About our grandson Henry who , in March, will marry Jessica.

"A script Henry wrote got on this year's Black List, which is an annual survey of the "most-liked" movie screenplays not yet produced."

Link to his script: https://d1dlq8f5fkueth.cloudfront.net/annual-lists/2023-v4.pdf

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If this video does not alarm you, nothing will. There is no way to remove the threat. Obama knew what would transform America and he really did not need to do much because we were already doing it to ourselves. How? When the cost of raising a child exploded due to a variety of circumstances, and led by inflation, we began to reduce having children. That was the knife we cut our own throats with and Europe will lead the parade.

Demographics is far more predictable than economics!

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I have some other new concerns. Obviously, Israel was emotionally shaken by Oct 7 but also strengthened. They are more united, realistic and therefore, less likely to bend over backwards to accommodate radical Islamists like Hamas, etc. At the same time, I pray Israel does not get the big head after crushing Hamas and embrace the feeling they are invincible.

Having said that, I do believe Israel is realistically unwilling to tolerate more shelling from Hezbollah. Over 100,000 Israelis have been displaced because of this shelling and no government can tolerate this for too long.

It is evident, Biden is unwilling to even defend our own troops preferring instead to beat up on Bibi. Bibi is reluctant to cave because he knows Biden is a wuss and if he ceases, before Hamas is decimated, that will not serve anyone's interests who seek stability in the region, least of all The Saudis.

Furthermore, Bibi told Biden, post the war with Hamas, he will also resist allowing Palestinians to rule Gaza. Why would Bibi allow those still dedicated to eliminate Israel to take over from Hamas? Until Palestinians come to their senses, a two state solution is a dumb/dangerous myth that only an idiot would accept.

Americans may sit on their thumbs while Biden opens our borders but even Europe is beginning to regret their Muslim munificence.

I wrote about two weeks after Israel engaged Hamas, they really needed to take out Hezbollah and I believe Hezbollah may miscalculate Israel's sincere warnings regarding firing rockets.

Biden's warning, Israel is losing international support is probably correct because any support Israel had was always thinner than toilet paper. Actually, Biden is the one who is being politically impacted by Hamas' lunacy. His poll numbers get redder each day.

Obviously, Biden would love to achieve/force a concession from Bibi to call a halt to Israel's goal but any benefit would last less than a week because cultural Marxists, who are involved in causing our various headaches, have an unending goal, ie. our complete destruction/collapse.

Biden's son's episodes with Congress aren't helping either nor are the anti-Semitic activities on American university campuses. Biden's incompetence and health deterioration is starting to bite him in his ass. Eating more ice cream, ducking questions from the press is not going to help him. He can't even run much less hide.

Nevertheless, he needs to hang on long enough to be around to pardon his son and eventually, maybe even himself.

Poll shows soaring Palestinian support for Hamas; 72% back October 7 atrocities.

Survey of 1,231 Palestinians, conducted largely during recent truce, shows 44% in West Bank support Hamas, up from 12% in September, while 42% in Gaza back group, rising from 38%.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-shows-soaring-support-for-hamas-in-west-bank-as-90-say-abbas-should-resign/

I guess that seems to decide the humanitarian issue!

And:

https://x.com/Eretz_Nehederet/status/1734945981651673297?s=20

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And:

America’s colleges and universities have been infected with a sickness.

You see, the refusal of these presidents to denounce genocide and anti-Semitism is a symptom of a much deeper problem.

These once prestigious centers of learning have been hijacked by pro-Hamas Marxists who hate America.

Now, I’m exposing the “leadership” in higher education for what it really is: Rotten to its core.

And for that, the media and the Left are after me like never before.

When you speak the truth, they attack you at full speed.

I’m proud to earn their scorn, and I’ll never stop fighting with you by my side.

Can I count on you to step up today and join me in this fight against the Radical Anti-Semites in the media and on college campuses?

Time and time again, the Presidents and faculty of our nation's most “prestigious” universities REFUSED to condemn anti-Semitism and genocide. It’s disgusting, Friend.

I’m fed up, and I’m taking the fight directly to these radicals and the rotten institutions they run- and I need you by my side. Can I count on you to join me?

