COMMENTARY / OPINION
The political ideology that denies reality Avi Abelow
Every mistake made by Israel can be traced to a naive ideology that does not want Israel to win wars, but to make friends in the Middle East instead. Op-ed.
Jun 3, 2024, 7:53 PM (GMT+3) – While Oct. 7th has woken up many Israelis to understand how the progressive left’s ideology is responsible for creating the reality that allowed the Oct. 7th massacre to happen, public discourse in Israel, especially by the establishment media and from IDF senior command, still ignores this reality, even though they are today a minority in Israel.
Here is a fascinating list of questions that I saw posted that really sharpens the issue for people to think about:
-Which political ideology is behind former IDF Chief of Staff (and today leader of the Blue & White party) Benny Gantz’s statement at a conference years ago on how proud he was that he decided to risk the lives of IDF soldiers in Sajaiya, Gaza in not attacking terrorists who were hiding in the local Gaza hospital?
-Which political ideology is behind the 1993 decision by then Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin and his partner Shimon Peres to sign the Oslo “peace” Accords that armed a known terrorist organization, giving them control of Jewish land, which, over the years, brought about more than 1,500 dead Israelis (not including the Oct. 7th massacre)?
-Which political ideology is behind the 2000 decision by former Prime Minister Ehud Barak to withdraw all IDF troops from South Lebanon thinking that Israel will be safe and that if Hezbollah tries anything against Israel that we would be able to stop it with international recognition to do what we have to do to defend ourselves?
-Which political ideology is behind the 2005 decision by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to destroy 21 Jewish communities in Gaza, while expelling close to 10,000 Jews from their homes, thinking that allowing the Palestinian Authority to self-govern an area without Jews would bring peace to Israel? And that, based on promises by former US President Bush, that if any terror would emanate from Gaza, that we would have full US backing to do what is necessary to end it?
-Which political ideology caused the High Command of the Israel Defense Forces to go back to sleep at 4:30am on the morning of Oct. 7th, without informing Netanyhau and the government about the warnings of an imminent attack from Gaza, and without calling up emergency forces to protect the border?
-Which political ideology is behind the statement of former Chief of Staff Eisenkot (and today #2 leader of the Blue and White party with Gantz) saying that Gaza is a civilian humanitarian problem, more than a security problem for Israel?
-Which political ideology made IDF intelligence head Haliva say, before Oct. 7th, that the most serious danger to Israel is climate change? (No wonder he turned off his mobile phone while on vacation the night of October 7th)
-Which political ideology caused the leaders of IDF intelligence to ignore the actual words, statements and threats of the Arabs in Arabic, year after year?
-Which political ideology caused Israel’s Supreme Court to force Israel to allow Hamas demonstrations near the Gaza border fence, endangering Israeli citizens?
-Which political ideology stopped IDF soldiers, tank shooters and airforce/helicopter pilots from firing upon Gazans as they infiltrated into Israel and crossed the border fence on Oct. 7th on their way to massacre innocent Jews?
-Which political ideology caused the opposition to the establishment of standby classes after the massacre in the Gaza Envelope, the Otef?
-Which political ideology is behind the opposition to the distribution of weapons to rapid response civilian teams after the 7.10 massacre?
-Which political ideology caused the IDF High Command years ago to agree to giving away the Jordan Valley and the Golan Heights in “peace” deals? (Not done, thank G-d)
-Which political ideology is behind the decision making in Israel to give medical treatment to terrorists from Gaza, like saving the life of today’s Hamas leader, Sinwar, responsible for the Oct. 7th massacre who we are searching for now? A certain political ideology is behind Israel saving his life!
-Which political ideology is behind Israel’s Supreme Court making illegal a very important IDF tactic of catching terrorists called “the neighbor procedure”, in which a local Arab accompanies soldiers to a house where a terrorist may be holed up, so he doesn’t shoot, a tactic that saved our IDF soldier’s lives?
-Which political ideology is behind not using the Israeli airforce to bomb terrorist squads from the air in Judea & Samaria before the 7/10 massacre?
-Which political ideology is behind the talk, even today after Oct. 7th, of giving away Judea & Samaria to Arab Muslim terrorists of the Palestinian Authority?
The answer to all these questions:
The “progressive” (really regressive) leftist political ideology is responsible for all of those decisions by the IDF senior command and the justice system.
RFK Jr.: The Silver-Tongued Spoiler By Cherie Zaslawsky
AN INDEPENDENT OR A DEMOCRAT?
June 5, 2024 – The moment this iconic Democrat went rogue by joining the Independents for a third-party run, Kennedy outed himself as a NeverTrump spoiler.
He appears to admit this himself, but with impressive verbal dexterity bordering on Shakespearean aplomb, twists it into a badge of honor:
Our campaign is a spoiler…. It’s a spoiler for President Biden and for President Trump. It’s a spoiler for the war machine. It’s a spoiler for Wall Street and big ag and big tech and big telecom and big pharma and the corporate-owned media and all the corrupt politicians and corporations.
Under the sway of such passionate rhetoric, listeners might not recollect that this knight errant supports the following Progressive positions:
- Abortion for full-term babies—aka infanticide
- Universal childcare. Who pays? We the Taxpayers.
- “Reparations” for inner city blacks, quickly rechristened as Targeted Community Repair though still primarily intended for Blacks, along with $5 billion in “reparations“ for Black farmers. Who pays? We do.
- Cancellation of student debt. Who pays? We do.
- Police reform: To create a “commission to root out systemic bias from the federal to the local levels.” Toeing the Progressive line that America is “systemically racist.”
- Gun control: “Assault weapons” ban, and universal background checks.
- Catastrophic Climate Change: The bogus, debunked hypothesis to justify globalists’ plans to abolish fossil fuels to deindustrialize America and the rest of the West.
They might have also forgotten that far from Trump being a “tired and unpopular head of the uniparty,” he’s one of the most popular Presidents in modern history, an outsider who refashioned the Republican Party as MAGA America Firsters, or that it’s that very same “Uniparty” Kennedy decries that keeps attacking Trump.
The battle lines were clearly drawn in 2016: Marxist/globalist Democrats vs MAGA Republicans—and Kennedy endorsed Hillary. Never-Trumper then, Never-Trumper now.
And lest we forget, the Democrats are not the solution—they are the problem!
AN INDEPENDENT OR A LIBERTARIAN?
More verbal legerdemain:
Israel Is Helping Palestinians More Than Those Who Condemn Israel by Alan M. Dershowitz and Andrew Stein
June 5, 2024 at 5:00 am
- Consider the fact that no Arab or Muslim nation has been willing to accept Palestinian refugees from Gaza. Perhaps these nations recall that anyone who has tried to help the Palestinians has lived to regret it.
- Perhaps Ireland, Norway and Spain might extend invitations to the Palestinians to become residents there?
- On April 13, more than 1,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of Hamburg, Germany and demanded that the country become a Caliphate, with Shariah law.
- The only reason that Ireland, Norway and Spain can safely recognize a Palestinian state is that they do not have to live with the consequences.
- Many [Arab and Muslim states]… might feel obligated officially to support the Palestinians and a “two-state solution,” but behind closed doors will admit that a Palestinian state is the last thing they want….
- The truth is that few outside of Israel really care about the plight of the Palestinian people. The demonstrations on college campuses which purport to be “pro-Palestine” are far more about condemning Israel than about helping the Palestinians.
- Those who claim to support the Palestinians… ought to be urging Arab and Muslim nations to help the Palestinians in material ways.
- Until that is done, all the Palestinian people will get are hollow demonstrations on university campuses, empty recognitions from anti-Israel governments, irrelevant United Nations resolutions and bigoted demonization of Israel. None of this helps the Palestinian people. It only encourages more hatred, more terrorism and more war.
BREAKING: Hezbollah HAMMERS Israel w/ Rocket Attacks; IDF Foils West Bank Terror Plot [9:48] Yair Pinto
June 4, 2024 TBN Israel – TBN Israel’s Yair Pinto reports on the Israel-Hamas War. Pinto reports the latest on Hezbollah’s rocket attacks which have caused widespread damage and raging fires across Israel’s northern border with Lebanon. Pinto also reports that the IDF has foiled several terrorism plots against Israel and has confirmed that four additional hostages have died in Hamas captivity in Gaza.
Col. Douglas Macgregor: The West Strikes Russian Territory [35:57]
June 4, 2024
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Newt Gingrich: The Fake Conviction By Newt Gingrich
Americans are now being forced to think through the first fake conviction in the history of presidential politics.
June 4, 2024 11:40 am Real Clear Wire – As an historian, I am really bothered when I hear lawyers on television describe these proceedings as though they were somehow related to the rule of law and the normal legal process.
It is clear that what happened to President Donald J. Trump in Judge Juan Merchan’s court was not a legitimate conviction. Nearly every element of the prosecution was false. Therefore, the outcome is false.
To say President Trump is now a convicted felon – as the left and its propaganda media allies are practically singing – is to legitimize the most corrupt judicial event in American presidential history.
