Maher admits Obama’s attempt at ‘moral equivalency’ over Israel-Hamas war ‘disappointed’ him

Dovetailing back to Maher, he also slammed 750 journalists who’d reportedly signed a letter encouraging newsrooms to start using terms like “apartheid” and “genocide” to talk about Israel’s alleged mistreatment of the Palestinians.

 BPR (bizpacreview.com)   "Liberal comedian Bill Maher slammed former President Barack Obama on Friday over his recent remarks about the Israel-Gaza conflict.

"As previously reported, during a recent event the former president labeled the war a “moral reckoning for us all,” called for Israel to end its so-called “occupation” of Gaza, and also claimed “all of us are complicit” as per the recent events in Israel/Gaza.

" 'What Hamas did was horrific, and there is no justification for it. And what is also true is that the occupation, and what’s happening to Palestinians, is unbearable. If you want to solve the problem, then you have to take in the whole truth. And then you have to admit nobody’s hands are clean, that all of us are complicit to some degree,” he said.

"The remarks prompted massive backlash, including from conservative commentator Megyn Kelly, legal scholar Alan Dershowitz, Rep. Ted Cruz, and now Maher, who lashed out at Obama during Friday’s edition of HBO’s “Real Time.”

“I am struggling with people’s moral equivalencies, still. I mean, Barack Obama, who has rarely disappointed me, did so this week…There’s a big difference between collateral damage and what Hamas did…” pic.twitter.com/ISqNmN30rk

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) November 11, 2023

Barack, Rashida, this is for your consideration: Children being killed by Hamas, those seen to move are shot again.   WARNING, VERY GRAPHIC! Video out of Israel shows room full of children massacred by Hamas (barenakedislam.com)

More on this: Israel's miscalculation, Biden's appeasement: A disaster cocktail   . . . "How could the Israeli intelligence system have gotten it so wrong? Their legendary intelligence agencies including the Mossad and Aman were held in the highest regard by the world’s military establishments. They were known for the wizardry of their spy networks, their technical acumen and their ability to see around the corner into the Arab World.

"How then could such a huge blind spot have developed only a short distance away from Mossad headquarters, right in their own backyard? Could it be that they had begun to believe their own publicity? Were they suffering from a kind of victory disease that bred self-congratulations and overconfidence? Were they distracted by unrest in the West Bank? Did the long period of inactivity from Hamas lull them into a relaxed complacency as it was probably intended to do?  Did Mao Zedong’s observation that “an arrogant opponent is easy to beat” apply even to the savvy and battle-hardened Israelis?"

Don't do business with Hamas; don't even buy a pet parrot from them!

"I Think He Always Had a Deep Hatred of Israel in His Heart" - Alan Dershowitz RIPS Barack Obama Over His Israel Comments (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit 

Obama 'lied through his teeth,' there is no occupation of Gaza: Alan Dershowitz pic.twitter.com/E2M5yFfeB6

 “To compare those disputed claims with the rapes, beheadings, burnings, kidnappings, it’s just obscene and despicable,” Dershowitz said. “And what it does is it lends support to those students basically, who are saying, ‘Well, what Hamas really did was not so bad… It was in response to the occupation.’” — Mornings with Maria (@MorningsMaria) 

Wauwatosa Christmas Email Urges City Workers To Avoid Red & Green, Calls Snowmen 'Snow People'

 Wisconsin Right Now

Here come the E and I words! “In our ongoing efforts to foster a more equitable and inclusive community, we believe it is crucial to be considerate of how we decorate public spaces during this season,” 

"The City of Wauwatosa’s deputy city administrator has instructed city workers that they should avoid using red and green in public spaces to celebrate Christmas. Instead, top city officials are urging them to decorate counters with purple and blue and “snow people,” what the administrator appears to be calling snow men.

"The email went out this week from Deputy City Administrator Melissa Cantarero Weiss. It also notes that City Administrator James Archambo is on board with the instructions.

"In it, she urged city workers to embrace “inclusive decorating practices” and make Wauwatosa’s municipal buildings a “place that everyone can feel comfortable visiting throughout the holiday season.” City workers were urged to “opt for more neutral and inclusive decorations.”

