JERUSALEM,
Israel — Amit Halevy, a senior member of Israel’s governing Likud
Party, told Breitbart News on Saturday night that one of the reasons
Israel was unprepared for the Hamas terror attack Oct. 7 was because the
conventional wisdom was that Hamas had become a normal governing party.
Samantha
Woll, 40, board president of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue in
Detroit, Michigan, was murdered Saturday, and was found stabbed to death
outside her home.
Isaac Agree Synagogue, downtown Detroit (Joel Pollak / Breitbart News)
The Detroit Free Press reported :
A
politically connected Detroit synagogue president was found stabbed
dead this morning outside her home in the city’s Lafayette Park
neighborhood, east of downtown.
Samantha
Woll, 40, led the Isaac Agree Downtown Detroit Synagogue and previously
worked for Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin and on the re-election campaign
of Attorney General Dana Nessel, both Democrats.
…
“I
am shocked, saddened and horrified to learn of Sam’s brutal murder,”
Nessel said in a statement. “Sam was as kind a person as I’ve ever
known. She was driven by her sincere love of her community, state and
country. Sam truly used her faith and activism to create a better place
for everyone.”
President Biden spoke out against antisemitism and Islamophobia in an Oval Office address last week:
You
know, and here at home, we have to be honest with ourselves. In recent
years, too much hate has been given too much oxygen, fueling racism, a
rise in antisemitism and Islamicphobia [Islamophobia] right here in
America.
It’s
also intensified in the wake of recent events that led to the horrific
threats and attacks that both shock us and break our hearts.
No
motive has yet been identified, but Jewish institutions have been under
threat ever since the Palestinian terror group Hamas carried out a
massive attack in Israel on October 7, murdering over 1,400 people.
Breitbart News visited the Isaac Agree synagogue in 2019:
The
Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, the last functioning synagogue left in
the city of Detroit, is a remnant of a community that began moving to
the suburbs even before the tumultuous events of the 1960s. Ten years
ago, it was slated to close.
But
it was saved by two young Jewish activists who reshuffled the board and
renewed the community’s interest in keeping the facility alive.
Today, the synagogue is expanding, and holds regular Sabbath services.
The Detroit area is home to a large Arab population, and a large rally in support of Hamas was held in nearby Dearborn on Oct. 12.
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 .
DEMS ARE NOT THE ANTI-AMERICAN, PRO-MUSLIM AND WALL STREET PARTY!
Sen. Hawley’s Call to Condemn Campus Antisemitism Blocked by Dem Opposition – ‘A Revealing Moment’ (Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) 4:26
Sen.
Josh Hawley (R-MO) expressed outrage over the support for “genocide
against the people of Israel” on college campuses, as his resolution
against campus antisemitism was blocked by Democratic pushback in what
he termed a “revealing moment.”
Hawley addressed the
Senate on Thursday, advocating for his resolution condemning Hamas and
student groups on college campuses that expressed support for the
unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel.
Despite
urging fellow senators to back his resolution, it was met with
opposition from Democratic members who ultimately succeeded in blocking
it.
Hawley
expressed deep concern about endorsements of the attack, particularly
on college campuses, arguing that supporting violence against Jewish
people and applauding attacks on them should be unequivocally condemned
by the Senate.
“Almost
as disturbing as the facts of these terrible attacks themselves is the
response of some people in this country,” he stated. “On our college
campuses in this country who promptly took to the streets, to the
courtyards of these campuses, the airwaves, to broadcast their support
for this genocide against the people of Israel.”
“Calling for the death of Jewish people is not just another opinion,” he added.
The
Republican senator explained that “calling for the genocide,
celebrating the genocide of Jewish babies is not just another opinion.”
“Celebrating
the assaults on Jewish people in this country is not just another
opinion, and the Senate should be clear and stand with moral clarity and
say ‘this is wrong,'” he stated.
However,
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) objected to Hawley’s proposal for
unanimous approval of the resolution, arguing that it “smeared” students
participating in such protests.
When
Hawley questioned Van Hollen’s “legitimate concerns” over the
resolution, the latter accused Hawley of “smearing all of the students
who engage in these protests — yes, you are — and that is wrong.”
In response, the Missouri Republican expressed outrage over the Democrat senator’s defense.
“It’s
hard to believe that we’ve just heard on this floor defense of the most
vile antisemitic rhetoric under the excuse that to call out
specifically the specific statements and denounce them one at a time and
say ‘this is wrong,’ that that is somehow a smear,” Hawley said.
“What
that is is a failure of moral nerve; what it is is a failure of moral
clarity; what it is, frankly, sympathizing with this rhetoric,” he
added.
Hawley concluded by noting that the State of Israel is “under existential threat.”
“We
have students in this country who are specifically calling for and
celebrating the killing of Jews, and we can’t condemn that on the floor
of the Senate?!” he exclaimed.
“To say I’m disappointed is an understatement, Mr. President, but I will say this, it is a revealing moment,” he added.
The
matter comes after numerous protests held on college campuses in the
U.S. came out to defend Hamas and its massive attack on civilians
earlier this month in the worst terrorist attack in Israel’s history.
The
unprecedented attack saw Hamas terrorists gun down participants at an
outdoor music festival, go door-to-door hunting, torturing, and shooting
Jews in local towns, and burning homes with families inside while
proceeding to murder soldiers and infants alike, all while showering
thousands of rockets down on Israeli civilian centers.
Since, an anti-Israel protest erupted at the University of Washington last week wherein students were seen waving Palestinian flags and chanting for an “intifada”:
Meanwhile,
the student groups behind Harvard University’s controversial
“pro-terror” statement regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
organized a “die-in” Wednesday to protest “genocide in Gaza”:
Earlier
in the week, Hawley appealed to the Department of Justice to examine
any connections between pro-Palestinian student groups and Hamas.
Additionally,
he asked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to investigate
“terrorist-linked aliens” at the southern border and sought the
dismissal of a DHS employee over antisemitic online content favoring
Hamas.
Joshua Klein is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jklein@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter @JoshuaKlein .
Israeli Harvard Business School Student Accosted and Harassed Amid Gaza ‘Die-In’ on Campus
Harvard University leaders have no comment. A first-year Israeli student at Harvard Business School was shoved and accosted amid a "die in" protest held on Wednesday to assail Israel’s retaliatory attacks on Hamas.
The incident, captured on video reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon ,
shows the student saying "don’t grab me" and "don’t touch my neck" as
protesters surround him, blocking his view and their own faces with
keffiyehs.
Eventually, the student tells them, "I live here," as he tries to make his way through the crowd.
"You’re grabbing me," he says, amid shouts of "SHAME!"
The
student, who asked to remain anonymous, described being pushed and
shoved as he tried to film them with his phone. A report to the FBI
identified two of the people laying hands on him as fellow Harvard
University graduate students, one a law student, Ibrahim Bharmal, a member of the Harvard Law Review , and the other a divinity school graduate student, Elom Tettey Tamaklo , who lives with Harvard undergraduate students in supervisory role known as a proctor.
Bharmal and Tamaklo did not respond to requests for comment.
A
report has been filed with the Harvard University Police Department and
the FBI’s Boston office. "An Israeli student on his way to class pulled
his phone out to film the rioters and he was attacked. He was assaulted
both physically and verbally. Throughout the assault he kept calm, but
was aggressively attacked by Pro-Palestine rioters," reads the report to
the FBI, which was reviewed by the Free Beacon . "At least 2 of
those involved have been identified as employees of the University and
have not yet been dismissed from their posts."
The FBI declined to comment.
It
is unclear how or whether Harvard plans to address the incident, which
was reported to Harvard Business School administrators. Neither the
executive director of Harvard’s MBA program, Jana Kierstead, nor Harvard
University president Claudine Gay responded to a request for comment.
The
episode is the latest conflagration on the Harvard University campus
since Hamas’s terrorist rampage on Israel and rising campus hostility to
Jews. The Harvard donor and billionaire investor Seth Klarman, whose
name adorns a Harvard Business School auditorium and conference center, said this week that Harvard has become "exceptionally hostile" to Jews.
His
remarks came after statement signed by 34 student groups laid blame for
Hamas's terrorist atrocities squarely with Israel. Harvard president
Claudine Gay’s equivocal statements —which
did not denounce the views of those groups—since have also drawn ire
from former college administrators like Larry Summers and prompted some
donors to cut their ties with the school.
Jewish
students and administrators are also expressing concern about the the
university’s lax response to expressions of hostility toward Israel and
the Jewish people. "This morning I was reflecting on the lengths to
which Harvard went to try and penalize students who were members of
off-campus Final Clubs. Yet, beyond saying that they don’t speak for the
university, it says and does nothing about students and Harvard
entities who support Jewish murder, and call for more of it," Rabbi
Hirschey Zachai, the founder and president of Harvard’s Chabad wrote in
an email obtained by the Free Beacon . "It severed its ties with
single-gender Final Clubs in 1984, but in 2023 allows student
organizations to maintain their Harvard affiliation while supporting
terror and calling for more of it."
In
correspondence with law enforcement, the victim of Wednesday’s bullying
identified two of assailants as law school student Ibrahim Bharmal, a
member of the Harvard Law Review and a Stanford University graduate,
and Elom Tettey Tamaklo ,
a divinity school student who lives alongside first-year students and
"host weekly study breaks" to "help with your adjustment to Harvard.
