
- $6 million for advancing LGBT issues in “priority countries around the world”
- $6.3 million for men who have sex with men in South Africa
- $8.3 million for “USAID Education: Equity and Inclusion”
USAID’s “climate strategy” outlined a $150 billion “whole-of-agency” approach to building an “equitable world with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.”
These days the far Left has become the Wile E. Coyote chasing the Road Runner. They keep on trying to come up with grandiose schemes to trap President Trump, but all they are doing is setting themselves up for further defeats.
This was a twofold victory for common sense, in a way that was ‘dinner and a show’ — the taxpayers saved some of their hard-earned dollars, while it diminished the Un-Democratic party even more. And it was glorious.
Originally published on the American Thinker
First letters of people of faith after the Holocaust Dr. Alex Grobman
Elie Weisel famously said: ‘If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.’ While antisemitism sweeps the globe, it is time to remember, act, and place our faith in G-d. A book that expresses those feelings in Holocaust survivors’ own words. Review.
Feb 12, 2025, 7:01 AM (GMT+2) Israel National News – Esther Farbstein, Dew Of Revival: First letters of people of faith after the Holocaust (Jerusalem: Michlalah Jerusalem College and Mossad Harav Kook, 2024).
One cannot underestimate the importance of the historical documents in this volume of the first letters written by Holocaust survivors after their liberation, titled Dew Of Revival: First letters of people of faith after the Holocaust (Jerusalem: Michlalah Jerusalem College and Mossad Harav Kook, 2024). . Painstakingly collected by Hebrew University-trained Rebbetzin Esther Farbstein, the leading Haredi scholar of the religious response to the Shoah, they preserve the intense feelings that ranged from grief, despair, hope and calls for revenge, while recognizing the need to reconstruct their lives, even as they felt adrift.
Some letters were written succinctly and with restraint as if to preclude “touching an open wound.” As the survivors began realizing the magnitude of the destruction and the extent of their loss, soul-searching led to questioning why had they survived while others more worthy were murdered. Having been spared, what were they now expected to do with the rest of their lives?
They soon discovered that freedom did not ensure them the ability to experience a feeling of joy so long as they lacked a link to their past and the loving connections they once felt to their family, friends and community.
Urgent Need to Search for Family
The urgent need to find spouses, parents, siblings, and children who were placed in hiding in monasteries and in private homes of non-Jews became a major focus. A daunting and frustrating task in chaotic post-war Europe.
The American military expected the Jews, like the millions of non-Jewish DPs in post-war Europe, would be eager to return to their former residences. Many Jews were averse to going back to their native lands, particularly those from eastern Europe, who comprised a significant portion of the Jewish survivors. Some returned to their homes to search for loved ones and friends. Once they finished their mission, they returned to the American zone in Germany, where the Americans had established camps for Displaced Persons (DPs).
Germany was divided into Soviet, American, British and French zones of occupation. The British were in the northwest, France in the southwest, the US in the south and the Soviet Union in the east. Berlin, the capital city situated in Soviet territory, was also divided into four occupied zones.
In their former homelands, Jews encountered contempt and rejection, and often harassment. Some were arrested on the spurious charge of having collaborated with the Germans. Many Jews found themselves without homes, since their residences had been appropriated by former friends and neighbors.
The Jews from western Europe, Hungary, Romania, and Czechoslovakia were in a better position to reclaim their possessions and begin to rebuild their lives.
Impediments to Contacting Family
Today, it might be difficult to understand the anguish the survivors experienced as they searched for information. Quite often, survivors did not know or remember the addresses of their relatives in Europe or elsewhere in the free world. Furthermore, the mail service was sporadic or not functioning at all.
Thousands of letters sent by survivors wound up in the archives of Jewish organizations because they were never delivered. The survivors did not know why there was no response. All they felt was “frustration, bitterness, hurt feelings,” and a profound sense of loneliness and abandonment.
“Rekindling The Flame”
What distinguishes this volume from Yad Vashem’ s After So Much Pain and Anguish: First Letters after Liberation, is that it offers a voice to those who have not yet been adequately heard from—the believers in G-d, faith, mutual responsibility, family, lovers of Torah, and the traditional Jewish way of life.
Founded on these principles of observance of Torah values, they rebuilt their lives.
“The Stories Behind the Letters”
Every letter in this book contains “behind the scenes” background information about the author, the historical context, and some of the individuals who are referred to. For the most part, letters were written in eastern and western Europe in1945 and 1946 by persons of different ages and social backgrounds—from average Jews to eminent leaders. Though most letters were written by survivors, there are also a number from close and distant relatives.
Letters written by Jewish soldiers, serving in the American military in Europe, to their families describe the contact they had with those termed the Shearith Hapletah—the survivors of European Jewry. In many cases, this was the first encounters with American Jews. The sight of American Jews in uniform gave them of feelings of pride and hope. The information the soldiers sent to their families about the plight of the survivors helped shape American Jewish response to them.
Volume of Letters
The number of letters Rebbetzin Farbstein collected and continues to receive is so vast that they will have to be included in a future volume.
A Final Note
Elie Weisel stressed “the mystical power of memory. Without memory,” he said, “our existence would be barren and opaque, like a prison cell into which no light penetrates; like a tomb which rejects the living….If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity. For me, hope without memory is like memory without hope.”.
We are indebted to Rebbitzin Esther Farbstein, the founder and head of the Holocaust Research Center, Michlalah — Jerusalem College, for this remarkable volume and for her other pioneering studies on Orthodox life in Europe before and during the Holocaust: the role of rabbis during the Holocaust; Halakhic responsa pertaining to the Holocaust; and Hungarian Orthodox Jewry during the last century.
In addition to her academic credentials, and many years of teaching in Jerusalem’s Ulpenat Chorev, she is the daughter of Rabbi Yehuda Leib Heine and a great-granddaughter of the fourth Rebbe of the Ger Hasidic dynasty, Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter, known as the Imrei Emes. Her husband, Rav Moshe Mordechai Farbstein, shlita, serves as the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Chevron in Jerusalem.
English Transcript of the Emergency Calls of Two Girls Murdered on October 7 Chananya Weissman
February 12, 2025
State emergency operators behaved like customer service giving people the runaround until the mercenaries finished them off
Original recording posted by Kan News, here (I have it saved in case it disappears, but won’t post it here due to copyright concerns).
English transcript follows. The two girls calling for help, Oriya Litman Ricardo and Sharon Refai, are referred to as C. The various operators are referred to as O.
Read this and insist it was an intelligence failure, or negligence, or an unfortunate series of coincidences, or just a leftist plot to bring down Bibi’s and his “right wing government”, and not an elaborately planned operation coordinated by the Erev Rav regime, their colleagues in Gaza, and their international managers and financiers, carried out by mercenaries on the ground, and enabled by useful idiots just following orders.
Keep believing their promises. Keep counting on them to keep you safe. Keep obeying them. Keep sending your loved ones to Gaza under their authority. Keep hating yeshiva students for not “sacrificing” and “sharing the burden”. Keep waving the flag, and watching the media, and letting statist influencers manipulate you, and believing you can vote your way out of this, and honoring soldiers for getting maimed and killed for pyrrhic victory, or no victory at all, and getting angry at people who take a battering ram to all the lies and propaganda and putting the onus on YOU to wake up already.
What could possibly go wrong?
Maybe more of this:
Call #1
C: They are shooting at us, they are shooting at us!
O: Where are you now?
C: I’m in a terrorist attack, I don’t know.
O: Where are you now?
C: I don’t know, I’m here full of shots, I have no idea where I am.
[Sound of screaming and shooting]
C: I’m telling you, they shot my friend, we got into an accident, I don’t know, I put down the telephone.
O: I sent you an SMS, stay with me.
C: The link doesn’t open. Please, he is wounded, he isn’t breathing, please, send an ambulance…I confirmed it [the link], I confirmed it.
O: You approved it? Great, I see it. I’m opening the event for you.
C: What about a mobile [ambulance]? They shot my friend, he is dead. Bring me an ambulance, what about a mobile?…No, what can I do? What can I do? How long have you been here? He is not breathing. This is not happening to me now. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Call #2
O: Police, hello.
C: Listen, we are here in the middle of a terrorist attack in the south. You said that police and an ambulance —
O: One moment, one moment —
C: He died here in my hands [?]
O: One moment, one moment, what’s the number? One moment, one second, one second, one second.
[Caller sobbing]
C: Whoa, I need them to get me out of here. [Sobbing] It’s full of [?] here, I don’t know where I am, I have no idea,
O: One moment.
C: Please.
O: Your friend. One moment! Is your friend breathing?
C: No, he’s dead, he’s already dead. He’s already dead.
O: Your friend is dead?
C: He’s already dead, he’s dead. Please, tell me —
O: What is your ID number? Be with me a moment, one moment…Do you have the ID number, his telephone?
C: No.
O: You don’t have his phone?
C: I don’t know, I have no idea. Listen, I need you to come to take me from here.
O: No problem, police need to reach the location. Remain available by phone, all right? Breathe, breathe, and police will reach the area, but remain available by phone. Bye bye.
C: My back hurts.
O: Remain available by phone.
Call #3
C: Hello. Save us. I want…they are shooting at us.
O: Tell me where you are, please. Tell me where you are. Did you confirm the location for me now?
C: Yes, yes.
O: I’m bringing up Magen David Adom staff on the line and they will give you recommendations, just a second.
C: He’s dead, I’m begging you, come.
O: Just a moment.
C: Hello. Where are you? Where are you?
MADA: Hi, speaking from MADA, listen, an ambulance is already on the way to you, I want now —
C: It’s been on the way a long time.
MADA: I want you to listen to me now to what I am saying to you, okay? You said to me he was shot in the neck, right?
