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These are indeed some despicable characters
Have you ever wondered to yourself after watching the evening news, “How did we get in this mess? It wasn’t like this when I was growing up!” Put together the pieces below. Think about what has been happening over the last 70 years and how the country gradually slid toward our current situation with the guidance of these people in their various capacities, as well as those they influenced.
By Hawkins - US Army Retired Intelligence Officer.
America has undergone enormous change during the nearly eight decades of my life. Today, America is a bitterly divided, poorly educated, and morally fragile society with so-called mainstream politicians pushing cynical identity politics, socialism, and open borders. The past president of the United States was impeached twice and acquitted twice because the other side doesn’t like him. The once reasonably unbiased American media has evolved into a hysterical left-wing mob.
How could the stable and reasonably cohesive America of the 1950s have reached this point in just one lifetime? Who are the main culprits? Here’s my list of the 10 most destructive Americans of the last 70 years:
10) Mark Felt – Deputy director of the FBI, aka “Deep Throat” during the Watergate scandal. This was the first public instance of a senior FBI official directly interfering in America’s political affairs. He was the forerunner of James Comey, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and Andrew McCabe.
9) Bill Ayers – Represents the deep and ongoing leftist ideological damage to our education system. An unrepentant American terrorist who evaded punishment, he devoted his career to radicalizing American education and pushing leftist causes. Ghost-wrote Obama’s book, “Dreams From My Father.”
8) Teddy Kennedy – Most folks remember Teddy as the guy who left Mary Joe Kopechne to die in his car at Chappaquiddick. The real damage came after he avoided punishment for her death and became a major Democrat force in the US Senate, pushing through transformative liberal policies in health care and education. The real damage was the 1965 Hart-Cellar immigration bill he pushed hard for that changed the quota system to increase the flow of third-world people without skills into the US and essentially ended large-scale immigration from Europe.
7) Walter Cronkite – Cronkite was a much-beloved network anchor who began the politicization of America’s news media with his infamous broadcast from Vietnam that described the Tet Offensive as a major victory for the Communists and significantly turned the gullible American public against the Vietnam War. In fact, the Tet offensive was a military disaster for the NVA and Viet Cong, later admitted by North Vietnamese military leaders. Decades later Cronkite admitted he got the story wrong. But it was too late. The damage was done.
6) Bill and Hillary Clinton -- It’s difficult to separate Team Clinton. Bill’s presidency was largely benign as he was a relative fiscal conservative who rode the remaining benefits of the Reagan era. But his sexual exploits badly stained the Oval Office and negatively affected America’s perception of the presidency. In exchange for financial support, he facilitated the transfer of sensitive military technology to the Chinese.
Hillary, a Saul Alinsky acolyte, is one of the most vicious politicians of my lifetime, covering up Bill’s sexual assaults by harassing and insulting the exploited women and peddling influence around the globe in exchange for funds for the corrupt Clinton Foundation. She signed off on the sale of 20% of the US uranium reserve to the Russians after Bill received a $500,000 speaking fee in Moscow and the Foundation (which supported the Clinton’s regal lifestyle) received hundreds of millions of dollars from those who benefited from the deal. Between them, they killed any honor that might have existed in the dark halls of DC.
5) Valerie Jarrett - The Rasputin of the Obama administration. A Red Diaper baby, her father, maternal grandfather, and father-in-law (Vernon Jarrett who was a close friend and ally of Obama mentor Frank Marshall Davis) were hardcore Communists under investigation by the U.S. government. She has been in Obama’s ear for his entire political career pushing a strong anti-American, Islamist, anti-Israeli, socialist/communist, cling-to-power agenda.
4) Jimmy Carter - Carter ignited modern-day radical Islam by abandoning the Shah and paving the way for Ayatollah Khomeini to take power in Tehran. Iran subsequently became the main state sponsor and promoter of international Islamic terrorism. When Islamists took over our embassy in Tehran, Carter was too weak to effectively respond thus strengthening the rule of the radical Islamic mullahs.
