FOR ISRAEL COMMUNICATION HAS BECOME THE EIGHTH FRONT, AS DANGEROUS AS THE MISSILES FROM LEBANON OR THE TUNNELS UNDER GAZA

War and symbols

Why Israel killed Hamas’s propaganda chief and why Mahmoud Abbas still doesn’t belong at the United Nations.

 

By Fiamma Nirenstein 

 

JNS

Aug 31, 2025

 

Hamas propaganda chief Abu Obeida

 

Wars today are not fought only on the battlefield; they are fought on the airwaves, in newspapers, on social media feeds and in United Nations chambers. For Israel, communication has become the eighth front, as dangerous as the missiles from Lebanon or the tunnels under Gaza. It fuels antisemitism, incites anti-Christian hatred and undermines democratic societies worldwide.

 

Hamas propaganda chief Abu Obeida

 

This week, Israel struck a decisive blow on that front by eliminating Hudahaifa Kahlout, better known as Abu Obeida, Hamas’s long-serving spokesman and propaganda mastermind. Since 2004, with his masked face and nasal, militant tones, he had been the voice of Hamas terror.

He announced the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit in 2006. He spread threats against hostages, most recently warning that captives would be used as human shields if the IDF entered Gaza. And above all, he built the narrative that criminalized Israel with the words “genocide” and “starvation,” a campaign amplified by Al Jazeera, Hamas’s bogus “ministries,” and an international press too willing to repeat Hamas figures without scrutiny.

For Hamas supporters and apologists, Abu Obeida was an icon. For Israel and the Jewish people, he was a symbol of the propaganda war that has poisoned world opinion. His elimination is a blow not only to Hamas’s military command but also to its global disinformation campaign.

At the same time, the United States sent a powerful signal of its own: Mahmoud Abbas will not be allowed into the U.S. to attend the U.N. General Assembly or Emmanuel Macron’s side meeting pushing for recognition of a Palestinian state.

It is not the first time Washington has barred a Palestinian leader. Yasser Arafat was once denied entry, only to deliver his infamous 1974 Geneva speech, pistol in one hand and olive branch in the other. But the symbolism here is critical.

Abbas, who only in June reluctantly muttered a word of criticism about Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, continues to fund terror through stipends to convicted attackers and the glorification of “martyrs.” He opposed the Abraham Accords with all his might. And though Hamas has eclipsed him in brutality, Abbas still hopes to secure statehood as a reward for decades of incitement.

Washington is right to draw a line. Terrorism cannot be rewarded with recognition. Abbas’s presence on the world stage, under U.N. applause, would hand legitimacy to the very ideology Israel is fighting to eradicate.

Israel now faces critical hours: hostage negotiations, renewed military operations in Gaza and delicate contacts with Arab states that could shape the region’s future. The propaganda war will continue—anti-Israel campaigns, automatic U.N. majorities, European recognition of “Palestine” as a state. But Israel is proving it will not only fight rockets and tunnels—it will also dismantle the lies that sustain them.

By killing Hamas’s propaganda chief and by supporting U.S. moves to hold Abbas accountable, Israel and its allies are reminding the world: the age of rewarding terror must end.

As the roulette wheel of Middle Eastern politics continues to spin, the stakes are clear. There can be no peace built on propaganda, incitement and blood money.

DON'T BE SURPRISED IF THE UN MOVES ITS GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING TO A COUNTRY THAT WELCOMES TERRORIST MAHMOUD ABBAS

Trumping a ‘conjectural Palestinian state’ at the UNGA

Washington’s visa revocation was a message meant just as much for the Western leaders who’d planned on hailing Abbas at the U.N. as it was for those denied entry. 

 

By Ruthie Blum 

 

JNS

Aug 31, 2025

 

                

                  Mahmoud Abbas underneath picture of Yasser Arafat

 

Kudos to the administration in Washington for its dramatic announcement on Friday—ahead of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly—that it is denying and revoking visas for members of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority. In other words, neither P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas nor his entourage of bad actors will be able to travel to New York City to attend the annual event they’d been anticipating with such glee.

Naturally. This year, the chief terrorist-in-a-tie in Ramallah wasn’t merely going to be showered with accolades. He was going to be honored by a number of Western countries declaring their intention to recognize the “State of Palestine.”

First among these paragons of immoral political expediency was French President Emmanuel Macron, who came out of this proverbial closet on July 24. Next in line was British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who followed suit on July 29.

