The REAL threat to democracy? Read Kamala's plot to change America forever, writes DAN MCLAUGHLIN

 UK Daily Mail

"Democrats have been institutionally bad for democracy. And the woman they anointed leader of their party this summer – despite her not winning a single presidential primary vote – is among the worst of them." . . .

"And for her last act, Kamala Harris is posing as a champion of democracy.

 " 'It is time to turn the page on the drama and the conflict, the fear and division,' the Vice President declared in her closing argument on Tuesday night, while standing at the site of Donald Trump's infamous January 6 speech." . . .

. . ."During her 2019 campaign for president, Harris promised all manner of extra-constitutional executive dictates, including mass confiscation of guns. That proposal was so blatantly illegal that Biden told her on the Democratic primary debate stage that it would be an impossibility in America.

"She laughed in his face: 'Hey Joe, instead of saying no we can't, let's say yes we can.'

"That dictatorial impulse has persisted.

. . ."She vowed to pack the nine-person Supreme Court with additional justices – a plot last tried by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937. Senators from his party rebelled, saying that court-packing 'should be so emphatically rejected that its parallel will never again be presented to the free representatives of the free people of America.'

"Harris has refused to rule out packing the Court if she were elected next week. 

"And if that weren't bad enough, she has done all that she can to undermine the Court's authority.

"When Justice Brett Kavanaugh sat before a committee for his nomination hearing, Harris read into the Congressional record the most outlandish claims (pushed by a lawyer who's now in jail) that the esteemed judge had been involved in a serial gang rape conspiracy.

"Is it any surprise, then, that a record low four-in-ten Americans approve of the Supreme Court? It's undeniable that the Democrats have again and again eroded the rule of law, respect for elections and faith in governing institutions." . . .

Kamala Harris is a mean girl   . . ."There’s no other way to say it: Kamala Harris is mean. And like any mean girl, she enjoys calling those she doesn’t like “weird.” That’s her moniker for Trump and Vance — beloved fathers who, unlike Harris, have spent years building things bigger and better than political careers. Trump is a successful businessman and an adored grandfather. Vance is a veteran, entrepreneur, acclaimed author and family man whose story typifies the American Dream. Kamala Harris is a vengeful, power-hungry bully who calls normal “weird.”

"What’s much worse than a “weird” guy? A mean girl. Kamala Harris has proven, over and over again in her career, that she will trample on the weak and the vulnerable to get what she wants". . . Below: Booker and Harris laugh at their verbal abuse of Judge Kavanaugh.

From the fry machine to the garbage Truck

Trump rides in ‘big, beautiful’ MAGA garbage truck after Biden attack on his supporters   . . ."The stunt comes one day after President Biden, 81, referred to Trump supporters as “garbage” on a campaign call at the White House, denouncing comments made by comic Tony Hinchcliffe, in which he called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” at the Republican nominee’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday.

" 'The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American,” Biden said during a call with Voto Latino Group, as Vice President Kamala Harris rallied at the nearby Ellipse in Washington, DC, stressing how the Democratic Party would unify the country.

"Republicans blasted the insult and drew immediate comparisons to then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s remark in 2016 that half of Trump’s supporters should be put into a “basket of deplorables.” . . .

 Biden Lights a Dumpster Fire on the Harris Campaign    "So now Democrats have to pretend that calling an island with a sanitation problem garbage is the worst thing to ever happen ever ever, while simultaneously pretending that calling American citizens garbage over voting preferences is no big deal.

"It really shouldn't be a problem. Hypocrisy has never slowed them down before, why should it now? "This would be a horrendous tightrope for someone with a conscience to walk. But for a democrat it's just another Wednesday.

  

So am I garbage with an apostrophe?    . . ."When in doubt use an apostrophe? I guess that the cleanup crew at the White House thinks that we are that stupid. Yes, he didn't call the Trump supporters "garbage" because they added an apostrophe in the transcript. Why didn't I think of that?

"In the end, this is a president who is now a full victim of Trump Derangement Syndrome. He got the virus and is behaving the same irrational way that all the others do."

So am I garbage with an apostrophe?. . .

Happy Halloween fellow ‘garbage’ people! . . .

I assume many of you will be dressing up as refuse for Halloween tonight. Hefty bag? Trash bin? Dumpster? All great costumes!

 Trump and his garbage truck!

