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.
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Biden Confronts Wave of Antisemitism by Putting Kamala Harris in Charge of Islamophobia
President Joe Biden has found a novel way to fight a dramatic rise in antisemitism since the Hamas terror attack on Israel October 7: putting Vice President Kamala Harris in charge of a new “national strategy on Islamophobia.”
The country has seen a near 400% rise in antisemitic incidents since the start of the war, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
In a video on Twitter/X, Harris said: “As a result of the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel, and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, we have seen an uptick in anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, antisemitic, and Islamophobic incidents across America.”
The Biden administration is lumping these separate types of incidents together, as Harris tried to explain:
Harris mentioned an attack in Illinois on a Palestinian-American Muslim woman and her six-year-old son, in which the latter was murdered. She did not mention the wave of antisemitism on college campuses and in American cities, some of which is fueled by Muslim and pro-Palestinian activists.
Nor did Harris mention that Hamas is an Islamic fundamentalist organization, devoted to killing Jews not just in Israel but all over the world, and that mainstream American Muslim and Arab communal organizations have been silent on Hamas.
Harris also claimed that Muslims are affected by a disproportionate number of hate crimes, but anti-Muslim hate crimes are dwarfed by hate crimes against Jews, who are the most frequently targeted group.
That claim echoes a widely-panned response by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Oct. 23, when she responded to a question about antisemitism by talking about Islamophobia. That response came amid concerns that Biden might lose votes in the swing state of Michigan because the U.S. has supported Israel’s war effort.
The bait-and-switch of “fighting” antisemitism by appeasing the Muslim community, rather than protecting Jews, appears to be a pattern in the Democratic Party.
In 2019, when Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) provoked outrage with several antisemitic statements, the Democrat-controlled House did not censure or rebuke her directly, but instead passed a resolution that condemned all forms of hate, including hate against Muslims.
Omar took a victory lap, claiming (falsely) that the resolution marked the first time Congress had condemned anti-Muslim bigotry.
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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
Biden Tries to Appease Swing-state Muslims by Calling for ‘Pause’ in Gaza as Hamas Retreats
President Joe Biden called for a humanitarian “pause” in the Israel-Hamas war as the IDF mounts a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
The president made his comments on Wednesday evening when a protester interrupted his campaign speech by calling for a ceasefire.
“I think we need a pause,” Biden said.
The president had been speaking to a crowd of supporters in Minneapolis about what motivated him to run for president when a woman interrupted him by shouting for a ceasefire.
Others in the crowd shouted the woman down, which prompted Biden to say that he understood her emotions. He emphasized that his call for a pause in the war meant allowing “time to get the prisoners out.” Over 1,000 demonstrators were protesting nearby with signs that read, “Stop Bombing Children,” “Free Palestine,” and “Ceasefire now.”
“This is incredibly complicated for the Israelis,” Biden said. “It’s incredibly complicated for the Muslim world as well. … I supported a two-state solution, I have from the very beginning.”
“The fact of the matter is that Hamas is a terrorist organization. A flat-out terrorist organization,” he added.
The White House later clarified that the president’s call for a “pause” meant for humanitarian reasons.
As noted by the Associated Press, the president has “faced intensifying pressure from human rights groups, fellow world leaders and even liberal members of his own Democratic Party, who say that the Israeli bombardment of Gaza is collective punishment and that it is time for a cease-fire.”
“In his comments, Biden was exerting pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to give Palestinians at least a brief reprieve from the relentless military operation that’s left thousands dead and mired the 141-square-mile strip in a roiling humanitarian crisis,” the outlet noted.
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Iran takes charge of UN Human Rights Council
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.
4/ Etc. and etc.
As mentioned previously, this is the UN.
But there is a simple solution to this problem:
U.S. out of the UN! UN out of the U.S.!
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Would America’s Hamas Apologists Celebrate Another 9/11?
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.
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Israel, The Sunnis and The Return of a Pro-Iran White House
The Israeli media grotesquely cheers.
Fri Nov 13, 2020
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.
Life as a horror movie
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).
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Why a Biden Presidency Would be a Gift to Iran
The Mullahs wait... salivating in anticipation.
Tue Nov 10, 2020
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.