You'll find they are an excellent source of information about academics,
extracurriculars, social life, and College resources."
Bharmal in 2018 won Stanford’s Sterling
award for service. The citation recognized his work "with the American
Middle Eastern Network for Dialogue at Stanford, including serving as
global engagement chair" and noted that he was active with "Markaz, the
Muslim Student Resource Center and has been a voice of honesty and
compassion around issues within the Muslim community.
Published under: Anti-Semitism , Hamas , Harvard , Israel
Inside Black Lives Matter's Long History With Hamas-Friendly Activists BLM, Hamas supporters (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images, Burak Kara/Getty Images) Black
Lives Matter chapters across the country made waves last week when they
excused and explained away Hamas’s attack on Israel.
A
coalition of 26 local chapters called the attacks a "desperate act of
self-defense." The Chicago chapter shared an image glorifying Hamas
gunmen on paragliders, before walking it back amid blowback. And the
movement’s Phoenix branch praised Hamas "freedom fighters" for their
acts of "resistance."
Echoing
this rhetoric are two Hamas-friendly groups—American Muslims for
Palestine and the Council for American-Islamic Relations—that have for
nearly a decade worked arm-in-arm with the Black Lives Matter
organization to plan rallies and lobby lawmakers.
The
groups are united by an "oppressed-oppressor narrative that helps them
destroy society," according to the Heritage Foundation's Mike Gonzalez.
"They see Israel as a kind of mini-me of the West and America," Gonzalez told the Washington Free Beacon. "They
hate the West. Jerusalem is one of the founding blocks of Western
thought, so if they're going to hate the West they have to hate Israel."
American Muslims for Palestine, whose board includes a man, Salah Sarsour, who helped raise funds for a Hamas front group in the late 1990s, declared itself "firmly in solidarity with Black Americans" and demanded "Justice for George Floyd" in 2020. It organized Black
Lives Matter rallies in Dallas in 2020 and the following year
cosponsored a rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial to demand the Biden
administration to sanction Israel.
Speaking
at the American Muslims for Palestine event in 2021, one Black Lives
Matter leader articulated the groups’ shared commitment to destroying
Israel.
"Black
people know when Zionists try to twist the words of black brothers
across the world," Black Lives Matter DC organizer Anthony Lorenzo
Green said "I’m
not just an ally, I’m your comrade. I’m in this struggle with you. Our
struggles our connected. That’s why Palestinian flags were flying at
Black Lives Matter protests last year and years before that."
"That’s
why we can speak clearly that Israel is an apartheid state," Green
declared, adding "From D.C. to Palestine, from the river to the sea,
Palestine will be free." "From the river to the sea" is a slogan used by
Hamas and other anti-Semitic groups to call for the destruction of the
Jewish state.
The
Council for American Islamic Relations, whose cofounder and executive
director Nihad Awad has called Israel a "settler colonial Apartheid
state," was a vocal supporter of Black Lives Matter in 2020. A federal
judge in 2007 found "ample evidence to establish the association " between CAIR and Hamas. CAIR lobbied Congress for a police reform act supported by Black Lives Matter and displayed a Black Lives Matter banner in front of its Washington, D.C. headquarters, while local CAIR chapters organized protests with their Black Lives Matter counterparts throughout the Summer of 2020.
Black
Lives Matter’s cozy relationship with the Hamas-friendly groups may
come as a shock to the movement’s Jewish allies, given that 600
prominent Jewish organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League,
signed a letter and published a full-page ad in the New York Times in August 2020 expressing their unequivocal support of Black Lives Matter.
Black
Lives Matter's ties with the groups dates back to 2014, when
Palestinian activists advised black rioters in Ferguson, Mo., on how to
resist the police. Their efforts earned accolades from
prominent Black Lives Matter leaders such as DeRay Mckesson, who
credited Palestinian protesters for teaching rioters "what to do when we
got tear-gassed."
Rep. Cori Bush (D., Mo.), who said cutting
off American support of Israel was the only way to put a stop to Hamas
terror, honored Palestinian activist Bassem Masri during a speech on the
House floor in May 2021 for resisting and rebelling with rioters in
Ferguson.
Black Lives Matter solidified its ties with Palestinian forces in 2015 when its leaders embarked on
a 10-day trip to Israel to "experience and see firsthand the
occupation, ethnic cleansing and brutality Israel has levied against
Palestinians" and to build relationships with people in the region
"leading the fight for liberation."
During that trip, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors organized a
flash mob in Nazareth specifically to support the anti-Semitic Boycott,
Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel. Cullors resigned
from Black Lives Matter in 2021 amid allegations of financial misconduct
and now earns a living as a nude performance artist.
The following year, the Movement for Black Lives, a close ally of Black Lives Matter, released a policy platform that labeled Israel an apartheid state and called for the end of the "Israeli occupation of Palestine." The policy platform earned the unequivocal support of Students for Justice in Palestine, whose chapters have issued statements honoring Hamas "martyrs" who murdered Jewish children earlier this month.
BUT NO WARNING ABOUT JOE BIDEN'S OPEN BORDERS AND THE CARTELS?!?
Alleged Getaway Driver in Fatal Texas Police Shooting Had Previous Deportation, Cartel Ties The
alleged getaway driver in a fatal police shooting in South Texas had
previously been deported and had ties with the Gulf Cartel in Matamoros,
according to court records obtained by Breitbart Texas. The shooting
incident led to the death of San Benito Police Department Lieutenant
Milton Resendez.
The
scales have fallen from the eyes of Henry Kissinger. He was a signatory
in 2015 to a letter that urged Congress to pass legislation allowing
more Muslims from Syria and Iraq — claiming to be refugees — to be
admitted to the United States. Now he looks at Europe, where millions of
Muslims have been allowed to settle, where they batten on the benefits
provided by those generous welfare states, and sees how they have spread
the virus of antisemitism that they brought with them when they
arrived. Kissinger was shaken by the murderous antisemitism that was on
display this week in the pro-Hamas demonstrations that Muslims and their
willing collaborators took part in in many European cities. More on
Kissinger’s new understanding of the Muslim threat can be found here:
“Europe Let in Too Many Foreigners, Says Henry Kissinger in Wake of
Pro-Hamas Demonstrations Across Continent,” by Oliver JJ Lane, Breitbart , October 13, 2023:
Pro-Hamas
demonstrations show European nations, including Germany, made a “grave
mistake,” and the continent should be concerned about future
hostage-taking raids against its own people if the idea [sic] isn’t
defeated quickly, Henry Kissinger warns.
“Europe
is subject to internal pressure by groups of people “of totally
different culture and religion” because of the “grave mistake” of
admitting too many foreigners, Henry Kissinger said of the phenomenon of
demonstrations across Europe in support of Hamas terrorists this week.
Kissinger
spoke of groups of people now in Europe “of totally different culture
and religion.” He didn’t use the word “Muslim,” but it is obvious whom
he was speaking about, and now he admits that it was a “grave mistake”
to admit so many of them; there are now tens of millions of Muslims
spread across Europe. Their violent demonstrations in support of Hamas
terrorists have put on full display the moral abyss between Muslims and
Europeans, It’s not only antisemitism that Kissinger worries about, but
the anti-Infidel worldview that already has made life so difficult for
the indigenous non-Muslims in Europe, now forced to share their towns
and cities with those — Muslim migrants — who hate and despise them
almost as much as they do Jews.
Speaking
to Politico in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel on
Saturday, longtime kingpin of the globalist movement Henry Kissinger
walked back his previous position on the importance of keeping Western
nations open to refugee flows and said the events of recent days showed
nations had gone too far. He told the publication observing celebrations
in German cities in support of Hamas is “painful” to watch.
Kissinger
said: “It was a grave mistake to let in so many people of totally
different culture and religion and concepts, because it creates a
pressure group inside each country that does that.”.[i.e., promotes
Islam]
Europe
should give “unconditional political support for Israeli action” now
the terrorist attack has happened, Kissinger continued, and not least
because in his view European states have a vested interest in making
sure no precedent is set for raids and mass taking of hostages from
Western nations is set. He concluded: “Israel must vindicate its
sovereignty in that area, and that it cannot permit Gaza to return to a
state where it could emerge, take thousands or a large number hostage,
kill thousands, and then live in that condition side-by-side with
Israel.
“I would say every European nation has the same interest because the same attitude might erupt in the direction of Europe.”
Kissinger
has finally realized that the war against Israel is not one over
borders, but rather, over the very existence of the Jewish state. And he
now grasps that the same jihadist impulse can be found, though it has
not yet reached Hamas-like violence and depravity, among the Muslim
populations in Europe. As Kissinger says, Israel has to “vindicate [make
absolutely clear] its sovereignty” and to ensure that Hamas is crushed,
so that in Gaza there will be no possibility of returning to the status
quo ante bellum. Israel in Gaza is battling the same Jihadist
annihilationist threat that the rest of the West will face in the future
from its own population of Muslim migrants; Western solidarity with
Israel in its war should now be firmly expressed.
While
hostage-taking raids on Europe may seem far-fetched, they are not
without ample historical precedent and match other warnings about the
very high-consequence risk of the tactic coming to Europe’s shores.
