America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Thursday, October 26, 2023
DeSANTIS STAND UP AGAINST MUSLIM TERRORIST AS JOE BIDEN FUNDS THEM WITH U.S. TAX DOLLARS! - DeSantis Orders Colleges To Disband Students for Justice in Palestine Over Support for Terrorists
OBAMA’S WAR ON THE JEWS
The
Democrats are now officially the party of Jew-hatred. This is largely
due to the disastrous presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. PAMELA GELLER
Abunimah’s
piece -- and Obama’s numerous anti-Semitic associations -- got little
attention. Throughout his life Barack Obama has been close friends with
numerous virulent anti-Semites: Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Khalid
al-Mansour, Rashid Khalidi and others. PAMELA GELLER
“Of
course, one of the main reasons the nation is now “divided, resentful
and angry” is because race-baiting, Islamist, class warrior Barack
Hussein Obama was president for eight long years." MATTHEW VADUM
Biden’s White House Will Not Revoke Visas of Pro-Hamas Foreign Students
President Joe Biden’s White House has no plans
to revoke the visas of those foreign students engaging in
demonstrations across United States college campuses in defense of the
Islamic terrorist organization Hamas and its attacks on Israel.
After a number
of Republicans urged Biden’s State Department to revoke the visas of
pro-Hamas foreign students who hold F-1 visas, National Security Council
(NSC) spokesman John Kirby said the administration will not do so.
An exchange at a White House briefing went as follows:
REPORTER: There’s been an uptick on the right among some Republicans who have called for students or foreign nationals who are demonstratingin some of these pro-Palestine demonstrations or, you know, allegedly pro-Hamas demonstrations to have their student visas pulled or to face deportation. What is the administration’s remark — response to those kinds of remarks and that kind of rhetoric? Is that an overreaction? [Emphasis added]
KIRBY: That … I would just tell you that you don’t have to agree with every sentiment that is expressed in a free country like this to stand by … the idea [of] the First Amendment and the idea of peaceful protest. I’ll leave it at that. [Emphasis added]
As Breitbart News reported, Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) are leading a resolution
urging the Biden administration to revoke the visas of foreign
nationals in the U.S. who are involved in pro-Hamas demonstrations —
especially those on F-1 student visas.
“To put the security of American citizens first, President Biden must
immediately revoke the visas of those who support Hamas and other
terrorist groups,” Blackburn said.
A
participant holds a placard as students gather during a “Walkout to
fight Genocide and Free Palestine” at Bruin Plaza at UCLA (University of
California, Los Angeles) in Los Angeles on October 25, 2023. (FREDERIC
J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)
People
take part in a demonstration in support of Palestinian people, in New
York on October 21, 2023. (Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Sens. Katie Britt (R-AL.), Rick Scott (R-FL), Kevin Cramer (R-ND),
J.D. Vance (R-OH), Ted Budd (R-NC), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Tommy
Tuberville (R-AL), Ron Johnson (R-WI), John Cornyn (R-TX), and John
Hoeven (R-ND) have signed the resolution.
Meanwhile, Rubio and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) have each written to top
Biden officials at the State Department and the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) pressing them to swiftly revoke visas and deport pro-Hamas foreign students.
“I write to urge you to immediately deport any
foreign national — including and especially any alien on a student visa —
that has expressed support for Hamas and its murderous attacks on
Israel,” Cotton wrote to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
“These fifth-columnists have no place in the United States,” Cotton wrote.
WATCH — Graphic Content Warning: Home Where Hamas Murdered an Israeli Family in Kibbutz Be’eri
In Fiscal Year 2022, alone, the federal government provided green
cards and nonimmigrant visas, including F-1 student visas, to foreign
nationals from some of the most pro-Hamas countries in the world.
For example, more than 8,300 Iranians arrived in the U.S. last year
on nonimmigrant visas. In addition, the government gave more than 8,000
green cards to Iranians in Fiscal Year 2022 — including more than 800
who arrived on the Diversity Visa Lottery and more than 520 who arrived
as refugees.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Exclusive–House Republicans Issue ‘Evicted Act’ to Instantly Deport Palestinian Illegal Aliens from U.S.
Reps. Andy Ogles (R-TN) and Tom Tiffany (R-WI)
are introducing legislation that would have the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) immediately deport illegal aliens from the United States
if they arrived from Palestinian-controlled regions such as Gaza.
The “Evicting Violent Islamic Criminals That Entered
Deviously Act” or “Evict Act,” exclusively shared with Breitbart News,
would use the Immigration and Nationality Act to have DHS deport illegal
aliens in the U.S. who arrived from Palestinian-controlled regions.
“No one can escape the countless videos of Palestinian terrorists
barbarically murdering Jewish families in Israel,” Ogles told Breitbart
News in an exclusive statement.
Andy
Ogles speaks to supporters after being declared the winner in
Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District Republican primary, Aug. 4, 2022,
in Franklin, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
“Those same terrorists want Americans to die. President Biden has
refused to secure our nation. We need to deport migrants who came from
countries with ill will for the United States … make no mistake that
what is happening in Israel could happen in the U.S. if we don’t take
action and evict the Palestinian jihadists that have invaded our
nation,” he continued.
Since Biden took office in late January 2021, nearly 300
illegal aliens on the federal government’s “Terrorist Watch List” have
been apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border. During this same period,
nearly two million illegal aliens are known to have successfully crossed
the border, undeterred by Biden.
“Joe Biden has shown time and time again that enforcing our
immigration laws is not a priority for his administration,” Tiffany said
in a statement to Breitbart News. “I thank Congressman Ogles for doing
what Joe Biden refuses to do – put the security of the American people
first.”
Rep.
Tom Tiffany, R-Wisc., participates in the Republican Study Committee
press conference on the RSCs FY2022 budget proposal in the Rayburn House
Office Building on Wednesday, May 19, 2021. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call,
Inc via Getty Images)
The legislation comes as Ogles and Tiffany similarly introduced
the “Gaza Act” this month following terrorist attacks by Hamas on
Israel. That bill would ban President Joe Biden from resettling
Palestinians in American communities through the refugee resettlement
program or via a parole pipeline.
The bill has been endorsed and introduced in the Senate by National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Steve Daines (R-MT).
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
DeSantis Orders Colleges To Disband Students for Justice in Palestine Over Support for Terrorists
Florida’s university system, working with Governor Ron DeSantis,
ordered colleges on Tuesday to shut down a pro-Palestinian student
organization, making Florida the first U.S. state to outlaw the group
whose national leadership backed Hamas's attack on Israel.
The State University System of Florida said chapters of Students for
Justice in Palestine (SJP) had to be dismantled as part of a "crack
down" in the Republican-led state on campus demonstrations that provide
"harmful support for terrorist groups."
"Based on the National SJP’s support of terrorism, in consultation with Governor DeSantis, the student chapters must be deactivated," the system's chancellor Ray Rodrigues wrote in a memo to university leaders.
SJP is active in at least two Florida universities, Rodrigues said.
The University of Florida and Florida State University have SJP
chapters, based on Instagram sites. The National SJP did not immediately
respond to a request for comment.
Tensions between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian students have led to
harassment and assaults at U.S. universities since Hamas's Oct.7 attack
and Israel's siege and bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
Administrators at some U.S. universities criticized the National SJP
after it called Hamas's attack "a historic win for the Palestinian
resistance" and called for a "day of resistance" on Oct. 12 with
demonstrations by its chapters at over 200 colleges in America and
Canada.
National SJP advertised that event
with a template flyer that depicted a person flying on a motorized hang
glider, a reference to one of the methods by which Hamas terrorists
entered Gaza to conduct their raids in which they killed more than 1,400
Israelis.
Florida's university system said it based its SJP ban on a "toolkit"
issued by the national organization to chapters that referred to Hamas's
attack as "the resistance" and stated "Palestinian students in exile
are PART of this movement."
In his memo, Rodrigues said National SJP identified itself as part of
Hamas's attack and it was a felony under Florida law "to provide
material support ... to a designated foreign terrorist organization."
