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Growing Iranian Threat To Jordan’s Stability And Israel’s Security

October 31, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Culture War, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Religion, Terrorism/by Middle East Media Research Institute

For First Time, Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood Claims Responsibility For Terrorist Attack Against Israel.

Iran, Jordan | Special Dispatch No. 11642

The security threat facing Israel from Jordan appears to be growing, with the ongoing and increasing efforts by Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) to destabilize the Jordanian kingdom in the service of Iran and to transform the country – entirely against its will – into a base for terrorist activity against Israel.

Recently there was a significant escalation of this subversive activity against Jordan when, on October 18, 2024, two members of the Jordanian MB, Husam Abu Ghazala and Amar Qawas, breached the Jordan-Israel border to the south of the Dead Sea disguised as Jordanian soldiers, and opened fire on two Israeli soldiers. Immediately after the attack, spokesmen for the Jordanian MB and its political arm – The Islamic Action Front party – confirmed that the attackers belonged to the movement.[1] These unprecedented announcements reveal the involvement of the MB in terrorist attacks against Israel from Jordanian territory, which until now have been carried out by individuals unaffiliated with any organization.

Furthermore, Hamas – an outgrowth of the MB – revealed a direct connection between the perpetrators of the terrorist attack and its military wing, the Izz Ad-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, when the brigades’ spokesperson, Abu Obaida, issued a statement in which he praised the two Jordanian terrorists and stated that the Hamas military wing had received exclusive photos of the site of the attack taken by the terrorists when they were gathering intelligence prior to perpetrating it.[2]

It therefore seems that the attack south of the Dead Sea is the first practical manifestation of cooperation on the ground between elements in the Jordanian MB and in the Hamas movement with the aim of opening a front against Israel from Jordanian territory in the service of Iran. Since October 2023 and throughout the past year, Hamas officials have been addressing the Jordanian people directly and calling on them to escalate their activity and resistance, i.e., the armed struggle against Israel, from within Jordan and even that to block the border crossings with Israel. Similarly, MB officials – especially the head of the movement, Murad Al-Adaileh – have encouraged Jordanians to join “the war of liberation” against the “temporary entity” Israel, and organized activities and conferences that included incitement to wage jihad against Israel and smuggle weapons to the Palestinians in the West Bank.[3]

It should be noted that the MB’s political arm, the Islamic Action Front party, scored an unprecedented achievement in the September 2024 parliamentary elections when it won the largest bloc of seats in the Jordanian parliament: 31 out of 138. Perhaps it is this development, which indicates broad support for the MB among the Jordanian public, that led the party to acknowledge that the terrorists belonged to the movement, and also led Hamas to acknowledge the connection between the terrorists and Hamas.

Over the past year, MEMRI has published numerous reports about the threat from the Iran-led camp to the stability of Jordan and about its efforts to turn this country into a new battlefront against Israel (see the appendix to this report).

Photos of the site of the attack posted on the Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades website (Alqassam.ps, October 20, 2024)

Harsh Jordanian Response To Terrorist Attack South Of Dead Sea: We Won’t Allow Anyone To Endanger The Future Of The Country

Official Jordan came out strongly against the statement issued by the MB acknowledging the terrorists’ membership in the movement, which was understood in the kingdom as a claim of responsibility for the attack. At a cabinet meeting the day after the attack, Prime Minister Jafar Hassan said: “We will not allow to put the future of this country at risk. We will not permit anyone to replicate in our homeland the kind of chaos and destruction that surrounds us.” He added: “All Jordanians without exception favor supporting and expressing solidarity with our brothers in Palestine, but incitement that endangers the security of the homeland and the welfare of its citizens is an entirely different thing. We will not accept this in any manner, from anyone… Jordan’s security and stability, and the safety of its citizens, are above every consideration… We never have and never will become an arena of chaos and recklessness.”[4]

The Jordanian concern about deliberate escalation by the MB was expressed in a wave of harsh media criticism of the movement, which has long been accused of subverting the sovereignty of the state in the service of the Iran-led resistance axis.[5] In an article in the Al-Rai government daily, former information minister Samih Al-Ma’ayta described the October 18 attack as “a coup against the state and the law” and claimed that “non-Jordanian organizations are establishing military cells [in the country] with the knowledge and cooperation of MB officials.” He added: “We are not like Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq or Syria, a country without sovereignty that is controlled by an organization [acting] under the instructions of an officer in [Iran’s Islamic] Revolution Guard [Corps].”[6] In his column in the daily Al-Dustour, Jordanian journalist Hussein Al-Rawashdeh called on the MB to decide whether it is part of Jordan or of a cross-border organization for which Jordan is only one part of its plan. Everyone must understand, he wrote, “that any mistake against the homeland will be tantamount to treason.”[7] In another column he wrote, “This is a dangerous phase and those who lie in wait [for us] are many. The Jordanians have no choice but to defend their country. How great is the difference between one who stands by the country… [and] one who pretends to wear the cloak of resistance [while] using Jordan as a human shield and detonating crises within it.”[8]

Jordanian Senate member and former minister Muhammad Daoudia wrote in an article that the MB party “has almost become part of the resistance axis” and called its announcement “irresponsible and dangerous,” “a provocation,” and “incitement for young people to breach the border and carry out suicide operations that will give us [i.e., Jordan] a reputation of chaos and lack of control over our borders.” He wondered whether the MB does not understand that its conduct may cause Jordan to activate emergency regulations that will place the country under military rule.[9]

In an article titled “An Outlawed Movement,” journalist Muhammad Hassan Al-Tal called to implement an old court decision to dissolve the Jordanian MB,[10] and added: “The members of the MB, which is operating outside the law, should avoid causing the state to designate their movement a terrorist organization, because [Jordan] is facing demands to do so, as well as regional and international pressures to take this [step].”[11]

Protesters in Jordan hold up pictures of the terrorists Abu Ghazala and Amar Qawas, alongside a picture of Maher Al-Jazi, who perpetrated a terror attack at the Jordan-Israel border crossing on September 8, 2024 (X.com/muradadaileh, October 25, 2024)

Following Wave Of Criticism In Jordan, MB Retracts Its Announcement Embracing The Terrorists

In response to the wave of criticism, the MB issued a clarification stating that the Dead Sea attack had been “an attack by individuals” and that the movement “is concerned, as ever, for the unity, security and stability of the homeland.”[12] Islamic Action Front party secretary-general Wael al-Saqqa explained that “[the fact that] those who carried out [the attack] were members of the Islamic movement [i.e., the MB] does not mean that it was an organized operation on behalf of this movement.”[13] The movement head, Murad Al-Adaileh, who constantly incites jihad against Israel, said: “My message to Jordan’s young people is, do not be hasty. The battle is imminent. We Jordanians have a state, an army and a leadership.” Addressing the criticism voiced against his movement and its party, he added: “I say to those who attack us:… Devote your pens to attacking Israel, which is the greatest threat to all of us in Jordan.”[14]

Protesters in Jordan hold signs bearing pictures of Hamas spokesperson Abu Obeida captioned “The Pride of the Nation” (Palinfo.com, November 24, 2023)

Jordan: Iran Is Behind MB’s And Hamas’ Action Against The Kingdom

Despite these denials from senior figures in the MB and its party, it is clear to the Jordanian establishment that the terrorist activities of Hamas and its parent movement, the MB, are being carried out in the service of Iran, which aims to undermine the kingdom’s regime and to wage the conflict against Israel from its territory. This Iranian war on Jordan has been manifest in recent years in the activity of Iran-affiliated elements who smuggle arms and drugs over the Syrian border to elements affiliated with the MB and Hamas.[15] Other manifestations are the attrition of the Jordanian security forces by Iran-backed militias that carry out repeated attacks across the Syrian and Iraqi borders,[16] and the encouraging of mass protests in Jordan against the war in Gaza, which include calls for insurrection against King Abdullah and his regime.

The Jordanian Kingdom, which has been trying in recent years to thwart the Iranian attempts to destabilize it, has begun in the past year to speak out openly against the Iranian threat to its stability, and against Hamas and the MB, which operate in Iran’s service. Jordan’s allies, such as Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt, have stood by it and sharply criticized the attempts by Hamas, the MB and Iran to exploit the war in Gaza to undermine Jordan’s stability, overthrow its regime, foment chaos and even instigate a new “Arab Spring” in the region.[17]

Furthermore, against the backdrop of these concerns about Iran, calls have been heard in Jordan to support Iranian opposition elements that seek to overthrow the Iranian regime, in order to counter Iran’s subversive activities against Jordan. For example, in June of this year Jordanian MP Aisha Al-Hasanat published an article on the Saudi website Elaph in which she sharply condemned the Iranian regime and urged to support Iranian oppositionists in order to topple it.[18] Jordanian diplomat and politician Bassam Al-Amoush, a former ambassador to Iran, wrote in a similar vein on a Jordanian website, calling to form ties with minorities and opposition groups in Iran in order to counter its subversive activity against Jordan.[19]

Appendix: MEMRI Reports On Threat Posed To Jordan By Iran, Hamas, MB

The following are MEMRI reports from the past year on the threat posed by the Iran-led axis to Jordan and to Israel from Jordanian terrotory.

Special Dispatch No. 11473 – Jordanian MP: Iran Is Waging A War Against Jordan; We Must Support Iranian Opposition Elements – July 3, 2024.