"We received the email from multiple sources who questioned why Wauwatosa was making this a priority when the city has far more pressing issues. Even the White House doesn’t go that far; after all there is a National Christmas Tree.

"In the email to city employees, Weiss wrote that “as the holiday season approaches,” she and Archambo are asking people to “reflect on our commitment to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment.”

"She wrote that “currently, Christmas decorations are prevalent throughout public counters at City Hall and perhaps other buildings as well.”“In our ongoing efforts to foster a more equitable and inclusive community, we believe it is crucial to be considerate of how we decorate public spaces during this season,” Weiss wrote." . . .

As in WW2, what so far has been America's part in defending Jews from nazis and Islam?

 Why couldn't we have been as the Danes were? Not as America's college-educated liberals who destroy so much that they will not save. TD

Denmark's Daring Rescue of Jews During World War II | TIME  "During the first years of the Nazi occupation, Denmark protected its country’s Jews, but when that government resigned in August 1943, the Germans promptly prepared to deport them. Danish civil society, however, stood up and took over their protection. A sealift operation, unparalleled in history, brought more than 7,000 Jews to safety in Sweden. While some ended in the Theresienstadt ghetto, less than 100 of Denmark’s Jews died in the Holocaust—the lowest death toll in all of Nazi-occupied Europe." . . .

Thus, most Danes who got in touch with fleeing Jews, chose to help—and made no difference between Jews of long-time Danish residency and recent immigrants and refugees from other parts of Nazi-occupied Europe.

Why didn’t the US save more Jews from the Nazis’ clutches? The American people were against it. - Jewish Telegraphic Agency (jta.org)  "Why didn’t the United States do more to help Europe’s Jews during the Holocaust?

"This question haunts the history of the United States and the Holocaust, and lurks behind practically every storyline in the new film on the subject from Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, to be aired for three consecutive nights on PBS beginning Sept. 18.

"The question, of course, isn’t just about the Holocaust, but about the years before the war, when the Nazi vise tightened around the Jews of Germany and more than half of them sought to obtain visas to immigrate to the United States. The vast majority never made it in.

"The simple answer to this question is that the American public was against granting Jews refuge in the United States, and in this area President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration hewed close to public opinion." . . .

. . ."Why didn’t U.S. forces bomb the rail lines leading to Auschwitz, or even Auschwitz itself?

In the first years after the United States declared war, when the Nazis’ killing machine was at its most intense in 1942 and early 1943, U.S. aircraft based in Britain were not capable of reaching any of the killing centers by air, according to the documentary. By the time U.S. troops first reached mainland Europe, in southern Italy in September 1943, 75% of the Holocaust’s 6 million Jewish victims already had been killed.

The Allies did discuss bombing the rail lines to Auschwitz-Birkenau, but the War Department claimed that the lines would have been quickly and easily repaired, and that it was best to devote air resources to fighting the Nazis directly.

In addition, the documentary notes, bombing in World War II was hardly precise. One study showed that just one bomber out of five hit within five miles of its intended target. At least once, Allied bombs intended for a nearby forced labor factory actually hit Birkenau, several miles away, killing dozens. Although one prisoner later said he and his fellow prisoners were terrified by the bombing, others, including author Elie Wiesel, who was an inmate at Auschwitz, said they would have been willing to die by U.S. bombs if it would have ended Nazi exterminations.

“We were no longer afraid of death; at any rate, not of that death,” Wiesel later wrote. “Every bomb filled us with joy and gave us new confidence in life.”

The Squad: Hamas' fifth column - American Thinker  The “Squad,” Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna, Pressley, and Cori Bush, in supporting Hamas actions are clearly a fifth column in America. They are ignorant about the facts around the war of Israel against Hamas." . . .

"The unresolvable conflicts between Israel and Palestine began centuries ago and particularly recurred violently since the creation of the two nation states in 1948 by the benevolent efforts of the United Nations. Wars and violence have repeatedly erupted against Israel ever since. October 7th, 2023 witnessed the emergence for the first time of pure evil by Hamas terrorists.". . .

