Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Biden Ends the U.S.-Israel Alliance at a Fortuitous Moment

With Democrats, America gets second-rate governance and world leadership. TD

A.F. Branco Cartoon

 CarolineGlick.com  . . ."For the past two decades, the Democratic Party—once the more pro-Israel of America’s two major political parties—underwent a process of radicalization. The first sign that something was shifting came in the 2004 Democratic presidential primaries when a previously unknown former Vermont governor named Howard Dean raised more money than any of his fellow Democratic presidential hopefuls. Dean was funded by Internet portals conceived and financed by far-left billionaires who initiated the party’s transformation by changing its funding mechanisms. Institutional funders and businessmen, longstanding political arms of lobbies and other funding standard-bearers were suddenly dwarfed by an army of anonymous online donors funneling funds through radical groups. The candidates who received their support were those who adopted the most radical positions on everything from healthcare to cultural issues, education policies to foreign and defense policies.

"Just before his first inauguration, Barack Obama announced his intention to “fundamentally transform the United States of America.” While it is still an open question how well he succeeded nationally, there is no question that he fundamentally transformed the Democratic Party both in relation to domestic and foreign policy. Israel and American Jews were central casualties of both.

"Obama transformed critical race theory from a reality-denying, racialist crackpot conceptual framework into the foundation of the party’s domestic policies. At the heart of CRT is the notion that people’s characters are determined by their racial, ethnic, national and religious background. And they are either victims—and therefore good, or aggressors—and therefore bad. One’s definition is immutable and determined not by individuals or even societies, but by a group of radical, unelected pseudo-intellectuals. Together, this band of racists decided that the United States and Jews in the United States and the collective Jew, the State of Israel, are successful and powerful—and therefore bad.

"Thanks to Obama and his senior officials, coupled with the funding mechanisms they built and institutionalized, a steadily growing number of Democrats embraced the view that far from the last great hope of mankind and the leader of the free world, the U.S. was traditionally the world’s greatest aggressor. U.S. allies were viewed as accomplices to this evil, and as such, undeserving of support.

"America’s enemies, on the other hand, were viewed as victims, and “innocent” by nature and incapable of doing wrong. Since the most anti-American actors in the world are Iran and radical, jihadist Arab states like Syria and Qatar were necessarily worthy of support and could be blamed for no wrongdoing.

"The chief aggressor in Obama’s CRT taxonomy is Israel. And the chief victims are Israel’s existential enemies: Iran and the Palestinians. Empowering the latter against the Jewish state was seen as both a moral imperative and the key to repositioning the transformed United States on the “right side of history.”

"Slowly, but surely, over his eight years in office, Obama incentivized abidance by CRT catechisms. Its primary expression in foreign policy was hatred of Israel and support for Palestinian terrorists and Iran.

"By the time he left office, Obama had reshaped the party leadership and machines in his own image by transforming the funding mechanisms for candidates and officeholders at all levels of national politics to advance candidates aligned with CRT policies.

"Although the so-called “Squad” of openly anti-Semitic lawmakers first elected to Congress in 2018 only included four members, their ability to compel House leaders to bend to their will was a testament to the fact that to all intents and purposes, that tiny minority now controlled the party apparatus. Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) refusal to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) for her bigoted slurs of American Jews or Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) for her calls for Israel’s destruction testified to this state of affairs." . . .

Israel declares independence from Biden - Daniel Greenfield

Biden’s betrayal of Israel was inevitable. The blindness of Israeli leaders to that eventuality, their conviction that if they followed every single guideline from the White House, they would have the support they needed to finish off Hamas in Gaza, was a delusional fantasy. Israel’s best bet lay in quickly doing what it needed to do. Everything the Biden administration wanted only slowed down the war effort and doomed the very support that Israel had been counting on.

Campus hunger strikers and the cause they support

 

AfterMath

Princeton Students Get Hungry, End Hunger Strike - The brats have spoken
The demands outlined were: “Meet with students to discuss their demands for disclosure, divestment and a full academic and cultural boycott of Israel; grant complete amnesty from all criminal and disciplinary charges for participants of the peaceful sit-in. Reverse all campus bans and evictions of students.”

