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Musk says Farage should be replaced as leader of Reform. Was it over Tommy Robinson or Farage’s views on Islam?

January 7, 2025/in Culture War, Elections, Featured, Hot Topics, Marxism, National Security, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Religion, Socialism, Terrorism/by Jihad Watch

Elon Musk now opposes Nigel Farage, following seemingly friendly talks with the Reform UK leader at Mar-a-Lago. After those discussions, the Reform Party released this statement:

“We learned a great deal about the Trump ground game and will have ongoing discussions on other areas,” it added. “We only have one more chance left to save the west and we can do great things together. Our thanks also to President Trump for allowing us to use Mar-a-Lago for this historic meeting. The special relationship is alive and well.”

But then in a blow to Farage, Musk has now called for him to be replaced.

“Elon Musk turns on Nigel Farage and calls for new leader of Reform,”by Peter Walker, Guardian, January 5, 2024:

Elon Musk has called for Nigel Farage to be replaced as Reform UK leader hours after Farage described the billionaire businessman as “a hero”, in what is likely to be a preview of how a chaotic Donald Trump presidency could affect British politics.

Farage, who is also the de facto owner of Reform, “doesn’t have what it takes”, Musk said on X, the social media platform he owns, less than three weeks after the pair held seemingly warm talks at Trump’s Florida home. “The Reform party needs a new leader,” he wrote.

Musk, 53, who has sent a mass of largely misleading posts in recent days about a series of aspects of UK politics, appeared to endorse Rupert Lowe, the Great Yarmouth MP, as a possible replacement, saying statements he had read from Lowe “make a lot of sense”.

Later, Lowe backed Farage, posting on X: “Nigel is leader of Reform. He made Brexit happen, and for that I will always be grateful….

Farage himself connected Musk’s turning on him to Tommy Robinson:

Farage, 60, indicated Musk’s statement could be connected to a disagreement about Tommy Robinson, the jailed far-right anti-Islam agitator whom Musk has characterised as a political prisoner, but whom Farage condemns.

“Well, this is a surprise!” Farage wrote on X after Musk’s tweet. “Elon is a remarkable individual but on this I am afraid I disagree. My view remains that Tommy Robinson is not right for Reform and I never sell out my principles.”

Farage has distanced himself from Robinson, saying:

“I never wanted Tommy Robinson to join UKIP ….I don’t want him to join Reform UK; and he won’t be.”

Farage also claimed that Tommy Robinson is not a political prisoner:

Mr Musk “sees Robinson as one of these people that fought against the grooming gangs…But of course the truth is Tommy Robinson’s in prison not for that, but for contempt of court….We’re a political party aiming to win the next general election. He’s not what we need.”

It does appear that Musk may have soured on Farage due to the latter’s views on Robinson, at least in part, given the strength of Musk’s support for Robinson:

But leadership material involves more than a single issue. It involves resilience and know-how on multiple issues including economics, national security, the rule of law, and protection of Western interests and freedoms. There is also another possible and related reason for Musk’s deciding that Farage was lacking, which carries deeper implications than Farage’s lack of support for Tommy Robinson:

This view isn’t unique to Farage. Far too many politicians of every political stripe feel that they must prove to their countries and to the world that they are not “Islamophobic.” Yet it isn’t possible to prove such a thing to the collective Muslim world unless you ultimately are willing to give up all speech deemed offensive to Islam, in accordance with Islamic blasphemy laws, as well as to turn against Israel in favor of the “resistance” from the River to the Sea, and allow pro-Hamas thugs to “globalize the intifada.” Islam is about Sharia expansion, conquest, and dhimmitude, and the Muslim vote is dependent on it. The more you surrender, the more you will be expected to surrender. It is only necessary that Westerners stand firmly and without apology against any doctrine equally that threatens Western values and freedoms. For all his talk about not alienating Muslims, Farage’s own immigration policies and his latest defence of Musk for the latter’s attack on the UK government’s response to Muslim rape gangs will ultimately cause Farage to alienate Muslim groups.

More will likely come to light about Musk’s statement against Farage, but in the meantime, Reform MPs are now reportedly rallying behind Farage.

AUTHOR

Christine Douglass-Williams

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Mexico Concerned Trump May Order Military Strikes On Cartels

December 28, 2024/in Criminal Illegal Aliens, Featured, Hot Topics, Immigration, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by NEWSRAEL Telling the Israeli Story

As tensions continue to rise between the United States and Mexico over drug trafficking and cartel violence, Mexican officials have expressed deep concerns regarding the potential of a military strike ordered by former President Donald Trump against drug cartels operating within their borders.

