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NEW CALIFORNIA? Rural Towns Push to Form New Conservative State

December 16, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Communism, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Elections, Hot Topics, Immigration, Must Read, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Regulation, Social Issues, Socialism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by NEWSRAEL Telling the Israeli Story

Supporters of ‘New California‘ say Sacramento has failed to address concerns from residents who live outside Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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Many think California cannot be saved. We believe California is just getting started. With a Fresh start we can use are experience living under old California’s mismanagement to ensure that New California doesn’t make the same mistakes.

FOX NEWS — Rural voters in California have had it with the Democratic majority in Sacramento and are pushing for their communities to divorce the blue urban areas that dominate state politics.

Conservative residents in California’s rural regions are tired of overregulation, the high cost of living and the myriad of policies coming out of the Democratic-dominated state Legislature, said Paul Preston, who founded New California State in hopes of splintering off from its current home.

“We recognized that we were in a tyranny,” Preston told Fox News Digital, citing the disparity between Democrats and Republicans in state government.

Preston, a former school administrator, described California as a “one-party” state that operates similar to a communist regime by passing laws that disregard the rural class.

Under the proposed map, New California State would comprise nearly all of California’s 58 counties, except most of Los Angeles County and parts of Sacramento County, San Francisco and other parts of the Bay Area. The map is purely a proposal and doesn’t represent the final state borders, Preston said.

Supporters contend breaking California in two would provide fairer and more responsive governance for areas outside the state’s major cities.

Preston noted that the proposed state would border Mexico in an effort to combat illegal immigration. Among his many grievances are California’s crime woes, which prompted voters to recall San Francisco’s district attorney in 2022 and Alameda County DA Pamela Price in November. In Los Angeles County, voters ousted DA George Gascon on Nov. 5 after only one term as critics blamed him for being too lenient on criminals.

Voters also strongly passed tough-on-crime Proposition 36 last month despite efforts by state Democrats and Gov. Gavin Newsom to preserve a decade of criminal justice reform policies that critics say enabled criminals.

“I don’t think anybody’s going to tell California that we are free from invasion and we’re free from domestic violence,” Preston said, citing crime and the flow of illegal migrants into the state.

Fox News Digital has reached out to Newsom’s office and state Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, a Democrat. The California Democratic Party said no one was available to comment on the matter.

ABOUT NEW CALIFORNIA STATE (NCS)

New California State was created by Californian Patriots that have had enough with the tyranny and corruption of the failed STATE OF CALIFORNIA government. By using the Article III, Section IV of the Constitution we are able to create a New state that guarantees us a Republican form of government, as our founding fathers intended. We are not a democracy! We are a Constitutional Republic and will return to this form of government.

OUR VISION

To restore California to the economic powerhouse that it once was. To provide a Republican form of government as the founders intended. To empower Californians with a free market economy and to eliminate wasteful spending.

WHAT WE DO

By starting with a clean slate we can ensure that California never falls into the debt hell it currently is in. We will accomplish this through innovation, less regulation, building dams, creating our own power and utilizing our vast resources found in our land.

OUR COMMUNITY

Californians will live in abundance and money will be put back into their pockets rather than constantly stolen with taxes that yield no positive results. California business will thrive and thus America will thrive. Jobs will be brought back to the state and Californians will hold their heads up high.

War or Peace with Israel

December 16, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Culture War, Hot Topics, Must Read, National Security, Policy, Politics, Religion/by Jihad Watch

The Israeli journalist Seth Mandel poses a hypothetical: if you were an Arab state, would it be better to be at peace, or at war, with Israel? More on his answer to his own question can be found here: “The Wages of Peace with Israel,” by Seth Mandel, Commentary, December 9, 2024:

If you had the opportunity to start a new Middle East state from scratch, would you rather it be at peace with Israel or at war with Israel?

I genuinely wish regional leaders would ask themselves this question once in a while. And the fall of the house of Assad is a great time to do so.

Israel’s offer of peace has been on the table to all comers from the start. If you want peace with the Jewish state, you can have it. Should you take the offer?

If the citizens of your state are of any concern to you, it’s pretty obvious you should take the deal.

Israel borders Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt. In recent weeks and months, we have watched Lebanon continue its long history of abridged sovereignty and political decay. The Iranian/Hezbollah statelet in South Lebanon persists, though in a weakened state. That occupation exists to regularly plunge the country into war with Israel. Before the area was Hezbollah’s playground, it was the mini-state of the Palestine Liberation Organization, which instigated two types of armed conflict: war with Israel and civil war within Lebanon. After Israel ousted the PLO from southern Lebanon in 1982, Syria intervened to ensure there would be no peace with Israel by killing Lebanese politicians who wanted an end to the bloodshed.

Hezbollah has for decades been a state within a state in Lebanon. It has until its recent crippling war with the IDF enforced its will by killing political leaders who are deemed to be anti-Syrian, and thus anti-Hezbollah as well, for Hezbollah and Assad’s Syria were both close collaborators and allies of Iran. Syria served for decades as the conduit through which Hezbollah received weapons from Iran. Among the politicians it has killed are Rafik Hariri, Samir Kassir, George Hawi, Gebrn Tueni, Pierre Amine Gemayel, and Walid Edo.

Its military was always much stronger than the Lebanese National Army, and it prevented the LNA and UNIFIL from enforcing UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which was passed in 2006, and required Hezbollah to remove its forces from southern Lebanon and to pull them north of the Litani River. Hezbollah never did, and only now, because it has been so battered by the IDF, has Hezbollah eagerly accepted a ceasefire with Israel, by which it now agrees that this time it will indeed pull back its weapons and fighters north of the Litani. So far, that ceasefire has been holding, with the IDF engaging occasionally in striking Hezbollah combatants found to be moving men and weapons around between the Litani and Israel’s border with Lebanon.

Syria, meanwhile, has been in the news because a decade-long revolt finally succeeded in ousting Bashar al-Assad, who has only been able to stay in power with the help of Hezbollah terrorists, Iranian generals, and chemical weapons that Assad’s forces used on civilians. Three-quarters of a century into Israel’s existence, such is the reality of life in the neighboring countries that insist on permanent hostility to Israel’s existence.

It is no coincidence that this is not the state of affairs in Jordan or Egypt. Peace with Israel isn’t the only reason for their relative stability. But not being at war with a first-rate military and ally of the Western democracies is a pretty big factor….

