tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189323882024-03-29T06:02:35.357-05:00BarkGrowlBitePublished by an old curmudgeon who came to America in 1936 as a refugee from Nazi Germany and proudly served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He is a former law enforcement officer and a retired professor of criminal justice who, in 1970, founded the Texas Narcotic Officers Association. BarkGrowlBite refuses to be politically correct.
(Copyrighted articles are reproduced in accordance with the copyright laws of the U.S. Code, Title 17, Section 107.) BarkGrowlBitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04830589594331819236noreply@blogger.comBlogger31993125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932388.post-53537613731109542692024-03-28T23:57:00.002-05:002024-03-29T00:02:03.754-05:00AMERICANS TURN ON ISRAEL<h1><span style="font-size: small;">A shock new poll shows MAJORITY of America now opposes Gaza war...
duplicitous Democrats openly mock Netanyahu... and even Trump sounds the
alarm. DAN MCLAUGHLIN asks: Have we given up on Israel?</span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h1><p>By <a class="author" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Dan+Mclaughlin+For+Dailymail.Com">Dan Mclaughlin </a></p><p> </p><p>Daily Mail</p><p>Mar 28, 2024</p><p> </p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group mol-hidden-caption"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="381" id="i-a0e9e375fd1bb9b4" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/28/17/83007033-13248887-image-a-25_1711648690643.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div> <p> </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">This time, President Biden has truly betrayed <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/israel-hamas-conflict/index.html" id="mol-93a8c2a0-ed19-11ee-8211-2f5952f639c8" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">Israel</a></span>.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">How can you tell?</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">His administration is spinning like mad to deny it.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Let me explain. The feckless 15-member <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/united-nations/index.html" id="mol-93a34460-ed19-11ee-8211-2f5952f639c8" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">United Nations</a></span>
Security Council – stacked with 'great' human rights defenders, like
gang-ravaged Ecuador and authoritarian Algeria – approved a resolution
on Monday demanding an immediate <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/israel/index.html" id="mol-93a56740-ed19-11ee-8211-2f5952f639c8" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">Israeli</a></span> ceasefire in <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/palestine/index.html" id="mol-93a4f210-ed19-11ee-8211-2f5952f639c8" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">Gaza</a></span>.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">But the non-binding measure – incomprehensibly – did not make the pause in fighting contingent on <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/hamas/index.html" id="mol-935412f0-ed19-11ee-8211-2f5952f639c8" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">Hamas</a></span>'s release of their 130 hostages (96 living and 34 presumed dead).</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">It
goes without saying that Israel will not comply. One doesn't need to be
a veteran diplomat to realize that if the Jewish State halted military
operations with no pre-conditions, then Hamas would have no incentive to
release its captives.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">More maddening
still, this ignominious ultimatum comes just weeks after a U.N. report
found that Hamas savages raped women on October 7 and continue to
sexually abuse women and children that they're still holding hostage
today.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">As a permanent member of the
Security Council, the U.S. could have used its veto power to
unilaterally 'kill' this resolution. But, to America's great disgrace,
we sat on our hands and abstained from the vote allowing the resolution
to pass 14-0.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Echoes of <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/obama/index.html" id="mol-933df2e0-ed19-11ee-8211-2f5952f639c8" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">Barack Obama</a></span>?</p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="The feckless 15-member United Nations Security Council - stacked with 'great' human rights defenders, like gang-ravaged Ecuador and authoritarian Algeria - approved a resolution on Monday demanding an immediate Israeli ceasefire in Gaza ." class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="423" id="i-15b8eaddd7afe1c1" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/28/15/82996597-13248887-image-a-17_1711640390225.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <p class="imageCaption"><b>The feckless 15-member United
Nations Security Council - stacked with 'great' human rights defenders,
like gang-ravaged Ecuador and authoritarian Algeria - approved a
resolution on Monday demanding an immediate Israeli ceasefire in Gaza .</b></p></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="To America's great disgrace, we sat on our hands and abstained from the vote allowing the resolution to pass 14-0. Echoes of Barack Obama?" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="422" id="i-cf5c86353911070e" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/28/15/82995917-13248887-image-a-18_1711640393684.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div> <p class="imageCaption"><b>To America's great disgrace, we
sat on our hands and abstained from the vote allowing the resolution to
pass 14-0. Echoes of Barack Obama?</b></p><p class="imageCaption"><b> </b></p><p class="mol-para-with-font">On his way out the Oval Office door in December 2016, Barry pulled a similarly cowardly move.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">He
ordered his U.N. ambassador to abstain from a vote on a resolution
calling for an end to Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and the West
Bank.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">If Obama sincerely supported the
measure, the U.S. should have voted in favor. Instead, the world's best
hope called out sick that day.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">It's no
wonder Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was outraged by
Biden's latest move and briefly canceled an Israeli delegation's planned
visit to the U.S. next week.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">That meeting is now back on, but, days ago, the Biden administration claimed to be gobsmacked by the reaction.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Grab the Dramamine; we're about to start spinning.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Doing
