Monday, October 30, 2023

IS COLUMBIA THE MOUTH OF HAMAS PROPAGANDA? - Columbia Faculty Downplay Hamas Terror Attack as 'Military Response'

 

Columbia Faculty Downplay Hamas Terror Attack as 'Military Response'

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October 30, 2023

Over 100 faculty at Columbia University signed an open letter characterizing Hamas's Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel as a "military response."

The letter, published Saturday, was in support of a student statement issued days after the attacks that argued "oppression breeds resistance" and called the Israeli government "fascist, racist, and colonial," accusing it of "aggression, apartheid, and settler-colonization."

"In our view," the faculty letter reads, "the student statement aims to recontextualize the events of October 7, 2023, pointing out that military operations and state violence did not begin that day, but rather it represented a military response by a people who had endured crushing and unrelenting state violence from an occupying power over many years."

"One could regard the events of October 7th as just one salvo in an ongoing war between an occupying state and the people it occupies, or as an occupied people exercising a right to resist violent and illegal occupation," the faculty claimed.

They also wrote in the letter that "armed resistance by an occupied people must conform to the laws of war" and that the students' statement "reflects and endorses this legal framework, including a condemnation of the killing of civilians."

The faculty signatories also argued that the students' statement contains "language that should satisfy any measure of decency" given its opening remark that "the loss of a human life is a deeply painful and heartbreaking experience for loved ones." The students' statement, however, did not condemn Hamas's massacre of civilians or even reference the terrorist group by name.

"It is worth noting that not all of us agree with every one of the claims made in the students’ statement, but we do agree that making such claims cannot and should not be considered anti-Semitic," the faculty write. "Their merits are being debated by governmental and non-governmental agencies at the highest level, and constitute a terrain of completely legitimate political and legal debate."

The letter is one of several public statements from faculty at major universities that have attempted to minimize or excuse Hamas's attacks that killed more than 1,400 Israelis, mostly civilians. A letter from faculty at the University of Michigan claimed the attacks were the result of "structural apartheid" on the part of Israel.

The Columbia statement comes after a woman allegedly assaulted an Israeli student at the school who was putting up posters of hostages whom Hamas terrorists captured during their rampage.

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Archbishop of Canterbury: Accusing Israel of Hospital Attack is ‘Blood Libel’

Finally, a Western clergyman supports the right side.

One is so used to Western clergymen, from the antisemitic retired Vicar from Virginia Water, the infamous Stephen Sizer, all the way up to the addled Pope Francis, who means well, in his soppy interfaith way, that prevents him from grasping the nature of Islam, coming out with anti-Israel statements that it was both surprising and welcome to find that the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, commenting on the explosion at the parking lot of the hospital in Gaza, and insisting that Israel had nothing to do with it. What’s more, he said that those who continue to blame Israel, long after the irrefutable evidence of its blamelessness has been made public, are guilty of a “blood libel” against the Jewish people. More on Archbishop Welby’s remarks can be found here: “Archbishop of Canterbury: False accusations of Israel involvement in Gaza hospital blast are ‘blood libel,’” by Lazar Berman, Times of Israel, October 22, 2023:

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby says in Jerusalem that there is no reason to assume Israel was behind the October 17 blast at an Anglican Hospital in Gaza City, and that spreading false accusations about Israeli complicity is a “blood libel.”

“Don’t assume it’s Israel,” Welby says to The Times of Israel. “You have no proof.”

“Do not start propagating another blood libel,” he says to those blaming Israel….

However, the local Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem issued a statement blaming “the loss of hundreds of innocent civilians” on Israeli airstrikes.

Of course they felt they had to blame Israel. Those Arab Anglicans in Jerusalem, after all, have to live among vindictive and potentially violent Muslims. As dhimmis, they are long inured to their permanently precarious situation: they mustn’t contradict the Muslims but, instead, must parrot whatever those Muslims say to the world. They wouldn’t dare to speak the truth about who was to blame for the explosion at the hospital parking lot.

Welby would not back that figure, saying only “I have no idea how many civilians there were, I’ve heard so many different numbers.”

Hamas was quick off the mark, within an hour of the explosion managing to put out a figure of “about 500 killed” — it would, of course, have been impossible to count that number in such a short time. It turns out, according to European intelligence experts, that the real number of Gazans killed in the strike was between 10 and 50. Welby was right to refuse to accept the Hamas figure, saying that he had “heard so many different numbers.” He might, of course, have done even better, by saying that “I have learned that European forensics experts believe the true number of those killed was between 10 and 50. I’m not sure what to believe about those figures. But I do know beyond any doubt that Israel was not responsible for the explosion. The evidence — both audio and visual — is overwhelming that the explosion was not caused by an Israeli airstrike but by an errant rocket launched from within Gaza. And a recording of Hamas operatives discussing the explosion makes clear that the rocket was launched by Palestinian Islamic Jihad.”

Welby made the comments after meeting with the family of slain 22-year-old IDF soldier of British descent, Sgt. First Class Yosef Malachi Guedalia, and with members of the Haran family from Kibbutz Be’eri, eight of whom are missing or taken captive, and two of whom were killed on October 7.

Welby has never in the past been so clearly on Israel’s side. But two things led to his current more sympathetic view of Israel. First, he traveled to Israel in a sign of solidarity with the victims of Hamas, and was no doubt moved by his meetings with the families of a murdered Israeli soldier, and with members of the Haran family, two of whom had been murdered, and six others kidnapped, by Hamas. Second, he was confronted with the Big Lie propagated by Hamas, and repeated by others fueled by anti-Israel animus, that claimed Israel was responsible “for killing 500 people at the Al-Ahli Hospital.” Welby understood this was a “blood libel” directed not just at the Jewish state, but at Jews everywhere. He knew that first, the explosion took place not at the hospital, which was barely damaged, but at the parking lot; second, that it was not an Israeli airstrike, but a PIJ misfired rocket that caused the explosion; third, that the number of dead were considerably less than the figure of 500 Hamas disseminated at once, but European experts have concluded that real figure was much lower — between 10 and 50 people killed.

Alas, after having made his welcome remarks about the “blood libel” of falsely accusing Israel of the parking lot bombing, Justin Welby reverted the very next day to type, demanding that there be an “immediate ceasefire” and an end to “bombing of civilians.”

Here  is what he said on Sunday: “Israel-Palestine war: Archbishop of Canterbury calls for Gaza ceasefire in break from UK policy,” by Peter Oborne, Middle East Eye, October 22, 2023:

In a break from official British policy, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby on Sunday issued an urgent call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and an end to Israel’s bombing of civilians.

The archbishop joined forces with other Christian leaders in Jerusalem to demand an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire so that food, water, and vital medical supplies can safely be delivered to the relief agencies ministering to the hundreds of thousands of displaced civilians in Gaza.”

The statement from the leader of England’s state church directly contradicts the policy of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who last week ordered Britain to abstain on a United Nations ceasefire resolution.

A “ceasefire” at this point would have one disastrous effect: it would rescue Hamas from the impending Israeli onslaught, allowing the terror group to remain standing, while preventing the IDF from destroying the terror group as a military force. Does Welby not understand this? Or does he not think that Israel has a right to defend itself by demolishing the terror group whose members beheaded Jewish babies, burned children alive, gang-raped and murdered young girls, tortured, mutilated, and decapitated soldiers, and killed grandmothers in their wheelchairs? Does Welby really want to rescue Hamas? That is what a “ceasefire” at this point would do.

After his remarks about the “blood libel” and his acceptance of Israel’s version of what happened at the parking lot, I had hopes that Archbishop Justin Welby would continue to demonstrate his new understanding of the malignant media coverage of Israel, and his newfound sympathy for the Jewish state, as it yet again finds itself having to fight for its very survival. In Jerusalem, he met with families of the victims of Hamas murderers, and could compare the lies of Hamas and the truth-telling of Israel about the explosion at the parking lot. But now that he is back to calling for a “ceasefire” and warning Israel about “civilian casualties,” I see that I was wrong.

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Hamas Founder’s Son Slams Terror Group’s ‘Sick’ Cause, Calls for Ousting — Civilian Deaths on Hamas’ Hands

Palestinian Mosab Hassan Yousef gestures to the audience after speaking at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference in Washington, Sunday, March 1, 2015. Youssef worked undercover for Israel's internal security service Shin Bet from 1997 to 2007. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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Hamas’ cause is “sick” and it must be removed from power, according to the eldest son of Hamas’ founder, who asserted that war is now the sole pathway to peace while laying blame for civilian casualties solely on Hamas, whom he accused of “hijacking” Palestinian society.

He also warned its supporters — whom he accused of caring “least” for Palestinians “oppressed” by Hamas — of impending regret for siding with Hamas “criminals” who are “killing Palestinian people” and whose sole mission is to “annihilate Israel.”

On Thursday, Mosab Hassan Yousef, who has a history of public speaking about his experiences and transformation from a Hamas insider to an Israel supporter, openly criticized Hamas and its supporters in a passionate segment on Piers Morgan’s talk show.

Yousef, originally aligned with his father Sheikh Hassan Yousef’s Hamas movement, eventually grew disenchanted with the organization’s violent tactics and chose to covertly aid Israeli intelligence.

He later chronicled his journey and transformation in his autobiography, Son of Hamas.

According to Yousef, Hamas has always aimed to annihilate Israel, demonstrating no acceptance of the state’s right to exist. 

“Since its establishment, Hamas has one goal in mind, which is annihilating the State of Israel,” he said, noting that it is “not a secret” that the terror group seeks to destroy the Jewish State. 

“They cannot accept Israel or accept Israel’s right to exist,” he added.

Asked at what point he decided to escape the Hamas environment, Yousef highlighted events going all the way back to his childhood.

“Since I was a child, I [had] asked my father many questions about Hamas delusions, about their brutality, about their abuse of power, and always he justified their position,” he said. “Then I was imprisoned with Hamas. I spent about 27 months in Israeli prisons where Hamas was torturing their own members — our own people — within Israeli prisons … They killed, actually, and tortured hundreds of prisoners.”

“This is when I started asking myself the question: what if Hamas becomes the ruler at some point, what will they do to our people?” he asked, noting that they did many years later and he “wasn’t surprised by their brutality” after they had gained rule over Gaza. 

Though not surprised by the savagery of the group, Yousef expressed shock at the “scale” of Hamas’ October 7 massacre in southern Israel, which saw some 2,500 terrorists burst into Israel by land, sea, and air and gun down participants at an outdoor music festival while others went door-to-door hunting, torturing, shooting, and kidnapping Jewish men, women, and children in local towns.

KIBBUTZ BE'ERI, ISRAEL -- OCTOBER 11: Members of the Home Front Command inspect Kibbutz Be'eri, the scene of some of the deadliest fighting in the Hamas incursion that began Saturday. (Photo by Baz Ratner for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Members of the Home Front Command inspect Kibbutz Be’eri, the scene of some of the deadliest fighting in the Hamas incursion that began Saturday. (Baz Ratner for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The unprecedented attack, the worst in Israel’s history, saw Hamas terrorists slaughter over 1,400 people inside the Jewish state and wound 5,300 more. They also took at least 224 hostages of all ages.

The vast majority of the victims are civilians and include dozens of American citizens.

He noted that Hamas’s “wiping out entire communities” of Israelis, a people who are saddled with trauma from the Holocaust, “opened the gates of hell on the Palestinian people,” and demonstrated the terror group’s lack of concern for Palestinian children and civilians.

“This is how irresponsible this group [of] people [is] — that they are willing to actually sacrifice many Palestinian children, the entire Palestinian people, and use them as a fuel to just achieve their ideological agendas, their religious agendas,” he said. 

“Hamas’ cause is a sick one — it’s coming from the pit of hell — and they need to be removed from power,” he added. 

He then insisted that it is crucial to stop the terror group now to prevent more deadly future conflicts.

“This is my message as an ex-Hamas member, as a son of one of Hamas’ founders: enough of this. If we don’t stop them now, the next war is going to be deadlier, and only God knows what will happen next if Hamas is not finished as soon as possible,” he declared.

Addressing Palestinian support for Hamas, Yousef anticipated a celebration in Gaza upon Hamas’s removal, with gratitude extended to Israel. 

“Once Hamas is removed from power, we’re going to witness people celebrating in Gaza. I guarantee you that,” he said. “The people of Gaza are oppressed [by Hamas] for so long and they had to endure siege; they had to endure violence [and] many wars for the sake of Hamas’ lust for power and for Hamas’ political ambition,” he said.

“When this comes to an end, I promise you that the Palestinian people, first of all, will thank Israel for what they did,” he added.

In addition, he expressed his belief that after the current conflict ends, the notion of “annihilating the Jews and the state of Israel” will be “dropped forever.” 

“Hamas is the last experiment of adapting violence, trying to annihilate and destroy the State of Israel,” he explained, emphasizing that Israel is “going nowhere.”

Asked about how to achieve peace under the current circumstances, Yousef explained, “this time, I’m afraid that war is the only way to peace.” 

“Because if Hamas is not removed from power, then they will build more [of their] military, they will build longer range missiles, and the next attack — the next war — is going to be deadlier,” he said. 

“The use of force is the last resort,” he added, “you can find this in every culture and, unfortunately, now Hamas left Israel and the free world as well, with no choice but to fight them and put an end for their violence.”

Long Beach, CA - Cal State Long Beach students hold a campus rally in support of Palestinians caught up in the conflict that continued to rage unabated between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Cal State Long Beach students hold a campus rally in support of Palestinians caught up in the conflict that continued to rage unabated between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Addressing the many civilians who are dying, he noted that he is well aware but clarified that “their blood is on the hands of Hamas and Hamas only.”

He also criticized pro-Palestinian activists, particularly those from outside of the conflict zone, for misrepresenting the Palestinian struggle and supporting the “criminal” Hamas movement.

“Those who are using what [is] so called the Palestinian cause, they care the least for the Palestinian children and their future,” he said, adding that Palestinian society “has been hijacked by [Hamas] criminals and anybody who takes their side is participating in their crime.”

In addition, Yousef emphasized the stark differences between Israel and Hamas in their treatment of civilians during conflicts, praising Israel for its efforts to minimize civilian casualties.

“It’s a fact that Hamas uses civilians as human shields” while “it’s a fact that Israel called and warns civilians to evacuate buildings before they strike them,” he said, noting that “in the meantime, Hamas put roadblocks to stop civilians from evacuating to safe zones.”

“Israel is a democracy, Israel is accountable, Israel is not thirsty for Palestinian blood,” he added. 

While Israel is “capable of wiping out Arab capitals in seconds,” Yousef pointed to how Israel “does not attempt to abuse its power,” yet “when the Arabs have just a little bit of power, a couple of missiles, they misuse [that] power by launching them at civilians [to] kill them in their living rooms.” 

“We have a fundamental problem and we need to stop blaming Israel,” he stated. “We invited this upon our heads and the rest of the world, if they don’t know the reality on the ground, it’s better that they shut up,” he added.

He then accused supposed supporters of the Palestinians of being both ignorant of the situation and apathetic to the people’s true needs. 

People light candles during the 'Jewish Community Vigil' for Israel in London, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023 two days after Hamas fighters launched an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel which killed more than 700 people. The militants blew through a fortified border fence and gunned down civilians and soldiers in Israeli communities along the Gaza frontier during a Jewish holiday. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

People light candles during the “Jewish Community Vigil” for Israel in London, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023, two days after Hamas fighters launched an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

“Enough bloodshed and enough involvement from people who don’t care. They are just warriors on keyboards. They’re just storming world capitals saying ‘Free Palestine! Free Palestine!’ They don’t know what the hell Palestine is! I am Palestine! And [what] I say is enough of Hamas! It’s enough of the corrupt leaderships!” he exclaimed. 

“We don’t want a Palestinian state, I don’t want a Palestinian State. Palestinian children need education, they need security, they need life. This is what they need, they don’t need another corrupt Arab regime,” he added. 

Answering a question about potential radicalization due to Israeli military actions, Yousef expressed confidence in the eventual removal of Hamas from power and the pursuit of justice against its leaders, warning those currently supporting Hamas of future regret.

“Listen to this: we are going to remove Hamas from power — remember my words,” he said. “Hamas did not only bring the wrath of Israel over Gaza, Hamas brought the wrath of God.” 

“We are going to remove them from power and we are going to prosecute their leaders and we are going to bring them to justice, and the world will witness their punishment, and everyone who takes their side today, in this state of confusion, thinking that this is a joke, I tell those people that you are going to regret taking the side of Hamas,” he added. “You are going to regret taking the side of those criminals who are killing the Palestinian people.”

Joshua Klein is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jklein@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter @JoshuaKlein.

New York Times: Hamas Hoards While Gazans ‘Scrounge’ for Fuel, Food, Water

Gas station Gaza (Abed Rahim Khatib / Anadolu via Getty)
Abed Rahim Khatib / Anadolu via Getty

The New York Times, hardly a pro-Israel outlet, has reported that the Palestinian Hamas terrorist group is hoarding essential supplies while ordinary civilians in Gaza “scrounge” for fuel, food, and water, confirming a charge Israel has made for weeks.

The Times reported Friday:

As supplies of virtually every basic human necessity dwindle in Gaza, one group in the besieged enclave remains well-stocked: Hamas.

Arab and Western officials say there is substance to Israeli claims of Hamas stockpiling supplies, including desperately needed food and fuel. Hamas, they say, has spent years building dozens of kilometers of tunnels under the strip where it has amassed stores of virtually everything needed for a drawn-out fight. It is a reality that Israel may soon find itself grappling with if it makes good on its threat to invade Gaza.

Hamas has hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel for vehicles and rockets; caches of ammunition, explosives and materials to make more; and stockpiles of food, water and medicine, the officials said. A senior Lebanese official said Hamas, which is estimated to number between 35,000 and 40,000, had enough stocked away to keep fighting for three to four months without resupply.

Israel has allowed a limited amount of humanitarian aid to enter Gaza but has refused to allow fuel to enter, saying that Hamas has plenty to distribute to the Palestinian population, and that Hamas will seize any new fuel for its own military purposes.

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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How Does the Progressive Socialist Left Define Incitement and Insurrection?

Who are the “domestic terrorists” exactly?

