Iran under threat: Is Trump preparing for decisive action? - Erfan Fard

 

by Erfan Fard

What a beautiful image it is – when the embassies of Israel and the United States once again raise their flags in free Tehran.

 

Illustrative image of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in front of the Israel-Lebanon border.

(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST, Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA/Handout via Reuters)

There is a point of optimism as US President Donald Trump embarks on his second term in office: His administration has clearly distinguished between the Islamic Republic regime and the Iranian people.

Gradually, the world has begun to recognize that the brutal, occupying regime of corrupt, bloodthirsty, and anti-civilization clerics is fundamentally distinct from the noble, intelligent, and dignified people of Iran.

American media have started to realize the absurdity and offensive nature of referring to Iran’s delusional dictator, Ali Khamenei, with the title “ayatollah” – which ironically means “sign from God.” This grotesque title, created by the regime’s propaganda machine and uncritically adopted by global media, only serves to insult the intelligence of humanity.

Slowly, European outlets are coming to understand that the mullahs’ accursed doctrine offers nothing but terrorism, treachery, and murder. From this damned ideology of Khomeinism, no democracy, human rights, or progress shall ever emerge. Wherever their feet have trodden, they have left behind only destruction, despair, poverty, bloodshed, and grief.

After 46 years, the alarm bell has finally rung – and this is cause for hope. Simultaneously, the contents of President Trump’s letter to the Tehran tyrant have begun to leak in the media. But even before that, it was apparent: The specter of war looms over Iran, a nation that has been plunged into ruin and desolation under four decades of theocratic tyranny.

U.S. President Donald Trump signs the Laken Riley Act at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 29, 2025. (credit: REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz)

The vile and detested institution of Shi’ite clerical rule has turned a country with 5,500 years of civilization and history into a wasteland. A stubborn, arrogant, and deluded mullah – who has ruled for 36 years following the death of the ruthless Khomeini – has taken 86 million Iranians hostage and blocked every avenue for progress, reform, or hope.

This cowardly and malevolent cleric or Shi’ite mullah, a true believer in Islamic terrorism, has darkened the lives of the Iranian people. He dismisses peace and coexistence as humiliation, yet his very existence is a mark of disgrace and misery for the nation.

Oblivious to the costs of war, he has poured all of Iran’s wealth into the fires of terrorism. Every dollar transferred to him by the Democratic administrations in Washington has only fueled further conflict in the Middle East. Khamenei has not spent a single cent for the benefit of the Iranian people – because he is their sworn enemy.

In his twisted logic, if he cannot rule Iran, then he would prefer it burned to ashes and rendered uninhabitable. Such is the mind of a criminal mullah – a parasitic worm feeding off the body of the homeland.

Today, commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Ministry of Intelligence and Security, and the Quds Force find themselves paralyzed, indecisive, and terrified, resorting to hollow threats and juvenile bluster aimed at Israel and the United States. They blindly follow the delusions of Khamenei, the so-called “supreme leader” of global Islamic terrorists, as he marches them toward annihilation.

The beginning of the Iranian tragedy

The Iranian tragedy began with the terrorist revolt of 1979. Following the exile of the late patriotic, compassionate Shah of Iran, a monstrous dictatorship seized power. Since then, neither peace nor stability has returned to the Middle East, and the world has reaped only sorrow from this temple of ignorance and barbarism.

Even in the White House, no one was ever serious about regime change in Tehran. There was neither the will nor even the thought of it. To this day, they are ready to talk about everything in the solar system and the Milky Way – except the idea of dismantling the Islamic Republic or regime change in Iran. But at last, this necessity has become undeniable. Perhaps this time, Trump is resolved to rid the world of this malignant tumor.

A second US aircraft carrier has been deployed to the Middle East. The potential for a US military strike against the Islamic Republic’s infrastructure is profound. Although no one desires war, America’s long-overdue mission to end terrorism must now be completed. So long as this regime survives, Islamic terrorism will continue to claim lives across the globe.

The prospect of an imminent US military operation targeting Ali Khamenei personally is serious and growing. Yet Khamenei, enamored with his own voice and obsessed with self-importance, continues to spew nonsense from behind his podium – rhetoric no different from the final ravings of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi.

The Iranian people do not take him seriously. Thousands of videos circulate online daily, praying for his dreadful demise. His threats of retaliation are empty. His only recourse lies in activating dormant terrorist cells within the US and Europe.

Tehran’s dictator refuses to accept Trump’s conditions in the letter. Why? Because he is a deceitful, criminal Shi’ite cleric whose very identity depends on nuclear weapons development, arms exports to Islamic terror mafias, regional arson, and hatred toward Israel and the United States. Should he concede, everything would unravel. But he will cling to his delusions until the very end.

The impending assault by the US, Israel, and their military and intelligence allies – including the CIA, Mossad, US Army, IDF, and the Pentagon – will be comprehensive and multilayered.

Dismantling Khamenei's regime

The key objective must be to dismantle the regime’s ideological war machine through the elimination of Khamenei and his criminal thugs in the IRGC and Quds Force. For if he alone were to die, another lunatic would rise to take his place, issuing orders and wagging a threatening finger.

Merely targeting nuclear facilities, missile depots, drone arsenals, and terrorist training camps is insufficient. What is needed is explicit support for regime change and democracy in Iran and public endorsement of the Iranian people’s national uprising against the mullahs’ destructive theocracy.

Just as Nazi symbols were outlawed in Germany after Hitler’s fall, so too must the grotesque garb and theatrical visage of the mullahs vanish from public life in post-regime Iran. What a glorious moment it will be when the regime founded by Khomeini in a Tehran graveyard is, at last, consigned to the graveyard of history. Iran shall be free, its 86 million citizens restored to normal life, and the world shall breathe a deep sigh of relief.

What a beautiful image it is – when the embassies of Israel and the United States once again raise their flags in free Tehran.

Erfan Fard is a counterterrorism analyst and Middle East studies researcher based in Washington, with a particular focus on Iran, Islamic Terrorism, and ethnic conflicts in the region. His latest book is The Black Shabbat, published in the US. erfanfard.com and on X @EQFARD or www.ErfanFard.com.

Source: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-847223

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US support for Egypt at risk if Cairo refuses to accept Gazans, UAE President warns - Yuval Levy

 

by Yuval Levy

The message was delivered last weekend by UAE President Mohammad bin Zayed during a brief, surprise visit to Cairo.

 

Tents for Palestinians seeking refuge are set up on the grounds of a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) centre in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 19, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas (photo credit: MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)

The Egyptian government has been warned that this is their “last chance” to accept a portion of Gaza’s displaced population and that they risk losing American support if they refuse, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported on Sunday.

