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Taking back the wheel. Articulate and powerful. This is what Shelby Steele says must happen.
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The more agencies of our government corrupt themselves the less faith American citizens have in government and the lower our government will sink.
Democrats only want power and give not a damn about the effect their tolerance, encouragement and probably participation in fraud has and this is every reason why they need to be kicked out of office. They have abused their right to serve so they can become millionaires at the public trough.
The Koch-Soros Crackup
Scholars at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
cut bait.
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Washington Free Beacon EditorsFrom this unholy alliance sprung the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. The mission: make America neutral again. Finally appeasers in Washington had a safe space to apologize for Russian oligarchs, Iranian terrorists, and Chinese communists.
Well, all good things must come to an end.
An all-star in the Koch-Soros foreign policy alliance, Joseph Cirincione, announced on Thursday his resignation from the Quincy Institute: "They excuse Russia’s military threats and actions because they believe that they have been provoked by U.S. policies," he told Politico.
Cirincione is not just some disgruntled scholar. He is the former president of Ploughshares, a grant-making organization that was not just a recipient of the Soros organization’s politicized philanthropy, but a gatekeeper and driver of it—deciding which pinkos would prosper and which would starve. Mother Jones reports that Cirincione helped connect Quincy to major donors in its early days.
His change of heart on Quincy is surely a weathervane for other elements of the Soros network. Indeed, Soros himself has been signaling in the last year that he favors a much tougher policy on China than the one offered up by the Quincy crowd, which released a major study in June that found the Chinese military build up was nothing to worry about and has warned of the perils of "threat inflation" when it comes to China’s military expansion.
Soros, by contrast, came very close to endorsing regime change. "It is to be hoped that Xi Jinping may be replaced by someone less repressive at home and more peaceful abroad," he told an audience at the Hoover Institution in January, calling Xi "the greatest threat that open societies face today."
it a Parsi, a co-founder and executive vice president of Quincy, as well as
somebody who could be confused for an Iranian agent—at least according to a federal judge—told Mother Jones he’s bewildered that Cirincione would suggest the think tank was avoiding criticism of Russia. But he acknowledges that Quincy is "not going along with the idea that it’s a good thing to change the objectives in Ukraine towards weakening Russia, because we believe that could lead to endless war.
As the Quincy Institute demonstrated so spectacularly in Afghanistan, one sure fire way to end endless war is to lose the war quickly and all at once.
As for the interpersonal drama that we assume is engulfing the Quincy Institute, and the enmity growing between teams Koch and Soros—may that war truly be endless.
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Biden continues to condone shipment of drugs into our porous country:
The ingredients of these death defying drugs is produced in China, shipped to Mexican cartels in order to satisfy two goals of China. Finance themselves and the cartels and create havoc among our youth. Biden is aware of what is happening and the only reason one can surmise is Hunter has entrapped his father who has become a pawn of Xi.
Why would any president knowingly allow, and thus encourage, the death of Americans in such a heioous manner?
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New Pandemic Strikes California: Trump Saw This One Coming
In San Diego County, California, law enforcement officers from the federal and municipal levels recovered a record-breaking amount of methamphetamine associated with cartels.
The narcotics were put onto a 20-foot box truck and said to be the greatest seizure ever made in San Diego County.
The Details
On July 7, federal investigators saw a box truck enter the country through to the Otay Mesa Economic port of entry. Authorities followed the truck until it arrived in National City, California.
The suspected drug traffickers emptied the vehicle into a Dodge van while the agents observed.
At that time, according to the prosecution, police intervened and detained Ethgar Velazquez, Rafael Alzua, Galdrino Contrera, and Mario Contreras. According to authorities, all four accused are citizens of Tijuana, Mexico.
Upwards of 5,000 pounds of narcotics were discovered when the crates were opened and later tested for meth.
U.S. Attorney Randy Grossman stated in a formal report: “This is a remarkable achievement by law enforcement agencies.”
The state prevented the distribution of more than 5,000 pounds of meth on our streets, thanks to the excellent work of law enforcement officers.
