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Wait, The Biden Administration Is Going to Label Jewish Goods Now? Sounds Pretty Hitlerian.
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Bezalel Smotrich to Netanyahu: 'Only the cabinet has the authority to make decisions in war'
Finance Minister sent a letter to the Prime Minister calling on him to meet with the expanded Security Cabinet to discuss the current situation of the war.
Religious Zionist Party Chairman, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, sent an urgent letter to Prime Minister Benjamin in which he called on him to convene the Security Cabinet immediately following reports of the war's intensity being turned down.
"Due to the current situation of the withdrawal of maneuvering forces from Gaza and the lowering of war's intensity in general, while delaying the advance into Rafah for weeks, together with reports of Israel's willingness to discuss the return of Gazan civilians to the northern Gaza Strip and to in fact end the war, and in addition to reports about the negotiation teams the full mandate, I demand that you convene the cabinet this evening for a special discussion in which we will receive a full update and all of the information on the condition of the war," Smotrich wrote to Netanyahu.
He noted that "the only forum that is authorized to make decisive decisions during the war is the expanded cabinet, but unfortunately, things aren't working that way and we see that decisions are being made in the War Cabinet without approval or updating the expanded cabinet under international pressure which harms the war's momentum and our security interests.
"For weeks I've been warning that instead of taking the foot off the petal, we need to intensify the pressure on Hamas in Gaza, and that is the only way we can bring back the hostages and destroy Hamas. Therefore I repeat my demands to convene the expanded cabinet by this evening for an urgent discussion on the matter," Smotrich concluded.
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The Supreme Court never should have decided Wade. They over stepped their authority . Liberal Justices love to meddle where they have no business being. The decision should always have been left to the states ad now will be if Trump is elected.
Trump's decision is the beginning of returning America to it's constitutional roots. The radical Democrats accuse him of destroying America. No way Trump can do that because there is nothing left of destroying America. Obama and Biden beat him to the punch.
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Trump Says Abortion Should Be Left to States
Former President Donald Trump says the states should decide abortion rules ‘by vote, or legislation, or perhaps both.’
By Zachary Stieber
Former President Donald Trump said on April 8 that decisions on abortion restrictions should be left to states, as he declined to back a national-level limit.
“My view is now that we have abortion where everyone wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will determine by vote or legislation, or perhaps both. And whatever they decide must be the law of the land. In this case, the law of the state,” President Trump said in a video posted on Truth Social, his social media platform.
“Many states will be different. Many will have a different number of weeks, or some will have more conservative than others, and that’s what they will be. At the end of the day, this is all about the will of the people,” he added.
The former president also said he supports fertility treatments like in vitro fertilization, or IVF.
The former president had promised to disclose his stance on “abortion and abortion rights” as a law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy is set to take effect in Florida, his home state. Florida residents will vote in November on a ballot initiative that would allow abortions through roughly 26 weeks of gestation. When he was president, President Trump supported a 20-week national ban. While campaigning, he’s criticized six-week bans.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, said that President Trump’s position was disappointing.
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“Unborn children and their mothers deserve national protections and national advocacy from the brutality of the abortion industry. The Dobbs decision clearly allows both states and Congress to act,” she said in a statement.
In its 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, the earlier Supreme Court precedent that deemed access to abortion a constitutional right, returning the ability to regulate abortions early in pregnancy to the states.
“Saying the issue is ‘back to the states’ cedes the national debate to the Democrats who are working relentlessly to enact legislation mandating abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy. If successful, they will wipe out states’ rights,” Ms. Dannenfelser added.
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Karoline Leavitt, the national press secretary for President Trump’s 2024 campaign, said on Newsmax that he “supports the rights of states to decide on this issue.”
She added: “He wants the people to have the say. He wants it to be up to the will of the people.”
Since the Dobbs decision, many Democrat-led states have passed laws enshrining access to abortions while many Republican-led ones have approved legislation banning or severely limiting the procedure.
Mini Timmaraju, CEO of Reproductive Freedom for All, said that President Trump “by endorsing state limits, supports the most extreme bans in the nation.”