The message was delivered last weekend by UAE President Mohammad bin Zayed during a brief, surprise visit to Cairo. The meeting follows Egypt’s continued rejection of US President Donald Trump’s relocation plan, as well as the refusal of several other countries to accept Gazan residents within their borders.

President Trump and Tahnoun bin Zayed, Deputy Ruler of Abu Dhabi and UAE National Security Advisor, met at the White House last Tuesday. Following their conversation, the United States announced that the UAE has committed to investing $1.4 trillion in the American economy over the next 10 years.

Zayed reportedly emphasized that if Egypt continues to refuse the transfer of Gazan residents, the United States would redirect economic aid intended for Egypt to other regions. In exchange for accepting the displaced individuals, the United States has promised to provide billions of dollars in support of reviving the struggling Egyptian economy.

Palestinians make their way to the northern Gaza Strip from the south. February 13, 2025. (credit: Ali Hassan/Flash90)

The current proposal

According to Al-Araby’s Egyptian sources, the current proposal involves transferring between 500,000 and 700,000 Palestinian citizens from the area spanning the northern Netzarim axis and the Gaza Envelope settlements in the northern Gaza Strip. The Gaza Strip would be confined to the area south of the Netzarim axis, extending to the current border with Egypt, according to the plan.

Allegedly, the United States and Israel are primarily focused on relocating Gazans to Egypt, postponing Jordan’s role in the transfer, which will include absorbing residents of the West Bank at a later stage.

Israel’s new defense department

On Sunday, Israel’s security cabinet approved Defense Minister Israel Katz’s proposal to establish a new department within the Ministry of Defense to organize the ‘voluntary departure’ of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

Katz’s office stated that the department would work to “secure and organize the safe and orderly departure of Gaza residents” by providing transportation routes, implementing screening measures at crossings, and coordinating travel by land, sea, and air.

On Friday, the Egyptian State Information Service (SIS) responded to media allegations that Cairo was preparing to relocate half a million Gazans to the northern Sinai region.

“Egypt has resolutely and definitively rejected any attempt to forcibly or voluntarily displace Palestinian brothers and sisters to any location outside Gaza, especially to Egyptian territories,” the SIS emphasized, according to Egypt Independent, a privately owned, pro-government publication. “This would represent the liquidation of the Palestinian cause and pose an imminent threat to Egypt’s national security.”

Yuval Levy

Source: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-847641

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One hundred Gazans to migrate - Jerusalem Post Staff

 

by Jerusalem Post Staff

This is part of a new voluntary migration project led by Major-General Ghassan Alian, head of Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT).

 

Workers work at the construction site of the Jakarta Light Rail Transport (LRT) Phase 1B in Jakarta on July 18, 2024.

(photo credit: Aditya Irawan/AFP via Getty Images)

One hundred Palestinian residents of Gaza are set to leave the strip to work in Indonesia as part of a new pilot scheme, N12 reported on Wednesday.

This is part of a new voluntary migration project led by Major-General Ghassan Alian, head of Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), which is designed to incentivize thousands of Gazan citizens to leave for Indonesia.

Most of them will be working in construction, N12 added.

Under international law, anyone who leaves Gaza to work will be allowed to return. However, N12 adds that the hope is for long-term residence in Indonesia. 

COGAT commander Col. Rasan Alian. (credit: IDF SPOKESMAN'S OFFICE)

This nevertheless depends on the Indonesian government, which heads a country with the largest Muslim population in the world.

Previous Indonesian statements

In June 2024, Indonesia announced that it would absorb 1,000 victims of the war in Gaza for medical treatment, according to the Jakarta Post, citing statements by Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto.

“We are taking steps to channel assistance to Palestine,” Prabowo said, adding, “Indonesia has announced its readiness to evacuate 1,000 patients for medical treatment in Indonesia. They will be returned to Gaza after recovering, once the situation there stabilizes,”

He also stated that Indonesia would offer 1,000 Gazan children the opportunity to study in Indonesia and return when the time is right.

N12 added that the pilot scheme came after extensive talks with the Indonesian government, with which Israel has no formal diplomatic relations. 

If the move is successful, Defense Minister Israel Katz's 'Emigration Directorate' will take over the reins.

Jerusalem Post Staff

Source: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-847651

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NPR, PBS leaders to testify before DOGE subcommittee on 'anti-American' content - Charlotte Hazard

 

by Charlotte Hazard

Set to testify are NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS CEO Paula Kerger, in the hearing titled: “Anti-American Airwaves: Holding the heads of NPR and PBS Accountable.”

 

Leaders of National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Station on Wednesday will testify before the House Department of Government Efficiency subcommittee about putting out "anti-American" content.

"The CEOs will be asked to explain why the demonstrably biased news coverage they produce for an increasingly narrow and elitist audience should continue to be funded by the broad taxpaying public," DOGE subcommittee Chairwoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said in a statement Monday.

Set to testify are NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS CEO Paula Kerger, in the hearing titled: “Anti-American Airwaves: Holding the heads of NPR and PBS Accountable.”

The hearing will begin at 10 a.m. EST. 

NPR, PBS and Voice of America faced calls for defunding or reform after President Donald Trump returned to office over their alleged liberal bias and have long been of Republicans. 

When asked Tuesday about defunding NPR and PBS, he said: “I would love to do that. 

Greene also said: "Both organizations have repeatedly undermined the trust of Americans by ignoring stories that were damaging to the Biden Administration, dismissing calls to perform more balanced reporting, and continuing to pursue partisan coverage. This hearing will assess whether the American taxpayer should continue to subsidize NPR and PBS."

 
Charlotte Hazard

Source: https://justthenews.com/accountability/media/npr-pbs-leaders-testify-doge-subcommittee-anti-american-content

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Trump's appeals are piling up for the Supreme Court - Ben Whedon

 

by Ben Whedon

Trump is currently fighting to freeze federal funding, deport foreign gang members, fire thousands of federal workers, reinterpret birthright citizenship, and to achieve a host of other objectives. District courts have obstructed many of these plans.

 

The Trump administration’s latest legal showdown with James Boasberg, chief judge of the federal district court for the District of Columbia, over the deportation of Venezuelan gang members threatens to dump yet another judicial injunction on the plate of the Supreme Court. It adds yet more pressure on the justices to rule on the scope of lower court authority and interaction with the Executive Branch.

Nationwide injunctions have become increasingly common in recent years. An April 2024 Harvard Law Review study found that 96 were issued from the presidency of George W. Bush to the date of publication. Overall, 86.5% of those were issued by judges appointed by members of the opposing party. Trump’s first term saw 64 injunctions while Biden only faced 14. Less than 65 days into this term, judges have imposed at least 15 such injunctions on the Trump administration in its first two months alone.

