Ireland Women's Basketball Team Refuses to Shake Hands With Israeli Squad, but Israel Gets Last Laugh

 RedState  

Throughout history, the Irish have received vaguely similar disrespect as the Jews, but without the crematoriums. Enough alike that they of all nationalities should have a heart for Israel. TD

It doesn't seem they feel good about the way they treat the Israelis

 . . ."You don't exactly look good when you want to boycott the country that has been attacked by terrorists and is fighting back. You look pretty scummy. You look like you're being supportive of terrorists who slaughtered more than 1,200 people and took hostages that they are still holding. So no, you aren't being the honorable ones in this circumstance. It's the delusion that some on the left have here.". . .

"In an incredibly racist & unsportsmanlike behavior, the Irish Women's Basketball team refused to shake hands with their Israeli opponents in the #EuroBasketWomen game.

"Oh, and then they also lost to Israel 57-87!

The expressions on the Irish faces indicate to me they don't feel good about what they are doing. TD

Losers on and off the field 👎🏻

In an incredibly racist & unsportsmanlike behavior, the Irish Women's Basketball team (@BballIrl) refused to shake hands with their Israeli opponents in the #EuroBasketWomen game.

Oh, and then they also lost to Israel 57-87! pic.twitter.com/RofqT8f20B

— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) February 9, 2024 . . . 

. . ."The Irish team decided to prove they were bad sports, and on top of that, they fell for bad propaganda. 

"Basketball Ireland informed FIBA Europe yesterday that as a direct result of recent comments made by Israeli players and coaching staff - including inflammatory and wholly inaccurate accusations of anti-Semitism, published on official Israeli Federation channels - that our players will not be partaking in traditional pre-match arrangements with our upcoming opponents," the statement read. 

"This includes exchanging of gifts, formal handshakes before or after the game, while our players will line up for the Irish national anthem by our bench rather than centre court. Basketball Ireland fully supports our players in their decision."

"You don't exactly look good when you want to boycott the country that has been attacked by terrorists and is fighting back. You look pretty scummy. You look like you're being supportive of terrorists who slaughtered more than 1,200 people and took hostages that they are still holding. So no, you aren't being the honorable ones in this circumstance. It's the delusion that some on the left have here." 

FULL SUMMARY Of The Tucker Carlson – Putin Interview

 100PercentFedUp  "If you missed the Tucker/Putin interview (or didn’t have the time to watch since it was over 2 hours), I’m going to bring you up to speed.

"Wow, there was SO MUCH in here!

"I was surprised by a few things….

"First, Putin seemed calm, rational and extremely shrewd.  I had never heard him talk much, especially not in an open format, long form interview.

"He came off as extremely intelligent but not at ally tyrannical.

"He seems like he wants peace.

"Just my take.

" 'Below I have an excellent 30 minute summary video to show you if you don’t have over 2 hours, but first let me give you some smaller clips.

"Starting here — almost sounds like America-First, doesn’t it?"

This is the most impactful excerpt from the entire interview and perfectly summarizes the insanity of the current US foreign policy.
“Do the United States need this? What for? Thousands of miles away from your national territory. Don’t you have anything better to do?

You have… pic.twitter.com/5cjlzxy2gO

— DailyNoah.com (@DailyNoahNews) February 9, 2024

Biden’s and Blinken’s words do real harm

  JNS.org

These hateful and false descriptions of Israeli actions, which are belied by the unprecedented care that the IDF takes to avoid civilian casualties and that have cost soldiers’ lives, also serve to encourage antisemitism in the United States that has been fueled by efforts to delegitimize Israel and its Jewish supporters. 

"Words matter. That’s the thing to remember about the libelous descriptions of Israel’s efforts to eradicate Hamas terrorists that came forth from both U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken in recent days. The administration is paying a political price for standing with the Jewish state after the Oct. 7 pogroms that constituted the largest mass slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust. The left-wing intersectional base of the Democratic Party, including officeholders and the president’s re-election campaign staff, is in open revolt against Biden over his refusal to date to cut off the resupply of arms for the Israel Defense Forces or to go along with U.N. Security Council resolutions to impose a ceasefire that would allow Hamas to survive the war and emerge as its victor

"That’s why it’s possible to dismiss the recent statements by Biden accusing Israel of an “over the top” response to the slaughter, rape, torture and kidnapping of its citizens, and demanding a “prolonged pause” in the war as mere rhetoric aimed at easing the political pressure on the administration. Yet those words do matter, and they are doing far more damage than perhaps American observers, who may view them solely in the context of the president’s increasingly desperate political trouble, understand." . . .

