Democrats Know The Public Has No Interest In Joe Biden 
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COVER-UP: Palestinian Chronicle, U.S. Press Go Into Overdrive After 'Journalist' Caught Holding Hostages
By Bonchie |
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On Saturday morning Israeli forces stormed two buildings in Nuseirat, Gaza. Their mission was to rescue four hostages being held in the "refugee camp," all of whom were taken from the Nova Music Festival on October 7th.
What they found wasn't a Hamas command center, though. Instead, the hostages were being kept in alleged civilian households. Fierce fighting broke out, with a "journalist" named Abdullah Al Jamal killed as one of the apartments was breached. That led to immediate claims that Israel had indiscriminately gunned down a member of the press.
The truth was far more sinister. As RedState's Jennifer Van Laar first reported, the three male hostages who were successfully rescued were being held captive by Al Jamal.
As we noted in numerous stories about Israel's rescue mission, the four hostages rescued were not held in tunnels or prisons; they were held in the homes of alleged civilians in residential areas in Nuseirat. I say "alleged civilians" because if these people were holding Israeli hostages for eight months they're absolutely part of Hamas and are combatants, not civilians.
One of those alleged civilians, it's now confirmed, was Abdullah Al Jamal, who bills himself as a journalist and who most recently wrote for a United States-based 501(c)(3) NGO, The Palestine Chronicle. He also wrote at least one piece for Al Jazeera. The Israeli government confirmed Sunday that Al Jamal, who was neutralized by IDF rescuers, held three hostages captive in his family home.
What is described above is the same game pro-Palestinians have been playing for decades. In Gaza, everyone is a "civilian." That means that no matter how many of those killed during the hostage rescue were combatants, they will be treated as innocents. The Hamas-controlled "Gaza Ministry of Health" does not distinguish between Hamas and civilians specifically for the propaganda boost.
Unfortunately, it works every single time because the mainstream press always diligently parrots whatever the "Gaza Ministry of Health" tells them. Why? Because it helps push a narrative they already want to propagate, which is that Palestinians are helpless victims, completely detached from the consequences of their decisions.
Regardless, once news broke that Al Jamal had been holding hostages, the cover-up attempt went into overdrive. CNN quickly brought out their "without providing evidence" line, which was often used during the Trump administration, to try to insinuate the Israelis were lying. Compare that to their headline on the same day reporting on supposed casualties in Gaza.
It wasn't just the not-so-subtle jabs of the mainstream press facilitating the cover-up, though. The "Palestinian Chronicle," a U.S.-based non-profit that claims to be a valid news source regarding Gaza and the West Bank, started scrubbing its website of who Al Jamal was.
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How do you defeat an orthodoxy/ideology? How do you know when you have won? Is this a justification for the Hamas efforts at Jewish genocide?
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Israel’s Two-Front Crisis
Joe Biden did something extraordinarily beneficial at the beginning of the Israel-Gaza war: He moved two aircraft carriers to the Mediterranean and parked them right off the shores of Lebanon. The purpose was unmistakable. America was telling Hezbollah to keep quiet and stay out of it while Israel went to war with Hamas down south. It didn’t quite work, since intermittent rocketry still led Israel to evacuate much of its northernmost population. But it worked well enough.
Something happened quietly a few months ago. The carriers left. The USS Gerald Ford returned to Norfolk. The USS Eisenhower was redeployed to the Red Sea to deal with the shipping crisis. And guess what? Without American deterrence, Hezbollah has been emboldened, the more so as time has gone on.
Another 70,000 Israelis have been newly evacuated from the North as bombardments from Lebanon have become extraordinarily savage. The town of Kiryat Shmoneh is on fire. A Druze village was unmercifully attacked. Israel is wracked with uncertainty. It cannot allow Hezbollah’s depradations to continue. It must respond. It must restore deterrence by raising the cost to Hezbollah of its actions. But it’s still got Rafah to finish. And it’s still trying to navigate the weird situation of the past two weeks, in which an “Israeli proposal” for a ceasefire and hostage release created a new sense of urgency for negotiations with Hamas—a proposal offered and re-offered that Hamas has, by my count, now rejected five different times.