The burden of proof is not on President Trump. He remains an innocent citizen framed by an astonishingly corrupt district attorney, judge, and Biden Justice Department.
Don’t take my word for it alone. Consider what a host of experts have to say.
Alan Dershowitz, professor emeritus at Harvard, sat through much of the trial and condemned it with strong language in his newsletter:
“I have observed and participated in trials throughout the world. I have seen justice and injustice in China, Russia, Ukraine, England, France, Italy, Israel, as well as in nearly 40 of our 50 states.
But in my 60 years as a lawyer and law professor, I have never seen a spectacle such as the one I observed sitting in the front row of the courthouse yesterday.
“The judge in Donald Trump’s trial was an absolute tyrant, though he appeared to the jury to be a benevolent despot. He seemed automatically to be ruling against the defendant at every turn.”
George Washington Law professor and legal analyst Jonathan Turley said, “Before jurors left, however, Judge Juan Merchan framed their deliberations in a way that seemed less like a jury deliberation than a canned hunt.”
Attorney Mike Davis on the Just the News “No Noise” TV show said: “I would say the first one is there is no crime here. They waited until after this multi-week trial to even tell the criminal defendant what the legal allegations he was supposed to defend himself in that prior trial. He had no opportunity to defend himself.”
An innocent citizen being “hunted,” in Turley’s language, cannot be honestly convicted. That is why I argue this is a fake conviction.
Again, I’m not the only one who thinks this.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who is hardly a fan of President Trump, said, “These charges never should have been brought in the first place. I expect the conviction to be overturned on appeal.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson called it “a shameful day in American history,” and continued, “Alvin Bragg targeted a political opponent, made up unprecedented charges, and denied him his Constitutional right to a fair trial.”
House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik summarized the corruption and dishonesty brilliantly:
“The facts are clear: this was a zombie case illegally brought forward by a corrupt prosecutor doing Joe Biden’s political bidding in a desperate attempt to save Joe Biden’s failing campaign.
She pointed out that the case hinged on the word of Michael Cohen, who has a history of perjury and an axe to grind with Trump. She pointed out that Judge Merchan’s own family members benefited financially from the case, that he levied unconstitutional gag orders on Trump, and repeatedly sided with the prosecution throughout the case.
Mark Steyn captured why we must insist that the conviction is fake and reject any effort to suggest that Trump is guilty. As Steyn wrote: “pretending that there is anything ‘great’ about this that should command our ‘respect,’ is making evil and corruption respectable and bi-partisan.”
Ironically, in a Senate hearing involving smears and sexually salacious accusations chaired by then-Sen. Joe Biden 33 years ago, we were taught how to stand up to outrageous, corrupt, and disgusting behavior by then-Supreme Court Justice nominee Clarence Thomas.
After being repeatedly slandered by senators on Biden’s committee, on Oct. 11, 1991, Thomas said:
“This is a circus. It’s a national disgrace. And from my standpoint as a black American, as far as I’m concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate, rather than hung from a tree.”
A generation later, President Trump, is learning what Justice Thomas learned in 1991: Challenge the establishment, and it will go all out to destroy you.
Every time you talk with someone who says President Trump is a convicted felon, point out it is a fake conviction. Challenge them to defend the dishonest, corrupt people who are putting the nation through this mess – starting with President Biden, the leader of the corrupt and dishonest.
Hezbollah’s Attacks Devastating Israel’s North [24:28]
June 4, 1014 JNS TV – Hezbollah continues to terrorize Israel through rockets and igniting forest fires that are causing irreparable harm to the country’s north. What should Israel’s response be? Is now the time to open up a second front and begin a war with Hezbollah?
JNS CEO Alex Traiman and Middle East Correspondent Josh Hasten analyze this story and other top stories in Israel
Israel Makes SHOCKING Discovery in Rafah – AMERICA’S SECRETS REVEALED [15:18] The Israel Guys
May 31, 2024 – For weeks, the Biden administration has been throwing everything but the kitchen sink at Israel to force them to not go into Rafah in southern Gaza to finish Hamas. Many have been wondering, why is this so important to America, it’s almost like they’re trying to hide something, something they desperately don’t want to be discovered there.
Well the secrets out of the bag, Israel’s now in Rafah, and what they’ve discovered there is frankly quite shocking.
Stop the Socialist Assault on America Brigitte Gabriel
How We Stop the Socialist-Marxist Revolution
JUN 04, 2024 ACT FOR AMERICA – The Democrat’s Ongoing Revolution: Undermining America’s Republic
“This man who is the source of all the misfortunes of our country is this day reduced to a level with his fellow citizens.” This isn’t a quote about Trump but about our revered first President, George Washington. The same radicals weaponizing our legal system against a former President and leading Presidential candidate to interfere with our elections are the same radicals who fantasized about Washington’s head rolling from a guillotine.
John Adams once wrote to Thomas Jefferson, “Ten thousand people in the streets of Philadelphia, day after day, threatened to drag Washington out of his house, and effect a Revolution in the Government, or compel it to declare war in favour of the French Revolution.” The French Revolution abolished religion, marriage, individual wealth, and private property, including children, who were deemed property of the state. Sound familiar?
The truth is, the Leftwing Democrats have despised the conclusion of our American Revolution and have been waging a continuous revolution against America, our Constitution, our Judeo-Christian values, and our capitalist economic system since our nation’s founding. They will persist until their ideal global utopia emerges, akin to the stated goals of the UN Agenda 2030, the WHO, the WEF, and the Paris Climate Agreement, all fruit from the same tree.
The original Democrat Society slogan was “There you will see nothing but citizens, nothing but equality.” Yet, the citizenry they speak of has always been exclusively reserved for the children of the revolution. If, at any time in history, Democrat leaders thought they could get away with it, America would have witnessed the same bloody revolution their predecessors waged in France. We got a taste of their revolutionary aspirations during the DNC-sponsored Marxist-BLM-ANTIFA 2020 riots, and we’re seeing it again with the nationwide Pro-Hamas demonstrations calling for outright violent Intifada and Revolution, as DNC proxies.
The Kennedy or Blue Dog Democrats of yesteryear are now forced to reject the Constitution and embrace socialism to stay aligned with the Democratic Party. Many are as outraged as conservatives about the war on Parental Rights, DEI-CRT, and sexual indoctrination. If Americans remain spectators, the radical Left will continue to indoctrinate 50 million K-12 children and 19 million college students annually.
Just as the French Revolution became increasingly radical, with the old Left swiftly shoved to the Right of the convention and many losing their heads in the end, today’s Blue Dog Democrats find themselves on the outside looking in. When polled, 70-78% of Democrats more closely align with Republicans on core American values. Interviews with people on the streets in left-wing-run cities reveal their awareness of the sham Trump trial in New York.
The crucial question for Republicans and Democrats is whether we can unite on our shared core values and support the one candidate who stands against the Democratic Socialist revolution threatening our freedoms and Republic. Americans must recognize that a fringe 15% are steering our nation toward disaster. Our Founders anticipated these threats and designed our Republic to withstand them. Now, it’s up to us to reclaim our place, actively participate, and draw a hard line to protect our government for the next generation.
The truth is stark: Republicans and Democrats alike face a common adversary in the form of a Uni-Party, uniting Democrats and RINO Republicans against the interests of the American people.
Last week’s events were sobering, and they demanded our collective attention. It’s time to rise from the sidelines and engage our fellow citizens in dialogue, action, and voting. Our children are watching, and the world is watching. It’s up to us to safeguard our Republic for generations to come.
“We’re not a banana republic!” TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
JUN 04, 2024 – Dr. Phil says that Biden is turning America into a banana republic by continuing to wrongly persecute President Trump and it needs to stop before we start killing each other. He’s interviewing President Trump this week at Mar-a-Lago and it will air nationwide on Thursday evening, June 6, 2024, on Dr. Phil’s new primetime show at 8pm ET, nationwide.
This is interesting because Dr. Phil is basically a creation of Oprah and is a staunch liberal. He never gets involved in politics – yet here he is – a line has been crossed and he’s not being quiet any longer about what Obama-Biden is doing to destroy America.
As he was speaking, the audience was nodding in agreement:
“[Biden needs to] put an end to this craziness to save the collective soul and sanity of America. [His administration] could and should do the right thing: dismiss now all such lawfare and pledge to return to the normal functioning of a government rightly run.”
“What are we gonna do next? Find a “Putin poisoning posse” and start finding political opponents foaming at the mouth at home, not so mysteriously dying in their Lay-Z-Boy recliners? We’re not a banana republic, for goodness sake.”
“We need to turn this ship of state called America in the right direction, getting her back on track so we can be proud.”
“We need our Justice Department to return to the business of meting out justice and not running the political agendas of those currently in power.”
European Jewry before the Shoah By Alex Grobman PhD.