FIGHT BACK NOW

STAND WITH ELISE

Thank you,

Rep. Elise Stefanik

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Israel’s 67th Day of War

By Sherwin Pomerantz

On the 67th day of the war the IDF reports that there have now been 105 of our soldiers killed since the start of the Hamas war. In addition, the IDF has successfully retrieved the bodies of former captives Eden Zecharia and soldier Ziv Dado from Gaza. To date 500 Hamas terrorists have either surrendered or been captured.

The IDF has also begun pumping seawater into the Hamas tunnel complex in Gaza, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday citing unnamed US officials as the source, adding that the process would likely take weeks. Some Biden administration officials have said the process could help destroy the tunnels, where Israel believes the terrorist group is hiding hostages, fighters and munitions, the Journal reported.

Three rockets were fired from Syria toward Israeli territory on Tuesday evening, with two falling in Syria and one falling in an open area in Israel, according to the IDF Spokesperson's Unit. The IDF responded to the rocket fire by targeting the locations from where the rockets were fired. Strong explosions were heard in the Quneitra Governorate near the Syrian-Israeli border and sites belonging to Iranian militias in the area were hit by IDF artillery fire, according to Syrian journalist Nour Abo Hassan.

US President Biden warned Israel’s leaders on Tuesday that they were losing international support for their war in Gaza, exposing a widening rift with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who rejected out of hand the American vision for a postwar resolution to the Palestinian conflict. Mr. Biden delivered the blunt assessment of Israel during a fund-raiser in Washington, where he described Netanyahu as the leader of “the most conservative government in Israel’s history” that “doesn’t want a two-state solution” to the country’s long-running dispute with Palestinians.

“I think he has to change, and with this government, this government in Israel is making it very difficult for him to move,” Mr. Biden said.

The president’s remarks came hours after Netanyahu pledged to defy weeks of American pressure to put the Palestinian Authority in charge of Gaza once the fighting ends. Israel ruled out any role there for the group, which now governs Palestinian society in Judea and Samaria.

“There is disagreement about ‘the day after Hamas,’” Netanyahu said in a video statement posted on social media. He said he hoped the two governments could reach an agreement about what happens after the war ends, but vowed not to allow threats to Israel’s population to continue.

“After the great sacrifice of our civilians and our soldiers, I will not allow the entry into Gaza of those who educate for terrorism, support terrorism and finance terrorism,” Netanyahu said. “Gaza will be neither Hamastan nor Fatahstan.

Even though at this point it appears that Israel is, indeed, winning the war, questions remain. It is not clear what our plan is for after the war, nor what we intend to do with the hundreds of Hamas fighters we have captured and those yet to be captured. It is also clear that this government cannot remain in power after the war ends. If the coalition collapses, as it seems it will, will new post-war elections bring people into power who know how to move Israeli society forward with deliberation, dedication and understanding? We can only hope that this will be the case.

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Communist China owns AMERICAN FARMLAND in all 27 of these states…

Our nation’s food and national security

are at risk of a Chinese takeover!

And:

https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/12/14/muslim-youths-attack-german-santa-claus-declare-this-is-our-country/

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Fitton coming to speak here.

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Dear Mr. Berkowitz,

We’re rapidly coming to the end of the year, and I want to update you on some important new developments in our work fighting for you and the rule of law.

The Minnesota Court of Appeals reversed a lower court ruling and has allowed Judicial Watch’s lawsuit on behalf of a Minneapolis taxpayer over a teachers’ contract that provides discriminatory job protections to certain racial minorities to proceed.

This is a big courtroom victory for Judicial Watch and for taxpayers who are outraged that Minneapolis’ school system would engage in blatant racial discrimination that we argue violates the Equal Protection Clause in the Minnesota Constitution, as well as the basic constitutional principle that no one can be denied equal treatment under the laws on account of race!

We have officially “warned” the States of Illinois and California that our data research and analysis show they are in violation of federal law that requires states to make a reasonable effort to clean their voter rolls of ineligible voters…and we are ready to file a federal lawsuit against them if they fail to correct this violation.

And after receiving a similar “warning” from Judicial Watch, the District of Columbia has removed over 65,000 outdated names from its voter rolls, promised to remove nearly 38,000 more and designated over 73,000 registrations as inactive …another win for Judicial Watch and for honest elections!

