Is Hamas enough to wake up the slumbering American people?

Is Hamas enough to wake up the slumbering American people? - American Thinker

 Can this Israeli tragedy wake America from our long slumber?  Let’s hope so, because if we can see it, we can fix it. 

. . ." In America, the tail (leftists) has been wagging the dog (liberals) for two decades.  The Democrat party has lost its center, and most liberals just haven’t paid attention as they blindly support what they’d like to believe is the party of their parents, the party of John Kennedy.  But it isn’t.  It’s the party of Omar, AOC, and Tlaib.  The vocal, aggressive, radical minority often dominates the quiet majority, and in American liberal precincts, this is certainly the case." . . .

 On Israel, Biden Picks Up Where Obama Left Off (thefederalist.com)   . . ."You can hear echoes of Barack Obama’s insufferable moral equivalencies imbued in that statement.

"The contention is a not-so-subtle warning to Israel, who will almost surely enter Gaza and try to dismantle the Hamas terror state — which has been indirectly and directly funded not only by Iran, the European Union, and the United Nations but also by the Obama and Biden administrations.

"The insinuation, of course, is that Israel needs to temper its inclination to engage in “terrorism and nihilism.” It is a blood libel.

"It is not “terrorism” to seek justice for the pregnant woman who had her baby cut from her body or the elderly couple who was burned alive. And eliminating those who committed Nazi-like atrocities against your citizens is no more nihilistic than tracking down Eichmann or demanding Emperor Hirohito unconditionally surrender.

"Yet, only days after the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust, Biden was already lecturing Benjamin Netanyahu on how “democracies like Israel and the United States are stronger and more secure when we act according to the rule of law.” The insinuation, again, is that there is something nefarious about winning a war against those who massacre your citizens.

"Israel doesn’t target civilians, as Blinken, busy placating the progressives who now infest Washington and academia, knows well. Many Israeli soldiers have died because the nation avoids civilian casualties – even as Hamas diligently places their weapons and themselves behind women and children."

'From the River to the Sea': A Call to Genocide Heard in America | Opinion (newsweek.com)   "Israel and its people are being asked to do something unprecedented in history: commit suicide.  Nothing else will satisfy the nation's enemies. The end of the Jewish State and the death of the Jewish people are in the Hamas charter, in Iran's chants, and projected onto the walls of George Washington University in downtown Washington, DC."

Genocide, step one: Shani Louk Beheaded by Hamas, Israel Says (newsweek.com)  "This means that these barbaric, sadistic animals simply chopped off her head as they attacked, tortured and killed Israelis. It is a great tragedy and I extend my deepest condolences to her family," he continued."

This local crime story deserves national attention, anger, and action

 Seth Grossman - American Thinker   "Sabir Jones (pictured), a 39-year-old “homeless” man from Newark walked, into the busy Fifth Avenue/53rd Street station in midtown Manhattan around noon on October 18. Without provocation, Jones approached a 26-year-old man getting off an E train. Jones punched him in the face, breaking his jaw.  Jones then walked up to an unsuspecting 30-year-old woman who had stepped off an F train. He violently shoved her head into the side of the departing train and she tumbled onto the tracks. Passersby jumped down to get her out before another train arrived. She was rushed to a nearby hospital where she

underwent emergency brain surgery. A “a significant portion” of her skull was removed. Even if she survives, she will never again have a normal life.

"Jones was quickly identified because he was “known to” police. He was arrested in Newark the following day.

"Last July, Jones punched a random 65-year-old woman twice in the back at another busy station. A few months earlier, Jones was “connected” to an incident involving threats to a business in the Lower East Side.  Jones also had two “emotionally disturbed person” incidents there. Last December, Jones was arrested for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest when he refused to stop riding between subway cars on a J train in Brooklyn." . . .

Celebrated by sheep-like students who cannot find an original thought: more murdered victims of Hamas.

Elsewhere:  'She died holding her babies in her arms' (msn.com)

The parents of a British-Israeli woman killed in her home by Hamas alongside her two children say they were found "all cuddled together".

Bristol-born Lianne Sharabi, 48, and her two teenage daughters were killed when Hamas stormed their home in Kibbutz Be'eri, Israel, on 7 October.

Gill and Pete Brisley said Lianne was a "devoted mother" who "tried to protect her daughters to the end".

"Lianne was doing what a mother would do - holding her babies in her arms."

Mr and Mrs Brisley spoke to the BBC about their daughter and grandchildren Noiya and Yahel just days after their funeral.

"Our three beautiful girls are no longer with us," Mrs Brisley said." . . .