Special Dispatch No. 11226 – Calls For Terrorist Operations Against Israel From Jordanian Territory – Hamas And Muslim Brotherhood Officials, Clerics Close To Qatar: Jordanians Must Buy Arms And Undergo Military Training; Fighting Jews Is ‘Islamic Duty’ – March 25, 2024.

Special Reports – Reports: Assad Regime, Iranian Militias Have Sent Reinforcements To Al-Suwayda In Southern Syria In Order To Besiege Jordan – May 10, 2024.

Special Dispatch No. 11277 – Jordan Explains Its Participation In Thwarting Iran’s Attack On Israel: We Defended Our Borders And People, Oppose Any Iranian Attempt To Violate Our Sovereignty – April 15, 2024.

Special Dispatch No. 11260 – Saudi, Emirati Writers Warn About Attempts Of Iran, Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood To Overthrow Jordanian Regime; This Is Tantamount To Declaration Of War On Jordan’s Allies, Attempt To Instigate New Arab Spring – April 8, 2024.

Special Dispatch No. 11251, Jordanian Regime Furious With Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood: They Are Acting To Foment Chaos In Kingdom In Service Of Iran, April 4, 2024.

Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1757, Iran’s Grand Plan: Bring Down The Jordanian Regime, Attack Israel From The East, And Thwart The Western-Sunni Normalization Project – And This Could Begin This Friday, Iran’s Qods Day, April 3, 2024.

Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1746 – Jordan Increasingly Concerned About Iran Amid Activity Of Iran-Backed Militias On Its Northern Border – February 20, 2024.

Special Dispatch No. 11117 – Former Jordanian Ambassador To Iran: We Must Form Ties With Minorities And Oppositionists In Iran In Order To Repel Its Attempts To Undermine Jordan – February 5, 2024.

Special Dispatch No. 11034 – Lebanese Journalist: Iran Exploiting The War In Gaza To Undermine Stability Of Jordan – December 21, 2023.

[1] For the statement of the Islamic Action Front party, see Facebook.com/jabha.jor, October 18, 2024. Moreover, the spokesperson of the Jordanian MB, Mu’adh Al-Khawaldeh, told AFP that the two terrorists were “members of the movement and had always participated in events in solidarity with Gaza and in support of the resistance.” See Alarabiya.net, October 18, 2024.

[2] Alqassam.ps, October 20, 2024.

[3] See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 11226, Calls For Terrorist Operations Against Israel From Jordanian Territory – Hamas And Muslim Brotherhood Officials, Clerics Close To Qatar: Jordanians Must Buy Arms And Undergo Military Training; Fighting Jews Is ‘Islamic Duty’, March 25, 2024.

[4] Raialyoum.com, October 19, 2024.

[5] See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 11251, Jordanian Regime Furious With Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood: They Are Acting To Foment Chaos In Kingdom In Service Of Iran, April 4, 2024.

[6] Al-Rai (Jordan), October 18, 2024.

[7] Al-Dustour (Jordan), October 20, 2024.

[8] Al-Dustour (Jordan), October 22, 2024.

[9] Al-Dustour (Jordan), October 20, 2024.

[10] The reference is to a 2020 decision by Jordan’s Court of Cassation that dissolved the Jordanian MB for failing “to rectify its legal status.” The decision was never implemented.

[11] Ammonnews.net, October 26, 2024.

[12] Raialyoum.com, October 19, 2024.

[13] Albosala.com, October 19, 2024.

[14] Arabi21.com, October 20, 2024.

[15] For example, in May 2024 Jordan foiled an attempt to smuggle weapons from Iran into the kingdom. According to sources, Iran-backed militias in Syria tried to smuggle arms to a cell of the Jordanian MB that was in contact with Hamas’ military wing. The cell members who were arrested had been recruited by Hamas official Saleh Al-Arouri, who has since been killed by Israel (Reuters,com, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (London), May 15, 2024).

[16] For example, on January 28, 2024 Iran-backed Iraqi militias attacked a U.S. logistical support base in Jordan, causing the death of three American soldiers. Additionally, on April 2, 2024, Abu Ali Al-Askari, an official in the Iraqi Hizbullah Brigades, revealed operative plans to establish a Jordanian militia with 12,000 armed members that would be subordinate to the Iran-led resistance axis. In response, Jordanian government spokesman Muhammad Al-Mubaidin said that the Jordanian authorities were following this matter with concern. Former information minister Al-Ma’aita, for his part, said that Jordan realizes that these militias are subordinate to Iran. For more details, see MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 11251, “Jordanian Regime Furious With Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood: They Are Acting To Foment Chaos In Kingdom In Service Of Iran,” April 4, 2024.

[17] See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 11260 – Saudi, Emirati Writers Warn About Attempts Of Iran, Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood To Overthrow Jordanian Regime; This Is Tantamount To Declaration Of War On Jordan’s Allies, Attempt To Instigate New Arab Spring – April 8, 2024.

[18] See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 11473 – Jordanian MP: Iran Is Waging A War Against Jordan; We Must Support Iranian Opposition Elements – July 3, 2024.

[19] See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 11473 – Jordanian MP: Iran Is Waging A War Against Jordan; We Must Support Iranian Opposition Elements – July 30, 2024.

What’s at Stake in the Current Election?

October 30, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Child Sex, Child Sex Trafficking, Commentary, Communism, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, Immigration, Marxism, News, Policy, Politics, Queers and pedophiles, Regulation, Religion, Social Issues, Socialism, Terrorism/by Jerry Newcombe, D. Min.

It seems like a cliché to say that this is the most important election in our lifetime. But it feels like that right now. Here are a few different things I think are at stake in 2024, of importance to those who share a Biblical worldview.

The Value of Human Life

One party celebrates abortion up to the moment of birth, although they won’t admit that they want it up to the moment of birth. The other camp wants to allow some modest restrictions on abortion.

Abortion cheapens the value of human life. As Mother Teresa once declared, “If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?”

If the lives of unborn babies are cheap, then life is cheap at later stages as well. If the lives of the unborn are worthless, why should people too old to contribute to society be kept alive?

Religious Liberty

America was founded for religious freedom. Dedicated, non-conformist Christians for the most part are the ones who came to these shores. As the Puritans and other colonist in the north east put it in 1643, in the New England Confederation, “We all came into these parts of America with one and the same end and aim, namely, to advance the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ and to enjoy the liberties of the Gospel in purity with peace.”

Religious freedom in America was then extended to other groups. But today we find religious freedom is at risk. Peaceful pro-lifers face more exacting punishment for speaking out on behalf of life than do convicted criminals.

Recently, Vice President Kamala Harris was asked how unlimited abortion rights should be. Should Catholic hospitals be forced, against conscience, to perform abortions? She answered that there should be no restrictions on abortion. Period. Conscience concerns be darned.

Israel

Although Donald Trump is being likened to Adolf Hitler ad nauseum, the reality is that Trump was and is a far greater friend to the Jewish state than has been the Biden-Harris White House, which frequently treats Israel as adversaries. Although many previous presidents promised to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Trump actually did it.

After the vicious attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 in which Hamas tortured and killed Israeli men, women, and children, the Biden-Harris support for the Jewish state has been rather tepid.

In the spring of 2024, when college campuses, including many Ivy League schools, were aflame with anti-Semitic protests, the Biden-Harris team proceeded to coddle them.

Many commentators argue that Kamala did not choose the better candidate, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, who is Jewish, as her running mate—lest she offend Arab-Americans.

Free Speech Rights

We should note that some on the left view the Bible as hate speech. And they view “hate speech” as unprotected by the First Amendment–or they view the First Amendment as obsolete.

Many on the left have said that First Amendment is an obstacle to their goals.

The Transgender Issue

Another issue on the ballot is, “What is a boy?” “What is a girl?” We can see this come into focus when many public-school teachers and administrators try to hide from the parents what is taught in the schools. This conflict is perhaps most acute over the transgender issue—where the left says that gender is fluid.

This notion denies many girls advances in female sports. Somehow the image of a volleyball spiked by a biological male in a girls’ high school meet comes to mind. Such a ball can go as fast as 80 mph, and something like that happened to a girl in North Carolina who was knocked out by it. There was the 46-second unfair (and dangerous) boxing match at the Olympics between a female and a transgender. Seems grossly unfair.

The Teaching of America’s True History

The United States of America was a noble experiment. It can be summed up in one phrase: Self-rule, under God. On July 4, 2026, the United States will be celebrating its 250th birthday. Will it be “morning in America” or will it be “mourning in America”?

Who we vote for in the elections will say a lot about our vision for the nation’s future. And I haven’t even mentioned the borders, the economy, inflation, and runaway crime. There are two competing visions between the two candidates on those fronts as well.

This is a battle between worldviews—one of which values the individual, parental rights, the sanctity of human life, and free enterprise. While the other values enormous taxation, gender fluidity, putting a wedge between parents and children, giving up national sovereignty.

Christian, don’t sit this one out. There’s too much at stake.