Mandel might also have mentioned the benefits to the Arab states that have made peace with Israel by signing onto the Abraham Accords — Morocco, the UAE, and Bahrain — all of which have made business deals with Israeli companies and the Israeli government, especially in the areas of high tech, renewable energy, water desalination, agriculture, and tourism.

No Arab state has benefited from making war against Israel, from 1948 to the present. The costs to Arab states, in men, money, and materiel, when they tried to wipe out Israel in 1948, 1967, and 1973, amounted to tens of billions of dollars. But those Arab states that have chosen to make peace with Israel, either through a peace treaty, as Egypt and Jordan have done, or through becoming members of the Abraham Accords and agreeing to normalize ties with the Jewish state, have only benefited.

War or peace? Israel is ready for both. Will the new rulers of Syria choose rightly?

AUTHOR

Hugh Fitzgerald

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40% of House Democrats Push Arms Embargo for Israel as IDF releases video from Hamas torture prison

December 15, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Communism, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, Marxism, Must Read, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Religion, Terrorism/by NEWSRAEL Telling the Israeli Story

77 House Democrats signed a letter promoting an ‘arms embargo’ on Israel.

By Daniel Greenfield

While national Democrats are still reeling from the 2024 election disaster, House Democrats took a look and decided, “Let’s put AOC in charge of the House Oversight Committee”, let’s send a man, Rep. Tim McBride, into the Ladies Room and let’s call for an arms embargo on the Jewish State.

That might seem strange from 10,000 feet, but House Dems did pretty well in the 2024 election because they ‘magically’ flipped 3 seats in New York and California (among other places) by way of the usual Tammany Hall ballot harvesting and gerrymandering crookedness.

And that means they feel pretty comfortable going further leftward.

As a result, 77 House Democrats signed a letter promoting an ‘arms embargo’ on Israel. That’s 40% of the House Democrat lineup. If AOC is gonna run a key committee, House Dems are jumping on board. The signatories include the usual Iran Firsters, but also Rep. Jerrold Nadler and key rival Rep. Jamie Raskin, who just ousted him. It includes the usual ‘as a Jew’ lefties like Rep. Sara Jacobs.

House Democrats are signaling once again that they intend to keep going as far to the Left as they can.

And after Jewish voters sent a message by voting Republican in unprecedented numbers, the House Dems are sending a message that they are writing off the Jewish vote because they control New York and California.

IDF reveals new VIDEO from Hamas torture prison

In a now-released video clip from 2023, Hamas operatives are seen holding Palestinian detainees in harsh conditions and brutally torturing them.

The IDF spokesman also revealed the identities of the two Hamas internal security operatives who appear in the video. The footage was filmed at Al-Kitab prison in Gaza City, which IDF forces raided and removed the security camera footage.

IDF spokesman in Arabic Avichai Edraei wrote about the documents: “Hamas tried to disavow the Assad regime and the horrors of its prisons that are being exposed these days – but these documents leave no room for doubt: Hamas is no less cruel.”

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‘Syrian Updates’ from Newsrael

December 14, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Culture War, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Religion/by NEWSRAEL Telling the Israeli Story

Hezbollah crew in Syria handed over their weapons to IDF fighters

A few days after the fall of the Assad regime to the rebels, Syrians who were recruited to the Hezbollah terrorist organization and live in southern Syria in the village of Khadr, located near Mount Hermon, handed over their weapons to IDF fighters

Syrians living in the Mount Hermon region, who were recruited to the Hezbollah terrorist organization recently handed over their weapons to IDF fighters. This was reported today (Thursday) by the “Syrian Television” channel, headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.

As a reminder, a few hours after the fall of the Assad regime, IDF fighters entered the buffer zone in Syrian territory, in order to improve defensive positions, after Syria fell to the rebels.

The Air Force also launched a large-scale offensive operation, in which hundreds of targets were attacked in order to prevent strategic weapons from falling into the hands of the rebels.

Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) demand that Palestinians in Syria surrender arms

Reports saying that HTS has demanded Palestinians close their military bases and surrender all arms.

Writing in Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar newspaper, Ibrahim Al-Amin says that HTS informed Palestinian factions present in Syria they can no longer have weapons or training camps in Syria. He says the new powers in Syria are heading towards “neutrality” in the conflict with Israel.

Hussain Abdul-Hussain, research fellow at the FDD reports on his X account:

Palestinian report says Syria new rulers (HTS) met with all Palestinian militia chiefs in Damascus, and instructed them to surrender their bases outside the refugee camps and to maintain personal weapons in their offices inside the camps, for now and until a legislation decides what to do with them.

Report says Sharaa (formerly Jolani) is disarming pro-Assad factions only, and that a Hamas representative did not attend the meeting.

Except for Hamas, all Palestinians supported Assad all along.

Hamas had a fallout with Assad when it helped rebels in Homs, in 2014, but Hamas later came back begging Assad for reconciliation. Not sure whether Jolani will see Hamas as fellow Islamists (or as fellow protégé of Qatar and Turkey) or as friends of Assad.

Not sure either whether Jolani wants to disarm all militias, or only those he believes were allied with Assad.

Israel destroyed Assad Electronic Warfare sites

The Air Force destroyed about 20 sites of the Assad army’s “Electronic Warfare Corps” last night.

Israel destroyed Assad Electronic Warfare sites

The Air Force destroyed about 20 sites of the Assad army’s “Electronic Warfare Corps” last night.

Demonstrations in Damascus AGAINST HTS leader

Are we seeing the first instance of extremist powers doing their best to bring chaos back to Syria?

Demonstrations in Umayyad Square in Damascus against the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham al-Jolani, nicknamed a pig, and demanding that he and his forces leave the city.

We have been warning the West not to rush to put all of their cards on the HTS in general, and its leader Joulani in particular.

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Macron On The Wrong Side Of History

December 13, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Commentary, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, National Security, News, Policy, Politics/by Dr. Martin Sherman

“Often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.” – Jean de La Fontaine

The election of Donald Trump and the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria will compel a recalibration of recalibration of France’s past policies.

French President, Emmanuel Macron is facing trying times, and recent pronouncements by French officials appear only to exacerbate his unenviable situation.

As will be recalled, last week, the French government fell with a resounding thud that could well reverberate across Europe.

