Tuesday, November 12, 2024

IDF disputes Gaza famine warning - Lilach Shoval

 

​ by Lilach Shoval

Warnings of "catastrophic" food crisis in the Strip draws sharp response from Israeli authorities

 

Trucks with humanitarian aid arrive at the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Nov. 2, 2023. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Trucks with humanitarian aid arrive at the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Nov. 2, 2023. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the global benchmark for hunger monitoring, has signaled the emergence of “catastrophic” conditions in northern Gaza, warning that famine either exists or is imminent without immediate action. The critical alert, issued Saturday, comes as the United States explicitly warns it might reconsider weapons deliveries if Israel fails to improve humanitarian conditions.

The report describes northern Gaza’s situation as an “emergency,” with more than 130,000 people facing “catastrophic conditions regarding food access,” noting that access to food and health services has plummeted since Israel resumed military operations in the area and ordered civilian evacuation, with aid supplies reportedly stranded in the Jabaliya combat zone. The assessment also documents Israel Defense Forces operations’ impact on medical and civilian infrastructure.

While the report references Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) data indicating October saw the lowest aid delivery since the war began, COGAT officials contest these findings.

“Every IPC forecast to date has proven inaccurate and inconsistent with conditions on the ground, with reports repeatedly predicting decline only to later document improvement,” COGAT maintains. “The researchers unfortunately rely on skewed, incomplete data and sources on the ground with narrow interests. These reports have systematically drawn from organizations with vested interests and partial, imprecise information, severely undermining their reliability. Israel has issued detailed documentation of factual and methodological flaws in previous reports, which remain unaddressed.”

COGAT asserts that there are no aid quantity restrictions and emphasizes the IDF’s extensive efforts to facilitate aid delivery to combat zones.

“IPC reports through October actually showed steady improvement in Gaza’s food security,” COGAT says. “The latest report indicated that conditions as of early October, including in the north, were at their best since the war’s onset. The IDF, via COGAT, regularly evaluates Gaza’s humanitarian situation, including in the north, drawing on multiple sources, including humanitarian organizations active in northern Gaza. We adjust and expand humanitarian response accordingly.

“Aid reaches northern Gaza directly through the east and west Erez crossings, established in May specifically to support northern Gaza. The Erez crossings alone can process over 600 trucks weekly, with capacity for additional coordination, and no aid quantity limits exist. Since early October, northern Gaza has received more than 600 aid trucks, even as the IDF conducts intensive operations against terror organizations embedded within civilian areas.

“To minimize combat impact on remaining civilians, we issued advance evacuation notices southward, coordinated humanitarian team movements, evacuated hundreds of patients and medical staff from northern Gaza hospitals, and delivered hundreds of food, water, and medical supply packages. Over 50,000 liters of fuel and medical supplies reached northern Gaza medical facilities to sustain critical services. Last week, despite intensive operations in Jabaliya and Beit Hanoun, Israel facilitated aid convoy coordination for civilians remaining in combat zones.”

UNRWA Secretary-General Philippe Lazzarini issued a sharp rebuke to Israel following the alert.

“This comes as no surprise. Famine is likely present in northern Gaza—a man-made famine. Israel is wielding starvation as a weapon,” Lazzarini stated on social media.

The alert’s timing coincides with explicit U.S. warnings that failing to improve northern Gaza’s humanitarian conditions could affect weapons supplies to Israel. Reports last week indicated that Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed dissatisfaction with current measures during discussions with then-Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

Originally published in Israel Hayom.

 
Lilach Shoval

Source: https://www.jns.org/idf-disputes-gaza-famine-warning/

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Israel: The Way Forward - Nils A. Haug

 

​ by Nils A. Haug

Israel's progressives would also have called on the international community to pressure Iran and Qatar, rather than hector their own prime minister. Sadly, these Israelis, some of them in desperation to see their loved ones again, are playing into the hands of Hamas.

 

  • Fortunately for Israel, former US President Donald J. Trump was just re-elected to serve a second term. Within hours, Hamas indicated that now might be a good time to talk about peace. Qatar, perhaps concerned that its days of double-dealing might be coming to an end, announced it would be "stalling" its role as a mediator between the US and Hamas. The landslide victory of Trump in the US election this week appears finally to be restoring deterrence.

  • Israel's society is politically and ideologically split. On one side are Israelis who understandably want their relatives back, and have been hoping for a ceasefire. Sadly, they are probably unaware that Iran, Qatar and Hamas, are loath to relinquish the only bargaining chip they have, and will undoubtedly drag out releasing even one hostage as long as they can.

  • [A]fter 13 months of futile ceasefire negotiations, many Israelis appear to have trouble realizing that if Hamas and its backers, Iran and Qatar, so wished, the hostages would be home by now.

  • If the priority of Israeli progressives were to rescue the hostages, they would demand that Hamas release them. "The slogan for freeing the hostages," wrote British journalist Douglas Murray, "... should never have been 'Being them home.' It should be 'Give them back.' Now."

  • Murray has also noted that for years, the Biden administration has put all its efforts into trying to oust Netanyahu when it would probably have been better off putting all its efforts into ousting the Iranian regime.

  • Israel's progressives would also have called on the international community to pressure Iran and Qatar, rather than hector their own prime minister. Sadly, these Israelis, some of them in desperation to see their loved ones again, are playing into the hands of Hamas. Its leaders must be delighted to see a divided Israel turn against itself. Painfully, Israeli activists are doing damage to both their country and the hostages.

  • Among Israel's most vocal protestors are prominent Israeli politicians, backed -- and some funded -- by the Biden administration. The US appears to desire someone more malleable in Israel's number-one spot: a person, one assumes, willing to do whatever the US dictates.

  • The Biden administration's goal appears to be establishment of a terrorist Palestinian state on Israel's border. In addition, Iran will soon be able to produce nuclear weapons with which to bomb Israel to oblivion. This monumentally destabilizing objective was proposed by the Obama administration in its illegitimate 2015 "Iran nuclear deal," officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. (JCPOA)...

  • As American journalist Daniel Greenfield points out: "The appeasement lobby only has one big idea when it comes to Islamic terrorists and any other enemies: 1. Give them land..."

