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All the president’s enemies
Mitch McConnell is no Vladimir Putin
By Byron York
Finally:
Clever.
THE MAN OF DaMENTIA...A DEMOCRAT DILEMMA
Commentary by Lloyd F. Thompson
This performance has been so bad there is none comparable in American history.
If it were on Broadway, the show would have closed the night it opened.
The star of the show is an addled senior citizen with delusions of grandeur beyond
those of Alexander the Great. A mumbling, power mad social climber plays the
leading lady role in this dark tragedy. The cast is filled with bad actors doing their
very best to portray themselves as competent, self assured saviors who openly
loathe the country they are supposed to save. The producers have invested
countless millions in this failed production...so, they are now in a panic. Recent
reviews from the staunchest media flacks, many of who get comp tickets to the
performances and access to the stars, are grim. The play’s a flop!
What to do? The star must go! But the leading lady isn’t capable of assuming a
bigger role, nor does she have the adoring public. There are some backers who
insist she moves up. The star’s family will hear none of it. It was heard
backstage, “We’ll keep him that role even if we have to stuff him! We’re
expecting a 208 week run of this play!” Dilemma!
The Directors didn’t figure on such an early fizzle. 52 weeks into this drama, and
the curtain is coming down. They booked the theatre for a full four years, and are
now faced with unsold seats, poor press and the proverbial hook.
Can they re-write the script? Will they find replacements for the leading roles? Is
the understudy ready to reappear and thrill the audience? Time will tell as it
always does, but time is running out.
In the meantime, there’s a bold drama unfolding that will debut in November of
this year. A compelling plot, stirring music and an uplifting script to attract and
hold audiences for years as it has since 1787. The characters are from many walks
of life, and each knows their role...and will not overplay it. With millions of
backers, this play will make history. We’ve heard that a working title is:
ONWARD AMERICA!
Poll shows major shift in Knesset if Netanyahu resigns
Israelis give Bennett government poor marks for handling of COVID pandemic, with just 6% saying Bennett is best suited to serve as PM.
The Likud is poised to gain additional seats in the Knesset in the next election – if Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu remains at the helm, a new poll has found.
According to a poll conducted by Ma’agar Mohot and published Wednesday morning by Israel Hayom, if new elections were held today, the Likud would, under its current leadership, rise from 30 seats to 34 mandates, expanding its margin over its nearest rival, Yesh Atid, which the poll projected would rise from 17 seats to 18.
The haredi Shas and United Torah Judaism factions would hold steady at nine and seven seats respectively, while Blue and White would rise from eight seats to nine, the same number it received in the last Ma’agar Mohot poll, released in late November.
The Joint Arab List is projected to retain its seven seats, while the United Arab List, a coalition partner, would rise from four to five seats.
Labor gained one seat in the poll, rising to eight seats from its current seven, while Meretz tumbled to four seats from its current six.
Yamina continues to lose ground, falling from seven seats in the current Knesset and six in the previous poll to five seats, compared to six seats for Yisrael Beytenu. The New Hope party, which won six seats last year, failed to cross the 3.25% electoral threshold.
The Religious Zionist Party alliance with Otzma Yehudit and Noam rose from six seats to eight, one more than the previous poll.
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The election results would shift dramatically, however, if Netanyahu resigns from the Knesset as part of a plea bargain, with the Likud losing a significant portion of its voters.
The party would retain nearly all of its current 30 seats if Netanyahu is replaced by former Jerusalem Mayor and Likud MK Nir Barkat.
Under Barkat, the Likud is projected to win 29 seats, compared to 20 for Yesh Atid in this scenario.
If MK and former Health Minister Yuli Edelstein wins control of the party, however, the Likud would plummet to 16 seats, behind Yesh Atid’s 21.
Under former Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz he Likud would lose fully half of its current seats, sinking to 15 mandates.
The poll also found that Netanyahu remains the most popular candidate for the premiership, with 34% of respondents saying he is most suitable to serve as prime minister, compared to 17% who named Yair Lapid, 7% who said Benny Gantz, 7% who named Nir Barkat, and just 6% who said incumbent premier Naftali Bennett is the most suitable candidate. Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar followed with 4%, followed by Avidgor Liberman with 2%, and former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen with 1%.
Respondents gave the government poor marks for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, with just 22% saying the coalition has handled the crisis well, compared to 30% who called its handling okay, and 48% who said it has handled the crisis badly.
Gantz received the approval rating for his handling of the crisis at 35%, followed by Lapid at 26%, Bennett at 25%, Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz at 23%, Finance Minister Avidgor Liberman at 20%, and Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton with 18%.
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The nice thing about her is she tells if like she see it to be. How refreshing.
The real lesson of the Texas synagogue attack
Few understand the crucial role of antisemitism in Islamist extremism
The observation by an FBI officer that the gunman who took four Jews hostage in a Texas synagogue on Saturday was “singularly focused on one issue, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community” has produced an understandable torrent of ridicule and derision.
Obviously, the notion that taking hostage a rabbi and three Jewish worshippers in a synagogue on the Jewish Sabbath was some kind of random event unconnected with the gunman’s attitude to Jews was beyond absurd.
The reason the FBI agent said this, however, reveals something broader about the blindness of the west towards Muslim antisemitism and the crucial role this plays in Islamic extremism. Indeed, even some of those who found the agent’s comment grotesque don’t get this point either.
Let’s unravel all this. The gunman, a British Islamist called Malik Faisal Akram, was reportedly motivated by his wish to free Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist linked to al Qaeda. In 2010, she was jailed for 86 years for attempted murder and is being held in Fort Worth, Texas.
After Siddiqui had been arrested in Afghanistan on suspicion of plotting attacks against the US, she grabbed an M4 rifle and opened fire on the American soldiers. When she had been arrested, she was carrying “documents that discussed the construction of weapons”, made reference to a “mass casualty attack” and listed a number of New York City landmarks.
Siddiqui is also a virulent antisemite. According to Deborah Scroggins’ 2012 book Wanted Women, she urged former president Obama in a letter:
Study the history of the Jews. They have always back-stabbed everyone who has taken pity on them and made the ‘“fatal” error of giving them shelter … This why ‘“holocausts” keep happening to them repeatedly!
At her trial, Siddiqui demanded that prospective jurors were DNA-tested to check they weren’t Jews. After her conviction, she said:
This is a verdict coming from Israel and not from America. That’s where the anger belongs.
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