Kissinger’s
comments on the “grave mistake” and danger presented by mass migration
creating alien power structures within Western nations are a
considerable shift from his previous positions, which he long
acknowledged were influenced by his own experience as a refugee from
Nazi Germany going to America in the 1930s….
As
a refugee from the Nazis, Kissinger was reflexively favorable to all
those wanting to be admitted to the U.S. as refugees or, rather, all
those who claimed t o be refugees. This was a colossal error on
his part, based on his ignorance of Islam and his dreamy belief that all
refugees were essentially equal in their ability, and willingness, to
assimilate. He did not distinguish between a Muslim coming from Syria or
Iraq and a Christian coming from Mexico or the Philippines. It has
taken him many decades to grasp the nature of Islam, and the threat
posed by Muslims.
Kissinger
in 2015 urged Congress to take in more Muslim migrants because, in his
tortured logic, that would show that the United States had nothing
against Muslims and, so he dreamily believed, this would lessen the
appeal of ISIS. But ISIS’s appeal was unaffected by how Infidels treated
Muslims. ISIS didn’t care if Infidel states treated Muslims well or
ill; its goal was to destroy all of them, and to create a world where
Islam everywhere dominates, and Muslims rule, everywhere. Kissinger
wanted to admit Muslims into the U.S. so as to head off a “war between
Islam and the West.” He failed so singularly to understand that nothing
the West can do will win permanent Muslim favor; if the West were to
allow the Muslims to destroy Israel, that would merely whet, not sate,
Muslim appetites for still more Islamic victories over Infidels. That
war, or jihad, has been waged by Muslims against the world’s non-Muslims
for the past 1400 years. When the Western world admits Muslims into its
midst, that does not change the Muslim imperative to conquer, by
demography or by war, the Infidel lands and peoples. Allowing more
Muslim migrants into our countries simply swells the size of a dangerous
fifth column.
Kissinger,
who has always fancied himself a master of geopolitical realpolitik,
was an innocent about the texts and teachings of Islam, unaware that
waging jihad is a permanent duty for all Muslims. Now he seems, at the
age of 100, to recognize that he was wrong on the subject of Muslim
migrants, and that the Western world, too, was wrong, in admitting
Muslims who for the most part do not wish to, and are unable to,
integrate peacefully into the societies of Infidels who are, Muslims are
taught, “the most vile of created beings.”
Mea
culpa, mea maxima culpa, on the matter of Muslim migrants, signals
Henry Kissinger at long last. He has a lot to answer for, as do all
those other cosseted soi-disant “brilliant thinkers” in their
chanceries and think tanks and consultancies — the people belonging to
the political elites of Europe who ignored Islamic history and theology,
and admitted into their midst tens of millions of Muslims who may yet
be the agents of the civilized Western world’s destruction.
Report: Hamas Leader Urges Worldwide ‘Mobilization’ on Friday TERCIO TEIXEIRA/AFP via Getty Images Ismail Haniyeh, Chairman of Hamas’s Political Bureau, called on
Thursday for Arabs and Muslims to engage in “general mobilization”
across the globe on Friday and urged for sympathizers of the terror
organization in nearby countries to march toward the Jewish state’s
borders, according to the Jerusalem Post .
Haniyeh’s
call to action comes as Israel prepares to expand its military
operations in Gaza against Hamas, which launched a shocking terror
attack on the Jewish state on October 7 that has left more than 1,400
people dead and another 3,400 people wounded. Terrorists took 203
hostages into Gaza and over 100 people are still considered missing,
with 30 captives believed to be children.
WATCH — Man Rips Posters Featuring Israeli Kidnapping Victims at University of Pennsylvania Campus:
Last week, Hamas called on Muslims worldwide to hold a “Day of Jihad,” or holy war, on October 13th.
“We
declare next Friday, ‘The Friday of the Al-Aqsa Flood,’ as a day of
general mobilization in our Arab and Islamic world and among the free
people of the world,” the terror group said on October 10, according to Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
“It
is a day to rally support, offer aid, and participate actively. It is a
day to expose the crimes of the occupation, isolate it, and foil all
its aggressive schemes. It is a day to demonstrate our love for
Palestine, Jerusalem, and Al-Aqsa,” the terror group added. “It is a
day for sacrifice, heroism, and dedication, and to earn the honor of
defending the first Qibla of Muslims, the third holiest mosque, and the
ascension of the trusted Messenger.”
Hamas’s
call for a global “Day of Jihad” sent a chill down the spines of Jews
around the world. The call prompted the New York City Police
Department (NYPD) to direct all
officers to report for duty in uniform on the 13th. Some Jewish schools
chose not to open on Friday, citing advice received from security firms
they employ.
Members
of the Joint Task Force Empire Shield patrol Grand Central Station on
October 13, 2023, in New York City. Security has increased in New York
City in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel and after a former leader
of Hamas called for Friday the 13th to be a global Jihad day.
(Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)
“This isn’t about Israel — it’s about Jews. And that’s what’s so horrifying,” one parent told the New York Post.
Meanwhile,
outrage against Israel has risen in recent days after the Israel
Defense Forces (IDF) was falsely accused of launching an airstrike on
the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City.
Initial
reports, which originated from Hamas, claimed the strike on the
hospital was carried out by Israel. Several corporate media outlets and
lawmakers, namely Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Rep.
Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), amplified such reports:
WATCH — Media Repeat Hamas Propaganda on Hospital Blast; Israel Shows Evidence Terrorist Rocket Responsible:
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart NewsThe IDF launched an investigation into the explosion and quickly concluded the
hospital had been hit by a Palestinian rocket by the Palestinian
Islamic Jihad (PIJ). Later, IDF spokesman Lt. Col. (res.) Jonathan
Conricus, speaking to CNN, further elaborate on Israel’s findings, which
showed the Jewish state was not responsive for the blast:
While
in Israel, President Joe Biden said he concurred with the IDF’s
assessment, citing data presented to him by the Department of Defense.
“Based
on the information we have seen today it appears the result of an
errant rocket fired by a terrorist group in Gaza,” Biden said .
Nonetheless, the false claim against Israel sparked angry
mobs throughout the Middle East and North Africa, which targeted
Israeli, American, and other Western embassies. Additionally, a mob took
to the streets of the Jordanian capital of Amman and attempted to force their way into the Israeli embassy.
Mahmoud
al-Zahar is the chief political guide of Hamas. He doesn’t mince words
about the goal of terror group. It’s not just to destroy Israel and to
replace it with a Palestinian state “from the river to the sea.” It’s
not just about killing every last Jew on the planet. No, the fanatical
True Believers of Hamas aim at nothing less than creating a world where
Islam dominates everywhere, and everywhere, Muslims rule. Daniel
Greenfield discussed this here ,
and here is more about what al-Zahar said less than a year ago: “WATCH:
Israel is only the first target, warns Hamas commander,” by Danielle
Greyman-Kennard, Jerusalem Post , October 9, 2023:
Footage of senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar calling for world domination has resurfaced online.
“We
believe in what our Prophet Muhammad said: “Allah drew the ends of the
world near one another for my sake, and I have seen its eastern and
western ends. The dominion of my nation would reach those ends that have
been drawn near me,” Zahar said in the video that was published on
MEMRI TV in December of 2022.
“The
entire 510 million square kilometers of Planet Earth will come under [a
system] where there is no injustice, no oppression, no Zionism, no
treacherous Christianity and no killings and crimes like those being
committed against the Palestinians, and against the Arabs in all the
Arab countries, in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and other countries,” he said.
What
does that mean? In this brave new world ruled by and for Muslims, there
will be no place for Israel, but no place, either, for America, or
France, or the U.K., or Italy, or Germany, or India, or Brazil. The
entire planet will fall under the reign of Islam. One vast Dar al-Islam
will cover the globe, and apparently there will not even be room for the
most cringing of dhimmis to exist, making Al-Zahar’s hallucinatory goal
far worse for non-Muslims than what they have heretofore endured under
Muslim rule. They will no longer have the possibility of surviving as
dhimmis, no matter how wretched; their only alternatives will be
immediate conversion or death. In the glorious Islamic future that
Al-Zahar is certain will come, there will be no place for other
religions. There will be “no Zionism [i.e. Judaism]” and “no treacherous
Christianity.”
To
repeat: Mahmoud Al-Zahar, one of the co-founders of Hamas in 1987, and
the most senior Hamas official still living in Gaza, has a goal that
should alarm all non-Muslims. That goal, to repeat, is this:
“The
entire 510 million square kilometers of Planet Earth will come under [a
system] where there is no injustice, no oppression, no Zionism, no
treacherous Christianity.”
When
Israeli troops finally enter Gaza to wipe out Hamas, they will be
wiping out people who have fun as they decapitate babies and children,
burn families alive in their houses, rape and murder young girls whose
bodies they gleefully display on the back of trucks, posting photographs
of an elderly lady’s corpse on Facebook so her relatives can see. The
mutilations of bodies — the pulling out of entrails, the eyes gouged
out, the genitals cut of and pushed into the mouths of the dead — these
things Hamas has done, but the Israellis who saw the evidence haven’t
been able to bring themselves to discuss publicly. This is Hamas, intent
on removing from the earth all Jews and Christians, leaving the entire
world to those whom Oriana Fallaci contemptuously described as the “sons
of Allah.”