This apprehension reflects both the ongoing security crisis in Mexico and the complex relationship between the two neighboring countries.

BACKGROUND

Mexico has long struggled with the influence and power of drug cartels, which have become deeply entrenched in various aspects of society. These criminal organizations are responsible for significant violence, including turf wars, kidnappings, and the trafficking of illegal drugs into the United States. The situation has deteriorated in recent years, with record levels of homicides attributed to cartel-related activities.

Trump has made combating drug trafficking a cornerstone for his future administration, often using strong rhetoric that included the possibility of using military force against cartels. His approach to border security and drug enforcement was characterized by a willingness to take aggressive measures, which has left Mexican officials wary of the implications such policies could have on their sovereignty and public safety.

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

Since Trump began to plan his run for the presidency in 2024, his statements regarding drug cartels have reignited fears in Mexico. The prospect of a military strike is particularly alarming for Mexican leaders, who worry that such actions could escalate violence and undermine efforts to stabilize the country. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has emphasized the need for cooperation and dialogue rather than unilateral military interventions.

DIPLOMATIC CONCERNS

The potential for military action raises significant diplomatic concerns. Mexico has long valued its sovereignty and territorial integrity, and any unilateral action by the U.S. would be viewed as an infringement on these principles. This could strain relations between the two nations, which have historically relied on cooperation to address shared challenges, including drug trafficking and immigration.

Moreover, the Mexican government has been working to strengthen its law enforcement capabilities and address corruption within its own ranks. A military strike from the U.S. could undermine these efforts and damage the trust that is necessary for effective collaboration in tackling organized crime.

PUBLIC SENTIMENT

Public sentiment in Mexico regarding U.S. intervention is mixed. While many citizens are frustrated with the ongoing violence and the perceived inability of the government to control the situation, there is also a strong desire for solutions that respect the country’s sovereignty. The idea of U.S. military action is often met with skepticism and fears of further violence and instability.

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DHS secretary announces ‘jobs giveaway’ for newly arrived migrants with work permits

December 13, 2024/in Communism, Culture War, Economy, Hot Topics, Immigration, Labor & Unions, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Regulation, Socialism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Jihad Watch

What about Americans seeking jobs?

America doesn’t need to be supporting jobless illegals. Americans also need jobs. Responsible governments control migration, properly vet migrants, and put the needs of their home country first. Biden is doing none of those things. Instead, his administration is rewarding multitudes of unvetted foreign illegals, with criminals and terrorists among them.

Demonstrating how lightly the Biden administration regards American safety and well-being, Biden waived sanctions on Iran three days after the November election, providing the terrorist regime “access upward of $10 billion in once-frozen funds.” Why?

He also gave away a billion tax dollars to Africa, while residents of North Carolina are still struggling from the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

“DHS Chief Alejandro Mayorkas Announces Jobs Giveaway for Migrants,” by John Binder, Breitbart, December 10, 2024:

In the final weeks of President Joe Biden’s administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is announcing a jobs giveaway for newly arrived migrants with work permits.

On Tuesday, Mayorkas announced a final rule from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that will allow millions of migrants, many of whom have been released into the U.S. interior by the Biden administration, to keep their work permits for up to 540 days when they seek a renewal.

Migrants previously could renew their work permits for 180 days. For years, Democratic mayors had lobbied DHS to extend such automatic employment authorization for migrants. The rule will go into effect on Jan. 13, 2025.

Mayorkas said in a statement the move is meant to help “businesses fill” American jobs with more migrants:

Increasing the automatic extension period for certain employment authorization documents will help eliminate red tape that burdens employers, ensure hundreds of thousands of individuals eligible for employment can continue to contribute to our communities, and further strengthen our nation’s robust economy. [Emphasis added]…

Indeed, in the last year, more than a million foreign-born workers have secured American jobs while nearly 800,000 native-born Americans have dropped out of the workforce.

In July of this year, a Pew Research Center study found that as of 2022, more than 30 million legal immigrants and illegal aliens were holding American jobs — a 20-percent increase over the last 15 years….

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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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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.

Hezbollah and Israel Trade Fire, Further Testing Cease-Fire – The New York Times

Why Israel and Hezbollah Are Still Firing Amid a Lebanon Cease-Fire – The New York Times

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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The ceasefire lasted approximately 4 days.

Lucy and the football.

Ceasefires with terrorists always play out the same way. An elaborate series of understandings are reached through an extended process of negotiations.

The terrorists start violating them within 24 hours.

If Israel is involved, the world immediately blames Israel.