27 Iyyar 5784 – June 4, 2024
Author’s Note:
In the wake of the October 7, 2024, massacre by Hamas, antisemitism has openly spread like a cancer throughout the US and the West. Jews and Israelis have been intimidated, threatened and violently assaulted.
The vicious anti-Israel protests on American college campuses, including at the most “elite” universities, is a wake-up call as to what might be expected by the next generation of American leaders.
In this environment, there is a tendency to equate the antisemitic attacks in the West with those committed under Adolph Hitler. To be clear, there is a difference. In Germany, the attacks against Jews were government-inspired, sanctioned, and perpetrated. To date, the American government has not endorsed this behavior, and there is no indication it will—at least for the foreseeable future.
How do we know when antisemitism has become an existential danger? When it becomes a mass movement.
There is a tendency to blame European Jewry for not seeing the danger signs. Is this fair?
Let’s examine:
An Excess of Democracy by Victor Rosenthal
June 4, 2024 – The State of Israel is more endangered today than at any time since 1948, including 1973. She is tied down in Gaza while her enemies wait their turn in Lebanon, Syria, the PA, Yemen, Iraq, and Iran – which may already have nuclear weapons. An unprecedented campaign of antisemitic incitement is destroying popular support for her throughout the world, and government after government is punishing her by recognizing the “State of Palestine” on her territory. The more genocidal her enemies, the more she is falsely accused of genocide. Her decision to position herself as a satellite of the US has borne bitter fruit, as that country’s policies are increasingly decided by elements that want to see Israel disappear; at the same time, the enemies of the US treat her as an outpost of US power that must be eliminated.
Israel’s political, intelligence, and military elites have shown themselves incompetent. They failed to foresee, prevent, or even effectively react to the invasion of 7 October. They have turned the military successes of the war into what appears to be a surrender to all of Hamas’ demands.
Over the years they have projected an image of Israel as a punching bag rather than the proud and powerful nation that she is. Despite our nuclear-armed military, they have allowed Iran to encircle us with terrorist proxies and even to establish a deterrent force in Lebanon that we fear to challenge. They have allowed Iran itself to obtain nuclear weapons.
On 13 April 2024, Iran launched an attack against Israel that included hundreds of drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles, the largest such attack in military history. All but a few were intercepted by Israel with some help from the US and others; the cost of this defensive operation to Israel was estimated at more than $1 billion. Had the attack succeeded, there would have been great damage to military and infrastructure targets, as well as loss of life. Israel retaliated a few days later by destroying some radar installations in Iran. The weakness of Israel’s response was a result of US pressure and the deterrent effect of Iran’s Hezbollah proxy.
At home, our leaders have allowed the PA to systematically gobble up parts of Area C in Judea/Samaria that are supposed to be under full Israeli control by international treaty. They have allowed, and then legitimized, illegal Bedouin settlement in the Negev. They have allowed the flourishing of Arab crime syndicates in the Negev and Galilee, and in the Arab towns and mixed Arab-Jewish cities.
Tens of thousands of Israeli citizens have fled from their homes: in the south from fear of resurgent Hamas terrorism, and in the north from daily bombardment by Hezbollah with rockets and anti-tank weapons, which have laid waste to cities and towns in the area. As I write this, large fires started by Hezbollah rockets are burning in northern cities.
Our governments are ineffectual, paralyzed by arguments over issues like the judicial reform and the Haredi draft, beset by powerful lobbies and popular groups that are manipulated by political actors. The two largest minority populations, Israeli Arabs and Haredim, maintain autonomous “states” within our state, where the laws and informal understandings that govern the rest of the population don’t necessarily apply.
We lose. They win. Is that Blinken’s deal? Gee, thanks Jack Engelhard
Our enemies will never give up, unless we pound them in the dust. Opinion.
Jun 4, 2024, 11:27 AM (GMT+3) – When King David was old, and “stricken in years,” he summoned his son Solomon with instructions to finish off his enemies. This, Solomon did.
Mario Puzo used this Biblical episode for “The Godfather,” if, from the movie, you remember that during a solemn church service, Al Pacino had his men, guns blazing, wipe out his dad’s enemies one by one, in a show of force to prove who’s the boss. No mercy and No more Mr. Nice Guy.
As expressed by baseball’s Leo Durocher, “Nice guys finish last.” Machiavelli had the same idea centuries earlier. In his book, “The Prince,” he stated that it is better for a ruler to be widely feared than greatly loved, and this is something to be considered by Benjamin Netanyahu and his War Cabinet.
Especially when they are being confronted and hassled by US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, the mastermind behind Biden’s latest peace proposal, an ultimatum that runs for pages, but which I can distill in a few words…Hamas wins, Israel loses, and that is the gist of it all.
See how simple it is after the dazzling diplo-garbage has been cut to shreds?
The White House strategy amounts to a “White Paper” of surrender, such as when the British, under their mandate, had their way with the Jews, 1923 to 1948.
Whichever way the Jews turned, they lost more territory, until much of which they had fought and died for became Transjordan.
The same type of story is happening all over again, except that this time, for all the fighting and dying by the IDF, Gaza, according to Blinken, is to be retained by Hamas, and/or Fatah, terrorists one way or the other. Mahmoud Abbas says he would be delighted to get another crack at Gaza, from which he’d been booted out in 2007, by Hamas.
Don’t think for a minute that this is Biden’s plan. Strange, by the way, how he demands no ceasefire from Ukraine.
Biden is happy to give Zelenskyy billions in cash and arms…to keep the war going. He acts quite differently so far as Israel and the Jews…also Afghanistan.
That’s where he pulled out and left thousands behind.
So don’t count on him to know what he’s doing. Count on him to be in a fog, and to read whatever his Deep State advisors put in front of him.
Enter Antony Blinken.
Blinken has had it in for the Jewish State since Oct. 8. Oct. 7 is just another date on his calendar, and quickly, a thought that won’t leave my mind.
That is of a father and son Hamas tag-team who took turns, Oct. 7, raping, torturing and then murdering our Jewish women, and then laughing at the sport of it all.
Imagine the horror from our daughters.
Blinken will not mention this. His only concern is for those “innocent civilians,” many of whom, it turns out, took part in that sport.
So this is Blinken’s plan, attributed to Biden, and supported by Biden, to end the war immediately, as a gift to Hamas.
We lose. They win. That’s the deal? Gee, thanks.
Netanyahu and his cabinet must respond with a resounding NO. No more Mr. Nice Guy. Israel, like King David, fights on to win.
New York-based bestselling American novelist Jack Engelhard writes regularly for Arutz Sheva.
He wrote the worldwide book-to-movie bestseller “Indecent Proposal,” the authoritative newsroom epic, “The Bathsheba Deadline,” followed by his coming-of-age classics, “The Girls of Cincinnati,” and, the Holocaust-to-Montreal memoir, “Escape from Mount Moriah.” For that and his 1960s epic “The Days of the Bitter End,” contemporaries have hailed him “The last Hemingway, a writer without peer, and the conscience of us all.” Contact here.
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Biden Deal: “Nearly Identical to Hamas’s Own Proposals” by Daniel Greenfield
“Basically the terms by which Hamas was prepared to move forward”
June 3, 2024 – Biden’s Friday afternoon speech laid out a proposal giving Hamas everything it wanted.
That’s not surprising because rather than being the Israeli proposal, it was actually the Hamas proposal.
And if you doubt that, a White House official said it in a follow-up call over and over again.
“It’s nearly identical to Hamas’s own proposals of only a few weeks ago” and that “what is now in front of everybody is basically the terms by which Hamas was prepared to move forward.”
Again, he repeated, “Hamas has said they’d be prepared to do deal X, and what is now on the table is basically that with some very minor adjustments.”
Will judge sentence Trump to prison? My prediction. [29:39] Alan Dershowitz
June 3, 2024
Interview with David Bedein on CBN News [5:08] By Center for Near East Policy Research
June 3, 2024
Israel-Hezbollah Tensions Reaching BOILING POINT; ALL-OUT War Ahead? [57:50] Yair Pinto
Join Yair Pinto and Mati Shoshani as they discuss Israel’s northern threat Hezbollah in Lebanon. Pinto and Shoshani reveal the terrorist organizations history, its ambitions, and its past skirmishes with Israel. What connection does Hezbollah have with Iran? Could the entire Middle East region be on the brink of war?
“The only way to stop a wolf from coming back is if he loses a limb of his own.” TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
JUN 01, 2024 – This is how Biden reacted to President Trump’s “guilty on all 34 felony counts” verdict in New York when asked if he was behind it. This is how you know it was engineered by Team Obama-Biden and their NWO masters.
The good news is that everybody now knows the 2020 election was stolen from President Trump & the American people.
The bottom-line is that President Trump would emerge victorious whether they acquitted him or convicted him. Why?
Because the entire “Stormy” trial was a fraud and based on lies. I’m not a lawyer and I’m sure you’ve heard every explanation imaginable as to WHY he was charged and convicted. I’m going to tell you what I think – but first you need to acquaint yourself with some background on the players. Please read these two old articles first and then we’ll get into it.
FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA ISRAELI SOVEREIGNTY Diane Bederman
May 1, 2024
In the words of the late Salomon Benzimra, author of The Jewish People’s Rights to the Land of Israel:
“Tell the world there will be no negotiating until the territorial sovereignty of Israel and Judea Samaria is no longer questioned.”
The entire world shared their views on the Jews and Israel after October 7.
We are living through times where too many stand with the Barbarians. Why do people CHOOSE to stand with evil? For surely that is what is happening when western countries stand with Muslim countries against Israel’s right to exist. The question is “which Israel”? What are the borders to which they disagree?
In honour of our ancestors and to protect our descendants:
Enough already.
It’s time for every Jewish organization around the world to come together as one and declare:
FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA ISRAELI SOVEREIGNTY
We must begin with the knowledge that billions of people hate us for the crime of being Jewish. Far too many countries want to see the demise of Israel – including Western countries like Spain, Norway and Ireland.
Nothing Israel does will appease the Jew haters. Israel must stop appeasing and take the most important step in her recent history. Declare sovereignty over the land of Israel – the God-given land and the land over which the Jews have fought for millennia.
I remember reading an article in the Toronto Star in 1967. I took from that article that the Star believed the world would be a better place without Israel. This, after the 1967 war when 5 Arab countries attacked Israel. The powers that be were worried about oil. Not now. Now it is just a pathological hate for Jews and Israel.
Knowing this endemic, systemic, innate hate exits, why does Israel try to placate the west, especially America and of course the UN? Why does Israel choose to appease those who want her destruction?
If Israel is going to appease then at least appease them from the entire country: from the river to the sea: Israeli sovereignty.
Mark Levin Erupts After Trump Convictions: “The Democrat Party Is the New Confederacy! They Hate the Constitution!… That’s Right! It was the Old Confederacy and Now It’s the New Confederacy!” (VIDEO 16:53) By Jim Hoft
June 3, 2024 7:45 am – FOX News host, legal expert, and author Mark Levin opened his Sunday show discussing the Democrat Party’s latest attempt to overthrow the US Constitution.
On Thursday, a Soros-funded DA, a Trump-hating Stalinist judge, and a far-left cherry-picked jury in far-left Manhattan convicted President Trump of committing election crimes in 2016 by a payment in 2017.
The crooked DA charged Trump with 34 felonies that included accounting entries, and the court has yet to define the actual criminal act that took place.
The court also restricted the defendant’s rights to speak out against the lawfare sham or the corrupt judge whose daughter allegedly made millions off of the trial.
Hillary Clinton committed an identical act in 2016 but was not prosecuted by a Marxist Manhattan judge.
Mark Levin compared this latest unconstitutional Democrat act to their unconstitutional acts prior to the US Civil War.
Mark Levin: This is so much bigger, so much bigger than the rules of evidence and so forth. What am I talking about? The Democrat Party. The Democrat Party is cheering what took place. Their surrogates are cheering what took place. Joe Biden went to a microphone and lied about what took place and then sneered after it. This is part and parcel of their war on the Constitution almost from day one.
This is the party that supported slavery. This is the party that supported ‘separate but equal.’ That is segregation. This is the party that supported Jim Crow. This is the party that supports and embraces American Marxism, which rejects the Constitution and the Founders and the framers. They use the 14th Amendment in order to try and prevent Donald Trump from running for President. And this is what they do. And that’s what happened in New York.
Let me put it to you bluntly. South Carolina was the point in which the Constitution came under attack, came to a head, that resulted in the Civil War.
New York is the new South Carolina. That is the Confederacy. What do I mean by that?
I’m not arguing here that there will be a violent Civil War. I don’t know what comes. Nobody does. What I’m arguing here is the Civil War was about slavery and about the attack on the Constitution and the attack on the Union, the nation.
What took place in that courtroom? The jury should never have been impaneled. A Soros prosecutor and a Biden judge in effect decided that they were going to launch a war against our constitutional construct. How so? By nullifying the due process clause of the Constitution and the Fifth Amendment, by nullifying the due process clause that applies to the States through one of the post-civil war amendments, the 14th Amendment.
And if this stands, the consequences will be very dire for the future of this country in the Constitution. Let me put it to you this way. New process goes back to the Magna Carta of 1215. But the phrase itself appears in a statute that was passed in Britain to incorporate the Magna Carta in 1354, and that was during the reign of King Edward III…
…And therein, ladies and gentlemen, is the bottom line. Why do I want this case to get before the Supreme Court so they have the opportunity, whether they take it or not, to give us our due process clause back, to give us our Equal Protection Clause back?
It’s not up to a prosecutor and a judge, a rogue prosecutor and a rogue judge, for that matter, to destroy and nullify the due process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment or the Equal Protection Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment.
We have the same Democrat Party that rejected the Constitution, the same Democrat Party that fought the due process clause, that fought the Equal Protection Clause, the same Democrat Party that after the Civil War, despite the Fifth Amendment, despite the Civil War Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, still supported segregation, Still supported eugenics, still supported and back Jim Crow.
And nobody’s a better figure, illustration of that, than Joe Biden. Now they do it for different reasons, and they do it in a different way. But it doesn’t change who they are and what they are. They hate the Constitution as they must, as they adopt an increasingly aggressive Marxist ideology. And this party is an autocratic party. It doesn’t care how it gets power.
What was done to Donald Trump in that courtroom, in addition to everything you heard, is an attempt to nullify the federal Constitution, due process, equal protection. That’s what took place.
The Democrat Party is the new Confederacy. That’s right. It was the old Confederacy, now it’s the new Confederacy. Reverse federalism, where a judge and a prosecutor steal the jurisdictional power of the federal government, and all that implies the Constitution, federal election laws, and these entire processes, that is reverse federalism, that is nullification, that is the new Confederacy. That’s what Joe Biden, the old Confederate, and that’s what his Marxist supporters now support. This needs to be fought. We’ll be right back.
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Jonathan Pollard: The Next October 7th in Judea and Samaria? [14:00] Machon Shilo
Jun 2, 2024 – Discussion between former Prisoner of Zion, Jonathan Pollard and the head of Machon Shilo, Rabbi David Bar-Hayim
Will Donald Trump be assassinated? View Jonathan Pollard’s assessment at this link
Bidens Ceasefire Speech the Most Hostile Ever Made Caroline Glick
June 2, 2024 JNS TV – President Biden proposes a ceasefire framework that ensures Israel’s defeat in its war against Hamas and Hezbollah.
Israel’s Great Strategic Failure By Michael Makovsky
It wasn’t October 7. It’s the continuing avoidance of military action against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
30 May 2024 – It has become conventional wisdom after Oct. 7 that Israel for years had the wrong policy toward Gaza. While the unfathomable catastrophe of that day has rightly forced a critical examination of all the factors that led to it, it’s arguable that Israel’s broad pre-Oct. 7 policy toward Gaza, in contrast to its strategic conception and military preparation, was at least understandable, if not correct. In contrast, there has been less criticism of Israel’s policy toward Hezbollah in Lebanon over the past two decades. Not only does the policy toward the northern front raise even more troubling questions than Gaza, but also, now more than ever, it looks like a major strategic failure.
Ever since Hamas took control of Gaza by force in 2007, Israel has fought several small wars with the genocidal terrorist organization, in response to rocket attacks from the Strip: in 2008-09, 2012, 2014, and 2021. There were also shorter Israeli military campaigns against the Gaza-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in 2022 and 2023. In each of these conflicts, Israel would have been justified to enter Gaza and destroy Hamas in self-defense, but never felt so compelled—until Oct. 7.
It has been frequently reported that Israel, or at least its military intelligence agency, had a faulty strategic conception, the so-called “konceptzia,” that Hamas was deterred for now and more focused on governing Gaza than on attacking Israel. Many pundits in the Israeli and American media, who are overwhelmingly hostile to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, contend he was driven to prop up Hamas over the years with the help of Qatari money in order to divide the Palestinians and reduce pressure for a Palestinian state in the West Bank. Netanyahu, who has waged several wars against Hamas, has repeatedly denied this claim. While there have been plenty of leaks in the media already, Israeli military and government probes are expected to reveal what the military intelligence’s konceptzia was, what was motivating Netanyahu and other Israeli political and military leaders, and what contributed to the IDF inadequately preparing for, and/or ignoring signals of, a major Hamas attack.
In the meantime, it’s worth exploring why Israel did not invade Gaza and uproot Hamas from power years ago, based on the premise that Oct. 7 was not inevitable.
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The threat from Gaza, however challenging, appeared increasingly manageable to most Israeli military and civilian leaders, despite the short wars with Hamas and PIJ. This misplaced confidence appears to have been partly driven by an overreliance on technology and missile defense. The 2011 deployment of Iron Dome, Israel’s 90%-plus-effective, short-range air defense system, seemingly minimized the rocket threat. With Iron Beam—a laser version that will be at the very least a powerful supplement to Iron Dome—soon to be deployed, Israel believed it was poised to have an even better counter to rockets fired from Gaza. One Israeli military expert told me a few years ago that once Iron Beam was deployed Israel won’t care what happens inside Gaza.