Princeton Anti-Israel Hunger Strike Collapses, Solves its Problem by Rotating in New Strikers (legalinsurrection.com)  "This weekend, I noted that the anti-Israel hunger strike for Palestine at Princeton University didn’t seem to have an exit strategy. No one was paying attention to the students’ demands after they allegedly went without food for 8 days.

"Now, they have basically thrown in the towel, but they came up with a way to keep things going, too. They brought in newer, less hungry strikers. You couldn’t make this up."  

The Jews and the Arabs who are fighting in this war fast many times a year and don't ask for a Nobel prize for it. Meanwhile the trust fund kids in the US are like "if we each take three hours we can combine to have fasted"

Anti-Israel campus protesters have experienced “some kind of psychiatric break” (legalinsurrection.com) . . ."Are they anti-Israel, or is there something deeper at play? I think it’s wrong to view this as a purely anti-Israel movement on the US campuses. Certainly it is anti-Israel, but it’s more fundamentally anti-American, anti-Western, and anti-capitalist. And I do think it’s a psychological phenomenon, which makes it harder to deal with. It’s almost become a cult, and in order to be accepted into the cult, you have to announce your hatred for Israel, you have to announce support for people who actually hate you. So there’s something that’s hard to address, because you have people who’ve had some sort of mental breakdown." . . .



Do those
silly protesting scarf people even know about this? Israeli video compilation shows the savagery and ease of Hamas' attack | AP News
The footage that the Israeli military showed foreign correspondents Monday included a photo of a burnt baby. It showed gunmen shooting the dead bodies of civilians in cars, militants in the process of beheading a body with a hoe, burnt corpses thrown in a dumpster.

Show the above to Greta, will you? 

Pro-Palestinian Students Losing: Vast Majority of Fellow Students' Support Israel - The Lid

"So, despite all the hatemongering, the attacks on Jews, the accusations of genocide, and the obstruction and destruction these petty little children are committing, it isn’t driving support for their disgusting actions among their own peers."

Be yourself...just avoid tall buildings: 


Flashback clip of Jeff Sessions swatting Biden's hand away from his granddaughter proves everyone knew about Joe...

  Revolver News 

"Sadly, the Democrats, who demand that we “believe all women,” didn’t believe these particular women—clearly because it didn’t suit their narrative." . . .

  "The bad news for America is that Joe Biden has been a fixture in US politics for decades. The really bad news for Joe Biden is that much of his repugnant behavior has been caught on video and is still circulating today, constantly reminding everyone what an inept “leader” he has always been and highlighting his predatory behavior and actions towards young girls. A quick search online will pull up a plethora of clips showing Joe’s groping, touching, and creepy nuzzling of very young girls. There’s no denying this behavior is unacceptable, and most on the left and in the media know they can’t defend it, so they try to ignore it and pretend the mountain of past clips doesn’t exist or that he doesn’t still behave that way today. Though, when Joe gets handsy these days, the media dismisses it as “grandfatherly behavior.”

"You mean like this?"

   Remember when Jeff Sessions slapped Joe Biden’s hand away from his grand daughter? 

 More at Revolver News

Greta Thunberg and the Greatest of all Heresies

 American Greatness (amgreatness.com)  

As Chesterton never said but is often quoted as having done so, “When a man stops believing in God he doesn’t then believe in nothing, he believes anything.” 

 Greta Thunberg Mural Equipped With Laser Eyes That Shoot At SUVs | Babylon Bee 

"The other day, as environmental hero/prophetess Greta Thunberg donned a keffiyeh and joined the pro-Hamas protests in Malmo, Sweden, social media blew up with its usual mix of angry condemnation and fierce support. “How could she?” countless posters tetchily demanded, only to be met, in response, with the equally peevish “How could you?” With a few notable exceptions, most observers missed the obvious point that of course the erstwhile environmental activist was protesting the Jewish “oppressors” and supporting their poor, Palestinian victims; of course she took to the streets with neo-Marxist identitarians to demand “justice” and an end to “colonialism;” of course she has and will continue to embrace every subversive left-wing liberationist cause. How could do otherwise? After all, these causes are all interconnected, if not wholly identical." . . .

