New report details South Africa’s links to Islamic terror - Amelie Botbol

 

by Amelie Botbol

“South Africa has become a leading voice for terror," says the director of the Institute for the study of Global Antisemitism and Policy.

 

Vusimuzi Madonsela argues on behalf of South Africa and against Israel at the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial arm of the United Nations, in The Hague on May 16, 2024. Credit: ICJ.

Pretoria serves as a “crucial base of operations” for Islamic terror groups, according to a soon-to-be released report by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy.

The report’s publication comes in the wake of the International Court of Justice’s latest ruling against Israel’s military offensive in Rafah, in a case brought before the court by South Africa.

On Friday, the court ruled by 13 to 2 that the Jewish state must “immediately halt its military offensive, and any other action in the Rafah Governorate, which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.”

“The ICJ’s ruling is a stark reminder that South Africa has become a hub for extremist activities across the African continent,” said ISGAP Executive Director Charles Asher Small. 

“South Africa embraces antisemitic ideologies, supports state-sponsored terror, maintains close ties with and acts on behalf of Iran, Qatar and Hamas,” he added. 

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According to ISGAP’s report, Pretoria serves as a “crucial base of operations for Islamic terror groups, facilitating connections with networks throughout Africa.”

The report states that “despite long-standing U.S. sanctions, international Islamist entities with terror links continue to operate freely within South Africa, evading global scrutiny.” 

It argues that the “Financial Action Task Force (FATF) [which leads global action to tackle money laundering, terrorist and proliferation financing] noted South Africa’s failure to effectively identify, investigate, or prosecute terrorist financiers, revealing critical gaps in its anti-terrorism financing measures.”

Addressing Pretoria’s governing party, the report claims that “the African National Congress (ANC) maintains close relationships with Qatar, Iran and terror groups like Hamas.”

The report also highlights “the possibility that Iran funded South Africa’s ANC party in exchange for favorable outcomes in ICJ cases, especially since the ANC’s sudden financial stabilization in early January 2024, after years teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, remains shrouded in mystery and devoid of any detailed explanation.”

According to Small, “South Africa has become a leading voice for terror. By bringing this case against Israel and in favor of Hamas, South Africa further positions itself as a bad actor on the global stage.”

The time has come for the international community “to recognize and address South Africa’s alarming connections with terror-supporting states and entities,” he added.

ISGAP is an international organization that works on mapping, decoding and combatting contemporary antisemitism. 

Earlier this year, Small told JNS that the South African government was acting in complete opposition with South Africa’s freedom charter and  Nelson Mandela’s vision of democracy by embracing the Iranian revolutionary regime, Qatar and Hamas.

“For the ANC and the South African government of 2024, which inherited the work of Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo and Walter Sisulu among others who sacrificed their lives for social democracy, to be in bed with Hamas, the Iranian revolutionary regime and the Qatari Muslim Brotherhood regime is an affront to the South African people,” he said. 

“For Pretoria’s ruling party, the corrupt party of 2024, to be in bed with the disciples of true apartheid, true Nazism and true racism, to invite Hamas after they committed a racist massacre based on the ideology of Nazism and Fascism of Europe, is an affront to what the ANC is supposed to represent,” he added.

Amelie Botbol

Source: https://www.jns.org/new-report-details-south-africas-links-to-islamic-terror/

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ICC Prosecutor Targets Israeli Leaders for Arrest - Joseph Klein

 

by Joseph Klein

Equating Israel’s self-defense with Hamas’ genocidal savagery.

 

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International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan announced that he is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. He falsely accused them of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza following Hamas’ terrorist attack in Israel on October 7th. The bogus charges include starvation of civilians as a method of warfare, intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population, and extermination and/or murder.

In a crass attempt to portray himself as “even-handed,” the ICC’s Chief Prosecutor also announced that he is seeking arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders for their commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity. They are Yahya Sinwar, Head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri (aka Deif), Commander-in-Chief of the military wing of Hamas, and Ismail Haniyeh, Head of Hamas Political Bureau.

Israel is fighting a war for its survival against Hamas, the terrorist organization that triggered the war in Gaza with its genocidal attack inside Israel that killed the most Jews in a single day since the Holocaust. Nevertheless, Mr. Khan equates the democratically elected leaders of Israel who are trying to defend their people against genocide with the bloodthirsty maniacs who are leading a terrorist organization committed to annihilating Israel because it is a Jewish state.

This represents the perversion of international law at its worst. By his actions in this case, the Chief Prosecutor of the ICC has effectively eliminated the distinction between moral and lawful acts of self-defense on the one hand and immoral and unlawful acts of aggression with the intent to commit genocide on the other. He has eliminated the distinction between good and evil.

As Prime Minister Netanyahu put it, Mr. Khan has created “a twisted and false moral equivalence between the leaders of Israel and the henchmen of Hamas. This is like creating a moral equivalence after September 11th between [former US] President [George] Bush and [slain al-Qaeda leader] Osama Bin Laden, or during World War II between [former US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt] FDR and [former German Chancellor Adolf] Hitler.”

To his credit, even President Biden issued a statement denouncing Mr. Khan’s announcement, declaring that “whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence — none — between Israel and Hamas.” Unfortunately, however, President Biden’s recent actions distancing his administration from Israel’s government by cutting off the delivery of some weapons to Israel and calling prematurely for an immediate and permanent ceasefire play into the hands of Hamas.

Contrary to the vile propaganda spread by the Palestinians themselves and their supporters in the so-called “international community” and mainstream media, Israel’s military has done more to protect civilians during wartime than any military has done in modern history. It has done so despite Hamas’ deliberate use of civilians as human shields and its use of civilian facilities such as hospitals – both within and underground – as command centers as well as places to hide fighters and store weapons.

Regarding the availability of food and other necessities in Gaza, Israel has opened crossings to allow the entry of convoys with such supplies to the extent that is consistent with its security requirements. The United Nations and other groups responsible for distributing the aid to the Gazan civilians who need it have failed to do so properly. Hamas has stolen some of these supplies for its own use, abandoning Gazan civilians who are desperate for food and water. The terrorists also launched rockets from Rafah, which landed in the vicinity of one of the crossings and killed three Israeli soldiers. In response, Israel temporarily closed that crossing, which it has since reopened despite the risks to its troops.