Ammar Moussa, an official with President Joe Biden’s campaign, said Monday that “Donald Trump is endorsing every single abortion ban in the states, including abortion bans with no exceptions.”
President Biden has repeatedly said he supports women getting abortions, and opposed the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.
Most voters and many lawmakers favor allowing abortions early in pregnancy but placing some type of limits on them. Some Democrats are against any limits while some Republicans favor total bans.
A majority of Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives this year said they support a national ban on abortions after 15 weeks.
President Trump previously suggested that may be appropriate. “The number of weeks now, people are agreeing on 15. And I’m thinking in terms of that,“ he said in a recent radio interview. ”And it’ll come out to something that’s very reasonable. But people are really, even hard-liners are agreeing, seems to be, 15 weeks seems to be a number that people are agreeing at.”
Voters and lawmakers also have differing views on whether there should be exceptions to bans and, in which scenarios exceptions should be available. Common exceptions include cases of incest.
President Trump over the weekend that “Republicans, and all others, must follow their hearts and minds, but remember that, like Ronald Reagan before me, I, and most other Republicans, believe in EXCEPTIONS for Rape, Incest, and Life of the Mother.”
He suggested it would be difficult to win the 2024 election if he came out too strongly against abortion.
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Tragic World Central Kitchen Aid Workers Incident Exposes Rank Hypocrisy |
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The tragic killing of the seven aid workers in Gaza in an IDF drone strike has undoubtedly changed the direction of Israel’s war against Hamas. AND:
++++ The 185th Day of War in Israel By Sherwin Pomerantz As we enter the seventh month of fighting in Gaza, Israel has lost 260 soldiers in battle. Since October 7th, more than 600 soldiers and security personal have been killed. On October 7th, more than 1,250 Israelis were murdered by Hamas terrorists, and over 250 were taken prisoner. 134 hostages, many presumed no longer alive, remain captive in Gaza. The IDF said Sunday that it had withdrawn a division of ground troops from the southern Gaza Strip, as international mediators gathered with hopes of brokering a temporary cease-fire six months into a war that has now become the longest involving Israel since the 1980s. Israel has significantly reduced the number of troops it has on the ground in Gaza over the past several months. Only a fraction of the soldiers that it deployed in the territory earlier in the war against Hamas remain. Now, the last group of Israeli soldiers in the southern city of Khan Younis has left Gaza in order “to recuperate and prepare for future operations,” the army said. The withdrawal of the soldiers, members of the 98th Division, means that no Israeli troops are actively maneuvering in southern Gaza, the Israeli news media reported. But Israeli officials made clear that the army would stay in other parts of Gaza to preserve its “freedom of action and its ability to conduct precise intelligence-based operations.” The drawdown from Khan Younis, about four months after the IDF entered southern Gaza, raised questions about Israel’s plans in the face of widespread calls for it to de-escalate the conflict. It was also unclear what it might signal about Israel’s oft-stated plan to invade the southernmost city of Rafah, where more than a million have fled to escape the fighting. Of course, with the withdrawal Hamas began firing rockets into Israel once again with five having been released earlier today. Six months after the Hamas attack on Israel, 27,000 Israeli evacuees remain in hotels, mostly from communities along Israel’s northern border, the Israeli Tourism Ministry announced on Sunday. The number represents a steep drop from the more than 90,000 Israelis who were sheltered in hotels after the Oct. 7 massacre, even as the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip rages on and amid a volatile situation on Israel’s northern border. Of the 27,000 people still housed in hotels, 21,000 are from communities along the northern border, while only 6,000 are from southern Israel, according to the ministry, which has paid the hotels 3.2 billion shekels ($850 million) to house the evacuees to date. Seventy percent of evacuees from Gaza-border towns have since returned home despite ongoing intermittent rocket fire from the Hamas-ruled territory, according to Israeli military figures. The drop in occupancy among evacuees at hotels nationwide also comes as the ministry is planning for post-war tourism to Israel after a virtual industry collapse over the last six months.