The administration has so far faced dozens of lawsuits, mostly over Trump’s executive orders and the activities of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Most of the injunctions so far have come from judges on either the Maryland or District of Columbia courts, although the injunctions purport to be in effect nationwide. The breadth of such injunctions is sure to be raised to the Supreme Court at some point in the near future. 

Trump is currently fighting to freeze federal funding, deport foreign gang members, fire thousands of federal workers, reinterpret birthright citizenship and to achieve a host of other objectives.

The case before Boasberg

Boasberg’s case involves Trump’s invocation of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and has led to heated exchanges in the courtroom over the administration’s responsiveness to the judge’s orders. The administration on Tuesday invoked state secrets privilege when declining to provide further information on the deportation of the gang members requested by Boasberg.

“This is a case about the President’s plenary authority, derived from Article II and the mandate of the electorate, and reinforced by longstanding statute, to remove from the homeland designated terrorists participating in a state-sponsored invasion of, and predatory incursion into, the United States,” the government wrote to the court. “The Court has all of the facts it needs to address the compliance issues before it. Further intrusions on the Executive Branch would present dangerous and wholly unwarranted separation-of-powers harms with respect to diplomatic and national security concerns that the Court lacks competence to address.”

The appeals process is ongoing at the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which held oral arguments on Monday. That body has yet to issue a decision, but an unfavorable one is sure to result in an appeal by the administration to the Supreme Court.

Logistical hurdles and universal injunctions

When urging the Supreme Court to intervene, the Trump administration has highlighted the potential burdens on the top bench should nationwide injunctions become normalized and the court faces an influx of emergency appeals. The Supreme Court traditionally hears roughly 100-150 cases per year of the more than 7,000 cases seeking their intervention.

The Supreme Court hears cases on a system of "certiorari," under which a case cannot, as a matter of right, be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Any party seeking to appeal to the Supreme Court from a lower court decision must file a writ of certiorari.

"District courts have issued more universal injunctions and TROs [Temporary Restraining Orders] during February 2025 alone than through the first three years of the Biden Administration,” acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris wrote while asking the court to address injunctions against Trump’s birthright citizenship order. “That sharp rise in universal injunctions stops the Executive Branch from performing its constitutional functions before any courts fully examine the merits of those actions, and threatens to swamp this Court’s emergency docket.”

Alioto: "I am stunned"

During a case earlier this month addressing a lower court order on the distribution of USAID funds, Associate Justice Samuel Alito issued a scathing dissent criticizing the court for declining to address the matter of the judge’s authority and jurisdiction.

"Does a single district-court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction have the unchecked power to compel the Government of the United States to pay out (and probably lose forever) 2 billion taxpayer dollars?” Associate Justice Samuel Alito wrote. “The answer to that question should be an emphatic 'No,' but a majority of this Court apparently thinks otherwise. I am stunned.”

Alioto's dissent is not the first time a justice has expressed concerns over the rising trend in universal injunctions at the district court level. Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, for instance, wrote in 2018 that "[i]f their popularity continues, this court must address their legality," according to CBS News.

Those two, however, represent the conservative wing of the bench and Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett voted with the liberals in the matter of the USAID funds.

An opportunity may soon be forthcoming for them to address the matter, as the Department of Justice has filed emergency appeals in multiple cases asking them to narrow the scope of lower court injunctions.

On paper, the temporary injunctions are supposed to remain exactly that. Faced with a judicial stay, the administration can go to the relevant appeals court and ask them to overrule or narrow the lower court’s order while the case proceeds.

The administration won exactly such a victory on Tuesday, when the 9th Circuit partially lifted a lower court block on an executive order suspending refugee admissions under the United States Refugee Assistance Program (USRAP). Trump ordered the suspension of the program, the freezing of its funds, and a pause on admission decisions early in his term. A group of refugees and advocacy groups sued over the change and initially secured a stay, though the 9th Circuit held that Trump has "ample power to impose entry restrictions in addition to those elsewhere enumerated in the INA."

Ben Whedon

Source: https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/wedthe-appeals-are-piling-supreme-court

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Hundreds of Gazans march in rare anti-Hamas protest - Ohad Merlin

 

by Ohad Merlin

Dubbed “Intifada of the North,” the protest, which took place in Beit Lahiya, saw hundreds of participants, shouting “Hamas out!”

 

Palestinians attend a rally calling for an end to the war, in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on March 25, 2025.

(photo credit: BASHAR TALEB/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)

In a rare event in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, hundreds of Gazan citizens marched in the northern town of Beit Lahiya carrying white flags, calling to end the Hamas rule, and even calling to hand over the Israeli hostages.

The protests took place in front of the Indonesian Hospital in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. One protester who filmed the events questioned where Qatari Al Jazeera and its Gaza correspondent Anas al-Sharif are, implicitly referring to the channel’s no criticism of Hamas policy.

Anti-Hamas protests in Gaza: short snippets

Here we can see hundreds of people, some holding a white flag, with the cameraman saying:

"The people here are calling to free the 'prisoners' so we can remain alive... Hamas is demanding our people to remain steadfast. But how can we… pic.twitter.com/fnt6PjVtjc

— Ohad ✡️ اوهاد ✡️ אהד (@MOhadIsrael) March 25, 2025

“The people are demanding the press to cover these events!” he said. “People are demanding freedom, they’re demanding a halt to the hostilities against Gaza, they’re demanding peace and an end to this war.” One of them said, “The press entered the hospital so as to not document this event.”

Slogans shouted in the protest included “Out out out! Hamas out!” and “Where is the press?” and “We want to live!” Signs held by protesters included slogans such as “We refuse to be the ones who die” and “Stop the war.”

Another video showed hundreds of marchers walking in the streets of Beit Lahiya, with the cameraman saying: “Large crowds are protesting now against the rule of Hamas. The situation in Gaza is catastrophic. The people here are calling to free the prisoners so we can remain alive,” possibly referring to the remaining Israeli hostages.

Palestinians make their way to the northern Gaza Strip from the south. February 13, 2025. (credit: Ali Hassan/Flash90)

“Hamas is demanding our people to remain steadfast. But how can we remain steadfast when we’re dying and bleeding? Hamas must stop what is happening in Gaza… We’re sending a message to the entire world: We reject the rule of Hamas.”