The Drug Enforcement Agency, San Diego County Sheriff’s Office, Border Crime Reduction Unit, Homeland Security Operations, and the United States Border Patrol are all looking into the matter.
“This significant seizure signals another victory against narcotics gangs that feed addictions in the United States,” said DEA official Shelly S. Howe.
“We will continue to obstruct the flow of narcotics into our cities coming from the cartels, thanks to our fantastic relationships with other law enforcement organizations.”
Sheriff Anthony C. Ray of San Diego County continued, “I am appreciative of the diligence, watchfulness, and unwavering commitment of our sheriff’s detectives, as well as of our regional, state, and federal colleagues.”
“We are able to exchange information, thanks to our relationship and cooperation, which is essential for preventing narcotics from reaching our streets and holding drug traffickers responsible.”
Cracking Down
The four Mexican males are now accused of conspiring to distribute meth. Each would be subject to a fine of up to $10 million and a jail term ranging from ten years to life, if found guilty.
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Soros Picked DA favors criminal over attacked citizen defending himself.
We are no longer united but sick
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Progressive DA Brings Hammer Down on Self-Defense
Another shining example of the havoc wrecked by billionaire George Soros and his radical DA protegees emerged in New York City last week. A 61-year-old deli worker defending himself from a videotaped attack was arrested and sent to Rikers Island on a staggering $250,000 bail.
That sum, for the record, is only half of what progressive District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office requested.
Jose Alba was working behind the counter of a Harlem bodega last week when he was attacked. Surveillance video reportedly showed 35-year-old Austin Simon, who was on parole for assaulting an officer, go behind the counter and violently shove Alba, who was knocked down.
What instigated this attack? Apparently Simon’s girlfriend could not pay for a bag of chips because of a declined credit card. She called him for help to keep the chips from Alba.
The 61-year-old true victim of the crime was grabbed again by the ex-con. But the worker, who immigrated from the Dominican Republic 30 years ago, was able to get a knife and stab Simon several times, and the assailant perished.
Along came new Manhattan DA Bragg, who ordered his office on his first day on the job to ignore small crimes and only seek prison sentences for murder or deadly assault. His stated objective was to focus on “impacts of incarceration.”
So, pretrial detention and prison only for the most serious offenses. Which apparently include self-defense. Fortunately for Alba, his boss and an attorney were able to get his bail lowered to $50,000 and secure his release. He must wear an ankle monitor and surrender his passport.
Alba has been unable to return to work for fear of retribution by Simon’s associates. How many traditional prosecutors would even bother with pressing charges over a clear case of self-defense?
Bragg is one. This is a prosecutor who pledged to improve the lives of criminals instead of victims. And he did not appear out of thin air.
In a pattern repeated across the country, Soros directed $1 million into Bragg’s campaign to be the top prosecutor for the nation’s largest city. At least 75 these hand-selected progressive radicals now control offices that prosecute on behalf of a whopping 20% of Americans.
The pattern among these leftists is to completely ignore street-level crimes that have a daily impact on urban life. Any sane person wants violent offenders off the streets, but open-air drug markets and ransacked neighborhoods are a breeding ground for far worse.
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The NYT's has increasingly become an organ for radical Muslims and the trumped up Palestinian cause.
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NY Times’ ‘Israel Fetish’ Exposed by Veteran Journalist
By United with Israel Staff
In a recent expose, Israeli journalist journalist Lilac Sigan lays bare the New York Times‘ troubling narrative about the Jewish state in 2022.
Sigan concluded that the Times selectively reports on Israel, focuses on the Jewish state disproportionately in comparison to the terror groups that attack its citizens, and reports stories in a manner that lacks balance.
In her piece for Ma’ariv, the veteran Israeli journalist analyzed a variety of content from the Times, including front page articles, Opinion features, and pieces from the World section.
According to the Algemeiner‘s summary of Sigan’s piece on the Times’ “Israel fetish,” Israel got 832 mentions in Times reports during the first six months of 2022, in comparison to other countries and entities in the region, such as Turkey (619 mentions), Iran (518 mentions), and Syria (498 mentions), Hezbollah (37 mentions), and Hamas (22 mentions).
