The FBI no longer can vacuum up anything.https://townhall.com/columnistAnd:
Furthermore, if Biden had any decency and cared about the nation's welfare he would call off the dogs and tell rabid Democrats to cease their legal actions against Trump. That said, I suspect Biden will make his entire SOTUS nothing but a pathetic, mean spirited blame game.
Finally:
There are times when it is best to keep things simple and not over intellectualize.
I believe it is time to vote for Trump, should he be the candidate, because he will be good for our Democracy. I say this because all the Trump haters say he will destroy our democracy which, of course, is what Biden has been doing since becoming president if statistics mean anything like inflation, like our borders becoming a war zone, like the decline in America's standing in the world, like crime in our major cities, like public despair etc.
Yes, keep it simple, stupid.
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Biden Administration Not Stopping Iran, Russia, China, the Houthis
by Majid Rafizadeh
Posted By Ruth King
What is essential to remember is that the Houthis and other proxies of Iran are in all likelihood deeply apprehensive about the prospect of their senior leadership being targeted. By refraining from targeting Houthi leaders, the United States has inadvertently emboldened the group and allowed them to act with impunity.
In recent months, the Red Sea has become a battleground for attacks by the Iran-backed Houthis of Yemen, with the Biden administration facing mounting criticism for its failure to quell the escalating violence. As the Houthi group continues to build its weapons stockpile in Yemen, supported by the Iranian regime, the urgency of the situation cannot be overstated. It is critical that the United States reevaluate its military strategy to effectively address this growing threat.
The current approach, adopted by the Biden administration, is characterized by a reluctance to directly target Houthi leadership. The administration has opted instead to focus solely on destroying weapons and equipment.
This approach, however, has proven ineffective in deterring the Houthis from launching further attacks. What is essential to remember is that the Houthis and other proxies of Iran are in all likelihood deeply apprehensive about the prospect of their senior leadership being targeted. By refraining from targeting Houthi leaders, the United States has inadvertently emboldened the group and allowed them to act with impunity.
A former US military official, who spoke to CNN on the condition of anonymity, pointed out that the current campaign against the Houthis is similar to previous failed endeavors:
“The US campaign against the Houthis appears to bear the hallmarks of many of these highly circumscribed, scrubbed campaigns of the past where we seek to avoid causing them actual pain.”
The Trump administration’s targeted killing of Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), for instance, resulted in cessation of Iranian harassment of the US as long Trump was in office. If one wants to induce meaningful change in the behavior of the Houthis, unfortunately decisive blows will be necessary.
Sadly, the reliance on cosmetic strikes to destroy Houthi drones and missiles is both financially unsustainable and strategically futile. Continuously expending resources on missiles, worth multi-millions dollars each, to counter far less expensive Houthi weaponry is not a dazzling long-term solution. The Biden administration would be better served targeting Houthi weapons depots and missile launchers to disrupt their military capabilities in a significant way.
Merely intensifying attacks on Houthi infrastructure, however, will not suffice. Without substantially degrading Houthi military capabilities, the recently redesignated terrorist group will continue to pose a significant threat. Therefore, it is imperative to adopt a multifaceted approach that also targets the source of the problem – Iran’s regime.
Recent incidents, such as the seizure of advanced conventional weapons bound for Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen from an Iranian vessel in the Arabian Sea, underscore Iran’s arming of the Houthis. To send a clear message to Iran and compel them to cease supporting the Houthi insurgency, the United States should target Iran’s critical oil infrastructure or military bases.
By targeting Iran’s military capabilities or oil industry, the United States can at least stand a chance of pressuring the Iranian regime to stop providing weapons to the Houthis. That, in turn, will compel Iran to pressure the Houthis to cease their destabilizing activities in the region.
The continued support of the Houthi terrorist group by Iran also exacerbates the suffering of the Yemeni people. By targeting the source of the problem – the Iranian regime – the United States will not only protect its own interests but also alleviate Yemen’s humanitarian crisis.
Iran’s support for the Houthis is just part of its broader strategy to expand its influence and drive the US from the region. Failure to effectively address the Houthi threat not only emboldens Iran but also undermines US credibility and influence in the Middle East, China, Russia, North Korea and South America. The Biden administration needs seriously to demonstrate resolve and leadership in confronting Iran’s destabilizing activities and its nuclear weapons program, to protect the security of US partners and allies in the region.