C: Yes, he is not breathing.
MADA: Does he have full recognition?
C: No, he’s dead.
MADA: He lacks [full recognition]?
C: He’s dead.
MADA: Okay, and you are saying that he is not breathing. Let’s start CPR operations.
C: What CPR operations?
Mada: Listen, miss, miss.
C: No, there’s nothing, he’s already dead. He’s already dead and they are continuing to shoot at us.
O: Do you have a driver’s license?
C: Enough, what’s with a driver’s license?
O: Get in the car and go, get out of there, don’t stay in that place. MADA disconnected.
Call #4
O: Hello, how can I help?
C: We’re in the middle of a terrorist attack here. We been trapped here for 40 minutes already.
O: Where are you?
C: We already sent you our location 20,000 times, and until now no one has come.
O: Where are you right now?
C: In Sderot. Where are we, Mefalsim? Mefalsim intersection, and our friend is already dead, that’s it, nothing, and they are shooting at us. I’m begging, come get me, come get us.
O: Where are you in Sderot? Are you able to tell me?
C: Where are we? What is the address? Urgent, urgent, urgent, we’re already here almost an hour. He’s dead already, that’s it, there’s no person here anymore, he’s dead. And they are shooting at us, and we’re about to die, and no one has come to help us, and we’ve already sent farewell messages to people. Where are you? Can you tell me where they are?
O: I’m unable to tell you where they are. Remain available for a [call from a] blocked number. I transferred it to mobiles in the region.
C: So you can’t call a mobile on the way?
O: I’m unable to call a mobile on the way. I will request that they get in touch with you.
C: There are lots of cars on the side and cars in flames, and my friend and I are trapped inside a car, and there are still terrorists here on the highway and they are taking down vehicles. So the police are also not coming. I don’t know what’s going on here outside, I don’t see anything.
O: I’m unable to tell you why they aren’t on the way to you already.
C: Why aren’t they coming? Why? Why aren’t they coming? Why is this happening? Why? Where is the army? Where are the police?
O: I don’t know what to tell you where they are. In the meantime, remain available for a blocked number. The mobiles in the region are updated regarding your event. They are informed —
C: My body is full of glass.
O: Regarding the whole event, I also passed along the report to MADA, so they can also be updated about the event.
C: You have to get here. Where are you?
c: I’m also going to kill myself after this.
O: Did you hear what I’m saying
C: What?
O: The mobiles in the region have been informed regarding your event.
C: It’s not that they aren’t informed. They’re not here. They’re not here. Where are you? We’re trapped in a car with terrorists all around us, and there isn’t even one police for an hour already. Our friend is dead. Wow, you don’t know what is happening to me in my body. You don’t know what is happening in my body, I’m scared, I’m really scared.
C: Hello, hello! Don’t leave me. Hello. I want to die already, I —
O: I have to hang up because I’m working in the emergency center. Remain available for police in the region.
We are supposed to be shocked and horrified that a couple of Muslim doctors in Australia “jokingly” admitted that they killed Jews in the hospital under the guise of treating them. Then again, they were probably just lone wolves.
Your local Muslim or non-Muslim doctor who is trained and owned by the godless, corrupt state would never intentionally misdiagnose someone, or engage in medical experimentation on patients without their consent, or hold patients hostage, or withhold life-saving treatments in favor of other treatments for financial gain or eugenic considerations, or otherwise engage in eugenics to prematurely end the lives of undesirables, or kidnap and traffic Yemenite babies and tell the parents they were dead.
The hospital system is committed to giving you the very best care without fear of being killed by Muslim doctors who brag about sending Jewish patients to hell. That is simply not acceptable. That totally crosses the line.
Never mind that putting patients through hell until they were sent to hell was the official treatment protocol for “Covid” patients in hospitals all over the world, including in the faux-Jewish state of Israel, including at the hands of Jewish doctors (ask Aaron Glatt about it, for example), and very few people remember or care enough to change their orientation and behavior.
Chazal also had a thing or two to say about Jews entrusting their lives to gentile doctors (and drug companies) who have no palpable fear of repercussions for harming them. But who cares what Chazal said? The godless, corrupt oversight agencies have your back…
So get all up in arms about a couple of Muslim doctors whose real crime was being gleefully explicit about some of what goes on in hospitals, and ignore the bigger picture.
If the five celebrity IDF lookouts were interviewed separately by someone outside the controlled bubble and asked detailed questions about their life in captivity (or perhaps interrogated, with or without the “enhanced” techniques that were used on Amiram Ben Uliel), I wonder if their stories would all line up.
Alas, their handlers will never permit a real interview or cross-examination to take place, only staged productions they pre-arrange and control.
We only get to see the actors on stage. We don’t get to interact with them.
‘Qatar is Hamas, and Hamas is Qatar’ by Khaled Abu Toameh
February 11, 2025 at 5:00 am
- The Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas and other Palestinians on October 7, 2023 could have been released a long time ago had the Biden administration exerted pressure on Qatar to use its good relations with the Islamist group to force it to do so.
- All Qatar had to do was to summon the Hamas leaders in Doha and give them an ultimatum to release all the hostages immediately or face deportation from the Gulf state. It is hard to see how the Hamas leaders would have been able to say no to their major political and financial patrons and backers…. The Qataris were never under the slightest pressure.
- “For years, Qatar supported the Taliban, and last year [2021] it helped it in its coup against the democratically elected Afghan government, and 13 American service members were killed in the violence. Today, Qatar is doing everything it can to give the Taliban international legitimacy and aid.” — Yigal Carmon, President and founder of the MEMRI, who served as counterterrorism advisor to two Israeli prime ministers, Haaretz, May 10, 2022.
- “Any Arab who hears American officials say that Qatar is America’s ally would burst into laughter…. Ask Egypt, not just the rulers, but the people and journalists. Ask the Emirates, the government and people. Ask Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan. They all know that for decades Qatar has been promoting Islamist and terrorist organizations. There are lawsuits against Qatar in the U.S. and Europe in connection with its support for terrorism.” — Yigal Carmon, MEMRI, November 1, 2023
- The Trump administration needs to understand what Arabs have known for years: that Qatar’s support for Hamas and other extremist Islamist groups is the main reason thousands of Israelis and Palestinians have died over the past few years.
Qatar is Hamas’s most important financial backer and foreign ally. Then Qatari ruler Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani was the first state leader to visit the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip in 2012. Qatar, in addition, has reportedly transferred $1.8 billion to Hamas over the past two decades. Pictured: Al-Thani holds hands with then Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh during his visit to the Islamic University in the Gaza Strip on October 23, 2012. (Photo by Wissam Nassar/AFP via Getty Images)
US President Donald Trump’s recent statements regarding Qatar’s role in reaching the Israel-Hamas ceasefire-hostage deal surprised many, especially those who are familiar with the Gulf state’s longtime support for radical Islamist groups.
“Qatar is absolutely trying to help,” Trump told reporters in Washington. “I know them well, and they’re doing everything they can. Very tough situation, but they’re absolutely trying to help.”
Many other people also know Qatar very well. They know, for example, that Qatar is Hamas’s most important financial backer and foreign ally. Then Qatari ruler Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani was the first state leader to visit the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip in 2012. Qatar, in addition, has reportedly transferred $1.8 billion to Hamas over the past two decades.
For many years, Qatar hosted several leaders of Hamas, including Khaled Mashaal and Ismail Haniyeh. They lived in hotels and villas in Doha and were treated as heads of state.
After the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, resulting in the murder of 1,200 Israelis, the wounding of thousands others and the kidnapping of more than 250, Qatar’s foreign ministry released a statement holding “Israel alone responsible” for the massacre.
Qatar also uses its television empire, Al-Jazeera, to promote Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood and other terror groups. For years, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood cleric who endorsed suicide bombings against Israelis, hosted a program on Al-Jazeera. After the October 7 massacre, the network broadcast Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif’s call to arms. It also aired incendiary statements from Haniyeh and his deputy, Saleh al-Arouri. Haniyeh appeared on Al-Jazeera praising Hamas’s “great triumph” and calling on “the sons of the entire nation, in their various locations, to join this battle in any way they can.”
Al-Jazeera’s support for Hamas not only prompted Israel to ban the network from operating in the country; even the Palestinian Authority (PA) also banned it from operating in the West Bank. The PA accused the network of broadcasting “inciteful content, spreading misinformation, and interfering in internal Palestinian affairs, which stirred division and instability.” Last month, the PA detained two Al-Jazeera correspondents – Givara Budeiri and Mohammed al-Atrash, for allegedly violating the ban.
According to an investigative report by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI):
“Al-Jazeera’s role in providing a platform for promoting extremist Islamist ideologies goes back decades. The case of promoting Al-Qaeda is of particular interest. Two months before 9/11, Al-Jazeera gave an Al-Qaeda spokesman, Suliman Abu Ghaith, free rein to speak uninterrupted for 10 minutes, and to call for 12,000 mujahideen [jihad warriors] to join Al-Qaeda.
“Al-Jazeera employed a correspondent, Tayseer Allouni, who was sentenced in Spain to seven years in prison for transferring funds to Al-Qaeda…
“As for ISIS, Al-Jazeera allowed a pledge of allegiance to its leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi live on air. In the middle of a TV debate on Al-Jazeera, an Islamic scholar pledged allegiance to the leader of ISIS….
“The Qatari-owned network also allowed terrorist Anis Al-Naqqash to call for terror attacks against American oil installations, also in a live broadcast.”
Since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has disclosed that intelligence information and numerous documents found in the Gaza Strip confirm the military affiliation of six Al-Jazeera journalists with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. They are: Anas Al-Sharif, Alaa Salama, Hossam Shabat, Ashraf Saraj, Ismail Abu Omar and Talal Aruki.
The Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas and other Palestinians on October 7, 2023 could have been released a long time ago had the Biden administration exerted pressure on Qatar to use its good relations with the Islamist group to force it to do so.
All Qatar had to do was to summon the Hamas leaders in Doha and give them an ultimatum to release all the hostages immediately or face deportation from the Gulf state. It is hard to see how the Hamas leaders would have been able to say no to their major political and financial patrons and backers.
There was a lot the Biden administration could have done to pressure Qatar. It could, for example, have threatened to withdraw US forces from Qatar’s Al-Udeid Air Base. The presence of the U.S. Air Force Central Command headquarters there is vital for Qatar’s national security and stability: it deters its enemies from attacking the Gulf state. American forces stationed at that base, in other words, preserve Qatar’s regime.
The Biden administration could also have threatened to impose economic sanctions on Qatar, or designate it as a “state sponsored of terrorism” if it did not put pressure on Hamas to release the hostages.
The Biden administration, however, chose to ignore Qatar’s role in supporting Islamist terrorism. The Qataris were never under the slightest pressure.
In 2017, a number of Arab states – Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates – cut diplomatic relations with Qatar due to its support for the all the extremist Islamic terror organizations, including the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS and Al-Qaeda. Although these countries later restored their ties with Qatar, the Gulf state and its Al-Jazeera television network continue to this day to support Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
“For years, Qatar supported the Taliban, and last year [2021] it helped it in its coup against the democratically elected Afghan government,” notes Yigal Carmon, President and founder of MEMRI, who served as counterterrorism advisor to two Israeli prime ministers, “and 13 American service members were killed in the violence. Today, Qatar is doing everything it can to give the Taliban international legitimacy and aid.”
“Any Arab who hears American officials say that Qatar is America’s ally would burst into laughter,” states Carmon.
“Ask Egypt, not just the rulers, but the people and journalists. Ask the Emirates, the government and people. Ask Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan. They all know that for decades Qatar has been promoting Islamist and terrorist organizations. There are lawsuits against Qatar in the U.S. and Europe in connection with its support for terrorism.”
It is time for the new US administration to understand that Qatar is the problem, not the solution. That Qatar is permitted to serve as a mediator between Israel and Hamas is ridiculous since, in actuality, “Qatar is Hamas and Hamas is Qatar; Qatar Launched a War Against Israel By Means of Hamas; The Declaration of War Was Aired on Al-Jazeera TV.”
The Trump administration needs to understand what Arabs have known for years: that Qatar’s support for Hamas and other extremist Islamist groups is the main reason thousands of Israelis and Palestinians have died over the past few years.
It is time for the US administration to revise its policy towards Qatar and hold it accountable for backing Islamist murderers and rapists whose goal is to murder Jews and destroy Israel. Qatar’s leaders might claim to condemn terrorism, but they fund terrorists. In their eyes, there is no difference between Israel and the US.
Khaled Abu Toameh is an award-winning journalist based in Jerusalem.
The most disturbing aspect of the globalist plan to force alternative protein products onto the market is who is backing the initiative. Bill Gates, US military and state of Israel are all involved.
FEB 10, 2025 – At a time when the cost of meat and eggs is skyrocketing, Bill Gates is working behind the scenes on a plan that would fill in the gaps with so-called affordable protein. Yes, he wants us to eat bugs and other questionable sources of protein.
But you won’t believe who he is partnered with in this diabolical venture.
It’s no coincidence that eggs are getting hard to come by, with grocery store shelves often bare, and hefty price tags on those eggs that are available. The government has culled the egg-laying hens by astonomical numbers. Over the last two years alone, nearly 75 million egg-layers have been slaughtered. Often, just one bird with the sniffles will result in hundreds of poultry being euthanized.
At the same time, beef cow herds are at their lowest levels in America since 1962.
We will soon start to see the desired outcome of the war on eggs and meat.
Disswire.com reports that Bill Gates is working with the U.S. Department of Defense to integrate genetically modified insects into the food supply, potentially as a step toward reducing traditional meat consumption.
Below is an excerpt from the article:
Crickets and grasshoppers are already making their way into the American diet in various forms, including protein bars, shakes, and even restaurant menus.
They are also promoted as sustainable options for pet food and animal feed.
Lax regulations by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have allowed such products to bypass rigorous safety testing.
Many insect-based foods fall under the “Generally Regarded as Safe” (GRAS) category, enabling manufacturers to introduce them to the market with minimal oversight.
Dr. Meryl Nass, founder of Door to Freedom, expressed concerns to The Defender:
“How long will it take before we learn whether these foods are safe? It could take generations,” she said.
In 2012, the Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges Explorations program funded All Things Bugs, a project aimed at addressing malnutrition in famine-stricken regions through insect-based foods.
Since then, the project has evolved to include the development of genetically modified insects, with additional support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
The company has openly stated its use of technologies like CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing to create insects as a new “bioresource.”
DARPA, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Defense, is a key partner in this initiative.
Claire Robinson, managing editor of GMWatch, emphasized the importance of rigorous testing for genetically modified organisms (GMOs), including insects:
“They must be subjected to a pre-marketing risk assessment for health and the environment, including testing for pathogens, allergens, and toxins. Clear labeling for consumers is also essential.”
Bill Gates has been vocal about his investments in alternative proteins, aligning with his vision of a more “sustainable food system.”
Last year, Gates announced his investment in Savor, a company producing butter from air and water.
Additionally, the Gates Foundation awarded $4.76 million to Nature’s Fynd in 2022, a startup that develops fungi-based proteins.
The U.S. government has also joined the insects-as-food movement through initiatives like the National Science Foundation’s Center for Environmental Sustainability through Insect Farming (CEIF).
Indeed, the introduction of genetically modified insects, fungi and other slop being inserted into our food without our consent highlights the contempt these globalist predators have for we the people.
And don’t fall into the trap of thinking Bill Gates is the only powerful individual involved in preparing the world to accept lab-grown, insect-based and plant-based fake meat.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is another official with plans to deceive the world into thinking this garbage is healthy for human consumption.
Watch, in the video clip below, Netanyahu visiting an Israeli factory last year that makes 3D-cultivated fish.
WATCH: [2:35]
The Times of Israel reported as far back as August 2023, that Netanyahu met with New York City Mayor Eric Adams in Jerusalem to promote Israeli lab-grown “meat.”
“The two discussed the unlimited possibilities for cooperation between New York City and the State of Israel in the fields of technology, innovation and tourism,” Netanyahu’s office said at the time.
“You are a great friend of Israel,” Netanyahu told Adams, according to the Israeli readout. “You live in a city that is the intellectual, cultural and financial center of the world, and we are another center of sorts.”
After their meeting, the pair attended an exhibit from Aleph Farms, taste-testing lab-grown meat and other alternative proteins being developed by the Israeli company.
Jewish Business News reported in January 2024, Israel became the first nation to allow marketing of cultured meat, giving the greenlight to Aleph Farms’ so-called “steaks.”
Just as Netanyahu opened up his country in 2021 as a laboratory for Pfizer’s toxic Covid jab, he is doing the same now for the fake-food industry.
The same reckless policies are coming to the United States under the deregulation policies of President Trump. We will need to be on our guard, and reading labels very carefully, to avoid this poison while praying for God’s continued provision during lean times.
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Will Trump’s Plans for Gaza Work? [4:18] JEROME R. CORSI, PH.D.
FEB 10, 2025
President Trump has big plans to rebuild Gaza and make the region livable for those who wish to move back after the Israel-Hamas War Dr. Jerome Corsi looks closely at the president’s ideas.
Is Tucker Carlson an Anti Semite? [11:25]
February 10, 2025 ISRAEL 365 NEWS
MUST WATCH! Steve Bannon asks Rabbi to respond to Tucker Carlson
Last week, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with former President Donald Trump, I joined Steve Bannon on War Room to discuss the high-stakes implications of this meeting. Bannon challenged me to respond to those in the America First movement, like Tucker Carlson and Darren Beattie, who oppose U.S. cooperation with Israel against the Iranian regime. My answer? Iran isn’t just a Middle Eastern problem—it’s an active threat to America, fueling chaos at the southern border, partnering with the CCP, and funding jihadist movements worldwide. In this clip, I break down why Iran’s fall would mean peace, security, and a true America First foreign policy.
The stakes couldn’t be higher. Iran’s regime is on the brink of collapse, and now is the time for decisive action. Watch as I expose the deep connections between Iran, the Chinese Communist Party, and terrorist networks that are directly undermining Western civilization. Is the America First movement serious about victory—or are we afraid of winning? Let’s discuss. [Emphasis added]
[Ed.: Lets discuss!]
A Europe that sides with Palestinian Arab terrorists digs its own grave Giulio Meotti
The order to kill priest Georgios Tsibouktzakis was given by Marwan Barghouti, who is serving 5 life sentences, but 20 French cities have granted the arch-terrorist honorary citizenship. Op-ed.
Feb 10, 2025, 7:17 PM (GMT+2) Israel National News – Georgios Tsibouktzakis was born and raised in the Greek town of Evosmos. The Tsibouktzakis family was poor, so after completing elementary school at age 12, Georgios put his studies aside and took a job in a textile factory.
Young Georgios experienced a religious awakening. After studying at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Georgios decided to go to Israel. Why not? Christianity was born in the land of Israel. The Christian Bible is full of references to Judea (no, there is no mention of “Palestine”). After three years, he became a monk and was given the name Father Germanos. He was ordained a priest and deacon. He was assigned to live at the monastery of St. George, not far from Jerusalem in the Judean desert.