Biden’s Lebanon ceasefire lasted approximately 4 days. During that time, Hezbollah began advancing back to its old positions, setting up rocket launchers, fortifying and preparing to launch new attacks. All in violation of the ceasefire. Israel responded by taking out the incoming forces and Hezbollah is back to firing rockets into Israel.

So much for the ceasefire.

The first part played out in predictable fashion (anyone who thought Islamic terrorists would honor a ceasefire is either hopelessly ignorant or naive) and so is the second part. Israel argues that it’s acting within the terms of the ceasefire. Israeli negotiators ensured that Israel would have the right to act against Hezbollah forces operating south of the Litani river unilaterally. That was the basis on which the Israeli cabinet approved the ceasefire.

The problem is nobody cares.

Every single agreement that Israel has signed with Arab Muslim enemies were violated with the complicity of the ‘international bodies’ that were tasked with implementing them. That began with Israel’s War of Independence when the Jordanian and Egyptian forces were allowed to continue attacking Israeli civilians in Jerusalem and near the Gaza border while any Israeli response was immediately condemned as a war crime.

75 years later nothing has changed.

The Biden administration and France’s Macron have warned Israel to stop unilaterally attacking Hezbollah and to take complaints about ceasefire violations to an international committee that will do nothing except warn Hezbollah that it’s been spotted.

Meanwhile, the ceasefire is back to being an exchange of fire.

AUTHOR

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“Threatening to facilitate a further, broader, binding international arms embargo.”

The Biden administration, the media and the rest of the political infrastructure are billing this as a ‘ceasefire’ deal. In reality, it’s a worthless agreement with Lebanon’s puppet regime which is controlled by Hezbollah.

Hezbollah has made it clear that it’s going to continue attacking Israel and is claiming victory.

Biden described this as a “proposal to end the devastating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah,” but it does no such thing. What it does is allow Hezbollah to rearm and launch the next wave of attacks.

So why did Israel agree to it?

“Obama-Biden officials pressured our Israeli allies into accepting the ceasefire by withholding weapons they needed to defend themselves and counter Hezbollah, and by threatening to facilitate a further, broader, binding international arms embargo through the United Nations. Obama-Biden officials are already trying to use Israel’s acceptance of this ceasefire to ensure that Hezbollah and other Iranian terrorist groups remain intact across Lebanon, and to limit Israel’s future freedom of action and self-defense,” Sen. Ted Cruz stated.

“While the Biden-Harris Administration celebrates this announcement, remember that it is STILL withholding weapons to Israel. This Administration put up roadblock after roadblock on Israel and dragged out this conflict. They repeatedly appeased Iran rather than show unequivocal support to our closest ally in the region. Israel’s military success has been in spite of the White House, not because of it,” Speaker Mike Johnson tweeted.

In his remarks, Biden made it clear that the next step is saving Hamas with yet another “ceasefire” proposal under its allies Qatar and Turkey.

Now that the election is over and the administration has nothing to lose, the campaign against Israel and for the terrorists is moving into full swing.

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Lindsey Graham’s warning puts the spotlight particularly on America’s neighbor, the anti-Israel Justin Trudeau and his foreign minister Melanie Joly (who once posted a picture of herself arm-in-arm with jihadist Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas).

The world continues to be divided in two: those in support of the red green axis of evil and those in support of freedom.

“We will crush you”: Graham threatens allies with sanctions over Netanyahu arrest warrant”, by Griffin Eckstein, Salon, November 23, 2024:

Republican South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham wants a forceful response to American allies who might comply with an international court order to arrest Israeli leaders Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for the prime minister and former defense minister for “intentionally direct[ing] attacks against the civilian population of Gaza” on Wednesday. The United States is not a member of the ICC and the Biden administration dismissed the warrants as “outrageous” on Thursday.

The 124 member nations of the ICC could well arrest the Israeli leader and Gaza war architect if they set foot on their soil, a possibility Sen. Graham rebuked in on Friday while stopping by Fox News’ “Hannity.”

“If you are going to help the ICC, as a nation, enforce the arrest warrant against Bibi and Gallant, the former Defense Minister, I will put sanctions on you as a nation,” Graham warned. “You’re gonna have to pick the rogue ICC versus America.”

Graham added that he’s “working with Tom Cotton” on an act that would sanction any nation who aided in the arrest of “any politician in Israel.”…

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Ex-wife of Muslim who masterminded Trump assassination plot is American lawyer who converted to Islam

November 18, 2024/in Assassination attempt, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, National Security, News, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Religion/by Jihad Watch

The implication of this story was that she left him because he treated her badly. Now, where could he have gotten the idea that such behavior was justified?

