 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Wednesday that Israel's bombardment of Gaza in response to the weekend's horrific terrorist attacks was disproportionate and a "massacre" of the Palestinians, "devoid of any ethical foundation." |
Turkey, an ally of the United States and a member of NATO, has conducted itself appallingly in the aftermath of Hamas's terroristic, genocidal invasion of Israel this past weekend. One despicable example: Its deputy education minister, Nazif Yilmaz, threatened Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's life on social media, writing, "One day they will shoot you" and "You will die."
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Wednesday that Israel's bombardment of Gaza in response to the weekend's horrific terrorist attacks was disproportionate and a "massacre" of the Palestinians, "devoid of any ethical foundation." He previously had stated, in response to the United States' dispatch of an aircraft carrier strike group to the eastern Mediterranean, "What will the aircraft carrier of the U.S. do near Israel; why do they come? What will boats around and aircraft on it will do [sic]? They will hit Gaza and around, and take steps for serious massacres there."
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My Congressional Representative has become a personal friend and is a huge supporter of Israel.
I helped arrange Buddy and Amy's first visit to Israel through contacts with AIPAC. They had never been and loved every minute.
I never ask anything of Buddy for myself, only others and he always responds or arranged a staff member to help.
Buddy totally understands constituent service is a significant facet of his Congressional responsibilities
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STANDING FIRM WITH OUR ALLIES
Last week, Iranian-backed terror group Hamas launched an unwarranted attack on the people of Israel. The images, videos, and stories coming out of country are appalling and should be jarring to every American. The targeting of innocent women, children, and senior citizens is evil and inhumane, plain and simple.
On Tuesday, I was proud to join over three hundred of my colleagues from both sides of the political spectrum in condemning these egregious acts of violence. Unfortunately, we have some colleagues who do not feel the same way, which is an inexcusable policy position to take. As our last democratic ally in the Middle East and a staunch proponent of Western values, Israel is an invaluable partner to the United States.
Rep. Carter attends a candlelight vigil on the steps of the United States Capitol for the people of Israel
Since coming into Congress, I have been an avid backer of Israel. I recommended and voted for billions of dollars of U.S. aid to our friend in the Middle East. As this war goes on, the Israelis and the Jewish people will have my strong and unequivocal support.
I will continue to lift up the people harmed in this conflict in my prayers and I ask that you do the same
Shabbat Sholom,
Buddy Carter Signature
Compare and contrast:
Rashida Tlaib Finally Responds to Reports About Hamas Beheading Babies
By Matt Vespa
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) has finally responded to reports of Hamas beheading Israeli babies. The Michigan Democrat had an appalling interaction with Fox News/Business reporter Hillary Vaughn when asked about the atrocities committed by the terror group against innocent Israelis. Tlaib smirked and said nothing.
Tlaib and her partner in crime, Ilhan Omar, have been some of the most vocal terrorist-sympathizing voices in Congress. The backlash has been notable, causing some top Democrat to circle the wagons around Tlaib to little or no effect. You cannot pivot, deflect, or justify the murder, torture, burning, and beheading of children and babies.
On Wednesday, Tlaib said, “I do not support targeting and killing of civilians, whether in Israel or Palestine. Fact that some have suggested otherwise is offensive and rooted in bigoted assumptions about my faith and ethnicity.”
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Detroit, is facing censure for her response to the Hamas attack on Israel.
U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Watersmeet, filed a censure resolution against Tlaib Wednesday, saying she has a "long history of making anti-semitic and anti-Israeli remarks."
This comes after Tlaib, a Palestinian-American, released a statement following the attack on Saturday.
Here's Tlaib's full statement:
"I grieve the Palestinian and Israeli lives lost yesterday, today, and every day. I am determined as ever to fight for a just future where everyone can live in peace, without fear and with true freedom, equal rights, and human dignity. The path to that future must include lifting the blockade, ending the occupation, and dismantling the apartheid system that creates the suffocating, dehumanizing conditions that can lead to resistance. The failure to recognize the violent reality of living under siege, occupation, and apartheid makes no one safer. No person, no child anywhere should have to suffer or live in fear of violence. We cannot ignore the humanity in each other. As long as our country provides billions in unconditional funding to support the apartheid government, this heartbreaking cycle of violence will continue."
Bergman criticized her response, and in a video posted to social media, he said, "While we don't all have to see eye-to-eye on every issue, I'd hope we can all agree that the terrorist raping women, murdering festivalgoers, and decapitating babies is a crime against all of humanity, and we must be able to call out that kind of unbridled evil in the world."
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Please watch this important video from Caroline Glick dealing with the existential threat to Israel and the Jewish people.
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A couple goes to an art gallery.
They turn the corner in one of the rooms to find a picture of a naked women with only her privates covered with leaves.
The wife doesn't like it and moves on, but the husband keeps looking.
The wife asks: "What are you waiting for?"
The husband replies: "Autumn."
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Israeli Mea Culpa:
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(GoRealNewsNow.com) – In a shockingly painful but seemingly honest admission, Israel’s highest military commander has exposed mind-shattering intelligence and defense failures that allowed one of America’s top allies to be attacked by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
In its surprise attack on October 7, the symbolic 50th anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, thousands of Hamas terrorists from the Gaza Strip crushed Israeli border defenses and began massacring civilians.