'We will be the ones who decide who is in control'

One speaker at the protest proclaimed: “Our message now is that we are a people of peace. We demand a secure peace for this town, and not to live under the steel and fire here. We will be the ones who decide who is in control in this town. We live under harsh conditions, so everyone must stand up to any foreign actors who want to destroy the destiny of this nation… We say: yes to peace, no to the tyrant rule which threatens the destiny of our people.”

Another video saw the cameraman commenting, “Rivers of people are marching to end the rule of Hamas and stop the war on Gaza.”

Though extremely rare, this is not the first time an anti-Hamas protest takes place in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip since the war began, as January 2024 saw what appeared to have been smaller and more sporadic events.

Likewise, some of these slogans are reminiscent of the “Bidna N’eesh” (“We Want to Live”) movement, which led similar protests in 2020 and 2023, and which some suspected to have been coordinated by Hamas’s rival faction, Fatah. In all cases so far, Hamas acted quickly and brutally to suppress these demonstrations. 

Ohad Merlin

Source: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-847577

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Palestinian Authority and Fatah celebrate massacre of 37 - Nan Jacques Zilberdik

 

by Nan Jacques Zilberdik

Another example of how the PA glorifies the murderers of innocent Jews

 

• Fatah about murderer Mughrabi: "Self-sacrificing fighter Dalal Mughrabi waved the Palestinian flag above one of the buses and saluted it in a historical unprecedented sight that is considered the inauguration of the establishment of the State of Palestine"

• Fatah's student union about murderer Mughrabi: "Fighter Dalal Mughrabi outlined the borders of the homeland with her blood and wrote the praise of the self-sacrificing fighter with letters of light"

The PA and Fatah still rejoice over the murder of 37 Israelis in 1978! Before Hamas' massacre on Oct. 7, 2023, the attack known as the Coastal Road Massacre was the most lethal in Israel's history and has remained the source of immense pride for Fatah, PA Chairman Abbas' party.

On the anniversary of the attack, Abbas' Fatah glorified female terrorist murderer Dalal Mughrabi who led the attack. As Palestinian Media Watch has documented, Mughrabi has been turned by the PA into a hero and role model for Palestinian society. Her "heroic" act was leading a squad of Fatah terrorists in the hijacking of a bus on Israel's Coastal Highway, the murder of 37 civilians—of which 12 were children, and the wounding of over 70.

The PA and Fatah refer to the hours during which the terrorists took control of the Israeli bus and held its passengers captive as "the establishment of the Palestinian republic." The Fatah post calls murderer Mughrabi "the first president of the republic":

Text on image: "Dalal Mughrabi and her comrades established the Palestinian republic"

[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page,
March 11, 2025]

The image shows the ruins of the Israeli bus that was hijacked and detonated by Mughrabi and her terror squad.

Text on image: "The Martyr Kamal Adwan operation [name given to the Coastal Road Massacre]

March 11, 1978

The day that Fatah established the Republic of Palestine in the heart of Tel Aviv (the terror squad never reached north of Tel Aviv – ed.), an independent fully sovereign republic for four hours. It never mattered how long this Palestinian republic lasted, rather that it was established altogether. The first president of the republic was Dalal Mughrabi, and the Palestinian flag flew in the depth of the occupied land on a road 95 km long on the main road in Palestine (i.e., Israel - ed.).

Self-sacrificing fighter Dalal Mughrabi died as a Martyr along with the squad members. Two of them, prisoners Khaled Abu Asba and Hassan Fayyad, were captured and [later] released in an exchange deal in 1983"

[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page,
March 11, 2025]

Text on image: "‘Know all of you [Israelis] that the land of Palestine is Arab and will remain so no matter how much your voices and your buildings rise on its soil' – the last words of self-sacrificing fighter Dalal Mughrabi before her Martyrdom."

[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page,
March 11, 2025]

The Palestinian Authority also marked the anniversary of the Coastal Road Massacre, describing in detail how Dalal Mughrabi joined Fatah and yearned to participate in a terror attack against Israel:

"Yesterday was the 47^th anniversary of the Martyrdom of Palestinian fighter Dalal Mughrabi… She decided to join the ranks of the Palestinian revolution and to act in the ranks of the self-sacrificing fighters (i.e., terrorists) in the Fatah Movement while still a student. She took many military courses and received lessons in guerilla warfare, during which she trained with different weapons… She became known for her daring, her courage, her well-developed national sentiment, and for her devotion to Palestine and Fatah…

The [operation] plan was formulated by Martyr commander Khalil Al-Wazir 'Abu Jihad' (i.e., terrorist, responsible for the murder of 125 Israelis)… The self-sacrificing fighters competed among themselves to participate, foremost among them Dalal Mughrabi, who was 20. She was selected to lead the squad that would carry out the operation, which was made up of 10 self-sacrificing fighters."

[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 12, 2025]

Fatah's Shabiba Student Movement and Student Union Council at Palestine Technical University praised murderer Mughrabi as the one who traced "Palestine's" borders "with her blood":

Text on image and in post: "The 47^th anniversary of the Martyrdom-death of fighter Dalal Mughrabi, who outlined the borders of the homeland with her blood and wrote the praise of the self-sacrificing fighter with letters of light."

[The Fatah Shabiba Student Movement and Student Union Council at Palestine Technical University – Kadoorie, Facebook page, March 12, 2025]

 

The following is a longer excerpt of the PA's glorification of the murderous attack in 1978:

Headline: "47 years since the Martyrdom of fighter Dalal Mughrabi"

"Yesterday [March 11, 2025] was the 47^th anniversary of the Martyrdom of Palestinian fighter Dalal Mughrabi (i.e., terrorist who led murder of 37, 12 of them children). Fighter Mughrabi was born in 1958 in one of the Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut. She was the daughter of a family from Jaffa that escaped to Lebanon following the 1948 Nakba (i.e., "the catastrophe," the Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel)…

She decided to join the ranks of the Palestinian revolution and to act in the ranks of the self-sacrificing fighters (Fedayeen) in the Fatah Movement while still a student. She took many military courses and received lessons in guerilla warfare, during which she trained with different weapons. While taking these courses, she became known for her daring, her courage, her well-developed national sentiment, and for her devotion to Palestine and Fatah.

The assassination of the three Fatah leaders Kamal Adwan, Kamal Nasser, and Abu Yusuf Al-Najjar (i.e., terrorist organization leaders responsible for the deaths of many Israelis) by the Israeli occupation in 1973 had a negative impact on Dalal. In addition, the incessant and despicable aggression against the refugee camps caused her a feeling of bitterness and rage; and there is no need to note the wretchedness in which her family lived – like the rest of the residents of the refugee camps – as a result of their forced leaving, which would not have taken place if not for the occupation of her land – Palestine – by Israel. For this reason, Dalal – like the rest of her friends and partners in grief from among the residents of the refugee camps – began to be struck by negative and stormy feelings, which gave birth to a determination within her to carry out an act that would satisfy her desire [for revenge].