his best Captain Renault, White House National Security Council
spokesman John Kirby pronounced himself 'perplexed' on Monday.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'Our vote does not — and I repeat that, does not — represent a shift in our policy,' he said, feigning shock.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Who is he kidding?</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The U.S. had no problem vetoing the three prior U.N. ceasefire resolutions proposed since October 7.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Why allow this one to pass by abstaining?</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Well, progressive Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna gave Biden's game away.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'This
is a significant change in [the President's] Gaza policy after 3 prior
vetoes of the ceasefire resolution,' Khanna tweeted on Monday.
'Grassroots activism is making the difference…'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">So
there it is: Anti-Israel voters in potential swing states, like
Michigan and Minnesota, and on college campuses across the country now
have a <span class="mol-style-italic">big</span> megaphone. Team Biden
fears losing them in a tight re-election campaign, and so he's moved to
appeasement. He just doesn't have the guts to admit it. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">For
decades, he has played this double game. As Obama's Vice President, he
cozied up to Israel's sworn enemy Iran, while assuring pro-Israel Dems
that he'd stand with Israel.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="Doing his best Captain Renault, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby pronounced himself 'perplexed' on Monday." class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="423" id="i-aeaba4fca9fe1375" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/28/15/83001711-13248887-image-a-19_1711640424926.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <p class="imageCaption"><b>Doing his best Captain Renault,
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby pronounced
himself 'perplexed' on Monday.</b></p></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="It's no wonder Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was outraged by Biden's latest move and briefly canceled an Israeli delegation's planned visit to the U.S. next week." class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="597" id="i-f1926ca63fce52f3" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/28/15/82995511-13248887-image-a-22_1711640446638.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <p class="imageCaption"><b>It's no wonder Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was outraged by Biden's latest move and
briefly canceled an Israeli delegation's planned visit to the U.S. next
week.</b></p><p class="imageCaption"><b> </b></p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">Today, Biden says that
Hamas must be destroyed, yet he dispatches VP Harris to oppose a planned
Israeli operation to take out the terror army's last stronghold in
Rafah.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'Any major military operation in Rafah would be a huge mistake,' Harris blabbed last weekend.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Field Marshal Harris knows best!</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Now, with next week's U.S.-Israel meeting back on, the White House has taken to mocking Netanyahu. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">A U.S. official told Axios that 'Biden's senior advisers laughed' when they heard of Bibi's change of heart.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Is this how America treats its war-weary allies? Taunting them in the media?</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Biden's two-faced mask is slipping. Even Democrats admit his flip-flopping has gone too far.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'It's
appalling the U.S. allowed passage of [this week's U.N.] resolution
that fails to condemn Hamas,' Senator John Fetterman said on Monday.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">In New Jersey, Rep. Josh Gottheimer warned the move would 'only embolden Hamas and delay the safe return of hostages.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Newly elected New York Congressman Tom Suozzi said it has strengthened 'Hamas terrorists'.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="One would expect Trump to pounce on Biden's vulnerability further driving a wedge between the Democrats' pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel voters. But no." class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="494" id="i-98bfef37a12101f1" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/28/15/82995985-13248887-image-a-21_1711640435082.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <p class="imageCaption"><b>One would expect Trump to pounce
on Biden's vulnerability further driving a wedge between the Democrats'
pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel voters. But no.</b></p></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="'Any major military operation in Rafah would be a huge mistake,' Harris blabbed last weekend. Field Marshal Harris knows best! (Above) Palestinians gather on rubble of destroyed building in Rafah, The Gaza Strip on March, 27 2024" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="423" id="i-de92558d7b8fe402" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/28/15/82996643-13248887-image-a-23_1711640566024.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <p class="imageCaption"><b>'Any major military operation in
Rafah would be a huge mistake,' Harris blabbed last weekend. Field
Marshal Harris knows best! (Above) Palestinians gather on rubble of
destroyed building in Rafah, The Gaza Strip on March, 27 2024</b></p><p class="imageCaption"><b> </b></p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">Biden has lost the plot. But then there’s Donald Trump.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">One
would expect Trump to pounce on Biden’s vulnerability, further driving a
wedge between the Democrats’ pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel voters. But
no.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">‘Israel has to be very careful
because you're losing a lot of the world, you're losing a lot of
support,’ Trump bluntly told an Israeli media outlet on Monday. ‘Israel
has to do what they have to do but we have to get to peace because the
world is turning and it's not a good thing for Israel.’</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">If anyone can hold his finger in the air and tell which way the wind is blowing, it’s Trump.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">And
lo and behold, a new Gallup poll released Wednesday shows 55 percent of
U.S. adults now oppose Israel’s military action in Gaza, while just 36
percent approve. Back in November, 50 percent backed Israel’s war.
