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Thursday, November 2, 2023
MUSLIM GLOBAL TERRORISM - While Anti-Israel Activists Call for Ceasefire, Hamas Vows More Attacks Until Israel is Destroyed
“The Jewish community is targeted by terrorists really across the spectrum,” he testified.
Just hours before Wray spoke, New York officials questioned a person after threats were made against Jewish pupils at Cornell University.
The Cornell Daily Sun reported students were alerted when violent posts appeared on an online forum from a user named Hamas Soldier with threats “to bring an assault rifle to campus and shoot all you pig jews.”
“If I see a pig male Jew, I will stab you and slit your throat,” read one post.
Another post pledged to “bomb a Jewish house in retaliation for the murder of 500 martyrs.”
While Anti-Israel Activists Call for Ceasefire, Hamas Vows More Attacks Until Israel is Destroyed
“Ceasefire,” AOC shrieks. “Ceasefire,” JVP clamors. And all the various Hamas supporters demand a ceasefire so that the Islamic terror group can restock and resume trying to murder Jews.
And Hamas would like to take a moment to explain that this is exactly what it intends to do.
Ghazi Hamad of the Hamas political bureau said in an October 24, 2023 show on LBC TV (Lebanon) that Hamas is prepared to repeat the October 7 “Al-Aqsa Flood” Operation time and again until Israel is annihilated. He added that Palestinians are willing to pay the price and that they are “proud to sacrifice martyrs.” Hamad said that Palestinians are the victims of the occupation, therefore no one should blame them for the events of October 7 or anything else, adding: “Everything we do is justified.”
That’s been the slogan of the DSA and the SJP in defending Hamas atrocities.
Ghazi Hamad: “Israel is a country that has no place on our land. We must remove that country, because it constitutes a security, military, and political catastrophe to the Arab and Islamic nation, and must be finished. We are not ashamed to say this, with full force.”
Just to be clear, this is not about Gaza, the West Bank or a Two State Solution. Hamas attacked areas within the so-called Green Line.
It’s about destroying Israel.
“We must teach Israel a lesson, and we will do this again and again. The Al-Aqsa Flood is just the first time, and there will be a second, a third, a fourth, because we have the determination, the resolve, and the capabilities to fight. Will we have to pay a price? Yes, and we are ready to pay it. We are called a nation of martyrs, and we are proud to sacrifice martyrs.”
Within Judaism and Christianity, martyrs die for their faith, in Islam, they kill for it. What more needs to be said?
Hamas has made it abundantly clear that the only thing it will do with a ceasefire is try to stage the same massacres again. That is its mission and the overriding mission of Islam. The extermination of infidels.
Ceasefire with Islamic terrorists is suicide.
“The existence of Israel is illogical. The existence of Israel is what causes all that pain, blood, and tears. It is Israel, not us. We are the victims of the occupation. Period. Therefore, nobody should blame us for the things we do. On October 7, October 10, October 1,000,000 – everything we do is justified.”
That’s been the pro-Hamas slogan at rallies. “Resistance is justified”. There’s no coexisting with this. Win or die.
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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Five Nordic Nations Agree to Collaborate on Shared Deportation Flights
A group of northern European nations has agreed to work together to make expelling migrants with no legal right to stay, saying they will share deportation flights and expertise.
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden announced a new agreement on Tuesday that they were to combine their efforts on removing migrants, saying they would launch joint deportation flights and other initiatives. The agreement came out of a two-day Nordic nations summit in Copenhagen where the group said they had come to a “strong commitment” to strengthen their cooperation on migrant returns.
As well as working together to get illegal migrants out of their nations and back to their countries of origin, the group also said they would launch a join initiative to help migrants who had left their homes and made it as far as North Africa — the embarkation point for dangerous smuggler boats across the Mediterranean to Europe — to go back to their places of origin too. This, the pact says, is a programme of “voluntary repatriation”.
The Danish Immigration and Integration Minister Kaare Dybvad Bek said at the announcement that Nordic nations must stop migrants from “traveling across our countries and going under the radar of the authorities”. He continued: “It is a decisive principle that foreigners without legal residence travel home… we should constantly strive to do better. Both in Denmark, in the other Nordic countries and in the EU. Today’s agreement is a step in the right direction.”
His opposite number from Finland, Interior Minister Mari Rantanen said: “This cooperation will be supporting our governmental program because it’s very concentrated on immigration rules and the returns especially, which have been the weak link in our system”.
In the group’s communiqué on the agreement, it was said on flights that they would work towards “joint Nordic return operations in collaboration with Frontex.”
What this appears to mean in practice, according to media reports from the nations involved, is that if one country in the group has a particularly good relationship with a foreign nation then all the migrants due to be deported there from the five will be sent to that one nation for the flight. An example given is Sweden’s relationship with Afghanistan, meaning it will take the lead on deporting all illegal Afghans from the five-nation group.
As noted in Reuter’s report on the accord, Denmark has been ahead of its Nordic neighbours on migration and deportation policy for years, which has gained it bitter criticism from global bodies and human rights groups, and even from the nations now working with it on immigration issues. The Danish approach has become more popular with its neighbours after the consequences of the migrant crisis became apparent to them, the Wires service noted, citing a speech by the Swedish Prime Minister last month which cited “irresponsible immigration policy” of the last government and “failed integration” of migrants.
Underlining this thaw in attitude towards Denmark’s relatively hardline approach to migration, Swedish Migration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard said this week: “The Swedish government is truly looking at how the Danish government has worked with both fighting organised crime but also on migration issues”.
These sentiments appear to be spreading across Europe, even to the nations that were most aggressively pro-mass migration in the past decade but have not joined the Nordic pact. German government minister Christian Lindner spoke this week of his nation having “made it easy” for those who migrated “illegally to our welfare state to stay” and said he wanted to reform the welfare system to make it less appealing to migrants.