Kidnapped Festival Goer Shani Louk Beheaded by Hamas: Israeli President (breitbart.com)

. . ."Her family had recognized her in a video circulating on social media showing a half-naked, unconscious woman being paraded by Hamas fighters in the back of a pick-up truck. The woman's face wasn't visible, but Louk's family said they identified her by her leg tattoos.

"Now, Louk's family said that they were informed by Israeli authorities of the 22-year-old's death. While the family didn't specify how or when Louk died, Herzog said the woman was beheaded after the October 7 attack. Newsweek could not verify the legitimacy of the claim.

" 'I am truly sorry to report that we have now received news that Shani Nicole Louk has been confirmed murdered and dead. Her skull was found," Herzog told the German daily newspaper Bild.

" 'This means that these barbaric, sadistic animals simply chopped off her head as they attacked, tortured and killed Israelis. It is a great tragedy and I extend my deepest condolences to her family," he continued.

" 'What we saw on the Gaza-Israel border goes far beyond a pogrom. We saw a slaughterhouse. We saw the blood flowing in the streets. We have seen the most horrific tragedies imaginable," he added." . . Her last hours.

WATCH – ‘Our Kids, Our Consent’: California Drag Queen Story Hour Canceled When Parents Protest

From the state giving us Gavin Newsom comes......   

 Pickle the Drag Queen (breitbart.com)  "A children’s event featuring a drag queen was shut down when parents intervened on Wednesday in San Fernando Valley, California. The Post Millennial reported Thursday the drag queen story hour was scheduled to happen at the San Fernando Library with Pickle the Drag Queen, who describes himself on Instagram as the Drag Laureate.Video footage shows Pickle arriving at the venue, wearing a pink outfit and sunglasses. However, he is quickly surrounded by a group of adults:" . . . 

The article properly refers to this man as "she".

Drag Queen Shows Up Expecting to See Children, Finds Furious Parents Instead (westernjournal.com)  "It's about time.

"Whatever they may tell you, drag is a sexual perversion related to a mental disorder known as transvestic fetishism indulged in by grown men.

"And in a democratic society, they have a right to it -- or any other perversion -- as long as its done among consenting adults.

"But when the government celebrates this adult activity, pushing adult men with problems on young children without any concern for their safety, the only protection they have remains their parents.

"And at least in one city, parents are doing just that.

"On Wednesday, a drag queen who goes by the name "Pickle" was scheduled to host a drag story hour event at San Fernando Public Library, but was prevented from entering the library by scores of angry protesters who blocked his entry, according to KGO-TV.

WARNING: The following social media posts include content that some may consider offensive.

Among the groups protesting was Gays Against Groomers California, an LGBT group that recognizes that drag is an activity unsuitable for kids and that drag activity involving minors is a blatant attempt to sexualize and indoctrinate children.

You Won't Be Surprised to Learn That George Soros Is Bankrolling Pro-Hamas Protests –

  RedState

. . ."According to a new report, the Open Society Foundations, Soros’ organization, has funneled millions of dollars to these groups, some of which are publicly justifying Hamas’ actions in the Israel/Gaza conflict, which raises serious questions about the merits and ethics of finances going toward an organization that has a well-documented history of killing Israeli civilians.

Far-left billionaire kingmaker George Soros has funneled more than $15 million since 2016 to groups behind this month’s pro-Palestine protests, where demonstrators openly cheered Hamas militants’ craven terrorist attacks on Israel.

A Post examination of Open Society Foundations records shows Soros’ grant-making network gave $13.7 million of the money through Tides Center, a deep-pocketed lefty advocacy group that sponsors several nonprofits who’ve justified Hamas’ bloody attacks while claiming Palestinians obsessed with the eradication of the Jewish state are the real victims.

"Soros’ funding of these groups adds another layer to the ongoing debate over the Israel/Palestine issue, especially when it comes to the current war, which was sparked when Hamas launched a massive surprise attack against Israel. Over one thousand people were killed, many of whom were non-combatants. Yet, the billionaire has been propping up radical groups such as these for years.

"This development further illustrates that it is primarily the far-left in America that insists on using the war to spread anti-Israel sentiments in the streets, airwaves, and interwebs. While many of these groups simply express solidarity for the plight of the Palestinian civilians, others have openly supported and defended Hamas, even when it was revealed that the group has targeted Israeli children for violence." . . .