Hamas is responsible for the suffering of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, not Israel. Hamas started the war in the first place. The terrorists broke one humanitarian ceasefire during the war while also blocking agreement on a longer ceasefire. They have deliberately put Gazan civilians in mortal danger by using them as human shields and shooting at civilians trying to evacuate after being given warnings by Israel to leave for their own safety. And Hamas has deliberately abandoned Palestinian civilians to fend for themselves and face starvation while the terrorists steal aid meant for those civilians and launch attacks that interfere with the safe delivery of aid.

Hamas, not Israel, has committed crimes against humanity on the civilian Gazans as well as on civilians in Israel. Israel is using its best efforts to comply with the Geneva Conventions regarding the conduct of war and the protection of civilians. Hamas has deliberately defied the Geneva Conventions.

The ICC Chief Prosecutor is not only ignoring or deliberately distorting the facts. His use of the ICC to engage in lawfare against Israel exceeds his legal authority under the Rome Statute, which governs the ICC. Like the United States, Israel is not a party to the Rome Statute and is therefore not subject to the ICC’s jurisdiction even though Palestine has been admitted as a member state party to the Rome Treaty.

The ICC’s Pre-Trial Chamber decision in 2021 that the ICC’s jurisdiction extends to crimes covered by the Rome Statute that have allegedly occurred in the territories occupied by Israel since 1967 was an exercise in circular reasoning. It relied on the Pre-Trial Chamber’s previous decision to treat Palestine as a state for the purposes of ICC investigations, irrespective of whether it meets the more general conditions for statehood under international law. The Pre-Trial  Chamber referenced in support of this ruling the Palestinians’ own self-serving declaration of statehood and its decision to accede to the Rome Statute as a member state party.

The problem is that the Rome Statute does not authorize the Pre-Trial Chamber to create its own special definition of what constitutes a “state” specifically for ICC purposes. The Pre-Trial Chamber itself admitted that the ICC is not constitutionally competent to determine matters of statehood that would bind the entire international community.

Palestine fails to meet certain basic criteria under international law to qualify as a legitimate state. It lacks effective sovereignty over the territory it claims within defined, undisputed borders. It also lacks a government that has effective governance authority over all Palestinians residing within both the West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinian Authority and Hamas have split this authority, unable to overcome their irreconcilable differences.

The Palestinians’ status as a member state party to the Rome Statute may give it bragging rights. And it may give them the limited right to invoke the Rome Statute’s protections in those cases where the ICC has legitimate jurisdiction, as agreed upon by the Rome Statute’s member states. But the Palestinians’ membership as a state party to the Rome Statute does not extend the ICC’s jurisdiction to Israel, which is not a party to the Rome Statute. The ICC lacks the legal authority to issue warrants for the arrest of Israel’s leaders, to prosecute them, or to put them on trial.

There is a fly in the ointment, however. The many parties to the Rome Statute that support the Palestinians against Israel may honor ICC arrest warrants issued against the Israeli prime minister and defense secretary, exposing them to arrest if they step foot on those countries’ soil. The Israeli leaders do not have to worry about the United States, which is not a state party to the Rome Statute. But the Israeli leaders will have to think twice before visiting countries in Europe like France or Germany, for example, which are state parties to the Rome Statute.

The United States has blocked concerted attempts so far by the Palestinians and their supporters to promote the Palestinian entity from an Observer State at the United Nations to a full-fledged member state of the UN. How long the Biden administration will continue resisting pressure from Arab, European, and other countries to stop vetoing such resolutions at the Security Council remains to be seen. But the dam continues to break as Ireland, Spain and Norway have become the latest countries to announce that they will recognize a Palestinian state. All three of these countries are state parties to the Rome Treaty.

Jews have been treated as pariahs in the lands where they have lived for more than two millennia. Blood libel led to massacres and pogroms, culminating in the slaughter of six million Jews during the Holocaust. World leaders turned away or actively contributed to the Jews’ tragic plight.

Jews were defenseless against their anti-Semitic persecutors. But that changed when the Jewish state of Israel became independent in 1948 and developed the means to defend its people seeking to live safely in their ancestral homeland.

Now anti-Semitism is surging to alarming heights all over the world, including in the United States. Sometimes it is cloaked under the guise of anti-Zionism with lies accusing the Jewish state of apartheid, racism, colonialism, and all the other usual pejoratives. Too often the anti-Semitism is all out in the open.

The Jew-haters detest the fact that Jews no longer must live at the whim of bigots who consider them the “other” in countries where Jews constitute a tiny minority. The Jew-haters would like nothing more than another Holocaust and they cheer on the Palestinian terrorists whose aim is to wipe out the Jewish state and kill as many Jews as possible.

Hamas and other Iranian-backed Islamist terrorists do the dirty work while the Palestinian Authority’s fake “diplomats” use the UN and other international forums to isolate, delegitimize, and demonize Israel. Their lawfare at the ICC is part of this cynical plan.

Israel must fight back not only on the battlefield but everywhere it is maligned with anti-Semitic slurs. And Israel’s friends in the United States and around the world must stand with Israel to fight the lies by shouting out the truth from the rooftops as often as possible.

Joseph Klein is a Harvard-trained lawyer, and the author of Global Deception: The UN’s Stealth Assault on America’s Freedom and Lethal Engagement: Barack Hussein Obama, The United Nations & Radical Islam.

Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/icc-prosecutor-targets-israeli-leaders-for-arrest/

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Punked - Clarice Feldman

 

by Clarice Feldman

There are so many hoist by their own petard this week, I’m faced with an embarrassment of riches.

 

This week, a lot of people and institutions got “punked,” that is, humiliated, by their own actions. Of course, the eternal punkees, as Hussein Aboubakar so brilliantly notes, are those who bought the Nakba myth by which Arab rulers instrumentalized the Palestinians for their own ends, a myth which ended with the Abraham Accords.

There are so many hoist by their own petard this week, I’m faced with an embarrassment of riches. Let’s start with the attack on Justice Samuel Alito. The Left simply cannot abide the fact that it doesn’t control all branches of the government, and threatens to pack the court and, barring that, disparages and tries to force the recusal of justices Clarence Thomas and Alito from the presidential immunity case, if not their removal from the court altogether.

They promote one pretext after another. Someone -- maybe a dummy or a prankster determined to expose them as idiots -- reported that once the American flag at Alito’s home in Virginia briefly was flown upside down. In the fevered world of the Left, this represented Justice Alito’s support of the January 6 “Insurrection.”