Other Republican politicians have called for similar actions. Sen.
Tim Scott (R., S.C.), a competitor to Ron DeSantis in the race for the
2024 Republican nomination for the presidency, said that students who projected pro-Hamas messages onto a library at George Washington University should face deportation if they are foreign nationals.
The
Biden administration’s tone on Israel notably shifted after the first
few days. The initial response to the attack was generally good and then
as pressure mounted, the administration counterprogrammed each mention
of antisemitism with Islamophobia which reached truly horrendous levels
of pandering when Biden’s press secretary denied the existence of
antisemitism and began lecturing on Islamophobia and an obsessive focus
on the welfare of ‘Gaza’.
By the time Biden gave his big speech, it had to be vetted by Muslim staffers.
Hours
before President Joe Biden gave a rare primetime address last week, his
head speechwriter sat down with a group of senior Arab and
Muslim-American officials to go over the draft and take suggestions.
Dissent
was sprouting even inside the White House, where some aides worried
that Biden hadn’t shown enough empathy for Palestinian civilians and a
Muslim community facing a torrent of anger, said a person familiar with
the discussions who, like others, requested anonymity to talk freely.
The
hour-long editing session reflects a vigorous outreach effort the White
House is undertaking to reassure Arab-Americans who feel they’re being
scapegoated for the atrocities that Hamas has committed a half-world
away.
Who were these officials? They aren’t being named, but the Biden administration includes some pretty bad figures. Like Hady Amr, his point man on ‘Palestinian’ issues, and Maher Bitar.
“I
was inspired by the Palestinian intifada,” Hady Amr wrote a year after
September 11, discussing his work as the national coordinator of the
anti-Israel Middle East Justice Network.
Biden has now chosen Amr as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Israel-Palestine.
Biden’s
incredible Muslim team includes men and women whom we have already
profiled like Maher Bitar, a former executive board member of Hatem
Bazian’s Students for Justice in Palestine and anti-Israel BDS activist
who became Biden’s Senior Director for Intelligence on the National
Security Council, Reema Dodin, Biden’s first “Palestinian” staffer who
had defended suicide bombings, and Mazen Basrawi, Biden’s new Muslim
liaison, who attended a conference honoring one of the unindicted
co-conspirators of the World Trade Center bombing,
In
2014, Abdullah Hasan was a recipient of the CAIR-SFBA Islamic
Scholarship Fund. He went on to defend BDS for the ACLU. Now he’s an
assistant press secretary at the White House.
They
include Aya Ibrahim, who started out as a legislative fellow to Rep.
Rashida Tlaib, one of the most vocal terrorist supporters in Congress.
Sameera
Fazili briefly served as Deputy Director of the National Economic
Council in the Biden Administration. At Harvard, she had served as
president of the Harvard Islamic Society the year that it had conducted a
fundraising dinner for the Holy Land Foundation: a Hamas front group.
Uzra
Zeya started out as a staffer at the Washington Report on Middle East
Affairs: an informal arm of the Arab Lobby started by former diplomats
to Muslim countries. While there Zeya helped compile material for a book
claiming that Jews secretly control the United States. Biden chose Zeya
as his undersecretary for civilian security, democracy and human
rights.
Rashad
Hussain, Biden’s “ambassador for religious freedom”, who has a degree
in Islamic Studies and had memorized the Koran, had been Obama’s envoy
to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. During his time working for
Obama, he had been caught lying about his past defense of an Islamic
terrorist. Hussain had appeared at events with Muslim Brotherhood
leaders. His wife, Isra Bhatty, became famous volunteering as a
translator for Islamic terrorists in Gitmo before moving on to a senior
position at the Justice Department.
Brenda
Abdelall, the daughter of Egyptian immigrants, had participated in
anti-Israel BDS protests in college. In a newspaper op-ed in 2002, she
had falsely accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing” as part of a “brutal
occupation”.
Even
after this appointment, Abdelall appeared at the same convention as
Hussain where speakers had called for a caliphate ruled by Islamic law
and freeing Islamic terrorists.
So
we’re not just talking about ‘Muslim staffers’. We’re talking about an
administration whose Muslim staffers are often vehemently anti-Israel
and terror adjacent.
Good thing they’re vetting Biden’s speeches on Israel.
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.
Barack
Obama describes himself as a friend of Israel. In reality, the
relationship between the former president and the State of Israel, one
embodied by his approach to their leader Benjamin Netanyahu, has always
been strained, if not downright hostile, since Obama was elected
president.
Reportedly,
when Netanyahu was invited to the Obama White House, he was snubbed and
then kept waiting by Obama for half an hour, before the president
finally condescended to see the leader of our country’s great ally and
only friend in the Middle East.
The
rift between Israel’s leader and our former president was heightened
just recently as Obama, in his usual condescending and pontifical
manner, warned Netanyahu
and Israel that their retaliation against Hamas was likely to “harden
Palestinian attitudes” towards the State of Israel.
From
everything I have read and heard regarding Hamas’s position towards
Israel, that terrorist group has always publicly and obscenely called
for the destruction of Israel and the death of all Jews. Try as I might,
I cannot imagine a worsening of that position.
Hamas rewarded kidnappers
of Israeli civilians with cash rewards and free apartments upon
returning to Palestinian-occupied territory with those captured
Israelis.
If
Obama, despite these Hamas atrocities, thinks the Palestinian attitude
towards Israel could get worse, and if he really believes he is giving
Israel friendly advice, Israel’s thought must certainly be, “With
friends like this, who needs enemies?”
Bill
Hansmann is a dentist and dental educator with over fifty years in the
profession. He continues to teach and write political blogs and
semi-mediocre novels while living with his wife and cats in Florida.
WE
CAN LET THE DEMOCRAT PARTY DESTROY AMERICA AS FAST AS THEY DESTROYED
THE BORDER AND FLOODED US WITH TENS OF MILLIONS OF ILLEGALS, OR WE CAN
PUT THEM OUT!
“Of
course, one of the main reasons the nation is now “divided, resentful
and angry” is because race-baiting, Islamist, class warrior Barack
Hussein Obama was president for eight long years." MATTHEW VADUM
What
is now occurring in Israel is no act of happenstance or the result of
failed policy. It is the execution of a premeditated plan of destruction
that Obama began, and Biden is trying to finish. The American left has
long desired to eliminate Judeo-Christian followers. Their reasoning is
simple: you cannot conquer, subjugate, and enslave a population that
refuses to accept the rule of an earthly authority.
With
Barack Obama leading the American left and pulling the strings on the
Biden marionette, the plan is in motion. They seek to destroy Israel,
followed by erasing Christians, whether through genocide (as in parts of
Africa) or criminalizing Christianity.
In
2014, Israel initiated “Operation Protective Edge” to destroy “endless”
miles of terror tunnels Hamas used to gain access into Israel and
murder civilians. The Obama Administration assailed the Netanyahu
government for using “disproportionate force” to protect their citizens
from death at the hands of terrorists.
That
same year, in a Tel Aviv speech, Philip Gordon, special assistant to
U.S. President Barack Obama and the White House coordinator for the
Middle East, made clear Barack Obama’s position. As reported on July 8 in Times of Israel:
Israel’s
ongoing occupation of the West Bank is wrong and leads to regional
instability and dehumanization of Palestinians, a top American
government official said Tuesday in Tel Aviv, hinting that the current
Israeli government is not committed to peace.
Gordon
appealed to Israeli and Palestinian leaders to make the needed
compromises to reach a permanent peace agreement. Jerusalem “‘should not
take for granted the opportunity to negotiate’ such a treaty with
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who has proven to be a
reliable partner,” Gordon said. Abbas’s administration has called for the extermination of all Jews as an Islamic imperative.
Whether
Gaza or the West Bank, Obama placed greater concern on the quality of
life of Palestinians who subscribe to terrorism than industrious Jews
working to build a better life for themselves.
