Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Joe Biden Announces $100 Million in Humanitarian Aid for Gaza, West Bank - AND $0 TO PROTECT AMERICA FROM THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS

BEFORE JOE HANDS THE PALESTINIANS MORE MONEY HE HAS TO PULL THEIR MIDDLE FINGER OUT OF HIS NOSE!

 

President Biden Says Hamas Should ‘Learn How to Shoot Straight’ After Gaza Hospital Bombing

US President Joe Biden speaks to members of the Media during his flight returning from Israel aboard Air Force One, on October 18, 2023. Joe Biden on October 18 delivered full US backing for Israel in person, on a solidarity visit in which he blamed Islamist militants for a deadly …
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President Joe Biden had a rather tone-deaf response to the news Hamas terrorists mistakenly bombed a hospital in the Gaza Strip with a misfired rocket by saying they should “learn how to shoot straight.”

As Breitbart News reported, the mainstream media initially said Israel bombed a hospital in the Gaza Strip only to later have it be confirmed Hamas terrorists bombed the hospital with a misfired rocket.

Breitbart noted, “The IDF have since released audio they say shows the terrorists reacting once they realize their mistake. Hamas and critics of Israel rushed to blame an Israeli airstrike. News wires, like the Getty photo service, published unproven claims Israel had “attack[ed]” the hospital, citing the ‘Gaza Health Ministry,’ which is run by Hamas. The BBC’s early reporting pointed a finger at Israel for the disaster.”

Speaking with reporters on Wednesday, Biden said the terrorists “gotta learn how to shoot straight.”

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to members of the Media during his flight returning from Israel aboard Air Force One, on October 18, 2023. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

“I’m not suggesting that Hamas deliberately did it,” the president said at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.  “It’s that old thing: Gotta learn how to shoot straight. It’s not the first time that Hamas has launched something that didn’t function very well.”

Since Hamas targets Israeli civilians, them “shooting straight” would mean killing Israeli civilians.

Biden had to cancel a planned summit with Arab leaders in Jordan as a result of the hospital bombing, which terrorists claim was committed by Israel. Biden also initially believed Israel committed the bombing until evidence proved otherwise.

“I don’t know all the detail, but I do know the people at the Defense Department who I respect and the intelligence community that I respect, say it is highly improbable that Israel did that,” Biden said on Air Force One.

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Squad member Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) has continued to put forward the claim Israel somehow committed the atrocity.

“We cannot continue to watch people think it’s okay to bomb a hospital with children,” she told a crowd on Wednesday. “[…] And so I’m telling you right now, President Biden, not all America is with you on this one, and you need to wake up and understand that.”

“We are literally watching people commit genocide and killing a vast majority just like this, and we still stand by and say nothing. We will remember this,” the Palestinian lawmaker continued.

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Hamas and Amoral Clarity

What College support for Hamas reveals.

One unexpected blowback from the medieval Hamas’s barbaric murdering of hundreds of Israeli civilians is the revelation of current global amorality.

More than 20 Harvard university identity politics groups pledged their support to the Hamas murderers—to the utter silence for days of Harvard President Claudine Gay.

Americans knew higher education practiced racist admission policies. It has long promoted racially segregated dorms and graduations. And de facto it has destroyed the First Amendment.

But the overt support for Hamas killers by the diversity, equity, and inclusion crowd on a lot of campuses exposes to Americans the real moral and intellectual rot in higher education.

Democratic Socialist members of the new woke Democrat Party openly expressed ecstatic support for Hamas’s bloodwork.

Their biggest fears were not dead fellow Americans or hostages, or some 1,000 butchered Jewish civilians. Instead they were fearful that righteous Israeli retaliation might destroy the Hamas death machine.

Palestinians for years fooled naïfs in Europe and the Obama and Biden administrations into sending billions of dollars into Gaza.

These monies were channeled to tunnel into Israel, to obtain a huge rocket arsenal, and to craft plans to wipe out Jews.

The Biden administration has blood on its hands.

As soon as Biden took power, he resumed massive subsidies to radical Palestinians, canceled by the prior Trump administration.

He ignored warnings from his own state Department that such fungible moneys would soon fuel Hamas terrorism.

His administration dropped sanctions against Iran, ensuring that Tehran would enjoy a multi-billion-dollar windfall to be distributed to Israel’s existential enemies—another fact well known to the Biden administration.

