With friends like Joe Biden, Israel needs no more enemies

Kanyi Ndewa | The Blogs (timesofisrael.com) 

That’s why the protests in Israel are directed to the government with the slogan “bring them home”. This clarion call diffuses pressure from Hamas, the UN and the international community and directs the same to the prime minister. Instead of trying to decimate the terrorists, UN and US are committed to regime change in Israel. 

"When President Joe Biden visited Israel after the October 7th massacre, everyone, many people thought that his visit was genuine gesture in solidarity with the only Jewish nation at its lowest and most painful moment since the holocaust. His presence in Israel, we thought, was to send a clear message of America’s unwavering commitment to the fight against terrorism as well as a signal to the US’s unequivocal support for its key strategic ally in the Middle East.

"However, in the heat of the moment many people didn’t scan the finer details hidden in president Biden’s statements which bore the hallmarks of betrayal and hesitation. When a rocket by Islamic Jihad misfired and hit al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza, strangely, president Biden initially believed in the Hamas propaganda blaming Israel for the bombing. It took a lot of explaining, including playing a recording of the terrorists admitting to the mishap to convince him otherwise. During a press conference thereafter, Joe Biden stated that he has learnt that the rocket which hit the hospital was fired by “the other team”!!! The other team? How do one refer to mass murderers as a team?

"In his assumed referee status, Joe Biden even tried to prevent Israel from responding when Iran fired more than 300 rockets, missiles and drones at Israel. According to him, Israel should have declared victory merely because the airstrike was successfully defended! Upside down logic!!

"Biden’s re-election ambitions have made the US to, for the first time betray Israel at UN by abstaining from Security Council resolution calling for unilateral ceasefire without conditioning the same to the release of the hostages. During president Biden’s state of the nation address, the hostages and the fate of over a hundred thousand Israelis displaced from Northern Israel and the border with Gaza did not even appear as footnotes. It was all about humanitarian situation in Gaza, aid drops and building a floating harbour for Gaza Arabs." . . .

IDF announces eight soldiers killed in Rafah blast, raising ground op toll to 307 | The Times of Israel   All for nothing, Joe?   . . ."Their deaths bring the toll of slain IDF soldiers in the ground offensive against Hamas and amid operations along the Gaza border to 307. A police officer was killed in a hostage rescue operation last week, and a civilian Defense Ministry contractor has also been killed in the Strip. The deadliest incident in Gaza occurred in January, during which 21 soldiers were killed in a blast following Hamas RPG fire that collapsed two buildings. " . . .

Biden says Israel has capitulated. Has it?

CarolineGlick.com

"After Shabbat began in Israel on Friday, U.S. President Joe Biden presented a ceasefire deal which he claimed was Israel’s proposal. In the latest IN FOCUS, I went through Biden’s speech line by line, to figure out if this is Israel’s proposal or Hamas’s proposal."

Oct 6th was an Arab family affair; "let's go burn Jews alive, kids!"

Opinion: We can’t trust Joe Biden to stand with Israel, lead America on the world stage (The Hill)   "President Joe Biden has shown the American people that he will pander to his antisemitic base over supporting Israel, one of America’s greatest allies and the only democracy in the Middle East.

"One of his first actions was to resurrect the failed Iran deal, and since then he has greenlit billions of dollars in sanctions relief to Iran, the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism. His pandering can be seen in our cities and on college campuses, where radical extremists rally violently in support of Hamas and the extermination of the Jewish people. This cancer has taken over the Democratic Party and caused violence against our Jewish communities.

"President Biden has made clear with his decisions that the American people cannot trust his administration. I certainly do not, which is why I am highly concerned that without proper safeguards, the Biden administration will use this aid package as leverage against Israel." . . .

Israel Gave US Less Intel As Netanyahu Didn't Trust Biden Admin: NYT - Business Insider   Good for Israel!

MSNBC's Morning Joe Goes Full 'Baghdad Bob' Over Biden's Disastrous G7 Summit

 Matt Vespa (townhall.com) 

"Why is it that we always have to be told that "when the cameras are off" he's strong and in control? No camera ever seems to capture those moments... hmmm." Comment to this post. 

