My candidate for the next president of Harvard is Biden's current press secretary.

https://thejewishvoice.com/2024/01/mit-lecturer-resigns-due-to-university-ignoring-rabid-anti-jew-hatred-on-campus/

MIT lecturer Resigns Due to University Ignoring Rabid Anti-Jew Hatred on Campus

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They might notice but they will still deny in the final analysis.

https://nypost.com/2024/01/05/opinion/the-border-crisis-is-so-obvious-even-the-media-have-started-to-notice/

The border crisis is SO obvious even the media have started to notice

By Rich Lowry

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Meanwhile, Islamist terrorism has many advantages over civil society for a variety of reasons. A few such are as follows:

a) Evil conquers good in a world where the good have thrived and thus become lazy. Why? Because they have let their guard down and by enjoying their benefits their ability to respond, to stay focused and to protect their freedoms has been crippled.

b) There are those, like the wealthy Soros' of the world, who eagerly finance radicals' ability to spread terror, to engage in evil because they are perpetually dissatisfied. They have embraced the Marxist philosophy of a world divided between the aggrieved and the aggressor.

c) Marxists justify their existence by embracing theories which do not respect individuality and/or human worth, life etc. They embrace concepts based on false premises such as DEI, Wokeism, CRT etc. Islam is not a religion but a cultural, political style of living.

The tribal nature of Arabs and Muslims lends itself to separation, conflict and division. Their nature is warlike. Their respect for life nor rules does not equate with Western Standards and Ideals.

d) The goal of the Muslim Brotherhood is to take over the world, to kill the infidel and the rate of Muslim propagation is allowing them to accomplish this sick, demented goal.

e) Rather than live in peace, rather than educate their children to enjoy a tranquil youth they teach them hatred, train them militarily and financially reward them as martyrs for their indoctrinated evil acts.

f) Specific to Israel, the world is always in need of a scapegoat, to project so as to escape/assuage self-guilt.

Furthermore, America was tragically altered by Obama who told us he would transform our nation. Lamentably, we chose not to believe him.

America's flirtation with socialism began with President Wilson, accelerated with FDR and Obama placed the cherry on the transformation.

g) Biden continues to be manipulated by Obama holdovers and is torn between appeasing his politically radical lefties with his pledge to assist Israel. His call for a cease fire conflicts with Israel's critical goal to destroy Hamas and eventually Hezbollah and Iran. Biden mistakenly believes feeding bullies quells their appetite.

Furthermore, he is America's Chamberlain. His history is rife with constant miscalculations. His constant call for a ceasefire is the equivalent of a Hamas victory. Why? Because they have stated they will repeat Oct. 7, again, again, again.

h) Islamist radicals take hostages to gain leverage knowing the Western culture cares for life and will succumb to demands that are self-defeating

j) I wrote previously, Arabs and Muslims reject the "half loaf" philosophy. They are seldom content. To be content would be anathema to their goals.

k) Finally, the most important advantages Hamas has are:

Biden is president.

BIBI and Israeli intelligence ignored Hamas' construction of tunnels in preparation of a surprise attack.

The mass media no longer serves as our nation's ombudsmen.

The FBI and Justice Department are corrupt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plIUJ-LF7JU

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Remember George Friedman is not Tom Friedman.

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The Strategies of the Israel-Hamas War

By: George Friedman

It is difficult to understand the strategy of a country at war sitting outside the command center. However, when analyzed from the initiation of war to its conclusion, strategy becomes clear. You must understand the imperatives driving each side, the forces available to each side and the price each can pay for victory. We are now at the moment – and perhaps even past it – when the war can be understood enough to explain why certain things have played out as they have.

Israel has maintained a dominant military position since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, even if it has largely been a defensive one. Its historic enemy, the Muslim nations of the Middle East – here, we use Muslim rather than Arab because the list includes Iran, which is predominately Shia Persian – were divided into multiple factions that were forced to take the offensive if they were to engage in war, giving Israel the advantage of the defensive and putting the onus of initiation onto its enemies. This meant intelligence was the core of Israel’s position; an intelligence failure would shift the advantage to the enemy’s offensive.

Hamas, Israel’s primary enemy in the current war, had two parallel challenges. One was that the Arab factions were divided and competing with one another. The second was what it saw as the unpredictability of Israel and its ability to strike. Hamas had to dominate the Arab factions to protect itself, and it had to weaken Israel to protect and advance its position.

The key for Hamas, then, was Israel. If it defeated or weakened Israel, it would raise its standing in the Arab world, solving both its strategic challenges. It would be the dominant force in its region.

