The bad faith nature of the “Free Palestine” movement. . .

A Black Lives Matter chapter posted a graphic on Instagram of the Hamas paragliders who murdered hundreds of young Israelis at the Nova music festival. A Cornell professor said he found the massacre “exhilarating,” and demonstrators rallied in his support.

 Opinion | The Appalling Tactics of the ‘Free Palestine’ Movement - The New York Times  "Last week, Susanne DeWitt, an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor who later became a molecular biologist, spoke before the Berkeley, Calif., City Council to request a Holocaust Remembrance Day proclamation. After taking note of a “horrendous surge in antisemitism,” she was then heckled and shouted down by protesters at the meeting when she mentioned the massacre and rapes in Israel of Oct. 7." . . .

"And not too much of what passes for a pro-Palestinian movement but is really pro-Hamas, with its calls to get rid of the Jewish state in its entirety (“from the river to the sea …”), its open celebration of the murder of its people (“resistance is justified …”) and its efforts to mock, minimize or deny the suffering of Israelis, which so quickly descend into the antisemitism on naked display in Berkeley." . . .

It’s true that in nearly every political cause, including the most justified, there are ugly elements — the Meir Kahanes or the Louis Farrakhans of the world. But the mark of a morally serious movement lies in its determination to weed out its worst members and stamp out its worst ideas. What we’ve too often seen from the “Free Palestine” crowd is precisely the opposite.

 Opinion: Don't Be Fooled -- 'Free Palestine' Is a Call for Ending Israel (Times of San Diego)  . . ." “From the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free!” This is not a rallying cry for a two-state solution and it is not about freeing an oppressed group to live peacefully in the world order."

. . ."The chant specifically calls to rid the land of Israel from the Jewish people. The Hamas charter explicitly states to “fight Jews and kill them” and to “obliterate” Israel “in the name of Allah.” Their mission became as clear as ever this past week when terrorists raped women and children, murdered parents in front of their children and murdered children in front of their parents, and burned and decapitated babies." . . .

What “Free Palestine” Should Actually Mean   "Hamas leaders call for a mass uprising, urging Arabs and Muslims into the streets against Israel. What would help the Palestinian people the most, however, would be a mass uprising of Gazans against Hamas, a coup that might succeed now that Israel is intent on destroying Hamas leaders and capabilities.

"In 2006, Hamas gained power in Gaza by winning a parliamentary election against the Palestinian Authority, whose corruption was well-known and unpopular. Hamas soon expelled PA officials from Gaza, beating some with clubs, shooting others and notoriously tossing at least one off a roof. Since then, Hamas has ruled Gaza tyrannically, with cruel punishments for political opponents, no free speech, no free elections, and no respect for other human rights."... 

One of the cruelest comments ever made about politics is that people get the leaders they deserve. Gazans have the strongest possible interest to show that this does not now apply to them. 

 

Protestors in the US blocked our freeways to support the murderers of this young girl and others. Their angry faces seem to say she had it coming. TD

Democrats with Thin Skin and Glass Jaws

"She is claiming racism despite her confronter not saying anything racist. And she doesn’t like complaints over her political positions. In her world, her politics are off limits, but Trump’s politics are open game for attack, physical and verbal."

 Brian C. Joondeph   "A “glass jaw” is a boxing term referring to a boxer who could be knocked out with one good punch to their jaw. It can also refer to a public figure who wilts under the discomfort of public scrutiny.

"Democrats are great at dishing it out but have very thin skin when anything is dished out on them. And a glass jaw when anyone punches back.

"The latest example is Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters."

. . ."She is recommending starting a riot and violently attacking government officials. Weren’t we told that constituted an “insurrection”? Or does insurrection only apply to Trump supporters? It seems that way.

"CNN defends Waters by saying, “Waters, however, did not call for physical harm to the officials or harassment against Trump’s supporters.” Is that so?

"A bunch of MAGA hat wearers should go to a restaurant in Berkeley, San Francisco, Seattle, or Brooklyn and “create a crowd” and “push back” on those they don’t like and see what happens. There may be fists, knives, and guns, not high fives and back-slaps.