  • Evidence shows that, unfortunately, this strategy does not work. The failure of the Oslo Accords only emphasizes that fact. The "ceiling" of each offer becomes the "floor" of the next one, as each concession is pocketed in the expectation of more.

  • Meanwhile, in the USA, President-elect Donald J. Trump is already creating seismic global changes within days, long before his inauguration on January 20, 2025.

Fortunately for Israel, former US President Donald J. Trump was just re-elected to serve a second term. Trump is already creating seismic global changes within days, long before his inauguration on January 20, 2025. Pictured from left to right: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, then US President Donald Trump, Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan at the signing ceremony of the Abraham Accords at the White House on September 15, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Israel, under the heroic but much criticized statesman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – a leader praised by historian Andrew Roberts as "The Churchill of the Middle East" – appears to have brought threats from Hamas in Gaza, and Hezbollah in Lebanon, under control and can now focus Israel's attention and military forces on other fronts.

Incomprehensibly, at this crucial period in Israel's existence, the chaotic domestic political situation has been cooking up unnecessary problems for the nation's security. Internal turmoil in Israel just serves to stimulate the hope for victory in its enemies, and less hope for the quick release of Israeli and other hostages Hamas is holding. "Hamas," wrote JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin, "views the unrest inside the Jewish state as an asset."

Fortunately for Israel, former US President Donald J. Trump was just re-elected to serve a second term. Within hours, Hamas indicated that now might be a good time to talk about peace. Qatar, perhaps concerned that its days of double-dealing might be coming to an end, announced it would be "stalling" its role as a mediator between the US and Hamas. The landslide victory of Trump in the US election this week appears finally to be restoring deterrence.

Israel's society is politically and ideologically split. On one side are Israelis who understandably want their relatives back, and have been hoping for a ceasefire. Sadly, they are probably unaware that Iran, Qatar and Hamas, are loath to relinquish the only bargaining chip they have, and will undoubtedly drag out releasing even one hostage as long as they can. Delaying the release of the hostages would also expand the time Hamas has to rearm, regroup and attack Israel again "until it is annihilated", as Hamas senior official Ghazi Hamad announced. The hope seems to be that if they keep making the lives of Israel's Jews miserable enough, they will all finally pack up and leave. They apparently do not know the Jews.

Nevertheless, after 13 months of futile ceasefire negotiations, many Israelis appear to have trouble realizing that if Hamas and its backers, Iran and Qatar, so wished, the hostages would be home by now.

"[A]s long as the hostages are useful to their cause," notes Tobin, "Hamas will hold onto many of them, despite the belief among some Israelis that it is Netanyahu's stubbornness or political ambition that is the obstacle to their freedom."

The real aim of agitators on the Israeli left appears to be the collapse of Netanyahu's elected government, and ousting the prime minister, whom they apparently regard as a destructive, self-serving war-monger. Netanyahu is unfairly deemed responsible for failure to rescue all Gaza hostages by now, despite a total lack of leverage over the situation other than a ceasefire/surrender.

Hamas continues to demand two key concessions: a complete Israeli withdrawal from all of Gaza, and an end to the "blockade." Agreement by Israel would enable Hamas to import weapons again and to maintain its hold on power. Keeping hostages is presumably an ideal way to ensure that Israel will not re-enter Gaza, and jeopardize their safety. Meanwhile, radical jihadists from Hamas's puppet-master, Iran, continue trying to wipe Israel off the map (here and here).

Netanyahu and his government seem determined to protect Israel from repeating the horrors of October 7, 2023. Sadly, this agenda is wrongly seen by many as a lack of concern for rescuing the hostages before they are all murdered or die.

Even before October 7, 2023, agitators were protesting Netanyahu's undisputed electoral victory in what actually appeared an effort to oust him. That seemed the real objective in opposing Israel's badly needed "judicial reform."

If the priority of Israeli progressives were to rescue the hostages, they would demand that Hamas release them. "The slogan for freeing the hostages," wrote British journalist Douglas Murray, "... should never have been 'Being them home.' It should be 'Give them back.' Now."

Murray has also noted that for years, the Biden administration has put all its efforts into trying to oust Netanyahu when it would probably have been better off putting all its efforts into ousting the Iranian regime.

Israel's progressives would also have called on the international community to pressure Iran and Qatar, rather than hector their own prime minister. Sadly, these Israelis, some of them in desperation to see their loved ones again, are playing into the hands of Hamas. Its leaders must be delighted to see a divided Israel turn against itself. Painfully, Israeli activists are doing damage to both their country and the hostages.

Among Israel's most vocal protestors are prominent Israeli politicians, backed -- and some funded -- by the Biden administration. The US appears to desire someone more malleable in Israel's number-one spot: a person, one assumes, willing to do whatever the US dictates. This is probably not the best way to treat an ally. The Biden administration's goal appears to be establishment of a terrorist Palestinian state on Israel's border. In addition, Iran will soon be able to produce nuclear weapons with which to bomb Israel to oblivion. This monumentally destabilizing objective was proposed by the Obama administration in its illegitimate 2015 "Iran nuclear deal," officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action" (JCPOA), the sunset clauses of which guarantee Iran's regime, in just a few years, as many weapons as they can build.

According to Iran's former president, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, all it would take for Iran to obliterate Israel, a country smaller than the state of New Jersey, was one bomb.

Anti-Netanyahu-government agitators, apart from those in the Biden administration, include much of Israel's media. So-called "progressive" political leaders in the US, Canada, the UK, and Europe are apparently more worried about trade than a world upended by an expansionist regime with nuclear weapons.

As American journalist Daniel Greenfield points out:

"The appeasement lobby only has one big idea when it comes to Islamic terrorists and any other enemies: 1. Give them land..."

Evidence shows that, unfortunately, this strategy does not work. The failure of the Oslo Accords only emphasizes that fact. The "ceiling" of each offer becomes the "floor" of the next one, as each concession is pocketed in the expectation of more.

On the pro-Netanyahu end of the spectrum is a sizable group of Israelis and other supporters, acting to preserve the nation against future assaults while fending off attempts to replace the prime minister with one who would surrender to Hamas. The opposition, no doubt, hold to an illusory hope of welcoming the hostages back home. Sadly, only about half the remaining hostages are thought still to be alive.

