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Next UK Prime Minister a Strong Friend of Israel
Rishi Sunak supports moving embassy to Jerusalem, anti-BDS legislation, and applying IHRA’s antisemitism definition to British institutions.
By Pesach Benson, United with Israel
Rishi Sunak will become Britain’s next Prime Minister after former PM Boris Johnson announced on Sunday he did not plan to run for leadership of the Conservative Party.
Sunak, a 42-year-old former hedge-fund manager who is of Indian descent, has good relations with Britain’s Jewish community and has voiced support for Israel on a number of occasions. The winner of the Conservative Party leadership race will automatically become Prime Minister without a general election.
He was runner-up to Liz Truss in the race for Tory leadership after Boris Johnson resigned in July amid a string of ethics scandals.
Sunak and Israel
During his campaign for party leadership, Sunak appeared at a Conservative Friends of Israel gathering in July where he recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s “historic capital” and supported Truss’s views on relocating Britain’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, saying there was a “strong case” for the move.
At the same meeting, Sunak also said he wanted anti-BDS legislation on the parliamentary agenda, and criticized Amnesty International’s controversial report accusing Israel of carrying out apartheid against the Palestinians, calling it “completely wrong, and quite frankly, offensive.”
In an August interview with London’s Jewish Chronicle, Sunak called Israel “shining beacon of hope,” and called for more British institutions to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism. Britain adopted IHRA’s definition in 2018, the first government to do so.
On the issue of Iran, Sunak told the JC, “A nuclear-armed Iran would pose an existential threat to Israel and embolden Iran’s web of terrorist groups throughout the region. We urgently need a new, strengthened deal and the credible threat of snapback sanctions is the only way we can force Iran to seriously engage with this.”
Sunak’s Rise
Truss resigned after just 45 days in office, the shortest-serving prime minister in British history.
She was undermined by deeply unpopular economic policies. The value of the British pound plummeted, which sparked a sudden rise in interest rates, inflation and cost of living. Her leadership was further undermined by the firings and resignations of several senior economic officials.
Sunak had served as Chancellor of the Exchequer, the government’s chief financial minister, under Johnson. But he resigned in July in protest over Johnson’s handling of sexual harassment allegations against fellow Conservative MP Chris Pincher.
Sunak did not hold a cabinet position in Truss’s government, remaining untouched by Britain’s economic plunge.
Other Tories vying for party leadership include Penny Mordaunt, who has served as Leader of the House of Commons, and the lesser-known Brandon Lewis, who served as Secretary of Justice under Truss.
The opposition Labor party has been pushing for a national vote, and it’s possible the Conservatives might call a snap election at some point in the future. Otherwise, Britain’s next election will take place in January 2025.
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Convicted Murderer Freed by Philly DA
Larry Krasner in Custody After Deadly
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Another version of what being in "Philly" can mean:
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My Black Uber Driver in Philly
By Dennis Prager
I am writing this column in Burlington, Vermont. It is my seventh city in eight days. From my hometown of Los Angeles, I flew to Orlando, followed by Atlanta, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago and now Burlington.
My Salem radio talk-show host colleagues and I went from city to city in "battleground" states to speak on the forthcoming elections -- specifically about how vital it is for the survival of America that the Left and its political party be defeated. (I went to Chicago and Burlington for other reasons.)
Two reflections: one from Philadelphia and the other from Chicago:
In Philadelphia, prior to the evening event, I did what I do in virtually every city in which I speak: smoked a cigar at a local cigar lounge. I would not be surprised if I have visited more cigar bars than anyone outside the cigar industry.
I then took an Uber to the venue.
My driver was a black man, and as I almost always do with strangers, I engaged in conversation with him.
He turned out to be particularly inquisitive about me and why I was headed to the Fuge, a major event venue in the Philly area.
"Why are you headed to the Fuge?" he asked.
"I am going to give a speech," I answered.
"What is your line of work?"
"I give speeches."
"About what?"
I should note here that, most of the time when I tell a stranger I give speeches or write books, the person does not ask, "About what?" While I have become used to this lack of curiosity, I am still amazed whenever it happens. If I said I was the manager of a Major League Baseball team, wouldn't most Americans ask me, "Which team?"
So, I was impressed -- and admittedly a bit apprehensive -- at my driver's curiosity. Should I reveal my political and ideological preferences and risk a tense drive? He was, after all, a black man, and the vast majority of American-born (as opposed to Caribbean-born and African-born) blacks are Democrats.
As I consider lying a sin, I had to tell the truth. So, I answered in a way that was true but not necessarily revealing of my political ideology and abstract enough to perhaps end his line of inquiry.
"About the collapse of Western civilization," I said.
"Oh, man, do I ever agree with you! This wokeness, this censorship of speech is destroying us."