This applies equally to Russia and China. It is unlikely that Russia will be deterred by sanctions. Putin is now threatening the US, not “just” Ukraine, with nuclear weapons.
As for Chinese Communist Party and its leader Xi Jinping, the Biden administration still has not held them accountable for killing more than 100,000 Americans with fentanyl in the last three years; or for the spy balloon, the illegal police stations, the Confucius Institutes, massive espionage, or buying up US farmland, especially near military bases. There also has been not even inquiry as to surge of more than 24,000 Chinese — many of whom are unaccompanied men of military age — across the US southern border.
The Biden administration’s failure to effectively counter all these threats is quickly approaching a crisis. A strategic reassessment of the current US military strategy is urgently needed. By shifting US focus to target Houthi leadership, and even more, the IRGC leadership, attack weapons depots, and especially targeting the Iranian regime, the United States can disrupt the violence by the Houthis and safeguard stability in the region.
It is high time for bold and decisive action to protect the security and interests of the United States and its allies in the region. The consequences of inaction are potentially catastrophic, not just for the security of the Middle East and the global maritime trade passing through the Red Sea, but to prevent all who are planning to displace the United States as the world’s leading superpower from nurturing the thought.
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh is a business strategist and advisor, Harvard-educated scholar, political scientist, board member of Harvard International Review, and president of the International American Council on the Middle East. He has authored several books on Islam and US Foreign Policy. He can be reached at Dr.Rafizadeh@Post.Harvard.Edu
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To the victor belongs the spoils unless you are Israel.
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Countering pro-Palestinian Propaganda: The "refugees' right of
return"
Few of them are really refugees, most of them left their homes
voluntarily, and no "Palestinian" has a right to claim anything in
Israel. Opinion.
IPT Senior Fellow A.J. Caschettais a principal lecturer at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a fellow at Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum where he is also a Milstein fellow. From the Investigative Project on Terrorism.
The final entry in IPT's "Countering Pro-Palestine Propaganda" concerns one of the most enduring and outrageous claims in the anti-Israel toolbox: that "Palestinian Arab refugees" have a right to claim land, houses, and apartments from which their forebears fled during the 1948 War of Independence.
In truth:
a. few of them are really refugees,
b. most of them left their homes voluntarily, and
c. no "Palestinian" has a right to claim anything in Israel.
In virtually every other conflict in modern history, when a war ends, refugees are resettled in other countries where they eventually become citizens. But after the 1948 war in which Israel fought off its neighbors and won its independence, the Arabs who were encouraged to leave their homes and join one of the invading armies were not allowed to become citizens of Jordan, Egypt, Syria, or Lebanon. Instead they were forced to live in "camps" – cities really – where they could be used as perpetual bargaining tools against the Jewish state. Declared "refugees," their status was used to keep alive a war that had ended. A war the Arabs lost and Israel won.
As Benny Morris put it in 2008, "most of Palestine's 700,000 'refugees' fled their homes because of the flail of war (and in the expectation that they would shortly return to their homes on the backs of victorious Arab invaders)."
Among those overconfident Arab leaders was Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Said who promised to "smash the country with our guns and obliterate every place the Jews seek shelter in."
Syria's Prime Minister, Hayed al Azm, wrote in his 1973 memoir that "we ourselves are the ones who encouraged them to leave."
The Arab National Committee in Jerusalem ordered women, children, and the elderly to leave in March 1948.
In August 1948, the commander of Jordan's Arab Legion said that "Villages were frequently abandoned even before they were threatened by the progress of war."
After the capture of Haifa, a British police officer wrote that "every effort is being made by the Jews to persuade the Arab populace to stay and carry on with their normal lives, to get their shops and businesses open and to be assured that their lives and interests will be safe."
Arabs, on the other hand, dismantled or destroyed the Jewish towns and villages they conquered in the war, among them, according to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, "Beit Ha'arava and Kalya north of the Dead Sea; four kibbutzim of the Etzion Bloc, west of Bethlehem; the Jewish Quarter in Hebron; Atarot and Neve Ya'akov, north of Jerusalem; the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem; Tel Or/Naharayim - the hydro-electric power station built by Pinhas Rutenberg by the Jordan River south of Lake Kinneret; and Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip."
Since Arabs erroneously assumed that Jews would treat them the way they treated Jews, they fled.