If the Biden administration had announced overtly that it was rabidly anti-Israel, it would be hard to imagine anything it could have done differently from its present nihilist behavior.

Biden and company quickly restarted the defunct Iran appeasement deal—a leftover from the anti-Israeli Obama administration. No surprise, they appointed radical pro-Iranian activist Robert Malley to head the negotiations.

Malley allegedly has leaked American classified documents to Iranian officials and is under investigation by the FBI. He did his best to place pro-Iranian, anti-American activists into the high echelons of the U.S. government.

Biden was intent on forcing South Korea to release to Iran $6 billion in sanctioned frozen money.

That expectation of cash ensured Iran would be reimbursed for its present terrorist arming spree.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken shamefully tweeted that Israel should settle for an immediate ceasefire. No wonder he soon withdrew his unhinged posting.

That idiocy would be the moral equivalent of an American ally in December1941 urging the U.S. to seek negotiations with imperial Japan after its surprise bombing of Pearl Harbor—to avoid a “cycle of violence.”

The Biden team has drained strategic arms stockpiles in Israel, designed to help the Jewish state in extremis.

It recklessly abandoned a multibillion-dollar arms trove in Kabul, some of which reportedly made its way from Taliban killers to the Hamas murderers.

Once the mass murdering started, the amoral clarity of our “allies” was stunning.

NATO partner Turkey openly sided with the killers. It —along with Blinken—called for a cease fire—at the moment the Hamas death squads had finished, and Israel was ready to hold Hamas to account.

Qatar, where the U.S. Central Command is based, proved little more than a Hamas front.

It offers sanctuary to the architects of Hamas killing. And Qatar ensures a safe financial pipeline to Hamas from Iran and the radical Arab world.

Some of the most vehement current supporters of the Hamas death squads were immigrants to America from the Middle East.

Oddly, they apparently had fled just such illiberal Middle East regimes to reach a tolerant, democratic, and secure United States.

Yet they now endorse the Hamas butchering of Jewish civilians. Its savagery is aimed at executing, raping, and beheading Jews, and then mutilating their bodies.

Hamas apparently hopes to shock the Israeli government into voluntarily committing suicide—in line with the ancient Hamas agenda to destroy the Jewish state.

In a strange way, this reign of death has become a touchstone, an acid test of sorts that has revealed the utter amorality of enemies abroad and quite dangerous people at home.

It is past time that Americans deal with the medieval world that was revealed this week rather than keep dreaming in the fantasy world of our government.

Americans need to stop illegal immigration and restore their southern border, while ceasing all immigration from unhinged, hostile nations.

The military must return to its deterrent role and fire its woke commissariat.

Our leaders must accept that in the last three years of the Biden administration, serial American appeasement abroad, disunity at home, and social chaos have encouraged an entire host of enemies —China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Middle East illiberal regimes, and former friends like Turkey and Qatar.

And our enemies dream of doing to us what we just saw in Israel.

 

 

Joe Biden Announces $100 Million in Humanitarian Aid for Gaza, West Bank

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President Joe Biden announced $100 million in humanitarian aid for Gaza and the West Bank during a visit to Israel on Wednesday.

“Today, I’m also announcing $100 million for new U.S. funding for humanitarian assistance in both Gaza and the West Bank. This funding will support more than one million displaced in conflict-affected Palestinians, including emergency needs in Gaza,” he said.

Biden also formally announced that he would request an “unprecedented support package” for Israel later this week.

“Later this week, I’m going to ask the United States Congress for an unprecedented support package for Israel’s defense,” he said.

Bloomberg on Tuesday evening reported that the Biden administration plans to ask Congress for $100 billion for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan for fiscal year 2024.

House Republicans rejected $24 billion in additional aid to Ukraine for three months, through December, but the Biden administration is reportedly hoping that tying Ukraine aid to Israel aid will break the logjam.

It is unclear what the breakdown of the $100 billion would be.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) reacted to the news of the $100 million in a statement:

Yesterday, we learned that President Biden’s trip to Israel was intentionally not announced until Secretary Blinken received assurances from Prime Minister Netanyahu on humanitarian aid into Gaza. Amid Biden’s visit, we now know that the United States is providing $100 million in humanitarian assistance for the Palestinian people, which we know will go right in the hands of Hamas. Just days ago, Hamas stole humanitarian aid — including fuel and medical supplies — from the UN. We should not be sending American taxpayer dollars to support terrorists that are currently holding Americans hostage, and we should never place conditions on our support for Israel.