The Qur’an teaches that men are superior to women and should beat those from whom they “fear disobedience”: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.” — Qur’an 4:34

Muhammad’s child bride, Aisha, says in a hadith that Muhammad “struck me on the chest which caused me pain, and then said: ‘Did you think that Allah and His Apostle would deal unjustly with you?’” — Sahih Muslim 2127

Another hadith states: “Rifa`a divorced his wife whereupon `AbdurRahman bin Az-Zubair Al-Qurazi married her. `Aisha said that the lady (came), wearing a green veil (and complained to her (Aisha) of her husband and showed her a green spot on her skin caused by beating). It was the habit of ladies to support each other, so when Allah’s Messenger came, Aisha said, ‘I have not seen any woman suffering as much as the believing women. Look! Her skin is greener than her clothes!’” — Sahih Bukhari 7.77.5825

“Ex-wife of man who masterminded Trump assassination plot is an American lawyer who had converted to Islam,” by Emma James, Daily Mail, November 13, 2024:

The ex-wife of the mastermind behind the chilling terror plot to assassinate Donald Trump is an accomplished American lawyer who converted to Islam for him, DailyMail.com can reveal.

Gabriele Burner, 49, was married to Farhad Shakeri, 51, who allegedly admitted to being the ringleader of the now-foiled scheme involving three hitmen hired by the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) to target Trump.

The couple had five children and were living in New York when Shakeri was convicted of robbery and kidnapping in 1994 and was handed a 21-year prison sentence.

Shakeri, who grew up in Virginia, was later deported from the US to his native Afghanistan after being offered a plea deal by authorities.

Burner, a white woman from New York, stood by her husband for several years, even moving to Afghanistan and then Dubai following his deportation.

Photos exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com show the couple posing together after his release from US custody.

Burner spent nine years working in the Special Litigation Unit of New York City’s Law Department, until her husband’s deportation.

The mother-of-five then became a legal advisory in the Afghan capital Kabul for three years.

Shakeri and his family then moved to Dubai in 2011, where Burner worked again as a legal consultant, before they ultimately split in 2015 after the birth of their youngest son.

She then moved with her children back to New York, setting up her own legal firm in Port Jefferson in Long Island.

In 2022 the lawyer rebranded her firm from Law Office of Gabriele Shakeri to Gabriele Burner, after eight years of practicing under her married name.

When approached by DailyMail.com Burner declined to comment.

But sources claim that his family was appalled by the way he treated her after she converted to Islam to be with him.

‘Gaby decided to bring her life back to America because of his behavior,’ they said. ‘She really gave her entire life to him.

‘She left him when they were in Dubai, and moved back to New York, because of his behavior. He just seemed to get worse.

The source said Shakeri’s younger brother lost all respect for him after he saw how he treated her.

‘He was very disappointed to see the girl, a white woman who had turned Muslim and spoke the language, and he just couldn’t look up to him anymore.’

The news comes after DailyMail.com revealed that Shakeri was brought up in Manassas, Virginia, from the age of nine along with his six siblings after their parents moved them from Afghanistan for a better life….

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Biden-Harris Officials Leak Every Piece of Info They Have About Israeli Attack on Iran

October 15, 2024/in Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, Marxism, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Socialism, Terrorism/by Jihad Watch

Why would they do that?

The Israelis informed the Biden-Harris admin about the Pagergeddon attack and the attack on Hezbollah’s leader once both were underway.

Why did they do that?

Here’s the latest in a series of anonymous leaked stories about Israel’s plans to retaliate against Iran.

U.S. officials believe Israel has narrowed down what they will target in their response to Iran’s attack, which these officials describe as Iranian military and energy infrastructure.

There is no indication that Israel will target nuclear facilities or carry out assassinations, but U.S. officials stressed that the Israelis have not made a final decision about how and when to act.

The U.S. does not know when Israel’s response could come but officials said the Israeli military is poised and ready to go at any time once the order is given.

Israel has shared more information with the U.S. about the retaliation, the officials said, but they withheld many details out of operational security concerns.

What could those ‘concerns’ possibly be? Can’t imagine.

The same folks hounding Trump over classified documents leak constantly and they do so deliberately. The goal is to sabotage any Israeli operation much the way Obama’s people sabotaged a planned Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear program by leaking the information.

Israeli operational security for taking out terrorists now involves hiding information from the White House.

We’ve become the weak link because the administration is stuffed with terrorist sympathizers.

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In April 2024, Iran launched a missile attack on Israel. And Biden offered Iran sanctions relief.

