Israeli soldiers don’t have the luxury of grief

 Phyllis Chesler Organization

“Who do you think you are?” she said. “Both my parents had numbers on their arms. I will not be quiet as you tell lies about Israel and the Jews.” 

"In Israel, our soldiers are fighting heroically, but they are also being killed in combat.

"In Israel, so I’ve been told, one soldier who had been allowed to return home for 24 hours left her family and went to the basement to sleep in their safe room. What she’d seen in the south and Gaza, what she now knew, compelled her to do so.

"Young Israelis today understand more about Jewish history than they ever had to before. They are living a replay of it on steroids. Some former “peaceniks” no longer believe that they can trust, live with, live near or employ Arab Gazan civilians. One wonders what this means in terms of the pro-Hamas Arabs in Judea and Samaria. This question is a very serious one.

"In 1980, when I was interviewed for the front page of Yediot Aharonot about the return of antisemitism, most Israelis with whom I spoke rejected the information. They gently but firmly explained to me that this was simply business as usual between one nation and another. But I had just returned from a U.N. conference in Copenhagen—the precursor to the notoriously antisemitic 2000 Durban conference—and sadly, I knew they were wrong.

"Now their children and grandchildren have no choice but to grapple with the fact that we have not escaped Jewish history; although this time around, we have a blessed and powerful army to fight for us (may God protect its soldiers). Our young are called upon to sacrifice their lives for us, as they’ve done in war after war.

"Earlier this century, the same took place in Jenin, the terrorist hotbed from which numerous suicide bombers left to blow up Israeli civilians in buses, cafes and at Passover seders:

"As we all now know, the “Jenin Massacre” was a lie. It never happened." . . .

What Hamas Did to the Girls and Women in Gaza

  Frontpage Mag

The storm has died down and the islamic cowards have got the left wing support and worldwide protests against Jews they needed. Comment to this post

"The full horror of what happened to them is now coming out. It is just what you expected. What is unexpected is that it was The New York Times, so often unfair to Israel, that published this detailed account. More on the rapes, tortures, and murders of Israeli girls and women on October can be found here: “In harrowing detail, NYT reports on weaponization of rape, sexual violence on Oct. 7,” Times of Israel, December 29, 2023:

 In a comprehensive, horrifying exposé published on Thursday {Dec. 28], The New York Times detailed the systematic sexual violence against Israeli women and girls employed by Palestinian terrorists during Hamas’s unprecedented October 7 rampage through southern Israel.

The two-month investigation includes interviews with more than 150 witnesses, medical personnel, first responders, soldiers, rape counselors, and government officials, along with the scanning of video footage, photographs and GPS data from cell phones.

''The piece begins with the description of a harrowing video that circulated widely in the days after Hamas’s monstrous assault on southern Israel that Saturday morning. The footage, filmed in the early hours of October 8, shows the partially charred remains of a woman whose face is burned beyond recognition, and who is naked from the waist down, legs spread, her black dress hiked up. Her body is lying beside a car that was set alight on Route 232, which runs parallel to the Gaza Strip, where many people trying to flee the outdoor Supernova festival near Kibbutz Re’im were massacred by Hamas terrorists. Some 360 of the 1,200 people slaughtered that day were from the rave.

The woman in the video was later identified as Gal Abdush, a 34-year-old mother of two from central Israel, who attended the Supernova festival with her husband, Nagi Abdush, 36. Police say they believe Abdush was raped before she was murdered and her body set alight. It took about a week to identify her, according to the report. Her husband’s body was found days later, and was so badly burned that authorities needed DNA testing to identify him.

 . . ."Those who are capable of rational thought should, with such accounts as these, understand why Israel cannot possibly allow Hamas to exist as a military threat. This is only part of the story of what was done that day by the Hamas killers: the gang-rapes, the mutilation of bodies, the torture, the murders, and the hilarity exhibited — the joking, the laughing, the giggling — by Hamas killers as they did what they did to these Jewish girls and women. There is much more that has been left out: the rapes and murders of pre-adolescent girls, the slicing off of breasts, the seizure of girls not only by Hamas, but by those “innocent civilians” who accompanied Hamas on its rampage, participated in the torture and slaughter, and took back to Gaza their own female captives, to be used as sex slaves, as some may still be doing. But this is more than enough. The New York Times, so often to be condemned for its reporting on Israel and the Palestinians, this time deserves praise." . . .

