“Occupied Gaza”: Gaza was autonomous. The Israeli border is closed, but so is the Egyptian border. There have not been any Jews in Gaza for nearly two decades.

 “Two-state solution”: When student protesters scream “from the river to the sea,” that is not advocacy for a two-state solution. It is a call to eliminate the state of Israel — lying in between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea — and its 10 million Jewish and Arab citizens. The Hamas charter is a one-state/no-Israel agenda, which we saw attempted on Oct. 7." VDH

Try a little honesty about Israel | COMMENTARY | Victor Davis Hanson

“Two-state solution”: When student protesters scream “from the river to the sea,” that is not advocacy for a two-state solution. It is a call to eliminate the state of Israel — lying in between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea — and its 10 million Jewish and Arab citizens. The Hamas charter is a one-state/no-Israel agenda, which we saw attempted on Oct. 7. 

"Scan news accounts of anti-Israel campus and street protesters. Read their demands and manifestos. Collate the confusion after Oct. 7 from the Biden administration.

"Here are 10 of their most common untruths about Oct. 7 and the war that followed.

“Progressive Hamas”: Gay and transgendered student protesters in America would be in mortal danger in Gaza under a fascistic Hamas that has banned homosexual acts and lifestyles. Anyone protesting publicly against Hamas or its allies would be arrested and severely punished.

"Women are segregated in most Hamas-run educational institutions. Under the Hamas charter, women are valued mostly as child-bearers. By design, there are almost no women in high positions in business or in government under Hamas.

"  'Colonists and settlers”: Students scream that Israelis are “settlers” and “colonists” and sometimes yell at Jewish students to “go back to Poland.” 

"But the Jewish presence in present-day Israel is deeply rooted in ancient tradition. Dating back at least three millennia, the concept of “Israel” as a distinct Jewish state, situated roughly in its current location, is ingrained in history.

"By contrast, the much later Arab invasions of the Byzantine-controlled Levant and their arrival in Palestine occurred about 1,800 years after the establishment of a Jewish Israel.

“ 'Two-state solution”: When student protesters scream “from the river to the sea,” that is not advocacy for a two-state solution. It is a call to eliminate the state of Israel — lying in between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea — and its 10 million Jewish and Arab citizens. The Hamas charter is a one-state/no-Israel agenda, which we saw attempted on Oct. 7.

“ 'Occupied Gaza”: Gaza was autonomous. The Israeli border is closed, but so is the Egyptian border. There have not been any Jews in Gaza for nearly two decades.

"So on Oct. 7, Gaza was not occupied by Israel. It was under the control of Hamas, designated by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization. After being elected to power in 2006, Hamas canceled all subsequent elections and ruled as a dictatorship. Gaza forbids Jews from entering Gaza and has driven out most Christians. Israel hosts 2 million Arabs, both as Israeli citizens and residents.

" 'Netanyahu is the problem”: The United States and Europe claim that the conservative government of Benjamin Netanyahu is alone behind the Israeli tough response in Gaza. Thus, both the European Union and the United States are doing their best to undermine or even overthrow the elected Netanyahu administration.

"Yet, most Israelis support Netanyahu’s coalition government’s agenda of destroying Hamas in Gaza. There is no evidence that any other alternative Israeli government would do anything differently from the present policies toward Hamas." . . .

Pro-Hamas Panty Raids: A Destructive Dynamic -

 The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

These are not the ideologues … but rather those for whom action and a sense of belonging represent a reward worth seeking. 

"Activism in those years came surrounded by an awful lot of conformist fun-seeking, “conformist” because, for all the claims about “fighting the system,” there was a great deal of trying to be like everyone else. And “fun seeking” — getting high on the vibe from the crowd was a huge incentive for joining a protest march, particularly when it came with an outsized frisson of sexual excitement.

"Famously, iconic folk singer Joan Baez and her two sisters posed for a widely-distributed poster with the caption “Girls say yes to boys who say no.” Lest anyone mistake the intent, the sub-caption noted that proceeds from the poster’s sales would go to “The Draft Resistance.” Some feminists professed outrage, but for young men in 1968, the message was revolutionary. Having largely been raised with 1950s sexual values, and particularly subjected to various macho imperatives — be a football star, be a soldier — the idea that girls might offer themselves to a draft resister was profoundly subversive.

