Never again? Amsterdam, the Holocaust and Hamas

The recent attacks on Israelis in Amsterdam after a soccer match between an Israeli team and a Dutch team are despicable.

Disturbing videos show Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans visiting the city to attend a match against AFC Ajax, being hunted through the streets of the Dutch capital by pro-Palestine gangs demanding to know whether they are Jews – demanding to see their passports – with chilling echoes of the Holocaust and its prequel Kristallnacht, the “night of broken glass”, in which German Jews were hunted and attacked.

In Amsterdam, the city for ever associated with Anne Frank, this incident places a question mark over the expression “never again”.

Christians United for Israel point out that “the media and anti-Israel activists online are justifying this when they try to blame the victims or pass it off as football hooliganism”.

A small minority [of Tel Aviv fans] who tore down a couple of flags or a group chanting anti-Arab slogans does not justify open attacks on fans or the hunting down of random Jews on the streets. It doesn’t justify attacking women and children. It doesn’t justifying [sic] throwing people onto train tracks. It doesn’t justify pushing people into rivers. It doesn’t justifying [sic] ramming vehicles into Jews in hit and run attacks. It doesn’t justify beating up foreign nationals who assist Jewish victims.

As part of a degree course in Jewish-Christian relations, I studied the Holocaust in depth but found the universal acceptance of this terrible event as the epitome of evil not quite as reassuring as I should. Instead, I found it strangely disturbing: how long would this apparent consensus last, I wondered?

We may now have the answer, as the Western world succumbs to violent anti-Israel feeling evident in countless “Just stop Israel” protests, marches and agitation. Has the age-old disease of anti-Semitism simply transmuted into anti-Zionism, its more acceptable but equally deadly offspring?

The early 21st century terror attacks on British soil – the 7/7 bombings of 2005, the attacks on London Bridge, Borough Market, Finsbury Park, the Manchester Arena and Westminster Bridge, all in 2017, seem to have been disposed of down what George Orwell described in 1984 as the cultural memory hole.

The British public may not have forgotten, but the British ruling classes appear to regard such events as embarrassments to be quietly forgotten, a response not unconnected to the obvious fact that to draw attention to them might provoke yet more terror. We have come to a strange pass when Dutch “far Right” activist Geert Wilderscondemns the attacks on Jews while up until now, at least, the liberal Left media, not least the BBC, have been more inclined to take a more soothing, sympathetic approach to such incidents, along the lines of “move along there, nothing to see”

Nearly 20 years ago, the United Nations introduced Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27 every year, but since 2012, November, traditionally associated with remembering those members of our armed forces killed in battle, has been designated Islamophobia Awareness Month. As eminent Jewish commentator Melanie Phillips notes, this is despite the fact that:

“every week, demonstrators have been on the streets of Western cities chanting for the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews, sometimes setting fire to the Israeli flag, and tearing down pictures of the Israeli hostages. Are these media outlets — who have ignored, minimised, sanitised and excused this genocidal frenzy against Jews — suggesting that Jews should therefore hunt down anti-Zionists to beat up as a result? Or are the media once again demonstrating a grotesque and all-too revealing double standard?”

It has been disclosed that pro-Palestinian zealots have been training activists to attack targets across Britain. Following the Amsterdam attacks, the Dutch National Security Council revealed intelligence indicating that pro-Palestinian groups were trying to harm Jews and Israelis across Europe under the guise of protests and demonstrations.

As to our own nation protecting Jewish people from anti-Semitism, enormous (and “largely peaceful”) protests are allowed to take place on a regular basis demanding that Palestine be “free from the river to the sea” – a clear reference to genocide.

The Palestine lobby would argue that Israel is recklessly killing innocent Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere. However, while all innocent deaths are to be lamented, they conveniently omit any mention of Hamas deliberately basing their military operations among civilians, with the result that the mainstream media concentrates on these hapless victims without pointing to the real aggressors, who might more accurately be described as terrorists holding their own people hostage. And amidst all this undeniably tragic carnage and destruction, the Israeli hostages taken by Hamas over a year ago, whose plight prompted Israel’s military response, are conveniently forgotten. As is so often the case, more attention is paid to Israel’s response to attacks than to the attacks themselves – it’s not the action, but the reaction, that makes the news.

Despite the determination that “never again” would attempts be made to exterminate the Jewish people, we may indeed see another Holocaust in political, military and terrorist attacks aiming to destroy the State of Israel, itself created as a refuge from persecution for the Jews. And inevitably, the UK may well become embroiled in that struggle, since Britain was instrumental in the founding of the modern state of Israel: the Balfour Declaration, written by Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour and published on November 9, 1917, pledged British support for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

The British may have forgotten this historical detail, but the pro-Palestinian campaign has not, as evidenced by the attempt to kidnap what were thought to be two busts of the first Israeli President, Chaim Weizmann, to mark the 107th anniversary of the signing of the Balfour Declaration.

Whatever one’s religious beliefs – whether Jewish, Christian, Muslim or even atheist – it is hard to avoid the conclusion that there is something special about this group of people, who persist in existing despite every fresh attempt to destroy them. Where other ancient peoples have died out, the Jews continue, bloody but unbowed, overcoming all such attempts at extermination – even thriving where allowed to do so.

Perhaps it is this stubborn refusal to be killed off which explains the ever-more zealous attempts to destroy them, since the failure of such efforts seems only to point even more plainly to their supernatural origins. The Chosen People appear to have been marked out for destruction by those who resent the possibility that they may indeed have been chosen by God as His emissaries to the world.

Ultimately, the Holocaust failed to exterminate the Jews, but while the world may forget the Holocaust and what led to it, the Jewish people can never forget – and neither will Hamas.


Was this just football hooliganism or part of an anti-Semitic campaign?  


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Ann Farmer writes from the United Kingdom.

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The Opportunity of Trump’s Victory by Caroline Glick

How Donald Trump’s victory and Israeli Defense Minister Gallant’s firing pave the way for a strategic realignment in the Middle East that will serve as the foundation of regional peace and stability. 

A collective sigh of relief was heard across Israel as the results of the U.S. presidential election were declared. But we cannot rest on our laurels. At this critical juncture, Israel must carefully assess the challenges it faces in the immediate term, as the lame-duck Biden administration completes its term. And it must set goals for the next four years to ensure that the opportunity Donald Trump’s return to the White House affords us is not squandered.

To understand the immediate requirements, we need to remember what happened during Barack Obama’s final months in office.

No longer concerned about winning an election, in December 2016, the Obama administration decided the time had come to punish Israel for opposing its nuclear appeasement of Iran and for rejecting its efforts to establish a Palestinian terror state. That month, America’s U.N. ambassador Samantha Power drafted an anti-Israel resolution that declared all Israeli presence beyond the 1949 armistice lines—including the Western Wall in Jerusalem—illegal. Power then pawned it off on other Security Council member states to sponsor and abstained from the vote, ensuring the passage of what became U.N. Security Council Resolution 2234.

Resolution 2234 was the most anti-Israel resolution ever passed in the Security Council. It effectively called for an international boycott of all Israeli activities beyond the 1949 armistice lines. But 2234 wasn’t meant to be a standalone event. The Obama team planned to pass an additional resolution that would set out a timetable for Israel to agree to a Palestinian state in Hamas-controlled Gaza, all of Judea and Samaria and eastern, southern and northern Jerusalem. The resolution was supposed to include sanctions on Israel if it failed to capitulate within the set time schedule.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu worked with Trump’s transition team to scuttle it. Netanyahu and Trump’s advisers appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who signaled that Russia would veto the resolution. Stunned, the Obama team angrily shuffled away.

There is good reason to assume that in the two and a half months before Trump returns to office, the outgoing Biden team intends to get that long-shelved resolution passed.

