Stop and think about the illogic of what you are being fed by those who hate the nation you possibly love.
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Pro-Hamas Protests Funded by Biden's Own Political Donors
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A Dying Priest
Amen!
A special message for all my theologian friends.
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In Washington, D.C. an old priest lay dying in the hospital. For years he had faithfully served the people of the nation's capital and was well known among the elected officials. He motioned for his nurse to come near.
"Yes, Father?" said the nurse.
"I would really like to see President Biden and Senator Schumer before I die, "whispered the priest.
"I'll see what I can do, Father", replied the nurse.
The nurse sent the request to The President and Congress and waited for a response. Soon the word arrived; President Biden and Chuck Schumer would be delighted to visit the priest.
As they went to the hospital, Biden commented to Schumer, "I don't know why the old priest wants to see us, but it will certainly help our images and might even get me re-elected." Schumer agreed that it was a good thing.
When they arrived at the priest's room, Schumer and Biden stood, one at each side of the bed. The priest took Biden's hand in his right hand and Schumer's hand in his left hand. There was silence and a look of serenity on the old priest's face.
Finally, President Biden spoke. "Father, of all the people you could have chosen, why did you choose us to be with you as you near the end?"
The old priest slowly replied, "I have always tried to pattern my life after our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ."
"Amen", said Biden.
"Amen", said Schumer.
The old priest continued, "Jesus died between two lying thieves; I would like to do the same."
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The 212th Day of War in Israel
By Sherwin Pomerantz
A joint attack by the IDF and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Services) killed one of the top commanders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the IDF announced on Saturday. The terrorist, Imam Zerev, was killed by Israel Air Force fighter jets in southern Gaza. Zerev commanded and directed several attacks. Most notably, he directed the terror attack by Nukhba terrorists at both the border community and outpost of Sufa on October 7th, as well as led the PIJ's preparations for combat against the IDF in the southern Gaza Strip. Two other terrorists from PIJ were killed in the same air strike. Earlier on Saturday, the IAF carried out additional strikes on targets in Gaza after launches had been fired towards Israeli territory from the Strip.
For months, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has avoided detailed public discussion about Gaza’s postwar future. Trying to placate both his far-right allies, who seek to rebuild Israeli settlements in Gaza, and Israel’s foreign partners, who want Gaza returned to Palestinian governance, Mr. Netanyahu has stopped short of any specific declaration.
Behind the scenes, however, senior officials in his office have been weighing an expansive plan for postwar Gaza, in which Israel would offer to share oversight of the territory with an alliance of Arab countries, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as well as the United States, according to three Israeli officials and five people who have discussed the plan with members of the Israeli government.
According to that proposal, Israel would do so in exchange for normalized relations between itself and Saudi Arabia, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity given the sensitivity of the matter.
Far-right members of Mr. Netanyahu’s coalition are almost certain to dismiss such an idea, and so are the Arab countries mentioned as possible participants. But it is the clearest sign yet that officials at the highest levels of Israel’s government are thinking about Gaza’s postwar future, despite saying little in public, and could be a starting point in future negotiations.
On the hostage front, Hamas has been sending positive signals in favor of a phased scaling down of the war which would lead to a permanent peace. While Israel aeems interest in that it is also taking a hard line on no permanent peace with Hamas still in control. Israel has not sent its negotiators back to Cairo and will not do so until the framework of a mutually acceptable agreement is works out. Meanwhile, pressure continues to grow on the Netanyahu government to “make the deal.”
Tonight begin the annual observance of Yom HaShoah, the remembrance of the six million Jews who died in the runup to and during World War II at the hands of the Nazis. A fitting way to observe the day would be to watch Shery Sandberg’s new 45-minute searing film, Screams of Silence, which details eye witness testimony of the events of Octoer 7th and which can be viewed here….
It is another never again moment, proving that the world even now, is not serious about assuring that never again means never again. May the memories of those we lost, then and now, be blessed. Yechi Zichronam Baruch!
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The 213th Day of War in Israel
By Sherwin Pomerantz
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Hostage deal talks in Cairo seem to have disintegrated once again. The Hamas delegation has left Egypt and Israel decided there was not enough forward progress to even send a delegation. It appears now that without a deal in place Israel is prepared to begin is long discussed Rafah operation.
The IDF has thus began evacuating civilians from eastern Rafah in Gaza to a new expanded humanitarian zone which includes al-Mawasi and parts of Khan Yunis and central Gaza, the IDF announced on Monday morning. The evacuation comes ahead of planned IDF operatio in the Rafah area. The new humanitarian zone includes field hospitals, tents, and increased provisions of food, water, medicine, and other supplies.
