Australia to recognize Palestinian state, leaving US increasingly isolated among key allies - CNN

 When the next Democrat administration takes office, this nation will reward Hamas with its own state for their courageous war on families and children, burning infants alive. Why shouldn't we believe Hamas? Because they cannot be believed! TD

Avast/ CNN   "Australia announced its intention to recognize a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September, joining several Western allies amid rising international criticism of Israel's actions in Gaza. New Zealand is also considering similar recognition. This move isolates the United States, which has not recognized Palestinian statehood.

• Detailed Summary:
  • Political Actions:
  • Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stated Australia will recognize a Palestinian state at the UN in September.
  • New Zealand's Foreign Minister indicated the country is also considering recognition, with a decision expected at a September cabinet meeting.
  • The UK, France, and Canada have also announced plans for recognition, if Israel does not meet conditions.
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the moves as "shameful."
  • International Relations:
  • The US is increasingly isolated among its allies on this issue.
  • Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong informed the US of Australia's plans.
  • Recognition is seen by Australia as a step toward a two-state solution.
  • Conditions and Assurances:
  • Australia has received assurances from the Palestinian Authority that Hamas will not be involved in a future Palestinian state.
  • Other conditions include demilitarization, elections, governance reforms, and international oversight."
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The NYT’s Idea of a Conservative Is a Blithering Idiot

Ann Coulter   

. . ."Just when you think Douthat’s column can’t get any stupider, he comes up with something even stupider: His belief in UFOs.And you wonder why Times readers think conservatives are simpletons."

"Who could have guessed that The New York Times’ “conservative” columnist would be a pompous idiot, except anyone who’s ever seen the in-house conservatives at ABC, NBC, CBS, The Washington Post, etc., etc.

"I was tricked into reading a column by “conservative” Ross Douthat by its title, “Conspiracies Are Real. The Theories Can Be Traps.” It’s a point I’ve often made myself. Of course, there are conspiracies. Political parties are conspiracies, businesses are conspiracies, sports teams are conspiracies.

"Other than noncontroversial conspiracies, like political parties, business enterprises and the fact that Big Tech was censoring conservatives like mad from 2020 until Elon bought Twitter, the silly conspiracy theories involve vastly complicated, man-behind-the-curtain, super-secret operations — like UFOs manipulating humankind, Obama being the mastermind of everything the Democrats do, “they” (the media? the FBI?) orchestrating the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, and of course, the Jews.

"So yeah, there are loads of real conspiracies, it’s the wacko theories that take things off the rails.

"But that’s not Douthat’s point. His point mainly seems to be to remind me why I don’t read him.

"He strikes the classic pose of the “reasonable” conservative. While he may not agree with Times readers, he sure doesn’t agree with those right-wing kooks, either! Everybody’s wrong — but he will explain what’s really going on from his perch on Mount Common Sense Olympus.

"Except what Douthat calls right-wing “conspiracy theories” are classically known as “facts.” And what he posits as the Reasonable Middle positions are completely nuts.

"He says the right-wing conspiracy theory on Jeffrey Epstein is this: “MAGA activists and influencers have long focused on the possibility that he ran a sex ring for wealthy men.” Nonsense, he says, driven by “ideological impulses.”

"Ross, darling, I don’t know where you’ve been, but that is the irreducible minimum of what Epstein was doing. Anyone who cared to know the truth has known it since 2006, when the Palm Beach police released the results of their investigation.

"Since then, we’ve gotten truckloads of court rulings and sworn affidavits, confirming what Douthat calls a “conspiracy theory.” Here’s a tiny scintilla of the evidence for the crazy idea that Epstein was running a sex ring for wealthy men: . . .Full Article here...

Europe Learned the Wrong Lesson From the October 7 Attack; Macron and Starmer plan to reward Hamas’s genocidal efforts.

Biden, Obama, and most Democrats, I'm sure, would join them

 The American Spectator | USA News and Politics  

"The powerful blow that was delivered to Israel on Oct. 7 has yielded three very important historic achievements. First of all, it brought the Palestinian cause back. Why are all these countries recognizing Palestine now? The overall outcome of Oct. 7 forced the world to open its eyes to the Palestinian cause, and to act forcefully in this respect."  "Thus spoke Hamas Politburo member Ghazi Hamad to Al Jazeera." 