The
next time a Hamas spokesman, his voice breaking with feigned despair at
those terrible Israelis who for no reason at all are dropping bombs in
Gaza, explains on radio or television that Hamas only wants to “free our
people from the open-air prison we have been living in for more than 50
years,” be ready to remind him, and the too-gullible members of his
audience, what Hamas’ co-founder set out just last December as the
terror group’s objectives. That should provide a salutary shock for
those who until now have been unaware of what Hamas intends to do, and
what jihad means, and why, alas, that worldwide jihad will never end.
[Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America. ]
In
2019, Yousra Fazili addressed a congressional hearing to complain about
the arrest of her cousin by Indian authorities. The woman who now
serves as Chief of Staff for the Pentagon Comptroller claimed that her
cousin was the innocent victim of oppressive Indian authorities.
According
to the daughter of Kashmiri Muslim immigrants, her cousin Mubeen Shah
had been arrested under India’s Public Safety Act even though he was
“not a politician or a dissident, he isn’t a freedom fighter, or even a
kid in the street throwing stones. He’s just a businessman. His life’s
work has focused on bringing economic opportunity to Kashmir.”
In reality, as the Hindu Post noted, Shah had “lionized
Kashmiri jihadists, agreed with a description of convicted terrorists
as ‘inspirations for the youth,’ and promised that ‘we all are ready to
spill our blood’” to keep the region Muslim. On Facebook, Shah appeared to
have posted a picture describing Mohammad Afzal Guru, an Islamic
terrorist tied to the ‘The Army of Muhammad’, which is affiliated with
Al Qaeda, as the “Pride of Kashmir”. Guru had been executed for his role
in a December 2001 attack on the Indian parliament.
Fortunately
for Shah, he had his Fazili family deeply embedded in America’s
political establishment. Yousra’s sister, Sameera Fazili had been
brought in as a senior policy advisor to Obama’s National Economic
Council. And when Biden took office, she became the deputy assistant to
the president and the deputy director of the National Economic Council.
When Shah was arrested, Sameera and Yousra Fazili “dialed friends in the State Department” and the State Department demanded information
about him from the Indian government. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, a radical
leftist sympathetic to Islamic terrorists, agitated for his release.
Soon
Shah was out and Yousra Fazili was in, joining her sister in a
high-level position in the Biden administration. Where Sameera had
worked on the economic side of things, Yousra became the Special
Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical
and Biological Defense Programs three years after agitating on behalf of
a terrorist supporter.
It
was incredible even by the standards of an administration that seemed
to have abandoned even the most elementary forms of background checks
and security screenings.
But worse was to come.
Yousra Fazili had studied Islamic religious law or
sharia at Egypt’s Al-Azhar University before receiving a Master’s
degree in Islamic Studies from Harvard. She was recorded showing up at
the UN Economic and Social Council representing the International Islamic Federation of Student Organizations known as a Muslim Brotherhood operation. The IIFSO was co-founded by figures tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and Osama bin Laden .
But
before long, Yousra Fazili appeared to be providing materials on Islam
to federal contractors like Booz Allen Hamilton and then to the Defense
Intelligence Agency. She made the leap to the Department of Defense,
first serving as the Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs and now
serves as the Chief of Staff to the Comptroller and Chief Financial
Officer of the Pentagon.
But before that she was working for the state sponsor of Hamas.
Rep. Jack Bergman, a retired Marine Corps lieutenant general, wrote a letter to
Secretary of Defense Austin, expressing his concern “about the security
clearances and responsibilities entrusted to Yousra Fazili, the Chief
of Staff for the Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer of the
Pentagon” due to her past work as “‘strategic’ advisor to Meshal
Al-Thani, the Qatari Ambassador to the U.S., for over three years.”
Qatar
is a close ally of Iran, hosts Hamas leaders and has ties to Islamic
terrorist groups all over the world. Reports link the Qatari royal family to Al Qaeda .
The Islamic terror state harbored 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed who escaped when Qatari officials allegedly tipped him off and
he left on a “a specially equipped government executive jet, complete
with blacked-out windows.”
Furthermore,
as Rep. Bergman points out, Qatar was engaged in covert hostilities
against the United States. Fazili worked for the “Qatari Ambassador at
the time that her client was targeting prominent Americans in an effort
to silence Qatar’s critics, including the then-Chairman of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee, Ed Royce, and the former acting head of the
Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Morell.”
How does someone go from working for an ally of Iran and Hamas to a prominent position at the Pentagon in a matter of years?
The
failure by the Biden administration and the Pentagon to perform even
the most elementary vetting of Yousra Fazili is a massive national
security failure. Yousra Fazili had testified on behalf of her cousin,
while lying about his support for Islamic terrorists, and had publicly
supported Islamic terrorists linked to Al Qaeda. The efforts by the
Fazili sisters to rally support for him in the State Department should
have made that public knowledge in D.C.
Yousra’s
sister Sameera, despite her role in the Obama and the Biden
administrations, also had a troubling past with extremist groups.
When Biden brought her into the
National Economic Council, it was revealed that Sameera was a member of
Stand With Kashmir (SWK) “which was founded by her cousin, Hafsa
Kanjwal” and which had “praised and defended the actions of a number of
violent Islamists” including Asiya Andrabi who had “met with Al Qaeda
officials and told them that if ‘you belong to Sheikh Osama’s Al-Qaeda then you are very welcome because he was a legitimate leader of Jihad.’”
Her cousin, Hafsa Kanjwal appeared at a pro-Hamas rally and at foreign conference led by a former Palestinian
Islamic Jihad board member, and called for Muslims operating in America
to “put a check on American exceptionalism.” Finally she’s an
instructor at The People’s Forum: an organization funded by a Chinese Communist based operation whose offices face a “red banner that reads, in Chinese, ‘Always Follow the Party’ and a “plate depicting Xi.”
How
exactly does someone a few degrees of separation from Al Qaeda go on to
serve as Chief of Staff for the Pentagon Comptroller?
The exposure of Yousra Fazili comes only a few weeks after it was revealed that
Ariane Tabatabai, the Chief of Staff to the Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, had worked
with an operation set up by the Iranian government and coordinated her
congressional testimony with them. Despite published emails between Tabatabai and Iran, the Pentagon allowed her to keep her position and her security clearance .
“We
have confirmed that Ms. Tabatabai’s employment and clearance processes
were carried out in accordance with all appropriate laws and policies,” a
Department of Defense official replied to Sen. Joni Ernst.
Two
Muslim Pentagon Chiefs of Staff were shown to have worked with enemy
nations. And the Defense Department and the Biden administration has
chosen to keep them on the job.
When
associates and employees of enemy governments that are tied to Islamic
terrorism can waltz in and take high-ranking positions in the Department
of Defense, national security no longer means anything. The Pentagon
has been infiltrated by political hires who would have been disqualified
from even being considered twenty years ago on the basis of their
associations, their views and their links to enemy governments.
Now
Iran and Qatar can plant their employees and catspaws at key positions
throughout the Pentagon. And we wonder why our intelligence and our
operations are so badly compromised.
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.
How Obama’s Muslim Childhood Became a Taboo Topic https://www.frontpagemag.com/how-obamas-muslim-childhood-became-a-taboo-
Reflections on when a gigantic biographical inconvenience was successfully hidden and denied.
THE KORAN
BIBLE OF THE MUSLIM TERRORIST:
“The
Wahhabis finance thousands of madrassahs throughout the world where
young boys are brainwashed into becoming fanatical foot-soldiers for the
petrodollar-flush Saudis and other emirs of the Persian Gulf.” AMIL IMANI
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/08/new-novel-blasphemes-fornicating-dog.html
Koran 2:191 "s lay the unbelievers wherever you find them" Koran 3:21 "Muslims must not take the infidels as friends" Koran 5:33 "Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam" Koran 8:12 "Terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the Koran" Koran 8:60 " Muslims must muster all weapons to terrorize the infidels" Koran 8:65 "The unbelievers are stupid, urge all Muslims to fight them" Koran 9:5 "When the opportunity arises, kill the infidels wherever you find them" Koran 9:123 "Make war on the infidels living in your neighborhood" Koran 22:19 "Punish the unbelievers with garments of fire, hooked iron rods, boiling water, melt their skin and bellies" Koran 47:4 "Do not hanker for peace with the infidels, behead them when you catch them".
“I
grew up in the crosshairs of the Israeli-Palestinian war in Gaza” and
“the threat of terrorism has cast a long shadow on my life.” Even so, to
impose “even more intensive vetting on the entire Muslim world would be
dangerous and unconstitutional.” American Muslims “are proven to be
peaceful contributors to our American economy and way of life,” and
“moderate Muslims, like my friend and former colleague Rumana Ahmed , can help protect American lives and restore the original glow that once graced the face of Islam.”
Who
is this who touts the “original glow” of Islam, lived in the shadow of
terrorism, and grew up the crosshairs of the “Israeli-Palestinian war”
in Gaza? It’s Ammar Campa-Najjar, writing in a February 25, 2017 commentary in The Hill , which bills him as “a Mexican-Palestinian American and former Obama campaign and administration official.” But there’s more to the man.
Ammar is the grandson of Muhammad
Abu Yousef al-Najjar, mastermind of the Palestinian terrorists who
abducted, tortured and murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich
Olympics in 1972. Maybe that’s the “shadow” of terrorism he was talking
about. Ammar is also the son of Palestinian Authority official Yasser Najjar . Ammar claims his father “migrated from the Middle East to America on a student visa,” met a Mexican-American lady named Abigail and raised a family in San Diego county, but there’s a problem here.