The hostages seem to have become Hamas's "insurance policy": Israel will not presumably be able to attack Hamas in the future for fear of killing them. It is believed Hamas's late leader, Yahya Sinwar, for his personal safety, surrounded himself with hostages. Sinwar, far from wanting to be a "martyr", prioritized his personal safety as a pre-condition for a ceasefire. Found on his body when the Israelis finally dispatched him was the passport of an UNRWA teacher.

Israel's few international supporters have, in the main, offered erratic or limited assistance while imposing unconscionable conditions. Western leaders, including the US, attempted to micro-manage and constrain Israel's handling of the war, to the extent that without their interference, the Gaza campaign could possibly have been brought to an end months ago. "Do what you have to do," Trump recently told Netanyahu, but, according to one report, he asked Netanyahu to please finish the war by inauguration day, January 20, 2025.

In calls between Netanyahu and Trump, they reportedly "see eye-to-eye on Iran."

The failure for agreeing to a ceasefire appears to lie with Hamas's intransigence, coupled with mixed signals from the Biden administration. By threatening Israel and withholding weapons, the US administration has, ironically, protracted the war and given Qatar, Iran, and its proxies -- Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Houthis – the idea that all they have to do is wait, and the US, by forcing Israel to heel, will hand them a victory.

The Gaza Ministry of Health -- run by Hamas - bewails the large number of alleged civilian casualties in Gaza; a number hugely and falsely inflated. Hamas fails to reveal exactly how many of the casualties were terrorists. Hamas deliberately causes casualties by concealing weapons depots and command centers in the middle of crowded schools, hospitals, and mosques so that Israel will be blamed. This practice, known as "Hamas's CNN strategy," consists of showing dead babies to television crews so the media and international community will force Israel to stop defending itself, supposedly for "humanitarian" reasons.

Israelis demonstrating for Netanyahu's ouster claim that they hold him primarily responsible for intelligence and security shortcomings which enabled the October 7th disaster. Prime ministers, however, are reliant for information on the state's military and intelligence services, which may have failed to provide him with real-time warnings of Hamas's impending attack. The combination of internal forces, aided by Western politicians in their aim to overthrow Israel's democratically elected government, creates discord that plays straight into the hands of Hamas, Hezbollah, Qatar, Iran, and Israel's other enemies. Israel's internal turbulence most likely suits the Biden administration, which has still not acted strongly against the lynchpin of all this devastation, Iran. On the contrary, the Biden administration rewarded Iran with "closer to $60 billion" -- a windfall that Iran's regime must at least partially draw on to finance their wars in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq.

In a disrespectful comment implicating Netanyahu and the entire Israeli Knesset (Parliament), the US reportedly described Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant -- who they appeared to consider a compliant potential replacement for Netanyahu -- as the "only adult in the room." That remark came after they had seemingly given up on replacing Netanyahu with former Defense Minister Benny Gantz and, had considered former (briefly) Prime Minister Yair Lipid.

Netanyahu seems determined to protect Israel to the end from future attacks by adversaries, both within and without. Gallant was dismissed from the government earlier this month. "[T]rust between me and the minister of defense has cracked," Netanyahu said.

Lapid, Gantz, Gallant, Biden, Blinken and others in the circle all appear to be like-minded, acting questionably in the interests of Israel's elected government, and arguably against the security of the state itself.

Perhaps Israel's progressives need to be reminded why Israel exists, and why Jews have every right, and every obligation, to defend their community, their nation, and the integrity of their country's borders.

Even before the US election on November 5, Netanyahu had clearly decided to go it alone. He apparently did not inform the US administration about "Operation Grim Beeper," which caused pagers carried by Hezbollah's terrorists to explode; or of the aerial bombardments in Lebanon that that followed it. Netanyahu's actions indicate his distrust of the Biden administration (well-earned). Biden has withheld or slow-walked weapons shipments, and has warned Israel not to "escalate" the situation. Every day since October 8, 2023, however, Hezbollah has bombarded Israel - a country roughly the size of Wales -- with rockets, missiles and attack drones. Netanyahu announced that "No country can accept the wanton rocketing of its cities. We can't accept it either."

Meanwhile, in the USA, President-elect Donald J. Trump is already creating seismic global changes within days (here, here and here), long before his inauguration on January 20, 2025.

"After the terrible massacre on October 7", said a Likud party spokesperson, "we cannot reward terrorism and enable a Palestinian state. Prime Minister Netanyahu has proven over the past 20 years that he is the only barrier to the creation of a terror state between the [Mediterranean] Sea and Jordan."

US President Lyndon Baines Johnson's words on America in his 1965 inaugural speech apply equally to Israel:

"They came here - the exile and the stranger... They made a covenant with this land. Conceived in justice, written in liberty, bound in union, it was meant one day to inspire the hopes of all mankind; and it binds us still. If we keep its terms, we shall flourish."

 
Nils A. Haug is an author and columnist. A Lawyer by profession, he is member of the International Bar Association, the National Association of Scholars, a faculty member at Intercollegiate Studies Institute, the Academy of Philosophy and Letters. Retired from law, his particular field of interest is political theory interconnected with current events. He holds a Ph.D. in Apologetical Theology. Dr. Haug is author of 'Politics, Law, and Disorder in the Garden of Eden – the Quest for Identity'; and 'Enemies of the Innocent – Life, Truth, and Meaning in a Dark Age.' His work has been published by First Things Journal, The American Mind, Quadrant, Minding the Campus, Gatestone Institute, National Association of Scholars, Israel Hayom, Jewish News Syndicate, Anglican Mainstream, Document Danmark, James Wilson Institute, Jewish Journal, and others.

Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21114/israel-the-way-forward

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Defense Minister Israel Katz not blocking IDF issuing 7,000 draft orders to haredim - Yonah Jeremy Bob

 

​ by Yonah Jeremy Bob

Speculation spiked after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu replaced Gallant with Katz that the attempts to draft Haredim would be halted, given Netanyahu and the haredi coalition parties' opposition.

