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Just returned from wedding in Sarasota. This was mostly written before I left on Wednesday.
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Politicians dance around issues but can never match these dancers:
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BIBI decides it is time to go after Hezbollah tunnels and he informs America that Israel will do more if the world community does not crackdown on Hezbollah. (See 1, 1a and 1b below.)
And:
Written 8 months ago and worth of re-reading. (See 1b below.)
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I am proud of all my children, grandchildren and great granddaughter but I am particularly proud of a recent decision by my Louisville Grandson to leave his TV reporter position.
After three positions at various TV stations, beginning in Wyoming, then Arkansas and more recently Louisville, Kevin decided to quit, go back to school and get a master's degree and strike out in new direction. Why? His interest was always to be be an investigative reporter but he eventually learned the TV stations he worked for were not interested in controversy, in putting themselves at risk of law suits etc. What he learned, more or less, confirms what I have been saying about the media business today. They want to entertain. They are not interested in serving the public in the role of social ombudsmen. This is both sad and dangerous. Apparently they have willingly abdicated one of their most important roles.
Kevin loves digging, finding dirt and exposing the "bad guys." When he learned what he had been told would not come to pass he decided he did not want to spend the rest of his life living a lie and a bland one at that.
Go Kevin. For what it is worth Grand Pa Me is proud of you and your decision. You will do fine in whatever you choose as a career because you are decent, hard working,care for your fellow man, seek justice and are intellectually honest and there still is a place , albeit a shrinking one, for the likes of Kevin's.
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The new book about Trump and those who sought his defeat and how they tried to engineer same. This same radical is embraced by a growing number of Democrats.
Also, today an office holding Democrat stated that Democrats knew more and were smarter than most anyone else. (See 2 below.)
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Linda Sarsour is not your garden variety anti-Semite.(See 3 below.)
As the creep of " radical creeps" make inroads history demonstrates that, over time, they are eventually rejected. Think McCarthy and how he self-destructed. The hope is that this will continue to be our history.
My concern is that our future generations are not as well educated, knowledgeable and able to reason and thus, more susceptible to the siren song of the radical's message which seeks our republic's destruction.
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1) By Judah Ari Gross for the Times of Israel,
IDF Northern Command on high alert as army starts ‘neutralizing’ not-yet operational passages into Israeli territory from southern Lebanon; Metulla area declared closed zone.
The military said it believed these tunnels were for offensive purposes, unlike the tunnels and underground bunkers used by Hezbollah during the 2006 Second Lebanon War, which were primarily used for its defensive strategies.
Conricus said the tunnels “are not yet operationally ready” and therefore did not pose an “immediate threat.”
The operation came as tensions on Israel’s northern border have ramped up in recent days, and hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Brussels for a meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to discuss Iran and security challenges on Israel’s northern border, likely referring to Hezbollah.
Israeli security chiefs were holding security assessments throughout the day on Tuesday in order to predict Hezbollah’s reaction to the IDF operation.
The Israeli military’s Arabic-language spokesperson called on Hezbollah members and Lebanese citizens to keep away from the tunnels. “You’ve been warned,” he wrote on Twitter.
Israel has long said that Hezbollah planned to conduct cross-border raids in any future conflict, with the specific goal of attacking and conquering a civilian town near the border. Northern residents have raised fears in recent years of attack tunnels being dug under the border, spurring the IDF to launch a task force to investigate the concerns in 2014.
“[Hezbollah’s] main goal is to kill as many people as they can in [Israeli] villages and army bases,” a senior officer IDF officer said earlier this year, in a briefing to reporters on the Lebanese border.
The IDF operation began in the predawn hours of Tuesday morning. The military declared the area around the community of Metulla a closed military zone, but gave no other special instructions to Israeli civilians in the area.
The army said the operation was expected to expand to other locations along the Israeli-Lebanese border in the coming days. A spokesman said the operation might last weeks.
1a) Netanyahu Warns U.S.: Stop Hizbullah's Militarization Or Israel Will
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday met with top American diplomat Mike Pompeo in Brussels, where he reportedly warned that unless the international community cracks down on Hizbullah, Jerusalem will take matters into its own hands.