If there is one thing I despise, it is hypocrisy. Boy, howdy, there is a bunch of that going around. The leftists in America, aided by their complicit media, should be charged with incitement to violence from the incidents we witnessed last week. How fast were these gullible, useful idiots (not my description, but rather that of Vladimir Lenin) quick to lay blame upon Israel for an alleged bombing of a hospital in Gaza? Oh yeah, Gaza’s Minister of Health provided the information that turned out to be disinformation and misinformation. But that did not stop major news media outlets, and even members of the US Congress, from taking to news, print. And social media announcing this unverified blather.

Of course, the Islamo-fascist world went nuts, as if it takes much for that to happen. Massive protests exploded all over the world, innocent people were attacked, and then came the truth. The incident was the result of a rocket misfire by Islamic Jihad, hard proof of such. Where were the massive media retractions? Did those terrorist-supporting members of Congress retract their uninformed statements? Did they offer an apology? The US Constitution affords the rights of free speech, expression, peaceful assembly, and press . . . an objective one, not an ideological and propaganda-driven press.

Will this same press and same leftists be held responsible and accountable for incitement and insurrection? I mean, really, people stormed Capitol Hill in support of an Islamic terrorist organization that just killed Americans . . . again.

Well, do not hold your breath because the left defines incitement and insurrection as countering their ideological agenda. When, all along, in pure hypocrisy, they are the ones enacting such.

Remember when Maxine Waters stood and told people to get in the faces of those serving in the Trump administration? What happened? Maybe you recall Sarah Huckabee Sanders being refused service at a restaurant? Remember how Ted Cruz and others were assailed at eating establishments? How about the “summer of love,” where Antifa, BLM, and associated groups burned federal buildings, destroyed property, and attacked law enforcement officers? Madonna talking about how she dreamt of blowing up the White House. Kathy Griffin with the bloody, severed head of Donald Trump, or the New York play that featured the stabbing death of a Donald Trump character, a la Julius Caesar? Nope, nothing, that is just good to go.

On the other hand, parents are “domestic terrorists” for showing up at school board meetings. A father is dragged out and arrested in Virginia for bringing attention to the sexual assault of his daughter by a biological male allowed entry into the girls’ bathroom. Something which the same individual did at another school. We later found out that the school superintendent knew and tried to cover up the incident. A group called Moms for Liberty is designated a “hate group” by the leftist Southern Poverty Leadership Council because they believe in parental rights and educational freedom. The Democrat Governor of North Carolina, Roy Cooper, issued a state of emergency because Republicans in the State legislative houses passed school choice.

What we witnessed last week, the protests on our streets in the aftermath of the heinous October 7th Islamic terrorist attack in Israel is highly disconcerting but par for the course of the progressive socialist left. Hamas is not an Islamic terrorist organization; as a professor at the Bush School at Texas A&M University described it, it is a “charitable organization.” So, obviously, you should not attack a charitable organization. If you do, the leftists are justified in taking to the streets, even in America, worldwide, in solidarity with this gang of inhumane savages. This description cannot be debated.

It is time for law-abiding governors and mayors in America to clarify their position regarding support for terrorism in their jurisdictions. I genuinely do not believe most university presidents have the requisite intestinal fortitude to restrict such aberrant behaviors and protests. The organization known as Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) should be banned from campuses. BLM should be designated as a terrorist-supporting organization. I wonder if the NBA feels stupid for putting their name and logo on their courts? These insurrections popping up in support of an Islamic terrorist organization that brutally killed Israeli civilians and Americans should be banned. There needs to be consequences for American elected officials who side with an Islamic terrorist who killed Americans.

We have seen the left take over and destroy State Capitol buildings in Wisconsin and Tennessee without any consequences. We just witnessed a radical gathering on Capitol Hill demanding the unconscionable: leave Hamas alone and allow them to continue to exist to kill Jews and Americans.

How does the left in America define incitement and insurrection? It is their mantra. They advance their cause through fear, intimidation, coercion, threats, and violence. Perhaps that is why they easily sympathize with Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah. They all share a virulent sense of anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism. Do not believe me? Go back and listen to Barack Obama’s speech at the University of Cairo in early 2009, where he invited Muslim Brotherhood members to the front rows. Interestingly, he has been very quiet about the barbaric attacks of Hamas. Quite telling.

We will not live free in America by allowing the hypocritical leftist definition of incitement and insurrection. I suppose that when the Islamic terrorist sleeper cells move into action in America, leftists will take to the streets and blame America. After all, it will have been us, just as with the sovereign nation-state of Israel, who has incited the beloved jihadist freedom fighters to murder us brutally. That is the level of delusion and deranged thinking of the progressive socialist left who aid and abet, along with providing material support and comfort to terrorists.

Steadfast and Loyal.

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Hamas Goon Calls Mommy To Brag About How Many Jews He Killed: Report

'I’m using the dead Jewish woman’s phone to call you now,' says evil freak who is probably dead by now and burning in hell

October 24, 2023

What happened: A giant f—ing loser who took part in the Hamas terrorist raid on Israel earlier this month called his mommy during the attack to brag about killing Jews, journalist Jotam Confino reported.

• "I killed 10 Jews with my own hands," the terrorist boasted. "I’m using the dead Jewish woman’s phone to call you now." The sick freak's mother replied, "May God protect you."

• Confino and other international journalists were invited to view "indescribable" footage of the Hamas attack collected by Israeli authorities in an effort to counter claims from terrorist sympathizers who have denied or downplayed the extent of the atrocities. "If anyone has any doubt about what happened, I truly don’t know what to say anymore," he wrote.

Why it matters: Notice that the Hamas goon didn't brag to his mommy about taking part in the "active decolonization of Palestinian land." He bragged about how many Jews he killed—at least one woman and probably some children. This guy sounds like an evil scumbag and a coward.

• This is what the Hamas sympathizers—on Ivy League campuses and in cities across the country and the world—are defending and justifying. Terrorists taking delight in the murder of Jews.

• Confino describes some of the other videos he saw as follows: "Hamas terrorists enter a house, where a small girl is seen hiding under the table. After some talking back and forth they shoot and kill her as she hides under the table. Hard to say how old she is but looks like 7-9 years old."

• More: "[A] Hamas terrorist screaming 'Allahu [Akbar]' as he frantically tries to behead a dead man with a shovel."

What happens next: If the Jew-killing terrorist isn't already dead, he will be soon enough. Good luck getting cellphone reception in hell, dumbass.

Bottom line: F— Hamas.

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The Left’s Planned Destruction of the Judeo-Christian World

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.

Image: Barack Obama. YouTube screen grab.

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.

In a July 27, 2014, phone conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu, Obama insisted on a Gaza cease-fire:

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 1960sOnly 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.

Jewish students studying in Cooper Union library barricaded and threatened by Hamas activists

What kind of barbarism in academia is this?

According to the New York Post:

A handful of Cooper Union’s Jewish students barricaded inside the university’s library Wednesday when pro-Palestinian protesters blew past security and aggressively pounded on the building’s doors.

A Jewish senior at the East Village institution recounted the terrifying moment she watched the demonstrators slam anti-Zionist posters against the window and shout “anti-Semitic rhetoric” just a few feet away.

“When they started banging on the door, my heart started pounding. I was crying. I think if the doors weren’t locked — I don’t know what would have happened,” the student, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Post.

“I don’t want to speculate what would’ve happened. It just makes me too nervous. I was absolutely terrified in that moment.”

So you're a Jewish kid. Maybe you are Orthodox and wear a yarmulke. You get into a good school. You study hard in a library, sometimes with your friends, because you know that schooling is important and you want to graduate. You aren't out partying. You are doing the right thing.

And suddenly, a gang of goons from somewhere out on the streets, wielding Palestinian flags, takes a pivot from their plan to get to the president's office, after seeing you, and then barricades you in and pounds on the doors, threatening you and flashing anti-Semitic signs through the library windows and bellowing about something happening several thousand miles away, blaming you for all of it, all because you are Jewish.

Obviously, this isn't about Zionism, or the Israel government, or anything the Palestinian apologists claim. This is straight, naked Jew-hate. 

Worse still, it's not thugs on the street doing thuggish anti-Semitic acts, it's the university establishment condoning it from other thugs. The story says the protestors busted through the security guards who tried to block them. The kids called the cops. The cops got there but stood by twiddling their thumbs because the university told them not to get involved and they actully honored that, despite what they were seeing going on.

The establishment actively collaborated with the terrorizers who targeted Jews, and though the protestors were unable to break in, the way they would have liked to, that was only because someone got the door shut and locked in time. 

This is an outrage. Those kids were studying hard and paying good money to go to this university yet the university allowed a bunch of interlopers, who might not have even been students, to invade the campus and terrorize these students and get away with it. The creeps weren't even arrested for their stunt.

The Post says the response was so weak the kids had to be led out by a back door -- not the front door, which is what they were entitled to do, but the back door, and the university's president, wokester Laura Sparks, did likewise.

That's one heck of a weak response, borne of bias towards not offending so-called Palestinians and their activists, but in reality, naked anti-Semites.

What's more, this university has a history of this. When wokester New York University professor Shellyne Rodriguez was fired by that establishment for threatening a New York Post reporter with a machete and chasing him down the street for asking her about one of her unhinged abortion rants, Cooper Union stepped right up to hire the freak, in a classic fail-upward. They want people like this employed by the school and teaching kids. 

No wonder the Jewish kids can no longer feel safe.

It's obviously a problem of leadership over there, and the leadership needs to be removed. Donors must close their checkbooks, and the federal and state governments need to revoke their accreditation and government grants. The kids, at a minimum, should be able to sue their keisters off for breach of contract. Because if none of this happens, they'll do it again -- and worse.

In an atmosphere like this, what chance does any decent kid who wants to study hard and do his schoolwork have with anti-Semites of the rawest sort being coddled?

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Hamas and the Politics of Hell

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.  

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Hamas Terrorists Found with Instructions to Decapitate Jews and Remove Hearts, Livers

Men parade with Palestinian and Hamas flags during a demonstration called by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in the southern Lebanese city of Saida late on May 11, 2021. (Photo by Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP) (Photo by MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images)
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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.

Iran Hamas - Tamar, Yonatan and their children Shachar (6), Arbel (6), Omer (4) were brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Nir Oz. (@EladStr Twitter/X)

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)

The government of Israel confirmed on Wednesday the discovery of the bodies of 16-year-old Ruth Peretz and father Erick at the site of the Supernova music festival, which was interrupted on October 7 by murderous hordes of Hamas terrorists, who killed hundreds of people at the event.

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.

Please find attached a copy of the note in the original Arabic.

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

George Washington University Pro-Terror message
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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.”

You can follow Alana Mastrangelo on Facebook and X/Twitter at @ARmastrangelo, and on Instagram.


Obama Criticizes Israel over Gaza: ‘Don’t Harden Palestinian Attitudes for Generations’

Barack Obama
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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.

In a statement Monday, Obama wrote:

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 Affairs wrote:

[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.

Politico reports 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.

THE ISSUE IS NOT LIMITED TO HAMAS. HAMAS IS MERELY ONE FRONT FOR ISLAM. IT IS A GLOBAL TERRORISM WE ARE, AND HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH. REMEMBER SEPT 11 AND THE SAUDIS TAKE DOWN OF THE TWIN TOWERS IN NYC.

French President Macron Calls for International ‘Coalition’ to Combat Hamas

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) greets French President Emmanuel Macron before a meeting in Jerusalem on October 24, 2023. Macron's visit comes more than two weeks after Hamas militants stormed into Israel from the Gaza Strip and killed at least 1,400 people, according to Israeli officials while Israel continues …
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French President Emmanuel Macron travelled to Jerusalem on Tuesday to reaffirm his country’s support for Israel and called for an international “coalition” of nations to combat the scourge of Islamist terrorist groups such as Hamas.

Appearing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr Macron said in a speech that the world must remember that Israel has a “legitimate right to defend itself,” adding: “This cause is just, period.”

The French leader, who expressed solidarity with Israel as the leader of a country that has also faced deadly Islamist attacks, said that the priority of Western democracies should be to defeat terrorism, saying per Le Figaro: “I propose to our international partners that we can build a regional and international coalition to fight against these terrorist groups which threaten us all.”

It is not precisely clear what form of a “coalition” Macron envisages for the future, however, with the French military largely retreating from its presence in Africa, the French leader could be eying the Middle East as another venue to exert military power.

While there are growing calls from within the European Union to pressure Jerusalem into a ceasefire — before the expected ground invasion of Gaza has even begun — Macron seemed to reject such notions, saying that Israel’s fight against Hamas should be “merciless”.

He did caveat, however, that the war should still be fought along the rules of combat and that humanitarian aid should be allowed to reach civilians in Gaza.

Macron also doubled down on his call to Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, the Islamist regime in Iran, and the Houthis in Yemen to refrain from taking “reckless risk of opening new fronts” in the war and risk destabilising the entire region.

Finally, the French president called for a restart of political negotiations to finally come to a settlement between Israel and Palestine on a two-state basis.

“Israel’s security cannot be sustainable without a decisive relaunch of the political process with the Palestinians,” he said, adding that Israel will have to accept “ the legitimate right of the Palestinians to have a territory and a state in peace and security alongside Israel.”

For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah want to bring the world back to the “Middle Ages” and therefore the war in Israel represents a civilisation battle between the West and radical Islam.

“The test for the West and for civilisation is Hamas,” he said. “If Hamas emerges victorious, we will all lose, Europe will be endangered, everyone will be endangered, civilisation will be endangered.”

“That is why this battle is not merely our own, it’s Europe’s battle, it’s America’s battle, it’s civilisation’s battle. It’s a battle for the heart and soul of the Middle East and the Arab world.”

Netanyahu also issued a threat to Hezbollah, warning that Israel would be forced into an “unimaginable” response against Lebanon if the Islamist terror group enters the fighting in a “significant way”.

“If Hezbollah makes the mistake of joining this war, they will regret it, they will long for the Second Lebanon War,” he warned.

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More Arrests Made Over ‘Allah hu Akbar’ Brussels Terror Attack

French police vehicles are seen behind a cordoned off area in front of the North station in Paris, on late May 8, 2017, during a police operation following an evacuation due to a security alert, the day after the second round of voting for the French presidential election. - The …
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French police have arrested two Paris-area residents over links to the October 16th terrorist attack in Brussels which saw two people killed and a third critically injured.

Two people have been arrested on suspicion of criminal terrorist association over alleged links to the October 16th terrorist attack in Brussels, Belgium. The two unnamed individuals are said by French specialist counter-terror prosecutors, Paris newspaper Le Figaro reports, to have complicity in terrorist “assassination”.

The pair are being held in pre-trial detention. Six people have been arrested in France over the Belgium attack so far, and four continue to be held.

It is believed that failed Tunisian asylum seeker Abdesalem Lassoued was behind the deaths of two Swedish football fans in Brussels last Monday. It is claimed he rode around the city on a moped while carrying an assault rifle-type long arm and shot at members of the public while shouting the infamous Arabic war cry “Allah hu Akbar”.

Those killed and injured appear to have been targeted because they were wearing the colours of the Swedish football team, which was playing a match in the city that night. Swedish football fans have been now warned not to wear their national strip while abroad, and this attack follows earlier warnings from the Swedish government that their citizens are at a heightened risk of attack while abroad.

The increased risk specifically to Swedes has been blamed on a violent reaction by Muslims worldwide to a series of freedom and expression and freedom of speech demonstrations and rallies in the form of Qur’an burnings held in Swedish cities, which Muslim hardliners see as unacceptable.

As revealed after the attack, alleged attacker Lassoued not only had been denied asylum in Europe but was also the subject of an extradition request by his native Tunisia because he had escaped from prison there. He had been serving 26 years for attempted murder and other crimes.

Having escaped, Abdesalem Lassoued posed as a refugee and travelled to Europe on a small boat and evaded several deportation attempts, including one launched after authorities became suspicious that he was becoming a radicalised Muslim. Lassoued reportedly lived in Italy, Norway, Sweden and Belgium during his time in Europe.

The Belgian Justice Minister resigned last week over his failure to deport Lassoued, saying while the decision had not been personally taken by him he nevertheless bore ultimate responsibility for the activities of those inside his government department.

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‘For Palestine’ — Asylum Seeker Arrested in Britain over Alleged Terror Attack, Details Being Kept From Public: Report

RAMALLAH, WEST BANK - JANUARY 9: Supporters of Interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas cheer and wave flags after Abbas placed his vote in the ballot box at the polling station in his Muqaata Headquarters, January 9, 2005 in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Abbas is frontrunner amongst seven candidates …
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An asylum seeker in Britain has reportedly been arrested over an alleged terror attack to seek vengeance for Gaza, however, further information has reportedly been withheld from the public, according to the Daily Telegraph.

A man who arrived as an asylum seeker in the United Kingdom in 2020 has reportedly been arrested for an alleged terror attack. He is said to have told police that he was motivated to carry out the attack “for Palestine” and to avenge Palestinians killed in the wake of the October 7th Hamas terror attacks on Israel that left over 1,400 dead. The man is currently in police custody.

Further information on the alleged terror attack, which came amid concerns of violence stemming from anti-Israel protests being held throughout Britain, has been withheld from the public, London’s Daily Telegraph reports.

Some of the details of the alleged attack are being withheld for legal reasons, however, a security source speaking to the paper suggested that authorities “may be downplaying it so that they don’t have repeat attacks or copycat attacks.”

British lawmakers have called for the public to be informed about the alleged attack, with former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith saying: “I think the public does have a right to know that something has happened. If they are worried about reaction, people need to know whether their streets are safe.

“It would be helpful to know these things are happening. I understand the sensitivities. The issue is whether people have a right to know whether things are going on on their streets. It needs to be carefully done but we need a greater level of clarity about whether we have a problem about extremists on our streets.”

When questioned on if he believed the reluctance to publish information on the alleged terror attack came as a result of reticence to link terrorism to immigration, the former Tory leader said: “All these things are connected. I understand the sensitivities but the police need to be clear if this was an attack by an extremist. We need to know that.”

Speaking to the paper, a senior counter-terror official also stressed the dangers of Britain’s mass migration policies: “It just illustrates the risk when you get stressed individuals coming from all parts of the world, including places where they will have participated in or witnessed savagery.  It is linked to migration. As a result of full-scale migration, we are getting a lot of people.”