For people with any military or historical background, an upside-down flag is a distress symbol, and Alito responded that it was his wife’s response to some incivility by neighbors. Not satisfied with this first, not terribly successful, smear of the justice, a second flag, a pine tree with the words “An appeal to God” flown at the family’s vacation home, became the get-Alito rallying point.

The usual media mob, and even the once sane Bill Kristol (who years before had endorsed Alito for the court) argued this was further evidence of disqualifying bias by Alito because one person on January 6 waved such a flag. In fact, the flag is an historic one. It was created during the Revolutionary War and was used by George Washington’s troops. It has been seen flying over the office of the San Francisco government and remains the official naval and maritime flag of Massachusetts. Anyone and any media outlet which reported that these flags were controversial or provocative chiseled away any remaining credibility he or it still had. (On any day anything may be “proof” of wrongthink. Remember when it was the AOK sign?)

President Donald Trump is the greatest punker of all. Just as Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were patting themselves on their brilliant strategy of tying him down in New York’s courtroom defending against a preposterous lawsuit and under gag orders from a demonstrably prejudiced judge, he announced a rally in the very blue Bronx at a venue which normally accommodates 3500 participants. At least 25,000 enthusiastic Trump fans showed up, fans of all races, mostly working-class Bronx residents. This cannot be of comfort to the Democrats.

The Internationalists and the Death of Raisi

Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash this week along with several other officials of the Iranian government, including Iran’s foreign minister. Raisi was a monster, a man who murdered by slow strangulation thousands of Iranians, and who tortured and murdered a pregnant woman. He was known as “the butcher of Teheran.” If, like me, you think the international organizations created after World War II have outlived their purpose, have admitted members of failed states who hold views antithetical to the organizations’ stated missions, and need to be abolished and recast, this week, they punked themselves and made our case. Among those offering condolences and tributes were NATO, the European Union, the Secretary-General of the UN, the UN Security Council, and the International Atomic Energy Commission (IAEA) which Iran has made a monkey of for years. Even our own State Department joined in this absurd sympathy charade. 

The supportive message repulsed many who follow US-Iran relations, including commentator Katie Pavlich, who said the statement “made no sense.”

“There should be no word of sympathy from any member of the Biden administration for Raisi,” former National Security Council official Richard Goldberg, now a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told The Post before the State Department statement came out.

“If a mass murderer in the United States died, no one would issue sympathy statements; they would issue statements of support for the victims. That’s exactly what we should be doing now.”

Around the same time the State Department’s message went out, US Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Robert Wood stood to observe a moment of silence for Raisi during a meeting of the UN Security Council. 

Just as the bodies of four people who were murdered on October 7 were discovered secreted beneath an UNRWA facility in Gaza, the prosecutor of an outfit called the International Criminal Court, a creation of the UN General Assembly, sought arrest warrants for Yahya Sinwar, Benjamin Netanyahu, and others in connection with the attack on Israel and the response in Gaza. Apparently, this was after consultation with luminaries like jet-setting fashion plate and “international lawyer” (whatever that means) Amal Clooney. Neither the U.S. nor Israel are signatories to the treaty which created the ICC. This overstep by the ICC, was roundly condemned in the U.S.

The decision has earned near-total condemnation in Washington, with President Joe Biden slamming the prospect of warrants against Israeli leaders as “outrageous” and Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying the administration is ready to work with Congress on a bipartisan effort to appropriately respond.[snip] Because the court lacks a police force, it relies on the 124 member states that have signed on to the statute to execute any warrants it issues. Four major countries -- the United States, Israel, Russia and China – have not signed the treaty and do not accept the court’s jurisdiction.

The satire site Babylon Bee nails the significance of this self-punking by the ICC: 

HARTFORD, CT -- Sources within Jimmy Carter Hillary Clinton Harvey Milk Elementary School are claiming Mrs. O'Leary's third-graders have just voted 18-2 to pass a powerful, landmark resolution ordering Israel to withdraw all troops from Rafah, a city in southern Gaza.

In addition to calling for all Israeli troops to stand down immediately, the official, strongly-worded resolution from the third-grade social studies class helpfully suggests that Israel "just be nice to the poor Palestinians" and calls for Benjamin Netanyahu to "maybe try sharing the land." Additionally, the statement points out that "perhaps Hamas just needs its voice to be heard" and calls for Israel to "stop denying the Palestinians their truth."

"This class has really made a significant contribution to the cause of freedom and world peace," said Mrs. O'Leary as she adjusted the Palestinian flag kerchief covering her light-blue hair. "We hope that the Israeli government will give this ground-breaking intervention the recognition and compliance it deserves."

Jack Smith, who previously served as a prosecutor in the Hague, pursued cases against more than one Republican political figure. In one such case in which the Supreme Court reversed the conviction, he was rebuked for overstepping his “boundless interpretation of the law”. Such fanciful notions of law may work at the ICC but not here.

But even as his documents case against President Trump is on rocky shoals, he’s not giving up. This week, Judge Aileen Cannon released some previously redacted materials which showed that the FBI agents who conducted the raid on Mar-a-Lago had authorization to use deadly force against anyone who might obstruct the raid, including Trump’s Secret Service detail. The raid was for materials which may or may not have been declassified, which admittedly had been manipulated by the prosecution.

There was understandable outrage at the news. While the Attorney General said this is standard form in such raids and was also a provision in the raid on Biden’s classified document cache, no evidence was provided in support of that, and certainly it appears the retrieval of documents held by Biden was conducted far differently. Smith is seeking an order gagging Trump from discussing the deadly force directive. In my view he’s just keeping the issue alive. (In any event, as Julie Kelly reports, in his motion for a gag order, Smith does not repeat Garland’s claim that the same directive went to FBI agents retrieving classified documents from Biden, another indication that the agency was accomodating to Biden.) Mike Davis has as good an explanation as any of why the Administration is flogging this weak case and why it is seeking a gag order:

Naturally, Jack Smith and Jay Bratt's motion to gag Trump is wholly devoid of required facts and law. They point to no instance of any threat -- let alone how Trump incited any threat. Their motion is frivolous. The bottom line is this: The Biden Justice Department wants to unconstitutionally gag Trump to control their political narrative. They pretend criticism of government officials equates to threats. That's a very dangerous mindset. In America, a defendant -- more than anyone -- must have the constitutional right to publicly speak out against the judge, prosecutors, investigators, staff, witnesses, biases, and the process. If a defendant obstructs justice by threatening witnesses, charge him with obstruction of justice. Jack Smith and Jay Bratt know they cannot do that, as they have zero evidence. Instead, they are conspiring to impose an unconstitutional -- and un-American -- gag order on Trump. The Biden White House and Justice Department pretend their supporters have a First Amendment right to obstruct justice by doxxing and intimidating Supreme Court justices and their families in their homes. Even after justices and their families went to safe houses. And even after Justice Kavanaugh and his family faced a 1 am assassination attempt. But the Biden Justice Department now wants to gag Trump for criticizing the FBI's unprecedented raid on him. Which Biden and Garland knew included the potential of deadly force when they authorized it. To get damning Crossfire Hurricane presidential records Trump was allowed to have under the Presidential Records Act. Add all this to the overwhelming evidence of Biden Democrats' criminal conspiracy against Trump.