3) Lyndon Johnson – Johnson turned the Vietnam conflict into a major war for America. It could have ended early if he had listened to the generals instead of automaker Robert McNamara. The ultimate result was this:
A) 58,000 American military deaths and collaterally tens of thousands of American lives damaged;
B) a war that badly divided America and created left-wing groups that evaded the draft and eventually gained control of our education system.
C) even worse, his so-called War on Poverty led to the destruction of American black families with a significant escalation of welfare and policies designed to keep poor families dependent on the government (and voting Democrat) for their well-being He deliberately created a racial holocaust that is still burning today. A strong case could be made for putting him at the top of this list.
2) Barack Hussein Obama - Obama set up America for a final defeat and stealth conversion from a free-market society to socialism/communism. As we got deeper into the Trump presidency, we learned more and more about how Obama politicized and compromised key government agencies, most prominently the FBI, the CIA, and the IRS, thus thoroughly shaking the public’s confidence in the federal government to be fair and unbiased in its activities.
He significantly set back race relations between Americans by stoking black grievances and pushing radical identity politics. Obama’s open support for the Iranian mullahs and his apologetic “lead from behind” foreign policy seriously weakened America abroad. His blatant attempt to interfere in Israel’s election by trying to unseat Netanyahu is one of the most shameful things ever done by an American president.
The Number 1 Worst American is John Kerry – Some readers will likely say Kerry does not deserve to be number one on this list. I have him here because I regard him as the most despicable American who ever lived. After his three faked Purple Hearts during his cowardly service in Vietnam, he was able to leave the US Navy early. As a reserve naval officer and in clear violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, he traveled to Paris and met privately with the NVA and the Viet Cong.
He returned to the United States parroting the Soviet party line about the war and testified before Congress comparing American soldiers to the hordes of Genghis Khan. It was a clear case of TREASON, giving aid and comfort to the enemy in a time of war. We got a second bite of the bitter Kerry apple when as Obama’s secretary of state, he fell into bed with the Iranian (“Death to America”) mullahs, giving them the ultimate green light to develop nuclear weapons along with giving them billions of dollars that further supported their terrorist activities.
Only the heroic Swift Vets saved us from a Manchurian Candidate Kerry's presidency. Ultimately we got Obama. (if you think this might be in error, read: Unfit For Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry by John E. O'Neill and Jerome R. Corsi Aug 15, 2004) They tell the real story of Kerry’s Vietnam “service”.
Dishonorable Mentions! (Just missed the list)
John Brennan – Obama’s CIA director who once voted for Communist Gus Hall for president. A key member of the Deep State who severely politicized the CIA. Called President Trump treasonous for meeting with the president of Russia.
Jane Fonda – a movie actress who made the infamous trip to Vietnam during the war, in support of the Communists. She represents hard-left Hollywood that has done so much damage to our culture.
Robert Johnson – As head of Black Entertainment Television he helped popularize ho’s, bitches, and pimps while making millions on great hits such as “Jigga my Nigga”, “Big Pimpin’”, “Niggas in Paris” and, “Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z.” Many scholars within the African-American community maintain that BET perpetuates and justifies racism by adopting the stereotypes held about African- Americans, affecting the psyche of young viewers through the bombardment of negative images of African-Americans. Who can disagree?
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. – Head of the New York Times. Once the gold standard of American journalism, the paper always had a liberal tilt and occasionally made bad mistakes. As the years have gone along, the paper has slid further and further left and today is virtually the primary propaganda arm of the increasingly radical Democrat Party. Still retains influence in Washington and New York.
Frank Marshall Davis - Anti-white, black Bolshevik, card-carrying Soviet agent. Probable birth father and admitted primary mentor of young Barack Hussein Obama.
A special Reward goes to George Soros – An anti-Semitic Jew and former Nazi collaborator in his native Hungary who is a self-made billionaire. George Soros is an evil man! He has ruined countries with his monetary trading. He has also poured hundreds of millions of dollars into left-wing groups and causes. The damage he has caused is difficult to measure, but it’s certainly large. He funded much of the effort to kill the Trump presidency.
Let’s not forget that recently removed San Francisco DA Chesa Boudine was raised by Bill Ayers & wife because his mother and father were both in prison for the murder of two Brinks guards and were members of the Weather Underground!