This statistics are troubling in light of the fact that Iran is the world’s top state-sponsor or terror, Syrians are fighting a bloody decade-long civil war, and Hezbollah and Hamas are dedicated to wiping the world’s only Jewish state off the map.
While it was not mentioned in Sigan’s piece, the Times also paid Kaveh Afrasiabi to write over a dozen opinion articles. He was arrested and charged with acting as an agent of the Iranian government.
“Not only does the New York Times seem to pay an inordinate amount of attention to Israel — but, from an examination of its Israel-related articles published in the first half of 2022, the publication seems to hold a predominantly negative view of the Jewish state,” concludes the Algemeiner, based on Sigan’s analysis.
Fifty-three percent of the 118 pieces in the Times about Israel portrayed Israel negatively, with neutral articles accounting for only 34% of coverage, and only 13% reflecting a positive tone.
Among the examples cited of the Times’ “fetish” was its coverage of the killing of Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh, which included an “investigation” that found Israel responsible for the killing. Both the U.S. and Israel determined there was no way to conclude with certainty who killed Abu Akleh.
“Sigan points out that it was unusual for the NYT to invest resources in such a report after CNN, the AP, and The Washington Post had all released similar findings,” said the Algemeiner.
Sigan also documented the Times‘ refusal to report negatively about the Palestinians, which includes failing to report 124 stories about “Palestinian terror, incitement, and violence against Israelis,” “64 that dealt with the Palestinian Authority and Hamas’ corruption and cruelty towards Palestinians (including journalists),” and “six that focused on Israel’s growing relations with neighboring Arab countries.”
Of the 122 mentions of “antisemitism” in the Times in 2022, none of them addressed Jew-hatred among Palestinians, which include virulently antisemitic content in their United Nations-sanctioned European Union-funded curriculum.
The Times also routinely refuses to call perpetrators of terror attacks “Palestinian terrorists,” describing them instead as “Arab assailants.”
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Why Arabs Are Fed up With the Palestinians
by Khaled Abu Toameh
The Arabs are clearly not as naïve as the Americans and Europeans, who are continuing to pour millions of dollars annually on the Palestinians without conditions and without demanding accountability. Pictured: Palestinians burn a US flag in Bethlehem, on January 29, 2020. (Photo by Musa Al Shaer/AFP via Getty Images)
The Palestinians are disappointed: their Arab brothers have stopped providing them with financial aid. The truth is that most of the Arab countries long ago turned their backs on the Palestinians. They can only blame themselves for ruining their relations with the rest of the Arab world.
It is ironic that while the European Union recently announced its decision to resume unconditional financial aid to the Palestinians, the Arab countries continue to completely ignore the Palestinians. It is also ironic that while the Biden administration continues to talk about providing financial aid to the Palestinians, the Arab countries do not seem to care at all about their Palestinian brothers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The Palestinians receive a lot of lip service from the Arabs, but see hardly any money being channeled to their coffers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Consequently, for the past few decades the Palestinians have become almost entirely dependent on American and European taxpayer money.
Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh recently revealed that, with the exception of Algeria, the Arab countries have stopped sending financial aid to the treasury of the PA.
Shtayyeh refrained from offering any reason as to why the Arabs had decided to cut off the funding to the Palestinians.
Shtayyeh and the PA have condemned the Arab countries that signed normalization agreements with Israel during the Trump administration era. Some of these countries, especially the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, used to help the Palestinians in many fields, including financial aid and providing jobs to tens of thousands of laborers.
The Palestinian leadership has accused the UAE, Bahrain and Sudan of "betraying" the Palestinian people, Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque (in Jerusalem) by agreeing to make peace with Israel.
It is these serious allegations that have alienated these countries and other Arabs, who are accusing the Palestinians of being ungrateful and biting the hand that feeds them.
