American Jews must demand more from our progressive allies

 MSNBC Imagine MSNBC posting an article supporting Israel! Or anything I do not find contemptible. TD

Jews are finding their voice and demanding that the left take its own antisemitism more seriously.

If the Oct. 7 massacre — and the reaction to it — has shown us anything, it is that we are alone, but as long as we have our voices, we will not be defeated

. . ."But like many American Jews, I also felt betrayed. Rather than a full-throated condemnation of the slaughter in Israel, far too many supposedly progressive allies held their powder. They provided “context” or argued both sides were to blame and offered a host of “yes, but” responses: 

'Yes, what Hamas did was bad, but Israel brought it on itself.'

'Yes, murdering babies is awful, but Israel has been doing the same for years.'

'Yes, violence is wrong, but what option did the Palestinians have?'

"These are charges reminiscent of the age-old antisemitic trope that Jews are responsible for their own suffering.

"Others placed all the “responsibility” on Israel, while some particularly depraved souls actually celebrated the massacre, posting pictures of paragliders with Palestinian flags as if Hamas’ barbarism was not only justified but a cause for celebration.

" 'But my palpable feelings of abandonment and isolation are hardly unique these days. American Jews are angry. They feel abandoned and discarded, their suffering again ignored. But many are now finding their voice and demanding that the political left (where most Jews feel at home) finally start taking antisemitism seriously.

"American Jews have the unique privilege of living in perhaps the most tolerant country in the history of the Jewish Diaspora. The United States has never witnessed the pervasive and institutional antisemitism and recurrent pogroms that defined Jewish life in Europe and the Arab world for centuries." . . .

Be this man!  (Vee ZEL) Elie Wiesel, Auschwitz Survivor and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Dies at 87 - The New York Times (nytimes.com)  . . ."But by the sheer force of his personality and his gift for the haunting phrase, Mr. Wiesel, who had been liberated from Buchenwald as a 16-year-old with the indelible tattoo A-7713 on his arm, gradually exhumed the Holocaust from the burial ground of the history books.

"It was this speaking out against forgetfulness and violence that the Nobel committee recognized when it awarded him the peace prize in 1986.

“ 'Wiesel is a messenger to mankind,” the Nobel citation said. “His message is one of peace, atonement and human dignity. His belief that the forces fighting evil in the world can be victorious is a hard-won belief.' ”...

Elie Wiesel at Auschwitz

You go, Girl! Squad of female IDF combat troops eliminated nearly 100 Hamas terrorists

 - Defense News - The Jerusalem Post

Lt.-Col. Or Ben Yehuda, Caracal Battalion, praises her troops' bravery against Hamas, silencing doubts about female combat soldiers with their training, heroism, and life-saving actions.

"Only a few have had the chance to witness the extraordinary actions of the Caracal Battalion during their battle against Hamas terrorists.

"Lt.-Col. Or Ben-Yehuda, the commander of this unit, now recounts her experiences in the southern Gaza Strip, where her battalion eliminated approximately 100 terrorists. She also has a clear message for those who question the capabilities of female fighters in the Caracal (Desert Lynx) and Tank Battalion.

"As the assault on the Gaza border area began, Ben-Yehuda swiftly moved from the battalion headquarters in Nahal Raviv to a post on the Egyptian border with armored personnel carriers. Rockets were raining down, and warnings arrived regarding potential terrorist infiltration in the Shlomit and Bnei Netzer towns.

"In the midst of this chaos, she received a message from Lt.-Col. Yonatan Tzur, the commander of the Nahal Brigade's patrol battalion, who was later tragically killed in an encounter with terrorists. He reported an infiltration near Sufa and Nirim, saying, "There are several terrorists there... They're heavily armed!' " . . .

The Rise in Israeli Women Entering IDF Combat Units

Another Nail In the Global Warming Coffin

Most of this is not new. The fact that the Earth’s climate has changed many times over the millennia for reasons that are not understood, and that the Earth’s climate history is replete with periods that were warmer than what we are experiencing now, has long been known. What is noteworthy, I think, is that a government agency is willing to say out loud what skeptics have been saying for years. 

  Power Line (powerlineblog.com)   "Statistics Norway, the government agency that produces official statistics for that country, released a report last month titled “To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions?” The report concludes:

[T]he results imply that the effect of man-made CO2 emissions does not appear to be sufficiently strong to cause systematic changes in the pattern of the temperature fluctuations. In other words, our analysis indicates that with the current level of knowledge, it seems impossible to determine how much of the temperature increase is due to emissions of CO2.