"What if Maxine’s words were turned against her? Would she acknowledge that “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism”, a quote attributed to Thomas Jefferson? Or would she cry foul? Dissent and harassment toward thee but not at me.

"When someone followed her 2018 advice to “push back”, she whined,

As a member of Congress, when people, you know, who evidently had a racist attitude, and recently one of them even confronted me in a restaurant. And they don't say racist things, but what they say is they don't like something I said, they don't like a position that I took, but you know that, you know, if you were not black, you would not be approached that way.

. . ." Rep. Waters didn’t take to the airways when U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was harassed at a D.C. steakhouse. Or the same for Sen. Ted Cruz. The White House went so far as to condone such attacks.

"Were these attacks racist? If the justices were black and Democrat would they be condoned? Will CNN ask Rep. Waters?" . . .

"Death to America!": The progressive battle cry

 

. . ."While it is doubtful that Churchill -- or any other Brit born in the late nineteenth century -- could ever have conceived that Britain would willingly give itself over to Islam, here are his rather applicable words concerning passivity in the face of growing threats (in this case, Hitler):

[I]f you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

"Such words are proving increasingly ominous for much of Western Europe -- with Londonistan at the fore."

Video shows Chicago activists cheer after learning Iran launched attack on Israel: 'Hands off Iran!' | Fox News  "Agitators chanted 'Death to America' and 'Death to Israel' earlier in the day, reporter finds" . 

From Bumbling Biden and the Democrat Clown Show:

Not fact; sarcasm

Gaming The 2024 Campaign › Victor Davis Hanson

  American Greatness

Will Biden’s feebleness still earn him sympathy? Or will it devolve to the point that the public concludes that Joe Biden would not be able to keep any job in America—except the U.S. Presidency?

"We have seen enough of the Biden-Trump race so far to predict what lies ahead over the next seven months of the campaign. Currently, the polls are about dead even. Trump, however, for now enjoys small leads in the majority of the fickle swing/purple states that will likely decide the election.

"So here is what we should expect:

Biden

"Biden has three major vulnerabilities and three major assets. His fate will depend on how these criteria play out.

"First, on the negative side of the ledger, Biden suffers continual mental and physical decline, which is accelerating exponentially. His work week is now more off than on. Aides pray that he can get through a teleprompter without complete incoherence. His speech is so slurred, his syntax so bizarre that he seems to speak a language that is mostly indecipherable.

"They rightly fear that any young attractive woman or even preteen might earn a trademark Biden weird call-out, a hair- or accustomed ear-blow, or even an attempted presidential too-long hug or neck nibble.

"Steps pose an existential threat, given that the president is one trip away from oblivion. Biden is not even the diminished Biden of 2020, when, in his basement, he at least manipulated the COVID-19 lockdown to mask his infirmities and abbreviated schedules.

"The odds are 50/50 whether Biden will even make it over the next five months to the August Democratic Convention. And, assuming that he does, can he rein in efforts to push him off the ticket?

"Second, the Biden family is corrupt. Hunter still faces spring- and summer-long felony exposure in connection with his Biden-family brand of tax cheating. Joe knows that his own documents, first-hand witnesses, bank statements, Hunter’s emails, and testimonies from Hunter’s associates reveal that the otherwise talentless but high-living Biden extended family was surviving only by the sale of Senator, Vice President, and future President Joe Biden’s name—and his known willingness to pay fast and loose with legal and ethical constraints.

"There is still some chance that, in the current impeachment investigations and trial, more incriminating evidence will emerge or turned witnesses will offer proof of Biden’s criminality. For now, Biden’s lawbreaking is completely dismissed by Attorney General Merrick Garland and by special counsel Robert Hur’s satirical-comedy-worthy argument that even overwhelming evidence pointing to Joe Biden’s criminal behavior cannot be prosecuted because of the president’s dementia." . . .