An
immediate and unconditional ceasefire ending Israel’s assault on Hamas
is a “clear strategic imperative” to Israel, U.S. President Barack Obama
told Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in a phone call on Sunday.
[snip]
Obama
told Netanyahu he wants a ceasefire “that both allows Palestinians in
Gaza to lead normal lives and addresses Gaza’s long-term development and
economic needs, while strengthening the Palestinian Authority,” the
White House said, in a readout of the call to reporters.
In
terms of disproportionate force, what gives Barack Obama the right to
say what a Jew’s life is worth? (The Biden administration is repeating the same line.) To
those who have followed Middle East events, it is clear that the last
thing to concern Obama was a Jew’s life. His position always focused on
protecting the Palestinian right to kill Jews, while minimizing the
consequences. Looking at today’s horrors in Israel and Obama’s lethargic response, how can any reasonable person believe otherwise?
In
2015, Obama promoted and signed the Iranian Nuclear Accord over
bipartisan objection from the Senate on both constitutional and
principled grounds. Obama ignored that. Obama’s agreement was structured
to allow Iran to develop nuclear power readily convertible to a nuclear
weapon. It also deleted existing sanctions, giving Iran the financial
resources to pursue its oft-stated goal using nuclear weapons against
the Jewish State. Additionally, the money allowed Iran to sponsor Hamas
in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Majid Rafizadeh, an economist and business consultant who teaches at Harvard University, offered his analysis of the deal:
The
international community would truly do itself a great service to
recognize that the nuclear deal was nothing more than a pro-mullah
agreement which provided Iran’s ruling clerics with billions of dollars
to pursue their anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-Iranian people and
pro-terror activities, while simultaneously providing cover for Iran to
pursue its nuclear ambitions.
When
President Trump withdrew from the Iran deal, he reimposed sanctions and
essentially cut off funding for terrorism. An important point lost on
many today is that when we were mass-producing energy under President
Trump, we drove down the price of oil in the marketplace. This further
deprived Iran (and Russia) of resources to use against the United States
and other Judeo-Christian nations.
As a parting shot at Israel, in 2016, Barack Obama refused to block an anti-Israel resolution at
the United Nations condemning settlement construction. Perhaps the
strongest evidence of Obama’s desire to destroy the Jewish State comes
from his allowing the resolution to pass. The proof is simple. The
resolution holds that the Temple Mount and Western Wall, Jerusalem’s holiest sites going back over 2,500 years, are occupied territory. The so-called Palestinian people are a construct fabricated in the 1960s. Only the worst of the Jew-haters could endorse this resolution.
Currently,
much is being made of $6 billion that the Biden administration has
moved to make available to Iran, but that amount is small compared to
what his administration has already done. Writing in August 2023, former
White House official Richard Goldberg explained:
“At
least $16 billion has now been made available to Iran without any
congressional input — and more might be on the way. Another $6.7 billion
is reportedly moving to Iran via the International Monetary Fund
Special Drawing Rights… and reportedly… another $3 billion of regime
assets frozen in Tokyo, India and China…”
In
addition, Biden continues to issue waivers for oil exports without
Congressional oversight, resulting in Iran deriving many billions of
dollars in revenue.
Under
President Trump Iranian oil exports were 10 percent of what they are
today, representing reductions of tens of billions of dollars to Iran.
It was deterrence without death and destruction.
Today,
the Biden Administration has reversed the Trump measures and renewed
the flow of money to Iran and Hamas. Without this funding, both Iran and
Hamas would be unable to move against Israel. In addition, based on a Wall Street Journal report, aside from funding, Iran provided the organizational structure and guidance for the attack on Israel.
Simply put, without Iranian sponsorship, Israeli babies would not have been beheaded or burned alive. Israel’s move to exterminate Hamas should have taken place in 2014. It is obvious that Barack Obama blocked this action. So again, what other conclusion can be drawn other than his goal was to destroy Israel, a goal that Biden continues to pursue?
Moreover,
both Obama and Biden know that, when the Jews are gone, Christians are
next. Hamas has explicitly stated that, after Israel, it will eliminate Christianity (and, presumably, Christians). This will not be confined to Israel. It will happen here.
Thousands of Middle Eastern men of military age are coming over our
southern border, with numbers of them on the terror watchlist. They are
waiting for the Ayatollah to press the button. The American leftist
leader Barack Obama is the author of the existing tragedy and what is to
come.
What
is currently transpiring in the Middle East is not due to some error in
judgment. It was planned. The violence, death, and destruction were
premeditated. If not headed off now, the American left will empower the
Muslim community to accomplish their goal and bring their horror show
here.
UNTIL JOE CAME ALONG, BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA WAS THE GREATEST THREAT TO AMERICA!
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Votes
have consequences. President Obama directed the U.S. to abstain on a
vote by the UN Security Council in December 2016 – just before leaving
office – called Resolution 2334, which condemned Israel for its
settlements In occupied territories. In previous votes on this matter,
the U.S. vetoed said condemnation.
This
abstention in effect branded Israel as a violator of international law
at the expense of the Arab population living within its borders since
the Israeli victories of 1967 and 1973 (the Yom Kippur war). The enemies
of Israel have never tired of stating that Israeli Jewish settlements
in occupied territories, especially in the south of Judea and Samaria,
were expanding too rapidly in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Judea and Samaria were the original names of the land areas of
present-day Israel – names that were abolished by the Romans in 70 AD.
The Romans re-named the land area Palestine. That is why the residents
of that area, prior to the recognition by the United Nations of Israeli
statehood, were called Palestinian Jews and Palestinian Arabs.
Many
uninformed persons today do not realize that the United Nations also
authorized the creation of a state for the Palestinian Arabs at the same
time the State of Israel was authorized, but the Palestinian Arabs,
coached by the neighboring Arab countries, turned down the offer.
Instead, the Arabs in the region, intent on destroying the new Jewish
state and annihilating all the “Palestinian Jews” (now properly called
Israelis), called upon all Arab residents of the newly formed state of
Israel to flee so they could wipe out all of Israel. After the intended
“wipe out,” those who fled could return to the homes and property they
had left – as well as take over all the property of the Jews.
It
was an all-or-nothing plan, and they ended up with nothing. The
fledgling state of Israel that was completely outmatched in terms of
equipment nevertheless won the war in 1948, and the Arabs who had fled
from Israel now found themselves living in camps and unable to occupy
the homes they had left in Israel (“Eretz Yisrael”). Some observers,
like this writer, believe that not only was that victory a David vs.
Goliath-type of event, but that it was the fulfillment of the prophecy
found in Ezekiel Chapter 37 – wherein the prophet is taken to the Valley
of Dry Bones and the bones are resurrected by the power of Almighty
God, thus ushering in the soon-to-be return of Christ.
Some
commentators, in particular Shalom Lipner, saw Obama’s abstention on
the vote condemning Israel as more of a personal confrontation between
Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Further, like so many
elitist commentators, he expressed his understanding in opaque, highly
educated language. He wrote:
Lacking
critical texture, the resolution paints the entire parcel in question
with the same truth, effectively equating the most isolated of Israeli
settlements – which Israel would surely dismantle in the even of a bona
fide peace agreement….
He
is thereby disagreeing with the resolution but sees it as a finesse to
favor Obama’s perspective over that of Netanyahu. Yet the florid
language obscures the reality that Israel was betrayed.
However, although Obama was president, there was considerable backlash against his decision to abstain. Obama
found himself opposed by Sen. Tom Cotton, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Sen.
Cory Gardner, President-elect Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, Lindsey Graham,
and even Democrat Senator Charles Schumer. Obama’s decision was not only
pro-Islamic, it also represented a twisted interpretation of the Fourth
Geneva Convention which was supposed to be the reason for the
abstention.
The
Fourth Geneva Convention has an entire section about the legal
treatment of occupied territories going from Article 47 to Article 78.
