Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas to Be Buried on Wednesday

Times of Israel 

 "Eulogies at funeral near Kibbutz Nir Oz will be live-streamed; sister says Yarden Bibas struggling to come to terms with horrible news of his wife and young sons’ murder in captivity"

"Slain hostage Shiri Bibas and her two young sons Ariel and Kfir will be laid to rest on Wednesday in a private ceremony in Zohar, near their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz, the family said Monday, adding that it would publish a funeral procession route to enable the public to pay its respects ahead of the burial.

“ 'The warm embrace, the love and the strength that you have sent us from all over Israel and the world strengthen us and accompany us during these moments of crisis,” the family said in a statement on social media. “We are aware that many of you want to be there, to pay your respects, to express your love and to say your goodbyes together with us.”

“ 'Please respect our choice to say our goodbyes during these final moments in the way that is right for us,” said the family.

"Relatives added that they would arrange for the eulogies at the funeral to be live-streamed.

"The Hostages Families subsequently asked the public to line the route of the funeral procession and bring Israeli flags." . . .

Where is the outrage from progressive members of Congress, from leftist groups on America's college campuses and from liberal pundits who have so often condemned Israel while ignoring Hamas' violence?   "Where is progressives' outrage over Hamas' brutality?" . . .

“ 'Our hearts − the hearts of an entire nation − lie in tatters,” Israeli President Isaac Herzog wrote on social media about the transfer of the bodies on Thursday. “On behalf of the State of Israel, I bow my head and ask for forgiveness. Forgiveness for not protecting you on that terrible day. Forgiveness for not bringing you home safely.”

"Those of us whose hearts also have been broken in alliance with our friends in Israel cannot condemn Hamas and antisemitism loudly or often enough. I hope that progressives in America will finally join us.

"A mother's babies have come home, their lives lost much too soon. The world is upside down." . . .

MSNBC: No more Walter Cronkite and Eric Severeid; UPDATED 2/24; 6pm cst

"This settlement joins other recent, high dollar settlements and judgements against the media, and there will be more to come. The media’s lack of credibility, as always, is self-inflicted." Mike McDaniel

Tom Stiglich

Media fails; NBC settles   "In 2020, MSNBC talking heads had a story too good to check. It combined advocacy for illegal immigration and allegations of horrendous governmental abuse of illegal immigrant women, a Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c) twofer, until it blew up in NBC’s face: "  . . .

MSNBC drama intensifies as network axes shows hosted by 3 more lefty anchors in wake of Joy Reid’s ouster: sources    "MSNBC’s new president continued to overhaul the embattled network Monday — canceling shows hosted by anchors left-wing anchors Ayman Mohyeldin, Katie Phang and Jonathan Capehart, The Post has learned. 

"Mohyeldin, Capehart and Phang will remain at the network. Mohyeldin and Capehart will host shows in new time slots. 

"Phang, who broadcast her show from Miami, was told her program will end as the network sunsets its South Florida-based operations. She will stay on as a legal correspondent while Mohyeldin and Capehart will host shows in new time slots." 

 . . ."The Egyptian-born Mohyeldin was among the anchors MSNBC reportedly sidelined following outrage over the network’s biased coverage of the Oct. 7 massacre by Hamas in Israel."

Hamas kills 40 babies and children — beheading some of them — at Israeli kibbutz: report 

 “It is a horror, a massacre. For those asking for the source. They are multiple: Israeli army, internal intelligence service and atrocious images which reached me and which I was able to cross-check,” she said. “But the best source remains this: courageous journalists from the foreign press who were able to see / agreed to see with their own eyes the bodies in Kfar Aza.”

. . ."The [Israeli] woman grew visibly irritated with Mitchell when she asked her to comment on Israel’s retaliatory airstrikes in Gaza.

" 'I can’t be sympathetic to animal human beings — well, they’re not really human beings — who came into my house, broke everything, stole everything, took my children from their bedrooms and took them to the Gaza Strip,” she told Mitchell."

POLL: What Was the Worst Media Take of the Week?   

BREAKING: MSNBC Announces Sweeping Lineup Overhaul 

 . . ."The overhaul is the first major move being made by Rebecca Kutler, a cable news veteran who was named president of the left-leaning network earlier this month. Mark Lazarus, the CEO of MSNBC’s parent company SpinCo (the network is being spun off from Comcast and decoupled from NBC News), had previously named Kutler interim president following the exit of Rashida Jones.