Support has fallen among both parties, as well as independents.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">This is the most chilling warning to Israel yet.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Bibi must have known that he could never trust these deceitful Democrats.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">But did he ever imagine that Trump, too, would get weak in the knees?</p><p></p>BarkGrowlBitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04830589594331819236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932388.post-75990752779477895442024-03-28T23:32:00.000-05:002024-03-28T23:32:15.395-05:00PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS KEPT INTERRUPTING THE BIDEN-OBAMA-CLINTON FUNDRAISER <h1><span style="font-size: small;">Chaos as protesters paying up to $500K a ticket heckle Biden, Obama
and Clinton at Radio City: Demonstrator tells presidents 'you are out of
your f***ing minds' on Russia and Palestinian supporters says they have
blood on their hands</span></h1><h1><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Obama referred to the October 7 Hamas attack as 'a massacre of unbelievable
cruelty.' Biden mentioned that the Hamas terrorists tied </span><span style="font-size: small;">an
Israeli mother and daughter together and were
'pouring kerosene on them, burning them to death.'</span></span></h1><h1><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">By <a class="author" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Nikki+Schwab,+Senior+U.S.+Political+Reporter">Nikki Schwab</a></span></span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Daily Mail</span></span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Mar 28, 2024</span></span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: 16px;"></span></h1><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="President Joe Biden's (center) appearance at a $25 million Radio City Music Hall fundraiser with former Presidents Barack Obama (left) and Bill Clinton (right) got off to a rocky start as the trio of president being interviewed by Stephen Colbert got interupted by protester" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="423" id="i-5946535076334571" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/29/01/83020853-13251099-image-a-1_1711676251360.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div> <p class="imageCaption"><b>President Joe Biden's (center)
appearance at a $25 million Radio City Music Hall fundraiser with former
Presidents Barack Obama (left) and Bill Clinton (right) got off to a
rocky start as the trio of president being interviewed by Stephen
Colbert got interupted by protesters</b></p><p class="imageCaption"><b> </b></p><p class="mol-para-with-font">President Joe Biden's appearance at a $25 million Radio City Music Hall fundraiser with former Presidents <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/obama/index.html" id="mol-6774a560-ed6d-11ee-8715-4b0bac59635e" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">Barack Obama</a></span> and <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/bill-clinton/index.html" id="mol-67751a90-ed6d-11ee-8715-4b0bac59635e" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">Bill Clinton</a></span> descended into chaos as the trio of presidents being interviewed by <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/stephen-colbert/index.html" id="mol-67885470-ed6d-11ee-8715-4b0bac59635e" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">Stephen Colbert</a></span> got interrupted by protesters. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">A
handful of pro-Palestinian protesters shouted down the presidents, with
one woman telling Biden 'you have blood on your hands,' as another loud
guest warned of a <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/nuclear-weapons/index.html" id="mol-678df9c0-ed6d-11ee-8715-4b0bac59635e" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">nuclear war</a></span> with <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/russia-ukraine-conflict/index.html" id="mol-679091d0-ed6d-11ee-8715-4b0bac59635e" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">Russia</a></span>: 'you're out of your f***ing minds.' </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The event was supposed to be a star-studded evening with major donors, with some tickets costing as much as $500,000. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Former President <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/donald_trump/index.html" id="mol-4a3e2500-ed74-11ee-8715-4b0bac59635e" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">Donald Trump</a></span> also traveled to New York Thursday, to pay his respects at a wake for slain NYPD officer Jonathan Diller.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Colbert
kicked the conversation off by noting how he was giving Obama and
Clinton give minutes each to answer his questions - adding that Biden
would get seven minutes. <span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size: 16px;">'Because
as the sitting president, you can order SEAL Team 6 to take me out,