A special Reward also goes to Joe Biden. His term in office will be forever rank him as the WORST.
These were all sorry excuses for human beings with wealth, power and/or influence on the entire country at one time or another who have done their best to undermine everything this country was founded on, either by design, blunder, or bad judgement.
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There is no diplomatic solution. Israel should declare three no's; no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state
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Last, education is critical to Jews because when they are ousted, in most instances, their heads and knowledge goes with them.
Jeff Foxworthy writes....... the M word
Have you ever wondered why it's OK to make jokes about Catholics, Jews, Christians, the Pope, the Irish, the Italians, the Polish, the Hungarians, the Chinese, the French (including French Canadians), the elderly, bad golfers, men/women, blacks/whites, red necks, etc, but its insensitive to make jokes about the Muslims?
Well, it's time to level the playing field and be politically incorrect, by including our friends, the Muslims, on this grandiose list.
So Jeff Foxworthy did his part to include the Muslims on his list ...
1. If you grow and refine heroin for a living, but morally object to the use of liquor, You may be a Muslim.
2. If you own a $3,000 machine gun and a $5,000 rocket launcher, but can't afford shoes, You may be a Muslim.
3. If you have more wives than teeth, You may be a Muslim.
4. If you wipe your butt with your bare hand, but consider bacon to be unclean, You may be a Muslim.
5. If you think vests come in two styles, Bullet-proof and suicide, You may be a Muslim.
6. If you can't think of anyone that you haven't declared jihad against, You may be a Muslim.
7. If you consider television dangerous, but routinely carry explosives in your clothing, You may be a Muslim.
8. If you were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses, other than setting off roadside bombs, You may be a Muslim.
9. If you have nothing against women and think every man should own at least four, then you, too, may be a Muslim.
10. If you find this offensive and do not forward it, you are part of the problem here in America …but
if you delete this, you are most likely a Muslim.
HISTORICAL FACT
Who says building a border wall won't work? The Chinese built one over 2,000 years ago and they still don't have any Mexicans!
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As the war we are fighting in Gaza continues into its third month, we realize more and more how much we have to fight the war of words, fight against the public opinion to promote the truth. Where many acts by Hamas would be considered war crimes or crimes against humanity elsewhere in the world, because they happen against the people of Israel, the world excuses them, explains them away, or ignores them.
Time and time again, and explicitly since this war has started, we have seen how little Hamas values human life, any life - even their own people. Time and time again, Hamas has laid traps for Israel and Israeli soldiers, to make them falter, to make them fall in the eyes of the world. Not even blatant evidence matters in a world determined to demonize the Jew.
But if there’s anything Jewish history has taught us, it’s that the Nation of Israel will persevere. Even though the battles are hard to fight, hard to win, we will succeed in the end, as we have done against the many attempts in the past.
Today, Aseret b'Tevet, has an interesting correlation. In the year 3336 from Creation (425 BCE), the armies of the Babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar began their siege on Jerusalem. It took months and years before the city walls were breached and the Holy Temple destroyed. A war against the Jews and Jewish freedom, rights, and identity and sovereignty in our ancestral homeland was long and painful before our people were exiled to Babylonia for 70 years. There is a symmetry as we remember, every day, the seige on Jewish national freedom of October 7 - the beginning of the long war we must now fight so as to prevent again the theft of Jewish life and human dignity. While our soldiers battle guerilla terrorism, every Jew and friend of Jews today knows we all share in the obligation to be the guardians, the advocates, the protectors of our legacy and inheritance, and of each other as one nation united and determined.
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Education is critical. Education may not solve everything but it provides you the ability to reason many confronting challenges. Education is critical for the lower socio level and why hypocrite Liberals refuse to provide same. It is the way they keep the downtrodden down and beholden to demeaning government handouts and Democrat party largess. It is a sick solution that returns politicians to office like members of The Black Coalition.
Last, education is critical to Jews because when they are ousted, in most instances, their heads and knowledge goes with them.
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The recent college grad began a job as an elementary school counselor and was eager to help. One day during recess she noticed a girl standing by herself on one side of a field while the rest of the kids enjoyed a game of soccer at the other.
The counselor approached and asked if she was all right.