"Among the major changes: Jen Psaki, former press secretary in the Biden White House, will take over the 9 p.m. hour Tuesday through Friday. The hour is currently being hosted by Rachel Maddow, who returned five-days-a-week in the slot for the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s administration.

"Inside with Jen Psaki, which the network said was Kutler’s brainchild, has been a success for MSNBC since it launched in 2023, drawing strong reviews and solid ratings for the network.

"Maddow will return to hosting her eponymous show only on Monday nights, and Alex Wagner, who had replaced her in the hour for the rest of the week, will lose her show but remain at the network as senior political analyst.

Andy Ngo:  MSNBC talent lied and said a Georgia doctor was performing Mengele-styl

e “mass hysterectomies” at an ICE facility during the first Trump administration.  

@chrislhayes, Rachel @maddow, Nicole Wallace, and @jacobsoboroff spread the lies. Many of MSNBC’s “news” talent have shared serial lies, hoaxes and conspiracy theories.
The doctor defamed by MSNBC received death and bomb threats, and lost his job. Leftists used the lies to say ICE and Trump are Nazis.  

. . .  "These are some of the comments on the Rachel Maddow hoax clip about the Georgia doctor performing Nazi-style operations to mass sterilize women at an ICE facility during Trump’s first administration."

Babylon Bee sees an opening for some MSNBC parody:  Trump Says To Drink Lots Of Water, Media Reports He Told Everyone To Drown Themselves  . . ." 'Trump says water is good -- but this is very misleading," said Rachel Maddow. "Did you know that water kills many people every year? These dangerous, unhinged remarks from the president could cause many to drown themselves. Plus, do you know what's hidden in water? Sharks. This president wants you to die from a shark attack!"

"Representatives for various bottled water companies quickly released a statement distancing themselves from the president's remarks and warning everyone not to submerge themselves in the ocean for minutes at a time." 

Racist Joy Reid FINALLY Gets Fired By MSNBC, with Megyn Kelly and Victor Davis Hanson   "Megyn Kelly is joined by Victor Davis Hanson, author of "The Case For Trump," to discuss Joy Reid finally getting fired from MSNBC, her obvious racism throughout her entire career, the worst moments from her time on TV, her declining ratings and the demise of the entire corporate media, and more."

Canadian Military Features Soldier in Hamas War Scarf, Reinforcing Trudeau’s Pro-Islam, Anti-Jewish Agenda

This cannot be the same army so dominant against the Nazis in WW2.TD

 RAIR Foundation   

• "In 2017, Trudeau built the world’s only Holocaust memorial that did not mention Jews or the Jewish aspect of the Holocaust,  A memorial for a genocide—without mentioning its victims."

"Justin Trudeau has turned Canada’s military into a propaganda arm for Islamic extremism, erasing Western values while empowering those who openly call for the destruction of Israel and the subjugation of its allies.

"Justin Trudeau’s appeasement of Islamic supremacists has taken yet another dark turn—this time through the Canadian Armed Forces themselves.

"In a shocking post on the official Facebook page of the Canadian Joint Operations Command (CJOC)—a government-run military page—an image was uploaded of a Canadian soldier in uniform, weapon in hand, studying a map. But what stood out wasn’t just the tactical pose—it was the Palestinian keffiyeh wrapped around his neck, the infamous symbol of Hamas, jihad, and the destruction of Israel." . . .

. . ."Trudeau’s overt hostility toward Israel, tolerance for Hamas supporters, and blatant use of the Canadian military as a propaganda tool should be a national scandal. But instead, the media—which his government funds with taxpayer money—will ignore or excuse it. The truth, however, is clear: Trudeau’s Canada is no longer a defender of Western values. It has become a safe haven for Islamic supremacists—and the Jewish people are once again the first to pay the price." ...

RAIR Foundation USA (Rise Align Ignite Reclaim) is a grassroots activist organization comprised of everyday Americans leading a movement to reclaim our Republic from the network of individuals and organizations waging war on Americans, our Constitution, our borders and our Judeo-Christian values." . . .

Letter to the Editor: A Report From Germany — Censorship and Hope, Vance’s Speech in Munich

 The oppression is real, but Vance’s speech sparked a glimmer of hope. 