For many years, Father Germanos was the only resident of the monastery, which stands where a cave opens up in the very high rock walls; the Bible says that the prophet Elijah took refuge there. Father Germanos spent his days praying and studying.
Until June 22, 2001.
That evening, the priest was returning from Jerusalem. An Arab terrorist with a sniper rifle was hiding above the highway near the exit from the Jewish community of Ma’ale Adumim. The terrorist saw the yellow Israeli license plate. And he opened fire. Because if you have an Israeli license plate, you’re probably Jewish, and if you’re Jewish, you deserve to be murdered. Thus, the priest’s life ended at age 34.
This week, Ismail Raidadeh, the terrorist who killed Father Germanos, was released from Israeli prison (along with dozens of other lifers, some with 45 life sentences, such as Mohammed Abu Warda, responsible for the bus massacre on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem).
The order to kill the priest was given to Raidadeh by Marwan Barghouti, who is serving 5 life sentences.
Meanwhile, three Israeli hostages arrived from Gaza, tortured and starving. “He looks like he was in Bergen Belsen,” say the relatives of one of the hostages.
Chilling images that evoke familiar and dark times. But the anti-Semitic propaganda machine, this time for the first time oiled by “good” people, will succeed in convincing public opinion that the Jews are the only ones responsible for their appearance.
But let’s leave Gaza aside for a moment, which is the worst part of what the international community calls “Palestinian territories” and which are nothing but a hellhole of Jihad, submission and death. Barghouti was chosen by our media and politicians to be the “good” part, that of the Palestinian Authority financed by Europe and America.
Barghouti is an honorary citizen of the city of Palermo. The city of mafia massacres honored a murderer who sent young tanzim to kill Jews (and priests). Obviously in the name of “peace” and “two states for two peoples”, right?
In France, many cities have named streets and squares after Barghouti, such as Valenton. A square in his name was inaugurated in Coulounieix-Chamiers. The socialist municipality voted by a large majority for the proposal to name the square of the Castle of Izards in honor of the Palestinian Arab terrorist. A photo of Barghouti was displayed at the Stains town hall. The arch-terrorist was granted honorary citizenship by twenty French cities, including Ivry-sur-Seine. And then Gennevilliers, La Courneuve, Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, La Verrière, Vitry-sur-Seine.
Left-wing French MPs also went to pay homage to Barghouti in prison. Members of the Belgian Parliament have launched a campaign to nominate Barghouti for the Nobel Peace Prize.
In the French town of Bezons, among the honorary citizens there is also Majdi al Rimawi, leader of the terrorist cell that killed the Israeli Minister of Tourism, Rehavam Ze’evi.
In cities that name streets after Barghouti, mega mosques financed by Qatar are being built. In Aubervilliers, a city with a Muslim majority, where Barghouti became an honorary citizen just 48 hours after the slaughter of Father Jacques Hamel, they throw Molotov cocktails at Jewish schools.
These are cities from which Jews have fled in recent years. In Stains, Jewish families have gone from 250 to 50, in La Courneuve from 300 to 80…
Like in Gaza: since 2005 there have been no more Jews and the only ones are those in the Hamas tunnels.
The weekly Marianne takes us to Stains:
“The mayor of this municipality has chosen to place his mandate under the banner of a strong ‘Palestinianism’, even if that means aligning himself with Hamas propaganda. In the meantime, the Jewish inhabitants of the city are leaving. One of the streets is renamed after one of the Prophet Mohammed’s wives. A new mosque will be built on land provided by the municipality through a long-term lease. It will be built on three levels to accommodate more than 1,000 worshippers. Over the years, the town has been emptied of its Jewish inhabitants. The town’s only synagogue seems to have disappeared from the social scene. A synagogue? ‘I don’t even know if there is one,’ confesses a municipal officer who lives in Stans.”
The town outside Paris of Argenteuil is twinned with Kobar, Barghouti’s home village. Argenteuil is the capital of French Salafism. A city conquered by Islam.
“Sometimes,” wrote Blaise Pascal, “we learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good.”
A Europe that sides with terrorists digs its own grave.
Giulio Meotti is an Italian journalist with Il Foglio and writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author, in English, of the book “A New Shoah”, that researched the personal stories of Israel’s terror victims, published by Encounter and of “J’Accuse: the Vatican Against Israel” published by Mantua Books, in addition to books in Italian. His writing has appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Gatestone, Frontpage and Commentary.
Make It Make Sense — Hostage Edition CHANANYA WEISSMAN
And more remarkable revelations about the Gaza “war”
FEB 10, 2025
There’s a lot about the Gaza “war”, the hostage exchanges, and recent developments that doesn’t seem to make sense. Not to worry! Make It Make Sense — Hostage Edition, with host Steve Champagne and two creative contestants, is here to make sense of it all, so you don’t have to. Watch it on my Rumble channel here.
If you missed the first episode of Make It Make Sense, you can find it here.
On a more serious note:
These are before and after pictures of freed hostages who weren’t state actors.
Last week they needed you to not think too much about the hordes of executioners they just unleashed to arrange the next October 7, many of them deposited in Arab cities adjacent to Jewish “settlements” they would love to liquidate. They needed you to be distracted and feel good, so they released 5 glowing, zaftig celebrity IDF girls and sent them on a heartwarming series of photo shoots.
This week they needed you to support an insane plan to transfer 2 million people from Gaza, including all of Hamas, with their forces replenished, and for this to be carried out by Jews in the IDF who still have their arms and legs. They needed you to focus on how bad Hamas is and support sending Jews into death traps as long as this impossible mission takes. So this time they released hostages who look like Holocaust survivors.
You bet Bibi, Trump, and the Amalekites who installed them are playing 4D chess. But what you don’t realize is that they aren’t playing it against each other, or any other enemies. They’re playing it against YOU. And you’re getting destroyed.
The link above is a Hebrew report that the Shabak evacuated two operatives from Kibbutz Kfar Aza before the October 7 attack, without warning residents or otherwise sounding the alarm.
In addition, IDF lookouts gave eyewitness warnings about infiltration activity at the Gaza border as early as 3 AM on the eve of October 7, when the invasion could have easily been prevented, but these warnings were deliberately squelched. We knew this long ago, but maybe a reality denier will finally accept the truth now.
Unfortunately, the people in the clip are still pushing the silly “if only Bibi had been informed” narrative.
Source: https://x.com/khaybarjew/status/1888408362401906939?t=LfgqrDhHPIjzjYRd3R3llw&s=09
See this post and video interview with Rafael Hayon on Israeli news (Hebrew with English subtitles).
The spin doctors nudge viewers toward several unimportant takeaways, while pointedly ignoring the huge elephant in the room, the only takeaway that really matters. The unimportant takeaways:
1) Hamas is a bunch of savage gangsters who raped their own women in their “holy” places. Horrible!
2) Israel was SO CLOSE to achieving a massive victory very quickly. What a shame it didn’t work out. How sad!
3) It was an unfortunate, entirely coincidental series of events that prevented the war from ending right then and there. Maybe another intelligence failure on Israel’s part. They should have listened!
The huge elephant they pointedly distract you from:
The top layer of the pyramid at Israel, Hamas, and a foreign entity (let’s face it, the United States) are all in cahoots, and they collaborated on making absolutely sure this war didn’t end prematurely. They NEEDED this war to continue, and they made sure it did. The peasants on the ground who got slaughtered were all betrayed by their respective puppet leaders, so the agenda could move forward as planned. The official narratives and daily headlines are all cover for what’s going on behind the curtain.
Share this information outside your echo chamber and weaken their spell.
The Uncomfortable Truth About Islam By: Rabbi Elie Mischel
February 9, 2025
On October 7, Hamas terrorists – devout Muslims – stormed into Israeli homes, slaughtering entire families, raping women beside the bodies of their murdered loved ones, and burning infants alive. In Rotherham, England, thousands of young girls were systematically groomed and abused by Muslim gangs while authorities ignored their cries for help, paralyzed by fear of being called racist. These are not isolated incidents, nor the actions of a mere handful of extremists. How is it possible that millions of Muslims across the world subscribe to a system that allows—if not outright encourages—such atrocities? The answer lies not in the misinterpretations of a few radicals but in the cultural and moral framework of Islam itself, a system fundamentally at odds with the biblical vision of justice and human dignity.
Judaism and Christianity are steeped in the teachings of the Bible – a Bible that commands us:
לֹא תִּרְצָח׃ לֹא תִּנְאָף׃ לֹא תִּגְנֹב׃ לֹא־תַעֲנֶה בְרֵעֲךָ עֵד שָׁקֶר׃
It demands compassion for the vulnerable:
וְגֵר לֹא תִלְחָץ וְאַתֶּם יְדַעְתֶּם אֶת־נֶפֶשׁ הַגֵּר כִּי־גֵרִים הֱיִיתֶם בְּאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם׃
These directives and others like them form the backbone of Western morality, teaching individuals to value life and practice kindness toward others. Jews and Christians are far from perfect – but because we believe in the Bible, we cannot justify heinous acts like rape and murder of innocents.
In contrast, Islam’s holy text—the Koran—contains verses that advocate violence and discrimination against non-Muslims. For instance, sura 4:24 permits Muslim men to have sexual relations with women taken as captives: “Also (prohibited are) women already married, except those whom your right hands possess [i.e., female captives]”—a shocking allowance of rape within the context of war. And consider Sura 9:29: “Fight those who do not believe in Allah… who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture – [fight] until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled.”
There is a direct line to be drawn from these verses of the Koran to the rape of Jewish women taken hostage by Hamas and the grooming gangs in England. The atrocities committed by Hamas against innocent Israeli civilians were not spontaneous acts of violence but actions rooted in a worldview that dehumanizes Jews and glorifies martyrdom. Without the moral compass provided by the Bible, actions that would otherwise be unthinkable become justified in the name of God.
