Biden Lies Again About The Tragic Decision. Hamas Barbarism. More.

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The left has weaponized our justice system and politicized our legal system which is supposed to be blind. They say they are defending democracy but they are eroding it with "lawfare."

It’s a clear reminder of what’s at stake in November and the lengths Democrats will go to undermine our institutions.

Victory in November is the only way we’ll stop them! We must stand together.

For America,

Eric Hovde
Republican for U.S. Senate

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Hamas barbarism in living color

Even impeccable Israeli "hasbara" can’t compete with Pallywood productions and comparable fake news, regardless of how blatantly mendacious.

Posted By Ruthie Blum

The footage screened on a digital billboard in New York City’s Times Square on Friday isn’t for the faint-hearted. Still, viewing it is a must for anyone who doesn’t believe, or has forgotten, the atrocities committed by Hamas on Oct. 7.

The clip was released on Wednesday by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. It was filmed by a group of Palestinian terrorists armed with deadly weapons and body cameras—the latter to document their genocidal attack.

In the video, the men are seen tying up and sexually abusing five female Israel Defense Forces spotters at the Nahal Oz army base, before abducting them to Gaza.

The parents of 19-year-olds Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Agam Berger, Daniela Gilboa and Naama Levy decided to allow the three-minute horror show—edited to exclude images of the many corpses of the girls’ compatriots—to be broadcast locally and abroad.

“You dogs, we will step on you!” shouts one of the perpetrators in Arabic.

“Take pictures of them,” instructs another.

“Here are the women who can get pregnant,” yet another barbarian announces. “These are the Zionists.”

Staring at the bloodied and bound victims dressed in pajamas, a sleazy predator says in English, “You are so beautiful.”

Though a mere slice of what happened on that Black Sabbath—the massacre of 1,200 innocent people enjoying the Simchat Torah holiday in their homes and at the Nova music festival, as well as the kidnapping of 250 men, women and children—it promptly went viral. It even made the cover of the New York Post.

Two interrogation videos that the IDF revealed on Thursday, after they’d been obtained and reported by Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper, served as an apt companion to the above. They show father-and-son terrorists—both captured in March by Israeli troops in Gaza—confessing to the rape, murder and abduction of Kibbutz Nir Oz residents on Oct. 7.

Questioned separately, Jamal Hussein Ahmad Radi, 47, and his 18-year-old son, Abdallah, recounted their deeds with no remorse.

“In each house where we found someone, we either killed or kidnapped them,” Jamal Radi told an Israel Security Agency officer, going on to describe a woman he assaulted. “She was screaming, she was crying. I did what I did. I raped her. I threatened her with my gun to take her clothes off. I remember she was wearing jeans shorts; that’s about it. I don’t know what happened to her. I was there for 15 minutes and then I left.”

Abdallah Radi’s version was slightly different, but equally chilling.

“My father raped her, then I did and then my cousin did and then we left. But my father killed the woman after we finished raping her. Before this woman, we had raped another girl, as well. I killed two people. I raped two people. And I broke into five houses.”

We Israelis have been faced with every aspect of Hamas’s literal and figurative rape of the Jewish state nearly eight months ago. Every person in the country is affected, either directly or indirectly, by the massacre and ensuing battle in Gaza to rescue the hostages and destroy the terrorist group.

It’s always a bit startling, then, when people elsewhere are suddenly shocked by this or that brief glimpse into the evil we’ve been confronting. The release of the latest videos is a perfect case in point, which reawakens the debate about whether we should have been widely distributing the many hours of gruesome evidence right from the start.

Early on in the war, the IDF produced a 47-minute reel of raw footage gathered on Oct. 7. Rather than blitzing it everywhere, it was shown to select audiences of journalists and dignitaries.

The decision not to spread it freely was based on a number of factors. Chief among these was the need to respect the privacy and dignity of the victims, whose families weren’t keen on having their loved ones’ body parts on display for all the world to see.

There was also a reasonable assumption that pro-Hamas trolls would doctor and distort the film. This was in addition to fear that it would be exploited as snuff by sickos on the internet.

Meanwhile, however, anti-Semitic propaganda—including denial of Hamas’s deeds on one hand and justification for them on the other—was and continues to stream unabated on social media. As a result, the Hebrew press and pro-Israel voices in the Diaspora have been regurgitating the age-old claim that the Jewish state is terrible at hasbara.