 "Mr. Merz has said that he wants to end illegal immigration. For that, he has been called a fascist and a Nazi. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the streets in state-sponsored rallies (another sign of an authoritarian regime). As a result, Friedrich Merz quickly folded, and his resolve collapsed."

Video:  JD Vance Fights For Free Speech

In Germany, but in Britain? Christian woman arrested for silent prayer receives compensation from police

. . ."My short stories and essays have been published in the Antioch Review, the Cambridge Literary Review, the Chicago Review, the Image Journal, the London Magazine, the Missouri Review, the Southern Review, the Threepenny Review, World Literature Today, and elsewhere.

"Same as you, I was struck by the penetrating clarity of Mr. Vance’s words. It was heartening, too, to see the real surprise on the faces of Markus Söder, the prime minister of Bavaria, and other German politicians seated in the auditorium. They clearly did not see this coming, having expected a speech about the need to raise defense spending. Instead, here was a young politician giving them the dressing-down of their lifetimes while staying polite, however, throughout.

"It was something completely different from the speeches one hears in the Bundestag (the German parliament) where it has become the norm to only simulate politics. Even the more heated exchanges are minutely choreographed, staged for the public to give the impression of real discussions when in fact all are long agreed already. All except the AfD, that is — the new outsiders, the pariahs, the lepers.

"Your conversation on Rumble was a breath of fresh air, too. For a long time, I had been wondering why on earth the foreign media wasn’t catching on to the situation in Germany. Fortunately, that seems to have changed. The “60 Minutes” report may have been conducted in bad faith, but at least it got the information to the American public who could then make up their own minds about what they were seeing. (RELATED: Margaret Brennan and the Good Germans at CBS News) 

"Believe me, it was only the tip of the iceberg. Yes, private homes are now routinely raided if you post a supposedly racist cartoon or comment online. The ensuing coverage in the media is meant to dissuade others. Even worse, however, the same happens if you post (or even like) a derogatory comment about the current government, especially about members of the Green Party. Robert Habeck, in particular, our minister of economy, is on a real crusade, suing hundreds of citizens a year for harmless slurs. Mind you, not threats, but everyday insults at most." . . .

Federal Bureaucrats Launch Resistance Website

 David Catron; American Spectator   

"Federal “workers” are employed by the executive branch of the government and, as such, they are ultimately accountable to the Chief Executive or someone he appoints to supervise them. The notion that anyone in the executive branch operates “independently” from the President is ridiculous." . . .

"It was hardly necessary to consult the Delphic Oracle to learn that the Department of Government Efficiency was destined to be extremely unpopular with federal bureaucrats. Nor was it difficult to predict that their collective response would be clueless and hopelessly inept. Nonetheless, even the most cynical observer of bureaucratic bumbling will be taken aback by an amateurish website called “We the Builders.” It was created to provide a space for anonymous government apparatchiks to whine about the depredations of DOGE, which the main page describes thus: “They are destroyers.”

"If you deliberately set out to create a parody — a website that looks and reads like something built by a bureaucrat — you would be hard put to do any better than “We the Builders.” The banner at the top of the main page is a group photo of about a dozen deeply earnest and inevitably diverse federal “workers” posing with their right hands raised as if reciting the loyalty oath taken by all federal employees. Some might question how seriously these people take that oath, however, after noticing that their logo is obviously modeled after the Soviet hammer and sickle. These geniuses attempted to disguise that fact by replacing the hammer with a wrench and the sickle with a spoon.

"The comedy continues with their mission statement, which boldly declares, “We don’t work for DOGE,” yet they have set up a handle on the social media site that is owned by their arch nemesis — Elon Musk. They describe themselves on their X Profile as “The official resistance team of the U.S. Digital Service.” If you have never heard of this agency, it is little wonder. USDS was quietly created by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in August of 2014, after the comically incompetent rollout of HealthCare.gov, and inevitably became a permanent agency filled with federal employees who came to think of themselves as fire proof.

"On Jan. 20, President Trump issued an executive order titled “Establishing and Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’.” Essentially, it rebranded and repurposed USDS as DOGE. Inevitably, a number of USDS employees were fired and they immediately started running to Democrat-friendly “news” outlets peddling predictions that the sky would fall if DOGE was permitted to execute its mission of exposing government waste and fraud. A frequent claim made by the USDS “resistance” is that DOGE has rendered sensitive personal information insecure. For example, the site includes this by “Anonymous.' ” . . .

