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The outrageous unconstitutional attacks on Trump by radical Democrats, in combination with the Pass Go's from the mass media, will inure to Trump's benefit. Americans believe in fairness.
Also, think about the TWISTED message this sends to the rest of the world about America's claim regarding we believe in fairness and equal justice. What hypocrisy. We punctured our own balloon. How can we go to the rest of the world and point to the rest of the world we are a aw ad order nation.
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We Are Jews Against Soros
By Josh Hammer
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These Republican Primary Opponents Are Rallying Behind Trump After His Indictment
By ByRebecca Downs
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Hate speech is free speech and Justice Hugo Black would allow it. The question for me is institutions that freely allow their venue.
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ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA
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ZOA Deeply Appreciates Cong. Mike Lawler & Co-Sponsors for Introducing Important “Stop Antisemitism on College Campuses Act”
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein, Director of Special Projects Liz Berney, Esq., Director of ZOA's Center for Law and Justice Susan Tuchman, Esq., and Director of Govt. Relations Dan Pollak released the following statement:
The Zionist Organization of America strongly thanks and deeply appreciates Congressman Mike Lawler (R-NY) for introducing the very important H.R. 3773, the “Stop Antisemitism on College Campuses Act” on June 1st. Congressman Lawler stated on twitter and in a press release that this legislation “will ensure that no college or university will receive a single dollar of federal education funding if they peddle in the promotion of antisemitism at an event on their campus.” The bill would add a requirement to the Higher Education Act of 1965 that “The institution will not authorize any event promoting antisemitism to be held on campus.”
Congressman Lawler’s press release, entitled “Following Hateful Speech at CUNY Law School Graduation, Lawler Introduces Legislation to Combat Antisemitism on College Campuses,” indicated that the recent dangerous, Nazi-like antisemitic, anti-American, anti-law enforcement commencement speech at CUNY Law School was the final straw that impelled this much-needed legislation. This may be the most Jew-hating, America-hating speech ever given in America from a respected, legitimate podium.
Indeed, withdrawing funding is one of several steps that ZOA urged following the latest murder-inciting, antisemitic, anti-Israel, anti-American hate speech at the CUNY Law School commencement. (See “ZOA Demands Action on SJP’s Fatima Mohammed’s Murder-Inciting, Antisemitic, Anti-American CUNY Law Commencement Speech,” June 1, 2023.)
ZOA also strongly thanks and appreciates the bill’s original co-sponsors, Congressmembers Anthony D'Esposito (R-NY); Joe Wilson (R-SC); Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA); Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ); human rights promoter Chris Smith (R-NJ); Max Miller (R-OH); Thomas Kean, Jr. (R-NJ); and David Kustoff (R-TN); and additional co-sponsor Cong. Ralph Norman (R-SC). (See also Cong. D’Esposito’s and Miller’s supporting tweets.)
ZOA is also gratified and appreciates that Congressman Lawler’s bill specifically and appropriately utilizes the widely-endorsed definition of antisemitism adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), including IHRA’s contemporary examples of antisemitism. It is particularly important and beneficial that Cong. Lawler’s bill specified the IHRA definition, because this helps counteract the Biden administration’s citation and “welcoming and appreciation as a valuable tool” the devastatingly dangerous NEXUS and JDA definitions in Biden’s “National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism.” The NEXUS and JDA definitions allow antisemitism masked as hatred of Jews and Israel and Zionists to continue as legitimate and reasonable.
(See “ZOA Criticizes Biden Antisemitism Strategy’s Embrace of Dangerous ‘Nexus’ Antisemitism Definition & Not Calling Out Islamists & Other Antisemites,” May 25, 2023; “ZOA to President Biden: To Help Protect the Safety of the Jewish People, Recognize the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism,” May 23, 2023.)
ZOA also strongly thanks New York City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov (R-BK) for redirecting $50,000 of funding away from CUNY Law School last year due to the school faculty council’s endorsement of antisemitic anti-Israel boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS). We also strongly thank NYC Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (R-Queens) and her caucus for her tweet yesterday that: “When CUNY was seeking funding from my office last year, I denied their request flat-out due to the rampant antisemitism infecting their campus and faculty. My caucus did the same.” ZOA strongly urges more co-sponsors to sign on to Congressman Lawler’s bill, on a bi-partisan basis, and more New York City Councilpersons to deny CUNY funding until there are real changes there.
