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Joe Biden courts hate against America with his agenda on the Israel-Hamas war
By David Harsanyi
It was Al-Quds Day last Friday.
To celebrate the occasion, protesters in Dearborn, Mich., chanted “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” while a speaker named Tarek Bazzi declared the United States — a place that’s afforded him the liberty to openly support rapists, murderers and terrorists — one of the “rottenest countries” on the planet.
“It’s the entire system that has to go,” he explained to cheers of, what I assume, were American citizens.
As commentator Seth Mandel noted on X, there’s Charlottesville every other day in America, and barely anyone on the left cares.
Most progressives, let’s face it, either tacitly or openly support these days of rage.
Tehran origins
Al-Quds Day, a kind of international Islamic Nuremberg Rally, was conceived by Ayatollah Khomeini and his gang during the Islamic Revolution, only a few months before Iranians murdered eight US servicemen and took 66 American hostages in 1979.
I assure you, participants aren’t merely “critical” of Israel’s housing policy in Judea or (historically low) civilian-to-commandant kill ratio in the war against Hamas; they want all 7 million Jews in that tiny country dead or scattered into dhimmi.
Where is the outrage from the folks who have fainting spells every time a Republican criticizes far-leftist moneybags George Soros?
Cowering in deathly fear that a progressive podcaster bro might accuse them of being “Islamophobic,” one imagines.
Leftist and antisemitic pro-Hamas “activists” are vandalizing buildings, threatening Jews, cheering on martyrs, and shutting down events.
Where are all the government officials who keep warning us that anyone wearing a MAGA baseball hat is probably the next Timothy McVeigh?
It’s not like radicalized Muslims ever engage in terrorism, I guess.
But if parents who are sick of school boards undermining their children’s education and futures are smeared as a “domestic terror” by this administration, surely those chanting “Death to America” deserve a look.
Granted it would be weird.
The same Jew haters who attend Quds Day rallies or write for The Washington Post are the people Joe Biden is now cynically trying to mollify in his effort to win the 2024 presidential race and “save democracy.”
Delegations of Democrats are sent to placate these defenders of barbarism and terror, sometimes quite literally.
There is bad news for Democrats, though: Until the United States launches a strike on Tel Aviv — which is what “cease-fire” proponents are chanting in New York — these people will not be placated.
To earn these votes, our president now spreads Hamas propaganda himself, as do most of the media, which have functionally or openly taken the side of the terror group.
Indeed, no matter how many cease-fires Hamas rejects, Democrats still demand Israel unilaterally stop fighting the people who hold American hostages.
It is a demand we would never make of any other nation — a demand we would never abide by ourselves.
Biden’s agenda
Even that’s not enough.
The Biden administration, which creates and spreads myths about Jewish extremism in the “West Bank” to create a fake moral equivalence, is reportedly preparing to force Israel to mark products imported from Judea and Samaria made by Jews with special labels.
Vile, indeed.
But Biden will not rest until there is a Judenrein West Bank or his “Death to America” constituents are happy.
Whichever comes first.
Biden, it should be noted, is a vacuous political zombie who has never met a position he hasn’t dropped for a vote.
Today, he is surrounded by Obama-era advisers and Hamas sympathizers — though I repeat myself — who have long wanted the US to be aligned with mullahs of Iran, as a counterbalance to colonialist Western capitalists of Israel.
And now that Democrats like Chuck Schumer have sold out the Jews to the vultures for a few votes in Dearborn, nothing holds back progressive Democrats from normalizing the antisemitism that already infects the hard left.
This is not everyone’s fight, I realize.
But remember, the same people who chant “Death to Israel” inevitably wish “Death to America,” as well.
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Justice Department Uncovers 'Inconsistencies' in Fani Willis's Use of Federal Grant Funds
By Andrew Kerr
The bombshell discovery comes two years after Willis fired a whistleblower who had warned the district attorney that her office was attempting to misuse a $488,000 federal grant to pay for "swag," computers, and travel. It’s that same grant that the Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs now says is plagued with reporting discrepancies from Willis’s office, errors that federal authorities only disclosed to the Free Beacon after providing contradictory statements regarding awards Willis’s office may have made under the grant.
"During our review of the award to respond to this inquiry, we have noticed some inconsistencies in what Fulton County has reported to [the Federal Subaward Reporting System] and we are working with them to update their reporting accordingly," a Justice Department spokeswoman told the Free Beacon on Friday.
The Justice Department did not provide any further details on the nature of Willis’s reporting "inconsistencies" on the $488,000 federal grant, which was earmarked for the creation of a Center for Youth Empowerment and Gang Prevention in Atlanta. The grant ended in September 2023, but the center never opened.