He went on and on about the woke threat to America and the West so eloquently, I thought about inviting him to speak alongside me and my colleagues.
As that wasn't realistic, I did the next best thing.
"The evening is sold out," I told him, "But I can certainly get you in. And if you come, I will introduce you to 1,200 people, and I promise you a standing ovation!"
He thought about it, and finally agreed to come, was given a front-row seat, and, just as I predicted, when I told the audience about him, the spotlight was shone on him, and virtually all 1,200 people rose and gave him a standing ovation.
In fact, they gave him two.
Some reflections:
On generalizations:
Many people oppose generalizations. "You're generalizing," is a common objection to an argument using a generalization. The objecting person assumes that charge alone defeats the generalizer's argument.
There are three key points to be made about generalizations:
First, if you cannot make any generalizations, you cannot think clearly. When you make a valid generalization, it means that you can see a pattern in life.
Therefore, second, the only question that a generalization should provoke is, "Is the generalization valid?"
And third, any time you make a generalization, you must be prepared to back it up with examples and/or facts.
My assuming that a black man -- in Philadelphia, no less -- was a Democrat was completely valid.
On outliers:
That my black Uber driver turned out to be a conservative meant not that my generalization was wrong, but that I had encountered an outlier. And as I have written in the past, while not every outlier does good, virtually all good is achieved by outliers. Conversely, virtually all bad is done by the herd.
One final observation: As I have often said on the radio, if you are a black man or woman and feeling unloved, I have a suggestion: Just attend any conservative event
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Everything about America is always under attack. Radicals are
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IDF raids Lions' Den HQ in Nablus, kills top leaders, destroys bomb lab
By Khaled Abu Toameh
The Lions' Den terrorist group based in Nablus conducted a series of shooting attacks against Israelis in recent weeks.
Five Palestinians were killed overnight in Nablus as Israeli security forces cracked down on the Lions’ Den militant group responsible for a number of terror attacks.
During the three-hour-long joint IDF, Israel Police and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) operation, troops destroyed an explosive lab belonging to the group in the Old City of Nablus.
The IDF also fired a Matador missile at one of the apartments where armed gunmen were believed to be. A car was also reported to have exploded during the operation, with the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reporting that a missile was fired at the car, killing one person.
Though an armed Zik drone was in the air, it was not used during the operation.
The five Palestinians were killed after an intense firefight broke out between Israeli forces and armed gunmen. They were identified by the Palestinian Health Ministry as 27-year-old Mishaal Zahi Baghdadi, 35-year-old Hamdi Sharaf, 26-year-old Ali Antar, 30-year-old Hamdi Qayyim, and 31-year-old Wadi al-Houh.
According to reports, Houh was considered a founding member of the Nablus-based group. His home was used as a hub where connections were made between bomb-makers and locals who would carry out attacks.
Wadee al-Houh, a top commander of Lions' Den, was killed in the Israeli military operation in Nablus.
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This is a Nazi version of America. Yes, it has come to this.
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When aren't they planning?
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The Taliban Is Planning Their Move On Central Asia
(FreedomBeacon.com)- American foreign policy in Afghanistan has proved a disaster. Trump and Biden-era Special Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad based the U.S. withdrawal deal on the Taliban’s promise that they were going to fight against the Islamic State, according to a report by national security and defense website 19FortyFive. But this was a deal based in naivety or ignorance, as the Taliban plans their next move on Central Asia to “export their revolution.”
The Taliban have mobilized 16 high ranking members of foreign terrorist groups to Kabul and then transferred them to the Baghlan, Kunduz and Badakhshan provinces in northern Afghanistan. Members reportedly brought to Kabul were Haji Forqan, the leader of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement; Mawlawi Ibrahim, the head of the Ansarullah Jamaat of Tajikistan, who reportedly has strong ties to the Islamic State; Shaikh Zakir, the head of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan; and Abdul Haq Uighuri, the head of the Al Qaeda branch in northern Afghanistan.
The members reportedly stayed three days with the home of a senior Haqqani network official in Wazir Akbar Khan. The Haqqani network is an Afghan Sunni Islamist guerrilla insurgent group, founded by Jalaluddin Haqqani, a known associate of Usama Bin Laden was, according to a report.
The group then met with Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban’s deputy leader and acting interior minister, to discuss establishing foreign fighters in northern Afghanistan, according to 19FortyFive.
Some Biden administration officials and U.S. lawmakers might not see the mobilization of the Taliban as a U.S. concern, but a storm may be brewing and it would be a mistake to “confuse absence of press attention in Afghanistan with quiet.”
