'Jeopardy' Question About Israel-Palestine Sends Liberals Over The Edge

Trending Politics  "Ever since the enactment of the Jerusalem Embassy Act, tit-for-tat tensions have been rising between those who support Israel and those who support the Palestinians.
"The hostility can even been seen in things as trite as a game show question." . . .

. . . "From The Hill:

“Jeopardy!” has received a wave of backlash on social media after a contestant answered a question about where Bethlehem was located by saying Palestine and not Israel.The question was specifically about where the Church of the Nativity is located. During an episode of the show that aired last week, a contestant selected the “Where’s that church” category, which provided contestants with the clue: “Built in the 300s AD, the Church of the Nativity.”   Contestant Katie Needle buzzed in with Palestine as the answer shortly after host Alex Trebek read the clue. However, she was told her answer was wrong and was penalized with a $200 deduction from her overall cash score.Another contestant, Jack McGuire, then answered, “What is Israel?”“That’s it,” Trebek told McGuire as the contestant was awarded $200.

"So in what country is Bethlehem located?
"Sadly, the birth-country of the Israelite, Jesus, is now considered questionable regardless of how ridiculous it seems." . . .

'Jeopardy!' issues apology for ruling that the Church of the Nativity is located in Israel — and not Palestine

You can read more about the background courtesy of the Daily Mail here.
Christians recognize that the church, which is located in Bethlehem, is the birthplace of Jesus. According to Haaretz, the church has been recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site under "Palestine" since 2012.
Also, the Palestinian Authority does have direct control of the church and the city of Bethlehem and has since 1995. Israel still maintains control over access to tourist areas in the West Bank.

First, the purges: Comrade Chesa Boudin fires prosecutors for...prosecuting

What if San Francisco turns out to be a malignant tumor in the body of California?

Monica Showalter  "What would it be like if Hugo Chávez and Bill Ayers ran the city prosecutor's office?

"San Franciscans are about to find out, now that Ayers's stepson, Chesa Boudin, son of Weather Underground terrorists and translator to none other than Hugo himself, has made his first move as San Francisco district attorney.

"He's kicked off his term with purges for insufficient revolutionary fervor, taking a page from Andrei Vyshinsky, Stalin's famous show trial prosecutor who enforced ideological purity.

"According to KQED:

Just two days into his tenure as San Francisco's District Attorney, Chesa Boudin fired at least seven prosecuting attorneys. Boudin said the actions were necessary to carry out the progressive policies he campaigned on.

"I had to make difficult staffing decisions [Friday] in order to put in place a management team that will help me accomplish the work I committed to do for San Francisco," Boudin said in a statement.

It's not unusual for a newly elected district attorney to restructure the management team, said Lara Bazelon, a law professor at the University of San Francisco. The attorneys are at-will employees, which means they can be fired without reason.

. . .
"Stalin's society was all about keeping secrets, too, especially ideological secrets. San Francisco will now be the same. That must be some atmosphere they've got going in the San Francisco DA's office right now. Imagine being too afraid to express your thoughts as is no doubt the situation now with Chesa at the helm, that you refuse to say anything.

"Now that word is out that prosecuting crooks and targeting gangsters is a firing offense, San Francisco is all set for a great crime wave. Apparently it takes an iron-fisted Stalin or a Chavez to create that much chaos."

Why Is the Gay Presidential Candidate Silent about Iran Hanging Gays?

2006: hanging of 2 Iranian Teens

Daniel John Sobieski  . . . "Iran can do no wrong even if it goes against Democrats' core principles, if you can say they have any.  Mayor Pete is openly gay.  The irony here is that if he were running for president of Iran and not the United States he would most likely be hanged before the second presidential debate.  His silence is so remarkable since he is such a fierce advocate for the rights of the LGBTQXYZ community or whatever the politically correct identification is these days.

"Buttigieg, an Episcopalian whose church ordains gay and lesbian priests, has lectured Christians on their alleged hypocrisy and intolerance for opposing abortion on demand and gay "marriage" and believing homosexuality is a sin.  Some Catholics have been referred to as "cafeteria Catholics" for picking and choosing which doctrines to obey.  Episcopalian Pete must read his Bible through the distortion of a funhouse mirror, at least according to his evangelical brother-in-law's comments to the Washington Examiner:

The evangelical brother-in-law of Pete Buttigieg called on him to "repent" for using the Bible to justify late-term abortion and claimed the presidential candidate is "weaponizing" Christian teachings to promote a false religion.

. . .
By the way, Mayor Pete: Iran has alleged that a prominent singer is gay and under the Islamic Republic’s anti-homosexual laws he could face the death penalty.