The alleged attack came amid suspected Islamist attacks in Belgium and France, with two Swedish men being shot to death in Brussels on Monday by an ISIS-inspired Tunisian migrant who had avoided multiple attempts from multiple countries to deport him back to his homeland in Africa. Just days prior, a French middle school teacher in the city of Arras was stabbed to death in another suspected Islamist attack by a migrant who had also successfully avoided deportation.

With countries throughout Europe on high alert amid the conflict in the Middle East between Hamas and Israel, national leaders have begun calling for reforms to the lax immigration systems in place in the EU. This week, the prime ministers of Belgium, France, Germany, and Sweden all called for stepped-up efforts to deport radicalised migrants.

On Saturday, the Times of Israel reported that an explosive device was set off outside the Israeli Embassy in the Cypriot capital of Nicosia. The attack, which was carried out with a homemade device, thankfully did not result in any injuries. Police in Cyprus have so far arrested four Syrian nationals on suspicion of involvement in the attack.

The director-general of MI5 Ken McCallum warned that terror attacks in Britain may occur due to the Gaza conflict, saying: “There is clearly the possibility that profound events in the Middle East will either generate more volume of UK threat and/or changes shape in terms of what is being targeted.”

A spokesman for the UK’s Counter Terrorism Policing force denied that the public has been “misled or that information has been deliberately withheld”, arguing that the alleged terror attack in Britain referred to by The Telegraph is “subject to active legal proceedings,” adding: “We have issued several public statements in relation to this matter previously.”

“We routinely share and publicise information about ongoing investigations, arrests and charges, through our online channels, and by updating the media direct. Communities defeat terrorism. Sharing information with the public and encouraging them to report anything that doesn’t feel right, is a vital part of our mission.”

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Belgian Police Shoot Dead Tunisian ‘Radical’ After ‘Allahu Akbar’ Terror Killings in Brussels

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - OCTOBER 17: Police take security measures as they shoot and capture the suspect who opened fire randomly in the city center, 5 kilometers away from the King Baudouin Stadium where the Euro 2024 qualifying football match between Belgium and Sweden took place, killing 2 Swedish people, in …
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The alleged Islamist perpetrator of Monday night’s terror attack who boasted of sacrificing “souls and blood” was shot dead Tuesday morning by Belgian police at a Cafe in Schaarbeek.

45-year-old Abdesalem Lassoued, a failed Tunisian asylum seeker with a serious criminal history and known to be radicalised was shot dead in the frequently terror-linked Brussels neighbourhood of Schaarbeek on Tuesday morning. Lassoued is the main suspect in what police say was a terrorist attack in central Brussels on Monday night where three Swedish citizens visiting the city for a football game were gunned down.

As reported, two people were killed and a third injured critically in the attack, in which a man riding on a scooter fired at pedestrians with a Kalashnikov-type rifle while shouting “Allahu akbar”.

Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws reports of the slain suspect that he applied for asylum in the country in 2019 but was rejected the following year. Yet he was never deported. Lassoued posted videos to social media after the attack in which he stated he believed himself to be a “warrior on ther way to Allah” who had lived and would die in “the way of our faith” before proclaiming: “I killed three Swedes, praise be to Allah”.

The cafe at the Eugene Verboekhovenplein/ Place Eugene Verboekhoven in Schaerbeek/ Schaarbeek, Brussels, where the suspected perpetrator of the attack in Brussels was probably shot during a police intervention, Tuesday 17 October 2023. (Photo by JAMES ARTHUR GEKIERE/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images)

Aftermath of a shooting incident in the Ieperlaan – Boulevard d’Ypres, Brussels, Tuesday 17 October 2023. (Photo by JAMES ARTHUR GEKIERE/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images)

The Belgian Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne said of the suspect this morning that as well as being known for being a threat to state security, the government had been sent a tip-off that he had become radicalised and wanted to travel to fight jihad. He also had a record for human smuggling.

The Minister said these reports came during a time of heightened terror concern and that the state receives “dozens of reports of this nature every day” and no evidence was found to place him on the extremism watchlist, but it was subsequently claimed he was convicted of terror or criminal offences in his native Tunisia.

Lassoued was reportedly shot in the chest at the Schaarbeek cafe by police and died on the way to hospital. The Belgian Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden said Tuesday morning, per Reuters, that “The weapon with which the attacks were committed has been found this morning where the man was apprehended in Schaerbeek… We are checking fingerprints to be 100% sure.”

Lassoued’s wife has also been arrested.

Reuters reports remarks by the Belgian Federal Prosecutor saying there was no link between this attack and the Hamas terror attack on Gaza last week, yet HLN reports Lassoued posted about the conflict and Swedish Koran burnings on his social media shortly before his allegedly launched his strike.

The Swedish government had warned its citizens they may be targets for terrorist strikes while travelling abroad in August because of the anger shown by Muslims about the freedom of expression demonstrations that took place in the country.

Belgium has increased the terrorism threat level to four in Brussels, the highest level. The government is to have emergency meetings today to decide further action.


Europe Let in Too Many Foreigners, Says Henry Kissinger in Wake of Pro-Hamas Demonstrations Across Continent

20 June 2023, Bavaria, Fürth: Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State, sits on stage at the celebration of his 100th birthday. Fürth, the birthplace of ex-US Secretary of State Kissinger, is holding a celebration to mark the 100th birthday of its honorary citizen. Photo: Daniel Vogl/dpa (Photo by Daniel …
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Pro-Hamas demonstrations show European nations, including Germany, made a “grave mistake”, and the continent should be concerned about future hostage-taking raids against its own people if the idea isn’t defeated quickly, Henry Kissinger warns.

Europe is subject to internal pressure by groups of people “of totally different culture and religion” because of the “grave mistake” of admitting too many foreigners, Henry Kissinger said of the phenomenon of demonstrations across Europe in support of Hamas terrorists this week.

Speaking to Politico in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel on Saturday, longtime kingpin of the globalist movement Henry Kissinger walked back his previous position on the importance of keeping Western nations open to refugee flows and said the events of recent days showed nations had gone too far. He told the publication observing celebrations in German cities in support of Hamas is “painful” to watch.

Kissinger said: “It was a grave mistake to let in so many people of totally different culture and religion and concepts, because it creates a pressure group inside each country that does that”.

Europe should give “unconditional political support for Israeli action” now the terrorist attack has happened, Kissinger continued, and not least because in his view European states have a vested interest in making sure no precedent is set for raids and mass taking of hostages from Western nations is set. He concluded: “Israel must vindicate its sovereignty in that area, and that it cannot permit Gaza to return to a state where it could emerge, take thousands or a large number hostage, kill thousands, and then live in that condition side-by-side with Israel.

“I would say every European nation has the same interest because the same attitude might erupt in the direction of Europe.”

While hostage-taking raids on Europe may seem far-fetched, they are not without ample historical precedent and match other warnings about the very high-consequence risk of the tactic coming to Europe’s shores.

Kissinger’s comments on the “grave mistake” and danger presented by mass migration creating alien power structures within Western nations are a considerable shift from his previous positions, which he long acknowledged were influenced by his own experience as a refugee from Nazi Germany going to America in the 1930s.

In 2015 Kissinger was a co-signatory of a letter to Congress demanding the borders be kept open to Syrian and Iraqi migrants in the wake of the deadly Paris terror attacks. The letter said to do otherwise would “be contrary to our nation’s traditions of openness and inclusivity, and would undermine our core objective of combating terrorism”, because admitting Muslim migrants is a way to defeat ISIS.

It said: “Categorically refusing to take [Muslim migrants] only feeds the narrative of ISIS that there is a war between Islam and the West, that Muslims are not welcome in the United States and Europe, and that the ISIS caliphate is their true home. We must make clear that the United States rejects this worldview”.

Police made multiple arrests in Berlin this past week as protesters took to the streets to cheer the Hamas terrorist attack that is thought to have killed at least 1,300 Israelis on Saturday. Protesters chanted “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, and despite arrests the groups have returned to celebrate on the streets in Berlin night after night, with a fresh gathering in the diverse, left-leaning neighbourhood of Neukölln on Wednesday night.

TAZ reports hundreds gathered in the district despite a ban on pro-Palestinian rallies ordered by police in Berlin and were met by several hundred police officers, who broke up the crowd leading to some scuffles.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) lists Kissinger as an “important mentor” to founder Klaus Schwab, according to a 2010 document.

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Taken from the document “A Partner in Shaping History: The First 40 Years.” (Screenshot / weforum.org)


Terror Arrest: Known Extremist Allegedly Wanted to Drive Truck Into Pro-Israel Rally

25 October 2023, North Rhine-Westphalia, Duisburg: The apartment building where the suspect was arrested yesterday. Following indications of a possible attack with a truck, police searched the apartment of a known Islamist. The man had been convicted in 2017 for membership in a terrorist organization. Photo: Christoph Reichwein/dpa (Photo by …
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German police arrested a known Islamist on Tuesday following intelligence he was planning to attack a pro-Israel rally to “kill as many people as possible”, reports claim.

A convicted Islamic fundamentalist who was previously jailed for traveling to Syria to fight for the Islamic State was arrested in a police raid Tuesday, as counter-terror police believed he presented an urgent risk to the public. According to German newspaper Bild, police received a tip-off from a foreign secret service that revealed a man identified as Tarik S., who has access to a truck, had researched pro-Israel rallies in his city.

They said the Egyptian-heritage German citizen wanted to “drive a truck into such a demonstration and injure and kill as many people as possible”.

The arrest took place in Duisburg in North Rhine-Westphalia and underlines, Welt reports, the nervousness of the German state security apparatus about the increased risk of terror attacks in the wake of the massive assault on Israel this month.

Tarik S. himself is already well known to authorities, having been arrested in 2016 upon his return from the Islamic State, where he traveled in 2013 to join their jihad. A German court heard how he had featured in Islamic State propaganda videos, posing with a decapitated corpse in one, and was known to his comrades in ISIS as “Osama the German”.

He was sentenced to five years in prison in 2017 and was subsequently released.


“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


How Obama’s Muslim Childhood Became a Taboo Topic

Reflections on when a gigantic biographical inconvenience was successfully hidden and denied.

June 23, 2023 by Daniel Pipes 22 Comments

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Americans have an abiding fascination with their presidents, especially with their foibles and secrets. Who lied? Who ordered illegal operations? Who had mistresses?

Thus was the country transfixed by Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, and the tawdry drip-drip of their liaison. When newly declassified documents revealed hitherto unknown CIA connections to Lee Harvey Oswald, this made a media splash, with Tucker Carlson asking: “Did the CIA have a hand in the murder of John F. Kennedy?”

But that fascination dies when it comes to Barack Obama, the Left’s quasi-sacred figure. About him, no curiosity, please, no gossip, and no hint of impropriety. When he falsely claimed in 1991 to have been born in Kenya, and not in Hawaii, blame fell on a sloppy literary agent. When Stanley Kurtz proved that Obama lied about not being a member of Chicago’s socialist New Party and a candidate for it, the Obama P.R. machine smeared Kurtz and the story disappeared.

When clear evidence showed that Obama had lied about having been born and raised a Muslim, the researcher who made the case was reviled, his investigation scorned, and his argument vaporized.

I should know, as I was that researcher. I wrote five times on this topic in 2007-08, during Obama’s first presidential campaign (three of those times in FrontPageMag.com) and then aggregated all this information, plus new details, in a long and (so far) definitive September 2012 article, “Obama’s Muslim Childhood,” serialized in the Washington Times.

All those writings emphasized that Obama was now a Christian. The first one began with:

“If I were a Muslim I would let you know,” Barack Obama has said, and I believe him. In fact, he is a practicing Christian, a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ. He is not now a Muslim. But was he ever a Muslim or seen by others as a Muslim?

I answered in the affirmative and showed how contradictory evidence concerning Obama’s religious background – from Obama’s father and name, from years in Indonesia, from his family, and most of all from himself – conclusively points to his being born and raised a Muslim.

Throughout, I emphasized not the Islam issue but the character issue; if Obama lies about something so fundamental, how can he be trusted? His other lies, such as Kenyan birth and socialist party non-membership, confirm this problem.

Responses came fast and hard. Ben Rhodes’ “echo chamber” nearly fainted at the impudence of my lèse majesté. Like Kurtz, I was slandered without the facts I presented ever addressed. Here’s a small sampling of the deluge:

· Ben Smith in Politico derided my analysis as “the template for a faux-legitimate assault on Obama’s religion.”

· The Spectator called mine the “the worst article on the presidential election” and also deemed it “mad” and “despicable.”

· Martin Peretz in the New Republic said I had “simply gone bonkers … and malicious.”

· Vice ran an article “Would You Care If Obama Were Muslim?” that responded to my carefully-crafted argument with “BLARGHA BLARGHA BLARGH REPEAL OBAMA BIN HUSSEIN’S GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF OUR JOBS.”

The Atlantic published no less than three attacks on the article and me. Mark Ambinder rued “the false notion that Obama is or was ever Muslim.” Andrew Sullivan dismissed my work as “toxins.” Matthew Yglesias ridiculed my saying that I believe Obama is not now a Muslim with “I, for one, believe Daniel Pipes when he says he’s not a child molester.”

And so it went, howling with outrage at the very thought of Obama as a Muslim, mocking and taunting me with ad hominem attacks, speculating about my motives. So relentless was the onslaught, even the conservative press overwhelmingly shied away from the topic. The McCain and Romney campaigns both treated the topic like Kryptonite. The issue of Obama’s lies had no impact on either presidential campaign, both of which – of course – Obama won.

I expect that, at some future time when Barack Obama loses his sacral quality, historians will take great interest in his childhood religious affiliation. They will wonder how, in the information-heavy, politically-riven, and celebrity-mad culture of early twenty-first century United States, so gigantic a biographical inconvenience could be successfully hidden and rendered taboo. They will study how, in a modern democratic society, a determined candidate can suppress even the most important and relevant information.

I look forward to the vindication.

Mr. Pipes (DanielPipes.org@DanielPipes) is president of the Middle East Forum. © 2023 by Daniel Pipes. All rights reserved.


*** WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT *** ‘This Is the Gate of Hell’: Israeli Forensic Team Shows Media Bodies of Hundreds of Hamas Terror Victims

Journalists view refrigerated trucks containing hundreds of bodies of Israeli terror victims, Shura Military Base, Ramle, Israel, October 24, 2023 (Joel Pollak / Breitbart News)
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SHURA MILITARY BASE, Ramle, Israel — “This is the gate of hell.” That is how Gilat Bahat, an officer in the Israeli Police, describes the effort to identify the victims of the October 7 attack by the Palestinian terror group Hamas.

Israeli authorities brought the foreign press to this site to share the horror of what happened to innocent civilians — and to make sure there is never any doubt, never any attempt to deny it, or to excuse it.

Of the more than 1,400 people murdered, 784 bodies have been delivered to this site, in refrigerated trucks. The bodies are already bagged by first responders; the forensic investigators then have to open the bags to identify the victims.

They dread the moment.

Reporters view refrigerated trucks containing hundreds of bodies of Israeli victims murdered by Palestinian Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7. Shura Military Base, Ramle, Israel, October 24, 2023 (Joel Pollak / Bretbart News)

Michal Levin Elad, a 25-year veteran of crime scene investigations for the Israeli police, told reporters: “We have seen children who were decapitated. We have seen children who were dismembered. It’s sights I have never seen before and hope to God I never see again.”

One particularly difficult moment, she said, was when they had to examine the body of one of their colleagues — a forensic investigator who had been at the Supernova music festival.

“I went to see him so that family and friends would know how he died,” she said. She was relieved: “He was one of the fortunate ones that was just shot.”

Other bodies, Bahat said, arrived in parts, having been dismembered. Some bodies were beheaded after being shot. The worst, he said, were the large groups of small bags — children, including infants between three and six months old, who had been shot and burned.

“This is the enemy we are dealing with.”

Refrigerated trucks containing hundreds of bodies of Israeli victims murdered by Palestinian Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7. Shura Military Base, Ramle, Israel, October 24, 2023 (Joel Pollak / Bretbart News)

Dentist Dr. Ilana Engin, who volunteers as a forensic investigator, said, “The horrors of what I saw will be etched in my mind forever.”

Some remains were “heads without bodies that we needed to identify.” Some bodies “ended up being two people hugging together while being burnt.” And some bodies were little more than fragments of bone and ashes.

She spoke about the struggle to put her own emotions aside when she herself is a mother of a three-year-old.

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Natah Katz, a commander in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in charge of forensic investigations, said: “I’ve been trying to shield my family and my friends from everything that has happened over the past two weeks. But the time has come for everybody to understand what happened.”

He spoke of whole families who had been torn to pieces when terrorists threw grenades into the bomb shelters where they had been hiding. He spoke of the eight Thai farmworkers whose hands had been bound behind their backs with Zip ties, who had been forced to kneel, and who were then executed with shots to the back of the head.

“These are things that I will never get out of my head. Nobody will.

“These are atrocities on a Holocaust scale.”

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.


Watch: The Horror of the Hamas Terror Attack on Civilians at Kibbutz Be’eri in Israel

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Breitbart News’ Joel Pollak details the atrocities committed by Hamas against Israeli civilians at Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7 and explains why Israel’s fight against the terror group is important for peace in the Middle East.


Why Obama Thinks All Muslim Terror Attacks Are ‘Random’

U.S. President Obama answers questions during news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington

Over the weekend, President Obama participated in an interview with Vox.com, the website for those he termed “the brainiac-nerd types.” Sadly, those brainiac-nerds couldn’t come up with the intestinal fortitude to press Obama on this bizarre and disturbing comment about the murder of four Jews in Paris by radical Muslims immediately following the Charlie Hebdo massacre:

It is entirely legitimate for the American people to be deeply concerned when you’ve got a bunch of violent, vicious zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris.

Randomly shoot “a bunch of folks” in a deli in Paris? No mention of anti-Semitism from the president here. By this measure, Nazis randomly broke the windows of a bunch of folks in delis in Germany right around 1938.

But that’s the point: Were Obama to face up to the real problem of anti-Semitism globally, he would have to stop isolating Israel, given that global isolation of Israel is a manifestation of the same anti-Semitism that ended with the murders of Jews in a Paris deli. Were Obama to lump together the Jews and the victims of Charlie Hebdo, he could no longer plausibly claim that Israeli settlement policy spurs Islamic murder — as it turns out, the victims of Charlie Hebdo and those in the kosher supermarket had nothing to do with Israeli settlements. They have to do, instead, with radical Islam.

