Thursday, October 19, 2023

Bookworm Beat 10-13-23: The Armageddon illustrated edition

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‘The dumbest show in America’

‘The dumbest show in America’: The demise of The View - YouTube  "The View was once an iconic daytime television show celebrated for its diverse range of entertaining hosts who discussed the issues of the day in a lively way.

"But, like many other brands in the mainstream media, The View has become a victim of left-wing ideology, filling their shows with aggressive agenda pushing, bizarre claims and excessive virtue signaling. This editorial pivot has made the show and its hosts the target of ridicule by the conservative media and the American people and has Sky News All Stars Rita Panahi, James Morrow and Megyn Kelly asking, is this the end of The View?"

 'The View' co-host calls out Tlaib, Omar over posts accusing Israel of attacking Gaza hospital (msn.com)

Kayleigh McEnany: Omar and Tlaib won't condemn this


The Hamas, Arab, and BBC Big Lie About Israel and the Bombed Gaza Hospital -

  The American Spectator | USA News and Politics    "A guy stops his friend and relates excitedly: “Did you hear about Harvey? His wife just drove his brand-new Tesla into a swamp!”

"The friend responds: “First, it wasn’t Harvey. It was Frank. Second, it wasn’t his wife. It was his mother-in-law. Third, it wasn’t brand new; it was second-hand. Fourth, it wasn’t a Tesla. It was a Prius. Fifth, it wasn’t into a swamp. It was over a cliff. And sixth, it never happened.”

"That is what Israel has had to deal with for 75 years: Arab Big Lies gobbled up and regurgitated all-too-willingly by a left-wing anti-Israel mass media that has no soul and lies without hesitation if it sells newspapers, gets online clicks, likes, and followers. The bigger the lie, the more the clicks and followers. People attribute the Big Lie concept to the German Nazis of Hitler, especially his chief liar, Joseph Goebbels. But the Western lying media gobbles more than Goebbels. They are despicable falsifiers whose fake news incites violence and promotes catastrophe. Remember Trump colluding with Putin?

"In the Middle Eastern context, the terrorist Arabs lie, and BBC and CNN and all of them jump in to repeat the lies. Perhaps the most infamous of all was when the New York Times blared an Associated Press photo, caption, and story about an Israeli soldier beating the living daylights out of some poor innocent Arab kid, whom the photo showed was all bloodied up. The New York Times story said it was another example of how the Israelis send their soldiers onto the Temple Mount and desecrate holy Islamic soil and beat up on Arabs who are there only to pray sweetly.

"Some sharp-eyed Zionists (i.e., people who believe that Jews have a right to live in Israel just as Black Lives Matter has a right to live in Chicago and Ben & Jerry’s has a right to live on ancestral Native American lands in Vermont) noticed an oddity. If the guy with the Hebrew uniform, menacingly waving his billy club at the bleeding teen, was an Israeli soldier gone wild on the Temple Mount, how was it that the photo showed a gas station in the background? Gas stations on the Temple Mount? Really?

"So it turned out that — surprise! — the New York Times was lying. It wasn’t the Temple Mount but a Jerusalem street in an Arab neighborhood. The guy with the nightstick was not an army soldier but a civilian police officer. The kid bleeding was not an Arab beaten by the Israeli brandishing the club but Tuvia Grossman, a Jewish kid from America who had just been assaulted and battered badly by a gang of murderous Arabs. And the cop was waving his club at the Arab attackers to get them away from the Jewish kid before they killed him." . . .

But why this hatred for the Jewish people?
Answer: Satan hates what God loves

 Why I Stand by the Nation of Israel and the Jewish People (harvest.org)  . . ."Now we have Hamas committing murders and unthinkable atrocities toward Jewish women, children, and even babies in Israel. It is pure evil. But God always intervenes—He raised up Moses to deliver the Jews from Pharaoh and Egypt. He raised up Queen Esther to use her influence to save her fellow Jews from the plot to destroy them.


"After the Holocaust, God raised up the Jews themselves to return to their homeland and become a nation again on May 14, 1948.

"But why this hatred for the Jewish people?
Answer: Satan hates what God loves. God loves and chose the Jews as His very own people.
Why? God Himself gives the answer: “The Lord did not set his heart on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other nations, for you were the smallest of all nations! Rather, it was simply that the Lord loves you, and he was keeping the oath he had sworn to your ancestors. That is why the Lord rescued you with such a strong hand from your slavery and from the oppressive hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt” (Deuteronomy 7:7–8 NLT). 