According to a 2008 British WikiLeaks dispatch, Iran’s mullah regime has executed “between 4,000 and 6,000 gays and lesbians” since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

In 2016, The Jerusalem Post reported that Iran’s regime had executed a gay adolescent that year – the first confirmed execution of someone convicted as a juvenile in the Islamic Republic.

Hassan Afshar, 19, was hanged in Arak Prison in Iran’s Markazi Province on July 18, 2016, after he was convicted of “forced male-to-male anal intercourse” in early 2015.

In 2011, Iran’s regime executed three Iranian men after being found guilty of charges related to homosexuality.

Mayor Pete, I do not think these people are mourning the death of General Soleimani

Venezuela Mourns Soleimani

Power Line  "For many years, people have commented on the seemingly-incongruous alliance between radical Muslims and Communists. In fact, however, there is no mystery: both are hostile to the values of advanced Western civilization and yearn for tyrannies that are not, in practice, particularly different from one another. Thus, while millions of Iranians are celebrating the demise of terrorist leader Qasem Soleimani, we shouldn’t be surprised that Venezuela’s Maduro regime is officially mourning him.

Iran’s FARS news service writes:

The Venezuelan government offered condolences to the people of Iran for the assassination of Iran’s top general by a US airstrike in Baghdad and praised Iran’s resistance with this poster.

"From left to right, the poster pictures Hugo Chavez, Simon Bolivar, Soleimani, Che Guevara and Fidel Castro:

 “Faces, times and countries change, but the goal is the same.”

. . . "One of these days, will “woke” American students walk around with pictures of Soleimani on their t-shirts? I wouldn’t rule it out. Guevara was just as bigoted and homicidal, if nowhere near as effective, as Soleimani."

"Michael Moore DESTROYED after poorly-written tweet apologizing to Iran in Farsi for death of Soleimani"

I appreciate and agree with your sentiment against war. But you realise that you are addressing a man who also wasn't elected and who recently had 1,500 unarmed protestors killed?
— Idrees Ahmad (@im_PULSE) January 7, 2020

Twitchy*

Joe Newby  " 'As we reported earlier, wealthy left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore begged the Iranian regime to let him and his fellow leftists take Trump out.  He doubled down on the stupid with another tweet on Tuesday, apologizing to the Iranian dictator for the death of terror leader Qasem Soleimani.
“ 'Sir, I deeply regret the violence on our behalf by a man that most Americans have never voted for. Avoid power. A sincere man, Michael Moore, an American citizen,” he said in a poorly-written message roughly translated into Farsi:

If you want to truly appeal to the Supreme Leader — which is impossible because he is deeply mistrustful of Westerners — I would start by having a native speaker/professional translator handle your translations. This is poorly written. https://t.co/Dl2yMXEmmk

. . .

Hey @MMFlint . I suggest you move to Tehran to learn Farsi. Perhaps then you will understand what it is like to live in a place that was ruled by the likes of #Solaimani https://t.co/KJREbq5LqL

— Nadwa Dawsari (@Ndawsari) January 7, 2020

• — Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) January 7,2020 Michael Michael Moore begs Iran to let him and fellow leftists take Trump out
• Michael Moore Goes Unhinged: ‘F*** Hope,’ Trump Will Be President For Life
• Iran puts $80 million on Trump’s head — Will Democrats and their media allies try to collect? (Video)
• More burning stupid: Colin Kaepernick suggests racism behind strike against Iranian terror leader Soleimani
• Actress Rose McGowan Blasted For Apologizing to Iran in Tweet Calling America a ‘Terrorist Regime’

*‘Total FAIL’: Imam of Peace’s takedown of Michael Moore for messaging the Ayatollah makes him look like an even BIGGER tool than usual

You’ve just reached out to a terrorist dictator and chief financier of the largest network of Jihadists on this planet; in addition to violating the Logan Act. The part we find hilarious is that you actually think he will respond to you. That donkey thinks he’s God’s deputy on https://twitter.com/MMFlint/status/1213688506305957888 …

Michael Moore

✔@MMFlint
I have just sent the Ayatollah of Iran a personal appeal asking him not to respond to our assassination of his top General with violence of any kind, but rather let me & millions of Americans fix this peacefully.

Why President Trump Hit General Soleimani and the effects of it all

Additionally, information has surfaced that Soleimani, who had been personally leading the repression against the popular uprising in Iraq since October, had been planning a coup d’état in Baghdad that would have resulted in the assassination of the Iraqi president, and the seizing of the American embassy there. The Free Iran Herald

Trump Speaks Directly to the Iranian People  . . ."Now Trump is talking directly to the Iranian people, and the demonstrations are bigger and more widespread than any earlier ones.