This concocted concept that applies solely to Israel is translated as “public diplomacy.” As though Jews and the Jewish state have a P.R. problem, not a desire on the part of our enemies to delegitimize and wipe us off the map.

The truth is that even impeccable Israeli hasbara can’t compete with Pallywood productions and comparable fake news, regardless of how blatantly mendacious. Nor has exposing lies done any good with hostile international bodies.   

Still, providing our defenders with tools to counter the onslaught is important. Indeed, Israel-supporters shouldn’t be left alone in the rhetorical arena without an ongoing supply of material to boost their public efforts and personal morale. Sadly, graphic records of Hamas’s sadistic actions apply here.

Now that the Albag, Ariev, Berger, Gilboa and Levy families have reached this very conclusion—in their case, to pressure the government to secure a deal for the release of their daughters—maybe more will follow suit. But let’s not harbor unrealistic hopes. The facts are already out there, and the only movies that interest Israel’s detractors are those of the IDF leveling buildings in Gaza.

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Is the goal of the Department of Justice to seek justice or simply get a conviction.

 How can you be guilty when a prejudiced jury listened to a sham trial where there was no proof relating to any crime other than what the district attorney said as he campaigned to get Trump? 

Furthermore, the various trials against Trump were obviously orchestrated from/by The White House.

Americans resent the way Trump has been/ was treated and they see this verdict was contrived and preordained. They are disgusted and empathetic so the entire matter has already been voted upon and I believe the radical Trump Haters have caused a boomerang effect which could re-elect Trump.

I also believe the New York Supreme Court will overturn the verdicts as will The SCOTUS, should it reach them on appeal.

The biggest issue, in my mind is, Trump has diarrhea of the mouth and needs to be more succinct and quit repeating himself because it is noxious.

Going after a president is a dangerous and disturbing tactic and could ultimately, if allowed to stand, could destroy the office of the president and our tripartite form of government.

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A Prosecution So Crooked It Would Even Make Joseph Stalin Blush

By Alan M. Dershowitz

Long before Donald Trump’s hush-money trial concluded, I predicted that his conviction was a forgone conclusion — despite the obvious weakness of the case against him.

Had the prosecution been brought in another part of the country, or even in another part of New York State, which was more fairly balanced with anti and pro-Trump voters, I am in little doubt that the outcome would have been different. 

But instead, on Thursday, Trump became the first former president to be found guilty of a crime – convicted on all 34 flimsy counts of “falsifying business records.”

Why? Because this case was tried in Manhattan, where practically every man on the street wants to keep one Donald Trump out of the White House.

Perhaps the most important function of an independent jury in criminal trials is to keep a check on the biases of prosecutors and judges.

But for this constitutional protection to work, jurors must not be biased themselves against a defendant. (RELATED: Trump’s Defense Team May Have Taken A Few Wrong Turns, But Judge Merchan Doomed Them From The Start. Here’s How)

It’s quite apparent that this essential protection was absent.

And of course, none of these will have been disclosed on corporate forms — which would defeat the point of keeping something secret — and no one has ever been prosecuted for failing to make such a disclosure

The infamous conversation between Stalin and the head of his KGB Lavrenty Beria is often quoted: ‘Show me the man, and I will find you the crime.’

This prosecution was even worse because, though DA Bragg tried desperately to find a crime with which to charge Trump, he failed to find one, as did his predecessor Cyrus Vance

So Bragg went a dangerous step further than Stalin ever did: he made up a crime.

He found a misdemeanor that was past the statute of limitations — making a false bookkeeping entry on a corporate form — and magically converted it to a felony that was within the limitation period by alleging that the false entry was intended to cover up another crime.

Throughout the trial, many people inferred that crime to be an alleged attempt at election interference. But Bragg never actually explicitly stated that.

In fact, the prosecution didn’t tell the court what Trump’s other “crimes” were until their closing arguments on Wednesday — by which point the defense had no opportunity to respond.

And even then, the supposed crimes outlined were vague.

In his closing instructions, Judge Juan Merchan exposed his already apparent bias once more – telling the jurors that they didn’t actually have to agree on the specifics of Trump’s unlawful behavior. (RELATED: Jury Begins Deliberations On Convicting Trump After Judge Gives ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Instructions)

How could someone defend themselves against such vague allegations?

It was at this moment that I became convinced that the jury would find him guilty.

And that conviction may well mark the beginning of a new era of partisan weaponization of our justice system. (RELATED: ‘Rigged’: Death Of The American Voter | WATCH NOW)

DA Bragg has demonstrated how easy it now is to get a conviction against a political opponent. Other ambitious DA’s are likely to follow suit. And the ultimate losers will be the American public.