"We can thank Herr Hamad for his ingenuousness. October 7 did seem to be an inflection point in the minds of exterminationists like Hamas as well as for their wannabes, useful idiots, and assorted camp followers in the media, on campuses, and an ever-larger percentage of Democrats. Unlike the Nazis, who even at the peak of their power still made a semblance of hiding their genocidal aims, Hamas and the other Gazans who followed them to rape, torture, kidnap, and murder Israeli civilians on that day posted their activities online, sometimes streaming them live. One memorable call placed by a Hamasnik to his parents back in Gaza had him screaming with pride and joy, telling them he had himself killed 10 Jews that very day, and the parents sounding as happy as Jewish parents hearing their kids tell them they just got into med school. (RELATED: Look Back in Anger: The October 7 Commission Report)

"While the murders were still proceeding apace, demonstrations immediately formed on campuses and in the streets of Western European cities. Most demanded a ceasefire, an exceedingly strange thing to do since at that time, the only attack had been made by Hamas. Gradually, more and more demonstrators made clear by their words and by their deeds that they approved of the violence and supported the Hamas plan of completely eliminating the nation of Israel and of violence against Jews everywhere in the world. Demonstrators became vocal advocates for “Globalizing the Intifada,” the Intifada being the grisly campaign of bombing pizza shops, shopping malls, and city buses that Yassir Arafat launched against Israel’s civilians less than a decade after agreeing to peace with Israel on the White House lawn and getting the Nobel Peace Prize. They chanted, “From the River to the Sea,” designating that their goal is a single state, occupying all the area from the Jordan to the Mediterranean, that is as ethnically homogeneous as the PA is now — home to no Jews at all. (RELATED: Palestinians’ ‘Allies’ Need to Abolish Hamas, Not Israel)

"All that is fairly old news, rehashed for the one or two readers who may have only now tuned in to the story. The new development this week was expressed with admirable candor and brevity by the Wall Street Journal editorial board in an August 6 editorial they titled: Kill Jews, Get Your Own State."

"What they are referring to is the announced intention of both Britain and France to recognize a Palestinian state. Macron and Starmer are as adept as Daladier and Chamberlain at rationalizing their capitulation to terror regimes, though in Chamberlain’s defense, the Umbrella Man was at least sincere in thinking that appeasement would lead to Hitler’s moral reform and real peace." . . .

Parody: Uighur Slaves Struggling To Keep Up With Demand For Palestinian Headscarves

 Babylon Bee

XINJIANG, CHINA — Thanks to the recent uptick in awareness of worldwide injustices and inequalities, Uighur slaves are struggling to keep up with the demand for more Palestinian headscarves.

"The traditional keffiyeh is the square cotton scarf that is being worn on liberal college campuses around the United States in solidarity with the Free Palestine resistance movement. Unfortunately, those headscarves aren't affordable to poor college students unless the manufacturing is outsourced to Uighur slaves in China.

" 'We are really glad that college kids are paying attention to unfair and oppressive conditions around the world," said one Uighur, Aygul Ablet, through her prison bars to a translator. "It's certainly increased our workload, but it's all for a good cause I guess."

" 'When boss man says make 2,000 scarves by Friday afternoon to hit quota or else we will get hit, it really motivates us all," chimed in Dilshat Muhemmet. "We all need something that keeps us going. For some, it's 'Free Palestine.' But for us, it's a big scary man with a baton."

"At publishing time, the prison camp of Uighur slaves received an order to make 20,000 Che Guevara t-shirts also by Friday." 

The Blogs: They made us wear keffiyehs, but nobody told us the meaning | Ali Deilami | The Times of Israel

The Keffiyeh Isn’t Just a Scarf—Here’s What It Really Means  We must understand the thoughts of those who murdered, raped, and disfigured Jews on Oct 7th, 2023. Assuming, of course, Greta Thunberg and her campus yokefellows have anything resembling thoughts. TD

'I was triggered': Some Jews are struggling as they encounter keffiyehs in their daily lives

Ignorance: A mural of Anne Frank wearing a keffiyeh in Bergen, Norway

. . . "Marcus summarized how Jews in her circle often look askance at someone wearing a keffiyeh: “Is this a fad, or are you very well aware that this is a garment that was worn by people who raped, brutalized, beheaded, butchered people like me?” . . .

