By Bob Price
A Lebanese migrant apprehended near El Paso, Texas, reportedly claims to be a Hezbollah terrorist. The Lebanese national claimed to be headed to New York and said he wanted to make a bomb.
Border Patrol agents arrested 22-year-old Basel Bassel Ebbadi, a Lebanese national, after he illegally entered the United States from Mexico near El Paso. “I’m going to try to make a bomb,” Ebbadi told Border Patrol agents when asked why he came to the U.S., according to an exclusive report by the New York Post.
Agents captured Ebbadi on March 9 after he crossed the border from Mexico into Texas. The agents transported the Lebanese man to the El Paso hardened facility for processing and investigation. Two days later, Ebbadi told the agents he was going to make a bomb. The agents moved the man to isolation and contacted the Tactical Terrorism Response Team to conduct an interview.
During the interview on March 12, agents Mirandized the man who later admitted to being a member of a foreign terrorist organization.
Ebbadi also reportedly admitted he trained with Hezbollah for seven years and served as an active member for an additional four years. His duties included guarding weapons locations.
During the first four months of Fiscal Year 24, which began on October 1, 2023, nearly 60 migrants illegally entering the United States have been identified as being on the terror watch list. Approximately 270 more were apprehended in the prior two fiscal years — shattering prior records.
Bob Price is the Breitbart Texas-Border team’s associate editor and senior news contributor. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday morning talk show. He also serves as president of Blue Wonder Gun Care Products.
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If you love America, if your care about America and if you care about it's most dependable ally, Israel, and whether you care about Trump or not, you have only one choice in 2024.
If you choose not to vote that is a cop out and if you vote for Biden your judgement is not sound.
Finally, Reagan would have never voted for Biden either. Lehman makes a rational, logical case that does not apply under 2014 circumstances.
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Reagan Would Never Vote for Trump
He also didn’t care much for Biden. Like me, he’d be looking for a strong third-party candidate to support.
By John Lehman
As one of the last senior national-security officials of the Reagan administration still vertical, I must speak.
It was an honor to serve as Navy secretary. The lessons I learned from the Gipper are still my political North Star. He taught his staff that we must be clear-eyed about our enemies, and especially our friends. He showed us how to speak to what makes America great, as well as what needs improvement, but not to tear America down. Most of all, he implored us to remember that strong relationships across the political divide are a great asset. Americans may disagree, he believed, but the true enemy lies beyond our shores.
Reagan’s 11th Commandment was “Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican,” but Donald Trump is no heir to Reagan’s legacy. He is an insult to it. The Reagan I knew would be appalled that someone as unfit as Mr. Trump had become the GOP’s standard-bearer. Reagan would also deeply oppose President Biden’s agenda, and he never trusted or cared much for then-Sen. Biden.
The most fundamental difference between Reagan and Mr. Trump is that Reagan knew America’s friends from its enemies. He would be horrified by the Republican Party’s abandonment of Ukraine at Mr. Trump’s behest. He would recognize Russia’s invasion for what it is: a brutal attempt to reassert its old Soviet dominance on a free people, no matter how many innocents die. Reagan would recognize that supporting Ukraine is both morally correct and good realpolitik, a chance to bog an adversary down. He would find Mr. Trump’s naked admiration of our enemies incomprehensible and dangerous. The man who told Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall” wouldn’t understand how an American president could congratulate a Russian dictator for “winning” a sham election.
Further, Reagan wouldn’t be able to fathom a president going out of his way to insult the leaders of North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies by suggesting that Russia could have its way with them if they didn’t spend more on defense.
Reagan would consider Mr. Trump’s praise for Hezbollah—calling the terrorist organization “very smart” in the wake of Hamas’s massacre of innocent Israeli civilians—unforgivable. Hezbollah is responsible for the most murderous attack on our peacetime military, Oct. 23, 1983, when its jihadists blew up a Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers. Mr. Trump’s praise demonstrates that he has no idea with whom he is dealing, let alone the effect of his words.
