Hamas Wants More Massacres. Who Is Elon? Sad Day. Don't Blink"en" Diversity/Cacophony.

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Dear Dick, Hamas continues to tell the world what it wants – not a better future for Gaza or the Palestinian people, but more Israelis massacred and the Jewish state destroyed. In a speech from Qatar yesterday aired by Al Jazeera, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh called to "hold on to the victory that took place on October 7 and build upon it." Haniyeh praised Iranian-backed terror groups for "pouring weapons" on Israel and made clear that "this is the battle for Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and not the battle of the Palestinian people, or Gaza, or the people in Gaza." Further underscoring that Hamas has no interest in helping civilians, Haniyeh called for financial support of Hamas and said that donations to Gaza were not humanitarian aid, but "financial Jihad” to support the terror group. A ceasefire now would leave these barbaric monsters armed, in power, and ready to deliver on its promise to repeat October 7th.

Today the IDF continued its operation in Khan Yunis to destroy Hamas infrastructure, rescue the hostages, and eliminate the threat from Gaza. Israeli troops exposed a tunnel shaft under a desk in a child’s bedroom that led to a cache of weapons, missiles and rockets. The IDF also uncovered a tunnel where hostages are believed to have been held by the terrorists. "We are continuing to operate with determination, above and below ground in Khan Yunis," said IDF Spokesperson Daniel Hagari. "The forces found a tunnel there, where hostages resided in difficult conditions under the ground." 136 Israelis are still held captive by Hamas, 96 days after October 7. Today on the Senate floor, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) shared powerful words about her recent trip to Israel where she met with families of hostages. "The anguish in their eyes was indescribable and heartbreaking. We must keep pushing for the safe release of their loves ones before it is too late." Watch the 6-minute speech below.

Tomorrow, Israel will appear before the International Court of Justice where hearings will begin in the case brought by South Africa, outrageously accusing the Jewish state of genocide and asking the court to order Israel to immediately halt its military campaign. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the charges "meritless" and "particularly galling given that those attacking Israel…continue to openly call for the annihilation of Israel and the mass murder of Jews." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated today that "Israel has no intention of permanently occupying Gaza or displacing its civilian population. Israel is fighting Hamas terrorists, not the Palestinian population, and we are doing so in full compliance with international law." America must be a voice of moral clarity in rejecting this baseless charge against our democratic ally. Sincerely, Alisha Tischler AIPAC Southeast Regional Director +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Frankly, I do not know what to think about Elon Musk beyond the fact that he is obviously brilliant  and the wealthiest person on the face of earth,  That said, I absolutely agree with what he has written in  the attached. +++

 Elon Musk goes NUCLEAR on George Soros:

“He’s doing things that erode the fabric of civilization…” 

“He fundamentally hates humanity!”

This is why Elon is one of the most brilliant minds today.

He can see what others don’t.

America is under attack from within, and if our country falls, it won’t be the people in caves in the middle east that do us in.

Radical leftist billionaires like George Soros are taking over our nation’s schools and brainwashing children to HATE America and everything she stands for.

Elon said it best, “Parents don’t realize the soviet level of indoctrination that children are receiving…”

But luckily there’s a way for conservatives to fight back… And one man is leading the charge to take back our schools and SAVE our country. 

Would you take just 2 minutes to review the plan and help us END the radical left’s mission to destroy our country?

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One sad day for our nation.

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Hunter Biden’s Contempt of Congress Circus

House Republicans put teeth in their subpoenas for the first son.

The Editorial Board

Hunter Biden brought his strange political circus to the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, but how this helps him or his father isn’t obvious. The committee was marking up a criminal contempt resolution against him when the President’s son surprised everyone by showing up, and staying about 10 minutes before departing and creating a media spectacle.

Cut through the theatrics and the real issue is the ability of Congress to enforce its subpoenas. Despite Democratic claims that Hunter is right to refuse because he offered to testify in public, that’s not his choice to make. His choice is either to answer the question put to him or invoke his Fifth Amendment right to decline. Either way, he has to appear.

When Steve Bannon defied a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee, we supported the contempt motion and his subsequent prosecution as a way to ensure that Congressional subpoenas are respected. We said the same about former Trump aide Peter Navarro.

Today House Republicans want Hunter Biden to do what those subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 committee had to do: testify in a closed-door deposition before appearing at a public hearing. In the end Hunter’s stunt probably eliminated any Republican reservations about holding him in contempt.

At the time Jan. 6 witnesses were defying subpoenas, President Biden was asked what should be done. “I hope that the committee goes after them and holds them accountable criminally,’’ he said. He later said this was a decision for the Justice Department, but his public statement had already sent a signal to prosecutors about what to do. Someone might ask the President if he’s still for accountability—or believes his son is an exception.

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Israel must not, cannot  blink"en."

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Blinken to Israel: You Must Die So a Palestinian State May Live

By David Israel 

Secretary of State Antony Blinken hurrying to his press conference in Tel Aviv, January 9, 2024.