The Justice Department is coordinating with Willis’s office to fix the grant reporting "inconsistencies" amid an ongoing House Judiciary Committee investigation into Willis’s use of federal grant funds. Committee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) subpoenaed Willis in early February for records related to the $488,000 federal grant and the whistleblower allegations made by former Willis staffer Amanda Timpson, who was listed as the grant director until the district attorney abruptly fired her in January 2022.
Jordan threatened to hold Willis in contempt of Congress on March 14 after the district attorney responded to his subpoena with a "narrow set of documents" that had nothing to do with Timpson’s whistleblower allegations. Willis wrote in response that Jordan’s demands were "unreasonable and uncustomary" and suggested his investigation was an effort to derail her election interference case against former president Donald Trump.
The Free Beacon questions that prompted the Justice Department’s discovery of Willis’s reporting "inconsistencies" centered on subaward payments the district attorney may have made to the Offender Alumni Association, an Alabama-based charity staffed by former prison inmates.
Whether or not the Offender Alumni Association received payments from the federal grant depends on who is asked.
Fulton County records show that Willis’s office transferred $88,900 from the federal gang prevention grant to the Offender Alumni Association. But the group’s administrative director, Toni Barnett, told the Free Beacon that she had no idea why the county was reporting making those payments to her group in 2022 and 2023.
"I have no idea where that information is coming from," Barnett told the Free Beacon on March 15. "I have no idea why you’re calling or where you’re getting that information from. You need to go to that government resource and you need to let that validate whatever you want to say or print. Because I don’t know what you’re talking about."
Offender Alumni Association co-founder Deborah Daniels and chief operating officer Dena Dickerson did not return several subsequent requests for comment.
On March 27, a Justice Department spokeswoman told the Free Beacon that federal authorities had no records on any sub grant payments from Willis’s office to the Offender Alumni Association.
"The Offender Alumni Association is not listed as a sub grantee for the grant award, Gang Prevention in Fulton County, awarded at $488,594," the spokeswoman told the Free Beacon. "Hence, the questions regarding the organization as a sub grantee are not applicable."
However, the Justice Department changed its tune after the Free Beacon informed it that its records contradict Fulton County’s records, which disclose $89,900 in sub payments to the Offender Alumni Association.
"Upon further research, we found that Offender Alumni Association is included as a Fulton County subgrantee in subsequent documents," a Justice Department spokeswoman told the Free Beacon on April 1. "We apologize for this initial error."
The Justice Department refused to provide the Free Beacon with copies of the "subsequent documents" showing Willis’s office made sub grant payments to the Offender Alumni Association, or the date that Willis’s office reported the payments to federal authorities.
Willis’s office did not return a request for comment.
The "inconsistencies" surrounding Willis’s use of federal grant funds were discovered just weeks after a judge ruled the embattled district attorney could remain on her election interference case against Trump. The former president’s legal team petitioned to remove Willis from the case over her clandestine affair with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, with whom she had an illicit relationship while paying him more than $650,000 in legal fees to prosecute the former president.
Fulton County Superior Court judge Scott McAfee said in a March 15 order that an "odor of mendacity remains" after weeks of public hearings over Willis’s relationship with Wade. But the judge allowed Willis to stay on the case if she fired Wade. Trump's legal team is seeking to overturn the ruling at the Georgia Court of Appeals.
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Israeli Consul Edited Report.
Israel At War
Day 187
Operational Updates
Entire Gaza Strip
Over the past day, IDF fighter jets and aircraft struck dozens of terror targets in the Gaza Strip, including military sites, launchers, tunnel shafts, and terror infrastructure.
Northern Gaza Strip
Yesterday (April 9), a launch was identified from Jabalya toward Kibbutz Kfar Aza that was intercepted by the IDF Aerial Defense Array. In response, an IDF fighter jet struck the compound and launcher from which the launch was fired.
In addition, a number of launches were identified toward IDF troops operating in the area of Shejaiya in the northern Gaza Strip. In response, an IDF fighter jet struck the launcher from which the launches were fired.
Central Gaza Strip
IDF troops are continuing to operate in the central Gaza Strip and eliminated a number of terrorists over the past day. During a close-quarters encounter, IDF troops neutralized a terrorist cell that posed a threat to the troops.
Israeli Air Force Eliminates Three Hamas Operatives Related to Hamas's Chairman
Earlier today, directed by IDF and ISA intelligence, Israeli Air Force (IAF) aircraft struck and eliminated three Hamas military operatives that conducted terror activity in the central Gaza Strip.
The three targeted operatives were Amir Haniyeh, a cell commander of Hamas's military wing, Mohammad Haniyeh, a military operative in Hamas, and Hazem Haniyeh, also a military operative in the terror organization.