[Robert Francis] Beto Makes Profane Rant on Redistricting, Reveals What Dems Would Do If They Got Power Back

  Nick Arama – RedState  

He urged every state controlled by Democrats to redraw their maps to maximize the Democratic advantage. He might want to check in with them - they've been doing it all over, for years. 

"Texas Democrats fled the state to break quorum, in order to prevent redistricting plans from being passed.

However, they're running out of options. State Attorney General Ken Paxton got a court decision on Friday that prevents Beto O'Rourke and his group, Powered by People, from providing funding to, or fundraising for, the runaways. 

"That caused O'Rourke to have a whiny meltdown on X, and Paxton dunked on him, "Cry more, lib." 

"The result is that the decision will cut off another option for the Democrats."  ...

. . . "F*** the rules, we are going to win whatever it takes. We're going to take this to them in every way we can," he declared.

" But he had a bit more to say, revealing what they would do if they got back power. " . . .

"Next time we win power, "We're going to drive that car like we stole it," he said. 

"We're going to legalize every Dreamer, every Dreamer's parents, every hard-working American doing back-breaking work that makes this country so g**da***ed great in the first place, even greater as U.S. citizens." 

"What he said there didn't even make sense. I don't doubt for a minute that that would be high up on their agenda to legalize everyone they can. How would they legalize every "hard-working American"?

"Beto's ranting is always so funny because he's such a loser. So anytime he talks about getting into power, it's a bit like the "Inverse Jim Cramer" effect. It makes me laugh; if he says it, I know it's never going to happen. Does he truly believe that we're going to let him prevail?" . . .

UPDATE: Democrats Aren’t Hiding It Anymore: They Plan to Rig the System

Won't this guy ever go away? . . . "The reality is Democrats no longer merely seek electoral wins—they aggressively seek to rig the game itself, and they’re not even trying to hide it anymore. We can’t ignore what Beto and Carville said as just rogue voices in the party. They revealed exactly what the party wants to do the moment they return to power." . . .

They have an electorate simple-minded enough to think Israel is the bad guy and aggressor against Hamas, to align with such a collection of dangerous nincompoops as AOC, Kamala Harris, Eric Swalwell and Fang Fang, Jasmine Crockett, Maxine Waters, anyone at MSNBC, Stephen Colbert, WhoopiJoy1Joy2, ..........TD

Chicago Resident Launches Effort to Recall Mayor Brandon Johnson

 The Political Insider 

“There are a lot of people who are just trying to get by,” he said. “Now these migrants are being handed everything but they can’t work right now because they don’t have work permits,” he said

A Chicago resident cites a rampant crime wave and illegal immigration as just a few of his reasons for initiating an effort to recall Mayor Brandon Johnson.

“We have crime throughout all of our neighborhoods, but with armed thugs walking the streets,” Dan Boland, founder of the Recall This Fall initiative, told The Epoch Times. “Yet some of our aldermen are calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, but they’ve never called for a ceasefire in their own ward.”

He pointed to Alderman Bryon Sigcho-Lopez, an ally of Mr. Johnson—one of the six members of the Democratic Socialist Caucus block of the Chicago City Council—who appeared with pro-Palestinian protesters after they had burned an American flag.

These ideological pursuits—which include the recent Chicago City Council’s vote to approve the mayor’s request for $70 million to be doled out for illegal immigration—ignore Chicago residents who have lived in the city their whole lives, he said." . . .

Pallywood: Leading Media Outlets Reportedly Used Staged Photos From Gaza

 Legal Insurrection  

"Hamas is deliberately creating a food crisis in areas under its control. “There is some hunger in Gaza, and it exists only in places Hamas is pursuing it, not in other areas,” Professor Eytan Gilboa (Reichman University, Herzliya) told Israeli news agency TPS recently."