Back in 2003 Linda Gradstein of National Public Radio interviewed Yasser al-Najjar at his office in Gaza ,
where he served with the Palestinian Authority. Yasser was married,
with four children but his wife and children were not named. After the
Israelis killed Muhammad Abu Yousef al-Najjar, Yasser was a fugitive.
Son Ammar has not documented Yasser’s move to the United States, or
claims that he earned an MBA from San Diego State and started several
clothing boutiques.
“ I
attended an Islamic school in San Diego as a child,” Ammar told The
Hill. “The school was part of a mosque called Masjid Abu Bakr, where
hundreds of people prayed and maintained strong relations with local
elected and law enforcement officials. I
knew of three men at that mosque, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Nawaf al-Hazmi and
Hani Hanjour, who were issued visas. . . Those three men were among the
19 terrorist hijackers who carried out the Sept ember 11 attacks in 2001.” So maybe the relations with politicians and law enforcement were not that strong, and Ammar may have “ known of” other terrorists in Gaza.
Why anybody would move there from San Diego , “America’s finest city , ” is hard to fathom, but Ammar told the San Diego Union-Tribune he “ lived in Gaza from ages 8 to 12 .”
Born in 1989, that would put Ammar’s Gaza stretch from 1997 to 2001,
year of the 9/11 attack and “five years after President Bill Clinton got
the Israelis and Palestinians to sign a peace agreement. Sadly, that
peace didn’t last, and Gaza devolved into a war zone — the Second
Intifada . ” T he former Obama official wasn’t done.
“As
a proud Mexican Palestinian American, witnessing a U.S.-brokered peace
collapse into a U.S.-funded war was an early lesson on how fragile
things can be. I remember the first night of bombing, the entire city of
Gaza had its electricity cut off, and I, my mom, stepmom, dad and
younger brothers hid in the dark corner of a cold kitchen floor as
Apache helicopters and F-16s leveled surrounding buildings and
carpet-bombed the town for hours.”
Note
the joint presence of “mom and stepmom.” Ammar has two mommies, and a
daddy who allegedly “migrated to the USA on a student visa” but is also a Palestinian Authority official in Gaza. His own time in Gaza, Ammar told Rolling Stone , was “ a very Obamaesque, Dreams of Your Father , situation.”
Despite
attendance at an Islamic school that was part of a mosque, Ammar comes
billed as a Christian. His mother is Catholic and as a teenager, “ he spent time as a teenager living with a great-uncle who is a Catholic priest ,” but the priest is not named or interviewed in the story. It’s not clear when, exactly, Ammar abandoned Islam but the story stuck. It was hardly the only example of deceptive behavior.
As La Prensa San Diego revealed, the Islamic student once went by the name Ammar Yasser Najjar , and only changed it to Ammar “Campa- Najjar ” when he ran for Congress in 2018. Rolling Stone billed him as a “ a rockstar Democratic candidate.” He
ran as a progressive and lost to Duncan Hunter. In 2020, the son of
Yasser Najjar styled himself as a moderate conservative and lost to
Darrell Issa.
The
congressional loser had never held public office or served on any local
community board, commission, or civic group in the city of Chula Vista,
near San Diego, where he ran for mayor in 2022. Despite more than 700
mail-in ballots with either non-matching or missing signatures, the
Obama Democrat lost to Republican John McCann . In August, the former Obama White House official joined the U.S. Navy .
“ Today,
in front of my family, friends, my grandmother in heaven and God, I
stood aboard the USS Midway and swore an oath to preserve, protect and
defend our nation as a commissioned United States Navy Officer,” Ammar told People Magazine , quoting Winston Churchill that as a reservist he was now “twice the citizen.”
The former Ammar Yasser Najjar claimed he first
tried to join up at age 17, but as People’s Virginia Chamlee explained,
“his mother refused to sign off on the decision, due to his father
being away at the time.” In similar style, Ammar told Robin Abcarian of
the Los Angeles Times that “ he’d always wanted to serve in the military , and even tried to enlist at 17 before his mother put a stop to it.”
Neither journalist specified whether that was the mother or the step-mother Ammar previously mentioned. And no comment from Yasser Najjar, the Palestinian Authority official in Gaza w ho somehow migrated to the USA on a student visa.
“The
military doesn’t have the luxury of getting into these cultural
disputes trying to divide us,” the officer told Abcarian. “Where some
people have seen my heritage, my background as a liability, the Navy
says those are not liabilities, they are assets. A command of the Arab
language, fluent in Spanish, having lived in the Middle East, my
cultural competency gives us a strategic advantage. . . My Arabic is
actually more fluent than my Spanish.”
Abcarian
found Campa-Najjar to be somewhat “guarded” but accepted his contention
that he was done with politics, “at least for now.” The columnist might
cast a glance at his Wikipedia entry.
“Ammar Campa-Najjar is a United States naval officer ,” it begins, as though he had graduated Annapolis and commanded a carrier .
His father Yasser Najjar “was an important internal critic of
Palestinian hardliners” and during his time in Gaza, “he attempted to
counteract the rising influence of Hamas.” Grandfather Muhammad Abu Yousef al-Najjar “has been the subject of significant controversy,” and so on.
On Sunday, nearly a thousand pro-Hamas demonstrators gathered in San Diego, but if the newly minted naval officer showed up, he did not speak to reporters. At this writing, his former White House colleague Rumana Ahmed has also been on the quiet side .
“In 2011, I was hired, straight out of college, to work at the White House and eventually the National Security Council ,” Ahmed told the Atlantic in 2017. In that role, Ahmed became senior adviser to Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, a big-time promoter of the Iran deal. That was an easy sell to reporters, Rhodes quipped, because they “ literally know nothing .”
If that seems a stretch, check out the establishment media reporting on the man formerly known as Ammar Nasser Najjar . He’s the Palestinian Mexican-American with two mommies, who moved to Gaza . He’s the Islamic school student who became a Christian and seeks to restore “ the original glow that once graced the face of Islam.”
The rockstar Democratic candidate is in the Navy now, and a Senate seat is up for grabs. As Donald Trump likes to say, we’ll have to see what happens.
Lloyd
Billingsley is the author of Yes I Con: United Fakes of America, Barack
‘Em Up: A Literary Investigation, Hollywood Party, and numerous other
works.
Sexual chaos in the Arab world drives some of its grotesque violence
During
the attack on Israel, a member of Hamas grabs a Jewish girl. He lies
down on top of her, comes to orgasm, stands up, and shoots her. What
kind of sadistic twists were already present in his head that allowed
the softness of sexual relations to be entwined with the violence of
murder?
No
one asks this question in America because it means looking deeper than
most people want. But it needs to be asked since it is central to the
problem of future peace or the lack thereof. Everyone knows there are
cultural differences between people. Do some differences make it
impossible to co-mingle groups? Yes, indeed! It is particularly true in
the case of Arabs and Jews.
Sexuality
between family members among the Jews is seen as destructive to family
unity. Violations are condemned roundly. Among Arabs, sexuality is part
of the family package. The most common manifestation is polygamy. Most
American women expect exclusivity in marriage. It provides financial and
social security, as well as clear lines of inheritance for their
children.
This
is a complex topic since most Arab males do not engage in polygamy.
Nonetheless, it is incumbent upon Westerners to understand that polygamy
may be the force that most disrupts relations between Arabs and
Westerners, because it causes an unnatural social condition where there
is a chronic shortage of women. If one man takes four wives, three men
go without. It is an arithmetical inevitability.
Image: An Arab man with his three wives and two servants (1892-1893).
In
the olden days, this problem was addressed by attacking neighboring
villages to kill the men and take the girls and women. Always the strong
killing the weak. Moreover, these extra men made up a willing army to
go to war since success led to family life, status, and a slave to keep
house while the husband sat at the coffee house with his friends. This
situation is best described as “women as objects.”
For
the man, sexual appetite was always to be fulfilled upon demand. This
made for some really unhappy women. Failure of the woman to comply or be
happy about it could easily lead to the entrance of a new and younger
wife. All children belonged to the men, so divorce would lead to women
alone on the street, bereft of their children and means of support.
Now,
we get to the hub of things. All men of every culture have always been
exempt from diaper changing. There has always been the small but not
zero possibility of his making the child into a sexual object—boy or
girl—especially if marital relations were strained. Unfortunately, this
insight is true of women as well, especially under conditions of
unhappiness.
There
is also the issue of the ever-present pure ignorance of the
consequences of early sexual arousal. The infant, toddler, or child—as
an object—is not in control of the stimulation of the one or the other
parent. It is my contention that such early stimulation creates a form
of confusion of sexuality and violence on the one hand and affection on
the other.
Non-sexual
affection draws the youngest members of the family closer together with
parents, siblings, cousins, aunts, and uncles, and even the occasional
strangers who enter the house like family friends. However, if sexuality
is imposed by others (including all of the above), that makes people,
particularly children, afraid of one another. Sex is always an
imposition. Thus, the need for affection that undercuts the innate
violence of the sexual act.
The thesis here is that the dysfunctional Arab family reflects how sexuality is manifest in the early lives of the children.