Hamas’ subterranean (tunnel) threat, which already seemed significant a decade ago, was thought neutralized with the installation along the border of underground sensors and barriers. Israel also believed it had neutralized the threat of a land invasion by installing an expensive fence with sensors and cameras. Moreover, the Israeli Air Force continued to operate at will in Gaza, often successfully killing Hamas and PIJ commanders and destroying terrorist infrastructure with precision strikes.
Secure in the belief that these measures had militarily neutralized the Hamas threat, Israel’s civilian and military leaders were mostly averse to destroying Hamas and removing it from power in Gaza.
Israel remained loath to reoccupy Gaza, which it occupied in 1967 and from which it withdrew in 2005, out of concern that any attempt to do so would result in significant Israeli military casualties. Worse, it would bog Israel down in an unwanted occupation of Palestinians in what was viewed as a secondary or tertiary theater compared to the far more potent and immediate threat of Hezbollah to its north and Iran’s nuclear program. Also, Israel had tried its hand at shaping domestic Arab political arrangements in Lebanon in 1982, where it failed spectacularly, and its leaders opposed trying it again ever since. Further, Israeli leaders understood that such an effort in Gaza would be met by fierce international opposition. Indeed, it faced such opposition every time it launched a military campaign in retaliation for Hamas or PIJ firing rockets.
Moreover, when it comes to who could or would responsibly rule Gaza post-Hamas without threatening Israel, there simply never were serious candidates. Egypt did not want Gaza back after losing it to Israel in the 1967 war. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat wisely sought every inch of Sinai and not one inch of Gaza in Egypt’s peace agreement with Israel four decades ago. After the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) spectacular rout at the hands of Hamas two years after Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza, Israeli governments increasingly doubted they could rely on the PA to govern the Strip. The PA’s endemic mismanagement, corruption, and radicalism helped spawn overwhelming support for Hamas among its West Bank populace, and its financial rewarding of terrorism is especially anathema to the Israeli political right.
So Israel resigned itself to what some of its leaders call “managing the conflict.” That has meant “mowing the lawn,” or periodic military campaigns to degrade Hamas and PIJ after they conducted—or planned to conduct—rocket barrages, and facilitating economic assistance, in recent years from Qatar, when necessary. This wasn’t really a strategy, but a policy of making lemonade out of the available lemons. If Israel had no clear endgame it’s because none existed, beyond perhaps waiting for Hamas to collapse one day. Still, the success of this approach depended on a basic, eminently achievable condition: the IDF’s ability to defend the 32-mile Gazan border. Of course, on Oct. 7, the IDF utterly failed to do just that, for reasons reported and to be determined.
Nevertheless, events since Oct. 7 largely corroborate Israel’s previous reluctance to topple Hamas from power in Gaza.
“I Just Donated $300k To Trump” by Shaun Maguire
SATURDAY, JUN 01, 2024 – 05:10 AM – I just donated $300k to Trump. I’m prepared to lose friends. Here’s why.
Back in 2016 I had drunk the media Kool-Aid and was scared out of my mind about Trump. As such I donated to Hilary Clinton’s campaign and voted for her.
By 2020 I was disillusioned and didn’t vote – I didn’t like either option.
Now, in 2024, I believe this is one of the most important elections of my lifetime, and I’m supporting Trump.
I know that I’ll lose friends for this. Some will refuse to do business with me. The media will probably demonize me, as they have so many others before me. But despite this, I still believe it’s the right thing to do.
I refuse to live in a society where people are afraid to speak.
The 2016 Election
I’m going to start off with something provocative, but I think it leads to a different take on the most controversial Trump issue, which is obviously January 6th. So here goes nothing.
I believe the 2016 election was manipulated to hurt Hilary Clinton and to help Donald Trump.
Hilary Clinton herself believes this, she has denied the 2016 election result dozens of times, and still does to this day. Plot twist: I agree with her! Look into Guccifer 2.0 which was the “hacker group” that strategically leaked her emails (through Wikileaks) in a drip campaign at just the right moments. Turns out it was the Russian GRU. And remember all those fake news and bot farms? These incidents are the tip of the spear — some of the publicly known incidents. There was extreme manipulation happening during the 2016 election.
Before proceeding, please watch at least 30 seconds of this video. It’s “24 straight minutes of Democrats denying election results.”
Russia (and others) interfering in the 2016 election was nothing new, this happens in every election, everywhere in the world. Obviously.
But for me, as someone that used to work in National Security, Russia’s implicit support for Trump made me deathly afraid of him getting elected as President.
I was wrong, and Russia miscalculated. President Trump turned out to be a master of foreign policy and particularly strong towards Russia. If you’ve never seen it before, please watch this two minute clip from Trump at a NATO breakfast 5 years ago.
If you’re too lazy, Trump told Germany that they’re a) owned by Russia via their energy dependence b) financing Russia’s war machine by buying their energy c) not investing enough in defense, investing only 1% of GDP, which was below the 2% NATO commitment, meanwhile the US was investing 4.2% of GDP. And yet the world said he’s owned by Russia?
For other Trump foreign policy wins, he: a) signed the Abraham Accords b) successfully put Iran in the penalty box, which the Biden administration immediately unwound and c) he helped India see the dangers of having their comms networks controlled by China resulting in Huawei and TikTok bans there.
My “radicalization” towards the center
August 16th, 2021 was the day I knew I could never support Joe Biden or any of the senior officials in his administration. This was the day that Afghans fell to their deaths from US C-17 airplanes at the Kabul International Airport, or KAIA as ISAF forces referred to it.
Back in 2012 I deployed to Afghanistan working for DARPA. I used to fly out of KAIA at least weekly, usually taking a Blackhawk to Bagram Airfield (BAF), but sometimes jumping on a C-130 down to Kandahar (KAF).
I’m not going to go into all of the details here, but this was personal for me — as it was for anyone that served in Afghanistan. Most have the wrong impression of what happened there. Afghanistan wasn’t Iraq. And real progress had been made. It took roughly 15 years to stabilize most of Afghanistan, but the ISAF coalition had gotten it to the place that little girls were going to school in Kabul, sometimes walked there by their mothers who weren’t even wearing Burkas anymore. All of this was unimaginable a decade prior.
May 31 2024 – The US is entering uncharted waters.
Political prosecutions are what brought down the Roman Republic.
Here’s how.
Donald Trump is the first US president to be indicted, let alone ruled a felon by a US court.
The court system of any society is designed to be a neutral arbiter of disputes;
Trust in the courts is crucial to prevent spirals of retributive violence.
In Rome, an office holder was immune from prosecution while holding office
A consul could not be prosecuted during his 1 year term
Same for a “proconsul” = a consul w/ term extended, usually serving as a general or provincial governor
In 50 BC, Julius Caesar was a Proconsul.
Caesar’s enemies – Cato and friends – were publicly vowing to prosecute Caesar when his term ended
Caesar had been a successful general for nearly 10 years, conquered all of Gaul
Cato claimed they had 10 years worth of crimes to prosecute him for.
Caesar wanted to run for Consul again, to renew his immunity.
Unfortunately, to run for consul in Rome, you have to lay down your proconsular office & enter the city.
Caesar would have to become a private citizen in Rome for several months
(Plenty of time for a prosecution)
Caesar asked the authorities for an exception – to “run in absentia”
(in recognition of his achievements on behalf of Rome)
Thus he could keep immunity over the transition to new office
In 52, a law was passed to allow this
But by 50, Caesar’s enemies had unwound the law.
Cato & Friends now forced Caesar into a dilemma:
Either
a) Lay down your office & face prosecution,
OR
b) start a Civil War
[Ed.: It is most likely that they will do with Trump as they did with Caesar. The American People will do NOTHING! The entire country should have been on the streets immediately after Merchant’s fake trial. NOTHING!! The American People should have risen up the moment the 2020 election was stolen. NOTHING!! Rome is no more and America is actually already gone as well.]
The Hamas Digital Propaganda Machine Inciting Fear & FUELING Antisemitism [14:04] Yair Pinto
Jun 1, 2024 • Join Yair Pinto as he visits the Israel National Library to unveil the Hamas social media misinformation campaign to brainwash the world to support its agenda. Learn how Hamas has shifted public opinion and media narratives to gain sympathy while villainizing Israel as the aggressor despite the horrific atrocities it committed on October 7th. What can be done to win the battle for truth and people’s minds?