Israel Strikes Iran: ‘This All Goes Back to the Weak Leadership of Biden-Harris’

October 29, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Communism, Culture War, Elections, Featured, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, Marxism, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Religion, Socialism, Terrorism/by Family Research Council

The Israeli air force launched a long-anticipated strike against Iran early Saturday morning, in retaliation for Iran’s missile barrage against Israel on October 1. The operation demonstrated Israel’s air superiority, while also showing “restraint,” according to the National Review editors, giving Iran room to climb down from a further confrontation.

Israeli aircraft prowled Iranian airspace for hours, targeting Iran’s anti-aircraft installations first, followed by ballistic missile and drone production sites. Over 100 Israeli aircraft participated in the operation, which carried them more than 1,000 miles away from Israeli territory. They struck military sites in two southwestern provinces, as well as the province of Tehran. “There are over 140 sorties I know [of] by Israeli aircraft,” said Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas) on Monday’s “Washington Watch,” “and devastation must have been pretty substantial.”

Iran’s National Air Defense confirmed “limited damage” and added that some of the strikes were successfully intercepted. The Iranian army said at least two soldiers were killed in the attack.

Notably, the Israeli aircraft successfully hit multiple S-300 air defense batteries, an advanced Russian system. In August, news reports indicated that Russia had delivered more S-300 systems to Iran, after Israel successfully hit an Iranian S-300 system in April. “It does look like they’ve degraded Tehran’s ability to respond to Israel,” remarked Family Research Council President Tony Perkins. “And some are saying this could be setting up potentially another move by Israel if they deem it necessary.”

Israel’s decision to strike Iran’s air defense systems in a prolonged attack was likely intended to communicate that the air force could have done significantly more damage. “The very fact that the Israelis were able to have freedom of the air tells us that Israel can very well protect itself, and the Iranians have a long way to go,” Babin suggested. “It does look like, on first glance, that Israel’s attack has been relatively calibrated. It gives Iran room to climb down,” said Middle East commentator Sanam Vakil.

Israel delayed its counterattack plan after U.S. intelligence documents detailing its military preparations were leaked to an Iranian Telegram account last weekend.

Israel had initially made plans to strike either Iran’s nuclear weapons program or oil production facilities. However, due to the leak, it refocused its attack. Saturday’s attack “steered clear of striking the nuclear and oil facilities that Iran had warned for weeks would bring a tough response,” The Wall Street Journal reported.

This restrained attack was in deference to intense pressure from the Biden-Harris administration, which demanded the Israeli response not escalate the already-escalated conflict. “They want to stop the confrontation, which Israel is trying to eliminate the threat,” Perkins said.

“This all goes back to weak leadership on the part of the Biden-Harris administration,” lamented Babin. “We would not have seen the October 7th attack by Hamas in Israel, [and] we would not have seen the attack on Ukraine by Russia had we not shown … the absolute weakness of the Afghan withdrawal … which tells our allies they can’t really trust us and our adversaries that they really don’t need to fear us.”

Despite recent tensions and suspicions of leaks in Washington, Israeli officials did notify their U.S. counterparts shortly before the strike. U.S. forces were not involved in the attack, but a National Security Council spokesman said the operation was “an exercise of self-defense.”

In addition to sending a warning to Iran, Israel’s strike also attempted to conciliate the Biden-Harris administration. By pursuing a more limited strike, and informing U.S. officials about it beforehand, Israel is clearly trying not to antagonize or provoke the administration any further, giving it no reason to punish Israel after the election.

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Joshua Arnold

Joshua Arnold is a senior writer at The Washington Stand.

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Harris Heckled at Black Church in Philly, Says She has G-d’s Endorsement

October 29, 2024/in Abortion, Anti-Semitism, Elections, Featured, Hot Topics, Immigration, Marxism, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Propaganda, Queers and pedophiles, Religion, Socialism, Video, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Geller Report

Going down in flames, she is.

Just last week, “You Are At The Wrong Rally!” Kamala Mocks, Belittles Christian Students Who Said “Jesus is Lord,” Harris has them Physically Removed

WATCH: Kamala Heckled at Black Church in Philadelphia

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Harris heckled at black church in Philly, suggests that she has G-d’s endorsement

By: Chris Donaldson, BizPac Review, October 26, 2024;

Kamala Harris was heckled at a black church in Philadelphia where she invoked God to convince the vital demographic to turn out in big numbers before next week’s pivotal election.

The Democrat nominee took to the pulpit at the Church of Christian Compassion in the City of Brotherly Love on Sunday morning where she debuted yet another new accent and appealed to the congregation, coming very close to suggesting that God himself has endorsed her in a late appeal to believers despite her record of contempt for Christians.

At one point during Harris’ campaign speech, she was interrupted by someone in the audience who shouted at her, the church’s band then turned up the music to drown out the protest which caused a brief interruption of her cynical spiel.

That’s why we fight for democracy,” Harris said, clapping as the heckler was escorted from the building.

“Every voice is important,” the veep said as she clapped her hands. “Every voice is important.”

“In just nine days, we have the power to decide the fate of our nation for generations to come. And on this day, then on this beautiful Sunday morning, I am reminded God expects us to help Him,” Harris told the congregation to applause, hinting that the Almighty wants her to win the election. “We got work to do.”

“Like Paul, we must remember that divine power works through our actions, and we have the power to move past division, fear, and chaos,” she later told the congregation, according to Fox News. “It is in and within our power to fulfill the promise of America and the promise to create opportunity for every child and to protect our basic freedoms, the power to do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God power the black Church understood and has used for generations.”

The undisputed queen of cringe also debuted another one of the phony accents that she uses for effect with different audiences.

Harris recently drew criticism for mocking Christian college students who shouted Jesus is Lord” during an event in LaCrosse, WI, telling them they were at the wrong rally before they were booted out by security.

“Here in Pennsylvania right now, each of us has an opportunity to make a difference, because in this moment, we do face a real question: what kind of country do we want to live in? What kind of country do we want for our children and our grandchildren?” Harris said.

“A country of chaos… fear and hate, or a country of freedom, justice and compassion. And the great thing about living in a democracy is We the People have the choice to answer that question,” she added, spouting pure projection from the figurehead of the party of chaos, fear, and hate.

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Assessment of Israel’s first strike on Iran in “Operation Repentence”

October 28, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Culture War, Hot Topics, National Security, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Religion/by Center For Security Policy

Overall, based on very initial knowledge and limited information, I would conclude the following results of Israeli three-wave strike on the night of October 26.

On the positive side, the results were partly strategic but mostly a tactical. Israel:

Finally broke the aura of Iranian invincibility. It dispelled the 30- obsession in the west that strike will lead to an apocalyptic result and established precedent for striking Iran directly. This is no small thing and lifts an analytical and policy straight-jacket that paralyzed Israel and others for decades. Iran has been exposed as weak; its bluffs and bluster called. The emperor has only old threadbare underwear. Not quite nude, but close.
⁠Israel started normalizing striking Iran in the same way that over the years Israeli strikes on Syria are now barely noticed. Today, Israel routinely strikes Syria.
⁠Israel set itself up well for a strike that truly devastates the Iranian regime if Iran responds (the bait for which however I doubt Iran will take).
Israel showed itself to be a tactical genius and a military power rivaled by none in competence — a true pride of the Jewish people.

However, on the negative side of the ledger, the bottom line as far as I am concerned, represents a failed strategic result, for the following reasons:

The U.S. wanted Israel to hit mostly what is aligned with what this administration defines as U.S. priorities, which is anything that helps to harm Russia’s war against Ukraine. Those sites were, in fact hit.
That Israel limit itself to only those sites and the sites that Israel operationally needs to strike to operate over Iran. Those sites, namely anti-aircraft, were hit.
That Israel NOT hit any site that hurts Iran’s regime and could lead to escalation as defined by Iran’s pre-strike chest-thumping: nuclear, oil, infrastructure, regime figures or symbolic targets. Those site were in fact NOT hit.
So after a year in which Iran and its proxies killed 2000 Israelis, destroyed up to 60% of cities in the north, sent 250,000 Israelis to be internal refugees, launched a global campaign of Nazi-level anti-Semitism, sent 600 missiles and drones into Israel, shut down half of Israel’s ports and caused all international airlines to indefinitely stop flying to Israel, tried to kill several of the most senior Israeli officials, sent a drone to hit the sitting Prime Minister’s house … Israel launches a strike that protects Ukraine but leaves everything else untouched.
So after a month of bluster that Israel will change the face of the Middle East, Israel returns to the October 6 strategic concept of “we showed them” and deterrence rather than conduct a strike that shakes the foundations of the Iranian regime and maintain strategic strategic momentum. Instead, it let the United States finally achieve its goal of strategically leashing Israel and forcing it back essentially into a strategically reactive, escalatory posture.
In fact, it let Iran’s chest thumping, which was designed to panic Washington, to succeed in reshaping Israel’s reaction — in essence giving Iran control over what Israel would hit.
The key strategic gain Israel had in the last months was that it brought victory as understood in terms of regional culture and understanding — that Israel had “lost it” and was “possessed by the Jinn” (מג׳נאון) and the master of the house went crazy (בעל הבית השתגע). But that concept appropriate for the region was traded in for again a failed Western understanding of conflict management — “restraint is strength”, “we showed them”, Iran got the message”, deterrence.
In short, Iran, whose entire strategy is based on manipulation, chess and using your soul as a weapon against you — all of which depends on your being rational, predictable and manipulate-able— used the power of the U.S. as Israel’s strategic Achilles heal to transform the strategic reality of defeat, retreat and fear it faced in the last two months as Israel has become a dangerous uncontrollable and unpredictable force into a successful effort to return Israel into a controllable, reactive, and manipulate-able position. From there Iran now can reassert its domination over setting the agenda and manipulate events to reverse its retreat and return the strategic momentum it had lost back to itself and enter a long range confrontation with Israel on its terms.
Regionally, Israel no longer appears to be the strong horse that can replace indispensable U.S. power, but instead has reverted to being a dependent U.S. vassal in terms of strategic behavior. Everyone knows this was not the strike Israel needed and could have done, but that it was the strike that Washington imposed on Israel.
Israel’s limiting its strike undermines chances for real peace with Saudi Arabia. The Saudis were looking for a strong horse that replaces U.S. power. Instead, they see now that Israel is nothing more than an American vassal — which is useless to them.