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Josh Hawley Asks DHS Chief Mayorkas to Disclose Number of Terrorism-Linked Illegal Aliens Released into U.S.

US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas looks on during a press conference to announce disruptions of the fentanyl precursor chemical supply chain at the Justice Department in Washington, DC, on October 3, 2023. The United States announced sanctions on a China-based network for producing and distributing chemicals used to …
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President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, must disclose the total number of so-called “special interest aliens” released into the United States over the last two years, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) says.

As Breitbart News reported this month, DHS figures reveal that in Fiscal Year 2023, nearly 61,500 special interest aliens were released by the Biden administration into American communities — a foreign population the size of Portland, Maine.

These illegal aliens, according to DHS, are typically “a non-U.S. person who, based on an analysis of travel patterns, potentially poses a national security risk to the United States or its interests.”

“Often such individuals or groups are employing travel patterns known or evaluated to possibly have a nexus to terrorism,” DHS officials wrote of the category in 2019.

In a letter to Mayorkas, Hawley is requesting all information related to special interest aliens released into the U.S. over the last two years, including the total number, the steps DHS is taking to heighten security at the border post-Hamas attack on Israel, and whether the agency is working with the FBI on terrorism issues related to immigration.

“I write with alarm regarding the uptick in potential terrorist-linked illegal aliens encountered at the southern border,” Hawley writes:

This development follows the barbaric attack perpetrated by Hamas terrorists on innocent American and Israeli civilians. It is imperative that you address this issue immediately to ensure the safety of American citizens, especially Jewish Americans, who are facing increased threats to their physical safety following the Hamas attack. [Emphasis added]

Meanwhile, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are encountering a growing number of “special interest aliens” from countries known to harbor terrorists—including Iran, Syria, and Lebanon. Just this week, four Iranians were apprehended in Texas by Border Patrol. [Emphasis added]

Illegal aliens with potential ties to terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah have no place in the United States. In the wake of Hamas’s attack on Israel, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is already alerting Americans about an elevated number of violent threats against civilians, including antisemitic threats. It is therefore critical that you abandon your radical open border policies, and instead, take immediate action to secure the border. As Secretary, your number one priority should be protecting American citizens against potential terrorist entering our country. [Emphasis added]

Also mentioned by Hawley is a recent DHS “Homeland Threat Assessment” wherein agency officials detail a growing concern that illegal aliens linked to terrorism are continuing to exploit the southern border to get into the U.S.

“… individuals with potential terrorism connections continue to attempt to enter the Homeland,” the DHS report states. “… as of July, approximately 160 non-U.S. persons in the [Terrorism Watch List] attempted to enter the U.S. via the southern border this year, most of whom were encountered attempting to illegally enter between ports of entry.”

Last month, DHS Inspector General (IG) Joseph Cuffari revealed that Biden’s catch and release network is releasing more than 60,000 border crossers and illegal aliens into American communities every month.

This is the equivalent of adding a foreign population the size of New Orleans, Louisiana, to the U.S. every six months or a population the size of Seattle, Washington, every year.

Specifically, DHS is using three pipelines to release border crossers and illegal aliens into the United States interior: Notices to Appear (NTAs), prosecutorial discretion, and Parole + ATD, which stands for Alternatives to Detention.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here

Israeli Boy, 13, Buries His Entire Family, Murdered in Hamas Terror Attack

Mourners attend the funeral of the Israeli woman Celine Ben David-Nagar, killed by Hamas militants while attending a music festival, at a cemetery in Holon, central Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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Ariel Zohar, 13, buried his entire family on Wednesday after they were murdered by Palestinian Hamas terrorists in the Oct. 7 terror attack in Kibbutz Nahal Oz in southern Israel. Ariel was the sole survivor; he had gone out for a jog alone that morning.

Ariel’s father, Yaniv Zohar, 54, was a former Associated Press photographer who had covered local events for the AP for 15 years.