In April 2024, Iran launched a missile attack on Israel. And the Biden-Harris administration offered Iran sanctions relief.

Is U.S. foreign policy on autopilot? On Wednesday we learned the Biden Administration is imposing sanctions on another Israeli while reissuing a sanctions waiver that lets Iran access more than $10 billion in frozen funds. Its priorities reflect a policy that long ago was overtaken by events.

The billions in sanctions relief provided by the Obama-Biden and Biden-Harris administrations allowed Iran to build up Islamic terrorist networks around the region, including Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Houthis in Yemen (which we’ve been battling for nine months) along with its ballistic missile program (and the rockets of its allied terror groups), and begin the wars we’ve been seeing over the last year.

In September 2023, before the Oct 7 attacks, the Biden-Harris administration conducted a disastrous hostage deal with Iran that included $6 billion in sanctions relief. And there then were the $1.7 billion in cash pallets illegally smuggled to Iran by Obama.

The total amounts estimated over the years have varied but have gone as high as $150 billion.

The nuclear program was only part of the picture when it came to Iran. The other parts included Iran’s international terrorism and its drug exports and ballistic missile program.

Sanctions relief extended even to Iran’s missile producers.

The Biden administration on Friday lifted sanctions on two Iranian entities involved in military missile programs.

We’re now seeing the impact of the arsenal that the Obama-Biden policies allowed Iran to build up.

AUTHOR

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“Space for more confrontational policies vis-à-vis the Israeli government.”

Whoever wins on Election Day it won’t be Joe Biden who will head off to join Jimmy Carter in senile infamy or his top administration members who won’t be likely to stay on no matter which way the election turns out.

And the administration is taking it in the noble spirit for which it’s known for, that is to say it’s going to follow in the footsteps of the Obama administration (and plenty of the perps are veterans of Hussy) and avenge the outcome on the Jews. (Hey it’s a popular response for thousands of years. So why not?)

Joe Biden claims that his real priority is a moonshot cure, but it seems like the admin’s real priority is to attack Israel.

The nearly three-month period from the November 5 presidential election to the January 20 inauguration will come with additional “political flexibility,” which will allow space for more confrontational policies vis-à-vis the Israeli government, said the current US official.

The list of steps US President Joe Biden could take would be longer if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the election since she is less likely to reverse them, a former senior US official explained. The official added that Harris would also be shielded from any political backlash of such moves due to them being seen as part of her predecessor’s legacy.

The former senior US official acknowledged that certain steps would be less likely taken if former president Donald Trump wins the election because he would be able to roll them back upon returning to office.

The wish list includes sanctioning members of the Israeli government, sanctioning even more Jewish groups and cracking down on Jewish products coming out of territory claiming by Islamic terrorists. Also there are plans for more limitations on weapons and this genius scheme to reopen a terror consulate in Jerusalem.

The former senior US official said the White House could dangle one last visit from Biden to Israel to participate in the corner-stone laying ceremony for the yet-to-be-built US embassy compound in exchange for Jerusalem lifting its opposition to reopening the consulate.

I understand the admin blaming Israel for everything because they’re radicals and terror simps, I’m baffled as to why they would think that the Israeli government (or any government on earth) is desperate for a Biden visit, let alone willing to sell out their national capital to have Biden come in to help the terrorists.

Unless I’m completely misreading this and sending Biden to Jerusalem is meant to be some kind of a threat.

But joking aside, this is a part of why Israel has stepped up its campaign. It knows that it has until Election Day to make a substantive impact before the full rage of the sore losers in the D.C. regime can be unleashed without worrying that a crackdown on Israel will make a few thousand Jewish voters in Pennsylvania realize that this administration hates Israel far more than it does any of the Islamic terrorists it’s fighting against.

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Kamala’s ‘Jew Ban’

September 30, 2024/in Culture War, Elections, Featured, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, Lawfare, Marxism, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Religion, Social Issues, Socialism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Jihad Watch

Against a “Muslim Ban,” for a “Jew Ban.”

“On Holocaust Memorial Day, Trump restricted refugees from Muslim-majority countries. Make no mistake — this is a Muslim ban,” Kamala Harris angrily tweeted in 2017.

This year the Biden-Harris administration implemented a ‘Jew Ban’ less than a week after Holocaust Memorial Day and after the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

Unlike the Muslim Ban, the Biden-Harris ‘Jew Ban’ had nothing to do with immigration security. It was buried in Biden’s innocuously named ‘Executive Order 14115 – Imposing Certain Sanctions on Persons Undermining Peace, Security, and Stability in the West Bank.”