Instead, Obama prefers to see the murders as random, unforeseeable events.

Obama’s casual dismissal of anti-Semitic murder isn’t out of character. Obama often dismisses Islamic evil with a wave of the hand, a bothersome but random circumstance. Less than two weeks after the murder of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, in Benghazi, Libya, Obama described the terrorist attacks leading to their deaths as “bumps in the road”:

I was pretty certain and continue to be pretty certain that there are going to be bumps in the road because — you know, in a lot of these places — the one organizing principle — has been Islam. The one part of society that hasn’t been controlled completely by the government. There are strains of extremism, and anti-Americanism, and anti-Western sentiment. And you know can be tapped into by demagogues. There will probably be some times where we bump up against some of these countries and have strong disagreements, but I do think that over the long term, we are more likely to get a Middle East and North Africa that is more peaceful, more prosperous and more aligned with our interests.

A month after that, Obama said that the attacks were “not optimal.” His administration had also claimed that the attacks weren’t attacks at all, but merely random violence inspired by a YouTube video.

Fort Hood: a random act of workplace violence. The Oklahoma beheading of a woman by his Muslim coworker: random. A hatchet attack by a radical Muslim on two NYPD officers: a lone wolf. The Boston Marathon bombing: more lone wolves.

Random, all random.

Because if these attacks aren’t random — if they have something to do with the system of thought guiding them — Obama might have to reconsider his worldview. If radical Islam underlies the attacks on Jews in Israel as well as the attacks on Jews in Paris, Obama can’t throw the Jews off of Western civilization’s lifeboat. If the same ideology undergirds Charlie Hebdo and the honor killing of Noor Almaleki in Phoenix, the murder and beheading of Aasiya Hassan and the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Obama might have to face up to reality.

He won’t. And so Americans will be told, again and again, that attacks on innocents by radical Muslims have no rhyme or reason.

Ben Shapiro is Senior Editor-At-Large of Breitbart News and author of the new book, The People vs. Barack Obama: The Criminal Case Against The Obama Administration (Threshold Editions, June 10, 2014). He is also Editor-in-Chief of TruthRevolt.orgFollow Ben Shapiro on Twitter @benshapiro.

 

Obama Criticizes Israel over Gaza: ‘Don’t Harden Palestinian Attitudes for Generations’

Barack Obama
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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.

In a statement Monday, Obama wrote:

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 Affairs wrote:

[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.

Politico reports 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. 


Inside Black Lives Matter's Long History With Hamas-Friendly Activists

BLM, Hamas supporters (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images, Burak Kara/Getty Images)
October 19, 2023

Black Lives Matter chapters across the country made waves last week when they excused and explained away Hamas’s attack on Israel.

A coalition of 26 local chapters called the attacks a "desperate act of self-defense." The Chicago chapter shared an image glorifying Hamas gunmen on paragliders, before walking it back amid blowback. And the movement’s Phoenix branch praised Hamas "freedom fighters" for their acts of "resistance."

Echoing this rhetoric are two Hamas-friendly groups—American Muslims for Palestine and the Council for American-Islamic Relations—that have for nearly a decade worked arm-in-arm with the Black Lives Matter organization to plan rallies and lobby lawmakers.

The groups are united by an "oppressed-oppressor narrative that helps them destroy society," according to the Heritage Foundation's Mike Gonzalez.

"They see Israel as a kind of mini-me of the West and America," Gonzalez told the Washington Free Beacon. "They hate the West. Jerusalem is one of the founding blocks of Western thought, so if they're going to hate the West they have to hate Israel."

American Muslims for Palestine, whose board includes a man, Salah Sarsour, who helped raise funds for a Hamas front group in the late 1990s, declared itself "firmly in solidarity with Black Americans" and demanded "Justice for George Floyd" in 2020. It organized Black Lives Matter rallies in Dallas in 2020 and the following year cosponsored a rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial to demand the Biden administration to sanction Israel.

Speaking at the American Muslims for Palestine event in 2021, one Black Lives Matter leader articulated the groups’ shared commitment to destroying Israel.

"Black people know when Zionists try to twist the words of black brothers across the world," Black Lives Matter DC organizer Anthony Lorenzo Green said "I’m not just an ally, I’m your comrade. I’m in this struggle with you. Our struggles our connected. That’s why Palestinian flags were flying at Black Lives Matter protests last year and years before that."

"That’s why we can speak clearly that Israel is an apartheid state," Green declared, adding "From D.C. to Palestine, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free." "From the river to the sea" is a slogan used by Hamas and other anti-Semitic groups to call for the destruction of the Jewish state.

The Council for American Islamic Relations, whose cofounder and executive director Nihad Awad has called Israel a "settler colonial Apartheid state," was a vocal supporter of Black Lives Matter in 2020. A federal judge in 2007 found "ample evidence to establish the association" between CAIR and Hamas. CAIR lobbied Congress for a police reform act supported by Black Lives Matter and displayed a Black Lives Matter banner in front of its Washington, D.C. headquarters, while local CAIR chapters organized protests with their Black Lives Matter counterparts throughout the Summer of 2020.

Black Lives Matter’s cozy relationship with the Hamas-friendly groups may come as a shock to the movement’s Jewish allies, given that 600 prominent Jewish organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League, signed a letter and published a full-page ad in the New York Times in August 2020 expressing their unequivocal support of Black Lives Matter.

Black Lives Matter's ties with the groups dates back to 2014, when Palestinian activists advised black rioters in Ferguson, Mo., on how to resist the police. Their efforts earned accolades from prominent Black Lives Matter leaders such as DeRay Mckesson, who credited Palestinian protesters for teaching rioters "what to do when we got tear-gassed."

Rep. Cori Bush (D., Mo.), who said cutting off American support of Israel was the only way to put a stop to Hamas terror, honored Palestinian activist Bassem Masri during a speech on the House floor in May 2021 for resisting and rebelling with rioters in Ferguson.

Black Lives Matter solidified its ties with Palestinian forces in 2015 when its leaders embarked on a 10-day trip to Israel to "experience and see firsthand the occupation, ethnic cleansing and brutality Israel has levied against Palestinians" and to build relationships with people in the region "leading the fight for liberation."

During that trip, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors organized a flash mob in Nazareth specifically to support the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel. Cullors resigned from Black Lives Matter in 2021 amid allegations of financial misconduct and now earns a living as a nude performance artist. 

The following year, the Movement for Black Lives, a close ally of Black Lives Matter, released a policy platform that labeled Israel an apartheid state and called for the end of the "Israeli occupation of Palestine." The policy platform earned the unequivocal support of Students for Justice in Palestine, whose chapters have issued statements honoring Hamas "martyrs" who murdered Jewish children earlier this month. 

 

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

 

https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-disaster-of-barack-obama-democrats.html

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

 

Billionaire Leon Cooperman suddenly discovers antisemitism at Columbia

For decades, if you were paying even the slightest bit of attention, Columbia University was renowned for its antisemitism. That didn’t stop billionaire Leon Cooperman from donating millions to Columbia. Now, though, he’s suddenly discovered that “Wow, it’s antisemitic” there. To that end, he’s insulting the students and vowing to withhold money. I guess I’m pleased he’s finally seen the light, but I’m mostly enraged by his blindness, which saw him pour so much money into the institution.

Here’s a random collection of headlines about Columbia University, all of them predating the genocidal anti-Israel protests that erupted there after Hamas crossed into Israel and slaughtered 1,400 people:

And that’s just going back to 2004. If I had Lexis-Nexis, I guarantee you that I could find openly published reports going back much further regarding the foul, oozing stench of antisemitism coming out of Columbia.

Indeed, I could do the same for almost every campus in America. They’ve all been living and breathing increasingly aggressive antisemitism. That’s why two Jewish mothers of UCLA students founded the invaluable Stand With Us: Because their children were coming under relentless antisemitic attack.

And yet, somehow, Leo Cooperman, who managed to make billions in finance, missed all these signs. Instead, he went ahead and donated $50 million to Columbia University. I’m glad he’s finally seen the light, but I’m livid that he and other Jews kept ignoring what’s been going on.

I’m especially targeting Cooperman because he went on Fox to talk tough about college kids with “sh** for brains”:

College students, at least, have an excuse for their execrable values: They’ve been marinated in this garbage in public schools, they’re off on their own for the first time, they have empty, malleable brains, their professors are screaming this stuff at them from the front of the classroom, and they're enveloped in a completely indoctrinating environment. What’s Cooperman’s excuse for having missed all this?

I have a proposal for Cooperman: It’s great that you’re vowing to stop giving money to Columbia. However, you need to redeem yourself for the $50 million you gave that funded this garbage over the past few years. You helped this deadly plant bloom. You gave it financial fertilizer. To make amends, you should redirect some seriously big bucks to people and organizations fighting the toxins to which your money gave birth.

As noted, Stand With Us is a fantastic organization fighting antisemitism on college campuses across America. Throw some money its way. Also, here at American Thinker, we’re fighting the fight, too, and have been doing so for twenty years. We’d enjoy a no-strings-attached cash infusion, as well, so that we can shout the truth more loudly.

Image: Leon Cooperman on Fox. X screen grab.


HAMAS IS NOTHING MORE THAN ONE MORE PACK OF MUSLIM THUGS FUNDED BY JOE BIDEN, SOCIOPATH IN THE WHITE HOUSE!

joe biden and his muslim terrorist

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Hamas Founder’s Son Slams Terror Group’s ‘Sick’ Cause, Calls for Ousting — Civilian Deaths on Hamas’ Hands

Palestinian Mosab Hassan Yousef gestures to the audience after speaking at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference in Washington, Sunday, March 1, 2015. Youssef worked undercover for Israel's internal security service Shin Bet from 1997 to 2007. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
AP Photo/Cliff Owen, file

Hamas’ cause is “sick” and it must be removed from power, according to the eldest son of Hamas’ founder, who asserted that war is now the sole pathway to peace while laying blame for civilian casualties solely on Hamas, whom he accused of “hijacking” Palestinian society.

He also warned its supporters — whom he accused of caring “least” for Palestinians “oppressed” by Hamas — of impending regret for siding with Hamas “criminals” who are “killing Palestinian people” and whose sole mission is to “annihilate Israel.”

On Thursday, Mosab Hassan Yousef, who has a history of public speaking about his experiences and transformation from a Hamas insider to an Israel supporter, openly criticized Hamas and its supporters in a passionate segment on Piers Morgan’s talk show.

Yousef, originally aligned with his father Sheikh Hassan Yousef’s Hamas movement, eventually grew disenchanted with the organization’s violent tactics and chose to covertly aid Israeli intelligence.

He later chronicled his journey and transformation in his autobiography, Son of Hamas.

According to Yousef, Hamas has always aimed to annihilate Israel, demonstrating no acceptance of the state’s right to exist. 

“Since its establishment, Hamas has one goal in mind, which is annihilating the State of Israel,” he said, noting that it is “not a secret” that the terror group seeks to destroy the Jewish State. 

“They cannot accept Israel or accept Israel’s right to exist,” he added.

Asked at what point he decided to escape the Hamas environment, Yousef highlighted events going all the way back to his childhood.

“Since I was a child, I [had] asked my father many questions about Hamas delusions, about their brutality, about their abuse of power, and always he justified their position,” he said. “Then I was imprisoned with Hamas. I spent about 27 months in Israeli prisons where Hamas was torturing their own members — our own people — within Israeli prisons … They killed, actually, and tortured hundreds of prisoners.”

“This is when I started asking myself the question: what if Hamas becomes the ruler at some point, what will they do to our people?” he asked, noting that they did many years later and he “wasn’t surprised by their brutality” after they had gained rule over Gaza. 

Though not surprised by the savagery of the group, Yousef expressed shock at the “scale” of Hamas’ October 7 massacre in southern Israel, which saw some 2,500 terrorists burst into Israel by land, sea, and air and gun down participants at an outdoor music festival while others went door-to-door hunting, torturing, shooting, and kidnapping Jewish men, women, and children in local towns.

KIBBUTZ BE'ERI, ISRAEL -- OCTOBER 11: Members of the Home Front Command inspect Kibbutz Be'eri, the scene of some of the deadliest fighting in the Hamas incursion that began Saturday. (Photo by Baz Ratner for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Members of the Home Front Command inspect Kibbutz Be’eri, the scene of some of the deadliest fighting in the Hamas incursion that began Saturday. (Baz Ratner for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The unprecedented attack, the worst in Israel’s history, saw Hamas terrorists slaughter over 1,400 people inside the Jewish state and wound 5,300 more. They also took at least 224 hostages of all ages.

The vast majority of the victims are civilians and include dozens of American citizens.

He noted that Hamas’s “wiping out entire communities” of Israelis, a people who are saddled with trauma from the Holocaust, “opened the gates of hell on the Palestinian people,” and demonstrated the terror group’s lack of concern for Palestinian children and civilians.

“This is how irresponsible this group [of] people [is] — that they are willing to actually sacrifice many Palestinian children, the entire Palestinian people, and use them as a fuel to just achieve their ideological agendas, their religious agendas,” he said. 

“Hamas’ cause is a sick one — it’s coming from the pit of hell — and they need to be removed from power,” he added. 

He then insisted that it is crucial to stop the terror group now to prevent more deadly future conflicts.

“This is my message as an ex-Hamas member, as a son of one of Hamas’ founders: enough of this. If we don’t stop them now, the next war is going to be deadlier, and only God knows what will happen next if Hamas is not finished as soon as possible,” he declared.

Addressing Palestinian support for Hamas, Yousef anticipated a celebration in Gaza upon Hamas’s removal, with gratitude extended to Israel. 

“Once Hamas is removed from power, we’re going to witness people celebrating in Gaza. I guarantee you that,” he said. “The people of Gaza are oppressed [by Hamas] for so long and they had to endure siege; they had to endure violence [and] many wars for the sake of Hamas’ lust for power and for Hamas’ political ambition,” he said.

“When this comes to an end, I promise you that the Palestinian people, first of all, will thank Israel for what they did,” he added.

In addition, he expressed his belief that after the current conflict ends, the notion of “annihilating the Jews and the state of Israel” will be “dropped forever.” 

“Hamas is the last experiment of adapting violence, trying to annihilate and destroy the State of Israel,” he explained, emphasizing that Israel is “going nowhere.”

Asked about how to achieve peace under the current circumstances, Yousef explained, “this time, I’m afraid that war is the only way to peace.” 

“Because if Hamas is not removed from power, then they will build more [of their] military, they will build longer range missiles, and the next attack — the next war — is going to be deadlier,” he said. 

“The use of force is the last resort,” he added, “you can find this in every culture and, unfortunately, now Hamas left Israel and the free world as well, with no choice but to fight them and put an end for their violence.”

Long Beach, CA - Cal State Long Beach students hold a campus rally in support of Palestinians caught up in the conflict that continued to rage unabated between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Cal State Long Beach students hold a campus rally in support of Palestinians caught up in the conflict that continued to rage unabated between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Addressing the many civilians who are dying, he noted that he is well aware but clarified that “their blood is on the hands of Hamas and Hamas only.”

He also criticized pro-Palestinian activists, particularly those from outside of the conflict zone, for misrepresenting the Palestinian struggle and supporting the “criminal” Hamas movement.

“Those who are using what [is] so called the Palestinian cause, they care the least for the Palestinian children and their future,” he said, adding that Palestinian society “has been hijacked by [Hamas] criminals and anybody who takes their side is participating in their crime.”

In addition, Yousef emphasized the stark differences between Israel and Hamas in their treatment of civilians during conflicts, praising Israel for its efforts to minimize civilian casualties.

“It’s a fact that Hamas uses civilians as human shields” while “it’s a fact that Israel called and warns civilians to evacuate buildings before they strike them,” he said, noting that “in the meantime, Hamas put roadblocks to stop civilians from evacuating to safe zones.”

“Israel is a democracy, Israel is accountable, Israel is not thirsty for Palestinian blood,” he added. 

While Israel is “capable of wiping out Arab capitals in seconds,” Yousef pointed to how Israel “does not attempt to abuse its power,” yet “when the Arabs have just a little bit of power, a couple of missiles, they misuse [that] power by launching them at civilians [to] kill them in their living rooms.” 

“We have a fundamental problem and we need to stop blaming Israel,” he stated. “We invited this upon our heads and the rest of the world, if they don’t know the reality on the ground, it’s better that they shut up,” he added.

He then accused supposed supporters of the Palestinians of being both ignorant of the situation and apathetic to the people’s true needs. 

People light candles during the 'Jewish Community Vigil' for Israel in London, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023 two days after Hamas fighters launched an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel which killed more than 700 people. The militants blew through a fortified border fence and gunned down civilians and soldiers in Israeli communities along the Gaza frontier during a Jewish holiday. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

People light candles during the “Jewish Community Vigil” for Israel in London, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023, two days after Hamas fighters launched an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

“Enough bloodshed and enough involvement from people who don’t care. They are just warriors on keyboards. They’re just storming world capitals saying ‘Free Palestine! Free Palestine!’ They don’t know what the hell Palestine is! I am Palestine! And [what] I say is enough of Hamas! It’s enough of the corrupt leaderships!” he exclaimed. 

“We don’t want a Palestinian state, I don’t want a Palestinian State. Palestinian children need education, they need security, they need life. This is what they need, they don’t need another corrupt Arab regime,” he added. 

Answering a question about potential radicalization due to Israeli military actions, Yousef expressed confidence in the eventual removal of Hamas from power and the pursuit of justice against its leaders, warning those currently supporting Hamas of future regret.

“Listen to this: we are going to remove Hamas from power — remember my words,” he said. “Hamas did not only bring the wrath of Israel over Gaza, Hamas brought the wrath of God.” 

“We are going to remove them from power and we are going to prosecute their leaders and we are going to bring them to justice, and the world will witness their punishment, and everyone who takes their side today, in this state of confusion, thinking that this is a joke, I tell those people that you are going to regret taking the side of Hamas,” he added. “You are going to regret taking the side of those criminals who are killing the Palestinian people.”

Joshua Klein is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jklein@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter @JoshuaKlein.

