Kamala Harris’ harsh criticism of Israel is turning out to have deadly results

 None of this will mean anything to those pro-Hamas sheep in the streets, shouting their inane chants, burning flags, and vandalizing our treasured monuments. TD

Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Sweet 

Harris told Netanyahu she would not be silent. Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran heard her loud and clear and just told her they will not be silent either.

  "Washington may not fully realize it yet, nor the presidential candidate herself, but Vice President Harris’ honeymoon effectively ended Saturday in the Golan Heights on a bloody soccer field. The Mideast is on the cusp of what might become its bloodiest war since Israel’s founding in 1948.

"Harris’ self-serving decision to pander to Gen Z and progressive votes on Thursday after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office is turning out to have deadly results.

"Harshly criticizing Israel as she did in front of Bibi at the White House might bag November votes – but they are also leading to body bags in Gaza and North Israel.

"Now, Israeli civilians are paying a heavy price for her words.

"In what could be described as a second Oct. 7, Hezbollah launched a rocket attack on a soccer field Saturday afternoon in the Golan Heights, killing 12 people, including children, and injuring 40.

"The attack struck the village of Majdal Shams. Home to a large Druze community – an Arab and Arabic-speaking ethnoreligious group. Many Druze are Israeli citizens and proudly serve in the IDF." . . .

Harris naively might have thought her ploy for votes in Michigan would lead to a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. But that ceasefire is not going to happen now and Harris, despite her team’s denials to the contrary, shoulders much of the burden of blame.

Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Sweet served 30 years as a military intelligence officer and led the U.S. European Command Intelligence Engagement Division from 2012 to 2014. Mark Toth writes on national security and foreign policy. 

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Our military leadership isn't 'woke'?

A word from Commander-In-Chief Harris:

Judicial Watch 

In 2022 we received hundreds of pages of records outlining CRT instruction at West Point that includes material on “whiteness,” a social science class on race, gender, and sexuality that focuses on queer theory, and a graphic titled “MODERN-DAY SLAVERY IN THE USA.” 

The Woke Military,” editorial cartoon by Yogi Love for The American Spectator

"The Pentagon dedicates tens of millions of dollars annually to Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs throughout the armed forces and cadets at the nation’s military academies receive extensive training about racism, sexism, unconscious bias, and intersectionality.

"A year-long research project conducted by a special commission at a public university think tank has uncovered the unbelievable details behind a costly Department of Defense (DOD) initiative to root out so-called white privilege white supremacy in the military. The study, conducted by the Center for American Institutions at Arizona State University (ASU), began as a review of civic education in the military and uncovered a fervent woke movement throughout the nation’s armed forces. “Our research team did not expect to find Critical Race Theory so embedded and pervasive,” the center’s director, Donald T. Critchlow, an ASU American political history professor, writes in the introduction of a recently published report. He confirms that there is CRT and DEI training across the military from the Pentagon through the ranks. 

"It is important to note that the sole purpose of the U.S. armed forces is to defend the nation against external enemies, therefore the DOD’s mission is to provide the military forces needed to deter war and ensure the country’s security. The agency is the government’s largest with 3.4 million service members and civilians—in the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force and Coast Guard—stationed at 4,800 sites in over 160 countries. Under the Biden administration the DOD budget for DEI training has increased significantly from $68 million in fiscal year 2022 to $86.5 million in fiscal year 2023, the report states. The agency is requesting a whopping $114.7 million for fiscal year 2024, according to DOD figures obtained by ASU researchers. “Training is implemented by a vast DEI bureaucracy that extends from senior leaders at the Pentagon to the lowest ranks,” the report says, adding that the “U.S. military now has a well-developed, taxpayer-funded DEI bureaucracy dedicated to rooting out ‘white privilege’ and white supremacy, and that allows for (and sometimes teaches) the overt criticism of the United States, its founding, its founders, and its founding documents, alleging that they are all rooted in systemic racism.”. . .

Records Show Air Force Academy Focus on Anti-American Critical Race Theory Training of Cadets – Academy Head Ties Cadets to Racism and Social Injustice   

Hat tip to Harley Standlee; California

My mother the Czar

 BIPARTISAN: While Media Tries To Shield Kamala From Border Crisis... Congress Made Her Failure Official   . . ."The Dems realize that the border is a MASSIVE Public Relations problem for Kamala’s Comrade Chaos Campaign… and they have been working overtime to make all memory of the ‘Border Czar’ problem go away.