I realize this is harsh.

I realize Iran may strike back, so Israel might have a second chance, but I am doubtful Iran will take the bait.

Israel’s strike is a form of strategic victory for Iran in regional terms, not matter how much our western minds try to rationalize it as an objective show of strength. Iran will far more likely respond in ways that continue to reassert its manipulative control over events rather than lash out in a way that allows Israel a second chance.

Conclusion: Israel’s prime minister ordered this strike under withering pressures from every direction inside Israel and from abroad. The leaked plans, hostile demeanor and slightly veiled threats coming from Israel’s key ally and soul-mate, the United States, were wounds that are not easily dismissed. Israel has a small population less than a tenth of Iran’s while fighting an eight-front war alone and with its allies slowly choking off its arms supply, must look over its shoulder at international institutions that are engage in lawfare to annihilate it and is plagued by an unimaginative defense establishment that suffers deeply from the Western malady of having forgotten the meaning of victory in war. So Israel acted not only alone but with a strong headwind from all directions, even its allies.

The perseverance of Prime Minister Netanyahu despite these forces of sabotage will earn him a hallowed place in history. He has emerged as the only Western leader in power with such vision and resolve to defend what ultimately is the defense of western civilization.

But a sober analysis must identify and overcome the internal forces and hopefully still deliver the strategic victory which at this point it is likely that only Prime Minister Netanyahu has the talent to properly grasp.

AUTHOR

David Wurmser

David Wurmser is senior fellow at Center for Security Policy as well as at the Jerusalem Center for Foreign Affairs and at the Misgav Forum.

Homicidal DNC Projects Vicious Hitler Lie Against Trump on Madison Square Garden During Historic Rally

October 28, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Communism, Culture War, Election Fraud, Elections, Featured, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, Marxism, Misinformation, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Socialism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Geller Report

WATCH: President Donald J. Trump holds massive campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in New York

The party of fascism and Hitlerian Jew-hatred is projecting their sins onto the opposition. This is pure desperation.

Make no mistake, this will only drive more people to Trump.

It’s a transparent attempt to incite more violence against the last man standing against their tyranny.

Trump was the greatest President for the Jews.

He saved Jews.

Democrats are killing them.

During his Presidency, Donald Trump signed “Executive Order 13899 on Combating Anti-Semitism.” As a result, Jewish students were protected under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and have sued their Universities for anti-Semitism.

DNC projects message tying Trump to Hitler on Madison Square Garden during rally

By Libby Cathey, CBS News, October 27, 2024:

The Democratic National Committee is projecting digital messages on Madison Square Garden’s exterior during former President Donald Trump’s campaign rally on Sunday about recent reports that he once praised Adolf Hitler and his generals and that cast him as unhinged.

“Trump praised Hitler,” one of five planned projections from the DNC says, referring to Trump’s longest-serving chief-of-staff, four-star Marine Corps. Gen. John Kelly, telling The Atlantic this week that Trump had admirable things to say about the German dictator.

Trump says he “never said it,” and campaign aides have denied Kelly’s accounts.

Sunday marks the first time the DNC is projecting counterprogramming onto a building while Trump will be inside it, but it’s far from the first time Democrats have deployed the technique. The DNC put projections on Trump Tower in New York City on the night of the vice presidential debate and on Chicago’s Trump International Hotel and Tower during the Democratic National Convention in August.

This time, the stunt comes as some Democrats make comparisons to a 1939 rally supporting Hitler and the Nazi party at a previous reiteration of Madison Square Garden ahead of World War II. Billed as a “Pro American Rally,” the February 1939 event was organized by German American Bund, an pro-Hitler organization, attended by more than 20,000 people and saw an even larger number of counter-protesters outside.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz on Sunday also compared Trump’s rally there to the 1939 rally.

“Donald Trump’s got this big rally going at Madison Square Garden,” Walz said, speaking to voters in Nevada. “There’s a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the mid 1930s at Madison Square Garden. And don’t think that he doesn’t know for one second exactly what they’re doing there.”

Walz and Vice President Kamala Harris have recently increased their criticisms of the former president as they push their final message to voters in the final stretch ahead of the election. In a CNN town hall, Harris agreed that Trump was a fascist and Walz has called comments from the former president “so damn racist.”

In an interview with CNN on Thursday, Hillary Clinton said Trump’s choice of venue for his closing message was no coincidence and that he was “actually reenacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939,” following similar comparisons from others including New York state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal.

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Pamela Geller

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Netanyahu needs an American president who will let him finish the job against Iran

October 28, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, Marxism, Must Read, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Religion, Social Issues, Socialism, Terrorism/by The Geller Report

This is yet another reason to vote for President Trump in November. The Israeli Airforce performed spectacularly in attacking Iran’s military sites. However, Iran’s nuke sites remain standing. That is because the hideous Biden-Harris-Blinken Administration refuse to provide Israel with the diplomatic support that it requires to finish Iran’s genocidal regime.

Such a betrayal will not occur with President Trump in the Oval office. President Trump will not put any restrictions on Israel when defending itself (and Western Civilization) against Iran. However, Trump or no Trump, Israel will need to bomb Iran’s nuke sites no later than sometime in 2025.

Netanyahu needs an American president who will let him finish the job against Iran

By Richard Kemp · The Telegraph, Oct 26th, 2024

Israel’s attacks on Iran this morning were devastating. Dozens of combat planes flew 1,000 miles and are reported to have struck 20 military sites across the country. The primary targets were air defence systems and missile manufacturing facilities. This leaves Tehran more vulnerable to future strikes.

But there are two other consequences of Israel’s raids that are even more significant. First, the ayatollahs, already fearful of a direct, all-out war against a stronger power, will now be even more cowed and may be cautious about any retaliation. There was an indication of that in their statement that Israel had not crossed their red lines with this attack.

Second, they will have intensified fears for their top priority: the stability of their regime. There is significant dissent within the country and this latest dramatic sign of vulnerability will encourage those who seek to bring down the government. The dissidents will not be taken in by Tehran’s bluster that the Israeli strikes were blunted by air defences and caused only limited damage, a lie underlined by threats to Iranian citizens of lengthy prison sentences if they share footage of the strikes.

Nor will they believe the regime’s assertions that Israel was deterred by their warnings against the more significant attack that some had expected in response to repeated Iranian aggression, including the failed barrage of 200 missiles on October 1. Israel’s raid was not powerful enough to deal with the Iranian threat but that has nothing to do with any warnings from Tehran.

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Geller Report Staff

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The New York Times’ Double Standards

October 28, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Commentary, Election Fraud, Fake News, Hot Topics, Marxism, News, Policy, Politics, Propaganda, Social Issues, Socialism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Jihad Watch

In the bias and malevolence of its coverage of the IDF and Israel, the New York Times has few equals in the American mainstream media. Just now it has been reporting on those, both Palestinians and soldiers, who accuse the IDF of using Palestinians as human shields in Gaza. More on the Times’ credulous coverage of this story can be found here: “Double Standards as New York Times Accuses IDF of Using Palestinians as Human Shields,” by Simon Plosker, Algemeiner, October 22, 2024:

Replete with a headline designed to tarnish Israel’s entire military, The New York Times recently published an investigation alleging that IDF soldiers were using Gazans as human shields during operations in the Gaza Strip.

The idea seems to be that the IDF uses Palestinians to accompany them when they first enter an area, and to go first into buildings that may be booby-trapped, before the IDF soldiers go in, or they are made to walk alongside IDF tanks, as a putative protection against attack by Hamas. No one has produced any evidence to support such charges.

In order to make its case, The New York Times says it “interviewed 16 Israeli soldiers and officials who knew about the practice, as well as three Palestinians, on the record, who were forced to take part in it.”

While the small number of Palestinians are named, the Israelis are not. It is always problematic to present anonymous testimony in a story where we don’t know the motivations behind those who are talking to the journalists.

Why were the 16 Israeli soldiers not named? Could it be because they knew their claims were doubtful, and didn’t want to be exposed? Some of them may have been far-left peaceniks, trying to arouse public anger in Israel against the IDF, in the hope of forcing the government to agree to an immediate ceasefire. Some may have genuinely misunderstood what the Palestinians present at IDF operations were doing. A Palestinian accompanying an IDF patrol might be voluntarily aiding the IDF to locate Hamas operatives and weapons, in the hope of sparing his home or hometown from being massively shelled.

Two of the Israelis, however, were connected to The New York Times through Breaking the Silence, whose motivations are very clear.