Earlier this year, prominent Kuwaiti journalist Ahmed Al-Jarallah explained why he and many others are fed up with the Palestinians. Reminding the Palestinians of what the Gulf states have done for them over the years, Al-Jarallah wrote:
"We are the only ones who rescued them [Palestinians] in the year 1970 when they launched their war on Jordan. The late Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah evacuated their leader Yasser Arafat from Amman. The Arabian gulf states, led by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, boycotted oil export to the western countries during the 1973 [Israel-Arab] war. Furthermore, Riyadh presented two initiatives to solve the conflict. Despite their [Palestinians'] support of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait and their participation in acts of intimidation, abuse and killing against Kuwaiti citizens, the Gulf states continue to support the Palestinians. All of this is just the tip of the iceberg of what the Gulf states and their people offered to the Palestinians, who were and still are ungrateful."
The Arabs are apparently not only fed up with the Palestinian leadership, but also with international organizations and agencies that help the Palestinians. Arab financial aid to the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has dropped by 90% in the past few years, according to the agency's spokesperson Adnan Abu Hasna.
In another sign of Arab disregard for the Palestinians, the Palestinian Islamic-Christian Committee for the Support of Jerusalem and the Holy Sites warned of the repercussions of drying up the Arab financial support provided to the city.
The committee said that this year witnessed a "dangerous and unprecedented decline" in the level of financial support provided by a number of Arab countries to Palestinian institutions in Jerusalem.
The committee added that a number of governmental and civil bodies that were formed in some Arab countries to provide direct support to dozens of Palestinian institutions were suspended for reasons that were not disclosed.
"Cutting off this Arab aid caused the disruption of vital services that were provided to Jerusalemites, especially in the health and educational fields," the committee added. "Dozens of cultural, social and sports institutions are suffering from a stifling financial situation that threatens to close them and lay off their employees."
The Palestinians can only blame themselves for antagonizing their Arab brothers and consequently losing the Arab money. The Palestinians have been spitting in the face of the Arab countries, while at the same time expecting these countries to continue funding them.
The Arabs are clearly not as naïve as the Americans and Europeans, who are continuing to pour millions of dollars annually on the Palestinians without conditions and without demanding accountability.
Had the Palestinians welcomed the many peace accords between Israel and the Arab states instead of condemning them and bad-mouthing the Arab leaders, they would have been in a much better situation today. They would have continued to receive financial aid from the Arabs and been able to use this money to build a better future for their children.
The Palestinian leadership, however, chose to spit in the well it has drawn from for many years, and now it is drinking the bitter waters of its decisions.
The Arab countries have more urgent issues to deal with than the corrupt, thankless Palestinian leaders do. You can start with the welfare of their own people. The Palestinian leadership, by contrast, is happy to fail its people by indoctrinating generation after generation with bloodlust for Jews. When Palestinian society finds itself left in the global dust of progress, it can thank its leaders for bringing them to that sorry pass.
Khaled Abu Toameh is an award-winning journalist based in Jerusalem.
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I seriously doubt Biden has a general affection for Israel any more than his "affection" for (Blacks and Tacos.) He is a cheap politician, with a thin veneer of ethics and sincerity.
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Warm words and empty gestures
Despite Biden's genuine affection for Israel, his itinerary sent out baleful signals.
By Melanie Phillips
US President Joe Biden and acting Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid, Jerusalem
When dealing with politicians, it’s important always to pay less attention to what they say than what they actually do — and also to what they choose not to say, which may provide a clue to their actions.
When US president Joe Biden arrived in Israel this week, he said he was proud that America’s relationship with Israel was “deeper and stronger, in my view, than it’s ever been” and told an Israeli interviewer that returning to Israel was “like going home”.
Biden’s feelings are doubtless genuine enough. Yet when Israel’s interim prime minister, Yair Lapid, called the US president “a great Zionist and one of the best friends Israel has ever known,” such fawning struck a false note given the unprecedented hostility towards Israel of parts of the Democratic party and Biden’s own administration.
The Democrats ferociously opposed the decision by former president Donald Trump to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a move that signaled America’s acceptance of Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel.
Last year, the Biden administration proposed to reopen America’s Jerusalem consulate as a de-facto mission to the Palestinians, thus indicating an implicit recognition of two states within the city.