New York Times: Hamas Hoards While Gazans ‘Scrounge’ for Fuel, Food, Water

Gas station Gaza (Abed Rahim Khatib / Anadolu via Getty)
Abed Rahim Khatib / Anadolu via Getty

The New York Times, hardly a pro-Israel outlet, has reported that the Palestinian Hamas terrorist group is hoarding essential supplies while ordinary civilians in Gaza “scrounge” for fuel, food, and water, confirming a charge Israel has made for weeks.

The Times reported Friday:

As supplies of virtually every basic human necessity dwindle in Gaza, one group in the besieged enclave remains well-stocked: Hamas.

Arab and Western officials say there is substance to Israeli claims of Hamas stockpiling supplies, including desperately needed food and fuel. Hamas, they say, has spent years building dozens of kilometers of tunnels under the strip where it has amassed stores of virtually everything needed for a drawn-out fight. It is a reality that Israel may soon find itself grappling with if it makes good on its threat to invade Gaza.

Hamas has hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel for vehicles and rockets; caches of ammunition, explosives and materials to make more; and stockpiles of food, water and medicine, the officials said. A senior Lebanese official said Hamas, which is estimated to number between 35,000 and 40,000, had enough stocked away to keep fighting for three to four months without resupply.

Israel has allowed a limited amount of humanitarian aid to enter Gaza but has refused to allow fuel to enter, saying that Hamas has plenty to distribute to the Palestinian population, and that Hamas will seize any new fuel for its own military purposes.

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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Amy Schumer Mocks Left’s Call for ‘Ceasefire’ In Israel-Hamas War: ‘Mind if We Get the Babies Back?’

Amy Schumer poses at the second season premiere of the Hulu series "Only Murders in the Building," Monday, June 27, 2022, at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
AP Photo/Chris Pizzello

Comedian Amy Schumer is mocking the left’s calls for a “ceasefire” in the Israel-Hamas war, pointing out that Hamas is still holding Jewish hostages, including babies.

The Trainwreck actress also continued to draw attention to the left’s rising anti-semitism, as well as pro-Hamas demonstrations breaking out in cities around the country.

Schumer posted and then apparently deleted a satirical comic on her Instagram account on Friday depicting what looks like university students marching in support of Hamas, with signs reading “I Heart Hamas” and “Proud of Our Rapist Martyrs.”

She wrote in the caption: “Yeah yeah totally Cease fire. But mind if we get the babies back? Can y’all give that a shout too? And also try not to kill all the Jews again?”

As a result of her post, Schumer is being called on social media a “Zionist liar,” “a white supremacist,” “the stupidest bitch on the face of the fucking planet,” and a “talentless repulsive unfunny pos.”

Schumer, a relative of Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), has been using her Instagram account in recent weeks to express her support for Israel and disgust at the blatant anti-semitism from the left.

She recently slammed establishment news outlets for parroting Hamas propaganda about the Gaza hospital — even going as far as to call for top editors to resign for spreading what she called “terrorist lies,” and called out the news organizations by name — the New York Times, CNN, BBC News, and others.

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VIDEO: Fitness Trainer ‘Proud’ to Tear Down Posters of Kidnapped Israeli Kids

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - 2023/10/12: Posters of Israelis purportedly kidnapped by Hamas have been put up around London's West End, as the war rages between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

A fitness trainer told a cameraman he was “proud” to tear down a poster of kidnapped Israeli children as he entered Gold’s Gym in Venice, California.

The incident occurred on Wednesday when a man TMZ Sports identifies as fitness trainer and model Zaid Shaat began tearing down posters of Israeli children being held captive by the terrorist organization Hamas. Shaat was confronted by a cameraman who challenged him to explain why he was crumpling the posters and if he was proud of himself for doing it.

“I am proud of myself,” Shaat replied. He then told the cameraman to “Get the f*ck away.”

On Shaat’s Instagram bio, which he has since made private, he describes himself as a “Lifetime Natural Athlete” whose mission is to “motivate people to live a healthy lifestyle. I am passionate about helping people achieve their goals and dreams.”

He is apparently uncaring or unaware of the irony of working out at Gold’s Gym – an iconic fitness brand begun by a Jewish bodybuilder named Joe Gold.

Israeli forces numbering over 300,000 are currently poised to launch an invasion of Gaza to destroy Hamas after the terrorist organization invaded Israel on October 7 and brutally murdered more than 1,400 Israelis.

KEEP IN MIND OUR SOCIOPATH GAMER LAWYER JOE IS A GOOD CATHOLIC ABORTIONIST. OR MERELY ONE MORE POS POL!

THE KORAN

BIBLE OF THE MUSLIM TERRORIST:

“The Wahhabis finance thousands of madrassahs throughout the world where young boys are brainwashed into becoming fanatical foot-soldiers for the petrodollar-flush Saudis and other emirs of the Persian Gulf.” AMIL IMANI

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/08/new-novel-blasphemes-fornicating-dog.html

 

Koran 2:191 "s lay the unbelievers wherever you find them"
Koran 3:21 "Muslims must not take the infidels as friends"
Koran 5:33 "Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam"
Koran 8:12 "Terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the Koran"
Koran 8:60 " Muslims must muster all weapons to terrorize the infidels"
Koran 8:65 "The unbelievers are stupid, urge all Muslims to fight them"
Koran 9:5 "When the opportunity arises, k ill the infidels wherever you find them"
Koran 9:123 "Make war on the infidels living in your neighborhood"
Koran 22:19 "Punish the unbelievers with garments of fire, hooked iron rods, boiling water, melt their skin and bellies"
Koran 47:4 "Do not hanker for peace with the infidels, behead them when you catch them".

Biden and Islamophobia

By Eileen F. Toplansky

I was hoping against hope that Joe Biden would totally and irrevocably expose the evil of radical Islam in speaking of the dastardly Hamas attacks.

But once he asserted that “we must also, without equivocation, denounce Islamophobia” in bis October 2020 speech to the nation, it was patently clear that he had fallen into the clutches of those who would demand utter capitulation to Islamists and thus destroy free speech, and independent thinking.

Islamists would assert that "Islamophobia is “an allegedly irrational fear of losing life or liberty to Islamic rule merely because the laws, sacred texts, and traditional practices of Islam demand the submission of culture, politics, religion and social expression. But, in the real world, it is a product of rational observation.”

After all “[a]n ideology that has as its stated goal to put the entire world under its eternal rule, by force if necessary, and to kill those who stand in its way, criticize it or leave it, is genuinely dangerous. Having some healthy doses of fear and skepticism of such a force is perfectly rational.”

As thereligionofpeace.com explains that:


To obscure the fact that the same problems and reactions follow Islam into every country, no matter how tolerant, a word has been invented to suppress any assessment or criticism of Islam. 

Consider that Hinduism is different in almost every way from every other major world religion, but no one is accused of having Hinduphobia. 

In fact, Islam is the only religion that requires a pretend word to protect against critical inquiry.  The sole purpose of ‘Islamophobia’ is to conflate ideological truth with anti-Muslim bigotry.  The irony is that of all religions, the tenets of Islam are the least tolerant and most hostile toward the others.

Sadly, “[i]t appears that the inventors and purveyors of ‘Islamophobia’ have succeeded beyond their dreams in silencing criticism of Islam.  In fact, those who would criticize Islam include such Islamophobes as

ChristiansSikhs and Jews who don’t want to be forced into a political system that treats them as third-class citizens  (Islamic teaching).

Atheists who want the freedom to live openly and challenge religious orthodoxy in the public sphere (Islamic teaching).

Women who don’t want to be draped in black bags (Islamic teaching).

Heterosexual males who prefer not to see women draped in black bags (Islamic teaching).
Wives who don't want to be beaten (Islamic teaching).

Drinkers  (Islamic teaching).

Artists and art lovers (Islamic teaching).

Historians who don’t want to see priceless manuscripts and books burned just because they disagree with the Quran.

Homosexuals who don’t want to be beaten to death or thrown from a building (Islamic teaching).

Anyone else who believes that consenting adults should not be killed or tortured over sexual practices (Islamic teaching).

Dog lovers (Islamic teaching).

Animal Rights activists and anyone else who is opposed to the cruel and unethical treatment of animals (Islamic teaching).

Mothers who don’t want their daughters killed over a man’s ‘honor’ (Islamic teaching).

Intellectuals who value freedom of conscience and public dissent (Islamic teaching).

Anyone believing that the value of a person's life is not determined by their religious beliefs (Islamic teaching).

Feminists who believe that women should not be made subordinate to men by a religion which openly insists that females are the intellectual and legal inferior of males (Islamic teaching).

Anyone else who objects to a religion in which a woman’s identity is defined by her relationship to a man (Islamic teaching).

Secularists who believe in the separation of government and religion (Islamic teaching)

The left-handed (Islamic teaching).

Liberals who don’t believe that culture and moral values should be established by a state-sponsored religion (Get past The Religion Barrier).

Conservatives who believe in preserving the Western heritage responsible for the civil freedom, political liberty and economic success which has attracted the flood of immigrants from Muslim nations, where such values are conspicuously lacking (Islamic teaching).

Muslims who would like the freedom to leave Islam (Islamic teaching). 
 

Consequently, it truly isn’t Islamophobia when they really are trying to kill you. Why didn’t Biden just recite Hamas’ beliefs in their own words?

So when Biden equates Islamophobia with anti-Semitisim, he is aiding the very enemy which despises Jews and wants to exterminate them.  He is acting as the agent for those who loathe freedom. Antisemitism is a calculated ideology of hatred for the Jews.  Islamophobia is an artificial term created to hide the genuine fear of a brutal social system.

In 2017, Ed Brodow explained

The effort to defend against Islamic terrorism has been cut off at the knees by a thought crime known as Islamophobia: a dislike of, criticism of, or prejudice against Islam or Muslims.

Author and activist Pamela Geller, explains that Islamists ‘consider any critical examination of Islam to be blasphemous and subject to the death penalty.’ The term Islamophobia was invented in the 1990s by a front group of the Muslim Brotherhood in order to export Islamic blasphemy laws to the West.

In fact, Muslim writer Abdur-Rahman Muhammad reveals the original intent behind the concept: ‘This loathsome term is nothing more than a thought-terminating cliché conceived in the bowels of Muslim think tanks for the purpose of beating down critics.’

Islamophobia is classic political correctness. You don’t have to deal with the substance of arguments against Islamic extremism. All you have to do is label critics a cluster of ‘Islamophobes.’ If this lie prevails, we become infinitely more vulnerable to terrorism and the negative impact of Islam because we are afraid to talk about them. As a manipulation, it has been highly effective.

In the US, the thrust of the Islamophobia strategy is to (a) accuse Americans of harboring a deep prejudice against Muslims, (b) convince the public that, as a result, Muslims are disproportionately targeted by perpetrators of hate crimes and acts of discrimination, and (c) suppress any and all criticism of Islam and Muslims.

In 2011 Martin Peretz explained that “[a]t the end of the 1970s, Iranian fundamentalists invented the term ‘Islamophobia’ formed in analogy to ‘xenophobia.’ The aim of this word was to declare Islam inviolate. Whoever crosses this border is deemed a racist.

...The term ‘Islamophobia’ serves a number of functions: it denies the reality of an Islamic offensive in Europe all the better to justify it; it attacks secularism by equating it with fundamentalism. Above all, however, it wants to silence all those Muslims who question the Koran, who demand equality of the sexes, who claim the right to renounce religion, and who want to practice their faith freely and without submitting to the dictates of the bearded and doctrinaire.

Islamophobia—that is, the word itself—is meant to silence you.

At Focus on Western Islamism, author Soeren Kern reveals that Islamists are deliberately exaggerating discrimination against Muslims in the West to silence critics. In essence, “[t]he main objective is to smash any criticism of Islamism [.]” Here are some examples of what is considered Islamophobic. See Report.

In Finland, the European Islamophobia Report (EIR) claims it is ‘Islamophobic’ for students to be required ‘to speak only Finnish at school.’

The country report for France was authored by a UK-based specialist on ‘spatialized Islamophobia’ who ‘focuses on the omnipresence of Islamophobia across spatial scales.’ She asserts’that it was ‘Islamophobic’ for President Emmanuel Macron — whom the EIR brands as ‘the world leader of Islamophobia’ — to initiate a crackdown on political Islam, which seeks to replace the liberal democratic order with a new political system based on Islam and the Qur’an.

In Greece, the European Islamophobia Report [EIR] contends that it was ‘Islamophobic’ for the government to publicly state that ‘slaughtering animals without anaesthetizing them is unconstitutional and should be forbidden.’

Consequently, “[l]ike the previous seven annual editions of the EIR, the 2022 edition does not provide a precise definition of ‘Islamophobia.’ Instead, it promotes a highly subjective and expansive notion of ‘Islamophobia’ — a notion that falsely views any perceived slight as proof positive of pervasive Muslim persecution and victimhood in Europe.”

The “EIR is replete with pseudo-scientific terminology such as ‘subliminal Islamophobia,’ ‘internalized Islamophobia,’ ‘contemporary Islamophobia,’ ‘institutionalized Islamophobia,’ ‘state Islamophobia,’ and ‘undirect [sic] Islamophobia.’ It warns of ‘systematic signaling of Islamophobia,’ ‘systemic Islamophobic practices,’ and “potentially Islamophobic situations.”

How can we defeat the enemy when we so easily fall prey to their word salads, lies, and deceptive manipulations?

Eileen can be contacted at middlemarch18@gmail.com

 

A prayer to Allah to “destroy the enemies of Islam, and annihilate the heretics and the atheists” is not just a request directed to the deity. The Qur’an explicitly says that Allah will punish people by the hands of the believers: “Fight them; Allah will punish them by your hands and will disgrace them and give you victory over them and satisfy the breasts of a believing people, and remove the fury in the believers’ hearts.” (9:14-15) Thus Kathrada may be issuing a call to action to believers who think it incumbent upon themselves to heed this Qur’anic directive and become instruments of Allah’s wrath.


Hamas Goon Calls Mommy To Brag About How Many Jews He Killed: Report

'I’m using the dead Jewish woman’s phone to call you now,' says evil freak who is probably dead by now and burning in hell

October 24, 2023

What happened: A giant f—ing loser who took part in the Hamas terrorist raid on Israel earlier this month called his mommy during the attack to brag about killing Jews, journalist Jotam Confino reported.

• "I killed 10 Jews with my own hands," the terrorist boasted. "I’m using the dead Jewish woman’s phone to call you now." The sick freak's mother replied, "May God protect you."

• Confino and other international journalists were invited to view "indescribable" footage of the Hamas attack collected by Israeli authorities in an effort to counter claims from terrorist sympathizers who have denied or downplayed the extent of the atrocities. "If anyone has any doubt about what happened, I truly don’t know what to say anymore," he wrote.

Why it matters: Notice that the Hamas goon didn't brag to his mommy about taking part in the "active decolonization of Palestinian land." He bragged about how many Jews he killed—at least one woman and probably some children. This guy sounds like an evil scumbag and a coward.

• This is what the Hamas sympathizers—on Ivy League campuses and in cities across the country and the world—are defending and justifying. Terrorists taking delight in the murder of Jews.

• Confino describes some of the other videos he saw as follows: "Hamas terrorists enter a house, where a small girl is seen hiding under the table. After some talking back and forth they shoot and kill her as she hides under the table. Hard to say how old she is but looks like 7-9 years old."

• More: "[A] Hamas terrorist screaming 'Allahu [Akbar]' as he frantically tries to behead a dead man with a shovel."

What happens next: If the Jew-killing terrorist isn't already dead, he will be soon enough. Good luck getting cellphone reception in hell, dumbass.

Bottom line: F— Hamas.

Published under: Gaza Hamas Israel 

 

One topic that Hillary is quick to criticize President Trump on is his relationship with Saudia Arabia. It’s ironic given the Clinton Foundation’s refusal to state that they will no longer accept financial donations from The Kingdom as others have.

 

But the Clinton Foundation, to which donations declined dramatically after Clinton’s 2016 defeat, has taken multi-million dollar contributions from Saudi Arabia in the past and isn’t ruling out continuing to accept them.

 

The Clinton Foundation accepted between $10 and $25 million from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with donations coming as late as 2014. A now-defunct group named “Friends of Saudi Arabia,” which was reportedly co-founded by a Saudi Prince and often worked as a PR front for the kingdom, also donated between $1 and $5 million.

Qatar's longstanding efforts to buy influence in the United States have, quite unsurprisingly, included substantial donations to the Clinton Foundation. In 2011, for example, the foundation accepted a $1 million gift from Qatar in honor of former president Bill Clinton's 65th birthday. Hillary was serving as secretary of state at the time, but failed to disclose the massive donation to the State Department despite her pledge to keep the agency apprised of the foundation's foreign donors.

 

Man Invades Jewish Family’s Home in L.A., Shouts ‘Free Palestine’

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A man was arrested Wednesday in Los Angeles after trying to invade the home of a Jewish family, and shouted “Free Palestine” as he was arrested.

The Los Angeles Times reported:

The home invasion was reported around 5 a.m. in the 3000 block of Laurel Canyon Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

The suspect, identified as Daniel Garcia, is accused of entering the home’s backyard and trying to kick in a door; he was held at bay by an occupant, who then contacted the police.

Garcia, who was wearing only underwear, was allegedly heard yelling “Free Palestine” and “Kill Jews,” the LAPD said in a release.

Local Fox affiliate KTTV-11 reported:

Officials with the Los Angeles Police Department said they received a call from the homeowner around 5:25 a.m. stating someone was inside their home, located near the intersection of Ventura and Laurel Canyon boulevards. The caller added they were locked in a room with four children after a man broke into their home.

A short time later, the caller placed a second 911 call and informed authorities the suspect threatened to kill them because they were Israeli. The victims are Jewish, but it’s unclear where they originated from.

The LAPD said the family was visibly shaken up. However, there were no physical injuries to the victims.

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass condemned the attack. Politico reported:

“The vile act of hate that took place this morning has no place in our City,” Bass said in a strongly worded condemnation. “In the wake of the terror and violence inflicted over the previous weeks, this is one of the worst fears of Jewish families across our country — hatred spilling across the threshold, destroying the sense of safety and sanctuary in a home.”

Bass called on officials “to take action to ensure the person responsible for this heinous act is held fully accountable,” in her statement.

“We remain steadfast in support of the Jewish people — the people of Los Angeles will not cower to hate,” she said. “We will respond to it.”