This week, the French came out with an astounding rebuke of Israel’s military action in Syria, to prevent strategic armaments from falling into the hands of the militant Sunni Islamist rebels—invoking an Israeli-Syrian disengagement agreement signed half a century ago on which to base their censure. In a perverse reprimand, the French foreign ministry grumbled: any military deployment in the buffer zone between Israel and Syria is a violation of the 1974 disengagement agreement which must be respected by its signatories, Israel and Syria.” ” One can only puzzle over how Macron and his government would relate a reality in which such a strategic stockpile was at the disposal of groups with close affiliation with ISIS and A-Qaida in the not-to-distance past.

The shortest serving PM ever

Of course, last week, a successful vote of no confidence triggered the collapse of the French government, and Prime Minister Michel Barnier submitted his resignation, adding to the political turmoil in which the country is embroiled.

In response to an attempt to railroad through legislation relating to the annual budget, Left-leaning lawmakers called a no-confidence motion, which passed with the support of the Right-wing National Rally.

Thus, the Barnier government became the first French government to be defeated in a no-confidence motion since 1962, making Barnier himself France’s shortest-serving prime minister in history.

With the collapse of the government, calls for Macron himself to resign began to pour in from his opponents, with some suggesting that the president’s resignation could break the deadlock.

Thus far, however, Macron has resisted such calls, vowing to serve out his elected term (ending in 2027). However, there have been suggestions that the current crisis could herald the onset of the twilight of Macron’s political career.

Biblical justice?

In Israel, few will view Macron’s tribulations with great sorrow. To the contrary, many might see it as poetic—even; biblical—justice.

After all, Frances’s recent behavior toward the Jewish state has hardly been that of a firm friend or amicable ally.

Indeed, I recently posted several articles detailing the unscrupulous nature of Macron’s foreign policy in the Middle East including a growing alignment with Iran on certain issues and a disturbing coziness with Hezbollah in Lebanon, with Paris willing to turn a blind eye to the brutal activities of the Iranian proxy terror group in return for a lucrative Beirut construction contract with a close Macron associate.

Moreover, not only has Paris encouraged an arms embargo against Israel, berated it for “sowing barbarism” in Gaza, and barred Israel firms from participating in prestigious arms exhibitions in France, but it also initially declared that France would honor the scandalous ICC warrants issued for the arrest of both Israel’s Prime Minister and Defense Minister—supposedly to respect the “independence” of the ICC and uphold France’s “international obligations”

Thus, even PM Barnier pontificated pompously that France “will rigorously apply the obligations incumbent upon it” in terms of international law—an ostensibly high-minded position that Paris soon abandoned.

France flip-flops

Yet despite this blatant bias against Israel, France still expressed the wish to participate in the multi-nation committee monitoring the newly brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Israel’s initial response was to oppose French membership in the monitoring committee, however, it later dropped its opposition to France’s participation following Paris’s recanting—or at least fudging—its initial position on the ICC warrants—asserting that the provisions for immunity from ICC prosecution apply to Netanyahu and, thus, neither he nor any other Israeli leader charged by the ICC would be arrested by France.

This hasty reversal underscored once again the unprincipled and cynical nature of French foreign policy and its willingness to trade alleged moral values for political influence and material gain. Indeed, Israel may yet rue its decision to permit French participation in the monitoring mechanism. Thus, within days of the signing of the November 27 ceasefire agreement, France reported dozens of alleged Israeli violations when the IDF reacted to Hezbollah breaches without going through the channels laid out in the agreement—which prime facie, appear too time-consuming to facilitate an effective IDF response to unfolding Hezbollah threats (such as a crew preparing to launch rockets into Israel).

A new sheriff in town

Given past French anti-Israel animus—and covert commitments of leniency toward Hezbollah—it is more than likely that, should the ceasefire breakdown, France will rush to lay the blame at Israel’s door, regardless of any role Hezbollah might have had in precipitating the collapse.

Two recent developments, however, may result in a future very different from the recent past, with Macron finding himself—and France—very firmly on the wrong side of history.

The one is the election of Donald Trump to the White House who, in his last term in office, demonstrated that he is unequivocally predisposed toward Israel—recognizing Israeli sovereignty of the Golan, moving the US embassy to Jerusalem, and calling out the malfeasance of UNRWA. Indeed, if anything, indications are that he is likely to be even more pro-Israel in his second term—given the team he has appointed to key positions in his administration, which could hardly be more supportive of the Jewish state.

Moreover, Trump and Macron are liable to find themselves at loggerheads not only on matters of substance where Macron seems closer to the perversely pro-Hamas woke opponents of Trump than to the President-elect himself, but also on matters of style where Macon’s manipulative sophistry is likely to clash with Trump’s earthy down-to-earth common sense.

Backing a losing horse?

The second major development is the collapse of the pro-Hezbollah Assad regime. The loss of its Syrian prop and in particular the conduit for arms from an increasingly beleaguered Iran is likely to make the Shia terror organization a considerably less formidable specter, and accelerate its dwindling popularity with the Lebanese population.

Accordingly, the changing Mid-East fortunes are liable to leave the French President backing a losing horse and facing the bitterness of a population long held hostage by his favored—but now vanquished—accomplices.

Despite ‘Moderate’ Claim, Experts Warn of Dangers of Islamist Militia Controlling Syria

December 13, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Culture War, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Religion, Terrorism/by Family Research Council

As questions abound regarding what is next for Syria following the sudden fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime at the hands of an Islamist militia last weekend, experts say there are serious concerns that the Middle Eastern country could eventually devolve into a global terrorist threat despite assurances from the invading militia that it will not persecute religious minorities.

On Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan traveled to the region to meet with Israeli, Turkish, and other foreign ministers to discuss the situation in Syria. As of yet, the U.S. has not had any direct communication with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the militia that ousted Assad and took control of the Syrian capital of Damascus, which it officially considers a terrorist organization. Elizabeth Richard, the State Department’s top counterterrorism official, acknowledged on Wednesday that the U.S. will likely need to deal with the group, remarking, “We can’t wait till everyone is Mother Teresa and then talk to them.”

Meanwhile, experts in the region say threats that HTS has made in the past are cause for concern. Chris Mitchell, Middle East bureau chief for CBN News, spoke with Family Research Council President Tony Perkins via satellite from Jerusalem on Tuesday to give an update on the fragile situation in Syria.

“I know HTS is sort of presenting themselves as ‘moderate,’” he explained. “The leader has been on CNN already. But they are Islamists. … They’re saying quite openly they want to take over the Al-Aqsa Mosque here in Jerusalem. This is only a stepping stone to take over a greater part of the Middle East.”