Who was sanctioned for undermining peace, security, and stability in the West Bank?

The PLO’s ‘Palestinian Authority’ has conducted unity negotiations with Hamas under the auspices of Russia and the CCP in Beijing and Moscow. It promotes and funds Islamic terrorism against Jews through its propaganda outlets, terror groups and its ‘Pay to Slay’ policy. Despite that the Biden-Harris administration has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into its territories.

The administration allows organizations like Samidoun which were named as terror front groups by Israel to operate through tax-exempt nonprofits in the United States. Radical groups like the International Solidarity Movement and Torat Tzedek which have been involved in local clashes and violence, some deadly, received money from tax-exempt charities like the New Israel Fund and the Middle East Children’s Alliance with no interference from the Biden-Harris government.

Instead the individuals targeted under Executive Order 14115 during its inception had two things in common: they were pro-Israel and Jewish. Starting in March, the Biden-Harris administration has rolled out sanctions on Jewish Israeli farmers, ranchers, bakers and housewives at the same time as Brazilian drug dealers, Chinese fentanyl manufacturers and Russian oligarchs.

The baffling list of Jews sanctioned by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris included the proprietors of a goat farm who sell cheese, a baker who shot an Islamic terrorist in 2016 and a mother of 8 who worked with survivors of sexual assault and led protests against aid to Hamas.

The ‘Jew Ban’ was so badly implemented that it shut down the bank accounts and credit cards of a man with a similar name to an activist protesting the Biden-Kamala Hamas aid trucks.

A week ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Biden-Harris administration then announced a secondary wave of sanctions against Jewish groups that had fundraised for the victims of the regime’s first wave of sanctions in its ‘Jew Ban’. Opposing the ‘Jew Ban’ was enough to get one sanctioned under the ‘Jew Ban’ for ‘undermining peace’.

A month before, a ‘Palestinian Authority’ security officer had opened fire on a Jewish school bus. The PA will not only continue paying his salary but it celebrated the attack.

The Palestinian Authority’s media boasted of “more than 2,750 acts of resistance against the occupation that have led to the killing of 12 Israelis”, “159 shooting operations” including the murder of two Jewish brothers stuck in traffic which it described as “continuing the path and keeping its spark burning will be carried out by blasting bullets into heads.”

The Biden-Harris administration did not believe this qualified as undermining peace. Not only did it leverage no sanctions on those responsible, but continued its diplomatic support for the PLO.

It was not until June that Arin Al-Usud, an Islamic terrorist group tied to Hamas and Islamic Jihad, that the PLO saw as a rival group was finally sanctioned. The use of the EO 14115 sanctions on a terrorist group instead of the appropriate Foreign Terrorist Organization designation that would treat support for terrorism as a serious crime classed Israeli civilians with terrorists and seemed largely aimed at trying to make the ‘Jew Ban’ look more ‘diverse’.

In August, the Biden-Harris ‘Jew Ban’ rolled on with the addition of Yitzhak Levi Filant: the security coordinator for an Israeli village that has frequently come under attack by Islamic terrorists. Security coordinators were the front line of defense during the Islamic terrorist attacks of Oct 7 and a good one can make the difference between massacre and a dead terrorist.

The Biden-Harris had already amply made clear which of these was its preferred outcome.

Since the onset of the ‘Jew Ban’, 8 Jewish men and women have been sanctioned by the the Biden-Harris administration along with 2 Jewish farms and 4 nonprofit groups.

And only one Islamic terror group.

100% of the individuals and 85% of the organizations sanctioned under the Biden-Harris ‘Jew Ban’ are Jewish.

Jerome Marcus, the president of the Deborah Project, called it “An Executive Order That Targets Jews” in an article at the Jewish Journal, asking, “Should U.S. Presidents be able to freeze your bank account if they disagree with your views on foreign policy, or if anti-Israel groups ask them to?” he asked. “Their internet and email are canceled, they have no access to their credit cards and thus can’t pay for basics like insurance and daily life activities. Their life is essentially unraveled. And once they’re sanctioned, they can’t hire a lawyer to defend them.”

A lawsuit filed by Marcus, Eugene Kontorovich of the George Mason University Scalia Law School and other attorneys on behalf of Texans for Israel and American Jews living in Israel challenged the constitutionality of Biden’s ‘Jew Ban’ who fear losing their bank accounts and livelihoods if they defend themselves against Muslim violence.

“The White House is putting the lives of American Jews living in the West Bank at risk and denying them the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection under the laws,” Kontorovich warned in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.