The Biden team may also initiate a resolution requiring Israel—on pain of Security Council sanctions—to accept a ceasefire in Gaza that will leave Hamas in power, a ceasefire in Lebanon that will leave Hezbollah on Israel’s northern border and in charge of Lebanon, or both.

Now as then, Netanyahu must work with Trump’s team and Israel’s many allies in the Senate and House of Representatives to block these anticipated moves.

Beyond punishing Israel for not bowing to the administration’s yearlong demand for capitulation, the purpose of the Biden administration’s anticipated U.N. ceasefire resolution is to prevent Israel from winning the war and to block the Trump administration from supporting an Israeli victory. The Biden team is expected to reinstate Obama’s effort to pass the Palestinian statehood resolution in order to prevent both Israel and the incoming Trump team from abandoning the failed and destabilizing “two-state” chimera.

In other words, the purpose of the U.N. operation is to prevent Trump from adopting his own policies and prevent Israel from securing itself.

Blocking the Biden administration’s anticipated moves is Israel’s most pressing diplomatic challenge. But obviously, they are also a means to enable Israel to win the war it is currently fighting. As to the war, Israel must move deliberately to achieve its strategic goals on all fronts—and particularly in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran.

It is to this end that Netanyahu fired Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday.

The Biden administration began micromanaging every aspect of Israel’s war effort immediately after Oct. 7, 2023. It sent American generals to Israel Defense Forces headquarters, where they made “suggestions” that made no sense but to which Israel had to listen—if it knew what was good for it.

The administration began slow-walking critical military supplies to Israel last December, forcing IDF officers to justify nearly every bullet and tank round expended. It threatened sanctions to block Israel from taking any action that would fundamentally shift the strategic balance in Gaza, and throughout the region, in its favor. It blocked a congressional effort to pass a law sanctioning International Criminal Court officials for waging lawfare against Israel, and so effectively greenlighted ICC prosecutor Karim Khan’s bid to issue arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant.

The Biden team delayed Israel’s action in Rafah for months by threatening an arms embargo and by forcing Israel to maintain futile hostage talks with Hamas’s state sponsors Qatar and Egypt until they reached their inevitable, failed conclusion.

The administration spent a year pressuring Israel to agree to surrender sovereign territory to Hezbollah in exchange for a respite from the Iranian proxy’s missile war. The U.S. offer, if accepted, would be a strategic catastrophe for Israel, keeping Hezbollah’s forces intact, fully armed and poised along Israel’s border just steps away from communities they were trained to overrun and massacre.

The administration continues to pressure Israel to leave Iran’s regime, nuclear installations and oil platforms intact.

The Biden team’s success to date in preventing Israel from defeating its foes owes in large part to its exploitation of the Israeli security brass’s institutional and ideological opposition to Netanyahu, his coalition partners and voters. Gallant was the central figure in the administration’s divide and conquer effort to block Israel from taking action that would change the strategic balance of power in the region.

During the eight months that Gallant’s fellow retired generals Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot served with him in Netanyahu’s War Cabinet, Gallant colluded with them and the administration to block government plans to order operations like the seizure of Rafah—that would pave the way to the dismantlement of Hamas’s military forces and ending its political and economic grip on power.

It was only with the resignations of Gantz and Eisenkot in June that Netanyahu was able to overrule Gallant and order the invasion of Rafah, cutting Hamas off from the rest of its state sponsors. Since then, working with the IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, Gallant opposed, slowed and watered down—but was unable to block—Israel’s ground operation in Lebanon.

Gallant and Halevi blocked the government’s plan to task the IDF with distributing food, medicine and water to Gazans even though it is the only way to dismantle Hamas’s continued political and economic control over the area.

Gallant and Halevi opposed the operation to blow up the beepers of Hezbollah operatives, which neutralized Hezbollah’s senior and mid-level command structure.

Gallant tried to block Israel’s move to eliminate Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah by insisting that Israel provide advance notification to the administration, knowing full well that the Biden team would try to block the operation.

Gallant openly and repeatedly called for Israel to end its war effort in Gaza in the interest of freeing the hostages, even though there is no actual deal on the table to release them.

Since Oct. 7, 2023, Gallant had refused to remove Halevi or any of the other senior IDF commanders responsible for the Oct. 7 fiasco from their positions. Instead, he rubber-stamped every action Halevi advocated, including firing more aggressive generals from the IDF and promoting to senior positions incompetent, dovish generals who had failed to warn of or prepare for Oct. 7.

Finally, Gallant reportedly opposes taking any independent Israeli strategic action against Iran.

By removing Gallant from office, Netanyahu removed the major political obstacle to pursuing victory on all fronts. This is imperative as Israel moves from managing the war under the Biden administration to winning the war in anticipation of Trump’s inauguration on January 20.

Looking towards the four years ahead, Israel must determine its strategic goals not only for winning the war, but for securing its borders and its position in the region, and safeguarding its alliance with the United States for years to come.

Oct. 7 and the war that followed exposed three strategic vulnerabilities that Israel can work with the Trump administration to overcome. The first is the specter of a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River. The second is the U.N. system. The final vulnerability is Israel’s strategic dependence on U.S. munitions.

Since Oct. 7, any residual public support for the establishment of a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River has disappeared (outside the fever swamps of the radical left). The onslaught from Gaza, which has been an independent Palestinian state since 2005, and the near-unanimous support the atrocities enjoyed among Palestinians in Judea and Samaria made clear that a Palestinian state is not a solution to anything. Rather, it is an existential threat to Israel no less severe than Iran’s nuclear weapons project.

To contend with the Palestinian threat, Israel needs to extricate itself completely from the strategic deathtrap of the so-called “two-state solution.” David Friedman, Trump’s first-term ambassador to Israel, recently published “One Jewish State.” Friedman’s book sets out the case for Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria. In it, Friedman urges Israel to determine its goal for securing its national rights and security needs in Judea, Samaria and Gaza.

Israel should immediately take Friedman’s advice. Netanyahu, his ministers and advisers must determine a clear strategy for extending Israeli sovereignty to Judea and Samaria and taking permanent military control of Gaza. They must then work with the Trump administration to secure U.S. support for those plans in the framework of a regional peace.

The moral corruption of the U.N. system is nothing new. But since Oct. 7, Israel has recognized that this system, replete with its in-house terror group the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), terror auxiliary force the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and international courts trying Israel for genocide and treating Israel’s leaders and soldiers as war criminals, is itself a mortal threat to the Jewish state.

Broadly speaking, the U.N. system today is a full-blown alliance of the Marxist, post-national left, China and Islamic terrorist groups. Israel obviously cannot contend with this behemoth on its own. Working with the Trump administration and other nation states that are similarly—if less existentially—harmed by the U.N. system, Israel must spearhead an effort to dismantle, divide and permanently weaken the U.N. system and restore the power of nation states to work separately and in alliance with others to secure international peace and prosperity.

Finally, in light of Israel’s experience with the Biden administration’s exploitation of Israel’s strategic dependence on the United States for munitions as a means to undermine Israel’s war effort, Jerusalem needs to end its client-state relationship with Washington. Israel and the United States must cooperate in transforming the U.S.-Israel bond into a true alliance between a global superpower and a regional power.

Trump’s determination to decrease America’s foreign aid budgets, and his doctrine of supporting allies to enable them to defend themselves as the surest way to decrease America’s need to fight wars, fully aligns his position with Israel’s strategic requirements. Israel should move quickly to forge a new defense relationship with America that would end U.S. military assistance over a 10-year period. During that period, the relationship would shift from supplier-client to a strategic partnership geared toward weapons systems development. To end its vulnerability, Israel should maintain and expand its efforts to rebuild its domestic arms industries with the goal of being fully capable of producing all the munitions it requires to win its wars and preserve post-war peace by the end of Trump’s term. This transformation of U.S.-Israel ties will enable the alliance to survive and thrive over time, to the great benefit of both countries.