The Bible teaches that morality begins with God’s word. The great Jewish Sage, Rabbi Akiva, famously said, “’Love your neighbor as yourself’ (Leviticus 19:18) is the greatest principle of the Torah.” This teaching is revolutionary because it prioritizes the sanctity of human life and the dignity of each individual. But without the Bible’s commandments, humanity risks descending into chaos, where might makes right, and the strong exploit the weak.
The Hebrew term for “commandment,” mitzvah, shares a root with the word tzavta, meaning connection. Each commandment is not merely a rule but a way of connecting humanity to God and His divine morality. In the absence of such a connection, people are left to their own devices, often leading to the kind of moral darkness we see in cultures influenced solely by the Koran.
The Western world’s failure to address the dangers of Islam stems from its reluctance to acknowledge the moral shortcomings embedded in Islamic doctrine. Instead, we are told that these murders and rapes are the result of a small number of Islamic extremists who twist the words of the Koran. This narrative is not only false but dangerous. By ignoring the cultural and religious roots of these atrocities – the Koran itself – we allow these atrocities to continue.
As Itai Elitsur astutely observed, the West’s inability to recognize the enemy as a collective is its greatest weakness. Instead of addressing the systemic issues within Islamic culture, Western leaders focus on individual perpetrators, all while ignoring the elephant in the room: a culture that, in its totality, fosters hostility, violence, and moral degradation. Andrew C. McCarthy further illustrates this point with the example of Rotherham. For years, authorities turned a blind eye to the systematic abuse of young girls because acknowledging the religious and cultural motivations behind these crimes would be deemed “Islamophobic.”
The Bible remains humanity’s moral anchor, providing enduring wisdom that guides individuals and nations toward justice and compassion. Without it, societies will inevitably fall prey to ideologies that devalue life and justify cruelty. The time has come to confront the uncomfortable truth: the problem is not merely a few bad actors but the cultural and religious framework that enables them – Islam itself. Only by reaffirming our commitment to the Bible and living by its word can we hope to combat the darkness and restore a world built on dignity, love, and respect for one another.
After Hamas terrorists slaughtered over 1,200 Israelis on October 7, an unholy alliance of Islamic jihadists and progressive activists joined together to fight an unholy war against the Bible. In The War Against the Bible, Rabbi Mischel offers a prophetic perspective on these dramatic events through the words of the Hebrew Bible itself. If you yearn for spiritual clarity amid today’s turbulence, let the power of the Hebrew Bible’s prophecies and call to action strengthen your faith. Click here to get your copy of The War Against the Bible: Ishmael, Esau and Israel at the End Times now!
Rabbi Elie Mischel is the Director of Education at Israel365. Before making Aliyah in 2021, he served as the Rabbi of Congregation Suburban Torah in Livingston, NJ. He also worked for several years as a corporate attorney at Day Pitney, LLP. Rabbi Mischel received rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. Rabbi Mischel also holds a J.D. from the Cardozo School of Law and an M.A. in Modern Jewish History from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies. He is also the editor of HaMizrachi Magazine.
FIDF LIVE Briefing: Lt. Col. Dr. Mordechai Kedar, Vice President of NEWSRAEL
Feb 9, 2025 Friends of the IDF (FIDF) – FIDF CEO Steven Weil is joined by Lt. Col. (Res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar, Israeli Scholar of Arab Culture, Lecturer at Bar-Ilan University, and Vice President of NEWSRAEL. Dr. Kedar elucidates the level of impact Trump’s recent press conference regarding his plans to relocate Gazan residents of Gaza in order to revitalize the infrastructure in Gaza had on the world, particularly the discourse in the Middle East around the State of Israel and the two state solution. In the wake of this landmark announcement by President Trump, Dr. Kedar explains how difficult it is to fathom that Zionism has come out as the victor after the tumultuous year and a half following October 7th. However, Dr. Kedar explains, Arab countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia have no choice but to accept this new reality as it is rolled out, because they need the support of the U.S. Dr. Kedar suggests that Qatar should be the lead candidate to weather the impending onslaught of over 2 million Gazan refugees, as they have the planes, the space and the infrastructure in place to accept these refugees. Dr. Kedar goes on to explain the threat of the Muslim Brotherhood, whose hateful and murderous ideology has spread throughout the Middle East and the western world. Looking into the future, Dr. Kedar believes that the fate of the future lay in the hands of the western world, and how they respond to the increase in radicalized Muslims residing in western countries.
Trump plan puts an end to the Palestinian state fantasy [14:54] Jonathan Tobin Daily
Feb 9, 2025 JNS TV – Moving Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip may not happen, but at least, there will be a four-year respite from pressure to achieve the unachievable.
Rabbi Notices Something Unique About The Trump Gaza Deal That NO ONE Noticed [16:28] Rabbi Dovid Vigler
Feb 9, 2025 – Rabbi Dovid Vigler on the Trump Gaza plan.
[Ed.: Like the rabbi said, the best solution is for Israel (if we were good children,) to re-occupy Gaza. Since we are not, better it should be a ‘U.S. Protectorate’ (but NOT an ‘International Zone’ funded by Qatar, Blackrock, or the richest bidders.]
Intel Agencies Caught in Massive Voter Fraud [52:45] JEROME R. CORSI, PH.D.
Dr. Jerome Corsi Interviewed by Greg Hunter
FEB 09, 2025 – Dr. Corsi discusses the improbable and even impossible mathematical anomalies of the vote results of the 2024 down ballot elections
From a variety of scientific and mathematical perspectives, the data does not support innocent and innocuous discrepancies, but rather, shows massive and almost undeniable evidence of systematic vote fraud by the dark forces in favor of Democrats.
Ongoing Necessity To Protect The Jewish People By Alex Grobman PhD.
11 Shevat 5785 – February 9, 2025 Jewish Press
The need for a homeland where Jews could protect themselves was another factor in establishing the Jewish state. After personally experiencing antisemitism, Theodore Herzl, the founder of modern political Zionism, wrote in his diary in June 1895 that he “recognized the emptiness and futility of efforts to ‘combat antisemitism’” in Europe. “Declamations made in writing or in closed circles do no good whatever; they even have a comical effect.” At one point he thought the press could be mobilized to fight antisemitism, but soon realized this idea to be a “feeble, foolish gesture. Antisemitism has grown and continues to grow—and so do I.” The only solution was for the Jews in the Diaspora to found a Jewish state.
Moses Hess, a Zionist theorist, independently concluded that nothing the Jews would do could change the views of antisemitic Europeans. “For despite the fact that the Jewish people has been living together with these nations for two thousand years, it can never be organically united with them.” Europeans “have considered the existence of the Jews in their midst as nothing other than an anomaly.” Jews “will always remain strangers among the nations which might well emancipate us out of humanitarianism and a feeling of justice but will never, never respect us…”
Antisemitism had taken its toll on the Jews of Europe and Russia, as Victor Jacobson, a member of the Russian-Jewish Scientific Society in Berlin and later a Zionist leader explained in 1883: “The consistent humiliation and slander of the Jews has led us to begin believing these lies.”
Nothing less than “a return to the land of their forefathers,” would be conceivable, insisted Asher Ginzberg (Ahad Ha’am), a leading ideologue of secular cultural Zionism. This “historic bond between the people and the land” meant that “allocating them the most magnificent expanses of farm land in Canada or Argentina will not enhance the strength of the wandering Jew as much as settling on the lowly plain through which the Jordan flows and upon which the Lebanon looks out.”
When a portion of modern Kenya was proposed and debated between 1903 and 1905 as a place to settle the Jews as an alternative to the Land of Israel, a firestorm developed against the idea, ending its feasibility. Without any religious, spiritual or historic ties to eastern Africa, the Jews would not have been motivated to emigrate there notes historian Shmuel Almog.
The systematic destruction of six million Jews by Germany during World War II demonstrated the extent to which Jews were not accepted in their respective countries asserts historian Arthur Hertzberg. They were killed simply because they were Jews. Whether Western civilization would continue to accept the right of Jews and other minorities residing in its midst as distinctive entities with their own group consciousness is a question the Holocaust raised, and one that remains unanswered. Antisemitism and racism are still part of Western culture, and will be so for the foreseeable future.
During the Holocaust, not one state in Western Europe offered to help the Jewish people “defend its interests or even its existence” against the Nazis and their collaborators, declared Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet Ambassador at the UN. The same can be said for the behavior of the nations in the East. The inability to protect the Jews’ fundamental rights or compensate them for their suffering emphasized the necessity to establish a separate state.
The hundreds of thousands of homeless Jewish displaced persons (DPs) wandering in Europe seeking sanctuary and a means to earn a living added urgency to finding a solution. Speaking for the Jewish Agency for Palestine at the UN, David Ben-Gurion summed up their predicament when he said there exist “large numbers of homeless Jews for whom there is no other salvation in the future except in their own national home.”
When the issue of allowing the DPs into Palestine was broached, the Arab states argued that they should not be held accountable for the persecution of the Jews in Europe or compelled to alleviate their plight. No one assumed the Arabs would be responsible for solving the problem of the DPs or that Arab countries would be expected to absorb them, Ben-Gurion argued. Homeless and persecuted Jews were being brought to “our own country,” where they would be settled in the Jewish towns and villages of Petach Tikva, Tel-Aviv, Haifa, Rishon le Zion, Jerusalem, Degania, and the Negev. Moshe Shertok (Sharett), another spokesman for the Jewish Agency, added that the Jews were not coming “as guests of anyone.” Every acre of land they would farm had been paid for and “had to be wrested from wilderness and desolation.”