The girl said she was.
A little while later, she noticed the girl was in the same spot, still by herself.
Approaching again, she offered, “Would you like me to be your friend?”
The girl hesitated, then said, “Okay,” looking at the woman suspiciously.
Feeling she was making progress, she then asked, “Why are you standing here all alone?”
“Because,” the little girl said with great exasperation, “I’m the goalie!”
This week’s Torah portion, Vayigash, begins with the words “Yehuda came near.” This was Yehuda approaching Yosef and asking that his younger brother, Binyamin, be released so that he could bring him to their father, Yaakov.
Our Sages tell us that Yehuda was prepared for all possibilities and contingencies when he approached Yosef, even the possibility of war. Yehuda was willing to do all that was necessary to free Binyamin and return him to his father.
Why did Yehuda adopt such a strong stance? The answer is that Yehuda was personally responsible for Binyamin’s welfare, as he explained, “For your servant became a security for the lad.” Yehuda had promised his father that he would take care of Binyamin and bring him home; thus he was willing to do anything, even wage battle, to fulfill his promise.
But how could Yehuda have even imagined that he could win a confrontation with Yosef? Yehuda and his brothers were few in number. Yosef, by contrast, was the second highest ruler in all of Egypt, with the entire populace of the country under his command.
In truth, Yehuda could never have been victorious in a war conducted against Yosef. Nonetheless, Yehuda was ready to take even this drastic step should it become necessary. He knew he was responsible for Binyamin, and accepted his role as guardian without question.
True, Yaakov had other remaining sons, all of whom were healthy and sound. But Yehuda realized that self-sacrifice is required when the life of even one Jewish child is at stake. To save Binyamin, Yehuda was willing to give up his own life.
This contains an important lesson for every Jewish father and mother. When G-d grants them the blessing of a child, it carries with it a great responsibility. Sometimes it is even necessary for parents to demonstrate self-sacrifice, to make sure that nothing untoward ever happens to even one of their offspring, G-d forbid.
One area in which the greatest efforts must be expended is that of education. Providing a Torah-true education for Jewish children is so important that parents must be willing to demonstrate even the highest levels of self-sacrifice in order to make it possible.
Have a good Shabbos.
Rabbi Shraga Sherman
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Humpty-Dumpty America, or How Did We Suddenly Fall Apart?
By Victor Davis Hanson
Posted By Ruth King
Foreign Policy
There have been plenty of foreign policy disasters over the last 60 years since the Vietnam Era. But even in our failures, there was no inherent intent to destroy ourselves and to deliberately harm efforts to improve our security and stature overseas.
Not now.
Why are we experiencing one of the worst military recruitment crises of the last half-century? Why did we drive out over 8,000 of our most experienced soldiers for not being vaxxed, the majority with acquired immunity from prior Covid-19 bouts?
Why was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs proud that he had called his Chinese counterpart to warn him of the supposed volatility of his own American Commander-in-Chief? Why did General Milley and Secretary of Defense Austin promise Congress to chase unicorns of “white rage” and “white privilege,” without any supporting documentation of systemic racial discrimination in the ranks? Were they unhappy that white males died at twice their population proportion in our recent optional wars abroad?
Did they think all their virtue-signaling would increase recruitment, end internal dissension, and improve morale in the ranks?
If someone wished to humiliate and destroy the prestige of the United States, erode our deterrence, and greenlight anti-American aggression, he could not have done any better than the architects of the 2021 Afghanistan flight.
How did the U.S. manage to become so arrogant and impotent all at once?
We flew chauvinistically pride flags from our embassy, painted Georgy Floyd murals on Kabul’s streets, and poured money into imported gender studies programs at Kabul University—while simultaneously leaving $50-70 billion in state-of-the-art arms to the Taliban terrorists, abandoning a new $1 billion embassy and the huge and recently remodeled Bagram airbase, and ignoring the needed evacuation of thousands of U.S. contractors and pro-American loyal Afghan allies.
Was the flight supposed to be timed for Joe Biden’s anniversary celebration of 9/11, as if he alone was to earn ceremonial credit for ending the misadventure in Afghanistan at the end of its 20th year?