"I don’t think that the Khamenei regime is long for this world, now that the American president has spoken directly to the masses of Iranians who had waited for the United States to do their dirty work for them. No American president -- not Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush fils, or Obama -- had understood the key to the Middle East: bring down the Islamic Republic. That, rather than the conquest of Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam, should have been our goal in 2003, but we chose the wrong target.
"Now, of all the unlikely people, Donald Trump figured it out and is pursuing it. Like his predecessors, Trump does not wish to invade Iran; unlike them, he has found that the regime is ready to fall, that America can inspire and lead a revolution against the world’s leading terror country.
"Just look at the scenes coming out of Iran today." . . .

Trump sends 'the most liked Persian tweet' in history of Twitter
. . . President Trump's tweet in Farsi expressing support for Iranians protesting Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has already earned over 200,000 likes, making it the "most liked Persian tweet" in the social media giant's history, according to a leading think tank adviser.  . . .
Trump Tweet Breaks a Twitter Record But MSM Silent

Watch: Locals burn a large banner with an image of the dead Qods Commander, Qasem Soleimani.

General Soleimani was betrayed by fellow IRGC members!
Repression and Unrest Continuing in Iran, While Western Liberal Media Only Amplify Khomeinist Propaganda
This news is increasing the speculation that Soleimani, who was known to act on his own initiatives, and who was being seen as a possible future dictator-in-waiting for Tehran, was betrayed to American intelligence by his own colleagues within the regime, who feared that he would deprive them of their power and privileges.
. . . 

Thus, seen in this light of Soleimani’s out-of-control brazenness, and his growing unpopularity within his own Khomeinist clique, US President Donald’s Trump decision to kill him emerges as the de-escalatory move that he has presented it as, and one that will stimulate more infighting, and the consequent weakening of, the regime.

"Though it presents a public face of being monolithic, the IRGC is riddled with factionalism and waves of purges. Last July, 125 IRGC officers were arrested and accused of plotting to overthrow the regime. In that regard, some observers are already judging the conference of regime-sponsored proxy militias that Tehran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei called together on Thursday, January 9^th, (which featured representatives from Palestine’s Hamas, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Yemen’s Houthis, Iraq’s Hashd al Shaabi, Afghanistan’s Fatemiyoun and Pakistan’s Zeinabiyoun) in order to unite them behind the new Qods Force commander, Esmail Ghaani to have already failed, because these forces had been personally built up by, and around, Soleimani, and their loyalties may not be so easily transferrable." . . .

As Obama once boasted, "The US does not do pinpricks."

Lopez Video: Behind the Scenes of the Suleymani Hit   "The real reason Trump eradicated the terror master."   Video: "Suleymani's" mission when hit by Trump explained starting at 2:14  Who is Qasem Soleimani?

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said Tuesday that attacks planned by Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani were expected to occur in just days, before he was killed by a U.S. airstrike.

"We had clear, compelling, unambiguous intelligence to indicate Qassem Soleimani was planning, coordinating, and directing a significant campaign of violence against the United States in the coming days," said Gen. Milley.

Inside the plot by Iran’s Soleimani to attack U.S. forces in Iraq

Meanwhile in Hollywood, a contrast in courage:

• Michael Moore Asks Wrong Ayatollah Not to Hurt Him, Vows to 'Get Rid of Trump'
• Congressman Brian Mast, a Republican from Florida, accused his Democratic colleagues of being cowards for their weak-kneed reaction to the killing of Iranian terror-master Qasem Soleimani.

Let’s Remember the American Contractor Who Was Killed In Rocket Strike by Soleimani Militia

RedState

Democrats should know the name of the American that Qassem Soleimani killed, the American that led to the death of Qassem Soleimani.American Nawres Hamid.So when you criticize the strike, this is one of thousands killed or wounded by Soleimani.

"There are a lot of things that are troubling about the hot takes of the media and the Democrats about the issues with Iran.

"But one that just sticks in my craw is acting as if this recent round of issues just dropped out of the sky and started with President Donald Trump “recklessly assassinating” IRGC terrorist leader Qasem Soleimani.

"Central in this is completely forgetting the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and not even acknowledging all the rockets attacks on the U.S. in the lead-up to that, including a rocket attack that killed an American contractor and wounded several others, Americans and Iraqis.

"Some already clearly deep in the throes of TDS even postulated that the “contractor” didn’t exist and this was all made up to distract from impeachment, just one of the many stupid conspiracy theories out there. The other attack was because he was a “contractor,” he must be a “mercenary.” So delusional and anti-American.

