COMMENTARY / OPINION
A Deal With Hamas Means Israel’s Defeat BY DANIEL GREENFIELD
Don’t believe those trying to sell it as an Israeli victory
SEP 17, 2024 5:00 PM – In the six months since terrorist supporters successfully branded their campaign to save the Hamas terrorist group as a ‘ceasefire’, the term was embraced by state governments, the Biden-Harris administration and now a growing number of American Jewish liberal groups.
Even formerly pro-Israel figures and organizations are trying to sell the idea of saving Hamas and leaving it in control of Gaza as the right thing to do and even a ‘victory’ for Israel.
Depicting an Israeli surrender to Hamas in which the Jewish State retreats from Gaza, trades thousands of terrorists for perhaps a dozen hostages, and billions in international aid pour into the coffers of Hamas while Yahya Sinwar holds a parade as a ‘victory’ takes a lot of chutzpah.
Chutzpah and utterly delusional thinking are sadly not lacking.
Some in Israel are willing to trade anything, including national survival, in exchange for the slim chance of getting some hostages back. American liberal Jewish organizations are focused on electing Kamala Harris and are willing to trade Israel for Dearborn, Michigan’s votes to do it. And the same breed of establishment hacks in Israel responsible for Oct 7 are selling the same security snake oil and making the same false promises that they have for the last 30 years.
Writing in Foreign Affairs magazine, retired Israeli Gen. Amos Yadlin, a Labor Party figure who had backed the Iran Deal, and Graham Allison, a Clinton defense official, claimed that, “A Cease-Fire Deal Now Would Be a Victory for Israel”. Yadlin and Allison blamed Netanyahu for failing to accept “a historic strategic victory for Israel” by surrendering to Hamas.
According to the two men, all of “Israel’s 13 previous prime ministers” would have also surrendered to Hamas and Israel’s negotiating team “would have accepted the terms of any of the deals that have emerged from the last three rounds of negotiations.” Why even quibble?
“At this point, what more is Netanyahu waiting for?” Yadlin and Allison demanded, before falsely claiming that the only reason there’s no deal is Netanyahu’s political ambitions.
What is Netanyahu waiting for? The same thing that FDR was waiting for in 1943.
“No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory,” Roosevelt declared after Pearl Harbor.
“Our terms to Italy are still the same as our terms to Germany and Japan – unconditional surrender,” FDR then vowed in 1943. “We have taken the initiative, and we’re not going to let go of it. We shall not settle for less than total victory.”
The D.C. political establishment and chunks of the Israeli one mock the idea of “total victory”.
Echoing the familiar Foggy Bottom meme, the op-ed dismisses that as “an elusive ‘total victory’. But that’s the thing about victory, it’s hard to come by, yet there’s nothing ambiguous about it. Actual victory, not a defeat dressed up in victory drag, is what actually ends wars and secures peace.
The proposal that Israel declare a worthless “mission accomplished” victory and surrender to Hamas is more of the same “mowing the lawn” philosophy that led to Oct 7. Hamas will regroup, rebuild and rearm, and attack again under the shield of whatever worthless deal is signed.
But it’s even worse than that.
Generals with Cognitive Dissonance by Dr. Tzvi Sadan, translated by Hillel Fendel.
September 18, 2024
Editorial note: This article was originally published in Hebrew on Monday morning, some 30 hours before hundreds of Hizbullah cell phones exploded in Lebanon.
It’s clear that even now, after everyone should have known already that there’s no difference between Hamas and the Fatah-run Palestinian Authority, that Israel’s security establishment continues to believe in the “Hamas is deterred” (mis)conception. (It should really be known as the Kaplan conception, in honor of the Kaplan St. protestors who have been demanding the return of the hostages, whereas the true goal of many of them is to bring down the government.)
Because the old conception continues to be their underlying perception, the military bigwigs are convinced that we can “calm down” our enemies if we simply give them weapons from Iran, money from Qatar, and work in Israel.
A report on Channel 13 from a week ago makes this quite clear: “The Defense Minister, the head of the Shabak, and the IDF Chief of Staff warned the Cabinet regarding the security situation in Judea and Samaria, and asked that things there be calmed down – with an emphasis on transferring money to the PA and not changing the status quo on the Temple Mount. If the situation in fact blows up, the IDF’s response will come at the expense of the combat in Gaza.” [The last sentence was meant as a warning. – HF]
There are other ways, of course, to “calm things down.” For instance, Israel could drop a bomb on the parade of Nukhba [Oct. 7th] terrorists in Jenin, or exile the residents of Hawara to Nablus, or establish new Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. But [Chief of Staff] Hertzi HaLevi, [Defense Minister Yoav] Galant, and [Shabak head Ronen] Bar would rather “calm down the PA street” just as they calmed down Gaza. They feel that, “If we just give our partners in the territories guns, money, and good jobs, for sure we’ll have quiet; if it worked so well in Gaza, why shouldn’t it work in Yosh as well? They’re the same Arabs, no?” [The last sentence is a cynical play on the claim of hawks in Israel when warning about the dangers presented by various Arab elements. – HF]
There are several other indications that the pre-Oct. 7th conception has not only not disappeared, but has actually, incredibly, strengthened over the past year. We continue to heart things like: If the Gilad Shalit deal succeeded in bringing a measure of quiet (which it did not), then it’s logical to think that a small hostage deal now will do the same, no? And if after the Disengagement/expulsion from Gush Katif we were able to return to the Philadelphi Route whenever we wanted (not), then for sure we can abandon it now and return again at the snap of our fingers, no? As the talking heads continue to make these statements, it is clear that the Kaplan conception is still alive and kicking.
This adherence to a concept that has turned out to be disconnected from reality, lacking in factual basis, and disastrous – is, among other things, the result of a belief that has developed in our circles that security assessments are a type of prophecy, and that the heads of our intelligence agencies are prophets – unfortunately, false ones. Those security chiefs who continue to adhere to the “Kaplan concept” are behaving as irrationally as members of a cult.
Many have long understood that Galant, Hertzi and Bar are stuck in their belief in the false conception – but as for me, I only really got it just recently. It happened when I heard that some in the IDF and Shabak actually want to give guns to the Palestinian Authority, and bring PA workers in to Israel, for the purpose of “quieting things down.”
“Hey,” I said to myself, “I think these guys [the heads of the Defense Ministry, IDF, and Shabak] have a bad case of cognitive dissonance.” This is a condition that deeply affects one’s judgement, and characterizes cult members, whose false beliefs often become stronger the more they are proven to be wrong and in direct contrast with reality.
Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter were apparently the first to identify this condition, in their work “When Prophecy Fails.” Their book revolved around a cult called the Seekers, whose members believed that a great flood was to happen on a particular date, and that they themselves would be saved from it by aliens on a flying saucer. The three authors studied the members before and after, and discovered that many of them, with cognitive dissonance, continued to believe in the flood and the flying saucer even after the date passed in total dryness.
These cult members endangered no one other than themselves – but the members of the “Hamas is deterred” cult, who also appear to suffer from the above syndrome, continue to speak and act as if Hamas and Fatah and other enemies can be deterred – and this endangers all of us in a most concrete manner.
My diagnosis that cognitive dissonance is harming their judgement is one of a historian, not a psychologist, and therefore cannot justify compelling them to be professionally treated. It is sufficient, however, to strongly recommend that they be fired from their positions – and I therefore strongly recommend to the Government of Israel and the man at its helm not to allow those who place Israel in concrete existential danger to remain in their posts. [Emphasis added]
[Ed.: …and now, let us all say:
Biden-Harris Admin Immediately Leaks Details of Israeli Pager Op by Daniel Greenfield
Always stab allies in the back.
September 18, 2024 = Israel did not take responsibility for the pager attack that crippled Hezbollah’s comms and took out a chunk of their officer corps. It certainly did not go ahead and describe how it was done for the media. That’s tradecraft. And you don’t reveal it.
But the New York Times had a report detailing how it happened that same evening. I won’t link to it as it carries the byline of fake news fabulist Sheera Frenkel who had previously carried water for Hamas and lied that the Islamic terror group had not kidnapped and killed three Israeli teens.
The report is described as being based on briefings received by American officials.
The material leaked to the Times comes from “American and other officials briefed on the operation” and the “American and other officials spoke on the condition of anonymity given the sensitive nature of the operation.”
Is this classified information? Sounds like it. If we were involved it certainly would be.
The official American position was that we were not aware of the attack beforehand.
A U.S. official said that several minutes before the pagers started exploding across Lebanon, Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant called U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and told him Israel was going to conduct an operation in Lebanon soon, but refused to give any specific details.
The U.S. official said the Israelis didn’t tell the U.S. about the specifics of the operation, but added that Gallant’s call was an attempt to avoid keeping the U.S. totally in the dark.
Nevertheless, U.S. officials said they didn’t see Gallant’s call as a serious prior notice. “We were not aware of this operation and were not involved,” U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters on Tuesday.
Assuming that’s true (and considering the pro-terrorist and foreign regime figures in this administration, including in the Pentagon and NSC, it wouldn’t surprise me if the Israelis held back their plans) then the Israelis held a briefing afterward.
And then the officials turned around and leaked it all to the New York Times.
Did they do that on their own? Maybe. D.C. is notoriously leaky. But still leaking details of an op a few hours after a briefing is a bit much even by D.C. standards. Unless it was administration policy to leak it.
Under Obama, leaks of Israeli operations were standard procedure. But if this was Biden-Harris admin policy, it doesn’t just hurt Israel, it hurts America. The leak undermines claims that we didn’t know about it beforehand. And encourages Hezbollah to target our people as the weaker link in the Oct 7 war.
Some officials in this administration clearly don’t care, but they could also find themselves in the line of fire.
The Biden-Harris admin follows the Obama policy of stabbing allies in the back. But the back it stabs could end up being its own.
Daniel Greenfield Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
🇱🇧 – HEZBOLLAH CYBERATTACK: Famed Syrian-Druze journalist, Faisal Al-Qassem, who has millions of followers on social media, including a program on Al-Jazeera, wrote the following about the blow Hezbollah suffered today:
* “What happened to Hezbollah today can be classified as the largest preemptive strike in modern history. It can be compared to Israel’s preemptive strike on the Egyptian Air Force before the Six-Day War. Today, Hezbollah has thousands of paralyzed members among its senior leaders and operatives.”
* “If Hezbollah enters a war now, its wounded will not find a single available bed in Lebanon’s hospitals, as they are currently full of casualties. Worse yet, Hezbollah has lost its most important security and military communication devices. Checkmate.”
Belaaz
Dangerous Rhetoric Continues
September 18, 2024
Former President Donald Trump has directly blamed President Biden and Vice President Harris for the latest assassination attempt against him, citing their inflammatory rhetoric as a driving factor behind the attack. Trump claimed that the rhetoric of the current administration, particularly its portrayal of him as a “threat to democracy,” motivated the gunman, Ryan Wesley Routh, to act.
“Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at when I am the one who is going to save the country, and they are the ones that are destroying it—both from the inside and out,” Trump said.
Trump criticized President Biden and Vice President Harris for portraying him as a “threat to democracy” while presenting themselves as unity leaders. “They are the opposite,” Trump stated, accusing them of wanting to “destroy our country” and labeling them “the enemy from within.” He argued that their divisive rhetoric poses a real threat to the nation. Trump also pointed to the suspected gunman, Ryan Wesley Routh, who echoed Biden and Harris’ anti-Trump messages on social media, posting that “Democracy is on the ballot” and that Democrats “cannot lose.” Routh had a history of political activism, supporting only Democratic candidates and causes.
Over the weekend, President Biden suggested that Trump was inciting violence with his remarks about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio. Trump had pointed to the sudden influx of over 20,000 Haitian migrants into the small town of 60,000, who now make up 1 in 4 residents. He described the situation as dangerous, and many reports demonstrate that the arrival of these migrants had turned Springfield’s streets into a “combat zone” with “eight to 10 accidents a day” caused by what locals describe as “wild-driving Haitians” at innumerable city council meetings. The fatal slayings of a recent 71-year-old grandmother on her sidewalk outside her home and an 11-year-old boy on the first day of school after his school bus overturned to avoid a head-on collision with 26 other students hospitalized are only two examples of the hell unleashed on this city by unwelcomed, unplanned illegal immigration.
Trump, however, insists that Biden and Harris are “destroying” the country with their policies, particularly their approach to immigration, which he claims is making the nation “weak and feeble” on the global stage. He criticized the Biden administration for allowing dangerous migrants to flood into the country, creating instability in cities, including Springfield, Ohio, and diminishing America’s standing internationally.
Hillary Clinton, in an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow following the assassination attempt, doubled down on warnings about Trump, labeling him a “danger to our country and the world.” Clinton expressed frustration with the media’s inability to maintain a consistent narrative on Trump, describing him as a demagogue and warning against giving him another opportunity to “harm” the country.