Reactions to Trump's Garbage Truck Troll Are Terrific, As Dems Cope and Seethe

California vs. the Space Force....And Elon Musk, SpaceX, property rights, and much more.

 The American Spectator

    The CCC now rejects the Space Force plan to launch more rockets from Vandenberg because some commissioners don’t like Elon Musk, who also builds electric cars. This exposes the CCC as a partisan political body with no purpose beyond preserving its own power, with no accountability to the people.

                                      SpaceX catches giant Starship booster

"SpaceX’s plans to launch more rockets from the California coast were rejected by a state commission this week,” the Los Angeles Times reports, “with some officials citing Elon Musk’s political posts on X and raising concerns about the billionaire’s labor record at his companies.” The California Coastal Commission (CCC) rejected the SpaceX plan “despite assurances from Space Force and Air Force officials that they would increase efforts to monitor the effects that rocket launches have on nearby wildlife.”

"In August, the commission asked Space Force to monitor more closely how sonic booms affect southern sea otters, California red-legged frogs, the western snowy plover and the California least tern. “I’m beyond pissed,” proclaimed commissioner Susan Lowenberg. “I don’t understand why our own government is thumbing their nose at another branch of our government.” Perhaps this is because this “branch of government” was not elected by the people.

"Lowenberg is a 2023 appointee of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and all commissioners are appointed by the governor, the Senate Rules Committee, and the Assembly Speaker. In the Space Force matter, the Lowenberg Corporation president enjoys the support of fellow commissioners.

" 'We don’t want to stop the rockets, we don’t want to stop their satellites, and we certainly don’t want to enable any kind of defense problem,” proclaimed commissioner Dayna Bochco. “But this is ridiculous.” Bochco, an attorney, is the wife of the late television producer Steven Bochco, and served as president of Steven Bochco Productions, producer of shows such as Doogie Houser MD and Cop Rock. A member of the Natural Resources Defense Council, Bochco was reappointed to the CCC in 2023.

"Vandenberg Space Force Base in California’s Santa Barbara County plans to increase launches from six to 36 per year. Commissioner Kristina Kunkel worried that the CCC could be “bullied into ignoring environmental protections.” By October, it was apparent that the real problem was SpaceX and its founder Elon Musk." . . .

Musk says Mark Cuban and Rachel Maddow are the same person

Harris campaign dishes out six-figure donations to groups who support defunding police, reparations

 Andrew Mark Miller , Cameron Cawthorne Fox News   Then Senator Kamala Harris speaks in support of 'defund the police' during 2020 radio interview

"The Harris campaign cut multiple six-figure checks last month for left-leaning groups that have been vocal about defunding the police, reparations, and are tied to radical activists who have supported notorious antisemite Louis Farrakhan.

"The Harris campaign gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to a handful of Black advocacy groups who are mobilizing Black voters ahead of November's election next week, according to FEC filings released last week.

"Black Voters Matters Fund, which received $150,000 from the Harris campaign on Sept. 19, has repeatedly called for defunding the police and has been vocal about pushing for reparations. 

"The answer to police violence against communities of color is not more money for police," the group wrote in February 2023. "It's time to defund the police and redirect those resources into building strong, healthy communities."

"In 2020, the group also tweeted, "We are proud to be partner in the #DemocracyFrontlinesFund, created to leverage millions of new dollars to fund Black-led organizers fighting for free and fair elections, and working to defund prisons and police."

" 'There are more than 3,000 sheriffs in the US, nearly all are elected, the group said in another post. "We are working to defund sheriffs and build voter power. Reimagining the system also comes with taking action!"

"The group's co-founder Latosha Brown, who has been a frequent visitor to the Biden-Harris White House, has repeatedly posted about the group's reparations push and said in a 2021 X post that she has been working on the issue for 27 years." . . .

If Trump Is Such a Nazi, Why Do 80 Percent of Orthodox Jews Support Him?

Dov Fischer; American Spectator   "It denigrates what Jews faced when Democrats leverage our Shoah tragedy for their hoped-for gain"

" I am an Orthodox Jew. I am voting for Trump, as are 95 percent of the people I know in my community. I assure you that we are not voting for death camps, gas chambers, and crematoria. We simply are voting to make America great again and to fix what Harris broke during the past four years." 

"No one in the world knows more about identifying a Hitler — or any other Nazi — than do Orthodox Jews.