. . ."Chesterton writes, “then he is by that very process sinking slowly backwards into the vagueness of the vagrant animals and the unconsciousness of the grass. Trees have no dogmas. Turnips are singularly broad-minded.”

"Greta Thunberg is a turnip. To be sure, she is a broad-minded and “enlightened” turnip, but she is a turnip nonetheless. And so are all of her compatriots protesting throughout the West for the environment and against the Jews, for the Palestinians and against homophobia, and for the Mullahs of Iran and their homicidal proxies and against fossil fuels. They are all believer in and practitioners of “the Modern Phase.” They are Marxists, but not just Marxists. They are Marxists with iPhones who use those iPhones to spend their parents’ money ordering head scarves from Amazon, which they then use to cover their hair and their faces while they demand equal treatment for women, even those women who were born men.

"As Chesterton never said but is often quoted as having done so, “When a man stops believing in God he doesn’t then believe in nothing, he believes anything.” And so it is with our turnipified youth. They are “spiritual” but not religious. They are disciples who follow no dogma. They embrace all causes while believing nothing. They are destroying our civilization so that they may save the world. And while they may accomplish the former, the latter is far beyond the limits of their imaginations and dedication."

Greta, be glad you are not this Israeli girl! 


Greta Thunberg has “disgraced herself” and the entire “climate change cult”, says Sky News host Rowan Dean.   @darrylweidenhofer   
"She is no kid that sat outside of the parliament. Her father was a political activist. Hell she even goes to the world economic Forum and gets a room given to her.That should tell us everything"

161 years ago; The Battle of Gettysburg

The American Catholic – Politics & Culture from a Catholic Perspective



"Julius Howell, Civil War General (January 17, 1846 - June 19, 1948) joined the Confederate Army when he was 16. After surviving a few battles, he eventually found himself in a Union prison camp at Point Lookout, Maryland. In 1947, at the age of 101, Howell made this recording at the Library of Congress."
"You can hear in this man's accent how the English accent morphed into the American Southern accent. His accent is closer to the English accent than the speakers of today, still recognizable even as English."
British tourist Arthur Fremantle observed that Southern men spoke with English accents while Southern women spoke in the musical "southern twang".

An Englishman's Journey Through the Confederacy During America's Civil War (historynet.com) "After graduating from Sandhurst, Great Britain’s West Point, Arthur James Lyon Fremantle entered the army in 1852 and soon became an officer in England’s renowned Coldstream Guards (both his father and grandfather had served with distinction in the same regiment). At the age of 25, Fremantle was promoted to lieutenant colonel and eventually rose to the rank of full general, becoming along the way one of the most senior officers in the British army. In 1885, he commanded a brigade of Guards during the Sudan campaign and was later appointed governor of Malta, a strategically important British possession in the Mediterranean.

"Fremantle’s credentials certainly bespeak a distinguished military career, but perhaps his greatest importance to military history lies not in his service to queen and country but rather in the form of a short three-month diary he kept while on ‘vacation.’ Fueled by a strong desire to get a firsthand view of the boiling crisis in America as the Southern states struggled to free themselves from their Northern counterparts, Fremantle secured six-months’ leave and crossed the Atlantic.

"Upon entering the Confederacy, Fremantle made a breathtaking tour, visiting every Southern state except Arkansas and Florida. Within three months he had met most of the top Confederate leaders in both Eastern and Western theaters, including Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet, Joseph Johnston and Jefferson Davis, to name a few. But by no means did Fremantle limit himself to the leading figures; he befriended a gamut of men and women from all walks of life, and left behind an excellent account of the common soldier and the fiery Southern womenfolk on the home front." . . .

. . ."Even the Pennsylvania women who were disgusted to see the Confederates failed to daunt that Southern good humor. One creative woman protested the invaders by covering her sizable chest with a Union flag. Fremantle stood by as one cheeky Texan warned the woman, ‘Take care, madam, for Hood’s boys are great at storming breastworks when the Yankee colors is on them.’ " . . .

 What the Rebel Yell Sounded Like