"Since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, Gaza-based activists, posing as journalists, have continued to flood international media with fake and staged images. The German newspapers Bild-Zeitung and Süddeutsche Zeitung exposed one such ‘photojournalist,’ whose work has been picked up by leading German and Western news outlets, including The Times magazine and CNN.

"Anas Zayed Fteiha, a freelance “journalist” commissioned by Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency, has been spreading ‘Hamas propaganda’ by taking ‘staged’ photographs depicting supposed misery and suffering in Gaza, Germany’s most-read daily Bild-Zeitung reported this week.

"Media outlets across the world have been publishing his staged and orchestrated images, holding them up as proof that people in Gaza are facing a dire humanitarian crisis due to Israel’s military operation to liberate hostages and eliminate Hamas’ terrorist fighting force.

"One such staged photograph by Fteiha landed on the Time magazine’s cover, accompanied by a story titled ‘The Gaza Tragedy.”

"The Bild-Zeitung reported Tuesday:

Emaciated children, desperate mothers, and people with empty bowls begging for food: These photos from Gaza are circulating the world. They emote millions—and influence global politics.

But an investigation by the Süddeutsche Zeitung is now questioning the veracity of these images: Were some of the photos from Gaza intentionally staged – and are part of a propaganda strategy by Hamas terrorists?

The hunger is (almost always) real – but the pictures are not. A photograph circulated widely in recent [days] showed desperate people on a truck in front of a food distribution center. Opposite them: photographer Anas Zayed Fteiha, a freelance “journalist” commissoned by the Turkish news agency Anadolu. (…)

His photos—published by [German magazine] Stern and The New York Magazine, CNN and the BBC, [Germany’s state-run broadcaster] Deutschlandfunk, [German daily] Junge Welt, and even the Bild Zeitung—prefer to depict chaos and destruction. And above all, children, mothers, and suffering in close-ups, and with perfect lighting.

Indeed, the suffering of civilians in Gaza is great. Many have been killed in Hamas’s war against Israel, and many are starving. However, the staging of this misery often benefits Hamas and its propaganda.

(…) “journalist” Fteiha seems to have a mission: “Free Palestine.” This is what it says on a grotesque painting [self-portrait] he posted on his Instagram account—in combat gear with the proud inscription “Press.” The “artist” who created the image for Fteiha is an avowed Jew-hater.  More...

Newsom’s War on Masculinity Comes Full Circle

The American Spectator | USA News and Politics 

 . . . "His sudden compassion expires the moment it conflicts with progressive orthodoxy. California’s young men deserve someone who understands that masculinity isn’t a stain to be removed but a force requiring proper direction. Gavin Newsom is not that man."

"Gavin Newsom just discovered men exist. After years of treating masculinity like a social disease requiring immediate quarantine, California’s slick-haired governor suddenly wants to help the boys he’s spent his career neutering. His recent executive order targeting male suicide and isolation would be touching if it weren’t so laughably transparent.

"The conversion happened fast. One day, Newsom’s celebrating biological males shattering girls’ records on high school tracks. The next, he’s wringing his manicured hands over young men “suffering in silence.” (RELATED: Newsom Can’t Memory-Hole What He Did to California)

"What changed? Trump did. He peeled off their voters. Droves of young men — especially working-class and minority — have abandoned the Democrats, choosing a brash, unapologetic figure over a party that spent years branding their masculinity toxic, their drive dangerous, and their presence in classrooms, boardrooms, and relationships a threat to be managed. (RELATED: Gavin Newsom Wants To Be Donald Trump So Badly)

"Newsom’s timing deserves applause for its shamelessness. With 2028 presidential ambitions burning hotter than California wildfires, he needs those male votes back. Enter the executive order, a masterpiece of political theater designed to con the disengaged while ticking every focus group box.The statistics behind his sudden concern are genuinely horrifying. Men commit suicide at four times the rate of women. They’re drowning in depression, addiction, and purposelessness. College campuses look like dating apps — 60 percent female, 40 percent male, and dropping. Young men live in their parents’ basements, lost in video games and pornography, while their female peers launch careers and buy houses. (RELATED: This Man Is Not the Answer to the Masculinity Crisis)"  

"This crisis didn’t emerge from nowhere. It’s the predictable result of decades of systematic masculine destruction — cultural, educational, political. And California has been leading the charge. Newsom’s state banned fatherhood from ads, stripped shop classes from schools, flooded classrooms with gender confusion, and pushed boys to apologize for being boys. California perfected the art of emasculation, then acts shocked when men collapse under the weight of their own engineered irrelevance." . . .  More...