The plan was formulated by Martyr commander Khalil Al-Wazir 'Abu Jihad' (i.e., terrorist, responsible for the murder of 125 Israelis). The plan was based on a landing operation on the Palestinian coast (i.e., Israeli coast), taking over a military bus, and setting out in the direction of Tel Aviv to attack the Israeli Parliament building (sic., the building is located in Jerusalem –Ed.). The self-sacrificing fighters competed among themselves to participate, foremost among them Dalal Mughrabi, who was 20. She was selected to lead the squad that would carry out the operation, which was made up of 10 self-sacrificing fighters. The operation was known as the 'Kamal Adwan' operation, and the squad was known as 'Deir Yassin.'

On the morning of March 11, 1978, Mughrabi disembarked from a boat passing opposite the Palestinian coast together with her squad…

Dalal and her squad succeeded in reaching Tel Aviv (the terror squad never reached Tel Aviv – ed.) and took over the bus with all its soldier passengers (only civilian passengers were on the bus – ed.), while outside the bus the battle continued with other Israeli soldiers. Hundreds on the Israeli side were killed and wounded (37 murdered and 70 wounded – ed.), and in light of the heavy losses, the Israeli government assigned a special military unit – commanded by Ehud Barak (then military commander and later prime minister of Israel – ed.) – to stop the bus and kill and arrest its passengers (apparently meaning the terror squad – ed.). [The military unit] used planes and tanks to surround the self-sacrificing fighters, which caused Dalal Mughrabi to blow up the bus with its passengers. As a result, the Israeli soldiers were killed. The moment that [Dalal and her squad's] ammunition ran out, Barak ordered to reap all of the self-sacrificing fighters with machine guns, and all of them died as Martyrs (terrorists Hussein Fayyad and Khaled Abu Asba were arrested - ed.).

It should be noted that the Israeli occupation authorities are still holding the body of Martyr Dalal Mughrabi in the 'numbered cemeteries' (i.e., Israeli cemeteries for temporary burial of terrorists)."

[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 12, 2025]

Nan Jacques Zilberdik

Source: https://palwatch.org/page/37047

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The Rebirth of Nazi Ideology in Palestinian Authority Antisemitism - Itamar Marcus

 

by Itamar Marcus

Mahmoud Abbas said that Palestinians see the Jews just as the Europeans and Hitler saw the Jews.

 

This week's International Conference for Combating Antisemitism in Jerusalem takes place 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz. After the defeat of Nazism in 1945, Jews hoped that Nazi antisemitism would vanish forever. But as Jew-hatred proliferates worldwide in 2025, there is one antisemitic ideology that closely resembles that of the Nazis – and that is the antisemitism of the Palestinian Authority.

What was the Jewish problem for the Nazis? The Nazis said that the Jews ruined every society in which they lived; that they endangered Germany and all humanity.

In Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote: "The Jews are the eternal archenemy of the human race. They manipulate, corrupt, and destroy societies" (vol. 1, chap. 11). "The Jews … are a race of parasites… systematically undermining the fabric of societies" (1,10). "If the Jew, with the help of his Marxist creed, is victorious over the peoples of this world, then his crown will be the funeral wreath of humanity" (1,11).

The Nazi message was that the Jews, by imperiling all humankind, had brought Jew-hatred upon themselves. Though dormant for many years, these Nazi messages have been resurrected and constitute the backbone of Palestinian antisemitism.

The Palestinian hatred comes from the top. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas explained that Palestinians see the Jews just as the Europeans and Hitler saw the Jews. Abbas's own words: "They said that Hitler killed the Jews because they were Jews, and Europe hates the Jews because they are Jews. No!… They fought [the Jews] because of their social role…

"Hitler… fought the Jews because they worked based on usury and money. In other words, they caused ruin in his opinion, and therefore he hated them" (PA TV, August 24, 2023).

In the months following Hamas's October 7, 2023 atrocities, when horrified world leaders expressed support for Israel, the PA had a unique explanation for it: "They – Europe and America – succeeded in getting rid of the Jews, whom they view as human waste, and they threw them out into Palestine… far away from Europe. They don't want reverse migration now and their return to Europe again." (PA TV, October 24, 2023).

Nazi and PA ideologies

A fundamental component of both Nazi and PA ideology is that the Jews' alleged negative impact on all societies is not unintended but is part of the Jewish scheme to dominate and subjugate the world.

Three times in 2023, the PA's official TV station chose to broadcast a warning about this Jewish ambition: "Their [Jewish] thinking is based on racism that caused them to be hated everywhere. In The Protocols of the Elders of Zion… [it says] ‘He created them [Jews] so that they would be masters over them [non-Jews]… The Europeans hated them and wanted to get rid of them, so the European countries... had the idea of establishing a Jewish state'" (January 17, February 27, and May 14, 2023).

The PA's official daily recently published an editorial that warned of Jewish aspirations, saying: "From all corners of the globe, I see and understand the harm they have caused… They want to subjugate the entire world" (Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, December 15, 2024).

Hitler warned the world of the same threatening Jewish plan: "The Jewish people, by virtue of their innate characteristics, were driven to world domination" (Mein Kampf, 1,11).

A menace to all humanity of this scope is beyond natural human abilities. Hitler's warning – that "the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew" (1,11) – is echoed by Abbas's adviser on Islam, Mahmoud Al-Habbash, the top religious figure in the PA.

He has said on PA TV: "Satan does not have to be in the form of a demon. He can also be in your form… And they [Satan-Jews] are still fighting us" (July 7, 2023). Palestinians are taught that Allah has warned that the Jews, who are linked to Satan – the source of the world's evil – are the primary force of evil and danger to humanity.

What the Nazis believed is now being disseminated to Palestinians and it is not merely an exercise of minor prejudice. This is a way of understanding the world and being convinced that the Jews are behind all that is wrong with the world, all that is evil in the world, and all that is dangerous and threatening to humanity.

'Jewish threat': Annihilate all Jews

For the Nazis, and now for Palestinians, since the Jewish threat was lethal, the necessary and just solution to protect all humanity was extermination. Hitler was explicit: "The Jew's existence is a crime against humanity, and the only solution is his removal from our midst" (2,13).

"The result will not be the… victory of Jewry but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe" (Hitler to the Reichstag, January 30, 1939).

According to Hitler, since everything that had been previously tried had not stopped the Jews, the Nazi Final Solution to save humanity, i.e., genocide/extermination, was packaged as self-defense. With the extermination of the Jews, humanity would be saved. This was Nazism, and this is also Palestinian antisemitism.