I
want to be very clear: In general, good, nice, and kind people
(including Muslims) have been protected socially and sexually during
their earliest years. Later, such people can offer affection and
manifest altruism.
Children
who have been abused socially and/or sexually from infancy will show
various levels of pathology as adults. This is a simplified
understanding of adult psychopathology that can arise from multiple
sources, but being used as a sexual object early in life is a form of
violence that makes later sexual expression a problem for the
individual, perhaps without an easy, or even any, solution.
Most
males in the Western world could not seek affection and closeness
during sexual expression and then stand up and kill their partners. In
the United States, we lock people up who rape and then murder.
Social
structures that induce anger between men and women become a systematic
source of their individual pathologies. Here, the social pathology is a
mixing of sexuality and violence. Thus, war and rape have always been
linked.
Still,
there are differences between cultures. A nitwit whose name I’ve
deliberately forgotten wrote a master’s thesis at Hebrew University
arguing that Israeli soldiers do not rape Arab women during war because
the soldiers are racist.
No,
nitwit! The confusion between anger and sex is the pathological state.
Gazan men apparently have received the lion’s share of this confusion
from their earliest childhoods, as demonstrated by their actions in
Israel. This conflation of sex and anger rolls from one generation to
the next with permission and support from cultural norms.
In
the wake of the savage HAMAS attack against Israel on the morning of 7
October 2023, many are waking up to its genocidal intent against Jews.
Understandably, there are memories of pogroms past, of the horrific toll
of the Holocaust, and references to “Nazis” and the “Einsatzgruppen”.
This
time, though, as Israel prepares to do what must be done to wipe out
the HAMAS presence in Gaza, we need to understand exactly who and what
it is: an Islamic terror group, dedicated to the destruction of the
Jewish State of Israel and the killing of as many Jews as possible. We
might start with the HAMAS Covenant ,
published in 1988, the year that HAMAS was formally established. Its
opening lines tell us exactly who HAMAS is and why it exists:
“Israel
will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it,
just as it obliterated others before it” (The Martyr, Imam Hassan
alBanna, of blessed memory).
We’ll
note here that this quote is from Hassan al-Banna, the 1928 founder of
the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. And here is the motto of the Muslim
Brotherhood:
‘Allah
is our objective; the Prophet is our leader; the Quran is our law;
Jihad is our way; dying in the way of Allah is our highest aspiration.’
Why
this fanatical hatred? We find the answer in the Qur’an, in the Islamic
doctrine of Sacred Space, and the laws of dhimmitude. The Qur’an,
believed by Muslims to be the literal word of Allah (the Arabic word for
“God”), lays the foundation for HAMAS’ visceral Jew-hatred.
Those
who reject (Truth) among the People of the Book [Christians and
Jews]…will be in Hell-fire…They are the worst of creatures. (Q 98:6)
But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and kill the infidels wherever ye find them… (Q 9:5)
Curses were pronounced on those among the Children of Israel who rejected Faith [Islam]…(Q 5:78)
The HAMAS Covenant also includes this quote from the hadith collection of Sahih Muslim:
Judgment
Day will not come until you fight the Jews and kill them. The Jews will
hide behind stones and trees, and the stones and trees will call: Oh,
Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill
him…
Then
there is the historical record, which informs us of the Islamic
institution of dhimmitude and the doctrine of Sacred Space. As the
armies of Islam overran formerly Christian and Jewish lands in the 7th century, there were too many to kill or convert; and so, beginning with the 638 CE Pact of Umar (the 2nd Caliph),
the institution of the Ahl al-Dhimma was established to subjugate
Christians and Jews to a rigid set of rules that would relegate them to a
legally enforced inferior status intended to be so onerous as to compel
them to convert to Islam.
Along
with dhimmitude, the Muslim conquests developed a concept known as
“Sacred Space”. That is, the Dar al-Islam (House of Islam) must conquer
all the Dar al-Harb (House of War) because according to Islam, the
entire world belongs to Islam and must be conquered and subjugated to
it. Once conquered and/or occupied, such land is waqf, forever endowed
to Muslims by Allah. Any such waqf, if ever lost to Islam, must be
fought for by jihad until it is re-conquered.
As
we look at the modern-day Jewish State of Israel, we can see that the
Jewish people not only are no longer dhimmis but have established a
powerful country in their ancestral homeland. These remarkable
accomplishments are intolerable to the forces of jihad and help to
explain why HAMAS and other Islamic terror groups like it have been so
intent upon wiping Israel from the face of the map.
Stealth Jihad in American Education
Since
the terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas, college campus rallies in
support of the barbaric act have erupted across the nation. Although
world focus is on Israel, this is only one part of the global plan of
Islam.
Islamic
law -- Shari’ah -- requires Jihad to be waged as "warfare against
non-Muslims” until all the world is under Islamic law. Jihadist
doctrine is advanced by both violent techniques and “civilization
jihad,” a stealth subversive effort to destroy Western civilization from
within a nation by its own hand. The pattern of Islam is to use the
courts, schools, art museums, and other major institutions including
outreach to churches to infiltrate, gradually introduce Shari’ah, and
then finally take over a nation. American education is a prime target.
For
decades, billions of petro-dollars have been donated to American
universities for the purpose of altering public opinion and U.S. foreign
policies. This subversive shaping of the mindset has reached a wide
swath of American society through students studying for careers in
banking, business, law, public health, education, and urban
studies. Through university outreach, programs on the Middle East are
developed and provided to K-12 and adult education students.
Gifts
to American universities are designed also to enhance the image of the
Arab states and their rulers, effectively tamping down public criticism
of Muslim hostility to Jews as well as Christians. One of the more
recent donors and the largest investor in universities, Qatar has
an image problem as a funder and supporter of both terrorist groups
-- Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood -- and as home base to the rabidly
anti-Israel, anti-American Al Jazeera.
Former English diplomat John Kelly noted,
“They expect a return upon their donations to institutions of learning
and their subsidies to publishing houses; whether it be in the form of
subtle propaganda on behalf of Arab or Islamic causes, or the
preferential admission of their nationals, however unqualified... or the
publication of the kind of sycophantic flim-flam about themselves and
their countries which now clutters sections of the Western press and
even respectable periodical literature.”
Arab donations between 1986 and October 2022 totally nearly $11 billion with
more than 10,000 contracts and gifts spread across 273 institutions.
The total is grossly underestimated because numerous donations have gone
unreported. Beginning with Aramco ’s funding in the early 1950s, donors from Arab states have
quietly made contributions to American universities, hijacking the
field of Middle East Studies with faculty, including college presidents,
who have been bought for 30 pieces of silver and are using their
positions to advance political agendas that are pro-Arab/Palestinian,
anti-Israel, and pro-radical Islam.
Though
the far Left has never had any real political power, it has controlled
the social and cultural narrative. During the summer of 2020, academics
defended looting and/or supported the destruction of the nuclear family
while Fortune 500 CEOs did nothing. The most extreme actions actually
enjoyed greater publicity.
The
brutality of Hamas in murdering babies, raping women, and taking the
elderly and disabled as hostages was cheered on by left-wing student
groups. Academics also weighed in. A Cornell University professor
speaking at a recent pro-Palestine rally called the attacks
“exhilarating.” A Stanford University instructor told her Jewish
students to stand in a corner like “Israel does to Palestinians.” Other
academics have posted their support on social media. Administrators
remained silent.
Now
it seems the radical Left has gone too far. People are standing up and
saying enough is enough. It began with Bill Ackman, the hedge-fund
billionaire who learned of an open letter signed by over 30 student
groups from Harvard -- his alma mater -- that blamed Israel instead of
Hamas for the murders. Ackman and several other CEOs contacted Harvard
to get a list of the members of each Harvard organization that issued
the letter. They are refusing to hire anyone who signed the letter.
Job offers to some graduates already have been rescinded.
Marc Rowan ,
the chairman of the board of overseers at Wharton who donated $50
million to the school in 2018, called for donors to cease any further
donations until the university’s leadership changes. Vahan Gureghian , a member of the University of Pennsylvania’s board of trustees, resigned. The Huntsman family announced they have closed their checkbook on all future giving to Penn. David Magerman , who helped build the trading systems of Renaissance Technologies, said he will cease funding to Penn. The 80th richest man in the world, Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer and his wife Batia, resigned from the executive board of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Others followed. Playboy cut ties with the porn star Mia Khalifa for cheerleading the massacres in Israel.
Some of Hollywood’s biggest star s are speaking up in support of Israel. Even TMZ got in on the game, reporting that Black Lives Matter Chicago has embraced the terrorism of Hamas. Sopranos fan sites to artists and comedians to any number of household names -- LeBron James . The Rock . Reese Witherspoon -- have also responded.
Meanwhile,
all those rabid Harvard activists who gleefully signed a pro-murder
statement were in a blind panic and tried to explain away their
participation, saying they did not read the letter. Sure. Are we to
believe that very smart Harvard students do not read before they sign?
The public should beware of Harvard-educated lawyers. At the end, all
students removed their names. They are learning that actions do have
consequences.
First
there was Bud Light and then Target, followed by the snowballing
scandal surrounding Ibram Kendi’s antiracism center at Boston
University. With the loss of donors, university administrations
suddenly see the virtue in institutional neutrality. Harvard,
Northwestern, and Stanford’s presidents have issued statements that they
will cease responding to political, geopolitical, or social issues that
do not directly impact the core mission of their universities. They
should have adopted this policy long ago. These cocky academics seem to
care little that the public has lost confidence in higher education and,
more especially, in elite universities.