Alan Dershowitz is a professor emeritus at Harvard Law School and author of “War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism.” This article has been republished from the author’s Substack page, which can be viewed here.

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Hoover Exclusive regarding election issues:

Welcome to the inaugural Issues Affecting American Democracy newsletter. Each month, we’ll bring you the most insightful research by Hoover fellows on the policy challenges that the country will confront over the years to come. This month, Michael J. Boskin and Douglas Rivers survey and assess the American public’s knowledge of policy issues; Justin Grimmer analyzes how voting laws affect who wins elections; and Philip Zelikow considers how the US can stand up to a “purposeful set of powerful adversaries in a rapidly changing and militarized period of history.”

FEATURED ANALYSIS

Policy Knowledge of the American Public As we enter campaign season, what do the American people know about public policy, and how will that shape the 2024 general election? As Michael J. Boskin and Douglas Rivers illustrate in “Policy Knowledge in the Public,” that knowledge is imperfect and incomplete. While, for example, “one would hope that most citizens would know that in recent years the federal government has spent more than it has collected in taxes or that the national debt has been rising as a percentage of GDP,” knowledge of such factual trends is not a given. Indeed, “only around half of all adults are able to give a correct answer to these questions.” Even those of us who study policy issues might occasionally be surprised to encounter our lack of knowledge about policy fundamentals. No matter what we know, there is always more to learn and plenty to discuss with others. Policy education is one of the pillars of a free and open society, and this newsletter aims to strengthen that pillar. Click here to read the entire paper by Boskin and Rivers. ++++