Jew-hatred is taught and encouraged

Countless times, official PA religious leaders, including the Abbas-appointed PA mufti, have taught that the Hour of Resurrection is conditioned on Muslims "fighting the Jews and killing them."

Five times in recent months, PA TV broadcast PA religious officials praying for genocide: "Allah, count them one by one, kill them one by one, and do not leave even one" (January 10 and January 24, 2025).

The PA's Religious Affairs Ministry, just 11 days after Hamas's October 7 pogrom, published talking points for Friday sermons in all PA mosques. Imams were told to teach that Muslims killing Jews hiding behind rocks and trees, as happened on October 7, was the fulfillment of Muslim destiny:

"The Hour [of Resurrection] will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them, until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, and the rock or a tree will say: ‘Muslim, O servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him'" (PA Religious Affairs Ministry's Facebook page, October 18, 2023).

According to this Islamic worldview, every person who takes a step to minimize the Jews' power and eliminate even one Jew is doing Allah's will on behalf of humanity.

Significantly, Hitler also justified fighting the Jews as God's will: "I am acting according to the will of the Almighty Creator: When I defend myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord" (Mein Kampf, 1,11).

The Nazi leaders' pride in its Final Solution is evident in the protocols of their meetings. Heinrich Himmler, in a speech to SS officers in 1943, said: "It's part of our program, elimination of the Jews, extermination... This is a glorious page in our history that has never been written and shall never be written… We had the moral right, we had the duty to our people, to destroy this people that wanted to destroy us" (October 4, 1943).

Jibril Rajoub, a top PA leader and Fatah Central Committee Secretary, likewise sees glory in killing Jews: "What happened on October 7 was an earthquake… full of epics and acts of heroism" (Al-Anba, November 26, 2023).

Thinking ahead

Today, as world leaders contemplate the future of Gaza after Hamas is removed, many countries led by Egypt are insisting that the Palestinian Authority should rule the Strip. Some have used catchy terms to argue that the PA merely needs to be "revitalized."

When one understands the depths of PA hatred and loathing of the Jews that the PA has been transmitting to its people for years, the PA clearly cannot be an option. Israel would do well to internalize the words of Robert H. Jackson, chief justice to the Nuremberg Trials, who described with amazement that the Nazis had proclaimed every crime they would commit in advance, and yet the world ignored them.

He concluded: "We must not forget that when the Nazi plans were boldly proclaimed, they were so extravagant that the world refused to take them seriously."

The PA's plans and justifications regarding the Jews and Israelis are just as "extravagant" and just as "boldly proclaimed" as the Nazis' plans. Let's not make the same mistake the world made in 1939, or that Israel made in 2023. When people say they want to kill you and back it up as God's directive, they must be taken seriously.

 
Itamar Marcus

Source: https://palwatch.org/page/37051

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Iran Apparently Planning to Outwit or Outwait Trump, Not Relinquish Its Nuclear Programme - Con Coughlin

 

by Con Coughlin

Iran's demand -- that it might consider opening negotiations with Washington if the Trump administration first agreed to lift punitive economic sanctions, is a classic exercise in the regime's attempts to play for time.

 

• "Something's going to happen one way or the other. I hope that Iran — and I've written him a letter, saying, 'I hope you're going to negotiate.' Because if we have to go in militarily, it's going to be a terrible thing — for them." — US President Donald J. Trump, interview with Fox News, March 7, 2025.

• So long as the Islamic Republic of Iran indulges in its usual tactic of prevarication in the hope that, by engaging in delaying tactics, it can buy more time to achieve its nuclear ambitions, the credibility of the Trump administration taking direct action against Tehran needs to increase.

• Iran's demand, for example, that it might consider opening negotiations with Washington if the Trump administration first agreed to lift punitive economic sanctions, is a classic exercise in the regime's attempts to play for time.

Iran's refusal to accept US President Donald Trump's demand that it completely dismantle its controversial nuclear programme, which Western intelligence officials are convinced is ultimately designed to build nuclear weapons, raises the very real risk of the US launching direct military action to destroy the programme. Pictured: Trump signs an executive order "reimposing maximum pressure on Iran" in the White House on February 4, 2025. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Iran's refusal to accept US President Donald Trump's demand that it completely dismantle its controversial nuclear programme, which Western intelligence officials are convinced is ultimately designed to build nuclear weapons, raises the very real risk of the US launching direct military action to destroy the programme.

Trump's initial offer to negotiate an end to Iran's nuclear programme was contained in a letter he wrote to the ayatollahs on March 7, in which he indicated he was willing to engage in talks concerning Iran's nuclear activities. But the letter also contained an explicit warning that any failure by Tehran to respond positively to his overture could lead to direct military action.

The Trump administration's determination to end the threat posed by Iran's nuclear ambitions once and for all was confirmed by the recent revelation by the Axios news website which, quoting a US official and other sources, said the American president had set a "two-month deadline for reaching a new nuclear deal."

The new administration's focus on Iran was confirmed by Steve Witkoff, Trump's envoy, who confirmed in an interview with Fox News that Trump's personal approach to Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was aimed at avoiding direct military action.

"We don't need to solve everything militarily... Our signal... to Iran is 'Let's sit down and see if we can, through dialogue, through diplomacy, get to the right place'. If we can, we are prepared to do that. And if we can't, the alternative is not a great alternative."

Meanwhile, US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz has warned that Iran needs to "hand over and give up" all elements of its nuclear programme including missiles, weaponization and enrichment of uranium "or they can face a whole series of other consequences," adding that "Iran has been offered a way out of this."

The latest comments made by Witkoff and Waltz reflect a deepening resolve with the Trump administration to end Iran's long-running nuclear plans. As Trump himself remarked after announcing his initial overture to Iran, "You can't let them have a nuclear weapon."

"The time is coming up. Something's going to happen one way or the other. I hope that Iran — and I've written him a letter, saying, 'I hope you're going to negotiate.' Because if we have to go in militarily, it's going to be a terrible thing — for them."

While Iranian media have confirmed that Trump's letter was delivered to Tehran by a senior United Arab Emirates diplomat, Iran's refusal to respond positively to his overture means there is now a very real possibility that the Trump administration is giving serious consideration to launching military action against Tehran.

The chances of the Trump administration authorising direct military attacks against Iran have risen even more sharply after the US attacked Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, who have conducted a series of attacks against Israel claiming they are acting in support of Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists.