WORST OF 2023: The Jihadist Journalism Award for Helping Hamas (newsbusters.org)   “Last night, I asserted that this report indicated that babies were beheaded. This was an overstatement. I should have said that the report established that babies were found headless, a fact that lends plausibility to claims of beheading, but which does not prove them. The verb behead has multiple definitions, and is sometimes used to mean decapitate; the report indicates that Hamas did behead babies in that sense. But the term can also connote a form of execution using a knife, and we do not have confirmation of beheading in this sense.”

How Dems Like Newsom Got Away With Destroying A Great State

 The Federalist

Gavin Newsom wasn’t the first leftist to destroy California, but he has undoubtedly been the most successful.

. . ."We know Newsom and his party don’t give a second thought to the state’s destruction, nor the residents who are collateral damage, because in California next November, like clockwork, Democrats will again prevail up and down the ballot and all across the state."

"California Gov. Gavin Newsome(sp) is straight out of central casting for a perfect liberal: JFK looks but without JFK’s pesky conservative beliefs.

'All perfect leftists have an accidental view of history, and Newsom has a Ph.D. in accidents. To be a perfect leftist you have to subscribe to the theory that things just… happen. The basic philosophy and matching campaign rhetoric is: All the bad things you see — from homelessness and crime to inflation and war — are accidental. They could have happened to anybody regardless of policies, so give Democrats more of your money, and don’t ask about outcomes.

'To satisfy the more critically thinking liberal voter, they pivot to: If there are reasons why bad things happen, it’s the fault of fill-in-the-blank conservative, and now we have to fix it with left-wing policies (read: spending money). The intent of a policy matters more than its outcome.

'I was raised in Southern California, spent over half my life there, and let me tell you, in the ’70s and ’80s, it was the best place on the planet to live. California was magical. Growing up there was amazing, and most adults who lived there in that era concur, regardless of political affiliation. It’s almost impossible to convince a SoCal kid who experienced everything that great state had to offer that there was a better place to be raised in America.

'Out-of-state cousins wanted to come visit every holiday, and their parents loaded up cars and vacationed where we spent our lives daily. We rode our bikes well after dark without a care in the world, walked in Hollywood without fear, strolled the beaches in the wee hours of the morning, regularly rode up to bowling alleys, stores, and restaurants — and then just left our bikes without locking them up. Kids of the ’70s and ’80s were (little “g”) gods, and California was our kingdom.

"There was one exception to our Golden State utopia, and it came in the summer of 1984 when the Night Stalker paralyzed SoCal residents. It lasted a little more than a year, and when he was caught, we celebrated, not just because the killing spree was over but because we all could resume our lives without fear. The Night Stalker was named that because he struck only at night — but now, in broad daylight, California residents know they can be a victim at any time and in any neighborhood." . . . 

Ann Coulter: Black Women in Charge

 Breitbart 

"But Gardner threw herself into prosecuting a white couple, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who did not so much as fire a gun, much less kill anyone, but merely brandished guns from their property at BLM protesters passing by, whom they feared were coming to destroy their home." 

 "The Claudine Gay affair reminds me that we need a reckoning on how the “intersectionality” project is going.

"The idea was that after centuries of being kept down by racism and sexism – although that didn’t seem to hurt accomplished black women like Barbara Jordan, Condi Rice, Jessye Norman, Zora Neale Hurston and on and on – black women would finally be given a fair shot. Think of all that untapped talent!

"But so far, intersectionality has mostly placed a lot of black women in high-profile jobs far beyond their abilities. Or as the former Harvard president once said, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

"This will be the first in a series of columns I will issue periodically reflecting on the accomplishments of those at the top of the “intersectionality” heap. We’ll start with two heroic black lady prosecutors.

"Marilyn Mosby started the trend of fabulous black women saving America by becoming prosecutors. One of her first cases involved a notorious Baltimore heroin dealer, Freddie Gray, who sustained fatal injuries while being transported in the back of a police van. A mere 10 days later, Mosby charged all six officers involved (three black and three white) with crimes up to murder and manslaughter, after summarily blowing off the police investigation, but without having completed her own investigation first.