Jonathan Pollard: Will Donald Trump be assassinated? [2:10] Machon Shilo
July 1, 2024 – Discussion between former Prisoner of Zion, Jonathan Pollard and the head of Machon Shilo, Rabbi David Bar-Hayim
Jonathan Pollard: “Brothers in Arms” Are Not Our Brothers [21:21] Machon Shilo
June 1, 2024 – Discussion between former Prisoner of Zion, Jonathan Pollard and the head of Machon Shilo, Rabbi David Bar-Hayim
Jonathan Pollard: Expel the Traitors from Israeli College Campuses [5:35] Machon Shilo
June 1, 2024 – Discussion between former Prisoner of Zion, Jonathan Pollard and the head of Machon Shilo, Rabbi David Bar-Hayim
A disgusting corruption of American justice Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer
Everything about the case and the way he oversaw it smelled of mendacity and corruption. Opinion.
Jun 1, 2024, 11:24 PM (GMT+3) – We have witnessed one of the most shameful, disgusting episodes in American history. If I had submitted the outline of the Trump trial to a publishing house, they would have rejected the book and said “Even readers of fiction novels will never believe your premises, Rav. Your effort at fiction-writing unfortunately descends right with that O.J. Simpson manuscript about ‘how he would have killed Nicole if he had done it.’ Actually, it is more bogus than the O.J. travesty. Sorry, Rav. Try submitting on another subject that is more believable, like Androids on the 37th parallel.”
As my readers know, I practiced law at three of America’s most prominent law firms, clerked for one of America’s most prominent federal appeals court judges, and was Chief Articles Editor of UCLA Law Review. I also was a law professor for 16 years. By now, I know American law quite well. And I am a refugee from New York City, Brooklyn born and bred, Columbia University brainwashed and reeducated. I know that town and its players.
As so many others have noted, inter alia:
1. Even if President Trump had committed business fraud, it would have been a misdemeanor, and the limitations statute had run. The reasons for statutes of limitation are: (i) after a period of time, memories fade; (ii) after enough time, evidence innocently gets misplaced and lost; and (iii) at some point, every person is entitled to repose, peace of mind. You can’t have anyone, even if a tortfeasor, who commits a wrongful deed at his or her age 25 and then gets served with papers for that malfeasance at age 85. There comes a point in time where, if the government has not acted, time is up. That is a flip-side derivative of the premise that justice delayed is justice denied. It works both ways. So any misdemeanor alleged against President Trump for the “hush money” paperwork was irrelevant.
2. To salvage the reality that the paperwork was time-expired, the New York George Soros District Attorney tried absurdly to link the “hush money” payment to a federal crime that is not time-limited.
3. At no point did the D.A. tell anyone exactly what the federal crime was. Everyone was in the dark throughout the trial. He did not specify it in the indictment or at trial. This is itself dirty. It is straight out of the days of the NKVD (later the KGB) in the Soviet Union: “Arrest the guy meantime; we’ll figure out the crime soon.” Or Lavrentiy Beria: “Show me the man; I’ll show you the crime.”
4. The Soros D.A. ran for office in a rabidly anti-Trump Manhattan county on a promise to get Trump. This is evil: “If you vote for me, I will bring about this one man’s personal destruction.”
5. The jury pool was taken from that wildly anti-Trump county. Consider: If you remember the Rodney King incident and trial back in 1991-1992 Los Angeles, there was a state case brought in Simi Valley, California, against the police involved. The jury found the cops not guilty. Simi Valley had an unusually high percentage of residents who were in law enforcement or otherwise related to police. Many L.A.-area police officers moved there after retiring. The jury, composed from such a pool, predictably found for the defendants.
Does Biden reject Israel’s right to self-defense? Caroline Glick
The administration’s effort to stymie military action, coupled with its continued criticism as to how Israel is conducting a just war against a terror group, puts the Jewish state at risk in the region and the world. Opinion.
Jun 1, 2024, 9:51 PM (GMT+3) (JNS) – The most basic function of all governments is to provide for the collective defense of the governed. The most basic foundation of sovereignty is a state’s right to defend its country from aggression. Take away a state’s right to self-defense, and you’ve effectively transformed it into a non-sovereign state.
Six Biden administration actions and policies subvert Israel’s right to self-defense. Whether analysed separately or all together, they make it difficult to avoid the conclusion that the administration’s ultimate end is to undermine to the point of ending Israel’s right to self-defense, and so end Israel’s sovereignty, for all intents and purposes.
The six policies the administration is undertaking relate to the battle in Rafah, Gaza’s border town with Egypt; its posture vis-à-vis the International Criminal Court amidst the ICC’s stated intention of issuing arrest warrants against Israel’s leaders on false war crimes charges; the administration’s effort to coerce Israel into accepting Palestinian Authority control over post-war Gaza as a stepping stone towards the swift establishment of a Palestinian state in Gaza, Judea and Samaria, and parts of Jerusalem; the administration’s policies in relation to Saudi-Israeli normalization; and finally, the administration’s determination to block Israel from taking any effective action to prevent Iran from building a nuclear arsenal.
- Rafah
Sunday, the IDF carried out an airstrike targeting two senior Hamas terrorists in Rafah. Some 45 people Hamas asserts were civilians were also killed in the bombing. Immediately after the incident, the administration harshly criticized Israel for the operation. Vice President Kamala Harris said “the word tragic doesn’t even begin to describe” the loss of human life in the incident. Other senior officials voiced similar revulsion at Israel’s alleged killing of innocent civilians as a result of its killing of two senior terrorists. The U.S. State Department announced it would investigate the incident, which it referred to as “heartbreaking.”
Within moments of the airstrike, IDF forces on the ground were reporting that the fire that caused the deaths of the additional Palestinians was sparked by a secondary explosion. Early assessments were that the explosion was caused by Hamas rockets hidden adjacent to the encampment.
It was also clear, immediately after the bombing, that the operation was not carried out in a humanitarian safe zone, as Hamas alleged. At Israel’s urging, in recent weeks nearly a million residents of Rafah fled to the zones, which the IDF set up to protect them from the crossfire of battle. The bombing was carried out in the war zone, where civilians had already left.
It was also known immediately after the incident that the Air Force used the smallest ordnance permitted to limit to the greatest degree the possibility of the attack causing additional deaths beyond the two terror commanders Israel targeted.
In the two days after the incident, the IDF released intercepted phone conversations between people on the ground who stated outright that the fire in the tents that caused the additional deaths was the result of a secondary explosion of Hamas munitions. Israel played no role in the carnage. Hamas was entirely responsible for everything that had happened.
Given the fact that Israel’s careful prosecution of the war has led to the smallest ratio of civilians to militants killed in the history of modern war, its ally, the United States, could have been expected to give it the benefit of the doubt and not rush to pile on international condemnations of the Jewish state based entirely on Hamas footage and propaganda.
But the fact is that for months, Washington did everything possible to block Israel from carrying out its vital operation in Rafah, knowing all along that Israel cannot defeat Hamas if it leaves the international border under Hamas’s control. The administration’s latest effort to delegitimize Israel’s operation in Rafah by embracing Hamas’s quickly discredited rendition of events follows the administration’s now-established pattern of undermining the operation.
The administration’s tireless efforts to first block Israel from seizing control over Rafah and then embrace Hamas’s lies to criminalize the Jewish state signal that its opposition is not about humanitarian concerns.
If the United States successfully coerces Israel to abstain from controlling Rafah, including the border zone, then Hamas will survive. And if Hamas stays in power, Israel will lose the war. So by undermining Israel’s operation in Rafah, the administration is protecting Hamas from destruction while effectively criminalizing Israel’s war to protect itself from further aggression against Hamas.
Caroline B. Glick is the senior contributing editor of Jewish News Syndicate and host of the “Caroline Glick Show” on JNS. She is also the diplomatic commentator for Israel’s Channel 14, as well as a columnist for Newsweek. Glick is the senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy in Washington and a lecturer at Israel’s College of Statesmanship.
1,000 New Yorkers Were Murdered While Prosecutors Went After Trump (VIDEO 1:57) by Daniel Greenfield
Criminals were set loose and people died, while prosecutors pursued a political opponent.
May 31, 2024 – While New Yorkers were being killed, robbed, and raped, New York prosecutors spent their time chasing Trump to find him guilty on 34 counts of being a Republican.
Trump Found Guilty of Running Against Democrats by Daniel Greenfield
The guilty verdict does not make Trump a felon; it makes Manhattan a Banana Republic..
May 31, 2024 – After deliberating for 9 hours, a jury of Trump’s Manhattan Trump-hating peers found him guilty of a crime that doesn’t exist anywhere in the legal codes, invented by a DA who had promised not to prosecute armed robberies but chose instead to prosecute a non-disclosure agreement.
On Wednesday, while the jury spent a whole four and a half hours deliberating how quickly they would convict former President Trump of all the charges, a 15-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl were shot in the city. Two hours later, a man was shot while sitting in his car in Manhattan.
No one in the Manhattan DA’s office cared since it was too busy trying to nail Trump over a payment that happened eight years ago and which did not involve any actual illegalities.
None of the 8 murders, 54 rapes, 204 burglaries, 303 robberies, 535 felony assaults or 891 grand larcenies that occurred in New York City the same week as the Trump trial garnered a fraction of the attention. That was bad news for the 26 shooting victims, include the 15-year-old girl, and the 54 rape victims, not to mention the victims in the other 110 sex crime victims that all had to take a backseat to a Democrat kangaroo court cutting a 2024 presidential election ad.