“Dirty” voter rolls are an open invitation to voter fraud. Our historic lawsuits have already forced the removal of over 4 million ineligible voter names from voter lists across the country…and I anticipate we will be warning more states soon. Stay tuned!

Our lawsuit against the National Archives and Records Administration for key Biden family communications regarding travel and finance transactions recently forced the release of records that show Joe Biden and his son Hunter both received an email in 2016 from a Biden staffer about an upcoming phone call between then-Vice President Biden and the president of Ukraine. This email is another smoking gun that blows out of the water the continued Biden White House assertions that there was “distance” between Joe and Hunter Biden on the Burisma influence-peddling scandal!

The White House can try and ignore the evidence of Biden corruption, but Judicial Watch is on the case and we will not let them engage in yet another cover-up!

We continue to fight the Left’s efforts to impose racially discriminatory policies on our country; we continue to lead the fight to keep our elections honest; and as America’s leading open-records litigator, we continue to fight for the American people’s “right to know!”

But these battles are expensive…and we don’t have the deep pockets of the government to fund our research, investigations and lawsuits!

Thank you, as always, for all you do to support our work!

Sincerely,

Thomas Fitton, President

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Why Fighting Antisemitism is Good for America

It is this quintessential Jewish trait—refusing to settle for easy victimhood—that most threatens the anti-America, victim-worshipping DEI movement that is poisoning American culture.

By David Suissa

https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/columnist/editors-note/366316/why-fighting-antisemitism-is-good-for-america/

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I previously praised Kirby for the way e spoke.. A decent man.

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White House spokesperson: Israel is protecting civilians in ways even we wouldn't

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby highlights some of the steps the IDF has taken to prevent civilian casualties in Gaza: Very few modern militaries in the world would do that.

White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby on Wednesday highlighted some of the steps the IDF has taken to prevent civilian casualties in Gaza, noting that some of Israel’s steps might go further than what the US would do.

“They moved into southern Gaza on the ground in a way that was much smaller than they planned to do,” he told reporters. “We think that was an output of some of the advice and counsel we provided them about urban warfare.”

A reporter suggested that Kirby was giving the Israelis more of a benefit of the doubt than President Joe Biden, who on Tuesday, during a conversation with donors, characterized Israel’s bombing against Hamas in Gaza as “indiscriminate”.

"They have published online maps of places where people can go or not go. That's basically telegraphing your punches! There's very few modern militaries in the world that would do that! I don't know that we would do that!" replied Kirby.

Asked by CNN why the White House insists on saying Israel has the “intent” to minimize civilian casualties, Kirby replied, “Sometimes in war, your best plans, your best execution of those plans doesn't always go the way you want it to go – doesn't always go the way you expect it to go. We know that from bitter experience and our own military, no matter how precise and targeted we tried to be in Iraq and Afghanistan. There were times when we caused civilian casualties as well.”

He added that there was “a clear intent by the Israelis — an intent that they have admitted to publicly — that they are doing everything they can to reduce civilian casualties.”

And:

ZOA Condemns Biden’s False Charge That Israel is “Indiscriminately” Bombing Gaza and Demands That Israel Remove Democratically Elected Members of Coalition

Yet Biden Doesn’t Condemn PA Praising Oct. 7 or Their Pay-to-Slay, Doesn’t Demand Removal of PA Leaders Who Praise Hamas

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:

ZOA strongly condemns President Joe Biden’s dangerous, indiscriminate remarks on December 12th, falsely accusing Israel of “indiscriminate bombing” in Gaza; criticizing and calling for changing Israel’s democratically elected government; and calling for Israel to “strengthen” and reward the Palestinian Authority (PA) terror regime with a Palestinian Arab state carved out of Israel’s lawful land (a so-called “two-state solution”) — while the PA is celebrating the October 7th atrocities, continuing to pay terrorists huge lifetime pensions to murder Jews and insisting that Hamas must be part of a Palestinian state; and the PA’s ruling Fatah party is bragging about its brigades participating in the October 7th atrocities.