After such humiliation, it was an easy transition to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Chinese balloon travesty, the serial threats to Taiwan, the Hamas invasion of Israel, the nearly nonstop Iranian surrogates’ rocketing of U.S. bases in the Middle East, the disdain for our sovereign border—all predicated on the certainty that a new weaker, indifferent U.S. would not respond to provocations or indeed felt that old ideas like deterrence and defending one’s allies and interests were so nineteenth century.
The U.S. created a newly aggressive Iran, emboldened it through its sanction-relief oil sales, and ensured it would have the wherewithal to reequip Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthi, and various terrorist satellites. In other words, we took an isolated and weakened Iran of 2020 and resuscitated it into a newly energized enemy of the West.
Why did Hamas invade Israel in a plan to kill more Jews on any single day since the Holocaust? Did Iran see a green light in U.S. resumption of financial aid to Hamas, in America’s ending of Iranian oil sanctions, and in eliminating the terrorist branding of the Houthis?
Why was Joe Biden willing to pay $1.2 billion for each American hostage in Iranian custody, but said not a peep about 30 Americans killed and 10 taken captive by Hamas? Or for that matter, when Iran launches rockets regularly against American bases in the Middle East, why do we feebly strike back only now and then?
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Every time rabid liberals attack Trump, in ways that demonstrate how much they hate our constitution,
America and are anti-Semitic, they help re-elect Trump.
They cannot see boomerang effect their hateful attitude andactions are having.
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The fact is:
The Palestinian Lost the war and Wars have consequences.
After World War II, millions of German Citizens were removed from German lands that were lost to expand Russia and Poland. The land of Prussia ceased to exist, their old Prussian capital Königsberg renamed by Russia to Kaliningrad.
The German city of Strasbourg was retaken by France. It did not matter that Strasbourg was for centuries a German city.
Furthermore millions of ethnic German speaking people who were citizens of various Eastern European countries and who had ancestors living in those lands for two thousand years were expelled. It did not matter that they were NEVER citizens of Germany and had nothing to do with Germany’s wars of aggression, they were ethnically cleansed from across Eastern Europe. Guilt by ethnic association.
Millions of Hindus and Muslims lost their homes with the creation of Pakistan and India.
Hundreds of thousands of Jews who were citizens of Arab countries and who were NEVER associated with Israel were expelled from those Arab countries after the creation of Israel. Guilt by religious associations.
Poland and Russia will never return land to Germany. That’s just the reality. I know ethnic Prussian who point out how they are forgotten by history.
Throughout the world and history the same stories are told and the same realities set in.
The US will never return the Southwest to Mexico either. That’s just the reality.
The US will never return the Spanish province of Puerto Rico to Spain (50 year before the creation of Israel). That’s just the reality.
The Arabs who conquered and colonized the Maghreb, will not pack up and leave North Africa and return the land to the Berber. That’s just reality.
The United Kingdom will never return Gibraltar to Spain (the treaty only stipulated the town of Gibraltar and its fortifications would be British, not the entire Peninsula).
Pontus Greek whose ancestors had spent their lives as a community for three to two thousand years by the Black Sea and have NEVER been citizens of Greece were expelled to Greece or massacres by the Ottomans starting in 1913. Guilty by linguistics association.
Furthermore the Turks will never return Constantinople to the Greeks. That’s just the reality.
Neither Iraq, Syria, Turkey or Iran will EVER give up their sovereign land for an independent Kurdish homeland, no matter how many thousands of years the Kurds may have lived on that land. Their border were created by the victorious allies of the World Wars without regard to self-determination. That’s just the reality.
The United Kingdom had no issues removing villages to build military bases in the Chagos Islands when it fit their needs. British national security was far more important than a few local villages. That’s just the reality.
During the Yugoslav Civil War of the 1990s, many communities who had lived in various villages for hundreds if not a thousand years were displaced simply for their ethnicity or faith. Borders created, population changed. Now several of those newly independent Yugoslav nations are happy NATO members but thousands of Serbian families have never regained their lost properties. That’s just the reality.
Western Nations have Western standard and then there is a standard that others must follow.
Wars have consequences.