"Antisemitism is from the pit of Hell. I am not Jewish, but as a Gentile and believer in Jesus Christ, I have been “grafted in” to the promises given to the Jewish people by the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." . . .

From Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific" "You've Got To Be Carefully Taught" - SOUTH PACIFIC (1958)

Officials Say Hate Crimes Against Jews Are Growing In The Aftermath Of Gaza Violence : NPR    "In Skokie, Ill., it was a shattered window at a synagogue. In Bal Harbour, Fla., it was four men yelling, "Die Jew," at a man in a skullcap, then threatening to rape his wife and daughter. And in Midtown Manhattan, it was a group of people attacking a Jewish man in the middle of the street in broad daylight." . . . 

So why are Jews hated so much? (mid-day.com)   

Do this simple thought experiment. Five hungry people who have not eaten for a month are at your door, begging for food. They are a Jew, an Indian Muslim, a Rohingya, a Chinese (Buddhist), a black African Christian and a white-skinned Harvard-educated atheist.  You have a simple vegetarian meal, but barely enough for one person. Which one would you feed?

 Satan hates what God loves: God loves and chose the Jews as His very own people - Washington Times

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Jews and Blacks: Their Landlord AND Their Friend

  Ann Coulter

The Anti-Defamation League (business model: defame white Christians) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (business model: defame white Christians) have long defended the systematic murder of white farmers in South Africa, claiming that anyone who mentions it is promoting a “racist conspiracy theory.”

    " I’m hoping liberals’ instinct for taking the side of barbarism against civilization has taken a hit after seeing so many stories of the BLM movement bellowing their love for Palestinian terrorists paragliding into Israel to butcher, rape and kidnap thousands of Israeli civilians, including infants and elderly dementia patients. It’s hard not to notice that the most unrestrained celebrations of the Hamas killers are coming from BLM members, the “colonized,” diversity beneficiaries, the “Indigenous,” non-Western immigrants and other affirmative action cases.

"You unleashed ’em, liberals!

"After George Floyd died and was deified on May 25, 2020, the left’s coddling of black people (and the black-adjacent) went into overdrive. For three years, this Brahmin caste has been able to get away with anything.

"They’ve gleefully dynamited historic statues, destroyed industries with their racist “equity, not equality” demands, bullied their way onto corporate boards and into every TV commercial, and openly discriminated against white men to elevate the incompetent.

"They’ve shamelessly grafted multiple millions of dollars from post-Floyd “causes” like Black Lives Matter and Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University.

"They’ve succeeded in getting the media and universities to ban words like “picnic,” “chief,” “American,” “master bedroom” and “English department.” Seriously.

"And that’s to say nothing of their penalty-free shopliftingcarjackingmaiming and murdering.

"But say one little thing wrong about Israel, and everybody gets upset!" . . .


Mark Levin Slams ‘Hamas Wing’ of the Democrats: ‘Anti-Semites’ & ‘America Haters’ Are ‘All Around Us’ –

 Mark Levin Slams ‘Hamas Wing’ of the Democrats: ‘Anti-Semites’ & ‘America Haters’ Are ‘All Around Us’ – enVolve (en-volve.com)


   "Conservative commentator and author Mark Levin has slammed the “Hamas wing of the Democrat Party” in a fiery statement.

"The “Life, Liberty & Levin” host joined “America’s Newsroom” on Wednesday to react to some Democrats’ response to terrorist attacks against Israel.

"Levin blasted the radical members of Congress who refuse to condemn the horrific attacks from Hamas in Israel.

"Levin reacted to radical “Squad’ Democrat Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) responding to an explosion at a Gaza hospital on Tuesday.

"As Slay News reported, the congresswomen immediately blamed Israel for the incident that reportedly killed hundreds, without evidence

"However, evidence suggests that the hospital was hit by a missile fired by Hamas terrorists from Gaza.

"Rep. Tlaib’s latest claim about Israel was contradicted by the country’s military spokesperson Tuesday.

"Tlaib accused Israel of bombing the Christian hospital in the Gaza Strip and “killing 500 Palestinians,” including doctors, patients, and children.