SON OF HAMAS FOUNDER says, “Israel must continue its war to destroy Hamas”   ......This is just one of many similar declarations Mosab Hassan Yousef has made about the Hamas-Israel war. It’s a good thing he lives in the United States now, or he would have been a dead man a long time ago.

‘DEARBORNISTAN’ Muslims say, “Nothing Joe Biden does now re: Israel’s retaliatory war against Hamas can win back our support”  So keep up the fight, Joe.

MSNBC's Joy Reid: Texas Is No Different Than The Deep South Resisting Integration

It's not my intention to make these top posts be women. I copied the silliest headlines available and that's just how it all worked out. I mean, Joy Reid, Robin DeAngelo, Sunny Hostin, Elizabeth Warren; c'mon man. TD

  Carver Malone  

  MSNBC's Joy Reid compares @chiproytx's call to protect the southern border to "the old Southerners who said that we will resist integration by any means necessary". To the racial demagogue, everything looks like racism. pic.twitter.com/a876itUHCb

— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) January 25, 2024

 “There is no better example of what MAGA World wants for the rest of America than Texas,” Reid said.

"Texas officials had been “setting up buoys with buzz saws, barring federal agents from assisting with border control, and passing legislation that makes it a state crime to cross the border,” she said.

"Rep. Chip Roy is “a member of a body and party that could actually do something about immigration … They just refuse to do it because many Republicans now see calling for zero tolerance on the border as the only way to animate their base,” she said.

"Her comments align with the White House’s stance, where Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has defended the Biden administration’s attempts to prevent Texas from securing its own border." . . .

Elizabeth Warren Is A Hamas Apologist

 The Federalist (thefederalist.com)

"Warren doesn’t call for a Hamas surrender. She doesn’t demand that Palestinians return hostages. What she demands is that Israel reward the people who elected, supported, and cheered on the child murders and rapists of Hamas with a new state. . ."  She displays the IQ of the squad ladies. TD

The old raised fist schtick

"Like most anti-Israel progressives, Warren uses Benjamin Netanyahu as a convenient strawman despite knowing well that any Israeli government — actually, any responsible state — whether on the right or left, would be rooting out Hamas right now. And, indeed, every major party in that country, right or left, supports the effort to rid Gaza of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Contrary to the myth cultivated by the left since the Barack Obama “echo chamber” years, Netanyahu is an elected leader of a democratic nation, not a dictator acting without popular support or outside law.

"Warren then blames Israel for not being able to release the hostages but doesn’t blame Hamas for taking them or the Palestinian civilians for holding them. Warren blames Israel for “killing” people but not Palestinians for massacring Israeli civilians. All of which says a lot about her depraved worldview.

"Warren, like most of the media, relies on Hamas’ completely bogus casualty numbers. Can you imagine news organizations or American politicians passing along ISIS fatality figures with this kind of authority? . . .

Prime Minister Netanyahu and his right-wing government have failed to get the hostages released and have killed nearly 30,000 Palestinians. No more blank checks for Netanyahu. We need to condition aid, resume the cease-fire, and advance peace through a two-state solution.

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) February 8, 2024

The Incredible Shrinking Elizabeth Warren – Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com) 

Americans know that Biden and his fellow big-spending Democrats such as Elizabeth Warren -– not Frito-Lay or Kimberly-Clark – are to blame for the strain on their family budgets.

 . . ."Warren can’t possibly be this obtuse, can she?

"Think about it for two seconds. Inflation is running rampant, giving manufacturers a choice: raise prices, or keep the price the same and cut back on the quantity.

"Either way, consumers are paying more per unit, which is easy enough for them to tell because pretty much every grocery store in the country lists per-unit costs along with the sticker price.