The organization, which was founded in 2004 by former IDF soldiers who are highly critical of Israel, claims to “expose the public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories” using testimonies that are purported to be “meticulously researched” while “all facts are cross-checked with additional eyewitnesses.”…

“Breaking the Silence” is a group of former IDF soldiers who are critical of Israel, and want to “expose the public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories.” The very fact that they use the phrase “Occupied Territories” indicates their embrace of the Palestinian cause, and their willingness to blacken the image of the IDF. A number of soldiers who have provided testimonies of IDF misconduct to Breaking the Silence turn out to have been paid to provide their stories; one wonders how much was real, and how much was made up by these soldiers in order to receive payments from the group.

Yet when it comes to New York Times coverage of and investigations into the IDF, it’s impossible to ignore the Gray Lady’s wider agenda that continuously seeks to delegitimize Israeli self-defense against the terrorists who are currently attacking it from multiple fronts.

For example, only days ago, the paper published an article that accused Israel of committing war crimes and “shooting children at point-blank range.” That story also relied on questionable testimonies and even more questionable X-rays purporting to show IDF bullets lodged in the heads of Palestinian children. The very authenticity of the X-rays was called into question, as the entire story was torn apart online….

Forensic experts who examined the X-ray photographs of dead children’s heads with bullets lodged in them concluded that they were fakes. For more on that particular scandal, in which The New York Times credulously accepted the Palestinian story, and refused to accept the scathing testimony of experts that debunked the claims of “65 Palestinian doctors and nurses,” see here.

Hamas’ policy of embedding its operatives, and hiding its weapons, within areas populated by civilians, is central to its war making. It does everything it can to increase civilian casualties, because it knows that their deaths will aid its propaganda campaign against Israel. As Yahya Sinwar said, the deaths of Palestinian civilians are the “necessary sacrifices” that must be made in fighting the Zionist enemy.

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Hugh Fitzgerald

Hamas top dog Sinwar’s instructions for holding hostages included Qur’an quotes on the subject

October 28, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Culture War, Hot Topics, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Religion, Socialism, Terrorism/by Jihad Watch

Just in case you still weren’t convinced that this was an Islamic jihad, not a conflict over land that can be solved through negotiations.

“Now when you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks until, when you have subdued them, then make fast the bonds, and afterward either generosity or ransom until the war lays down its burdens. That, and if Allah willed, he could have punished them, but so that he may test some of you by means of others. And those who have been killed in the way of Allah, he does not make their actions useless.” (Qur’an 47:4)

“Sinwar’s instructions for holding the hostages revealed,” Israel National News, October 25, 2024:

The Palestinian Arab newspaper al-Quds published three documents in the handwriting of former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar which contain instructions regarding the guarding of the Israeli hostages, their distribution in each area, and the names of the hostages, including those who were released in the first deal last November.

The first document includes the instructions regarding the hostages and it states that the lives of the abductees must be preserved because “they are an important card” to free terrorists imprisoned in Israel. Sinwar included quotes from the Koran on the subject.

The second document included a statistical breakdown of the hostages in each area – men, women, soldiers, civilians, young people, people over sixty or under sixty. This document also specifies where Bedouin hostages were held….

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Robert Spencer

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The Practice of Bay’at

October 27, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Culture War, Iranian influence, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Religion, Terrorism/by Amil Imani

Bay‘at (A pledge, swearing unconditional subservience to a powerful person), a longstanding practice among the pre-Islamic Arabs, was fully incorporated into Islam by Muhammad and accounts for much of his success in gathering more and more power.

Bay’at is a very effective yet simple practice. A locally powerful tyrant summons less powerful individuals, usually one at a time, and gives them a choice: Become my subservient, loyal follower and recognize me as your superior. If you do so, your life is spared, and I may reward you in other ways. If you fail to do so, I will take your life, assume lordship over your followers, and take possession of everything you have.

In the overwhelming majority of cases, the lesser chiefs and leaders fall into line very quickly, realizing the alternative is complete devastation and death for them, their families, and their followers. So, with one stroke, the more powerful brute subsumes a significant human and material resource under his reign.

Muhammad practiced this art with consummate skill. The highly scattered, chronically at war with one another tribes of Arabia didn’t have much choice when Muhammad and his superior force offered them the bargain. The great majority of these tribal chiefs did take the bargain and saved their own necks and that of their people. Those who resisted lost everything anyway.

And power begets power, up to a point. Islam’s power continued long after Muhammad’s death through the practice of Bay’at on a much larger scale or the use of the sword.

“Broadly speaking, this pledge of allegiance to a person of authority has become the practical meaning of the term “bay‘a” in Islam. It was first and foremost applied to the Prophet. Still, after his death, it was also extended to other Muslim community leaders, primarily the caliph, the successor to the Prophet in political affairs and in upholding Islamic rule. Ideally, this pledge of allegiance to a caliph takes place through his election, but it may also happen through appointment by his predecessor. According to ‘ulama’ (Muslim scholars), the caliph himself must satisfy several conditions, including ruling based on justice (‘adala), possessing knowledge (‘ilm) of Islamic tradition and law, having physical and mental fitness, being courageous and determined, waging jihad, and being a descendant of the Quraysh tribe, to which the Prophet Muhammad himself also belonged. [14]”

When the prophet Muhammad died, infighting started earnestly among the various factions. Each demanded Bay’at with another clan. People began jockeying for power and doing their best to destroy their competition. Ali, Muhammad’s son-in-law, was elbowed out of the way by the more powerful disciples of the prophet, and he had to wait his turn to lead the already fractured and feuding Ummah. Several of the faithful resented the fact that Ali was not allowed to take over. Some felt victimized by Umar and his powerful conspirators and hated Ali for not standing up and fighting like a man. Some real stand-and-fight Muslims decided that Ali should be punished, and he was knifed to death on his way to the mosque.

The death of Ali was the real stirring of the hornet’s nest. All kinds of power struggles, infighting, and bloodletting started among the followers of the religion of peace. Ali’s boys, namely Hassan and Hussein, decided to salvage their dad’s honor by standing and fighting like a good Muslim should and enjoying the perks of being the gang’s leaders. So, a real fight was joined. On one side was Yazid with his mighty army and wealth, and on the other side were Hassan and Hussein with their ragtag band of followers. Hassan was killed unceremoniously in short order, but Hussein was not about to bow out. Hussein started a dialogue with his adversary, Yazid.

Hussein: I am the rightful inheritor of the house of Muhammad. I demand that all believers, including you Yazid, accept me (bay‘at) as the head of the Ummah.

Yazid: Nothing doing, man. Muhammad’s Ummah is not a family business. It is the faith of Allah that must follow His laws. The people select the most righteous man as the head of the faith, just as the Caliphs did. The faith of Allah is based on meritocracy and not heredity.

Hussein: You are wrong, Yazid. My granddaddy started the business, my daddy gave his life for it, my brother was murdered to claim it, and I intend to take what is rightfully mine.

Yazid: Hussein, you seem just as stubborn as Hassan. You are not amenable to reason, so let the sword of justice settle our dispute. You know the rest of the story. Hussein stubbornly refused to relinquish his claim to power over Yazid. Shimr cut off his head, impaled it on a spear, and presented it to Yazid as a trophy.

The followers of the house of Ali and his lineage, a minority of about 10 percent of Muslims, felt victimized by the evil Yazid. Since there was very little that these lovers of Ali’s house could do to change things materially, they assumed the role of victims.

Let’s be clear: a Muslim’s loyalty or Bay‘at is to the Islamic Ummah that recognizes nothing other than one worldwide Ummah of Islam with no allowance for independent nationalities. A Muslim is required to abide by and live under the laws of Sharia and not the Constitution of the United States of America or any other laws. Because a Muslim must adhere to Islamic laws and not to a man-made law like the US Constitution, a Muslim can never be both a Muslim and an American at the same time.

The Pledge of Allegiance says, “one nation under God,” while a Muslim is required to be part of the Ummah under Allah. It is critically important to realize that Allah is not the same as the Judeo-Christian God. The two are vastly different beings.

In short, Muslims, those who consider themselves good and peaceful, as well as those who want us to accept their ideology of barbarism at the point of the sword, take the fateful step of joining the free and emancipated family of humanity and pledging (Bay’at) allegiance to the US Constitution, or they can move back to the country of their origin.

Something rotten in the land of the Tricolor?

October 27, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Commentary, Culture War, Hot Topics, Lawfare, Marxism, Misinformation, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues/by Dr. Martin Sherman

While France is the origin of the principles of modern democracy, it has also shown a disturbing affinity for tyranny.

“I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors…I cannot prevent the French from being French.” — Charles de Gaulle.

Bizarre developments seem to be emerging in what is considered by many—rightly or wrongly—the home of modern democracy. For there appears to be a growing alignment between Paris and the tyrannical theocrats of Tehran—particularly over the fate of war-torn Lebanon.

Lebanon as a vassal state?

Thus, recently Reuters reported that in a recent interview with Le Figaro, the Speaker of the Iranian parliament, Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf, was quoted as saying his country would be ready to “negotiate” with France (!) on the implementation of UN Resolution 1701, the very motion that failed so disastrously to bring stability to Lebanon following the 2006 Second Lebanon War.