Last, I want to bring your attention to the incredible article in Mosaic about the Nakba, “The Perennial Power of the Nakba.” How after facing humiliation after humiliation on the battlefield against Israel, Arab leaders deflected attention away from their own failures and the weaknesses of their societies by using the myth of a return to the land held by Israel and how this mythologizing has been (at least until the Abraham Accords upended the fantasy) an unmitigated catastrophe for the Arabs.

 
Clarice Feldman

Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/punked.html

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Rights group’s failure to condemn Oct. 7 ‘shocks’ State Dept. - Mike Wagenheim

 

by Mike Wagenheim

The chaotic scenes of terror support on college campuses have left foreign officials wondering if the U.S. is “on the verge of becoming a failed state," says antisemitism envoy Deborah Lipstadt.

 

Deborah Lipstadt, U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, at the AJC GLobal Forum in Tel Aviv on June 12, 2023. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

The U.S. State Department’s point woman on antisemitism said on Friday that the “turmoil” on American college campuses has caused foreign officials to wonder if the United States is “on the verge of becoming a failed state.”

Deborah Lipstadt, the department’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, told the Jewish community in a virtual briefing that since Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre in Israel and amid the resulting pro-Hamas protests in the United States, she has been asked on her travels abroad, “Is your country okay? What can we do for you?” The situation in America has “sent a shudder through many countries,” she added. 

She took university presidents to task for their general failure to protect Jewish students and call out antisemitic rhetoric and incitement to violence on their campuses. Leadership, she said, was not saying, “Well, it depends on context, and what happened.” 

The words were a thinly-veiled dig at the performances of the presidents of Harvard, Penn and M.I.T. at a Congressional hearing in December, during which they attempted to dance around questions of whether calls for the genocide of Jews were in violation of their universities’ codes of conduct.

Lipstadt also took those to task who, when speaking out against antisemitism, lump it in with other forms of hate that aren’t nearly as prevalent, and often have little to nothing to do with the topic at hand.

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“We’re all against hate in general, but call it out for what it is,” said Lipstadt. “If it’s homophobia, you call it out. If it’s racism, you call it out. Misogyny, you call it out. If it’s antisemitism, you call it out for what it is, and you don’t also say, ‘Well, yes, but.’”

She said she was “shocked” by early complaints regarding Israel’s response to the massacre, even before it had launched its counteroffensive in Gaza.

“It was truly, truly disturbing,” said Lipstadt, noting that evidence of Hamas’s rape and sexual mutilation was met with silence, cynicism or was “celebrated.” 

Lipstadt seemed especially troubled by the silence of “women’s groups, progressive groups, groups that fight sexual violence, human rights groups,” who were among the first to condemn perpetrators like the Islamic State and Boko Haram.

She said the only difference between the brutal terror attacks by those groups and Hamas on Oct. 7 is “the perception that these victims were all Jews.” 

Aaron Keyak, Lipstadt’s deputy and a former Democratic operative, was also present on the call. He, along with Lipstadt, called out the political weaponization of antisemitism. “You’re in fact most impactful when you call out antisemitism among people with whom you agree on everything else,” he said.

“Those who weaponize the charge of antisemitism for partisan or political gain are undermining the overall fight against antisemitism, which puts Jews at greater risk all over the world,” he added.

Lipstadt also briefed attendees on a State Department online antisemitism symposium held last Thursday. The event brought together executives of the major online platforms including Google, TikTok, Microsoft, Meta and X, along with high-ranking Biden administration officials and key NGOs such as the American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League, World Jewish Congress, Center for Countering Digital Hate, CyberWell and Decoding Antisemitism. 

“It was a message that we take this seriously,” said Lipstadt, who explained that she had secured the participation of the major platforms by assuring them the session was not meant to “beat up” on them.

“We know there’s a problem. They know there’s a problem,” she said. “And what was clear to the platforms in their participation was that the United States government takes online antisemitism as a national security threat. It silences Jews, it makes Jews not want to publicize their Jewish identity. It’s used to spread antisemitic animus, antisemitic threats.” 

The eight-hour meeting involved deep discussions “in a constructive fashion” between antisemitism researchers and platform executives, she said.

“We hope this will not be a one-off. We want this to have legs. We want this to move further,” she added.

“We didn’t solve the problem, but if we began this conversation, that’s the kind of thing that I want my office to be doing,” she said. “We can’t put out all the fires, but here is a very important source of conflagration, and here’s something we’re trying to move forward.”

Mike Wagenheim

Source: https://www.jns.org/rights-groups-failure-to-condemn-oct-7-shocks-state-dept/

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Hamas fires rockets at central Israel for first time in four months - JNS

 

by JNS

The Iron Dome system intercepted several projectiles • Two Israelis injured while running for cover • Eight rockets were fired from Rafah.

 

People take cover on a road near Tel Aviv as air-raid sirens warn of incoming rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, Oct. 10, 2023. Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90.

Air-raid sirens sounded across Tel Aviv and Israel’s central region on Sunday afternoon, warning of incoming Hamas rocket fire from the Gaza Strip for the first time in four months.

The Israel Defense Forces’ Iron Dome aerial-defense system intercepted several projectiles, with blasts being reported across Tel Aviv, Petach Tikvah, Herzliya and Ramat Hasharon.

🚨MAJOR ROCKET ATTACK ON ISRAEL'S CENTER
First attack on issue center for several weeks.

ONGOING pic.twitter.com/Lt41Qel4WE

— Jewish News Syndicate (@JNS_org) May 26, 2024

Sunday’s rocket fire reached as far north as the Sharon region, sending residents in the city of Kfar Saba running for shelter for the first time since the war started on Oct. 7.

At least two people were lightly wounded while running to a protected space, according to the Magen David Adom emergency response service. Both were evacuated to Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba.