"Unsurprisingly, the 60s protests flagged as the Vietnam war began to wind down, and many of those who’d been simply along for the ride, for the thrills, moved on with their lives. But the most dedicated radicals refused to give up, moving from orchestrating mass protests to more violent terrorist action, notably a series of bombings aimed at the government and the military. The murderous bombing at the University of Wisconsin math center was one such, the 1971 bombing at the Pentagon yet another. Sadly, one legacy of the 60s protests was a willingness to see the United States itself as unworthy. While most former protesters were themselves opposed to violence, far too many quietly sympathized." . . . Among them: Obama's political partner and mentor, Bill Ayers

Trump should not shake hands with Joe Biden

 

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Trump should not shake hands with Joe Biden - Noel S. Williams 

 . . ."Given their mutual dislike, that would be incongruous.  It would be the height of hypocrisy and insincerity.  In Western culture (though Biden seems to underappreciate it), a handshake symbolizes such things as warmth, respect, unity, deal-making, and peace.  Clearly, there is none of that between the two, so don’t fake it.

"During the debate(s), Trump will have to confront congenital liar Biden directly.  Or is he a pathological liar, lying just for the sake of it (like claiming that his uncle was consumed by cannibals, or whatever...)?

"There are enough examples to support both definitions, as Biden is basically a political sociopath who abuses underlings while convincing low-information voters to keep him on the public dole his whole life.  Do not shake his hand." . . .

 Peter Doocy Has an Idea About Why Biden Is So Eager to Debate; Rebecca Downs   . . ."After a back and forth over whether or not Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre could even speak about the debates, Doocy specifically asked, "Does a person generally want to debate when they are winning or when they are losing?" As she laughed about Doocy's framing of the question, Jean-Pierre offered, "I am not going to do political punditry from here, my friend. I'm just not going to do it.". . .

Here’s What Trump Should Do Now to Win the Debates Before They Happen; Derek Hunter   

Joe Biden to Debate Donald Trump on CNN with Jake Tapper, Dana Bash  . . ."The Biden campaign said the president would debate Trump only in June and September, without live audiences present" . . .

Here are all the restrictions Biden's team demanded in their Trump debate offer   Prime Joe with whatever they gave him before the SOTU.

Nolte: Knowing He’s Losing, Joe Biden Shakes Up Race with Rigged Early Debate (breitbart.com)  . . ."On Wednesday, Biden proved that he knows he’s losing, and he did so in the most blatant way: by desperately trying to shake up the race. All of a sudden, Biden not only agreed to a debate with former President Donald Trump but announced he had accepted an early debate invitation from far-left CNN on June 27.

"The status quo would mean a late summer debate, not one five weeks from now, and certainly not one before the respective Democrat and Republican conventions have officially chosen Biden and Trump as their nominees." . . .

Victor Davis Hanson: The Biden reelection strategy    

"Biden’s fading tenure is similar to the last sad months of Woodrow Wilson’s second term, when in 1919-20, the country was assured that a bedridden president was somehow hard at work, even as his wife, doctors, and handlers kept everyone else away."

"President Joe Biden polls at or below 40 percent approval. Historically, such unpopularity has made it almost impossible for a president to be reelected.

"Biden is not so much an octogenarian as an unhealthy and prematurely aging 80-year-old. It is America’s irony that he is fit for almost no other job in the country other than the presidency, which apparently allows for a three-day-a-week ceremonial role while others in the shadows run the country.

"So how does Biden become renominated and reelected, as polls show he is behind in almost every critical swing state on nearly every issue?

"Answer: not by campaigning, not by championing his record, and especially not by doubling down on his neo-socialist and now unpopular agendas.

Instead, his campaign is focused on four other strategies to beat former President Donald Trump.

"First, left-wing local, state, and federal prosecutors are tying Trump up in court on crimes that have never been seen before and will never be again after the election. All the cases are politically motivated, with many coordinated with the White House.

"Even if Trump is not convicted by blue-state prosecutors, in blue-state courtrooms, in front of blue-state juries, he will lose critical campaigning time.

"Trump may end up paying out $1 billion in legal fees and fines. At 76, the monotonous days in court are designed to destroy him financially, physically, and mentally.

"Biden and his operatives know that, in the long term, they may have fatally damaged the American legal system with such judicial sabotage. But short-term, they hope to destroy Trump before the ballots are cast." .  . .

Al Jazeera about as trustworthy as MSNBC

 Predictably, Al Jazeera’s coverage was most in line with Hamas’s propaganda, uncritically parroting statements by the Civil Defense in Gaza as well as international leaders responding to the reports released by Hamas.