"The report looks at the last 400,000+ years of Earth’s climate history:

The preceding four interglacial periods are seen at about 125,000, 280,000, 325,000 and 415,000 years before now, with much longer glacial periods in between. All four previous interglacial periods are seen to be warmer than the present. The typical length of a glacial period is about 100,000 years, while an interglacial period typically lasts for about 10-15,000 years. The present inter-glacial period has now lasted about 11,600 years.

 "So sometime relatively soon, the Earth is going to start getting really, really cold. This accompanying chart shows that history, based on ice cores:

"Most of this is not new. The fact that the Earth’s climate has changed many times over the millennia for reasons that are not understood, and that the Earth’s climate history is replete with periods that were warmer than what we are experiencing now, has long been known. What is noteworthy, I think, is that a government agency is willing to say out loud what skeptics have been saying for years."

Americans’ Trust In The Media Hits All-Time Low In Latest I&I/TIPP Poll

  Issues & Insights

"Do the major media outlets in the U.S., online, on-air or in print, care whether their audience trusts them or not? It certainly doesn’t seem to be the case today. Americans’ trust in the U.S. media has plunged to its lowest levels ever, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll data show.

"Both big, mainstream “traditional” media outlets and mid-sized “alternative” media outlets continue to suffer from declining revenues as their audience and readership numbers shrink. The October I&I/TIPP Poll shows that a loss in underlying trust is a key cause of media industry decline.

"The poll was taken Sept. 27-29 from among 1,378 adults around the country and has a margin of error of 2.7 percentage points.

"Each month, I&I/TIPP asks two questions:

"First, “Generally speaking, how much trust do you have in the traditional or established news media (Example: Washington Post, New York Times, NPR, CBS News, etc.) to report the news accurately and fairly?”

"Second, “Generally speaking, how much trust do you have in the alternative news media (Example: New York Post, Washington Times, NewsMax, The Daily Caller, RealClearPolitics, etc.) to report the news accurately and fairly?”

"There is no good news to report to the media. Both the traditional media group and the alternative media group hit new all-time lows this month, as readers, viewers and listeners became increasingly disgruntled by what they consider to be biased and inaccurate reporting.

"For the major media, 63% of those responding said they either had “little trust” (29%) or “no trust at all” (34%). Just 30% said they had either “a lot of trust” (8%) or “quite a bit of trust” (22%). Just 6% said they were “not sure.' ” . . .

CNN and MSNBC's left-wing bias has only gotten worse | Washington Examiner

Eyeless in Gaza; How the U.S. blinded Israeli intelligence gathering efforts on Hamas and other Palestinian groups inside Lebanon

A building hit by a Hamas rocket attack in south Tel Aviv, Oct. 8, 2023

 Eyeless in Gaza - Tablet Magazine   "It will be a while before we’re able to piece together a more complete picture of how Israel, despite its vaunted intelligence-gathering capabilities, was blindsided by the massive Hamas terrorist onslaught on Oct. 7, which led to the biggest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust. After the current Israeli operation in Gaza concludes, there will be inquiries, official and unofficial, in Israel and beyond, about what contributed to this intelligence failure. Where was Israel blinded, and how?

"A key focal point for these inquiries will be Lebanon. Immediately following the Oct. 7 massacre, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing Hamas and Hezbollah sources, that the terrorist attack was planned by the Iranians and Hezbollah in Lebanon, where the Iranians had set up a joint operations room, the existence of which Hezbollah media had previously disclosed in 2021. The New York Times corroborated the Journal’s story a few days later, adding that training for the attack, including on paragliders which were used to slaughter Israelis and tourists at a music festival, also took place in Lebanon.

"So how did Israel find itself blind and deaf in Lebanon? Why was it that, with all this activity taking place in Lebanon over several months, Israel was not able to pick up meaningful intelligence on a lethal adversary? To answer these questions, we must turn to the current security environment in Lebanon, which in turn shaped and constrained Israel’s intelligence gathering capabilities.

"Since Israel’s last major war in Lebanon in 2006, the tiny county has come under American sponsorship, even as it remained under Iranian suzerainty via its local regent, Hezbollah. This U.S.-Iranian condominium, solidified during Barack Obama’s two terms in office, is being topped off by the construction of a brand-new, $1 billion U.S. Embassy in Beirut—a symbol of the U.S.’s commitment to underwriting the country’s existing Hezbollah-led order." . . .

Hamas’ War on Israel - Everything You Need to Know; Tablet Magazine

Hamas does not recognize the right of Israel to exist and has waged what it calls a war of resistance since its inception. Its tactics over the years have evolved from the recruitment and deployment of suicide bombers to launching barrages of rockets and missiles. But Hamas had never before launched a military operation of this magnitude into Israel.