Mr. Trump’s praise of adversaries is particularly egregious considering the insults he throws at his own country. In his 2017 inauguration speech Mr. Trump spoke of “American carnage.” It is hard to imagine a phrase more out of sync with Reagan’s “morning in America.” Mr. Trump has spent his entire political career deriding the nation he wants to lead. He called America a “Third World country” and a “laughingstock.” He declared that “the American dream is dead.”
Reagan’s optimism wasn’t merely stylistic. It was substantive. He recognized that a nation that had lost its confidence during the Carter administration needed to be reminded of its greatness. Mr. Trump, it seems, has no understanding of the importance of speaking to the better angels of our nature.
Nor does he understand the importance of speaking with the opposing party. He treats Democrats as villains to vanquish, not as countrymen to be persuaded or outvoted. Reagan’s ability to negotiate—and have genuinely close relationships—with leading Democrats was one of his most underappreciated skills. In partnership with House Speaker Tip O’Neill, Reagan negotiated excellent legislation that defined his administration’s domestic policy. The 1986 Tax Reform Act, the 1987 Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act, and a Social Security compromise of 1983 are three examples among dozens.
Reagan and O’Neill genuinely liked each other. Reagan once thanked Tip for a Valentine’s Day card he’d received, telling him he knew it was from the speaker because “the heart was still bleeding.” On another occasion, when Tip publicly criticized Reagan for sleeping through the Achille Lauro hijacking, Reagan responded to the press that he would promise Tip he would make sure he was awakened immediately for any crisis in the future—“even if it was in the middle of a cabinet meeting.” It was only thanks to Reagan’s close relationship with O’Neill and other country-first Democrats like Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson that I could get the large, steady budgets that allowed America to build the vaunted 600-ship Navy that checkmated the Soviet Union and kept peace on the seas for a generation.
One doesn’t see Reagan’s—or Jackson’s, or O’Neill’s—approach in Mr. Trump or Mr. Biden. Neither man has demonstrated a commitment to peace through strength, as both submitted budgets and proposals that forced the military to disarm while America’s enemies built their capabilities. Nor does one see unity or bipartisanship in their approaches. Gen. Jim Mattis was right when he described Mr. Trump as “the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us.” Mr. Biden is the second such president.
I am a conservative, however, and the Republican Party has been my philosophical home. With Mr. Trump, it has suffered a break-in from a vandal who refuses to leave. And since Mr. Biden has turned his platform over to socialist Bernie Sanders, I am wrapped in the No Labels flag.
Mr. Lehman served as Navy secretary, 1981-87. He is an elector and delegate for No Labels and author of “Oceans Ventured: Winning the Cold War at Sea.”
Netanyahu to world: Did you lose your moral compass so quickly?'
PM says Rafah operation will happen, asks international community why the pressure is on Israel and not Hamas, which started the war.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated today (Sunday) that an operation in Rafah, the last Hamas stronghold in southern Gaza, would take place.
"Since the beginning of the war, we have been fighting on two fronts - the military front and the political front," Netanyahu began, adding that "on the political front, we have so far managed to allow our forces to fight in an unprecedented manner for five full months. But it is no secret that the international pressure against us is increasing."
He added that "there are those in the international community who are trying to stop the war now, before all of its goals are achieved. They do this by hurling false accusations against the IDF, against the Israeli government, and against the Prime Minister of Israel. They do this by trying to bring about elections now, in the midst of the war. And they do this because they know that elections now will stop the war, and paralyze the country for at least six months."
"So let's be clear: if we stop the war now, before all of its goals are achieved, it means that Israel has lost the war, and we will not allow that. Therefore, we must not give in to these pressures, and we will not give in to them," he said. "No international pressure will stop us from realizing all the goals of the war: eliminating Hamas, freeing all our hostages, and ensuring that Gaza will no longer pose a threat against Israel."