It retreated in the face of ferocious Israeli opposition, although it upgraded the role of a viciously anti-Israel official to the role of Special Envoy to the Palestinians with a direct link to the State Department.
In Jerusalem, Biden’s itinerary was shaped to deliver a set of signals about the way his administration views Israel. And those signals were not good.
For example, he went to Yad Vashem but he didn’t visit the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City. Trump had visited the wall, although no other US president has done so when in office.
There’s no doubt that Biden was genuinely emotional at Yad Vashem where he reportedly had tears in his eyes.
Nevertheless, pieties towards dead Jews often conceal indifference or hostility towards live ones.
So it is with the State Department. According to its mindset, paying due respect to the Jewish victims of Nazism is fine. Acknowledging the truth about Israel’s claim to the Jews’ ancestral homeland — which involves denying the big lie told by the Palestinians who falsely claim ancient ancestry in the same land — is not.
The Western Wall — the retaining wall of the Second Temple — isn’t just a sacred spot for religious Jews. It provides enduring evidence of the unbroken link between the Biblical origins of the Jews’ claim to Jerusalem and the present day.
Its existence thus makes a mockery of the claim — an article of faith in Washington DC and other western capitals — that this part of Jerusalem is under illegitimate Israeli “occupation”.
The Western Wall is a symbol of the rightful claim to this land, in law and in history, of the Jews alone. That was what Trump was acknowledging when he visited it and reverently touched its stones. And that’s why Biden chose not to go there.
Even more disturbing was Biden’s visit to eastern Jerusalem to visit the Augusta Victoria Arab hospital. This was the first time that a US president had visited Jerusalem’s disputed territory. Moreover, he chose not to be accompanied there by any Israeli official.
This was not only a calculated insult to Israel but a deliberate signal that, to the United States, Jerusalem was an eternally divided city.
On this week’s Top Story podcast for jns.org, I interviewed America’s former ambassador to Israel in the Trump administration, David Friedman. He told me that what disturbed him most about Biden’s visit were these symbolic omissions and inclusions on his itinerary. And he observed that the Biden administration was stupendously hostile, stuffed with officials who hated Israel.
As he said, these officials were appalled by the US embassy move and by the path-breaking Abraham Accords — which are transforming the region by developing close ties between Israel and the Arab world — because such people cannot admit that their entire set of assumptions about the Middle East had always been wrong.
So they try to force Israel and the Palestinian Arabs into the same failed process over and over again.
Before Biden’s visit, the United States told Israel once again that it must make concessions to prop up the Palestinian Authority (PA) head, Mahmoud Abbas. Once again, Israel complied.
It agreed to legalise the status of 5,500 undocumented Palestinians and foreigners living in the West Bank and Gaza; it approved six Palestinian housing projects in the area of the “West Bank” where Israel maintains civilian control; and Lapid promised Biden that there would be “no surprise” regarding building in Israeli settlements.
Yet the United States required no equivalent concessions from the PA. Instead it is continuing to fund it — despite its refusal to stop incitement to murder Israelis, and despite its continuing to pay blood-money to the families of terrorists who have murdered Jews.
The Biden administration refuses to admit the evidence of its own eyes — that making concessions to terrorist regimes merely incentivises rather than dampens down their aggression.
Thus even now it remains committed to making a nuclear deal with Iran.
Tehran has revealed it is (illegally) producing highly enriched uranium using advanced centrifuges at a nuclear site buried deep within a mountain. Last month, the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, warned that by the middle of this month it would be unable to fully verify Iran’s nuclear activities.
Yet America’s fixation with doing a deal remains unshakeable. The White House is insisting that even Iran’s decision to send drones to Russia won’t affect the negotiations. When Lapid insisted that diplomacy wouldn’t stop Iran's nuclear programme, Biden publicly disagreed and insisted that “diplomacy is the best way”.
Nevertheless, there’s been a slight shift in language. Biden said he was prepared to use military force “as a last resort” to stop Iran’s growing nuclear programme.
This week, Biden and Lapid signed the Jerusalem Declaration formalising the US-Israel Strategic Partnership. This says that America and Israel will “use all elements of national power” — which would include military measures — to ensure that Iran doesn’t obtain a nuclear weapon.