Lying to and propagandizing the American people undermines the very foundation of democracy. Lawless open borders threaten national sovereignty and the rule of law, eroding trust in our democratic institutions. Encouraging or inciting violence, especially against a presidential candidate, is a direct attack on the democratic process itself. These actions not only endanger individuals but also jeopardize the integrity and future of our democracy.
We doubled our actions overnight, with 1.3 million actions! Keep up the pressure until Trump gets the security he needs!
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BREAKING: Houthi ‘Hypersonic’ Missile STRIKES Israel; ALL-OUT Hezbollah War Edges Near [ 17:58] Yair Pinto
September 16, 2024 TBN Israel – TBN Israel’s Yair Pinto reports on the Israel-Hamas War. Pinto reports that Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim to have fired a “hypersonic” missile which hit Israeli territory over the weekend, and Yemen’s fears of a harsh Israeli response. Pinto also shares that the IDF has taken control of all smuggling tunnels along the Philadelphi Corridor and defeated Hamas’ Rafah brigade. Could war between Israel and Hezbollah be drawing near? Stay up-to-date with the latest developments here on TBN Israel.
Netanyahu Promises ‘Heavy Price’ for Houthi Missile [37:44] Alex Traiman and Josh Hasten
September 16, 2024 JNS TV – Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has vowed that Yemen’s Houthis will pay a “heavy price” after the Iran-backed terrorist organization fired a ballistic missile into central Israel on Sunday morning.
JNS CEO and Jerusalem bureau chief Alex Traiman and Middle East correspondent Josh Hasten discuss what sets this attack apart from previous ones, as well as the wider implications for the region.
Other top stories include Israel destroying a top-secret Iranian weapons facility in Syria; futher escalation in the north; and the potential end of major military operations against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu Promises ‘Heavy Price’ for Houthi Missile [37:44] Alex Traiman and Josh Hasten
September 16, 2024 JNS TV – Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has vowed that Yemen’s Houthis will pay a “heavy price” after the Iran-backed terrorist organization fired a ballistic missile into central Israel on Sunday morning.
JNS CEO and Jerusalem bureau chief Alex Traiman and Middle East correspondent Josh Hasten discuss what sets this attack apart from previous ones, as well as the wider implications for the region.
Other top stories include Israel destroying a top-secret Iranian weapons facility in Syria; futher escalation in the north; and the potential end of major military operations against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Chapters 00:00 Introduction and conference updates 01:10 Escalation of attacks: The Houthi missile strike 02:58 Israeli operations in Syria: targeting Iranian facilities 06:11 The broader conflict: Israel, Iran, and regional proxies 08:04 IDF success in Rafah: Defeating Hamas terror 09:51 Hamas profiting from humanitarian aid 12:09 Negotiations and ceasefire: The role of hostages 13:56 International reactions: U.N. and Palestinian Authority pressure 17:13 Political dynamics: The Israeli government’s strategy 19:06 Reflections on the Oslo Accords and their consequences 21:50 Hezbollah threat: Escalating attacks from the north 25:04 Debate highlights: Trump vs. Harris on Israel 28:13 Sanctions on Iran: A step forward or just symbolic?
Was the Assassination Attempt a Distraction to Cover Up Another Bombshell? JD RUCKER
It’s tinfoil hat time… sort of.
SEP 16, 2024 – Let me state up front before anyone says I’m crazy. I believe there’s a very good chance, perhaps over 95%, that Ryan Routh is a crazy guy either acting on his own or on orders from someone — probably the Deep State — to try to assassinate Donald Trump.
However, I’m not 100% convinced for three reasons. First, there’s the fact that Trump’s schedule was not public and he had made a last-minute decision to go golfing on Sunday. This would be a smoking gun if Trump didn’t regularly golf on Sundays, but it’s still conspicuous that he wasn’t supposed to do so yesterday.
Second, the stage was perfectly set for a faked assassination attempt. They had the right guy to push into action. They were able to have an alleged attempt without further damaging the reputation of the Secret Service. They had people positioned to identify and report Routh to authorities so they could rapidly apprehend him without incident. And to top it off, they had their favorite “news” outlet, CNN, dropping all the scoops so they could control the dissemination of the official narrative.
Some will argue that it would be hard to get anyone to willingly pretend to be attempting to assassinate a president. I would argue that for the Deep State, it wouldn’t be difficult at all. They would simply have to find someone (and they likely have many out there waiting for the call) they could pressure through other crimes. For example, let’s say they busted Routh with sex trafficking content on his computer. They could tell him he’s going to spend the rest of his life in prison, but he can either do so as a pedo or as the guy who tried to kill Trump. Given his background, it would be a no-brainer for a guy like Routh.
Last but not least is the “why”. Sunday, a credible sworn affidavit dropped showing illegal election actions taken by the Harris campaign and ABC News. It was an absolute bombshell if true, as I noted in an article. Less than two hours later, news of the alleged assassination attempt broke. No major news outlet discussed the affidavit other than The Gateway Pundit.
According to the sworn document, the Harris campaign demanded that Trump got fact-checked robustly while forbidding any fact-checks on Harris at all. She gave them a list of topics they couldn’t bring up, including her time as District Attorney and her corrupt brother-in-law. They gave her “sample” questions but didn’t give any to the Trump campaign.
Keep in mind, this affidavit was written, notarized, and sent to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson BEFORE last week’s debate, so the fact that it jibes perfectly with what we actually saw should be huge news. Except, it isn’t. Nobody’s talking about it. It would be hard to have a bigger story than the campaign of a sitting Vice President and current presidential candidate breaking the law to rig a debate, but they managed to find a bigger story nonetheless.
Again, I’m pretty sure that this theory is wrong. 95%. Maybe 90%. But it’s far from impossible and if the ABC News whistleblower story never resurfaces, then I’d bump those odds up a notch.
[Ed.:
Trump and the 1960s Assassinations: ROBERT W MALONE MD, MS
Never forget what the CIA did to us.
SEP 16, 2024 – On September 15, 2024, the American people witnessed another attempt on the life of Donald Trump, a former President and a current presidential candidate. A candidate who the deep state, the administrative state, and the globalists profoundly fear. Simply stated, the blob views President Trump as a threat to both the current AND the new world order.
As I have been watching the news, the alternate news, reading the would-be assassin’s rantings on his now-deleted Facebook and X accounts, it is hard not to think back to that period in American history in the 1960s when it appears that the government decided that it needed to remove certain political actors from the chessboard.
In our recent book, PsyWar: Enforcing the New World Order, we wrote the following about this dark time in American history:
“The PsyWar campaign on America goes back decades. Senator Rand Paul stated recently: “There was a coup, and we lost our government”
The day of that coup was November 22, 1963. That was the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. That was the day the U.S. government turned against its own people and began a PsyWar campaign against all of us. We just didn’t know it yet. Nothing has been the same since.
It has taken over fifty years to realize the extent of this PsyWar campaign fully, but now there is no denying it. A new book titled: “The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: The Final Analysis: Forensic Analysis of the JFK Autopsy X-Rays Proves Two Headshots from the Right Front and One from the Rear” documents that President Kennedy was almost surely assassinated by the U.S. government, who also led the cover-up and the ensuing propaganda/PsyWar campaign regarding the events of his death. The author and scientist, Dr. David W. Mantik, uses modern imaging to prove that the wound in the president’s throat and the massive blow-out in the back of his head involved frontal bullet wounds. As Lee Harvey Oswald supposedly shot the President from behind the motorcade, this analysis provides data which refute the government’s analysis that he was the lone assassin does not hold up to scrutiny. This book presents clear and compelling testimonial and documentary evidence that the surgeons performed pre-autopsy surgery on the President’s head to remove evidence of the forehead bullet, as well as to gain access to his brain. Hence, they were able to “sanitize the crime scene” by removing bullet fragments as well as bullet tracks in the brain tissue. The forensic evidence is clear that the CIA, the FBI, and/or the U.S. Secret Service have been involved in and covered up the assassination of a sitting U.S. president [1]. [Emphasis added]
[Ed.: Since the CIA, FBI, and Secret Service want to kill President Trump, Why does he persist in giving them charge of his personal security?]
IRANIAN INFILTRATION INTO THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS OF THE BIDEN HARRIS ADMINISTRATION [51:13]
September 14, 2024 [ This is a very important report presented by Barry Shaw and Amb. Yoram Ettinger exposing the Iranian infiltration among the US decision makers.
The Second Trump Assassination Attempt. Second Trump Assassination Attempt ROBERT W MALONE MD, MS
“It has to stop” – Pres. Biden
SEP 15, 2024 – I am posting this substack – with some of my thoughts as well as images that were collected off the web on the assassination attempt that happened at 1:30 PM today.
My goal with this edition is to open up the space for comments, as everyone has a lot to say and we will all wish to keep each other informed as information rolls in.
To begin, remember Biden saying this yesterday:
The Biden Administration’s War Against the Government of Israel By Caroline B. Glick
24 Adar II 5784 – April 2, 2024 (JNS) – The war rages in the Gaza Strip, northern Israel, Lebanon, Eilat and on the streets of Israel’s cities as Iran’s Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi and Yemeni proxies maintain and escalate their operations against the Jewish state. Unmoved by this state of affairs, Israel’s far left is reinstating the anti-government riots that occurred regularly through the first three-quarters of 2023.
The newest round of leftist political violence began officially on Saturday night in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in the first of what has been billed as four days of protests. As was the case in the anti-government protests before Hamas’s invasion of and one-day holocaust in southern Israel on Oct. 7, in the current round, demonstrations are followed by riots in which a few dozen participate.
As before, riots feature bonfires along major traffic arteries, assaults on police and ultra-Orthodox Jews, threats to murder Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and storming police barricades protecting the premier’s home.
They also involve massive exaggerations of the number of protesters. On Sunday night in Jerusalem, for instance, organizers proclaimed the participation of 100,000 protesters. But aerial photographs of the event indicate that at most, a tenth of that number showed up.
Before Oct. 7, rioters demanded the overthrow of the government due to its “anti-democratic” policies or its “corruption.” The new rallying cry is to free the hostages.
On Saturday night, relatives of 10 of the 134 hostages declared, “To return our loved ones, we have decided to work in the service of Hamas. We are demanding that the Israeli government accept the organization’s demands immediately. If not—we will burn the country down.”
Obviously, if the families get their way, Hamas will demand that Israel cease to exist in exchange for the hostages. Given that their demand causes harm to their loved ones, why are the organizers putting them up to this?
To be sure, there are a number of reasons this is happening. But perhaps the main one was revealed on March 17 by riot leader Ami Dror in a WhatsApp group chat with his colleagues. The communication, which Dror authenticated in an interview with Channel 14, was first reported on X by a poster who operates under the handle, Arbelu the Tuna Hunter.
In that communication, Dror told his colleagues that the White House was asking them to reinstate the riots.
Based on what he referred to as a conversation with his contacts in the White House, Dror set out in granular detail the White House’s four-part plan to overthrow the government. The components involved actions on the ground in Gaza; the use of the U.N. Security Council; extortion of government ministers; and mass protests.
Dror called his report: “An important update from the American administration.”
What could Israel expect from a Harris administration? [13:35] Jonathan Tobin
Sep 15, 2024 JNS TV – It wouldn’t cease to exist in two years, but a president and a Democratic Party that is in thrall to its intersectional left wing will have serious consequences for the Jewish state.
Escalation: Houthi Missile Hits Central Israel [42:15] Caroline Glick
September 15, 2024 JNS TV – Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi terrorists launch a missile into central Israel unstopped by air-defense systems; the situation on the Jewish state’s northern border escalates further with Hezbollah shooting dozens of rockets deeper and deeper into the country; and Israel’s left and the Biden administration join forces to topple Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Chapters 00:00 Escalating Tensions in Northern Israel 02:56 The Complexities of Gaza Control 06:11 Iran’s Influence and Nuclear Concerns 09:01 U.S. Policy and Its Impact on Israel 11:57 The Role of Hezbollah and Regional Threats 15:11 Domestic Political Dynamics in Israel 18:03 The Intersection of U.S. and Israeli Leftist Movements 20:51 International Legal Challenges and Sanctions 24:03 The Future of Israeli Governance and Security 26:48 Concluding Thoughts on Israel’s Survival
Jonathan Pollard: Civil War Soon To Break Out In America [15:29]
Sep 15, 2024 Machon Shilo – Watch the following discussion between Jonathan Pollard and Rabbi David Bar-Hayim on the Iranian Attack on Israel:
[Ed.: The discussion is about “civil war” in the US, which is apparently “imminent”. But the fighting will not be between ‘the democrats’ and ‘the republicans’. 2-sides, what we will have is total anarchy of war between all entities (Haitians, Venezuelan, Hondurans, Chinese, all Moslem factions, and others. This may be very true, but it is too bad that instead of civil war, we had revolution (where the people close down the government and then rebuild it clean). America is Americans and not invaders from ‘We Are The World’. My vote goes for revolution and taking it back from those who have taken it over – all of it. For this, we need to fight the right enemy and stand together as Americans. It’s a shame to waste all that ammo on foreigners, anyway.]
