Thursday, November 21, 2024

Israel: Government, Opposition Parties Reject ICC Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu

"Issue sanctions on every single member and employee of the ICC. Make it impossible for them to move funds or travel. Bureaucrats who enable and excuse terrorism in this manner need to learn a lesson about international norms and the consequences of their actions. And that should happen now, not after the next session of Congress begins."  Ed Morrissey

ICC Endorses Hamas Terrorism In Absurd Arrest Warrants on Netanyahu, Gallant    "The International Criminal Court today endorsed and enforced terrorism. There is simply no other way to describe their absurd decision to issue arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant in the war Hamas launched against Israel on October 7, 2023, with a wave of atrocities that deliberately targeted thousands of unarmed civilians.

"Rather than issue arrest warrants for Hamas leadership for those atrocities, the ICC has chosen to go after the Israelis for fighting Hamas where Hamas hides out -- among civilians: . . ." 

Israel: Government, Opposition Parties Reject ICC Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu   ..."The Jerusalem Post reported PM Netanyahu’s response:

Israel claimed that the court has no authority to discuss the Palestinian complaint against it, which recently led to the prosecutor’s request to issue arrest warrants against the prime minister and the defense minister.

The Prime Minister’s Office responded to the warrants, calling the decision antisemitic.

“The antisemitic decision of the International Criminal Court is equivalent to a modern-day Dreyfus trial—and it will end the same way,” the PMO said.

“Israel vehemently rejects the absurd and false actions and accusations against it by the International Criminal Court, a biased and discriminatory political body.”

The PMO also said that the decision was made by “a corrupt chief prosecutor attempting to save himself from severe allegations of sexual harassment, and by biased judges driven by antisemitic hatred toward Israel,” accusing prosecutor Karim Khan of lying to US senators when he said he would not “act against Israel before visiting” Israel.

The ICC ruling was rejected by leaders across the Israeli political spectrum, The Times of Israel reported:

Negev, Galilee and National Resilience Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf characterized the warrants as “antisemitic accusations against all citizens of Israel” and pledged that Jerusalem would “not be deterred and will continue to fight murderous terrorism.”

. . .The arrest warrants against Israeli leaders come as ICC’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan faces multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, raising speculations that the anti-Israel witch hunt could be a desperate bid to divert attention away from the looming scandal" . . .   

 Hamas celebrates ICC arrest warrants and urges the court to ‘expand its scope’ to all Israeli leaders

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Undoing Biden: Trump’s First-Month Agenda

 American Spectator; Depriving Kamala her chance to finish the Biden agenda was at least as important as electing Trump to the presidency.

"As for Israel, Trump was — and will be again — the best ally Israel ever had in the White House. Gone will be the Biden threats of cancelling U.S. financial and military aid unless Israel force-feeds the Gaza population." 

Revoke Biden’s Orders and Memoranda

Beginning on January 20, 2025 President Trump will have the opportunity to repair the damage that Joe Biden and Kammy Harris have done in the past four years. But the next four years will pass quickly, so Trump has to start on his first day and keep charging ahead.

"The Dems will have their own agenda. If they get a majority in the House — which seems unlikely at this writing — they’ll impeach Trump by Saint Patrick’s Day.

"The agenda for Trump’s first month begins on Inauguration Day.

"The simplest and best action Trump can take is to revoke all of Biden’s executive orders and presidential memoranda. According to Ballotpedia.

"Biden has signed 142 executive orders and 221 presidential memoranda. (That number may increase between now and Inauguration Day.) Both of those actions direct federal officials to take — or refrain from — certain actions that are at least purportedly in their power. The difference between them is that EO’s have to be published while the presidential memoranda don’t.

"Trump should revoke every one of Biden’s executive orders and presidential memoranda. Some of them are the means by which Biden opened our borders. Revoke them all. Every. Single. One.

"Trump’s staff should have a document accomplishing that ready for his signature on Inauguration Day.

"Also on Inauguration Day, Trump should have legislation in hand that would authorize and fund construction of the wall across the Mexican border. It should also close our borders to all but legitimate commercial traffic, legal immigration, and tourists with proper visas. That bill, which should be HR-1 if Republicans keep the House, should be sent to the House and Senate for consideration beginning that day.