DO A SEARCH FOR GEORGE SOROS, AN ADVOCATE FOR OPEN BORDERS, AND OBAMA, CLINTON, BIDEN AND KAMALA THE MORON!
Records: Son of Billionaire Democrat Donor George
Soros Has Visited the White House 14 Times
For George Soros it was about control to gain influence, access, and special treatment. After the election Biden formed a transition team that staffed itself with people connected to Soros.
But his money also played a part. Soros spent over $70 million on activities that backed Biden's candidacy. Soros bought frequent access to Obama. That access returned under Biden. Biden's Kampf
“Protect and enrich.” This is a perfect encapsulation of the Clinton Foundation (TWO GAMER LAWYERS - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) (WHAT ABOUT THE CHINA BIDEN PENN CENTER?) and the Obama (TWO GAMER LAWYERS - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) book and television deals. Then there is the Biden family (FOUR GAMER LAWYERS - JOE, HUNTER, JAMES, FRANK - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS AND LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK) corruption, followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the Warren (GAMER LAWYER) and Sanders families, as Peter Schweizer described in his recent book “Profiles in Corruption.” These names just scratch the surface of government corruption (ADD GAMER LAWYER KAMALA HARRIS (WANTS TO BE OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) AND HER LAWYER HUSBAND AND THE BANKSTERS’ RENT BOY, LAWYER CHUCK SCHUMER, OWNED BY LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK WHO OWNS A BIG PIECE OF THE ‘BIG GUY’ JOE, AND GEORGE SOROS’ RENT BOY (GAMER LAWYER) TONY BLINKEN, AS WELL AS CON MAN (GAMER LAWYER) ADAM SHIFF) AND HIS CORRUPTNESS (GAMER LAWYER) BOB MENENDEZ STILL EVADING PRISON.
BRIAN C JOONDEPH
THERE MAY BE NO GREATER THREAT TO AMERICA THAN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY!
BARACK Hussein OBAMA: THE CLOSET MUSLIM PSYCHOPATH WHO HATED AMERICA!
"But the Obamas are the center of the most delusional cult of personality that the media has yet spawned. And so we get bizarre pieces like these."
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/02/monica-showalter-barack-obama-proud.html
The mullahs rolled in cash as a result of rolling Obama and his gullible team over the deal, knowing that Obama was desperate for some sort of legacy.
MONICA SHOWALTER
MUSLIM DICTATORS, INCLUDING THE 9-11 INVADING SAUDIS, FUNDED THE PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES OF BUSH, CLINTON and OBAMA!
ISLAMIST BARACK OBAMA
https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/01/barack-obama-and-racist-anti-semitic.html
“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
"But the Obamas are the center of the most delusional cult of personality that the media has yet spawned. And so we get bizarre pieces like these." MONICA SHOWALTER
"Along with Obama, Pelosi and Schumer are responsible for incalculable damage done to this country over the eight years of that administration."
PATRICIA McCARTHY
BARACK Hussein OBAMA: THE CLOSET MUSLIM PSYCHOPATH WHO HATED AMERICA!
"But the Obamas are the center of the most delusional cult of personality that the media has yet spawned. And so we get bizarre pieces like these."
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/02/monica-showalter-barack-obama-proud.html
The mullahs rolled in cash as a result of rolling Obama and his gullible team over the deal, knowing that Obama was desperate for some sort of legacy.
MONICA SHOWALTER
MUSLIM DICTATORS, INCLUDING THE 9-11 INVADING SAUDIS, FUNDED THE PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES OF BUSH, CLINTON and OBAMA!
ISLAMIST BARACK OBAMA
https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/01/barack-obama-and-racist-anti-semitic.html
“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
"But the Obamas are the center of the most delusional cult of personality that the media has yet spawned. And so we get bizarre pieces like these." MONICA SHOWALTER
"Along with Obama, Pelosi and Schumer are responsible for incalculable damage done to this country over the eight years of that administration."