Governing America; the left and violence

 Violence Against Political Opponents Is Becoming Mainstream on the Left. Here’s (More) Proof. Robert Spencer   

"Leftists outside of politics joined in the fun as well: remember, to take just a few of many available examples, Kathy Griffin holding Trump’s bloody severed head, or Madonna saying she wanted to blow up the White House, or Robert DeNiro bellowing that he wanted to punch Trump in the face." 

  "The idea of doing violence to one’s political opponents has become mainstream on the left. Don’t believe me? Consider the case of one Iman Abdul, a 27-year-old woman who has worked on the campaigns of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Swizzle Stick) and New York state Sen. Julia Salazar (D-Of Course). Abdul has just been arrested for calling for an attack on a high school because a large number of Jewish students go to it.

"Now, there’s no doubt whatsoever that AOC and Salazar would roundly condemn Abdul’s call. Why, there’s just no question of that at all! And yet Iman Abdul is only the latest of many leftists to call for or justify violence against people they fear and hate. Some of these include the Cultural Revolution’s top leaders in the United States.

“ 'Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption — but I am now,” said far-left Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker back in April. “These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace.” That was after Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-Victimhood) said in February: “This will be a congressional fight, a constitutional fight, a legal fight, and on days like this a street fight, yes we will stand.” And that was not long after House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-Hey, I’m a Victim Too) said this of the “extreme MAGA Republican agenda”: “We are going to fight it legislatively. We are going to fight it in the courts. We’re going to fight it in the streets.”

"Before them, it was Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, and Kamala Harris inciting leftist violence. And let’s not forget Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-Grillmaster) saying in 2020, when condemning the pro-life leanings of Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh: “I want to tell you, Gorsuch; I want to tell you, Kavanaugh: You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price.' " . . .

Right in the left's wheelhouse; 2,000 Iranian Clerics Endorse Assassination of Trump   ..."Trump should not have saved the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, from extinction at Israel’s hands." . . .

Ex-AOC campaigner busted for urging attack on public school attended by Jewish students - Monica Showalter   

World Israel News

. . . "She apparently had 25,000 followers on social media, so all it would take is one worthless goober to carry out her command and an entire schoolyard could be loaded with dead bodies. This is Jew-hate at its most evil.

"Yet that's what she wanted, and now it's up to lawmen to find out if she was just a typical leftwing radical with a flaming antisemitism problem, a Muslim convert who got her ideas from prison gangs, a Muslim who grew up with those values from her babyhood, or else under the thumb of global terrorist masters, using her as a pawn.

"Was she part of something larger? Did she get paid? Normal people, even garden-variety Jew-haters, don't post things like that. But she did. Where was she radicalized? What kind of leftwing conferences and maybe mosques did she go to?" . . .

Do people like that even know what a "Nazi" is? Ask them to define Fascism. Below: on the left, Jewish families about to die, just like on Oct 7th. On the right, real Nazis, doing as Hamas and Gaza residents did on that day. TD

Bill Maher: Dems Are at Risk of Total Collapse If They Can't Answer This Question

 Townhall   

"Maher also mocked CNN for calling the black New York City shooter “possibly white.”. Why do public speakers have such a fear of displeasing Black people?

"Bill Maher couldn’t care less about what unhinged woke liberals think about him. He’s comfortable where he is politically, he’ll talk to whomever he damn pleases, and he’s not cancelable. He’s an old-school liberal. Sure, plenty of terrible political opinions, but he’s determined to purge his aisle of the illiberal crazies who have turned his party into a laughingstock. Let’s hope he’s not too successful, however. 