Mitchell further noted that Turkey is supporting HTS, which has its own expansionist aspirations for the Middle East. “Turkey apparently has armed them [and] funded them, [which] is all part of President [Tayyip] Erdogan’s greater goal to restore the Islamic caliphate, the Ottoman Empire — he being the great sultan. But he’s using proxies to go ahead and do that — HTS and the Syrian National Army are two of those proxies.”

Mitchell went on to detail how forces aligned with democratic principles in the Kurdish northern region of Syria are also now being threatened.

“The other big issue is there has been for many years in northeast Syria a group in an administration area that [have] been self-governing and been one of the most democratic regions in the entire Middle East, and that region is now under attack, we understand, by members of the Syrian National Army [SNA]. This is the Syrian Democratic Forces … but these are the good guys. … [T]his is a group of Kurds, Christians, Yazidis, [and] Arabs working together. In fact, in their charter, they require that 40% of the representation in the government is by women. So that is under attack right now.”

As Mitchell additionally related, remnants of ISIS are reportedly still present in the country and are committing atrocities against Christians. “[A] [recent] report [indicates] some of these members of the SNA are … veterans of ISIS. … [P]eople that have escaped that region [have reported] women beheaded in front of their families and communities, mass shootings of civilians, dead bodies on the road, children kidnapped from their families.”

Mitchell further underscored that HTS is attempting to distinguish itself from SNA, which is likely unreliable. “[W]e’re going to see a deceptive facade right now on what’s happening in places like Aleppo. Mohammed al-Jawlani is the leader of HTS. He is a veteran of al-Nusra, which is an affiliate of al-Qaeda. He’s presenting himself as a moderate, and I believe he’s asking people not to put anything on social media like ISIS used to do. … [But] if you go back a few years when they were in charge of Idlib, … they implied employed Sharia law. So I think Sharia law is on its way to much of this area in Syria, but I think we might see a sort of interim period of what they call ‘moderation.’”

As to why Christians should care about the events in Syria, Mitchell explained its historic roots to the early church and its prophetic place in Scripture.

“Two thousand years ago, this was the cradle of Christianity,” he emphasized. “The gospel spread to Aleppo and other places in Syria and in Lebanon and throughout this region. This is the ancestral homeland of our faith, and many of the believers right now are in harm’s way because of their faith in Jesus Christ. Prophetically and biblically, I think many people have been referring to Isaiah chapter 17:1, when the prophet said that one day Damascus would become a heap of ruins. Perhaps we’re one step closer to that unfolding. When and how I don’t know, but that will one day be fulfilled.”

Mitchell concluded by encouraging believers to keep Syria in prayer. “Pray for the Christians in this region [who] are under threat, as well as Kurds, Yazidis, and other ethnic minorities, that they would be protected. And also that [the] northeast Syria autonomous region would be protected and supplied so that this democratic good news story can be preserved and that they can be a refuge for many of these people that are seeking asylum and safety from some of these Islamist groups.”

AUTHOR

Dan Hart

Dan Hart is senior editor at The Washington Stand.

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SYRIA: Terrorists Liberate Terrorists From Other Terrorists

December 12, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Culture War, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, Must Read, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Religion, Social Issues, Terrorism/by Jihad Watch

Good news from Syria.

In a stunning win for freedom, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a Sunni terrorist organization defeated the Assad regime and its Shiite terrorist groups to take over Syria. HTS is led by Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani, a Saudi former associate of the caliph of ISIS who has a $10 million reward on his head from the U.S. while Assad was supported by Hezbollah whose leaders had multi-million dollar rewards on their heads until Israel killed them (but didn’t collect the money.)

Assad was backed by the Shiite terror state of Iran while HTS is backed by the Sunni terror state of Turkey. Geopolitical experts say that Sunni Islamists defeating Shiite Islamists to rule the pile of rubble that’s left of Syria is the biggest win for human freedom since the Muslim Brotherhood took over Egypt and parts of North Africa (before being ousted from Egypt and some other parts of the region) in the freedom phenomenon known as the Arab Spring.

The media broadcast scenes of Jihadists praising Allah for helping them defeat the other Jihadists who also praise Allah (but not in the right way) and liberating political prisoners to shortly replace them with other political prisoners (assuming that they even bother taking political prisoners or any kind of prisoners.) Talks are underway between the terrorists of the former regime with the terrorists of the current regime to see if they can work it out.

And maybe just focus on killing Christians, Jews and other infidels.

Some might suspect that a former ISIS associate tied to Al Qaeda (who admittedly turned on his former group to lead another Jihadist organization) taking over a country would be bad news. But they’re clearly bad people who don’t realize that Al-Jawlani is a changed man, an austere religious scholar who underwent a makeover courtesy of Queer Eye for the Syrian Guy and now, in the words of the BBC, wears a “more western style wardrobe”. At least if you count rocking Zelensky’s military fatigue hand-me-downs as looking like a regular western warlord.

The Biden administration has already made contact with the terrorist organization led by a man on whose head is a $10 million reward to offer to rebuild Syria just in time for the next civil war. Publicly, the administration has already taken credit for helping defeat Assad by insisting that the Israelis must stop attacking Hezbollah at once. Had the Israelis listened, Assad would still be in power. But the Biden administration was surely using reverse psychology and by threatening Israel with an arms embargo was really getting the Israelis to fight even harder.

Or at least that’s the story that National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is going with.

While the world (or at least the parts of it that completely forgot about the Arab Spring) rejoices, the Israeli government which (for all its failings) has more sense than the State Department or a headless chicken, has begun bombing what’s left of Syria’s rocket factories and chemical warfare plants that Secretary of State John Kerry (despite promising Obama) somehow never got around to making sure that Vladimir Putin would dismantle and put away in cold storage.

The Israelis are also expanding their presence in Mt. Hermon and building their own security zone because they trust Syria’s new terrorist masters as much as they trusted the old.

What Jerusalem knows and Foggy Bottom has yet to learn is that the Middle East is a bunch of tribal factions, warlords and gangs pretending to be countries, but despite the flags, anthems, UN memberships, World Bank positions and invites to climate change summits, are all some version of Al-Jawlani bouncing between ISIS, Al Qaeda and a new governing coalition.

Over a thousand years of Islam comes down to some guy with a beard uniting a few key families with whose backing he then seizes a bunch of cities that used to belong to long lost great civilizations and then his men settle down to some murdering, looting and raping while thanking Allah for the privilege of a mission to kill, loot and rape the world. Or die trying.

The stationary bandit theory isn’t some abstraction in the Middle East: it’s everyday reality.