The lawsuit noted that the Biden-Harris administration has made it “clear that it considers the mere act of Jews residing in or making pilgrimage to sites in the West Bank as an obstacle to peace.’ In fact, the Administration has even called visits of Jews to their holy sites ‘provocative.’”

And who in the Biden-Harris administration is behind the ‘Jew Ban’?

Michael Doran, the Director of the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East, described a shadowy “interagency team of targeteers” led by the International Economics Directorate at the National Security Council. Doran named Ilan Goldenberg, Kamala’s former pro-terrorist Middle East advisor and her current ‘liaison’ to U.S. Jews as playing “a very enthusiastic role”.

Kamala’s close advisor who helped set her anti-Israel policy had previously advocated for a deal in which “Hamas would retain some of its military capabilities” and argued that “half the root causes are Israeli actions, in terms of — especially just focusing on Gaza, on the blockade. And the other half is Hamas’ choice to use violence and arm itself in response.”

The ‘Jew Ban’ is not just coming out of the Biden-Harris administration, but one of Kamala’s close advisors who represents her to the Jewish community appears to be its capo.

Kamala had campaigned against a Muslim ban in the name of “Holocaust Memorial Day” and “Anne Frank” only to then come to power and implement a ‘Jew Ban’ around Holocaust Memorial Day. The ‘Jew Ban’ is everything that Kamala accused the Muslim Ban of, but wasn’t, it’s shameful, unconstitutional and un-American. It’s also a foreshadowing of things to come.

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Daniel Greenfield

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Irangate: Iran’s Plan to Stop Trump and Elect Kamala

September 29, 2024/in Culture War, Election Fraud, Elections, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, Must Read, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Socialism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Jihad Watch

Unlike Russiagate, Irangate is real and has roots in the White House.

In the last two months, Iran set up fake news sites to defame Trump and promote Kamala, hacked the Trump campaign and tried to pass stolen documents to the Harris-Walz campaign and its media allies, and finally plotted to assassinate former President Trump and his officials.

These rather definite statements of Iran’s intentions in the presidential election have been dismissed with generic Russiagate buzzwords that describe the Islamic terrorist state as being out to “destabilize and sow chaos”. When Iran hacked the Trump campaign, we were told that it was to “sow chaos” and now that Trump has been briefed on the assassination threats, once again it’s been described as a plot to “destabilize and sow chaos” in the United States.

But if Iran is out to only “sow chaos,” then why isn’t it trying to assassinate Biden or Kamala?

Where are the Iranian agents soliciting useful idiots to take a shot at current administration officials rather than former Trump administration officials? And why didn’t Iran hack into the Kamala campaign and then email the stolen files to the Trump-Vance campaign?

Iran isn’t trying to “sow chaos” which is a meaningless buzzword the intel community seem to have come up with to project its own nation building paradigm abroad onto American politics.

The Islamic Republic is out to win. And it defines winning as Trump’s political defeat or death.

America’s leading middle eastern enemy actively interfering in a presidential election ought to be bigger news than it is. The Clinton campaign spun Russia’s awkward efforts to recruit black nationalists into backing its Syria agenda after the election into the great Russiagate hoax complete with British ex-secret agents, micturating hookers in Moscow hotel rooms, secret bank internet connections and a multi-year investigation fronted by a senile former FBI boss.

The revelation that Iran is trying to stop Trump and elect Kamala by any means occasions no more from the White House and the intel community than a reluctant briefing and some boilerplate prose about sowing chaos as if there is no motive or agenda to these activities.

No one has brought ‘Irangate’ into being even though there’s more than enough materials.

After September 11, Joe Biden suggested, “this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran.”

Biden urged restoring an American diplomatic presence to Tehran where our diplomats had been held hostage and cutting off Radio Liberty broadcasts undermining the Iranian regime.

Biden’s 2008 presidential campaign was backed by Iran Lobby figures and he believed that Iranian support was so vital to his campaign that he attacked Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for being insufficiently pro-Iran, and used his vote against designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the key player behind Hamas, Hezbollah and the murder of hundreds of American soldiers, as a terrorist organization to argue that he would make a better president.

For Iran.

After being part of an administration that provided Iran with the massive sanction relief and clearance that enabled it to build a massive missile arsenal and nuclear program, Biden left office and misappropriated classified documents involving Iran that he took home with him.

Biden stayed loyal to the Iran Lobby and it to him. Iranian hackers with the IRGC tried to interfere in the 2020 presidential election to stop Trump and aid Biden.