"Hitler ultimately went after all Jews and also homosexuals and Romani people (“Gypsies”). But he and his Nazi crew particularly went after Orthodox Jews. Before they proceeded with the death camps, they loved spotting Orthodox Jews walking in the street and bloodying them, pummeling them to the ground and kicking them senseless. They made a sport of photographing themselves forcibly cutting Orthodox Jews’ beards and extended sideburns (payot). They attacked Jewish religious symbols particularly dear to and associated with Orthodox Jews. In their Nazi propaganda organ, Der Stürmer, political race cartoons depicted Jews regularly in the form of Haredi Orthodox Jews.

"If Puerto Ricans were angered by that stupid “joke” spoken by an idiot “comedian” at the recent Trump Madison Square Garden event, how do you imagine Orthodox Jews feel when cynically despicable Democrats like Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, and Tim Walz throw around terms like “Hitler” and “Nazi,” essentially leveraging those absolutely most evil of images, hoping for cynical political gain? (READ MORE: A Jackass of a ‘Comedian’ in Madison Square Garden)  "We are ever so deeply outraged.

"It denigrates what Jews (and homosexuals and Romani people) faced during the 1940s when the most evil of Democrats without souls leverage our Shoah tragedy for their hoped-for gain. It is hard to find a parallel for such cynical political exploitation of a people’s grief and tragedy.

"In southern California, there is a congressional district in Glendale, California, with a very large Armenian-American population. Can you imagine if local elections there all centered around each side calling the other side by the names of the most evil Turkish perpetrators of the Medz Yeghern, the Armenian genocide? Just trying to grab a few votes here and there in Glendale by regularly telling voters, “This candidate will cause a new Medz Yeghern.” Or, “He will be a return to Enver Pasha and April 24, 1915!” Or, “No, it is my opponent who is the true Talaat Pasha!” Imagine that. Ask Armenian-Americans how that would play in Glendale.

"For that matter, how about if American candidates for office regularly would campaign on such similar themes, repeating over and over and over:

" 'If you vote for Rashida Tlaib, you are voting for a Hamas terrorist who will turn America into a country where babies are burned, women are raped without limit, even dead women are similarly defiled, and random civilians are beheaded. So a vote for Tlaib is a vote for rape, beheading, and burning people. Don’t let her bring Hamas into our District.' ” . . .

New York Gov’s commission cowers while Jewish workers in New York are forced to pay dues to a union that hates them.

"New York law says I must accept the union’s representation anyway — even if its leaders overlook or aid those seeking to drive me from campus."

"When New York Gov. Kathy Hochul commissioned a report on the City University of New York’s rampant antisemitism, I was hopeful that, after my years of warnings about Jew-hatred on campus, its perpetrators were about to be held accountable.

"Imagine my disappointment when the report, released in late September, never mentioned one of the biggest proponents of anti-Jewish sentiment at CUNY: the faculty union that claims to represent me.

"As an openly Zionist Jew, I’ve attracted my share of hostility from radical faculty members who are leveraging the union’s power over professors like me to advance their warped political agenda.

"And the problem starts at the very top." . . .

North Texas mayor born in Puerto Rico reiterates support for Trump after divisive joke at New York rally. But first, Biden calls Trump supporters "garbage"!

First this:  Biden's 'Garbage' Reference to Trump Supporters Has White House Scrambling  "President Joe Biden appeared to call Trump supporters "garbage" in a video that quickly went viral, stirring a furious backlash among conservatives and forcing the White House to issue a clarifying statement.

"The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters ... his his his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and it's un-American," Biden said in the video, denouncing a comedian's joke at a rally for former President Donald Trump that referred to Puerto Rico as a "floating island of garbage." . . .

 WFAA-TV, DFW  

"[City of] Keller has emerged as a GOP stronghold and the school board there voted to require teachers to use pronouns consistent with the biological sex listed on a student's birth certificate."

"North Texas mayor who was born in Puerto Rico says a comedian’s joke about the U.S. territory at a rally for former President Donald Trump this weekend hasn’t eroded his support for Trump.

"Texas-based comedian and podcaster Tony Hinchcliffe, speaking at a rally for Trump at Madison Square Garden in New York this weekend, referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”

"Hinchcliffe’s other jokes Sunday ranged from the birth rates of Latinos to the debunked "eating dogs and cats" controversy in Ohio and to a swipe at the island nation of Puerto Rico.