"Nothing — other than cancellation of the Biden executive orders and presidential memoranda — can be done immediately but much can be done or at least begun within the first month of Trump’s new presidency.

"Biden has supposedly made the civil service Trump-proof. He has done that by converting a lot of political appointees — who are usually called “Schedule C’s,” political but not senate confirmed — into regular civil service jobs.

"House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La) has already posed a good solution to that problem. Transfer all of them out of D.C. to places they may not wish to be and essentially force them to quit rather than be reassigned." . . .

"Personnel is Policy" . . .

"Reversing Biden on NATO, Ukraine, Middle East" . . .

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Justin Trudeau To Allow The Arrest Of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu If He Enters Canada?

 100%FedUP  "The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

"The ICC also issued an arrest warrant for Hamas leader Ibrahim Al-Masri, accusing each individual of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the 13-month Gaza conflict.

"According to Reuters, the ICC judges said there were reasonable grounds to believe Netanyahu and Gallant used “starvation as a method of warfare” as part of a “widespread and systematic attack against the civilian population of Gaza.” . . .

US senator vows legislation to punish nations who work with ICC after Israel arrest warrants

"Republican US Sen. Lindsey Graham vowed to introduce legislation Thursday that would punish any nation that cooperates with the International Criminal Court (ICC) after it issued arrest warrants for Israeli officials.

"Graham said in a lengthy X post that it would be "a huge mistake" for the US to not react strongly against the action, saying that without doing so the US would be "conceding that they have jurisdiction over the United States."

" 'We cannot let the world believe for a moment that this is a legitimate exercise of jurisdiction by the Court against Israel because to do so means we could be next," he said.

" 'I will be introducing legislation that puts other countries on notice – If you aid and abet the ICC after their action against the State of Israel, you can expect consequences from the United States. Any nation that joins with the ICC after this outrage is a partner in a reckless act that tramples the rule of law," he added.

"The Hague-based court announced the arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant earlier in the day "for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024," when ICC prosecutor Karim Khan sought the warrants.

"In doing so, it also unanimously rejected Israel's challenges to jurisdiction under articles 18 and 19 of the Rome Statute." . . .

All praise to Biden's handlers. TD


US Rep. Rashida Tlaib welcomes ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant

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Gaetz Withdraws from Attorney General Consideration — Trump Responds

 The Gateway Pundit


Matt Gaetz has announced that he is withdrawing from his nomination for Attorney General.  The shocking announcement was posted to X on Thursday morning.

“I had excellent meetings with Senators yesterday,” Gaetz began. “I appreciate their thoughtful feedback – and the incredible support of so many.”  

"The former congressman continued, “While the momentum was strong, it is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance Transition. There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle, thus I’ll be withdrawing my name from consideration to serve as Attorney General. Trump’s DOJ must be in place and ready on Day 1.”

" 'I remain fully committed to see that Donald J. Trump is the most successful President in history. I will forever be honored that President Trump nominated me to lead the Department of Justice and I’m certain he will Save America,” the announcement concluded.

"Trump issued a statement about the withdrawal in a post to Truth Social, which read:

I greatly appreciate the recent efforts of Matt Gaetz in seeking approval to be Attorney General. He was doing very well but, at the same time, did not want to be a distraction for the Administration, for which he has much respect. Matt has a wonderful future, and I look forward to watching all of the great things he will do!   Read more...

"It is currently unclear who Trump will choose as a replacement." 

This is a breaking news story and The Gateway Pundit will provide updates as more information becomes available.

 

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George Soros and his leftist family

"@PWarriors-Truth:   This maniac has crashed many societies and caused so much pain, death and heartache and said that he quite enjoyed it.. evil personified."

 

Comments to this post:  "Soros-funded groups openly boast about "resisting Trump"—it's not a theory, it's their business model. Pretending otherwise is willful blindness. Follow the money and connect the dots."

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Liberals rage against 'Morning Joe' 'betrayal' after co-hosts meet with Trump: 'We will not forgive'

 

Rich Terrell

MSNBC staffers ‘in a panic’ as NBC parent Comcast plans to spin off channel — and possibly change its name    . . ."Comcast announced Wednesday that MSNBC — home  to anchors including Joy Reid and Lawrence O’Donnell — will join CNBC, Oxygen, E!, Syfy and the Golf Channel as part of a new company called SpinCo." . . .