In Herzliya, a house sustained significant damage when it was hit by rocket shrapnel, Israel’s Kan News public broadcaster reported.

הירי להרצליה: רסיס רקטה פגע בבית וגרם לו נזק@hadasgrinberg pic.twitter.com/2xbaT8L5U5

— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) May 26, 2024

Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack minutes after it happened, saying it had fired a “large barrage” towards Tel Aviv.

The IDF announced that “following the alerts that were activated a short time ago in the center of the country, eight launches were detected that crossed from the Rafah region into [Israeli] territory.”

According to a report by Army Radio, the rockets were fired from a Hamas position located “hundreds of meters” away from Israeli troops.

The attack took place as Gazan rockets also targeted southern Israel and Hezbollah anti-tank missiles hit communities near the Lebanese border.

On Jan. 29, Hamas last fired rockets towards the Tel Aviv area, sending millions racing for shelter. The launches came shortly after the IDF expressed optimism in the wake of a decrease in the number of attacks.

Israel’s War Cabinet on May 6 decided to “continue the operation in Rafah to exert military pressure on Hamas to promote the release of our hostages and the other goals of the war.”

The Rafah operation, which Israel estimates will last around two months, is being carried out in stages as opposed to a full-scale invasion. The phased nature of the operation allows for it to be paused should a hostage release deal be reached with Hamas.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated repeatedly that conquering Rafah is essential to winning the war against Hamas. Israel says Hamas’s final four battalions, comprising some 3,000 terrorists, are holed up in the city, as well as the terrorist group’s senior leadership.

U.S. President Joe Biden has frequently made clear that his administration does not support a major offensive in Rafah. Instead, the White House favors a limited operation aimed at attacking high-value Hamas targets and securing the Gaza-Egypt border.

JNS

Source: https://www.jns.org/air-raid-sirens-sound-in-central-israel/

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Defying the Odds: Trump’s Bronx Speech and Its Impact - Roger Kimball

 

by Roger Kimball

The man I heard in the Bronx bears scant resemblance to the bumbling yet dangerous ogre that the world has fabricated around the name Trump.

 

Donald Trump’s Bronx rally on Thursday was memorable not only for its display of political virility in a foreign—i.e., Democrat—clime but also for the rhetorical excellence of the speech that Trump, in his usual circuitous manner, delivered.

Tweeting (or X-ing) the column I wrote about the event, I dilated on the suppleness of Trump’s speeches. “I know this sounds odd,” I wrote,

but here goes: Donald Trump has delivered some of the very best political speeches in American history.  We’re not supposed to notice that because, well, Trump.  But it is true.  Go back and listen to his 2017 speech in Warsaw.  It is a masterpiece.  Ditto his 2020 speech at Mount Rushmore. Although delivered in a different register, his speech yesterday in The Bronx will, I predict, turn out to be one of the most significant of the 2024 campaign.  Among other things, it will be seen to mark the moment when Trump’s gathering momentum became unstoppable.

Time will tell whether I am right about that concluding observation. While we wait, I thought I would share some reactions to my column—or, rather, to a misreading of something I said in response to a reader. I was asked “Do we know who writes [Trump’s speeches]?” I replied,  “Well, I do!” meaning I, like many people, know who writes Trump’s speeches, not that I write them myself.

A London-based friend whom I have not seen in a while wrote me an anguished, imploring note:  “Please tell me it isn’t true that you are writing Trump’s speeches. Surely it wasn’t you who advised him to say that immigrants were poisoning the blood of America? Straight out of the Mein Kampf playbook.”

Nope, not I. I am pretty sure the remark in question  was fermented and mis en bouteille by Trump himself.  Tout le monde—at least, the world of the elite media—was appalled by the remark just as they had been appalled by Trump’s calling shithole countries like Haiti “shithole countries,” his referring to Nikki Haley as “bird brain,” or many similar exercises in invective. In my view, none of Trump’s remarks bear any similarity to Mein Kampf, nor do I think he is an “authoritarian figure.”  My friend did say that “I wasn’t implying that Trump was actually a Hitler figure, but that his use of those words showed a staggering ignorance of their historical associations. I don’t see him as a fascist but as an ignoramus.” From “Hitler” to “ignoramus” is a slight upgrade, I suppose,  but not exactly the cat’s meow.

My friend and I went back and forth on Trump. In the course of the exchange, she went from comparing him to Hitler to saying that “most alarmingly he seems to be Putin’s useful idiot.” To that charge, I responded that “I know some people say that. I do note that Putin did not invade Ukraine during Trump’s presidency.  And I doubt Putin regarded Trump’s  destruction of hundreds of Russian troops in Syria in 2018 as a gesture of friendship, but who knows?”

My friend then allowed that “Putin annexed Crimea long before he went for the full invasion. What is most alarming is that Trump seems to feel he has Putin under his influence when it is really the other way around.”

I replied: “Right, 2014, back during Trump’s first term—oh, wait, Trump wasn’t POTUS yet.”

It was that other guy [I continued], the guy who sent blankets to Ukraine to show US support. In another demonstration of his subservience to Putin, Trump sent Javelin missiles instead of blankets.

In my view, the “Trump-is-Putin’s-puppet” meme is right out the Hillary “reset button” Clinton playbook, aided and abetted by such upstanding patriots as James Comey, Robert Mueller, Andrew Weismann, and Stefan Halper, with supporting roles for Christopher Steele, James Clapper, and John Brennan, not to mention the credulous left-wing media in this country.

My friend then offered this: “But look at his most recent claim that he could get Putin to release the US journalist held by Moscow immediately when he came to power, which was instantly (and humiliatingly) denied by the Kremlin.”  Quoth I:

I don’t quite see that his claim about being able to arrange for the release of the WSJ reporter was rebuffed means that he is “Putin’s useful idiot.” . . . I would also note that it is one thing for the Kremlin to respond to the statement of someone who, though famous, is a private citizen, and something else again for them to respond to someone who is the sitting President.  If Trump is reelected, I would not be surprised if that reporter is released, and I would expect it to be done sotto voce so that most people would not know whether it was done post hoc or propter hoc.

We started with Hitler, moved on to Putin, and then the conversation got personal. “My whole point,” my friend wrote, “is that [Trump] is seriously stupid and delusional. Not the man to be holding the most powerful office in the free world at the most dangerous historical moment since the end of the Cold War.”

To which I replied at some length:

Well, “seriously stupid and delusional” are heavy charges!  They prompt a few questions, though. Is Trump any “stupider and delusional” than Joe Biden? (A separate but nonetheless pertinent question: is Trump any more dangerous and destructive than was Barack Obama?)