Photographic & video evidence of massacres against innocent Israeli civilians by Hamas terrorists

 

WHAT THE MSM WON’T SHOW YOU: Photographic & video evidence of massacres against innocent Israeli civilians by Hamas terrorists

In Israel:

WARNING, VERY GRAPHIC! Video out of Israel shows room full of children massacred by Hamas

Meanwhile in America, home of Antifa, BLM, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Democrats, and these people:   Harvard Students Blaming Israel for Hamas Attacks Sparks Fury: 'Despicable' (newsweek.com)

"We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence," the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee and Harvard Graduate Students for Palestine said in a joint statement posted on social media.

Full List of US Universities Staging Pro-Palestinian Protests (newsweek.com)

A Colossal Failure by Our Academic Institutions | Opinion (newsweek.com)   "Last week, as more details of the brutality and barbaric cruelty perpetrated against Israeli civilians by Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists were coming to light, University of Michigan President Santa J. Ono joined a select club of campus leaders: those willing to publicly condemn the atrocities and stand with their devastated and traumatized Jewish students.

"As University of Florida's President Ben Sasse later remarked, it "shouldn't be hard" to denounce crimes against humanity.

"But apparently it was." . . .

Why a Nice Girl Vandalizes Israeli Hostage Rescue Posters - Tablet Magazine

"Yazmeen Deyhimi’s journey from a young ADL ‘No Place for Hate’ intern to Hamas campaigner to apologizing on social media is a study in the profound political confusion of the campus woke."

Does Iran realize its own growing danger?

We are talking about Iran v. Joe Biden, aren't we? 

For the first time in decades, there is no nation that can restrain Israel from destroying Iran’s pawn Hamas — not after it butchered 1,400 Jewish citizens while radical Palestinians in Gaza keep celebrating the slaughter and promising more such savage mass murdering.

Victor Davis Hanson  "Iran understandably believes it is riding quite high.

It is flush with cash. It hints it almost has the bomb — and might use it soon.

The Iranians are bragging about their new tyrannical allies like Russia and China.

Iran boasts of now being the self-proclaimed leader of jihad on behalf of all Muslims. It gloats that it is feeding the Russian war-machine by exporting its own drones.

Tehran proudly supplied and funded Hamas’s savage murdering of Jewish children in Israel.

It eggs on its other pawn Hezbollah to launch a reputed 100,000-Iranian-supplied missiles into Israel.

It constantly provokes the U.S. — mostly by veiled threats to unleash anti-American terrorists in the Middle East and perhaps inside America itself.

But above all, Iran is giddy over the appeasing Biden administration.

Biden resurrected the unhinged Obama administration plan of empowering a “Shiite crescent” — of Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah, including Hamas.

This American idea of a radical bloc would supposedly birth “creative tension” and thus on autopilot balance the dominance of our friends in Israel and the Gulf regimes with our new Iranian clients. Yet the logical result of such madness was the massacre we saw in Israel.

Biden put pro-Iranian envoy Robert Malley — now under FBI investigation — in charge of begging Iran to restart the disastrous Iran Deal.

The anemic Biden administration has reportedly replied only four times to some 83 Iranian attacks on Americans.

Biden lifted sanctions allowing Iran to garner tens of billions of dollars in new oil sales — to be routed to all of Israel’s terrorist enemies.

He sought to pay ransom to Iran to get back five American hostages — at a cost of $1.2 billion per captive and a green-light for Tehran to take more.

The Biden administration restored in aggregate $1 billion in aid to the West Bank and Gaza, despite the long history of radical Palestinian terrorism.

This mollification of Iran also led its appendages Hamas and Hezbollah to believe that if any of them started a war against Israel, then Iran would guarantee their victory, the U.S. would do nothing — and likely force Israel to do the same nothing.

Yet a delusional Iran still is not fully aware how its loud bragging about and support for its client Hamas’s barbaric killing of Jewish civilians have put it into an unprecedented dangerous predicament." . . .

Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report -

  Argus Hamilton (jewishworldreview.com)   "• Senator Mitt Romney is publishing his autobiography titled Romney: A Reckoning Tuesday. He says in the book that Oprah approached him in 2020 and asked him to run with her on a national unity ticket for the White House. This would have been the first-ever pairing of a RINO and an elephant.

• Car and Driver says a lengthy UAW strike could result in an auto parts shortage and long waits for repairs. Last weekend my neighbor took her new car back to the dealership and asked the service bay to get rid of the awful noise her car was making. They replaced the Taylor Swift CD with Van Halen.