Hamas understood that for Israel, intelligence is fundamental. Israel had gone through a prior intelligence failure that had deeply traumatized it. In October 1973, Egyptian forces crossed the Suez Canal and, moving deep into the Sinai Peninsula, were able to threaten southern Israel. Syria had moved into the Golan Heights to threaten Israel's north. Both were supported by the Soviet Union. Israeli intelligence had completely failed to anticipate the attack, and for several days nothing less than the survival of Israel seemed at stake. When it was clear that Israel was no longer in danger, Moscow rescinded its support. Since then, Israel’s strategy has been to detect attacks and rapidly defeat its enemies before it loses its international benefactors. Israel transformed its intelligence system into what it believed was able to detect potential dangers. And yet Hamas managed to launch a surprise attack at least partly on the belief that Israel was not expecting one, and that the government was distracted by internal political disputes.

Hamas' strategy required complete surprise. In turn, that required that the group blind Israeli intelligence to the force being built in Gaza and groomed for combat. Hamas achieved total surprise, adding to its success the capture of nearly 250 Israelis who would be held as hostages and, to some extent, would force Israel to proceed with caution in any counterattack. Hamas miscalculated what the response would be, and Israel chose the strategy of total war, which inevitably resulted in deaths on all sides. Hamas presented Israel with a fait accompli. It forced Israel to fight on Hamas’ terms and territory, and with the distant potential that the Israelis were so much off balance that Israel proper might be endangered. Unreliable intelligence and an underestimation of Hamas’ abilities left Israel with few options.

Israel’s imperative is the destruction of Hamas and the deterrence of intervention by other Arab forces. Hamas' misjudgments have given the Israelis a helping hand. The expectation that Hezbollah and others might be willing to fight under Hamas’ command failed to materialize. Since Oct. 7, Hamas has adopted a defensive posture, using hostages for protection and deploying forces to the north. The deployment there, as well as in the south, gave Israel the option of negotiation – which both parties effectively rejected. Israel had to guarantee that another surprise attack by Hamas was impossible. It could not rely on intelligence, even as it had to free the remaining hostages. The only strategic solution was an assault on Hamas, designed to guarantee the group could not repeat its success.

Israel had the choice to use heavy artillery and air power or to put boots on the ground, supported by heavy armor and air power. The latter would result in heavier casualties for Israel and possible defeat in the area. To do nothing was to admit weakness and to abandon the hostages in Gaza. Israel elected to deploy ground forces in the north in an attempt to break Hamas.

So far, neither side has achieved its imperatives. Hamas is not leading an Arab force to victory, and Israel is in this position because of a major intelligence failure. The war is not over, and fighting may continue for a long time, but Hamas’ hopes that a stunning attack would elevate it to Arab leadership failed. So too did the Israeli strategy of deterring or intercepting and pre-empting any surprise attacks. There will be massive changes in thinking on both sides.

And:

Good terrorists versus bad terrorists

We are supposed to believe that overnight the PA has changed its spots. After all, Abbas wears a suit. Op-ed

No more is it between good and bad. Now, for 2024 and beyond, it’s between bad and worse.

Take your pick. For instance, between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, which is better, which is worse?

Which terrorists, in other words, should get to run Gaza, “the day after?” Biden and his people prefer the PA…the lesser of two evils.

In fact, according to their view, there is nothing evil about the PA, because? Because they say so. and they will decide what is best for Israel.

Biden and his people are on this in a big way. Every day they pressure Israel to give it up for Mahmood Abbas and his PA. After all, he is not quite as rotten as Yahya Sinwar.

Therefore, pronto, a two-state solution, with the understanding that these Arabs are peace-loving, just folks like the rest of us.

So goes the sales pitch, as concocted by the Biden Administration and leftists everywhere. As they sold Hamas before Oct 7…you know, good people, live and let live people, if just given the chance…which even conned numbers of Israelis… so too now the PA gets laundered and cleansed, and purified, and never mind Abbas’s five-year Second Intifada, 2000 to 2005,

Never mind the murdering of thousands of Israeli civilians, and the suicide bombings, the stone-throwing, the car-ramming, the incitements.

Israelis were and are safe nowhere. Certainly not under the Abbas/PA pay to slay system. In his schools, kids are being taught to become martyrs for Islam.

That these Arabs and those Arabs are just like the Jews, in desiring peace, was the big con of once before, and once again.

Without evidence, we are supposed to believe that overnight the PA has changed its spots. But Biden and his people expect the Israelis to be fooled a second time.

Trust us, they say, these are the good terrorists, not nearly as bad as Hamas, and that should be good enough. Second Best also gets a prize.