Deportation is a major issue for Europe as its population rapidly swells with economic migrants and bogus asylum seekers who, after lengthy application and appeal processes, have been proven to have no legal right to remain in Europe. Apart from the economic and social implications of having a large and growing population of illegals with a clear motivation to become involved in the black market to earn money where they have no legal right otherwise to do so, there is also a security dimension, with many of Europe’sterroristattacks of recentyears having been committed by migrants who should have been deported but who were not.
FUK THE MUSLIMS! NOTHING BUT GLOBAL TERRORIST!
Hamas Terrorist: We Shot Crying Children ‘Until We Didn’t Hear Noise Anymore’
A Hamas terrorist who reportedly participated in the horrific attack on Israel last month recently revealed in an interrogation with Israeli intelligence the depraved depths they plunged to that day.
Released Wednesday, the video shows Hamas terrorist Omar Sami Marzuk Abu Rusha telling Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) agents that they were ordered to “kill every person” and then circle back around just to make sure they were dead.
“The mission was simply to kill. We weren’t supposed to kidnap, just kill,” he said. “To kill every person we see and come back.”
Abu Rusha said that they were indeed told to murder women and children with the understanding that “all settlers were soldiers.”
“They told us that all the settlers were soldiers. There were soldiers among them. Kill every single one you see,” he said.
At one point during the six-minute interrogation, Abu Rusha said that when they heard children crying amid the carnage, they fired bullets upon them until the crying ceased.
“We heard sounds of young children,” he said. “The cries of young children. A young child, something like that. I shot and Abu Kamil shot. We shot at the door. Until we didn’t hear noise anymore.”
Hamas terrorists claimed 1,400 Israeli lives during the October 7 attack, most of whom were civilians.
Video also went viral on Wednesday showing several members of the Israel Knesset openly crying after watching a video from the IDF displaying the extent of the carnage.
“Members of the Knesset – Israel’s parliament – were invited to watch a film prepared by the IDF showing the horrific things that took place during the Hamas massacre of October 7th. Many of them could not make it till the end. They left in tears and shock,” said Michael Dickson.
The most important thing to know is that London is 15% Muslim. That’s far from a majority, but Muslims need a lot of what the Nazis used to call “Lebensraum”—that is, territory where they dominate the local population. Flexing their muscles, they act as if 15% is a majority and the general population, made ignorant by leftism and scared by the threat of jihad, accepts its status as a minority. If you understand these principles, you will appreciate the different approaches the London police have to things that call for Jewish genocide (that’s fine) and things that offend Muslim sensibilities (that’s bad, very, very bad).
Ever since the events on October 7, which saw over 1,400 Israelis brutally murdered, including pregnant women having their bellies ripped open, a baby baked to death in an oven, women raped to death, and children with eyes gouged out and limbs sliced off, London has been the heart and home of pro-Hamas marches and protests, with hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets:
It’s easy to get these kinds of crowds when you have over 1.3 million Muslims in your city (again, 15%). Even if only 10% of those Muslims are radicals, you’ve got over 130,000 people right there. And then you must add in the useful idiots whose brains have been corrupted by non-stop leftism:
Many of these protests have been openly antisemitic. That is, this is not a border dispute. This is a “death to all Jews because the Koran demands it” thing, which doesn’t even pretend that there’s a distinction between a nation and a faith.
So, here’s a thought: Moses, the most important man in the Torah, was a man of morals, not war. Jesus, the most important man in the New Testament, was a man of morals, not war. Mohamed was a warlord. No wonder that Islam’s spokesmen are unambiguous about their goal, which is the complete genocide of the Jews in Israel. For them, “from the river to the sea” has only one meaning, and it’s not a two-state solution:
The protests are not peaceful, and British police have been in the line of fire…literally fire:
One would think that the British police, in the interests of public safety and protecting against hate speech (for antisemitism is hate speech), would be having a heyday arresting people. One would think that…but one would be wrong. Instead, the police have been helping the genocidal pro-Hamas protesters, whether that meant clearing the way for their marches or helping them remove posters of kidnapped Israelis. The one thing they haven’t been doing is arresting them:
Clearly, the police in a city that is 15% Muslim know who’s in charge—and it’s Sharia law, not British law, that controls. Indeed, the police are open about their efforts to placate their Muslim overlords:
But it’s never enough. Turning a blind eye to Muslim calls for violence and their openly antisemitic actions in a nation that prides itself on wiping out “hate crimes” is insufficient. While “hate crimes” against Jews are getting a pass, the London police are now aggressively policing any criticism against all things Muslim. Take, for example, this video, in which a man says that Hamas flags in the Bethnal Green neighborhood of London are “sh**” and “crap”:
The video doesn’t incite violence, nor does it claim that certain people are deserving of genocide. But apparently, it offended the 15%, which is why we’re now being told that the man who filmed the video and who is caring for his wife with Stage 4 cancer was dragged off to prison:
Urban Scoop caught the hypocritical doubletalk that spewed from that police officer’s mouth:
There’s an old expression about “nursing a viper to your bosom.” It talks about naively taking close to you someone who wishes to kill you. The left trained the West to hate itself and its values. And having beaten the West down, it encouraged Westerners to embrace Muslim immigration. However, Western values and sharia are like matter and anti-matter: They cannot simultaneously exist in the same place. And as Europe gets increasingly more Muslim, it will discover, as all other nations have, that Islam’s need for Lebensraumcrowds out everything else.
THE MUSLIM DICTATORS OVER THERE HAVE LONG PUMPED BIG MONEY INTO THE PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES AND PHONY FOUNDATIONS OPERATED BY BUSH, CLINTONS, OBAMAS AND BIDEN. DO A SEARC FOR OBAMA'S LONG HISTORY WITH THE SAUDIS DICTATORS, YES, THE ONES WHO INVADED SEPT 11
Beginning today, November 2 and continuing until Friday, November 3, the UN's Social Forum of the Human Rights Council will be meeting to focus “on the contribution of science, technology and innovation to the promotion of human rights, including in the context of post-pandemic recovery.”