• Justin Timberlake threatened to sue Britney Spears if her forthcoming memoir The Woman in Me which comes out Tuesday claims that Justin got her pregnant back when they were teenagers. Brittney informed her fans Friday she will only read part of her audio book. The rest will be lip-synched.

• British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak flew to Tel Aviv to express support the day after President Biden's visit. So it's the U.S. and Britain defending the world once again. France just mobilized the French Army over one stabbing death and raised their terror threat level from Collaborate to Surrender.

• The Dallas Cowboys announced Monday that Dolly Parton will perform a halftime show during the team's annual Thanksgiving Day football game with Washington. She's been in the news a lot this week. Gasoline prices are so high in Los Angeles that Dolly Parton was seen carpooling with Jolene.

• Walgreen's pharmacists were reported Monday threatening a nationwide walkout over pay and working conditions. Compounding the possible shortage of service, Rite-Aid just declared bankruptcy. The good news is, the previously incarcerated deodorants, shampoos and razor blades are free to go now.

• The New York Post reports the Mideast strife is tearing apart the social fabric in New York and in L.A. Tonight I could get shot by the Jewish Defense League while I'm jogging through Beverly Hills for being a presumed Hamas supporter. A fan in Cambridge just sent me a Harvard sweatshirt.

• President Biden gave a televised address to the nation from the Oval Office Thursday to make his case for Congress to vote billions for Israeli defense and for relief supplies for innocent Palestinians. Meanwhile Hamas called for another Worldwide Day of Rage. Goats everywhere are sheltering in place.

• President Biden got high marks in his speech for laying out America's mission in the world but critics claimed he was soft on Iran. His coughing was also a distraction. Joe hasn't coughed that much since a kitchen fire in his house nearly burned down his subdivision and threatened his Corvette.

• President Biden told reporters the hospital explosion in Gaza was caused by a Hamas rocket that veered off course, then Joe said you need to learn to shoot straight. His remark was met with stunned silence. I learned the hard way as a boy in November 1963 you never joke about a tragedy for three days." . . .

LEAKED AUDIO: Democrat Congresswoman Shelia Jackson Lee Berates Staffer. LANGUAGE!

 Andrea Widburg: Democrat Congresswoman Shelia Jackson Lee Berates Staffer (currentrevolt.com)  Did I say "Language"? This is street talk straight from the 'hood.

"Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D. Tex.) has been in Congress since 1995. She boasts a BA in political science from Yale University and a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. With those credentials, you might imagine a woman of gravitas, decency, and dignity. If that’s what you imagine, you also believe in Tinker Bell-esque fairies and peace-loving Iranian mullahs. All of those are wildly errant fantasies. Instead, she is a radical leftist. We’re also learning now that she is a verbally abusive boss with a potty mouth so extreme it renders her completely incoherent.  Current Revolt

"Here’s some of what Jackson Lee stands for:

• China
• Venezuela
• Calling Tea Party members, who wanted lower taxes, the KKK
• Pro-LGBTQ+ policies
• Challenging elections in which Republicans win . . .

. . ."Additionally, Jackson Lee, when a member of the House Committee on Science, is famous for asking if the Mars Pathfinder was able to take a picture of the American flag that Neil Armstrong planted in 1969…on the moon.

"Over the years, in addition to being mentally deficient and a hard leftist (but I repeat myself), Jackson Lee has developed a reputation for being a horrible boss. Thus, there have long been allegations that Jackson Lee verbally abused her staff members.

"Finally, we have proof that this is true. A leaked recording has been released in which Jackson Lee throws around obscenities, vulgarities, and sheer stupidity with such abandon that her meaning is incoherent. All that comes through is anger, hatred, and arrogance:. . ."

The worst since Carter

Forget his age; Biden has always been a man of low intelligence. TD

  Silvio Canto, Jr. - American Thinker   "Former President Jimmy Carter left office in 1981 -- 42 years ago, if you remember.  Today, the former president and Mrs. Carter are in Georgia gracefully facing the end.  For the record, I always thought that Carter was a decent man who should have never been president.  He won the "Watergate" election and there is not a lot about his presidency that we care to remember.

"Today, we remember President Carter because of President Biden, or Carter II as John Kaas wrote:    

Watching Biden draw unintended but altogether feeble comparisons between himself, and failed President Jimmy Carter, gives me no satisfaction. It offered only dread as if the best course of action would be to pull the covers back over our heads and hide from the world. But we can’t.

At least when Carter was exposing himself to the world as a weak man, when his name became a joke synonymous with feebleness, when the Americans were taken hostage in Iran.  Carter only cemented the notion he was a weakling when he literally panicked and feared he was being threatened by a rabbit near a fishing hole.