I think we can agree that Trump is not an intellectual.  All things considered, though, I am not so sure that is a liability in a political leader.

Back in 2015-2016, I wrote probably a score of columns making fun of Donald Trump. He is a man that, in some ways, cries out for caricature.  I was at that time backing Ted Cruz. Then Cruz dropped out and it was Trump or Hillary.  To me, that was an easy choice.  I regarded Hillary as the most corrupt serious candidate for President in history (I did not then know about Biden’s unfathomable corruption).  So I cast my lot, somewhat reluctantly at first, in with Trump.  But the more I listened to him, the more I was impressed with what he said: about the inner cities, energy, regulation, the border, the media, foreign affairs.  True, he was not a master of the honeyed phrase, but I agreed with him about many things.

Then there was his actual performance.  He actually accomplished almost everything he promised to do (the great exception was getting rid of Obamacare: John McCain, in his last fit of pique, prevented that).

Trump pushed through a huge tax cut that benefitted the majority of taxpayers and increased federal revenue by billions.  He exploited our energy resources and made America energy independent.  He drastically curtailed illegal immigration.  He drastically reduced the regulatory burden on businesses. Until Covid hit, the economy boomed. Inflation and unemployment were low—minority unemployment was the lowest on record—and wages, especially wages at the lower end of the scale, soared.

Trump managed to get three Supreme Court Justices and hundreds of federal judges approved.  He challenged the destructive ideology of  critical race theory and what’s come to be called DEI.  In foreign affairs, he moved our embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, something that had been promised since the time of Bill Clinton but which was never done. He brought into being the Abraham Accords, a world historical achievement, in my opinion, which should have won him the Nobel Peace Prize.  He destroyed ISIS.  He rebuilt the US military infrastructure. And he did all this, remember, to the steady drum beat of a hostile media and deep state apparatus that kept screaming about (we know now) illusionary Russian collusion, etc.

Trump’s two biggest liabilities, in my view, were incontinent spending and poor personnel choices.  I am afraid that he has not learned to forgo the former.  About the latter, though, he seems to have made great strides.  If he is elected we won’t see anymore Rex Tillersons or Jim Mattises.  Whether he will be able to navigate the perilous, weed- and snake-infested waters of The Swamp is another question.  I have recommended he bypass Washington altogether, beginning with holding his inauguration elsewhere.  I don’t think he will, though, and I think it is an open question whether he can triumph over the entrenched elite that actually governs the country.

But the bottom line, for me, is that Trump was, despite the monolithic hostility of the establishment, an extraordinarily successful president.  Was that the work of a “seriously stupid and delusional” figure?  I don’t think so, but opinions, I’ve noticed, vary.

Having begun with Hitler and moving on to Putin, we ended with Mussolini. My friend wrote that

Over here we are appalled by the choice between Biden who is certainly dangerously incompetent and Trump who looks to Europeans like Mussolini. We feel we are much closer to global threats than Americans and find Trump’s isolationism terrifying. I really hoped that Biden would stand aside. I still think it possible for him to find a VP who would make an acceptable replacement if and when he becomes totally incapable. It is difficult to convey just how much panic there is here over the state of US politics

As of my sitting down to write this, I had the last word. “I confess,” I responded,

that I don’t see the Trump as Mussolini (or Hitler) meme. We saw what he was like as president and, leaving aside the media hysteria, I would argue that there were no fascist signposts.

I also don’t think that “America First” is isolationist; rather, it is an attitude that urges caution about foreign adventurism.  It has been a theme in one major current of American policy since George Washington’s Farewell Address, which bears re-reading.

The subject of “global threats” is a large one.  I myself am much more worried about Xi than Putin, but I understand that opinions on the threat Putin poses differ. I think it is still possible that Biden will be pushed aside.  It may well be that the June debate is a sort of audition for his retirement foisted on him by his puppet masters. If, as is eminently possible, he blows it, the calls for him  to withdraw may become overwhelming.  The party is in a jam, though, because it will be very difficult for them to replace Kamala Harris and were she the candidate Trump would win in a landslide.  I am coming to think that he might well win in a landslide anyway, but we’re still six months out and, as Harold Wilson famously observed, a week is a long time in politics.

We’ve come a long way from the rally in the Bronx. But Trump’s peroration is still ringing in my ears: “It doesn’t matter whether you are black or brown or white, we are all Americans. We all want better opportunity—and I’m not just going to promise it, I’m going to deliver it, as I did against all odds for four straight years.”

The man I heard in the Bronx bears scant resemblance to the bumbling yet dangerous ogre that the world has fabricated around the name Trump.  But the very fact that he has been so effectively demonized should give us pause.  If nothing else, it shows what a large task awaits us all.

Roger Kimball

Source: https://amgreatness.com/2024/05/26/defying-the-odds-trumps-bronx-speech-and-its-impact/

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The Free World: An Alarming Status Report - Majid Rafizadeh

 

by Majid Rafizadeh

Adversaries have become increasingly empowered, and allies may well be losing confidence in the West's leadership.

 

• It seems urgent for the long-term survival of the United States and the Free World – where people enjoy unprecedented freedom of speech, property rights, economic opportunity, religious freedom and other civil liberties – not to accept assaults on these hard-won achievements either at home or abroad.

• Adversaries have become increasingly empowered, and allies may well be losing confidence in the West's leadership. This week it was announced that three countries in Europe, Ireland, Norway and Spain – all of which have long, unfortunate histories of antisemitism – plan to recognizing a Palestinian State that will be terrorist.

• US President Joe Biden assured Russia in 2022 that a "minor incursion" into Ukraine would be all right. Predators do not "do" minor.

• The Biden administration handed over Afghanistan to a terrorist group, the Taliban; now it looks as if the Biden administration and these three racist countries in Europe are determined to hand Gaza to another terrorist group, Iran's proxy, Hamas, which openly says it is more committed than ever to destroying its free, democratic neighbor, Israel.

• Israel is trying to protect its citizens and maintain its sovereignty in the face of relentless aggression, while battling not only Hamas but also two illegitimate antisemitic courts (the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice), the antisemitic United Nations, antisemitic European countries, well-funded antisemitic demonstrations in the West, and the Biden administration... [which] for years has been trying to force out Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

• The US would doubtless prefer an Israeli prime minister who would allow Hamas to remain in control of Gaza and reconstitute its military capabilities; who would allow the creation of a terrorist Palestinian state bordering Israel, and who would stand aside as genocidal Iran obtains nuclear weapons.