A Final Note
What about those who claim that Jews today are less in danger than in most areas of the world than they are in Israel, and that Israeli policies are a significant element that threatens Jews in the world? To these charges professor of law at the Hebrew University Ruth Gavison had four responses.
“First, even if it is true that Jews in Israel are not safe, Jews in Israel do not depend for their safety and security on the goodwill of rulers and the societies hosting them. This is a critical element of what the Zionist revolution was all about. Second, the safety of Jews around the world may be related to the existence of Israel in complex ways. While debates and opposition to the policies of Israel may contribute to antisemitism, clearly antisemitism existed before Israel, and having a place of refuge and a state that may use diplomatic and other measures to defend Jews may be significant.
Third, Zionism was also concerned with the quality of Jewish life permitted by life in the Diaspora. Israel is the only country in the world that gives Jews an opportunity to apply Judaism to the totality of their existence, including the political level. Finally, Israel is the only place in the world where a Jew can live in a public culture that is Jewish. Israel is the only place in the world where pressures to assimilate work toward Judaism rather than against it. For those who care about the continuation of Jewish identity and transmitting it, Israel provides the only place in which Jewish identity can flourish in the ways made possible by a Jewish public sphere.”
Alex Grobman PhD. Dr. Alex 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. He has an MA and PhD in contemporary Jewish history from The Hebrew university of Jerusalem. He lives in Jerusalem.
TRUMP REPORTEDLY WANTS TO RESETTLE GAZANS IN SOMALIA by Daniel Greenfield
I can’t think of anything that would make Rep. Ilhan Omar madder.
(Feb. 6, 2025 JNS
Big if true, as they say.
“The Trump administration is considering three potential areas for the absorption of refugee Gazans after President Donald Trump announced that the US plans to take over the Gaza Strip and relocate those currently there to rebuild the area, N12 reported on Wednesday.
“According to the report, the areas being considered are Morocco, Puntland, and Somaliland.
“The report noted that what these three countries share in common is a strong need for US support, as Somaliland and Puntland seek international recognition, and Morocco has an ongoing territorial dispute over Western Sahara.”
Somaliland has been looking for recognition as an independent country. There were early reports that the Trump admin might recognize Somaliland. And the prospect of that is what keeps Rep. Ilhan Omar up at night.
Somalia and its various regional Islamist allies have been maneuvering hard to block efforts by Somaliland to build relationships with other countries. After heading off efforts for a deal between Somaliland and Ethiopia, the Somalis have been confronted with growing Republican support for Somaliland.
The case for recognizing Somaliland is straightforward. It’s been a de facto independent country for 30 years, and the idea that there is any “united” Somalia is mostly a myth anyway.
Puntland is more of a mixed Somali breakaway province, and like Somaliland there are clan politics at work here. The Trump administration recently carried out airstrikes targeting Islamic State in Puntland. So there is a relationship.
Both Somaliland and Puntland combined have a population of about 10 million, so I don’t know how many Gazans they could take, but trading U.S. recognition for Gazans is interesting, out-of-the-box thinking.
And I can’t think of anything that would make Rep. Ilhan Omar madder.
DANIEL GREENFIELD Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
[Ed.: It’s certainly a novel idea to send them to Somalia, but I think that the “Genocide” option is a much more comprehensive plan! (It’s their idea, not mine.)]
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Iran: Fear and Braggadocio by Amir Taheri
February 9, 2025 at 4:00 am Gatestone Institute
- In a year or so, Khamenei has tried to repackage those setbacks as great victories for his now defunct “Axis of Resistance.” His assumption was that if the worst came to the worst, he would play his joker: signaling readiness to revive the defunct Obama “nuclear deal” with a shaky Biden administration keen on securing any deal with Tehran to justify Kumbala’s “greatest diplomatic achievement.”
- [Below] is the ayatollah’s latest masterpiece.
After weeks of speculation about “Supreme Guide” Ali Khamenei’s strategy for dealing with the new Trump administration in Washington, it seems that he has opted for a cocktail of tantalizing pledges and boastful threats. Tehran circles sum the posture up with a simple formula advanced by Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi: We don’t want war but are ready for it!
The signal that the Supreme Guide has decided to authorize new talks about his nuclear project but is also preparing for a putative war with the US or Israel came with a poem he put in circulation last week.
Khamenei has been writing or, as his unkind critics suggest, committing poetry since he was in his teens in the 1950s. But he has always been reluctant to offer his oeuvre to the public, refusing to publish a diwan as even the greenest saplings in the garden do.
Thus, those who follow his poetic career know that he publishes a poem only when a major challenge faces him or the regime he inherited from another poet, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
The latest poem is a sonnet (ghazal in Persian and Arabic) of 14 rhyming hemistiches or seven lines (be it in Persian and Arabic) and is supposed to depict the poet’s inner struggle with rising fears and persistent doubts.
The message it wishes to pass is one of steadfastness regardless of the Islamic Republic’s recent setbacks in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and parts of Yemen held by Houthis.
In a year or so, Khamenei has tried to repackage those setbacks as great victories for his now defunct “Axis of Resistance.” His assumption was that if the worst came to the worst, he would play his joker: signaling readiness to revive the defunct Obama “nuclear deal” with a shaky Biden administration keen on securing any deal with Tehran to justify Kumbala’s “greatest diplomatic achievement.”
The latest poem, however, seems to have been composed after Joe Biden had packed his luggage to leave the White House.
The poet foresees “toil and trouble” on a battlefield and is gripped with fear and trembling. The aim of the poet is to stiffen his backbone with a reminder that he holds “the staff of Moses,” which swallowed the snakes and adders pitted against it by the Pharaoh’s sorcerers.
The intention is to produce a work of bravura known in Arabic and Persian as rajaz, the ballad that ancient warriors composed and read aloud on the eve of a decisive battle to enthuse their troops and frighten their foes.
Thus, Khamenei demands that his followers be “like a solid rock” leaning only on “a mountain,” presumably meaning himself. He insists that he and his followers would not flee from a “call-out” or challenge (da’a in Arabic and Persian).
Classical Arabic and Persian literature offer numerous examples of rajaz that rise to the highest levels of poetic creation. In Arabic, there are such masters as Muhalil Ibn Rahilah, Labid, and a more rough diamond like Antar Ibn Shaddad, not to mention the master of all, Imru’ al-Qays, who won the sobriquet of the “King of the Wayward” (al-Malik al-Dhalil) for having kicked Dhul-Khalasah, a mixture of idol and oracle in pre-Islamic Arabia.
In Persian literature, you find the greatest masters of the genre in Onsori, Assadi-Toussi, Asjodi, and Amir-Moezzi.
As a student of poetry, the ayatollah is surely familiar with that rich tradition in both Persian and Arabic.
And yet, surprisingly, he seems to ignore the basic features of the genre, the rules of the game, so to speak.
Arabic and Persian poetry come in nine basic forms, from ghazal to ruba’ee to qasidah or ode, each of which is regarded as suitable for passing a message. If you wish to pass on a bit of wisdom in a short, almost haiku-like form, you go for a ruba’ee. If you wish to narrate a story or preach a doctrine, your best bet is a mathnavi in one of the 13 meters available.
The ghazal is almost always used to convey a romantic view of existence, from reflecting the beauty of a garden to capturing the joy of an evening of merrymaking with friends to wooing a reluctant debutante or even a sin-seasoned Jezebel.
In other words, the ghazal isn’t a suitable form for rajaz, which always marches in as a qasidah. But then, a poem that falls short of 13 lines or 26 hemistiches, as the ayatollah’s does, cannot be regarded as a qasidah.
Then there is the question of the meter. The meter chosen by the ayatollah suits a ghazal of introspection, romantic fantasy, and music-and-moonlight wooing of a hard-to-get beauty. Rajaz needs a meter that beats the biggest drums and blows into the loudest trumpets.
Ghazal does the work of chamber music, while qasidah is the poetic form of a symphony.
The rajaz begins with narrating the grievances, sufferings, and thirst for vengeance in the name of justice. It hides whatever weakness, doubt, and fears the poet might be harboring, whereas the ayatollah’s ghazal depicts a man struck by self-doubt and unspecified fears lurking in the background, as in a haunted house.
Ignoring the “necessity of the unnecessary” rule of rhyming (lozum ma la yazem in Arabic), the ayatollah uses the word magoriz (“don’t escape” in Persian) to seal every line.
This is an unfortunate choice in a poem supposedly designed to inspire the stand-and-fight spirit, while the poet casts himself as the heir to “the heroes of Khyber and Badr battles of early Islam.”
Needless to say, the ayatollah’s poem is devoid of the reiterative metaphors that deepen each other’s message, as one nip of the sword widens the wound inflicted by a previous nip. The technique, used masterfully by Onsori, for example, turns the qasidah into something akin to painting by words.
I don’t know what mark classical experts on Persian poetry such as Shams Qais Razi or Nizami Arudhi would have given the ayatollah for his rajaz, but those dealing with his Islamic Republic might find some intriguing clues to his hidden thoughts. As for Iranians, they may pray that the man who rules them has more respect for the rules of governance than he shows for the conventions of rajaz.
Here is the ayatollah’s latest masterpiece:
Dear Heart! From the battle of toil and trouble do not escape
Turn onto yourself like a whirlwind and like the morning breeze don’t escape
The staff of Moses is in your hand, throw it in
fear not the snakes of sorcerers do not escape
You are the wave of courage and determination, don’t fear the sea
ignore the roaring of the storm, from your abode do not escape
Don’t be broken-hearted because of the infidelity of these times
Be a symbol like a banner, from the winds do not escape
Be a solid rock and lean only on the mountains
Give your heart to the truth and from call-outs( reckonings) don’t escape
You are a descendant of the heroes of Khyber and Badr
Be like Haidar with his double-edged sword, from challenges do not escape
Do not abandon the path with a sweet smile of hypocrites
With the poisonous smirk of a foe into hiding do not escape!