"Some consumers – like those on a tight budget – might actually appreciate the fact that companies are holding the price steady while cutting back on the number of items in the bag.

"What about the claim that companies are employing this clever trickery to fatten profits? Well, if it’s actually that easy to boost the bottom line using “shrinkflation,” why wouldn’t companies do this all the time? Why wait until now?

"And how, exactly, will Warren “crack down” on this nefarious practice? By mandating that each bag of Doritos and every roll of toilet paper contain a government-mandated number of chips and sheets?" . . .

 

You Can't Make This Up: Champion of Slavery Reparations Sunny Hostin Discovers on "Finding Your Roots" Program that She is a Descendant of Slave Owners from Spain (VIDEO)

 The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft

"In a twist that sounds like it’s straight out of a satirical comedy, Sunny Hostin, a far-left progressive political commentator and a co-host of The View, experienced a jaw-dropping revelation on PBS’ Finding Your Roots.

"Hostin, an outspoken advocate for slavery reparations, was shocked to learn that her own lineage traces back to Spanish slave owners.

"The episode left the 55-year-old far-left host grappling with a complex personal revelation.

"Hostin, whose mother is Puerto Rican and father is African American, has long identified with her Puerto Rican heritage and the civil rights movement.

"However, the PBS series hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. uncovered that Hostin’s maternal ancestors were far from the freedom fighters she had imagined; they were slave owners in Spain.

"According to Daily Mail, Hostin’s third great-grandfather, Fermín, a son of a Spanish merchant who was likely involved in the slave trade, was revealed to have owned slaves. Hostin also found out that she is only 7% indigenous Puerto Rican.

" 'Wow, I’m a little bit in shock. I just always thought of myself as half Puerto Rican. I didn’t think my family was originally from Spain and slaveholders,” she said." . . .

She can still be Vice-President or Attorney-General of California. TD

Robin DiAngelo claims Sistine Chapel is peak ‘white supremacy’—can’t identify Adam in the painting

From liberal writers to local garage bands, if you can display the angry schtick you are on your way up. TD

 The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com

"She then sums it all up concisely with "Whoo. January 6th. I mean, confederate flag, it's just," she shrugs. "I mean, you know. It's just all connected.' " 

"Last month, a seemingly obscure podcast had quite a notable guest: Robin DiAngelo. Over the course of the interview, DiAngelo, well known for her books and lectures in which she posits that all white people, including herself, are racist, DiAngelo spoke incoherently at times, made bizarre statements that topped even the top tier of her usual race-baiting drivel, and behaved in a befuddled and bizarre way that rivaled the magnitude of endless gaffes and head scratchers that we have come to expect from Biden. 

"The most harrowing hint that something had run amuck with the author of White Fragility and Nice Racism came with DiAngelo explaining that when she does a presentation, "the single image" she uses "to capture the concept of white supremacy is "Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel. God creating man. Y'know where God is in a cloud and there's all these angels and He's reaching out and He's touching—I dunno who that is—David or something?" 

"Thrusting her hands toward the camera and touching her fingertips together repeatedly to mimic what one can only assume is the iconic imagery of God reaching out to Adam, not "David or something," DiAngelo continues, "And God is white and David is white and the angels are white—like that is the perfect convergence of white supremacy, patriarchy, right?' " . . .

Denny’s joins In-N-Out Burger abandoning its sole Oakland store due to crime

 Why can't the police watch the place? Oh, wait! I forgot we defunded them when AOC and her people told us to. We defunded them in honor of  George Floyd, for who we knelt in honor of and destroyed cities.   TD

Thomas Lifson - American Thinker

"Either way, we see that criminals are being allowed to take control of city neighborhoods, much as the cartels of Mexico are the de facto government of parts of that nation. It can only be understood as the breakdown of civilization."

"Oakland, California, is ceding control of its local commerce to criminals, due to a Soros-backed prosecutor and chronic short staffing at the Oakland PD, which cannot recruit enough new cops to replace retirements and resignations -- despite six-figure starting salaries. There's more going on than that, though. The departure of two prominent restaurant chains from the city reveals a horrifying pattern that the national media entirely miss.