Activities continue to heat up on the northern border with Lebanon. Israel has attacked sites deep inside Lebanon including in Tyre near the coast. At the same time volleys of rockets were fired overnight from Lebanon aimed at the Golan Heights. No injuries were reported. Good news has emanated from Cairo today with Egyptian State Radio reporting that progress in the negotiations for the release of the hostages has been made during the meetings there this week. There is general agreement now between Israel and Hamas for the release of hostages in return for a temporary cessation of hostilities and the release of prisoners being held by Israel. Both teams have left Egypt to return to their respecting homes for consultation and is it expected that the negotiators will reconvene in Cairo later this week. Let us hope that the meeting in Cairo to continue dialogue about freeing the hostages will bear fruit so that those still alive may return to their loved ones. And: We Need to Redirect the World’s Outrage By Sherwin Pomerantz (Jerusalem Post On September 18, 2021 the Associated Press (AP) reported that the Pentagon in Washington retreated from its defense of a drone strike that killed multiple civilians in Afghanistan the prior month, announcing that a review revealed that only civilians were killed in the attack, not an Islamic State extremist as first believed “The strike was a tragic mistake,” Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, told a Pentagon news conference. McKenzie apologized for the error and said the United States is considering making reparation payments to the family of the victims. He said the decision to strike a white Toyota Corolla sedan, after having tracked it for about eight hours, was made in an “earnest belief” — based on a standard of “reasonable certainty” — that it posed an imminent threat to American forces at Kabul airport. The car was believed to have been carrying explosives in its trunk, he said. For days after the August 29th strike, Pentagon officials asserted that it had been conducted correctly, despite 10 civilians being killed, including seven children. News organizations later raised doubts about that version of events, reporting that the driver of the targeted vehicle was a longtime employee at an American humanitarian organization and citing an absence of evidence to support the Pentagon’s assertion that the vehicle contained explosives The airstrike was the last of a US war that ended as it had begun in 2001 — with the Taliban in power in Kabul. “Clearly our intelligence was wrong on this particular white Toyota Corolla,” Mackenzie said. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, in a written statement, apologized for what he called “a horrible mistake.” “In a dynamic high-threat environment, the commanders on the ground had appropriate authority and had reasonable certainty that the target was valid, but after deeper post-strike analysis our conclusion is that innocent civilians were killed,” then US Chaiman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley added. Amnesty International, the humanitarian aid group, called the U.S. military’s admission of a mistake a good first step. For the record, the President of the United States at the time was none other than Joe Biden, the same president who was so “outraged” at what happened here with the deaths of the 7 WCT workers that it caused him to give Prime Minister Netanyahu a “dressing down” over the issue. While we will be forever indebted to him and the US for the unwavering support we have received during this war, it was paternal support not a case of sibling assisting sibling. When its paternal, if you step out of line in the eyes of the father you get “dressed down.” By the way, to add further perspective, according to research by the Watson Institute of International & Public Affairs at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, the US post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, and Pakistan took a tremendous human toll on those countries. As of September 2021, an estimated 432.093 civilians in these countries have died violent deaths as a result of the wars. As of May 2023, an estimated 3.6-3.8 million people have died indirectly in post-9/11 war zones. The total death toll in these war zones could be at least 4.5-4.7 million and counting, though the precise mortality figure remains unknown. Most likely, although the mistake in Kabul occurred less than three years ago, my guess is very few people other than the affected families remember the details today. Sounds familiar, does it not? Indeed, the parallels to the tragedy that occurred here in Israel with the inadvertent killing of seven members of World Central Kitchen (WCK) who were involved in much-needed humanitarian work encouraged and supported by the Israeli government, are eerily similar. Because this is war, and in war zones, as both the US said at the time about Afghanistan and our leadership said about those deaths in Gaza, mistakes happen…..they should not happen, we wish they would not happen, it is truly terrible that they do happen but happen they do. (As an aside the Israel Defense Force’s Chief of Staff fired two senior commanders