CHAPTER 36: “When They Say ‘We’re Coming for Your Children,’ Believe Them” by Linda Goudsmit
Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier—Reality Is*
Globalism is a replacement ideology that seeks to reorder the world into one singular, planetary Unistate, ruled by the globalist elite. The globalist war on nation-states cannot succeed without collapsing the United States of America. The long-term strategic attack plan moves America incrementally from constitutional republic to socialism to globalism to feudalism. The tactical attack plan uses asymmetric psychological and informational warfare to destabilize Americans and drive society out of objective reality into the madness of subjective reality. America’s children are the primary target of the globalist predators.
September 15, 2024 – Canadian columnist Barbara Kay published an exceptional article, “When They Say ‘We’re Coming for Your Children,’ Believe Them,”[i] in The Epoch Times on July 10, 2023. Kay provides an outstanding analysis of Marxist educational indoctrination in Canada, its parallels in the United States, and the awakening of the public to its catastrophic consequences. It is a thoughtful article that begins with acknowledging Canadians as an extremely tolerant people who have found the limit of their tolerance:
The only domain in which we are witnessing a groundswell of citizen resistance is K–12 pedagogy, where Queer Theory—a gendered form of Marxism that rejects the “normal” in sexuality, including the notion of childhood “innocence”—is systematically imposed on vulnerable minds, with or without parental consent. Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) has become the cynosure of parental disquiet.
A recent video clip of naked Pride marchers chanting “We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children” went viral. LGBTQ spin doctors claimed the words were “taken out of context.” Which begs the question of why male drag queens no longer stay in their lane of adult entertainment. What acceptable “context” encourages teaching children to “twerk” (“you just move your bum up and down like that”)—an action simulating sexual intercourse?
A majority of Canadians feel such organized sexualized messaging to young children is a bridge too far. They no longer believe DQSH is “family-friendly” or pure “entertainment.” Some are calling it out for what it is: “grooming,” building children’s trust in men with an agenda that goes far beyond teaching about “diversity.” They are saying so in protests against such events as a four-day drag theatre camp in B.C.
In a news report, a progressive journalist deplored this surge of opposition, in particular some protesters’ use of the word “groomer” as a “homophobic” trope, which, the journalist writes, “advocates say was used to vilify the LGBTQ2+ community in the 1970s and 1980s.” It is true, that a vocal subset of gays was vilified in the 1970s and 1980s. A little research, though, would have uncovered information that might have tempered the journalist’s indignation.
In 1969 the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), a special interest group that advocated for abrogation of the age of sexual consent, became the first LGBT organization in Scotland, branding gay rights activism and child abuse lobbying as closely entwined goals there. From 1974 to 1984, PIE openly campaigned throughout the United Kingdom to normalize pedophilia as a legally and culturally acceptable practice. Such were the sexually freewheeling times, they were taken seriously at elite levels, even winning support from then Labour Health Minister Patricia Hewitt for such policies as reducing the age of consent to 10, and the decriminalization of incest. PIE activists were tactically sophisticated in their networking, branding pedophiles as an oppressed sexual minority, just like gays and lesbians.
Here, PIE’s alter ego is the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), still nominally active, although radically diminished in numbers. Still, as late as 2005, one lawyer dubbed it “a trade school for pedophiles.” In the ’70s, NAMBLA attracted support from prominent gays, such as beat poet Allen Ginsberg, and was affiliated with the International Lesbian and Gay Association until 1994. Finally, the Human Rights Campaign, which would become the biggest LGBT advocacy group in the United States, declared, “NAMBLA is not a gay organization…and we thoroughly reject their efforts to insinuate that pedophilia is an issue related to gay and lesbian civil rights.”
Nevertheless, NAMBLA’s website states that, true to its philosophy, its goal remains “to end the extreme oppression of men and boys in mutually consensual relationships” by “educating the general public on the benevolent nature of man/boy love” through “cooperation with lesbian, gay, feminist, and other liberation movements.” The general public should not be expected to parse the distinction between “not a gay organization” and “cooperating with lesbian, gay…movements.” When the only people publicly promoting pedophilia self-identify as gay, the fact that they are a subset of LGB, and not the norm, might be lost on ordinary people.
Threat of WWIII is NOT Fear Porn – Steve Quayle By Greg Hunter
September 14, 2024 USAWatchdog.com – Renowned radio host, filmmaker, book author and archeological dig expert Steve Quayle is sounding the alarm on the increasing possibility of nuclear war between NATO and Russia. Quayle says, “The threat of nuclear war is not fear porn–it’s real.” Quayle is not alone because for the second year in a row, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists says, “A moment of historic danger: It is still 90 seconds to midnight. 2024 Doomsday Clock Statement.” Today’s escalation is caused by the fact that NATO is contemplating allowing Ukraine to fire long range missiles deep into Russia.
There is also this breaking headline from the Asian Times: “Biden, NATO effectively declaring war on Russia.”
Quayle warns, “This is not a trial run, the Bay of Pigs or the Cuban missile crisis. This is World War III. . . .We are seeing people crazy or people demonically possessed, in my opinion, talking about launching western missiles, German, British or US missiles into Russia. The Russian Ambassador to the UN said on Friday (9/13/24), ‘If you do that, we will consider it an act of war against Russia, and all options are open to us, and none of your countries are safe.’ That’s the bottom line. All these years you warn ahead of time, and they mock you saying fear monger and fear porn. . . . Well, we are at the inception point for World War III. This will not be getting any better.”
There have been nearly zero talks of peace in Ukraine, only requests for more weapons and more escalation with Russia. So, NATO is clearly wanting to start a world war. It’s not just Russia we will be fighting, but China, North Korea and Iran, too. Quayle says, “This is what is so pertinent about this show because, this weekend, everybody (NATO) is talking about giving President Zelensky (Ukraine) the okay to launch against Moscow, which will result in the thermal nuclear detonation of over 100 targets in the United States and another 100 targets plus in Europe. NATO Headquarters will be toast. D.C. will be toast. . . . The Bible has made this clear if God did not shorten the days for the elect, that’s the people who have accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior, there would be no flesh left alive. So, as we sit here podcasting, 250 million Americans are at risk.”
Even if nuclear war does not break out and the world gets a reprieve for a while, the financial system will not be fixed. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon is warning of something coming that is “worse than recession.” In simple terms, Quayle says, “Dimon is warning because the banks are in deep doo-doo. Last week, you may remember billionaire Warren Buffett started dumping Bank of America stock. . . . I am told that Buffett dumped, all told, up around $50 billion in BofA stock. . . . When Buffett does some like this, people notice and they followed suit. The banking stocks are in deadly peril. I have been in the precious metals business for 35 years, and we are now watching clients being blocked for sending wire transfers. I am talking about the biggest 5 or 6 banks because they are running short on cash. . . . At some point, they will cut off all credit cards. I don’t know when that will be, but eventually, they will be stopped. This is what my sources tell me is going to happen. The ‘when’ is up to God.”
[Ed.: They truly want WWIII before the election. This way, they can avoid any chances of prosecution for treason. ‘They’ refers to every one in the ‘Administration’, and everyone else in the government who have taken over our country – we’re talking thousands of them! Yes, global nuclear war would solve it… Frankly, I would prefer that they just steal the election.]
Trump’s Inelegant Brilliance ROBERT W MALONE MD, MS
How to win at the ballot box…
SEP 14, 2024 – The truth is that anyone who has watched the open Southern Border with even half a neuron turned on has been alarmed.
It is estimated that somewhere between 40-50 million people have immigrated to the USA since the mid-1970s. This represents one of the largest waves of immigration in U.S. history. It has dramatically changed the country’s demographic composition and culture.
In the last two years alone (2022 to 2023), the foreign-born population in the U.S. increased by 5.1 million. Between 10 percent and 12.5 percent of the immigration over the past fifty years happened within less than TWO years.
The chart above documents that most of those crossing the border recently have been from countries other than Mexico. People are flooding our borders from all over the world, including China, the middle east, Africa and other South American countries. There are no controls on who is entering our country.
Cultural identity is essential. Our American culture is important. We all know that too great an influx of immigrants risks our cultural identity as Americans.
Trump touched upon a pressure point. That is, cultural identity.
Then the meme wars started. Or maybe it started before, with the crazy cat lady memes…
So many memes – on both sides.
Then MSM got involved and took it to a whole ‘nother level.
Clearly, if you listen to MSM, there is only one one side to this story – that is the story that 50% of Americans are either brain dead or racist or both, because they are led by a racist dictator;
The Only Ones Convicted of Election Interference for Russia Were Socialist Racists by Daniel Greenfield
The real truth about Russiagate comes out again.
September 14, 2024 – After nearly a decade of false claims about Russian election interference, the only ones charged and convicted of election interference on behalf of Russia were the members of the African People’s Socialist Party.
Four activists were convicted Thursday after being accused of interfering in St. Petersburg elections and causing disruption on behalf of the Russian government, according to the Department of Justice.
The DOJ said a jury convicted Omali Yeshitela, 82, Penny Hess, 78, Jesse Nevel, 34, all of St. Louis, and Augustus C. Romain Jr., 38, of Atlanta, on charges of conspiracy to act as agents of a foreign government.
The four conspirators either have or previously had tied to the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP), which ran the Uhuru House in St. Petersburg, Florida. In 2022, the FBI raided the Uhuru House, stating that the location was used by Russian intelligence to manipulate local elections and disseminate propaganda.
According to prosecutors, Yeshitela, Nevel, and Hess worked with Russian national Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov, the founder of the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia, from May 2015 to July 2022. Romain was a former leader of the APSP who later formed the Black Hammer out of Georgia in 2018.
Prosecutors said Yeshitela later communicated with the three other co-defendants in an email saying it was “clear” Ionov was a member of the Russian government who wanted to use “forces inside of the U.S. to s[o]w division inside the U.S.”
Yeshitela, who founded the APSP, told Hess and Nevel in a later meeting that Ionov would only give them resources to “support Russia’s efforts to ‘undermin[e] the U.S.,’” the DOJ stated.
“For example, in August 2015, Ionov requested that Yeshitela, Hess and Nevel draft and publish a petition to the United Nations charging the United States with actively committing genocide against African people,” the DOJ stated. “When Hess resisted, Ionov insisted that the APSP had to publish the petition because Ionov and his Russian backers were ‘not exactly Black to demand it for ourselves.’ Hess subsequently drafted and published the requested petition, which Ionov promoted in Russian media.”
Anyone who knows anything about the Cold War and Communist efforts to exploit the black community will recognize the familiar M.O. of the Soviet security services and their leftist allies in America.
I wrote about the African People’s Socialist Party in 2022.
One of the black nationalist groups in the indictment is the Black Hammer Party whose leader Gazi Kodzo had described Anne Frank as a “colonizer” and “bleach demon” and who has since been arrested on charges of kidnapping, assault, and aggravated sodomy.
The Marxist group involved in BLM protests had been known for marching through Atlanta behind its “gender non-conforming” leader who calls himself “they”, and shouting, “Kill the police! To get free, you’ve got to kill the pigs.”
Another of these was the Uhuru Movement, a socialist black nationalist group previously involved in race riots in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1996.
The Tampa Bay Times described the city becoming a “war zone, echoing with bullets, sirens and anguished screams” where “police officers took cover from automatic gunfire” and “police helicopters circled looking for rooftop snipers” while “one helicopter was hit by gunfire in the windshield and floor. A bullet grazed the pilot’s elbow.”
Omali Yeshitela, who claims that he was handcuffed during a raid on Uhuru House, is a longtime black nationalist figure with a history with the Nation of Islam and the Black Panther hate group. He appeared at a New Black Panther Party convention and had been involved in an anti-semitism controversy at a hate event at San Diego State University.
Previous events involving Ionov’s Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia allegedly included Margaret Kimberley of Black Agenda Report whom Cornel West had praised as “one of the few great truth tellers”, and more traditional Trotskyist groups such as the Workers World Party which played an early role in statue attacks in the South and may have links to Antifa.
The same folks from the KGB era are still running the show and using the same tradecraft.
Uhuru is a deeply racist movement and some of its latest materials include claims that white people are “barbarians” and “terrorists”, and that they “achieve their means of existence from a parasitic relationship they enjoy with the rest of the world.” These are ideas fundamental to the critical race theory understanding of the world, in arenas such as the 1619 Project and the entire anti-racism project, but the question is how many of these ideas were coming out of Moscow?
One of the Uhuru projects backed by Russia was a campaign titled, “Africans Charge Genocide”. “We Charge Genocide” was originally a Communist project in the 1950s under Stalinist singer Paul Robeson and the Communist front group, the Civil Rights Congress.
All of this cuts against the narrative that Russian election interference was being used to elect Trump.
In fact, the Senate’s report documented that the ‘Russian Facebook ads’ that the Clinton campaign and the media used to originate the term ‘fake news’ and deploy a censorship campaign to suppress ‘misinformation’ was actually a post-election effort to rally black nationalists.