In his congratulatory message to Trump on Wednesday morning, Netanyahu wrote, “Your historic return to the White House offers a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America.”

This is absolutely true. And by firing Gallant, Netanyahu has facilitated the rebuilding of Israel’s alliance with America on firmer footing than ever before. By working together to achieve common goals, Israel and the United States, under Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, can secure the peace of the Middle East and their nations’ separate and common interests in the international arena, to the benefit of the world as a whole.

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Caroline Glick

Caroline B. Glick is an Israeli-American conservative journalist and author who lives in Efrat, in Gush Etzion. She writes for Israel Hayom, Breitbart News, The Jerusalem Post, Jewish News Syndicate and Maariv.

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PM Benjamin Netanyahu in a statement to the nation on the death of arch murderer Hassan Nasrallah

The State of Israel killed the arch murderer Hassan Nasrallah yesterday.

We settled accounts with those responsible for the murder of countless Israelis and many citizens of other countries, including hundreds of Americans and dozens of Frenchmen.

“Nasrallah was no longer a terrorist. He was THE terrorist!”

He was the axis of the axis, the central engine of Iran’s axis of evil.

He was not only activated by Iran, many times he also activated Iran.

WATCH: PM Benjamin Netanyahu in a statement to the nation

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Pogrom in the Netherlands: Muslim Mobs Hunt Down Jews in Amsterdam

At least ten people are injured and three others, ominously, are missing in Amsterdam Friday after rampaging mobs of Muslim migrants hunted down and beat Jews on the street after a soccer match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax Amsterdam. The establishment media initially cast this as a case of violence among soccer hooligans. The New York Times’ headline was “Violence Tied to Soccer Game Prompts Dozens of Arrests in Amsterdam.” But it was something much worse than that.

After being called out for the inaccurate and misleading nature of its coverage, the Times changed its headline to “Israeli Soccer Fans Injured in Attacks Linked to Antisemitism in Amsterdam.” That was better, but it still didn’t capture the full horror of the incident, which got so bad that Israel sent rescue planes for Israeli citizens in Amsterdam.

Dutch politician Geert Wilders had a more accurate assessment: “A pogrom in the streets of #Amsterdam,” Wilders said. “We have become the Gaza of Europe.” The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement, “The harsh pictures of the assault on our citizens in Amsterdam will not be overlooked. Prime Minister Netanyahu views the horrifying incident with utmost gravity and demands that the Dutch government and security forces take vigorous and swift action against the rioters, and ensure the safety of our citizens.”

That was going to be a tall order, as the attackers were Muslim migrants whom the Dutch government, like governments all over Europe, have welcomed in large numbers in recent years. Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) reported, and later removed from its report without explanation, that “at least ten Israelis were reportedly injured by the Muslim attackers and their helpers, and three were missing. Police later said five people were treated at hospitals.”

Even with JNS’ editing job, however, it was clear who the attackers were. Geert Wilders noted that they were “Muslims with Palestinian flags hunting down Jews.” The New York Post reported that “Israeli soccer fans were ambushed and brutally assaulted in Amsterdam overnight Thursday by gangs of anti-Israel thugs shouting ‘Free Palestine.’”

The Post added that video showed “one assailant who screamed ‘Free Palestine’ as a victim cowered in fear.” The video exists because, as the Israeli Embassy to the United States pointed out, “The mob who targeted these innocent Israelis has proudly shared their violent acts on social media,” which jihadis the world over have done in the recent past. “More disturbing video,” says the Post, “shows a victim surrounded by several people, including one that appears to be holding a Palestinian flag, as a preparator [sic] kicked him to the ground. A separate assault shows a victim lying on the ground as he is kicked repeatedly. A car also barreled into a victim, causing the man to flip over the hood of the vehicle.”

The embassy said that “the days of chasing Jews down European city streets should remain in the dark annals of history,” but obviously those days are here again. JNS reported that “the Israeli National Security Council stated in Hebrew that Israelis in Amsterdam should remain in their hotel rooms and avoid the street, refrain from wearing visible Jewish or Israeli symbols and notify Dutch police and the Israeli mission about any threat or attack. The council also advised Israelis to return to home, with more planes expected.”

Canadian politician Melissa Lantsman wrote: “The scenes from the streets of Amsterdam tonight are absolutely horrific. This is what ‘globalize the intifada’ looks like.” Yes.

Dutch authorities welcomed these migrants without giving a moment’s thought to what the implications of doing so might be for the cohesion and peace of their own society. Although hardly anyone is aware that it even exists and few among those wish to discuss it, Islamic antisemitism is deeply rooted in the Qur’an, which designates the Jews as the worst enemies of the Muslims (5:82), says that they are under the curse of Allah (2:88-9; 9:30), states that Allah transformed them into apes and pigs for their disobedience (2:63-6; 5:59-60; 7:166); and calls upon Muslims to make war against and subjugate them (9:29).

 

Obviously not all Muslims read the Qur’an and act exactly as it directs, any more than all Christians do with the Bible. Some do, however, and no government in Europe or North America has ever pondered the question of what it might mean for their countries to bring in large numbers of people who believe this way. Not only is this Jew-hatred in the Qur’an, but as The History of Jihad demonstrates, Muslim countries have behaved with singular hostility to Jews, contrary to the fond wishful thinking and mythmaking of modern-day multiculturalist professors, throughout the history of Islam.

Yet most Westerners, in the Netherlands and elsewhere, have been convinced by this point that any critical word about the Qur’an or Islam in general is “Islamophobic” and evidence of some irrational prejudice. Many Europeans and Americans pride themselves on rejecting such “bigotry” despite having never cracked open a Qur’an or learning even the basics of Islamic theology. This uninformed naivete is endangering people, as the events in Amsterdam show yet again. Because this willful ignorance is near ubiquitous, however, what just happened in Amsterdam will be repeated all over the West many, many times in the months and years to come.

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Three People Charged In Connection To Alleged Iran-Linked Trump Assassination Plot

Three individuals have reportedly been charged for involvement in an Iran-linked effort to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday.

Three men have been charged for their connections to an alleged conspiracy to kill a critic of the Iranian regime on American soil and to a broader effort to carry out plots against Trump and other enemies of Tehran, according to the DOJ. Two suspects — Carlisle Rivera and Jonathon Loadholt, both of New York City — have been arrested, while Farhad Shakeri of Iran remains at-large and is thought to be in his home country.

“There are few actors in the world that pose as grave a threat to the national security of the United States as does Iran,”  Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. “The Justice Department has charged an asset of the Iranian regime who was tasked by the regime to direct a network of criminal associates to further Iran’s assassination plots against its targets, including President-elect Donald Trump. We have also charged and arrested two individuals who we allege were recruited as part of that network to silence and kill, on U.S. soil, an American journalist who has been a prominent critic of the regime. We will not stand for the Iranian regime’s attempts to endanger the American people and America’s national security.”

Iran Indictment by Nick Pope on Scribd

The DOJ describes Shakeri as an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) “asset” who used contacts he established in American prison to carry out plots against targets of the Iranian regime. The IRGC asked Shakeri to devise a plot to assassinate Trump on Oct. 7, though he purportedly did not plan to develop a strategy to do so within the timeline requested by the IRGC, a State Department-identified Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).

All three men have been hit with murder-for-hire, conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire and money laundering conspiracy charges, and Shakeri also faces charges related to providing support for a FTO, according to the DOJ.

“The charges announced today expose Iran’s continued brazen attempts to target U.S. citizens, including President-elect Donald Trump, other government leaders and dissidents who criticize the regime in Tehran,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a statement. “The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — a designated foreign terrorist organization — has been conspiring with criminals and hitmen to target and gun down Americans on U.S. soil and that simply won’t be tolerated.”

In his first term, Trump and his administration cracked down hard on the Iranian regime with sanctions and by eliminating former IRGC leader Qassem Soleimani in 2020. The president-elect has pledged to significantly harden America’s posture against the Iranians again in his second term in the White House.