According to 19FortyFive, Russia has played both sides of the Afghanistan conflict. On the one hand, Russia did not want the United States to win the war, otherwise that might humiliate the former Soviet Union who was unable to defeat the country. On the other hand, “he also did not want the United States to lose, for that could mean the empowerment of the Taliban and the export of its extremism into the former Soviet states of Central Asia.” He wanted both the Taliban and the U.S. to “bleed each other dry.”
Now, Russia seems to have left its southern flank at risk as a result of its “miscalculations” in Ukraine and corruption in the region making moves with foreign terrorist members are proceeding without interruption.
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I believe Obama holdover operatives are behind most of Biden's moves because he is mentally out of the picture and is being manipulated:
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What Now Exactly Are Impeachable Offenses?
By Victor Davis Hanson
Posted By Ruth King
We know that Donald Trump was once impeached for calling up his Ukrainian counterpart and complaining that the Ukrainian government had been too involved with the corrupt Biden family. Trump then warned that if Ukraine did not clean up its quid-pro-quo act, he would delay approved military aid.
And while Trump eventually sent offensive weapons to Ukraine that the Obama-Biden administration had vetoed, he was still impeached. Apparently, his sin was that he had anticipated Biden as a future 2020 Democratic rival candidate for president, and thus was intermingling politics and foreign policy to his own benefit and the nation’s detriment.
As such, it did not matter that his phone call did not affect U.S. policy because Ukraine got its weapons, and better ones than those approved by the prior administration.
Nor did it apparently matter that Trump was correct, as we know from the later Hunter Biden laptop revelations, that the entire Biden family syndicate was corrupt. Indeed, Joe Biden himself—known to the family as the “Big Guy” and “Mr. Ten-percent” and “pedo”—cannot explain his sudden wealth, lavish pre-presidential lifestyle, or various estates without some source of extra (non-taxed?) income.
Nor does it matter apparently that Trump’s call was listened to by partisan Ukrainian American Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman who relayed it—although initially denied doing so—to the technically still “anonymous” whistleblower. The latter filed a complaint with the congressional intelligence committees, based on hearsay (from Vindman no doubt), and then coordinated with Adam Schiff to set the stage for impeachment proceedings. That fact was denied by the prevaricating Schiff, who also lied about several elements of the impeachment proceedings.
So, what then is the new bar for impeachment for warping U.S. policy for perceived political advantage?
Why was not Barack Obama impeached for his hot-mic revelations in Seoul, South Korea in early election year 2012?
After all, Obama was caught:
a) trying to alter U.S. policy to the nation’s disadvantage (by cancelling preapproved missile defense systems with Poland and the Czech Republic) in exchange for advancing his own political interests in getting reelected (asking Vladimir for “space” so that Obama would not be embarrassed by Russian adventurism during his “last” election).
b) And unlike Trump, who did send aid to Ukraine, Obama did not go forward with missile defense. And, unlike Trump’s call that did not affect events on the ground, Putin did, as promised, not invade Ukraine until 2014 after Obama was reelected.
Would missile defense have helped Eastern Europeans in 2022 in the face of Putin’s nuclear weapons threats?
Had Obama done more to punish Putin for his 2014 invasions of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine, would his subsequent 2022 invasion of Ukraine have been less disastrous? Would Obama have been reelected had Putin invaded Ukraine and Crimea in 2012?
2) Joe Biden also seems to have fulfilled the Left’s new impeachment requirement during his visit to and recent remarks about Saudi Arabia. After slashing new federal energy leases, cancelling ANWR and the Keystone Pipeline, and hectoring banks and investment firms not to finance fossil-fuel exploration and development, Biden kept his prelection promise of curtailing carbon fuels.
But he did not anticipate the backlash over his near doubling of gas prices, especially as the midterms loomed.
As a result, Biden went on a desperate hunt for global oil, given he would not produce oil and gas at home, but only tap what others had banked for natural disastrous emergencies in the strategic petroleum reserve.
What followed was tragicomedy, as Americans between 2021–22 variously begged the Russians, Iranians, Venezuelans, and Saudis to pump more oil before the midterms, given that we ourselves, for ourselves, would not.
In other words, Biden begged and then threatened a former ally of the United States because he wished to use it to produce oil that he would not—and to produce more oil and gas immediately to enhance his party’s chances in the midterm through falling gas prices at the pump. Was Biden worried about U.S. consumers strapped to pay for their escalating fuel cost, or his political interests in November?
Was it in Biden’s interests or U.S. interests to insult Saudi Arabia for not increasing its own petroleum production? Remember, was not the kingdom the very country Biden had earlier smeared as a “pariah” at a time when it was partnering with the U.S. to forge common alliances with Israel to combat Iranian aggression? Was it in U.S. interests or Joe Biden’s to meet the Venezuelan dictator Maduro’s demands for pumping more oil for U.S. consumption?
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