PATRICIA McCARTHY
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
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
Biden’s White House Will Not
How Blinken and Company Laid the Groundwork for the Hamas Attack
Banner headline events almost always flow from quieter real-life causes, and the worst attack on Israel in fifty years is not an exception. The coordinated raids and massacres on October 7 were possible only because of more subtle interventions over two and a half years in rooms at the State Department and the White House, with indirect help from nonprofits like the Soros-funded International Crisis Group. These interventions were driven by a small network of government and interest group insiders whose actions have gone unreported in establishment media. Though their further consequences aren’t yet clear, they’ll almost certainly involve a push to weaken both Israel and an Israeli government resistant to accords with Iran.
The interventions flowed from one motivation: the State Department’s determination to achieve a “reset” with Iran, restoring the consensus reached at the end of the Obama Administration through its 2015 nuclear deal. This was the main priority of high-level department staff, including Robert Malley, whose family history as well as his work at the International Crisis Group align him with pro-Iranian movers, and the recently-retired Wendy R. Sherman, whose legacy is the 2015 deal. These players, along with National Security staffer Brett McGurk, had been crucial in pushing the Obama-backed alignment with Iran. In the Biden Administration, working under Secretary of State Antony Blinken, they have had a supportive superior: a low-key gladhander who has made his career supporting whatever establishment foreign agenda is teed up for action. In this case, that foreign agenda, perhaps at the urging of ex-president Obama, has been bringing Iran back to the negotiating table by reducing Israel’s power in the region while sidelining Netanyahu, an ardent opponent of negotiations.
From Washington, these players have run a concerted effort in that direction. Peace negotiations or conversations with Iran continued consistently even as more evidence surfaced of Iranian aggression. Malley used his influence to help install a likely Iranian operative first at the State Department and then at the Pentagon -- part of a larger infiltration of agents, several of whom have links to the International Crisis Group. Antony Blinken announced the American-pushed ceding by Israel of miles of potentially resource-heavy land to Lebanon, much of which is controlled by Hezb’allah, a proxy for Iran. And, in the face of August videos of Hezb’allah-trained fighters engaged in war games training, U.S. officials urged Israelis to “de-escalate” and discuss “border demarcation.”
The Administration also tried to broker a normalization proposal between Israel and Saudi Arabia that included “dealing with” the Palestinian issue: a rebuke to the Trump Administration, which had bypassed Palestinian leadership in the Abraham Accords. As occurred during the Obama Administration, Biden officials assured reporters that ‘there was ‘a common understanding’ among all the leaders in the region” that the Palestinian issue was key to normalization with Israel -- despite events during the Trump Administration proving this untrue. Still, this false claim had its own strategic logic, since linking Saudi-Israel normalization to an unlikely peace with the Palestinian leadership diminished the possibility of that normalization -- and kept Iran, which opposes it, at the negotiating table.
Finally, there was the push in Israel proper against Netanyahu, ostensibly meant to stop Netanyahu’s coalition from limiting the discretionary powers of Israel’s Supreme Court, which even non-supportive observers think is merited after the Court’s 30-year aggrandizement of power. In practice, it meant Blinken and Biden directing heavy public criticism at Netanyahu’s government and using American funds to support protests which paralyzed the country, drawing members of its security services into politics even as they vouched for the fact that Israel’s border with Gaza was secure.
These moves had real consequences on and after October 7. Hamas’s tactics were similar to those broadcast in the Hezb’allah wargames a few months earlier. Reports indicate that Israel’s cyber defense system was compromised -- a suggestive fact when it’s backlit against Iranian permeation of American defense networks. Hezb’allah, more secure since the U.S.-backed Israel-Lebanon agreement last year, launched rockets at Israel after Hamas’s invasion. Finally, in the wake of the attack, the Palestinian “issue” is in the forefront, Netanyahu is weakened, and Iran’s hand in the region is strengthened.
Already, the Administration is pushing to maximize these results. The White House is leaking its concerns that an Israeli attack could lead to a “regional conflagration” -- an early justification for limiting Israel’s response. In the face of a Wall Street Journal report alleging Iranian involvement in the planning of the attack, The New York Times reported anonymous American officials claiming that “key Iranian leaders were surprised by the Hamas attack.” Israel and the United States are gearing up for a campaign against Hamas that’s explicitly compared to its campaign against ISIL -- one that in the hands of Robert Malley and Brett McGurk ended up strengthening Iran in 2015.