Amir Taheri was the executive editor-in-chief of the daily Kayhan in Iran from 1972 to 1979. He has worked at or written for innumerable publications, published eleven books, and has been a columnist for Asharq Al-Awsat since 1987.
Gatestone Institute would like to thank the author for his kind permission to reprint this article in slightly different form from Asharq Al-Awsat. He graciously serves as Chairman of Gatestone Europe.
‘The Palestinian People Does Not Exist’ by Nils A. Haug
February 9, 2025 at 5:00 am Gatestone Institute
- “The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism.” — Senior PLO official Zuheir Mohsen, interviewed by James Dorsey, Trouw, March 31, 1977.
- Jordan… actually was in possession of Jerusalem, if illegally, between 1948 and the 1967 Six-Day War. Jordan nevertheless, the first day of the war, insisted on joining the other Arab countries in attacking Israel, even though General Moshe Dayan had warned Jordan’s King Hussein at the time to stay out of it….
- The Al-Aqsa Mosque would therefore have been constructed six years after Muhamad’s death: c. 570- June 8, 632 CE.
“The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism.” — Senior PLO official Zuheir Mohsen, interviewed by James Dorsey, Trouw, March 31, 1977. Pictured: Mohsen in 1975. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)
While Islamism can be understood as an extremist political and ideological facet of Islam, Palestinianism comprises a narrow ideological expression of such Islamism. In particular, Palestinianism can be regarded as a subset of the broader jihadist Islamist agenda; one of its “action-arms” so to speak.
On the world stage and promoted by the legacy media, the Palestinian issue is relentlessly and often callously exploited by ruthless jihadist Islamists and their sympathizers, despite the immense suffering of many innocent civilians from both parties to the conflict. It is the gross misuse of the Palestinian people’s predicament for tactical purposes that has led to the fabricated ideology of Palestinianism. Admittedly, the Islamist propaganda “machine” has been partially successful in persuading the West as to the justice, however fabricated, of the Palestinian cause.
Islamist land claims pertaining to Palestine (by which they infer all of Eretz Yisrael – the land of Israel) are, unfortunately, based on false allegations of illegitimate colonialist actions by the Jewish people of the area. The Jews have, it is claimed, usurped the rights of Muslim Palestinians to their historical land. These allegations, however, are merely a façade for covering the true motives of jihadist Islamists who control the public narrative.
The less-than-elevating background to the “Palestinian movement” was exposed by leading Harvard Law School Professor Alan M. Dershowitz in his June 2024 article on the notion of Palestinianism. He explained that the dispute over land has escalated in recent times from “a resolvable conflict over land to an irresolvable conflict over religion.” The true nature of the conflict is thus one of religion.
The late senior PLO official Zuheir Mohsen even openly admitted in the Dutch daily Trouw in 1977 that the Palestinian cause is actually, well, fake:
“The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct “Palestinian people” to oppose Zionism. Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.”
— Zuheir Mohsen to James Dorsey, “Wij zijn alleen Palestijn om politieke reden“, Trouw, March 31, 1977.
Palestinianism has nevertheless accelerated on the world stage through an intersection of Western ideologies based on the neo-Marxist premise that if someone succeeds, it can only have happened because they have oppressed someone else. A situation of win-win capitalism — with unions protecting workers, and profit-sharing plans and investments that share the opportunity so that if an enterprise is successful, all the investors win (and if it is not, they all share the risk and lose) — does not occur to them. For the Marxists, there must always be an oppressor and an oppressed.
Recent ideologies have related, for instance, to critical race and sex-gender constructs; allegations of settler-colonialist conflicts — one in particular referred to as Zionism, whereby the purportedly rightful landowners (Muslims) are displaced by Jews, even though Jews have also lived on the land continuously for nearly 4,000 years. Human rights violations are supposedly committed only by Israel, whether in war or peace.
Some leaders of Western nations are complicit, whether by commission or omission, in encouraging or tolerating Palestinianism, notwithstanding countless violent crimes committed in the name of the “Palestinian cause” by jihadists and their supporters. Nations that blame only Israel include Ireland, Norway, Spain, France, Netherlands, Germany, USA, Canada and UK.
Eli Wiesel, during his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, reminded the world that, “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
Most Western leaders fail to counter jihadist attacks, jihadist sexual grooming and mass rape of children, violence against women, stabbings, vehicular ramming and other sociopathic behavior. They apparently want every vote.
The true motive of Islamists — in exploiting the Palestinian issue — might well be to take control and ownership of the holy city of Jerusalem and the rest of the land to which, since the Ottoman Empire, they appear to believe they are entitled. Jordan, however, actually was in possession of much of Jerusalem, if illegally, between 1948 and the 1967 Six-Day War. Jordan nevertheless, the first day of the war, insisted on joining the other Arab countries in attacking Israel, even though General Moshe Dayan had warned Jordan’s King Hussein at the time to stay out of it;
“Moshe Dayan, as Israel’s Defense Minister, did attempt to keep Jordan out of the Six-Day War in 1967. On the eve of the conflict, Dayan cautioned army commanders in Jerusalem to avoid provoking Jordanian forces. Additionally, on the morning of June 5, 1967, as Israel launched its preemptive strike against Egypt, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol sent a message to Jordan’s King Hussein, stating that if Jordan made no hostile move, neither would Israel. Despite these efforts, Jordan ultimately joined the war on June 5, 1967, after receiving false reports of Egyptian success against Israel. This decision led to intense fighting between Israeli and Jordanian forces, particularly in Jerusalem and the West Bank.”
All other declared reasons apart from conquering Israel are simply a mask to distract from the real strategy for capturing all of Jerusalem and all of the land that now constitutes Israel. In this effort, they are happily aided by willing, often ignorant, Jew-hating sympathizers in the West, and jihadists in various Islamic states.
For this reason, a two-state solution has been continually rejected by Islamists since even before the days of PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, despite the 1993-95 Oslo Accords promoting the sharing of Israel’s land. Islamists want all of it, not just portions. Israel and the Jewish people of the world can never allow that, nor should they.
The root of Israel’s current conflict with Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Iran therefore seems to focus first on Jerusalem – as does Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Jerusalem is the religious center of Israel and the heart of claims by the world’s three great monotheistic faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam — despite Islam, among the three, having only the slightest legitimate entitlement to the city:
The primary Islamic claim to Jerusalem, as noted by journalist Roy Hirsch and Dr. Tanveer Zamani, founder of the People’s Party of Pakistan, is based on:
“The Quranic chapter Ibrahim 14:37 recounts that God instructed Abraham to leave Hagar and Ishmael in the barren valley of Mecca, while Isaac stayed in Canaan. This deliberate landmark separation not only highlights the distinct identities of these religious civilizations but also provides insights into resolving contemporary disputes over land claims.
“The Islamic connection to Jerusalem is linked to Prophet Muhammad’s brief, one-time stop at the farthest Temple Mount during his nocturnal journey to Heaven in 620 CE, as mentioned in Quran, Al-Isra -17:1.
[“Glory to (Allah) Who did take His servant for a Journey by night from the Sacred Mosque to the farthest Mosque, whose precincts We did bless,- in order that We might show him some of Our Signs: for He is the One Who heareth and seeth (all things).” Al-Isra -17:1]
“This passage describes a fleeting visit that should not be misused as a lasting religious claim. The stop at the Temple Mount was an initial stage of Prophet Muhammad’s nocturnal journey to Heaven, involving the witnessing of heavenly signs on Earth before his ascension. These Holy sites, associated with earlier prophets such as Abraham, and Isaac, lineage; Jacob, Moses, David, Solomon, and Zakariya, served as a prelude to his ultimate ascent to Heaven. The Al-Aqsa Mosque, established by Caliph Umar in 638 CE, was not even present during the Prophet’s time.”
The Al-Aqsa Mosque would therefore have been constructed six years after Muhamad’s death: c. 570 – June 8, 632 CE
The two holiest sites for Muslims, and exclusive to them, do not include either the Al-Aqsa Mosque or Jerusalem, but are the Sacred Mosque in Mecca (in the direction of which Muslims pray daily) and the Mosque of the Prophet in Medina – neither of which is anywhere near Jerusalem. Hence, declarations by Islamists claiming Jerusalem are not founded on history, reality nor legitimacy, notwithstanding the Palestinian Authority in 2000, “passing a law declaring Jerusalem to be their capital.”
In the result, the propagated basis for the invasions of Israel during times of intifada and particularly on October 7, 2023, ostensibly to prevent a Jewish take-over of the Al-Aqsa mosque, are simply false — part of Palestinianism propaganda claims first proposed as a pretext by Hitler’s ally, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al Husseini.
The October 7 jihadist operation, named “Al-Aqsa flood” supposedly to “liberate” that part of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount where the mosque is located, was therefore founded on a gross deception. The jihadist utilization of Palestinianism was, however, successful in gathering a mass of terrorists in a common cause to execute the Islamist agenda of conquering Israel, “liberating” Jerusalem, and killing all occupants. Hence the slogan, “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Again, the jihadist strategy was doomed to failure — as are all attempts to annihilate Israel and its people.
In 2010, Eli Wiesel explained the exclusive sacred nature of Jerusalem to Jews:
“For me, the Jew that I am, Jerusalem is above politics. It is mentioned more than six hundred times in Scripture — and not a single time in the Koran. Its presence in Jewish history is overwhelming. There is no more moving prayer in Jewish history than the one expressing our yearning to return to Jerusalem. To many theologians, it is Jewish history, to many poets, a source of inspiration. It belongs to the Jewish people and is much more than a city, it is what binds one Jew to another in a way that remains hard to explain. When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the first time, it is not the first time; it is a homecoming.”