He stated that "in order to do this, we will also operate in Rafah. This is the only way to eliminate the rest of the murderous battalions of Hamas, and this is the only way to exert the military pressure necessary to release all our hostages."
"To this end, we have approved the operational plans for the operation in Rafah, including the promotion of the steps to evacuate the civilian population from the battle zones. This is a necessary step towards the military operation," he said.
"I repeat - we will act in Rafah. It will take a few weeks, and it will happen," Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu also conveyed a message to the world: "To our friends in the international community I say: Is your memory so short? So quickly did you forget October 7, the most terrible massacre committed against Jews since the Holocaust? So quickly are you ready to deny Israel the right to defend itself against the monsters of Hamas? Did you lose your moral conscience so quickly?"
"Instead of putting pressure on Israel, which is fighting the most just war, against the cruelest of enemies, direct your pressure against Hamas and its patron - Iran. They are the ones who pose a danger to the region and the entire world." Netanyahu said.
And:
GIL TROY: Beware of Dangerous Advice—An Urgent Letter to President Biden
They’re giving Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran propaganda victories they don’t deserve, weakening Israel and America, and holding Israel to standards America and other democracies never meet.
And::OBiden, remember there is a Jewish Vote .
By Larry M. Levine
President Biden's recent hostility toward Israel and Netanyahu has been described as a political move. It is all about Michigan, the over 250000 Arab vote and his parties well known antipathy towards the Jewish state.
Obiden needs to be reminded there are over 6 million Jews who may not agree on everything but most share their love/support for Israel.
Israel is under unprecedented pressure to bow to the will of its biggest ally, the United States.
Obiden used Shameless Schumer to convey that Bibi is not towing the party line.
What is that?
Stop the war “cease fire”, don’t finish off Hamas.
Biden's “red line” is Israel cannot go into RAFAH, which is a sliver of land on the border with Egypt, where the last remaining 4 brigades of Hamas are located. Rafah is also THE place where weapon smuggling from Egypt to Hamas occurs. THE ROCKETS PLAGUing ISRAEL are COMING FROM , THE EGYPTIANS. Some reports say the smuggling operation is a billion dollar business for Egypt
Create a “two state solution” and reward the Palestinians by giving them yet another state from which to launch genocidal attacks on the last place on earth that is hospitable to Jews. Ambassador David Friedman on Biden's recent hostility toward Israel .
One has to wonder why the world is so up in arms over Israel going into Rafah? If you don’t finish the job Hamas has promised October 7th will happen again and again .
Do I sound dramatic? YES I AM. I have been told by several of my friends who would know that weapons shipments to Israel in the middle of a war have slowed down.
Apache helicopters have NOT delivered since December, any parts. These systems are critical to finish Hamas off in Gaza and to defend northern Israel for the war to come.
Tank artillery shells and other weapons are running out of stock.
Hezbollah has over 150,000 Iranian missiles, of which 50,000 have pinpoint accuracy and superior fire power. Hezbollah could destroy half of Israel.
Over 65,000 Israelis have been displaced from the north during this war.
Israel's economy is on hold. Nobody talks about that.
Whose side is the Obiden administration on?
Biden didn’t mention Iran, the source of all the middle east turmoil during his State of the Union speech. Why?
Foreign policy article on bailing out Iran
JUST A FEW DAYS AGO, THE UNITED STATES RELEASED ANOTHER LOAN WAIVER FOR IRAN of 10 TEN BILLION DOLLARS. MORE MONEY available for FUNDing THE HOUTHIS and Hezbollah .
One of the first acts of the Obiden administration was to remove the Houthis from the terror list.
Obiden recently put them back on since the Houthis have been firing missiles at international shipping and creating economic havoc.
Obiden reversed most of former President Trumps sanctions towards Iran enabling Iran to enrich themselves with billions of dollars in oil revenue.