 In Rare Jewish Appearance, George Soros Says Jews and Israel Cause Anti-Semitism - Jewish Telegraphic Agency (jta.org)   . . ."When asked about anti-Semitism in Europe, Soros, who is Jewish, said European anti-Semitism is the result of the policies of Israel and the United States.

“There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. The policies of the Bush administration and the Sharon administration contribute to that,” Soros said. “It’s not specifically anti-Semitism, but it does manifest itself in anti- Semitism as well. I’m critical of those policies.”

“ 'If we change that direction, then anti-Semitism also will diminish,” he said. “I can’t see how one could confront it directly.”

"That is a point made by Israel’s most vociferous critics, whom some Jewish activists charge with using anti-Zionism as a guise for anti-Semitism.

"The billionaire financier said he, too, bears some responsibility for the new anti-Semitism, citing last month’s speech by Malaysia’s outgoing prime minister, Mahathir Mohammad, who said, “Jews rule the world by proxy.” . . .

The unfolding of a terrorist massacre at a little Israeli kibbutz, through the WhatsApp

This woman destroyed dozens of posters of kidnapped Israeli civilians in Primrose Hill, London today. When asked why she was doing it, she said she doesn't believe Hamas actually kidnapped all those people.

 Monica Showalter  "Unlike, say, ISIS, Hamas is a bloodsoaked terrorist organization with a public relations department targeted at Western liberals.

"Which in the wake of Hamas's October 7 massacre of 1,400 innocent Israelis and a few foreign visitors, has cranked up to high gear in a bid to shift the "narrative," putting the spotlight on Israel's retaliation as somehow bad, and denying anything bad ever happened. Hamas, see, wouldn't dream of beheading a baby, spitting on a woman's stripped body from a truckbed, or parading a raped woman in front of the cell phone cameras as radicals cheered, now would they?

"They want us to forget. They want Israel to be the bad guy in the eyes of the news media and social media influencers, supposedly harassing and killing innocent people in their war on Gaza, the Hamas stronghold, as if the terrorists were just standing there doing nothing and Israel attacked.

"Here's one of their sycophants in denial out promoting denial:". . .

. . ."But the Israelis seem to recognize this pattern of public relations from the terrorists and have taken some unprecedented steps to counter the garbage out there.

"They released photos of burned bodies and beheaded babies and children. (Hamas claimed it was artificial intelligence but that has been debunked). Israeli officials said they had to, given all the denialism out there, people actually forgetting what happened even though it was less than a month ago. 

"They released more photos." . . .

2 young Israeli children tried to hide in this closet in their home.
They were found by Hamas and shot on the spot.
For those people questioning why Israel is launching a ground invasion of Gaza. pic.twitter.com/oY0afYjHML

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 28, 2023

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Hamas revels in the blood of dead Gazans

Biden’s Oval Office Address Was A Disgrace ›

  American Greatness   "Apparently the 81 million Americans who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 didn’t get the memo that elections have consequences.

"Or maybe they wanted a diminished United States and a world in turmoil.

"Like Obamacare, you get what you pay for.

"When you elect a weak, decrepit, senile man who should have 24 hour care in a nursing home somewhere near Rehoboth Beach, not 24 hour Secret Service protection at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue—it leads to the world becoming a dark, dangerous, and chaotic place.

"It leads to a horrendous Afghanistan withdrawal that signals to our adversaries they can do whatever they want without retribution.

"It leads to Russia going into Ukraine with a war that has no end in sight.

"It leads to China continuing to threaten Taiwan by flying fighter jets near the island—without any serious pushback.

"It leads to the appeasement of a terrorist regime in Iran.

"And now it leads to the slaughtering of more than 1,400 Israeli’s and at least 32 Americans, who were butchered by Hamas barbarians in their own homes and at a concert for peace—of all places.

"Lord knows how many additional innocent civilians are currently being held hostage by these Iranian-backed devilish monsters.

"But fear not, in an Oval Office address on Thursday, Biden tried and failed miserably to reassure the American people that he is even remotely capable of cleaning up this mess the world now finds itself in—due to his incompetence, diminished mental acuity—and the continuation of his historically disastrous foreign policy decisions.

"No one who listened to that 13-minute meandering, incoherent jargon should be reassured of anything, except for our enemies—who no longer fear us and no doubt will be emboldened to continue to set the world on fire, as long as Biden is in the White House.

"Biden appropriately started by praising the Israelis for their strength and resiliency—but he quickly tried appeasing the radicals in his party by playing both sides and said, “the United States remains committed to the Palestinian people’s right to dignity and to self-determination. The actions of Hamas terrorists don’t take that right away.” . . .