Trump’s Gaza Truth Bomb Re-Flips The Script On Gaza

 

MGGA

Bob Maistros, I&I    . . ."But did the prestidigitator in chief have a card up his sleeve the whole time to turn not just the narrative but the entire world back on its head? Let’s run down the immediate effects of the president’s solo sortie:

"The vaunted two-state solution, official U.S. policy for decades, is dead. Spell it out. D-E-A-D. Expired. Extinct. Extinguished.

"Terrorists and the civilians who gleefully participated won’t be rewarded for despicable acts of butchery and sodomy with their own separate nation – and the opportunity to build even more deadly and impregnable bases for land, air and sea assaults to eliminate Israel. They won’t even be able to occupy one of the territories, at least not in sufficient strength to threaten the Jewish state.

"Oh. You gave credence to Trump’s concession that relocation of the blood-lusting Gazan population could be “permanent” or “temporary?” Dream on. Once that existential threat is removed, they ain’t coming back. The Jewish state’s brain trust has absorbed that lesson.

"Israel finally gets its blank check to finish the war. Accompanying the diplomatic initiative was an announcement that America would reverse Joe Biden’s ban on shipping 600-pound bombs that blast through Hamas fortifications. The unmistakable message: If Hamas doesn’t sue for peace, war will resume, this time with full American backing and gloves off.

"Hamas is finished. And the Palestinian Authority on notice. Any Palestinian relocation – and it’s unlikely to be to Jordan with its own long memories of the Black September uprising – will include U.S. guarantees to exclude Hamas. And the PA had better figure out soon that if it doesn’t clean up its corruption, repression and terror sponsorship, it’s next." . . .

The two-state solution map that promised to solve Middle East crisis Until Oct 7, 2023: 

 . . ."Iran is more isolated than ever. Which follows from all of the above, along with Israel’s demonstration last year that it can easily penetrate deep into the mullah’s defenses. Readers may believe that Trump’s statements are a YUGE, freelance bluff. But note what didn’t happen in response.No spontaneous riots or demonstrations on the “Arab Street.” No resolutions of condemnation in the United Nations. No protests from Arab capitals other than the nations directly involved. The same things that didn’t happen when 45, after decades of warnings of backlash, finally moved ahead with the longtime promise to relocate America’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem." . . .

 WHERE on this map do you see peace and security for the Israeli nation?

Virtue Signaling Now Means You Have To Sell That Tesla

Remember when the TV Good Guy drove a Prius? 

Issues & Insights 

. . ."Obviously the minds on the left have been soaking up so much sun that it’s impaired their ability to think clearly. They’ve come undone."

Al Goodwyn

"Remember when all the best people, the elites and elitists among us, the correct thinkers, the self-appointed guardians of all things good, were buying electric vehicles, particularly Teslas? What a terrific way for them to demonstrate their green street cred. But that’s passé. The latest in look-at-me virtue signaling is selling that Tesla to make an important political statement.

"Because Tesla CEO Elon Musk is aiding President Donald Trump in rooting out federal waste and corruption, he’s become a villain to the left. To be caught in one of his cars is simply an embarrassment to status seekers and the prigs obsessed with placing themselves on Barack Obama’s “right side of history.” So like entertainer Sheryl Crow, they have to unload their Teslas, and, naturally, do it as loudly as possible.

"Last week, Crow “dramatically bid adieu to her black Tesla,” the New York Post reported, to protest the man she tagged on her Instagram account as “#PresidentMusk.”

"Crow took to social media on Friday to reveal she had sold the electric car and was donating the money to NPR, “which Musk has repeatedly called to defund as his Department of Government Efficiency looks to slash federal funding.”

“ 'My parents always said … you are who you hang out with,” wrote Crow. “There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla.”

"The money she received in return will be “donated to @npr,” she said, “which is under threat by President Musk, in hopes that the truth will continue to find its way to those willing to know the truth.” Which truth is that, we wonder? The truth that Washington is a pit of vipers freeloading off the American people while simultaneously lording over them – and that Crow supports this corrupt arrangement?

"There’s also another truth Crow ignores. She and the entire clan of wealthy entertainers and rich elitists are free to fund National Public Radio with the vast U.S. dollars that they earn in our capitalist economy. After all, NPR is a playground and protective bubble for the elites and is in part funded by the Americans they and the NPR editors, producers, hosts and guests constantly mock." . . .

Colbert has a clean conscience by driving a Tesla