The Biden administration, like many before it, is your rich American uncle who suffers from halitosis. He keeps padding your pockets with much-needed cash (or much-needed arms and ammunition), but sooner or later he’ll kiss you.

A case in point is Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s press conference Tuesday night, when, after going through the motions about the Hamas atrocities, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and the need to bring back the hostages (reminder: the American hostages were kept in Tehran for 444 days, from 1979 to 1981, and the US couldn’t release them – they tried and failed), the Secretary treated us to this:

“Finally, we continue to discuss how to build a more durable peace and security for Israel within the region. As I told the prime minister, every partner that I met on this trip said that they’re ready to support a lasting solution that ends the long-running cycle of violence and ensures Israel’s security. But they underscored that this can only come through a regional approach that includes a pathway to a Palestinian state.”

That is a lie. Instead of trying for the umpteenth time a solution that started failing back in 1936, and came crashing down many different times with dire consequences for both Arabs and Jews, a durable peace and security could be achieved faster and with far fewer casualties with immigration. It worked for refugees from North Africa, Syria, Iraq, India, Pakistan, and Vietnam: millions of suffering people in crisis areas are absorbed by wealthy countries, and within a generation become thriving, industrious members of their new home countries. This could resolve the humanitarian crisis in Gaza practically overnight – but no…

“In today’s meetings I was also crystal clear,” Blinken insisted. “Palestinian civilians must be able to return home as soon as conditions allow. They must not be pressed to leave Gaza. As I told the prime minister, the United States unequivocally rejects any proposals advocating for the resettlement of Palestinians outside of Gaza, and the prime minister reaffirmed to me today that this is not the policy of Israel’s government.”

Yes, the prime minister, an expert at handling American halitosis since 1996.

HIS UNCLE’S VOICE

As things appear today, the Biden administration views the entire Gaza war, from the rape, murder, and abduction of Israeli civilians, the counter-attack, mired in more loss of precious Jewish lives, the whole thing is the silver platter on which a Palestinian State is to be delivered promptly, don’t make us wait.

Here’s how it will be done, instructs Secretary Blinken: “To make this possible, Israel must be a partner to Palestinian leaders who are willing to lead their people in living side by side in peace with Israel and as neighbors. And Israel must stop taking steps that undercut Palestinians’ ability to govern themselves effectively.”

And here comes the crucial part in every Biden administration note on Israeli-Arab relations: “Extremist settler violence carried out with impunity, settlement expansion, demolitions, evictions all make it harder, not easier, for Israel to achieve lasting peace and security.”

Is the Biden administration incapable of perceiving the reality of unending Arab violence – stone throwing, firebombing, stabbing, shooting, ramming – and can only see the Jewish acts of self-defense and retaliation? Not likely. This is a plan, laid down back in the Carter administration, to rid Israel of the God-given gift of our Biblical lands. Numerous Israelis have helped this plan, inadvertently (we hope) causing the deaths of thousands of Jews in the process.

It’s all about the liberated territories, always was, always will be.

Sec. Blinken said Tuesday night: “The Palestinian Authority also has a responsibility to reform itself, to improve its governance – issues I plan to raise with President Abbas, among others, when we meet tomorrow.”

For one thing, Abbas is not a president, he is the chairman of a corrupt, defunct, terrorist sector that should never reach the status of a state, or have a president. Indeed, by promoting Abbas with this honorarium, Blinken is transgressing official US policy that does not recognize Ramallah as the capital of a Palestinian State, and certainly not eastern Jerusalem either.

Also – the PA should reform itself? Improve its governance? Since its inception in 1994, the PA has done so little to promote the well-being of its residents, they are still dependent on Jobs inside Israel for their livelihood. And when those jobs are no longer available because Israelis fear the real Arab violence, as exhibited on October 7, those PA residents starve. They subsist on victory gardens and raise rabbits for meat. To reform itself, the PA would have to stop plotting to annihilate the Jewish State, which should include stopping the salaries of terrorist prisoners and their families.

And it should remove from its books the law that makes it a capital offense to sell land to Jews. Unless Secretary Blinken also believes that Judea, Samaria, and Gaza should be “judenrein” – free from Jews.

HEAR NO EVIL, SEE NO EVIL

On that count, a reporter asked Blinken Tuesday night: “The Israeli Government is still refusing to transfer the PA’s money, and the Minister of Finance Smotrich said yesterday there are 2 million Nazis in Gaza, and I won’t give money to Nazis, just like the US won’t give money to al-Qaida. I would like to have your comment on that.”

Blinken responded: “So, first with regard to the Palestinian Authority revenues, these are their revenues. They should have them. They should have them in order to be able to make sure that they can pay their people who are providing essential services, including doing essential work in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority security forces who are playing a very important role in trying to keep peace, security, and stability in the West Bank – something that’s profoundly in Israel’s interest. So, we believe that those revenues should be released to them. Again, their revenues, and being used to do something that’s important to Israel.”

Nothing about the PA’s use of those revenues to pay terrorists, you got that, right? Wait, there’s more. Blinken next stated: “And when it comes to the future governance of Gaza when the conflict is over, of course, people need to be paid. They need to be able to do the work necessary to administer Gaza, to do the other things that will be critical once the conflict ends.”