Then came Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Malta’s Robert Adela on July 30. Australia’s premier, Anthony Albanese, joined the dubious club on Aug. 11. Yet all were a bit late to the endeavor, since Norway, Spain and Ireland were the trailblazers in May 2024. Much to the delight of Hamas, by the way.  

Notable about the handful of left-leaning heads of government is their desperate attempt to remain relevant internationally, while catering domestically to a growing anti-Israel sentiment and/or Islamist electorate. This isn’t how they frame their stunt, of course.

No, they profess to be on the side of, you know, “peace” in the Mideast by way of a “two-state solution.” This is code for massive Israeli territorial concessions to an entity sworn to the annihilation of the Jews. One whose henchmen and fellow travelers in Gaza perpetrated the Oct. 7 massacre, and whose counterparts in Judea and Samaria have yet to condemn the atrocities of that Black Sabbath nearly two years ago.

This makes sense. Though the rulers in Ramallah are rivals of Hamas, which is wildly popular in the P.A., they encourage, fund and reward that group’s terrorists.

They also issue the antisemitic textbooks used in schools to indoctrinate Palestinian-Arab children to glorify martyrdom in the name of Allah—for anyone who murders Jews and Israelis. And let’s not forget that the institutions of such learning in Gaza are run by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for so-called “Palestinian refugees.”

These are the only refugees in the world with a special status that perpetuates their plight, rather than alleviating it through permanent resettlement. Not surprisingly, the very bleeding hearts who claim to care about human rights ignore this travesty. Or welcome it.

After all, it’s far more lucrative financially and beneficial ideologically to buy into and spread the propaganda that Israel is at fault. And this is despite the repeated efforts by the Jewish state to meet the conditions of both friends and foes ranting about the need for Israel to remove the “obstacles” responsible for a lack of peace with the Palestinians.

Instead of acknowledging that every Israeli peace overture and goodwill gesture has increased Palestinians’ incentive to destroy Israel, Western liberals—including Jewish ones at home and abroad—have spent decades doubling down on their belief in failed policies.

This can be chalked up to naïve “kumbaya” fantasies or genuine malevolence aimed purposely in the wrong direction. Macron, Starmer, Carney, Adela and Albanese no longer deserve the benefit of the doubt, if they ever warranted it, about which of the two categories best describes them.

Just observe how quick they were to vilify Israel for fighting the jihadists who invaded the country on the Simchat Torah weekend in 2023 and went on a slaughter spree.

Their championing of Palestinian statehood—which, as JNS Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Tobin recently pointed out, “everybody wants except the Palestinians”—was simply another way of pouring salt in Israel’s literal and figurative wounds.

Had Kamala Harris won the U.S. presidential election in November, the United States may have jumped on this bandwagon, as well. Though more symbolic than concrete, it’s significant in terms of how Israel and the P.A. continue to be perceived and treated.

By nixing the entry of the latter into America for the UNGA, President Donald Trump is conveying just as much of a powerful message to the gang of Western terrorism apologists who’d planned on hailing Abbas in the halls of the United Nations as to those denied the visas.

The State Department’s Office of the Spokesperson worded the warning, in part, as follows: “The Trump Administration has been clear: It is in our national security interests to hold the PLO and P.A. accountable for not complying with their commitments, and for undermining the prospects for peace. Before [they] can be considered partners for peace, they must consistently repudiate terrorism—including the Oct. 7 massacre—and end incitement to terrorism in education, as required by U.S. law and as promised by the PLO.”

In addition, the statement went on, “The P.A. must … end its attempts to bypass negotiations through international lawfare campaigns, including appeals to the ICC [International Criminal Court] and ICJ [International Court of Justice], and efforts to secure the unilateral recognition of a conjectural Palestinian state. Both steps materially contributed to Hamas’s refusal to release its hostages, and to the breakdown of the Gaza ceasefire talks.” [Emphasis added.]

However, it concluded, signaling a way forward the likelihood of which is nil, “The United States remains open to re-engagement that is consistent with our laws, should the P.A./PLO meet their obligations and demonstrably take concrete steps to return to a constructive path of compromise and peaceful coexistence with the State of Israel.”  

It remains to be seen whether some U.N. maneuver will override the administration’s decree. But the outcry it evoked in anti-Israel circles indicates how brilliant and crucial a move it was.  