NEW: @ScottJenningsKY's reactions are priceless as Brian Stelter ‘reports’ that Joe/Mika met with Trump because they feared retribution:

Pictured:   MSNBC president Rashida Jones told panicked MSNBC staffers that “change is always complicated” during a Wednesday morning meeting with Lazarus. Getty Images


Liberals rage against 'Morning Joe' 'betrayal' after co-hosts meet with Trump: 'We will not forgive'


Bill O'Reilly says MSNBC is Finally Finished    "O’Reilly analyzes the final days of MSNBC as its corporate owners seek to spin the network off to someone else."
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America’s Victory: Trump’s Win Saved America

 . . ."He has excelled and will do so again in this colossal task because it is evident to Americans that he loves America, the American people, and is a fighter. The American people gave Trump his victory because they saw that Trump’s triumph is America’s."


The American people gave Trump his victory because they saw that Trump’s triumph is America’s.     "President Donald Trump’s election victory on November 5 was an epochal event in American history. The American people gave Trump a mandate with almost 51% of the vote. He received over 73 million votes, more than four million more than his opponent. A new American coalition—traditional Republican voters united with lower middle class, working class, African Americans, Hispanics, and white women—provided the monumental victory. At such a significant time, it is important to consider how America arrived at such a historical moment and what must be accomplished in the years ahead.

"Retrospectively, Americans must understand how they came to this place in their history. According to the exit polls, a whopping 72% of Americans understood that their country was on the wrong path. America’s political ideology, culture, and traditions were under assault by the so-called “progressive” wing of the Democrat Party. The Biden-Harris administration weakened the economy, caused inflation rates not seen since the 1970s, opened U.S. borders to some 15 million people and facilitated their relocation throughout the U.S. and so weaponized the legal system to wage lawfare against Trump, his major political and legal advisors, and against many of his supporters.

"In the realm of foreign and defense policy, the debacle of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, the failure to deter the war in Ukraine, the horrific attacks against Israel on October 7, 2023, and the subsequent wars it unleashed. Significantly, the Biden-Harris regime failed to deter Communist China’s hyper-aggression directed against U.S. allies like the Philippines and partners like Taiwan, and most importantly against the American people through the deaths of a quarter of a million of our fellow citizens from Chinese-provided fentanyl and the intellectual capture of so many of the American elite who parrot the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) policy positions to advance the CCP’s interests.

"The deeper cause of how America arrived at this point is the embrace of Marxism by the Democratic Party and thus its increasing totalitarianism and alienation from the American people. In its embrace of this ideology, the Democrat Party demonstrated that it had completely become detached from the American experience, ideology, history, and culture in its effort to transform America into a one-party state on the road to totalitarianism. The American people saw this effort to continue the “fundamental transformation” of America—as Obama identified it on the eve of the 2008 election—and rejected it." . . .

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November 20, 1945: Nuremberg Trials Get Underway

The American Catholic



“But the most interesting — although horrible — sight that I encountered during the trip was a visit to a German internment camp near Gotha. The things I saw beggar description. While I was touring the camp I encountered three men who had been inmates and by one ruse or another had made their escape. I interviewed them through an interpreter. The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where they [there] were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to ‘propaganda’.”

General Eisenhower letter to General George Marshall 4/15/45

The Nuremberg Trials got under way seventy-nine years ago today.  One may cavil at some of the procedures used during the trials and the presence of Soviet judges and prosecutors at the trial, but no decent human being can ever claim that the crimes committed by the leaders of the Third Reich, in Eisenhower’s phrase, beggar description.  The video at the beginning of this post consists of film shot by the Army Signal Corps, at Eisenhower’s order, of the Nazi death camps and was admitted into evidence at the Nuremberg trial.  It makes for grim viewing, but the reality it reflected must never be forgotten.   

Film shown at Nuremberg War Crimes Trials



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Wednesday, November 20, 2024

CNN’s lone conservative voice, Scott Jennings, strikes again. "Lonely Scott" (Bill Maher)

CNN’s Scott Jennings Mocks the Left for Endless False Narrative About ‘Literally Hitler’ . . .

Newly Unearthed Video Shows Hitler Did The Trump Dance

Babylon Bee toon added by Tunnel Dweller.