These articles cover such topics as children, repatriation, and hygiene
in occupied territories. Section 47 is the one section that may seem to
apply to the Israeli occupation per se. It states,
Protected
persons who are in occupied territory shall not be deprived, in any
case or in any manner whatsoever, of the benefits of the present
Convention by any change introduced, as the result of the occupation of a
territory….
Reviewing
the articles of the Fourth Geneva Convention, this writer concludes
that the meaning inferred by Obama was that the increase of settlements
by Israelis in lands acquired in earlier wars with Arab states deprive
local Arabs in those territories “of the benefits…by any change
introduced as a result of the occupation….”
To
me, this is an extreme and hostile view of the Israeli settlements in
lands taken during wars. Arabs in those lands are in no way oppressed by
the presence of Jewish Israelis in expanded numbers in neighboring
acreage. Thus, Israel is right in conceiving of this interpretation of
Section 47 of the Convention as illegitimate, and it is clear that Obama
sacrificed truth for the sake of the Islamic false claims. The Arabs
simply did not want to live near increasing numbers of Jews. No
international law was breached.
By
failing to veto the false claim of the terrorist world that surrounds
Israel, Obama opened the door to a fundamentally false understanding of
the Israeli settlements in lands taken during the horrible wars that
beset that wonderful country. This was an encouragement to Hamas and to
all those bitter murderers who deny the right of Israel to exist as a
country. The Arab bias is driven by an irrational sense of Islamic
hegemony as being valid in any lands they had conquered at one time.
Whatever
President Obama may or may not have thought, Israel is not in violation
of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Horrible murders of the residents of
Jewish settlements and towns in no way validate the Obama agreement. It
is a bloodthirsty and primitive reaction that must be smashed.
A
profound irony of Israel’s latest grim suffering is that the knife- and
gun-wielding Palestinian (Hamas-sponsored) terrorists and their leftist
cheerleaders in the American academy reveal a deplorable collusion
between what ordinarily would be antagonists.
The collaborative condemnation by the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee that
held “the Israeli regime entirely responsible for” the October 7
slaughter suggests a bewildering collusion between far right and far
left: fundamentalist Islamists supported by woke, neo-Marxist radicals.
A rebarbative synthesis
It
is as if, on the fiftieth anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War that
pitted Israel against Egypt and Syria, Hegel’s dialectic (actually
Johann Fichte’s) overcame the diverging ethos of antagonists. Thesis:
Islamofascism; Antithesis: neo-Marxism (submission to Allah versus a
godless war on exploitation). The rebarbative synthesis: death to
Jews.
It
appears there is a metastatic malignancy perfusing elite universities
all across the country, as the emerging generation of America’s
foreboding political future (young Democratic Socialists of America) celebrated in Times Square amid
reports of the beheading of toddlers and the rape and murder of young
women in their parents’ homes. Can it really be that Ivy League and
other prominent universities are graduating Nazi youth? Are there in
fact neo-Nazis reimagining the Barack Obama/Joe Biden wing of the
Democrat party?
Matriculating radicals
A
perspicuous rationale is needed to explain the pitiless way the woke
Harvard student radicals blamed the victim for the latest Hamas
intifada. Why, sane people want to understand, do Ivy League students
hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all the unfolding
barbarity?
We are struck by the irony of Harvard admissions officers recruiting
applicants who “have demonstrated concern for others ... can be
graceful ... under pressure ... [and] open to learning new ideas. [I]t
[is] important for you to treat others with kindness and demonstrate
that you care for others in addition to caring for yourself.”
Left-leaning moral concerns
As the research of Jonathan Haidt in The Righteous Mind illuminates,
the left’s two (almost exclusive) moral concerns — for care/harm and
fairness/cheating — which, Haidt explains, “means equality to the left
but proportionality to the right” (emphasis added), almost guarantees
that Harvard’s students will empathize with their partisan professors’
perspective on the Middle East.
Taught
by impressive and persuasive progressive professors to see the
Palestinian issue through Haidt’s care/harm, fairness/cheating lens of
lamb versus lion, rabbit versus wolf, or (ironically) David versus
Goliath, the weaponized professorial casuistry often tracks the
calumnies recited by Amnesty International:
that Israel is a Zionist, apartheid bully state that (with the backing
of American money and weapons) has swaggered between the Mediterranean
and the Dead Sea for seventy-five years.
What
young person of idealistic bent doesn’t root for an
underdog? Unfortunately, this saga is about two very different
underdogs that appear to be fighting over the same bone.
Given
that openness is considered a particularly progressive personality
trait, one would expect a commitment to the diversity of ideas in
academe. Instead, The Harvard Crimson 2022 survey of
faculty found that “more than 80 percent of Harvard faculty respondents
characterized their political leanings as ‘liberal’ or ‘very
liberal.’” Sixteen percent labeled themselves “moderate,” while “only 1
percent of respondents stated they are ‘conservative.’”
Progressive student psychology
Jonathan
Haidt explains the students’ likely primary moral concerns for
care/harm, fairness/cheating. But what explains their wildly inhumane
demonization of the innocent victims of utter savagery?
The
answer is a matter of psychology, about human tendencies that have been
understood and written into the characters of plays and novels long
before Freud gave them a nomenclature, before human behavior became a
clinical profession or an academic discipline.
The
Harvard student groups that published their deplorable statement
blaming the Israeli victims responded in a way that is consistent with
their prejudices and philosophical assumptions about humanity. They
believe, in the abstract, that all human beings are basically
good...except, perhaps, recently realized (post–George Floyd) exceptions
such as white (especially conservative) Americans and Israelis.
There
is an unquestioning belief by these young, care/harm, fairness/cheating
idealists that Hamas terrorists — what they have been conditioned to
believe are only dispossessed freedom fighters — are just as righteous
as the Harvard students consider themselves to be. The students project
their own relative decency onto the objects of their political
concern. And their feelings, even if not articulated, are very real.
Preposterous translation
When
the radical young Ivy-Leaguers hear about or see video of the savagery
of innocents by the barbarism of Hamas terrorists, their reaction is
determined by a translation.
Not
only are they predisposed to see the Palestinians as surrounded by
merciless gorgons, but they interpret the pitiless terrorism of Hamas as
a desperate, understandable response to decades of intolerable abuse by
Israeli masters. The students think: What unspeakable degradation
these poor Hamas freedom fighters and their loved ones must continually
suffer to be willing to risk their lives and the contempt of the world
to express their agony in such sadistic acting out!
Absurd
and unreasonable as they obviously are, the Harvard student radicals
reimagined the Israeli victims as vile oppressors and the Hamas
barbarians as recipients of torture beyond toleration.
In
short, the students who support Hamas are identifying with Hamas
“freedom fighters,” enabling the Ivy-Leaguers not only to explain away,
but even to celebrate their sadistic actions.
Educational dereliction
The
students’ care/harm and fairness/cheating moral outrage is purely in
defense of the Palestinians, but their assumption that Palestinians are
good and Israelis are bad is due largely to the imbalance of their
Harvard education. This monolithic distortion in the political posture
of American university faculty is to blame for so many of our
increasingly violent political divisions.
What
is a poor (actually often wealthy) Harvard student to make of life’s
political dilemmas, especially when he is not taught to think
critically, not taught to grapple with contrasting points of view, and
often encouraged to ignore views that do not fit his leftist
narrative? Sometimes they just close their eyes, plug their ears, and
yell.
So
many young Ivy-Leaguers are unaware that the perfect is the enemy of
the good, informed primarily by partisan dogma, unable to reason from
cause to effect, incapable of paying it forward, and willing to see
Hamas only as the champions of downtrodden Palestinian refugees. So
what do the radically woke Hamas-loving students really want?
In their ignorant, soft-souled, underdog-loving, decency-projecting hearts, they demand heaven on earth — the politics of hell.
Hamas-loving
Harvard student radicals illuminate a criminal neglect: the failure of
the American educational complex to represent history with reasonable
balance. This dereliction of U.S. higher education, especially since
WWII, is particularly evident in its failure to inform students how in
the recent century, men with utopian and totalitarian impulses (dreamers
with power) slaughtered scores of millions of human beings that the
woke generation is hardly aware of.