Falsely accusing Israel of “indiscriminate bombing” creates more fuel for attacking American Jews. Biden’s widely disseminated, reckless remarks will likely inspire more antisemitism, at a time when American Jews are being attacked on college campuses and American streets at record breaking levels. Even his spokesman John Kirby said no country, including America, does more to protect civilian lives.

Biden voiced his unjustified criticisms of Israel and his statements interfering with and attempting to undermine Israeli democracy at a closed-door campaign reception on December 12, 2023. Biden’s remarks were then published on the White House website and amplified in media around the world.

Biden should be well aware that a Palestinian state would be a Fatah-Hamas terror state. On December 10th (two days before Biden’s awful remarks), PA Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh told a Doha forum that “Hamas is an integral part of the Palestinian mosaic”; that eliminating Hamas is not acceptable to the PA; and proudly proclaimed that the Palestinian Authority defended Hamas from charges of terrorism in the UN and that Hamas must be part of the “day after” plan for Gaza, the West Bank, and east Jerusalem.

And just last week (Dec. 6, 2023), official PA television featured a Fatah representative calling for “all types of resistance” including “armed struggle” [terrorism].

It is also utterly sickening and beyond ridiculous and dangerous that Biden is calling for strengthening the PA and giving them a state when PA ruling party Fatah’s “Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades” participated in the October 7th atrocities against Jewish civilians. Fatah murdered Jewish civilians at Nahal Oz kibbutz with Kalashnikov rifles, stomped on Jews’ heads, and published video of themselves doing so and bragging about it. Another Fatah video shows a Fatah terrorist taking an Israeli captive, and a Fatah spokesman bragging that Fatah’s “Brigades, together with the rest of the Palestinian resistance factions [Hamas and PIJ], carried out several operations [terror attacks] behind enemy lines [meaning in Israel] as part of the Al-Aqsa Flood battle” [the October 7th atrocities]. The Fatah video also praised the October 7th massacre as a first step to “liberate” all of “Palestine” [to destroy Israel]. Palestinian Media Watch, which exposed the video, noted that the Fatah spokesman said four times that the PA’s Fatah is fighting “together with the rest of the resistance factions” [Hamas, PIJ, etc.]

Biden is undoubtedly also well aware that Israel is not engaging in “indiscriminate bombing.” If Israel were in fact engaged in “indiscriminate bombing” in Gaza, Israel would have long ago flattened all of Gaza from the air. Instead, Israel has been making surgical strikes on Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror targets and engaging in dangerous close quarters combat with Hamas and PIJ terrorists, which risks and costs Israeli soldiers’ lives.

So why is Biden spouting these anti-Israel falsehoods that will increase attacks against American Jews, increase unwarranted pressure on Israel, and benefit the Hamas and PA terrorists?

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Woke Cowardice: Wrong University Presidents at the Wrong Time

by Alan M. Dershowitz

Gay, President of Harvard University, Liz Magill, President of University of Pennsylvania, Professor Pamela Nadell of American University, and Sally Kornbluth, President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, testify before the House Education and Workforce Committee on December 5, 2023 in Washington, DC, on the subject of antisemitism on college campuses. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

The forced resignation of the president of the University of Pennsylvania is a good first step in dealing with a far more pervasive problem in higher education.

The three university presidents who disgraced themselves and their universities by their abysmal testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce represent a far larger concern.

In recent years, many universities have selected as their presidents woke, progressive cowards who pander to the most extreme and most vocal left-wing students and professors. They are the wrong people, at the wrong time, to be leading American educational institutions.

When I first came to Harvard in 1964, university presidents all came from the same cookie-cutter. They were white Anglo-Saxon males, who represented the wealthy conservative donors and board members. There were no Jewish university presidents and the then president of Harvard – Nathan Marsh Pusey – made it clear that no Jew need apply for the presidency or deanships.

Within a decade, following the civil rights movement, matters changed considerably. Several years ago, many of the most elite universities had Jewish presidents and Jewish deans.

Now matters have changed again and many of the new presidents represent the current political correctness reflected by the "diversity, equity and inclusion" (DEI) bureaucracies. Many also represent, or are sympathetic to, woke progressive movements that today dominate many campuses.

As Ecclesiastes observed, "to everything there is a season". This seems to be the season for woke cowardice. Many of the current university presidents also seem to come from a cookie-cutter. They are different from previous university presidents but seem quite similar to each other in their pandering to the DEI and progressive woke constituencies on campus.