"They have issued talking points for the Democrats to echo… and KJ has been dutifully performing her role as White House Spokes-Muppet. Whenever a reporter pulls the string on her back, she spits out the correct canned response.

"There’s even a hard copy of the latest talking points.

The Dems realize that the border is a MASSIVE Public Relations problem for Kamala’s Comrade Chaos Campaign… and they have been working overtime to make all memory of the ‘Border Czar’ problem go away. They have issued talking points for the Democrats to echo… and KJ has been dutifully performing her role as White House Spokes-Muppet. Whenever a reporter pulls the string on her back, she spits out the correct canned response. There’s even a hard copy of the latest talking points:

. . ."Symbolic or not, this a bipartisan rebuke of Kamala’s border failures during her time as Veep… six Democrats knew their personal political future would be in trouble if they didn’t admit the obvious failures.

"Now, when clowns on the evening news/opinion shows try to pass off criticism of Kamala’s border failures as somehow a ‘Republican’ attack, or a ‘Racist’ criticism of her… we need to remind them that this is far more ‘bipartisan’ than some of the other acts of Congress that were dubbed ‘bipartisan’ when a couple of gutless turncoats act as Democrats while pretending to be ‘principled Republicans’. (The J6 Committee for example.)

"Kamala is on record saying she does not believe that illegal entry into America is an actual crime, and she needs to own this issue… because it would define her time in office supposing she should ever be sworn in as the 47th President." . . .

Kamala Harris proves she’s no real friend to Israel

 Kamala Harris proves she's no real friend to Israel  

"She wants it done, she wants it over, she wants the hostages, she wants a Palestinian state, she wants Arab votes in Michigan . . . oh, wait, she didn’t say that part out loud." 

 "Advice to Israel: Get it done in Gaza fast and get to it with Hezbollah soon, because it’s a 50-50 proposition that Kamala Harris is going to be president in January.

"And she is coming after you.

"In her first major statement as the presumptive Democratic nominee, Harris began by saying Israel has the right to defend itself against terrorism.

"Some commenters said she was therefore speaking supportive words. That is absurd on its face.

"It actually goes without saying that every nation, in every circumstance, has the right to defend itself against terrorism, since terrorism is the act of deploying political violence against non-combatants. That includes bad nations, and mean nations, even tyrannical nations.

"Saying Israel has the right to defend itself against terrorism is a sentence with no meaning, and it is only uttered by those who wish to follow its utterance with a “but.”

"And here was Harris’s but: “How it does so matters.” . . .

JNS poll: Israelis support Donald Trump over Joe Biden 

. . ."Among young Israelis, the responses were even more dramatic. Seventy-four percent of respondents aged 18 to 29 said that Biden is not pro-Israel. Young Israelis support Trump over Biden 95%-5%." . . .

The Hour of Israeli Leadership has Arrived - CarolineGlick.com  . . ."Obama’s foreign policy was predicated on his anti-imperialist world view. Guided by its principles of Western culpability for the pathologies of the Middle East, Obama believed that Iran’s hostility towards the U.S. was justified. As he saw things, it was up to the U.S. to make amends to Iran by changing the way it operated in the Middle East.

"To accomplish this goal, Obama began realigning the U.S. towards Iran and its Sunni allies in the Muslim Brotherhood at the expense of Israel and the U.S.’s traditional Sunni Arab allies.

"Obama’s betrayal of both Israel and the Sunni Arabs brought the long estranged neighbors together. The Israeli-Sunni partnership was first brought to bear in the 2014 Hamas war against Israel. Obama sided with Hamas’s state sponsors Qatar and Turkey and insisted that Israel accept the terror regime’s ceasefire demands. Supported by Egypt, Saudi Arabia and UAE, Netanyahu was able to withstand Obama’s pressure." . . .

"The true birth of the Abraham alliance then, came without U.S. involvement, in response to the U.S.’s betrayal of Israel and the Sunni Arabs under the Obama administration." . . .

Kamala Harris, female messiah?