. . ."He singled out Joe Scarborough and Mika of Morning Joe, who recently met with Trump after warning for months that he was a fascist and the end of democracy.

"FOX News reports:

CNN pundit mocks liberals for friendly meetings with Trump after endless attacks on ‘literal Hitler’

Following news that Trump held a meeting with MSNBC co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough this week, and Trump’s cordial summit with President Biden at the White House last week, Jennings remarked on the about-face, considering both the pundits and president have consistently labeled him a fascist threat.

“I‘m amazed. I did not expect Hitler to get so many meeting requests, first from Joe Biden, now from Mika and Joe,” Jennings told a panel on “CNN NewsNight” Monday evening.

“It‘s amazing that literal Hitler is getting all these meeting requests,” he added with a wry smile on his face. He went on to say these examples of diplomacy with Trump prove that prominent liberals defrauded Democratic voters with their rhetoric on Trump being a dictator, including on “Morning Joe.”

“And what it tells me, professor,” he said to fellow panelist Jeff Jarvis, “is that all the rhetoric that came from the left, from the Democrats, from the White House, from Kamala Harris and everyone else before the election, all of the rhetoric – the fascism, the Hitler, the Nazi rally – it was all a bunch of BS. They didn‘t mean any of it.”

"Watch the video, this is great: 

Scott Jennings on CNN defended Hegseth, saying, “He's got 20 years in service. Afghanistan, Iraq. Two bronze stars. Princeton, Harvard. Yeah, he’s on TV, but so are the rest of us.”

The network is dumping its $20 million-a-year anchor, Anderson Vanderbilt Cooper. Looks like they are prepping Jennings for his own show.

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‘Sounds Like Peter Strzok’: Jordan Grills FEMA Director Over Text Message Telling Workers To Avoid Trump Supporters

 Daily Caller
. . .“The text message said: implement best practices like — this is the best practices, we’re gonna implement them and they talk about making sure you go in pairs or with more than one person, avoid the Trump homes, drink your water, take your towel, coconut water.”



"Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio compared a text message allegedly sent to disaster relief workers to comments by disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok Tuesday while questioning Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Deanne Criswell about a directive to skip houses whose residents advertised their support for President-elect Donald Trump.

The text message, reportedly sent by former FEMA Disaster Survivor Assistance crew leader Marn’i Washington, listed a series of “best practices” that included avoiding “homes advertising Trump signs.” Jordan pressed Criswell about the message, putting it on screen during a House Oversight Committee hearing. (RELATED: Harris Faulkner Shuts Down Dem Who Immediately Tries To Pivot Away From Biden-Harris Hurricane Response)

“She said it’s common practice, you said it’s reprehensible and isolated. Both statements can’t be true, so someone’s not giving us the facts and I’m trying to figure out who’s not telling the truth,” Jordan told Criswell, who said the agency was investigating.

After Jordan pressed Criswell about another FEMA employee saying Washington had to have been given those instructions by superiors, he turned to the text message." . . .

. . ."“You know what it sounds like? It sounds like Peter Strzok … when he said ‘I just went into Walmart, I can smell the Trump supporters.’ It sounds like Joe Biden when he said all the ‘garbage’ I see is the Trump supporters out there,” Jordan said. “It sounds like the guy the Democrats had, the professor the Democrats had testify back in 2019 in the impeachment — conservatives, ‘especially very conservative people, tend to spread out,’ perhaps because they ‘don’t even want to be around themselves.'” 

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Does Biden want to force Trump into a grovel relationship with Putin

How can such a silly people cause so much damage to those they hate? TD

Deep State Invites Nuclear War 

. . ."In 2022 Biden’s hapless Secretary of Defense blurted out, “We want to see Russia weakened.” Now Democrats are putting Americans and our allies in harm’s way by provoking Russia to counterattack with missiles of its own, for a war that nearly everyone admits cannot be won." . . .