which according to Donald Trump's lawyers is perfectly OK,' the Late
Show host said. </span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span></p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="Former President Barack Obama (left) stands onstage with President Joe Biden (right) at a $25 million fundraiser Thursday night at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The gathering was interrupted by protesters - who also surrounded the building" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="423" id="i-314133051308608f" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/29/01/83020869-13251099-image-a-10_1711676342287.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <p class="imageCaption"><b>Former President Barack Obama
(left) stands onstage with President Joe Biden (right) at a $25 million
fundraiser Thursday night at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The
gathering was interrupted by protesters - who also surrounded the
building </b></p></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="Former President Bill Clinton applauds onstage at Radio City Music Hall Thursday in New York City as he joined President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama at a star-studded fundraiser being hosted by the Biden 2024 campaign" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="423" id="i-369027de64729aa1" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/29/01/83020871-13251099-image-a-11_1711676387752.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div> <p class="imageCaption"><b>Former President Bill Clinton
applauds onstage at Radio City Music Hall Thursday in New York City as
he joined President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama at a
star-studded fundraiser being hosted by the Biden 2024 campaign </b></p><p class="imageCaption"><b> </b></p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Biden, Obama and Clinton all took shots at
Trump - without saying his name - in the opening minutes, with Biden
recalling what motivated him to be president - the Republican's dealing
with the racial unrest in Charlottesville in 2017. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Obama
said that Trump and the Republican Party 'increasingly seems
unconcerned with the essence of America,' while Clinton slapped the
ex-president even harder. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Clinton said Trump 'stole from Barack Obama' a good economy. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'I
listened to him tell us how terrible the American economy was all
during 2016. And then, by January 2017, after the inauguration, it had
become wonderful, miraculously, overnight,' Clinton said. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Clinton noted how job growth was slower under Trump, but people didn't feel it yet.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'Then
all of a sudden, Joe Biden comes along and creates roughly twice as
many jobs,' he said. 'So I believe in keeping score. Not in a vindictive
way but in a positive way.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Colbert then quickly went to a lightning round - asking each of the leaders if they planned to sell any golden sneakers. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="President Joe Biden points out to the audience during Thursday's star-studded fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall that was repeatedly interrupted by protesters" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="423" id="i-56ac5e9cafb29b28" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/29/03/83022513-13251099-image-a-20_1711682329459.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <p class="imageCaption"><b>President Joe Biden points out to
the audience during Thursday's star-studded fundraiser at Radio City
Music Hall that was repeatedly interrupted by protesters </b></p></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="Vogue editor-in-chief and Conde Nast executive Anna Wintour was spotted in the audience is seen from behind with her signature bob haircut at Thursday night's Biden fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="423" id="i-7ef87331e1704778" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/29/01/83021207-13251099-image-a-12_1711677032962.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <p class="imageCaption"><b>Vogue editor-in-chief and Conde
Nast executive Anna Wintour was spotted in the audience is seen from
behind with her signature bob haircut at Thursday night's Biden
fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York</b></p><p class="imageCaption"><b> </b></p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">'No golden sneakers,' Biden confirmed. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The
demonstrators pounced as Colbert was asking the Obama and Clinton what
they missed about living in the White House, turning the conversation to
Israel's war in Gaza. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'That's
alright. Let them go. There's a lot of people who are very, very - there
are too many innocent victims, Israeli and Palestinian,' Biden said.