As Whitaker Chambers wrote in 1961, “[i]t is idle to talk about preventing the wreck of Western civilization. It is already a wreck from within.”
Douglas Hackleman has a Master’s degree in psychology from Pepperdine University.
With
so many on the Left celebrating the premediated slaughter of women,
children, and the elderly in Israel, many of these gullible fools have
been shocked at the vast number of young people that have been
indoctrinated and the depth of anti-Semitism that has its home in the
Democrat Party.
Apparently,
far too many so-called educated elites fail to understand that their
American Marxist allies are virulently anti-Semitic and racist. They
fully accept Karl Marx’s unequivocal belief that Jews are part and
parcel of the oppressor class that must be eradicated. Marx further
amplified this position in an essay published in 1844 titled, On the Jewish Question, when
he wrote: “Money is the jealous God of Israel, in face of which no
other God may exist.” He argued that in the final analysis, the
emancipation of the Jews is the emancipation of mankind from the Jews.
In other words, Jews can only become free when, as Jews, they no longer
exist.
Further
amplifying his overt racism, in a letter Marx wrote to his co-author
and friend Friedrich Engels in 1879, Marx described one guest at a
resort he was visiting as a “Jewish ni**er.” A vile racist epithet often
used by Marx in his writings and conversations as documented by Diane
B. Paul in an essay published in The Journal of the History of Ideas (1981).
In
the United States, the current iteration of Marxists began their
ascendancy into the nation’s mainstream when they insinuated themselves
into the popular Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War protests of the
1960s. Today, these radicals are the dominant force in the nation’s
culture, education, and governing class as well as being in de facto
control of the nation’s largest political party.
After
eight years of Barack Obama, the liberal elites or ruling class viewed
their ultimate objective of assuming near-permanent political power as
being within reach. However, their erstwhile allies, the American
Marxists, viewed the eight years of Barack Obama as the opening salvo in
their ultimate objective of permanently transforming America.
The
transformation the Marxist radicals seek will subsume their liberal
allies, as there is no room in the structure they are building for the
elites and their wealth, as well as their unfettered and hedonistic
lifestyles. While some have awakened to this reality, the vast swath of
self-described progressives and liberals have been blissfully oblivious.
Thus, the Marxist radicals currently have power far beyond their
numbers.
Their
power has further been abetted by the current president and presumptive
Democrat nominee in 2024, Joe Biden, who has been overtly and
willingly blackmailed by the Marxists, into acquiescing and pursuing virtually all their policy positions.
However,
Biden is becoming increasingly unelectable due to scandals, his age,
senescence, and failed policies. The American Marxist faction of the
Democrat Party is faced with the reality that Biden will have to be
replaced during the 2024 campaign season.
However,
those who might be considered for the nomination and ordinarily viewed
as more moderate or liberal are roundly criticized if they stray too far
from Marxist dogma and thus stand virtually no chance of winning the
nomination unless approved by the party’s Marxist overlords who are
convinced they can nominate virtually anyone as they believe the
presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump, is so unpopular among the
general electorate that he cannot win in November of 2024.
However,
trepidation is now creeping into the higher reaches of the liberal
establishment wing of the Democratic Party as they look across a barren
landscape of potential nominees promoting, by necessity, Marxist
ideology. However, they are essentially powerless, having gradually
ceded their dominance of the Party to their radical allies over the past
three decades. Allies who now dominate academia turning out armies of
mind-numbed activists. Their number in turning out to support Hamas and
the slaughter of Jews has been an eye-opening bucket of cold water for
not only the Democrat Party establishment but all Americans.
Thus,
it is too late for the Party to turn back toward any semblance of
moderation. If the Democrats were to win the presidency in 2024 and
control both house of Congress, the Marxist wing would be more
determined than ever to implement their Marxist/socialist agenda.
Ultimately,
while the nation would unduly suffer under Democrat/Marxist control and
in all probability move beyond the point of no return, the tension
between the two factions in the Democrat Party will eventuate in the
implosion of the party allowing the American Marxists full and permanent
control of the Party as well as near-perpetual control of the levers of
government. Additionally, they will, in all likelihood, marginalize the
Republican Party by use of executive orders and legislation to
nationalize all elections while third parties will effectively cease to
exist.
In
an ironic turn of events, either a Trump or DeSantis presidential
victory in 2024 and Republican control of both Houses of Congress is the
single event that would not only save the nation but be the opportunity
for the Democratic Party to recover a sense of moderation, assuming
that the liberals or so-called moderates have the intestinal fortitude
to use that outcome to divorce themselves from their long-term
incestuous bed partner, the American Marxists.
The
question then becomes, would the liberal elites be too squeamish to
confront their Marxist allies for control of the Party, as it is highly
likely there would be excessive political bloodshed resulting in the
ultimate creation of a third party to replace the Democrat Party.
The
2024 election is not only critical to the future of the nation and the
future of both parties but in particular the Democrat Party as the
cracks in the façade are beginning to widen.
We can’t say we weren’t warned. Joe Biden’s abject incompetence at foreign policy is legendary.
“Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up,” former President Barack Obama reportedly warned a
fellow Democrat during the 2020 primary. Former Defense Secretary
Robert Gates said in 2014 that Biden “has been wrong on nearly every
major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four
decades.”
Biden’s record somehow has only gotten worse since he became president.
President
Barack Obama, standing with Vice President Joe Biden, gives a press
conference about the Iran Nuclear Deal, on July 14, 2015, in Washington,
DC. (Andrew Harnik – Pool/Getty Images)
His
Afghanistan withdrawal strategy lead to chaos, horror, and death –
including for children and American servicemen. His Ukraine/Russia
policy undoubtedly played a major role in Putin’s decision to invade.
China has routinely humiliated the U.S. on the world stage. Biden is
more responsible than any single person for the humanitarian crisis at
the U.S./Mexico border. His efforts to keep America’s Southern border
opens confirms that, stunningly, national security is simply not a
priority for the U.S. President.
So, yeah, he’s wrong on every major foreign policy decision.
He staffed his foreign policy machine with grifters, dissemblers, and ideologues. Those who didn’t spend the Trump years hawking their services to the highest bidder were perched at think tanks, where they were no less at the mercy of foreign interests. Just last week, the Pentagon announced a
probe into a Biden appointee over her cozy relationship with Iranian
officials while promoting the nuclear deal as a scholarly “expert.”
Once in power, these phony “experts” have rarely even hinted at progress toward Middle East peace of any kind.
In fact, the region has been markedly more chaotic than the relative calm of the Trump years.
Despite Biden’s campaign promise for a return to “normal” foreign policy, this weekend’s blood bath carried out against
Israelis by Iran-backed Hamas terrorists may well be his biggest
foreign policy failure. For starters, Biden’s team appears to have been blindsided by
the attacks. This should shock no one, since these same people have
spent most of his term wrangling with allies in Saudi Arabia and Israel
while trying to appease Iran (which wants us all dead).
Hamas
militants celebrate by a destroyed Israeli tank at the Gaza Strip fence
east of Khan Younis Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Eslaiah)
Rockets are launched by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, on Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
A
man passes the scene where a rocket fired from Gaza strip hit a
building on October 7, 2023, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Amir Levy/Getty
Images)
In fact, in response to Hamas attacking Israel, the United States’ Office for Palestinian Affairs called for Israelis to “refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks.” (They have since deleted the offending tweet.)
There is a word for granting moral equivalence between terrorists and their victims: evil.
Upon
taking office, Biden chilled the U.S.-Saudi alliance. President Joe
will rarely, if ever, defy his left-wing base, and his base had become
obsessed with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi by the Saudis. This made it
impossible for Biden to engage with the Saudis at a level necessary to
forge a stronger peace in the region. Additionally, as my colleague Joel
Pollak has noted, Biden paused arms
sales to Saudi Arabia and “reopened negotiations with Iran toward a new
nuclear deal over Saudi (and Israeli) objections.” Russia would be a
key partner if a new Iran deal takes shape. The same people who told us
that Vladimir Putin is the world’s greatest threat are perfectly fine
pushing for a deal that elevates him on the world stage while empowering
Iran. This is incoherent and irresponsible.