So naturally, this being the United Nations, the forum will be headed (literally) by Iran’s Ali Bahreini:
Ali Bahreini took office as Ambassador, Permanent Representative of I.R. Iran to the United Nations Office at Geneva, in Switzerland on 28 September 2022.
Prior to his appointment, since 2016, Mr. Bahreini was, Advisor to the Deputy Minister for Political Affairs at the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He was also Ambassador of I.R. Iran to Ethiopia from 2012 to 2016, and simultaneously Permanent Representative of Iran to the African Union. From 2002 to 2006, Mr. Bahreini was also posted to the Iranian Embassy in Berlin.
The ambassador Bahreini served as Director of the Human Rights Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2012, after been Deputy Director of the same Department from 2006 to 2009.
His diplomat career has root at same department in which he worked from 1999 to 2002.
H.E. Mr. Bahreini was born in 1971, Mr. Bahreini holds a PhD in International Law.
Nope -- this is not a sick post-Halloween joke; this is the UN, and His Excellency (sic) Bahreini from Iran exemplifies the work of the UN Human Rights (sic) Council.
Iran defines "human rights" -- which obviously the UN approves -- as:
1) Mass executions by beheading, public hangings, or other forms of individual or mass executions.
Iran executes more people than any country except China -- since 2010, 6,885 individuals have been executed by the Islamic Republic, typically by hanging, according to the Iran Human Rights Organization. Most of those executed are convicted of murder and drug-related offenses. Last year, Iran put 333 prisoners to death, including at least two children and 10 women.
Capital punishment has deep ties to the regime. In 1988, thousands of political prisoners were executed under Ebrahim Raeesi, the current President of Iran, who was its judiciary chief at the time, and the Islamic Republic’s late founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Human Rights Watch said the mass executions amounted to crimes against humanity and are among the most odious crimes in international law.
2) Approved discrimination against women in marriage, divorce, child custody, dress codes, employment, right to travel independently, etc.
3) Approved discrimination against all non-Shia Muslim individuals/religions such as Christians, Jews, Baha'Is, Zoroastrians, sometimes other branches of Islam.
The constitution defines the country as an Islamic republic and specifies Twelver Ja’afari Shia Islam as the official state religion. It states all laws and regulations must be based on “Islamic criteria” and an official interpretation of sharia. (snip)
According to numerous international human rights NGOs and media reporting, the government convicted and executed dissidents, political reformers, and peaceful protesters on charges of “enmity against God” and spreading anti-Islamic propaganda. Authorities carried out hudud punishments such as amputation of fingers (for theft), flogging, and internal exile. The government denied individuals access to attorneys and obtained false confessions through torture in some cases. It reportedly detained and held members of religious minorities incommunicado.
Back in November of 2015, as Donald Trump’s support among Republican voters continued to rise and the Iowa caucuses were only weeks away, the Establishment Class began to panic. The Uniparty had intended to foist an illusory general election choice upon the public in the form of a “contest” between ideological siblings Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush. Republican voters, rightly seeing this setup for what it was — a distinction without a difference — increasingly threw their support toward the anti-Establishment outsider, Donald Trump.
Around this time, all of the people who had paid lip service to Trump’s nascent campaign in hopes of not offending his supporters began turning their full energy toward eliminating the threat he posed. This was the period when every week brought a new allegation of some Trump impropriety meant to shock and shame his supporters into abandoning ship. “Reporters” kept anonymous sources on speed dial so that they could hastily brand the “America First” Republican with fresh charges of “misogyny,” “racism,” secret leftist leanings, or business duplicity. Marco Rubio went so far as to accuse the future president of having “small hands” and therefore deficient manhood. Habitually wrong Bill Kristol — such a consummate defender of conservative principles that he is today a devout supporter of Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s policies — swore that every political grenade thrown in Trump’s direction was certain to blow up his support posthaste.
Yet there was one story that the State-aligned media spent months magnifying in hopes of tagging Trump as an irredeemable bigot (read: deplorable) — Trump’s insistence that he had seen Muslims cheering on Jersey City rooftops as the World Trade Center towers came crumbling down on 9/11. The media and political Establishment were aghast. They claimed — without evidence — that Muslims residing near New York City had been steadfast American patriots during the horrendous terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. They claimed that Trump was seeking to inflame anti-Muslim sentiment after the then-recent Islamic terrorist attacks throughout Paris, in which suicide bombers and gunmen had murdered a hundred and thirty innocent civilians, while wounding hundreds more (a massacre that came after a similar Islamic terror attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices and a Jewish supermarket in Paris earlier that year). Those offended on Muslims’ behalf quickly demanded proof that Trump’s memory was accurate (if only the Fourth Estate — or is it Fifth Column? — challenged Biden’s memory quite so vigorously). Trump soon pointed to a Washington Post article from September 18, 2001, stating:
In Jersey City, within two hours of two jetliners plowing into the World Trade Center, law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops while they watched the devastation on the other side of the river.
Notice how, even in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, mainstream-media “journalists” preferred to blame the attack on “two jetliners,” rather than the mass murderers who willfully plowed them into skyscrapers filled with thousands of terrified Americans?
Remarkably, the Establishment Post quickly denounced its own reporting, claiming that its “journalists” had printed provocative details of that day’s tragedy without seeking any corroboration. Although the Bezos Post is well known for printing all kinds of fantastical allegations without public confirmation from reliable sources, its insistence that it simply made the story up out of whole cloth seemed less like a case of adding insult to injury and more like another early attempt to “get Trump” — before “getting Trump” pretty much turned into a whole-of-government industry obsession. Rather than defending its own reporting, the CIA’s mouthpiece preferred to claim that it had simply fabricated the entire tale.