"The comments were quickly condemned, including by some Hispanic Republicans, Vice President and Democratic nominee for president Kamala Harris, a Dallas comedian who says he was the target of similar rhetoric during an encounter with Hinchcliffe in 2021, and the likes of Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny and Ricky Martin.

" 'It is absolutely something that is intended to and is fanning the fuel of trying to divide our country," Harris said.

"But Keller Mayor Armin Mizani, an attorney who was elected mayor of the Tarrant County city in 2020 and says he was born and raised in Puerto Rico, took to social media Monday to explain his continued support for Trump.

“For Latinos, faith, family, and economic opportunity motivates us – not some bad joke by a comedian,” Mizani wrote. “Under the Biden and Harris administration, Americans have seen record inflation, an open southern border, increased crime, the weakening of the family structure, and the taking away of God from our daily lives. In contrast, under President Trump, Americans saw secured borders, economic prosperity, a respect for people of faith, and a respect for American values.' ” . . .

Remember that Democrats are not merely "Roast Comedians" having a misguided laugh; they affect the nation of Israel, under attack by those who want all Jews murdered; only because they are Jews. TD

Democratic Party Unites Under Banner of Silence on Gaza Genocide 

 Progressives and moderates came together to support Kamala Harris by largely ignoring the most pressing moral issue of our time.

Democratic Socialists reject censure of AOC – The Forward   . . ."Rep. Jamaal Bowman, another New York Democrat and outspoken critic of Israel, let his membership in the DSA lapse last year over a dispute over funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system.

"But while the chapter chose not to tighten its anti-Zionist requirement for endorsement seekers this weekend, it passed a resolution strengthening its own commitment to Palestinians and rejection of Israel.

"The measure reaffirms the chapter’s commitment to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, calls for “political, economic, and social equality between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea,” and proposes treating candidates’ financial backing from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee like funding from the National Rifle Association, of which mainstream Democrats widely disapprove.

"The unsuccessful effort to fortify the chapter’s anti-Zionist demands of its endorsees ahead of the November election and next year’s citywide Democratic primaries infuriated some DSA members.

" 'I am ashamed we won’t hold our electeds to an anti-Zionist line by imposing real consequences,” one activist, going by the username @girlcloudnine, posted on X." . . .

Who was Amon Göth? The antagonist of Schindler's List

The Holocaust  "Amon Göth, portrayed as the antagonist in the film Schindler's List, was a notorious Austrian SS officer during World War II. He served as the commandant of the Plaszow concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Göth's role in the Holocaust was marked by his brutal and sadistic treatment of prisoners, earning him a fearsome reputation among those he oppressed. His character in the film embodies the cruelty and inhumanity of the Nazi regime.

"Born in Vienna in 1908, Göth joined the Nazi Party and the SS in the 1930s, quickly rising through the ranks due to his commitment to the party's ideals. As commandant of Plaszow, he oversaw the forced labor of thousands of Jews and other prisoners, subjecting them to inhumane conditions and arbitrary executions. Göth was known for his ruthless efficiency and personal involvement in the atrocities committed at the camp, often personally shooting prisoners from his balcony for sport. "Göth's actions during the Holocaust were eventually brought to justice after the war. He was arrested by the Allies in 1945, tried for his crimes, and executed by hanging in 1946. His portrayal in Schindler's List serves as a powerful reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust and the depths of human cruelty, contrasting sharply with the heroism of Oskar Schindler, who saved the lives of over a thousand Jews."

UPDATED: About That Puerto Rico Slur….

Alicia Colon: About That Puerto Rico Slur….  . . ."Naturally, Puerto Rican Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are chomping at the bit to capitalize this racist gaffe for their own flagging campaigns and I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that they knew beforehand this would occur.

"Trump and other Republicans have rightly condemned the comments made by this ersatz comedian but they need to emphasize the distinction between legal and illegal immigration and offer plans to improve the government's legal immigration process, which takes forever.

It is no secret that minorities like Blacks and Hispanics are waking up to the lies and fake policies of the Democrat party which historically has blatant ties to racism which go ignored by the lamestream media." . . .

 Harris Releases Television Ad Highlighting Racist Comments About Puerto Rico Said During Trump Rally at Madison Square Garden

 . . ."Mr. Hinchcliffe, a Texas comedian who is close with Joe Rogan, described Puerto Rico as “a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean” during his opening set at the Garden, just hours before the former president took the stage. Other cracks included a remark about Black people “carving watermelons” for Halloween and the sexual proclivities of Latinos. 