In order to cater to these freshly-minted 700,000 "refugees," the United Nations created the Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in 1949. UNRWA has since become indistinguishable from the Palestinian effort to eradicate Israel. Its schools in Gaza have long served as Hamas and PIJ missile launch pads and weapons depots and as cover for Hamas's tunnel entrances, but now we know that the UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City was used to disguise a command center for Underground Gaza, even providing it with electricity.
UNRWA teachers, many of whom cheered on the October 7 massacre, keep alive the hatred fueling the conflict by "encouraging jihad, violence, and martyrdom, as well as promoting antisemitism, conflict discourse, hate, and intolerance," according to the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se). Some 30-plus UNRWA employees even participated in the October 7 assault. There is video evidence of them kidnapping hostages.
The "right of return" demand means that any relative of one of the Arabs who fled in 1948 has a right to claim parts of Israel. It would amount to some 5-7 million people, now calling themselves "Palestinian," transforming Israel into something other than Israel. Jews would be a minority in their own country. The Jewish state would cease to be the Jewish state.
When Palestinian Arab propagandists demand their "right of return", they are demanding the right to erase Israel. The symbol of that alleged right is a key, representing the keys Arabs retained to the houses they left behind in 1948. Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas regularly wears a key-shaped lapel pin, signifying his dedication to the foundational fantasy of the "Palestinian resistance." Were it not for this fantasy, there would be a Palestinian state today. (Ed. note: There are keys to the homes of Jews expelled in 1492 from Spain, let alone keys of Jews who fled the Holocaust. No one is using them to demand return to their former homes.)
After 1948, the best chance for that fantasy to become reality came in the offer for statehood made by Israeli PM Ehud Barak (and engineered by Bill Clinton) in 2000 at Camp David. But Arafat turned it down because it did not grant a "right of return" to Palestinian Arabs. Barak wanted to make a generous offer, but he was not going to consent to Israel's demise. Arafat was more interested in destroying Israel than in negotiating a Palestinian state. What he could not accomplish militarily, he sought to accomplish diplomatically by forcing Israel to admit millions of "Palestinian refugees."
As Sol Stern explains in his masterful evisceration of the "Nakba narrative," Salman Abu Sitta, a member of the Palestine National Council, in 1998 drafted a public letter to Arafat, forcing him to pledge that no peace deal could be made without a "right of return."
The letter asserted that, "We absolutely do not accept or recognize any outcome of negotiations which may lead to an agreement that forfeits any part of the right of return of the refugees and the uprooted to their former homes from where they were expelled in 1948, or their due compensation, and we do not accept compensation as a substitute for return." Arafat acquiesced and invented "Nakba Day" on May 15, 1998.
In 2004, the year Arafat died, he gave a speech on so-called Nakba Day in which he reaffirmed "a sacred right of every Palestinian refugee to return to his homeland, Palestine." No one told Arafat that the losers of wars [started by those losers] do not dictate terms to the winners.
When Sari Nusseibeh, president of Al-Quds University, advised Arafat that he could have either "an independent state or a policy aimed at returning all the refugees to Israel," but not both, Sitta penned another letter to Arafat warning that "the right of return is a sacred and inalienable right that cannot be extinguished with the passage of time nor by any political agreement. It is an individual and collective right and no one has the right to surrender it under any circumstances."
Sitta explains in his memoir, Mapping My Return, that "Palestine is our country. We are Palestinians, rooted in this land. European Jewish colonizers came to our land, carried out the largest ethnic cleansing in Palestine's history, expelled us, took our land, and made us refugees. We are determined to return home."
Palestinian Arab propagandists will go to any length to make the case that they were the original residents of Israel long before any Jews lived there, including denying the authenticity of archeological artifacts confirming Jewish history in Israel thousands of years ago and even if they have Hebrew inscriptions.
But the most preposterous claim (thus far) came in a speech aired May 26, 2023, on Palestine TV, by the president of the Palestinian National Council, Rawhi Fattouh. In an attempt to best Benjamin Netanyahu's assertion that Jews have lived in Israel for 3,000 years, Fattouh boasted that Palestinian Arabs had in fact established Jerusalem in 5,000 B.C. and that "it belongs exclusively to the Palestinians, the Arabs, and the Muslims." Piling it higher and deeper, he added that, "The first human civilization appeared in the ancient caves on Mount Carmel, in Palestine" and, hilariously, "Humans appeared in Palestine 1.5 million years ago."
Considering that Homo sapiens has been around only for about 300,000 years, Fattouh's tale of Palestinian Arabs roaming the land along with the dinosaurs in the Cretaceous period shows that no lie is too outrageous when it comes to "pro-Palestine" propaganda.