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Nick Pope

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VIDEO: Details on Muslims attacking Israelis in Amsterdam

In English:

The Dutch police did nothing to prevent the disturbances. They spoke to the rioting Muslims as if they were their friends and, on the other hand, wanted to stop the attacked Israelis — it is desirable to have a Jewish march in Amsterdam as a show of force.

Amsterdam Pogrom: Was it planned and if so — by who?

In German:

Die niederländische Polizei unternahm nichts, um die Unruhen zu verhindern: Sie sprach mit den aufständischen Muslimen, als wären sie ihre Freunde, und wollte andererseits die angegriffenen Israelis aufhalten — als Zeichen dafür ist ein jüdischer Aufmarsch in Amsterdam wünschenswert Gewalt

In Dutch:

De Nederlandse politie deed niets om de ongeregeldheden te voorkomen: ze spraken de opstandige moslims toe alsof ze hun vrienden waren en wilden aan de andere kant de aangevallen Israëli’s tegenhouden — het is wenselijk om een Joodse mars in Amsterdam te houden als show van kracht

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‘Trump wants Gaza and Lebanon wars to end – with decisive Israeli victories’

Model-turned-Republican National Committee spokeswoman Elizabeth Pipko defends Trump’s vow to ‘stop wars,’ saying the president-elect is committed to Israel ‘winning decisively’ against Hamas, Hezbollah.

President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to “stop wars” was not an ultimatum to Israel to halt the fighting against terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, a spokeswoman for the Republican party said Wednesday, rather it was a promise to ensure Israel achieves decisive victories in both arenas.

Elizabeth Pipko, a 29-year-old former model turned Republican National Committee spokeswoman, who first rose to prominence with the Exodus Movement encouraging American Jews to join the Republican party, spoke with Israel’s Channel 12 on Wednesday, following Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.

During the interview, Pipko responded to reports that Trump has given Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a deadline for ending Israel’s wars against Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Early Wednesday morning, Trump made a victory speech in which he vowed to “stop wars” rather than start them during his next four years in the White House.

Pipko said that the president-elect is looking to end both wars and minimize further casualties, but emphasized that he supports an end to the fighting through “decisive” Israeli victories.
“I would say he expects them to end it by winning it, one hundred percent, that’s how he always talks about ending wars,” Pipko said.

“Donald Trump always says he wants less innocent people to die — that is his stance whether we’re talking about the war in Gaza, whether we’re talking about Russia in Ukraine or anywhere else.”

“So I do believe he wants the war to end as soon as possible, like all rational people do, but he wants it to end with a decisive victory.”

When asked whether Trump would be willing to wait should it take time for Israel to achieve a “decisive victory,” Pipko pivoted, saying that the Biden administration had not acted in a “decisive” manner.

“When it comes to ending a war in the Middle East and dealing with enemies like Iran or Hamas you have to be decisive, and I have not seen that from our leadership.”

“I think when you have American hostages — people forget to say that, American hostages — held for nearly a year, and you see your leaders deciding on their moves for foreign policy based on what would help them win an election, you end up with a lot of unnecessary bloodshed on your hands, and that’s what we’ve seen this last year.”

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Trump’s Win ‘Isn’t the Finish Line — It’s the Starting Point’

While it isn’t what every American wanted, the election did deliver something every American needed: clarity. The results that handed Donald Trump his second term supplied exactly what this weary and fractured country had to have to move forward — an unambiguous winner. A straightforward path. A fresh chance to be the nation its people, and the world, deserve. But none of that will matter, some are pointing out, if we don’t seize the reprieve God has granted.

“We can’t squander this moment,” former Congressman Jody Hice said emotionally. “Underneath all of this, God is giving America a window of mercy. This has to be a moment that the body of Christ responds with gratitude and repentance. We cannot throw away this time of grace that God has given us.” Yes, there were tremendous victories that took place, he acknowledged, “but may we respond humbly and steward this moment appropriately going forward — and in greater reliance upon Him.”

What happened Tuesday was incredibly significant, he underscored. “It does restore hope in the American people that they realize the direction our country was going — and they rejected it. They don’t want the woke policies. They don’t want all this misunderstanding of gender and of loss of parental rights and a horrible economy and an open border and on and on and on. … [T]hey want more common-sense government. They want authentic leadership around the world, as well as right here in our own country. And I believe that message came through loud and clear.”

But to those conservatives who think they can just sit back and coast for four years now that Republicans have a firm grip on key levers of power, think again. “Regardless of how this election goes,” Family Research Council President Tony Perkins wanted people to know, “our work has just begun.” We shouldn’t think that Trump’s election means game over in the political arena, FRC’s Owen Strachan insisted. “No, it means game on.”

Obviously, there’s enormous relief at this opportunity to close our borders, restore biological sanity, make life affordable again, and become a respected voice on the global stage — and that’s worth celebrating. But if the disappointments of the GOP platform are any indication, there will be some uncomfortable times ahead. And those times must be met with our unbendable conviction that biblical principles matter — regardless of their political expedience.

“Let me tell you something … we can learn from [Democrats],” Princeton Professor Robert George explained. “Something I admire about them [is] they do not let their politicians deviate. They do not let their politicians adopt a view for the purposes of [winning an election]. They do not accept the argument that, ‘Well, our view is now in a minority and it’s electorally dangerous for us to come out in favor of that view.’ … The Left understands that that doesn’t work in the long run to the advantage of the causes that they believe in.”

Whatever the narrative may be about this election — whether the GOP’s disconcerting step back from the life issue helped or hurt — it’s the Christians’ job to cut through that noise to the truth. And frankly, if the church had engaged from a point of moral clarity sooner, we might not have gotten to the point where fundamental values like this one are suddenly negotiable. The bottom line is, we can’t vote and walk away. “Part of being a disciple,” Pastor Jack Hibbs wanted people to know, “is getting involved in this remarkable republic that the Lord has given us.”

We aren’t Minutemen like they had in the Revolutionary War, Perkins stressed. “They would drop their pitchforks, grab their rifles, and they would run to the battle. And then they would go back home, and they would pick up their pitchforks. You know, I always thought, ‘Well, we just kind of respond, and we take a pro-life stand, and then it’s over and we go back to our life as it was before.’”

But that’s not our calling as Christians, he insisted. “This is our life. This is what Ephesians 6 talks about [when it explains] the battle that we’re in and [urges us] to continue to stand. So the battle is never done this side of heaven. We have to continue to perpetually stand for the truth.”

The good news is that there’s unbelievable momentum right now to do exactly that. If the sea of red from Tuesday is any indication, Americans are energized as never before to put this country back on the right track. As FRC’s Mary Szoch said after voters knocked off three radical pro-abortion ballot initiatives, this is the opening believers have been waiting for. On Tuesday, “Americans … re-elected the most pro-life president in the history of America,” she emphasized. “Now is the time for us to work together to promote strong, faith-filled marriages, strengthen families, and create a society that values every single person from the moment they come into existence. The opportunity to build a culture of life in America is great, and we cannot waste it.”

Pro-lifers saw what could be accomplished when they pushed back on Trump’s reluctance to challenge the Left’s abortion agenda in Florida: he listened. Where would the amendment be today if conservatives hadn’t held the former president accountable? Fortunately, we’ll never know.

We also need to remember, Hibbs said on Pray Vote Stand: Decision 2024, “The church needs a revival. We will still wake up tomorrow [knowing that the church needs to turn] back to Scripture — and pulpits … [need to address] through the Scripture the issues that shape our congregants and their life, their worldview. And so, we need a revival. We pray that this election is a little part of that, but the bottom line is the answer is really in God’s people stepping up. And that’s what we hope we see tonight, is God’s people getting involved.”