"The ad, which the Harris campaign released on Monday afternoon, opens with a video of Mr. Hinchcliffe’s comments as he is standing behind a Trump–Vance 2024 placard. Ms. Harris then speaks to the camera as photos of a devastated Puerto Rico post-Hurricane Maria in 2017 roll across the screen." . . . 

Props to @JonStewart for admitting he finds @TonyHinchcliffe funny.
“I find that guy very funny. I’m sorry, I don’t know what to tell you. I mean, bringing him to a rally and having him not do roast jokes? That’d be like bringing Beyoncé to a rally and not … " pic.twitter.com/Y3ZFCnRtDb

— Johnny Woodard (@JohnnyWoodard) October 29, 2024

 'Garbage': Why they hate Trump supporters  . . ."Meanwhile, it appears the Harris campaign may have roped in Joe Biden to defend them.

"But that may not be true.

"Axios recently reported that Harris is distancing herself from Biden because of his unpopularity and that it reminds people of the past. An unnamed insider called it a 'slow-moving break-up' between Harris and Biden.
Perhaps Biden voluntarily decided to help out.
Biden raged against Hinchcliffe’s joke about Puerto Rico being a “floating island of garbage” by claiming “the only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters....”

UPDATED:  Trump’s Madison Square Garden Event: Where’s the Discipline?

. . ."According to the RealClearPolitics national polling average, Trump is ahead of   Harris by 0.1 percentage points, which means the race is within the margin of error. So when I witness a colossal blunder within days of Nov. 5, I shake my head.

"Last week, Harris was losing moral ground when she accused Trump of being a “fascist,” but this week, even Trump supporters have to consider this unforced error and wonder: Where’s the discipline? Where’s the decency?"   Debra J. Saunders 

UPDATE: Biden and WH Desperately Try - and Fail - to Clarify His CommentsCalling Trump Supporters Garbage  "Joe Biden might just have formally ended Kamala Harris' campaign on Tuesday night. The Democrats were trying to go all in attacking the Trump rally at Madison Square Garden, demonizing it as a "Nazi rally" and criticizing what a comedian said there about Puerto Rico. But then Biden blew all that away in his criticism by calling Trump supporters "garbage," as we reported earlier. Politico then tried to spin what he actually said but was caught because video was released showing what he actually said.  '

 

The Battle of Unrwa: America Could Be Forced To Choose Between Defending Israel or Backing the United Nations.

NY Sun  Tensions over the UN’s agency for dealing with the Palestinian Arabs have become increasingly hostile.   

"Anti-Unrwa sentiments have gained steam in Israel as agency employees in Gaza actively participated in the October 7, 2003 atrocities. Unrwa installations serve a double duty as terrorist headquarters, and abet the digging of war tunnels"

"Who will the next president and Congress side with in a brewing, increasingly hostile battle between the United Nations and Israel?

"On Monday the Knesset enacted by a sweeping majority a law that in 90 days will bar the United Nations Relief and Works Agency from operating in Israel, Gaza, and West Bank. The act is raising a global backlash.

"Leading European countries are condemning the law. The Palestinian Arab observer at the UN, Riyad Mansour, is protesting that Israel is “sitting among us.” The Biden administration is urging the Jewish state to reconsider.

"In March Congress suspended all Unrwa payments for a year after Israel exposed Hamas’ control of the agency in Gaza. On Tuesday the American ambassador at the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said however that America is “deeply concerned” over the Knesset legislation. 

" 'Instead of speaking at one another, Israel and the UN must speak to one another, to address the fears that led to the Knesset legislation and to ensure that Unrwa can fulfill its critical mandate,” Ms. Thomas-Greenfield told the UN Security Council Tuesday.   

"Unrwa was founded in 1949 to aid Arab refugees from Israel’s war of independence. Israelis have long argued that instead, it has enlisted in a Palestinian battle to eventually end Israel’s character as a Jewish state. 

"In 1949 the family of a Christian Arab diplomat who currently serves as Israel’s ambassador to Azerbaijan, George Deek, was listed by Unrwa as refugees. Now he laments the agency’s efforts to perpetuate Palestinian status as stateless refugees in Arab countries. " . . .