War to come? Yes, remember I said last fall that this entire war was about Iran and its nuclear capability. Nobody is talking about it, but they now have enough weapons-grade Uranium or, close to it, to arm at least three bombs. They have a robust missile and drone program.
Iran's proxy, Hezbollah, has been firing pinpoint accurate anti tank shells destroying houses and killing scores of Israelis. Israel has been massing troops on the border and responding in kind. ISRAEL CANNOT LIVE WITH THIS THREAT ON ITS NORTHERN BORDER nor elsewhere.
BIDENS “SUPPORT” FOR Israel has been nothing short of a duplicitous con job.
Biden’s initial reactions towards October 7th is laudable. He said all the right things, moved the navy into position, and visited Israel. He vowed to let Israel finish the job against Hamas. Now he embraces Hamas's phony numbers of deaths ( over 30,000 Gazans.) Obiden is using Netanyahu as his straw man and is blaming him for all of Israel's issues. Netanyahu's positions reflect the majority of Israeli's. It is easier to focus his hostility toward Netanyahu than on fascist Islamists.
These numbers were provided by the “ministry of health” HAMAS AND DO NOT INCLUDE COMBTANTS.
Obidens false claim that most of the Gazans are “innocent” must be challenged.
Polling shows an INCREASE in support for Hamas in Gaza since October 7th and an 80 percent plus support for Hamas in the West Bank. This hardly supports the innocent moniker that those on the left use in describing Palestinians.
As time goes on, there is more and more evidence Gazan's and Hamas are one and the same. When the hostages, 85 year old Grandmothers, babies, women and men first arrived at Al Shifra hospital in Gaza they were met with cheers from the staff
UNWRAS headquarters is situated above Hamas command and control communications and intelligence networks . It is ludicrous to believe UNWRA or the United Nationals relief and works agency for “Palestinian refugees” were unaware.
Most, if not all hospitals, mosques, schools have weapons , missile depots and are bases for Hamas to operate.
The Gazans raped, mutilated, and slaughtered Israelis like cattle. Entire families were murdered and mutilated in front of each other. CHILDREN BURNED ALIVE, INCLUDING, BABIES, IN OVENS, YES, OVENS. Hamas engaged every unimaginable cruelty.
Now, our Government wants Israel to reward the “Palestinians with a new state of their own. Most Israelis DO NOT WANT THAT. This sends the wrong message to every terrorist or terrorist group that TERRORISM (CRIME) PAYs.
STOP THEM. We do NOT need another Jewish holiday.
Israel is a modern, civilized democratic state that has accomplished miracles. Israel has made the world a better place. Israel DESERVES TO LIVE and thrive. Now is the time to fight back. We are Jews, we ARE AMERICANS. WE ARE ISRAEL .
Today is the time, the place, and the phone number to call Schumer and let him know he and his Democratic henchmen are on notice NOT to take the Jewish vote for granted and stop the HISTORIC BETRAYAL OF JEWS AND ISRAEL.
AM YISRAEL CHAI - Israel Lives
PASS THIS ALONG AND CALL SCHUMER. 202-224-6542
https://www.schumer.senate.gov/contact/message-chuck
Larry M Levine
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Biden does not care!
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Finally:
Biden Regime Invites Hamas-Linked CAIR to the White House, Then Lies About It
By ROBERT SPENCER
Every aspect of this story is bad, and each horrifying aspect is competing with the others for which can have the most negative consequences for the American people. After Jews suffered attacks in Chicago, the Biden regime reached out not to Jewish leaders, but to Muslim groups, including open supporters of Hamas. The Muslims, however, enraged at the regime’s continued (albeit hollow) support for Israel, refused to show. Then a Biden regime wonk lied brazenly and denied that one of the worst of the Muslim groups was even invited. This is the state of our staggered, sputtering republic in the fourth year of this radically anti-American and anti-democratic regime
This latest imbroglio started when Politico reported Thursday that “Illinois leaders in the Palestinian communities angry over how President Joe Biden has handled the Middle East war have turned down a request by the White House to meet in Chicago today.” We can see who is claiming the moral high ground, and who has the upper hand. After Hamas brutally and gleefully murdered 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023, Islamic groups and their leftist allies immediately began to claim victimhood at any sign of Israeli self-defense, fabricating casualty numbers before a world that was all too eager to be fooled, and even preposterously claiming that Israel was conducting a “genocide” when independent observers have dubbed the IDF “the most moral army in the world.”