"Last Friday’s episode did not disappoint, where the comedian poked fun at the Sydney Sweeney ad, which liberals are now saying only got Republicans riled up. That was in the Rolling Stone, a publication sued for peddling a fake gang rape hoax at the University of Virginia, so fake news is their forte. Maher said that the writers of the ad should’ve known some crazy liberal was going to throw a Nazi tantrum. It was a great opening and another sign that normies are winning. When your gripes are a punchline and national fodder for comedians, it means whatever you're protesting is stupid. 

"It got serious, though, regarding what Maher thinks is the question liberal Democrats must ask if they want to move forward. They can’t be due to the first wave of woke infection that was intersectionality. Yes, white people in the past did some bad things, but everyone did. That’s the point. Tribal wars in Africa, wholesale slaughter in Asia—the list goes on, but it’s only the white folk who are demonized in what has become a cartoonishly absurd way. Sadly, it’s come to this since it’s a question that no one should have to answer for if they don’t want to be viewed as lunatics, but Democrats, with their adept ways of not wanting to offend people, now must ask if they’re with us or the terrorists. Do they support the values of Western civilization or not? Because right now, they’re just a step away from being full-blown Hamas members; some already are: . . . "

Is Shifty Schiff Finally Getting His Due?

 

DOJ Taps Attorney To Probe Schiff, James Mortgage Fraud Claims   . . . "Meanwhile, James has faced similar accusations of committing mortgage fraud.

As The Federalist’s Brianna Lyman reported, U.S. Federal Housing Director William J. Pulte sent a criminal referral to the Department of Justice in April alleging James “‘falsified records’ to obtain home loans for a property in Virginia that she claimed in 2023 was her ‘principal residence’ despite serving in New York at the time, according to The [New York] Post.” “The alleged falsification,” Lyman wrote, “occurred weeks before she launched her politically motivated sham trial against the Trump Organization for allegedly inflating the values of its properties.” . . .

Is Shifty Schiff Finally Getting His Due? Behind a paywall.

Mortgage Fraud? Ed Martin Tapped to Investigate Dem Adam Schiff - Check Out Schiffty’s Panicky Posts

What Adam Schiff Learned from a Cashier at Target  . . . "Second, given Schiff’s long history of playing fast and loose with the truth, it’s hard to take anything he says at face value. But assuming the story is true, you have to appreciate the irony of a Democrat falling victim to the very policies his party helped create. After all, it’s often only through direct experience that real lessons are learned.

"Additionally, Schiff prefaced his story by telling Maher, “So, we’re going to have to change how we do business in California. We’re going to have to address people’s legitimate concerns about crime.” This raises the question: what steps, if any, has he taken to confront the situation? My guess would be none."

If You're Stuck At a Stoplight, Here's How to Let The Sensor Know

 If You're Stuck At a Stoplight, Here's How to Let The Sensor Know

Some traffic lights use infrared sensors or cameras to detect vehicles. Flashing your high beams can help these sensors recognize your presence by detecting the change in light or heat from your vehicle.

Getting stuck at a red light can be frustrating, especially when it feels like the light just isn't changing for you. But before you start honking or thinking the traffic signal is broken, it's important to understand how stoplights work and what you can do to ensure they detect your vehicle. Here's a guide on how to interact with traffic light sensors effectively.

Traffic lights are more sophisticated than they appear. They don't just change colors on a timer; many use sensors to detect vehicles at an intersection. These sensors play a crucial role in managing traffic flow, ensuring that vehicles aren't stuck waiting at a red light longer than necessary. Common types of sensors include induction loops, infrared sensors, and cameras.¹

“A loop is simply a coil of wire placed underneath the pavement. When a large metal object is positioned over the loop, it affects the loop's magnetic field,” explains the public works department in Neenah, Wisconsin.²

. . . "One of the most important factors in getting the stoplight to recognize your vehicle is proper positioning. When you approach an intersection, make sure to pull up to the designated stop line or, if there isn't one, wait behind the crosswalk. If you're too far back, the sensors might not detect your vehicle, leaving you stuck at the light. For motorcyclists and bicyclists, who often struggle with triggering these sensors, positioning the tires on the tar lines of the induction loop can help. These lines are usually visible on the pavement before the stop line." . . .More