Unearthing the Story Behind the Gazan Mass Graves | HonestReporting  "Over the past week, Palestinian teams have been unearthing mass graves outside two Gaza medical complexes, Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis and Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City, following the withdrawal of Israeli forces who were conducting counter-terrorism operations in the area.

"With the opening of these mass graves, social media and some traditional news outlets have been abuzz with claims that these graves are evidence of mass killings of Palestinians by Israelis and that some of those found inside the graves show signs of being tortured and killed execution-style with their hands tied behind their backs.

"However, much like other sensationalist news stories about Israel’s conduct during its ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza, the story of the mass graves being propounded online and by some media outlets is a mixture of deception, falsehoods, and a reliance on biased sources." . . .

What Is the Story Behind the Mass Graves?

"Much of the news regarding the mass graves has surrounded the exhumation of hundreds of bodies on the grounds of Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis.

"However, unlike that which is being claimed, these mass graves were not dug by Israeli forces during their months-long siege and battle against Hamas terrorists operating within the medical complex.

"Rather, these graves were dug by Palestinians prior to the arrival of the Israeli military in mid-February 2024.

"Analysts have observed that these mass graves which are now being unearthed were documented as first being dug and used in late January and early February 2024 to bury people who had died in the hospital and could not be transported to a formal cemetery for internment.

"As the battle between Israel and Hamas intensified around the medical complex, it is possible that newer bodies (of those who had been killed during the firefight or who had died at the hospital during the battle) were added to these mass graves. However, as noted by the Times of Israel, it is uncharacteristic for the IDF to “tend to the bodies of slain Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.”

"Thus, if newer bodies were added to these mass graves over the course of the IDF’s operations in the area, it is likely that they were buried by Palestinians and not by Israelis.

Is There a Creepier Newscaster Than MSNBC's Wannabe Poet Lawrence O'Donnell?

  Bob Hoge – RedState

I mean, what even is this? His “closed-eye space?” Lawrence, you have truly jumped the shark. It's like Bob Dylan lyrics gone bad, written and delivered by someone who has none of his talent. 

"I watch plenty of newscasts and opinion shows (in all my free time), and I’m used to seeing detached-from-reality takes from Whoopi Goldberg and the harridans on "The View," or nonsensical diatribes from Joe Scarborough and wife Mika—an odious pair who are disturbingly obsessed with their Trump hatred despite being extremely tight with the former president just a few years ago—or CNN anchors twisting themselves into pretzels attempting to defend Biden’s indefensible failures.

"But there’s another pundit out there who routinely drops lunatic commentary that makes you think, “How on earth did this guy get hired by a major U.S. news network?" His name is Lawrence O’Donnell, and he works for—you guessed it—MSNBC. I don’t watch him much, I don’t think anyone does, but he’s drawing notice this week by dropping two of the strangest, creepiest monologues you will ever see on your television. (Or for most people these days, on your computer monitor.)

"The first was when he described Stormy Daniels arriving in court for Donald Trump’s business records persecution trial, where his comments almost defy description (I will make the attempt anyway), the second was when he went into some weird mystical fantasy about the meanings of the former president’s facial tics. They almost seem inspired by a mushroom high, they’re so weird.

"Let’s start with Stormy:

He describes the porn performer whose claim to fame is having often violent sex with an untold number of men and women as if she’s some sort of Goddess-like saint from another galaxy—so pure, so virtuous, someone we should look up to and emulate. He delivers his sermon in quiet, dramatic tones as if he’s witnessed a profound miracle that has affected him deep within his soul.

Finally, . . ."This man needs to be put in a padded room. Preferably alongside Keith Olbermann."  Well, he is from MSNBC. And has been caught  reporting false stories about President Trump.

MSNBC has such a bad reputation that they have become fertile ground for parody sites like this: MSNBC Admits They Make Up All Stories About Trump Using Book Of Mad Libs | Babylon Bee

Who Is Funding the College Protests? -

 Kurt Mahlburg - Intellectual Takeout

President Joe Biden has been dogged for months by pro-Palestinian protesters calling him ‘Genocide Joe’—but some of the groups behind the demonstrations receive financial backing from philanthropists pushing hard for his reelection. . . .

Further, these are NOT "student protests." Lisa Fithian is a 63 year old professional protestor, not a student. She's planned protests for decades.