The premier has for months been sounding the alarm over Hizbullah’s construction—at the behest of its Iranian patron—of underground facilities capable of producing precision-guided missiles that can reach anywhere in Israel.
This comes amid reports that Tehran has started transferring weapons directly to its underling through Beirut, as opposed to via Syria where Israel has over the past two years conducted hundreds of aerial attacks targeting Iranian assets.
For his part, Pompeo reiterated Washington’s commitment to “confronting the totality of the Iranian regime’s threats through maximum pressure,” adding that the U.S. supports the Jewish state’s “absolute right to self-defense.”
The Trump administration in May withdrew from the 2015 nuclear accord and has since slapped two rounds of sanctions on the Islamic Republic targeting its crucial energy, shipping and banking sectors.
The American secretary of state this weekend accused Iran of violating a United Nations resolution by testing a medium-range ballistic missile “capable of carrying multiple warheads” that can target parts of Europe.
1b) The Looming Cloud of Conflict With Iran
By Seth Frantzman - The Hill
Iran — Israel’s greatest adversary in the region — has been growing in influence in the Middle East and its allies wield significant power in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
1b) The Looming Cloud of Conflict With Iran
By Seth Frantzman - The Hill
Iran — Israel’s greatest adversary in the region — has been growing in influence in the Middle East and its allies wield significant power in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
In November 2017, Israel warned that Iran was building permanent military bases in Syria; satellite photos showed such a base south of Damascus. Airstrikes against that base came weeks later. Then, in February, an Iranian drone launched from the T-4 base in Syria flew into Israeli airspace and was downed by an Israeli helicopter. Subsequent airstrikes against targets in Syria led to the downing of one Israeli F-16.
The number of confrontations with Iran in Syria have led to a kind of routine in Israel. The public has become accustomed to stories about the Iranian threat. Israel officially remains mum on any airstrikes, although its former air force commander, Amir Eshel, has said there were more than 100 strikes in the past five years.
This is more than a shadow war. For the first time, Iran published photos of those killed in the April 9 raid and Russia has become more critical of Israel’s actions, two signs that tensions are emerging from the shadows.
Until now, Iran has not responded to raids on bases in Syria. This is likely because Iran is a close ally of Damascus and it must balance its desire to build influence in Syria with knowledge that a wider war with Israel could threaten its ally, Syria. Senior Israeli security officials have threatened that if Iran strikes at Israel, it will topple Syria’s government.
Russia has a role to play, since it doesn’t want its allies in Iran and Syria imperiled. And Iran’s goal is not just to harass Israel; it also wants to use Syria as a conduit of influence to Lebanon, where it supplies Hezbollah with weapons, training and assistance.
The Iran-Israel war of words about Syria, therefore, is played out as carefully as a game of chess. For the Israeli public, this means that the clouds of war hover over — but haven’t darkened — the Independence Day celebration. Still, there lurks the risk that increasing tension between the United States and Russia, or any slight miscalculation among all the players jockeying their next moves, could lead to greater conflict as Iran seeks ways to retaliate against Israel.
Seth J. Frantzman is the executive director of the Middle East Center for Reporting and Analysis and a writing fellow at Middle East Forum.
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Hizbullah's Operational Plan to Invade the Galilee through Underground Tunnels
(l to r) Iranian Quds Force Commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Imad Mughniyeh, and Hizbullah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah
One of the main lessons Hizbullah learned from the Second Lebanon War in 2006 was the necessity of changing the aims of its next war with Israel. The new goals included building up its defensive capabilities and developing methods of attack that would allow Hizbullah to fight the war within Israeli territory. Hizbullah’s military commander, Imad Mughniyeh, led this process of integrating these lessons. He asserted that during the next war, Hizbullah would invade the northern Israeli Galilee region and conquer it. Hizbullah set its sights on regions which have topographical superiority in comparison to Israel’s inferior topographical positions near the border.
To achieve these goals, Mughniyah prepared an operational plan that he oversaw until his death in February 2008. After his death, Hizbullah special forces, known as the “Radwan Forces,” continued their training under the command of Mustafa Badr Al-Din until the revolt broke out in Syria in 2011.