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Now or never wake-up call for American Jewish
Progressives
It's out there in the open for all to see. Americans are overwhelmingly
pro-Israel but their leadership is now aligned with the terrorists
Gaza. Op-ed.
It's par for the course to see Progressive American Jews close their eyes and minds to reality as they continue to follow the Democrat breadcrumb trail that leads to the suicidal Masada-like cliff from which they'll willingly jump. Nothing helps in the effort to un-hypnotize them from the lies they ingest reading the NYT and watching MSNBC, even the blocking of Times Square by pro-Hamas protestors when a grenade was found by a cab driver.
They've been doing it since they disembarked at Ellis island and started working as loyal Socialist/Communist labor union members. Nothing has changed even though there are no more Jewish shipping clerks, taxi drivers or garment workers living in the "projects". They are now upper middle class but 70% are still thinking like their immigrant forebearers. Political stagnation. Or is it stupidity?
They are committed to a party whose titular leader is the nation's President, Joe Biden, obviously suffering from cognitive decline. And he, in turn, is under the influence and control of his party's radical congressional element led by The Squad, composed of Jew/Israel/America haters such as AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and a coven of other similar thinking black legislators.
This relationship obviously bodes no good for all Jews, American or Israeli. So, the big question is, why don't liberal Jews see the dangers posed to them and their brethren in continuing their loyalty to the Democrat Party? Why don't they terminate this relationship?
Question: Would blacks continue to remain loyal to a party that advocates for a return to the days of the KKK, poll taxes or separate water fountains? Of course not. They have more self serving, political intelligence than Jews.
We see our administration's current stalwart hostility to Israel's attempts to wipe out Hamas after the October 7th slaughter from Gaza. We see Anthony Blinken's sympathy, not for the victims but for the perpetrators of this mini-Holocaust. We hear of Biden's proposal to hand over hundreds of millions of American $ to Gaza...oops! to Hamas, for rearming and militarizing the area for future Oct. 7th-like slaughters.
There is no Biden/Blinken call for Gazan citizens to turn over Hamas terrorists who hide among them, who use them as human shields.. Or to tell us where the hostages are. Their only demand is for Israel to stop the "persecution" of "innocent" Gazans.
It's out there in the open for all to see. Americans are overwhelmingly pro-Israel but their leadership is now aligned with the terrorists in Gaza and the Palestinian Arab Occupied 'West Bank'.
Strange when you come to think of it: Trump is a total supporter of Israel and just how many Jews support him? When, if ever, will American Jews awaken to the dangers to them, their families and all of us, from the Far Left, Radical, Jew/America hating Democrat Party they continue to support? Don't hold your breath.
And:
Not sure I trust Benny Gantz. He smacks me as being another underhanded politician.
Not sure I trust Benny Gantz. He smacks me as being another underhanded politician.
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JONATHAN S. TOBIN- EDITOR-IN-CHIEF JNS
Harris and Gantz are playing politics with Israel’s future
Instead of promoting a ceasefire and a Palestinian state to undermine Netanyahu, the
message from Washington and Israeli politicians should be for Hamas to surrender.
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Dear Dick, Today marks the 150th day since October 7. For countless Israelis, and many in our community, time has stood still since that fateful morning. For the 134 hostages and their families, this day marks yet another horrific marker in this ongoing nightmare. A new interview was released today with Moran Stella Yanai, a 40-year-old who was taken hostage by Hamas from the Nova Music Festival and held captive for 54 days. While in Gaza, she experienced physical and psychological abuse from the terrorists before she was eventually freed as part of the hostage deal in November. |
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Major Impact on Israeli Children
A new study found that nearly 20,000 Israeli children suffered from physical or mental injuries in the aftermath of the October 7 massacre. JNS reports that, "84% of parents responding to a national survey saying that their children aged 2-12 were in emotional distress, 64% reported fear and 62% reported anxiety."
"In addition, 116 children were left orphaned after the massacre of some 1,200 people, including 20 kids losing both parents and 96 losing one parent."
I encourage you to share the graphics and videos below marking 150 days since the war began, and calling on Hamas to free the hostages now.
Continue to follow AIPAC on social media for the latest updates.
Sincerely,
Alisha Tischler
AIPAC Southeast Regional Director
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Paula Wallace created an amazing educational entity called SCAD:
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