Despite the mainstream media’s insistence thereafter that Trump be tattooed across the forehead with the globalists’ favorite new slander — Islamophobe — Donald Trump never backed down from his denouncement of Islam-inspired-and-condoned terrorism. Barack Obama’s presidency, after all, had been a cornucopia of Islamic terror attacks on American soil. There was the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, in which a U.S. Army major shouted, “Allahu akbar” before using his sidearm to kill thirteen and wound dozens more. There was the December 2015 San Bernardino attack, in which an ISIS-aligned Muslim couple killed fourteen and wounded twenty-two others in an act of jihad that targeted government employees enjoying a Christmas party. There was the June 2016 Islamic massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in which a sworn follower of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi executed forty-nine people and wounded over fifty more in the deadliest domestic terror attack since 9/11.
Each time Americans endured Islamic terror during Barack Obama’s presidency, the Obama-Biden White House worked diligently to hide the terrorists’ real motives and frame the tragedies as something less than acts of war against the U.S. For the longest time, the FBI treated Fort Hood as a case of “workplace violence,” labeled San Bernardino as a crime perpetrated by “homegrown violent extremists,” and blamed the Pulse nightclub massacre on “anti-LGBTQ hate” — anything and everything, that is, other than Islamic terrorism.
Donald Trump refused to play this game. In December of 2015, he called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.” That promise and Trump’s subsequent 2016 election victory eventually led to a series of executive actions taken in late January 2017, beginning with one order labeled “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States.” Although the Trump administration’s travel bans had their desired effect, they were also the target of activist judges (notably sitting in Hawaii, New York, and Massachusetts), Obama-Soros astroturfed “community organizing” riots, and Deep State insubordination (see, e.g., acting attorney general Sally Yates).
Trump tried to build a border wall and keep out Islamic terrorists, yet both wings of the Uniparty used an avalanche of lawfare, bureaucratic delay, and calls for public uprisings to neuter many of his actions. In supporting open borders and open invitations to those foreign threats that mean us the most harm, the Establishment Class has consciously chosen to make Americans less safe. The consequences of such intentionally destructive actions promise to deliver more 9/11-like slaughter to the United States.
Along with his noticeable dementia, “green” energy–induced inflation, economic destruction, and penchant for sparking worldwide war, Joe Biden will be remembered for completely opening America’s borders to millions of illegal aliens. Amazingly, the Biden administration spends its time and resources fighting the states from protecting their own borders from foreign intrusion. Where Barack Obama’s stated goal of “fundamentally transforming” the United States left off, Puppet Biden has put that anti-American plan back into action. Together, they have succeeded in filling this nation with millions of people who hate it with passionate intensity.
Instead of bipartisan and universal support for Israel after Hamas barbarians raped, tortured, and beheaded innocent civilians on October 7, Democrats’ “woke” and brainwashed army of moral relativists saw no evil — unless it could be ascribed to Israeli victims. While the White House press secretary has no problem calling Trump-supporters “extremists,” she is still unwilling to disparage Hamas sympathizers seeking Israel’s eradication. Biden spokesman John Kirby thinks a “rise in anti-Muslim hate” is just as worrisome as the horrendous spate of antisemitism occurring around the world today. And even after Black Lives Matter expressed solidarity with Hamas, the city of Washington, D.C., is repainting a bright BLM street mural in a show of government support. For Democrats, Judaism and Christianity inexplicably deserve condemnation, yet Islam must be praised as a religion of peace.
More Americans have an answer: bring back Trump — before it’s too late.
President Donald Trump is the most pro-Israel president in history. President Barack Obama was the most anti-Israel president in history.
And now, the likeliest outcome of last week's presidential election is that Obama's vice president Joe Biden will be inaugurated on January 20 and Trump will depart the White House.
Trump is rightly exercising his right to cause a vote recount in Wisconsin and Georgia and suing to fight alleged voter fraud in Michigan and Pennsylvania. But to win the race at this point, Trump will need to win in Arizona and Georgia and either reverse the vote count in Wisconsin or Michigan or win the election in Pennsylvania. Trump owes it to his 71 million voters to ensure that the election results reflect the will of the voters. And so, he will exhaust all legal avenues. But the probability his efforts will win him the election is low.
The Israeli media grotesquely cheers the apparent defeat of Israel's best friend ever in the Oval Office and his replacement by the vice president of the most hostile US leader in history. While doing so the commentators soothingly insist Biden is a great friend to Israel.
While comforting, this claim is untrue, particularly in relation to Iran.
Biden is not known for his strong principles. Long a weathervane for popular opinion, Biden has changed his positions on everything from the politics of race to international trade to criminal justice to social security and Medicare. But while he has been quick to align his position on nearly all issues with the prevailing political winds, Biden has maintained allegiance to one, deeply controversial position throughout the years. That position is sympathy and support for the theocratic regime in Iran.
In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, Biden advocated giving $200 million to Iran to show America's good intentions to the Islamic world. During the Iraq War, Biden was one of the most powerful voices calling for the US to cut a deal with Iran which would essentially transform post-Saddam Iraq into an Iranian satrapy.
Biden was one of the chief advocates of nuclear appeasement towards Iran, both in the years preceding his ascendance to the vice presidency under Obama and throughout Obama's nuclear talks with Iran. Those talks, of course, led to the conclusion of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal that gave Iran an open path to a nuclear arsenal within a decade.
Since announcing his run for office, Biden – who was viciously critical of Trump's decision to abandon the nuclear deal – has pledged repeatedly that he will reinstate the US' commitment to the deal if elected, ensuring Iran acquires a nuclear arsenal.