Accordingly, it appears that both Paris and Tehran view Lebanon, not as an independent state with its own sovereign government but rather as a vassal state subordinate to them both.

This curious bilateral initiative, with its manifest disregard for Lebanon itself, drew a sharp rebuke from Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati, who stated that such a negotiation was the prerogative of the Lebanese state. In a rare—and audacious—reproach of Iran, he expressed “surprise” at Ghalibaf’s move, describing it as “blatant interference in Lebanese affairs” and an attempt to “establish a rejected guardianship over Lebanon“.

Significantly, The Tehran Times, a regime-affiliated media channel, reported on an October 12 telephone conversation from Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to France’s President Macron devoted to increasing pressure on Israel to stop what he described as “genocide” and “war crimes” in both Gaza and Lebanon. Pezeshkian praised the recent steps taken by the French government condemning Israeli actions in Lebanon and suspending arms shipments to the IDF, citing them as…positive moves toward peace.

Complicit in suppression?

Another perturbing development has recently come to light following a two-year investigation by FRANCE 24, which revealed that hunting cartridges made by the Franco-Italian ammunition manufacturer Cheddite were used during the violent crackdown on the 2022 “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests, sparked by the death in police custody of Mahsa (Jina) Amini, a young Kurdish-Iranian woman, arrested for not wearing hijab as required. Reportedly, 551 people died (including almost 70 children) as a result of the regime’s repression in the months that followed the initial uprising.

According to the FRANCE 24 probe, these cartridges are widely available across Iran—in stark violation of the 2011 sanctions imposed by the EU. It appears that the ammunition may have been routed into Iran via Turkey, where Cheddite held shares in a weapons manufacturing company.

Interestingly, similar munitions were reportedly used against Southern Azeris, an ethnic minority, constituting close to a third of Iran’s population, during the suppression of a protest against persecution, discrimination, and erasure of Azerbaijani culture and language by the regime.

France’s aberrant conduct—as a power allegedly associated with the West, its values, and its objectives—is apparent elsewhere regarding the provision of arms.

Useless UNIFIL

Indeed, as I pointed out several months ago, last November, French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu approved the delivery of several dozen French-made armored vehicles to the Lebanese army, ostensibly to “assist them in their patrol missions within the country [so] it could coordinate well with UNIFIL as tensions mount between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.” In other words, as i24-News remarks, France is providing armored personnel carriers to the Lebanese Army for use in the areas controlled by Hezbollah, despite previous knowledge that Western military equipment supplied to the Lebanese Army has ended up in the hands of the Iranian terror proxy. Indeed, as the Alma think-tank warned, Hezbollah’s infiltration of the Lebanese army, as well as its utilization of its infrastructure, materiel, and personnel, implies there is a tangible risk that French equipment and armaments will end up being used against Israel.

French animosity toward Israel was also on display in Paris’s sharp rebuke of the IDF when it fired on UNIFIL positions in South Lebanon. France accused Israel of endangering UNIFIL personnel and preventing them from fulfilling their peacekeeping mandate—blithely ignoring that (a) the force has clearly been an abysmal failure in keeping the peace in Lebanon and (b) Israel urged that its troops evacuate the combat zone so as to avoid the risk of injury.

Paris’s pernicious policies

Further revelations of French anti-Israel bias have been exposed regularly over the last several months. Last June, France’s Defense Ministry issued a decree banning Israeli participation in a premier weapons exhibition, Eurosatory. The fact the ban was struck down by the French judiciary did little to deter the Macron government from trying to impose an additional ban on Israeli companies from taking part in another event, Euronaval Salon, a naval defense fair, scheduled to take place between 4 and 7 November. Israel has once again vowed to challenge this decision in French courts.

To top all this off, President Emmanuel Macron, whose own country has been the victim of Islamist savagery, is—astonishingly—promoting an arms embargo against Israel for its military response to even greater Islamist savagery, in which 1200 of its citizens were massacred and mutilated—the equivalent of almost 8,000 French citizens in proportion to its population, almost 7 times that of Israel’s.

Sadly, Paris’s pernicious policies extend beyond the Middle East and into the Caucasus, where a perturbing convergence of Iranian and French objectives appears to be emerging. This centers largely around their approach towards Armenia, which for years functioned as a conduit for goods to Russia and Iran in contravention of the Western sanctions against those two countries.

Diverging from the West?

Of course, Amenia and its neighbor, Azerbaijan have been bitter adversaries for decades, which periodically erupted into military conflagrations, specifically over the Armenia-dominated enclave of Nagorno Karabakh. However, since Azerbaijan’s decisive victory in 2023, there has been a spluttering peace process, which may hold out the promise of a lasting resolution of the hostility between the two countries. In this regard, some have suggested that both France and Iran have a vested interest in undermining this process. Indeed, Azerbaijan has complained that Paris has been biased against it, regularly favoring Armenia, arguably because of the influence of the substantial Armenian diaspora in that country.

Moreover, there are growing ties between Armenia and Iran involving multi-billion dollar deals and military cooperation that have led to assessments that Armenia is becoming an Iranian proxy in the Caucasus. The tension between Tehran and Baku is hardly surprising. After all, Azerbaijan is Israel’s leading supplier of crude oil, an important commercial partner, and a large importer of Israeli armaments. These cordial relations between the Jewish state and Azerbaijan, a Shia Muslim state, is an anathema to the Iranian regime, Israel’s most virulent enemy.

Iran is aware of the potential in closer ties with France. Indeed, earlier this year, the then-newly appointed Iranian ambassador to France stressed the importance of the ties between Tehran and Paris. According to informed sources, Iran perceives France as standing apart from the rest of the West—specifically the US and its Anglophonic allies including the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

An affinity for tyranny?

It remains to be seen if the recent events in the Middle East, and Israel’s resounding successes against Iran and its emasculated proxies, cause Paris to consider recharting its ill-advised course. Of course, in assessing this issue it would be prudent to remember France has a history of an affinity for tyranny.

After all, it was not only the source of the noble ideal of “Liberté, Égalité, and Fraternité—but also of the home of the Vichy government—which willing collaborated with Nazi Germany, the all-time tyranny of tyrannies.

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Has the world learned anything in a year?

October 27, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Elections, Hot Topics, Marxism, Must Read, National Security, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Religion, Social Issues, Socialism, Terrorism/by Matthew Hausman, J.D.

One year later, Israel finds herself fighting an existential war on seven fronts, while the wider world portrays her as an aggressor in need of taming.

The world has learned nothing since Shemini Atzeret 5784 (October 7, 2023) and in fact seems to have regressed significantly. Even before Israel could retaliate for the brutal atrocities committed by Hamas and subsidized by Iran, antisemitic protesters throughout America and the West took to the streets to glorify terrorism, slander Israel, and call for the Jews’ extermination. They projected their own hatred and bloodlust onto the Jewish state, falsely accusing her of genocide in Gaza, mindlessly repeating terrorist propaganda regarding civilian casualties, and condemning Israel for defending herself. Meanwhile, mainstream media outlets, university campuses, and the progressive left became hotbeds of antisemitic Israel bashing, where blood libel and ancient stereotypes gained new currency, violence was praised, and Jews were dehumanized with Nazi-like ferocity.

One year later, Israel finds herself fighting an existential war on seven fronts, while the wider world portrays her as an aggressor in need of taming. Despite claiming to support Israel’s right to self-defense, the Biden administration imperiously demands that she temper her response against Iran for shooting nearly two-hundred ballistic missiles at her and criticizes PM Netanyahu for authorizing the elimination of Hezbollah’s command structure. Given Biden’s constant disparagement of Netanyahu and failure to censure antisemitism within his party, his administration has no moral authority – and no credibility – to demand anything.

As an ally of Israel, the US under Biden gets poor marks for its efforts to undermine Netanyahu’s coalition, interfere in Israeli domestic politics, and promote ceasefire proposals that would leave terrorists in power and Israel at their mercy. And as a putative strategic confidante, the administration’s performance is suspect, given the number of leaks that have come out during the war concerning, among other things, Israeli tactical planning and a recent confidential letter demanding that Israel implement fifteen “humanitarian” measures in Gaza or face a potential US arms embargo.

Has the US imposed similar constraints on military aid to Ukraine?

As if the administration’s treatment of Israel were not bad enough, it actively seeks to placate antisemitic progressives in its party and thus effectively tolerates vile bigotry. Kamala Harris did so when she stated in an interview in “The Nation” that anti-Israel (i.e., antisemitic) protesters on college campuses are “showing exactly what the human emotion should be,” as did Biden during his address at the Democratic National Convention, when he stated that hateful demonstrators outside the convention hall “have a point.” This ominous tone was set by Barack Obama almost immediately after October 7th, when he drew moral equivalency between Israel and Hamas, stating that “nobody’s hands are clean” in the conflict in a transparent attempt to absolve Hamas of evil. Such analogies are morally reprehensible.

With antisemitism running rampant throughout the American political and cultural landscape, politicians displaying gross moral blindness, university presidents refusing to condemn campus Jew-hatred, and a major political party coddling antisemites to solicit their votes in November, what are Jews to do? What ever happened to decency and civil discourse?