The operational plan includes:
- The training of Hizbullah special forces to take control of isolated Israeli communities along the northern border. In Hizbullah terminology, this is referred to as “the conquest of the Galilee.” (See JCPA article, November 2, 2011, here.)
- The construction of tunnels infiltrating into Israeli territory, close to Israeli communities. The tunnels are intended for the movement of several hundred fighters, and not to abduct soldiers or civilians. The model that Mughniyah visualized was that of invasion tunnels from North Korea into South Korea, which his Iranian guides had studied intensively.
A North Korean tunnel prepared for an invasion of South Korea. (U.S. Army)
Hizbullah’s operational plan also includes the construction of facilities to launch massive missile attacks on population centers and strategic sites around Haifa in the north, Tel Aviv in the center, and Dimona in the south. Hizbullah’s arsenal of rockets and missiles is estimated at 100,000 – to 120,000. From Hizbullah’s perspective, the aerial attacks would attract the entire attention of Israel’s military, thereby simultaneously enabling Hizbullah to activate its plan for “the conquest of the Galilee” using its special forces.
The route of the Hizbullah tunnel from Lebanon into Israel. The tunnel was more than 80 feet deep, 6 feet wide, 6 feet tall. It ran 130 feet into Israeli territory and 600 feet from under a Lebanese home. The tunnel was dug through solid rock. (IDF Spokesman’s office)
About Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Dr. Shimon Shapira
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2) Trump's Enemies: A Book for the Ages
Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie have written a seminal book as critical participants in one of the most historic events in American history. Their book is about the triumphs and setbacks of the campaign of Donald Trump to be elected the 45th president and then his governance for the first eighteen-plus months.
Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie have written a seminal book as critical participants in one of the most historic events in American history. Their book is about the triumphs and setbacks of the campaign of Donald Trump to be elected the 45th president and then his governance for the first eighteen-plus months.
Their book works on three important levels.
First, it is a good read. The authors take a murky and complicated story about the president's "Deep State" enemies and present names and events in an easy to understand linear narrative. By presenting a timeline with names and specific examples of individuals who have demonstrated disloyalty to constitutional safeguards, they make the horror of what happened understandable.
The Democrat House versus the Trump administration will be ugly. The House will be supported by 90% of the media. If that weren't enough, many in the heretofore credible media have already shown an additional proclivity to creating additional "fake news." President Trump's first-person interview in the book makes his views on that point crystal-clear.
Since all Americans believe that "no one is above the law," it will be interesting to see who is charged with felonies while the Democrat-led House of Representatives lusts for impeachment.
Trump's Enemies also begins building a legacy of significant accomplishments of the Trump presidency. Those chapters lay out why President Trump will deserve a second term. Both of the authors, important campaign aides, brought to light that Donald Trump never takes anything in the future for granted. So enough about a second term – let's just say Corey and David have served the president well in building a public record he can use to make the case for his re-election.
The third reason why the book works is that both of the authors are original sources. Many bestselling political books are written by reporters or directly by the principals, in a "see how smart and brilliant I am" mode. Hillary Clinton and James Comey come immediately to mind. But a book written by two individuals reporting on what happened as they lived it will be invaluable for future historians. Second-order reporting, depicted in Bob Woodward's recent book with often anonymous sources, will fade away over time. Trump's Enemies will be an original-source document for generations of historians yet born.
On the staffing of the incoming Trump-Pence administration, for all of us early Trump campaign-supporters, Corey and David pull no punches documenting how D.C. denizens took advantage in the early days of the administration to essentially slime their way into power. With candor, the authors identify individuals they call the "November 9th" people. Even more insidiously aligned against the future success of the Trump Team are those who never supported Donald Trump, now in positions of significant political power to judge and keep out those who initially trusted the fairness of the first team into the White House, led by Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
The great tragedy in many Cabinet departments and agencies is again that those who did nothing to earn their positions are still keeping out a younger generation of true dedicated Trump campaign aides. These younger men and women are the hope for the future to keep Trump Nation going forward by understanding firsthand how government truly works – or doesn't.
Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie have written a book that will most definitely stand the test of time. It should be on many bookshelves – personal, library, and college and university – because the truth is the truth.
Ed Timperlake was a national security talk radio surrogate for Trump/Pence 2016 and still enjoys discussing current events on talk radio when requested.
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3) America's Most Vile Bigot
By Dov Fischer
How striking that so many, even women on the left, have withdrawn from this narcissistic Jew-hater, woman-hater, man-hater, Caucasian-hater, Black hater who, like the Evil Queen in “Snow White,” is struck by her own sense in the mirror that none is as striking as she. She proclaims her “striking good looks,” declares “I am beautiful.” She attacks Sen. Susan Collins as a “White woman.” For Linda Sarsour it is all racial. She rejects the support of White people in the “Women’s March,” tweeting that Women of Color do not want or need their support: “How many times do we need to tell White women that we do not need to be saved by them?” Like Rachel Dolezal, the erstwhile Spokane NAACP leader who turned out to be disguising her racial Caucasian reality, no one has told Sarsour that, uh, she is White. They do not have to; it is obvious. Likewise, none need tell her that she is America’s most vile bigot. It is obvious.
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First, it is a good read. The authors take a murky and complicated story about the president's "Deep State" enemies and present names and events in an easy to understand linear narrative. By presenting a timeline with names and specific examples of individuals who have demonstrated disloyalty to constitutional safeguards, they make the horror of what happened understandable.
The evidence they present makes the case that the Obama White House, the Intelligence Community, and the DOJ and FBI at the highest levels, along with Clinton Inc. political operatives, both during the 2016 campaign and then into President Trump's presidency, used intelligence and counterintelligence practices and procedures against innocent Americans for political purposes. They specifically tried to destroy Donald Trump and his family.
The second important point of the book is simple: by naming names and giving specific examples, including a first-person interview with President Trump, the authors present to readers a comprehensible roadmap of indictments to come. If one is identified unfavorably by name with specific examples of real crimes in Trump's Enemies, he had better lawyer up. As President Obama recently boasted "nobody in my administration got indicted" – not yet!
There is an important point to remember in our constitutional process with the soon to be Democrat-controlled House of Representatives: Congress doesn't prosecute. The incoming House leadership have made public draconian threats of doing little legislating and significant investigating, but they can go only so far. The real law enforcement power constitutionally rests with the Executive Branch.
The Democrat House versus the Trump administration will be ugly. The House will be supported by 90% of the media. If that weren't enough, many in the heretofore credible media have already shown an additional proclivity to creating additional "fake news." President Trump's first-person interview in the book makes his views on that point crystal-clear.
Since all Americans believe that "no one is above the law," it will be interesting to see who is charged with felonies while the Democrat-led House of Representatives lusts for impeachment.
Trump's Enemies also begins building a legacy of significant accomplishments of the Trump presidency. Those chapters lay out why President Trump will deserve a second term. Both of the authors, important campaign aides, brought to light that Donald Trump never takes anything in the future for granted. So enough about a second term – let's just say Corey and David have served the president well in building a public record he can use to make the case for his re-election.
The third reason why the book works is that both of the authors are original sources. Many bestselling political books are written by reporters or directly by the principals, in a "see how smart and brilliant I am" mode. Hillary Clinton and James Comey come immediately to mind. But a book written by two individuals reporting on what happened as they lived it will be invaluable for future historians. Second-order reporting, depicted in Bob Woodward's recent book with often anonymous sources, will fade away over time. Trump's Enemies will be an original-source document for generations of historians yet born.
On the staffing of the incoming Trump-Pence administration, for all of us early Trump campaign-supporters, Corey and David pull no punches documenting how D.C. denizens took advantage in the early days of the administration to essentially slime their way into power. With candor, the authors identify individuals they call the "November 9th" people. Even more insidiously aligned against the future success of the Trump Team are those who never supported Donald Trump, now in positions of significant political power to judge and keep out those who initially trusted the fairness of the first team into the White House, led by Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
The great tragedy in many Cabinet departments and agencies is again that those who did nothing to earn their positions are still keeping out a younger generation of true dedicated Trump campaign aides. These younger men and women are the hope for the future to keep Trump Nation going forward by understanding firsthand how government truly works – or doesn't.
Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie have written a book that will most definitely stand the test of time. It should be on many bookshelves – personal, library, and college and university – because the truth is the truth.
Ed Timperlake was a national security talk radio surrogate for Trump/Pence 2016 and still enjoys discussing current events on talk radio when requested.
There is an important point to remember in our constitutional process with the soon to be Democrat-controlled House of Representatives: Congress doesn't prosecute. The incoming House leadership have made public draconian threats of doing little legislating and significant investigating, but they can go only so far. The real law enforcement power constitutionally rests with the Executive Branch.
The Democrat House versus the Trump administration will be ugly. The House will be supported by 90% of the media. If that weren't enough, many in the heretofore credible media have already shown an additional proclivity to creating additional "fake news." President Trump's first-person interview in the book makes his views on that point crystal-clear.
Since all Americans believe that "no one is above the law," it will be interesting to see who is charged with felonies while the Democrat-led House of Representatives lusts for impeachment.
Trump's Enemies also begins building a legacy of significant accomplishments of the Trump presidency. Those chapters lay out why President Trump will deserve a second term. Both of the authors, important campaign aides, brought to light that Donald Trump never takes anything in the future for granted. So enough about a second term – let's just say Corey and David have served the president well in building a public record he can use to make the case for his re-election.
The third reason why the book works is that both of the authors are original sources. Many bestselling political books are written by reporters or directly by the principals, in a "see how smart and brilliant I am" mode. Hillary Clinton and James Comey come immediately to mind. But a book written by two individuals reporting on what happened as they lived it will be invaluable for future historians. Second-order reporting, depicted in Bob Woodward's recent book with often anonymous sources, will fade away over time. Trump's Enemies will be an original-source document for generations of historians yet born.
On the staffing of the incoming Trump-Pence administration, for all of us early Trump campaign-supporters, Corey and David pull no punches documenting how D.C. denizens took advantage in the early days of the administration to essentially slime their way into power. With candor, the authors identify individuals they call the "November 9th" people. Even more insidiously aligned against the future success of the Trump Team are those who never supported Donald Trump, now in positions of significant political power to judge and keep out those who initially trusted the fairness of the first team into the White House, led by Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
The great tragedy in many Cabinet departments and agencies is again that those who did nothing to earn their positions are still keeping out a younger generation of true dedicated Trump campaign aides. These younger men and women are the hope for the future to keep Trump Nation going forward by understanding firsthand how government truly works – or doesn't.
Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie have written a book that will most definitely stand the test of time. It should be on many bookshelves – personal, library, and college and university – because the truth is the truth.
Ed Timperlake was a national security talk radio surrogate for Trump/Pence 2016 and still enjoys discussing current events on talk radio when requested.
Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie have written a seminal book as critical participants in one of the most historic events in American history. Their book is about the triumphs and setbacks of the campaign of Donald Trump to be elected the 45th president and then his governance for the first eighteen-plus months.
Their book works on three important levels.
First, it is a good read. The authors take a murky and complicated story about the president's "Deep State" enemies and present names and events in an easy to understand linear narrative. By presenting a timeline with names and specific examples of individuals who have demonstrated disloyalty to constitutional safeguards, they make the horror of what happened understandable.
Their book works on three important levels.
First, it is a good read. The authors take a murky and complicated story about the president's "Deep State" enemies and present names and events in an easy to understand linear narrative. By presenting a timeline with names and specific examples of individuals who have demonstrated disloyalty to constitutional safeguards, they make the horror of what happened understandable.
The evidence they present makes the case that the Obama White House, the Intelligence Community, and the DOJ and FBI at the highest levels, along with Clinton Inc. political operatives, both during the 2016 campaign and then into President Trump's presidency, used intelligence and counterintelligence practices and procedures against innocent Americans for political purposes. They specifically tried to destroy Donald Trump and his family.The second important point of the book is simple: by naming names and giving specific examples, including a first-person interview with President Trump, the authors present to readers a comprehensible roadmap of indictments to come. If one is identified unfavorably by name with specific examples of real crimes in Trump's Enemies, he had better lawyer up. As President Obama recently boasted "nobody in my administration got indicted" – not yet!