Despite all that, Muslim and leftist leaders around the world know that making wild claims about Israel and affecting a posture of aggrieved victimhood can win them ready concessions from the U.S., the European Union, and the United Nations, and so they’ve been striking victim poses aggressively since Oct. 7. It has worked. The Biden regime is on its heels, desperately worried by threats from the likes of Nihad Awad of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the winsome Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah) to withhold the Muslim vote if the regime doesn’t betray Israel. And so it has been doing just that, step by step, in slow motion: $100 million to Gaza, $10 billion to Hamas’ financiers, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and ever-increasing pressure on the Netanyahu government.
Meanwhile, the regime keeps trying to placate the Muslim and Arab groups inside the U.S.: “Tom Perez, a senior adviser to the president, and other advisers had planned to sit down in three separate meetings with various Palestinian, Arab and Muslim leaders and elected officials to talk about tensions in the Middle East. The private meetings were to come on the heels of similar gatherings in Detroit.” The professional victims, however, stayed in character: “But most folks contacted turned down the request, according to six people we talked to. Any meeting being held will be with a smaller group of players.”
Not only did they refuse to meet with White House apparatchiks, but they continued to excoriate the regime for its alleged support of Israel. One Muslim spokesman declared that his group considered “anyone — Palestinian, Muslim, Arab — who takes a meeting with the White House to be an absolute sell-out.” One of those who declined to attend was Ahmed Rehab of Hamas-linked CAIR, who explained: “We believe a thousand percent in civic engagement. We preach it. But this is an unusual moment and requires an unusual response. We have made clear that a ceasefire is needed.”
The outreach to CAIR, whose top dog Awad infamously said that he was “happy” about Hamas’ Oct. 7 jihad massacre, embarrassed even the Biden regime apparatchiks. Jewish Insider correspondent Gabby Deutsch stated: “WH spox @AndrewJBates46 told me that CAIR was *not* invited to WH mtgs in Chicago w/ Muslim Americans—& that the group is NEVER invited to WH mtgs.”
This just piled embarrassment upon embarrassment. Unfortunately for the wretched regime wonk Bates, CAIR has been frequently invited to the Biden White House, and has posted press releases detailing the meetings. But the idea of the regime kowtowing to an organization with actual Hamas ties is too much even for Biden’s handlers, and so Bates was apparently instructed to lie about the meetings, exposing the Biden team as both dishonest and pro-Hamas.
Even worse is the timing. Richard Goldberg of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies pointed out that “since Friday: Pro-Hamas anti-Semitic rioters in Chicago intimidated the House of Blues to cancel a Jewish singer’s sold-out show. The venue cited security concerns. Loyola University told Jewish students they could no longer allow a survivor of the Nova music festival massacre to speak on campus. The university cited security concerns. Jews were attacked while trying to enter a theatre to watch footage of the Nova music festival massacre. Jews are not even allowed to mourn the massacres without being attacked in the city of Chicago. The mayor says nothing. The president says nothing. But the White House is sending staff to meet with the organizers of these violent riots and assaults instead of defending the Jews they are trying to drive underground.”
That’s right. And if this is happening more or less out in the open, albeit with inept and half-hearted attempts to cover it up, imagine the betrayals that are going on behind the scenes.
Robert Spencer
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 27 books, including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad, The History of Jihad, and The Critical Qur’an. His latest book is Empire of God: How the Byzantines Saved Civilization. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here. For media inquiries, contact communications@pjmedia.com.
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