As
Ackman pointed out, “None of these institutions are solvent without the
support of their alumni. Perhaps this is the beginning of a catalyst
for change.” The question is whether it is too late for these arrogant
institutions to regain their reputations.
Most
important is that no foreign money be allowed to flow into our
educational institutions to shape the mindset of students and influence
American policy to support a radical ideology. Since its birth in 1987 ,
Hamas has declared its aim is to destroy Israel. The fact is this
Islamic terrorist group intends to annihilate not just Jews but anyone
who is not a Muslim.
The
pro-Hamas rallies where students celebrated the mass murders and
beheadings show just how successful the indoctrination has been. Since
the United States shares with Israel the greatest number of the world's
Jewish population, allowing radical Islamic indoctrination of students
creates an enemy within and poses a dire threat to our national
security.
Image: IDF
We bomb ISIS, yet we fund CUNY.
The
City University of New York has been transformed from a public
university that let poor kids get a good education and succeed. They
boast about how many Nobel laureates they’ve produced, but those days
are behind them. Instead, CUNY has become an antisemitic terrorist
hellhole where over 80 faculty members are
willing to sign on to a statement saying that the murder of elderly
women and children, the rape of women and the kidnapping of children is a
“military operation”.
The petition begins with…
“We,
the undersigned CUNY staff and faculty, strongly object to Chancellor
Félix Matos Rodríguez’s efforts to censure expressions of solidarity
with the Palestinian people. In advance of anti-apartheid rallies
planned on multiple campuses, the Chancellor claimed that the organizers
would ‘glorify Saturday’s [Oct. 7] violence and celebrate the killings,
injuries and capture of innocent people.’ This baseless, prejudicial
statement reproduces the racist, Islamophobic rhetoric that has
accompanied the drumbeat for war.”
And then the petition proves that the chancellor was right as it argues that…
“there
is also no equivalence between the October 7 military operation by
Hamas and the subsequent military attack by the Israeli state, and
certainly no equivalence to the systemic and the violence of Israeli
settler colonialism.”
A military operation aimed at massacring and kidnapping civilians.
Signatories to this pro-rape and pro-kidnapping children petition include Marc Lamont Hill , who had already previously exposed his support for kidnapping and killing Jewish teens.
Other
signatories include Jonathan Buchsbaum, a media studies professor and
author of “Cinema and the Sandinistas: Filmmaking in Revolutionary
Nicaragua” (I believe he was the protagonist of a Charlie Kaufman
novel), Anna Stetsenko, a “developmental psychologist” from Russia, and
Ellen Dichner, the Chief Counsel to the Chairman of the National Labor
Relations Board under the Obama administration.
Meanwhile, Northwestern University’s Asian American Studies Programs issued an open letter condemning
the “visible Islamophobia expressed in pro-Israel posters on NU’s
campus falsely claiming that ‘Hamas is ISIS'” and described Hamas as a
“political group”.
These are just a few examples of the mask coming off academia and the ugly vileness being revealed.
The
enemies of civilization are showing themselves for who they are. The
crimes they’re defending are indefensible, but from the gulags to Pol
Pot to the suicide bombs, they were always indefensible.
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.
“We give our heart, we give our life, we give our blood to the Palestinian people,” Manolo De Los Santos of The People’s Forum declared at a pro-Hamas rally in Manhattan. “Continue to resist. We stand with you. By any means necessary.”
“By any means,” the crowd chanted. A code phrase for violence and terrorism.
“We
will use whatever we have in our hands,: De Los Santos continued. “A
rock or something else. We will defend the Palestinian people.”
DeSantos had previously tweeted a
celebratory Hamas video using paragliders and then armed terrorists
attacking Israel with the message, “Long Live the Palestinian
Resistance!”
In
an official statement, The People’s Forum described the Hamas attacks
that murdered over 1,000 Israeli civilians, the elderly, women and
children, as an “unprecedented liberation struggle” by “Palestinian
resistance factions”.
When
it isn’t supporting the rape of women and the kidnapping of children,
it’s promoting North Korea, Venezuela, and Cuba, and celebrating the
“hopes and aspirations of more than a million people who joined the
American Communist Party.”
And The People’s Forum is also a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit approved by the IRS.
If the name sounds like a Chinese Communist front group, that’s because it’s
funded by a Maoist millionaire named Neville Roy Singham who operates
out of China and funds a network of organizations like The People’s
Forum. Singham’s office faces “a red banner that reads, in Chinese,
‘Always Follow the Party.’ Resting on a shelf is a plate depicting Xi.”
Also
there at the pro-Hamas rally in Manhattan was Nodutdol: a pro-North
Korean organization demanding the “reunification” of Korea. South Korea
has accused Nodutdol
of being controlled by North Korea. The organization has claimed that
North Korean defectors who risked their lives to escape are guilty of
“imperialist propaganda” and that claims of atrocities are fictional.
Despite that Nodutdol is embedded within the DSA and often takes part in pro-terrorist rallies.
On
the same day as the Hamas attack, Nodutol tweeted “power to every
Palestinian fighting for their freedom, and glory to every martyr who
dies fighting. For every martyr that falls, a new one will rise.” Like
The People’s Forum, Nodutol is a 501(c)(3) IRS approved tax-exempt
charity.
The David Horowitz Freedom Center had previously profiled the IRS
decision to continue providing tax-exempt status to the Alliance for
Global Justice, a Marxist organization, which uses that status to
sponsor Black Lives Matter chapters, the Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition
in support of a cop killer, as well as bail funds whose mission is
freeing rioters and criminals.
Among the organizations AFGJ sponsors is the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network which was banned by Israel as a subsidiary of the PFLP terrorist organization.
Germany has announced that it’s also banning Samidoun
as part of its crackdown on all Hamas activities in Germany. Despite
that the IRS has yet to pull AFGJ’s tax-exempt status.
Samidoun
responded to the Hamas attacks by promoting banners featuring
“solidarity with Al Aqsa Flood”, the name of the Hamas operation, a
rally calling for “solidarity with the heroic resistance”, and another
one urging “let’s celebrate”.
Samidoun’s
support for Hamas atrocities, including the kidnapping of Israeli women
and children, was made clear in its Instagram post boasting that, “the
resistance” is “seizing occupation settlers” and hailed the “resistance
operation, titled the Al-Aqsa Flood by Mohammed Deif, commander in chief
of the Izz el-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas”.
There
is no ambiguity whatsoever about Samidoun’s support for even the worst
crimes of Hamas. Despite that it continues to benefit from AFGJ’s
tax-exempt status which allows its fiscal sponsor to take in money from
George Soros, the Ben and Jerry’s Foundation, and others.
The David Horowitz Freedom Center also exposed the support for
Hamas by chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine. The national
organization of Students for Justice in Palestine praised the Hamas
attacks as a “historic win for the Palestinian resistance” and put out a
‘toolkit’ which explained that the Jewish victims were “not civilians”
and could be freely targeted. Its poster for a ‘Day of Resistance’
featured an image of the paraglider that Hamas terrorists had used to
massacre and rape young Israelis at a music festival.
Despite its support for terrorism, Students for Justice in Palestine enjoys nonprofit status.
The
Freedom Road Socialist Organization, a Marxist-Leninist group, which
promotes pro-terror content through its Fight Back News, celebrated the
Hamas attacks, including the attacks on civilian communities which it
cheered as “Palestinians have taken over the armed settlements that
surround Gaza.”
“The
Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS), the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Democratic Front
for the Liberation of Palestine and so many others represent the
aspirations of a free people, Palestinians who insist on the end to
occupation. Freedom Road Socialist Organization rejects the notion that
freedom fighters are terrorists. We are proud to stand with the
resistance,” it concluded.
The
Communist group is funded through the Lucy Parsons Center, a radical
bookstore in New York City named after a Communist activist, which
enjoys nonprofit status. also issued a statement to “celebrate
Palestinian Resistance!”
These
are only a few of the examples of IRS approved 501(c)(3) nonprofit
groups or those funded by them celebrating Hamas atrocities. This is in
clear violation of the tax code which bars such activities.
IRS
regulations specifically state that “exempt purposes may generally be
equated with the public good, and violations of law are the antithesis
of the public good”. They clearly lay out that, “violation of
constitutionally valid laws is inconsistent with exemption under IRC
501(c)(3)” and that “planned activities that violate laws are not in
furtherance of a charitable purpose”.
But the IRS has refused to enforce the rules and regulations against Islamic terrorists.
When Lori Lowenthal Marcus, a journalist, applied for tax exempt status for her pro-Israel group, the IRS informed her that it “has to give special scrutiny to organizations connected to Israel.”
Lori Lowenthal Marcus told Front Page Magazine that,
“One of the excuses given to Z Street by an IRS official was that the
IRS had to make sure we were not ‘engaged in terrorism’ because we
mentioned ‘terror’ in our mission statement. The part of Z Street’s
mission that mentioned terror? ‘We will not engage with, negotiate with
or appease terrorists.’”
Offered clear examples of organizations that actually support terror, the IRS has done nothing.