who had overall responsibility for the WCK error here and reprimanded a number of lower level people as well.) Yet in 2021, there was no worldwide outrage, no call for a special Security Council Session to censure the United States, no call to boycott America, but rather an overall acceptance that the price of war is high and, sadly, sometimes civilians are left to pay the bill. But here the situation involved Israelis (read: Jews) who were the ones responsible and the world certainly loves to blame Jews for all of its ills. After all, we are so easy to hate. Rabbi David Wolpe, Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Sinai in Los Angeles, now at Boston’s Harvard University for the year, addressed this issue in a talk at the university’s Divinity School in March. During that talk he mentioned how easy it is for people to hate Jews. To use his words,” If you hate socialists, you can hate Jews; if you hate capitalists, you can hate Jews; if you hate communists, you can hate Jews.” It is almost as if we are the world’s unifying factor. We are even a unifying factor in the Arab world. The 22 Arab countries in this part of the world do not get along very well but the one thing that unites them is that they don’t like Jews. It does not appear that the world wants to accept the fact that we are fighting a war in our defense, a war we did not start nor did we want, with an enemy that on October 6th actually had most of what it is now demanding of us but really wanted to kill Jews, so they attacked. They really wanted to scare us sufficiently so that we would pack up and leave. And if need be, they would be willing to do so again and again and again until they rid this small corner of planet earth of every last one of us. It is that fact that should outrage the world in order to give meaning to the words “never again.” Until that outrage is properly redirected, we will never be safe and must always be ready to defend ourselves and our land I listened to a brilliant presentation today by : Eran Ortal Eran Ortal is a reserve IDF brigadier-general and a military theorist. He commanded The Dado Center for Interdisciplinary Military Studies, and is the founder and editor of the center’s journal, Bein Ha-Ktavim. He graduated from the IDF's National Security College and holds an MA in security studies from Tel Aviv University. I took notes as best I could and will rephrase his comments and hope I capture the essence of what he said as follows: He began with a chilling comment. Israel could no longer continue to believe they could fight un-sustained wars. Iran's ability to fight through proxies and because Iran was able to finance proxies and the manner in which their proxies fought , both from a military as well as propaganda, the AIF was neutered to a large degree. Consequently Israel would have to fight on the ground, get closer to their adversaries' misssiles and rocket launches. He described Israel, because of it's size as David but, because of their ability to neutralize their adversaries, their military became know as the Goliath. Now that Israel must fight sustained wars their Military is back to being David and at a severe disadvantage, " Decades ago Israel sought to control the battlefield and engage in quick strikes from the air. This is the first sustained war Israel has ever fought. Rocket and missile attacks from Gaza and Hezbollah changed war dynamics. Israel was slow to react because the politicians were late in readjusting to the new phase and dynamics of war. Bibi is due for a large share of the blame for not recognizing this evolution. Israel has backed itself into a corner as Hamas and Hezbollah devised the "perfect solution to what the IAF had otherwise been successful. Hamas neutralized the IAF both militarily and politically by going undergrounds and hiding behind civilians and being beneath hospitals, schools etc.. The war now is back to to a ground one where Israel can take advantage only by occupying enemy territory and getting closer to the enemy with their own missiles and rockets. Ortal did not get into the politics of the shift but iti s obvious that Obama and Biden's policies allowed Iran to reach the point where they were able to finance proxies and thus, force Israel to lose the advantage of short decisive military responses. Frankly here is where I do not see Israel's advantage because the fascist Islamist terrorists remain underground, still hiding behind their own. However, I understand Hamas has less time to fire effectively with Israel breathing down their necks and thus might be more vulnerable to attack.? I assume they will publish a review of Ortal's presentation. Ortal is brilliant, for sure, but hard to understand all his English and he tried to get a lot in.in 15 minutes. +++++++++++++++++++++++++ |
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Vandy Student Arrested After Pro-Hamas Sit-In Has Ties to the White House, Muslim Brotherhood-Linked Org
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Vandy Student Arrested After Pro-Hamas Sit-In Has Ties to the White House, Muslim Brotherhood-Linked Org
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaa
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