Since Biden has been president, the U.N. nuclear watchdog found that Iran has enriched uranium to near weapons-grade.
That
doesn’t seem to bother Joe Biden, who recently released $6 billion in
frozen funds to Iran as part of deal that included a prisoner swap. Iran
funds and arms Hamas. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi declared “victory”
after the latest terror attack in Israel. While the $6 billion hasn’t
arrived yet, and it is supposed to be used specifically for peaceful
purposes, money is fungible and padding Iran’s bank account obviously
frees them up to fund more terror. Only liars and demagogues would pretend this is not how money works. What’s more, people (and countries) spend when they have the expectation of money coming in; they don’t necessarily wait for the check to arrive. That’s basic economics.
In fact, the Iranian President has said he’ll do whatever he wants with the money.
Iran’s
President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a rally outside the former U.S.
embassy in the capital Tehran on November 4, 2022, to celebrate the 43th
anniversary of the Iran hostage crisis against Americans. (ATTA
KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)
But wait, there is more: Biden inexplicably revoked the
terrorist designation of the Iran-backed Houthi terrorist group. He
also pulled U.S. support for Yemen’s government against the Houthi
rebels — in a country that sits across a narrow strait from a key U.S.
naval base in Africa. All of this strengthens Iran.
Meanwhile, Biden has been icy to
Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu, despite Bibi’s efforts to engage
productively with President Joe. Biden and his team refused to meet with
Israel’s duly elected government. They also restored funding to Palestine over internal objections that the aid could be diverted to Hamas.
U.S. weapons abandoned in Afghanistan — another catastrophe Joe Biden failed to see coming — are also believed to now be in the hands of Hamas.
As I document in my new book, Breaking Biden (the
definitive book on Joe Biden’s record with a strong emphasis on his
disastrous foreign policy), the Pentagon reported that the U.S. left
$7.12 billion worth of military equipment in Afghanistan upon our
departure. This includes aircraft, air-to-ground weaponry, other military vehicles, munitions, and communications equipment.
Here is some of what has reportedly fallen in the Taliban’s lap:
208 aircraft, including UH-60 Black Hawks and M-17 helicopters, between 2003 and 2016
61,000 military vehicles of all types, including more than 2,000 armored vehicles and Mine-Resistant, Ambush- Protected (MRAP) vehicles
258,000 rifles, including M-16s and AK-47s
56,000 machine guns
31,000 rocket-propelled and handheld grenade launchers
18,000 “gravity” bombs
16,000 aviation rockets
1,845 D-30 mortar systems with more than a million mortar rounds
224 D-130 howitzer artillery guns 30 million rounds of ammunition 17,400 night-vision devices
95 small drones
body armor
biometric security equipment
There
were likely other beneficiaries of this bounty besides the Taliban. As I
note in the book, sophisticated weaponry and convoys of military
vehicles could easily have fallen into the hands of Iran’s Islamic
Revolutionary Guards Corps or other hostile actors in the region. Two
months after the evacuation, in October 2021, U.S. supplies were already for sale by Afghani gun dealers.
Hummers
from the U.S. Army left behind at Bagram air base in Kabul,
Afghanistan, are seen on September 1, 2021. (AFP via Getty Images)
Armed
Taliban security personnel ride a military vehicle as they parade near
the U.S. embassy in Kabul on August 15, 2023, during the second
anniversary celebrations of their takeover. (WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty
Images)
Men
watch as an armed Taliban security personnel rides a vehicle convoy as
during a parade near the U.S. embassy in Kabul on August 15, 2023, as
Taliban celebrates the second anniversary of their takeover. (WAKIL
KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)
Taliban
security personnel display seized weapons in Mazar-i-Sharif on July 13,
2023. (Atif Aryan / AFP) (Photo by ATIF ARYAN/AFP via Getty Images)
An
Afghan shopkeeper sells used U.S. military headphones and vests at
Mujahideen Bazar in Kabul, Afghanistan, on October 12, 2022. (WAKIL
KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)
It looks like we now know who got some of them: exactly the people we all feared.
As the disasters in the Middle East have mounted, the typically stubborn Biden has occasionally reversed course, meeting with Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in recent weeks. We were finally back on track for an historic deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia, the framework for which was established under the Trump administration.
But
this is all far too little, far too late. After Hamas’s terrorist
attack, it would be a miracle if such a deal gets done now.
If
it were in a vacuum, all the brutality would already be unthinkable.
The systematic slaughter and murder of women. The preying on innocents.
The stacking of bodies in the street. All of this is horrifying even for
a region of the world known for constant war.
Yet
it’s not in a vacuum. There is context. And the context is that the
United States government under Joe Biden has signaled a weakening of our
relationship with our allies in Israel, it has elected to fund the
funders to terrorism, and it has repeatedly entertained a nuclear deal
with the hideous Iranian regime that hopes to eviscerate both us and
Israel.
Getting
around downtown Chicago is a challenge at the best of times. Weekdays
feature a constant flow of carefully and swiftly moving traffic;
weekends all the more so.
But
it is a city of 2.5 million people, in a tri-state metro area of 9
million. Back in the days when Chicago was known as “The City that
Works” – a generation ago, at least – the city fathers took great care
to minimize any event that threatened to jeopardize that title.
We
had parades occasionally; we had demonstrations all the time. The
Constitution guarantees American citizens’ right to such things.
So
the city always allowed them – it had to – but made sure they were kept
under control, usually on the front courtyard of the Daley Center or
some similar easily-confined location.
The
goal of the demonstrators was never to disrupt traffic, in those days.
As fellow Chicagoans, demonstrators knew that their own neighbors,
parents, or siblings had to get to work. So demonstrators would hold
picket signs and recite pithy slogans, and the police would make sure
fights don’t break out.
The
regular population of downtown – the businessmen and the shoppers, the
tourists and suburbanites in town for lunch or a show – could get on
with their day unimpeded, but they would receive the message of the
demonstrators while walking or driving past. See? The city still
works, and the demonstrators reach an audience. Win-Win.
Not anymore.
On
the afternoon of Saturday, October 21, A.D. 2023, Gentle Reader, this
writer had to venture into the city to see a friend’s world premiere
performance in an iconic downtown venue. With the Kennedy under
construction and the usual traffic of a Saturday, it was sure to be an
unpleasant drive, but nobody knew how unpleasant it was going to get.
There
was already a big event scheduled for Saturday– the Halloween Parade,
attracting some 50,000 spectators. Back in the days when the infamous
Machine still functioned, they would not have granted a permit for a
competing event two blocks away on a Saturday afternoon.
But
at about 3:00 p.m., thousands of pro-Hamas protesters – both
pedestrians and vehicles - converged on Chicago’s downtown, centering
around the intersection of Ida B. Wells Drive (named for a famous black
Republican journalist of the 19th century) and Michigan Avenue (named
for our own Great Lake), mere blocks to the east).
There
was no room for this massive, unsanctioned demonstration, so it tied up
traffic for hours, as thousands of people carrying full-size flags of
the imagined nation of Palestine that the supporters of the terrorist
groups Hamas and Fatah hope someday to establish in place of Israel.
I
don’t know when people started bringing full-size flags to
demonstrations; I certainly don’t recall them in the days when I used to
watch (or counterprotest) such things, many years ago. Conservative
demonstrations might have two or three full-size American flags to lead a
parade and give the crowd a direction to face for the Pledge. Leftist
demonstrations would have dozens of picket signs. But it’s not like the
demonstrations of the 1970s and 80s had hundreds of Soviet or ChiCom
flags flying around. Even those enemy nations’ own paid agitators (and
yes, during the Cold War, there were plenty) knew better than to make
their allegiance so blatantly obvious.