Congress
however could change that by regulating nonprofit groups that support
terrorism. Taxpayers should not be subsidizing terrorists and their
propagandists. And the tax code on this matter should not consist of
general guidelines, but clear and unbreakable laws.
The IRS has failed to act. Congress can hold the IRS and pro-Hamas nonprofits accountable.
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.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) published
photographs Sunday showing that the Palestinian terror group Hamas has
placed rockets in close proximity to civilian buildings — including
schools, United Nations buildings, and mosques.
Deliberately placing civilians at risk is a violation
of international law. But for Hamas, it is a win-win: either the
sensitive location will deter Israel from attacking, or else it will
maximize the public relations damage to Israel if it does attack and
there are civilian casualties.
Hamas, Hezbollah, and other Iranian-backed terror groups, like
Palestinian Islamic Jihad, frequently use this tactic in the hope of
deterring Israel and also placing it under international pressure to
stop fighting and simply accept the murders of its citizens.
It is legal, under international law, for Israel to target civilian
facilities that Hamas has converted to “dual use” for military purposes.
Israel prefers not to do so if it can avoid those targets, though it is
often falsely accused of attacking civilians in Gaza.
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 .
‘There Could Already Be a Cell in the US Planning the Next Terrorist Attack’ Former
border commissioner says weak U.S. border security, combined with
America's support for Israel, could trigger a new wave of domestic
terror activity. (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock) |
Oct 23, 2023
Updated: Oct 23, 2023
Hamas's
terror attack on Israel is having ripple effects around the world, and
the porous U.S. borders are again in the spotlight.
"The same
terrorists that just carried out this horrific attack in Israel—their
hatred and their unwavering commitment ... to do harm to the United
States, is alive and well," Mark Morgan, who served as acting
commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection during the Trump
administration, told The Epoch Times.
"Nobody in their right mind can say that our border is secure."
There's
a real concern that terrorists have already crossed the U.S. border,
particularly within the group of more than 1.6 million illegal
immigrants who evaded Border Patrol upon entry and are unknown to
officials, Mr. Morgan said.
In
the past 11 months, 151 people on the terror watchlist have been
arrested by Border Patrol after crossing illegally, while tens of
thousands of other "special interest aliens" have entered and been
released, he said. "Special interest" means that they hail from
countries with direct ties to state-sponsored terrorist groups,
including Yemen, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt, and Pakistan.
Another
terror attack inside the United States like the 2013 Boston bombing or
the 2015 San Bernardino, California, mass shooting and attempted
bombing, is imminent, Mr. Morgan warned.
"It's coming. It's
coming. No one can predict, but what I will say is, there could already
be a cell in the United States planning the next terrorist attack, and
we would have no idea," he said. "That's a fair statement; that's not
hyperbolic."
Terror concerns in the United States are escalating, especially as thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets around the country. FBI
Director Chris Wray, in a speech to the International Association of
Chiefs of Police in San Diego on Oct. 14, encouraged law enforcement
officers to stay vigilant.
"You’re often the first to see the signs that someone may be mobilizing to violence," he said . "In
this heightened environment, there’s no question we’re seeing an
increase in reported threats, and we’ve got to be on the lookout,
especially for lone actors who may take inspiration from recent events
to commit violence of their own."
Meanwhile, the FBI issued a
statement on Oct. 9, saying that it doesn't have "specific and credible
intelligence indicating a threat to the United States stemming from the
Hamas attacks."
The lack of intelligence may not mean a lot,
because the attack on Israel showed a "colossal intelligence failure,"
Mr. Morgan, who also served as an FBI agent for 20 years, said.
He
said that a terror event such as Hamas's attack that killed 1,400
Israelis, including children, on Oct. 7 can serve as a trigger event.
"We
have people in our own country that are actually supporting Hamas,
supporting the actions of babies being decapitated, of being burned
alive, of women being savagely raped and videotaped," Mr. Morgan said.
A
child's bed stained with blood is among the damage caused by Hamas
terrorists after they attacked Kibbutz Be'eri, Israel, on Oct. 20, 2023.
(Dima Vazinovich/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images) "When
you have this deep-rooted, irrational ideology, to be inspired to move
to radicalization, then action can be very quick. Generally, it takes an
event—and we have that now."
Hamas sympathizers brandishing
Palestinian flags stood outside of the White House on Oct. 14 chanting
"Free Palestine." Some demonstrators wore head and face coverings
commonly associated with jihadist groups.
National security lawyer
and regional analyst Irina Tsukerman said much the same about the
threat that Hamas agents pose to the United States.
“There
is significant pro-Hamas support in the United States already, both
among leftist radicals and apologists in academia, and Palestinian
activists and their allies, such as the crowds rallying with Hamas in
various big cities around the United States in the past few days,” she
told The Epoch Times.
Ms. Tsukerman said she disagrees with the FBI's Oct. 9 statement that suggests there's no current specific threat to the United States. “The
FBI is wrong. Khaled Meshaal called for his supporters to attack
Western and other targets. ... That could well include the United States
or at least Jewish and Israeli targets in the United States,” she said.
Mr.
Meshaal is the former chief of Hamas. In a cryptic recording sent to
international media outlets, initially reported by Reuters on Oct. 11,
the terrorist commander said, "To all scholars who teach jihad ... to
all who teach and learn, this is a moment for the application [of
theories]."
A
man shouts slogans while holding a Quran, the holy book of Islam, in
his hand during a rally to support Palestinians in Gaza, near the White
House on Oct. 14, 2023. (Ali Khaligh/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty
Images)
On Oct. 8, an Iran proxy terrorist group called Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada (KSS) warned the United States against getting involved in the conflict between Israel and Hamas. "Palestine is not Ukraine," the terror group stated.
"Any
direct American entrance into the conflict for the crumbling entity
[Israel] will make all American positions in the region legitimate
targets."
The
fanatical group is one of many through which Iran pushes its political
agenda in the region. Another one of these is Hezbollah in Lebanon,
which is reportedly holding an Israeli captive amid the newest conflict with Hamas. Like Hamas and KSS, Hezbollah is an Iranian-funded Islamic terrorist group. In 2020, the U.S. State Department stated that Iran provides $100 million in annual aid to Hamas and another $700 million to Hezbollah. However,
while most of these organizations’ actions are limited to the Middle
East, Hezbollah has terrorist cells operating in the Americas.
Wave of Mobilization
In Latin America, Hezbollah has quietly been putting down roots for decades, and the U.S. government is aware of it. “It
is important to note that the relationship Hezbollah has developed with
criminal and terrorist groups in Latin America has escalated from one
of mutual accommodation and benefit in the spheres of money laundering,
contraband, and financing to more direct and deadly forms of
collaboration,” a 2012 U.S. Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and
Intelligence report noted . On Sept. 12, the U.S. Department of Treasury enacted sanctions on three people associated with Hezbollah’s illicit financial activities in Latin America. “Over
the past decades, Hezbollah has built a well-oiled, multibillion-dollar
money-laundering and drug-trafficking machine in Latin America that
cleans organized crime’s ill-gotten gains through multiple waypoints in
the Western hemisphere,” Emanuele Ottolenghi, senior fellow at the
Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said . In
the wake of Hamas’s attack on Israel, some intelligence members believe
that sympathetic terrorist cells such as Hezbollah, which operate in
remote parts of South America, will take a less direct approach to
undermining U.S. security interests.
“I see this more as a
long-term strategic play,” Evan Ellis, Latin America analyst and
professor at the U.S. Army War College, told The Epoch Times.
He
said he thinks that the United States could have “serious issues,”
exhausting its resources supporting Israel in its conflict with Hamas.
Mr. Ellis also pointed to Iran’s recent actions to quietly maneuver and
reengage with its “anti-U.S. friends” in Latin America. These nations
include Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.
In June, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro signed a new agreement deepening bilateral cooperation in multiple areas. One of the sectors is security cooperation. Iranian
President Ebrahim Raisi (front) meets with Venezuelan leader Nicolas
Maduro at Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, on June 12, 2023.
(Yuri Cortez/AFP via Getty Images) “We are
on the right side of history, Iran and Venezuela. Together, we will be
invincible,” Mr. Maduro said during the signing event.
Mr. Morgan
said that it's well known that the regime has "proactively released
criminals from Venezuela to encourage them to come to the United
States."
"This new war in the Middle East should tell us that
global terrorism is alive and well. And they have their tentacles across
the entire world. They are trying to radicalize as many people as they
can," he said.
There’s no movement of Islamic
terrorist organizations—in the Americas or elsewhere—without some
knowledge, consent, or support from Iran. The Middle Eastern anchor
nation has wielded its anti-Western ideological agenda through Islamic
extremist groups , including al-Qaeda , Hezbollah, and Hamas. Iran
also hasn’t been shy about strengthening its connections in Latin
America outside of predictable alliances with authoritarian regimes such
as Venezuela.
In February, two Iranian warships arrived at Brazil’s famous beaches of Rio de Janeiro. Then, in July, Bolivia announced
its entry into a formal defense agreement with Iran, prompting
immediate security concerns from neighboring countries, including
Argentina. Through its proxy groups in the region, security
analysts say that Iran has access to a wealth of funding from illicit
activities such as drug and arms trafficking.
"There is some
terrorist intent [from Hezbollah], but in general, the pattern seems to
be this is an area for raising money and building networks," Mr. Ellis
said.