Monday, January 1, 2024

DeSantis Iowa Rally. Move U.N. To Gaza. Fetterman/Zito 87th Day. Hostages









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DeSantis Holds Major Rally on New Years Eve as Iowa Caucus Approaches

By Editor

Ron DeSantis reportedly joined his family, Governor Kim Reynolds, and a packed ballroom of supporters on New Year’s Eve in West Des Moines.

He is well aware that Iowa is crucial to his chances of gaining ground in the 2024 primaries.

The Florida governor is devoting all of his efforts to the Iowa caucuses on January 15, less than two weeks prior, as his poll numbers in New Hampshire, the state where the second primary contest takes place, continue to decline.

In the interim, Donald Trump is organizing an extensive campaign tour of the state, which will encompass eight rallies spanning two weekends.

In the atrium of the Sheraton Hotel in West Des Moines, Iowa, approximately 200 individuals attended a New Year’s Eve party.

DeSantis emphasized the significance of his presidential campaign two weeks prior to the state’s first-in-the-nation primary, which will determine the course of the remainder of the year.

DeSantis, accompanied by his wife Casey and their three young children, addressed his audience on Sunday evening and exhorted them to overcome the odds.

‘I think we have an opportunity to just make a statement that in this country it’s we the people that ultimately decide these things. Because I think you have a lot of media, they don’t think you even matter.’ DeSantis said.

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This from a very dear friend and loyal memo reader. I was thinking China but think his idea better, ie. "birds of a feather" kind of thing.

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Move the United Nations to Gaza

Patriots will be on hand to cheer its departure

COMMENTARY

By Don Feder  - Columnist With Washington Times

Since the United Nations is anti-American to its rotten core, wouldn’t it be happier somewhere else? The war in Gaza is the perfect opportunity to relocate the world body to a more congenial clime. 

Of course, the ideologues masquerading as diplomats will miss the five-star restaurants and high-class hookers they enjoy in Manhattan.

But real estate in Gaza City is dirt cheap, thanks to urban renewal by the Israel Defense Forces. And it would give the U.N. an opportunity to truly express solidarity with its favorite victims. It’s practically part of Hamas as it is. 

Don’t misunderstand me. As a connoisseur of hypocrisy, I appreciate the hollow chest-beating that goes on at the whorehouse on the East River.

Where else can we be lectured about human rights by people who treat women as property, on tolerance by states that make antisemitism their official policy, on climate change by nations that make a killing from fossil fuels and on peace by states that subsidize international terrorism?

In the heady days following World War II, America made the tragic mistake of taking the lead in organizing the United Nations. One of the U.N.’s first acts was to approve a partition plan for Palestine, then a British Mandate, which led to the creation of the state of Israel. Now, it is dedicated to the annihilation of Israel.

When the U.N. was established, a majority of its members were Western democracies. Today, the General Assembly is dominated by totalitarian states, theocracies and nations on the brink of extinction due to dramatically declining fertility. 

The U.N. has a history of antisemitism stretching back decades. Half of all resolutions passed by the Human Rights Commission target Israel.

While assuring us that gang rape, genital mutilation and baking babies alive are not cool, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres insisted that the Oct. 7 atrocities “did not happen in a vacuum.” In other words, how dare Israel fight for its survival. 

The U.N. General Assembly, Security Council and Human Rights Commission all refused to condemn the Hamas horrors. But within hours of the beginning of the ground offensive in Gaza, the United Nations called for an immediate cease-fire, which would give Hamas a chance to regroup and continue its war of extermination later.

The U.N. Relief and Works Agency has 13,000 employees in Gaza, almost half its worldwide total. It doesn’t screen applicants for ties to terrorist groups. Its textbooks used in Palestinian schools celebrate jihad. Its facilities often double as Hamas supply depots.

After Israel’s 1982 withdrawal from Lebanon, U.N. peacekeepers were supposed to disarm Hezbollah and maintain a security zone on the border with Israel. That worked about as well as President Biden on a NordicTrack. Hamas’ allies are estimated to have 150,000 to 200,000 rockets. It draws on that arsenal daily to bombard Israel.

Hatred of Israel is only one aspect of the U.N.‘s anti-Western agenda.

The World Health Organization covered up for Beijing at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Food and Agriculture Organization wants U.N. member states to use subsidies to reduce meat consumption. Perhaps, one day, while U.N. diplomats dine on filet mignon, the rest of us will get to chow down on processed insects. 

The recent U.N. Climate Change Conference was a call to looting. The climate czars want rich nations to provide $100 billion to help developing nations convert to green energy. China — the world’s biggest polluter — will be treated as a developing nation here.

The United Nations leads the charge for Marxism worldwide, whether it’s international income redistribution, forcing the West to open its doors to hordes of Third World mendicants or preparing to grab power during the next pandemic. 

And we get to pay for it. In 2021, our contribution to the U.N.’s budget was $12.5 billion. Lenin predicted that capitalists would finance their own destruction.