In response to this anticipated policy change in Washington, Israel and its allies in the Persian Gulf have a keen interest in taking action to minimize Iran's prospects for achieving military nuclear capability during the next two months.
Those allies, in particular Saudi Arabia, are undoubtedly concerned at the prospect of a Biden administration. And their concern is well-placed.
In an election-eve interview with the Dearborn, MI-based American Arab News, Biden's running mate Senator Kamala Harris pledged to upend US-Saudi ties.
In her words, "Instead of standing by as the government of Saudi Arabia pursues disastrous, dangerous policies, including the ongoing war in Yemen, we will reassess the US relationship with Saudi Arabia and end support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen."
In other words, the US will support Iran's Houthi proxy in its war against Saudi Arabia.
There is an upside for Israel in Biden's anticipated turn towards Iran. Saudi Arabia, which was diffident about joining the UAE, Bahrain and Sudan in normalizing its ties with Israel may choose to do so in the coming weeks. Such a move, which would vastly widen the Arab-Israel peace forged by President Trump through the Abraham Accords would present the Biden administration with a major alliance standing as one opposed to a nuclear-armed Iran.
In the same interview, Harris pledged to work against Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria and block all Israeli moves to implement its sovereignty in Judea and Samaria in accordance with the Trump peace plan, while reopening the US consulate in Jerusalem that specifically served the Palestinians independent of the US Embassy to Israel. US aid to the PLO-run Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria and to Hamas-run Gaza will also be forthcoming, she promised.
In anticipation of these hostile moves, over the next two months, Israel should take concerted and meaningful action to dismantle illegal, strategically located Palestinian settlements in Area C.
If the Republicans are able to maintain their control over the Senate, and with a diminished Democrat majority in the House of Representatives, Biden will have difficulty passing the progressive domestic policy agenda he ran on. With the Israel-Sunni alliance system that Trump has strengthened and expanded, he will also face obstacles on his way to reinstating Obama's Middle East policies.
Caroline Glick is an award-winning columnist and author of “The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East.
Can the average English-speaker understand HAMAS, ISIS, Al-Qaeda and other Islamist terror groups?
Yes -- just go to the movies.
For Hamas, all you really need to see is Invasion of the Body Snatchers, because Hamas’s tactical approach is body snatching. It stresses body snatching not only as a tactic but as a strategic goal.
Hamas believes snatching bodies, dead or alive, yields strategic gains and material concessions. Whether it is Israelis or Americans, Hamas knows westerners are sensitive to regaining hostages. Scenes of decapitated prisoners also shock Western governments into concessions.
Now you understand. No need to speak Arabic or to study Islam or to get an intelligence briefing.
To understand terror tactics, to understand just how far a terrorist will go, sit down for a session of video games like Mortal Kombat.
“Finish him” is the catch-phrase in Mortal Kombat, and also in real life for Hamas, ISIS, and Al-Qaeda. They videotape their atrocities. Calmly recording the slow decapitation of captured journalist Daniel Pearl and others was an ISIS-Al-Qaeda specialty.
Israel has just made available captured Hamas cell-phone messages and “what’s app” videos of Hamas murderers breathlessly calling their parents in Gaza. They brag -- in real time -- how they are shooting and stabbing and decapitating children, women, and the elderly.
“Wish I was there with you,” is the standard Gaza parent’s reply on the captured cell-phone communications. It’s almost as if they said “Finish them,” as in Mortal Kombat.
Some left-wing Israelis or State Department officials may say that this is only true of Hamas but not of the more “moderate” PLO or Fatah-run Palestinian Authority.
Anyone who has studied the career of Yasser Arafat and his successors knows better. There is a video record of how they trained generations of Palestinians, printed textbooks and ran summer camps to instruct children to kill Jews.
These “Palestinian moderates” still pay bonuses to terrorists and their families.
There are plenty of video of PLO-Palestinian Authority atrocities including scenes of Palestinian crowds dipping their hands in the blood of murdered Israelis who stumbled into the West Bank town of Ramallah a few years ago.
It should be easy to understand, but actually it isn’t -- for significant parts of the Western public.
When we see movies of atrocities -- bodies dismembered and burned, people blown up -- or when we play video games with similar scenes, we can become callous to the blood-letting.
This is most true on college campuses, for the under-30 generation that has digested horror movies and video games since childhood while getting pro-“resistance” training at leftist schools.
Perhaps this explains why Hamas is more popular in the 18-30 segment of the public and not among older people who recall or studied earlier chapters in our history like World War II or 9/11.
Maybe it’s too late to send some of the younger generation to the bookshelf to do real research on the motives and tactics of various terror groups, particularly of the Islamist variety.
Still, we can show a few movie moments, nothing too taxing, just a short clip from the face-off between a captured space alien and the president of the United States in "Independence Day."
To grasp the zero-sum thinking of terrorists, just consider the dialogue:
PRESIDENT’S QUESTION: “Can There be a peace between us?”
ALIEN’S ANSWER: “NO PEACE!!!”
PRESIDENT’S FOLLOW-UP QUESTION: “What do you want us to do?”
ALIEN ANSWER: “DIE, DIE, DIE!!!”
You do not need a political science course or a seminar in conflict management and resolution.
It’s not about sharing. It’s not about ceding a bit more territory or changing policies. It’s not about proportionality and international law. It’s about tribalism. It’s my tribe or yours. Period.
According to a famous Arabic saying -- “Ana wa-ahuya ‘ala ibn-ami, wa-ana wa ibn-ami ‘ala al-jiran:
“I and my brother over my cousin, and I and my cousin over our neighbors.”
Hamas, ISIS, Al-Qaeda or PLO basically say “It’s my terrorist tribe, or your namby-pamby civilization.”
The fictional space alien and the real-life terrorist have similar goals.
“We want your planet. We want you dead. We want your country. We want you dead. We want your civilization dead.”