Another thing Christians need to realize, former Congresswoman Michele Bachmann said, is that “we have a lot to be grateful for.” The Trump campaign is in a “good place,” she acknowledged, “[but that’s] in the natural. I felt like the Lord was saying to me early on in this campaign that this [race] won’t be won in the natural, it will be won in the supernatural. And I truly believe that we need to just keep leaning in [with] prayer and what we’re [doing]. Where Scripture has taken me this week is [to Exodus] where Moses is standing when the Israelites are battling with the Amalekites — and then Hur and Aaron are holding up Moses’s arms — all while Joshua was on the field at the battle. And so it’s both: it’s prayer, and it’s action.”

When the church does both, she explained, “then we see victory.” “… But we can never, ever take it for granted.” The reality is, Michele pointed out, “Four years is going to go fast. And again, we only have two years until the next midterm, so … we’ve got to get to work. … It’s like there was a party and the furniture is all broken and the drapes are torn down from the windows, and we’ve got to get America’s house back in order fast and do what the American public believes that Donald Trump and a Republican Senate and a Republican House can do.”

That takes work, it takes commitment, and it takes an army of men and women determined to pay the price to speak up — and stand up. Whatever happens from here, Tony urged, “Election 2024 must not be the finish line for Christians in America; I pray it is a starting point. It’s time for the church to arise. Our hurting nation needs a revival that only God can provide.”

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Why the American ‘Swamp’ doesn’t want Israel to win

After a year of war, all those who research the exchange of diplomacy between the US and Israel see the Biden-Harris administration and the government bureaucracy (“The Swamp”) acting in a “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” mode.

There are several popular explanations for this, among them:

  1. The Swamp was not sure that Israel could actually win and did not want to be responsible for “saving it” from the “resistance”.
  2. The war was hurting the Democrat chances to win the elections.
  3. The Swamp and the Democrat party still believe that “diplomacy” is the best way to solve problems.
  4. The Swamp still dream of an Iran Deal
  5. They are afraid the war will spill out over the Middle East and maybe even ignite a world war.

While all these reasons may be debated, the Democrats insist that they have Israel’s best interest in mind. Yet there is yet another reason for the Democrats (The Swamp) siding with Israel’s enemies, and unfortunately, it is much worse than the ones listed above.

The Democrat party, and the basic American political bureaucracy (“The Swamp”) don’t want Israel to win. They never have. Since 1967, the Swamp has acted in a schizophrenic manner towards Israel and has kept it from winning. This included the Republican Party.

When Israel, in 1973, had surrounded the entire 3rd army of Egypt and could have brought the Arab war efforts to unconditional defeat, Nixon (and Kissinger) forced Israel to give in and allow their release.

During the Ronald Reagan years the same swamp would not allow Israel to turn its war in Lebanon into a victory.

The reason the American Swamp, on one hand, lets Israel “defend itself”, but on the other hand not to “win” is simple: It wants the Middle East, and Israel to continue to be reliant on the USA.

It fears that in winning this war, Israel wants to force the Middle East into a region that accepts it (on its terms) and ends continuous war. In doing so, the Israeli narrative of decades, that the Palestinians are the problem in the region and should not be given a state, will be shown to be true.

Israel will not be an ally the American Swamp can force to do what it wants.

The current Israeli government, especially the prime minister, Netanyahu, keeps saying that Israel will “transform” the Middle East.

The American Swamp likes the Middle East the way it’s been for the last 100 years and does NOT want it to change.

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50 Orthodox Rabbis Endorse Donald Trump

And for the first time ever, a former Chief Rabbi endorsed a U.S. presidential candidate.

Baruch HaShem!

Daniel Greenfield on X:

Dems Claim 33 “Orthodox Rabbis” signed letter in support of Kamala

9 are women. Orthodox Judaism does not ordain women.

Rabbi Shamir Caplan appears to be an Australian clergyman in Melbourne who endorses gay marriage

Michael Langer was a fellow of the anti-Israel T’ruah hate group

Eric Leiderman’s pronouns are he/they. He’s a conservative rabbi.

David Jaffe is a community organizer with leftist groups

Tyson Herberger is an associate professor of religion and religious education at the University of South-Eastern Norway who deals with “queer issues”

Rabbi Herzl Hefter created a “program where women and men study together to become Rabbis”

Daniel Landes ‘ordained’ the first ‘gay rabbi’

Daniel Levitt is the product of the non-Orthodox YCT and works at Congregation Agudath Achim, a conservative synagogue

Mel Gottlieb is the rabbi of a conservative synagogue

Most of the 33 “Orthodox Rabbis’ are not Orthodox.

Few have any involvement with the Orthodox Jewish community.

Quite a few are professional academics or activists.

Many have views that are completely incompatible with Orthodox Judaism

The fact that these are the only people they could find to sign an ‘Orthodox Rabbis’ for Kamala letter shows just how little support for her there is among the Orthodox Jewish community.

50 Orthodox Rabbis Endorse Donald Trump

One day after the Harris campaign announced that 33 “Orthodox rabbis” had endorsed her candidacy, more than 50 Orthodox rabbis signed a letter firmly backing President Trump.

By: Israel National News, Nov 4, 2024;

One day after the Harris campaign announced that 33 “Orthodox rabbis” had endorsed her candidacy, more than 50 Orthodox rabbis signed this letter, firmly backing President Trump.

The letter states, “As Orthodox rabbis, we believe that Vice President Kamala Harris will continue the dangerous positions of the Biden administration that contributed to the deadly Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthi and Iranian attacks on Israel. Her constant calls for a ceasefire and a two-state solution, and chas v’shalom, the likelihood of her withholding even more weapons from the IDF, presents a significant risk of Pikuach Nefesh, endangering Jewish lives.”

“As Torah observant Jews, we gratefully have Hakarat Hatov (gratitude) that President Trump pulled out of the JCPOA (Iran nuclear deal) and crippled Iran’s economy, cut funding to the terrorist enabling UNRWA, signed into law and enforced the Taylor Force Act, visited and prayed at the Kotel, moved the US embassy to Jerusalem, recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights and established the Abraham Accords.

“Therefore, we endorse former President Trump who did more for Israel and the Jewish people during his first term than any other president and pray that Hashem (God, literally ‘the name’) grants him a second term to bring security and prosperity to America, Israel and the entire world.”

The rabbis signed as individuals and not on behalf of their synagogues or community roles.

Rabbi Tuly Weisz, who wrote the pro-Trump letter and organized the petition commented. “I saw Rabbi Yankelowitz’s letter and was immediately appalled. As someone intimately familiar with the American rabbinate, I could easily see that most of the 33 “Orthodox rabbis” are neither Orthodox, nor rabbis,” said Weisz.

“Quite a few are woke academics and left wing activists. Many have views that are completely incompatible with Orthodox Judaism. The fact that these are the only ones who would sign an “Orthodox Rabbis for Kamala” letter shows just how little support there is among the Orthodox Jewish community for an extension of the Biden administration.”

Author of the best-selling book, “The War Against the Bible,” Rabbi Elie Mischel explained, “Understandably, most rabbis are afraid to make political statements that might anger some of their congregants. But this election is different. If Kamala Harris becomes president instead of Donald Trump, the consequences could be catastrophic: arms embargoes on Israel, devastating sanctions on Israelis opposed to a Palestinian state, and worst of all, more dead Jews. This is not about Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal. It’s about the safety of Israel. If rabbis can’t find the courage to speak up now as we fight for our very existence, when will they?”

Other Orthodox rabbis explained their endorsement of President Trump.

Rabbi Pesach Lerner, President Emeritus of the Coalition for Jewish Values explained, “Why do Orthodox Rabbis endorse Former President Trump? Simple. He’s good for Israel. He’s good for the US economy. He’s good for family values. He’s good for US energy. He’s good for a strong and safe America. He’s good for American and world stability. The better question is, how could Orthodox Rabbis, and others, not endorse him?”