As we all should have learned in the last generation, every Arab Muslim country is one inflationary spiral away from some guy with a ‘nom de guerre’ or ‘kunya’ riding into town on a pickup truck with 300 fellow bandits and becoming the new government in Allah’s name.

Georgetown idiots with PhDs then cheer as statues of the old dictator are toppled as if Damascus, Cairo, Baghdad, Tripoli or Tunis were Prague, Berlin or any city where democracy means more than ‘my tribe has more guns than your tribe’. The old Pharaohs (not to mention Caesars) would tear down each other’s monuments too. That didn’t make old Tutankhamen a liberator or a democrat. At least not the kind who is acceptable outside Chicago.

Assad heading off to shop at Moscow’s GUM for more luxury handbags is no great loss and his replacement by other terrorists is no great gain. At least not for us. Or likely for Syria’s Christians. Or Israel. Or really anyone else except members of the new regime.

There’s no right side of history in the middle east and if the arc bends anywhere, it’s the arc of a sword over a prone prisoner’s neck. Islam is the driving force in the region and the driving force of Islam is conquering and subjugating all Muslims and non-Muslims under one caliphate. In the Ummah, all of history is one great game of thrones to determine who will rule over all the rubble.

The complicated chess game between rival Jihadist groups and nation-states is likely to end badly for everyone especially since Syria was really a showdown between Iran, which is developing nuclear weapons, and Turkey, which is a NATO member with a huge arsenal, and there can only be one ultimate Islamic ruler in the apocalyptic endgame scenario.

Terrorists replacing terrorists with more terrorists is only good news for the new terrorists and for the media which gets to breathlessly cover another foreign conflict between two groups of butchers who would behead everyone at CNN at their first sight of a DEI LGBTQ+ poster.

It’s also good news for humanitarian groups which have spent over a year lying about a famine in Gaza and after exhausting donor interest with AI generated photos of sad Muslim kids in Hamasville can now move on to relabeling those same photos as hungry kids in Syria.

Media baron William Randolph Hearst reportedly once bragged, “You furnish the pictures. I’ll furnish the war.” In the Muslim world, the Taliban, Houthis, Hamas and their comrades supply the war, the media supplies the pictures and taxpayers supply more money than they can count.

After sending $2 billion to Afghanistan after the Taliban took over, the Biden administration will be rushing money to Syria until the very moment the checkbooks are pried out of their hands.

It would be tempting to think that Syria is over, but in tribal cultures nothing is ever really over. Each conflict is based on past vendettas and generates new ones. The conflicts follow demographics and a complex mix of clan loyalties and factions whose shifts change the war. A new war is just a matter of the old coalition coming apart and forming new ones. If you doubt that, consider the speed with which the Jihadists took Kabul and Damascus. The Taliban and HTS are just groups of gangs whose allegiances can be bought and sold for the right price.

But the same proved to be true of the Afghan, Iraqi and Syrian armies. And many others.

Syria did not fall. Like Afghanistan and Iraq, it never really existed. We spend a lot of time and money propping up fictions because we want the rest of the world to be just like us. It’s not.

And it may never be.

Instead of hoping to civilize savages, we would be better off standing with civilized allies. The more we go on searching for progress in the Muslim world, the more we find that it’s terrorists all the way down.

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Daniel Greenfield

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With takeover of Syria, Muslim Brotherhood front man Erdogan takes big step toward rebuilding Turkey’s Ottoman caliphate

December 11, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Religion, Social Issues, Socialism, Terrorism, Video/by Leo Hohmann

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan addressed the 7th Religious Council in Ankara last week, delivering a speech on the state of Islamic civilization while highlighting the event’s focus on integrating artificial intelligence and digitization into religious practices.

According to the RAIR Foundation, Erdogan condemned Western civilization as wrought by blood, tears and genocide, a bitter irony given the Islamic Caliphate’s own legacy of conquest, subjugation, and brutality etched into history. The Ottoman Empire, based in what is today called Turkey, butchered more than 3 million Armenian and Greek Christians and carried out a genocide against the native Armenian people.

President Erdogan, a leader of the global Muslim Brotherhood movement, has openly fantasized about restoring the old Ottoman Empire and rebuilding its war-making caliphate.

Erdogan’s Sunni jihadist thugs, brought to power with the help of the American CIA and British MI6, are poised to carry out another genocide today inside Syria.

Turkey is backing a group of jihadists led by HTS, former ISIS and al-Qaida members, who are in the process right now of destroying the lives of Christians and Shia Alawite Muslims in Syria.

But Erdoğan criticized the foundations of Western hegemony, including its obsession with the so-called progress being made in the digital age:

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While I agree that artificial intelligence and the rush to digitize the world is being pushed by the forces of evil in the world, this is like the pot calling the kettle black.

It should also be pointed out that modern-day Turkey is a member of NATO, which makes Turkey part of the “Western” military alliance. This makes other NATO member states, including the U.S., U.K., Canada, France, Italy, Germany, etc., at least partially complicit in whatever atrocities take place against Christians in Syria.

If Mr. Erdogan had approached this topic honestly, he would find that the powers that be in the Islamic world are entirely on board with the digitization of all things, including all banking and financial transactions, all information, and all things, both living and non-living. Islamic leaders are among the most enthusiastic backers of what’s known as fintech (financial technology and replacement of cash with digital).

When the antichrist arises, he will be embraced by the leaders of all religions, including Islam, Judaism and the false Christian church.

Only the Lord Jesus Christ will ultimately put an end to this drive to create a fully digitized one-world beast system. But we as followers of Christ must resist it at every level as it approaches like a freight train of evil. We also must be careful not to get caught up in earthly narratives churned out by governments and their partners at Fox News, CNN, NBC, the NY Times, Washington Post and the rest of the corporate mockingbird media. What looks like a victory in Syria, and what was declared to be a victory by Joe Biden over the weekend, was likely just another step toward the grand deception that will culminate in that man of sin appearing on the scene with a plan that will initially bring peace and security for all but will quickly devolve into war and suffering.

Daniel 8:25 says: “And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.”

Another verse that came to mind as I followed the news about the sudden “victory” in Syria that Biden and so many on the right were celebrating was this from 1 Thessalonians 5:3.

“For when they say, ‘Peace and safety!’ then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.“

Please visit LeoHohmann.com. Investigative reporting on globalism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism and where politics, culture and religion intersect.