 

Incoming defense minister Israel Katz attends a discussion and vote on the inclusion of MK Gideon Saar as a Minister in the government at the plenum hall of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on September 30, 2024. (photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90)
Incoming defense minister Israel Katz attends a discussion and vote on the inclusion of MK Gideon Saar as a Minister in the government at the plenum hall of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on September 30, 2024.
(photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90)

Defense Minister Israel Katz is not blocking the IDF from issuing 7,000 draft orders to haredim, the IDF said on Tuesday.

In fact, despite all kinds of speculative reports that the 7,000 draft orders will be delayed by Katz replacing outgoing minister Yoav Gallant earlier this week or are being fought about between the IDF and the Attorney-General's Office, the IDF said they will be issued this coming Sunday.

Likewise, the IDF rejected any reports that its division dealing with drafting Haredim is being closed due to low turnout.

Speculation spiked after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu replaced Gallant with Katz that the attempts to draft Haredim would be halted, given Netanyahu and the haredi coalition parties' opposition.

In April, the High Court of Justice froze government funding to Haredi institutions where the students are refusing to be drafted.

 DESPITE THE IDF’s calculation that it needs 7,000 new troops, Monday’s vote to revive an older haredi draft bill was approved by the majority of the Knesset members. (credit: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)Enlrage image
DESPITE THE IDF’s calculation that it needs 7,000 new troops, Monday’s vote to revive an older haredi draft bill was approved by the majority of the Knesset members. (credit: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

On August 6, only dozens out of 1,000 haredim who were sent prior draft notices in a series of 3,000 notices actually showed up to IDF recruitment offices, marking the historic first batch of haredi call-ups as a near-failure.

IDF delays presenting official numbers

The IDF delayed presenting official numbers, probably embarrassed by the result, but eventually admitted that out of the 3,000 summoned draftees, only around 100 showed up.

Some defense officials have claimed that many more haredim had originally planned to show up for their draft date, maybe as high as 50%, but that the intimidation both in general online and public spheres, as well as physical intimidation by haredi protesters, need the recruitment offices scared most of them away.

Issuing the additional 7,000 orders is an attempt to boost the numbers, while in the meantime, Netanyahu continues to wrestle with his Haredi coalition partners about whether he can pass a new law that will exempt all or most of them without losing votes from others in the coalition, including within the Likud.


Yonah Jeremy Bob

Source: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-828789

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Trump builds no-nonsense team as pollster predicts he could rival Reagan’s legacy in second term - John Solomon

 

​ by John Solomon

Experts beleive Trump's new team will focus on making America affordable again by defeating inflation, making the country secure again by fixing the border and restoring common sense to public policies from energy to transgenderism.

 

Donald Trump sent an unmistakable message with his first few personnel choices for his second term, dispatching to the halls of power players like Elise Stefanik, Tom Homan, Lee Zeldin and Stephen Miller who take a no-nonsense approach to their jobs and will focus on everyday Americans’ wants and needs rather than those of global elitists and Washington special interests.

And if the president-elect’s new team can stay focused on making America affordable again by defeating inflation, making the country secure again by fixing the border and rounding up criminals and restoring common sense to public policies from energy to transgenderism, one of the nation’s top pollsters believes he can cement a lofty place in history.

“Donald Trump now has the opportunity to become the most influential president since Ronald Reagan,” pollster Scott Rasmussen wrote Monday in a private report to clients of his Napolitan Institute.

“If over the next four years he and the Republican Congress can achieve the three main priorities established by the American people, he will have presided over a fundamental political realignment and paved the way for ongoing GOP success.”

You can read that memo here.

Rasmussen cautioned, however, that Trump’s legacy of impact will be determined by how well he can align a Congress that often finds excuses not to act behind executing his agenda.

“Trump’s lasting influence and the potential realignment are far from assured,” Rasmussen wrote. “They depend entirely upon whether or not the incoming administration can do what voters are hoping for: making the economy work, securing the border, and returning to common sense about gender identity. If they fail, voters will move on, and the Trump era will be just a blip in the nation's history.”

The need for a GOP Congress to act in convincing ways in 2025 led one of Trump’s former advisers to urge the president-elect to intervene in Wednesday’s battle for Senate majority leader, which pits establishment Sens. John Thune and John Cornyn against Florida’s Rick Scott, who has increasingly become a MAGA favorite.

“I would like to see President Trump full throatedly say who he wants,” former White House aide Seb Gorka told the Just the News, No Noise television show Monday night. “And I would like that to be Scott because otherwise the swamp has that magnetic, huge, sucking vacuum power, and they'll do what they normally do. So a public, you know, pro Scott action from the president is what we've got to see. That's my humble request, Mr. President.”

No matter how the Senate leader race ends, Trump has already filled early positions on his team with get-it-done leaders who are more interested in execution than limelight.

That begins with his new White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, the first women ever to assume the job and who as campaign manager helped engineer Trump’s historic political comeback. 

Wiles sent a powerful message to her future staff early last Wednesday when she declined to take the podium or take any credit when Trump asked her to speak at his victory speech.

Interpreted: Actions speak louder than words in the Trump 2.0 universe.

Those who have been invited onto Trump’s team so far share similar traits. They are tough. They have taken on Herculean battles and succeeded. And they focus more on executing plans than engineering television victory laps.

At just 40, Stefanik rose quickly inside the ranks of the House GOP to the No. 4 position of Conference chairwoman, winning accolades for recruiting more winning female candidates to the Republican ticket.

In the last year, she led the relentless crusade to kneecap Ivy League presidents for allowing antisemitism to rage on their campuses and creating a hostile environment for Jewish students.

Her prosecutorial-like questioning and firm actions led to the resignation of two of the university presidents and widespread reforms. She will likely flash more of that tenacity at the United Nations, an organization with similar antisemitism and anti-American sentiments that has had to admit some of its workers had allegiances to the terror group Hamas and may have aided in the Oct. 7, 2023, atrocities against Israel.

During his time in Congress, Zeldin was part of a small team of House Republicans that banded together to take on the FBI and intelligence community and its false narrative of Russia collusion. He then nearly pulled off the most improbable election win of 2022, falling just a few points short of winning the governorship in dark blue New York.