"If you watched this Morning Joe segment on MSNBC, you’d think no American president had ever had a successful outing with foreign leaders until Joe Biden was elected. The media and Democrats are engaging in a full-court press after capturing numerous videos of Biden looking aloof and wandering off. The president’s campaign went so far as to call the clips misinformation. Joe Scarborough echoed that sentiment, claiming the unflattering images of the president looking absolutely lost were “cheap fakes.” 

One thing that's hilarious: liberals long denied that NBC/MSNBC are DNC propaganda outlets by pointing to Joe Scarborough, who, they claimed, was a far-right activist.

Now the show he hosts exceeds North Korean propaganda to glorify Joe Biden as a strong and powerful leader: https://t.co/xfIwhOkr2f

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 14, 2024 

Behold the Monster You Created

  C.A. Skeet – PJ Media

. . .Yet the suburban traditional liberal continues to vote Democrat because of abortion. Or some nonsense about the rich paying their "fair share." Or climate change. Or any number of manufactured grievances designed not so much to solve a tangible problem than to make a certain class of educated voters feel righteous about themselves." . . . 

"[Liberals] cast their votes on the Machiavellian calculation that the mob was useful as a lever from which to derive unconditional surrenders from congressional Republicans (never a difficult feat to begin with). They calculated that such antics would never be allowed to fester uncontrolled so long as the victims were conservatives who deserved it. They calculated that, once the mob had served its usefulness, it would disperse, much as the German elitists and corporate leaders once thought they could do with their own street thugs.

"Well, my friends. You miscalculated.

"You supported the LBGTQ agenda without question when it was being shoved in the noses of uppity Christians. But you have since discovered that what "love is love" really means is that mediocre males are allowed to dominate women's sports (and invade their locker rooms) and that you are expected to applaud along.

"You supported Obamacare because it felt virtuous, and all the democrat socialists of Scandinavia were doing it, and you didn't want to side with Paul Ryan pushing a wheelchaired grandmother off a cliff (in reality, it's more likely a wheelchaired grandmother pushing Paul Ryan off a cliff). But you have since discovered the laws of economics don't care a fig about your feelings and that a sharp increase in medical costs coupled with a sharp decrease in available doctors isn't the utopia they sold you.

"You supported open borders and sanctuary cities to entrench a permanent Democrat voting base. But you have since discovered that perhaps millions upon millions of illegals weren't necessary to secure swing states in which a few thousand votes would suffice. The hordes now overrunning the cities and suburbs are less interested in voting than in joining robbery gangs, dealing drugs, demanding entitlements, and depressing wage rates. Your kids' schools have been appropriated for shelters, and the illegal aliens elsewhere in public encampments are demanding free legal representation and "culturally appropriate" food." . . .

The Democrat party: Still evil after all these years - American Thinker    "The Democrat party has been pro slavery, pro eugenics, pro-segregation (and now resegregation), and pro-abortion -- even after a baby has been born alive.

"And yet those in it always call Republicans “extreme.”

"Stupefying." . . .

You all do know the Republican Party was created and became one of the reasons for the Civil War and the abolishment of slavery? TD

PROTESTERS EXPOSED: Who’s bankrolling anti-Israel demonstrations

PROTESTERS EXPOSED: Who’s bankrolling anti-Israel demonstrations | Sky News Australia   "In this special report, Sky News Digital Originals can reveal how pro-Palestine groups causing havoc on college and university campuses are being funded.

"In recent weeks, ugly anti-Israel protests have played out on campuses around the world, leaving Jewish students feeling threatened and scared.

"Questions have been raised about how these encampments are being financially supported." . . .

Comments to this post:  "I am the grandchild of a Holocaust survivor, and I’m absolutely sickened by what has been allowed to go on at Universities around the world. Here in Canada it’s the same thing. Where is law enforcement when pro Hamas demonstrators are calling for genocide against Jews?! It’s disgusting!"

"The students should demand their money back for all the years they've attended these antisemitic schools under discrimination, abuse and hate laws. I'm sorry, and pray daily for the safety of Jewish people.