There is an important point to remember in our constitutional process with the soon to be Democrat-controlled House of Representatives: Congress doesn't prosecute. The incoming House leadership have made public draconian threats of doing little legislating and significant investigating, but they can go only so far. The real law enforcement power constitutionally rests with the Executive Branch.
Since all Americans believe that "no one is above the law," it will be interesting to see who is charged with felonies while the Democrat-led House of Representatives lusts for impeachment.
Trump's Enemies also begins building a legacy of significant accomplishments of the Trump presidency. Those chapters lay out why President Trump will deserve a second term. Both of the authors, important campaign aides, brought to light that Donald Trump never takes anything in the future for granted. So enough about a second term – let's just say Corey and David have served the president well in building a public record he can use to make the case for his re-election.
The third reason why the book works is that both of the authors are original sources. Many bestselling political books are written by reporters or directly by the principals, in a "see how smart and brilliant I am" mode. Hillary Clinton and James Comey come immediately to mind. But a book written by two individuals reporting on what happened as they lived it will be invaluable for future historians. Second-order reporting, depicted in Bob Woodward's recent book with often anonymous sources, will fade away over time. Trump's Enemies will be an original-source document for generations of historians yet born.
On the staffing of the incoming Trump-Pence administration, for all of us early Trump campaign-supporters, Corey and David pull no punches documenting how D.C. denizens took advantage in the early days of the administration to essentially slime their way into power. With candor, the authors identify individuals they call the "November 9th" people. Even more insidiously aligned against the future success of the Trump Team are those who never supported Donald Trump, now in positions of significant political power to judge and keep out those who initially trusted the fairness of the first team into the White House, led by Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
The great tragedy in many Cabinet departments and agencies is again that those who did nothing to earn their positions are still keeping out a younger generation of true dedicated Trump campaign aides. These younger men and women are the hope for the future to keep Trump Nation going forward by understanding firsthand how government truly works – or doesn't.
Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie have written a book that will most definitely stand the test of time. It should be on many bookshelves – personal, library, and college and university – because the truth is the truth.
Ed Timperlake was a national security talk radio surrogate for Trump/Pence 2016 and still enjoys discussing current events on talk radio when requested.
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3) America's Most Vile Bigot
By Dov Fischer
Have you ever experienced the Linda Sarsour fantasy of vindictively removing a woman’s vagina?
She not only may be the most vicious public Jew-hater in America — certainly a most worthy contender for the highly coveted Farrakhan Top Ten Termites — but she is one heck of a vicious womanhater. How appropriate that she co-head the “[Some] Women’s March [of the Haters, by the Haters, and for the Haters].”
I have known people who, when angry, have made blowhard comments like “If he had said one more word, I was gonna punch him in the nose.” But to say that you disagree with a woman so much that you wish you could remove her vagina? Who in civilized society talks that way? What kind of pervert even thinks that way? Not even sex perverts think that way. (Or, I dunno, do they?) How does that filth and sickness even permeate? And yet Linda Sarsour tweeted in 2011:
“Brigitte Gabriel = Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She’s asking 4 an a$$ whippin’. I wish I could take their vaginas away- they don’t deserve to be women.”
This Linda Sarsour is quite some vile hater. She hates White women. She hates Arab women who oppose Islamism. She hates Muslim women who oppose Islamism. She hates women on the left who, though predictably critical of Israel as all Leftists are, do not support selectively boycotting Israel alone among all countries on earth. Don’t even get started with how she feels about men.