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The inevitable draws closer:
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Israeli cabinet likely to approve Iran strike should Netanyahu pursue it – report
June 9, 2023
With tensions escalating between Israel and Iran, Israel’s new, more hawkish cabinet is reportedly far more likely to approve attack on Iranian nuclear sites than government was ten years ago.
By World Israel News Staff
Israel’s security cabinet would likely grant approval for strikes against Iran, should Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant push for such a plan, Israel Hayom reported Thursday.
In recent weeks, tensions between Iran and Israel have escalated following Iran’s introduction of its new “Fateh” missile, claimed by the Iranian regime to possess a striking range of 1,400 kilometers, capable of targeting Israel.
Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, asserted that their new hypersonic missile cannot be intercepted by any missile defense system in the world, implicitly referring to Israel’s comprehensive missile defense framework encompassing the Iron Dome, David’s Sling, and Arrow systems.
A decade ago, Netanyahu failed to garner sufficient votes in the Cabinet to authorize a strike on Iran’s nuclear program. However, it is now believed that he would now be able to secure a majority, given the heightened urgency of the Iranian threat and the increased hawkishness of current government ministers compared to a decade ago.
Notably, the prime minister would not only receive support from the government for a strike against Iran but also from opposition parties.
Netanyahu: We wiped out half of Islamic Jihad's leadership in one blow
MK Benny Gantz, the National Unity Party chairman, affirmed during the Jerusalem Post Annual Conference in New York on Monday that if a strike against Iran became necessary, the entire nation of Israel would unite behind the government.
“We cannot allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons,” said Gantz.
As an opposition leader, I want to emphasize this message: We will do whatever it takes to prevent an existential threat to the State of Israel. We know such action might come at a great cost, but, as always in these matters, all of Israel’s leadership and people will unite.”
According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran has enriched uranium to a purity of 84%, which falls just below the 90% threshold necessary for developing nuclear weapons, and significantly exceeds the purity required for any non-military purposes.
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Robert Rabil on the Tragedy of Lebanon
by Marilyn Stern
Middle East Forum Webinar
Robert Rabil, professor of political science at Florida Atlantic University, spoke to a June 5th Middle East Forum Webinar (video) about the conditions that led to Lebanon becoming a failed state. The following is a summary of Rabil's comments:
Modern Lebanon emerged as a state in 1920 under the French Mandate. The latter instituted a "confessional system" based on the distribution of power along religious lines and modeled after the system used under the Ottoman Empire. Christians held a slim plurality. After 1943, Lebanon became independent, and the Christians and Muslims formed a "national compact." It was a system that relied on the Christians' efforts to "Lebanonize" the Muslims, and the Muslims' efforts to "Arabize" the Christians; neither was successful.
Two developments followed: (1) Lebanon transitioned from a system of feudalism "based on tax farming" to one based on political sectarianism, whereby politicians created a weak and corrupt patronage system that favored sects instead of national identity. Lebanon changed from the "Paris of the Middle East" into "a fodder for spoils"; and (2) the disruption of the confessional system in 1958, caused by a split between the Christians who supported the Eisenhower Doctrine (i.e. they maintained a pro-Western political orientation) and the "strident nationalism" of Nasserism among the Muslims, spawned a civil war from 1975 to 1990.
The resulting power vacuum in Lebanon's broken system was filled by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). This non-state actor, which emerged as a "strong power broker" in Lebanon under its "kingmaker" Yasser Arafat until the Israelis invaded in 1982 and evicted them, became the "catalyst" for the civil war, which in turn paved the way for the rise of Hezbollah. Supported by Syria, Hezbollah filled the power gap created by the Lebanese civil war. Syria then occupied Lebanon from 1990 to 2005, during which time Hezbollah became "a state within a state."