Over the last year, Zeldin played an unheralded but essential role in helping forge a coalition to will reluctant Republicans into the absentee and early voting game they had eschewed for years at their own peril. Backed by the late Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus, Zeldin paired with America First Works to assemble a vote-chasing machine that got several million low-propensity voters to the polls early in a huge win for the Trump campaign and down ticket races.

Former Rep. Doug Collins told Just the News on Monday night that Zeldin is perfectly suited to be a transformational figure as the leader of the Environmental Protection Agency, taking over an agency that is a golden calf for liberal climate change activists and a pariah for conservatives and business advocates who argue its regulation is stifling the economy and freedom.

Zeldin will likely “start off by doing as best he can to slim down this organization and get it right sized,” Collins predicted. "You know, again, that's going to be difficult. There's a lot of government unions and other things to think about. But let's, let's say you don't have to fund, you don't have to fill positions. There are things that you can do to get this agency back into a right size.”

Miller was the architect of many of Trump’s first-term illegal immigration crackdowns and border initiatives, and during the four years Trump was out of office he turned America First Legal into a powerhouse that waged counter-lawfare against Democrats. 

Miller’s group scored numerous legal wins that exposed or blocked Biden-Harris administration initiatives, including a ruling this month that blocked a Biden plan to grant administrative amnesty and a pathway to citizenship to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens.

Homan is a no-nonsense lawman who served as Trump’s first term acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, where he oversaw the deportation of large numbers of illegal aliens let into the country under former President Barack Obama.

Over the last two years, Homan has worked to help families who lost loved ones to the fentanyl crisis while crafting blueprints to re-secure the southern border and deport the estimated 14 million illegal aliens believed to have entered the country under Biden and Harris.

In naming Homan border czar, Trump declared, “there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders. 

"Likewise, Tom Homan will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin. Congratulations to Tom. I have no doubt he will do a fantastic, and long awaited for, job."

In congressional hearings, Homan showed the steely grit that Trump likes in his inner circle, smacking down the likes of Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for suggesting illegal aliens weren’t criminals. And in a contentious interview with the CBS News show 60 Minutes last month, Homan gave a matter-of-fact answer when asked a gotcha question about whether there was a way to conduct mass deportations without separating families.

"Of course there is. Families can be deported together," he answered.

Rasmussen, the pollster, said the key to success for a Trump second term is as simple as the three basic promises he made on the campaign trail: secure the border, defeat inflation and reverse the insanity of far left policies like allowing men in women's sports.

"If over the next four years he and the Republican Congress can achieve the three main priorities established by the American people, he will have presided over a fundamental political realignment and paved the way for ongoing GOP success," he said.


John Solomon

Source: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/tuetrump-builds-no-nonsense-team-pollster-predicts-he-could-rival

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Smotrich prepares for sovereignty drive ahead of Trump inauguration - JNS

 

​ by JNS

Next year will be "the year of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria," declared the Israeli finance minister.

 

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, June 18, 2023. Photo by Amit Shabi/POOL.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, June 18, 2023. Photo by Amit Shabi/POOL.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who also manages the Defense Ministry’s civilian administration in Judea and Samaria, declared on Monday that he had instructed his staff to start developing the “necessary infrastructure” to extend Israeli sovereignty to the disputed territories.

President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in last week’s election “brings an important opportunity for the State of Israel,” Smotrich declared at a meeting of his Religious Zionism Party at the Knesset in Jerusalem.

The minister told lawmakers he intends to table a government decision stating that Israel will “work with the new administration of President Trump and the international community to apply sovereignty and achieve American and international recognition.”

Next year will be “the year of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria,” stated Smotrich, adding that Trump, “who showed courage and determination during his first term, will support the State of Israel in this move.”

“Today, there is a broad consensus in the coalition and in the opposition from all parts of the Knesset against the establishment of a Palestinian state that would endanger the existence of the State of Israel,” he continued. Calling Palestinian terrorists the “new Nazis,” he said that they will “have to pay the price in territory to be taken from them forever—both in Gaza and in Judea and Samaria.”

He added: “We will cut off their hope of destroying us and declare to the entire world that we are here to stay and are not going anywhere.”

Smotrich said he was looking forward to strengthening cooperation with the United States “for the benefit of strengthening the economic and commercial relations,” accusing the Biden administration of having boycotted his office for the past four years while “intervening in Israeli democracy.”

According to a report on Tuesday on Israel’s public Kan Reshet Bet radio station, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has privately stated that the issue of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria should be put back on the agenda as soon as Trump enters the White House again on Jan. 20.

As part of the U.S.-brokered Abraham Accords signed in late 2020 that normalized Israel’s diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates, Netanyahu agreed to suspend plans to extend Israeli sovereignty.

Trump assured Abu Dhabi at the time that the U.S. would not recognize Jerusalem’s sovereignty in Judea and Samaria until 2024 at the earliest.

Before the sovereignty plans were shelved, American and Israeli officials established a joint working group to coordinate the potential move.

A senior Israeli government official told Srugim, a news site catering to the religious Zionist community, that “already in 2020, [Israeli Justice Minister Yariv] Levin carried out comprehensive staff work with the Americans and prepared orders, maps and regulations. There is even already a government decision. Everything is ready.”

However, an unnamed official in the incoming U.S. administration told Israel’s Channel 12 News on Tuesday that “there are currently no talks on the issue and it is not on the agenda at all.”

The American source indicated that the president-elect would prioritize a normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia, an issue he claimed was also “more important” to the government in Jerusalem.

s “higher” on President-elect Trump’s agenda is, for example, the agreement with Saudi Arabia, an issue he emphasizes is also “more important to the Israeli government.”

Leaders and activists across Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria have been nearly unanimous in their response to Trump’s victory.

“Time for sovereignty!” Binyamin Regional Council head Israel Ganz, who also leads the Yesha Council umbrella group of Jewish towns, tweeted on Nov. 6, adding: “One strong Trump, one Jewish state.”

Beit El Council head Shai Alon told Israel’s Maariv newspaper on Thursday: “It is time to declare sovereignty over Judea and Samaria.”

Trump will usher in a “golden age,” he said. “This is an unprecedented opportunity to act more strongly in the ​​Judea and Samaria areas, to put an end to murderous terrorism here and to continue broad and extensive Israeli construction throughout the entire territory.”