The Russians bought over 1,000 ads targeting African-Americans and less than 300 targeting conservatives. There were 81 social justice ads and only 24 patriotism ads, 66 pro-gun ads and 70 LGBT ads, 43 veteran ads and 57 Muslim ads, not to mention 143 Latin American culture ads.
The African-American ads also produced over 1.5 million clicks while the conservative ads produced well below 500,000. The former ads also racked up over 15 million impressions while the conservative ads scored below 6 million.
Most of the ads post-dated the election.
None of this is a secret, the media just chooses not to connect the dots.
The Senate report revealed that “most of the videos” put out by the Russian IRA troll factory on YouTube “pertained to police brutality and the activist efforts of the Black Lives Matter organization” and found that “no single group of Americans was targeted… more than African-Americans” around “race and related issues”.
The Russians had created their own Black Lives Matter groups, activists and protests.
That’s the real truth behind the Russiagate hoax.
[Ed.: When Daniel refers to “socialist racists”, just to be clear, he’s referring to Democrats. Let’s call a spade a spade and use our pronouns out in the open...]
Victor Davis Hanson Reacts to Tucker Carlson’s Interview with Darryl Cooper [6:02]
Sep 13, 2024 Pepperdine School of Public Policy – This Fall, the School of Public Policy welcomed back Victor Davis Hanson, the Inaugural Terry Giles and Kalli O’Malley Distinguished Visiting Professor, to teach a political issue seminar titled “Leadership and Key Decisions of World War II.” The class’s significance became ever more apparent after a recent interview between Tucker Carlson and Darryl Cooper on the topic of Winston Churchill. Hanson, a military history and strategy expert, shares his thoughts with Dean Pete Peterson.
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Victor Davis Hanson is the inaugural Giles-O’Malley Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Public Policy. Hanson is also the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Professor Emeritus of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno; and the Wayne and Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College. He is a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services.
Jonathan Pollard: Responding to the Murder of the 6 Hostages in Gaza [25:53]
Sep 12, 2024 Machon Shilo – Watch the following discussion between Jonathan Pollard and Rabbi David Bar-Hayim on the Iranian Attack on Israel:
The Psychological War Being Waged by Hamas [1:03:07] Caroline Glick
Sep 12, 2024 JNS TV – JNS senior contributing editor Caroline Glick speaks with author Ron Schleifer, an acclaimed expert on psychological warfare, about the role of propaganda in Israel’s ongoing war with the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip.
Schleifer stresses that psychological warfare has sometimes proven more dangerous than the military battle on the frontlines due to its long-lasting effects.
Watch this episode of “The Caroline Glick Show” as Schleifer and Glick take a deep dive into Hamas’s propaganda tactics and how the terror group is trying to defeat Israeli morale.
The Origins of US Involvement in Ukraine CLANDESTINE
SEP 13, 2024 – Ukraine is essentially a giant CIA base, posing as a sovereign nation.
The CIA moved into Ukraine after the fall of the Soviet Union, looking to take advantage of the lawless and destabilized country, using it as an offshore proxy, outside the scope of US oversight.
It began with the Nunn-Lugar Act in 1991, and then carried on into 2005, when then Senators Obama and Lugar visited Ukraine, to inspect the former Soviet bio, chemical, and nuclear facilities (pictured below), and then added Ukraine to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and began turning these former Soviet facilities into “defensive research facilities”, which opened the door for US contractors to establish their foothold in Ukraine, and set up their money laundering and racketeering operations, under the guise of “foreign aid”.
Then the CIA funded Nazi militant groups in Ukraine which led to the outbreak of civil war in 2014 in the Donbas. Amidst the chaos, the US State Department, via Victoria Nuland, leveraged the situation to install US-loyal puppets, including the infamous leaked phone call between her and fellow State Department bureaucrat Geoffrey Pyatt, about ensuring “their guy” Yatsenuik, was installed as Prime Minister. The State Department, in tandem with the CIA, covertly took control of Ukraine via Color Revolution in 2014.
Putin recognized this. He knew that the US had destabilized and taken control of Ukraine, and recognized that the US were building a proxy army on his border, by funding, training, and supplying Ukraine with weapons, and trying to bring them into NATO. This was a red line for Putin, as he has said for decades. [Emphasis added] Russia have been invaded from the West too many times before, and will not tolerate a hostile standing army and long-range missiles on their border. Just like the US didn’t like it when Russia tried to put nukes in Cuba in the 60’s, Russia doesn’t like the US trying to bring armies and weapons to Ukraine.
Essentially, Ukraine is an unofficial US territory and NATO member, and the Deep State do not want to lose out on their cash cow and strategic asset that is Ukraine, hence why they continue to send hundreds of billions of our tax dollars to protect Ukraine’s border. They are using Ukraine as a laundry mat to funnel in hundreds of billions for the war machine, and also covering up their extreme criminality in Ukraine, including crimes against humanity for bioweapon development, human trafficking, drug trafficking, etc. All the things they can’t get away with stateside, they do in Ukraine.
If the public knew the truth about the origins of US involvement in Ukraine, they would NEVER have supported sending a single penny to Ukraine. The narrative that Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022 “unprovoked”, is war propaganda to make it appear Ukraine are the righteous defenders in order to garner your support, when in reality, The US started this conflict, they are the ones who brought war to Putin’s doorstep, and the US are the ones perpetuating the war by continuing to fund and supply Ukraine.
Putin does not want to conquer all of Europe, he just wants NATO off of his border, and justice for US development of weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine, namely, gene-specific biological weapons.
The Cold War never truly ended.
The media have blood on their hands Melanie Phillips
Partisan journalists may have subverted American democracy, but in their war against Israel, they have blood on their hands. Opinion.
Sep 13, 2024, 8:45 AM (GMT+3) INN – Melanie Phillips, a British journalist, broadcaster and author, writes a weekly column for JNS. Currently a columnist for The Times of London, her personal and political memoir, Guardian Angel, has been published by Bombardier, which also published her first novel, The Legacy, in 2018. To access her work, go to: melaniephillips.substack.com.
( JNS) The apparent bias of the ABC TV moderators in failing to call out the falsehoods reportedly spoken by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party presidential candidate, in the debate with former President Donald Trump this week has attracted much critical comment.
It remains to be seen, however, how that debate influenced voters.
When looking at a set-piece contest like this, voters aren’t necessarily swayed by behavior they’ve already priced in. They know that politicians evade, lie and bloviate. Voters usually focus on different issues, such as which candidate might make them better off.
The point isn’t that journalistic bias is irrelevant. On the contrary, over the past few years, the media’s shocking pro-Democrat, anti-Trump partisanship has destroyed its role as the guardian of democracy and established it instead as an army of ruthless activists for a political cause.
Nevertheless, when it comes to assessing rival candidates for the presidency, the media’s narrative has to compete with the mass of information that voters already know about them: their achievements and failures, their strengths and flaws.
The media’s effect on public attitudes towards Israel, however, is very different indeed.
That’s because the Western public, by and large, knows virtually nothing about Israel, the Middle East or Jewish history. On Israel, the public mind is therefore a blank page on which can be imprinted whatever picture the media wishes to paint.
And the picture of Israel that’s been painted over the last few decades—and even more intensely since the Oct. 7 Hamas-led pogrom against southern Israel communities—is a vicious and wildly distorted caricature.
Last week, a high-ranking delegation of former NATO military officers was in Israel on a fact-finding mission to assess the conduct of the Israeli Defense Forces in the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Members of the group subsequently expressed admiration for the way the IDF has been conducting the war in an unprecedentedly challenging combat environment.
Gen. Sir John McColl, the British former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, said: “I came away from the trip satisfied that the IDF’s operations and rules of engagement were rigorous compared to the British Army and our Western allies … Israeli soldiers are fighting in conditions of extraordinary complexity and risk.”
This was a sharp if tacit rebuke to Britain’s Starmer administration, which has announced a partial arms embargo against Israel on the grounds that such weapons “might” be used in a “serious violation” of humanitarian law and that there had been “credible” claims about the mistreatment of detainees.
But what was particularly striking about McColl’s remarks was that he had apparently arrived in Israel predisposed to believe the allegations made against it. He said: “Basing my views about the Israel-Hamas war on U.K. media coverage, I arrived in Israel critical and skeptical of their military operations. … There is balance missing in the reporting of events in Gaza.”
Trump’s biggest mistake Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer
I am publishing only here, on Arutz Sheva, my overriding view on the elections, because it is only here that enough readers will be able to read this and understand what I am saying. Opinion.
Sep 12, 2024, 7:31 AM (GMT+3) INN – First, to be clear — as should be obvious to anyone who has read me here over the many years — I will be voting for Trump. Indeed, it will be twice as meaningful for me because, at the same time, I will be voting against Harris.
I despise her with a special intensity of contempt. Certainly, so many politicians are liars. Many rise by doing things that no self-respecting person ever would do. However, I do not remember any politician ever so blatantly unworthy, so manifestly unqualified, and so brazenly dishonest as to reverse every single policy and stand she ever took over decades, all in the course of two weeks, with it obvious as plain day that she will revert right back to her true extreme-left agenda the moment the race is over. Her flip-flopping is so shameless and patently bogus that even the wild-eyed Communist Bernie Sanders has assured his followers not to worry about her because she is just doing it to get elected, then will revert.
I despise Harris’s brazen contempt for the American voter. And, truth to tell, I despise even more the American voters whom Bernie Sanders and Harris correctly know will fall for it — and then, if their votes G-d forbid put her over the top, will complain and moan for the next four years about how much worse things have gotten, how much more things cost, how they or neighbors have lost their jobs as their companies have moved to China, Mexico, and elsewhere; how they personally know someone dear who was raped and murdered by an Illegal; and how they no longer can send their kids to the public schools.
If she is elected, more wars will break out. Putin will finish off Ukraine and gobble more. Iran will expand the Houthis to close down Red Sea shipping. Iran will get the bomb. All-out Israel war will erupt in Lebanon and probably, a year later, in Judea and Samaria (“West Bank”).
Kids will remain in their parents’ homes, unable to buy a first house at 7% mortgage rates. Parents will be unable to move upward or size down because they cannot give up their current 2.75% mortgages for the Harris 7% rates. Landlords looking at the house-purchase prices will continue to soar their rental rates.
If that’s what Americans choose, so be it. G-d has been good to my readers and me. Most of us are not impacted directly by all the damage Harris has done and further would do. But when America suffers, that is hard to accept.
Likewise, when Israel suffers, Jews everywhere get targeted. Hamas attacks on October 7, and soon enough American Jewish college students are run off their own campuses, while bricks get thrown at Kosher deli and bagel stores in Philadelphia. The only good I can see out of a Harris presidency, if she G-d forbid wins, is that the Arabs of Judea and Samaria eventually will build up the same arrogance as Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon to open an all-out third front against Israel.
If that happens, then when the dust clears, there will be no more “Palestine Authority” but only one country — Israel — from the River to the Sea. Indeed, I expect the fall of the “P.A.” far sooner than most people do. Abu Mazen (“Mahmoud Abbas”) is 89. Violently or peacefully, he is going to die within the decade, if not by the time this article appears. It just is. He’s 89. That may even be why Hamas does not bother assassinating him.
When Abu Mazen dies, Hamas will take over the “P.A.” within a year, maybe six months, maybe weeks or days. If there is an election, they will take over. Otherwise, by gun and other murder. They did it in Gaza, and they already are the leading vote getter in Judea and Samaria’s Arab thing. Once Hamas takes over, it will be a matter of time — not long — before another all-out Gaza war breaks out in Judea and Samaria.
Although there is a debate over whether Israel should resettle Gaza, there will be very little significant opposition to reestablishing Jewish sovereignty in all of Judea and Samaria. Rockets and missiles into Tel Aviv and Haifa will make many Likud converts of Meretz and Labor voters. If “a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged,” what will become of Israeli leftists who have to abandon their homes in Tel Aviv and Haifa, and beg Jews in Sderot, Ashkelon, Ashdod — and Nahariyah and Kiryat Shmoneh — to please let them live with them for six months as rockets and missiles rain down on Kaplan and “Rabin Square”?
Remember: It was a left-wing Labor government that liberated Judea, Samaria, Golan, Gaza, and Sinai. From the River to the Sea, all of Israel will be free.
So what is Trump’s biggest mistake that may truly lose him the 2024 election?
September 11th: The End of Everything By Pamela Geller
September 11, 2024 – This is a hard, terrible day. Looking back on the past quarter century, it is with a heavy heart. The truth of it is, if the Democrats succeed in stealing this election, the jihad force will have completed their defeat of this nation. The 9/11 attack was the casus belli, but it was the Democrats delivered the country into the cloven hooves of the global jihad.
Nothing happens for decades and then decades happen in a day. Everything changed on 9/11.
Biden: ‘Greatest Lesson of September 11’ Is That We Should Not Offend Muslims
What Do Americans Actually Know About This Terrible, Horrible Day?