The IDF confirmed that the three operatives were the sons of Ismail Haniyeh, Chairman of Hamas's Political Bureau.
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ICYMI: "Israel‘s Defense Strategy after October 7: New Thinking Needed" with Eran Ortal on 4/8/2024
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The 187th Day of War in Israel
By Sherwin Pomerantz
The details of the current proposal in the hands of Hamas and approved by Israel have now been made clear and have been debated by Israel’s cabinet. The proposal calls for a 42-day cessation of fighting along with the release of 900 Palestinian prisoners presently held by Israel, 100 of whom are serving life sentences for killing Israelis. For this Hamas will release 40 of the hostages, primarily women, children, older men and those with debilitating medical conditions. Israel is pushing to transfer the released Palestinians to another country rather than sending them to Judaea and Samaria. The ball is now in Hamas’s court.
On the humanitarian aid front, 468 trucks laden with aid for the residents of Gaza were inspected and released into the enclave on Tuesday, the most in any one day. Sadly, Reuters has shown videos of how many of those trucks were immediately commandeered by Hamas’s troops and where, presumably, the aid has been directed to Hamas operatives rather than the citizens who desperately need these supplies. Not sure why the world is not “outraged” over that.
Israel’s Defense Ministry has purchased 40,000 tents to better enable the evacuation and prepare for an invasion of Rafah in the relatively near future. Although the ministry acknowledged to the Jerusalem Post that 40,000 tents would not be enough for all 1.4 million Palestinian civilians currently in Rafah, it is still considered a significant step forward. There was no official announcement. The leak of the purchase could also be a nod to the US, being transparent about the process to prepare for the evacuation in advance after months about which Washington complained that Israel’s preparations for evacuating civilians were both too secretive, and insufficient. As for the quantity, the IDF is hopeful significant numbers of civilians will self-evacuate and return to Khan Yunis following Sunday’s IDF withdrawal from that area, which might also decrease the number of tents needed.
One of Iran’s top naval commanders spoke with the pro-Iranian al-Mayadeen network in a wide-ranging interview, where he sketched out how Iran wants to become a naval and regional military power, and how it plans to confront Israel on various fronts. Iran’s pro-government Fars News characterized the new policy as calling for a “coalition of Muslim armies against the Zionist regime.”
Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri is the commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Navy. Tangsiri’s main message is that Iran will not remain quiet after an air strike in Damascus killed a top IRGC commander last week; it will respond. Iran has been saying this for a week now. He added that Iran became an exporter of weapons, including missiles, boats, and radars, and that the US embargo on Iran has not succeeded, Iran is growing more powerful in its manufacturing power.
Iran is particularly paying attention to how the IDF is performing. Tangsiri noted that Israel claims to have a strong army with advanced weapons, “but to this day, the Zionists have not been victorious, neither in the military nor political fields… nor in the social sphere.”
According to today’s New York Times, Iran is operating a clandestine smuggling route across the Middle East, employing intelligence operatives, militants and criminal gangs, to deliver weapons to Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to officials from the United States, Israel and Iran. The goal, as described by three Iranian officials, is to foment unrest against Israel by flooding the enclave with as many weapons as it can.
Many weapons smuggled to the West Bank largely travel along two paths from Iran through Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel, the officials said. As the arms cross borders, the officials added, they change hands among a multinational cast that can include members of organized criminal gangs, extremist militants, soldiers and intelligence operatives. A key group in the operation, the Iranian officials and analysts said, are Bedouin smugglers who carry the weapons across the border from Jordan into Israel.
Today’s New York Times carries an op ed by columnist Bret Stephens urging the removal of Prime Minister Netanyahu. While many of us would like to see the government fall after the war and then have the population elect new leadership, the more pressure applied from the outside the stronger Netanyahu seems to become.
Stephens, who is also a former editor of the Jerusalem Post and lived here for some time, should have learned from his American experience how popularity seems to be inversely proportional to political attacks regardless of how justified they may be. The best thing for Israel would be for Biden, Stephens, Tom Friedman, political columnists and other pundits to lay off Bibi. Calling for his removal from office only strengthens him.
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| by Matt Pottinger, Mike Gallagher via Foreign Affairs Amid a presidency beset by failures of deterrence—in Afghanistan, Ukraine, and the Middle East—the Biden administration’s China policy has stood out as a relative bright spot. The administration has strengthened U.S. alliances in Asia, restricted Chinese access to critical U.S. technologies, and endorsed the bipartisan mood for competition. ++++ I sent this to those who I know , who are knowledgeable and who might respond. They will remain anonymous. +++ i know this may sound crazy but Biden's betrayal of israel, simply so he can be re-elected, has serious implications for Israel's ability to win against Hamas, take on Hezbollah and now defend against an increasingly armed and hostile West Bank.
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