Toward the end, the Biden campaign even dispatched an angry and belligerent Robert De Niro (Dirty Grandpa, Little Fockers) in a COVID mask to yell something about Trump outside the courthouse. The prosecution’s case in the courthouse was little more coherent than that, but it didn’t matter with a jury that would have found Trump guilty sooner if it wasn’t for the free food.
After waiting right before the weekend, the jury announced that he was guilty. Of something.
Neither the prosecution, nor Judge Merchan, a partisan activist barely more able to control himself than De Niro, who had gotten into shouting matches with lawyers and even witnesses, let alone the jury could quantify what the actual crime was involved in covering up something that was not itself a crime. The prosecution had failed to prove that Trump had been involved in the cover-up, but even more fundamentally had failed to prove that anything had happened or that having sex with Stormy Daniels was a crime. Its only witness to the contrary was a self-confessed liar and thief who should not have even been allowed to testify against Trump.
The trial that cost taxpayers countless millions as part of a federal-city investigation which began with an illegal FBI raid on Trump’s corrupt lawyer back in 2018 and a Manhattan investigation that ran for 4 years, may have been the longest case of election interference on record. Bogged down by such minor problems as the lack of an actual criminal charge, DA Alvin Bragg, who had been personally disavowed to me even by a Soros representative, claimed that giving a slattern money counted as falsifying business records because it’s not a legal expense.
Contrast the whole thing to Hunter Biden drawing on a shared bank account with Joe Biden to pay hookers and having the secret service show up to politely ask him to be more discreet.
When Hillary Clinton and the DNC paid a British ex-spy to falsely claim that Trump had been cavorting with urinating prostitutes in Moscow through a lawyer, the FBI didn’t raid his offices, and Hillary wasn’t charged with falsifying business records, the whole thing was settled with a low six-figure fine through the FEC. With Democrats, the New York legal establishment dismisses crimes while with Republicans, it invents them just in time for the next election.
The illegal Trump jury verdict came a day after a surprisingly unified Supreme Court led by Justice Sonia Sotomayor rebuked New York State for targeting the NRA for political reasons. In the middle of a runaway crime wave, New York’s Attorney General Letita James and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg have spent years and massive amounts of resources pursuing conservatives for purely political reasons during a period where over 1,000 people were murdered in New York.
But what’s a thousand corpses when Democrat prosecutors can count coup on Trump?
Neither of the New York cases (or any of the state or federal cases.) were ever about the alleged crimes, but about Trump. The only actual crime in these cases was being Trump and the only actual conviction was for being Trump. More broadly, the investigations, trials and verdicts only exist as a partisan campaign to illegally influence the 2024 presidential election.
The guilty verdict does not make Trump a felon, it makes Manhattan a banana republic.
And the Trump trials have exposed the banana republics across the country where lawless leftists have hijacked the legal system and corrupted the political process to suppress political dissent. Not only have they decriminalized crime and unleashed criminals who roam the streets robbing, mugging and killing at will, but they have criminalized any opposition to their regimes.
The two are not contradictory but complementary. The American public is miserable. No amount of media lies has shaken the reality of going to a supermarket and seeing that the prices have doubled. And all the gaslighting about crime statistics can’t confuse the awareness that street crime has become an everyday occurrence by thugs who show no fear of cops or courts.
Rather than abandon their destructive policies, leftists silence critics and lock up opponents.
New crimes, such as “election denial”, “misinformation” and “doing donuts over the letters BLM on a street” dot the system. Shoot two teenagers in Manhattan and it’s no big deal, but do business in Manhattan while being a Republican and the system will not rest until it gets you.
The Trump trial was not a trial, it was a politically motivated lynching with no legal basis.
The goal is to smear an opposing political candidate, drain his bank accounts and cut nonstop election ads on every cable news network through hoax trials funded by taxpayers. It’s no coincidence that Trump’s election calendar has been packed by an equally busy court calendar.
Unable to win an election at the polls, the Democrats are trying to win an election in the courts.
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Verdicts Don’t Have To Be “Respected” In a Free Country by Daniel Greenfield
Only in totalitarian countries do you have to “respect” verdicts.
June 1, 2024 – In response to a Democrat prosecutor, a Democrat activist and a Democrat jury finding former President Trump guilty of a crime that doesn’t exist based on crimes that they couldn’t define (even right down to the jury finding), Joe Biden and the rest of the party has offered up two meaningless mantras.
“No one is above the law”
and
“We must respect the verdict.”
I already addressed the first mantra. No one is above the law except Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Eric Holder, Hunter Biden, Barney Frank, Al Gore, and every 2020 BLM rioter. Not to mention every 2023-2024 Hamas rioter and the 2017 inauguration Democrat rioters.
Let’s talk about “respect mah verdict”.
In a free country verdicts don’t have to be “respected”. They can be appealed, challenged or just denounced as wrong. Only in totalitarian countries do you have to “respect” verdicts or else.
Americans have a proud tradition of not respecting verdicts. Sometimes verdicts are right and sometimes they’re wrong. Declaring that a verdict is wrong is not the same thing as assaulting a courthouse (the way BLMers did for months in Portland) or barring immigration authorities from functioning.
Democrats and lefties reacted to the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict by rejecting it. When the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, they reacted with violent attacks on pro-life centers, protests targeting Supreme Court justices at their homes and proposals (still ongoing) to pack the Supreme Court.
It’s fine to hate a court’s verdict. The corrosive hypocrisy comes when you play “Respect mah authority” when your side wins and “Rise up!” when you lose.
And that corrosive hypocrisy pervades the way the Left relates to power. When power is held by someone else, it’s inherently illegitimate and must be overthrown. And when it holds power, then it’s a sacred trust that must be protected in order to save democracy.
There’s nothing American, democratic or patriotic about this corrupt double standard. It’s the worldview of a radical revolutionary movement that literally rejects the idea that it can ever lose or be out of power because its metric is not ‘systemic’, but ‘ideological’. It doesn’t care about democracy, the constitution or the rule of law.
And that would be fine if it had the common decency to admit that. But it plays the dishonest game of asserting the sacred supremacy of the systems and laws it rejects when it’s in power while plotting to destroy them the rest of the time.
The authoritarian/revolutionary bait and switch is endemic to leftist systems and is a sickening display.
The Left doesn’t respect verdicts except when it issues them.
A consistent approach is that verdicts don’t have to be respected in a free country. The Left doesn’t want a free country. It’s an authoritarian movement that pretends to be liberationist until the moment it seizes power.
Neither it nor its pretensions nor its authority deserve any respect.
Israel Under Fire – Detention, Prosecution, and Punishment following the October 7 Massacre Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch
May 29, 2024 – Captured members of Hamas’s elite Nukhba Force in an Israeli prison (Israel Prison Service)
Executive Summary
On the morning of October 7, 2023, more than 3,000 terrorists from Gaza, including members of Hamas and other terror organizations, invaded Israel and conducted a heinous massacre. The terrorists were joined in the massacre by Gaza residents. In response, Israel launched a war against the Palestinian terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip and in Judea and Samaria. During the war in Gaza thousands of terrorists were killed and thousands more were detained, including terrorists who participated in the massacre and other terrorist activities.
This chapter discusses the legal frameworks and complexities associated with detaining, prosecuting, and punishing these terrorists. It offers an overview of the relevant provisions of Israeli law, the law applicable in Judea and Samaria, and where necessary, references to international law.
While intuitively any decent society would demand the full punishment of the planners and participants in the October 7 massacre, in the current context there could be a substantial complicating factor: as part of the invasion, the Gazan terrorists took 253 people hostage. While some of them were released, 125 hostages remain in captivity.1
Despite the heinous nature of the attack, Israel seeks to maintain its position among the liberal democracies of the West, fighting terror within the framework of the law as well as the international humanitarian norms and principles, even while its enemies intentionally and openly breach such law, norms, and principles. Similar to the punishment that most Israelis would have imposed on Nazis, most of the Israeli public would support imposing and implementing the death penalty on most, if not all, of the terrorists who planned and participated in the October 7 massacre. The death sentence for these terrorists would be the only moral punishment for people who committed such horrific genocidal acts.
Dershowitz: It’s a Day After the Ruling and I Still Don’t Know What the Crime Is – Merchan Took This a Step Further than Stalin – Supreme Court Should See This Case and Reverse This Case By Jim Hoft
June 1, 2024 10:40 am – Harvard law professor and author Alan Dershowitz weighed in on the Trump convictions by a corrupt court, a biased jury, and and criminal judge on Thursday.
Dershowitz pointed out what all of us are wondering – we still don’t know the crime President Trump allegedly committed.
As the Democrat operatives’ case against President Trump wound down last week the prosecution still had not defined the alleged criminal act that President Trump allegedly committed. But it didn’t matter. The court was ready to find Trump guilty and send him to prison.