Simply put, the Biden administration’s view of Israel’s role, as expressed by Secretary Blinken is simply: “Yours is not to reason why; yours is but to do and die.”

And now, the kiss…

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Does too much diversity result in cacophony and what is too much? 
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The Dei Ruse is Imploding- Part One Victor Davis Hanson

Posted By Ruth King

https://victorhanson.com/the-dei-ruse-is-imploding-part-one/

Diversity

Has there ever been a sane nation in the world that preferred “diversity” to “unity”?

The former Yugoslavia was certainly “diverse,” and it finally stressed its diversity to the point of unending death and destruction. Ditto Rwanda and Iraq.

So what exactly was the advantage of ditching the melting pot for the tribalist salad bowl? What was the historical argument for making race essential rather than incidental to who we are—other than institutionalizing racial bias and prejudice to further the careers of mostly middle-class and upper-middle-class “marginalized people”?

And what sort of diversity did DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) promote? 

Religious?

Not at all, at least in the case of Christianity. Declaring oneself overtly Catholic or Protestant would certainly be unorthodox and “diverse” on campus, but not encouraged and more likely a cause for social or career ostracism.

Ideology? Was diversity designed to ensure a matter of all sorts of political views?

Again, no.

Most polls of faculty, especially on the supposed “elite” campuses—whether calibrated by party identification, donations to political causes and candidates, or by ideology—consistently show somewhere between 90–95 percent of academics identify as Democrats or parties to their left, or as “progressive,” or even further still to the left.

Did diversity imply or include class in its definition? Not at all.

Most academics are from the upper-middle or professional or aristocratic classes. Claudine Gay, for example, is from a rich Haitian immigrant family (family cement magnates)—a world away from East Palestine, Ohio.

She went to one of the nation’s top boarding schools (Phillips Exeter Academy), then Princeton for a year, then Stanford, then Harvard.

Ditto all sorts of “diversity” professionals.

Remember when Joe Biden announced in advance that he would pick only a “diverse” Vice President, as in a black woman—apparently on the post-George-Floyd rationale that we needed a diverse voice close to the president?

Yet both of Kamala Harris’s parents were immigrant PhDs. Her father was a Stanford economics professor, her mother, also an immigrant, was from a well-off Brahmin Hindu caste, a Berkeley PhD, and a cancer researcher. What exactly “diverse” did this upper-middle class elite bring to the White House, other than an anemic résumé jumpstarted through a long liaison with California’s politico Willie Brown?

The list of hoi aristoi whom we feel to be oppressed by deplorables of America could go on. But there is a reason DEI has nothing to do with class since those who benefit most from it so often are not in need and are among our upper classes.

Diversity then is mostly about being non-white, and to a lesser extent non-male or non-heterosexual—and sometimes making a lot of money off ghost racism. It is mostly a careerist enterprise, a sort of indemnity insurance that protects the holder from criticism, reprimand, or dismissal on grounds of “racism,” “sexism,” or “homophobia.”

In the case of Ibram X. Kendi, he siphoned $40 million in corporate cash infusions for his now imploding, “Center for Antiracist Research” at Boston University. That “institute” published almost nothing, conducted little if any research, and had no real existence other than serving as a receptacle for profiteering and grifting in the post-George Floyd and How to be An Antiracist cult era.

Still, Kendi’s haul was a distant second to the $90–100 million that BLM founders bragged was “white guilt money”—and which is still mostly unaccounted for.

DEI elites made the argument to rich liberal bicoastal elites that institutionalizing bias and prejudice would somehow help the underclasses of the inner cities, whose plight was usually off-limits to constructive solutions that circumvented the professional racial grievances industry. And part of the implicit bargain was that using race to promote upper-middle-class professionals along their career paths would alleviate white liberal guilt and ensure indemnity as well.

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Last night (Jan 10) we listened to the interview with Trump as well as the debate between Haley and DeSantis.

Trump has plausible answers to questions but also seems to have a severe problem with insecurity.  I do not question his intelligent, mawkishly playful sense of humor and real accomplishments against every underhanded, despicable effort undertaken by radical Democrats trying to destroy him and his presidency.

The D.C elite , as Levin wrote, don't give a damn about America.  They simply want power and Trump has their number and fear him.

 He has my vote should he get the nomination. My preference, for the nomination, still remains DeSantis.

The debate between DeSantis and Haley was disappointing because they kept aiming their pistols at each other and that turns me off because it is hateful Democrats who they should be attacking and Biden's pitiful and divisive record.

DeSantis is stiff but his record as governor is basically outstanding.  Haley has answers and is a better debater but there remains a slickness that keeps me suspicious. I cannot put my finger on it but it is like I have heard this from politicians before who, when elected, turned out far different than when they campaigned.

Should Trump be re-elected, he will not destroy our republic . Biden has done that. He will not spend his 4 years acting vindictive but his unnecessary verbal attacks will continue and remain turn-offs.

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