“ 'Israel just bombed the Baptist Hospital killing 500 Palestinians (doctors, children, patients) just like that,” Tlaib said Tuesday on Twitter/X.

“ '[President Biden] this is what happens when you refuse to facilitate a ceasefire [and] help de-escalate,” wrote Tlaib, a vocal critic of Israel.

“ 'Your war and destruction only approach has opened my eyes and many Palestinian Americans and Muslims Americans like me.” . . .

Houston Hotel Cancels U.S. Campaign for Palestine Rights Conference

 



"The Hilton Houston Post Oak was scheduled to host the Seize the Moment US Campaign for Palestinian Rights National Conference later this month. That event has now been cancelled.

"The national conference was to be held from October 27 to October 29. The hotel cites safety concerns for its staff and hotel guests. The conference was meant to “mobilize for liberation”, according to its website. That has a threatening tone to it, given what is going on in Israel right now at the hands of Hamas.

“Hundreds of organizers, activists, students and artists will build across movements in our collective fight for justice. Imagine a liberated future with us, beginning with the demand to end U.S. military funding to Israel once and for all,” the website said.

"There is no room for these Hamas supporters in Texas, he said. “Texas has no room for hate & antisemitism like that supported by Hamas. No location in Texas should host or sponsor USCPR.” They can “Seize the Moment” elsewhere." . . .

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Biden Admin Denounces Fellow Democrats Equating Hamas Attack With Israel’s Response - The Political Insider    . . ." President Biden meant it when he said, “This is not about party or politics.”
"On Tuesday, the White House condemned “repugnant” and “disgraceful” comments from members of Congress equating the terrorist attack by Hamas with previous actions taken by Israel. Notably, this rebuttal applies to Democratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Cori Bush of Missouri.
"'I’ve seen some of those statements this weekend,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told RealClearPolitics, “and we are going to continue to be very clear: We believe they are wrong.”
“ 'Our condemnation belongs squarely with terrorists who have brutally murdered, raped, and kidnapped hundreds of Israelis. There can be no equivocation about that. There are not two sides here,” Jean-Pierre continued." . . .




 

 

 

Biden visits the world

 Biden in Israel: Bad Comments, Zoning Out, and Confusing Wars – RedState

. . ."Biden was also having to field questions about the Gaza hospital explosion. As we reported, now in the light of day, there was more evidence showing it wasn't Israel and questions about the number of people claimed killed.  Meanwhile, the media immediately spread a lot of misinformation based on Hamas' claims, without checking on the facts. 

"But when Biden made some perfunctory comments about that, he had issues. He tried to tell a story about something that Secretary of State Antony Blinken had written for him in the past, but he blanked out right in the middle of the sentence and embarrassingly couldn't remember what he was trying to say. He then said that the evidence indicated it was the "other team." As he said that, he was reading from notes, even for such a short comment and he still had problems. 

"You can see the reading of the notes more clearly in this video." 

 Does the World Really Need To See Joe Biden in Israel Today?    "There used to be an old saying and rule in the American body politic, that criticism of the United States President ended at the nation's shores whenever he left the country to go on an overseas trip.

"That policy, of course, pretty much ended during the Reagan Administration (Republican of course), seeing as he pushed for and instituted policies that successfully defeated the Soviet Union (or what he correctly called the "Evil Empire"). Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot and the policy of criticizing a President died along with the evil empire he helped defeat." . . .


. . ."This was a targeted disinformation campaign that ran its way around the globe, parroted by the largest news outlets, causing violence in multiple countries. That violence is still ongoing, with Western embassies and consulates under attack in Lebanon, Turkey, and Jordan, among others. 

"It was all based on a lie told by a terrorist organization. This wasn't a small fudging of the situation either. Hamas completely made up a story about a hospital being leveled by an IAF bombing. The press reported it uncritically for hours, with some claiming people were being "pulled from the rubble." They then made up a story about 500 people being dead. The press also repeated those numbers with zero verification. 

"Where is the accountability? Who is going to lose their job over this? Will there be apologies issued from these news organizations that claim the utmost credibility? Don't hold your breath, but let this be another lesson that you should never blindly believe the mainstream press, especially when there are tell-tale signs that things aren't adding up."


 

We're right behind you, little ones!

 


Hospital horsehockey - American Thinker

What garbage -- yet these vaunted media outlets buy into this Hamas "narrative" propaganda hook, line and sinker.