When Jordan ruled East Jerusalem and the West Bank, they did not create an independent Palestine. They took legal responsibility of the Arab population by making them citizens.
“East Jerusalem” as a concept is a double edge sword for the Palestinians. The Palestinian claim “East Jerusalem” for their future capital (historically those that lose a war do not get what they want).
The UN Partition Plan of 1947 NEVER envisioned a “East Jerusalem” nor the entire city as a “Palestinian capital” nor a divided city.
The unified city of Jerusalem was meant to be administered “Internationally”.
The Jews accepted this plan. The Palestinians and the rest of the Arab League had a chance for peace in 1948 but they rejected this compromise and chose war. They lost. Badly.
“East Jerusalem” was simply the portion of the city that Jordan could only captured and annexed.
Palestinians and their supporters by accepting the concept of a “East Jerusalem” (a concept only created through Jordanian war and conquest) are thus legitimizing Jordan’s two decade sovereign rule of the West Bank via conquest and consequently all its legal aspects, this includes accepting that Jordanian Citizenship was valid and Jordan their sovereign nation.
By accepting the concept of a “East Jerusalem” (a concept only created through Jordanian war and conquest) the Palestinians are validating and accepting the concept that wars HAVE CONSEQUENCES. If Jordan can conquer and create a “East Jerusalem” then Israel can conquer and create a “Unified Jerusalem”.
Jordanian “East Jerusalem” thus validates Israel’s rights over the entire city of Jerusalem.
If not, then the concept of “East Jerusalem” isn’t valid and their claim over that portion of the city isn’t valid.
Let us be honest here. Jordan intended to annex the whole of Palestine and ethnically cleansed the land of Jews. They largely failed in their conquest. The Arabs of the West Bank who were under Jordanian control were given Jordanian Citizenship except the Jews.
For nearly two decades, West Bank Palestinian were born as Jordanian citizens. All young Palestinian today from the West Bank have parents or grandparents who had carried Jordanian citizenship.
When Jordan granted the Palestinian citizenship, Jordan proclaimed to the international community that they took and claimed full legal international responsibility of that population. Under international law all Palestinians in the West Bank had a right not to be made stateless by Jordan regardless if Jordan lost the West Bank.
Jordan cannot simply void the citizenship they granted to the Palestinian of the West Bank since there has never been an independent Palestine.
The Palestinian/Jordanians expelled Jewish families who had lived in the city for hundreds of years, destroyed all Jewish synagogues in the city and desecrated and destroyed the Jewish cemetery. There was no outcry from the Arab world. That was the reality.
Wars have consequences.
Jerusalem was won by Israel in the Six Day War of 1967, it’s their capital now. How they managed it is their sovereign right.
Many nations have eminent domain laws. If the public good is to build school or synagogue or more public housing or any other public projects, it is Israel’s right to do so.
The Palestinian leadership has made it very clear that their independent Palestine will be diplomatically ethnically cleansed of all Jews. There is no current outcry from the Arab world. That is the reality.
Arab nations have an Arab standard and then there is a standard that others must follow.
This is why they proclaim to advocate for human rights for minorities in other countries while having terrible human rights record themselves.
Disputed Land vs Occupation:
Syria did not recognize the existence of Israel as a sovereign nation and did not recognize an actual “national border” with Israel. Portions of the Golan Heights fell under the 1949 Armistice Demilitarized Zone, zones that Syria prior to 67, insisted were under no national sovereignty.
Cease fire line are not national borders, without a national border that two nations mutually recognized, this open up disputes over territories. Syria had originally hoped to claimed more territory than just the Golan Heights and have complete access to the Sea of Galilee.
Because Syria did not recognize Israel or an Israeli national sovereign border, the Golan Height and surrounding areas were disputed territory.
Syria could’ve made peace with Israel, clearly defined each other’s sovereign national border. But Syria did not and has not, it repeatedly chose war and repeatedly lost.
For most of the 20th Century, Israel and Jordan were under that same state of war with no recognized national borders, what Israel took from Jordan in 1967 was simply disputed territories.