After the US military launched a wave of air strikes against Houthi positions in Yemen, Trump warned that he would hold Tehran directly responsible for any future attacks carried out by the Houthi rebels in Yemen:

"Let nobody be fooled! The hundreds of attacks being made by Houthi, the sinister mobsters and thugs based in Yemen, who are hated by the Yemeni people, all emanate from, and are created by, IRAN. Any further attack or retaliation by the "Houthis" will be met with great force, and there is no guarantee that that force will stop there."

The Trump administration's willingness to confront Iran will have increased, moreover, following the latest assessment by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the body responsible for monitoring Iran's nuclear activities, that the ayatollahs have continued to work on their nuclear programme to the extent that they now have enough material to construct at least five nuclear warheads.

So long as the Islamic Republic of Iran indulges in its usual tactic of prevarication in the hope that, by engaging in delaying tactics, it can buy more time to achieve its nuclear ambitions, the credibility of the Trump administration taking direct action against Tehran needs to increase.

Iran's demand, for example, that it might consider opening negotiations with Washington if the Trump administration first agreed to lift punitive economic sanctions, is a classic exercise in the regime's attempts to play for time.

Nor will the White House have been impressed by Khamenei's latest defiant comments regarding the US.

"The Americans should know threats will get them nowhere when confronting Iran," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in his live annual televised speech marking Nowruz, the Persian New Year.

He said Americans "and others should know that if they do anything malign to the Iranian nation, they will get a hard slap."

If this is going to be the Iranian regime's response to Trump's offer of negotiating an end to Iran's nuclear programme, then the only realistic response available to the White House is to launch military action to end once and for all the threat Iran's nuclear programme presents to global security.

Con Coughlin is the Telegraph's Defence and Foreign Affairs Editor and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Gatestone Institute.

Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21505/iran-plans-outwit-outwait-trump

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Protests erupt in Gaza as Palestinians demand Hamas step down - Joshua Marks

 

by Joshua Marks

Demonstrators in Beit Lahia and Jabalia called for an end to the current conflict with Israel.

A slogan in Arabic reading (R): "Enough killing and destruction" and another reading (L): "The children of Palestine: We want to live" are displayed during a rally calling for an end to the war, in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on March 25, 2025. Hundreds of Palestinians chanted anti-Hamas slogans at a protest in northern Gaza on March 25, calling for an end to the war with Israel, witnesses said. Photo by AFP via Getty Images.

Hundreds of Palestinians staged protests in northern Gaza on Tuesday, notably in Beit Lahia and Jabalia, demanding an end to the ongoing conflict with Israel and calling for Hamas to relinquish control of the territory.

Demonstrators chanted slogans such as “Hamas out” and carried banners reading “Stop the war” and “We want to live in peace.”

Palestinians attend a rally calling for an end to the war, in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on March 25, 2025. Hundreds of Palestinians chanted anti-Hamas slogans at a protest in northern Gaza on March 25, calling for an end to the war with Israel, witnesses said. Photo by AFP via Getty Images.

The protests, among the most significant against Hamas since the war began, were reportedly organized through social media platforms. Eyewitnesses noted that Hamas security forces attempted to disperse the gatherings, with reports of forceful interventions.

The demonstrations reflect growing frustration among Gaza’s residents over deteriorating living conditions and the prolonged conflict with Israel. Criticism of Hamas’s governance has intensified, particularly concerning its handling of the war and the economic hardships faced by the population. 

As of now, Hamas officials have not issued a formal response to the protests. The situation remains tense, with the potential for further demonstrations in the coming days.

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Following the collapse of a ceasefire in mid-March, Israel retook the Netzarim Corridor, a key route dividing northern and southern Gaza, to pressure Hamas to release hostages and curb terrorist activity.

In January, Israel briefly allowed displaced Palestinians to return to northern Gaza but halted entries on Jan. 26, citing Hamas ceasefire violations. Amid renewed fighting and rocket attacks, Israel expanded evacuation orders on Tuesday, preventing large-scale civilian returns.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Tuesday approved the Israel Defense Forces’ operational plans to continue military actions against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

“Our main goal is to bring the hostages home,” Katz stated. “If Hamas continues to refuse a deal, it will pay an increasingly heavy price. We will take territory, eliminate terrorist operatives and destroy infrastructure until Hamas is completely defeated.”

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, left, meets with Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Yaniv Asor, center, and Deputy IDF Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Tamir Yadai at the Gaza Division base near Re’im, March 25, 2025. Photo by Shira Keinan/Defense Ministry.

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir has called for an escalation against the Hamas terrorist group.

“Hamas is stalling for time—this is a strategy, not just a tactic,” Zamir said in security discussions, according to a Channel 12 News report on Monday. “The IDF’s actions are hurting them and causing instability, but they are not leading to the release of hostages. Therefore, we have no choice—we must increase the pressure.”

Israeli political and military leaders are considering plans for a fresh ground campaign in Gaza that could include a military occupation of the entire enclave for months or longer, according to the Washington Post.

IDF 36th Division forces preparing for military operations in the Gaza Strip in a photo published on March 23, 2025. Credit: IDF.

Current and former Israeli officials briefed on the matter told the Post that the new tactics would likely include direct military control of humanitarian aid, targeting Hamas’s civilian leadership and evacuating women, children and vetted noncombatants to “humanitarian bubbles” while laying siege to those who remain.

Israeli officials emphasized to the Post that Jerusalem is still waiting for the outcome of ceasefire talks and no decisions have been made on whether—or how—to escalate the current phase of the offensive, which has so far consisted mostly of aerial bombardment, with limited ground maneuvers.

The IDF announced on Sunday that it has expanded military operations in both northern and southern Gaza, including the encirclement of Tel al-Sultan in Rafah and an offensive in Beit Hanun—targeting Hamas terrorists and infrastructure and widening the security buffer zones.

Joshua Marks

Source: https://www.jns.org/by-forcing-columbias-surrender-trump-is-saving-education/

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Challenging the Climate Crisis Narrative - Edward Ring

 

by Edward Ring

The climate crisis narrative ignores real issues like poor infrastructure and overpopulation, pushing costly policies that hurt economies while failing to improve resilience.

 

According to the United Nations, “Climate change is a global emergency that goes beyond national borders.” From the World Economic Forum, “Urgent global action must be taken to reduce emissions and safeguard human health from the multi-pronged negative impacts of climate change globally.”

From every multinational institution in the world, we hear the same message. From the World Bank, “The world is battling a perfect storm of climate, conflict, economic, and nature crises.” From the World Health Organization, “Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea, and heat.”