"I am a university professor in Canada. While anti-Semitism on campus has become much more open and virulent since Oct. 7, it has been widespread among my colleagues for my whole career. It usually takes the form of hatred of Israel and Israelis but any student who commits the sin of being openly Jewish will receive negative attention. For what it is worth, devout Christians are also the victims of the Marxist faculty. I do not see this changing and, indeed, I believe that it will get worse. Avoid universities at all costs:they are truly evil places now."

It Just Got Harder for Democrats to Steal Michigan in November

 The current jab at Biden going around is about his two-state solution: Michigan and Minnesota. They are his primary benefactors due to the large number of Muslims in those states. Israel rates below their votes no matter their status as America's ally and friend. TD

Matt Margolis – PJ Media   "Michigan is a must-win state for Joe Biden. Currently, Donald Trump appears to be performing well in the sun belt, and assuming he sweeps Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia, all he needs is one Great Lakes state to win. Currently, he has small leads in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Every vote will count in these states, and if the past is any indicator — which it usually is — Democrats will stop at nothing to keep these states in their column. 

"We know they're not above shenanigans, so when a Michigan judge ruled in favor of a lawsuit against Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and her ridiculous guidance on signature verification of absentee ballots this week, it was a big deal.

"Benson has been at the center of a firestorm over election integrity in Michigan for years. In 2021, she first instructed election officials to presume, rather than verify, signatures on absentee ballots for the 2022 elections — a move that sparked immediate legal pushback from the Michigan Republican Party. Their challenge succeeded, and the courts deemed Benson's directive illegal, ruling that election officials did have to verify ballot signatures. She didn't learn her lesson, though, because Benson was at it again in December 2023, quietly reinstating the controversial policy behind closed doors. 

"Her directive swiftly drew legal action from the Republican National Committee, the Michigan Republican Party, and the National Republican Congressional Committee. Michigan Court of Claims Judge Christopher Yates subsequently ruled that such an "initial presumption" of validity in signature verification of absentee ballot applications and envelopes violated the Constitution and Michigan state laws.

“This RNC legal victory confirms the importance of mail ballot safeguards in Michigan’s Constitution. The Secretary of State’s covert attempts to sidestep these rules were rightfully rejected by the court, exposing that her attacks on election integrity have no substance," RNC Chairman Michael Whatley said in a statement on Thursday. "This win is just the latest development in our ongoing fight to promote fair and transparent elections in the Great Lakes State.” 

"Michigan Republican Party Chairman Pete Hoekstra blasted Benson for selectively enforcing the law." . . .

Majority Of Muslims Voted For Biden, But Trump Got More Support Than He Did In 2016 : NPR   . . ."Much like the general population, Trump-supporting Muslims cited the economy as a top issue. They also were more likely to oppose building coalitions with Black Lives Matter, and instead they expressed support for building coalitions with religious conservatives working on religious liberty issues.

"The other thing that I think surprised us the most was that Muslim Trump supporters, as well as Trump supporters in the general public, were more likely to express anti-Muslim sentiment," she said.

"There were debunked tropes that Muslims are more violent, or less civilized.

"It's not a surprise that Muslims didn't vote as a single bloc. This is one of the most racially and ethnically diverse faith groups in the country. Some are single-issue voters; some are partisan to one party or the other." . . .

Douglas Murray: Biden Flips From Holocaust Speech To Israel Betrayal

 Israel has always been alone; once again she stands alone as her once-faithful ally leaves her just as we left our 20-year ally Afghanistan.

Biden seems not to have learned the lesson of "Never Again" - Douglas Murray the NYP.

Wikipedia • The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.

Muslim Immigrants to French Farmers: ‘We’re Here To Kill The Whites’

  Frontpage Mag:  "And so . . . 16-year-old Thomas Perotto was stabbed in the heart and the throat, and died."

 How many more thomas-perottos will have to die before the French government comprehends the Muslim threat within?