They launch fewer rockets into Israel and have therefore been “revitalized.’ They cry “kill the Jews” plenty, but not as much as the bad terrorists.

Consider the benefits of having these as your neighbors, and Abbas wears a suit and tie. He is a far more civilized terrorist.

Plus, we have given them a complete make-over. Abracadabra…and they are all kosher.

Who is buying this? We must assume that since Oct 7, Israelis have had their fill of being bamboozled, and have arrived at the conclusion that all terrorists are alike, and that, with evidence, the “innocent civilians” of Gaza are not so innocent, after all. Many took part in the slaughter of Oct 7.

Leftists too are all alike…eyes wide shut inside Israel and out.

We turn to the New Yorker, run by far-gone leftist, David Remnick, who sends out this headline, “Gaza is starving.”

So maybe if they hadn’t committed the worst atrocity since the Holocaust, they wouldn’t be starving?

Maybe it is all their fault, and they got what they deserved? Is this too logical to fathom? For leftists, apparently so, and there are no differences among them, either.

They hold to the same delusions, one and all…Gaza, for example.

Gaza was an experiment gone terribly wrong, and it cannot be fixed by making the same mistake all over again, such as trading beautiful Jewish farmers and farmland, aka Gush Katif, for another experiment at giving it into the arms of people whose characteristics remain the same…as often as they’ve been cleansed.

As they were brutes before, so they are again, and to expect of them a change of heart, is foolishness and futility.

How often will the Israelis be hustled by politicians, from America to Israel, who have been wrong about EVERYTHING?

This time? Wrong again. But the push to give up, give in, persists. The good terrorists already have U-Haul ready to move them out and move them in.

Gaza was a tragedy against Israel just waiting to happen, and some of us saw it coming, but nobody would listen…if the name Ariel Sharon sounds familiar.

We see it happening again, unless finally, the Israelis have learned something? Their security, their survival, their fate, belongs only in their own hands. So does Gaza.

How’s that for a lesson learned the hard way?

New York-based bestselling American novelist Jack Engelhard writes regularly for Arutz Sheva.

He wrote the worldwide book-to-movie bestseller “Indecent Proposal,” the authoritative newsroom epic, “The Bathsheba Deadline,” followed by his coming-of-age classics, “The Girls of Cincinnati,” and, the Holocaust-to-Montreal memoir, “Escape from Mount Moriah.” For that and his 1960s epic “The Days of the Bitter End,” contemporaries have hailed him “The last Hemingway, a writer without peer, and the conscience of us all.” Contact here.

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Jewish Lives Matter! Statistically speaking, let me spell this out

96,000 civilians have died in Ukraine since the start of the war on February 24, 2022. Where are the protests? The UNSC meetings? Op-ed. By Ruki Renov

The history of warfare is riddled with countless devastating conflicts and atrocities that resulted in the loss of millions of innocent lives, and there are such conflicts right now, but the UN only calls out Israel for fighting terror and responding to the Barbaric Murder of 1400 Jews as they fight to Eliminate Hamas and for the Jewish State’s existence.

World War I and World War II claimed the lives of millions of civilians, yet there were no widespread protests or demands for humanitarian aid. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians, but there were no cries for a ceasefire or humanitarian pauses. The Vietnam War, the Korean War, and the atrocities in Syria and Iraq have claimed the lives of millions of innocent people, yet the world remained largely silent.

What is most striking about the current situation in Israel and Gaza is the stark contrast between the level of outrage and demands for a ceasefire and humanitarian aid, compared to the relative silence and apathy towards other ongoing conflicts around the world. The double standard is not only glaring but also deeply troubling.

Statistically Speaking Let me spell this out;

10,000,000 civilians were killed in WWl. Where were the protests?! Where were the cries for humanitarian aid? Where were the cries, “Watch out for the civilians?” Where were the flyers to notify civilians of where to expect the strikes so they could move out of harm's way? Where were the demands for a humanitarian cease-fire?

38,000,000 civilians were killed in WWII. Where were the protests?!

2,000,000 Germans were killed in WWll, while 70,000, British were killed. Does that mean the British were the evil ones? Where was the call for equality?

129,000, mostly citizens, were killed in the bombing of Hiroshima. Where were the leaflets telling innocent people to leave the targeted area? 226,000, mostly citizens, were killed in the bombing of Nagasaki. Where were the protests?! 25,000 civilians were murdered by the US and Britain in WWll

Should we have given the Germans a humanitarian pause?Give them a time-out?

35000 -135,000 civilians on both sides were killed in Dresden, Germany. Where were the protests?!