• In addition, the Communist Chinese regime, seeing the Biden administration reward aggression, past, present, and presumably future, is encircling the Philippines and Taiwan and sending tens of thousands of young men of military age in packs across America's southern border, and more than 5,000 over its northern one.

• One can only wonder which of the likely leaders of the Free World will permit -- or put a stop to -- these staggering negative trends of geopolitical deterioration in the future.

One can only wonder which of the likely leaders of the Free World will permit -- or put a stop to -- these staggering negative trends of geopolitical deterioration in the future. (Image source: iStock/Getty Images)

In the last few years, we have witnessed a world that has become significantly less safe and secure. American and Western policy failures and strategic missteps appear to have emboldened adversaries and undermined allies. A lack of decisive action and coherent strategy has created power vacuums which have been exploited by hostile actors and resulted in increased instability and threats in the West to both national and global security. It seems urgent for the long-term survival of the United States and the Free World – where people enjoy unprecedented freedom of speech, property rights, economic opportunity, religious freedom and other civil liberties – not to accept assaults on these hard-won achievements either at home or abroad.

Adversaries have become increasingly empowered, and allies may well be losing confidence in the West's leadership. This week it was announced that three countries in Europe, Ireland, Norway and Spain – all of which have long, unfortunate histories of antisemitism – plan to recognizing a Palestinian State that will be terrorist.

Rogue and belligerent states such as Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, have become more emboldened. In large part, the US has funded and enabled that. The Biden administration handed over Afghanistan to a terrorist group, the Taliban; now it looks as if the Biden administration and these three racist countries in Europe are determined to hand Gaza to another terrorist group, Iran's proxy, Hamas, which openly says it is more committed than ever to destroying its free, democratic neighbor, Israel.

US President Joe Biden assured Russia in 2022 that a "minor incursion" into Ukraine would be all right. Predators do not "do" minor. The result was the largest attack on a European country since World War II. The invasion created a devastating humanitarian crisis, with estimates of tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties and hundreds of thousands of military casualties. Additionally, as millions of Ukrainians have been forced to flee their homes in search of safety, the "minor incursion" triggered Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II.

Similarly, any move in maintaining or empowering Hamas, or any of Iran's other proxies, such as Hezbollah, the Houthis or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, will not bring "peace" to the Middle East. On the contrary, a "Palestinian State" will not only explode the conflict even further, it will also threaten the cohesion of the NATO alliance -- the greatest gift that the Free World could give Russian President Vladimir Putin.

On October 7th, 2023, as a newly released video reveals -- a Hamas gunman, deciding whom to murder, says of captive Israeli soldiers, "Here are the girls who can get pregnant." The terrorist group had initiated a devastating coordinated invasion of Israel. The attack began with a massive barrage of rockets. Simultaneously, after systematically disabling Israel's warning systems, roughly 3,000 terrorists crossed the Gaza-Israel barrier, launching attacks on Israeli military bases and 22 civilian communities. The onslaught, which had been planned for years, led to the slaughter on October 7th alone of roughly 1,200 Jews, Muslims and Christians; Israelis, tourists and foreign workers. The attack was characterized by unimaginable acts of brutality -- sustained gang rapes, sexual amputations, beheadings and burning alive even infants.

Hamas terrorists also seized 240 hostages in Israel, forcibly taking them into Gaza's underground city of tunnels, created with international aid money. In the aftermath, Israel, to rescue the hostages and to defend against promised repeated attacks, finds itself engaged in the most unprecedentedly complicated urban warfare. Israel is trying to protect its citizens and maintain its sovereignty in the face of relentless aggression, while battling not only Hamas but also two illegitimate antisemitic courts (the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice), the antisemitic United Nations, antisemitic European countries, well-funded antisemitic demonstrations in the West, and the Biden administration.

The Biden administration not only seemingly whetted the appetite of Iran's regime to attack Israel directly on April 13, 2024, by continually appeasing Iran and failing to veto an anti-Israeli resolution in the UN Security Council, the US has also been trying for years to force oust Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- "Israel's Churchill" -- for being insufficiently subservient.

The US would doubtless prefer an Israeli prime minister who would allow Hamas to remain in control of Gaza and reconstitute its military capabilities; who would allow the creation of a terrorist Palestinian state bordering Israel, and who would stand aside as genocidal Iran obtains nuclear weapons.

Since Iran's Islamic Revolution of 1979, the regimes, in addition to brutalizing its own people, have called for "Death to Israel," "Death to America," and have called Israel, smaller than New Jersey, a "one bomb" country and threatened to "wipe it" from the map. This situation is compounded by Iran's accelerating advances in its nuclear weapons program, which has surged since the Biden administration assumed office.

Propelled by clandestine activities within its heavily fortified nuclear facilities, Iran's nuclear capabilities have reached a critical point. On Friday, Iranian lawmaker Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani made a chilling declaration, stating:

"In my opinion, we have achieved nuclear weapons, but we do not announce it. It means our policy is to possess nuclear bombs, but our declared policy is currently within the framework of the JCPOA."

It is deeply concerning that the spokesperson representing the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran has openly declared Iran's readiness to share its expertise in nuclear weapons with other nations, especially neighboring states.

In addition, the Communist Chinese regime, seeing the Biden administration reward aggression, past, present, and presumably future, is encircling the Philippines and Taiwan and sending tens of thousands of young men of military age in packs across America's southern border, and more than 5,000 over its northern one.

In short, the current US administration, along with its allies, Ireland, Norway and Spain, Europe's racist supporters of terrorism, are widening the window of opportunity for China, Russia, Iran and other malign actors to pursue their objectives with increased confidence. One can only wonder which of the likely leaders of the Free World will permit -- or put a stop to -- these staggering negative trends of geopolitical deterioration in the future.

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Dr. Majid Rafizadeh is a business strategist and advisor, Harvard-educated scholar, political scientist, board member of Harvard International Review, and president of the International American Council on the Middle East. He has authored several books on Islam and US Foreign Policy. He can be reached at Dr.Rafizadeh@Post.Harvard.Edu

Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20660/free-world-alarming-status

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Our Islamic Terrorist-Supporting President - Allen West

 

by Allen West

We'll be facing even more terror attacks if Obama gets a fourth term.