Historically, Jerusalem indisputably belongs to the Jewish people. Ever since King David declared Jerusalem to be the capital of the nation, some 3,000 years ago, the Jews have occupied and controlled the city — apart from only two occasions in history: once during the period of Roman rule and the other in more contemporary times when Jordan refused access to the Jews before the 1967 Six-Day War.
The enduring importance of Jerusalem is not only its historical connotations but the belief, by Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, that the city and its surrounds is to be the redemptive center of world events leading up to the culmination of human history (see here and here).
As regards Islam’s attitude to Jerusalem:
“Islamic eschatology, as described in various Hadith and teachings, features Jerusalem in relation to the events of the end times. The emergence of the Mahdi, a significant figure in Islamic eschatology, is believed to occur in Jerusalem. Additionally, Islamic belief holds that Dajjal, a false messiah, will make an appearance, further emphasizing Jerusalem’s place in eschatological narratives.”
Religious Islamists, undoubtedly aware of these beliefs, would like to control Jerusalem, in addition to Mecca and Medina, for their own purposes. Their intent, however, can never become a reality. As Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forcefully declared in his July 2024 address to the America’s joint Congress,
“For nearly 4,000 years, the land of Israel has been the homeland of the Jewish people. It’s always been our home; it will always be our home.”
Israel, with its capital of Jerusalem, is the ancestral land of the Jewish people; they have nowhere else to call their own.
Nils A. Haug is an author and columnist. A Lawyer by profession, he is member of the International Bar Association, the National Association of Scholars, a faculty member at Intercollegiate Studies Institute, the Academy of Philosophy and Letters. Dr. Haug holds a Ph.D. in Apologetical Theology and is author of ‘Politics, Law, and Disorder in the Garden of Eden – the Quest for Identity’; and ‘Enemies of the Innocent – Life, Truth, and Meaning in a Dark Age.’ His work has been published by First Things Journal, The American Mind, Quadrant, Minding the Campus, Gatestone Institute, National Association of Scholars, Jewish Journal, James Wilson Institute (Anchoring Truths), Document Danmark, and others.
The Historical Case for Trump’s Riviera Andrew Roberts
February 8, 2025
Much of the international condemnation of Donald Trump’s “Riviera” plan for Gaza rests on the assumption that the Palestinians retain sovereignty over the territory, despite all the events that have taken place since their incursion into Israel on October 7, 2023, and that they also continue to have the right to choose their own government.
In fact, historical precedent suggests that Hamas’s invasion of southern Israel that day, and its condign punishment by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), have severe implications for whether the Gazans still have the right to decide their own destiny, and who governs them.
For again and again in the past, peoples who unleash unprovoked aggressive wars against their neighbors and are then defeated—as the Gazans have been on any conceivable metric—lose either their government or their sovereignty, or both. It would be strange were Hamas somehow to buck this historical trend.
When the two Boer republics of Southern Africa, the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, invaded the British colonies of Natal and Cape Colony in October 1899, a war broke out that two-and-a half-years later they had comprehensively lost. By the peace treaty of Vereeniging in May 1902, both republics were annexed by the British and lost their sovereignty entirely, their government having already fled for Holland.
Konrad Henlein was the Nazi leader of the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia 1938, who invited Adolf Hitler to invade the Czech state in March 1939. He had much the same kind of willing-acolyte relationship with the Führer that Yahya Sinwar had with Iran. When the Second World War was lost in May 1945, Henlein committed suicide and his people were moved out of the Sudetenland, some 800,000 to the Soviet zone and the rest to West Germany. The Sudetenland was then entirely repopulated with ethnic Czechs.
In all, more than three million Germans were forced to leave their homes in the Sudetenland, Silesia, and other lands east of the Oder and Neisse rivers, where their ancestors had lived for centuries, indeed for much longer than most Palestinian families have lived in Gaza. They embarked on the 300-mile journey westwards under conditions of extreme deprivation, carrying only what they could carry. Once they reached Germany—whose new borders were drawn by the victorious Allies as they had lost all sovereignty—they settled and made the best of it.
Today, they and their descendants are among some of the most successful people in Germany, and however powerful modern Germany is, she makes no territorial claims on either Poland or the Czech Republic. The Palestinians could learn a great lesson from the catastrophe that overcame the Sudeten Germans almost contemporaneously as the “Nakba” (catastrophe) that overcame them. Yet will they learn from it? Almost certainly not.
The decision of the Vichy government of France to fight against Britain in the Second World War, with bombing raids on Gibraltar and open warfare in Syria, so delegitimized it that when the liberation of France took place on D-Day in June 1944, it was swept aside and sovereignty was instead given to the Free French, who returned with the Allies. The legitimately elected government of France under Marshal Petain was thus overthrown and replaced by the chosen government of the incoming conquering Allies.
Surprise attacks such as the one launched on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 naturally invite tough retribution, and in that particular case led directly to Japan losing her sovereignty under the overlordship of General Douglas MacArthur, whose word was law in Japan until 1952, a full seven years after the end of the war. The authors of the attack, including the Japanese prime minister General Tojo, were hanged. This pattern of the death of the leadership and loss of sovereignty of the country were similarly the fates of both Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy, with the Allies having ultimate power over the governance of both.
After North Korea launched its vicious unprovoked attack on South Korea in June 1950 it was punished so severely by the American-led United Nations force that it lost over a million dead. (In those happier days, the United Nations supported countries that were invaded rather than the invaders.) North Korea lost territory in the armistice in 1953 and has been a pariah state ever since.
The percentage of North Koreans who died in that war was 16.5 percent. The Gazan health ministry is an arm of Hamas propaganda and routinely lies about the statistics of killed and wounded there, but even if we take its numbers as accurate, the total number of Gazans killed in this war has been 2.04 percent, which is not a figure that in any way aligns with accusations of genocide. If the IDF had wished to commit genocide, it would have killed far more than 2.04 percent of Gazans. By total contrast, Adolf Hitler killed over 50 percent of all of Europe’s Jews in what was a genuine genocide.
When the Argentinian military dictatorship suddenly invaded the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic in April 1982, and were utterly defeated 10 weeks later by Margaret Thatcher’s task force, the entire junta in Buenos Aires was deposed from power—some were jailed—and democracy returned to Argentina. There are thus profound consequences for governments involved in launching unprovoked wars, and they cannot expect to stay in power when they have brought down death, destruction, and defeat upon their people.
Saddam Hussein’s surprise attack on Kuwait was a similar example of when a country invades its neighbor suddenly and without provocation, and after defeat in war loses both its government—Saddam was hanged—and its sovereignty while the U.S.-led coalition attempted to rebuild the country. Such surprise attacks as Saddam’s, or indeed of Hamas’s on Israel on October 7, 2023, which was not intended to seize territory like Saddam but instead to kill and kidnap the largest possible number of Jews, are thus huge rollings of “the iron dice of war,” an all-or-nothing endeavor in which Saddam and Hamas cannot complain if they end in disaster.
In the collapsing former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, Serb leaders such as Slobodan Milosevic, General Ratko Mladic, and Radovan Karadzic took the cold-blooded decision to invade neighboring Bosnia and conduct an appalling program of what came to be known as “ethnic cleansing.” Those critics of Donald Trump who tritely refer to the population transfers under his Gaza plan as ethnic cleansing ought to revisit what the phrase actually means in terms of horror, violence, and bloodshed.
Once NATO finally took to the air in Operation Deliberate Force to end the brutality, all three of those Serb leaders were imprisoned and Serbia’s borders were decided by the West rather than by the Serbs themselves. The massacre of more than 8,000 Bosnians at the hands of the Serbs at Srebenica in July 1995 effectively ended Serbia’s right to sovereignty in its aftermath, and at the Dayton peace accords that December they had to accept the formation of two new republics.
The witness of history is therefore fairly uniform: If a government undertakes a vicious and unprovoked attack on a neighboring country, and subsequently loses on the battlefield, it cannot then expect to continue to exercise sovereignty and avoid population transfers. In a similar vein, Arab governments cannot in the same breath argue that Gaza is “a concentration camp,” but also that its citizens should not be allowed to leave such a beloved homeland. They can choose one propaganda line or the other, but not simultaneously both.
Mass population transfers have been common after wars. The classic example are those of the late 1940s, when there were no fewer than 20 different groups—including the Sikhs, Muslims, and Hindus of the Punjab, the Crimean Tartars, the Japanese and Korean Kuril and Sakhalin Islanders, the Soviet Chechen, Ingush, and Balkars, even the Italians of Istria—who were moved to different regions. At the time of the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, over 800,000 Jews from Arab lands were forced out of lands that they had lived in for centuries.
All of those peoples mentioned chose to try to make the best of their new environs except one, and most eventually succeeded. The sole exception has been the Palestinians, because Hamas and its predecessors have always unquestioningly chosen the destruction of Israel and the opportunity to massacre Jews over the best interests of their own people.
If each of the 22 Arab states undertook to receive 100,000 Gazans, the Strip could be the home to the remaining 100,000, living and working on Trump’s “Riviera.” The reason that can never in fact happen is the Arab states’ and the United Nations’ wholly cynical and self-interested policy since 1948 to use Palestinian refugees as a continual destabilizing force against Israel (as well as a well-grounded fear and hatred of easily the most violent population in Arabia).
As the international community yelps with indignation at Donald Trump’s remarks and their implications regarding Gazans’ sovereignty and Hamas’s right to govern there, history is on the president’s side.
Andrew Roberts is the author, most recently, of Churchill Walking with Destiny (Viking).