But this vile hater, Sarsour, does not hate everyone. She loves Saudi Arabia. She loves sharia law. Sure, the women may not drive, but the credit cards are interest-free. The Khashoggis will be glad to know. It’s just that America’s most vile hater has a problem with people like the two brave women, one Arab and the other a former Muslim — Brigitte Gabriel and Ayaan Hirsi Ali — because those two have made public lives and careers battling against hateful Islamism and have fought for democracy, freedom, and American values. Ms. Gabriel, a Lebanese Christian, experienced first-hand the difference between the Islam that destroyed her family’s Christian way of life in Lebanon and the neighboring Israel that saved her mother’s life:
I was amazed that the Israelis were providing medical treatment to Palestinian and Muslim gunmen…These Palestinians and Muslims were sworn, mortal enemies, dedicated to the destruction of Israel and the slaughter of Jews. Yet, Israeli doctors and nurses worked feverishly to save their lives. Each patient was treated solely according to the nature of his or her injury. The doctor treated my mother before he treated an Israeli soldier lying next to her because her injury was more severe than his. The Israelis did not see religion, political affiliation, or nationality. They saw only people in need, and they helped.
Likewise, Ms. Ali, a fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, has spoken and written passionately against Arab Islamic forced marriage, honor killings, and female genital mutilation.
So Linda Sarsour, co-leader of the “[Some] Women’s March [of the Haters, by the Haters, and for the Haters],” wishes she could take their vaginas away. Again, I ask: Even among highly politicized people with intense political beliefs, what person even thinksin such terms — except for sex perverts and Linda Sarsour? Take their vaginas away? Wow, that must be some Women’s March! No wonder they march so slowly. Can’t hardly wait till Ashley Judd updates her poem about nasty women!
To understand Sarsour, she wrongly portrayed the murder of Shaima Alawadi as resulting from hatred of Muslims when in fact Alawadi’s Muslim husband honor-killed his wife in that religious tradition. Even crazier, she got herself major media attention when a mentally deranged homeless man, known by locals to scream and yell epithets at everyone passing him by, yelled at her; she tweeted that she had been victimized by an Islamophobic hate crime. And remember the underwear bomber? She depicted him as a CIA agent. Feminist Aki Muthali has called her an anti-Black racist. The anti-Zionist Ikhras website also accused her of harboring “an ugly racism towards African-Americans.” Even Courtney Love has tweeted that Sarsour is “a vile disgrace to women and all mankind” as well as an “anti-Semite, anti-American fraud.”
And what a Jew-hater Sarsour is! As “Women’s March” co-boss, she rejects anyone who supports Israel: “Is there room for people who support the state of Israel and do not criticize it in the movement? There can’t be in feminism.” She writes that “Nothing is creepier than Zionism.” She champions the cause of Rasmea Odeh, a convicted murderer of two Hebrew University students. Her hatred extends even to Jewish leftists who refuse to abide outright anti-Israel activity like selective boycotts against Israel. In Sarsour’s words, “criticism of such boycotts [“BDS”] is not only coming from the right-wing but folks who masquerade as progressives but always choose their allegiance to Israel over their commitment to democracy and free speech.” The selective use of the oldest of Jew-hating tropes even won her one-time plaudits from Nazi David Duke. She even frets that some depict Israelis as “human” beings.
Sound like a Jew-hater? Well, how does Sarsour view Farrakhan? Y’know, the guy who calls Jews “termites” and Hitler a “great man.” Yeah, thatFarrakhan. Sarsour’s opinion: “When we write the history of Islam in America, the Nation of #Islam is an integral part of that history.” And she repeatedly has defended Tamika Mallory, co-head of the “[Some] Women’s March [of the Haters, by the Haters, and for the Haters],” for Mallory’s own repeated infatuations with Farrakhan, whom Mallory terms the “Greatest Of All Time.” By contrast, Sarsour has tweeted that CNN’s Jake Tapper, a Jew, is a “member of the alt-right.”
No wonder that so many on the Left have started backing away from the so-called “Women’s March” altogether. Actresses Debra Messing and Alyssa Milano have said they will not participate in the Women’s March because of Sarsour’s bigotry and other Women’s March leaders’ ties to Farrakhan. The Friedrich Ebert Foundation, an NGO affiliated with the German Social Democratic party, withdrew its Human Rights Award originally meant to be conferred on “the Women’s March,” saying that “the Women’s March USA does not constitute an inclusive alliance.” The NGO added that Sarsour “spreads anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that resemble the classic anti-Semitic trope of blood libel.”
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