The recent spate of rabid anti-Semitism on so many campuses has posed enormous challenges to this new breed of university presidents. For the most part they have failed miserably to meet these challenges, as reflected by the big three who testified so ineptly.

A friend of mine, who was the president of a major university during the "Jewish period," told me that the one characteristic which is not a qualification for being a current university president is "courage." To that, should be added a commitment to principle.

Also at fault for the selection of current university presidents are the boards of directors who select them in an effort to pander to current student and faculty demands for DEI. They have ignored the majority of students and faculty, as well as the majority of alumni and donors. This overlooked and large constituency wants to see academic excellence and political neutrality on behalf of university presidents, deans and administrators. Most would prefer what has come to be called "the Chicago principles," which require that the university itself stay out of politics.

Only a handful of universities have accepted these principles even in theory. Most universities pick and choose among the political views they publicly espouse. For example, virtually every university condemned the killing of George Floyd by a policeman -- but many refused to condemn Hamas' October 7 murder of more than 1,200 Israelis (and many Americans) and the kidnapping of more than 240 other Israelis. It is this double standard that has opened these administrators to criticism that they are more sensitive to Black lives than to Jewish lives. They are also insensitive to civil liberties and the rights of those with whom they disagree.

Just as many of these new university presidents were selected for symbolism, so too should they be dismissed for symbolism. What they symbolized during the Congressional testimony does a disservice to their students, their faculty and their alumni. It teaches the wrong lessons to current and future students. It creates divisiveness on campuses that makes Jewish students and faculty fearful for their safety when their university president seems unwilling to apply the same standard to those who advocate genocide against Jews as they surely would against anyone who advocated genocide against Blacks or the raping of women or the shooting of gay and transgender people.

It is not enough that these presidents are constantly forced to apologize for their cowardice because of pressure from the outside. What these universities need now are principled advocates of a single standard, rather than leaders who base their decisions on outside pressures and the need to pander to extremist students, faculty and administrators.

These are the wrong leaders for today's educational challenges. Those who selected them were employing the wrong criteria. It will not be easy to find the correct replacements who can strike the proper balance between responding to the pervasive anti-Semitism and "cancel culture" on current campuses. One thing is clear: they should be selected on the basis of relevant, individual meritocratic criteria -- not the cookie-cutter criteria of the DEI bureaucracies.

Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus at Harvard Law School, and the author most recently of War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism. He is the Jack Roth Charitable Foundation Fellow at Gatestone Institute, and is also the host of "The Dershow" podcast.

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I realize my memos, of late, have focused predominantly on Israel, the plight of the Jewish people, the war in Gaza, the support and criticism of Biden regarding Israel and Bibi and anti-Semitic issues Jewish students face on university campuses due, mainly, to the increase in radical Islamist enrollment in American higher education and weak knee administrators, as well as Biden's personal problems and finally the effort of cultural Marxists to bring America down because we are a threat to their fascist aspirations.

These issues pretty much reveal mankind's historic faults and occasional greatness. How it all is resolved remains to be seen and not totally predictable.

The success Americans have enjoyed, because our founders crafted a brilliant document and we chose to buttress our freedoms by embracing capitalism, has also caused us to disregard our responsibilities regarding appreciating what we have.

As Ben Franklin said: "We have a republic if we can keep it." In many ways we have failed to protect ourselves from the Trojan Horses of Marxism.

As I have previously noted, I believe Obama helped accelerate the pace of our decline and continues to manipulate the Biden Administration through holdovers in sensitive positions.

If you are a pessimist there is much meat on the bone for you to chew. If you are an optimist the prospects are bleak because Biden is a corrupt and traitorous disaster. Our powerful adversaries know this and are accordingly bettered.

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This year, the Jewish people need the lights of Chanukah more than ever. These lights represent victory on the battlefield and the triumph of light over darkness.

By Alex Traiman

Today, the State of Israel and the Jewish people are under attack once again. This fight is taking place not only on the physical battlefield; it's also a war of ideas. This war is being waged on university campuses, in parliaments around the world, at the United Nations, on social media and in the mainstream media.

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