According to Rabbi Yitzchak Adlerstein, Director, Interfaith Affairs at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, “As Iman Ali (8th century) said in hadith 295 of Nahj al-Balagha, my enemy’s enemy is my friend. If both the Iranians and Rashida Tlaib, Congress’ Anti Semite in Chief, viscerally hate Donald Trump, I know that he is the best choice for Israel.

“Virtually all Americans vote for the candidate that they feel best addresses their concerns and priorities, and I am no different. For me, the survival of the Jewish people and the welfare of the State of Israel top my list of concerns. As an actual resident of Israel, I am ripped apart daily by stories of brave soldiers who have died, leaving behind widows and orphans.

“I can’t forget for an instant that the billions of dollars released to Iran by the Biden-Harris administration- money that Donald Trump had frozen -helped fund the terrorists who killed them.”

According to Rabbi Pini Dunner of the Beverly Hills Synagogue, “The primary reason for my choice of presidential candidate is their stance on Israel. In this election there is no choice – Donald Trump has made it clear that he has Israel’s back every step of the way, and that’s all that matters. Harris is surrounded by Israel-haters and people who make excuses for terrorism. If elected, she will be a disaster for Israel.”

According to Rabbi Ze’ev Smason, Midwestern Regional Vice President of the Coalition for Jewish Values, “As president, Donald Trump moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and recognized Israeli sovereignty in the Golan Heights. Rather than alienating Arab allies, Donald Trump delivered the momentous peace agreements of the Abraham Accords. Donald Trump also ignored the professional peace processors and appeasers, and focused on stopping Iran.

“Kamala Harris sees the world differently. Along with President Biden, she stopped enforcing oil sanctions in a bid for Iran’s goodwill. Since January 2021, this has brought Iran more than $40 billion in extra revenue, emboldening Iran and providing funding for its support of evil proxies such as Hamas and Hezbollah. A Trump administration will be solidly pro-Israel. A Harris administration will reflect most of today’s Democratic Party: hostile to Israel’s government and increasingly hostile to Israel’s security needs, with a sizable wing hostile to Israel’s existence,” concluded Rabbi Smason.

“As Jews committed to Torah values, we need American leadership whose priority is the safety, security and prosperity of the United States and its citizens, keeping woke ideology out of our schools, and who has demonstrated a rock-solid commitment to the State of Israel and an exceptionally warm friendship to the Jewish People. Donald Trump is clearly this man!” said Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer of New York.

Other prominent Orthodox rabbis also came out in favor of Trump.

Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetsky, the famed dean of the Philadelphia Yeshiva, located in the Swing State of Pennsylvania offered a rare blessing for Donald Trump. Two days before Election Day, Rabbi Kaminetsky told Belaaz News, “I’m giving a blessing that President Trump should win the election.”

For the first time ever, a former Chief Rabbi endorsed a US presidential candidate.

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WATCH: Obama, ‘Trump is ‘antisemitic’; but orthodox Jews rally for Trump

Orthodox Jews in the ultra-religious enclave of Monsey, New York, rallied on Sunday for former President Donald Trump — as former President Barack Obama was telling Jewish voters in Wisconsin that Trump is antisemitic.

BREITBART — At a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris in Milwaukee, Obama attempted to scare Jewish voters, even resorting to the debunked “very fine people” hoax, claiming that Trump is antisemitic.

“Maybe you’re Muslim American or Jewish American and you are heartbroken and furious about the ongoing bloodshed in the Middle East and worried about the rise of antisemitism. Why would you place your faith in somebody who instituted a so called ‘Muslim ban’ [sic], who sat down for pleasantries with Holocaust deniers [sic], who said that there were ‘very fine people’ on both sides of a white supremacist rally [sic]?” Obama asked the crowd.

There was never a “Muslim ban” under the Trump administration; Trump never sought to meet Holocaust deniers; and Trump said that white supremacists should be “condemned totally.” Nevertheless, Obama sought to scare — or shame — Jews into voting for Harris.

But Orthodox Jews — who, theoretically, should be most worried about antisemitism — rallied for Trump over the weekend.

There were other signs of potential Jewish support for Trump, such as long lines to vote early in Lakewood, New Jersey, home to another large Orthodox Jewish community.

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Read This Before You Vote — The Iran deal the Dems killed

If you haven’t already voted, please read this — and then VOTE.

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The column below, from today’s American Thinker, has been adapted from my latest book, The Iran House, which includes the documents of the Biden treason in the appendix.

Yours in freedom.


The Iran Deal the Democrats Killed

By Kenneth R. Timmerman

President Trump has said many times on the campaign trail that he was close to getting a deal with Iran during his first term. And then, something happened.

That something was the killing of three U.S. contractors in Iraq by Iranian proxies and the assault on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad in late December 2019.

I was working undercover at the time for the U.S. intelligence community running a network of Iranian sub-agents. Some of them had demonstrated access to the Supreme Leader’s Intelligence Office in Tehran. That’s about as good as it gets, and no one else had it.

My Iranian sub-agents were warning that the assault on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad was far more serious than it appeared. That led President Trump to airlift 100 U.S. Marines from Kuwait to protect the Baghdad Embassy, and days later, on January 2, 2020, to order the killing of Quds Force commander Qassem Suleimani.

Only later did I learn from a different Iranian sub-source that the Baghdad embassy attack was not just an Iranian operation. It had been motivated — indeed, solicited — in large part by a senior advisor to former vice-president Joe Biden, who was seeking ways of destroying Trump’s chances of re-election in 2020.

In a series of electronic communications in the late summer of 2019, the senior Biden advisor made a “request” of Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. This advisor knew Zarif well from his time as a senior official in the Obama administration. After Trump came to the White House, the two men maintained their friendship and met periodically on the sidelines of international fora, where they lamented the demise of a “rational” U.S. policy toward Iran.

On August 11, 2019, the advisor made his initial pitch to Zarif that the Democrats and the Iranian regime shared an interest in maintaining the framework of the 2015 nuclear deal. Since Trump had withdrawn U.S. participation in the agreement one year earlier, they needed to take action that would “put pressure on our enemy,” and keep him “on the run.” That enemy, shared by the Democrats and by the Iranian regime, was Donald Trump.

On August 14, the Biden advisor sent a second, more explicit message, asking the Iranian regime to “do the same thing in Baghdad that you did with our embassy in Tehran” in 1979.

Biden’s advisor pledged to protect the Iranians from retaliation for their actions against the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, or in the Persian paraphrase Zarif later sent to the Supreme Leader’s office and to Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, “to keep the fire away from your house.”

Democrats have been obsessed with the 1979 Tehran hostage crisis ever since that time, and to this day many believe that Ronald Reagan and his campaign made a deal with advisors to Ayatollah Khomeini to hold onto the hostages until after the 1980 election. This is the origin of the well-worn phrase, “October surprise.”

They undoubtedly thought the Iranians could help them pull off an “October surprise” against Donald Trump, except that they would start their assault on his credibility as commander-in-chief in January 2020, giving Democrat operatives and their allies in the media ten full months to hound Trump for being weak, just as Ted Koppel hounded Jimmy Carter throughout the 444 days of the Tehran hostage crisis in 1979.

The correspondence was kept in the classified archives of the Office of the Supreme Leader, where it was assigned folder number 98-52371-K.M. (1398 was the Persian calendar year corresponding to 2019). In addition to the U.S.-Iran correspondence, the folder contained documents relating to the Supreme Leader’s fatwa, or religious edict, authorizing the assassination of President Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman for their role in the Soleimani assassination.

Copies of Iran’s “Biden file” were made by a senior military intelligence official in the Supreme Leader’s office, who shared them with a handful of confidants. One of those confidants provided me with a facsimile of the first two documents in the original Persian, rough English translations of others, and an index of the entire file. There were ten memos in all.