Joe Biden made this all public with his strange speech “accepting” Israel’s proposal to which he then doodled a conclusion on top that said “end of war end of war” like Annette Funicello in a beach party movie writing “Mrs Frankie Avalon” over and over on her chemistry notebook. For nearly two weeks now, America has said the ball is in Hamas’ court because the Israeli proposal is so good (while Biden and others say Bibi wants to keep the war going because he’s mean or something). Hamas has replied, in effect, “well, if it’s in our court, we’re keeping the ball. Drop dead.” And still the Bidenites keep on, insisting if Hamas wants a good future for the Palestinian people it will accept the deal. What does Hamas have to do to convince these supposed experts that it has no interest in a “good future for the Palestinian people”—that what it wants are dead Jews and a crippled Israel on its way to destruction?
No matter. The tattered coat upon a stick who resides in the White House has grabbed onto this “proposal” like a walker and will not let go. And the fact that Biden and his people are doing what they can to prevent Israel from finishing its work has given Hezbollah the opportunity to open what appears to be a second front against Israel in this proxy war whose real master is in Tehran.
This is another inadvertent result of the increasingly feckless, imprudent, and improvident American policy at this critical moment of the 21st century. American efforts have been dedicated, pretty much since December, to seeking to manage Israel’s behavior and tone it down. It’s all come down, basically, to: Do war less. Even as Israel’s tactics and war-fighting strategies improved over the months, as it learned how to fight this war the way all armies must learn to fight all wars as they are going on, America did not acknowledge the changes but continued with its “do war less” calls, shedding crocodile tears for Gazans whose best chance for a better future lay not in slowing Israel’s progress but in allowing Israel to defeat Hamas and win the war as quickly and overwhelmingly as possible.
Israel froze in place three months ago as it cornered Hamas in Rafah, with its leadership engaging in a full existential crisis about what to do and how. How to save the hostages? How to keep America from turning on Israel? How to provide the right environment for Israel’s fighters so that they are not unnecessarily endangered. As our Jonathan Schanzer pointed out, the felt need to satisfy American concerns has resulted in more jeopardy for Israelis fighting in Gaza. Some of that could have been avoided had America not wagged its finger and yelled and interposed itself between Israel and Hamas for reasons we don’t yet fully understand—but which surely relate to some effort to shield Egypt and Qatar from revelations about their roles in keeping Hamas alive and kicking.
And now Hezbollah, deterred at the beginning of the war by a show of American force, is no longer deterred. We had other things to do with those carriers, and such decisions should, of course, always be made in the American national interest. But let’s be clear here. The removal of the carriers should have been a sign to Israel’s leaders that they could no longer condition their decisions on America’s tacit approval. Alas for Israel’s leaders, and likely its people too, they could not envision going forward relentlessly without us.
That was a choice; it would have been agonizing to make a different choice and just go forward into Rafah with Jake Sullivan throwing himself on the hood of the car like T.J. Hooker trying to prevent it. But there was a cost, and there is a cost. The Biden Administration has made things worse, not better. And Israel’s leadership—in failing to distance itself from an increasingly ruinous friendship—has failed to protect the national interest yet again, as it did when it failed to see Hamas coming. And now there will likely be two wars simultaneously where they might have been a victory in one that would have forestalled the need for the other—or a second conflict following the conclusion of the first that Israel could have fought in less desperate and parlous circumstances. Now it will have to do what it will have to do.
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Israel: Unique Among the Nations
By Sherwin Pomerantz
Ahead of the planned visit here by US Secretary of State Blinken this week, a senior Hamas official urged the United States on Monday to pressure Israel to end the war in Gaza and push forward ceasefire efforts. Blinken is set to visit Egypt and Israel today. He also aims to ensure the war does not expand into Lebanon. "We call upon the US administration to put pressure on the occupation to stop the war on Gaza, and the Hamas movement is ready to deal positively with any initiative that secures an end to the war," senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said.
It is actually quite amazing and really the height of “chutzpah” (i.e. unmitigated gall) for Hamas to make this demand when, if they would put down their arms and release the hostages the war would simply end. The IDF has done sufficient damage to the Hamas military capability to render them simply an undisciplined band of guerrilla fighters rather than an organized fighting force. So under these conditions and with Hamas laying down their arms/releasing the hostages, there would be no reason to continue fighting.