Trump loves New York

 

Rich Terrell

Hot Air: The Left Is Now a Joke

Whoopi claims Trump is going to break up interracial marriages and redistribute the white spouses: "He's going to deport and you put the white guy with someone else" "The man is out there!" she declares.

Whoopi video

Jon Stewart is spot on here. Even he thinks the outrage over MSG is BS. pic.twitter.com/IGnURSV7qp

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 29, 2024

 

Hearing Democrats, "The View" and MSNBC: how to destroy your intelligence and cost you many points off your IQ

We’re Keeping A List Of Everyone Who Has Called Trump A ‘Fascist’ 

 "So, we are keeping a list of everyone who has called Trump a fascist, Hitler, a dictator, etc. And, if Trump wins next week and then goes on to disprove them all, we will in four years issue demands to each and every one of them that they hang their heads in shame and beg the American people for mercy."   Issues and Insights 

 Rep. Dingell tells Jake Tapper he might 'have to visit' her in an internment camp if Trump wins    

"He has spoken about that in different audiences. I don't have the exact citation right here, but I'll find it for you. And he‘s been very clear," Dingell said. 

Unhinged lunacy. https://t.co/xxXg73m42i

— RBe (@RBPundit) October 28, 2024

 MSNBC Faces Backlash from Jewish Trump Supporters After Nazi Rally 

Jeff Bezos: No One Trusts Journalists and It's Journalist's Fault   "Give the man some credit. He could have stayed on his yacht and just ignored the whiners in the Post newsroom who are still unhappy about his decision not to allow the paper to run a Kamala Harris endorsement. Instead, he took the bull by the horns and his employees know they are living in a dream world, one in which people trust the pronouncements of journalists.

We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.

"He continues, pointing out the obvious fact that newspaper endorsements are useless and the least the Post can do to try to reclaim some perception of impartiality." . . .

. . ."If Bezos is serious about trying to make the Post a better, more balanced paper, he's going to have to fire a bunch of people who will do their level best to stop that from happening. Personally, I'll believe it when I see it. After 30 years of reading the Post on and off, it's hard to believe they will ever change.

The Media Is Implementing Sinwar's Genocidal Strategy

Alan M. Dershowitz and Andrew Stein   

• Sadly, the media's dangerous cooperation with terrorists tells us more about them than about the war about which they purport to be "reporting."

The founder of the Palestinian movement in the run-up to the Second
World  War was a proud Nazi and friend of Adolf Hitler.

"Following the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, documentary evidence has emerged confirming what many observers already knew: namely, that Sinwar weaponized the death of Gazan civilians, especially women and children.

He understood that the media would emphasize these civilian deaths, attribute them all to Israel, and increase the pressure on the Israeli government to satisfy Hamas's unreasonable demands. This is how the Wall Street Journal put it, following a lengthy investigation:

"Arab mediators hastened to speed up talks about a cease-fire... Sinwar in a message urged his comrades in Hamas's political leadership outside Gaza not to make concessions and instead to push for a permanent end to the war. High civilian casualties would create worldwide pressure on Israel, Sinwar said."

This "dead baby strategy" has been used by Hamas for decades. Their leaders regard increasing the reported number of civilian casualties among Palestinians as necessary to victory, both in the court of public opinion and in the courts of law. Hence, they declare these dead civilians to be martyrs and encourage civilians to remain in dangerous places and among Hamas combatants.

This may be the first time in military history that leaders have admitted putting their own people in harm's way to increase the casualty figures (here, here, here, here and here).

Without the support of the media, this strategy would not succeed. It requires that the media report Hamas-generated civilian casualty figures uncritically and without investigating the underlying components of the reported figures.

So the media report approximately 43,000 dead Palestinians. Although they could easily distinguish between combatant and non-combatant deaths, Hamas refuses to do so. Instead, they distinguish between male adults, women and those who they describe as "children." They fail to acknowledge that many of these so-called children were also combatants. Hamas lists anyone under 19 as a child, regardless of whether they are 15, 16, 17 or 18-year-old terrorists who have been recruited and trained by Hamas to murder Israelis. They do the same with women, conveying the impression that only men are terrorists." . . .

Also from Mr. Dershowitz: Palestinianism Began with Nazism And Today Is Based on Antisemitism, Sexism, Homophobia and Denial of Human Rights. So Why Is the Left So in Love with It?,