But
in recent years, it has become common enough for people to drive around
Chicago with a full size Mexican flag – or flags of other immigrants’
homelands - sticking out of the sunroof of a car, driving down our city
streets, or even sticking out of a side window, presumably held in place
by the passengers.
So
at this pro-terrorist demonstration, there were indeed hundreds of
people with these huge flags cluttering the streets and sidewalks of
downtown Chicago on a Saturday afternoon. Visibility is never all that
great downtown, with the crush of humanity on the sidewalks, and the
SUVs and buses and trucks everywhere else. Add in all this random
fabric flapping in the breeze, and traffic slowed to a crawl, as even
our most confident Chicago drivers had to hesitate at every
intersection, taking each turn more slowly than usual, from fear of
hitting a car or pedestrian because of such obscured sightlines.
The
short demonstration tied up the city for hours, because both before and
after the actual speeches or chants, all the participants – with their
cars and leaflets and flags and signs – were added to the already dense
numbers of people downtown.
One is reminded of an anecdote from the late, great P.J. O’Rourke’s classic work, “Parliament of Whores.”
Not
long after Andy (Ferguson) and I met, we were driving down Pennsylvania
Avenue and encountered some or another noisy pinko demonstration. “How
come,” I asked Andy, “whenever something upsets the Left, you see
immediate marches and parades and rallies with signs already printed and
rhyming slogans already composed, whereas whenever something upsets the
Right, you see two members of the Young Americans for Freedom waving a
six-inch American flag?”
“We have jobs,” said Andy.
-- Parliament of Whores, copyright 1991 P.J. O’Rourke
O’Rourke
was making a different point than I am here, since this was a Saturday,
making it far easier for even people with jobs to attend a rally. But
it is worth noting that a related aspect still applies. This
pro-terrorist rally disrupted the commerce of the city of Chicago, the
downtown commerce in fact, which – outside of the airports and our
various stadiums on game days – is really the commerce that Chicago
counts on to survive.
Why wasn’t this protest broken up immediately, as soon as it was clear that it was going to disrupt traffic?
When
you add an hour in traffic to the tens of thousands of individuals,
couples, and families in downtown Chicago on a Saturday, what you’ve
done is shortened their day in town by an hour. You’ve caused them to
miss the first hour of a performance they had paid to attend (or that
they were to be paid to perform in). You’ve caused them to miss the
dinner or drinks or dessert or appetizer that they were planning on
enjoying at one of the restaurants or bars on their day’s agenda. Or
you’ve caused them to skip one or two or three of the shops they were
planning on visiting during their day downtown, likely costing each of
those businesses a sale.
Every
hour of unnecessary additional traffic in Chicago costs the Chicago
business community – that means their proprietors and clerks, cashiers
and musicians, bartenders and waitresses – hundreds of thousands of
dollars at least, but more likely, millions of dollars.
That’s
the real result of this traffic-snarling demonstration. That’s what
its organizers costs us, and therefore, what our city leadership cost us
by failing to properly enforce the permitting requirements and location
limitations traditional for Chicago. This wasn’t a sudden change with
Chicago’s rabble-rousing new mayor; Chicago has been careening on a
downward track for years. They long ago forgot the importance of smooth
traffic flow to the business of the city; they never did really
understand how dependent their constituents are on a smoothly operating
downtown business and entertainment district.
(Perhaps
this tells us something about the supporters of Gaza as well. For
generations now, especially for the past sixteen years of self-rule, the
leaders and residents of the Gaza Strip itself have concentrated on
protests and violence instead of on jobs and commerce. Had their own
focus been on seeking honest prosperity instead of blood, we might have
found peace by now.)
Perhaps
the police were afraid that if they utilized the normal tactics of
crowd control and actually tried to enforce the law, violence would
erupt. This shouldn’t be a fear, but considering the crowd in question,
it can’t be discounted.
This
was, after all, a crowd of tens of thousands of Hamas supporters, just
two weeks after Hamas committed one of the most horrific pogroms in
history (yes, for all intents and purposes, most of the Hamas attacks on
October 7 met or exceeded the definition of the worst of history’s
pogroms).
Many
spectators assumed that after the word came out of the unspeakable
horrors of October 7 - the terrorists shooting up a music festival, the
tortures and rapes at a kibbutz, the desecration of the bodies of their
victims – Hamas would be sure to lose its vocal supporters. Surely
nobody would admit to siding with such demonic villains in this day and
age. This attack beats most of the barbarity of ancient times.
But
no. It is now clear that Hamas supporters know no shame. Still they
charged into downtown Chicago, as they have filled demonstrations in
other cities as well for the past week, furiously calling for an end to
American support of our friend and ally Israel. They have the audacity
to call Israel the monsters. To claim that Israel practices apartheid,
of all things. Even chanting their ghastly song of genocide against the
Jews, calling for clearing the country “from the river to the sea.”
We remember our history books. We know about the Third Reich. We know exactly what “from the river to the sea” means.
Still
the supporters of independent nationhood for the Arabs of the Gaza
Strip, Judea and Samaria are willing to show their faces in public, even
after all that their heroes have done to thousands of innocent victims
in Israel in the past two weeks.
And we remember – for we can never forget – that under U.S. Law, those who support terrorists are terrorists themselves. Know your enemy.
John
F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based international transportation
professional and consultant. A onetime Milwaukee County Republican
Party chairman, he has been writing a regular column for Illinois Review
since 2009. His book on vote fraud (The Tales of Little Pavel) and his political satires on the current administration (Evening Soup with Basement Joe, Volumes Iand II).
A
staffer at the conservative student group Turning Point USA was
attacked by a pro-Hamas mob near a pro-Israel rally in Skokie, Illinois,
on Sunday, the organization said. The attack in the heavily Jewish
suburb of Chicago, which included the staffer being hit with a flag
pole, was caught on video.
Turning
Point USA founder Charlie Kirk explained that his employee, Peter
Christos, “was violently attacked while he and another TPUSA staffer
were trying to escort an elderly Jewish couple away from a pro-Israel
rally.”
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“On
the way to their cars, they encountered pro-Hamas supporters who
assaulted them, punched them repeatedly, and hit them with a flag pole
before cops could pull them away to safety,” Kirk continued.
“All of these thugs need to be arrested and charged with hate crimes,” the TPUSA founder added.
The attack occurred in Skokie, Illinois, a heavily Jewish suburb of Chicago that is home to more than a dozen synagogues.
Additional video footage posted to social media shows moments before the attack, when Christos was thrown to the ground.
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“Peter
Christos and his colleague were simply trying to do a good deed; they
saw an elderly Jewish couple that was turned away from an over-capacity
pro-Israel event and wanted to help keep them safe from a gathering
pro-Palestine crowd outside the event,” TPUSA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet
told Breitbart News.
“They’re
not even Jewish, but Christians who stand with Israel,” the TPUSA
spokesperson continued. “It’s absolutely unacceptable that America has
violent mobs terrorizing Jews, their Christian friends, and pro-Israel
gatherings.”
“That
should not happen in this country, and the fact that it is, should be a
wakeup call to our leaders about the type of people we allow to live
here,” Kolvet added. “This is a hate crime and we intend on doing
everything we can to ensure these criminals are prosecuted.”
In a separate incident, a gunshot was fired into the air at a pro-Palestinian protest by a man claiming self defense.
Protestors
have been acting out ever since the terrorist attack in Israel by Hamas
on October 7, which left more than 1,300 Israelis dead, and also
resulted in rape, beheadings, bodies being set on fire, and kidnappings
perpetrated by the Palestinian terror group.
As Breitbart News reported,
the reaction from pro-Palestine students across the U.S. has also
opened the eyes of many who now find themselves shocked to see how
widespread antisemitism is on college campuses.
The
massacre of Jews in Israel has galvanized students across the U.S. into
putting on pro-Palestine, anti-Israel demonstrations on their college
campuses, with one student at Ohio State University even referring to
the slaughtering of Jews by Hamas as “a resistance movement.”