In the 2020 election, Jamal Abdi, the executive director of National Iranian American Council (NIAC) Action, often described as the Iran Lobby, was exposed as one of Biden’s biggest bundlers, and NIAC claimed its members had run phone banks and donated $385,000 to him.

NIAC Action had endorsed Biden and celebrated the election outcome by declaring that, “our long, national nightmare is almost over. AP has called the race for Joe Biden”.

Iran’s president cheered Biden’s election win by expressing the hope that “the next American administration will surrender to the Iranian nation.” The Islamic terror state leader was not to be disappointed. The Biden-Harris administration offered billions in sanctions relief to Iran while attempting to restore the failed nuclear deal with the terror state. It dropped support for the Saudi campaign against the Houthis in Yemen which allowed the Iran-backed terrorists to arm up and terrorize shipping in the Red Sea leading to 9 months of fighting in what has been described as the “most intense combat since World War II” for the U.S. Navy.

The Biden-Harris administration was filled with Iranian sympathizers and lobby figures, including Rob Malley, Biden’s envoy to Iran, under FBI investigation for mishandling classified information, whose actions were illegally covered up by State Department figures. It even brought in Ariane Tabatabai, an Iranian immigrant who had worked with the Iranian government to advise it and spread its propaganda, before working with Malley on the Iran negotiations, to act as a senior adviser to the Office of the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control, exactly where Tehran would have wanted her, before making her a Pentagon Chief of Staff.

Over the next four years, the Biden-Harris administration gave Iran everything it wanted from endless sanctions relief to a hostage trade that not only freed Iranian agents but allowed them to remain and continue their activities inside the United States.

This year the Biden administration was still at it, warning the British and French not to censure Iran at a vote in the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency despite its nuclear violations

When the chopper carrying Iran’s previous president crashed, the Biden administration sent its condolences and Deputy UN Ambassador Robert Wood stood for a moment of silence in the memory of the leader of a regime that had recently been responsible for killing U.S. soldiers.

The Biden-Harris administration now not only allowed sanctioned Iranian figures into the country but warned journalists away from filming outside the hotel where the Iranian delegation was staying. What did their cameras catch? The former head of NIAC, the Iran Lobby group linked to the Biden-Harris administration, entering the hotel. Is it any wonder that when Iran hacked the Trump campaign, it sent the materials to Harris-Walz staffers who did not report it to the FBI?

There is no shortage of materials for a theory of ‘Irangate’. The Biden-Harris administration has been even better for Iran that the previous low-water marks set by Carter and Obama.

Iran is not trying to “sow chaos” but to swing a presidential election in favor of its candidate.

The Islamic regime has also had a longtime obsession with Trump ever since he approved the operation that took out the IRGC’s deadly terror boss Qasem Soleimani. Even with Trump out of office, the official website of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei published a video simulating a drone strike on Trump’s home with the message, “Revenge is Inevitable”

Unlike Russiagate, Irangate is real and has been taking place out in the open for us to see.

An enemy of the United States is doing everything possible to stop a free election from taking place. It already used fake news, hacking and assassination plots to stop Trump.

Those tactics are likely to pick up as Election Day approaches.

Facing defeat in Gaza and Lebanon, Iran is not about to give up. And the most troubling question at the heart of Irangate that needs to be asked is how much support do Iran’s agents have inside this country, and inside the Biden-Harris administration and the intel community.

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Daniel Greenfield

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Hochstein, like the entire Biden-Harris regime, wanted the Israelis simply to surrender.

Top Biden-Harris Official Was Reportedly Furious After Israel Ignored His Advice, Launched Attacks Against Hezbollah

by Jake Smith, Daily Caller News Foundation, September 25, 2024:

A senior Biden-Harris official was reportedly infuriated last week after Israel ignored his advice and launched a series of attacks against Hezbollah.

The Biden-Harris administration has become increasingly concerned that a full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah is set to erupt, as the two have been locked in a conflict that has grown in both scope and severity over the Israeli-Lebanese border in recent weeks. Biden senior adviser Amos Hochstein in recent months has been serving as an envoy to mediators in the Middle East to try to keep tensions low between Israel and Hezbollah while also negotiating a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, who have been at war for nearly a year, according to Axios.

Hochstein traveled to Israel last week to warn Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against a war with Hezbollah, citing concerns that it would only upset an already chaotic Middle East. One day after Hochstein’s message to Netanyahu, Israel remotely detonated explosives planted inside thousands of personal communication devices being carried by Hezbollah operatives.

Hochstein was left furious because he wasn’t told of the plan in advance and felt that Israel had ignored his advice, U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Axios….

Read more.

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