. . ."In short, the organizers aim to put their target in a “decision dilemma” by using a method of protest that leaves the target without any good options: “No matter how the target reacts they look bad.”

"If university leadership and law enforcement let protesters take over and occupy entire buildings, as they have done on many campuses, the protesters gain the upper hand. However, if police engage, the protesters “play victim and use the optics to look like sympathetic martyrs for the cause,” even though they are the aggressors.

"Putting sympathetic characters on the frontline and releasing footage to media outlets that presents protesters as victims and the targets as aggressors are all part of the strategy.

"It’s straight out of the Saul Alinsky playbook. Alinsky remains one of the most influential authorities on the (largely left-wing) phenomenon known as “community organizing.” In his 1971 book Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlined 13 rules that have served as a template for generations of activists.

“ 'The real action is your target’s reaction” is a famous Alinsky tactic—and one that is self-evidently at play in the current college protests.

"The takeaway for ordinary folks?

"Wise up to the tactics of the organizers. Don’t take everything you see for granted. Keep asking questions about who is leading and funding the high-profile events being broadcast on the nightly news.

"Like the Wizard of Oz or the Emperor’s New Clothes, the power of these protests is mostly in the illusion. Shrug that off, and we can get back to an authentically functioning republic—surely a non-negotiable for an election year."

Don't forget to use an insufferable child as your prop. Greta Thunberg is never busy with school and is available. TD

 

The woman stuttering behind the microphone is the perfect demonstration of why DEI is so dangerous

"The President has been very clear"

 Peter Heck; Not the Bee   "Karine Jean-Pierre is a small-scale demonstration of the extraordinary danger posed to humanity by Diversity-Equity-Inclusion (DEI) policies. Stated bluntly, I don't want a pilot flying my airplane, I don't want a surgeon performing my operation, I don't want a construction foreman building my bridge who perform their jobs as competently as Pierre performs hers.

"The list of moments that should disqualify the current president and his administration from voters' future consideration continues growing at an alarming rate. I've been stewing over a recent one that occurred in this surreal exchange between a reporter and the stammering White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre late last week.

"I have a feeling you missed it - which is exactly how we end up in places like this as a country. So watch this and then let me share a few words:" ...

REPORTER: "The president said he wants to let the Trump tax cuts expire. If that law expires, it does raise taxes on almost every American. Does he still support that expiring without anything else in place?"

KJP: "The president is going to allow the Trump tax cut expire. He… pic.twitter.com/pzeJTZV7mu

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 3, 2024

. . . "But in this case, it isn't her predictable mumbling and stumbling that was so galling. It was the false testimony. It was the lying. The reporter's question - posed in a very tactful, non-accusatorial manner - was a good one:

"Trump's tax cuts were across the board, including for those making less than $400,000 a year.

"Biden has announced he will allow all the Trump tax cuts to expire."

Who are the good guys and who are the bad guys?

"From Wright’s embrace of hatred as a motive force, Obama learned both a positive and a negative lesson. Positive: Hate moves people and can be used to great political advantage. Negative: When you use hate, you must disguise it much better than Jeremiah Wright did." . . .

Ward Sleeper | Facebook

Americans Want Taxpayer Funds Pulled From NPR For Becoming A 'Political Propaganda Machine', Daily Mail Poll Shows   "Voters by a wide margin seek action against National Public Radio (NPR) after a whistleblower last month came forward and accused the station of liberal-biased news coverage, a poll shows.

"Fully 44 percent of respondents to a DailyMail.com/TIPP survey said the broadcaster should lose its taxpayer cashflows over its political leaning.

"Another 26 percent of more than 1,400 US adults said it should keep its government support; and 31 percent said they were not sure.

"NPR was rocked last month when one of its senior editors, Uri Berliner, accused his employer of overly woke news coverage, with a fixation on stories about race and identity." . . .

Make America Hate Again - Obama planted hate. Biden isn’t quite as good at hiding it.-The American Spectator  . . ."Obama painted himself as a uniter. Jews supported him in Illinois. But when word of Pastor Wright’s angry and racially charged rhetoric surfaced in the primary campaign of 2008, many began to doubt Obama’s real stance.

"It was not just that Wright called for God to damn America in one of his most infamous sermons. It was his intense anti-Israel stance and, worse, his association with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who was addicted to using vicious antisemitism as an emotional driver of his leadership. Wright publicly associated himself with Farrakhan, giving wider legitimacy to his Jew hatred in the eyes of Wright’s church and the larger black community. Now, a disciple of Wright was aspiring for the presidency, which would give unheard-oflegitimacy to the Farrakhan brand of Jew hatred with which Wright had unabashedly associated himself.