Obama Threatened Israel With Afghanistan Outcome Warning Bibi That U.S. Policies Were Taking Sharp Turn To the Muslim World and Iran

December 11, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Communism, Culture War, Elections, Featured, Hot Topics, Marxism, National Security, News, Policy, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Religion, Socialism, Terrorism/by The Geller Report

During Netanyahu’s testimony today in his lawfare trial, he brought an example from his time during the Obama admin. He said Obama was adopting the 100% Arab world agenda and rejected 100% of Israel’s agenda. At one point, SOS John Kerry offered Bibi the opportunity to visit Afghanistan “To observe how we (US) trained the Afghan army to be able to stand to the Taliban. Bibi said to him, “This will not work. The Islamists would overrun them, and if it happened to us in Israel, we would be gone”.

We all know how things ended in Afghanistan…Thank G-D for Bibi and his strength in standing up to Obama.

In my 2010 book, The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War, I warned of Obama’s hatred of the Jewish state. Needless to say, the left wing machine of hate and destruction defamed, smeared and libeled me.

Netanyahu reveals: ‘Obama offered me a secret visit to Afghanistan’

During his testimony in court, Prime Minister Netanyahu delved into his rocky relationship with the former US president and revealed that from their first meeting, Obama pressured him to create a Palestinian state.

By: Israel National News, Dec 10, 2024:

In his testimony at his corruption trial on Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed his rocky relationship with former US President Barak Obama and revealed that he was invited for a secret visit to Afghanistan.

Asked about the challenges he faced between the years 2016 and 2017, the Prime Minister claimed that the main challenge was his relationship with then-President Obama: “Already at my first meeting with him in the White House, he explained that US policies were going to take a sharp turn; he appealed to the Muslim world and Iran.”

Netanyahu continued: “Concerning the State of Israel, he (Obama) saw a critical need for us to return, more or less, to the 1967 borders and to create a Palestinian state, and if we did this, he felt everything would be solved. I had to face great pressure to create a Palestinian state. He demanded it during the first meeting, he said: ‘Not even one brick will you build over the Green Line.’ I responded: ‘Half of Jerusalem is over the Green Line; for instance, the Gilo neighborhood.’ Obama said: ‘Gilo too.’ He demanded a total construction freeze, massive pressure. I had to deal with this, I had to deflect it, and it was no small matter.”

The Prime Minister revealed during his testimony: “Obama offered me a secret visit to Afghanistan to see how the American forces train

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TREASON: Days after Trump’s victory, Biden-Harris regime sent Iran ANOTHER $10,000,000,000

December 11, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Culture War, Hot Topics, Must Read, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Religion, Taxes, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Jihad Watch

Isn’t treason giving aid and comfort to the enemy? How is this not treason? They’re chanting “Death to America” over in Tehran, and waging jihad around the region with money Old Joe is sending them.

“The Biden State Department maintains that Iran is only permitted to use the funds for humanitarian needs.”

They’re insulting the intelligence of the American people. Money is fungible. Even if the Islamic Republic uses the money only for humanitarian needs, that frees up $10 billion for other uses. The United States is funding the jihad against Israel on one hand while professing to oppose it on the other.

“Days After Trump’s Victory, Biden-Harris Admin Granted Iran $10 Billion in Sanctions Relief, Congressional Notice Shows,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, December 10, 2024:

The Biden-Harris administration waived sanctions on Iran three days after the November election, providing Tehran access upward of $10 billion in once-frozen funds, according to a copy of the non-public order transmitted to Congress and reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken determined on November 8 that “it is in the national security interest of the United States” to waive mandatory economic sanctions that bar Iraq from transferring upward of $10 billion to Iran in electricity import payments.

The Biden-Harris administration has renewed the waiver repeatedly over the objections of congressional Republicans, who warned that the cash helped fuel terrorism and Iran’s war against Israel. In one case, the administration signed off on the sanctions relief one month after Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel.

The most recent iteration of the waiver lifts sanctions for 120 days, at which time the incoming Trump administration will have to decide whether Tehran will continue receiving the relief.

Though the first Trump administration did green-light the same waiver—causing tension with some congressional Republicans—it narrowly tailored the waiver to restrict Iranian access to the cash. The Biden State Department tweaked the waiver last year to allow Tehran to convert the funds from Iraqi dinars to euros, then hold those euros in bank accounts based in Oman. Access to a widely traded currency like the euro enables Iran to more easily spend the cash in international markets. Under the first Trump administration, Iran had to keep the cash in an escrow account in Baghdad, making it more difficult to access.

The State Department confirmed last week that it issued the waiver.

“We remain committed to reducing Iran’s malign influence in the region,” State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters during a briefing. “Our viewpoint is that a stable, sovereign, and secure Iraq is critical to these efforts.”

The Biden State Department maintains that Iran is only permitted to use the funds for humanitarian needs, including medicines and other supplies. Republican critics argue that money is fungible, meaning that Tehran will have an easier time diverting its dwindling cash reserves to its regional terror proxies, such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthi rebels in Yemen, should it have access to the sanctioned cash for other purposes….

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‘One Bad Apple for Another’: Islamist Rebels Topple Syrian Dictatorship

December 11, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Commentary, Culture War, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Religion, Terrorism/by Family Research Council

Islamist rebels backed by Turkey abruptly toppled Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad on Saturday, ending a 50-year family dynasty in a little over a week. After a decade-long civil war, a coalition of jihadist groups captured Syria’s second-largest city, Aleppo, last weekend before advancing rapidly south with swelling ranks. To everyone’s surprise, the rebels arrived in Damascus on Saturday, hours after Assad secretly fled the country.

With his generals planning to hand over power peacefully, Assad escaped Syria, skipping a prepared address to the nation and leaving his cabinet with no idea of his whereabouts. Hours later, he turned up in Moscow with his family, where they received political asylum. The Russian foreign ministry announced that Assad had resigned and that his prime minister would facilitate a peaceful transfer of power.

As instructed, Prime Minister Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali called for free elections, while the rebels declared Syria “free of the tyrant” and released hundreds of prisoners held in Saydnaya prison, dubbed the “human slaughterhouse,” where as many as 13,000 people were executed since 2011.

The Assad regime was brutal and inhumane, and its swift collapse underscores just how fragile it had become, after years of corruption, civil war, and an economic crisis. The regime was “in worse shape than we thought,” said Swedish government think tank security analyst Aron Lund.