"Young French farmers from the villages of Saint-Marcellin and Pont-en-Royans organized a “farmers’ ball” on Saturday evening, May 24, held at the Murinais ballroom. It was to have been a night of innocent fun. They had not counted on Muslim immigrants from Saint-Marcellin showing up with mayhem on their minds. Six Muslims came to the hall, and waited outside. When two farmers left the ball, the Muslims attacked them and. began to beat them up. At that point, other farmers streamed out to help defend their fellows, and the Muslims then fled, only to return later with their own reinforcements, and proceeded to attack the now-outnumbered farmers. One of the farmers was repeatedly kicked and punched, and suffered serious injuries to his head, sufficient to incapacitate him fr 13 days. A night of harmless fun turned into a nightmare when Muslims, for no reason other than their hatred of “whites” — that is, indigenous Frenchmen — led them to unleash their unprovoked and savage attack. More on the attack can be found here: “Crépol, continued,” translated from “Crépol, suite,” by Michel Janva, Le Salon Beige, on May 30, 2024 (thanks to Medforth):

A dancing evening, the “Farmers’ Ball,” was organized on Saturday evening in the Murinais village hall by young farmers from Saint-Marcellin and Pont-en-Royans.

A first fight broke out in front of the room between two men who were leaving the evening and half a dozen others who were outside, young people from Saint-Marcellin. As other people came out of the room to help their two friends, their opponents were pushed back and they fled.

But later, they returned with reinforcements, and a second, much more violent brawl broke out, during which the main victim was kicked and punched. This young man was able to leave the hospital during the day but he suffered a serious head injury, his total incapacity for work (ITT) having been set at 13 days.

“They are the same as in Crepol” admits the mayor.

“The attackers wanted to beat up white people,” says a witness.

"This latest attack reminded many French of the attack on November 18, 2023, in the tiny village of Crépol, in the Drôme department, with a population of about 500. Local, farmers had organized an annual “winter ball” attended by many people from the surrounding area. Just as the evening was ending, and people streamed from the hall, a gang of Muslims, armed with knives, arrived at about 1:30 a.m., and began stabbing the French people. Nine people were stabbed with knives, while others were hit with stones and fences. Eight people were treated for shock. 16-year-old Thomas Perotto was stabbed in the heart and the throat, and died. Two others, aged 23 and 28, were treated as “absolute emergencies” while six others were treated for minor injuries. Witnesses said that when the Muslims arrived, they yelled out “we’re here to kill the whites.” And that’s what they tried to do" . . .

Next come the college students with their designer scarves to defend the Muslims who murdered those at the dance. TD

The Mannheim attacks reveal Europe's impotence - Ayaan Hirsi Ali   . . ."Last Friday, at about 11:30am, a 25-year-old Afghan went on a knife spree at a rally in Mannheim. He stabbed Michael Stürzenberger, the convener of the rally, along with a policeman and four others, before a second policeman shot him. Two days later, the officer succumbed to his wounds.

"We still don’t know everything about the incident. What we do know, though, is that it is a deeply sad — and obvious — metaphor for the way Western countries function. People protest Islamic violence. The press smears them. Islamists attack. The state tries to subdue the protestors. The Islamists continue attacking. Rinse and repeat."

What is the cure? It certainly doesn’t involve electing a centre-right government. As the past 14 years in the UK have shown, centre-right governments do nothing. Instead, what is needed is a shift in international and constitutional law, or events like those in Germany will just keep happening until the nations of Europe collapse.

 Ayaan Hirsi Ali is an UnHerd columnist. She is also the Founder of the AHA Foundation, and host of The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast. Her Substack is called Restoration.

CONFIRMED: 'Journalist' Killed by IDF Held 3 Israeli Hostages in His Home, Wrote for US-Based Nonprofit – RedState   "In the wake of the Israel Defense Forces' successful operation to rescue four hostages from captivity in Gaza we're learning more about the conditions in which the hostages lived and who housed them, and once again we're seeing that the native "journalists" covering the conflict are anything but neutral observers.