"As GOP Spox Elizabeth Harrington notes, many reports were, for some reason, leaving out his name. So I wanted to put his name out there and make sure people were aware of who we had lost." . . .

Dems Silent on Iran Protests as Demonstrators Blame Regime, NOT Trump, for Plane Crash

Socio-Political Journal

"Democratic congressional leaders and presidential candidates who were unsparing in their criticism of President Trump for the escalation with Iran over the past two weeks largely have gone silent now that the protests on the streets of Tehran and beyond have turned their rage toward the regime — and not the Trump White House.
"Even as videos emerged online Monday that purportedly show Iranian police and security forces firing live ammunition to disperse protesters, so far among the 2020 Democratic candidates only former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., have spoken out in support of the people.
"The protesters have railed against the government following the shoot-down of a passenger plane that the Iranian government initially denied involvement in —  Tehran later admitted they downed the jet in a misfire during attacks against U.S. bases in Iraq, following Trump's takedown of top Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
"Trump has issued statements supporting the demonstrations, but his political opponents have been almost entirely silent — after earlier criticizing the Soleimani strike and in some cases even faulting Trump for the fatal plane crash.
"Journalist Yashar Ali, who is of Iranian descent and has friends and family there, called out the left for being silent when it comes to the protests, in a viral Twitter thread about the situation.
" 'I've gone through some of the most active and prominent liberal Twitter accounts and none of them mentioned the Iran protests today,” Ali tweeted Sunday. “These same people were actively tweeting about wanting to avoid war and attacking Trump for his decision.” . . .

Cory Booker Drops Out of Presidential Race

Booker surrenders.

Legal Insurrection

“Our campaign has reached the point where we need more money to scale up and continue building a campaign that can win—money we don’t have.”

"From The Wall Street Journal:

Mr. Booker, the former mayor of Newark, had long lagged behind the leading Democratic candidates in national polls, and he failed to qualify for two consecutive Democratic primary debates, including Tuesday’s debate in Iowa.

“It’s with a full heart that I share this news—I’ve made the decision to suspend my campaign for president,” Mr. Booker said in an email to supporters on Monday. “Our campaign has reached the point where we need more money to scale up and continue building a campaign that can win—money we don’t have, and money that is harder to raise because I won’t be on the next debate stage and because the urgent business of impeachment will rightly be keeping me in Washington.”

"Booker did not gain much momentum since he announced his candidacy last February. The latest poll in Iowa showed him with only 3% support.

"He also lacked fundraising as he noted in his announcement. He missed the December debate and did not qualify for tomorrow’s debate in Iowa." . . .

Use this chart to mark each Democrat off as they exit:

Sadly, Warren is the only Democrat of color left in the race. TD

Why We Need to Remember that War Is Hell

" . . .But the greatest monument to unnecessary mass killing by the Allies was built with the blood and bones of Dresden, what Johnson calls “the greatest Anglo-American moral disaster of the war against Germany.” Pedro Gonzalez 

The ruins of Dresden, 1945

Pedro Gonzalez

No one living bears any responsibility for the actions committed by others in the past, least of all for the folly of the world’s elites. It is, however, our duty to recall the real cost of war.

 "As British bombs fell on the German port city of Kiel, Karl Berchim scrambled with reckless self-abandon to usher as many women and children as he could into a schoolhouse that had been converted into a shelter. Berchim was a member of the Luftwaffe, the aerial warfare branch of the Wehrmacht during World War II.

"Just as he secured a group of civilians in the bomb shelter, a massive piece of ordnance dropped by the Royal Air Force found its mark near Berchim, killing him instantly. Because of his actions and sacrifice, a little girl named Elise was saved from obliteration. Because Elise lived, she grew up, married, and had a son. That son eventually had a daughter who is now expecting her first child—my child, by my wife, because of the heroism of her great-grandfather, Karl Berchim.

"I don’t care that Karl stood “on the wrong side of history” in life; he died a hero, striving to protect the life and liberty of civilians. For all we know, he was an American born in the wrong place.

"According to Dennis Saffran, however, Karl and the rest of the war dead cannot be regarded except with scornful indifference. We may as well strike his name from the memorial book in the townhall of Kiel.

" 'I have absolutely no problem with the killing of German civilians in World War II,” wrote Saffran as the United States toed the line of war with Iran, urging Americans to get over their queasiness at the thought of killing civilians, “even in cases where hindsight may see it as ‘unnecessary.’” In other words, even if you could prove to Saffran that civilians were needlessly slaughtered, he would have absolutely no problem with it." . . .