In his eighth visit to the region since Oct 7th, Blinken is also set to travel to Jordan and Qatar this week. He is set to meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo before traveling to Israel late today, where he will meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, according to a State Department schedule
Politically, Minister-without-portfolio Benny Gantz resigned on Sunday from the emergency government in a move that will not collapse the coalition but leaves Netanyahu more dependent on his right wing partners. “Netanyahu is preventing us from moving forward to a real victory,” said Gantz in a press conference. “And so today, we are leaving the emergency government with a heavy heart – but with our whole heart. Fateful, strategic decisions are met with hesitance and procrastination due to political considerations,” Gantz added (in criticism of the current government’s recent behavior). He called for elections to be held in the fall, urging Netanyahu to set an agreed-upon date for them to occur.
The departure of his National Unity Party, which had entered the government at the start of the war purely due to the emergency nature of the government, will impact the small war cabinet of which he and the number two in his party, former IDF chief-of-staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, were members. His presence in the government as one of the “adults” in the room will be missed.
Information from Washington seems to indicate that officials from the Biden administration are drawing up plans for the opening of an alternative diplomatic channel to Hamas for the negotiation of a possible hostage deal which would include only American-Israeli captives held in Gaza, and would be done without input from the Israeli government, two former senior U.S. officials said. On Monday, NBC News cited the two anonymous officials, who said that the Biden White House is growing increasingly frustrated with the failure to reach a deal between Israel and Hamas for the return of the remaining captives taken hostage on October 7th.
The administration is, according to the two sources, considering opening an alternative channel with Hamas which would not include Israel. Rather than include efforts for the return of all the remaining captives, the new channel under consideration would only seek the return of those hostages with American citizenship, in particular the five who are believed to still be alive.
Eight Americans remain in captivity in Gaza, including Itay Chen, Gadi Haggai, and Judith Weinstein Haggai, who were all killed on October 7th. The remaining five, including Edan Alexander, Sagui Dekel-Chen, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Omer Neutra, and Keith Siegel are believed to be alive, though Goldberg-Polin suffered severe injuries during the October 7th attacks. The Biden administration refused to confirm or deny Monday’s report. The officials cited had no details regarding the possible terms of a deal between the US and Hamas, or what the Biden administration might offer as part of an agreement.
While the Israeli army expands counter-terror operations in the Gaza Strip aimed at ousting Hamas from power, the military is also gearing up for a potential conflict with Hezbollah along the northern border with Lebanon. According to a report from Hebrew-language media outlet Ma’ariv, several brigades have prepared for a “boots on the ground” invasion of southern Lebanon, in order to root out Hezbollah from the area.
A senior IDF official told Ma’ariv that several brigades of combat soldiers, who had previously fought in Gaza, recently completed operational training for war in Lebanon. “There are operational considerations regarding timing, what targets to attack, and when. You can see that currently we’re hitting them seriously, whether it’s targeting terrorists or significant infrastructure,” said Lt. Col. B, who was identified by only his first initial. “We are continuing to keep Hezbollah vulnerable, and not play all of our cards at once.” Lt. Col. B said that while he “can’t provide numbers” regarding Israel’s firepower capabilities for battling Hezbollah in an all-out war, he did say that the IDF’s plans for the terror group “are robust.”
In a statement, the IDF’s Northern Command stressed that the military’s focus remains in Gaza, but that troops are ready for an escalation on the northern front. Once a “political decision is made to refocus on the north and expand the battle there, of course the type and scope of our attacks will increase accordingly,” the division said in a media statement. “We are still in intense fighting but within the framework of what a political level allows to do. The same exercises we did at the end of last month were designed to practice for escalation” with Hezbollah, they added. Last week, Hezbollah rocket and missile launches sparked massive fires in northern Israel, burning tens of thousands of acres of land and damaging homes and businesses.
In a word, Israel remains on alert on all of its borders while simultaneously dealing with internal political divisions and a world turned against us. As always, our position is unique among nations.
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Suck this up all you Trump Haters
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SO MUCH FOR DIGNITY a "MUST READ"............
PENNED BY EVAN SAYET
READ TO THE END WITH AN OPEN MIND
This is perhaps the best explanation for Trump's popularity and success.