 

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Just so we are clear, the title of this missive is about our current President. However, this is not something new since the current president was the Vice President for an individual, Barack Hussein Obama, who also carried this title. No, this is not sensational, hyperbolic rhetoric. Consider that early on in his tenure as president, Obama spoke at the University of Cairo in Egypt and invited members of the Muslim Brotherhood front and center.

If you are not familiar with the Muslim Brotherhood, perhaps you should read the Explanatory Memorandum for their Strategic Operations in North America. This document was written in 1991 by one Mohammed Akram and found during an FBI raid in 2004 in Northern Virginia. It was translated and produced as evidence in the largest Islamic terrorist funding trial, the Holy Land Foundation case, in Houston, Texas, in 2008.

It was Obama who released the five senior members of the Taliban from GITMO to Qatar. It was Obama who created an ill-advised vacuum in Iraq, with the full withdrawal of US forces, leading to the rise of ISIS. Joe Biden referred to that as one of the greatest foreign policy decisions. That man has never been right on any foreign policy position.

Ok, there are those who will say that Obama got Osama Bin Laden. Well, actually, Navy SEALS did that. But, somehow, mysteriously, under Obama’s watch, Extortion 17 happened, the greatest loss of life for SEAL Team Six in Afghanistan, still to this day, no one has been held accountable. In a clear contrast, just consider how the leftist media responded to former President Trump’s killing of Qasem Suleimani and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Quite telling.

And so it is Joe Biden who is continuing, in this third Obama term, with the appeasement, sympathies, support to, and enabling of Islamic terrorism. Joe Biden’s insidious surrender debacle in Afghanistan enabled the return of those five senior Taliban leaders, whom Obama had released. We have recently witnessed Biden taking the side of Hamas, a vile Islamic terrorist organization, as Israel pushes for their destruction in their final stronghold, Rafah. How could any American president, in their right mind, justify withholding arms and support to an ally fighting, unilaterally, against a designated terrorist organization that has the blood of Americans on their hands? Why has Biden not forcefully condemned these pro-Hamas demonstrations across America? His position of moral equivalency and relativism only bodes to encourage the Islamic jihadist supporters. I am still waiting for foreign students supporting Hamas, meaning Muslim Brotherhood, to have their student visas revoked and be deported…that would send a clear message.

But, the most recent revelation serves, sadly, once again to remind us that, for this current president, leftist ideological agendas are more important than our National security. And yes, even when those agendas support Islamic terrorism.

Last week, we learned that weeks ago, on or about May 3rd, two Jordanian illegal immigrants had sought to gain access to US Marine Corps Base, Quantico, Virginia. These individuals had entered our Republic illegally, aided and abetted by the open borders policy of Biden-Obama. Somehow, they were resourced and set up with a truck to supposedly deliver services onto the MCB, Quantico. They disobeyed directives and sought to freely drive onto the Base. The American people did not find out about this until two weeks later.

How many other Islamic terrorist operatives have come across our border illegally? How many of them are part of the almost two million that we refer to as “got aways?” How many of them are part of the insidious and unconstitutional Biden free-flight asylum program, which is loading up and flying illegals straight into our Country? Why has Biden told ICE that they are not to do their prescribed mission of seeking out and deporting those in America illegally? And especially in the case of single military-age males?

The Biden administration owes an explanation to the American people on the infiltration track that these two Jordanian illegal immigrants, Islamic jihadists, took. We need to know who provided them with material support, aid, and comfort. We have seen how many criminal illegal immigrants commit crimes against Americans, including the most recent and infamous, Laken Riley of Georgia.

We need to ask a very simple question of Joe Biden. In a world where you just restored an Islamic terrorist sanctuary, Afghanistan, why would you push for a wide open border entry into the United States of America? There is only one response. The Biden administration’s rationale is a continuation of Obama’s policy of supporting Islamic terrorism. Yes, harsh words, but true. How many billions of dollars have Obama and Biden facilitated to the coffers of the number one state sponsor of Islamic terrorism—Iran? Just as a reminder, during the Trump administration, Iran was practically bankrupt with less than $10 billion of cash reserves. Groups like Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Houthis were holding bake sales and lemonade stands to raise funds. Now that our Islamic terrorism-supporting President has refilled Iran’s financial coffers, these terrorist organizations are back in business. They are obviously able to finance Islamic jihadists to link up with the transnational narco-criminal terrorist organizations, cartels, to gain illegal entry into America.

Recent polling indicates that this is not a priority issue for leftists, meaning Democrats, going into the 2024 election cycle. For them, dismembering babies in the womb up to the time of birth is their preeminent issue. Hmm, interesting, the Democrat party is in full alignment, for political purposes, with Islamic terrorists who had no issue beheading and baking Jewish babies in ovens on October 7th.

I choose life. And I certainly do not choose to support Islamic terrorists and jihadists being enabled by an open borders policy. Never forget all the Islamic terrorist attacks we faced on our soil in the Obama years…we will experience the same if Obama gets a fourth term.

Steadfast and Loyal.

Allen West

Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/our-islamic-terrorist-supporting-president/

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German Police Stop Muslim Terror Attack on Synagogue - Daniel Greenfield

 

by Daniel Greenfield

One of the Muslim men was shot after attacking a police officer.

 

We hear a lot of talk about “Islamophobia”, but the proportion of Muslim terror plots against other people’s houses of worship is incredible and a truly global phenomenon. There are so many that all you can do is say, “here’s another one.”

And here’s another one.

German authorities said on Friday that they have arrested two men suspected of plotting a knife attack on worshippers at a synagogue in the southwestern city of Heidelberg, The Associated Press reported.

The pair discussed “the killing of one or more visitors in the attack on the synagogue followed by death as martyrs, whereby the two persons wanted to be shot to death by police,” authorities said in a joint statement quoted by AP.

The two suspects are German citizens, with the 18-year-old also holding Turkish nationality, authorities said. Their names were not released.

One of the Muslim men tried to attack the police.

The 24-year-old, armed with knives, was shot during the search around three weeks ago when he ran towards a police officer and did not respond when spoken to. He was injured. According to earlier statements by investigators, the suspect suddenly fled out of a window with several kitchen knives during the operation. There he deliberately threw a knife at a police officer and ran towards him with other knives.

He was doing what his religion taught him to do. And these two men were far from alone. There is a reason this keeps happening over and over again, and it’s not about Israel or even Jews. It’s about Islam.

The sooner we come to terms with that reality, the sooner we can intelligently address the situation.

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/german-police-stop-muslim-terror-attack-on-synagogue/

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