David Friedman, who served as Washington’s ambassador to Jerusalem under Trump and is reportedly being considered for reappointment, earlier this year published a book that presents a view for peace that doesn’t depend on the long-argued-for “two-state solution” and would allow for full Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.


JNS

Source: https://www.jns.org/smotrich-orders-preparations-for-sovereignty-drive-ahead-of-trump-inauguration/

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Trump Won Jewish Neighborhoods Across America - Daniel Greenfield

 

​ by Daniel Greenfield

The real facts about how Jews voted in 2024.

 


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Trump won the largest Jewish county in the country, the only entirely Jewish town and village, and some of the densest, fastest growing and most Jewish neighborhoods in America.

Borough Park, Brooklyn is the densest Jewish neighborhood in the country. Its two square miles contain nearly 100,000 Jewish people in 23,000 households. 83% are married and only 2% are divorced. 96% are members of synagogues. This was where large crowds protested pandemic lockdowns, tearing down playground fences and burning masks.

Trump won over 90% of the vote in most Borough Park districts. On 14th Avenue and Rabbi Weissmandl Way, Trump won 96% of the vote in one very Jewish district.

In Chicago’s West Rogers Park, a Muslim terrorist shot a Jewish man who was walking to the synagogue on the Sabbath, and then did battle with police while shouting, “Allahu Akbar”.

Trump won the more Orthodox areas of West Rogers Park, which Chicago Magazine described as, “a world of synagogues, kosher bakeries, and Hebrew bookstores” by over 70%.

A pro-terrorist mob descended on the Pico-Robertson community in Los Angeles, and assaulted Jewish community members outside the Adas Torah synagogue while the police did nothing.

Trump won the Pico Robertson community. He also won the adjoining communities of Beverly Hills and the Orthodox Jewish community in the Fairfax area near the Holocaust museum, and which had suffered a BLM pogrom that vandalized synagogues and businesses in 2020. Down in the valley, he also won Valley Village as well as some Jewish areas in Encino and Tarzana.

In Surfside, the most ‘Jewish community’ of the Miami area, where Jews make up a third of the population, Trump won 61% of the vote. In Aventura, Miami, a melting pot of Jews from Latin America, the former USSR and the Middle East, where the majority of the population is Jewish, Trump won 59% of the vote.

These snapshots of some of the densest Jewish communities in the country, in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Florida, show how Jews actually voted on Election Day.

Despite the push polls from liberal Jewish organizations and dubious exit polls, actual precinct data from the largest Jewish neighborhoods in the country shows Jews voted for Trump.

Precinct data, unlike polls, don’t represent some statistical cross-section of the population and can’t be biased, they show how actual Jewish communities voted in a truly objective way.

Closer breakdowns in New York and New Jersey show in depth the impact of the Trump vote in the most Jewish neighborhoods and areas in cities and states.

In Brooklyn, in Crown Heights, the home of the Lubavitch chassidic movement which Trump visited before the election, the area shines bright red amid a seat of blue from the surrounding hipster and black communities. Trump won 74% of the vote in Crown Heights South.

A red beach on the map of Brooklyn represents the chassidic communities of South Williamsburg where Trump won an average of 90% of the vote. Midwood, home to tens of thousands of more Orthodox (but not Chassidic) Jews is another bright stretch of red with Trump winning 90% or more of the votes in many precincts.

In the Syrian Jewish enclaves of Gravesend, Trump won between 85% to 91% of the vote.

But it’s not just religious Jews.

Trump won over 70% of the vote in the Brighton Beach enclave founded by Russian Jews. Queens, home to a large population of older working class Jewish retirees and Russian immigrants (along with working class Irish and Italians of another era) is almost all red.

Trump won some Kew Garden Hills, Queens precincts by over 80%. The New York Times wrote that Kew Garden Hills “supports one of the biggest Orthodox Jewish communities in New York City.”

Moving outside the city and further upstate, in the chassidic town of Palm Tree, NY, Trump won 98% of the vote, by 7489-122 and in the village of New Square, which is also all chassidic, Trump won 3,456 votes to 12 votes for Kamala.

In the larger Rockland County, NY, which has the largest Jewish population of any county in the country at 31%, Trump won a majority of the vote.

While Bruce Springsteen came out of Monmouth County, NJ and campaigned for Kamala, the area is home to the third largest concentration of Jews in the state, it’s also one of the most populated and fastest growing Jewish communities, and Trump won it.

Monmouth County includes the Syrian Jewish area of Deal where Trump held a fundraiser.

Trump won Ocean County and Passaic County, NJ even more decisively 67% to 31%. In Ocean County’s Lakewood township, where Jews make up 2 out of 3 residents, Trump won 99% of the vote. In Bergen County’s somewhat more liberal Teaneck Modern Orthodox Jewish precincts, Trump won 71% of the vote.

While Democrats and the media will go on peddling their own push poll and surveys which will claim that the vast majority of Jews are Democrats (and some will go on believing them), the hard data from election precincts shows very clearly how Jewish neighborhoods voted.

Trump won Jewish neighborhoods across America. These communities are diverse, representing Middle Eastern, Latin American, Russian and Orthodox Jews. Many of these communities do not show up in polls and surveys which capture only a very conventional liberal demographic of third generation Eastern European and German descended Reform Jews.

Democrats, liberal Jewish groups and the media ignore some of the largest and fastest growing Jewish communities in America because they don’t fit the liberal suburban ‘Temple’ template.

The Trump campaign did not make that same mistake and won them.

Pro-Trump Jewish communities can be ignored in polls and surveys, but they can’t be ignored on Election Day. And the most Jewish neighborhoods in America voted for Trump.


Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/trump-won-jewish-neighborhoods-across-america/

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Abbas’ advisor: Terror is “legal,” but only PLO can decide on “the armed ‎option”‎ - Nan Jacques Zilberdik

 

​ by Nan Jacques Zilberdik

The PA is trying to have its cake and eat it too

 

PA Chairman Abbas' advisor:

  • Terror against Israel is "legal" – "no one can evade this fact"
     
  • "The armed option" must be decided on as "a national decision" and "be made in the framework of the PLO"

 

The PA is trying to have its cake and eat it too!