For land to be illegally occupied, it has to be land that was taken from another nation with clear internationally recognized borders. From 1948 to 1994, Jordan did not recognize Israel’s right to exist nor any national borders. The concept of a West Bank is thus a double edged sword. Its size is based solely on Jordan’s war and conquest prior to 1967. There is no pre-67 West Bank “national border”, just ceased fire lines. After 67, that ceased fire line was moved unto the Jordan River where in 1994 it officially became an internationally recognized national border.
For those Palestinian and Arabs that demonize Israel as a “colonial-settler state”, (Jews are in fact indigenous to the Levant) they seem to have no issue with the Republic of Turkey or the “Arab Nations” of the Maghreb.
They are silent on Western Sahara (invaded and occupied by Morocco, 25 years AFTER the creation of Israel).
They are silent on Cyprus (northern half invaded and occupied by Turkey 26 years AFTER the creation of Israel).
Nor do Arab nations complain that Britain and France created the borders of many of these Arab nations and giving these Arab nations dominion over other ethnic groups like Assyrians and Kurds.
It’s been 74 years and counting since the Arab-Israeli War of 48 and many are only now starting to understand and realize that the war is over.
This is the reason why Arabs nations are finally making peace with Israel. They are finally realizing that they have gained nothing for fighting for Palestine. Sacrificing their sons for someone else’s war make no sense.
Countries that have made peace have gained from not wasting precious financial resources on a someone else’s no-win war.
Peace cannot be achieved if one side does not accept it has lost. The American understood this and accepted their loss in Vietnam.
The Soviets understood this and accepted their loss in Afghanistan.
Wars have consequences.
Time for the Palestinian to accept the reality that they lost and that the longer the Palestinian insist on prolonging this conflict over disputed lands, the smaller their Palestinian State will become until it is only Gaza.
The war is lost, time to make peace and build a nation.
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Removing Trump from state ballot ensures his victory
By Charlie Hurt
It’s never too early to start the steal ahead of the next election, apparently.
Perhaps the Colorado Supreme Court’s jaw dropping decision Tuesday night to kick former President Donald Trump off the ballot should not have been so jaw-dropping. Democrats will stop at nothing to destroy Mr. Trump’s electoral future.
You know, sometimes you have to destroy democracy in order to save democracy. Preserve an election by forbidding people from voting for their favored candidate in the election.
Impeach him. Throw his supporters in jail even if their only crime was trespassing in a federal building. Charge him with a laundry list of crimes nobody’s ever heard of but will put him in jail for 100 years. Now, their latest coup: Remove Mr. Trump’s name from the ballot by judicial fiat. The Colorado Supreme Court is an all-Democratic panel carrying out the unhinged wishes of Democratic politicians across the land.
But Democrats still have a problem. It’s the problem they have had all along.
His supporters do not care what they do to him. Strike that. They care very much. Every cartoonish, unconstitutional weapon they use against Mr. Trump only makes his supporters support him more.
And independents. Apparently, even some Democrats.
This latest gambit by the Colorado Supreme Court has crazy leftists swooning in the streets. But among rational voters, this junta court just gave Mr. Trump another 10-point bump in the polls.
Americans love a fighter. They love an underdog. They even love an outlaw, if the outlaw is relatable or on the run from a common enemy.
Mr. Trump checks all those boxes, and it is driving Democratic politicians even more insane than they already were.
In just the last three months, Mr. Trump has jumped between 6 and 9 points in polls across the country. Polling this early before an election is almost meaningless — except for measuring movement in a candidate’s popularity. A 6- or 9-point swing in polling is a big deal. It means something.
In the case of Donald Trump, it is especially meaningful.
There is no one in America who does not already have a fully formed opinion of Donald Trump. He is the most famous American alive today — one of the most famous Americans to have ever lived.
Nobody in this country is just now hearing about the guy. Nobody tells pollsters they don’t have enough information about him to form an opinion about him.
At this point, they either love him or hate him. Or love his policies and don’t much care for him personally. Or think he is a wonderfully gifted but tragic figure whose political genius is thwarted by his excesses of vulgarity, vanity and vindictiveness.
But nobody doesn’t have some kind of opinion of the guy.
Yet here we are, nearly eight years after Mr. Trump descended his glass escalator into political history, and people are still changing their minds about him — in his favor. American voters are still warming up to the guy.