That’s life, not a movie.
Dr. Michael Widlanski is an expert in political communication, a former reporter and college professor who was the author of Battle for Our Minds: Western Elites and the Terror Threat (Threshold-Simon and Schuster, 2012), and Can Israel Survive A Palestinian State? (1990). He was strategic affairs advisor in Israel ’s Ministry of Public Security, editing captured PLO documents. Earlier he advised Israeli negotiation teams at the Madrid and Washington talks in 1991-92. Dr. Widlanski was a visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis in 2007-8 and at the University of California, Irvine in 2014, taught political communication for two decades at The Hebrew University and Bar Ilan University. Earlier he was a reporter at The New York Times and Cox Newspapers, war correspondent for Israeli Army Radio and Diplomatic Correspondent for Israel Television in English (IBA).
Unlike the Obama-Biden administration, President Trump saw right through the Iranian regime’s deceptive veneer all the way through to its malevolent core. Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran had the regime on its knees. If President Trump had been reelected, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and his henchmen would have had no choice but to agree to major concessions in order to get any sanctions relief.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s claim last week that “the next US administration will surrender to the Iranian nation” no matter who won the election was empty braggadocio. Behind the scenes, the Iranian regime did its best to interfere in the U.S. election on behalf of Joe Biden. Iran’s leaders have now reaped the fruits of their efforts as they look forward to the Biden-Harris administration’s return to the Obama-Biden administration’s appeasement policies.
On Sunday, after the media projected Biden as the election winner, Rouhani proclaimed, “The next US administration has now an opportunity to make up for the past mistakes and return to the path of commitment to international undertakings by respecting the global rules.” Joe Biden will almost certainly take Rouhani’s advice to heart, falling again for the Iranian regime’s siren song.
Expect Biden to immediately set about reversing President Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran. This will mean trying quickly to lift at least some of the harsh sanctions imposed by Trump to force the Iranian regime to the negotiating table, which Trump will reportedly be adding to every week until Biden’s inauguration on January 20, 2021. Biden has already proposed to “streamline channels for banking and public health assistance from other countries in response to the health emergency in Iran,” as if Iran’s brutal regime could give a hoot about the health of its people.
Joe Biden has also indicated his intention to rejoin the deeply flawed nuclear deal with Iran from which President Trump wisely withdrew. Biden would be willing to do so “as a starting point for follow-up negotiations” if Iran returns to compliance with its loophole-ridden commitments. Iran’s leaders insist that it be the other way around, meaning that they won't budge until the U.S. rescinds its unilateral sanctions. And Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said recently that there is no way that Iran would agree to renegotiate the terms of the nuclear deal. Who doubts that Biden will blink first?
In an opinion piece that Biden wrote for CNN, he declared, “By any objective measure, Trump's ‘maximum pressure’ has been a boon to the regime in Iran and a bust for America's interests.” What planet is Biden living on? The “boon to the regime in Iran” was delivered by the Obama-Biden administration when its disastrous nuclear deal was put into effect. The boon came in the form of the immediate lifting of economic sanctions in reliance on the Iranian regime’s loophole-ridden promises, the release of $150 billion in frozen assets, and the transfer of $1.7 billion in cash to Iran as ransom money for the return of American hostages.
As Robert Spencer explained in summarizing how bad the Obama-Biden administration’s nuclear deal with Iran really was, “the Islamic Republic was being given sanctions relief and allowed to continue its nuclear program, only with certain restrictions that would all eventually expire anyway. Sanctions relief allows the Iranian mullahs to finance jihad groups worldwide.”
President Trump understood the nuclear deal’s fundamental flaws, such as its sunset clauses and the woefully inadequate inspection verification mechanism. In trying to fix them, Trump knew that the only language Khamenei and Rouhani would understand, short of military action, was turning the economic screws on the Iranian regime. Joe Biden, on the other hand, does not understand the notion of negotiating from a position of strength.
Biden talks a good game, claiming in his CNN opinion piece that “there is a smart way to be tough on Iran, and there is Trump's way.” But does Biden think that giving in to the Iranian regime’s demands to get a shoddy nuclear deal in the first place was the “smart way to be tough on Iran,” especially when the negotiators squandered the real economic leverage they had to obtain far better terms? Apparently so. Biden now naively believes that giving away the leverage that Trump has since managed to restore is the “smart way to be tough on Iran” going forward. Biden would rather please our cowardly allies by rejoining them in the fundamentally flawed nuclear deal than doing what is morally right to confront the evil of an unleashed Iran.
Consider Biden’s comment on the international arms embargo imposed on Iran under United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231, which endorsed the nuclear deal. The embargo by its terms just recently expired. “At the United Nations, Trump could not rally a single one of America's closest allies to extend the UN arms embargo on Iran,” Biden declared in his CNN piece. But had the Obama-Biden administration not agreed to such a short sunsetting of the arms embargo in the first place, with our allies’ acquiescence, the Trump administration would not have had to deal with the resulting mess.
Joe Biden also thinks that kicking the nuclear time bomb can down the road was a great accomplishment. “Five years ago, American-led diplomacy produced a deal that ensured it would take Iran at least a year to produce enough fissile material for one bomb,” Biden wrote. “Now -- because Trump let Iran off the hook from its obligations under the nuclear deal --Tehran's ‘breakout time’ is down to just a few months.”