Their antennae ought to be up, actually because Israel has warned civilians to get out of the way since they would be advancing on Hamas. People who blow up hospitals or behead babies in cribs don't do those things.

What's more, the  hard evidence presented by the Israelis pretty well makes it clear that it was a scummy terrorist wannabe group called Palestine Islamic Jihad that did it, incompetently hurling a rocket into a hospital area. The Israeli Defense Forces was not firing missiles anywhere in the vicinity when the incident happened, and the weapons were clearly not moving the way Israeli weapons do.

 Channel 12 provides a new video of the hospital strike in Gaza pic.twitter.com/3DZqznIjnn

 Israel Refutes Claims and Provides Receipts that It was a Palestinian Missile that Struck the Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza - But Will It Be Enough? | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft


@Nigel_Farage How embarrassing was that?

"Joe Biden arrives in Israel, reads from a script, loses his thread and then calls brutal terrorists of Hamas ‘the other team’."


Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Universities Slow To Condemn Hamas Were Quick To Issue Statements About George Floyd, January 6  |

I've obtained an email from concerned Jewish alumni at @NorthwesternU, as well as a reply from the school's new president. "Northwestern does not intend to make an institutional statement" about the largest single-day slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.

 The Daily Caller  "Universities across the country that were quick to take stances on events like the death of George Floyd or the January 6 Capitol riot are either refusing to take an institutional stance on the terrorist attacks in Israel or correcting prior statements to explicitly condemn Hamas after facing backlash.

"Northwestern University and Williams College have opted not to take a position on the attacks whereas Harvard, Cornell, Ohio State and Stanford University amended their statements after receiving criticism for not condemning Hamas, a U.S.-designated terror organization. However, these institutions released statements condemning events including Supreme Court decisions, the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 2021 and/or the killing of George Floyd.

"Harvard initially released a statement failing to condemn the terrorists that attacked Israel, according to the Harvard Crimson. The university’s president released an updated response three days after the attacks that did condemn Hamas following community backlash.

"However, Harvard did not hesitate to condemn the Capitol rioters, or Russia for invading Ukraine, issuing statements the day both events occurred.

"Cornell acknowledged that many felt it did not adequately condemn Hamas in its initial Oct. 10 statement on the conflict and put out an updated statement."

Distorted thinking leads to repulsive conclusions in all things, from Antifa to Hamas. TD

In defense of Israel

Pro-Palestinian Activism: Hamas Apologists Tuck Tail and Run at First Sign of Backlash | National Review  "Pro-Palestinian Advocates Reel It In after Backlash, Consequences.
"Last week, we rounded up disappointing reactions to the atrocities in Israel. This week, we’ve seen some of the worst offenders walk back their previous comments under public pressure.
"At least five of the 34 student groups at Harvard University that signed on to a statement explicitly blaming Israel alone for Hamas’s terrorist attacks have since distanced themselves from the statement, the Harvard Crimson reported.
"After initially signing on to a statement from the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee, groups including Amnesty International at Harvard, Harvard College Act on a Dream, the Harvard Undergraduate Nepali Student Association, the Harvard Islamic Society, and Harvard Undergraduate Ghungroo have withdrawn their signatures.
"Meanwhile, Chicago Black Lives Matter apologized for sending out messages “that we aren’t proud of” after the group posted and later deleted a graphic featuring a person paragliding with a Palestinian flag attached to its parachute along with the words “I stand with Palestine.” The graphic was evidently a reference to Hamas terrorists who used parachutes and gliders to enter Israeli communities last weekend during a brutal surprise attack." . . .

https://twitter.com/i/status/1713626250957185270

 The media run with Hamas propaganda about a bombed hospital - Andrea Widburg ..."Thanks to Israel’s eyes in the skies, we now know that the rocket that hit the hospital came from within Gaza itself:

 . . ."In other words, Hamas inadvertently bombed its own headquarters. Sometimes, the fog of war works.

"Nevertheless, the usual suspects are doing everything they can to show Israel as the despoiler of women and children. I’ve just grabbed a few screenshots of what the media have on tap as they wage their own war against Israel." . . .

Hamas-supporting Harvard students beg for donations to 'support their mental health' after suffering 'relentless bullying' over supporting terror attack on Israel | Daily Mail Online