Don't, Don't, Don't

Never forget Israel has a long memory

 "The center of this war — as the hardcore history of the decidedly pre-Israel Hitler–Grand Mufti meeting a full 83 years ago so vividly demonstrates — is about killing Jews. Exterminating an entire race of human beings. And doing so for no other reason than hatred of Jews. Which is exactly what motivated Hitler to launch the Holocaust. That was the position of the Palestinian Grand Mufti in 1941 — and it is the position of Hamas and Iran and their allies today."  Jeffrey Lord (below)*

Iran’s regime strong-armed Jewish community to praise attack on Israel - The Jerusalem Post    "The Islamic Republic of Iran continues to exploit its small Jewish community for propaganda purposes in its war against Israel.

"The Jewish community in Tehran took to its Telegram page on Monday to announce its “Appreciation of the hero armed forces of the land of Iran” for its massive aerial bombardment of Israel on Saturday and Sunday.

"Alireza Nader, an Iran expert who closely monitors minority communities in the Islamic Republic, told The Jerusalem Post, “The small Jewish community in Iran is held hostage to the whims of the regime. Any time the regime wants revenge against Israel, it eyes Iranian Jews.' ”

Of course, there are Iranian Jews; just as there were German Jews. TD

*Hitler’s Meeting With Grand Mufti Shows War in Middle East Is About Hatred of Jews - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics  . . ."Hitler’s visitor was one Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and a Palestinian Arab. A careful record of their conversation was kept. And over there at the Times of Israel, the essence of that conversation has been published.

"Among other things said to Hitler by the Grand Mufti was this:

The Arabs were Germany’s natural friends because they had the same enemies as had Germany, namely the English, the Jews and the Communists.

 "To which Hitler replied that: 

Germany stood for uncompromising war against the Jews…. Germany was resolved, step by step, to ask one European nation after the other to solve its Jewish problem, and at the proper time to direct a similar appeal to non-European nations as well.

 "As soon as Germany had won the war, Hitler said:"

Germany’s objective would then be solely the destruction of the Jewish element residing in the Arab sphere under the protection of British power. In that hour the Mufti would be the most authoritative spokesman for the Arab world.  . . .

 A wounded, weakened Israel is a fiercer one | The Times of Israel  "The assault on Israeli towns was as cruel as Hamas could make it, and every agonizing minute was broadcast to Israelis as a message and a humiliation. Now comes the Israeli answer.". . .

Hamas did everything it could to shock Israelis, to humiliate and horrify, kidnapping children, desecrating corpses, and then crowing about it to the world. And Israelis watched it all, minute by agonizing minute. And they agreed. Their weakness had become clear, unavoidable. . . .

And celebrated by Muslims around the world including, as expected, among some Democrats in the U.S. Congress. TD 

Israel Declares It Does Not Want War With Iran, but Saturday's Attacks Will Not Go Unanswered – RedState

   . . ."As the dust settles from Iran’s attack, the world is watching closely to see how Israel will respond. While Herzog affirmed that Israel does not want war, it is clear the Jewish state will not let the rocket attacks go unanswered. What remains to be seen is the nature of Israel’s retaliation and how it might affect tensions in the region."

Yes, Biden (a Democrat, I must add) DID Approve Iran's Attack – HotAir

"Iran informed Turkey in advance of its planned operation against Israel, a Turkish diplomatic source told Reuters on Sunday, adding that the US conveyed to Iran via Ankara that its operation must be "within certain limits.' "

. . ."Israel has become a de facto ally of the Arab governments in their cold war with Persian Iran and a growing trade partner with these countries. Trump's Abraham accords and, give him credit, Jared Kushner's diplomacy remade the Middle East map, and only Iran wants to see that changed. That is the meaning of this war in which Hamas was unleashed. As much as Hamas is an evil death cult, they are also Iranian proxies. Iran wanted to destroy the Arab states' rapprochement with Israel, and for the most part, it has failed." . . . 