“When the confrontation begins, strike like champions who do not want to go back to this world. Shout, ‘Allahu Akbar,’ because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers. Allah said: ‘Strike above the neck, and strike at all of their extremities.’ (9/11 Muslim terrorists)
In all the coverage you watch today, the Islamic terrorists and their motive won’t be mentioned or discussed. Fearfully, this is in accordance with the sharia (do not criticize Islam under penalty of death), a horrible victory for the forces of Islamic supremacism.
The post-9/11 war on truth and reality was the successfully implemented template for the propaganda and misinformation machine the Democrats have employed to destroy our country and dismantle our freedoms. Censoring the truth while smearing, defaming and attacking anyone who dissented from the lie is now the daily business of the Democrat party and its running dogs in the media, academia, entertainment axis.
What American Children Are Taught About 9/11 Is Dangerous
Education Department Instructs Teachers To Avoid Teaching About Islamic Extremism On 9/11
Back in 2022, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) was widely ridiculed and even reviled a few years ago for breezily characterizing 9/11 as the day when “some people did something,” but she has had the last laugh: the coverage of the attacks every year is a study in avoidance, with the establishment media focusing on anything and everything besides the motivating ideology and goals of the attackers. As always, the media’s favorite preoccupation is the persistence of Muslim victimhood: every 9/11 anniversary, we’re inundated with stories about how Muslims suffered on that day, and continue to suffer, from racist and unwarranted suspicion that has made their lives in America, a land to which they came with so much hope, a veritable living hell.
Robert Spencer: Another conspicuous omission is coverage of the persistence of the threat of which 9/11 was one manifestation. Most Americans assume that that threat, insofar as it ever existed, has passed, and no longer need trouble anyone. Recently an emailer taunted me by informing me that I was “very 2005,” and I got the point: sounding the alarm about the jihad threat at this late date? Really? It would seem passé to me also, in this age of the confidently advancing authoritarianism of the Left, to tout the global jihad as a threat to freedom today, were it not for the fact that there are still jihad terror attacks every day, more than I am able to report on. And for another reason as well.
What many people who are well aware of the menace the Left’s thirst to crush dissent poses for free people everywhere, fewer are aware of the reason for the persistent fact that puzzles so many people: why Leftists are generally so contemptuous of Christianity and determined to snuff it out, while so welcoming and even obsequious toward Islam. The answer lies in their shared tendency toward authoritarianism and totalitarianism. A hadith puts into Muhammad’s mouth the saying, “You should listen to and obey, your ruler even if he was an Ethiopian (black) slave whose head looks like a raisin.” (Bukhari 9.93.7142) This statement has become notorious because of its casual racism: the most outlandish ruler Muhammad can think of, and the one who appears to be least worthy of obedience, is a black man. Overlooked, however, is the absolutism of Muhammad’s statement: one must obey the ruler even when the ruler appears absurd and unworthy of obedience.
How convenient such a statement is for those forces in the world today who wish us to accept the Left’s absurd rule today, with all the reality-denying claims that go with it: men can become women, drag queens belong in primary schools, the ridiculous dementia patient in the White House is a competent and capable leader, and all the rest of it. Throughout its history, Islam has lent itself to authoritarian rule, with Turkey being the sole example of a secular republic in a majority-Muslim state, and a poor example at best, as modern Turkey was founded upon an explicit rejection of political Islam, and now Turkish secularism is rapidly eroding under pressure from its Islamizing president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
It’s understandable, then, that those who wish to crush all opposition to their rule would see that crushing religion itself is impossible, but that one religion above all the others will give them a docile, obedient population, as long as its own freedom to grow is respected. No problem there, as far as the Leftist political elites are concerned; they’re happy to foster Islam’s growth in the West, so as to break down the free societies they hate so much and complete their victory over the Judeo-Christian tradition that has given the world such inconvenient notions as the irreducible dignity of every human person. So the propaganda media establishment gives us endless stories of the benign and beneficial aspects of Islam, and of the victimhood of Muslims at the hands of white, racist, Christian “Islamophobes,” and the magnificent contributions of Islam to human civilization. It’s all meant to quiet resistance to their mass migration agenda, as well as ultimately to their crushing of the freedom of speech. And it’s working well.
As a result of all this, 21 years after 9/11, most people assume that sounding a warning about the jihad threat is as unwarranted and in poor taste as sounding a warning about imperial Japan would have been on December 7, 1962. But by 1962, imperial Japan was a dimming memory. The jihad, with help from its powerful Leftist friends, continues to advance. That advance will eventually become clear to everyone who dismisses and denies it now, but by then, there will be no time for reconsideration or recriminations.
Inside the Ohio Town Invaded by “Cat-Eating” Haitians [26:03] Tyler Oliveira
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Springfield, Ohio Migrant issue not FAKE NEWS. [10:45] Empty Pockets Garage, James
Sep 10, 2024 – Small conversation to address all the stories going around about the Haitian problems we are having to deal with in our little town.
Jonathan Pollard: Israel Security Heads Persecuting Settler Youth, Ignoring Anarchists [15:52]
Sep 11, 2024 Machon Shilo – Watch the following discussion between Jonathan Pollard and Rabbi David Bar-Hayim on the Iranian Attack on Israel
Backlash Pours on Tucker Carlson for Hosting Holocaust Revisionist
September 11, 2024 JBN News – Conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson continues to face a firestorm of criticism following his controversial decision to host a Holocaust revisionist.
On a recent episode of “The Tucker Carlson Show,” the former Fox News host welcomed antisemitic podcaster Darryl Cooper by introducing him as America’s “most important popular historian’s” During the interview, Cooper suggested that the United States was on the wrong side of World War II, referred to Winston Churchill as the “chief villain,” and disturbingly characterized the mass murder of Jews as “humane” due to war food shortages.
Despite the interview airing over a week ago, the backlash continues to be severe. Yesterday, all 24 Jewish House Democrats united to issue a scathing joint statement condemning the interview.
‘This revisionist and morally repugnant retelling of history is an insult to the six million Jews who were methodically murdered at the hands of the Nazi regime and is especially dangerous now as antisemitism is on the rise globally. Americans deserve to know that their leaders will rebuke the cancers of antisemitism and Nazism whenever and wherever they appear,’ the representatives wrote.
Speaking to The Hill, conservative commentator Ben Domenech described the interview as “extremely disappointing,” while former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming accused Carlson of spreading “pro-Nazi propaganda.”
The White House also weighed in on the controversy, with senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates blasting Carlson for insulting the memory of the millions who perished in the Holocaust.
“Giving a microphone to a Holocaust denier who spreads Nazi propaganda is a disgusting and sadistic insult to all Americans, to the memory of the over 6 million Jews who were genocidally murdered by Adolf Hitler, to the service of the millions of Americans who fought to defeat Nazism, and to every subsequent victim of antisemitism,” Bates told CNN.
Watch [2:18:59]
[Ed.: You may have noticed that I have not posted anything from Tucker Carlson since shortly after October 7, 2023, when I first got a wiff of his deep-seeded antisemitism. This post is an exception!]
Watch Now “Episode #1 — Public Orientation 9/11 Crime Scene to Courtroom” RICHARD GAGE, AIA – ARCHITECT
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SEP 11, 2024 – On this day, when we ponder the catastrophic events of 9/11/01 and the horrible loss of life, we at RichardGage911 and the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry expose the truth about the destruction of the 3 World Trade Center skyscrapers on 9/11 in our new documentary film series. Over the last 2 days we premiered Episode #1 — Public Orientation of 9/11: Crime Scene to Courtroom to more than 6,000 viewers on 5 different social media platforms.
Our panel of the LC911 board members, with whom we partnered here at RichardGage911 to produce this vital work, spoke at the Livestreamed 2 1/2 hour Premiere Event which you can watch here.
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9/11: the way the buildings collapsed provides the proof of what happened. [1:11:53] MERYL NASS
Madhava Setty and I get to the bottom of the events
AUG 24, 2024 – My buddy Madhava Setty, MD, was a mechanical engineer with an MIT degree, before he decided to become a doctor instead. Having believed the MSM narrative about 9/11 for many years, presumably because he was too busy doctoring (and not because he was ignorant nor gullible), he finally awoke a few years ago.
He did not just awake. He dove into the details of 9/11 the way an engineer would.
But he did something else. He tried to figure out why people like himself had bought the narrative. How could so many people be so gullible? And how might people be taught to cut through the propaganda, and examine their own thought processes to more easily reach the truth? Not just on this issue, but on many issues. And he wrote a book to help people do just that, titled “Woke.” It’s a very good book, very different from a self-help book. It’s not psychology. But IS helping us be smarter people. Very different from any book I have ever read. I’d give it 5 stars. And it has nothing to do with Wokeness, thank goodness.
Madhava and I sat down so he could explain the building collapses to me, and the following video resulted. Enjoy.
“The Smoking Gun of Irrefutable Evidence – 3 WTC Skyscrapers Destroyed on 9/11” with RG911 on The Mark Attwood Show RICHARD GAGE, AIA – ARCHITECT
Learn the Key Points of Evidence for the Explosive Demolitions
AUG 25, 2024 – Join us for our latest and most effective 90-minute expose of the fraudulent NIST report on the “collapses” of the 3 World Trade High-Rises.
The Mark Attwood Show reaches tens of thousands in the UK. We are getting out there with the truth & facts about 9/11!
Here’s what you will learn — 10 Facts that you may not have known about 9/11:
1. …that the third Tower, 47-story WTC Building 7, not hit by a plane, collapsed at 5:20pm on 9/11.
2. …that Building 7 fell at free-fall acceleration, which means that not one of its 81 columns gave any resistance. Where did they go?
3. …that Building 7 fell symmetrically — in the exact manner of a classic controlled demolition.
4. …that molten iron, the byproduct of the incendiary thermite, was found by first responders in pools throughout the debris pile of all 3 towers, and pouring out of the South Tower minutes prior to its collapse.
5. …that witnesses heard and felt explosions prior to the collapse of Building 7.
6. …that 186 First Responders were recorded hearing, seeing, feeling, explosions as well as flashes of light prior to the “collapses” of the Twin Towers.
7. …that the downward motion of the Twin Towers came down in 2/3 of free-fall acceleration, meaning that 90% of the structure was immediately removed.
8. …that most all of the 100,000 tons of steel in each tower was displaced laterally at 80mph, landing up to 600 feet in every direction, so it was not available to crush the building below.
9. …that most all of the 90,000 tons of concrete in each tower was pulverized to a fine powder and distributed laterally from river to river across Lower Manhattan in a 3″ thick blanket, so it also was unavailable to crush the building beneath it.
10. …that the US Geological survey and RJ Lee both independently confirm the discovery of what amounts to about 4 tons of previously molten iron microspheres in the WTC dust samples, indicating temperatures exceeding 2,800º F — and they don’t know where they could have possibly come from.
And, a bonus fact:
11. …that a team of 8 international scientists discovered what amounted to several tons of high-tech nano-thermite in the WTC dust samples, in the form of small red-gray chips that produce molten iron microspheres after ignition in a DSC at 850º F, with the same chemical signature as the iron microspheres discovered by the USGS.
Uncovering the Painful 9/11 Truth with Richard Gage, AIA, Architect [VIDEO 1:26:17] RICHARD GAGE, AIA – ARCHITECT
The Best 90-Minute 9/11 WTC Explosive Evidence Compilation Anywhere
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AUG 05, 2024 – This is what we’ve gotten very good at over the last 18 years. Now run with it, or live in tyranny:
We checked out the new AI technology, and given all the facts and details, this is what it came up with! Pretty impressive, I must say!
“In this episode of Revolution Radio with host Robert Morningstar, join Richard Gage as he presents his extensive research and evidence on the controversial topic of the 9/11 World Trade Center collapse. Gage, a member of the American Institute of Architects, discusses the unreported collapse of Building 7 and presents a compelling case for controlled demolition.
He explores inconsistencies in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report, eyewitness testimonies, and scientific findings. The presentation delves into the physics of building collapse, evidence of thermite use, and the political implications that followed.
Tune in to uncover the hidden truths about one of the most significant events in modern history.
00:00 Introduction and Speaker Introduction
00:42 Revelation of the Third Tower
01:34 NIST’s Investigation and Findings
05:46 Controlled Demolition Hypothesis
11:29 Eyewitness Accounts and Explosions
22:21 Media Reports and Predictions
34:21 Thermite Evidence and Analysis
39:53 Nanotechnology and Superthermite
41:28 Molten Iron Microspheres and High-Tech Materials
42:55 Controlled Demolition Evidence
43:18 Architects and Engineers Demand New Investigation
46:26 Personal Reflections on the World Trade Center
56:44 Eyewitness Accounts and Explosive Evidence
01:00:12 Theories and Official Narratives Challenged
01:15:38 Destruction of Evidence and Call for Truth
01:17:59 The Broader Impact of 9/11
01:20:45 Concluding Thoughts and Call to Action”
[Ed.: Our government attacked the American people and killed 3,000 of us in one morning! And they all kept their cushy jobs…]
Jonathan Pollard to Netanyahu: Leftist High Command Must Go [14:36]
September 10, 2024 Machon Shilo – Watch the following discussion between Jonathan Pollard and Rabbi David Bar-Hayim on the Iranian Attack on Israel:
‘I hope things change in the future’: Brazilians concerned over judge’s censorship attacks By Ezra Levant
‘He’s closing our mouths,’ an attendee at a massive free speech rally in Sao Paulo told Ezra Levant. ‘He actually shut off 22 million people that use X here in Brazil,’ said another
September 09, 2024 Rebel News – “Impeachment of the dictator Alexandre de Moraes,” read an enormous banner on the outskirts of a massive free speech rally in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The banner also featured a caricature of Moraes, a powerful judge who has blocked the Elon Musk-owned social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
The reason these Brazilians call him a dictator is because he has unilaterally banned anyone that comes to his attention that criticizes the current left-wing regime.