On the one hand, the PA is still angry that Hamas launched its terror war against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, without consulting it first, and has been able to take all the credit for successfully massacring over 1,100 Israelis. As a result, Hamas has overwhelming support among Palestinians.

Accordingly, despite the animosity, the PA needs Hamas on board with the PLO, due to the vast support among Palestinians for Hamas. Despite the destruction Hamas has brought on the Gaza Strip, the terror movement is still 2.5-3 times more popular than its rival Fatah, the ruling party in the PA/PLO.

So, in order to "have its cake" and "eat it too," PA Chairman Abbas' advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash made the following statement, sending two messages that stand somewhat at odds with each other:

  1. The PA/PLO endorses terror as "legal" and does not oppose "the armed option"
     
  2. Hamas or other terror organizations are not allowed to single-handedly decide and launch terror attacks. Such decisions must be made "together" and only "in the framework of the PA/PLO" – in other words: Hamas must subordinate to the PA/PLO

Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "It is unacceptable to say that the resistance (i.e., Palestinian terror) is legal or illegal – it is legal. No one can cancel this fact or evade this fact. But the resistance needs to be a comprehensive national project. Not a project of one movement (i.e., Hamas) that drags all the Palestinians after its decision. No, if we want to choose the armed option, we must all go together in a national decision. The national decision needs to be made in the framework of the PLO, the sole legal representative of the Palestinian people. No faction that feels like carrying out armed resistance can take the Palestinian people together with it without taking into account the considerations, results, and consequences."

[PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Facebook page, Nov. 1, 2024]

Palestinian Media Watch has documented that the PA, and Al-Habbash specifically, have criticized Hamas for not consulting with the PLO before it attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, launching the 2023 Gaza war. However, they have never criticized Hamas for the massacre itself, but rather applauded and celebrated it.


Nan Jacques Zilberdik

Source: https://palwatch.org/page/35623

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Voters shoot down natural gas bans in Harris strongholds, but Biden rushes to secure LNG pause - Kevin Killough

 

​ by Kevin Killough

Voters rejected anti-natural gas measures in Berkeley, home of the first ban on new natural gas hookups, as did the blue state of Washington. But in the last days of the Biden-Harris administration, their Energy Department rushes to secure the ban on LNG export permits.

 

The Biden-Harris administration had been a champion of an extensive climate agenda. Not only did Democratic candidate Kamala Harris lose the presidential election to former President Donald Trump, a man who has called “climate hysteria” a “hoax,” voters in two Harris stronghold states rejected anti-fossil fuel measures. 

In 2019, Berkeley, California, became the first city in the U.S. to ban natural gas hookups in new construction. The Sierra Club, which is managing $1 billion from billionaire Michael Bloomberg to fund a campaign to prevent consumers from accessing fossil fuels, hailed the move and kept a running tally on other California cities that followed with similar legislation. However, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the ban, and then rejected a request for a rehearing in February, effectively killing the law. 

Undeterred, the City of Berkeley initiated a voter ballot measure this election that would have taxed the owners of buildings over 15,000 square feet based on the amount of natural gas it used annually. Voters rejected the measure 68% to 32%. Alameda County, where Berkeley is located, voted for Harris 72% to 25%, showing that even fervent Harris supporters aren’t given to anti-fossil fuel regulations. 

In Washington state, where the vote for Harris currently stands at nearly 58%, voters passed ballot measure No. 2066, which repeals part of a state law expediting the state’s transition from natural gas to electricity. The ballot measure also prohibits cities and counties from banning or penalizing the use of natural gas. 

"A pompous turd"

“Thus, it’s clear that even the most-liberal voters in America want to be able to use the fuels that they like, and that includes seeing that familiar blue flame on their gas stovetop,” Energy expert Robert Bryce wrote on his Substack

However, during a post-election press briefing Wednesday, Washington's Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee suggested he may seek court action to block the will of the voters. 

“I think there’s a very good chance the court will find it was defective by violating the single-subject rule and, therefore, won’t actually be going into effect,” Inslee said. Brian Heywood, founder of Let's Go Washington, the conservative political group that backed the measure, told KIRO radio that Islee is "arrogant" and a "pompous turd." 

While Washington voters weren't hot on natural gas bans, 61.7% of them rejected a ballot initiative that would have repealed the states Climate Commitment Act. The 2023 act, according to The Center Square, provides for carbon auctions as part of a program designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 95% by 2050. Under the CCA, emitters are required to obtain emissions allowances equal to their covered greenhouse gas emissions at quarterly auctions hosted by the state Department of Ecology, or traded on a secondary market, like stocks and bonds.

As much as liberals focus on climate change issues, polls show the issue isn’t a priority for voters. A Gallup poll released in October found that the economy is the most pressing issue influencing who they’ll vote for Tuesday, whereas climate change came in second last before transgender issues. Other polls asking voters about the economy and climate change have found similar results. A September New York Times/Siena College poll of likely voters found that 66% strongly support or somewhat support increases in domestic fossil fuel production. 

Asking for greater transparency

Despite there being little evidence that voters were attracted to climate issues in the election, the Biden-Harris administration is rushing to complete a study on the impacts of liquified natural gas (LNG) exports. Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg reports that if the study finds that LNG has higher emissions than coal, it could impede Trump’s plan to end the Biden-Harris administration’s pause on LNG export permits. 

President Joe Biden enacted a pause on export permits in January, arguing it was a temporary move to further study the climate impacts of LNG exports. The decision faced Congressional oppositionas well as lawsuits. Supporters of the ban had cited a controversial study by a Cornell professor with a history of anti-fossil fuel activism, and analysis by the Breakthrough Institute found it was riddled with errors. That analysis prompted a congressional investigation into how much the Department of Energy relied on the study for its decision to pause the export permits. 

The saga leaves little doubt that the DOE study will find LNG exports produce more greenhouse gas emissions than coal. The DOE is rushing to complete the study this month, according to Bloomberg, and the department won’t finalize the study until after a 60-day comment period is complete. This will leave very little time before Trump’s second administration begins on Jan. 20. If the findings are negative, it could slow down the permitting of new LNG projects. 