But what does this mean? Given the Biden administration’s previous form, that “last resort” would probably not be until an Iranian nuclear missile was on the point of being fired. For the Israelis, the “last resort” would undoubtedly arrive far sooner. If Israel were to attack Iran, would the US help — or try to stop it?
And Biden’s declaration that Iran will never get a nuclear weapon is hollow, considering that the Obama administration made the same pledge even as it formulated the 2015 deal that guaranteed Iranian nuclear break-out capacity with only a few years’ delay.
So a measure of scepticism about “military force” is in order, particularly in view of what is assumed to be the real reason for Biden’s visit — to plead with the Saudis to pump more oil to bring down the price and thus relieve the fuel crisis precipitated by Russia's war against Ukraine.
And to persuade the Saudis to do this, Biden has to convince them that America seriously intends to stop Iran in its tracks. Hence the “military force” reference.
But as Lapid told Biden, Iran will only be deterred by a credible threat of military action. A really credible signal would be for the United States publicly to announce its intention to give Israel the weaponry with which it could destroy Iran’s nuclear sites.
Absent a signal of that kind, there is no reason why the Saudis or anyone else should change their view that the United Sttes under Biden is a busted flush — prepared to offer no more than the warm words and empty gestures that have been on such conspicuous display this week.
Jewish News Syndicate
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Gavin Newsom has his age going for him in comparison with Biden but, other than that, he is a disaster and another political fraud. Look behind the curtain and you find he is another member of the California Mafia that has controlled California politics for decades.
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Gavin Newsom’s Weird Idea Of ‘Freedom’
By Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness
Newsom resembles a pathetic owner of a once successful but now run-down, high-priced gas station without clients.
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Radicals who are seeking to destroy America, because they do not control it and are threatened by it, seek discord by hyping issues and making them controversial so it will result in pitting citizens against each other. This is why they have chosen race, education, history, patriotism and the list is endless. They are the Trojan Horses and are aptly named because their intent is to screw with our collective heads. Obama was a master at this technique which he learned from his radical Chicago Communist friends.
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The Left Is Doing Its Best To Make Self-Defense A Crime
The same left-wing prosecutors who let rioting run rampant and let repeat offenders out on low bail also want to make it difficult for you to defend yourself.
We don’t yet know all the details about an apparent fatal stabbing of an agitated man by bodega clerk Jose Alba in New York City last week, but we do know that the clerk was quickly charged with murder and initially held at Rikers Island on $250,000 bail while video surveillance seems to indicate he likely acted in self-defense. Surveillance videos show the unnamed girlfriend of Austin Simon, the man Alba killed who had a history of felony arrests and was out on parole, becoming upset with Alba when her card was declined and threatening to “bring my n– down here and he gonna f-ck you up.”
Another video shows Simon walking behind the counter to Alba, shoving him, and getting in his face before Alba stood up and appeared to try to walk past Simon, at which point the two wrestled until Alba eventually stabbed the other man. “I don’t want a problem,” Alba told Simon when he walked in, according to the New York Post. Further footage appears to show the girlfriend pulling out a knife of her own and slashing Alba, although she has not been charged.
After outrage over Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s decision to charge Alba, who has no prior criminal record, with murder, and his pursuit of such a high bail while Alba languished at Rikers, the bail amount was reduced — but the charges have so far not been dropped. In the meantime, GoFundMe deleted a fundraising page for Alba’s defense, in a move that has become common for the platform when its leaders don’t agree with a cause.
A fearless citizen with the will and means to defend himself is a threat to left-wing bureaucrats who want to boss him around — like they did when they knocked on doors sniffing out “unauthorized” religious services and gatherings during Covid lockdowns, or when they allowed lawless riots to hold cities hostage during the summer of 2020. Bragg’s decision to crack down on what appears to at least potentially be a strong case of self-defense may not have been an intentional ploy to criminalize self-protective autonomy, but it does follow a long string of actions and attitudes on the left that are hostile to the idea of a law-abiding citizen using a lethal weapon to protect himself and his property.