"For this, Mosby was instantly acclaimed as a national hero! She was photographed by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue, invited onstage at a Prince benefit concert, featured on the “Today” show, named the 2015 Junius W. Williams Young Lawyer of the Year by the National Bar Association, given a Woman of Courage Award from the National Women’s Political Caucus that same year, and chosen as 2016 Newsmaker of the Year, among the nonstop accolades." . . .

"Her first year in office, the homicide rate in Baltimore increased by nearly 60 percent."

Douglas Murray ROASTS Disgraced Harvard President Claudine Gay

 Youtube

Comment on the below: Thank you Ayaan for continuing to get your face on TV. Your case that Islam needs reformation is so important and it needs to be spread to mainstream Western societies.

"The resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay has sparked a heated debate on issues of merit, diversity, and inclusion. While some argue that her departure was justified due to accusations of plagiarism and a poor performance at a congressional hearing on anti-Semitism, others claim that her resignation is an assault on diversity and a sign of a larger racial agenda.

"Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institute, argues that the focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion is detrimental to institutions and society as a whole. She told Douglas Murray that her grandmother "would not trust Claudine Gay to herd her goats."

"Ali believes that these movements are aimed at dismantling and degrading our institutions, erasing history, and indoctrinating students. Ali sees Gay's resignation as a small part of a larger problem that has infiltrated universities, corporations, and even lower education levels."

Conservatives Are Mastering the Media War

Hot Air

Trump opened the door to challenging the media directly, but as with most things Trump he went straight to the insults and nicknames instead of building the case. You and I love to see the bullies get hit in the nose, but many people need to be convinced that they are bullies in the first place.

Poilievre schools another reporter

 "The mainstream media has been at war with conservatives for as long as I have been alive, but for most of that time, they have been in such a dominant position that they were able to be relatively subtle about their disgust with the deplorable.

"Before the proliferation of cable channels and the narrowcasting that developed, the media had to pretend to play it down the middle. Would it play in Peoria? was the standard by which they calibrated their pitch. By the Bush years, that standard was breaking down; by 2016, it was out the window.

"During the Trump years, the media began to let their freak flag fly, making it clear that they hated not just Trump but anybody who tolerated him. For years, the media massaged their style to appear fair; since Trump got into the presidential race in 2015, the media’s hatred for all things Republican (not just MAGA) is there for all to see.

"Many Republicans, including myself, appreciated Trump’s willingness to call the media out and confront them. However, unlike many, I don’t think that Trump was nearly as effective at discrediting the media as is supposed. His willingness to confront them and draw out their bias was important, but as with so many things Trump, his supporters loved his insulting media figures, and most others rolled their eyes.

"Trump managed to drag the media figures into the mud with him–which is not nothing–but Trump’s approach had a downside in that it wasn’t persuasive to people who didn’t already agree with him. People wound up either rooting for Trump or for the media, as if it were a sports event.

"His supporters cheered and jeered (I loved watching Trump insult reporters because they richly deserved it), but people in the middle wound up hating both the media and Trump.

Professor Jonathan Turley: The Biden Administration is the Most Anti-Free Speech Administration Since the Administration of John Adams (VIDEO)

 The Gateway Pundit | by Mike LaChance

Biden is a tyrant. He is everything the left falsely claimed Trump would be.

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"George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley recently appeared on FOX News to comment on Biden’s awful speech at Valley Forge where he framed Trump and Trump supporters as a threat to democracy.

"Turley was not impressed by the speech and reminded the audience about Biden’s awful record on free speech.

"According to Turley, the Biden administration is the worst on free speech since the administration of John Adams who left office in 1801.

Townhall reports:

Jonathan Turley Criticizes Biden’s ‘Anti-Free-Speech Administration’

Turley suggested to Fox News that Biden’s speech was hypocritical by talking about the freedom to vote despite his own party attempting to strip Trump’s name from the 2024 ballot. 

During his speech in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, Biden said that defending democracy was a “central cause” of his administration. However, Turley pointed out that the Democratic Party has gone to great lengths to suppress the constitutional rights of Americans and their freedom to choose who they want running the country.