It’s also possible that the study is already complete. The House Oversight and Accountability Committee received information that the DOE had completed a draft study in 2023 but never disclosed that information. Last month, Reps. James Comer, R-Ky; Pat Fallon, R-Texas; and Clay Higgins, R-La., wrote a letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm asking for greater transparency on the process that led to the pause, including copies of the draft study, if it exists. 

A DOE spokesperson told Just the News that it's reviewing the letter, and confirmed that it's completing a study on the impacts of LNG. "The DOE's process to update the analyses that informs its review of applications to authorize exports of U.S. natural gas to non-free trade agreement countries is well underway. When the updated analyses are ready, we will publish them for the public to review and provide comment," the spokesperson said. 

While the Biden-Harris administration tries to salvage what it can of its climate agenda, the American voters in the election largely moved in another direction. How far Trump moves the country in that direction will be seen next year. 

 
Kevin Killough

Source: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/voters-shoot-down-natural-gas-bans-harris-strongholds-while-admin-rushes

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The Heartbreak of Trump Derangement Syndrome - Mark Tapson

 

​ by Mark Tapson

A deeply serious problem for Americans.

 


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When I was a kid, America fretted about “the heartbreak of psoriasis,” an advertising catch-phrase that raised awareness to an almost hysterical degree about a skin condition that legitimately afflicts millions of people. Today, a legitimate psychological condition is bringing misery to untold millions, perhaps even tens of millions, of Americans who need relief: Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS.

In the wake of the Right-wing rout of blue states in last week’s election, Democrat talking heads have devolved into angry finger-pointing and circular firing squads as they wrestle with understanding how it is possible that America could have rejected their agenda so resoundingly. Some Democrats have even begun to wonder if perhaps a little self-examination is in order, but it seems that far more progressives cannot quit externalizing the blame and directing their fury at anyone in a MAGA hat – even among their own friends and family members.

Unhinged examples of disappointed Kamala Harris supporters abound on the internet, especially at the Libs of TikTok account on X (formerly Twitter), which shares the emotional breakdowns of progressives who feel compelled, inexplicably, to exhibit their mental instability on social media for the wonder and entertainment of all.

Is it virtue-signaling? A catharsis of some kind? An existential cry into the void? Who knows, but these performances include such eyebrow-raising examples as the woman who shared a message for her family to “fuck off and choke on your turkey” at the holiday dinner she now won’t be attending. Another Kamala fan suggests to her fellow women that they should immediately divorce their Trump-supporting husbands, if not poison them.

These are actually pretty mild examples. There are of course many, many instances in which Democrat women and beta males literally cry and scream their election frustration into the camera, and those videos are rather amusing in a schadenfreude kind of way. But there are some that reveal a disturbing and distinctly not amusing degree of bitterness and hate.

An X user named Derek, for example, tweeted, “I have cut ties with my MAGA father and sister. I will never, ever speak to them again. I’ll spit on their graves. If you still hang out with your ‘friends’ or family that voted for fascism, you need a long look in the mirror.”

It sounds like the person who needs to take a long look in the mirror is Derek. If you look forward to spitting on the graves of your father and sister simply because they voted differently from you, you need professional help.

Sadly, this is par for the course for progressives whose consciousness is consumed with political activism, who subscribe to the old slogan that the “personal is the political,” and who have been whipped into a frenzy of hatred by the propagandist media and political leaders who relentlessly demonize their opponents as dangerous fascists, Nazis, deplorables, garbage, white supremacists, and so on.

As an extreme example of what this nonstop provocation can lead to: Libs of TikTok reported that a Minnesota man who had expressed his fear of a Trump-led government “inflicting their misguided beliefs” on his family, committed suicide after murdering his wife, his ex, and his two children after the election. Obviously there was something else deeply wrong with this man, but the panic-mongering to which he had been subjected by his Party’s messaging clearly was the trigger that pushed him over the edge.

The manipulative liars of the Left-wing media are the guiltiest of feeding this mental illness, which is what it begs to be called. A prime example is a recent episode of MSNBC’s The ReidOut, hosted by the race-mongering Joy Reid. She asked her guest, Yale University chief psychiatry resident Dr. Amanda Calhoun,

How do you interact with people you know voted for this? If you’re an LGBTQ person and know someone in your family voted essentially against your rights or you’re a woman, knowing this man was calling people the B word. JD Vance was literally calling Kamala Harris the trash. And said we’re going to take out the trash. I know a lot of black women were incredibly triggered by that. If you meet somebody and you know they voted for the people who called you trash, or if you’re Puerto Rican and you know someone voted that way, do you recommend just from a psychological standpoint being around them? We got the holidays coming up.

First, Reid’s claims about LGBTQ “rights” and Vance’s statements are complete distortions and even fabrications. Second, her question was obviously designed to lead her guest to suggest that progressives should refuse to make peace with Trump-supporting family members.

Dr. Calhoun did not disappoint. She replied to Reid, in part,

So if you are going through a situation where you have family members, close friends who you know have voted in ways that are against you, like what you said, against your livelihood, it is completely fine to not be around those people and tell them why. To say I have a problem with the way that you voted because it went against my very livelihood and I’m not going to be around you this holiday. I need to take some space for me… I think it may be essential for your mental health.

Again, this woman is a chief psychiatry resident at Yale University. Her professional advice is not that people set politics aside in order to heal and protect the far more important bonds of family and friendship, but that they confront and reject those family members and friends because you view them as enabling fascism, if not being fascists themselves.

Conservative schadenfruede over “liberal” meltdowns aside, the Left’s state of mind on this score is a deeply serious problem for Americans. A country cannot sustain itself internally when so many of its citizens are being driven to nurture a deep, unforgiving hatred and anger for their political opponents. This is a sickness that ruins friendships, that creates painful rifts in families, that divides us as antagonists, that leads to bloody division. This is what civil war does to a people.

That, of course, is the intention: to keep us at each other’s throats, to enmesh political conflict so deeply into the fabric of our personal relationships that we cannot extricate ourselves from it without war. This evil agenda must not be allowed to corrode us as Americans.

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Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-heartbreak-of-trump-derangement-syndrome/

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