 Israel has a long track record of assassinating its enemies. Will it work against Hamas? (nbcnews.com)  "Last week, the head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency issued a blunt warning to the Palestinian militants who attacked Israel on Oct. 7

“Let every Arab mother know that if her son took part in the massacre — he signed his own death warrant,” David Barnea said." . . .

The killing of a key Hamas figure in a heavily guarded neighborhood controlled by Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants signaled that Israel was ready to go after its Hamas adversaries far beyond the battlefield in Gaza, even at the risk of provoking a confrontation with Hezbollah.

 Israel spent decades tracking down Nazis for the Holocaust

Peddling fear with rosary in hand

 Silvio Canto, Jr.    "Does anyone remember the 2020 campaign?   

 "I mean the one where one candidate hid in the basement and walked out to buy ice cream once in awhile. 

 "Yes, the "moderate" or the man who was going to make things normal again after the chaotic Trump presidency. 

 "Yes, Scranton Joe who walked with a rosary and was going to bring us together by getting everyone to work together.  

 "Well, the moderate never never lived up to the billing.  Instead, he's governed more like Bernie Sanders or Beto O'Rourke.  Everything we feared about a socialist Sanders presidency or anti-AR-15 Robert Francis O'Rourke performance is coming true with Joe Biden.

 "The so-called "moderate" is now buying votes by cancelling college loans and having the first lady tell the LGBTQ crowd that #45 is a bully:" . . .

. . ."Overall, the Trump presidency was better for the LGBTQers than the Biden term.  These citizens paid less for food and gasoline.  There was more order on the border and the world seemed a bit more calm.

 "Mrs. Biden reminded them that "...marriage equality is now the law of the land, gay men can donate blood, trans Americans can serve in military, and end convergent [sic] therapy."

 "Again, was any of that threatened by the Trump presidency?   Any gay men denied donating blood?  The blood truck comes by our church 2-3 times a year and I never saw a sign like "gays need not donate."

 "So the fear machine is roaring forward.  They can't ask you to vote for them on their record, so they want you to vote against Trump.  

 "In the meantime, the moderate who was going to bring together has a master’s in division and a Ph.D. in peddling fear.

 "And he does it all rosary in hand!"

Parody from Babylon Bee: Biden: 'If You're Not Okay With Women Aborting Their Babies, Then You Ain't Catholic!' | Babylon Bee

President Joe Biden doubled-down on his Catholic faith and his pro-abortion policies Sunday. "Let me be clear," he said to reporters as he exited Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown. "If you're not okay with women aborting their babies, then you ain't Catholic, Jack!" . . .

How Catholic is our president? The view from the SOTU. (religionnews.com)

"President Joe Biden has long claimed to be a very serious Catholic, the kind who goes to Mass regularly and keeps a rich prayer and devotional life. At times he even claims to accept unpopular teachings of the church, including the teaching that human life begins at conception.

"But many Catholics say that Biden, while raised a cultural Catholic, is subject to the ideology of his party and its leaders, who actually run the show when it comes to how he governs as president. As such, they argue, his Catholicism only shows up if it happens to rhyme with big d Democratic values.

"Which is really a way of asking, What does it mean to claim one is Catholic?" . . .

"It’s true that these are complex issues. A Catholic politician who has views at odds with the ideology of his or her party may wrestle with how to be fair, and their pronouncements and policies would at least invite others to wrestle with them as well. The authentic struggle of putting the truth of the faith at the heart of one’s life is a visible one, and a strong leader can allow others to see it in him."

Iran Strikes Israel: Biden’s Doctrine of ‘Don’t’ Fails | National Review 

 . . ." Though President Biden did the right thing by deploying American assets to assist Israel’s defensive response, the reality is that things never would have gotten to this point had it not been for his accommodating policies toward Iran and months of chastising Israel.
Looking further back, the origins of last night’s Iranian aggression could be traced to his former boss." . . .

 . . ."Thanks to the policies of the Obama and Biden administrations, Iran — which has vowed to destroy Israel as a step toward its ultimate goal of “Death to America” — has thousands more ballistic missiles it could fire at Israel." . . .