Biden is too foolish to realize how Iran just exposed a fundamental flaw with the deal’s sunset clauses when it decided to break its commitments on uranium enrichment limits. Iran provided an object lesson in how quickly it can ramp up to the point of having enough weapons-grade enriched uranium fuel for a nuclear weapon whenever it wishes. Had everything about the nuclear deal remained as it was and Iran kept its word, the limitations on Iran’s uranium enrichment activities would have expired in a few years’ time anyway under the deal's sunset clauses. Iran's breakout time would then be close to zero, according to Biden’s former boss Barack Obama. Obama admitted back in 2015 that once the deal’s restrictions on Iran’s use of advanced centrifuges are lifted, Iran would be able to break out to produce enough fissile material for a nuclear bomb in “almost zero” time by 2028 or so. But not to worry, Obama assured us. “The option of a future president to take action if in fact they try to obtain a nuclear weapon is undiminished,” Obama said.
President Trump did not want to wait and risk the chance that Iran would be far better prepared to defend its nuclear weapons production facilities in 2028 than it could now. So, he acted to force Iran’s hand immediately, while depriving them of the money they would use to build up their military capabilities. Joe Biden, on the other hand, wants to return the United States to the nuclear deal with Iran as soon as possible and keep the nuclear time bomb can rolling down the ever-shortening road for a few more years until it is ready to explode.
Biden tweeted his criticism of President Trump’s decision early last January to take out Iran’s terrorist mastermind, Qassem Soleimani. Biden claimed that it was a “hugely escalatory move in an already dangerous region.” Biden added that President Trump “just tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox.” Soleimani, who already had American blood on his hands, was in Iraq getting ready to execute the launch of far more than dynamite against U.S. personnel in Iraq. Trump eliminated Soleimani before he could pull the trigger. Biden raised the specter of “a major conflict across the Middle East” that did not come close to materializing.
Robert Gates, who served as Defense Secretary in the Obama administration and was certainly familiar with Joe Biden’s judgment on foreign policy, said that Biden has "been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades." With the prospect of Biden making life and death decisions as president and commander-in-chief, Iran and America’s other adversaries will be the direct beneficiaries of Biden’s continued pattern of perilous misjudgments. The American people will be far less safe as a result.
Jewish Cemetery Set on Fire and Defaced with Swastika and Hitler Graffiti in Austria
Fires were set at the Jewish area of Vienna’s Central Cemetery which was also vandalised with swastikas and Hitler graffiti on Wednesday in the latest outburst of antisemitism in Europe.
The President of the Jewish Community of Vienna Oskar Deutsch revealed on Wednesday that the Jewish section of Austria’s most famed cemetery was targetted by antisemitic thugs, who set fire to the vestibule of the Jewish ceremonial hall in the cemetery, the Kurier newspaper reported.
The outside walls of the building were scrawled with red graffiti, including a depiction of the Nazi swastika symbol as well as the name of Austrian-born “Hitler”.
Fortunately, no one was injured during the incident, although there was significant damage to the property. The building was temporarily closed by the authorities on Wednesday, however, graves could still be visited.
The cemetery, which is one of the largest in the world and the burial site for many historical figures, including Ludwig van Beethoven, announced a vigil on Thursday to “take a stand against anti-Semitism and misanthropy. For an end to the attacks on Israel, Judaism and democracy, for the liberation of all hostages.”
This photo taken on November 1, 2023 shows swastika symbols sprayed on an external wall in front of the ceremony hall at the Jewish part of the Central Cemetery in Vienna, Austria, after police cordoned off the area. (Photo by GEORG HOCHMUTH / APA / AFP) / Austria OUT (Photo by GEORG HOCHMUTH/APA/AFP via Getty Images)
In response to the incident, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said: “I strongly condemn the attack on the Jewish cemetery in Vienna. Anti-Semitism has no place in our society and will be fought with all political and constitutional means. I hope the perpetrators will be identified quickly.”
The Rabbi for the Jewish Community of Vienna, Schlomo Hofmeister said: “The desecration of Jewish cemeteries is one of the most cowardly and disgusting forms of anti-Semitic violence.”
“The arsonists left behind beer bottles and swastikas. I hope we don’t hear anyone using the words ‘rascals’, ‘isolated case’ or ‘Halloween’ to ‘explain’ anything here.”
This photo taken on November 1, 2023 shows a firefighter and forensic police at the entrance of the ceremony hall at the Jewish part of the Central Cemetery in Vienna, Austria, after a fire damaged the hall. (Photo by GEORG HOCHMUTH / APA / AFP) / Austria OUT (Photo by GEORG HOCHMUTH/APA/AFP via Getty Images)
The attack on the Jewish cemetery comes amid a wider campaign of antisemitic acts of intimidation across Europe, including in neighbouring Germany where a Jewish synagogue was firebombed with Molotov cocktails last month and homes of Jewish people were branded with the Star of David, harkening back to the Nazi era in the country.
Antisemitic acts have also been on the rise in Britain and in France, where just this week some sixty Stars of David were stencilled on the walls of the 14th arrondissement of Paris.
According to the French Ministry of the Interior, there have been nearly 800 antisemitic incidents throughout the country since the Hamas terror attacks against Israel on October 7th.
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Hamas Terrorist Attack Ignites Open Hatred of Jews Around the World
Hamas terrorists kicked the lid off hell and invaded Israel on October 7 in a barbaric attack that included mass rape, murder, torture, and kidnappings. Ever since from the streets of Berlin, Paris, Rome and on to the very heart of London, New York’s Times Square, and the steps of the Sydney Opera House, there has been a dramatic surge in anti-Jewish hatred.
The Hamas attacks, a pogrom in everything from name to historical definition, have left Jewish people reeling from a multitude of threats.
Here are just a few of the recent examples of Jews being publicly vilified and in some cases attacked simply for their faith and belief Israel has every right to exist.
Germany
Segments of the Jewish population in Berlin are being forced to consider a question many once thought unthinkable in the wake of the atrocities committed by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi followers and the subsequent promises of “never again” — is it time to leave Germany?
Spiegel Internationalreports testimonies from a host of Jews in the national capital are worried about their futures and those of their families as a rising tide of antisemitism is seen once more to cast a shadow across the city.