Yet even through that, as inflation tore through our wallets and our savings, as Iran burned our flag, as our hostages waited helplessly because the president was so seemingly powerless, the Democrats were behind him and we called him president. 

"Yes, I always felt that Carter was a patriot but weak and at least surrounded by people who loved the country.  I am sorry but that's not how I feel today.  Carter made mistakes, but he was in charge.  Biden is making mistakes because he is not in charge.  Biden allowed climate change fanatics to run his energy policy.  He let immigration activists open the border and create chaos everywhere.  He withdrew from Afghanistan in the worst possible way.  

"So Carter was doing his best but Biden doesn't have a clue.  Someday we’ll refer to a president as Biden II the new standard to measure incompetence."

“Someone Else Is Running the Country for Him”: President Biden Accidently Reads Out Teleprompter Instructions During Speech

 “Someone Else Is Running the Country for Him”: President Biden Accidently Reads Out Teleprompter Instructions During Speech (msn.com)

"In his latest gaffe, President Biden seemingly read out his teleprompter instructions. “Make it clear,” he added to his sentence, words that likely weren’t supposed to be read out loud."

Joe Biden Fumbles, Reads Teleprompter During Speech About Israel   . . .“We’ll have something that we do not seek — make it clear we do not seek — we do not seek to have American troops fighting in Russia,” he said. "He later stated that "you'll all America" before correcting himself and saying, "You're all American.

Joe Biden Sparks Concern After Saying He's Following Staff's Orders  

‘MIA’ Biden Slammed By Critics for Calling Lid Before Noon Following Attack on Israel: ‘A Disgusting Disgrace’ (msn.com)

"President Joe Biden was slammed by critics for calling a lid and notifying the press that he would be neither seen nor heard from for the rest of the day before noon on Monday, the first weekday following this weekend’s devastating attack on Israel.

“ 'Hi everyone — The White House has called a lid for the day, before the pool call time. We will not be seeing the president today,” wrote USA Today White House correspondent Francesca Chambers in an email to her colleagues at 11:52 am on Monday.

"The only event on the president’s schedule for the day was his receipt of the presidential daily briefing, which was penciled in for 10 a.m.

"A number of observers, many of them frequent critics of Biden, were shocked by the decision to end the day before noon even as the international crisis in Israel unfolds." . . .

Hamas & IDF Ground Forces Clash For 1st Time Inside Gaza: Israeli Soldier Killed, Others Wounded

  ZeroHedge   "Hamas has claimed to have repelled a brief Israeli ground incursion, in what marks the first such reported direct ground fight between two sides in Gaza. The Al-Qassam Brigades announced its fighters destroyed two Israeli military bulldozers and a tank as part of an ambush amid the IDF's conducting 'limited' incursions into the strip.

" 'The soldiers of the Zionist force that fell into the Khan Younis ambush left their vehicles and fled east of the fence on foot," the Hamas wing said on social media. The IDF as expected did not confirm the claims, saying only that "shots were fired at IDF soldiers operating west of the Gaza Strip security fence, in the area of Kissufim." Instead, the IDF said only that "An IDF tank struck the terrorist cell who fired at the soldiers" - but did confirm its forces were operating inside Gaza at the time of the incident. 

"The IDF appears to have begun taking casualties, and the major ground offensive has yet to even begin. Importantly, an IDF statement cited in a fresh Times of Israel update appears to back Hamas' account of repelling the IDF tank and bulldozers:

A soldier was killed and three others were hurt on Sunday after Hamas attacked troops carrying out an operation on the western side of the Gaza border fence, near the southern community of Kissufim.

The operation was part of the military’s searches for bodies of missing Israelis, and to clear the area for Israel’s upcoming ground offensive.

The Israel Defense Forces said an anti-tank guided missile was fired at an Israeli tank and engineering vehicle, and troops responded by shelling the terror cell. Terror group Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack." . . .

 University Of California Professor Threatens Pro-Israel Journalists And Their Families  "The University of California at Davis is embroiled in a controversy involving one of its faculty threatening “zionist journalists” in a violent tirade on X. UC Davis Professor (and undergraduate adviser) Jemma Decristo posted the screed on October 10th referencing the homes and family of those who support Israel as possible targets. The university is investigating the matter, but Decristo’s embrace of violence is nothing new for faculty around the country. For years, faculty members have engaged in violent rhetoric directed toward conservatives and Republicans with little response from universities.

"Decristo wrote:

“one group of ppl we have easy access to in the US is all these zionist journalists who spread propaganda and misinformation … they have houses w addresses, kids in school, they can fear their bosses, but they should fear us more.”

. . .