 Eric Utter - American Thinker   

"Kamala Harris has an extreme left voting record. She botched the border. She appears to be an anti-Semite. She is for virtually unfettered abortion. She isn’t the Messiah. She’s a mess. She doesn’t deserve to become the Cackler-in-Chief. And that’s the truth." 

"The entire federal government apparatus, made-up largely of Democrats, uses taxpayer money to attack its political opponents and retain and enhance its power. The larger the government gets, the larger it wants to be. And too many people are either on the government dole or are too stupid to notice or care.

"This is why it is so dangerous for Republicans, and Trump supporters in specific, to be overconfident about the upcoming election.

"Democrats, being maniacally power-besotted and grotesquely evil, no doubt have tricks up their sleeve as regards the upcoming presidential election. They have not openly imported 10 million illegal undocumented immigrants for no reason. And they “harvest” ballots like a farmer harvests corn, though the farmer at least knows from whence the corn came.

"As recently as a few weeks ago, some Democrats—and their human remoras that make up the mainstream media (emphasis on make up)—were claiming that President Biden was in tip-top shape, vigorous and virile, focused and sharp as the proverbial tack. The White House doctor claimed Biden was “healthy, active, robust.” Age had nothing on Biden and was an arbitrary and moot issue! However, once top Democrats realized that a Biden victory would be so preposterous (after his debate performance) as to arouse suspicion even among the dullest of Americans, he was issued an ultimatum and forced to quit his campaign…and the media was given its updated talking points. At which time it turned on Biden like Michael Moore on a Whopper with cheese." . . .

"And started claiming that Trump was too old to be president." . . . Full article here.

Trump Didn’t Back Out of the September Debate — Joe Biden Did

  National Review

Donald Trump’s campaign on Thursday announced that he is not yet ready to agree to the details of a debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, stating:

Given the continued political chaos surrounding Crooked Joe Biden and the Democrat Party, general election debate details cannot be finalized until Democrats formally decide on their nominee. There is a strong sense by many in the Democrat Party — namely Barack Hussein Obama — that Kamala Harris is a Marxist fraud who cannot beat President Trump, and they are still holding out hope for somebody “better.” Therefore, it would be inappropriate to schedule things with Harris because Democrats very well could still change their minds.

The wording of the statement, using Obama’s middle name and trolling with the recent chaos on the Democratic side, is very Trumpy. But it’s dishonest for Democrats and their media allies to act as if Trump is backing out because he is quaking in his boots about the prospect of Harris.

Why Were the DC Protests So Out of Control? There Were Only 29 Police!

 HotAir

"Many people are wondering how and why the protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got so out of control on Wednesday.

"In addition to the vandalism, tearing down of the American flag, and general violence, the police trying to control the crowd were violently attacked. 

"Well, there is a simple answer: there were only 29 Park Police who could defend the sites against the rampaging mob, and the Department of the Interior was unwilling to help those guys out. Dealing with a violent mob consisting of thousands of Antifa and pro-Hamas proto-terrorists, they were outmanned beyond belief." . . .

CAUGHT ON CAMERA | The exact moment a U.S. Park Police officer was dragged away by a pro-Palestine protestor while trying to make an arrest outside Union Station in Washington, D.C., today pic.twitter.com/0KtaoZDx7r

— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) July 25, 2024

Fox News: Rashida Tlaib ripped for holding 'war criminal' sign during Netanyahu’s speech: 'Absolute disgrace'

 

. . ."Netanyahu tore into Gaza cease-fire demonstrations across the U.S. and accused Iran of funding those protests during an impassioned address. While many have praised him for his leadership and for his speech to Americans, not all politicians were happy to see him, with several Democrats skipping the event.

"Among those in the chamber was Tlaib, a Palestinian American who is one of Israel's harshest critics in the House of Representatives. Tlaib has called for Netanyahu to be arrested by the International Criminal Court (ICC). She staged a silent protest for much of his speech, holding a double-sided sign that read "guilty of genocide" on one side and "war criminal" on the other." . . .

GOP lawmaker says Tlaib should be ‘run out of town’ over ‘genocide’ sign (msn.com)

Rashida Tlaib attends conference honoring terrorists, hosting terrorist speaker (msn.com)   "Michigan congresswoman Rashida Tlaib spoke on Saturday at a Detroit Pro-Palestinian conference that advocated on behalf of terrorism, honored terrorists, and featured a member of a terrorist organization as a panelist.