All the while, as explicitly pro-Hamas support surfaces and is condemned, establishment media’s rhetorical push favors neither Israel nor its government. Reports and interviews in the Times and on MSNBC have insinuated or outright argued that Gaza’s undeniably immiserated reality made the crisis inevitable. The Times has focused on the fact that “severe divisions in Israel over a judicial overhaul” encouraged the attack and gone so far as to suggest that the Abraham Accords caused the attack by antagonizing Palestinians. The New Yorker has emphasized the Netanyahu government’s lack of preparation and Palestinians’ desperation. Finally, when foreign networks in Washington do get reported on, they’re not Iran’s.
One of the reasons these narrative lines can get pushed is the selective silences of people, mostly Democrats and neoconservatives, who have long called themselves Israel’s friends but whose domestic loyalties are to the think tank and administrative nexus which helped make the attack possible: the one which effectively took power a quarter century ago and which has pushed the Middle East from one disaster to the next ever since. These establishment loyalists are ready to criticize institutions for failing to condemn support of Hamas, but not to admit that the roots of the attack on Israel go deeper: towards the heart of an establishment that has systematically made itself unaccountable to the American people and hospitable to ideologues running radicalisms inside it. Until these players acknowledge this and address it, they’re enabling it.
Matt Wolfson is an ex-leftist investigative journalist; he writes at oppo-research.com and tweets at @ex__Left.
Biden State Department Won't Fire Notorious Anti-Semitic Foreign Service Officer
An outspoken anti-Semite who maintains a blog that states "Jews are the enemies of God and the children of the devil" has faced no professional repercussions as a State Department diplomat, communications obtained by the Washington Free Beacon reveal.
Fritz Berggren first caught the attention of State Department officials in February 2021 after reports surfaced that he ran a blog that included posts claiming that "Jesus Christ came to save the whole world from the Jews … they who are the seed of the Serpent that brood [sic] of vipers." At the time, Berggren worked as a foreign service officer for a State Department division that oversaw special immigrant visas for Afghans.
The ensuing media firestorm did not seem to hurt Berggren, who helps craft the nation’s foreign policy to this day—and posts nearly every day on his blog BloodandFaith.com. A State Department spokesman told Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), in an. Oct. 26 letter shared with the Free Beacon, that "Mr. Berggren is currently an employee of the Department of State. Beyond confirming his current employment, the Department does not comment on personnel files or records."
Grassley initially inquired about Berggren’s employment status in a July 14 letter. In response to the State Department's Oct. 26 letter, and in light of Hamas's attacks, Grassley on Monday sent a follow-up letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken demanding more details on Berggren’s day-to-day responsibilities. The letter, a copy of which was obtained by the Free Beacon, Grassley chides the State Department for its "failed response" to his July inquiry.
"Anti-Semitism is disgusting and wrong. I’m outraged the State Department continues to employ an individual who espouses these hateful beliefs," Grassley told the Free Beacon. "The State Department has barely lifted a finger to address my oversight questions regarding Mr. Berggren’s role at the agency, even as our ally Israel fights off an attack on its very existence."
"The Department of State has a moral obligation to explain why Fritz Berggren is fit to continue serving the taxpayer," Grassley added.
In addition to his blog—which as of this writing was last updated Oct. 26—Berggren hosts a podcast where he makes such pronouncements as "Who’s the enemy? It’s the Jew."
After Hamas invaded Israel, Berggren wrote a blogpost called "That Middle-East Thing…" on Oct. 12, which said, "We are invaded, egged on by traitors and Jews who hate the White race."
"The pressure on Whites and Christian will increase until we respond in self-defense. Be a hero to your race and God—rise up," he wrote.
Both the White House and the State Department have struggled to condemn anti-Semitism following the worst attacks on Israel since the Jewish state’s founding. After Hamas’s assault, the State Department tried to comfort employees with an internal email that made no mention of Jews or Israel.
When asked about the rise of anti-Semitism, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the administration "has not seen any credible threats," but that "Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks."
Update Oct. 30, 10:56 a.m.: This piece was updated to include additional information about Sen. Grassley's letters to the State Department.
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