Marshall Kamena is a registered Democrat and was elected mayor of Livermore, CA.. He ran on the democratic ticket as he knew a Bay Area city would never vote for a Republican. He is as conservative as they come. He wrote the following:
Trump’s 'Lack of Decorum, Dignity, and Statesmanship'
By Marshall Kamena, Mayor of Livermore, CA.
My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are “beneath the dignity of the office.”
Here’s my answer: We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush, as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency.
We tried statesmanship.
Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized “collegiality” as John McCain?
We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney?
And the results were always the same. This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.
I don’t find anything “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper” about Barack Obama’s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party.
I don’t see anything “dignified” in lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks.
I don’t see anything “statesman-like” in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your political opponents and any dissent.
Yes, Obama was “articulate” and “polished” but in no way was he in the least bit “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper.”
The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the Children of the ‘60s. To them, it has been an all-out war where nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale.. It has been a war they’ve fought with violence, the threat of violence, demagoguery and lies from day one – the violent take-over of the universities – 'till today.
The problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the only side fighting this war. While the Left has been taking a knife to anyone who stands in their way, the Right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety.
With Donald Trump, this all has come to an end. Donald Trump is America ’s first wartime president in the Culture War.
During wartime, things like “dignity” and “collegiality” simply aren’t the most essential qualities one looks for in their warriors.
Ulysses Grant was a drunk whose behavior in peacetime might well have seen him drummed out of the Army for conduct unbecoming.
Had Abraham Lincoln applied the peacetime rules of propriety and booted Grant, the Democrats might well still be holding their slaves today. Lincoln rightly recognized that, “I cannot spare this man. He fights.”
General George Patton was vulgar-talking. In peacetime, this might have seen him stripped of rank. But, had Franklin Roosevelt applied the normal rules of decorum then, Hitler and the Socialists would barely be five decades into their thousand-year Reich.
Trump is fighting. And what’s particularly delicious is that, like Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated Rommel’s, he’s shouting, “You magnificent bastard, I read your book!”
That is just the icing on the cake, but it’s wonderful to see that not only is Trump fighting, he’s defeating the Left using their own tactics. That book is Saul Alinsky’s"Rules for Radicals" – a book so essential to the Liberals’ war against America that it is and was the playbook for the entire Obama administration and the subject of Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis.
It is a book of such pure evil, that, just as the rest of us would dedicate our book to those we most love or those to whom we are most indebted, Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer.
Trump’s tweets may seem rash and unconsidered,but in reality, he is doing exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do. First, instead of going after “the fake media” — and they are so fake that they have literally gotten every single significant story of the past 60 years not just wrong, but diametrically opposed to the truth, from the Tet Offensive to Benghazi, to what really happened on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri — Trump isolated CNN. He made it personal.
Then, just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule, which Alinsky described as “the most powerful weapon of all.”... Most importantly, Trump’s tweets have put CNN in an untenable and unwinnable position. They need to respond.
This leaves them with only two choices. They can either “go high” (as Hillary would disingenuously declare of herself and the fake news would disingenuously report as the truth) and begin to honestly and accurately report the news or they can double-down on their usual tactics and hope to defeat Trump with twice their usual hysteria and demagoguery.
The problem for CNN (et al.) with the former is that, if they were to start honestly reporting the news, that would be the end of the Democratic Party they serve. It is nothing but the incessant use of fake news (read: propaganda) that keeps the Left alive.
Imagine, for example, if CNN had honestly and accurately reported then-candidate Barack Obama’s close ties to foreign terrorists (Rashid Khalidi), domestic terrorists (William Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn), the mafia (Tony Rezko) or the true evils of his spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright’s church.
Imagine if they had honestly and accurately conveyed the evils of the Obama administration’s weaponizing of the IRS to be used against their political opponents or his running of guns to the Mexican cartels or the truth about the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the Obama administration’s cover-up.
So, to my friends on the Left — and the #NeverTrumpers as well — do I wish we lived in a time when our president could be “collegial” and “dignified” and “proper”? Of course I do.
These aren’t those times. This is war. And it’s a war that the Left has been fighting without opposition for the past 50 years.
So, say anything you want about Mr. Trump - I get it - he can be vulgar, he can be crude, he can be undignified at times. I don’t care. I can’t spare this man. He fights for America!
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