 Ukraine: The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv received specific information of a potential significant air attack on Nov 20. The Embassy will be closed and recommends U.S. citizens be prepared to immediately shelter in the event an air alert is announced. ow.ly/IbBT50UaBYV   Travel - State Dept


Ukraine Launches First Missile Attack Using New Authority From Biden, Putin Responds in Typical Putin Way   "Ukraine launched an attack on a Russian munitions depot overnight using an ATACMS tactical ballistic missile. According to reports in Forbes Ukraine and RBC Ukraine, citing unnamed sources, the attack on the Karachev logistics center in Bryansk Oblast marks the first use of ATACMS on Russian territory and took place only a day after Biden finally permitted US weapons to be used on strikes inside Russia (see Lame-Duck Biden Announces Major Ukraine Policy Shift Just Weeks Before Trump Takes Over). Karachev is over 80 miles inside Russia and was previously hit by Ukrainian drones." . . . 

Biden behind closed doors   "David Milstein observes on X that the Biden-Harris administration has “engaged in unprecedented pressure and undermined Israel’s important military operations at virtually every step of the way.” Here are excerpts of what Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said yesterday in the Knesset as reported in a characteristically hostile Times of Israel story, this one by Lazar Berman:

Speaking nearly two weeks after the US election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly criticized the Biden administration’s judgment and policies at major junctions in Israel’s ongoing war against Iran and its proxies.

“The US had reservations and suggested that we not enter Gaza,” said Netanyahu. “It had reservations about entering Gaza City, Khan Younis, and, most critically, strongly opposed entry into Rafah.”

* * * * *

“President Biden told me that if we go in, we will be alone,” Netanyahu said in the Knesset plenum. “He also said that he would stop shipments of important weapons to us. And so he did. A few days later, [US Secretary of State Antony] Blinken appeared and repeated the same things and I told him — we will fight with our nails.” . . .

. . ." Netanyahu also criticized US positions after Iran’s drone and missile attacks on Israel: “Again, we were told by our friend that there is no need to respond. And I said that sitting and not reacting is not acceptable, and we responded.”

"The prime minister said that the Israeli response last month took out air defense batteries and “inflicted real damage on Iran’s ballistic missile production capability,” as well as targeting its nuclear program." . . .

God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, please protect your people from the evil ones who hate Israel, and the evil ones who are little more than silly. TD

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The Babylon Bee's Foray Into Bluesky Gets Started off on Hilariously Predictable Note UPDATED

Sister Toldjah

"But conservatives moved to those platforms because Twitter was censoring them, and they wanted free speech. These leftists are migrating to Bluesky because they're tired of all that free speech exposing them to ideas they don't like."

RedState


"It never fails. After leftists lose big either at the ballot box, on Twitter/X, or via a court ruling, among the first things some of them announce in rather dramatic fashion is that they are headed for what they assume are greener pastures at another social media platform.

"We've seen them venture off to Mastodon, Threads, and now the Next Big Thing: Bluesky, where media figures and woketivists alike have fled.

"As my colleague Brandon Morse has documented, however, their migration to Bluesky has not gone very well so far, with snowflake users there reportedly sending "over 42,000 reports for harmful content in 24 hours, coming out to 3,000 reports an hour." 

"Further, as Brandon observed, users are "so intent on making sure their little bubbles stay intact that they're mass-blocking people without warning, and oftentimes without double-checking who they're blocking first."

So while it should come as no surprise to anyone, it's nevertheless hilarious to see how The Babylon Bee's adventure to Bluesky has gone so far.

"The Bee's editor-in-chief, Kyle Mann, shared this screengrab on Twitter/X:"  . . .

UPDATE: Leftists Leave X For Bluesky Only To Overwhelm Site With Mass Censorship Demands    

"Bluesky was built on an "invite only" system up until February of this year.  The rush of woke actors, journalists and activists to the platform after the election has certainly garnered a lot of media attention for the site.  Progressive celebrities and pundits such as actress Jamie Lee Curtis, "journalist" Don Lemon, "journalist" Joy Reid, writer Stephen King and The Guardian’s official news account, have all decided to switch to Bluesky. 

"Don Lemon accused X of no longer serving the purposes of "transparency and honest debate", a hilarious notion when one considers the incredible level of censorship enacted under the old regime.  What leftists are actually angry about is the fact that conservatives are suddenly free to contradict progressive claims without fear of account bans, the doxing of their homes and workplaces, and cancel culture in general." . . .

 READ MORE: The Left's Emotional Support Social Media Site Bluesky Is Going About As Well As You Might Expect

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