Mayor Bass attended a vigil Oct. 8 for the terror victims in Israel.

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.

The Left’s Planned Destruction of the Judeo-Christian World

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.

Image: Barack Obama. YouTube screen grab.

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.

In a July 27, 2014, phone conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu, Obama insisted on a Gaza cease-fire:

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.

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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 1960sOnly 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.


Rep. Rashida Tlaib Shares Fundraisers With Hamas

"A Hamas activist who served eight months in prison"

Rep. Rashida Tlaib is doubling down on the lies and the smears. Her support for terrorists has never been ambiguous. And the terrorists love her back.

A Canary Mission report documents some of the intersections between Tlaib and Hamas.

Canary Mission can confirm that Rashida Tlaib has extensive fundraising ties to Hamas supporters. She employed no less than three Hamas-linked activists to fundraise for her 2018 election campaign, one of whom spent 8 months in prison for his alleged connections to Hamas.

That includes Salah Sarsour who “was reportedly a Hamas activist who served eight months in prison in 1995 for his connections to the terror group, including giving Hamas members money.”

As well as Rafeeq Jaber, a co-founder of CAIR, who hosted a Tlaib fundraiser and “directed two Hamas front groups in the U.S. to ‘promote [the Holy Land Foundation] in every way we can’ and to distribute Hamas propaganda materials, including an August 2001 editorial that advocated martyrdom operations and the killing of Jewish people.”

But we’re also talking about some of the infrastructure that runs through CAIR and most of the Islamist front groups that prominently operate in America.

And finances a chunk of the Left.

American Muslims for Palestine is being sued for terror financing, specifically for funneling money to Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. The case might also bring bad political fallout for a number of politicians who are associated with American Muslims for Palestine, including:

Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)

Ilhan Omar (D-MN)

Andre Carson (D-IN)

Betty McCollum (D-MN)

Donald Payne Jr. (D-NJ)

Debbie Dingell (D-MI)

Judy Chu (D-CA)

Ayanna Pressley (D-MA)

It’s a network and its scope goes well beyond this. Tlaib is just the most obvious of the bunch.

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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.

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WATCH: Jewish Students Threatened by pro-Palestinian Mob in Cooper Union Library

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Staff at the Cooper Union college in New York City locked a group of Jewish students in the campus library for their own safety on Wednesday after a mob of chanting pro-Palestinian students tried to gain access and pounded on the windows and the doors.

CBS News reported:

Students who are pro-Israel say they felt unsafe as pro-Palestinian demonstrators banged and chanted outside the library they were studying in. They tell CBS New York’s Lisa Rozner school staff locked them in the library due to safety concerns.

“It was tense. People were nervous,” one student said. “They were specifically acting very aggressive in those spaces where outwardly Jewish students were sitting.”

The pro-Palestinian students gave a statement to CBS News in which they denied targeting the students and claimed not to have acted out of antisemitic motives:

“We, students of Cooper Union, planned a peaceful protest to demand our institutions acknowledgement of the Israeli apartheid. This was in response to the school’s one-sided stance and participation in the occupation of Palestine. We planned to peacefully protest outside the building before walking in and continuing our protest outside the president’s office. We concluded our protest by calling out our demands through the hallways of the entire foundation building. When we reached the library, we were told that it was closed so we continued chanting outside the glass window of the library. Many different students of all backgrounds were in the library at the time. We would like to make it clear that our protest was not targeting any individual students or faculty, but the institution itself. We would like to reiterate that we DO NOT under any circumstance condone antisemitism and many members of the protest were Jewish.”

There has been a surge in antisemitic incidents in the U.S. and other countries since the Palestinian terrorist group known as Hamas launched an attack on Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip that claimed 1,400 lives, including entire families.

In many communities, Israeli families tried to hide in “safe rooms” as terrorists pounded on the door, often shooting or throwing grenades to gain access and to murder them.

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.

Universities Celebrate the Mass Murder of Jews

American academia has descended into barbarism.

Since Hamas initiated a brutal and barbaric terrorist attack against Israel and the Jewish people on October 7th, many Americans—Jewish and not—have mourned alongside the world’s only Jewish state and have understood the necessity of a swift and decisive military counterattack. But in the green quads and ivory towers of American academia, a very different reaction has been brewing. For the past two decades, the David Horowitz Freedom Center has shone a rare spotlight on the genocidal Jew hatred emanating from our college campuses. Student organizations like the Hamas-funded and Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Students for Justice in Palestine have infiltrated our universities and turned them training grounds for the next generation of jihadists. In the wake of Hamas’s barbarism, its slaughter and mutilation of innocent Jews, its campaign of rape and torture and beheading, we can now bear witness to the effects that two decades of Jew-hating pro-terror propaganda have wrought in our institutions of higher learning.

At Harvard, arguably America’s most prestigious university, over 30 student organizations signed onto a statement declaring that they “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.”

Not to be outdone by Harvard, the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at Brown University released its own statement (co-signed by the Graduate Labor Organization and Teaching Assistant Labor Organization, as well as 25 additional organizations) stating that: “We, the undersigned, hold the Israeli regime and its allies unequivocally responsible for all suffering and loss of life, Palestinian or Israeli.”

At Cornell University, SJP held a rally to “Stop Israel’s Annihilation of Gaza.” History Professor Russell Rickford who spoke at the rally declared Hamas’s barbaric attack which included the rape of women, the beheading of babies, and the deaths of entire families as “exhilarating.”

Yale University Professor Zareena Grewal tweeted in support of Hamas, calling October 7th an “extraordinary day.” She went on to justify the barbaric violence unleashed on Israeli civilians, writing “Prayers for Palestinians. Israel is a murderous, genocidal settler state and Palestinians have every right to resist through armed struggle, solidarity.” Yalies4Palestine also released a statement blaming Israel which stated, “We hold the Israeli Zionist regime responsible for the unfolding violence and denounce the Israeli occupation, apartheid system, and its military rule” and declaring that “The events of October 7th are the inevitable outcome of a decades-long apartheid and suffocating blockade that continues to escalate.” The statement concluded by celebrating Hamas’s barbarism, adding that, “Yalies4Palestine stands in full support of the Palestinian people’s right to resist colonization and return to their land” and “Breaking out of a prison requires force.”

Meanwhile, twenty campus groups at Columbia University signed a statement condoning and justifying Hamas’s atrocities against Jews, describing the wholesale slaughter of infants and children and the rape of women as “resistance,” and blaming Israel and America for the violence, writing, “The weight of responsibility for the war and casualties undeniably lies with the Israeli extremist government and other Western governments, including the United States government, which fund and staunchly support Israeli aggression, apartheid and settler-colonization.” Also at Columbia, a Jewish Israeli student was beaten with a stick in front of Butler Library by another student who screamed “F**k you, F**k all of you prick crackers” causing the Jewish student to suffer a bruised hand and broken finger.

At the University of Pennsylvania, dozens of flyers depicting the names and faces of the Hamas kidnapping victims were torn down within an hour of being put up around campus. The student group, Penn Against the Occupation, held a “Collective Walk Out for Palestine” during which a Jewish student was assaulted while putting on tefillin and a speaker claimed there were no “innocent civilians” in Israel because “all settlers and all settlements are legitimate military targets and they will be targeted until the time in which one-state, a plura-national, secular and socialist state is formed on Palestine and you can either live there in peace or you can go back to Moscow, and Brooklyn and and f**king Berlin where you came from.” Participants in the event chanted genocidal slogans including “Intifada, Intifada,” “Resistance is Justified, When People are Occupied,” and “Free Palestine.”

And that’s just the Ivy League. The reaction to Hamas’s attacks across the rest of academia was no more constrained.

At Stanford University, the instructor of a required undergraduate class on “Civil, Liberal and Global Education” instructed Jewish students to raise their hands. She then told the Jewish students to gather their belongings and go stand in a corner, saying, “This is what Israel does to the Palestinians.” The instructor then asked the students, “How many people died in the Holocaust?” When a student answered, “six million” the instructor minimized the mass slaughter of Jews, saying, “Colonizers killed more than 6 million, Israel is a colonizer.”

At UC-Berkeley, a statement organized by Bears for Palestine that signed by twenty-five on-and-off campus organizations brazenly declared their support for Hamas’s brutal terrorist maiming and slaughter of Jews. “We invariably reject Israel’s framing as a victim” said the statement which also argued that “[O]ur people’s freedom will not be attainable without revolution” and “We support the resistance, we support the liberation movement, and we indisputably support the Uprising.” The statement included the genocidal sentiments, “From the River to the Sea, we will continue to support resistance until we are able to return home to a unified Palestine” and “Glory to Palestine, glory to the resistance, and glory to our martyrs.”

Jewish Voice for Peace at Georgetown University chimed in with a statement supporting Palestinian “resistance” (otherwise known as mass slaughter of innocents) and asserting that “The violence we see today is a direct result of the brutal decades-long occupation of Palestinian land.”

At the University of Michigan, a statement demonizing Israel and blaming the Jewish state for Hamas’s barbaric violence was signed by over 800 faculty members, staff, and graduate students. “We write as human beings in grief and anguish over the loss of life — both Palestinian and Israeli — that is the result of the decades-long Israeli occupation of Palestine and the structural apartheid Palestinians residing both within Israel and the Occupied Territories endure on a daily basis,” declared the statement. Meanwhile, Michigan Professor Erik Gordon has been accused of tearing down posters depicting Israelis kidnapped by Hamas.

SJP at Tufts University released a statement celebrating Hamas’s vicious terrorism, calling it an “historic attack on the colonizers,” and applauding the paragliders who brought mass terror to innocent civilians, stating that “Footage of liberation fighters from Gaza paragliding into occupied territory has especially shown the creativity necessary to take back stolen land.”

SUPER UW, a pro-Palestinian group at the University of Washington, held an anti-Israel protest on campus which featured genocidal chants including “Palestine is our demand, no peace on stolen land,” “There is only one solution, intifada revolution” and “Resistance is justified when people are occupied.” During the event, one SUPER UW supporter yelled “F**k Israel, no problem, f**k you, f**k you, you guys are all f**king gay bro” at pro-Israel students while another protestor defended Hamas’s barbaric terror campaign, stating, “What Hamas is doing is fighting for their people, fighting for their country back, that’s what Hamas is doing [but] what America is saying is Israel is a victim, but for what, for Hamas defending their people.”

SJP chapters and pro-Palestinian groups at several New York schools including the City University of New York, City College of New York, Brooklyn College, and John Jay College, released a “Joint Statement” that demonized Israel and claimed that Hamas’s barbarism against Israel was justified. The statement referred to Hamas’s reign of rape and terror as “a wave of resistance [that] swept across occupied Palestine” which created “a sense of empowerment,” and scolded the CUNY administration for condemning Hamas, arguing that “To call the resistance of those who were oppressed for over 75 years ‘abhorrent’ is blasphemous” and “it continues to be a reminder that colonization is inherently violent and this was brought by the Israeli apartheid state.”

This is just a small sampling of the reactions across America’s colleges and universities. Instead of condemning outright barbarism and the mass slaughter of Jews, large numbers of students and faculty across the nation are celebrating the bloodshed and heralding the coming revolution. These true believers view the world through the prism of Marxist ideology in which the Jews and Israel are oppressors who must be overthrown by any means necessary—up to and including the mass slaughter and mutilation of innocents.

As Daniel Greenfield wrote recently, “The radicalization of universities has made them into safe spaces for the worst possible extremists. Conservative faculty and all opposing voices have been banished from campuses. Pro-Israel and conservative students have learned to hide their views to avoid becoming targets. And curriculum changes have turned places of learning into Marxist indoctrination centers.”

The world at large is finally witnessing the degradation and perversion of academia that we have warned about for decades. We cannot let this moment pass without utilizing the momentum it has wrought. We must push Congress and state legislators to immediately defund any university which gives aid and comfort to America’s enemies and openly seeks to foment terrorist violence. If the last few weeks have shown us anything, it is that the radical Left has zero pretense of adhering to a moral code. We must act now, before it is too late.

Jewish students studying in Cooper Union library barricaded and threatened by Hamas activists

What kind of barbarism in academia is this?

According to the New York Post:

A handful of Cooper Union’s Jewish students barricaded inside the university’s library Wednesday when pro-Palestinian protesters blew past security and aggressively pounded on the building’s doors.

A Jewish senior at the East Village institution recounted the terrifying moment she watched the demonstrators slam anti-Zionist posters against the window and shout “anti-Semitic rhetoric” just a few feet away.

“When they started banging on the door, my heart started pounding. I was crying. I think if the doors weren’t locked — I don’t know what would have happened,” the student, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Post.

“I don’t want to speculate what would’ve happened. It just makes me too nervous. I was absolutely terrified in that moment.”

So you're a Jewish kid. Maybe you are Orthodox and wear a yarmulke. You get into a good school. You study hard in a library, sometimes with your friends, because you know that schooling is important and you want to graduate. You aren't out partying. You are doing the right thing.

And suddenly, a gang of goons from somewhere out on the streets, wielding Palestinian flags, takes a pivot from their plan to get to the president's office, after seeing you, and then barricades you in and pounds on the doors, threatening you and flashing anti-Semitic signs through the library windows and bellowing about something happening several thousand miles away, blaming you for all of it, all because you are Jewish.

Obviously, this isn't about Zionism, or the Israel government, or anything the Palestinian apologists claim. This is straight, naked Jew-hate. 

Worse still, it's not thugs on the street doing thuggish anti-Semitic acts, it's the university establishment condoning it from other thugs. The story says the protestors busted through the security guards who tried to block them. The kids called the cops. The cops got there but stood by twiddling their thumbs because the university told them not to get involved and they actully honored that, despite what they were seeing going on.

The establishment actively collaborated with the terrorizers who targeted Jews, and though the protestors were unable to break in, the way they would have liked to, that was only because someone got the door shut and locked in time. 

This is an outrage. Those kids were studying hard and paying good money to go to this university yet the university allowed a bunch of interlopers, who might not have even been students, to invade the campus and terrorize these students and get away with it. The creeps weren't even arrested for their stunt.

The Post says the response was so weak the kids had to be led out by a back door -- not the front door, which is what they were entitled to do, but the back door, and the university's president, wokester Laura Sparks, did likewise.

That's one heck of a weak response, borne of bias towards not offending so-called Palestinians and their activists, but in reality, naked anti-Semites.

What's more, this university has a history of this. When wokester New York University professor Shellyne Rodriguez was fired by that establishment for threatening a New York Post reporter with a machete and chasing him down the street for asking her about one of her unhinged abortion rants, Cooper Union stepped right up to hire the freak, in a classic fail-upward. They want people like this employed by the school and teaching kids. 

No wonder the Jewish kids can no longer feel safe.

It's obviously a problem of leadership over there, and the leadership needs to be removed. Donors must close their checkbooks, and the federal and state governments need to revoke their accreditation and government grants. The kids, at a minimum, should be able to sue their keisters off for breach of contract. Because if none of this happens, they'll do it again -- and worse.

In an atmosphere like this, what chance does any decent kid who wants to study hard and do his schoolwork have with anti-Semites of the rawest sort being coddled?

Image: Twitter screen shot

 

The Hamas wing at the House: Rep. Ilhan Omar can't bring herself to vote for a widely supported House resolution supporting Israel

If Rep. Ilhan Omar ever wanted to disabuse anyone of the idea that she's a dyed-in-the-wool anti-Semite, she could have voted with the vast majority of Congress for the anti-Hamas resolution that just passed 412-10 in the House yesterday.

According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:

Rep. Ilhan Omar broke from her Minnesota colleagues and most other members of the U.S. House on Wednesday by voting against a resolution in support of Israel in the wake of attacks by Hamas.

Omar, the Democrat who represents Minneapolis and several of its suburbs, was one of just 10 House members to oppose the measure, and the only one from Minnesota. The resolution, which is largely symbolic and garnered 412 votes in favor, reaffirmed Israel's right to self-defense, condemned "Hamas' brutal war against Israel" and proclaimed the U.S. ready to assist Israel in the conflict.

But she didn't.

She was one of ten holdouts, all wokester leftists, who refused to condemn the terrorist outfit for its October 7 attack in Israel that killed 1,400 people, and injured thousands more, not even agreeing with Israel's right to self-defense. 

It was a no brainer. Even most Democrats voted for it. But Omar took the Hamas side, claiming it was all about her love for the Palestinian children. For that, she had a problem with Israel defending itself from more attacks from these very guilty dirtbags.

Omar said the resolution "rightly acknowledges and mourns the lives taken by Hamas," but said she voted against it because it "fails to acknowledge and mourn" the Palestinians killed by Israel in retaliation.

"Our position should be consistent in defending innocent lives," Omar said in a statement. "We must use diplomacy to secure the release of hostages, end the violence by negotiating a ceasefire, restore water, food and fuel to Gaza, and work toward lasting peace."

She's all in for useless negotiations with these killers, as if diplomacy could be effective in turning these mangy predators dripping with the blood of 1,400 people and obviously loaded with cash and Iran sponsorship into pussycats. And as if Israel has not already tried this -- again and again and again after some violent attack or another.

Which looks pretty skeevy. Anyone decent could sign on to this resolution condemning Hamas and affirming Israel's right to defend itself after that monstrous attack, the worst since the Holocaust.

But she couldn't bring herself to do it. Which is weird stuff, a loud radio signal to the world's terrorist outfits and their enablers that her shingle is still out for them, she's still as anti-Semitic as they are.

After all, she has been caught making anti-Semitic statements ("all about the Benjamins") against Jews, and even got a watered-down resolution against such statements in Congress, triggered by news of her tweets, but loudly denied she had an anti-Semitic bone in her body.

She's such a liar, no different from Hamas. If she's no anti-Semite, well then neither is Hamas, because her argument is the same as that of Hamas.

If she can't draw the line at mass murder of the most heinous sort, maybe the new Speaker of the House can bring up that resolution on anti-Semitism again, and pass a non-watered down version of it this time, explicitly condemning Omar and her anti-Semitic remarks. She hasn't changed any since that resolution. She hasn't mellowed. She hasn't grown cautious and circumspect. She just keeps right on repeating the talking points of her pals in the terrorist world. Congress should sanction her immediately.

Photo illustration by Monica Showalter with use of screen shot from shareable Rep. Ilhan Omar Facebook Live video.