Biden’s Cheat Sheets Attain Comic Book Status, But It's Not Funny –

  PJ Media

. . ."The fact that the President of the United States has been reduced to looking at pictures is a sad state of affairs. He’s like a child looking at a comic book. What’s even more concerning is that not only do they have to supply him with pictures; they are supplying him with the questions ahead of time.

"Calling this a press conference is an insult to the intelligence of every American. These are not press conferences, these are staged events, orchestrated “plays” designed to make what’s left of an incompetent con-artist still appear to be relevant. The main two ingredients of any presidential press conference are never present when Biden wanders onto the stage. The setting is supposed to contain “The Commander in Chief,” something he certainly is not. The leader of the free world is not supposed to do a “Thorazine” shuffle up to a podium, clutching a picture book. It’s also supposed to have an audience of journalists, but those are never present at Biden’s skits either.

"Agreeing to have your picture on one of Biden’s placards is the equivalent of turning in your press pass. You are forfeiting your journalistic integrity, if you ever had any, and joining a long line of lemmings walking off the ledge of truth." . . .

Perhaps that will be evidence enough, but based on interactions I've had on social media -- with alleged "conservatives" -- since Biden's remarks, I'm not sure it will...

I was just told that Biden's remarks weren't "irrefutable" evidence

Clear Signs of Dementia   "One social media user talked about her own experience with cognitive decline, commenting, “That’s his dementia.. my dad had it, that’s how they get. He has all the signs.”

"A second social media user even put a timeline on Biden’s ability to govern, saying, “This guy is not going to make it 6 more months, he is toast, they must be freaking out behind the scenes. BIDEN IS GONE.”  A third user simply put, “I’d say he’s lost it but, he never had it.”

Comment to the above post: "Biden will be the first president in history that when leaving office will not be going home but rather straight to the memory care unit of a retirement home."

On the media

NYU law student who defended Hamas’ terror attack refuses to say if she has empathy for ‘brutalized’ Israelis | Fox News  

. . ."Workman, who reportedly identifies as nonbinary, previously came under fire for writing in the newsletter SBA Weekly shortly after Hamas' terrorist attack that "Israel bears full responsibility for this tremendous loss of life" and "this regime of state-sanctioned violence created the conditions that made resistance necessary," adding, "I will not condemn Palestinian resistance."   "Since that statement, Workman was forced to step down as the organization's president and lost a job offer from international law firm Winston & Strawn LLP." . . .

“What’s harsh, is dropping in on a music festival and slaughtering a bunch of young people just trying to enjoy an afternoon” (legalinsurrection.com)  . . ." Kirby: “What’s harsh — what’s harsh is the way Hamas is using people as human shields. What’s harsh is taking a couple of hundred hostages and leaving families and anxious, waiting and worrying to figure out where their loved ones are. What’s harsh, is dropping in on a music festival and slaughtering a bunch of young people just trying to enjoy an afternoon. I could go on and on. That’s what’s harsh. That is what’s harsh and being honest about the fact that there have been civilian casualties and that there likely will be more is being honest, because that’s what war is. It’s brutal. It’s ugly. It’s messy. I’ve said that before. President also said that yesterday. Doesn’t mean we have to like it. And it doesn’t mean that we’re dismissing anyone of those casualties each and every one is a tragedy in its own right…It would be helpful if Hamas would let [Gazans] leave….We know that there are thousands waiting to leave Gaza writ large and Hamas is preventing them from doing it. That is what is harsh.”. . . 

Some of the People Defending Hamas Are Using the Same Argument the Nazis Tried After the Holocaust (legalinsurrection.com)  

"The ‘Dresden defense’  I am a historian (like Khalidi), interested in the origins of ideas and arguments. It turns out that Khalidi’s premier talking point has a very specific genesis.

"It figured in the case for the defense in the Einsatzgruppen Trial, conducted by the Nuremberg Military Tribunal from late 1947 to the spring of 1948. The Einsatzgruppen were the paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany, which carried out mass murder by shooting in Nazi-occupied Europe. They destroyed well over a million Jews, and two million people all told. After the war, their surviving senior commanders were put on trial at Nuremberg, charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes.

"The chief defendant, SS-Gruppenführer Otto Ohlendorf, had been commander of Einsatzgruppe D, which carried out mass murders in Moldova, southern Ukraine, and the Caucasus. An economist and father of five, he had supervised the killing of 90,000 Jews. Ohlendorf imagined that he had a moral conscience. The killers under his command, he told a U.S. Army prosecutor, were prohibited from using infants for target practice, or smashing their heads against trees." . . .