More than 1,300 people have perished in their attacks, including 14 Americans, while hundreds are believed to have been kidnapped.
On Thursday, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, the chief of staff for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), issued his first public remarks since the onset of the conflict, acknowledging failures in intelligence and defense readiness.
“The IDF under my command understands the gravity of the situation and the responsibility on our shoulders. We will learn and analyze what happened, but now is a time of war,” Halevi stated.
“The massacre by the murderous and animalistic Hamas terrorists of our children, our women [and] our people was barbaric. It was not humane,” he added.
He directed explicit accountability toward Yahya Sinwar, the prevailing Palestinian leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
“He and the entire system underneath him are ‘dead men walking.’ We will strike them, break them, and dismantle their system. The fighting spirit of the IDF strikes Gaza with full force. We will not stop here. There is decisiveness [and] there is fury,” Halevi said.
The top Israeli commander warned that the dismantling of Hamas infrastructure would take time and patience from Israelis.
While he did not specify whether a ground invasion was under consideration, various security analysts, both in Israel and internationally, have perceived it as probable, especially considering the appalling character of the Hamas assault.
“Gaza will not look the same. We achieve a situation where those who led Gaza will be intensely struck and dismantled. Whoever remains there will understand that such a thing is not to be done to the State of Israel,” Halevi said.
“We will do everything we can to return the kidnapped victims. We will strike a decisive blow to our enemies. That is our mission today and we are determined to achieve it,” he vowed further.
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Only the insane and/or stupid feed bullies and expect change.
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This is who they have always been
By Jerome Marcus - JNS
At some point everyone, especially the people who have so recently denied it, must acknowledge that demanding the lamb make its home with the butcher is not merely naive and not merely stupid. It is evil.
As the world reels from accounts of Hamas’s obscene slaughter of Jews in southern Israel on Oct. 7, some who have in the past criticized Israel’s conduct of prior military operations in the Gaza Strip have issued heartfelt cries of agony.
A statement issued by left-wing organization J Street is an example: “Hamas’ heinous, murderous attack is a gross violation of international law and constitutes an abhorrent crime against humanity. This is one of the most shocking massacres in the history of Israel, and indeed in the entire history of this century. The horror and pain is difficult to process and comprehend.”
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The sick butchery of the terror group’s actions makes it difficult, though not impossible, for people to react with anything other than pure horror. To its credit, J Street’s statement contains none of the on-the-one-hand but on-the-other-hand prevarication that has long characterized so many pronouncements from the left on Israel, including many from J Street itself. If commendation were appropriate for an acknowledgment damning pure evil for what it is, then J Street would be worthy of commendation.
But what J Street’s and similar statements leave unaddressed is the obvious question: What did you think was going to happen if, as has been demanded by the left for years, Israel was gentle with such people and tried to live side by side with them? After all, Israel abandoned all of Gaza in 2005, formally ceding it to the Arabs who live there. If those people had wished, the Gaza-Israel border would have been exactly the side-by-side-in-peace existence the left claims to yearn for and for the absence of which they continue, even now, to condemn Israel. Instead, the people of Gaza held an election and chose Hamas’s murderers to lead them.
Even worse than the naifs at J Street, however, are people such as journalist Peter Beinart, who have urged Israel to share a “binational state” with Hamas’s supporters. Does Beinart now see how ridiculous and suicidal such a thing would be? But maybe that’s the wrong question. It isn’t “does he?” but “will he?”
Sadly, the answer is “no.”
In a bloodless interview conducted after the scale of the slaughter had begun to become clear, Beinart paid lip service to Jewish pain but then lamented that “Palestinians, as always, will suffer far, far more than Israeli Jews because they’re by far the weaker part of this.”
This concern about Palestinian weakness ignores the fact that many hundreds of millions of dollars in international aid have been spent by the Hamas regime on tunnels, missiles, drones and guns rather than on civilian infrastructure that would actually have improved the lives of Gaza’s people—the “weak” Palestinians about whom Beinart cares so much.
Mourning the fate of a population that chose the leaders who committed the atrocities on Saturday—on Shabbat and a Jewish holiday—and provided the hundreds of barbarians who committed them is itself a disgrace. But it is also a failure by Beinart to take responsibility, because it is Beinart and his fellow travelers who have for years demanded that Israel and Jewish Israelis work with and live with and even share a state with exactly these rampaging rapists and murderers of babies and the elderly.
In one of his articles denouncing the idea of a Jewish state and calling for a binational entity, Beinart praised “the Islamist movement Hamas—which has not recognized Israel” because “it has repeatedly embraced the ‘mini-state’ as the basis for a long-term truce.”
He bemoaned Israel’s efforts to dislodge Hamas, complaining that “after Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem held free elections—which gave Hamas a parliamentary majority—Israel and the U.S. encouraged [Mahmoud] Abbas to declare a state of emergency and disregard the results.”
If Beinart is prepared to believe that Hamas was democratically chosen by Gaza’s residents, why are they not all responsible for the actions of the leaders they chose? It’s not as if Hamas’s leaders have ever made a secret of their plans to murder Jews and destroy Israel.
At some point everyone, especially the people who have so recently denied it, must acknowledge that demanding the lamb make its home with the butcher is not merely naïve and not merely stupid. It is evil.
We have reached that point.
The opinions and facts presented in this article are those of the author, and neither JNS nor its partners assume any responsibility for them.
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