He’s ordered the leader of the opposition, the Trump-like figure here, Jair Bolsonaro, to be banned from running again and he’s basically declared war on Elon Musk because Musk won’t go along with his censorship.
Things are so bad here that Moraes even banned Brazilians from using workarounds like VPNs with the threat of punitive fines.
It’s quite incredible to see all of this censorship personified in one man. He really thinks he’s some high emperor. And the trouble is, Brazil is not so far removed from a military dictatorship in its past.
“He’s closing our mouths,” one attendee told us. “He actually shut off 22 million people that use X here in Brazil,” said another.
We asked another woman if she thought Moraes actions would see him impeached. “I think he is, unfortunately, going to keep doing what he’s doing, which is a shame for us,” she said.
A ruling in June by Brazil’s supreme court, which Moraes sits on, barred Bolsonaro from running for office until 2030. Bolsonaro’s supporters in the government, meanwhile, are “fighting to get back his rights to be elected as president again,” said a man we spoke to.
“I hope things change in the future,” a woman said. “I hope Donald Trump wins so he can help us, because it’s a terrible country to live in right now.”
What I learned from the 200,000-person free speech protest in Brazil [Letter from Ezra Levant]
I’m back from Sao Paolo, Brazil, where I was the only English-language reporter covering the massive, 200,000-person street rally in support of freedom of speech. I’ve never been in a crowd that big in my entire life, and one person there told me that they’ve had rallies up to one million people strong. I was skeptical, but we sent our drone camera up in the air, and it really did look massive.
Most people didn’t speak English, but we managed to speak to about 20 people who could, and one local supporter acted as an amateur translator. What was amazing to me — and inspirational — was that so many people from so many walks of life truly cared about freedom.
My first question to everyone was as simple as it gets: “why are you here?” And, unprompted, almost all of them talked about censorship, including at the hands of a rogue judge who not only bans individual politicians and journalists who criticize the regime, but who recently banned the entire Twitter app, silencing more than 20 million users in Brazil.
Here, watch some of those interviews:
Brazil is so interesting, and this rally felt like a cross-section of the whole country — people from every ethnic and economic background. Frankly, I found it inspirational.
Only 40 years ago, Brazil was a military dictatorship. And their new socialist government, including extreme activist judges, seem to want to take it back to the bad old days. These 200,000 people met in the street to say “no”.
If they can fight for freedom, surely we can too. Because don’t think for a moment that our own political leaders aren’t watching to see what censorship they can get away with, too — all in the name of fighting “disinformation”.
Like I mentioned, no other English-speaking media company from anywhere in the world was there. I really believe our journalism was an important way to get the word out.
If you agree, please consider helping to crowdfund our expenses. Our videographer Efron and I flew economy class to Sao Paolo and we stayed one night at an affordable hotel, and we ate on the street. Still, the total bill is approximately $4,000. If you can help us cover that, please do — I really feel that covering unique things like this, that matter to freedom lovers, is what Rebel News was born to do.
You can check out all of our videos, and chip in to our crowdfund, at www.TheTruthAboutBrazil.com — thanks!
Ezra Levant / Rebel News
P.S. God forbid Justin Trudeau goes full dictator on our freedoms, I hope that Canadians will rally the way Brazilians did!
P.P.S. If you can help us crowdfund our journalism, please click here — thanks.
[Ed.: In Spain, and around the Mediterranean and middle East, barbecued bull’s balls are a delicacy. Moraes will soon have Ezra’s Jewish balls for lunch, hold the ketchup!]
“Like Being Asked to Die for the Telephone Company” JOHN LEAKE
Reflections on the modern nation-state
SEP 10, 2024 – A friend [probably Robert Malone,] just sent me an e-mail containing the following reflection by the Scottish-American philosopher, Alasdair MacIntyre.
The modern nation-state, in whatever guise, is a dangerous and unmanageable institution, presenting itself on the one hand as a bureaucratic supplier of goods and services, which is always about to, but never actually does, give its clients value for money — and on the other as a repository of sacred values, which from time to time invites one to lay down one’s life on its behalf. . . . it is like being asked to die for the telephone company.
It seems to me that MacIntyre’s observation is undoubtedly true. The only thing I would add is that supranational states like the European Union and the United Nations are no different.
Apart from administrative tasks such as maintaining infrastructure, basic law and order, and defending the homeland from invaders, what is the legitimate purpose of the 21st century nation-state?
Most people never seriously contemplate this question, and have consequently ended up suffering from something akin to Stockholm Syndrome in their perception of the U.S. federal government.
If you decide to risk being brain damaged by watching the debate this evening, consider that most of the problems discussed by the candidates were caused NOT by the people, but by the state. Kamala Harris’s performance promises to be especially baleful in this respect, given how many social, economic, and political problems have been aggravated during her term as Vice President.
The futility of Israeli concessions Prof. Louis René Beres
Why an Israeli agreement on ceasefire would never be honored by its Jihadist foes.
Sep 10, 2024, 5:55 PM (GMT+3) INN – Though there are many reasons why Israel’s enemies would never honor a cease fire agreement for Gaza, one reason is primal, overriding and immutable. Because Israel is a Jewish state, any concessionary commitments by Jerusalem would automatically be deemed invalid by these enemies. For Israel, ipso facto, the only “remedy” for this pre-determined enemy orientation would be to disappear.
Philosophically, it’s not complicated. In essence, these bitter conclusions do not require the multi-layered insights and expertise of authoritative legal scholars. For Iran and its proxies, Israel can never represent more than the individual Jew writ large.
From the standpoint of expected reciprocities, it matters not a bit to Iran, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, etc., if Israel agrees to humanitarian interruptions of belligerency or to conflict-terminating pacts.
For such inherently recalcitrant foes, Muslims are obligated to “fight the Jews, and kill them…”[1] For these self-declared opponents of international law, a Jewish state in the Dar al Islam (the world of Islam) represents an intolerable abomination. For these deceivers, acts of Israeli good-will, however well-intentioned, are always immaterial.
In principle, at least, the grievously lawless enemy postures are fixed and timeless. Per such faith-based postures, anti-Zionism has never been anything more than a transparent form of anti-Judaism. Before Israel could expect tangible relief from jihadist war and terror, it would first have to acknowledge these force-multiplying sources of adversarial loathing.
These sources, prima facie, have nothing to do with Israel being an “aggressor” or “occupier.” By definition, Israel’s signature on cease-fire documents or on “follow on” agreements concerning Palestinian statehood would mean nothing to Jerusalem’s jihadist adversaries, Shiite or Sunni. Nothing at all.
There are variously relevant details. In the Islamic Middle East, doctrinal anti-Semites have steadfastly remained faithful to their most lascivious hatreds. This is because the anti-Semite, individually and collectively, responds not to any genuine qualities of “The Jew” or Jewish State. He responds only to his own personal fears and anxieties.
More generically, as Jean-Paul Sartre explains in Anti-Semite and Jew (1948): “If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him.” And further on: “The anti-Semite is a man who is afraid, not of the Jews, to be sure, but of himself, of his own consciousness, of his liberty, of his instincts, of his responsibilities, of solitariness, of change, of society, and of the world – of everything except the Jews.”
Tucker Carlson – The anti-William F. Buckley Gary Willig
Where Buckley worked to kick the crazies, the conspiracy theorists, the bigots, and the antisemites out of the Conservative movement and thereby the Republican Party, Carlson has made it his mission to bring them back.
Sep 10, 2024, 3:00 PM – Since October 7, 2023, the antisemitism on the political left has been impossible to ignore. The widespread demonstrations, not in protest of anything, but in celebration of the worst massacre of the Jewish people since the Holocaust, began immediately. Accusations of genocide against Israel began not in response to anything Israel had done, but in anticipation of Israel’s acting in self-defense, with the goal of facilitating a real genocide by Hamas.
The behavior of the leaders of the Democrat Party in response to genocidal hatred has been, to put it very, very mildly, shameful. From US President Joe Biden declaring that liars and bigots “have a point,” Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee declaring that people motivated by nothing more than hate and anger “are showing exactly what the human emotion should be, as a response to Gaza,” to the recent statements by her running mate Tim Walz, who said that the genocidal antisemites are “are speaking out for all the right reasons,” those who lead and are seeking to lead the free world have displayed nothing but cowardice in the face of the world’s oldest hatred.
As bad as things are in the Democratic Party, the events of the last week have demonstrated that neither Jews nor people of conscience can afford to be complacent about the state of the Republican Party.
Two former rising stars of the American Conservative movement, Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, deliberately waded into the mud of antisemitism and crackpot conspiracy theories. Owens, who has never seen an antisemitic conspiracy theory she did not immediately believe without question, railed against the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, in a debate with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on the Piers Morgan show, claimed that the Rebbe “preached Jewish supremacism, the hatred of all non-Jews.”
Owens, who recently converted to Catholicism, went on to suggest that those Chabad followers who consider the Rebbe to be the messiah should just accept her messiah, Jesus. This has become the norm for Owens, who has claimed without evidence that AIPAC assassinated JFK, that Muslims in Jerusalem are restricted to the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, and that Zionists and influential Jews are secretly satanic Frankists, among other loony conspiracy theories.
While Candace Owens is more explicitly and obviously antisemitic, Tucker Carlson is likely the more dangerous of the two. He continues to enjoy enormous influence with the Trump wing of the Republican Party, and is credited with influencing Trump’s decision to pick J.D. Vance as his running mate.
Carlson last week held a two-hour interview with a pseudo “historian” Darryl Cooper, who is nothing more than a crank Holocaust denier. In this interview, Cooper defended Hitler and the Nazis, laid the blame for the Second World War on Winston Churchill, and defended the Holocaust as accidental.
An intellectually honest interviewer would at least challenge such outrageous claims. Piers Morgan had Rabbi Boteach on to do just that with Candance Owens. But challenging Cooper was the farthest thing from Carlson’s mind. He was there solely to promote Cooper, who he claimed “may be the best and most honest popular historian in the United States.”
Tucker Carlson is the anti-William F. Buckley. Where Buckley worked to kick the crazies, the conspiracy theorists, the bigots, and the antisemites out of the Conservative movement and thereby the Republican Party, Carlson has made it his mission to bring the crazies, the conspiracy theorists, and the antisemites back into the movement and the party. His decision to host Candace Owens in another sympathetic interview after her love of antisemitic conspiracy theories began to get her in trouble at the Daily Wire, was just one more example.
This was always the danger that Trump represented, beginning when he began to recreate the Republican Party in his image, that he would ultimately make the party safe for crazies again, and with the crazies would come the bigots, the racists, and the antisemites.
The radical left and the radical right always end up being shockingly similar, at least in their views about Jews. Owens and Carlson are closer in outlook to the most radical members of the Democratic Party on the issues of Israel and the Jews than they are to the mainstream Republican Party or even to the views of Donald Trump and J.D. Vance.
Jews Trump likes the most, the Jews who are proud of their religion and their ethnicity and stand up for themselves and their people, are the Jews who Owens and Carlson have the biggest problems with.
If Tucker Carlson’s influence continues, if it grows, the future of the Republican Party could look a lot like the present of the Democratic Party. All of the accomplishments of William Buckley could be undone, leaving Jews facing a party that tolerates Louis Farrakhan and Ilhan Omar’s antisemitism on the one side, and a party that tolerates the antisemitism of Candace Owens and Darryl Cooper.
Since October 7, American antisemites have largely targeted Democratic politicians in their demonstrations, because they know their antisemitism will have a more sympathetic audience and greater influence there than it would if they demonstrated against the Republican Party right now. That could change if the Republican party moved in the direction of Tucker Carlson. If antisemitism became mainstream in the Republican party, the antisemites, the flag burners, the ‘Death to America’ mobs would have new targets ripe for pressuring the way they now pressure the Democrats.
For their own sake, and for the sake of the entire country, American Jews cannot let this happen. Jewish Republicans, especially, must lead the effort to continue the work of William Buckley and exile the likes of Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens to the fringes of the party and the conservative moment where they belong. Republicans, from Donald Trump to the youngest congressman, should recognize that Carlson’s path leads to the appeasement of the people who burn American flags, the destruction of history, and the mainstreaming of antisemitism, and reject him and his influence.
