Out Of Bounds. Carter Train. 118th Day. Star Speaks. Oregon Supremes.

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Panted with blood of American troops.

 

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I believe every corporate board that threw money at Stacy Abrams' political shake down should be sued for dereliction of corporate/and stockholder responsibility.  If boards want to change social behaviour of corporations, for the benefit of society, or make reasonable charitable expenditures, for the benefit of certain societal endeavors, that is another matter. However, spending stockholder money for questionable political purposes is out of ethical bounds.

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Biden's Border Lies Backfire With Swing Voters

By Spencer Brown

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This Part of a GOP Congresswoman's Speech on Censuring Ilhan Omar Was Very Appropriate

By Matt Vespa

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The Carter Train And Islamist anti-Semitism

10/7 ripped the mask off many who were naïve and this includes Jews and non-Jews.. The tragic irony is those who have taken to and are currently in the streets, hawking their anti-Semitism, wear masks.  Why?  One would think they would be proud of their views and would be more than willing to show their faces.

Let me go back over 40 years when Dr. William Rottersman, at the time, the dean of Atlanta Psychiatrists, had resigned as Georgia's head of Mental Health, having been appointed by Governor Jimmy Carter.  

I inquired of Bill, who was a dear friend, why he resigned.  He replied, Carter was one of the worst administrators he had ever dealt with and then continued predicting Carter would ultimately become an enemy of Israel. Again, I asked what caused him to believe that and he replied, because Carter was a devout closed minded Baptist, full of misplaced anger.

Some years later, Carter accused Israel of being an apartheid nation and two brainless Ivy League university professors climbed aboard Carter's anti-Semitic train. 

Liberal Atlanta Jews threw their support and money at Carter's first presidential campaign. Even I voted for him, not because I thought he was exceptional but, because he was a Georgian. I stupidly voted my geographical bias.

After 4 years, many, including myself, fled from Carter and he blamed Jews for his defeat.

When Zionism was equated with racism and apartheid most Jews and even Israelis were asleep.

This connection, begun by radical Islamists, however, did not die the fate it was due.  Instead. it spread it's wings and eventually was embraced by more prominent professors who were able to indoctrinate the amorphous minds of know nothing students. 

The next phase in it's development was the passivity of Universities and the embrace by many Presidents and administrators in the Ivy League  and you know the rest.

I wrote a recent essay about the fact I was saddened anti-Semitism had emerged, once again, from the sewers but at least took comfort in the fact it could now be dealt with after having re-surfaced. Anti-Semitism is a virus which is buried deeply in the psyche and mind set

of millions and thus, difficult to treat and erase etc.

The greatest threat is that anti-Semitism has reached into the bowels of social media technology and lamentably, far too many do not equate barbarism as a realistic assault/threat to civilization, ie. life, liberty and free speech among other civil virtues. Islamist terrorism is meant to spread distrust, to intimidate, to spread fear and to silence.

When you accuse one of being a Zionist you are seeking to replace their Jewishness.  Doing that means you object to Israel, the sole Jewish nation, Jewish history, Jewish culture etc.  Don't forget, Zionism existed long before Israel was established.

This what 10/7 is all about and this is the goal of Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood all the way down to brainless  students who have taken  over college and university campuses with their sickening behaviour and uneducated drivel.

When Universities, like Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, NYU, Penn, Michigan,  Yale and others, tolerate anti-Semitism and campus expression of hatred toward Jews and their students, they are allowing and supporting a threat to civilization to blossom, thrive and eventually to their own being.  Have no doubt the initial thrust may be at Jews but eventually these radical Islamists are coming for you. Demographics do not lie and will allow it to occur in a few decades.

Theirs's  is not a true compassionate religion that embraces the Ten Commandments. It is a wicked  political theology intended to grow it's power ad subsume the civilized world. 

I won't be around to witness my concern nor is Rottersman but the Carter Train is gathering momentum, speed  and acceptability.

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Israel’s 118th Day of War 

By Sherwin Pomerantz

Regarding the current situation of a hostage release deal, Hamas is unlikely to reject the Gaza ceasefire proposal it received from mediators this week but will not sign it without assurances that Israel has committed to ending the war, a Palestinian official close to the talks said on Thursday.  Qatari and Egyptian mediators presented Hamas with the first concrete proposal for an extended halt to fighting in Gaza, agreed with Israel and the United States at last week’s talks in Paris. Hamas has said it is studying the text and preparing a response.

 

The Palestinian official said the Paris text envisions a first phase lasting 40 days, during which fighting would cease while Hamas freed remaining civilians from among the 139 hostages it is still holding. Further phases would see the release of Israeli soldiers and the handover of the bodies of dead hostages.  "I expect that Hamas will not reject the paper, but it might not give a decisive agreement either," said the Palestinian official speaking on condition of anonymity.  "Instead, I expect them to send a positive response and reaffirm their demands: for the agreement to be signed, it must ensure Israel will commit to ending the war in Gaza and pull out from the enclave completely."  The only pause in the fighting so far, at the end of November, lasted only a week. 

 

As for our casualties, 223 Israeli soldiers have died since the beginning of the war, in addition, of course, to the 1,200 people killed on Ocober 7^th itself.   Thousands more have been injured as well.

 

On the Lebanese border The Defense Ministry on Thursday announced that 427 houses of northern residents have suffered structural damage by Hezbollah rockets and anti-tank missiles since October.  80 of the houses have experienced direct hits and much greater damage. Approximately 80,000 northern residents evacuated their homes in October under fire by Hezbollah once the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza started.  Cross border incidents continue although Lebanese government officials have, earlier this week, made statements saying they are not prepared to offer up their population as fodder for a war by Hezbollah against Israel.  On the Israeli side the IDF continues to speak about patience running out and the possibility of an incursion into Southern Lebanon which is controlled by Hezbollah.

Future Leadership

Continuing our search for new people to enter the political arena after the war ends, we highlight Aharon Aharon, the founder of tech company CPorto and former CEO of the Israel Innovation Authority, an independent public entity that operates for the benefit of the Israeli innovation ecosystem and Israeli economy as a whole. Its role is to nurture and develop Israeli innovation resources, while creating and strengthening the infrastructure and framework needed to support the entire knowledge industry.

 

Prior to his role at the Authority, Aharon served as the VP of Hardware Technologies and General Manager of Apple Israel. His previous roles were Co-founder, CEO, and chairman of Camero, a startup developing through-the-wall micro-power radars, active Chairman of the Board at Discretix, a startup providing solutions for data security, CEO of Seabridge, a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens and COO of Zoran. Prior to that, he held a number of senior management positions at the IBM Research Division.

 

Aharon holds a B.Sc and M.Sc in Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering respectively from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he lectured for more than 15 years.

 

Israel will need all the newly minted talent it can find as it works to re-establish the confidence of the electorate in the government’s capability to protect us.  May it be so and soon.   

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Star tracks defense expenditures as % of GDP. 

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Star's Column: Freedom Is Not Free "One picture worth a thousand words is a graph on the U.S. Department of Defense website showing U.S. annual Defense spending as a percentage of GDP, going back to 1953. Two things jump out. First, the lowest over the 70-year period was in 1999, at the end of the Clinton administration, when it stood at 2.7%. This is a little more than half the previous low, which stood at 4.5% 20 years earlier, in 1979....."

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