The left’s Palestinian cover girl has revealed herself to be a proud, ghoulish Nazi - Andrea Widberg   "Despite their fealty to “People of Color,” members of the media just love blonds, especially when those blonds are photogenic young women who slap around Israeli soldiers. No one was more beloved than Ahed Tamimi, a young woman from a village in the West Bank who got the star treatment after a video of her violent act went viral. The same outlets that once thrilled to her dynamism, though, have been strangely silent since she’s revealed an openly expressed, antisemitic genocidal bloodthirstiness that makes actual Nazis look kind of colorless." . . .

Israel is Defending the Living, Not Avenging the Dead - Robert Amos  . . ."Hamas’s goal is to hide behind civilians and make the situation so ethically complicated that all the average man on the street can see is Israel bombing Gaza and killing civilians. 

The truth of the matter is that no country in the West, in defeating ISIS or any form of evil that embodied such de facto states, was able to avoid taking the same steps as Israel has done in this urban conflict.   

Obama: Avatar of the New Anti-Semitism

As Nellie Bowles, who is no longer taken in by the man, accurately parsed it: “It takes two to tango. Hamas killed infants point-blank; I never replace the toilet paper roll.”

"Tell me again about "Hymietown", Al"

 The American Spectator | USA News and Politics  . . ."Barack Obama has always loved to dissemble. He treats the ideals and mores of America, the ones that motivated generations to give their last measure of devotion, as mere memes, to be played with and discarded once they have served their purpose. Famously, he described himself as a screen onto which others project their own wishes and expectations. He allows that, not ever committing himself, always ready to say, when pinned down, that others have parsed him incorrectly, and it’s their bad. He draws a line in the sand and then blows wind over it until it disappears.

"So was his foreign policy. 

"He seemed to stand tough in Syria but, in the end, blew wind over his line in the sand and asked Russia to take over. Poison gas, shmoison gas. You were a fool to parse my words incorrectly. And Putin, shmutin — he’ll cut him some slack if he doesn’t make trouble before 2012 elections, and he’ll set up Romney with the complicit media for looking like a fool about distrusting Russia. And then the bill came due, and Obama said nothing about Putin’s invasion of Crimea and the Donbas, regularizing treaty-breaking and territorial war in Europe. Of little lasting consequence as long as Obama got to keep power.

"My moment where I saw the Jagger’s devil underneath the cool and brilliant veneer was when the 2008 primary campaign made public Obama’s 20-year discipleship under Jeremiah Wright, the rabidly anti-Israel pastor, champion, and friend of the rabidly Jew-hating Louis Farrakhan. Wright, whose reaction to 9/11 was to command God to damn America and to say the murder of thousands of civilians was just “America’s chickens coming home to roost.

"Association with that kind of thought back then was deadly. Obama announced he would
have something important to say about it, and I and many Americans were hopeful that this intelligent and well-spoken man might show depth of character and humility and, thereby, achieve redemption. As a person of faith, to whom the struggle for redemption through humbly returning to God is the great theme of human history, I hoped that this might be a tremendous turning point in our society, a moment for moral grandeur.

Branco Toon added by TD

"We all know what happened. Instead of expressing any humility or regret for his association with such hatred, he chose the path of toxic narcissism, and like an accomplished psychopath, projected his own sin onto others in a truly mind-boggling fashion.

"And naïve America, always ready to seek redemption, all too aware of its proclivities to sin, swallowed it.

"He was and remains no less the anti-Semite than his preacher. " . . .

Washington Post takes down cartoon showing the truth about Hamas after readers complain it is racist

Townhall:  Given how radically left-wing so many “prestigious” newsrooms have become, I really shouldn’t keep getting surprised by stories like this — but I still do.

 Blaze Media (theblaze.com)  "The Washington Post is apologizing for publishing an anti-Hamas cartoon that some readers complained was offensive and racist.

"On Wednesday, the newspaper published a cartoon drawn by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Michael Ramirez depicting a Hamas spokesman with an Arab mother and children literally tied to his body.

"A speech blurb connected to the Hamas official reads, "How dare Israel attack civilians."

"The point is obvious and profoundly true: Hamas uses Palestinian civilians as human shields but blames Israel when civilians are caught in the crossfire of a war that Hamas started. The terrorist group, moreover, physically blocks those civilians from fleeing for safety because, as the cartoon demonstrates, civilian deaths help Hamas in the global court of public opinion.