A major problem with all this unanimity over this “emergency” is the fact that for at least half of all people living in Western nations in 2025, the UN, WEF, WHO, and World Bank have no credibility. We don’t want to “own nothing and be happy” as our middle class is crushed. We don’t want the only politically acceptable way to maintain national economic growth to rely on population replacement. And with only the slightest numeracy, we see apocalyptic proclamations as lacking substance.

For example, while 250,000 “additional deaths per year” is tragic, worldwide estimates of total deaths are not quite 70 million per year. These “additional deaths” constitute a 0.36 percent increase over that baseline, just over one-third of one percent. Not even a rounding error.

Similarly, an alarmist prediction from NASA is that “Antarctica is losing ice mass (melting) at an average rate of about 150 billion tons per year, and Greenland is losing about 270 billion tons per year, adding to sea level rise.” Let’s unpack that a bit. A billion tons is a gigaton, equivalent in volume to one cubic kilometer. So Antarctica is losing 150 cubic kilometers of ice per year. But Antarctica has an estimated total ice mass of 30 million cubic kilometers. Which means Antarctica is losing about one twenty-thousandth of one percent of its total ice mass per year. That is well below the accuracy of measurement. It is an estimate, and the conclusion it suggests is of no significance.

One may wonder about Greenland, with “only” 2.9 million cubic kilometers of ice, melting at an estimated rate of 270 gigatons per year. But that still yields a rate of loss of less than one one-hundredth of one percent per year, which is almost certainly below the ability to actually gauge total ice mass and total annual ice loss.

What about sea level rise? Here again, basic math yields underwhelming conclusions. The total surface area of the world’s oceans is 361 million square kilometers. If you spread 420 gigatons over that surface (Greenland and Antarctica’s melting combined), you get a sea level rise of not quite 1.2 millimeters per year. This is, again, so insignificant that it is below the threshold of our ability to measure.

These fundamental facts will turn anyone willing to do even basic fact-checking into a cynic. What’s really going on? We get at least a glimpse of truth from the above quotation from the World Bank, where they ascribe the challenges of humanity to several causes: “climate, conflict, economic, and nature crises.” There’s value in the distinctions they make. They list “nature crisis” as distinct from “climate,” and at least explicitly, they don’t even cite “climate” as resulting from some anthropogenically generated trend of increasing temperatures and increasingly extreme weather. They just say “climate.”

Which brings us to the point: Conflict and economic crises are far bigger sources of human misery, and we face serious environmental challenges that have little to do with climate change and more to do with how we manage our industry, our wilderness, and our natural resources. And we are face “climate” challenges even when catastrophic climate events have nothing to do with any alleged “climate crisis.”

A perfect example of how the climate “crisis” narrative is falsely applied when, in fact, the climate-related catastrophe would have happened anyway is found in the disastrous floods that devastated Pakistan in 2022. Despite the doomsday spin from PBS (etc.), these floods were not abnormal because of “climate change.” They were an abnormal catastrophe because in just 60 years, the population of that nation has grown from 45 million to 240 million people. They’ve channelized their rivers, built dense new settlements onto what were once floodplains and other marginal land, they’ve denuded their forests, which took away the capacity to absorb runoff, and they’ve paved thousands of square miles, creating impervious surfaces where water can’t percolate. Of course, a big storm made a mess. The weather didn’t change. The nation changed.

The disaster story repeats everywhere. Contrary to the narrative, the primary cause is not “climate change.” Bigger tsunamis? Maybe it’s because coastal aquifers were overdrafted, which caused land subsidence, or because previously uninhabited tidelands were settled because the population quintupled in less than two generations, and because coastal mangrove forests were destroyed, which used to attenuate big waves. What about deforestation? Perhaps because these nations have been denied the ability to develop natural gas and hydroelectric power, they’re stripping away the forests for fuel to cook their food. In some cases, they’re burning their forests to make room for biofuel plantations, in a towering display of irony and corruption.

In California, our nation’s epicenter of climate crisis fearmongering and the subsequent commercial opportunism, the emphasis on crisis instead of resilience has led to absurd policies. Instead of bringing back the timber industry to thin the state’s overgrown forests, the governor mandates exclusive sales of EVs by 2035. Instead of responsibly drilling oil in California’s ample reserves of crude, California imports 75 percent of its oil, and its economy still relies on oil for half the energy that the state consumes.

Worldwide, these mistakes multiply. Biofuel plantations consume half a million square miles in order to replace a mere two percent of transportation fuel. A mad scramble across every continent to increase mining by an order of magnitude to meet the demand for raw materials to manufacture batteries, wind turbines, and solar panels. Denial of funds for natural gas development in Africa, condemning over a billion people to ongoing energy poverty.

Simple truths are obscured by the climate crisis narrative. We need to rebuild our infrastructure for climate resilience because much of it is over a century old, at the same time as the US population has tripled. Floods and hurricanes cause more damage because there are more people, and more of them live in areas that have always been hit by floods and hurricanes.

The truths are as endless as they are repressed. We can’t possibly lift all of humanity into a middle-class lifestyle without at least doubling energy production worldwide, and we can’t possibly accomplish that while also reducing our use of coal, oil, and gas. Renewables aren’t renewable (here’s a must-read on that topic). Offshore wind is an environmental disaster, as is biofuel, as is the explosion of totally unregulated mining to feed the renewables industry. On the other hand, extreme environmental laws and regulations are harming economic growth, freedom, and, in no small irony, the innovation and investment that would give us the wealth we need to better protect the environment. And the prevailing economic, environmental, and cultural challenge in the world is not the climate but crashing birthrates among developing nations at the same time as the population of the world’s most undeveloped nations continues to explode exponentially.

We need climate resilience in order to properly protect a global population that has quadrupled to 8 billion in just the last century, spreading to every corner of the earth. That goal would be easier if once-trusted global institutions would allow for honest debate and practical infrastructure development. Instead, they continue to spew transparently misleading climate crisis propaganda, adhering to a mission that can only be described as repressive on all fronts—culturally, economically, and environmentally.

Photo: Heavy Flood after Heavy Rain In the Local Stream. Flood Water Entered very Fast to the Houses and Shops . Houses to Near The Bank and Things which are commonly Use are Destroyed Badly. This Picture is of the 1st day of Flood and the water Level is Decreased This Time. Date 24th Of August 2022. Mingora Swat Pakistan.

Edward Ring is a senior fellow of the Center for American Greatness. He is also the director of water and energy policy for the California Policy Center, which he co-founded in 2013 and served as its first president. Ring is the author of Fixing California: Abundance, Pragmatism, Optimism (2021) and The Abundance Choice: Our Fight for More Water in California (2022).

Source: https://amgreatness.com/2025/03/26/challenging-the-climate-crisis-narrative/

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