Yaniv Zohar 1 (Yehuda Peretz / Associated Press)

Yaniv Zohar (left), undated (Yehuda Peretz via AP)

Yaniv Zohar 2 (Yehuda Peretz / Associated Press)

FILE – This undated photo provided by Yehuda Peretz shows Yaniv Zohar in southern Israel. Zohar, a former Associated Press video journalist who covered conflicts and major news in his native country for three decades, was killed in his home during Hamas’ bloody cross-border rampage on Oct. 7, 2023, with his wife and two daughters. He was 54. (Yehuda Peretz via AP)

The Associated Press wrote in an obituary:

Zohar was often the first to alert the news desk of violence nearby and the first to arrive on the scene.

Most notably, he was deeply involved in coverage of the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 and was the first newsperson on the scene of the abduction of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit by Palestinian militants the following year.

“Yaniv was AP’s eyes and ears in southern Israel, always among the first to respond to news in the busy region,” AP Executive Editor Julie Pace said. “He was a part of the community where he worked, giving him insights that were invaluable to his colleagues. When tensions rose in the Middle East, colleagues would quickly ask, ‘What does Yaniv say?'”

In recent years, Zohar worked as a photographer for the Israel Hayom daily newspaper.

“He was a wonderful friend, a devoted father, a man with heart and generosity,” the paper eulogized him in a statement. “He would always run after the next frame despite the difficult sights he was photographing.”

He found his death in perhaps the most devastating sight of them all, as at least 2,000 Hamas militants infiltrated from Gaza and in gruesome fashion killed more than 1,400 Israelis in the deadliest attack in the country’s 75-year history.

Zohar and his family were on the frontline of the massacre in their border kibbutz. He was killed along with his wife, Yasmin, 49, and his two daughters, Tehelet, 20, and Keshet, 18. Zohar’s 13-year-old son Ariel, who had gone for an early-morning jog, escaped alive.

Yasmin’s father, Haim Livne, was also killed in the attack.

Zohar was a gentle giant, standing over 1.9 meters tall (6 feet, 3 inches). Yet his many friends described him as modest, calm, quiet and generous. Though fiercely competitive, he was beloved by his fellow journalists who covered the region, and his home near the Gaza border became a base for other reporters arriving to report breaking news.

“His heart was as big as his body,” said photographer Yehuda Peretz, his close friend.

An estimated 1,000 people attended Zohar ‘s funeral Tuesday in central Israel, where the service was interrupted four times by air-raid sirens and incoming rocket fire from Gaza. Israel’s Iron Dome defense system could be seen interrupting rockets in the sky above.

According to Jewish tradition, burials take place as soon as possible. But it took 10 days before Zohar and his family could be laid to rest because of a backlog due to the sheer numbers of victims and because of the lengthy DNA process required to identify all the bodies.

Zohar’s sister Sivan said the repeated air-raid sirens prevented mourners from completing their eulogies.

“They won’t even let us bury our dead,” she said, her voice shaking. “They broke into their home and murdered all these good, innocent people in cold blood.”

For her father, an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor, she said the experience was like a “second Holocaust.”

She said Zohar’s son would be raised by her sister and that the family planned to go ahead with his bar mitzvah ceremony in a month. “We will continue to celebrate life, and we won’t let anyone destroy us. This is how we will avenge their deaths,” she said.

Many other such funerals have been taking place across Israel. On Tuesday, for example, the entire Kutz family was buried.

Kutz funeral (Ohad Zwigenber / Associated Press)

Mourners attend the funeral of the Kotz family in Gan Yavne, Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. The Israeli family of five was killed by Hamas militants on Oct. 7 at their house in Kibbutz Kfar Azza near the border with the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenber)

Another funeral Tuesday saw a father and son, Gil and Or Taasa (whose names mean “Joy” and “Light”), buried together.

Taasa father and son funeral (Tsafrir Abayov / Associated Press)

Mourners gather around the coffins of Gil Taasa and his son Or, during their funeral in Kibbutz Nitzan, Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. The Father and his son were killed by Hamas militants on Oct. 7 in Netiv Haasara, close to the Gaza Strip’s separation fence with Israel, as the militant Hamas rulers of the territory carried out an unprecedented, multi-front attack that killed over 1,400 and captured many Israelis. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

There will be more funerals in the coming days — military as well as civilian — as Israel prepares a ground offensive in Gaza.

Israelis feel they have no other choice but to fight and risk their lives, since the alternative is being murdered in their homes.

Hamas murdered over 1,400 Israelis, wounded roughly 4,400 more, and took about 200 as hostages to the Gaza Strip.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’. He is also the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

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