He lost me in the specifics. He talks about democracy being on the ballot but the ballot isn’t very democratic, his own party is trying to strip ballots of Donald Trump’s name to prevent people who want to vote for what appears to be the leading candidate for the presidency from doing that. So when he’s talking about the freedom to vote and have your vote count, his party is actively trying to prevent that and saying, really, you’re not just voting for me, just think you’re voting for democracy." . . .

Karoline Leavitt: Liberal Globalists Rallying Around Their ‘Chosen Candidate,’ Nikki Haley

 Exclusive -- (breitbart.com)

"Liberal globalists are rallying around their “chosen candidate,” Nikki Haley, MAGA Inc. spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday.

“ 'Right now, we are nine days away from the Iowa caucuses, and the open border liberal globalists and the Democrat donors around the world are doubling down on their chosen candidate, and that is Nikki Haley,” Leavitt declared, describing the former South Carolina governor as an “open border globalist” and “vessel for the Never Trump establishment movement on both sides of the aisle — both Democrats and Republicans.”

“ 'If you look at Nikki Haley’s record in the past, she cannot be trusted on the issues,” she said, explaining that Haley has opposed many of former President Donald Trump’s America First policies.

“ 'We cannot afford to elect another open border globalist in the name of a Republican. And that would be the case if we did elect Nikki Haley. She was opposed to President Trump’s border wall in 2016,” Leavitt said, explaining that Haley continues to support amnesty for illegal immigrants to this very day. Haley also told New Hampshire voters she would push for “comprehensive immigration reform,” Leavitt pointed out.

“ 'We all know what that means. That’s amnesty,” Leavitt said, also reminding listeners of Haley’s 2015 comments urging Americans not to call illegal aliens criminals.

"She cares more about us disrespecting illegal aliens than the disrespect that they show to our country by breaking our laws and by coming here. They are criminals by definition, and I’d like to hear her say that to the great woman you just spoke with whose son died of Chinese fentanyl that was likely trafficked over a border,” Leavitt told host Matthew Boyle, who previously spoke to a caller who said her 27-year-old son died of a fentanyl overdose."

Report: Obama Worried About 2024 Biden Campaign, Aides Dish on Tension Between Camps

  RedState

"And why are they backing off of it now and telling the truth? Could it be because at least some of the Obama people can read the room - and want to distance themselves from all the failure that is Joe Biden - even though they might want him to win in 2024."

"There's a fascinating new report from the Washington Post about how worried Barack Obama is about Joe Biden's chances of winning in 2024. 

"According to the report, Obama's first concern about the campaign is about the structure, that Biden's chief advisers are in Washington, D.C., while his campaign is in Wilmington, Delaware. Obama thinks the top people should either be in Wilmington or that the people there should be empowered to make campaign decisions, because as it is now, according to the report, they have to go through D.C. Obama believes that doesn't make for an agile, quick response campaign. 

"While Obama hasn't recommended anyone to help the Biden team, he has mentioned David Plouffe, the Obama report says. 

"That's sort of fascinating because when he was on MSNBC the other day, Plouffe was urging the tactic of liberal voters coming out to vote for Nikki Haley in the primaries to sabotage Trump or extend the primary. . . .

The relationship between Obama and the man who served as his vice president for eight years is a complex one. The two men developed a strong working relationship and their families bonded well, but aides to both men say the “bromance” depicted in some pop culture accounts was always an exaggeration.

"No kidding, but it was Obama and Biden who were doing the exaggerating about it, not just the media. Just another thing to try to deceive the public. " . . .

Anti-Israel Girl Who Attacked Teenager in IDF Sweatshirt Graduated From Barack Obama School for Social Justice UPDATED, 1/9

 Legal Insurrection

The chick who lost her mind on a 16-year-old in an IDF sweatshirt graduated from the Barack Obama School for Social Justice.

Not kidding. Palisade Preparatory School in Yonkers, NY, changed its name to the Barack Obama School for Justice at the start of the 2022-23 school year.

UPDATE: the assailant in this video has been identified as Marla Bonilla Hernandez of Yonkers, NY.

She is a graduate of the Barack Obama School for Social Justice. https://t.co/V95a93moOt pic.twitter.com/jhDVSxsVy5

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) January 3, 2024

"From earlier today:

A few anti-Israel dumbs accosted a family of four at the American Dream Mall in New Jersey because the 16-year-old wore an IDF sweatshirt.

"Her 12-year-old sister was with her.