In recent days assailants hurled two molotov cocktails at a synagogue in central Berlin and the Star of David was found daubed on the facades of several buildings where Jews live in Berlin.
Demonstrators hold a Palestinian national flag and a sign that shows portrait of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu converting to Nazi Germany’s leader Adolf Hitler during a rally in Brussels, on October 22, 2023. (NICOLAS MAETERLINCK/Belga/AFP via Getty)
The attacks have come even as German citizen Shani Louk has been confirmed as a victim of the horrific Hamas attack.
Antisemitic acts have increased sharply in the country amid the latest turmoil in the Middle East, the Federal Association of Research and Information Centres on Anti-Semitism (RIAS) confirmed to AFP.
France
As Breitbart News reported, Stars of David were spray painted on homes in Paris on Tuesday night in what political leaders called a chilling evocation of “the 1930s.”
Some 60 Stars of David were left stenciled on walls in the 14th arrondissement of the French capital as the nation as a whole deals with a rise in antisemitic incidents.
The move recalled the same markings being delivered on Jewish-owned businesses in Berlin which were marked with the Star of David during the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party.
Since the terrorist organization Hamas attacked Israel, leading to a war in Gaza, the French Interior Ministry reported nearly 800 anti-Semitic incidents in France.
On Sunday, the French Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti, reported more than 400 arrests for “anti-Semitic acts.”
Australia
Hamas supporters chanted “Gas the Jews” in front of the world-famous Sydney Opera House in the days after the Hamas attack, as recorded in a video shared by the Australian Jewish Association.
The October 9 crowd of several hundred people, mostly immigrant Muslims, also chanted, “Allahu Akbar” (“Allah is Supreme!”) and “Fuck the Jews,” as a line of police passively watched on.
The event was held to celebrate Hamas’ massacre of Jews and its simultaneous attacks on Israeli security forces.
The protesters waved their home country flags, including the flags of Turkey and Lebanon. Some waved the flag adopted by people who identify as Palestinians.
The Australian government warned Jewish people to stay away from the pro-Hamas celebrations.
United Kingdom
Members of the Jewish community in London have been forced to lift security at synagogues, schools, and other community buildings in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attack.
Public facilities have also been targeted by those opposed to the Jewish state and its followers and supporters.
The reason for the increased protection is simple; a corresponding rise in antisemitism rates reported across the UK capital, as Breitbart News reported.
There has been a 1,350 percent jump in hate crimes against Jewish people as the Middle East crisis goes on, the Metropolitan police have said, with no arrests so far in nine out of ten alleged offences.
Women Tear Down Posters of Israeli Kidnapping Victims in North London
AFP reports in the period since in London alone, where there have been several large-scale protests in support of Palestinians in Gaza, the Met said it had recorded 408 anti-Semitic offences between October 1 and 27.
That compares to just 28 in the same period last year, the force said on Friday, with several Jewish schools in London forced to shut temporarily.
Russia
The most chilling antisemitic incident globally was the storming of an airport in Russia’s Dagestan region on Sunday by an enraged crowd looking for Jews to attack after a flight arrived from Tel Aviv, as Breitbart News reported.
Rabbi Alexander Boroda, president of Russia’s Federation of Jewish Communities, said in response anti-Israeli sentiment had morphed into open aggression towards Russian Jews.
Shneor Segal, the chief Ashkenazi rabbi of Azerbaijan, said the incident showed “antisemites will use any excuse – the current Middle East crisis being just the latest – to terrorise the dwindling numbers of us that still remain” in the Caucasus.
“And where do they think they are chasing these Jews away to? The very country whose existence is such an abomination to them!” he said, referring to Israel.
The incident comes just days after a similar mob of hundreds of Islamic Dagestan locals ransacked a hotel in the city of Khasavyurt after rumours reportedly emerged on local social media that Israelis had taken up residence in the hotel.
South Africa
Reuters reports in Johannesburg, pro-Palestinian protesters marched to an area with a large Jewish community on Saturday, tearing off pictures of Israeli hostages in Gaza from the perimeter walls of a community centre while a Shabbat service was being held at a nearby synagogue.
There were other protests in the coastal city of Cape Town.
Pro-Palestinian protesters gather outside the Cape Town City Hall, which is being used as a venue for the South African Parliament, in Cape Town on November 1, 2023. (RODGER BOSCH/AFP via Getty Images)
“I feel rage towards the people who are trying to curtail my freedom of religion and my freedom of movement, for the most part based on their antisemitism,” said Akiva Carr, who was in the Johannesburg synagogue when the incident took place.
USA
Antisemitism in the U.S. is reaching “historic levels” in the wake of violence in Israel and Gaza, FBI Director Christopher Wray has warned.
Speaking to a senate panel on Tuesday, the BBC reports Wray said 60 percent of all religious-based hate crimes targeted Jewish people.
Pro-Palestinian Protesters Occupy Federal Office Building on Capitol Hill
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He added that the figure had likely increased amid anger caused by the ongoing violence in Gaza.
“This is a threat that is reaching, in some way, sort of historic levels,” Wray told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
He added although Jews make up only about 2.4 percent of the U.S. public, they account for about 60 percent of all religious-based hate crimes.
Pro-Palestinian marchers protest Israel’s attacks on Gaza at a rally held at Pershing Square on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
“The Jewish community is targeted by terrorists really across the spectrum,” he testified.
Just hours before Wray spoke, New York officials questioned a person after threats were made against Jewish pupils at Cornell University.
The Cornell Daily Sun reported students were alerted when violent posts appeared on an online forum from a user named Hamas Soldier with threats “to bring an assault rifle to campus and shoot all you pig jews.”
“If I see a pig male Jew, I will stab you and slit your throat,” read one post.
Another post pledged to “bomb a Jewish house in retaliation for the murder of 500 martyrs.”
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