Unfortunately, even friends and sympathizers fail to understand the existential ramifications for Israel and the Jewish people, particularly when they use their own experiences as a yardstick for uneven comparison. Antisemitism is not like any other hatred, but rather is unique in its historical breadth and scope. It is based at once on religion, ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, economics, and culture. Jews have been hated by Christians and Muslims alike, based on scriptures and doctrines that contain anti-Jewish stereotypes which ultimately transcend parochialism to influence common culture beyond specific faith communities.

And as a migratory people who refused to disappear into their host societies through assimilation, Jews were perpetual targets of xenophobic hostility. Incongruously, they were hated by socialists and communists for being wealthy and by plutocrats for being socialists and communists. They were hated by church fathers, popes and reformers like Martin Luther; liberal philosophers and theoreticians like Voltaire, Baron d’Holbach, and Diderot; post-enlightenment despots, reactionaries, and revolutionaries; and twentieth-century dictators like Hitler and Stalin.

Unlike any other form of hatred, antisemitism is an equalizer that bridges the gaps between religious and secular, Christian and Muslim, rich and poor, right and left. And even those who abhor it cannot truly understand how Jews feel or the weight of Jewish history.

Those who claim, for example, that “October 7th was Israel’s 9/11,” do not truly grasp the historical nuance. The horrors of 9/11, as shocking and profound as they certainly were, were distinct from the events of October 7th. Al-Qaeda’s attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93 were horrendous and dastardly, but the terrorists’ delusional aim was to spark a holy war that would end with submission to Islam. In contrast, Hamas’s pogrom of October 7th – with its torture, rape, and unspeakable brutality – was an act of genocide. The atrocities associated with both dates are distinguishable by motive and goal and thus, despite shared similarities and outrage, are also marked by fundamental differences.

If there is a more appropriate analogy to be made, one might say that 9/11 provided the US with a sense of what Israel has experienced since 1948, and Jews have suffered for millennia at the hands of gentile society, whether in Christian Europe or the world of Islam. However, the events of October 7th stand on their own for their genocidal impact. And whereas the global community empathized with the US for years after 9/11, its sympathy for Israel began eroding only a few days after October 7th.

Over the last year, I have heard from people who follow me in print or on radio. Some have been incredibly insightful while others have offered loaded statements about Israel’s one-way humanitarian obligations or the Jews’ responsibility to rise above the horrors and indignities inflicted upon them and morally outshine their enemies. Of the latter group of critics, some seem naive while others are ignorant or downright hostile.

It smacks of antisemitism, for example, when they claim that Israel deliberately targets civilians, when in fact she takes unparalleled measures to minimize casualties by sending notice of impending operations, thereby broadcasting military intentions to her strategic detriment. Unlike any other country, moreover, Israel provides medical care and aid to civilians in battle zones.

It is also antisemitic when they argue that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. If Israel were doing so, I respond, how can they explain the exponential Arab population growth there since 1967? False claims of Israeli genocide constitute a modern-day blood libel that is oft-repeated on college campuses, in the news media, and by the progressive left. It is antisemitic, too, when they characterize Gaza as “occupied,” though Israel withdrew in 2005 (and forcibly removed all Jewish residents), leaving no residual presence – only to see Hamas elected by a populace that even now approves of the October 7th pogrom.

Two of the most fatuous platitudes I hear regarding the current conflict are that “violence only begets violence” and “you make peace with enemies, not friends.” Such statements, however, ignore the reality famously articulated by Golda Meir when she observed: “If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel.”

Apologists for terror usually argue that only Israel is obligated to risk security for peace and that defending herself radicalizes Palestinian Arabs.

But the war is not radicalizing anybody insofar as the rejection of Jewish humanity, dignity, and sovereignty is embedded within traditional Islamic society, where subjugating Jews is a cultural mandate. Indeed, the precariousness of Jewish life under Islam was recognized one-thousand years ago in Iggeret Teiman (“Epistle to the Jews of Yemen”), which Rambam (Maimonides) wrote to provide guidance and comfort to Jews who were suffering greatly under the yoke of Arab-Muslim persecution.

It is the medieval image of the Jew as weak, broken, and spiritually defective that drives Islamic rejectionism today and has embroiled Israel in a multifront conflict she cannot afford to lose. The difference is that in Rambam’s time, the threat came from Peninsular Arabs bent on subjugating Jews whereas today it comes from Iranian Shiites committed to destabilizing the region and acting out their apocalyptic eschatology.

By confronting Iran and its proxies head-on, Israel is doing precisely what the West should be doing to promote global security, instead of appeasing terror.

As G-d stated through the prophecy of Yeshayahu nearly 2,800 years ago: “I will make you [Israel] a light of nations, so that My salvation shall be until the end of the earth.” (Yeshayahu, 49:6.) In addition to spreading knowledge of Torah and Hashem, perhaps being a light to the nations also requires Israel to act for the global good when no other nation will do so.

Israel Launches Retaliatory Strikes Against Iran

October 26, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Elections, Hot Topics, Must Read, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Religion/by The Daily Caller

Israel launched retaliation strikes against Iran late Friday, responding directly to Tehran’s large-scale ballistic missile strike against the nation, the IDF confirmed.

A series of explosions rattled Tehran and the nearby city of Karaj, reportedly marking the onset of an Israeli retaliation against Iran, according to an IDF spokesperson. Iranian state media confirmed blasts echoing through key locations, including the Imam Khomeini International Airport as speculation surged pointing to coordinated Israeli airstrikes on high-value targets in Iran.

“In response to months of continuous attacks from the regime in Iran against the State of Israel – right now the Israel Defense Forces is conducting precise strikes on military targets in Iran. The regime in Iran and its proxies in the region have been relentlessly attacking Israel since October 7th – on seven fronts – including direct attacks from Iranian soil,” IDF Spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said.

“Like every other sovereign country in the world, the State of Israel has the right and the duty to respond. Our defensive and offensive capabilities are fully mobilized. We will do whatever necessary to defend the State of Israel and the people of Israel.”

Israeli official confirms Israel launched an attack against Iran https://t.co/KVCLmNGlwO

— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) October 25, 2024

Arab media reported that the strikes may have targeted the headquarters of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Jerusalem Post reported. This incident follows reports of a fire at an Iranian Defense Ministry site in Tehran, though local fire officials denied any connection to military action, suggesting it was unrelated.

The ramifications of the attack appear to stretch beyond Iran’s borders as explosions were also reported in parts of Syria and Iraq, where air defense systems were reportedly engaged to counter incoming threats, as indicated by Israeli outlet Maariv, JPost stated. The situation remains fluid as Tehran and neighboring states assess the fallout, with multiple regional defense systems now active and military activity escalating, the potential for further confrontations and regional instability is high.

As both nations brace for further retaliation, U.S. and Israeli officials hold hope for a restrained Iranian counter-response to avoid a spiraling escalation in violence, Axios reported. To deter further escalation, the U.S. recently increased its military presence in the region, bolstering Israel‘s defenses and potentially discouraging Iranian retaliation.

The Iranian military fired drones toward Israel in April and followed up on this earlier aggression by launching ballistic missiles into Israel earlier in October, with reports suggesting that this might be just the initial phase of the attack. About 200 missiles were fired, and for months, Iran has threatened retaliation against Israel for the killings of leaders associated with its proxy groups, including Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

Israel previously threatened to target Iran’s nuclear and oil sites should Tehran initiate an attack, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.

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Mariane Angela

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Netanyahu was Right and Biden and Harris Wrong About the IDF Entering Rafah

October 25, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Elections, Lawfare, Marxism, Misinformation, Must Read, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Religion, Socialism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Jihad Watch

Last March, when the IDF was preparing an offensive against Hamas in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, Joe Biden was alarmed. He publicly told Prime Minister Netanyahu not to do it, saying that such a move would cross a “red line.” He threatened to withhold military aid to Israel. Kamala Harris also said that having “studied the maps,” she knew that such an operation could only end in disaster because of the one million civilians living in Rafah; she said there would be “consequences” if the IDF went ahead. More on how the Bidenites tried to stop the IDF from entering Rafah, and how Prime Minister Netanyahu went ahead anyway, can be found here: “After Sinwar killing, Netanyahu sees vindication in his Rafah approach,” by Lazar Berman, Times of Israel, October 18, 2024:

In mid-March, US officials told the Politico news site that US President Joe Biden would consider limiting future military aid to Israel if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went ahead with an offensive against Hamas in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah.

Days before, Biden said in an interview that such an IDF move into the city would be a “red line,” while adding that he was “never going to leave Israel. The defense of Israel is still critical.”

Vice President Kamala Harris famously said at the time that she had “studied the maps” and that a Rafah operation was not viable, while warning of potential consequences.

The US wasn’t the only country to use unusually harsh language in warning against the step. An Israeli offensive in Rafah “could only lead to an unprecedented humanitarian disaster and would be a turning point in this conflict,” said French President Emmanuel Macron. The UK, Jordan and Egypt also issued stark injunctions.

In fact, world leaders were projecting outright panic over the planned campaign, which Israel insisted was necessary in order to complete the dismantlement of Hamas. They warned of catastrophic consequences for the civilian population in the city, which had become a refuge for much of the Strip’s population amid the war; they said a proper evacuation of the city would require months and was unfeasible; they predicted a cataclysmic death toll that would dwarf all that had come before.