Elected last year, Bragg began his term by directing prosecutors under him to seek prison time only for “the most serious offenses — including murder, sexual assault and economic crimes involving vast sums of money — unless the law requires them to do otherwise,” according to The New York Times. He also directed them not to seek jail sentences for “certain robberies and assaults,” and to rarely “request prison sentences of more than 20 years.” Unsurprisingly, NYC crime rates have continued to rise.
Keep in mind, this is in the same state that just went to the Supreme Court over its desire to prevent regular citizens from being able to protect themselves from those crimes with a concealed handgun. After the Supreme Court found New York’s restrictive rules unconstitutional, the state rushed to pass a new law that severely limits where legal handguns may be carried and requires permit applicants to provide their social media accounts for review.
And never, ever forget the madness that descended on then-17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse after he shot three men in self-defense during a night of violent rioting in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse was smeared as a “white supremacist” by President Joe Biden and as a murderer by the corrupt press, and dragged through a weeks-long trial and more than a year of hateful slander before being found not guilty on all counts by reason of self-defense.
Power-hungry prosecutors and politicians who protect crimes and riotous behavior while targeting law-abiding citizens’ freedom to defend themselves don’t do so accidentally. They want Americans to be intimidated and dependent on them, and they don’t shy away from abusing the criminal justice system to achieve those ends. If that turns out to be the case with Jose Alba, you shouldn’t be surprised.
Elle Reynolds is an assistant editor at The Federalist, and received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. You can follow her work on Twitter at @_etreynold
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Hoover Institution
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The Saudis want to play with Biden. The granting of fly over rights is something beneficial to both nations in the event Israel feels compelled to attack Iran and also be in a better position to protect Saudi oil fields. It is the first in a series of steps towards the Saudi's becoming members of the Abraham Accords.
Furthermore, if Faisal accedes to a very weak president he will look even weaker. Biden is a pathetic figure. He is the American equivalent of Hamlet and we are stuck with him until he is forced to leave office and that will happen. Just do not know how and when.
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Neither can Biden correct Obama's disastrous mistakes nor has the desire to do so. I also challenge Mead's views they were "mistakes." Obama accomplished his end goal, a nuclear nation that has the ability to bring help radical Muslim's to achieve their long sought goal, ie. end Israel.
Palestinians will not renounce their goal of eliminating Israel because that is their way of getting the West to keep sending money their way.
It reminds me of the father who went on a vacation and told his partner-son don't settle the "Schwartz Estate." His son asked why.
The father responded you schmuck, what do you think paid for you to go to law school.
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Contradicting Biden, Saudis deny opening of airspace is step toward ties with Israel
Riyadh’s FM says move ‘has nothing to do’ with diplomatic relations; also states he’s not aware of any talks on Israel-integrated air defense alliance, after US hailed notion
By Jacob Magid
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al Saud speaks during a press conference after the end of Security and Development Summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, July 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — Contradicting the departing US President Joe Biden, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said Saturday that Riyadh’s decision to open its airspace for all civilian overflights had “nothing to do with diplomatic ties with Israel” and was “not in any way precursor to any further steps” toward normalization.
Prnice Faisal appeared determined to pour cold water over the declared expectations in Jerusalem and Washington that the kingdom’s decision, announced Thursday, to open its airspace to all civilian carriers — a move that will enable flights to and from Israel to China and India through far shorter and less costly routes — marked a first step toward formal relations with Israel.
“No, this has nothing to do with diplomatic ties with Israel,” the minister said in a press conference after the GCC+3 regional summit in Jeddah. “The issue of overflights is a decision we took… in the interest [of] providing connectivity between countries in the world, and we hope that it will make some travelers’ lives easier. It’s not in any way a precursor to any further steps.”
In a speech late Friday night after a pair of bilateral meetings here with Saudi King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Biden called the overflights decision by Riyadh “a big deal, not only symbolically but substantively.
“This is the first tangible step on the path of what I hope will eventually be a broader normalization of relations” between Israel and Saudi Arabia, Biden added.