One party falling prey to antisemitism is already too much. Two would be catastrophic, both for the Jewish people and for the United States of America.
Israel’s True Enemy: Hamas, Not Netanyahu By Bassam Tawil
September 10, 2024 at 5:00 am
- More than 30 years ago, these “elites,” overwhelmingly on Israel’s political “left” (think “peace,” as if most people in democracies do not want peace) played a significant role in convincing the Israeli government to sign the Oslo Accord with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), headed by Yasser Arafat. The assumption back then was that if you bring Arafat’s PLO from the Arab countries to Gaza and the West Bank and help them create a government and police force, the Palestinians would renounce terrorism and give up their dream of destroying Israel.
- The Palestinian Authority, established in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1994, had no intention of making peace with Israel, and still has not.
- Palestinian leaders continue to praise terrorists as “martyrs” and “heroes” and pay monthly salaries to their families.
- Many Israeli “elites” chose to turn a blind eye to the Palestinian leaders’ support for terrorism and incitement of violence and hatred against Israel. Some Israeli peace activists continued to argue that Abbas who, since 2014 has refused to resume peace negotiations with Israel, is somehow a credible peace partner.
- “He [Arafat] did not negotiate in good faith; indeed, he did not negotiate at all. He just kept saying no to every offer, never making any counterproposals of his own.” – Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, quoted by Benny Morris from interviews in late March and early April 2202.
- The Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip in 2005 to enable the Palestinians to create a Dubai on the Mediterranean, instead enabled Hamas and other terror groups to turn the coastal enclave into a huge base for Jihad (holy war) against Israel. With the help of Iran, the terror groups smuggled weapons into the Gaza Strip from Egypt in tunnels dug under the border, and were taught to manufacture rockets and missiles. The Gazans also built a vast network of tunnels throughout the Gaza Strip, with many extending into Egypt.
- It turned out the belief of Israeli “elites” that the expulsion of Jews from the Gaza Strip would contribute to peace with the Palestinians was a catastrophic mirage.
- The Palestinians did not see the “disengagement” as an indication that Israel wants peace. Instead, many Palestinians viewed the withdrawal as an Israeli display of weakness and retreat in the face of rockets and suicide bombings. The thinking among the Palestinians became, “Oh, it’s working! So let’s do it more!”
- In a similar way, Iran, Qatar, Hamas and Hezbollah have been gaining more confidence from the current anti-government protests in Israel, especially since the Biden-Harris administration began pressing Israel to make concessions, but never Hamas, Hezbollah, Qatar or Iran.
- “Continue to exert psychological pressure on the families [of the hostages], both now and during the first phase [of the ceasefire] so that public pressure on the enemy government increases…. Arab forces should serve as a buffer to prevent the enemy [Israel] from entering after the war in Gaza ends, until they [Hamas] have reorganized their ranks and military capabilities.” — Hamas document, written in March for the terrorist group’s leader Yahya Sinwar, discovered on a computer allegedly belonging to him that was seized by the IDF.
- It is wrong for Israel’s anti-government demonstrators to blame Netanyahu for the deadlock in the hostages-ceasefire negotiations. As the Hamas document shows, it is actually the terror group that is not in a rush to reach a deal. Hamas and the Israeli demonstrators seem to hope that the protests will succeed in overthrowing Netanyahu, so that the Israelis can elect a new prime minister – one who will allow Hamas to rearm, regroup and attack again, and one who will allow on Israel’s border a Palestinian state committed to Israel’s destruction and free of Jews who might prevent further attacks.
- Sadly, many demonstrating in Israel today appear unaware that they are being used by Hamas; that they have walked into Hamas’s trap: to force out a leader, Netanyahu, who is finally succeeding in defeating Hamas.
Israel’s self-appointed “elites” governed Israel during the first few decades after its independence in 1948, and, after an unfortunate track record of calculating and assuming things incorrectly when it comes to Israel’s policies towards the Palestinians and other Arabs, are evidently dismayed that they have not been voted back into power. These Israeli “elites” are now blocking Israel’s streets to try to bring down Israel’s duly elected government. They seem to have forgotten their past mistakes and are still pushing for the same failed policies that have resulted in the deaths of thousands of Israelis.
WATCH: Wayne Root Warns of a Jobs Catastrophe that Few Understand… Venezuelan Gangs Taking Over Big Cities Across the USA… and Gives President Trump Debate Advice that Could Change the Course of History! [48:01] By Wayne Allyn Root
Sep. 9, 2024 6:40 pm – Wayne Allyn Root with the most important stories in America: Wayne warns of a jobs catastrophe that few understand… Venezuelan gangs taking over big cities across the USA… and gives President Trump debate advice that could change the course of history!
Watch Wayne’s “America’s Top Ten Countdown” with his World-Famous “Final Four” airing every Friday at 10pm ET and Saturday at Noon ET on Real America’s Voice TV Network. Also watch Wayne’s new nightly show, “The ROOT Reaction” every night at 10pm ET on Real America’s Voice TV.
It’s Not About ‘Peace’ and This Proves It | Caroline Glick In-Focus [1:07:31]
September 9, 2024 JNS TV – In this episode of “In-Focus,” JNS senior contributing editor Caroline Glick investigates and exposes the real intentions of the Biden administration’s insistence on the “two-state solution” for Israel and the Palestinians.
Tune in and learn about the history of the Palestinian Authority, the propping up of warlords disguised as statesmen and the insidious nature of the left’s behavior during the ongoing war against the Hamas terrorist organization.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro/terror wave
9:15 U.S. Ambassador Jack Lew
11:00 A Judenrein “Palestine”
15:00 Background: Mohammed Dahlan & the P.A.
28:00 Why Dahlan?
32:30 Corralling Israelis
40:30 Two-state delusion
50:00 Leftist fervor
Jonathan Pollard: Hostage Deal or Welfare of the Jewish Nation? [18:02]
September 9, 2024 Machon Shilo – Watch the following discussion between Jonathan Pollard and Rabbi David Bar-Hayim on the Iranian Attack on Israel:
Iran’s Ayatollahs challenge the US in Mexico Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger
September 8, 2024 – The US State Department determination to suspend and soften economic sanctions on Iran’s Ayatollahs has added – since February 2021 – some $175bn to the Ayatollahs’ national income. This added-income has bolstered the Ayatollahs’ anti-US global terrorism and drug trafficking, while the US persists in its feeble responses to the frequent assaults on US installations in the Persian Gulf, Syria and Jordan by the Ayatollahs and their proxies in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen. These rogue activities by the Ayatollahs have undermined the safety of the main trade route (the Red Sea) between Europe and the Far East, while causing a severe economic setback to the pro-US Egypt, and threatening the survival of all pro-US Arab regimes.
At the same time:
*Mexico’s expanding alignment with anti-US, pro-Iran Latin American governments – such as Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil and Chile – attests to the erosion of the US strategic posture in its own hemisphere, as well as the dramatic inroads made by Iran’s Ayatollahs – in collaboration with their Hezbollah proxy – into the soft underbelly of “The great American Satan.”
*Mexico has followed in the footsteps of the tri border area of Argentina-Paraguay-Brazil, becoming an arena for Iran and Hezbollah drug trafficking and terror-financing money laundering. For example, Iran’s Ayatollahs and Hezbollah have trained Mexican drug cartels in the areas of car bombs and improvised explosive devices, supplying them equipment for the construction of underground tunnels, as well as predator unmanned aerial vehicles..
*The collusion with Mexican drug cartels has provided Iran’s Ayatollahs and Hezbollah a potent staging ground to severely undermine US homeland security, while establishing a multitude of dormant terror cells in the US.
*The Ayatollahs’ and Hezbollah’s deep involvement in Latin American terrorism and drug trafficking was initiated in the early 1980s, shortly after toppling the Shah of Iran with the ardent support of the US State Department.
*The Ayatollahs’ and Hezbollah’s penetration of Mexico and the US has been bolstered by their deep entrenchment in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, the capital of the Argentina-Paraguay-Brazil tri border area and the global epicenter of narco-terrorism, in general, and cocaine trafficking, in particular.
*According to an October 25, 2023 House Homeland Security Committee testimony by Nathan Sales, a former US Coordinator for Counterterrorism: “The United States and Israel have common enemies. For the Islamic Republic, Israel may be the Little Satan, but America is the Great Satan, and the Iranian terror proxies that want to slaughter Israelis want to slaughter Americans as well…. The Islamic Republic manifestly bears responsibility for the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack….
“The Islamic Republic of Iran is the world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism. Acting through the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and numerous terrorist proxies, the regime has murdered countless innocent civilians, taken hostages remorselessly, and shed blood on an industrial scale. The threat it poses is not confined to the Middle East but extends across the entire world—including the United States….
“the Islamic Republic is actively plotting to assassinate a number of former senior US officials here on American soil. Last year, the Justice Department announced charges against an IRGC member believed to be the ringleader of a plot to murder John Bolton, the former national security advisor. The would-be assassin reportedly also was targeting former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. These former officials and others like them now live under constant, twenty-four-hour government protection because of the Iranian threat to their lives….
“In the attempted assassination of John Bolton, Tehran planned to use a Mexican national with ties to drug cartels. It likewise attempted to use a Mexican drug cartel in the 2011 plot against the Saudi ambassador to the United States. There is a significant risk that Iran-backed terrorists might take advantage of these vulnerabilities again in the future. The US Customs and Border Protection field office in San Diego recently warned that [Iran-sponsored] Hamas and Hezbollah and other terrorists ‘may attempt travel to or from the area of hostilities in the Middle East via circuitous transit across the Southwest border….’
“The Iranian regime targets Americans abroad as well as at home. The IRGC was responsible for killing 603 American soldiers in Iraq…. That is one-sixth of all U.S. fatalities during the war in Iraq. In Afghanistan, the Islamic Republic reportedly paid Taliban fighters a one-thousand-dollar bounty for every American soldier they killed….
“Hezbollah, the Lebanese terrorist group was responsible for the 1983 attacks on the US embassy and Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, which killed sixty-three and 305, respectively. Today, Hezbollah is the Islamic Republic’s proxy of choice for terrorist attacks on Israelis and Jews around the world…. In the past several years, the group has been caught planning attacks or stockpiling explosives in Western Europe, Latin America, the Gulf, Southeast Asia, and elsewhere…. Between 1997 and 2020, 128 suspected Hezbollah members were arrested in the United States. In recent years the FBI arrested three suspected Hezbollah operatives who were conducting surveillance on the Panama Canal and casing potential targets in New York City, including the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Times Square, and Rockefeller Center….
“The US should resume robust sanctions enforcement to deny Iran resources to fund terrorism around the globe. The Iranian regime is richer today than it has been in years…. The bigger problem, in my view, is the fact that the regime has been able to dramatically increase its energy exports, and thus dramatically improve its economic strength. As a result of crippling sanctions, by the end of the previous Administration, Iran’s economy was hobbled, its coffers were drained, and its ability to project power abroad was reduced. Tehran is in a substantially stronger position today. By 2021, the regime’s accessible foreign currency reserves were down to four to six billion dollars—roughly the same as Haiti…. Energy analysts assess that, since 2020, Iran’s oil exports have increased by a factor of four or five [from 500,000 barrels per day to 2-3 million barrels), with the lion’s share of sales going to China….
“Sanctions deny terrorists the money they need to plan and carry out attacks. For years, Hezbollah could count on its patrons in Tehran to provide it with upwards of seven hundred million dollars annually, and Hamas and other Palestinian terrorists received one hundred million dollars a year….”
Why don’t more Christians vote? TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
SEP 08, 2024 – I’ve only been involved in “politics” for the past 9 years. Before that, I paid little attention to what was going on in DC. I voted Republican because my Dad did. That’s about it.
One thing I have learned in the last few years is that many Christians do NOT vote at all – nor do they consider it their duty to vote. I find that very odd. I am a Christian. I know that God is in charge – His Will be done – but I don’t think He wants me to stay home and let Satan elect our leaders, shape our culture and groom our children while we pray for deliverance. If you think I have that wrong – reply to this newsletter and let me know your thoughts.
Lance Wallnau is a Christian leader who is touring across America to encourage Christians to vote AND to vote for President Trump. He says not enough Christians vote. Why?
CBS News spoke with Christian Lance Wallnau about President Trump. CBS, of course, mocked God and mocked the Christian faith but Wallnau was not swayed.
Wallnau compared President Trump to the Cyrus of Isaiah 45. In the Old Testament book of Isaiah, Chapter 45, the prophet wrote decades before about the rise of a leader named Cyrus, a Gentile, who would free the Jewish people from their Babylonian captivity around 538 B.C.
Wallnau wants people of faith to see the parallels between Cyrus and Trump and vote for President Trump.
If you are a person of faith – please listen to this clip from CBS! I also transcribed much of it below if you’d rather read it.