"Obama got past this crisis not by admitting any wrong at all in his long association with the hateful Wright, or by admitting any wrong on his part. He did not ask for the forgiveness that Americans so easily give to those honest enough to admit their errors. Instead, he cast his preacher under his campaign bus and lectured Americans mildly about American racism." . . .

. . ."The people see the late and half-hearted effort of the suddenly worried Biden crew to re-establish a non-threatening appearance. But Obama’s masterful ability to conceal hate is a rare talent. No one has that level of skill in the Biden bunch, who daily appear more and more empty of moral purpose or diplomatic skill." . . .

Democrats cannot tell who the "Good Guys" are anymore.   "A few weeks ago, a sermon by Reform Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, the senior rabbi at the Steven Wise Free Synagogue in New York, shocked millions from that city to Tel Aviv. Standing at his pulpit, Hirsch delivered a stern warning to the Democrats.

"Noting that he is someone “who is finely attuned to American Jewish sentiment,” Hirsch told Democratic elected officials: “Do not take American Jews for granted.”

"Hirsch explained, “I have spoken to many American Jews in the past few months who have surprised me with their anxiety about developments in the Democratic Party, and their perception that it is becoming increasingly hostile to Israel, and tolerant of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism in its own ranks.”

“ 'Be careful,” Hirsch warned. “The results of the upcoming election do not only depend on Michigan.”

"Many dismissed his remarks with a shrug of their shoulders. For decades, Republicans have asked conservative Jews to explain how it is that American Jews vote for Democrat Party candidates even though Republicans are so much more supportive of Israel. The question comes so frequently that most conservative Jews can give the answers in their sleep." . . .

First, most American Jews see themselves first and foremost as Democrats or liberals, not as Jews. They love Israel, but it’s not really a voting issue for them. And second, the Jewish vote doesn’t matter because most American Jews live in deep blue states that will never tilt Republican.

Biden’s betrayal of Israel sees the rise of the ‘Never Biden’ voters

 Andrea Widburg - American Thinker   . . ."Ben Shapiro is also a Never Trumper who’s become positively enthusiastic about Trump. I don’t know what Shapiro did in the 2016 election when he was terribly worried that Trump would govern as a dictator. By the 2020 election, when his fears failed to materialize, Shapiro became a very reluctant Trump supporter. Now, Shapiro has said that he would walk over broken glass to vote for Trump:

. . ."Every Jew fears another Holocaust. After WWII, the Democrat party impliedly promised to be philosemitic and to protect the Jews from a new Holocaust. Even for those Jews who were not already leftist (as many are, thanks to old anti-Tsarist sentiments and academia), that promise drew their vote. Republicans, with their casual white shoe, banker, country club antisemitism, were just too risky.

"Now, though, Jews have reevaluated that risk. It’s the Democrat party that threatens them at home. And while it’s true that Jews cannot shift the vote in Michigan or Minnesota, it’s also true that Democrats have long received a great deal of money from Jewish voters. If that money dries up and the Jews stay home, the Democrats may find themselves wishing that they’d picked the other side in the Israel-Hamas war."

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                   Why I'm Giving Money To Donald Trump                                       pic.twitter.com/lHUZmfSrOp

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Is the Michigan vote really that essential; essential enough to make us less than we had been?

Joe Biden is trying to save Hamas: in a long line of foreign policy screw-ups, is this his worst?

  . . ."With Hamas on the ropes, why is Joe Biden putting American lives in Gaza at risk by trying to hamstring an American ally in what can only be described as a gift for a terrorist group responsible for the death of Americans?

"If this is being done in return for a hug from The Squad and a few thousand votes in Michigan, it's obvious that in Joe Biden's eyes, Americans in Israel aren't all that valuable to our current Commander-in-Chief."

 Israel has to do it themselves: IDF gradually tightens grip on Hamas’s last bastion in Gaza - JNS.org

. . ."This new campaign has led to the elimination of approximately 80 terrorists in Jabalia, and the destruction of multiple rocket launchers, including long-range capabilities. Weapons workshops were also targeted and destroyed. Supporting these ground maneuvers, the Israeli Air Force has conducted more than 100 airstrikes." . . .