The IDF, in accordance with a decision made by the political echelon, is calling on the population currently under Hamas control to evacuate temporarily from the eastern neighborhoods of Rafah to the new zone. The evacuation will be conducted in a phased manner in accordance with continuing situation assessments. The call to evacuate is being made through leaflets, text messages, phone calls, and statements in Arabic.
At least 10 people were wounded in southern Israel, four seriously, on Sunday when Hamas terrorists fired 14 mortar shells from the Rafah area of southern Gaza at Kibbutz Kerem Shalom. Several rockets exploded near an Israel Defense Forces military facility, causing the casualties, the Eshkol Regional Council said. “The injured are not residents of the council and we pray for their recovery,” the council said. The Israeli Air Force subsequently attacked terrorist targets in Rafah, in the areas from which the missiles were fired towards Kerem Shalom.
The Kerem Shalom area, located at the Israel-Gaza-Egypt border triangle, is the site of the primary crossing between Israel and Gaza, where thousands of humanitarian aid trucks have passed through during the war. The Kerem Shalom crossing was then closed to the passage of humanitarian aid trucks, the IDF said, until calm can be restored
The US government has frozen a planned arms shipment to Israel, according to a report Sunday, raising concerns among Israeli leaders of a major shift in American policy. Two Israeli officials told Axios and Walla that the White House last week froze a weapons shipment to Israel, which includes ammunition and other American-made arms. If confirmed, this marks the first time the US has suspended arms shipments to Israel since Hamas’ October 7th invasion of Israel. According to the report, the White House, Pentagon, and State Department all declined to comment, as did the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office.
A few days ago Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, delivered a powerful and disturbing address to the General Assembly as they departed the application of the Palestinian Authority to be granted full national status at the UN. You can watch the 28-minute speech here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
It is well worth the investment of time and, hopefully, his words will be internalized by all who convenient forget history.
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Jew hatred: Everything, everywhere, all at once
From Lynne Lechter
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STARRS Chairman Lt Gen Rod Bishop on Fox & Friends this morning on DEI in the military
Interviewed by Fox Host Pete Hegseth; TWO segments
Hello Jeff,
STARRS Chairman Lt General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, was interviewed this morning by Fox & Friends Host Pete Hegseth about the DACODAI meeting and the leftwing DEI ideology imposed in the military.
Later on the show, Pete revisited the interview and he and his co-hosts got quite passionate about the damage this agenda push is doing to America's armed forces. One of the hosts summed up at the end: there seems to be a lack of courage to stand up against it.
Not STARRS and all of you on our mailing list! We STAND TOGETHER against this divisive ideology that is destroying our military.
Pete sent us this message after the show: "Thank you for ALL you do. Got lots of great feedback. Keep up the fight sir!"
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The ivory tower jihad
In the appalling scenes on campus, chickens are now coming home to roost
By MELANIE PHILLIPS
Man dressed as Hamas terrorist at Stanford university
The shocking scenes on campus over the past few days are far more significant than mere student demonstrations getting out of hand.
With “Gaza solidarity encampments” having sprung up on more than 100 US campuses (and with British campuses now following suit) Islamists and the hard left have turned western universities into a theatre of war against Israel, the Jewish people and America.
At UCLA, a Jewish girl was knocked unconscious by the mob. On the Berkeley campus, the founder of Students Supporting Israel was repeatedly punched in the head, with one thug shouting “Go back to Europe, coloniser.”
At the Columbia University encampment, the mob called for “10,000 October 7ths” and screamed “Go back to Poland” and “Burn Tel Aviv to the ground”. One student who said “Zionists don’t deserve to live” was barred from campus but subsequently spotted in the mob that broke into and barricaded the university’s Hamilton Hall.
Just as on October 7 Hamas stormtroopers burst through the defences of an Israel that was looking the other way, so their supporters have burst through inadequate western defences to turn the Palestinian cause into a beachhead in their war to bring down a west that refuses to acknowledge the threat it faces.
Apart from a few examples, such as when the New York police tore down a Palestinian flag to restore the Stars and Stripes above City College and disbanded an encampment at Fordham University, with the LA police belatedly doing the same at UCLA, America has been signalling surrender to the mob.
The police should have been called in immediately to evict these unlawful encampments. Students perpetrating intimidation, incitement or violence should have been immediately expelled.
Instead, both Brown and Northwestern universities sought to appease the mobs by agreeing to consider their demands for divestment from Israel.
Columbia’s president Minouche Shafik similarly offered to throw the Israeli targets of genocide to the wolves by considering “new proposals on divestment and shareholder activism” and launching “educational and health programs in Gaza and the West Bank” because the protesters were “also fighting for an important cause, for the rights of Palestinians and against the humanitarian tragedy in Gaza”.