Corrupt anti-Trump Judge Juan Merchan told the jury during instructions before their deliberation that they can consider whether the defendant violated any of the following laws:
1. Federal Employees’ Compensation Act (FECA) (federal election campaign law)
2. Falsification of Business Records
3. Tax Laws
Judge Merchan also told the jury they need not agree to what crime was committed. They just had to feel like a criminal act was committed to find President Trump guilty. This was one of the greatest bastardizations of the justice system in US history.
We still don’t know what the jury decided. We still don’t know what crime was committed. It’s been two days now and the court has not defined what law was broken. The judge and jury never told us!
Alan Dershowitz pointed this out on Friday.
Alan Dershowitz: I want to say right now, I side with President Trump’s assessment of the judicial system more than President Biden’s assessment. I’m a liberal Democrat. I voted for Biden. Biden is dead wrong. We should not respect the legal system that is rigged. In my book, Get Trump, I predicted months before this case ever came to trial that it was a foregone conclusion there’d be a conviction. A biased judge, a biased jury, a biased prosecutor, a man who ran for office on the theory of, let’s find a crime to prosecute Trump for, and they couldn’t find the crime, so they made it up.
We’re now a day after the verdict. I’ve known criminal law. I’ve been involved in criminal law for 60 years. I still don’t know what the crime is. Was he found guilty of intending to violate tax laws, to violate the federal election laws, to defraud voters? I still don’t know. And we’re a day after this. This is the most outrageous case. Everybody knows the quote from Lavrentiy Beria, the head of the KGB under Stalin, when Beria said to Stalin, “Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.”
He tried to find the crime, and he couldn’t. So he made up the crime. He took it a step further than Stalin and Lavrentiy Beria. This case will go down in history as one of the most abusive prosecutions since the trial of Aaron Burr back in ’18, whatever. This is a stain on our criminal justice system.
Professor Emeritus Dershowitz says the Supreme Court should overturn this case.
ONE LAW FOR ELITES, ANOTHER FOR THE MASSES [41:45] ISRAEL UPDATE
May 31, 2024 – Turmoil in Israel over a video of a reservist soldier addressing Prime Minister Netanyahu, and telling him that the army his behind him, but also calling on Minister of Security Gallant to resign if he is not determined to win this war, and that if he does not, the army will not follow him. The press filled with outrage against this “sedition.” An investigation was promptly launched. Meanwhile, the newly elected leader of the tiny Labor Party, General Yair Golan, called on reservists not to report to duty until the government calls for new elections. Mike and Gadi discuss. (We apologize for the poor sound quality on Gadi’s side).
Trump Verdict Won’t Matter, CIA Preparing To RIG Another US Election!! [38:42] Stephen Gardner
Many 30, 2024 – Stephen Gardner and Mike Benz https://x.com/MikeBenzCyber go deep on the Trump Trial scam and why a verdict won’t end in Trump’s favor. however, regardless of the outcome he will rise in the polls. We discuss the Georgia election scam. The Hunter Biden Laptop and the filth of the Biden family. Mike Benz concisely communicates why the Biden’s are working so hard for Ukraine. I was shocked. Has the USA been hijacked by the CIA? YES!!
– **Missing Ballot Images in Georgia**: Fulton County audit revealed 380,761 missing ballot images from election day and over 17,000 from the recount audit. Questions arise about the existence of these ballots and discrepancies between ballots and votes.
– **Donald Trump Trials**: Concerns over judge’s actions in Trump trials, including giving 50 pages of jury instructions without providing a copy to the jury, and stating that unanimous conviction on the same crime is not necessary. Criticism of the trial proceeding without a specific crime.
– **Hunter Biden Laptop**: Discussion on the Hunter Biden laptop and the implications of the 51 former intelligence officers’ lies to deceive Americans and install Joe Biden as president. Claims of a psyop run by intelligence agents, possibly involving the CIA.
- **Biden Family and Ukraine**: Examination of the Biden family’s connection to Ukraine and its potential link to the current US support in the Ukraine war. Speculation about CIA involvement.
Gloat While You Still Can: “This Is The ‘All-In-Lost’ Moment” by James Howard Kunstler
“The hour is much later than you think…on multiple fronts: Financial, political, medical and geopolitical.” – Edward Dowd
FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2024 04:20 PM – In the pre-gloat hours before the verdict in Judge Juan Merchan’s courtroom, Lawfare caporegime Andrew Weissmann (“Mueller’s Pitbull”) confessed Valley Girl style from his MSNBC clubhouse perch, “. . . I mean, I am, like, now I have a man-crush on him, he is such a great judge!” Bromance on, looks like! If the two happen to frequent the same athletic club in downtown Manhattan, Judge Merchan better be careful in the post-workout shower when he bends over to pick up the soap. The Pitbull cometh!
Of course, the Alvin Bragg victory in the artfully constructed “Stormy Daniels Payoff Case” decided late Thursday calls to question how come the Mueller Special Counsel Probe into 2016 election interference (actually run by Mr. Weissmann, due to Mr. Mueller’s declining cognitive ability) failed to spot the same web of evidence – hard as they toiled, and they had a good two years and millions of taxpayer dollars to git’er done?
My guess: too many white lawyers on the Mueller staff. Everybody knows now from watching the latest crop of television commercials that white people are unusually stupid and helpless and cannot cope with common problems without assistance from helpful people of color (POCs). So, God bless Alvin Bragg for finally fixing what Bob Mueller’s fifteen bloodhounds led by a pitbull somehow botched.
The former president is now convicted on thirty-four counts of book-keeping errors in furtherance of an alleged 2016 federal election violation that the Federal Election Commission declined to charge — that is, paying a porn star to sign a non-disclosure agreement about a sexual liaison — because it is not a crime under federal election law, and about which the head of the FEC, James E. “Trey” Trainor III, was barred by Judge Merchan from testifying on during the course of the trial for reasons yet unknown.
Of course, that is but one of a great many points of law that will merit appeal in what everybody — even some white people (people of non-color, PONCs) — knows was a case so crookedly contrived that it is fated to get tossed in the higher courts, and probably with harsh remonstrance to the degenerate officers of the court who brought it and adjudicated it. But you will have to wait on that because the mills of the law grind slowly.
Now, in the radiance of the full Woke gloat, we await Judge Merchan’s sentence, to be announced a mere few days before the Republican Convention in Milwaukee in early July. Jail time at Rikers? Home confinement (with ankle bracelet)? Severe travel restrictions? Reporting to a parole officer? Drug tests? Hey, No one is above the law! It is hard to imagine that the judge will demur from inflicting maximum humiliation on this wanton repeat violator (thirty-four times!) of book-keeping errors. It would tend to interfere with the presidential candidate’s campaign schedule, but so what? Where does it say in the Constitution that an election must be fair?
Mark Levin’s Advice to Trump’s Legal Team: ‘Try Like Hell to Get to the Supreme Court’ (VIDEO 3:21) By Mike Lachance
May. 31, 2024 9:45 pm – Mark Levin of FOX News reacted to the Trump verdict on the Sean Hannity show last night and offered advice to Trump and his legal team.
Levin is a lawyer who worked in the Reagan Justice Department.
He thinks that this case needs to go to the U.S. Supreme Court, ASAP.
Transcript via Real Clear Politics:
MARK LEVIN, FOX NEWS CHANNEL HOST: Well, I’ll say this, no crime, no jurisdiction, no due process, conflicted judge, Soros prosecutor, Manhattan jury.
You know, I’m going to tell you something, Sean, I’ve spent most of my legal career not as a former federal prosecutor, although I served as an chief of staff to an attorney general. I’ve spent most of my legal career fighting these people, suing the federal government, the DOJ, the IRS, the Treasury Department, the EPA, suing campaigns, fighting over voting rights laws and so forth.
And one thing I don’t think our audience understands and you need to understand, we have too many lawyers who are risk averse, too many lawyers who will whine and complain. I have spent 40 years sitting down with people who put on legal brass knuckles and take these bastards on in court. I’m on the — at the appellate and Supreme Court level, that’s where my focus has been my entire career.
So what they need to do now in my view is to go up the appellate chain in New York, we need to stop whining about how long that’s going to take, seek any emergency, immediate appeal that you possibly can. That’s one — one lane.
And the other lane is to try like hell to get to the Supreme Court.
People say, well, they’re not going to take it? You know what? If George Patton was said, I don’t think I can get to the Battle of the Bulge in time, we would have lost World War II. I am sick and tired of these legal defeatists.
We need to stop whining, stop complaining, we know what the hell we’re up against. It’s not news. It’s a fact.
We got to fight these people with our smarts. We have to take some risks. We need to push the edge of the envelope. I don’t mean in a way that that kooks do it, we need to look at Bush versus Gore. Why did the Supreme Court take that case from the Florida Supreme Court?
This, by the way, is the reason why Democrats and the media have been working so hard to discredit the Supreme court. Because they knew this was coming.