As we noted in numerous stories about Israel's rescue mission, the four hostages rescued were not held in tunnels or prisons; they were held in the homes of alleged civilians in residential areas in Nuseirat. I say "alleged civilians" because if these people were holding Israeli hostages for eight months they're absolutely part of Hamas and are combatants, not civilians.

Flag Day, June 14

 

AfterMath - Home (terrellaftermath.com)

What is Flag Day? Why we celebrate it on June 14 (usatoday.com)  "On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress adopted the "Stars and Stripes" as the original American flag. The same flag was used when the Declaration of Independence was signed to give a flag for the entire country rather than each state having their own.

"There have been a few notable changes to the flag since its original design in 1777 − namely the addition of 37 stars.

"President Woodrow Wilson made the observance an official day on May 30, 1916 via a presidential proclamation. The day had already been celebrated prior to that point, but he made it an officially recognized day.

Is there mail on Flag Day?

"Yes, Flag Day is not a federal holiday and the United States Post Office will operate as normal. In fact, banks and schools will also remain open." . . .

The World Does Not Want Israel to Win the War Against Hamas UPDATED:

  American Greatness (amgreatness.com) 

This means that Israel’s leaders will need to press on alone to defend their nation against Hamas and other threats until there is a new president in the White House who stands firmly with the Israeli people. Hopefully, that will happen next January. 

  "The daring Israel Defense Forces (IDF) rescue mission on June 8 that freed four Israelis taken hostage by Hamas during its October 7, 2023 terrorist attack against Israel was a pivotal event that should have shifted global opinion about the war in Israel’s favor by illustrating the shocking malevolence of Hamas and how little it values human life.

""Unfortunately, this did not happen.

"The IDF freed four hostages who Hamas was holding in apartment buildings, using the residents as human shields to prevent them from being freed. In addition, so-called “innocent” Palestinian civilians were incarcerating hostages in their apartments, with Hamas reportedly paying them to do so.

"Abdallah Aljamal, a Gaza-based journalist, held three Israeli hostages captive in his home. Aljamal, who was killed in the IDF raid, wrote many stories slamming Israel for human rights violations in the war and killing Palestinians. He also was a spokesman for Hamas.

"Desperate to prevent the hostages from being brought back to Israel by the IDF team, Hamas fighters attacked the team as it left the apartment buildings with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. The IDF team defended itself and Israel was forced to conduct airstrikes to defend the hostage extraction.

"Arnon Zmora, an officer of the IDF’s elite Yamam counter-terrorism unit, was shot and critically injured by Hamas terrorists guarding three of the four hostages.

"This was a great victory for Israel and demonstrated that it will not abandon its people taken hostage by Hamas terrorists. Hamas holding hostages in crowded civilian areas and its ferocious firefight against the IDF rescuers demonstrated how little Hamas values human life and confirmed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s belief that more Palestinian civilian deaths work to his advantage.

"But most of the world saw the IDF raid differently. Israel was criticized for the large number of Palestinian civilian casualties in the raid, even though many were caused by Hamas fighters firing on IDF forces in a civilian area. The mainstream media and Western politicians cited, without question, exaggerated Palestinian casualty figures from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry. U.S. and European media described the raid as a “deadly hostage rescue.” Some Western media outlets tried to downplay the fact that Hamas was engaged in hostage-taking by claiming the hostages had been “released” rather than “freed.” . . .

Give Hamas advance notice of the raid and this is what you will find:

Israel the 'only country’ criticised for rescuing its own people

What we've taught in our schools is bearing itself out on our streets

  Washington Times  Not a day care: The devastating consequences of abandoning truth

. . ."Harvard’s original mission statement: “Let every student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life and therefore to lay Christ in the bottom, as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning.”

"The week’s news was dominated by the antisemitic protests taking place on college campuses across the nation. Columbia, Yale, Berkeley, Harvard. Over 120 American institutions have reported disruptions to the point that classes have been canceled and police have been called in to restore order.

"So how did we get here? Who caused this mess? The answer is simple. All these childish antics and temper tantrums dominating the headlines can be traced back to one key source: the terrible ideas we have been teaching our children for the past 50 years.