THIS WHOLE TRANSGENDER CRAP IS EXACTLY WHAT IT IS... CRAP

More “Trans” Terror: “Transgender” Maine Suspect Nabbed For Attempting To Run Over Border Patrol Capt. And State Trooper 

 

By Kellen McGovern Jones 

 

The Dallas Express

Aug 29, 2025

 

 

"Trans" Olivia (Stevie) Wilkins and background with LGBTQIA+ fist

 

A “transgender” Maine suspect was arrested after allegedly trying to run over a Border Patrol agent and a state trooper during a crash investigation that involved suspected illegal aliens.

Incident and Arrest

Authorities said Olivia “Stevie” Wilkins, 24, of Thomaston, drove a Lexus toward U.S. Border Patrol Capt. Willis and Maine State Police Trooper Jeremiah Wesbrock on Monday in Washington, Maine.

Wesbrock reportedly stated in an affidavit that he drew his firearm and pointed it at the driver, who swerved away as he was in the process of pulling the trigger. The officer’s gun did not fire.

The Knox County Sheriff’s Office later arrested Wilkins after the car went off the road near 571 West Washington Road. The suspect was booked into the Knox County Jail in Rockland and initially held on $50,000 bail, the Midcoast Villager reported.

Wilkins was reportedly charged with reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon, criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, obstructing government administration, driving to endanger, and failure to stop for an officer.

At an initial court appearance on Wednesday before Judge Eric Walker, bail was reduced to $500 cash, according to the Midcoast Villager. The assistant district attorney said he argued for bail to remain at $50,000, while the defense requested release on personal recognizance.

The judge also ordered Wilkins to house arrest, prohibited him from driving, and barred the defendant from possessing dangerous weapons.

A LinkedIn account for Wilkins features a profile of an individual who identifies as a woman but uses “They/He” pronouns.

Crash Investigation and Border Patrol Response

The confrontation unfolded as police responded to a crash involving a box truck on Route 17. Authorities said the truck left the road and hit a tree, injuring several passengers.

Deputies reportedly identified the driver as Victor Cardona Calderon, 57, of New York. Passengers included Johan Andrés Ortiz Calderón, Agustín Sánchez Mejía, and Alejandro Ramos Chaux. Two were hospitalized, and Ramos Chaux was transported by helicopter to a trauma center.

Trooper Wesbrock said Calderon presented a Colombian passport and a New York driver’s license, leading him to suspect Calderón and his passengers might be in the country illegally. Border Patrol was called to the scene and began interviews, according to the affidavit.

The Maine Department of Public Safety later reportedly stated that Calderón had difficulty communicating in English and was unable to meet the requirements under the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Act, which mandates English proficiency for commercial drivers. His license was also marked “not for federal identification purposes,” which the trooper said raised additional concerns about its validity.

Alleged Attack on Officers

While Border Patrol interviewed the truck’s occupants, Wilkins allegedly stopped nearby and was told to leave. Instead, authorities said, he spun his tires and drove toward the officers.

“I drew my issued firearm and pointed at the driver who swerved as I was pulling the trigger,” Wesbrock wrote in his affidavit. Wesbrock did not fire, according to Shannon Moss, a spokesperson for the Public Safety Department.

Wilkins then fled before crashing off the road and being taken into custody.

Broader Context

The case comes amid a series of violent incidents targeting federal immigration officers this summer. Earlier in July, authorities said a gunman opened fire outside a Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, injuring a Border Patrol employee and two officers before being killed by agents, The Dallas Express reported.

Weeks later, federal prosecutors indicted Teresa Youngblut, 21, of Seattle, on charges of murdering a Border Patrol agent in Vermont. Prosecutors alleged she was linked to a violent leftist group described as a “transgender” death cult, DX reported.

These incidents were punctuated by an attack from a “transgender” gunman at Annunciation Catholic Church and School in Minneapolis on Wednesday, DX reported.

RUMOR MILL SAYS GAVIN KICKING DOWN OUR MONEY FOR KAMALA'S SECURITY DETAIL

By Bob Walsh

 

The rumor mill today said that "they" have heard that Gavin Newsom is directing the CHP to provide a protection detail to Kamala Harris now that the Secret Service is unloading her.  

Thus far nobody who is in a position to KNOW one way or the other is agreeing to comment on the rumor.

Such things are not cheap and, in the absence of an existing line item in the budget it should be showing up SOMEWHERE.  I am confident that, if it is happening, somebody in the CHP will let it be known in the near future.

 

EDITOR'S NOTE: I hesitated to post this wild rumor by Gavin Newsom haters.