"The Jerusalem Post reported that the American Dream Mall is known for its “kosher dining options and being a location frequented often by local Jewry.”

"Disgusting: “You’re a wh*re! Your mother is a wh*re! Your grandmother is a wh*re!”

"She sounds lovely: “Free Palestine! F*cking die, b*tch!” . . .

This is the Obama school this girl learns from:  Palisade Preparatory School in New York - U.S. News Education (usnews.com)

Anti-Israel Girl Who Attacked Teenager in IDF Sweatshirt Graduated From Barack Obama School for Social Justice

The jackboot of Jewish imperialism?

 Mark C. Ross - American Thinker   

"A common fallacy is that Israeli Arabs are second-class citizens, sequestered by a form of apartheid.  There have been Arab members of the Knesset since the first day of Israeli independence.  Arab citizens of Israel have enjoyed complete legal equality since 1966." 

"Oy!  Those Jews...conquering the world, one Palestinian at a time.  As per the mainstream media, the dinky little sliver of dirt known as Israel is an aggressive expansionist empire.  History, however, offers a different perspective.

"In his book Migrations and Cultures (1996), Thomas Sowell has a chapter titled “The Jews of the Diaspora.”  In it, he describes how, during the 19th century, Jews who were scattered throughout Eurasia began to move back into their ancestral homeland — known then as Palestine, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire — to escape various forms of persecution.  Other historians have described Jews as the last remaining citizens of the Roman Empire — which, during its heyday, provided the conduit for the diaspora in the first place.  

"Ignorance of this series of events was most conspicuously showcased by Barack Obama’s “Cairo Speech” of 2009.  In it he parroted the standard Palestinian Liberation narrative, accusing Zionists of being foreign invaders of their ancestral homeland.  Various internet trolls contend that Ashkenazi Jews (typically eastern European) have no historical connection to Palestine whatsoever, since they were made Jewish by the conversion of the Khazars to Judaism centuries ago.  Most scholars dismiss this theory as both bogus and thinly veiled antisemitism." . . .

Two Racial Grievance Girls: Michelle and Meghan

 Victoria White Berger - American Thinker

"How much do Meghan Markle, duchess of Sussex, and Michelle Obama, ex–first lady, have in common?  It’s odd how much, yet how little of distinction or substance is in that muchness — given the strong hints of vacuity in both women, and in spite of the gushing excesses of “personality” in their public profiles.  There are so many legitimately accomplished and courageous female heroines, past and present.  It is an unfortunate characteristic of reportage that the likes of these two get the insistent “coverage” withheld from those far more deserving.

"The two women share middle-class backgrounds and higher education (Michelle Ivy League, Meghan top-tier) degrees.  Both women have been (Michelle) and are (Meghan) using their own mothers to “help” raise their children, in a sort of familial au pair capacity.  Both have high-fashion tastes and use private jets for travel.  Both are frequent commentators on their own racial victimization.

"The serious press doesn’t run much on Meghan, yet just enough to legitimize the tabloids; social media; and bored, dissatisfied individuals across the world who opine that the duchess is something worth thinking about.

"Michelle Obama, by contrast, is heavily reported, always, in the MSM.  Michelle does revolving books (or someone does for her).  Apparently, she has a heavy hand in the Obama Netflix MAGA attack theatre.  She routinely fills up the Obama unearned privilege tank with loads of cash, to spend or invest, from wildly overpaid speeches and “cameo” appearances.  Never has grifting been so easy.  At last count, Michelle has four mansions to “live in” and enjoys her subsidized, international celebrity vacation tours annually." . . .

Target Customer Asks Michelle Obama For Help; First Lady Believes Request Was Racially Motivated   ..."Numerous commenters have pointed out that Michelle Obama stands at 5’11” and anyone at that height would get asked by a shorter person to grab an item off a high shelf for them. Many have also pointed to their own experiences of being asked to grab something from a shelf despite not being black."...

What's the Worst, Most Divisive Thing Michelle Obama Has Said as First Lady? "While delivering the commencement speech at City College in New York City, Michelle Obama notably referred to waking up every day in a house built by slaves. Mrs. Obama never misses an opportunity to bait racism and divide the country. She's made many divisive remarks during her tenure as first lady."  "Which is the worst?"