Almost 80 years ago, the United Nations was established to, in the words of its charter, “maintain international peace and security, give humanitarian assistance to those in need, protect human rights, and uphold international law.” 

Since then, says Clifford D. May of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, the U.N. has become “the handmaiden of Islamic supremacists, Chinese communists, Russian imperialists and Palestinian terrorists.”

Get the United Nations out of the U.S. and the U.S. out of the U.N. Gaza beckons.

And as the globalist hucksters sail off into the sunset, patriots will be on the dock to wish them bon voyage.

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John Fetterman Plays Against Type

His emergence as a pro-Israel moderate hasn’t surprised Pennsylvania political observers. By Salena Zito

West Mifflin, Pa.

It’s a warm December morning, and Sen. John Fetterman is walking along the Great Allegheny Passage across the Monongahela River from his home in Braddock. “I spend as much time as I can out here,” he says of the trail, which runs 150 miles from downtown Pittsburgh to Cumberland, Md.

full story here:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/john-fetterman-plays-against-type-pennsylvania-centrist-israel-border-security-c39d0a2d

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They blasted Trump for poor personnel choices and not a peep about this sad lady.
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Israel’s 87th Day of War

By Sherwin Pomerantz

On the 87th day of war in Israel, there has been some long-awaited good news.  

While Hamas did fire off 20 rockets into Israel at midnight Sunday, the bulk of Hamas’ launching ability seems to have been neutralized.  As such the Israeli government is about to authorize the return to homes in the south for some of the evacuees who have been living in hotels and other temporary quarters since the beginning of the war.

In addition, now that Israel has successfully neutralized northern Gaza, the IDF is about to release two brigades of soldiers and will permit them to return home later this week.   Clearly their return will be a welcome sight to their families and loved ones who have worried for their safety these past three months.

On the northern border with Lebanon, cross border action continues with sirens heard earlier today in Metulla, the Upper Galilee, and surrounding areas.

Regarding the release of hostages, senior members of the Hamas leadership are in Cairo today for talks with the Egyptians about a new pause in the fighting.

Israel continued pressing its Gaza offensive in the new year, killing a Hamas commander in an air strike and pounding more of the terror group’s infrastructure, the IDF said on earlier today.  An Air Force fighter jet directed by ground forces killed Adel Mesmah, the commander of the Najaba company of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. Masmah commanded the terrorists of this company who attacked Kibbutz Be’eri and Kibbutz Nirim on October 7, where a combined 135 Israelis were massacred. After Israel invaded Gaza, Masmeh continued to lead attacks against Israeli forces.

In northern Gaza’s Shejaiya district, Israeli forces raided a command-and-control center used by both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The forces also discovered many weapons inside a mosque. Ground forces also directed air strikes on a Hamas squad near Khan Yunis launching rockets, and against terrorists who fired a mortar at soldiers. The terrorists in both strikes were eliminated.

Happy, for a change, to offer some hopeful news for the future as we begin 2024.  May we see more of that.

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In New Year’s Message in 10 Languages, Israel’s President Pleas for World to Demand Release of Hamas Hostages

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog delivers a speech during a tribute ceremony at the Halle aux Grains in Toulouse, southern France, on March 20, 2022. Photo: Ludovic Marin/Pool via REUTERS

In a New Year’s message shared on social media before the start of 2024, Israel’s President Isaac Herzog called on the international community “to demand and work for the immediate, unconditional release” of the 133 hostages who are still being held by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip since the Oct. 7 terrorist attack that took place in southern Israel.

“Babies, the elderly, women, men, are being held in brutal captivity by Hamas, without vital medication or visitation from the Red Cross,” Herzog tweeted in the Sunday message, which was posted on X/Twitter in 10 languages.

“Their immediate release is at the core of our battle with Hamas terrorists in Gaza,” he added. “May the light dispel the darkness, and may the New Year bring peace, hope, and healing for all.”

The message was posted on Herzog’s X account in Hebrew, English, Arabic, Spanish, Russian, French, Italian, Hindi, German, and Portuguese.

As we enter 2024, I call on the entire family of nations, on all world leaders, to demand and work for the immediate, unconditional release of our 133 hostages.

Babies, the elderly, women, men, are being held in brutal captivity by Hamas, without vital medication or visitation…

— יצחק הרצוג Isaac Herzog (@Isaac_Herzog) December 31, 2023

The temporary ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, which ended on Dec. 1, resulted in the release of over 100 of the 240 hostages taken by the Palestinian terrorist organization during its surprise attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7, during which the terrorists also slaughtered 1,200 people. Israeli soldiers mistakenly killed three hostages during combat in Gaza.

In exchange for the release of some hostages, Israel released more than 200 Palestinians from Israeli prisons.

At least 6,900 others have been injured in Israel by Hamas and other Palestinian terrorists since Oct. 7, according to figures from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The IDF also said that a total of 506 Israeli soldiers have been killed since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. Of that total, most died during the Oct. 7 massacre, and 172 have been killed in combat in Gaza.

Israel launched its ground offensive in Hamas-ruled Gaza in late October.
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