"First, In-N-Out Burger announced that it was closing its only Oakland store, despite it being profitable.  The company’s CEO issued a statement:

Despite taking repeated steps to create safer conditions, our Customers and Associates are regularly victimized by car break-ins, property damage, theft, and armed robberies. Our last day of business in Oakland will be March 24, 2024.

We are grateful for the local community, which has supported us for over 18 years, and we recognize that this closure negatively impacts our Associates and their families. Additionally, this location remains a busy and profitable one for the company, but our top priority must be the safety and wellbeing of our Customers and Associates – we cannot ask them to visit or work in an unsafe environment. . . .

 . . ."After the renters park and go inside, the gangs of thieves, who realize that expensive items like laptop computers can be found in the luggage locked in the trunk, strike within minutes.  So, they target such rental car returns, which are pretty easy to spot since they are late-model cars and usually have stickers identifying the fleet that they belong to." . . .

Sky News host reacts to 'Hamas PR team’ skit mocking terrorist group

Sky News host James Morrow reacts to a satirical comedy skit which looks inside the “Hamas PR team”.

Watch the full episode at SkyNews.com.au/Stream

No problem for Biden. We have Dan Goldman's word on that.

Democrat Dan Goldman is not convinced by the special counsel’s report on Biden’s cognitive decline:
“He was sharper than anyone I’ve spoken to!” pic.twitter.com/0vzn5qm3ou

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 9, 2024

GrrrGraphics – Official Ben Garrison Cartoons

Biden Calls For The President To Step Down | Babylon Bee  "After the shock of a Special Counsel report that characterized the President as mentally incompetent to stand trial, Biden has joined the growing chorus of voices in calling for the President to step down. "President Hoover needs to do the right thing. He's in over his head. Can't even do his job right," said Biden to the nurse administering him his daily medications. "Eisenhower is an honorable man, and he needs to do the honorable thing. I was speaking with Emperor Hirohito about it just last Saturwednesday. Blamflibbernuzzit!" At publishing time, Republicans had drafted a resolution in support of the President's call for the President to step down."

‘Rather sad’: Douglas Murray roasts Joe Biden over latest ‘gaffe’

‘Rather sad’: Douglas Murray roasts Joe Biden over latest ‘gaffe’ (youtube.com)

"President Joe Biden accidentally calling Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi the “president of Mexico” is not just “another Biden gaffe”, author Douglas Murray warns.

"The President made a national address after he was found to have “wilfully” retained and disclosed highly classified documents in the garage, offices and basement den of his home in Delaware.

“ 'The idea that the same man is in the most powerful position in the world is something which is just a scandal you and I have talked about before,” Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi.

“The Democrats have clearly been trying to cover it over.

“ 'They've been hoping he'll get better, or something like that. It'll become less noticeable, and they can just they can just allow him to, to roll on.”

Unfortunately for Joe Biden, not only was the report bad news for him in a pivotal presidential election year, but the way he responded to it with his disastrous impromptu presser, where he angrily denounced Hur, yelled at reporters, and then confused the names of world leaders (again), only made it so much worse

Former President Barack Obama's name is usually first on the list, with good reason: Obama craves power, he always considers himself the smartest person in the room, and he knows Biden's a fool. Speaking to a fellow Democrat about Biden being the party’s nominee in 2020, Obama famously warned: “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up.”

 Joe Needs Visiting Angels, Not A Second Term (townhall.com) . . .The President has always been a fabulist, which is a polite way of pointing out that someone lies an awful lot. Mostly about his own life, Biden has a career’s worth of lies all designed to make him look important. He’s lied about participating in the Civil Rights Movement to black audiences, when the truth is he could not have cared less about it, admitting he’d never even bothered to show up to a single march. He claimed to have been arrested in South Africa, in Soweto, trying to visit Nelson Mandela in prison, when in reality he was directed by police to exit the airport through a separate set of doors because of apartheid (apparently he didn’t object to this segregation) and never explained why he’d fly to a city fully a 15 hour drive away from Mandela’s prison when Cape Town, where he was held, has an international airport. 

"Those lies at least make political sense –" . . .

 Does Obama Need a Weakened Biden? By Mike Miller "Noodle on this for a minute before we begin: Given Joe Biden's steadily declining mental acuity and Barack Obama's insatiable desire for ultimate power, does the former president need the current president to remain precisely where he is — in the Oval Office — in a reliably-weakening role?