WALLNAU: “I’ve heard some people say, from their vantage point, that Trump is a chosen one. Others say he’s anointed. And people like me would say Trump becomes a once-in-a-thousand-year meteor that shoots over. You’re not going to find a whole lot of future politicians that come out of private enterprise, have a media background and somehow capture the popular zeitgeist and are able to actually come from the outside as a novice and then become a President.
That’s kind of where you’re getting Biblical. Like, you know, you’re praying and there emerges a person. I caught that idea in 2015 when I first met Trump. I met him at Trump Towers. At that time, I ran across Isaiah 45 and said “Oh my gosh – this guy is like Cyrus in the Bible in that he’s a deliverer who God raises up prophetically. Isaiah is prophesying a future deliverer named Cyrus.”
And he’s not even Jewish. [Emphasis added. Ha-ha-ha, LOL!] I wrote in a book that there will be Trump Derangement Syndrome, TDS will happen, I used that term before it became popular, because this guy has a Cyrus-like quality that I believe means he’s an outsider.
[Ed.: They’re not laughing in Israel, but the video is correct.]
Au revoir, France: your synagogues and churches are burned Giulio Meotti
This week I read a chilling article by historian Marc Knobel about burned synagogues. Meanwhile, in France, a church burns every two weeks, while 15 mosques go up.
Sep 7, 2024, 9:45 PM (GMT+3) INN – Just a week ago, a man with a Palestinian flag and a keffiyeh set fire to the Beth Yaacov synagogue in La Grande-Motte, in the south of the country. In May, they burned the synagogue in Rouen.
And this week I read a chilling article by historian Marc Knobel about burned synagogues:
“It all started on October 1, 2000. What happened that day? A synagogue in the 19th arrondissement of Paris receives threats. A Molotov cocktail is thrown into the courtyard of the synagogue. The same day, a Molotov cocktail is thrown into a kosher restaurant in Paris. And, during the service, an unknown person leaves another in the courtyard of the Chnei Or school in Aubervilliers.
“The same type of explosive reached the synagogue in Clichy-sous-Bois. That day, three Molotov cocktails were thrown at the Ulis synagogue. The first level of the synagogue was completely destroyed, the rabbi went up to the first floor to escape death. In Trappes, the synagogue was completely devastated by a fire.
“A few days later, two incendiary devices were thrown at the Creil synagogue. During the night of October 12-13, 2000, one or more people broke two windows of the Bondy synagogue and threw one or more incendiary devices into the synagogue. In the capital, at 1:00 a.m., the door of a synagogue in the 20th arrondissement was set on fire. In the evening, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the Tenoudji school in Saint-Ouen. Two incendiary bottles were thrown at the Chevilly-Larue synagogue. On the night of the 15th to the 16th, in Meudon, two Molotov cocktails were thrown at the synagogue. Someone who was there reportedly shouted ‘Allah Akbar’”.
That’s how it started, and since then dozens of synagogues have burned: from Bondy to Toulouse and Marseille to Trappes, and again and again.
Given the levels of anti-Semitism, “the Jews will not have more than a decade in France before they have to leave,” Rabbi Yaacov Bitton of Sarcelles has just denounced.
The churches fare no better.
The church of Saint-Omer, in the Pas-de-Calais, Inaugurated in 1859, has been devastated by flames. It had just been restored. The fire broke out at 4:30 in the morning. They wanted to destroy it. Despite the intervention of 120 firefighters sent to put out the flames, the bell tower and the structure collapsed. The municipality had just spent 5 million euros to restore it.
The culprit taken into custody this time is Joël Vigoureux, a left-wing militant already convicted for other attacks on churches, who published pro-Palestinian, pro-Islamic, anti-Christian and Black Lives Matter comments on his social media.
A textbook case of self-hatred.
The Coptic Jean Messiha is right when he writes: “When a slice of ham is thrown at a mosque, the media calls for the rebirth of the Republic against the return of fascism and sings the partisans’ anthem over and over again. But when 40 churches are burned in less than a year, not a word is said by the media. Self-hatred as a prerequisite for love of one’s neighbor?”.
The news is merciless: “In Martigné-Briand, between Anjou and Mauges, in the church of Saint-Simplicien, the second arson attack in two months took away the confessional. In Dannevoux, in the Meuse, the altar of the church was targeted, burned on the day of Pentecost…”.
“In France, a church burns every two weeks,” declared the president of the Observatory of Religious Heritage Edouard de Lamaze to the website 76actu. Two-thirds of religious building fires are caused by arson, Lamaze told the Catholic News Agency. He also said that in France a mosque is built every 15 days while “a Christian building is destroyed at the same rate”.
When the church of Saint Louis in Fontainebleau was burned, Le Figaro commented: “Every day in France, nearly two places of worship or Christian burials are vandalized. But what is most revolting is that this massive destruction of our heritage systematically benefits from the most total indifference, both on the part of our political leaders and the main media channels. Many great figures have passed through the church of Saint Louis over the centuries. Between 1611 and 1614, Marie de Medici and Henri IV laid the foundations of this church. In 1661, Louis XIV and Anne of Austria built a chapel there. In 1868, Napoleon III completed the site. Now it burns, silently. Will ours be a century of destruction and indifference?”.
It might be worth keeping in mind Siegmund Freud’s warning: “A civilization that leaves so many of its members dissatisfied and drives them to revolt, neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
When the cathedrals and synagogues of a nation burn, the pillars on which it was built are shattered with them, and the void opens up in which the devils of endless political correctness sleep and stir.
[Ed.: Their ‘religion’ is that your religion must be replaced by theirs. Additionally, if you don’t convert to their ‘religion’, they must cut off your head. Their ‘religion’ must be eradicated.]
When is criticism of Israel legitimate? Dr. Alex Grobman
No democratic states should consider themselves immune to rebuke but no one should be discussing their right to exist either. Op-ed.
Feb 20, 2023, 4:14 PM (GMT+2) INN – Clearly, not all criticism of Israel is antisemitic. As the late American sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset explained, no democratic states should consider themselves immune to rebuke. “Israel is a liberal democratic state,” he said, recalling that, “in ancient Israel, the Biblical prophets devised the art of self-criticism.”
A useful key in determining whether the criticism in question is legitimate or just antisemitism disguised as such was offered by journalist Edward Rothstein, who suggested examining the “standards of justice.” When they are “applied in profoundly distorted fashion, when those distortions put the literal survival of a society at stake, and when murders are taking place and explicitly encouraged declarations are being made that may even fit university standards for ‘hate speech,’ it is safe to say the rhetoric is no longer honest criticism, but, rather, antisemitism,” he said.
Recognizing What It Is
Like pornography, antisemitism is recognized as such by those who know what it looks like.
The late-Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. did not hesitate to label anti-Zionist remarks as antisemitic. On one occasion when speaking to African-American students at Harvard, he heard an anti-Zionist remark from one of them. According to reports of the incident, Dr. King “snapped at him” and said, “Don’t talk like that! When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking about antisemitism.”
The late leftist literary scholar Hans Meyer understood this as well, writing that “whoever attacks Zionism, but by no means wishes to say anything against the Jews, is fooling himself and others.” “The State of Israel is a Jewish state. Whoever wants to destroy it, openly or through politics that can affect nothing else but such destruction, is practicing the Jew-hatred of yesterday and time immemorial,” he said.
We’re in Brazil covering the HUGE anti-censorship protests! [VIDEO 7:48] By Ezra Levant
Brazil’s authoritarian president is throwing his critics in jail and censoring his opposition, but today’s independence day and the country is fighting back!
September 07, 2024
Late last night, we landed in Sao Paulo, Brazil, one of the largest cities in the world, with a population of about 20 million- it’s really a whole country in the form of a city! We’re here because we want to see what’s going on in Brazil. There is a kind of civil war, it’s not really violent yet, but it feels like it could go that way.
Brazil is dealing with the authoritarian President Lula, and his right-hand man, a crusading judge, Alexandra de Moraes. The judge has decided to censor and silence critics of Lula, and he does this through social media. He has secret trials of political figures, of journalists and orders that their Twitter accounts be silenced, censored, banned, suspended, and deleted.
The only reason we know about this is because when Elon Musk bought Twitter and renamed it X, he decided to make it a free speech platform, not a censorship platform. And so when this out-of-control activist judge started having secret trials and saying, “You’ve got to suspend this political opponent of Lula, but you can’t say anything about this trial, we’re having a secret trial with secret evidence, and the outcome is secret,” Elon Musk said, “No, that’s not why I bought Twitter. We’re not going to go along with it, and we’re going to publicize this.”
Well, you don’t defy authoritarians in this part of the world easily, so they banned Twitter.
What’s going on here in Brazil isn’t just of interest to Brazilians, it’s of interest to everyone around the world because I promise you that other leaders, whether it’s Keir Starmer in the United Kingdom, Kamala Harris in the United States or Justin Trudeau in Canada, are all looking at Brazil to see what can they get away with.
Now, the good news is there is opposition in Brazil, that’s why we’re here. Today is the Independence Day. Brazil and the chief opposition figure, Jair Bolsonaro, the former president, is having a massive rally in the massive city of Sao Paulo.
Lula, the communist authoritarian who’s doing all the censoring, is having his own counter-rally in the capital city of Brasilia. So in Brasilia, you’ve got the big Lula censorship rally, and in Sao Paulo, you’ve got the freedom rally for Bolsonaro. It’ll be interesting to see how important Twitter is in that conversation, I look forward to finding that out.
We just got here. We haven’t gone to the protest yet. We’re going with an open mind. I speak no Portuguese. A lot of Brazilians don’t speak English, but I’m sure we’ll find people to help us figure out what’s going on.
You can follow along with us at TheTruthAboutBrazil.com, and the only way we’re able to do that is because, in this censorship jurisdiction, where they have a China-style Great Firewall, we’re using a VPN. And I’m afraid that other tyrants around the world are watching the censorship here. It’s sort of a lab experiment.
I hope freedom rules today, and I’m glad that Elon Musk is throwing the weight of his companies and his own convictions behind the freedom side.
Is Brazil rising up against censorship? I flew overnight to Brazil to find out By Ezra Levant
Will Brazilians rise up? Or will they accept this lurch back to a dictatorship? Brazil’s democracy is very fragile; it was a military dictatorship just 40 years ago.
September 07, 2024
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I just landed in Brazil.
Because their government is censoring political opposition and I want to see what that looks like.
Because they’re doing things Trudeau says he’s going to do to Canada under his Bill C-63 censorship bill.
Today is Brazil’s Independence Day, and it’s the day the opposition here has chosen for massive rallies against the left-wing president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva — Lula, for short.
Lula is a close ally of the world’s worst dictatorships, like Iran and China. And he’s following their example, cracking down on any opposition. You could say that, like Trudeau, China is the country he most admires.
Lula has a powerful ally: a bizarre judge with a God complex, known for wearing black capes, named Alexandre de Moraes. Moraes has been holding secret trials of Lula’s opponents and ordering the social media company Twitter to censor anyone who criticizes Lula, or Moraes himself.
These trials are held in secret; and Moraes not only orders Twitter to censor Lula’s opponents, he orders Twitter to keep the orders themselves secret.
It’s a secret trial with a secret verdict — and Twitter is ordered to do the punishment secretly.
All other social media companies have gone along with that. But not Twitter, which was recently acquired by U.S. industrialist and free speech champion Elon Musk. Not only is Musk refusing to go along with Brazil’s orders, he’s publicly releasing internal documents showing how Lula and Moraes are actually the ones breaking Brazilian law.
That has caused Lula to go berserk — banning Twitter from Brazil and threatening any Brazilian who tries to access Twitter through a technological work-around, like a VPN. They’ve even started seizing assets belonging to Musk, such as his Starlink internet company.
Will Brazilians rise up? Or will they accept this lurch back to a dictatorship? Brazil’s democracy is very fragile; it was a military dictatorship just 40 years ago.
What will happen today? And will the mainstream media report it?
I don’t know — but I want to find out. So I flew overnight from Canada with our head of video, Efron Monsanto. We’re going to spend the day in these rallies, talking to ordinary people.
And, yes, we intend to publish our findings on Twitter — even though Lula and Moraes say that’s illegal. We’ve also set up a special website at www.TheTruthAboutBrazil.com.
So tune in all day to our citizen journalism — hopefully we won’t catch the eye of authorities.
If you think this is important work, please help us cover our costs — our plane tickets were about $1,500 each, plus taxis and we have one night’s hotel, for a grand total of about $4,000.
I promise you it’s journalism you won’t find anywhere else.
And while it’s obviously about Brazil, it’s really about Canada, too. Don’t think Trudeau isn’t watching and thinking about what he can get away with, too.
The CBC has actually reported on the battle between Musk, Lula and Moraes. And it won’t surprise you, they are 100% on the side of censorship. I’m here in Sao Paolo to find out what the Brazilian people have to say.
You can follow along at www.TheTruthAboutBrazil.com. And if you can, please chip in to help crowdfund the cost of our journalism. Brazil is a laboratory for social media censorship — what happens here today could happen in Canada, the UK and even the U.S. tomorrow.