This bombing of innocent civilians stopped Hitler, Germany’s monstrous dictator, Tojo, Japan’s tyrannical dictator, and Mussolini, Italy’s fascist dictator! The world felt it was sadly unavoidable but definitely worth it to bomb the innocent to get rid of the dangerously wicked who were committing genocide.

6 Million Jews were exterminated by the Nazis. The media ignored it. The New York Times denied it! Where were the protests?!

And today?

96,000 civilians have died in Ukraine since the start of the war on February 24, 2022. Russia, though it denies targeting civilians, has hit hospitals, energy infrastructures, schools, residential buildings, and civilian infrastructures. Where are the protests? Where is the world’s call for humanitarian pauses?

Millions of Arabs have been killed by other Arabs. Where were the protests? Iran, Iraq, Syria, Hamas, and Hezbollah kill hundreds of thousands of their own people every year. Where is the world’s outcry? Where is the empathy? Where are the protests? Where is the UN condemnation?

Thousands of Palestinian Arab prisoners were tortured by the PLO. No one said a word. 4,000 Palestinian Arabs in refugee camps were slaughtered in the Syrian Civil War. 2,500 Palestinian Arabs in refugee camps were killed by the Lebanese militia in 1985-1987. Where were the protesters?

230,224 civilians were documented as dead on the 12th anniversary of the Popular uprising for democracy in Syria, including 15,275 who died of torture and 154,871 arrested or forcibly disappeared.

14 000,000 Syrians have been forced to flee their homes in search of safety since 2011. The UN and the international community never said a word. To rid the world of ISIS, our troops surrounded ISIS and kept food, water, fuel, and medicine from them until they surrendered. Innocent civilians were collateral damage. No one objected.

400,000 Yemenis were killed and starved by Saudi Arabia. Where were the protests?

None of the above were planned as genocide. Israel's enemies announced their genocidal hopes without shame. The world recognizes the fact that Israel is defending itself against an unrelenting and vicious enemy that is committed to its destruction, so whence the double standards?

The narrative of Hamas as the victim and Israel as the aggressor is not only false but also dangerous.

The history of the Jewish people is marked by centuries of persecution and genocide, culminating in the horrors of the Holocaust, where six million Jews were systematically exterminated by the Nazis. The global response to this genocide was largely indifferent. It is a painful reminder of the world's failure to protect innocent lives when it mattered most.

Ruki Renov is a staunch advocate for Jewish causes and support of Israel’s right to exist and flourish. Ruki involved with many Jewish organizations from kiruv to Shidduchim and actively supports the economic and technological growth of Israel She has published many pro-Israel articles, She is the author of The Art of the Date, The Art of Marriage, Don’t Burst My Bubble,and co-author with J. Morton Davis of Happiness Guaranteed or Your Misery Back.

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If there is any insurrection it is the one engaged in by Biden's open border policies. It is his cynical hope the hoard of illegal immigration will insure Democrat elections forever so that America will be ruled by one party. That party will dictate all policies, will expand and crush what our founders created .

As long as America remains a functioning republic our policies of freedom and favoring the individual threatens tyrannical governments, ie Communism etc.

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I am sorry Austin felt he needed surgery. That said he should be fired for the way he handled the matter.

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The "climate change" debate continues because the scientific evidence is still unresolved beyond a reasonable doubt.

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Cause of Climate Change? It Isn’t Carbon Dioxide, Expert Says

By Virginia Allen

The scientific community doesn’t all agree on the core causes of climate change, and according to climate expert Willie Soon, humanity should look beyond Earth to find the source.

The Earth’s rotation around the sun affects the planet’s temperature, says Soon, a visiting fellow on the Science Advisory Committee of the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment at The Heritage Foundation. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)

Glaciers, for example, “melted away because the sun started to get … brighter and provided more solar energy to the climate system,” according to Soon.

Throughout his career, Soon, a former researcher with the Center for Astrophysics-Harvard & Smithsonian, says he has sought to pursue the facts surrounding shifts in the climate because “science is not about belief.”

“Science is about data,” he said.

Many people think that it is “rising carbon dioxide that is the main factor … that affects climate change, and that is wholly untrue,” Soon says. “That is such a distorted view that I think it needs to be corrected.”

Soon joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” for part two of a three-part series discussing climate change. In part one, expert David Legates explained the history of climate change.

On today’s show, Soon explains why he thinks the sun is the source of the changing climate and how the sun affects the Earth’s cycles of warming and cooling.

Listen to the podcast

Looking for Cause of Climate Change? Look to Sun, Not CO2