On Friday morning, in a similar vein, Prime Minister Yair Lapid welcomed the move “opening Saudi airspace to Israeli airlines” as “the first official step in normalization with Saudi Arabia.”
“I thank the Saudi leadership for the opening of Saudi airspace. This is only the first step,” Lapid added.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Saudi foreign minister’s remarks.
Riyadh made the announcement on opened airspace a day before Biden unveiled the planned withdrawal of an observer force securing a pair of Red Sea Islands in what will allow their transfer from Egypt to Saudi Arabia. The withdrawal was brokered by the US, and required Israeli authorization because the presence of the observer force along with an assurance for freedom of transport around the islands for the Jewish state were part of Jerusalem’s conditions to relinquish them to Egypt as part of their 1979 peace treaty.
Accordingly, the Biden administration pushed Riyadh to take what it framed as steps toward normalization with Israel. The first of these was allowing Israeli overflights and the second was allowing direct flights between Israel and Saudi Arabia for Muslim pilgrims. The latter demand has not yet been finalized, with the White House being forced to temper its Friday announcement on the island transfer by saying it “welcomed related steps under discussion to include direct flights from Israel to Jeddah for next year’s Hajj on approved carriers.”
Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir also sought to dampen speculation regarding Saudi-Israel normalization, telling CNN in a Thursday interview that while such a step was “possible” and a “strategic option,” a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians was a “requirement” before Riyadh would formalize ties with Jerusalem.
Also during his Saturday press conference, Prince Faisal insisted that he was not aware of any talks at the Jeddah summit on including Israel in an integrated Middle East air defense network — an initiative that Washington and Jerusalem have both discussed openly in recent months.
“There was no discussion about a GCC-Israeli defense alliance or anything of the sort. At least I’m not aware of such discussions,” the foreign minister said.
Hours earlier a senior Biden administration official briefing the White House press corps at the summit said including Israel in the integrated air defense network that it is hoping to establish with Mideast allies would be significantly beneficial.
“We believe there’s great value in including as many of the capabilities in this region as possible, and certainly Israel has significant air and missile defense capabilities, as they need to,” the US official said, while avoiding a direct response to a question on whether there had been any progress in advancing the initiative.
The idea of a joint air defense network between Israel and its Arab neighbors was raised during the Negev Summit of foreign ministers from Israel, the US, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Egypt in March.
In late June, Defense Minister Benny Gantz said an air defense pact between Israel and its regional allies to combat Iran was “already in action.”
During a briefing to lawmakers at the Knesset’s Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee, Gantz said Israel and its regional allies — under US leadership — were developing a joint defense pact to protect against the threat of drones and missiles by Tehran and its regional proxies.
The pact, dubbed by Gantz, “MEAD — Middle East Air Defense,” is meant to connect air defense systems to combat Iran’s increasing use of drones and missiles in the Middle East.
While the defense minister expressed hope that there would be a development in the effort during Biden’s Mideast trip this week, a senior US official told The Times of Israel beforehand that no announcement should be expected while the president was in Israel or Saudi Arabia.
However, the senior administration official briefing reporters Saturday said the US is hopeful that there will be “additional announcements” in the coming weeks regarding the integrated air defense system for the Middle East
“Our allies and partners here in the region… have air missile defense capabilities. We are responsible for contributing to much of those capabilities, and we believe… there is [a] great advantage to trying to see if we can network some of those capabilities together,” the US official added.
Biden himself said in his remarks at the GCC+3 summit that the US is “integrating air defenses and early warning systems to ensure that we can defeat airborne threats.”
Speaking more broadly about the importance of regional integration, Biden said, “The United States will build political, economic, and security connections between the United States — between the US partners wherever possible, while respecting each country’s sovereignty and independent choices. Integration, interconnection — these are the underlying themes of our meeting today.”
Biden flew home from Jeddah on Saturday afternoon, after a five-day trip that began in Israel and included a Friday visit to the West Bank.
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This is what Biden and the far left want to turn Marines into: Semper Fi
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America of today reminds me of a sand pit and every day we get sucked further down. The only thing rising is inflation.
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