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

How Obama’s Muslim Childhood Became a Taboo Topic

https://www.frontpagemag.com/how-obamas-muslim-childhood-became-a-taboo-

 

Reflections on when a gigantic biographical inconvenience was successfully hidden and denied.

June 23, 2023 by Daniel Pipes 

The Left’s Planned Destruction of the Judeo-Christian World

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.

Image: Barack Obama. YouTube screen grab.

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.

In a July 27, 2014, phone conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu, Obama insisted on a Gaza cease-fire:

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.

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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 1960sOnly 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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Obama’s Mindset Still Drives U.S. Mideast Policy

Israeli settlements are legal - despite Obama's 2016 denial.


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.


Hamas and the Politics of Hell

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.  

Image: scottgunn via FlickrCC BY-NC 2.0.

The Inevitable Fracturing of the Democrat Party

The Democrat Party is not a homogenous entity, but an amalgamation of various left-wing factions now overwhelmingly dominated by its smallest and most radical element, the avowed anti-Semitic and racist American Marxists.  However, the largest group and underpinning of the Party are the credulous, patronizing, and narcissistic liberals who, in their naiveté, willfully allied themselves with any group virulently opposed to conservatives and Republicans.  While living in their cocoons among the likeminded, they chose to ignore the Marxist’s inexorable infiltration of the Democrat Party as well as their declared intention to transform America into a socialist “paradise” which will devour these same liberal elites.

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).

The current American mélange of Marxist-inspired activists and narcissists are little different than Karl Marx in their racist and anti-Semitic outlook.

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.

Image: William Warby

Alex Marlow: Joe Biden Bears Responsibility for Hamas’s Terror Attack on Israelis

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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)

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Rockets are launched by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, on Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 07: A man passes the scene where a rocket fired from Gaza strip hit a building on October 7, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Israel's Defense Forces (IDF) say that Hamas "had begun a massive shooting of rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory" which the Palestinian militant group has taken responsibility for. The IDF also say that militants had entered Israeli territory in "different locations". A counter attack has been launch against Gaza. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

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.

He is laughing at us. Literally.

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.

We can’t say we weren’t warned.

Alex Marlow is the Editor-in-Chief of Breitbart News and a New York Times bestselling author. His new book, Breaking Biden: Exposing the Hidden Forces and Secret Money Machine Behind Joe Biden, His Family, and His Administration, is available now. You can follow Alex on FacebookInstagram, and Twitter at @AlexMarlow.

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Terrorism’s Local Supporters Take Over Downtown Chicago

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 I and II).

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Video: Turning Point USA Employee Attacked by Pro-Palestinian Mob

Palestinian supporters beating TPUSA rep
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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.”

You can follow Alana Mastrangelo on Facebook and X/Twitter at @ARmastrangelo, and on Instagram.


‘Glory to Our Martyrs:’ George Washington U. Students Project Pro-Terror Messages on Campus Building

George Washington University Pro-Terror message
@StopAntisemites/Twitter

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.”

You can follow Alana Mastrangelo on Facebook and X/Twitter at @ARmastrangelo, and on Instagram.

Hamas Terrorists Found with Instructions to Decapitate Jews and Remove Hearts, Livers

Men parade with Palestinian and Hamas flags during a demonstration called by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in the southern Lebanese city of Saida late on May 11, 2021. (Photo by Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP) (Photo by MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images)
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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.

Iran Hamas - Tamar, Yonatan and their children Shachar (6), Arbel (6), Omer (4) were brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Nir Oz. (@EladStr Twitter/X)

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)

The government of Israel confirmed on Wednesday the discovery of the bodies of 16-year-old Ruth Peretz and father Erick at the site of the Supernova music festival, which was interrupted on October 7 by murderous hordes of Hamas terrorists, who killed hundreds of people at the event.

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.

Please find attached a copy of the note in the original Arabic.

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

George Washington University Pro-Terror message
@StopAntisemites/Twitter

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.”

You can follow Alana Mastrangelo on Facebook and X/Twitter at @ARmastrangelo, and on Instagram.


Obama Criticizes Israel over Gaza: ‘Don’t Harden Palestinian Attitudes for Generations’

Barack Obama
(Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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.

In a statement Monday, Obama wrote:

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 Affairs wrote:

[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.

Politico reports 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.

THE ISSUE IS NOT LIMITED TO HAMAS. HAMAS IS MERELY ONE FRONT FOR ISLAM. IT IS A GLOBAL TERRORISM WE ARE, AND HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH. REMEMBER SEPT 11 AND THE SAUDIS TAKE DOWN OF THE TWIN TOWERS IN NYC.

French President Macron Calls for International ‘Coalition’ to Combat Hamas

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) greets French President Emmanuel Macron before a meeting in Jerusalem on October 24, 2023. Macron's visit comes more than two weeks after Hamas militants stormed into Israel from the Gaza Strip and killed at least 1,400 people, according to Israeli officials while Israel continues …
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French President Emmanuel Macron travelled to Jerusalem on Tuesday to reaffirm his country’s support for Israel and called for an international “coalition” of nations to combat the scourge of Islamist terrorist groups such as Hamas.

Appearing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr Macron said in a speech that the world must remember that Israel has a “legitimate right to defend itself,” adding: “This cause is just, period.”

The French leader, who expressed solidarity with Israel as the leader of a country that has also faced deadly Islamist attacks, said that the priority of Western democracies should be to defeat terrorism, saying per Le Figaro: “I propose to our international partners that we can build a regional and international coalition to fight against these terrorist groups which threaten us all.”

It is not precisely clear what form of a “coalition” Macron envisages for the future, however, with the French military largely retreating from its presence in Africa, the French leader could be eying the Middle East as another venue to exert military power.

While there are growing calls from within the European Union to pressure Jerusalem into a ceasefire — before the expected ground invasion of Gaza has even begun — Macron seemed to reject such notions, saying that Israel’s fight against Hamas should be “merciless”.

He did caveat, however, that the war should still be fought along the rules of combat and that humanitarian aid should be allowed to reach civilians in Gaza.

Macron also doubled down on his call to Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, the Islamist regime in Iran, and the Houthis in Yemen to refrain from taking “reckless risk of opening new fronts” in the war and risk destabilising the entire region.

Finally, the French president called for a restart of political negotiations to finally come to a settlement between Israel and Palestine on a two-state basis.

“Israel’s security cannot be sustainable without a decisive relaunch of the political process with the Palestinians,” he said, adding that Israel will have to accept “ the legitimate right of the Palestinians to have a territory and a state in peace and security alongside Israel.”

For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah want to bring the world back to the “Middle Ages” and therefore the war in Israel represents a civilisation battle between the West and radical Islam.

“The test for the West and for civilisation is Hamas,” he said. “If Hamas emerges victorious, we will all lose, Europe will be endangered, everyone will be endangered, civilisation will be endangered.”

“That is why this battle is not merely our own, it’s Europe’s battle, it’s America’s battle, it’s civilisation’s battle. It’s a battle for the heart and soul of the Middle East and the Arab world.”

Netanyahu also issued a threat to Hezbollah, warning that Israel would be forced into an “unimaginable” response against Lebanon if the Islamist terror group enters the fighting in a “significant way”.

“If Hezbollah makes the mistake of joining this war, they will regret it, they will long for the Second Lebanon War,” he warned.

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More Arrests Made Over ‘Allah hu Akbar’ Brussels Terror Attack

French police vehicles are seen behind a cordoned off area in front of the North station in Paris, on late May 8, 2017, during a police operation following an evacuation due to a security alert, the day after the second round of voting for the French presidential election. - The …
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French police have arrested two Paris-area residents over links to the October 16th terrorist attack in Brussels which saw two people killed and a third critically injured.

Two people have been arrested on suspicion of criminal terrorist association over alleged links to the October 16th terrorist attack in Brussels, Belgium. The two unnamed individuals are said by French specialist counter-terror prosecutors, Paris newspaper Le Figaro reports, to have complicity in terrorist “assassination”.

The pair are being held in pre-trial detention. Six people have been arrested in France over the Belgium attack so far, and four continue to be held.

It is believed that failed Tunisian asylum seeker Abdesalem Lassoued was behind the deaths of two Swedish football fans in Brussels last Monday. It is claimed he rode around the city on a moped while carrying an assault rifle-type long arm and shot at members of the public while shouting the infamous Arabic war cry “Allah hu Akbar”.

Those killed and injured appear to have been targeted because they were wearing the colours of the Swedish football team, which was playing a match in the city that night. Swedish football fans have been now warned not to wear their national strip while abroad, and this attack follows earlier warnings from the Swedish government that their citizens are at a heightened risk of attack while abroad.

The increased risk specifically to Swedes has been blamed on a violent reaction by Muslims worldwide to a series of freedom and expression and freedom of speech demonstrations and rallies in the form of Qur’an burnings held in Swedish cities, which Muslim hardliners see as unacceptable.

As revealed after the attack, alleged attacker Lassoued not only had been denied asylum in Europe but was also the subject of an extradition request by his native Tunisia because he had escaped from prison there. He had been serving 26 years for attempted murder and other crimes.

Having escaped, Abdesalem Lassoued posed as a refugee and travelled to Europe on a small boat and evaded several deportation attempts, including one launched after authorities became suspicious that he was becoming a radicalised Muslim. Lassoued reportedly lived in Italy, Norway, Sweden and Belgium during his time in Europe.

The Belgian Justice Minister resigned last week over his failure to deport Lassoued, saying while the decision had not been personally taken by him he nevertheless bore ultimate responsibility for the activities of those inside his government department.

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‘For Palestine’ — Asylum Seeker Arrested in Britain over Alleged Terror Attack, Details Being Kept From Public: Report

RAMALLAH, WEST BANK - JANUARY 9: Supporters of Interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas cheer and wave flags after Abbas placed his vote in the ballot box at the polling station in his Muqaata Headquarters, January 9, 2005 in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Abbas is frontrunner amongst seven candidates …
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An asylum seeker in Britain has reportedly been arrested over an alleged terror attack to seek vengeance for Gaza, however, further information has reportedly been withheld from the public, according to the Daily Telegraph.

A man who arrived as an asylum seeker in the United Kingdom in 2020 has reportedly been arrested for an alleged terror attack. He is said to have told police that he was motivated to carry out the attack “for Palestine” and to avenge Palestinians killed in the wake of the October 7th Hamas terror attacks on Israel that left over 1,400 dead. The man is currently in police custody.

Further information on the alleged terror attack, which came amid concerns of violence stemming from anti-Israel protests being held throughout Britain, has been withheld from the public, London’s Daily Telegraph reports.

Some of the details of the alleged attack are being withheld for legal reasons, however, a security source speaking to the paper suggested that authorities “may be downplaying it so that they don’t have repeat attacks or copycat attacks.”

British lawmakers have called for the public to be informed about the alleged attack, with former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith saying: “I think the public does have a right to know that something has happened. If they are worried about reaction, people need to know whether their streets are safe.

“It would be helpful to know these things are happening. I understand the sensitivities. The issue is whether people have a right to know whether things are going on on their streets. It needs to be carefully done but we need a greater level of clarity about whether we have a problem about extremists on our streets.”

When questioned on if he believed the reluctance to publish information on the alleged terror attack came as a result of reticence to link terrorism to immigration, the former Tory leader said: “All these things are connected. I understand the sensitivities but the police need to be clear if this was an attack by an extremist. We need to know that.”

Speaking to the paper, a senior counter-terror official also stressed the dangers of Britain’s mass migration policies: “It just illustrates the risk when you get stressed individuals coming from all parts of the world, including places where they will have participated in or witnessed savagery.  It is linked to migration. As a result of full-scale migration, we are getting a lot of people.”

The alleged attack came amid suspected Islamist attacks in Belgium and France, with two Swedish men being shot to death in Brussels on Monday by an ISIS-inspired Tunisian migrant who had avoided multiple attempts from multiple countries to deport him back to his homeland in Africa. Just days prior, a French middle school teacher in the city of Arras was stabbed to death in another suspected Islamist attack by a migrant who had also successfully avoided deportation.

With countries throughout Europe on high alert amid the conflict in the Middle East between Hamas and Israel, national leaders have begun calling for reforms to the lax immigration systems in place in the EU. This week, the prime ministers of Belgium, France, Germany, and Sweden all called for stepped-up efforts to deport radicalised migrants.

On Saturday, the Times of Israel reported that an explosive device was set off outside the Israeli Embassy in the Cypriot capital of Nicosia. The attack, which was carried out with a homemade device, thankfully did not result in any injuries. Police in Cyprus have so far arrested four Syrian nationals on suspicion of involvement in the attack.

The director-general of MI5 Ken McCallum warned that terror attacks in Britain may occur due to the Gaza conflict, saying: “There is clearly the possibility that profound events in the Middle East will either generate more volume of UK threat and/or changes shape in terms of what is being targeted.”

A spokesman for the UK’s Counter Terrorism Policing force denied that the public has been “misled or that information has been deliberately withheld”, arguing that the alleged terror attack in Britain referred to by The Telegraph is “subject to active legal proceedings,” adding: “We have issued several public statements in relation to this matter previously.”

“We routinely share and publicise information about ongoing investigations, arrests and charges, through our online channels, and by updating the media direct. Communities defeat terrorism. Sharing information with the public and encouraging them to report anything that doesn’t feel right, is a vital part of our mission.”

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Belgian Police Shoot Dead Tunisian ‘Radical’ After ‘Allahu Akbar’ Terror Killings in Brussels

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - OCTOBER 17: Police take security measures as they shoot and capture the suspect who opened fire randomly in the city center, 5 kilometers away from the King Baudouin Stadium where the Euro 2024 qualifying football match between Belgium and Sweden took place, killing 2 Swedish people, in …
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The alleged Islamist perpetrator of Monday night’s terror attack who boasted of sacrificing “souls and blood” was shot dead Tuesday morning by Belgian police at a Cafe in Schaarbeek.

45-year-old Abdesalem Lassoued, a failed Tunisian asylum seeker with a serious criminal history and known to be radicalised was shot dead in the frequently terror-linked Brussels neighbourhood of Schaarbeek on Tuesday morning. Lassoued is the main suspect in what police say was a terrorist attack in central Brussels on Monday night where three Swedish citizens visiting the city for a football game were gunned down.

As reported, two people were killed and a third injured critically in the attack, in which a man riding on a scooter fired at pedestrians with a Kalashnikov-type rifle while shouting “Allahu akbar”.

Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws reports of the slain suspect that he applied for asylum in the country in 2019 but was rejected the following year. Yet he was never deported. Lassoued posted videos to social media after the attack in which he stated he believed himself to be a “warrior on ther way to Allah” who had lived and would die in “the way of our faith” before proclaiming: “I killed three Swedes, praise be to Allah”.

The cafe at the Eugene Verboekhovenplein/ Place Eugene Verboekhoven in Schaerbeek/ Schaarbeek, Brussels, where the suspected perpetrator of the attack in Brussels was probably shot during a police intervention, Tuesday 17 October 2023. (Photo by JAMES ARTHUR GEKIERE/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images)

Aftermath of a shooting incident in the Ieperlaan – Boulevard d’Ypres, Brussels, Tuesday 17 October 2023. (Photo by JAMES ARTHUR GEKIERE/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images)

The Belgian Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne said of the suspect this morning that as well as being known for being a threat to state security, the government had been sent a tip-off that he had become radicalised and wanted to travel to fight jihad. He also had a record for human smuggling.

The Minister said these reports came during a time of heightened terror concern and that the state receives “dozens of reports of this nature every day” and no evidence was found to place him on the extremism watchlist, but it was subsequently claimed he was convicted of terror or criminal offences in his native Tunisia.

Lassoued was reportedly shot in the chest at the Schaarbeek cafe by police and died on the way to hospital. The Belgian Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden said Tuesday morning, per Reuters, that “The weapon with which the attacks were committed has been found this morning where the man was apprehended in Schaerbeek… We are checking fingerprints to be 100% sure.”

Lassoued’s wife has also been arrested.

Reuters reports remarks by the Belgian Federal Prosecutor saying there was no link between this attack and the Hamas terror attack on Gaza last week, yet HLN reports Lassoued posted about the conflict and Swedish Koran burnings on his social media shortly before his allegedly launched his strike.

The Swedish government had warned its citizens they may be targets for terrorist strikes while travelling abroad in August because of the anger shown by Muslims about the freedom of expression demonstrations that took place in the country.

Belgium has increased the terrorism threat level to four in Brussels, the highest level. The government is to have emergency meetings today to decide further action.


Europe Let in Too Many Foreigners, Says Henry Kissinger in Wake of Pro-Hamas Demonstrations Across Continent

20 June 2023, Bavaria, Fürth: Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State, sits on stage at the celebration of his 100th birthday. Fürth, the birthplace of ex-US Secretary of State Kissinger, is holding a celebration to mark the 100th birthday of its honorary citizen. Photo: Daniel Vogl/dpa (Photo by Daniel …
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Pro-Hamas demonstrations show European nations, including Germany, made a “grave mistake”, and the continent should be concerned about future hostage-taking raids against its own people if the idea isn’t defeated quickly, Henry Kissinger warns.

Europe is subject to internal pressure by groups of people “of totally different culture and religion” because of the “grave mistake” of admitting too many foreigners, Henry Kissinger said of the phenomenon of demonstrations across Europe in support of Hamas terrorists this week.

Speaking to Politico in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel on Saturday, longtime kingpin of the globalist movement Henry Kissinger walked back his previous position on the importance of keeping Western nations open to refugee flows and said the events of recent days showed nations had gone too far. He told the publication observing celebrations in German cities in support of Hamas is “painful” to watch.

Kissinger said: “It was a grave mistake to let in so many people of totally different culture and religion and concepts, because it creates a pressure group inside each country that does that”.

Europe should give “unconditional political support for Israeli action” now the terrorist attack has happened, Kissinger continued, and not least because in his view European states have a vested interest in making sure no precedent is set for raids and mass taking of hostages from Western nations is set. He concluded: “Israel must vindicate its sovereignty in that area, and that it cannot permit Gaza to return to a state where it could emerge, take thousands or a large number hostage, kill thousands, and then live in that condition side-by-side with Israel.

“I would say every European nation has the same interest because the same attitude might erupt in the direction of Europe.”

While hostage-taking raids on Europe may seem far-fetched, they are not without ample historical precedent and match other warnings about the very high-consequence risk of the tactic coming to Europe’s shores.