"The truth be damned, readers of the Washington Post were outraged over the cartoon." . . .

Well...wouldn't seeking out families to kill because they are Jewish be considered, um, racist? TD

Conservative Media Bash Washington Post for Deleting Ramirez’s Hamas Cartoon - The Daily Cartoonist    Legal Insurrection:  "In February 2017, a month after Donald Trump was sworn into office, the Washington Post proudly announced a change in its online masthead, with it reading “Democracy dies in darkness.”

"These days, democracy is dying in anti-Semitism thanks to the Post‘s cowardly decision to yank a cartoon done by Las Vegas Journal-Review cartoonist Michael Ramirez, which was originally published Monday, because it sparked an outcry among triggered anti-Israel staffers, readers, and other assorted Useful Idiots who claimed it was “racist” and allegedly unfairly put the lion’s share of the blame for civilian deaths in Gaza on Hamas terrorists and not Israel." 

The Washington Post made a huge mistake in killing this cartoon  "But the apology is the mistake, not the publication.  

"In it, artist Michael Ramirez makes a powerful point about what’s really going on in Gaza: Hamas is using the Palestinian people as human shields while blaming Israel for the result.

"Indeed, the terrorists savor every innocent killed as Israel moves to eliminate the terrorist group that slaughtered roughly 1,400 of its civilians, along with mass rapes and the kidnapping of 200-plus hostages it still holds — and is also using as human shields." . . .

"Opinion editor David Shipley says the cartoon  “was seen by many readers as racist” — though the drawing is simply, and plainly, a caricature of an actual Hamas spokesman who celebrated the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks across southern Israel."

These young men below must be honored and respected. CodePINK would agree.

The NY Times Publishes a Hamas' Tunnels Primer and Readers Get It

Meanwhile poorly educated Antifa-generation people riot to support these murderous animals.

  HotAir

I would say many of the students shouting “Free Palestine” also don’t understand because they haven’t thought about this at all. If they had they would also see the problem with endorsing a Hamas-run future for Gaza. The tunnels themselves are proof Hamas can’t continue in this role.

"I’ve written a few times about the Hamas tunnel system under Gaza, aka the Gaza Metro, which the terror group relies on for safety, transportation, weapons storage, etc. Yesterday the NY Times published a story about the tunnels which I would describe as a primer on the subject. It really feels like a children’s book version of the story for people who know nothing about it.

"The Times has done some good reports about the tunnels in the past so this isn’t their first foray into the subject for the paper. Still, the artwork that goes with this makes it feel like its aimed at a different audience, maybe some of the young protesters who occupied the lobby of the NY Times building yesterday and demanded the paper be shut down. Here’s a taste of Hamas tunnels 101:

The Hamas militants who launched a bloody attack on Israel last month have built a maze of hidden tunnels some believe extend across most if not all of Gaza, the territory they control.

And they are not mere tunnels.

Snaking beneath dense residential areas, the passageways allow fighters to move around free from the eye of the enemy. There are also bunkers for stockpiling weapons, food and water, and even command centers and tunnels wide enough for vehicles, researchers believe.

Ordinary-looking doors and hatches serve as disguised access points, letting Hamas fighters dart out on missions and then slip back out of sight.

"At the end of the story we get a section about the need to destroy the tunnels and why Israel probably won’t be sending people into them:. . .

Elderly Jewish Man Killed In California After Confrontation With Pro-Palestinian Protesters; Some want to "drink Jewish Blood"!

 Elderly Jewish Man Killed In California After Confrontation With Pro-Palestinian Protesters - The Political Insider

"A 69 year-old Jewish man was killed in California on Sunday after a confrontation with pro-Palestinian protesters in what many are considering to be a “hate crime.”

A 65 yr-old Jewish man named Paul Kessler, was murdered by a pro-Hamas supporter in Westlake Village, CA, for holding an Israeli flag. He was hit over the head w a megaphone, and died from a brain hemorrhage.

The group cheered as he put into the ambulance! HATE! pic.twitter.com/dylJkgngxt

— 🇺🇸ProudArmyBrat (@leslibless) November 7, 2023

" The victim has been identified as Paul Kessler, 69, who has been described as a “man committed to peace and committed to Israel,” according to Daily Mail. Kessler found himself caught between rival rallies in Thousand Oaks, California on Sunday, with one supporting Israel and the other supporting Palestine.