Its sudden collapse also underscores just how fragile its allies have become. The Assad regime had been weak for years, propped up only by the aid of Russia and Iran. Now, Russia’s military might is so tied up in Ukraine that it is renting soldiers from North Korea. Consequently, Russian air strikes against the rebels tailed off after only a few days, with some speculating that Russia cut a deal to maintain its military bases. Now it suffers the international embarrassment of abandoning a close ally without even putting up much of a fight.

For its part, Iran’s network of terrorist proxies has suffered heavy losses in their unjustified war against Israel, particularly Hezbollah, which operates out of neighboring Lebanon. Iran declined to send reinforcements due to the threat of Israeli air power, and it ordered its militias to stay out of the fight. Still, rebels, who allowed the Iranian embassy in Damascus to be looted after they seized the city, may prove far less cooperative with Iran. Assad’s fall takes a hefty bite out of Iran’s regional security plan, cutting off routes to resupply and rearm Hezbollah in Lebanon.

It’s unclear what sort of government will succeed the Assad regime, and who will run it. The rebel coalition that toppled his regime represents a hodge-podge of factions that lack unifying interests. A key leader of the rebel march southward was Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani. Wanted by the U.S. government to the tune of $10 million, al-Jawlani is affiliated with al-Qaeda and leads a faction of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization (FTO). Meanwhile, other parts of Syria remain under the control of U.S.-backed rebel factions, including northeastern Syria, where a Kurdish government holds sway.

In other words, someone threw a cup of dice into the middle of the geopolitical chessboard. And, while we’re still counting the score, it’s safe to assume that no one can declare Yahtzee!

As for establishing a free and fair democracy, there are precious few examples where jihadist rebels toppled a dictator, and the result was a stable, Westernized system of government. Even if such a government was established, there is always the danger of leaving a power vacuum that might be filled by remnants of ISIS, bringing further chaos and suffering to the region.

As happened in Libya and other toppled dictatorships, “We might see a big, quick victory, and then the problems start,” an unnamed Western diplomat suggested to The Wall Street Journal.

All we can say for sure is that Russia’s and Iran’s influence in Syria has waned, while Turkey’s influence has increased. As the state sponsor for the rebel groups that toppled Assad, Turkey will likely have some influence over the government that takes shape on its southern border. “What is significant is the fact that these rebels were Turkish-backed, and so this is an extension of Turkey’s influence southward into the former borders of Syria,” Travis Weber, vice president for Policy and Government Affairs at Family Research Council, told The Washington Stand.

A NATO member with an Islamic maverick streak, Turkey is not fully aligned with either the U.S. or with its adversaries, and Turkish leader Recep Erdogan has ambitions to recapture the glory of the Ottoman Empire.

As the Islamist rebels marched on Damascus, foreign ministers from Russia, Iran, and Turkey met at a conference in Qatar to discuss the future of Syria.

“Many will be taking note of the fact that … that continuous string of Iranian and anti-Israel influence from Iran to the Mediterranean has been broken,” Weber observed, but “those who are celebrating this as some universal win … [are] taking the wrong approach.”

“We must be under no illusions that the rebel forces are somehow a friend of Western values,” Weber warned. “Their posture towards Israel, ideologically, is likely very hostile as well.”

“So,” he concluded, “we will have to see how things shake out regionally, but in a sense, we’re trading one bad apple for another.”

AUTHOR

Joshua Arnold

Joshua Arnold is a senior writer at The Washington Stand.

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UNPRECEDENTED: Israel is Destroying the Army of Syria

December 10, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, Must Read, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Religion/by NEWSRAEL Telling the Israeli Story

Many people have asked: After all the Israeli resilience, the special surprising attacks, the list of historic military achievements – what more can they do? Here we have the answer: Israel is, in a matter of days, aiming to destroy the infrastructure of the Syrian army.

I don’t know how much headlines this has grabbed up to now in our endless news wave, but for those who haven’t noticed yet: Israel has been conducting an airstrike operation unprecedented in recent decades, for the destruction of a country’s army, in the last two days.

In hundreds of airstrikes that are going on this very minute, the air force destroys Assad’s army: tanks, planes, helicopters, ships, air defense systems, missiles, military factories, intelligence facilities, and everything that the army of the Syrian state has held and built for decades – is literally being destroyed in these days.

Israel made a strategic decision to destroy all advanced and strategic military capabilities remaining in Syria after the fall of the regime, and if this operation is completed successfully – the new rebel government will have to start from the beginning, with M16s and Kalashnikovs (Ak-47), to build their military capabilities as a new state.

NEWSRAEL: Someone is going to have to ask, one of these days: With the thousands of missions, with the hundreds of quality enemy air defense systems – How many Israeli jets have been shot down? The answer is ZERO. Think about that for a moment or two!

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In Syria, be careful what you wish for: Sharia law and new wave of refugees is more likely than ‘democracy’ following fall of Assad and U.S. meddling

December 10, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Iranian influence, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Religion, Terrorism/by Leo Hohmann

Why, exactly, did Washington back Sunni rebels taking down Assad, and if Washington wants a Turkish-backed Sunni Muslim caliphate in Syria, should we as Christians cheer Washington getting its way?

All of those in the West celebrating the fall of the Assad regime in Syria had better be careful what they wish for.

I’ve heard some awfully dumb statements coming from conservative circles in recent days about the “stunning” nine-day collapse of Syria. It’s not so stunning when you learn that the American CIA had been planning the offensive for months with the full support of its NATO ally Turkey.

One prominent regular guest commentator on Fox News has come out and said both sides in the Syrian Civil War are made up of really bad guys, but that he was hoping the coalition of “rebels” which include the former El Nusra, al-Qaida and other Sunni Muslim terrorists would win. Why? Because they’re against Russia and Iran, whom he fears more.

But even that nonsense pales in comparison to some of the other chatter out there in conservative and even Christian circles, where I’m hearing it said that there is “hope” now for a democratically elected constitutional republic to emerge in Syria. Where is there another example of such a government — of, by and for the people — anywhere in the Middle East? I would actually go further and say I don’t see a government anywhere on Earth right now that reflects those vaunted principles.

Let’s face it: The U.S. didn’t support the rebels who overran Syria because they thought Assad was too brutal of a dictator. They supported them because it was yet another way to deal a black eye to Russia.

Instead of Russia and Iran running the show in Syria, now we face the very real possibility that Russia and Iran will be replaced with Turkey and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Syria’s new jihadist regime has reportedly already started rounding up the Christians.

But, however unjustified, the celebrations continue here in America in certain Christian and conservative circles. Yay, we beat Russia again! Score one for the good guys!