Kissinger’s comments on the “grave mistake” and danger presented by mass migration creating alien power structures within Western nations are a considerable shift from his previous positions, which he long acknowledged were influenced by his own experience as a refugee from Nazi Germany going to America in the 1930s.

In 2015 Kissinger was a co-signatory of a letter to Congress demanding the borders be kept open to Syrian and Iraqi migrants in the wake of the deadly Paris terror attacks. The letter said to do otherwise would “be contrary to our nation’s traditions of openness and inclusivity, and would undermine our core objective of combating terrorism”, because admitting Muslim migrants is a way to defeat ISIS.

It said: “Categorically refusing to take [Muslim migrants] only feeds the narrative of ISIS that there is a war between Islam and the West, that Muslims are not welcome in the United States and Europe, and that the ISIS caliphate is their true home. We must make clear that the United States rejects this worldview”.

Police made multiple arrests in Berlin this past week as protesters took to the streets to cheer the Hamas terrorist attack that is thought to have killed at least 1,300 Israelis on Saturday. Protesters chanted “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, and despite arrests the groups have returned to celebrate on the streets in Berlin night after night, with a fresh gathering in the diverse, left-leaning neighbourhood of Neukölln on Wednesday night.

TAZ reports hundreds gathered in the district despite a ban on pro-Palestinian rallies ordered by police in Berlin and were met by several hundred police officers, who broke up the crowd leading to some scuffles.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) lists Kissinger as an “important mentor” to founder Klaus Schwab, according to a 2010 document.

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Taken from the document “A Partner in Shaping History: The First 40 Years.” (Screenshot / weforum.org)


Terror Arrest: Known Extremist Allegedly Wanted to Drive Truck Into Pro-Israel Rally

25 October 2023, North Rhine-Westphalia, Duisburg: The apartment building where the suspect was arrested yesterday. Following indications of a possible attack with a truck, police searched the apartment of a known Islamist. The man had been convicted in 2017 for membership in a terrorist organization. Photo: Christoph Reichwein/dpa (Photo by …
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German police arrested a known Islamist on Tuesday following intelligence he was planning to attack a pro-Israel rally to “kill as many people as possible”, reports claim.

A convicted Islamic fundamentalist who was previously jailed for traveling to Syria to fight for the Islamic State was arrested in a police raid Tuesday, as counter-terror police believed he presented an urgent risk to the public. According to German newspaper Bild, police received a tip-off from a foreign secret service that revealed a man identified as Tarik S., who has access to a truck, had researched pro-Israel rallies in his city.

They said the Egyptian-heritage German citizen wanted to “drive a truck into such a demonstration and injure and kill as many people as possible”.

The arrest took place in Duisburg in North Rhine-Westphalia and underlines, Welt reports, the nervousness of the German state security apparatus about the increased risk of terror attacks in the wake of the massive assault on Israel this month.

Tarik S. himself is already well known to authorities, having been arrested in 2016 upon his return from the Islamic State, where he traveled in 2013 to join their jihad. A German court heard how he had featured in Islamic State propaganda videos, posing with a decapitated corpse in one, and was known to his comrades in ISIS as “Osama the German”.

He was sentenced to five years in prison in 2017 and was subsequently released.


“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


How Obama’s Muslim Childhood Became a Taboo Topic

Reflections on when a gigantic biographical inconvenience was successfully hidden and denied.

June 23, 2023 by Daniel Pipes 22 Comments

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Americans have an abiding fascination with their presidents, especially with their foibles and secrets. Who lied? Who ordered illegal operations? Who had mistresses?

Thus was the country transfixed by Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, and the tawdry drip-drip of their liaison. When newly declassified documents revealed hitherto unknown CIA connections to Lee Harvey Oswald, this made a media splash, with Tucker Carlson asking: “Did the CIA have a hand in the murder of John F. Kennedy?”

But that fascination dies when it comes to Barack Obama, the Left’s quasi-sacred figure. About him, no curiosity, please, no gossip, and no hint of impropriety. When he falsely claimed in 1991 to have been born in Kenya, and not in Hawaii, blame fell on a sloppy literary agent. When Stanley Kurtz proved that Obama lied about not being a member of Chicago’s socialist New Party and a candidate for it, the Obama P.R. machine smeared Kurtz and the story disappeared.

When clear evidence showed that Obama had lied about having been born and raised a Muslim, the researcher who made the case was reviled, his investigation scorned, and his argument vaporized.

I should know, as I was that researcher. I wrote five times on this topic in 2007-08, during Obama’s first presidential campaign (three of those times in FrontPageMag.com) and then aggregated all this information, plus new details, in a long and (so far) definitive September 2012 article, “Obama’s Muslim Childhood,” serialized in the Washington Times.

All those writings emphasized that Obama was now a Christian. The first one began with:

“If I were a Muslim I would let you know,” Barack Obama has said, and I believe him. In fact, he is a practicing Christian, a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ. He is not now a Muslim. But was he ever a Muslim or seen by others as a Muslim?

I answered in the affirmative and showed how contradictory evidence concerning Obama’s religious background – from Obama’s father and name, from years in Indonesia, from his family, and most of all from himself – conclusively points to his being born and raised a Muslim.

Throughout, I emphasized not the Islam issue but the character issue; if Obama lies about something so fundamental, how can he be trusted? His other lies, such as Kenyan birth and socialist party non-membership, confirm this problem.

Responses came fast and hard. Ben Rhodes’ “echo chamber” nearly fainted at the impudence of my lèse majesté. Like Kurtz, I was slandered without the facts I presented ever addressed. Here’s a small sampling of the deluge:

· Ben Smith in Politico derided my analysis as “the template for a faux-legitimate assault on Obama’s religion.”

· The Spectator called mine the “the worst article on the presidential election” and also deemed it “mad” and “despicable.”

· Martin Peretz in the New Republic said I had “simply gone bonkers … and malicious.”

· Vice ran an article “Would You Care If Obama Were Muslim?” that responded to my carefully-crafted argument with “BLARGHA BLARGHA BLARGH REPEAL OBAMA BIN HUSSEIN’S GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF OUR JOBS.”

The Atlantic published no less than three attacks on the article and me. Mark Ambinder rued “the false notion that Obama is or was ever Muslim.” Andrew Sullivan dismissed my work as “toxins.” Matthew Yglesias ridiculed my saying that I believe Obama is not now a Muslim with “I, for one, believe Daniel Pipes when he says he’s not a child molester.”

And so it went, howling with outrage at the very thought of Obama as a Muslim, mocking and taunting me with ad hominem attacks, speculating about my motives. So relentless was the onslaught, even the conservative press overwhelmingly shied away from the topic. The McCain and Romney campaigns both treated the topic like Kryptonite. The issue of Obama’s lies had no impact on either presidential campaign, both of which – of course – Obama won.

I expect that, at some future time when Barack Obama loses his sacral quality, historians will take great interest in his childhood religious affiliation. They will wonder how, in the information-heavy, politically-riven, and celebrity-mad culture of early twenty-first century United States, so gigantic a biographical inconvenience could be successfully hidden and rendered taboo. They will study how, in a modern democratic society, a determined candidate can suppress even the most important and relevant information.

I look forward to the vindication.

Mr. Pipes (DanielPipes.org@DanielPipes) is president of the Middle East Forum. © 2023 by Daniel Pipes. All rights reserved.


*** WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT *** ‘This Is the Gate of Hell’: Israeli Forensic Team Shows Media Bodies of Hundreds of Hamas Terror Victims

Journalists view refrigerated trucks containing hundreds of bodies of Israeli terror victims, Shura Military Base, Ramle, Israel, October 24, 2023 (Joel Pollak / Breitbart News)
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SHURA MILITARY BASE, Ramle, Israel — “This is the gate of hell.” That is how Gilat Bahat, an officer in the Israeli Police, describes the effort to identify the victims of the October 7 attack by the Palestinian terror group Hamas.

Israeli authorities brought the foreign press to this site to share the horror of what happened to innocent civilians — and to make sure there is never any doubt, never any attempt to deny it, or to excuse it.

Of the more than 1,400 people murdered, 784 bodies have been delivered to this site, in refrigerated trucks. The bodies are already bagged by first responders; the forensic investigators then have to open the bags to identify the victims.

They dread the moment.

Reporters view refrigerated trucks containing hundreds of bodies of Israeli victims murdered by Palestinian Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7. Shura Military Base, Ramle, Israel, October 24, 2023 (Joel Pollak / Bretbart News)

Michal Levin Elad, a 25-year veteran of crime scene investigations for the Israeli police, told reporters: “We have seen children who were decapitated. We have seen children who were dismembered. It’s sights I have never seen before and hope to God I never see again.”

One particularly difficult moment, she said, was when they had to examine the body of one of their colleagues — a forensic investigator who had been at the Supernova music festival.

“I went to see him so that family and friends would know how he died,” she said. She was relieved: “He was one of the fortunate ones that was just shot.”

Other bodies, Bahat said, arrived in parts, having been dismembered. Some bodies were beheaded after being shot. The worst, he said, were the large groups of small bags — children, including infants between three and six months old, who had been shot and burned.

“This is the enemy we are dealing with.”

Refrigerated trucks containing hundreds of bodies of Israeli victims murdered by Palestinian Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7. Shura Military Base, Ramle, Israel, October 24, 2023 (Joel Pollak / Bretbart News)

Dentist Dr. Ilana Engin, who volunteers as a forensic investigator, said, “The horrors of what I saw will be etched in my mind forever.”

Some remains were “heads without bodies that we needed to identify.” Some bodies “ended up being two people hugging together while being burnt.” And some bodies were little more than fragments of bone and ashes.

She spoke about the struggle to put her own emotions aside when she herself is a mother of a three-year-old.

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Natah Katz, a commander in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in charge of forensic investigations, said: “I’ve been trying to shield my family and my friends from everything that has happened over the past two weeks. But the time has come for everybody to understand what happened.”

He spoke of whole families who had been torn to pieces when terrorists threw grenades into the bomb shelters where they had been hiding. He spoke of the eight Thai farmworkers whose hands had been bound behind their backs with Zip ties, who had been forced to kneel, and who were then executed with shots to the back of the head.

“These are things that I will never get out of my head. Nobody will.

“These are atrocities on a Holocaust scale.”

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.


Watch: The Horror of the Hamas Terror Attack on Civilians at Kibbutz Be’eri in Israel

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Breitbart News’ Joel Pollak details the atrocities committed by Hamas against Israeli civilians at Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7 and explains why Israel’s fight against the terror group is important for peace in the Middle East.


Why Obama Thinks All Muslim Terror Attacks Are ‘Random’

U.S. President Obama answers questions during news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington

Over the weekend, President Obama participated in an interview with Vox.com, the website for those he termed “the brainiac-nerd types.” Sadly, those brainiac-nerds couldn’t come up with the intestinal fortitude to press Obama on this bizarre and disturbing comment about the murder of four Jews in Paris by radical Muslims immediately following the Charlie Hebdo massacre:

It is entirely legitimate for the American people to be deeply concerned when you’ve got a bunch of violent, vicious zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris.

Randomly shoot “a bunch of folks” in a deli in Paris? No mention of anti-Semitism from the president here. By this measure, Nazis randomly broke the windows of a bunch of folks in delis in Germany right around 1938.

But that’s the point: Were Obama to face up to the real problem of anti-Semitism globally, he would have to stop isolating Israel, given that global isolation of Israel is a manifestation of the same anti-Semitism that ended with the murders of Jews in a Paris deli. Were Obama to lump together the Jews and the victims of Charlie Hebdo, he could no longer plausibly claim that Israeli settlement policy spurs Islamic murder — as it turns out, the victims of Charlie Hebdo and those in the kosher supermarket had nothing to do with Israeli settlements. They have to do, instead, with radical Islam.

Instead, Obama prefers to see the murders as random, unforeseeable events.

Obama’s casual dismissal of anti-Semitic murder isn’t out of character. Obama often dismisses Islamic evil with a wave of the hand, a bothersome but random circumstance. Less than two weeks after the murder of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, in Benghazi, Libya, Obama described the terrorist attacks leading to their deaths as “bumps in the road”:

I was pretty certain and continue to be pretty certain that there are going to be bumps in the road because — you know, in a lot of these places — the one organizing principle — has been Islam. The one part of society that hasn’t been controlled completely by the government. There are strains of extremism, and anti-Americanism, and anti-Western sentiment. And you know can be tapped into by demagogues. There will probably be some times where we bump up against some of these countries and have strong disagreements, but I do think that over the long term, we are more likely to get a Middle East and North Africa that is more peaceful, more prosperous and more aligned with our interests.

A month after that, Obama said that the attacks were “not optimal.” His administration had also claimed that the attacks weren’t attacks at all, but merely random violence inspired by a YouTube video.

Fort Hood: a random act of workplace violence. The Oklahoma beheading of a woman by his Muslim coworker: random. A hatchet attack by a radical Muslim on two NYPD officers: a lone wolf. The Boston Marathon bombing: more lone wolves.

Random, all random.

Because if these attacks aren’t random — if they have something to do with the system of thought guiding them — Obama might have to reconsider his worldview. If radical Islam underlies the attacks on Jews in Israel as well as the attacks on Jews in Paris, Obama can’t throw the Jews off of Western civilization’s lifeboat. If the same ideology undergirds Charlie Hebdo and the honor killing of Noor Almaleki in Phoenix, the murder and beheading of Aasiya Hassan and the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Obama might have to face up to reality.

He won’t. And so Americans will be told, again and again, that attacks on innocents by radical Muslims have no rhyme or reason.

Ben Shapiro is Senior Editor-At-Large of Breitbart News and author of the new book, The People vs. Barack Obama: The Criminal Case Against The Obama Administration (Threshold Editions, June 10, 2014). He is also Editor-in-Chief of TruthRevolt.orgFollow Ben Shapiro on Twitter @benshapiro.

 

Obama Criticizes Israel over Gaza: ‘Don’t Harden Palestinian Attitudes for Generations’

Barack Obama
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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.

In a statement Monday, Obama wrote:

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 Affairs wrote:

[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.

Politico reports 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. 


Inside Black Lives Matter's Long History With Hamas-Friendly Activists

BLM, Hamas supporters (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images, Burak Kara/Getty Images)
October 19, 2023

Black Lives Matter chapters across the country made waves last week when they excused and explained away Hamas’s attack on Israel.

A coalition of 26 local chapters called the attacks a "desperate act of self-defense." The Chicago chapter shared an image glorifying Hamas gunmen on paragliders, before walking it back amid blowback. And the movement’s Phoenix branch praised Hamas "freedom fighters" for their acts of "resistance."

Echoing this rhetoric are two Hamas-friendly groups—American Muslims for Palestine and the Council for American-Islamic Relations—that have for nearly a decade worked arm-in-arm with the Black Lives Matter organization to plan rallies and lobby lawmakers.

The groups are united by an "oppressed-oppressor narrative that helps them destroy society," according to the Heritage Foundation's Mike Gonzalez.

"They see Israel as a kind of mini-me of the West and America," Gonzalez told the Washington Free Beacon. "They hate the West. Jerusalem is one of the founding blocks of Western thought, so if they're going to hate the West they have to hate Israel."

American Muslims for Palestine, whose board includes a man, Salah Sarsour, who helped raise funds for a Hamas front group in the late 1990s, declared itself "firmly in solidarity with Black Americans" and demanded "Justice for George Floyd" in 2020. It organized Black Lives Matter rallies in Dallas in 2020 and the following year cosponsored a rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial to demand the Biden administration to sanction Israel.

Speaking at the American Muslims for Palestine event in 2021, one Black Lives Matter leader articulated the groups’ shared commitment to destroying Israel.

"Black people know when Zionists try to twist the words of black brothers across the world," Black Lives Matter DC organizer Anthony Lorenzo Green said "I’m not just an ally, I’m your comrade. I’m in this struggle with you. Our struggles our connected. That’s why Palestinian flags were flying at Black Lives Matter protests last year and years before that."

"That’s why we can speak clearly that Israel is an apartheid state," Green declared, adding "From D.C. to Palestine, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free." "From the river to the sea" is a slogan used by Hamas and other anti-Semitic groups to call for the destruction of the Jewish state.

The Council for American Islamic Relations, whose cofounder and executive director Nihad Awad has called Israel a "settler colonial Apartheid state," was a vocal supporter of Black Lives Matter in 2020. A federal judge in 2007 found "ample evidence to establish the association" between CAIR and Hamas. CAIR lobbied Congress for a police reform act supported by Black Lives Matter and displayed a Black Lives Matter banner in front of its Washington, D.C. headquarters, while local CAIR chapters organized protests with their Black Lives Matter counterparts throughout the Summer of 2020.

Black Lives Matter’s cozy relationship with the Hamas-friendly groups may come as a shock to the movement’s Jewish allies, given that 600 prominent Jewish organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League, signed a letter and published a full-page ad in the New York Times in August 2020 expressing their unequivocal support of Black Lives Matter.

Black Lives Matter's ties with the groups dates back to 2014, when Palestinian activists advised black rioters in Ferguson, Mo., on how to resist the police. Their efforts earned accolades from prominent Black Lives Matter leaders such as DeRay Mckesson, who credited Palestinian protesters for teaching rioters "what to do when we got tear-gassed."

Rep. Cori Bush (D., Mo.), who said cutting off American support of Israel was the only way to put a stop to Hamas terror, honored Palestinian activist Bassem Masri during a speech on the House floor in May 2021 for resisting and rebelling with rioters in Ferguson.

Black Lives Matter solidified its ties with Palestinian forces in 2015 when its leaders embarked on a 10-day trip to Israel to "experience and see firsthand the occupation, ethnic cleansing and brutality Israel has levied against Palestinians" and to build relationships with people in the region "leading the fight for liberation."

During that trip, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors organized a flash mob in Nazareth specifically to support the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel. Cullors resigned from Black Lives Matter in 2021 amid allegations of financial misconduct and now earns a living as a nude performance artist. 

The following year, the Movement for Black Lives, a close ally of Black Lives Matter, released a policy platform that labeled Israel an apartheid state and called for the end of the "Israeli occupation of Palestine." The policy platform earned the unequivocal support of Students for Justice in Palestine, whose chapters have issued statements honoring Hamas "martyrs" who murdered Jewish children earlier this month. 

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