Students
at George Washington University projected pro-terror, anti-Israel
messages onto a school library in the wake of the Palestinian terror
group Hamas murdering more than 1,300 Jews in Israel.
The
messages displayed on the campus building in Washington, DC, read,
“Glory to our martyrs,” “Divestment from Zionist genocide now,’
and “Free Palestine from the river to the sea,” according to a social
media post by the X/Twitter account @StopAntisemitism.
The @StopAntisemitism
account is now calling on George Washington University President Ellen
M. Granberg “to immediately expel those involved.”
The
students’ pro-terror messaging comes after the mass murder of Jews in
Israel by Hamas, which also resulted in rape, beheadings, bodies being
set on fire, and kidnappings of Israelis.
A second post by the same account shows four people allegedly responsible for the projection arguing with police.
George
Washington University students are not the only students to have
reacted this way to the mass murder of Jews on October 7.
More than 30 student groups at Harvard reacted to the terrorist attack by issuing a
joint statement in which they declared, in part, “We hold the Israeli
regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.”
As Breitbart News reported, the students wrote:
“We,
the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely
responsible for all unfolding violence,” a joint statement by dozens of
Harvard student groups read.
“Today’s
events did not occur in a vacuum,” the statement continue. “For the
last two decades, millions of Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to
live in an open-air prison. Israeli officials promise to ‘open the gates
of hell,’ and the massacres in Gaza have already commenced.”
The reaction from pro-Palestine students across the U.S. has also opened the eyes of many who are now shocked to see how widespread antisemitism is on college campuses.
As Breitbart News reported,
the massacre of Jews in Israel has galvanized students across the U.S.
into putting on pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrations on their
college campuses, with one student at Ohio State University even
referring to the slaughtering of Jews by Hamas as “a resistance
movement.”
Hamas
terrorists were urged to decapitate and remove the hearts and livers of
their Jewish victims during their raid on Israel, as detailed in a
handwritten note found at the scene of the horrific attack.
The
note contains words of encouragement from Hamas commanders declaring
the religious importance of massacring Jews wherever they are found.
It
further draws lessons from historical Muslim leaders who massacred men,
sold women and children into slavery and decimated cities across the
Judeo Christian world.
Tamar,
Yonatan, and their children — Shachar (6), Arbel (6), and Omer (4) —
were brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Nir Oz. (@EladStr
Twitter/X)
Sixteen-year-old
Ruth Peretz and father Erick at the site of the Supernova music
festival before they were murdered on October 7 by hordes of Hamas
terrorists, who killed hundreds more at the event. (Supplied)
Israel’s Government Press Office set out the contents of the note in a statement, saying:
Note
found on Hamas terrorist: “Know that this enemy of yours is a disease
that has no cure, other than beheading and extracting the hearts and
livers!”
On
October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists invaded Israel and carried out a
massacre in communities in southern Israel. A handwritten note was found
on one of the terrorists which was given to him before the invasion.
The
words from Hamas commanders consist of an order to kill Jews and
encouragement to decapitate their victims and tear out their hearts and
livers.
As
Breitbart News reported, over 1,000 Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israel
on the morning of October 7, infiltrating Israeli towns near the Gaza
border and IDF bases.
LISTEN: Hamas Terrorist Calls Parents, Brags About Killing 10 Jews
Israel Defense Force
More
than 1,400 Israelis have been killed since the first attack began, with
some 220 people also kidnapped and held hostage by Hamas terrorists and
their allies in the Gaza Strip.
Forensic
evidence of the victims’ bodies and video footage captured by
terrorists have shown that Israeli women and children were raped and
beheaded while others were dismembered.
The war between Israel and Hamas, which began with the Oct. 7 attack, is now in its third week.
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‘Glory to Our Martyrs:’ George Washington U. Students Project Pro-Terror Messages on Campus Building
Students
at George Washington University projected pro-terror, anti-Israel
messages onto a school library in the wake of the Palestinian terror
group Hamas murdering more than 1,300 Jews in Israel.
The
messages displayed on the campus building in Washington, DC, read,
“Glory to our martyrs,” “Divestment from Zionist genocide now,’
and “Free Palestine from the river to the sea,” according to a social
media post by the X/Twitter account @StopAntisemitism.
The @StopAntisemitism
account is now calling on George Washington University President Ellen
M. Granberg “to immediately expel those involved.”
The
students’ pro-terror messaging comes after the mass murder of Jews in
Israel by Hamas, which also resulted in rape, beheadings, bodies being
set on fire, and kidnappings of Israelis.
A second post by the same account shows four people allegedly responsible for the projection arguing with police.
George
Washington University students are not the only students to have
reacted this way to the mass murder of Jews on October 7.
More than 30 student groups at Harvard reacted to the terrorist attack by issuing a
joint statement in which they declared, in part, “We hold the Israeli
regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.”
As Breitbart News reported, the students wrote:
“We,
the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely
responsible for all unfolding violence,” a joint statement by dozens of
Harvard student groups read.
“Today’s
events did not occur in a vacuum,” the statement continue. “For the
last two decades, millions of Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to
live in an open-air prison. Israeli officials promise to ‘open the gates
of hell,’ and the massacres in Gaza have already commenced.”
The reaction from pro-Palestine students across the U.S. has also opened the eyes of many who are now shocked to see how widespread antisemitism is on college campuses.
As Breitbart News reported,
the massacre of Jews in Israel has galvanized students across the U.S.
into putting on pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrations on their
college campuses, with one student at Ohio State University even
referring to the slaughtering of Jews by Hamas as “a resistance
movement.”
Former
President Barack Obama originally said Israel should “dismantle” Hamas,
but has now criticized Israel for the way it is “dismantling” the
Palestinian terror organization.
As
I stated in an earlier post, Israel has a right to defend its citizens
against such wanton violence, and I fully support President Biden’s call
for the United States to support our long-time ally in going after
Hamas, dismantling its military capabilities, and facilitating the safe
return of hundreds of hostages to their families.
But even as we support Israel, we should also be clear that how Israel prosecutes this fight against Hamas matters.
…
Still,
the world is watching closely as events in the region unfold, and any
Israeli military strategy that ignores the human costs could ultimately
backfire. Already, thousands of Palestinians have been killed in the
bombing of Gaza, many of them children. Hundreds of thousands have been
forced from their homes. The Israeli government’s decision to cut off
food, water and electricity to a captive civilian population threatens
not only to worsen a growing humanitarian crisis; it could further
harden Palestinian attitudes for generations, erode global support for
Israel, play into the hands of Israel’s enemies, and undermine long term
efforts to achieve peace and stability in the region.
A siege of Gaza would be lawful under international law, as an expert recently noted. Moreover, as Israel’s ceremonial president, Isaac Herzog, has noted, Gaza only obtains 7% of its water from Israel in any case.
Obama ignored Israel’s long record as one of the best, if not the best,
countries in the world in upholding human rights and international
humanitarian law in war against a ruthless, terrorist enemy.
As Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz has said: ““No other country with comparable internal and external threats has as good a human rights record as Israel.”
Obama’s own approach to terrorism came under criticism when he was president for being ineffective. Foreign Affairswrote:
[W]hereas
[George W.] Bush’s approach was sometimes marred by an overly
aggressive posture, Obama has sometimes erred too far in the other
direction, seeming prone to idealism and wishful thinking. This has
hampered his administration’s efforts to combat the terrorist threat:
despite Obama’s laudable attempts to calibrate Washington’s response,
the American people find themselves living in a world plagued with more
terrorism than before Obama took office, not less.
Obama allowed the rise of ISIS, the so-called “Islamic State,” after a hasty retreat from Iraq and after mocking the
group as the “JV team” in explaining why his adminstration was not
being more assertive in standing up to radical Islamic terror — a phase
he almost never used.
Politicoreports that
Democrats are starting to worry about a backlash among Arab-American
voters in swing states like Michigan, who are upset that most elected
Democrats — with very prominent exceptions — have supported Israel
against Hamas.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on
Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m.
to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’. He is also the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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