I provided the name of that confidant to the FBI, who were able to corroborate his affiliation and career path. In other words, he was in the “registry” of Iranian intelligence officials kept by the U.S. intelligence community. My handlers understood that he was the real deal.

But I went further than that. I helped set up a face-to-face meeting between my sub-source and officials from the FBI’s Washington Field Office at an overseas location. My sub-source provided them with additional details on how he had acquired the “Biden-Iran file,” and the identity of the Biden staffer who had asked the Iranian regime to take U.S. diplomats hostage.

That Biden staffer continues to hold a senior position in the White House today and will undoubtedly serve under Kamala Harris should she win the presidency. Once Biden won the White House, I was told to not mention this case again in my official dealings with the FBI.

President Trump gave me a rare hat-tip for my role in helping to prevent a catastrophic hostage-taking at a campaign rally in Jacksonville, Florida, on September 24, 2020.

I was seated in the third row along with the Florida Congressional delegation. To my left was Rep. Matt Gaetz. Just behind me was my own congressman, John Rutherford. We were at the president’s nine o’clock.

You can watch this interchange on a Facebook capture from C-Span if you fast-forward to the 26 minute mark. The president begins by introducing the congressmen, then he says this:

“We also have some of our really unbelievable undercover operatives. And if you don’t mind, I won’t introduce them. Alright? I don’t think we’re going to introduce them. I want to so badly. I wanna have them stand up, bring them up here. I want to hug them and kiss them, which I’m not allowed to do because they’re so so good. But somehow they may lose some effectiveness if I introduce ‘em. So they’re in the crowd. I saw two of ‘em. And I won’t bother. But they are great great champions of our country. Thank you.”

At that point, the crowd cheered and the president looked in the direction of the Florida congressmen and smiled. I can guarantee you that the congressmen were not undercover operatives.

President Trump undoubtedly believes he can still negotiate a deal with the Iranian mullahs. If I have the opportunity, I will counsel him against it. Why? Because any deal they would accept — say, to limit their production of nuclear weapons material — would be a fake. It would have to be fake, because if they negotiated away their nuclear capabilities they would quickly be ousted from power.

Iran’s nuclear capabilities are one of the bulwarks of the Islamic regime, much as the doctrine of absolute clerical rule. Take it away, and the regime crumbles. The next president needs to focus on delegitimizing the regime, not negotiating with it.

©2024 Kenneth R. Timmerman. All rights reserved.


Adapted from The Iran House: Tales of Revolution, Persecution, War, and Intrigue, published by Bombadier Books on October 8, 2024).

College Presidents Turned to Sen. Schumer and Dems to Protect Them From Congressional Oversight on Antisemitism

Schumer advised that “universities political problems are really only among Republicans”

The House Committee on Education and the Workforce report on antisemitism is filled with damning materials, but some of the most damning bits of it deal not just with the reality of campus antisemitism and how university leaders covered it up, but the complicity of the Democrats in those cover-ups.

The description of contacts between Sen. Schumer and Columbia University leaders has already gone viral.

On January 4, then-President Shafik explained to Shipman and her fellow Co-Chair David Greenwald that she had met with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who advised Shafik that “universities political problems are really only among Republicans.” The Senator’s staff recommended the “best strategy is to keep heads down,” and when asked, Schumer and his staff indicated they did not believe it was necessary for the University’s leaders to meet with Republicans. Greenwald echoed this, writing in response, “If we are keeping our head down, maybe we shouldn’t meet with Republicans.”

Columbia University Chairs conversation on Senator Schumer

Sen. Schumer had once claimed to be a ‘shomer’ or ‘protector’ for the Jewish community.

The report reveals that he was actually a ‘shomer’ for campus antisemites.

Columbia University leaders were hoping that Democrats would take the House to protect them from further congressional oversight.

Days later, Greenwald exchanged text messages with his immediate predecessor Jonathan Lavine, about the Committee’s investigation and how they hoped Democrats would retake the House. On January 7, Greenwald sent Chair Emeritus Lavine a recent New York Times article about the expansion of the Committee’s investigation into campus antisemitism. Lavine responded, “Let’s hope the Dems win the house back. Greenwald replied, “Absolutely.”

Columbia University Chairs conversation on Senator Schumer (cont.)

That’s damning when it comes to Columbia University and for Congressional Democrats who were seen as protectors and defenders of bigotry.

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Tuesday, November 5th, 2024: A Day of Reckoning for America and Israel

I have voted in many elections during my lifetime.

I firmly believe that November 5th, 2024 is truly a day of reckoning for both America and Israel.

On November 5th Americans are voting to keep our Constitutional Republic or devolve into a dictatorship.

On November 5th Americans will be voting to keep Israel as the only free nation in the Middle East or see it destroyed by Iran and it’s proxies Hamas and Hezbollah.

I was a JFK Democrat

My first vote was for President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Yes, I was a Kennedy Democrat.

JFK fought Communism, was a lifetime member of the National Rifles Association and a war hero.

I volunteered to service in the U.S. Army in Vietnam because I wanted to fight against our sworn enemies there the Communist North Vietnam government, it military and it’s terrorist proxies in South Vietnam, the Viet Cong.

I spent 23-years in the United States Army. I studied Communism throughout my career.

While stationed in Germany from 1970 to 1974 I experienced two terrorist organizations.

The first was the Baader-Meinhof Gang also known as the The Red Army Faction (RAF)

A far-left militant group that was active in West Germany from 1970 to 1998. The group was also known as the Baader-Meinhof Group or Baader-Meinhof Gang. The RAF was known for its radical leftist politics, student dissent, and violent urban guerilla tactics. The group’s activities included bombing the West German Embassy in Stockholm, kidnapping political leader Peter Lorenz, and skyjacking a plane that led to the Israeli commando raid on Entebbe Airport. 

The second group was Black September.

Black September, also known as the Jordanian Civil War, was an armed conflict between Jordan, led by King Hussein, and the Palestine Liberation Organization, led by chairman Yasser Arafat.
Mohammed Daoud Oudeh, mastermind of the Munich Massacre of eleven Israeli Olympic athletes in 1972, alleges that his deadly operation—spearheaded by Abu Nidal and carried out under the name “Black September”—was funded by Mahmood Abbas. Daoud made that charge in his 1999 French-language memoir, Palestine: From Jerusalem to Munich, and again in an August 2002 interview with Don Yaeger of Sports Illustrated magazine.
Both the Baader-Meinhof Gang/The Red Army Faction and Black September were trained by The Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) which now resides in Gaza.

The Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is a Sunni Islamist militant group seeking to establish an Islamist Palestinian state that is committed to the destruction of Israel. It is the second-largest militant group in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, founded in 1979 as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. The group has drawn inspiration from the Iranian revolution and receives support from Iran, Syria, and Lebanese Hizballah. PIJ’s military wing, al-Quds Brigades, has been responsible for many attacks on Israeli targets since the 1990s. PIJ sometimes operates in coordination with HAMAS, although the groups have had a tense relationship because PIJ occasionally disagrees with HAMAS’s strategy for confronting Israel.OPERATING AREAS: Israel, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank; maintains a presence in Lebanon and Syria and offices in Tehran.

November 5th, 2024 is a Day of Reckoning for America and Israel

Kamala’s Nazis

Fast forward to 2024. We now are witnesses to the growing threat of a Democrat form of socialism that is partnering with radical pro-Hamas terrorists who are taking over college campuses, threating Jews and Christians alike and together for a Red-Green Alliance that threatens our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

In a column titled Kamala’s Nazis  wrote:

She’s complicit not with dead Nazis, but with live ones dedicated to killing Jews today.

“I don’t understand how we got so toxic and just so divided and so bitter,” Barack Obama wondered at a Kamala rally in Wisconsin.

A day later the Kamala campaign began accusing Trump of being Hitler.