Even some of the most sincere Christian supporters of the state of Israel are celebrating the fall of Assad. However brutal of a dictator he was, at least Assad, being from the Alawite Shia sect, was one of the religious minorities in Syria. As such, he protected other minorities in the country, which includes Christians.

Now, with the Sunnis in control of the country, we should expect nothing other than oppression, if not open slaughter, of Syrian Christians. That’s what Sunni Muslim regimes always do when empowered. That’s their history. Read the works of historian Raymond Ibrahim and you will get acquainted with this history. A good place to start would be to study the history of the Ottoman Empire and what they did to the Armenian Christians.

For a peek at who HTS and its comrades really are, take a look at this 3-minute video, where they say openly that their next goal is to take over Jerusalem.

The West and Israel are playing with fire. They think they can use one portion of Islam to punish the other portion. They think the portion backed by Iran is “more evil” than the portion backed by Turkey. I fear they are in for a rude awakening.

Watch the video below for a sneak peek at exactly the type of folks we are talking about here. These Islamist rebels are filmed celebrating the taking of Damascus by promising that it’s just the start and that they will take Jerusalem next to free all the Gazans.

WATCH: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham the Syrian rebels who just took over Syria

If the West thinks Iran was the biggest threat to the Middle East, and Assad was the nastiest brutal dictator, they are about to learn what real brutality looks like.

The American Russophobic mentality has served as a blinder to those who conduct U.S. foreign policy. We could have made peace with Russia after the Cold War. Instead, we expanded NATO right up to the edge of Russia’s border and placed Western troops and weapons in those former Soviet-bloc countries. Then we militarized Ukraine, placing more sophisticated missile systems there, and told Ukraine it was OK to fire them into Russia proper. Imagine if Russia had done that in Mexico? Trained Mexicans to fight Americans, then sent them super-sophisticated missile systems and told them to go ahead and start firing them into Texas. How would the American government react to that. Oh, but it gets worse. In our hypothetical scenario, when the American government finally gets tired of being attacked by Mexicans armed with Russian weapons, we invade Mexico to stop it, only to be called a perpetrator of “naked aggression” by the Russian government and its media propagandists.

How would that work out?

I think you know what would happen. It would be tantamount to a declaration of war by Russia on America and World War III would ensue.

That, my friends, is what’s going on, only in reverse. And that is why we are now engaged in World War III. Syria is just the latest salvo in the Third World War. Don’t expect it to be the last, because now we are in a tit-for-tat escalation.

Pray for peace. Prepare for war.

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The Qatar Foundation’s Hidden Hand, From Hamas to U.S. Universities

December 9, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Education, Hot Topics, National Security, News, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Religion, Terrorism/by NEWSRAEL Telling the Israeli Story

As Qatar resumed mediating an Israel-Hamas hostage deal, the Gulf state has also been using its economic power to support Hamas terror and spread propaganda on North American campuses.

One key figure in this effort is Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, the mother of current Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.

“She is a fashion icon and a philanthropist, but she is openly pro-Hamas,” Asaf Romirowsky, historian and executive director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East community, told The Press Service of Israel.

Through the Qatar Foundation, which Moza heads, Qatari money is flooding American schools and universities to indoctrinate American students.

A 2022 study by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) argued that as funding from Middle Eastern countries increases and becomes less transparent, campuses experience an “erosion of democratic values.” Another ISGAP report labeled Qatar as the largest foreign donor to U.S. universities.

“Our investigations during the Trump administration revealed that many of the US most prestigious universities are shockingly agnostic about who they’ll take money from,” Paul R. Moore, former chief investigative counsel in the US Department of Education, told TPS-IL. “The purposes of these donors are often very much contrary to the US national interests. The failure of many of the universities to respond to antisemitic protests is a perfect example. The universities didn’t want to offend their Middle Eastern donors.”

Romirowsky and Moore agreed that President-elect Donald Trump will demand greater transparency from universities about their foreign funding.

“Qatar money is tunneling anti-American values into America, buying hearts and minds. This needs to be changed,” Romirowsky said.

Added Moore, “I fully expect that the incoming Trump administration will quickly reverse the current administration’s negligence of its enforcement obligations. Civil investigations are very likely to occur with universities that have failed to be in compliance.”

After Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in October, Moza eulogized the mastermind of the October 7 attacks.

“The name Yahya means the one who lives. They thought he was dead but he lives. He will live on and they [Israel] will be gone,” she tweeted.
In a recent article in the Jewish Journal, Moza was called a matriarch of the royal family, “heavily involved in the dispersing of funds,” according to Jonathan Schanzer, senior vice president of research for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD).

According to the FDD, Qatar has given an estimated $1.8 billion to Gaza’s Hamas-run government since 2007, with reports indicating that around 80 percent of that money was paid as salaries to Hamas terrorists and leaders.

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Biden’s Ambassador Jack Lew Says Ceasefire Will Hold If Israel Ignores Terrorist Violations

December 8, 2024/in Anti-Semitism, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, Must Read, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Religion, Social Issues, Socialism/by Jihad Watch

Fiery but mostly peaceful ceasefire continues.

The Biden ceasefire for Lebanon fell apart within 4 days. Officially the ceasefire is holding even as fighting continues between Israel and the Hezbollah Islamic terrorist group.

When is a ceasefire not a ceasefire, but still officially a ceasefire? When it’s a fiery but mostly peaceful ceasefire with terrorists.

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So it’s a ceasefire in which the fires has not ceased. And Biden’s Israel ambassador warns that while the ceasefire is ‘holding’, this will only work if Israel ignores the terrorists violating it.

Ambassador Lew cautions Israel against blowing issues out of proportion in trying to maintain the ceasefire with Hezbollah.

“Israel has made clear that it has to be able to defend itself, but they also have to act in a way that doesn’t take small things and turn them into big things,” Lew says.

That was the policy with Hamas. Proportionate responses only when attacked. And that led to Oct 7.

In Lebanon, this would mean Israel ignoring as Hezbollah advances back to its old positions, puts up rocket launchers, refortifies, and waits until Hezbollah attacks to respond.

Lew promises that things will get better when “the Government of Lebanon has to increasingly gain control” except that the Lebanese government is a puppet of Hezbollah. So it controls nothing and will control nothing except whatever Hezbollah allows it to.

Biden’s ambassador claims that the ceasefire is holding. And it’ll go on holding if Israel just pretends that the terrorists aren’t there.

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