Consul Update (edited.) +++ Operational Updates Entire Gaza Strip Over the past day, IAF fighter jets and additional aircraft struck numerous terror targets throughout the Gaza Strip, including weapons storage facilities, armed terrorist cells, terror infrastructure, and military compounds. Northern Gaza Strip Over the past few days, IDF troops dismantled hundreds of meters of terror tunnel routes in the area of eastern Jabaliya. The troops also eliminated terrorists during close-quarters encounters and using tank fire. Furthermore, IDF troops directed an IAF aircraft that struck several Hamas terrorists who operated in the area. Central Gaza Strip IDF troops continue operational activities in central Gaza. The troops directed IAF aircraft that targeted and eliminated several terrorists who operated near them. IDF Gradually Evolves Targeted Operations in Rafah The IDF is continuing its precise and targeted operations in Rafah, according to plan.  The operation continues to gradually evolve, with forces focusing on uprooting Hamas's terror infrastructure on the Philadelphia Corridor (located along the Gaza-Egypt border) as well as special forces that are conducting intelligence-based targeted-raids from the outskirts of central Rafah. The forces have exposed an extensive Hamas subterranean tunnel network consisting of dozens of terror tunnels, dozens of rockets launchers, and dozens of RPGs and AK-47s. The troops have eliminated hundreds of terrorists along the Philadelphia route and within the outskirts of the urban areas of Rafah. The video below shows the Hamas terror infrastructure embedded along the Philadelphia Corridor: The IDF continues to implement lessons learned and adjust its operations to minimize civilian casualties and maintain focused and low-intensity operations, in accordance with international law and in accordance with dialogue conducted with the military's partners prior to the operation in Rafah. Since the beginning of operations in the Rafah area, operational activity along the Philadelphi Corridor has been led by the 401st Brigade Combat Team under the command of the 162nd Division. During these operations, the soldiers have located, investigated and destroyed numerous tunnel shafts and underground infrastructure in the area. The intelligence-based engineering operations to combat the threat of underground infrastructure in the area have continued over several weeks. The troops have located dozens of tunnel shafts and destroyed a number of significant routes, some of which are still under investigation. During these operations, the soldiers encountered enemy forces underground and eliminated them.  Another focus of operations in the area is the location of long-range rocket launchers. During scans, the troops located five launchers which were loaded and ready to fire with multiple rockets toward Israeli territory. All the launchers that were located have been dismantled. Below is footage of the rocket launchers: In parallel with ongoing efforts to facilitate the passage of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip for civilians, IDF troops are currently continuing to operate against terror targets and infrastructure while advancing along the Philadelphi Corridor. Below is a video from the commander of the 601st Battalion, Lt. Shimon, who explains the mission which he and his troops are currently executing: IDF Discovers Terror Tunnel Embedded within Elementary School in Northern Gaza The combat teams of the 7th, 460th and Paratroopers Brigades under the 98th Division have been operating in eastern Jabaliya in recent weeks, both above ground and underground, in an urban, dense area rigged with explosives. The Hamas terror organization turned the civilian area into a fortified combat compound, fired towards the troops from sheltered areas and schools, and built an underground terrorist network from within civilian buildings. In one instance, the soldiers discovered a terror tunnel embedded within an elementary school in the area. Below is a video containing footage of the tunnel and the school the terrorists constructed it in: Above ground, the troops eliminated hundreds of terrorists in intense combat and close-quarters encounters and destroyed dozens of terrorist infrastructure and combat compounds. The troops located hundreds of weapons, including firearms, explosives, grenades, ammunition and more. In addition, a number of significant weapons production sites were located and destroyed. As part of dismantling the capabilities of the Hamas terrorist organization, the soldiers raided a large number of rocket launching compounds, and destroyed launchers ready for use. Underground, the troops located, investigated and destroyed with the cooperation of the soldiers of the Yahalom Unit, more than ten kilometers (0.6 miles) of an underground tunnel network. The soldiers neutralized explosives in the tunnels and located within them weapons and intelligence information related to the Hamas terrorist organization. As part of the underground operation, the commander of Hamas's Beit Hanoun Battalion and other terrorists who were with him were eliminated.   In thorough operations above and below ground, the troops of the division rescued seven bodies of hostages - Shani Louk, Amit Buskila, Ron Benjamin, Yitzchak Gelernter, Hanan Yablonka, Michel Nisenbaum, and Orion Hernandez - and returned them for burial in Israel.  More than 200 IAF aerial strikes were carried out in close proximity to the operating troops, during which dozens of terrorists were eliminated, most of them at the command level in Hamas and dozens of terrorist infrastructure and weapon warehouses were destroyed. The troops of the 98th Division have completed their mission in eastern Jabaliya and remain combat ready. They are preparing to continue operations in the Gaza Strip. United States and European Union Implement New Sanctions Against Iran Today, the United States and the European Union announced new sanctions against Iran. The move comes amidst the Iranian Ayatollah regime's continued efforts to destroy the State of Israel and destabilize the Middle East through direct attacks and the use of its genocidal terror proxies - Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. According to Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Israel Katz, "The U.S. Treasury Department expanded its sanctions regime against Iranian individuals and entities today." In the case of the European Union's sanctions against Iran, their decision was made based on Iranian individuals and entities "violating the sanctions regime on UAVs and surface-to-surface missiles." Among the targets of the sanctions are Iran's Defense Minister and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) navy. Praising the decision, Minister Katz stated the free world "must stop Iran before it is too late." Operation: Swords of Iron Humanitarian Update Click HERE for today's updates regarding the IDF's humanitarian efforts during Operation: Swords of Iron. ++++ Reality versus propaganda. Believe what you will.  