Hezbollah's military might, reinforced by its support of the social infrastructure, built a following among the Shia who had been given short shrift by the sectarian political elite. Hezbollah remained dominant following the assassination of Prime Minister Rafic Hariri in 2005. A cross-sectarian uprising of Lebanese Christians and Muslims came together following the assassination and took to the streets, ousting Syria. Hezbollah reached a "fortune pact" with the remaining political elites that had "robbed the state" and went so far as to steal depositors' monies in the country's banks after the October Revolution in 2019. The World Bank has said regarding the country's current situation that Lebanon was "facing the worst crisis since the mid-nineteenth century."
As Hezbollah's power grew, the terror group dismantled militias formed during the Lebanese civil war and emerged as a "huge actor" not only in the Syrian civil war, but also in Iraq, and then in Yemen. Hezbollah's power grab embroiled the Lebanese people in its schemes, hijacking the people's consent over the issue of war or peace. Today, Hezbollah, with weaponry from Iran and support from Syria, does Iran's bidding under the banner of "the Axis of Resistance."
The influx of Syrian refugees fleeing Syria's 2011 civil war triggered another crisis in Lebanon. Initially, the Lebanese welcomed the refugees when low in number, but the trickle became a deluge in 2015 as Syria's civil war intensified. According to Lebanese statistics, the country of five million now has two million Syrian refugees, "the largest number of Syria[ns] per capita refugee[s] in the world." Lebanon's history of socio-economic and political crises, along with the ravages inflicted by a corrupt political elite, has left it a failed state.
The Lebanese currency has lost 95 percent of its value, and a crumbling health system, sporadic electricity, and a paucity of potable water now has tensions spiking between the Lebanese and the Syrian refugees as they compete for scarce resources. UN aid is unable to fill the gap, as 80 percent of the Lebanese people are at or below the poverty level, and 50 percent face food insecurity. In order to receive more aid from the UN, the Syrians have taken on multiple wives and increased their number of children. Consequently, Syrian births in Lebanon now exceed births to Lebanese in Lebanon.
Although the Lebanese army is the only functioning institution in the country, it is under strain due to the plummeting Lebanese lira and its devaluation of salaries. The Christian forces are debating remedies to address Lebanon's ills, including a system of federalism. However, it has little chance of adoption because it relies upon sharing power, which the Sunni and Shia do not support. "The Christian community is fragmented, the Sunni community is leaderless, the Druze community acts from the position [of] political survival, and the Shia community has the gun."
The Christian community is fragmented, the Sunni community is leaderless, the Druze community acts from the position [of] political survival, and the Shia community has the gun.
A possible solution would be for the new generation of Lebanese youth to form a "new pact" based on removing sectarian leaders and their patronage system's monopoly on power and coalescing to create one national identity based on full democracy and transparency. The "despondency" rife among the population is causing mass migration. "The dynamics of Lebanon are very complicated, very complicated, and it's very difficult for any party to go in and bring that communal peace if the Lebanese – they don't have this communal peace themselves." With the encouragement of the U.S. and the European Union, the long-term project towards restoring Lebanon's civil society can start with reducing its reliance on Hezbollah's social infrastructure.
Currently, Rabil is concerned that the Saudi-Iran agreement, and the growing rapprochement between Russia and Iran because of the former's war in Ukraine, have emboldened Hezbollah. The strategic cooperation between Russia and Iran has transitioned into a "strategic alliance" that may influence Russia's adherence to its former "red lines." Hezbollah aims to receive more sophisticated weaponry from Russia, and, under the circumstances, Russia may not restrict weapons smuggling from Syria to Hezbollah. Such an outcome would affect Israel's security and, in turn, Lebanon's. For centuries, Lebanon was able to survive invasions "from the Mamluk to the Fatamid," but the next generation's ability to form this new pact would be a "litmus test" of whether Lebanon can be saved.
Marilyn Stern is communications coordinator at the Middle East Forum.
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The flames in Canada have wiped out untold monies wasted on trying to get rid of pollution. God and nature will decide when climate will turn favorable Until then Kerry, quit trying to play a role you were never cut out for. Go eat your heart out on the ski slopes.
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