The intense global pressure led to months of delay, but the Rafah offensive eventually went ahead in May regardless, with Israel successfully evacuating the civilian population ahead of its push into the city — in a matter of days — and none of the predictions of disaster coming to pass. Over the course of four months, the military systematically dismantled Hamas’s Rafah Brigade, with civilian deaths actually far lower than during the opening campaigns of the war in Gaza’s north….

That evacuation of the city’s civilian population that everyone outside Israel said couldn’t possibly be accomplished successfully, in fact was accomplished within three weeks. One million people left Rafah, between May 6 and May 26, both for Al-Mawasi, an area that the IDF had declared to be a “humanitarian zone,” and for parts of Khan Yunis.

Will any intrepid reporter ask Kamala Harris if she now thinks, with the killing of Yahya Sinwar in Rafah, that her attempt last March to prevent the IDF from moving into the city by threatening that there would be “consequences,” was ill-advised? Will anyone ask Joe Biden if he now admits he was wrong to describe an IDF move into Rafah as “crossing a red line” and to threaten to cut military aid if the IDF went ahead? Had the IDF stayed out of Rafah, four Hamas battalions in the city would still be intact, and Yahya Sinwar would still be alive. Biden and Harris were clearly wrong before in threatening Israel over a looming operation in Rafah. Now that they have issued a new threat to withhold military aid unless 350 trucks with humanitarian aid enter Gaza every day, is it just possible that they are wrong this time, too?

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Kamala Grew Up Around Terrorists

October 24, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Communism, Elections, Marxism, Must Read, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Socialism, Terrorism/by Jihad Watch

The untold story of Kamala’s grandfather and her childhood in Africa.

On the last leg of her African tour, Vice President Kamala Harris paid a visit to an otherwise unremarkable office building in Zambia. Her staff and local embassy personnel had spent a great deal of time looking for it and everyone was hoping it was the right place.

Kamala, with her Jamaican and Indian roots, needed a tangible connection to Africa to win over African-American voters and convince them that she was one of them. And everyone settled on the office building as being the next best thing because it was the former spot of the building where she had once stayed as a little girl with her Indian mother on a visit to her grandfather.

President Hakainde Hichilema welcomed her as “a daughter of our own country, someone who spent time here in her early years.”

Kamala responded by launching into a story about having visited “Zambia, Mr. President, as a young girl when my grandfather worked here” as “an advisor to Zambia’s first president, Kenneth Kaunda” to “serve as a director of relief measures and refugees.”

The vice president then began singing the praises of Kaunda, a brutal socialist dictator allied with the Soviet Union, who had banned opposing political parties and ran as the only candidate for president until he was finally ousted, and praised Zambia’s “democracy”. Kaunda, whom Kamala fondly recalled meeting with JFK and MLK “to discuss peaceful forms of protest” had demanded nuclear weapons from LBJ. Hichilema, who had narrowly survived being arrested by a previous regime, had nothing to say about Kamala’s fond memories of Zambian democracy.

Or the “peaceful forms of protest” carried on with nuclear missiles and terrorism.

But behind Kamala’s childhood time in Zambia and her grandfather’s work is a lot of blood, along with a horrifying and mostly forgotten story of terrorism, atrocities and mass murder.

P. V. Gopalan, Kamala’s grandfather, had been a member of India’s socialist Congress party which was aligned with the USSR. What “refugees” was he aiding in Zambia?

Gopalan was posted to Zambia from 1966 to 1969. Formerly known as Northern Rhodesia, Zambia played a key role in the genocidal terrorist campaign against what was known as Rhodesia before it fell to a brutal dictatorship and became known afterward as Zimbabwe.

Before Robert Mugabe spent nearly four decades ruling Zimbabwe, the Communist thug led a terrorist organization known as ZANU allied with another counterpart terrorist group: Joshua Nkomo’s ZAPU. Often wrongly described as guerrilla groups by their western supporters, their combat tactics mostly focused on massacres of civilians and planting bombs on roads.

Zambia under Kaunda harbored ZAPU and ZANU bases across the border where the Soviet-backed terrorists ran training camps under the guise of providing shelter to ‘refugees’. Some of the refugees were civilians who supported the terrorists. Others were terrorists themselves.The ‘refugee’ camps were run by ZAPU and ZANU which indoctrinated the civilians, brutally punished them for even slight offenses and made it their goal to turn them into terrorists.

In 1965, Rhodesia declared independence from the ruling Labour government in the UK which was determined to hand over the country to Marxist terrorist organizations. By 1966, when Kamala’s grandfather arrived in Zambia, the war for Rhodesia was truly underway.

The Marxist terrorists had plenty of weapons supplied by the USSR and Communist China, but preferred attacking Rhodesian civilians to trying to fight the brave little country’s volunteer army. Typical ZANU and ZAPU attacks involved firing RPGs at civilian houses and throwing hand grenades at little girls. Missionaries were murdered and shoppers were gunned down.

Among the easiest targets were American and British missionaries providing education and medical care to the black population. At Elim Mission, Marxist terrorists raped the women and then beat and axed them to death along with their children. The victims were British citizens.

The New York Times described the scene. “a woman, dressed in a bathrobe with her hair in curlers, had an ax imbedded in her neck. Four children—a boy 4 years of age, two sisters aged 4 and 8, and another girl of 5—lay huddled close together. All were dressed in pajamas, and like the other victims they had all been struck on the head with clubs. Some also had stab wounds. One of the girls had the imprint of a boot on the side of her face.“

“Nearby lay the body of a woman, her arm encircling her dead 3-week-old daughter. Near them was a heavy wooden limb with blood on it.”

The mother was Mrs. Joyce Grace and her daughter had been named Pamela Grace.

The Marxist terrorists finally got lucky and hit Air Rhodesia Flight 825 in the late seventies. The surviving passengers were rounded up, promised water and help, and then gunned down.

All of this came after Kamala’s grandfather had gone back home to India and Kaunda had decided that backing the terrorists was too dangerous once they threatened his regime.

There are few details about the exact role played by P.V. Gopalan except that he was advising the Kaunda regime on the “refugees”. The refugee camps were terrorist bases. It’s unknown what complicity her grandfather might have had with them, but he had been dispatched to Zambia the year that Indira Gandhi took power. And this Gandhi was no humanitarian.

Indira Gandhi aligned India with the USSR and its Communist movements including those operating in Africa. In the 1970s, while the worst of the violence was taking place, Gandhi had visited Zambia and backed Kaunda’s call for the takeover of Rhodesia by the Marxist terrorist groups. She had expressed her joy that she was “back on the mainland of Africa when the final battle was about to be joined” for the final ethnic cleansing of Rhodesia’s white population.

If P.V. Gopalan had been in Zambia to help prop up the Marxist terror groups, it would not have at all been at odds with the policy of the Gandhi regime. Indira Gandhi had met with both Mugabe and Nkomo: terrorists responsible for the massacre of Rhodesian women and children.

Were Mugabe and Nkomo among the visitors passing through the Gopalan home?

Kamala, who was a 5-year-old when her Marxist father and radical leftist mother brought her to Africa, knew none of this. As the LA Times put it, “the young Kamala was oblivious to the intrigue swirling around her, with Gopalan’s government-issued car whisking him to meetings with Zambian officials and diplomats dropping by for visits.”

But in the succeeding years, Kamala either failed to educate herself about the history around her or knows exactly what happened and has chosen to stand with Kaunda and his crimes.

According to the Voice of America, a government broadcast agency, “Zambia was personal, and the work of her grandfather — who served as an adviser to Zambia’s first president, Kenneth Kaunda, in the 1960s — influenced her own trajectory to the highest office.”

And so there may be no way to detach the crimes of those days from Kamala’s political career.

Especially since she heads a party that was directly complicit in the Marxist atrocities.

The same year that Flight 825 was shot down, Carter’s UN Ambassador Andrew Young gushed that Mugabe was a “very gentle man. I can’t imagine Joshua Nkomo, or Robert Mugabe, ever pulling the trigger on a gun to kill anyone. I doubt that they ever have.”

Nkomo had not only taken responsibility for the downed airliner, he had laughed about it.

Kamala’s radical third world family closely parallels Obama’s radical third world family. Neither of their experiences are rooted in the black community, but in the Soviet globalism of the sixties.

“I am a daughter of the civil rights movement,” Kamala Harris claimed. Her parents have been described as “civil rights activists”. These attempts to make her sound as if she were African-American are highly misleading. Kamala had not come out of a black southern Christian movement. Her family was not African-American, they were third world academic radicals who used parts of America and other places in the world as bases for their militant activism.

Kamala’s links to Africa are not racial, but political. Her mother’s radical Indian family was there as part of a Soviet bloc aligned agenda. While Kamala enjoyed being in an exotic place, 60 miles away at the border, people were fighting and dying over the supremacy of Communism.

The Kaunda regime, an object of horror for Zambia, Zimbabwe and Rhodesian refugees, is a nostalgic memory for Vice President Kamala Harris. And for many in her political movement.

Kamala and Obama both come from radical Third World families who loathed America and Western civilization. Obama’s family played a role in Islamist massacres in Indonesia and Kenya while Kamala’s family appears to have had a role in the Communist war against Rhodesia.

People are not prisoners of their past but the way that Obama and Kamala were raised provide important insights about their worldviews, their politics and their plans for America.

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