In 2001 we had good friends, Hans and Herta Borm, who attended our church in Santa Maria, CA. They were both survivors of the war in Europe; Hans, a five-times wounded veteran of the German army and Herta, a citizen of the much-bombed Magdeburg. They were both stoic about those years and commented little until after the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks. The group conversation was about the Muslim's desire to simply kill people and suddenly the Borms memories burst forth as they brought up Dresden. They agonized over this bombing of such an historical, cultural city that had not been touched by bombers until they said "We were beaten! The war was about over and there was no need for this! They only wanted to kill Germans!"
The pain of this act haunted Hans and Herta the remainder of their lives.  The Tunnel Dweller

Democrats consider oppressors to be "the oppressed"

http://www.terrellaftermath.com/

Democrats Always Choose America’s Enemies Over America  "Here’s an idea that our Democrat politician friends might want to try if they want to stop being back-stabbing garbage people. It’s kind of a radical notion and a little outside the box, but here goes: How about, just once, you stop sucking-up to the foreign bastards who are attacking our country and take America’s side?
"Maybe you should not back and excuse the gay-hanging, women-stoning, airline-downing, Obama check-cashing, Israel-threatening, American-murdering cultists ruling Iran. Just a thought." . . .

Couple That Went To Iran To Show It’s Not That Bad Are Now in Jail

. . . Obama and Kerry were essentially embracing the idea that “evil is a make-believe concept.” That the mullahs were perhaps “self-interested sometimes, myopic sometimes,” but ultimately good-hearted. The Leftist intelligentsia was and still is unanimous in applauding that initiative.

Likewise, it is a matter of dogmatic certainty for the Left that Islam is a religion of peace, and that only racist, bigoted “Islamophobes” think otherwise. Why should King and Firkin have had any reason to be concerned about traveling through the Islamic Republic of Iran? All it had was a “bad wrap.” . . .

"It’s too bad states and counties weren’t allowed to reject resettlement of refugees when Somali Muslim invaders like Ilhan Omar came to this country". . . Minnesota statistics released in July 2018 showed that incidents of violent crime including murder decreased compared to 2017, but rape and involuntary sex trafficking rose to the highest rate seen in almost a quarter-century, The Duluth News Tribune reported

In February, the FBI said Somalis in Minnesota remained vulnerable to recruitment by terrorists.

"FBI numbers showed 45 Somalis in the Minneapolis area left to join the ranks of either the Somalia-based Islamic insurgency al-Shabab or the Iraq- and Syria-based ISIS combined. And as of 2018, a dozen more had been arrested with the intention of leaving to support ISIS. Both numbers are far higher than those who allegedly left or attempted to leave the country to join terrorist groups abroad from other areas in the U.S. where Muslim refugees have been resettled." . . .

Democrats become first national party to hate the nation they wish to lead

American Thinker   "Democrats have now officially become the first national political party to actually detest the country they wish to lead.

Democrats have openly sided with America's enemies and even sympathize with the world's most heinous terrorists rather than take the side of the president of the United States, as can be seen by their reaction to the death of Iranian mega-terrorist Qassem Soleimani.

"Barack Obama must have succeeded in "fundamentally" transforming the country, because, in days of yore, this would have universally been considered a priori treason.  I honestly believe, if Democrats had their way, American flags would have been ordered to fly at half-staff out of respect and appreciation for the bloodthirsty Iranian general whose death they thought would make Trump look bad.  Democrats and their supporters are so crazy, they applaud white supremacists if they dis Trump, as Joy Behar on ABC's The View did recently.  Many in the media immediately said Trump's drone strike on Soleimani would quite possibly cause World War III to break out.  Some give the impression that they would prefer to have their characterization of the strike as "reckless" be proven correct, even if it meant death and destruction on a massive scale.  That's reckless.  And sick.

"Former donkey party greats such as Andrew Jackson, Harry Truman, JFK, and even liberal Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan would be shocked and appalled at what the party they once led has become.  The party is now the bastion of full-fledged socialists, anti-Semites, transgender-worshipers, and God-haters.  It respects no moral code or law, abhors tradition, the Founders — and those who have the temerity to live in rural areas of "fly-over country" (i.e., the "deplorables") — and is actively aiding and abetting the abolition of American history.  It tolerates no dissent from its political correctness and is aggressively attempting to strip Americans of their constitutionally guaranteed rights — and babies from their lives as it ironically tries to invent a "right" to abortion.

"There is an old saying, that something or someone is "as American as Mom, baseball, and apple pie."  The Democrats are rapidly rewriting that phrase to better suit their Depraved New World.  It will likely read, "as American as non-binary, childless attraction units, soccer, and tofu.' "

AF Branco