“Look how many I killed with my own hands! Your son killed Jews!”

Listen to a phone call of a Hamas terrorist calling home, bragging about how many people he massacred.

The whole world needs to hear this. pic.twitter.com/Xv0ykyxvrF

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 24, 2023

Victor Davis Hanson: Does Iran realize its own growing danger?

From Joe Biden?

 Victor Davis Hanson

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.

"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." . . .

. . ."And such a retaliation would be welcomed by Iran’s numerous enemies, privately applauded by its small number of supposed “friends,” and largely shrugged off by its even fewer allies." . . .

Updated: Chants 'calling for the murder of Jews' were shouted at me during Cooper Union protest

 Chants 'calling for the murder of Jews' were shouted at me during Cooper Union protest, student recalls (msn.com)

"Personally, I don't feel threatened by pro-Palestinian rallies or anything in that sense," Lent said. "Everyone has their own right to be doing that, but I definitely did feel threatened when there were chants calling for the murder of Jews being chanted at me from my fellow students." 

The university president acknowledged the incident in a press release saying while "there is room for productive debate and dissent," there is "no tolerance for hate or threatening conduct."

"On Wednesday, there was a planned student walk-out outside of the Foundation Building, part of a larger effort across New York City and nationally," the statement said.  "Students convened in front of the Foundation Building at 1 p.m.; it was a peaceful protest. However, we want to make clear that language displayed on the protest signs may have suggested that the students were speaking on behalf of the college – they were not. The signs carried and posted on the sidewalk in front of the building represented the views of those who created them."

"The president said the university "(condemns) discrimination of any kind, including antisemitism and Islamophobia" as well as  "hateful and threatening acts of any kind – written, spoken, visual, or physical."

"The New York Police Department said there was "no direct threat" to the Jewish students during the ordeal.

"There was no damage, and there was no danger to any students in that school," an NYPD official said.

"The official claimed the students were not barricaded.

""The doors are open but closed," the official said. "A school administrator thought it was prudent to close the doors and place private security as the protesters were coming down the stairs." . . .

UPDATED: Harvard supports terrorism - Don Surber (substack.com)   Palestinians invaded Israel on October 7 — a holy day for Jews — and raped women, tortured men, murdered grannies, beheaded babies and burned people alive.

"The reaction by Harvard was to hold a vigil three nights later for Palestinians. Harvard’s anti-Semitism is so strong that I am surprised that Hitler wasn’t a graduate. Maybe World War I interrupted his classes on Aryan Studies and Teutonic History.

"The heads of more than 30 student organizations signed a letter supporting Palestinian terrorism because somehow Jews are the villains in their scenario. This presented a public relations problem as it turns out large donors are not crazy; they do not support rape, torture and murder." . . .

Johnson as Speaker Changes Everything

AF Branco - Townhall

Johnson as Speaker Changes Everything - American Thinker   . . ."With a President and Senate now firmly under Deep State control, Johnson’s likelihood of success seems remote. That could change, depending on market forces and the potential for domestic terrorist attacks to shift the political dynamic. History establishes that democracies are innately fragile, enduring but a couple of centuries. Their usual demise is via the temporary stimulus provided by inflation. Once that party ends, economic reality intrudes and the party in power gets blamed. This occurred in 1932 with Hoover, or in 1980 when Carter played the scapegoat. With the Middle East on fire, we are entering a period of political danger for not only Democrats, but Republicans as well. The blame for current economic conditions now hangs around Biden’s neck. The less Johnson’s fiscal initiatives succeed, the better for Republicans in the long run. A debt commission keeps the spotlight where it belongs -- on Biden’s planned chaos. If Biden vetoes House bills slashing spending, he drags his party down with him.

"Legislatures in democracies are typically loath to curtail spending/debt orgies. The public demands bread and circuses. However, there is now so much fat that substantial savings could be realized without having to touch third-rail sectors such as Social Security or Medicare. With the House highlighting impeachment and debt, the coming months should be entertaining. With Johnson’s soft touch and civility, we may see a good cop/bad cop routine featuring him and Trump.

. . ."House Speaker Mike Johnson Credits Bible for His Worldview (ijr.com)

“Someone asked me today in the media, they said, ‘It’s curious, people are curious. What does Mike Johnson think about any issue under the sun?’ I said, ‘Well, go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it – that’s my worldview.’ That’s what I believe and so I make no apologies for it.” Johnson, who was once an attorney for the Christian legal group the Alliance Defense Fund, further emphasized it was his “personal worldview.”