Sure, some of it is because people are suffering misery under the Biden administration. Some people are realizing that Mr. Trump was right on every issue while Democrats are wrong on every issue. And some of it is that people are finally seeing through the endless conspiracy of lies about him (and President Biden) spun by the media-government-intelligence complex.
And people are changing their minds in polls today because of what they see Democratic politicians and partisan prosecutors in places like Washington, Atlanta, New York and now the state of Colorado are doing to him. They know it is wrong. It is unfair. It is unconstitutional. It is un-American.
So, the Colorado Supreme Court has just sealed the 2024 election — by ensuring Donald Trump gets reelected. Charles Hurt is the opinion editor at The Washington Times.
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A Ceasefire Will Not End the Israel-Palestine Conflict
David Schenker, The National Interest
December 9, 2023
David Schenker, The National Interest
December 9, 2023
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Unveiling the Disturbing Alliance: The Clinton-Epstein Connection from 1993 to 2013
The intricate web of relationships between high-profile individuals and Jeffrey Epstein, infamously dubbed the “King of Pedophiles,” has been a source of public intrigue and concern. Among these connections, the one that stands out starkly is that of former President Bill Clinton. A dispassionate examination of the available documentation reveals a relationship that extends far beyond casual social interactions, suggesting a bond that was alarmingly close and sustained over two decades.
In the early 1990s, Epstein’s ascent from a mere math teacher to a financial wizard and philanthropist was marked by his association with influential figures. His connection with Les Wexner, granting him power of attorney, and his involvement in the Tower Financial Ponzi scheme, where he was initially named as a co-conspirator, highlight his rise to power and influence. It was during this period that Epstein’s path crossed with Clinton’s, beginning a relationship that would span years and raise countless questions.
The timeline of their association is punctuated with troubling milestones. In 1993, Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were documented attending a White House donor party with the Clintons. This was followed by Epstein’s $10,000 donation to the White House Foundation. By 1994, Epstein had managed to evade the focus of the Tower Financial Ponzi Scheme prosecution, an event that coincided suspiciously with his financial contribution to the White House.
As the years progressed, Epstein’s integration into the upper echelons of society became more pronounced. He was made director of the Wexner Foundation and Wexner Heritage Foundation in 1995, further solidifying his status. His presence at Victoria’s Secret fashion shows and his role in ‘helping’ aspiring models find work with the company are indicative of his deepening influence and the dark undertones that accompanied it.
The turn of the millennium saw the relationship between Clinton and Epstein continue to flourish. Images of Clinton receiving a massage from Chauntae Davis, an alleged victim of Epstein, surfaced, adding to the growing unease about their association. Claims by Virginia Roberts Giuffre that she saw Clinton on Epstein’s private island after his presidency ended only served to deepen the suspicions regarding the nature of their friendship.
Epstein’s legal troubles began to mount in the mid-2000s, yet his connection to the Clintons remained unshaken. In 2006, as Epstein faced charges that could have imprisoned him for life, his charity made a significant donation to the Clinton Foundation. This act of generosity raises questions about the timing and intent behind the donation, especially considering Epstein’s claim that he helped conceive and launch the Clinton Foundation with a $4 million contribution.
The closeness between the Clintons and Epstein extended to personal ties as well. Ghislaine Maxwell became a close friend of Chelsea Clinton, vacationing with her and attending her wedding. Even as Epstein downplayed his Florida conviction in 2011, the Clinton family maintained their relationship with Maxwell, who was still in good standing with the Clinton Global Initiative as late as 2013.
The implications of these connections are profound and unsettling. When powerful individuals like Clinton are implicated in such a notorious network, it challenges the public’s trust in their leaders. The notion that Epstein’s association with intelligence agencies provided him protection adds another layer of complexity and concern to an already convoluted narrative.
In light of these revelations, the public is left to grapple with the uncomfortable reality of the Clinton-Epstein saga. The extent of their relationship, the favors exchanged, and the true nature of their alliance remain shrouded in mystery and speculation. What is clear, however, is that the implications of this partnership go far beyond the individuals involved, touching upon the very integrity of our institutions and the accountability of those in positions of power
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