"What we’ve taught in our schools is now bearing itself out in the behavior we see in our streets. As Abraham Lincoln said, “The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will become the philosophy of the government in the next.” Even Hitler understood this when he said, “Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state.”

"What we teach in colleges will be practiced in our culture. Solomon was clear: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart.” The moral to this is that there is great power in ideas and that power can be wielded for either noble or nefarious ends.

"Richard Weaver warned of the same in 1948 when he wrote his seminal work, “Ideas Have Consequences.” His thesis was so simple that you hardly need to read beyond the cover to understand it. Ideas matter. They always bear fruit. There is no such thing as a neutral idea. All ideas are directional. Good ideas bear good culture, good government, good community, good church and good kids. Bad ideas bear the opposite. If you want to live in a good society, you must teach your progeny what is good. It’s like your grandmother said: “Garbage in, garbage out.”

"In my book, “Not a Daycare: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth,” I tell the story of how, in 2015, as a university president, I confronted my students and told them that if they wanted to be coddled rather than confronted, they needed to go someplace else.

"More specifically, I said: “This university is not a ’safe place,’ but rather, a place to learn: to learn that life isn’t about you, but about others; and that the first step in saving the world is to repent of everything that’s wrong with you rather than blame others for everything that’s wrong with them. This is a place where you will quickly learn that you need to grow up. This is not a daycare. This is a university.”

"Education today is in crisis. The Ivory Tower has become the Tower of Babel. It is no longer in the business of pursuing truth but rather is more interested in celebrating tolerance. Ideological fascism now stands on the grave of the academy’s proud tradition of academic freedom.

"Today’s colleges and universities look more like Orwell’s Ministry of Truth than they do institutions of higher learning. We are teaching students to worship their feelings over facts and to parrot the self-refuting nonsense of saying they can’t tolerate those they find intolerable and that they hate hateful people. Good has become evil, and evil is good. The villains are dead Jews who simply wanted to protect their country, and the heroes are those who invaded that country, raped their women and beheaded their babies.

"But lest we think there is no way out of this mess, there is an answer. It is found in returning to and teaching Truth with a capital T. It’s found in those moral laws that have been tested by time, defended by reason, validated by experience, and endowed to us by Revelation." . . .

How the Obama-Biden Machine Intimidated Jews to Hate Trump

 Leo Goldstein - American Thinker 

Of course, the public misinterpreted this as a repudiation of Trump. Democrat activists behind this attack learned that bullying works and escalated it against other targets. That evolved into the infamous “search and destroy” strategy against Trump’s appointees. 

. . ."Begining before Trump’s inauguration as 45th POTUS, hundreds of bomb threats were made against Jewish community centers and schools in the U.S.

"The threats came in five waves: Jan. 9 (three days after the election's certification), Jan. 18 (two days before the inauguration), Jan. 31 (following the travel ban, fueling Big Tech-led insurrection), Feb. 20, and Feb. 28.

"The media unanimously declared that these threats came from white supremacists in the U.S., allegedly emboldened by the election of President Trump.

"The FBI knew that most of the threats were made over the Internet, could have been made from anywhere in the world, and likely came from abroad, but refused to say that officially. In hindsight, this can be linked to the agenda of FBI Director James Comey and his number two, Andrew McCabe. The agenda was to undermine the president whose election they had attempted to prevent and to hide how easy the Obama-Biden administration made it for foreign threat actors to obtain classified info and impact events in the U.S.

"On March 23, the information about the perpetrator of most threats was published, refuting accusations against Trump and “white supremacists.” Almost all threats were made by an autistic 18-year-old, Michael Kadar, living in Israel. He was engaged in criminal activity online from his parents’ home. Among other things, he provided a “service” for making threats over the Internet. His claims of “boredom” as the motive are implausible, given that he did such things for money. Almost certainly, these threats were ordered by somebody who hated Trump." . . .

"The Obama-Biden administration and the Democrat campaign have intimidated prominent Jews against supporting and even associating with Donald Trump in 2016-2017.  Because such intimidation had no precedent in this country, their silence was perceived as agreement with a vocal minority of Trump haters." . . .