"Tlaib made a surprise appearance at the People’s Conference for Palestine, an event that saw dozens of the anti-Israel groups involved in the post-October 7 protests in attendance, while Dearborn Michigan Mayor Abdullah Hammoud gave a video address.

"The May 24-26 conference is set to have Wisam Rafeedie as a speaker at a workshop on Sunday, the last day of the event. According to Amnesty International, Rafeedie is an activist for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The PFLP is designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the US State Department." . . .

Democrats and Middle East affairs; Not Kamala's Thing

CACKLE! Kamala Reportedly Tried to Get Tough With Netanyahu About a Ceasefire and It Did NOT Go Well

"Beyond the fact Kamala is simply an unlikable and cringe-inducing harpy, she's just not cut out to deal with leaders around the world, especially Netanyahu. Take a look:"

Netanyahu reportedly believes Harris could jeopardize a hostage and ceasefire deal."We hope that Harris' public criticism of Israel won't give Hamas the impression that there is daylight between the U.S. and Israel and as a result make it harder to get a deal," an Israeli official told Axios. . . .

. . ."Tlaib, who has often heavily criticized Netanyahu and the Israeli government amid the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, held up a sign that said both “war criminal” and “guilty of genocide.”

"Other Republican lawmakers went after Tlaib for the sign as well, including Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), who captioned a picture of Tlaib with the sign on X with “Iran’s useful idiot.' ”

 Kamala Creates Diplomatic Flap Over Comments About Gaza, and Israel Isn't Happy – RedState  . . ."Exactly. That's why this is still going on because the Biden-Harris team keeps doing this thing of creating daylight rather than just saying, "Take out the terrorists." Kamala shows she has no more sense than Biden on the issue. Indeed, she's likely making the comments to appeal to the radical anti-Israel leftists because she will need their votes if she is the nominee. 

"In fact, another Israeli official said, "Harris' statement after the meeting was much more critical than what she told Netanyahu in the meeting." 

"Translation? She's saying one thing to Netanyahu and then trying to act like she's tough on him after the meeting to appeal. But now, Israel is calling her out on that game."

She reminds me of the school bully who would be friendly to us when with just the two of us, then push us around in front of the rest on the playground. TD  

. . ."Exactly. That's why this is still going on because the Biden-Harris team keeps doing this thing of creating daylight rather than just saying, "Take out the terrorists." Kamala shows she has no more sense than Biden on the issue. Indeed, she's likely making the comments to appeal to the radical anti-Israel leftists because she will need their votes if she is the nominee. 

"In fact, another Israeli official said, "Harris' statement after the meeting was much more critical than what she told Netanyahu in the meeting." 

"Translation? She's saying one thing to Netanyahu and then trying to act like she's tough on him after the meeting to appeal. But now, Israel is calling her out on that game. 

"That's not a particularly smart move by Kamala — did she think Israel wouldn't find out if she said stuff afterward that is different than what she told them? And that's not exactly a good recommendation for her character or why anyone should vote for her in the future if that's true. But as we've noted, it's not exactly like she has a lot of foreign policy experience, despite the efforts to paint her as the Second Coming." . . . 

Don’t be fooled by Kamala’s pro-Israel platitudes. She is pro-Iran and pro-Hamas. - Andrea Widburg  . . ."Six months after the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, when Israel was winning against its genocidal enemy, Kamala, the military tactician, having “studied the maps,” warned Israel away from attacking Hamas’s stronghold of Rafah because only in that way could Israel protect an enemy civilian population (a population, notably that strongly supports Hamas). In fact, Israel successfully attacked Rafah and spared the civilian population because that’s the type of military it is. Kamala clearly wanted to protect Hamas from a military defeat:" . . .*

Here’s Who Has Endorsed Kamala Harris So Far | TIME   "So far VP Harris has received the endorsement of 7 out of the 9 squad members.

Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) Ayanna Pressley (@AyannaPressley) Delia Ramirez (@DeliaRamirezIL) Greg Casar (@GregCasar) Summer Lee (@SummerForPA) Cori Bush (@CoriBush) Jamaal Bowman… Show more

Friday Funnies: Hilarious Parody Campaign Ad Beautifully Exposes Kamala's Monumental Flaws

 Bob Hoge – RedState

. . . "Obviously, there are things that Kamala would never say, but she has regularly spewed out nonsense rhetoric that uses many words to say essentially nothing, and her record is truly horrendous, as even a cursory glance shows."... 

"Kamala Harris regularly seems like a parody of a vice president, but a new fake campaign ad created by a social media creator who goes by the name “Mr Reagan” hysterically points out her serious flaws as a presidential candidate and shows why we should be terrified at the thought of her taking on the job of commander in chief.

"Mr Reagan makes it clear that the ad is not genuine and titles it simply “Kamala Harris Campaign Ad PARODY.” Then he brandishes his sarcasm scalpel and rips the VP’s speaking style and horrendous record to shreds.

"The spot is "narrated" by Harris, but it’s clear that it’s done by either using an AI voice generator or by splicing together audio clips to make it sound like she said things she obviously didn’t. Mr Reagan intersperses those sections with real footage of Kamala making a fool out of herself without the aid of advanced technology.

"It made me laugh out loud:"

Kamala Harris Campaign Ad PARODY pic.twitter.com/5lBxvyTZ3o

— Mr Reagan 🇺🇸 (@MrReaganUSA) July 26, 2024

 Full Article.

Barack and Michelle Obama Endorse Kamala Harris, The Megan Markle of American Politics

 

AfterMath

Corn pop’s revenge. It was always going to be thus… - The Last Refuge   "Here we go, the manufacturing of Madame President continues.

As if the last four days were not enough pop culture to elevate Kamala Harris into the beloved Megan Markle position, here comes Barack and Michelle Obama.

"In a video released by the Harris campaign (the Campaign Manager is Brian Fallon from Clintonian fame), Harris spoke to the Obamas by phone while she was in Indianapolis for an event on Wednesday. Barack Obama said he and the former first lady “couldn’t be prouder to endorse you and do everything we can to get you through this election and into the Oval Office.” Michelle Obama then added: “This is going to be historic,” a nod to the beatification process currently underway to create the first woman president.'' . . .

In the background, ballot coordinator James Clyburn will be counting on this manufactured enthusiasm to generate the harvesting operation his ballot scanners need.  By my back of the envelope estimation, in the roughly 17 regions that Clyburn controls (central collection points for ballot counting), there are approximately 300,000 to 500,000 potential extra ballots per region.

Do you believe that the views of the Pro-Palestine student protestors will eventually become the mainstream . . .

. . ." orthodox opinion in the US, or are they bound to fail and the US will remain mostly pro-Israel?

"College students are almost never good representatives of American public opinion. Colleges select for a population that is young, white and wealthy and the lack of life experience makes them a peculiar population when compared to the general public.

"In the best cases, college students are able to be exceptionally moral when compared to the general population. This is why college students came to oppose segregation long before the general population.

"However, in lots of other cases, college students wind up throwing their weight behind destructive authoritarians because of the unnuanced worldview that college students tend to adopt. Ayatollah Khomeini is a good example of someone who won over college students despite his being a fiercely theocratic dictator. And you could find support for many different dictators, including Mao, Stalin and others, amongst the anti-Vietnam protestors back in the day.

"In the case of the Israeli-Palestinian war, I think it’s likely that the protests will have no impact on popular opinion.

"Americans by and large still think that Israel was in the right when responding to Hamas."

David Cohen

(Language) · Physician Jul 18  "Since most of the student protestors are “useful idiots” with little idea of how the real world is outside their safe spaces, from which they get extremely myopic, distorted and divorced from actual reality views, and most are simply following other virtue signalers who are either as poorly informed or full of shit, I suspect that the views of the American college students who extolled the virtues of the Hamas rapists and baby killers will go the same way as the views of those who supported BLM, Occupy Wall Street, Defund the Police, and the Seattle Autonomous zone- they’ll be seen for the idiotic, counterproductive, and objectively unsound and untrue bullshit, and the people leading and supporting them will be seen for the corrupt, hate-filled, anti-American and anarchistic bullshitters they are."