As October surprises go, a Democrat accusing a Republican of being Hitler is as surprising as pint size witches and ghosts showing up on your doorstep on October 31. Ever since FDR accused Wendel Wilkie of using “Hitler tactics” back during the 1940 election, calling your opponent Hitler has been a rite of passage since even before Joe Biden was born.

Goldwater, Reagan and both Bushes, were accused of Hitlerism, Nazism or fascism.

No Democrat was too respectable to get in the game including MLK who claimed, “we see danger signs of Hitlerism in the candidacy of Mr. Goldwater.”

Barry Goldwater was half Jewish, a WWII vet and a lifetime member of the NAACP who helped found the NAACP’s Arizona chapter, and seemingly the worst possible candidate for ‘Hitlerism’.

Except for Trump who has Jewish family members and is performing so well among Jewish, Latino and black voters that his opponent and her media have to compare him to Hitler.

There was a time when comparing your opponent to Hitler was a mostly harmless form of watering down some of the most horrific events of the twentieth century for political gain.

These days however it’s all too easy to find an influential political movement championing the extermination of the Jews with a foothold inside the Kamala campaign and the Democrats.

If the Jews all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah boasted. And the Islamic terrorist group proved it was serious about killing Jews outside Israel with terrorist attacks like the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires which murdered 86 people.

These days you can spot Hezbollah flags flying at any respectable anti-Israel rally. Including the ones that Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz have defended and are complicit in. Harris, Walz and the party have praised the mobs waving Hamas and Hezbollah flags, chanting in support of the Houthis and assaulting Jewish students, and they want to claim the role of the Allies fighting Hitler when they’re at best the Quislings who are aiding and abetting the Nazis.

Kamala privately met with Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud to urge him to support her campaign. Hammoud had spoken at a rally that included chants of “Death to Israel” and calls for Jews to be returned “back to Poland.”

Hammoud was introduced by Osama Siblani as “the greatest mayor in the United States of America.”  “Mr. Bush believes Hezbollah, Hamas and other Palestinian factions are terrorists, but we believe they are freedom fighters,” Siblani had previously told the Washington Post.

Osama had bragged, “If the FBI wants to come after those who support the resistance done by Hezbollah, then they better bring a fleet of buses. I for one would be willing to go to jail.”

“Our martyrs are heroes, our leaders are great,” Osama Siblani said after the death of the Hezbollah leader “And first among them, their leader, the great Sayyed, Hassan Nasrallah.”

Osama had previously met with Ms. Chávez Rodríguez, Kamala’s campaign manager, as part of a delegation to win over the votes of the Hezbollah community in Dearborn, Michigan.

The Bottom Line

Kamala and the Democrat Party has aligned herself and itself, and the current administration is complicit in funding both Hamas and Hezbollah via the United Nations to the tune of $1 billion +, to destroy our constitutional republic and replace is with a Marxist/Shariah Law compliant government with the intent to destroy we the people.

Kamala and Biden lifted, on their very first day in office, the sanctions placed upon Iran by President Donald J. Trump. Since then we have see Kamala and Biden not only start a war in Ukraine but also in the Middle East.

Under President Trump there were no wars. Why? Because Trump spoke softly but carried a big stick.

Kamala’s goal is now clear. Cheat to win. Win to keep power. Use that power to subjugate anyone who does not think like her and her radical supporters.

This presidential election is truly about the future of the unique American republic and Israel.

Please think about what is at stake and vote accordingly.

May God continue to bless America and the state of Israel.

©2024 Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.) All rights reserved.

Kamala’s Nazis

She’s complicit not with dead Nazis, but with live ones dedicated to killing Jews today.

“I don’t understand how we got so toxic and just so divided and so bitter,” Barack Obama wondered at a Kamala rally in Wisconsin.

A day later the Kamala campaign began accusing Trump of being Hitler.

As October surprises go, a Democrat accusing a Republican of being Hitler is as surprising as pint size witches and ghosts showing up on your doorstep on October 31. Ever since FDR accused Wendel Wilkie of using “Hitler tactics” back during the 1940 election, calling your opponent Hitler has been a rite of passage since even before Joe Biden was born.

Goldwater, Reagan and both Bushes, were accused of Hitlerism, Nazism or fascism.

No Democrat was too respectable to get in the game including MLK who claimed, “we see danger signs of Hitlerism in the candidacy of Mr. Goldwater.”

Barry Goldwater was half Jewish, a WWII vet and a lifetime member of the NAACP who helped found the NAACP’s Arizona chapter, and seemingly the worst possible candidate for ‘Hitlerism’.

Except for Trump who has Jewish family members and is performing so well among Jewish, Latino and black voters that his opponent and her media have to compare him to Hitler.

There was a time when comparing your opponent to Hitler was a mostly harmless form of watering down some of the most horrific events of the twentieth century for political gain.

These days however it’s all too easy to find an influential political movement championing the extermination of the Jews with a foothold inside the Kamala campaign and the Democrats.

If the Jews all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah boasted. And the Islamic terrorist group proved it was serious about killing Jews outside Israel with terrorist attacks like the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires which murdered 86 people.

These days you can spot Hezbollah flags flying at any respectable anti-Israel rally. Including the ones that Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz have defended and are complicit in. Harris, Walz and the party have praised the mobs waving Hamas and Hezbollah flags, chanting in support of the Houthis and assaulting Jewish students, and they want to claim the role of the Allies fighting Hitler when they’re at best the Quislings who are aiding and abetting the Nazis.

Kamala privately met with Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud to urge him to support her campaign. Hammoud had spoken at a rally that included chants of “Death to Israel” and calls for Jews to be returned “back to Poland.”

Hammoud was introduced by Osama Siblani as “the greatest mayor in the United States of America.”  “Mr. Bush believes Hezbollah, Hamas and other Palestinian factions are terrorists, but we believe they are freedom fighters,” Siblani had previously told the Washington Post.

Osama had bragged, “If the FBI wants to come after those who support the resistance done by Hezbollah, then they better bring a fleet of buses. I for one would be willing to go to jail.”

“Our martyrs are heroes, our leaders are great,” Osama Siblani said after the death of the Hezbollah leader “And first among them, their leader, the great Sayyed, Hassan Nasrallah.”

Osama had previously met with Ms. Chávez Rodríguez, Kamala’s campaign manager, as part of a delegation to win over the votes of the Hezbollah community in Dearborn, Michigan.

The Biden-Harris administration and the Harris-Walz campaign are complicit with Nazis. Not historical ones or dead ones, but actual movements dedicated to killing Jews today.

After a year in which American Jews have been assaulted, terrorized and threatened, forced out of campuses and systematically discriminated against, Kamala failed to call out those parts of her base that are responsible for it, sometimes condemning the acts, but never the movements.

When mobs wave Hamas flags in front of the White House and openly identify themselves as Hamas supporters, Kamala, Democrats and the media carefully look the other way. When they do that, they’re looking away from public support for the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust by a Muslim Brotherhood movement that got its start being funded by Nazi Germany.

Vice President Kamala Harris and her people refuse to stop meeting with Nazis, Nazi supporters and their political allies, but want to play the game of calling everyone else “Hitler”. This not only trivializes the Holocaust, but ignores an actual attempt to exterminate that is going on today.

“Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the [Jews] people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was carried out by Hitler. By means of all the things he did to them—even though they exaggerated this issue—he managed to put them in their place. This was divine punishment for them. Allah willing, the next time will be at the hand of the believers,” Muslim Brotherhood ‘spiritual guide’ Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi wished.

Qaradawi, the Qatari backed leader of the Brotherhood, hoped that Islamists would carry on the work of the Nazis. The Obama administration helped the Brotherhood seize power, reached out to Qaradawi and his National Security Council met with Qaradawi’s deputy.

The same people telling us that Trump is Hitler met with actual Nazis who are not shy about announcing their desire to kill all the Jews.

If Kamala wants to find Nazis, she needn’t look far, just as far as the nearest mirror.

AUTHOR

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