I am persuaded that this is just another reason to vote for Trump as I willingly reject the vicious lies of the most corrupt president and family ever. +++ Rude and Crude but Definitely Justified Pushkin House in London, in collaboration with the University of London, recently invited Israeli author Dina Rubina (above) to a literary discussion on Zoom about her books. Then she received the email below from the meeting’s moderator, Nataliya Rulyova, who demanded she state where she stands “on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict” because other invited participants need to “understand your position on this issue before responding”. That note and Ms Rubina’s blistering response are reproduced below. From: Nataliya Rulyova Hello, Dina! The Pushkin House announced our upcoming conference on social media and immediately received critical messages regarding your position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They wanted to understand your position on this issue before responding. Could you formulate your position and send it to me as soon as possible? — Natasha Then followed Ms Rubina’s response From: Dina Rubina To: Nataliya Rulyova Dear Natalia! You’ve written beautifully about my novels, and I’m so sorry for the time you’ve wasted, because apparently we have to cancel our meeting. The universities of Warsaw and Torun have just canceled lectures by the wonderful Russian-speaking Israeli writer Yakov Shechter on the life of Galicia’s Jews in the 17th and 19th centuries “to avoid making the situation worse.” I suspected that this would affect me too, since academia is now the main breeding ground for the most disgusting and virulent anti-Semitism, disguised as so-called “criticism of Israel.” I was expecting something like this, and I even decided to write you an email about it… but I put it aside. It’s time for me to publish it. This is what I want to say to all those who expect from me a quick and obsequious report on my position regarding my beloved country, which currently lives (and always has) surrounded by ferocious enemies who seek to destroy it . My country which is waging a just war today against a rabid, ruthless, deceptive and cunning enemy. The last time I apologized was in elementary school, in the principal’s office, I was 9 years old. Since then, I have been doing what I think is right, listening only to my conscience and expressing exclusively my understanding of the world order and human laws of justice. Natalia, thank you for your efforts, and I personally ask you to send my answer to all those who are wondering. On October 7, Saturday, the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, the ruthless, well-trained, well-prepared and well-equipped Hamas terrorist regime of Iran, Hamas, which rules in the Gaza enclave (which Israel left around twenty years ago), attacked dozens of peaceful kibbutzim and bombarded my country with tens of thousands of rockets. Hamas has committed atrocities that even the Bible cannot describe, atrocities that rival the crimes of Sodom and Gomorrah. Atrocities filmed by the way, by GoPro cameras, the murderers having taken the horror to the point of sending the images to their families or on social networks in real time. For hours, thousands of happy, blood-drunk beasts raped women, children and men, shooting their victims in the crotch and heads, cutting off the women’s breasts and playing football with them, cutting off the babies from the wombs of pregnant women and immediately decapitating them, tying up and burning the small children. There were so many charred bodies that, for many weeks, forensic pathologists could not cope with the enormous workload of identifying individuals. A friend of mine, who worked in the emergency room of a New York hospital for 20 years, then in Israel for 15 years, was one of the first to arrive in the kibbutzim, as part of a team of rescuers and of doctors. She still hasn’t been able to sleep since. While she is an emergency specialist, accustomed to dissected bodies and corpses, she fainted when she saw the macabre sight and vomited all the way back in the car. Among the Hamas militants, Palestinian civilians rushed in, participating in pogroms of unprecedented scale, pillaging, killing, dragging everything they could get their hands on. Among these “Palestinian civilians” were 450 members of this highly regarded organization UNRWA (United Nations Relief Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East). Judging by the utter joy of the population (also captured by thousands of mobile cameras), Hamas is supported by almost the entire population of Gaza. But the essential is there for us: More than two hundred Israelis, including women, children, the elderly and foreign workers, were dragged into the beast’s den. A hundred of them are still rotting and dying in Hamas dungeons. It goes without saying that these victims, who continue to be mocked, are of little concern to the “academic community”. But that’s not what I’m talking about right now. I am not writing this so that anyone will sympathize with the tragedy of my people. During all these years, while the international community has literally poured hundreds of millions of dollars into this piece of land (the Gaza Strip) — UNRWA’s annual budget alone is equivalent to a billion dollars! — During all these years, Hamas used this money to build an empire with a complex system of underground tunnels, stockpile weapons, teach schoolchildren from primary school to disassemble and assemble Kalashnikov assault rifles, print textbooks in which hatred of Israel is indescribable, in which even math problems look like this calling for the murder of Jews with every word: There were ten Jews, the shahid killed four, how many are left? And now, when finally shocked by the monstrous crime of these bastards, Israel is waging a war of annihilation against the Hamas terrorists who so carefully prepared this war, who placed thousands of shells in all the hospitals, the schools, kindergartens… The academic community, which was not concerned about the massacres in Syria, nor the massacre in Somalia, nor the mistreatment inflicted on the Uighurs, nor the millions of Kurds persecuted by the Turkish regime for decades, this very worried community, which wears “arafatkas” [keffiyehs], the trademark of murderers, around their necks at rallies under the slogan “Liberate Palestine from the river to the sea”, which means the total destruction of Israel (and Israelis). “Academics”, as polls show, have no idea where this river is, what it is called, where certain borders are located. And it is this same public which asks me “to express a position clear on the issue”. Are you really serious! As you know, I have been a professional writer for over 50 years. My novels have been translated into 40 languages, including Albanian, Turkish, Chinese, Esperanto, and many more. Now, with great pleasure, without choosing my expressions too much, I sincerely and with all the strength of my soul send to all the brainless “intellectuals” who are interested in my position to go fuck themselves. — Dina Rubina Editor’s note: In translation, Ms Rubina’s surname can be found online as both “Roubina” and “Rubina”. QoL has opted for the latter spelling ++++ Even  CNN gags. +++  CNN Analyst Predicts Trump's Conviction Will Be Overturned Due to 'Number of Significant Issues' By Sarah Arnold ++++