Not surprisingly, her gesture of veiled hostility to Israel sent a signal of impunity that resulted in the storming of Hamilton Hall, at which point she finally called in the police.
The proxy campus war against Israel and the Jewish people is based on defamatory lies from start to finish. The US and UK governments have a moral duty to call out these lies. Instead, they are adding fuel to the fire by parroting the same nonsensical Gaza civilian casualty figures, giving credence to Hamas blood libels about the IDF hitting hospitals and falsely accusing Israel of stopping humanitarian aid.
All this reinforces the hysteria against Israel and the Jews. Yet American and British political leaders have voiced dismay and concern over the tsunami of antisemitism convulsing their countries. Next week, US President Joe Biden will deliver the keynote address at the “Days of Remembrance” ceremony for Holocaust Memorial Day at the US Capitol, hosted by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. The hypocrisy is nauseating.
So the enemies of Israel and the west think they’re winning. They’ve thought as much since October 7, when the terrible blow inflicted upon Israel galvanised them into believing that the destruction of Israel and the conquest of the west were now within their grasp.
While events on campus are profoundly shocking, no-one who has been paying proper attention to what’s been going on in both Israel and the west over the past several decades can be remotely surprised.
The genocidal threats against Israel and psychotic abuse of Jews being chanted by the students is the same language that’s been used by the Palestinian Arabs and the wider Muslim world for the best part of a century. Yet instead of acknowledging that Palestinian and Muslim Jew-hatred fuels an ongoing war of extermination against Israel, both America and Britain have denied this reality.
Instead, they have appeased and emboldened Israel’s Palestinian and Iranian attackers. While the US has provided Israel with the military support to prevent its annihilation, the Biden administration is doing everything it can to cripple Israel’s war of self-defence and ensure that it doesn’t win against Hamas.
The administration has enabled billions in sanctions relief to flow into Tehran’s coffers and is reportedly also working to reverse the one thing that could pave the way for peace in the Middle East: the developing rapprochement between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
All this has further galvanised those who think October 7 signalled the beginning of the end for both Israel and America. Hamas and the revolutionary left, both of which are set upon the destruction of Israel and the west (albeit to different ends) are now using each other to bring about those twin heinous agendas.
In this, radical Islam is making infernal common cause not just with the revolutionary left but with western “progressive” universalists who have been undermining the foundations of western society for decades. Ground zero of the onslaught has been the universities.
For decades, western students have been taught poisonous lies about Israel. According to the National Association of Scholars, between 2001 and 2021 Qatar gave at least $4.7 billion to American universities. These funds support professors whose views align with those of the Qatari ruling family, the patrons of Hamas.
The Israel Academia Monitor website reports on a Qatar-funded programme produced by a collaboration between the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies (known as the Doha Institute) and Birzeit University. The Arab Centre is headed by former member of Knesset Azmi Bishara, who sought refuge in Qatar after escaping allegations of spying for Hezbollah.
According to an anti-Israel Jewish professor at Duke University, Rebecca Stein, the programme is aimed at “remaking the dominant paradigm of Israel Studies as it has been configured in the United States and increasingly in Great Britain, with its proud ‘advocacy’ mandate on behalf of the Israeli state. Birzeit’s programme turns this paradigm inside out, providing students with a radical alternative”.
More fundamentally still, the shocking scenes on campus are the outcome of the west’s willed educational collapse. The understanding of education as the transmission of a culture to the next generation was junked decades ago in favour of a propaganda narrative of western oppression.
This opened the way for the colonisation of curricula by anti-western ideological causes. The admission of students selected on the basis of identity politics rather than intellectual ability further reduced education standards to positively infantile levels.
This was illustrated at Columbia by the keffiyeh-clad Johanna King-Slutzky, who spoke to the media on behalf of the encampment. Jaw-droppingly channelling Hamas’s strategy in Gaza, she stated that the university had an obligation to bring in food and water to the illegal encampment, demanding, “Do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation? … This is like basic humanitarian aid”.
Her remarks attracted widespread incredulity and ridicule. But so should Columbia’s educational standards.
In her biography on Columbia’s website, now deleted, King-Slutzky describes her dissertation as “a prehistory of metabolic rift, Marx’s term for the disruption of energy circuits caused by industrialisation under capitalism … theories of the imagination and poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens in order to update and propose an alternative to historicist ideological critiques of the Romantic imagination”.
This gobbledygook is beyond parody. Alas, it’s all too typical of what now passes for higher education in America and Britain. The universities, the supposed crucibles of knowledge, intellectual challenge and open minds, are now in the business of propaganda, dumbing-down and the closing of the mind. They have become the principal vehicles for coercing cultural conformity to hatred of both Israel and the west.
In the appalling scenes on campus, a number of monstrous chickens are now coming home to roost.
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