"If the answer is "yes," then this question follows: Would the Democrat Party — still enamored beyond rationality with Barack and Michelle Obama — allow the above scenario to continue into 2025 and beyond?

"While I'm mostly a "No way," the possibility is worthy of discussion.

"Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, believes it's worth discussing, as well. Greenfield recently wrote:

 Obama’s 2020 efforts on Biden’s behalf didn’t end there. He was also instrumental in creating the so-called party unity commissions that brought [Bernie] Sanders’ staff and allies together with Bidens’ — a move that has had a lasting impact on Biden’s first-term policy agenda. 

Obama's best access to power is through President Michelle Obama. TD 

Even Democrats Realize How Catastrophic Thursday Night Was for Biden (townhall.com)

Even the liberal mainstream media, including outlets particularly friendly to Democrats were freaking out, as Matt covered, while what spin the Biden team puts out there looks increasingly desperate.

Ireland's team refuse to shake hands with Israel players

Not for what you might think.

Ireland women's basketball team refuse to shake hands with Israel - BBC

. . ."Basketball Ireland's statement prior to the start of the game read: "Basketball Ireland informed Fiba Europe yesterday that as a direct result of recent comments made by Israeli players and coaching staff - including inflammatory and wholly inaccurate accusations of anti-Semitism, published on official Israeli Federation channels - that our players will not be partaking in traditional pre-match arrangements with our upcoming opponents.

" 'This includes exchanging of gifts, formal handshakes before or after the game, while our players will line up for the Irish national anthem by our bench rather than centre court.

" 'Basketball Ireland fully supports our players in their decision."

"In an interview on the Israeli Basketball Association's website, United States-based student Saar said: "It's known that they are quite anti-semitic and it's no secret, and maybe that's why a strong game is expected.

" 'We have to show that we're better than them and win. We talk about it among ourselves. We know they don't love us and we will leave everything on the field always and in this game especially.' " . . .

 Ireland refuse to shake hands with Israel players (msn.com)

Blow-up after Irish basketball team refuses to shake hands of Israelis | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site   "Geo-politics has been thrust into the centre of a basketball match between Ireland and Israel after the Irish team refused to shake the hands of their opponents.

"Competing in the first match of EuroBasket Women 2025, a qualifier in Latvia, the Irish team made a public display to snub the Israelis as tempers flared over an “inflammatory” interview.

"The Irish players were incensed over comments made by Israeli player Dor Saar in an interview published by the Israeli Basketball Association (IBA)." . . .

Does Biden Even Understand Why He Wasn’t Charged?

  Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com) 

 Joe Biden, no matter the politics, is simply mentally incapable to be President of the United States. It’s been clear for years but it is now in writing. It is not a debatable question anymore. Yet, he still may get re-elected. 

Toon added by TD

 "Joe Biden, even though he did take and secrete away secret documents and such, will not be charged with any crime related to what are acts quite similar to those for which Donald Trump was charged with crimes.

"In his report explaining his decision, Special Counsel Robert Hur said today that Biden was too far removed from reality for a jury to convict him of a crime.

"In other words, Biden did it, Biden broke the law, but he is too mentally deficient for anyone to believe he either really did it on purpose or, after the fact, could possibly have remembered what he did, let alone pass along the information (of course, that does leave aside Hunter’s possible use of the documents but maybe that will come up in his tax case.)

"The report read, in part, as follows:

“In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was worse. He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013 – when did I stop being Vice President?’), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (‘in 2009, am I still Vice President?’),” Hur wrote. “He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him.”

"Because of his obvious inability to think coherently, Hur wrote that a jury would merely see a  “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” rather than be able to see him as an intentionally bad-acting criminal.

"Putting on my public relations hat and warping myself into the White House, I will state clearly and succinctly: The administration would have preferred Biden be charged with a crime it could fight rather than be publicly outed as non compos mentis .

" 'How do we pull a crooked Biden across the finish line?” is a question his team has prepared for. “How do we drag a Biden who has been called a mental basket case by his own Department of Justice across the finish line?” is not." . . .