"Reports allege that Kessler was involved in an altercation with another person that resulted in him falling backward and hitting his head on the ground. The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles is claiming that Kessler was “struck in the head by a megaphone wielded by a pro-Palestinian protestor.”

"Kessler was rushed to the hospital, where he ultimately died of injuries that were ruled to come from a blunt force head injury.

“The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the incident and has not ruled out the possibility of a hate crime,” the VCSO said in a statement."  . . .

Ahed Tamimi arrested for incitement after “We will drink your blood and eat your skulls” threat (legalinsurrection.com)   "Ahed will get some media attention, but with the war raging in Gaza after Hamas’ barbaric attack, I doubt she’ll get star treatment for her latest “Shirley Temper” outburst as she has in the past.

"We previously reported on a threat posted on Instagram, by Palestinian Media Darling Ahed Tamimi: “What Hitler did to you was nothing. We will drink your blood and eat your skulls.”

"Please read that post for background on Ahed, nicknamed “Shirley Temper” because of her regular outbursts since early childhood for the cameras. While she’s now an adult and is fully responsible for her actions, she is the product of a destructive and manipulative propaganda machine by the Tamimi Clan and anti-Israel activists in the West, such as Ariel Gold formerly of Code Pink. For details on this child manipulation system, see our 2017 post, Ahed Tamimi case is about child exploitation by anti-Israel activists." . . .  Code Pink is being Code Pink:

DISGUSTING: Poll Finds One in Five Democrats Support Hamas Terrorists - The Lid (lidblog.com)

Hamas Massacre Survivor Reveals Horror of Watching Terrorist Execute Israeli Woman While Raping Her

 The Messenger A journalist recounts witness testimony from Oct. 7 in heartrending detail

A foreign journalist checks blood stains on the floor of a house inside the kibbutz Nir Oz 

"In some of the first testimony collected by Israeli investigators, a survivor of Hamas' brutal Oct. 7 massacre recalled witnessing how Hamas fighters raped a young woman – and shot her in the head as they did.

"Footage of the testimony provided by the unidentified witness was reviewed by Josh Breiner, a reporter for Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, who wrote about what he watched in a thread on X Wednesday.

"The survivor said they saw the terrorists pass the woman around, who was seen on her feet and bleeding from her back.

"[A man in uniform] pulled her hair," the witness said, per Briener's recounting. "He shot her in the head while he was raping her, didn't even lift his pants."

"The survivor then testified that the militants cut the woman's breast off her body and "literally played with it on the road."

" 'They held someone's head as a show of strength, like a woman walking with a bag and they just hung out with him," the witness said, per Briener."

Left-wing Americans 'changed' pro-Palestine view when confronted with 'true facts'

Jewish connectedness and the Six-Day War; So fight on, tiny Israel.

 Jewish connectedness and the Six-Day War - American Thinker   . . ."There are 8 billion people in the world today, and 2 billion of them are Muslim.  Today, there are only 15 million Jews on this Earth, and 7 million (almost half) of them live in Israel.  There are dozens of Muslim countries but only one Jewish country, and it is the size of New Jersey.  When the Six-Day War broke out in 1967, and the nations of Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Syria went to war with Israel, Jordan controlled the West Bank, and Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip.  Funny — back then, there was no Palestinian problem — only a Jewish problem.

"There are 8 billion people in the world today, and 2 billion of them are Muslim.  Today, there are only 15 million Jews on this Earth, and 7 million (almost half) of them live in Israel.  There are dozens of Muslim countries but only one Jewish country, and it is the size of New Jersey.  When the Six-Day War broke out in 1967, and the nations of Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Syria went to war with Israel, Jordan controlled the West Bank, and Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip.  Funny — back then, there was no Palestinian problem — only a Jewish problem." .  .  .

 

Added by TD; Come quickly, Lord

. . ."I am writing about good versus evil.  Why is it that Hamas and Iran vocally share the same game plan as Hitler?  Think about it.

"So fight on, tiny Israel.  With your own strength and fortitude, and with the help of those who support you (both Jew and non-Jew alike), and with God’s blessings, may you know peace through victory."