'We've got to get more food and medicine, supplies into the
Palestinians.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'But we can't forget,
Israel is in a position where its very existence as at stake. You have
to have all those people. They weren't killed. They were massacred. They
were massacred,' the president continued. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">He
noted a grisly story from the October 7 terror attack by Hamas of an
Israeli mother and daughter tied together and the Hamas terrorists were
'pouring kerosene on them, burning them to death.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Biden
spoke of the work he was doing with Arab countries - including Egypt,
Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Qatar - to recognize Israel and that there
needed to be post-war plan.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'There has to be a train to a two state solution,' the president reiterated. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Obama spoke about how being in the White House 'is a lonely seat' and talked about the unenviable position Biden was in. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'And
so when you look at a situation like we're seeing in Gaza and in
Israel, and your heart breaks, initially for a massacre of unbelievable
cruelty,' he said. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'It is also
possible for us to say we unequivocally support the people of Israel and
their ability to live and raise families and so forth. Which is what
Joe's position has been, and it is also possible for us to have our
hearts broken, watching innocent people being killed and trying to
manage through that in a way that ultimately leads to both people being
able to live in peace side by side,' Obama continued. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">He was interrupted by more protesters. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">There were lighthearted moments too. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Biden repeated the well-known saying about life in D.C.: If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">His dog, however, bit a Secret Service agent, the president joked. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">He also said when asked if he feared flying on Air Force One - which is a Boeing - 'I don't sit by the door.' </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Biden
confirmed that he was not changing the iconic plane's color scheme,
something Trump tried to accomplish when he was in office. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">All
three presidents and Colbert donned Biden's trademark aviators to
conclude the show, with Biden saying he was a man who 'loves two things:
Ray Ban sunglasses and ice cream.' </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'By the way, Dark Brandon is real,' he said of his alter ego - an online creation who's more sinister by nature. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Lizzo was there and performed her hit 'About Damn Time' ahead of the presidents' arrival onstage, while The Mindy Project's <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/mindy-kaling/index.html" id="mol-31dcad51-ed70-11ee-8715-4b0bac59635e" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">Mindy Kaling</a></span> played the role of emcee. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">She
joked that it was nice to be in a room with 'so many rich people' and
said it felt good to support a president who 'openly' promises to 'raise
your taxes.' </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Vogue editor-in-chief and Conde Nast executive Anna Wintour was spotted in the audience. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Kaling,
44, also said - looking upon Biden, 81, Clinton, 77, and Obama, the
youngest at 62 - that while she was getting older, she looked like a
'cast member of Euphoria' compared to them. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">HBO's Europhia is a high school drama, though most of the cast is in their 20s. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Other entertainers included Queen Latifah, <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a class="" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ben-platt/index.html" id="mol-2f19dd71-ed68-11ee-8c1a-7df319d52076" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">Ben Platt</a></span>, who sang a soulful rendition of Get by With a Little Help From My Friends, <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/cynthia-erivo/index.html" id="mol-2f19dd72-ed68-11ee-8c1a-7df319d52076" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">Cynthia Erivo</a></span>, and <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a class="" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/lea-michele/index.html" id="mol-2f19dd73-ed68-11ee-8c1a-7df319d52076" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">Lea Michele</a></span>, who sang Don't Rain on My Parade from Funny Girl, a show she starred in on Broadway.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Meanwhile, outside the venue, many more pro-Palestinian protesters had swarmed Radio City Music Hall.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Biden was called a 'war criminal' by those gathered, with one demonstrator holding up a sign that read, '<span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a class="" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/joe-biden/index.html" id="mol-3ca7efb0-ed66-11ee-8c1a-7df319d52076" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">Joe Biden</a></span> Retire B****,' a message aimed at the 81-year-old leader.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="Palestinian flags were flown outside New York City's Radio City Music Hall, the venue of President Joe Biden's $25 million fundraiser with former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="423" id="i-10fd09548562999a" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/29/02/83021507-13251099-image-a-18_1711678443355.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <p class="imageCaption"><b>Palestinian flags were flown
outside New York City's Radio City Music Hall, the venue of President
Joe Biden's $25 million fundraiser with former Presidents Barack Obama
and Bill Clinton</b></p></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="Pro-Palestine protesters swarmed Radio City Music Hall Thursday night ahead of President Joe Biden's $25 million fundraiser alongside former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="423" id="i-34887ac4869789e0" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/29/00/83018549-13250855-image-a-5_1711670528722.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <p class="imageCaption"><b>Pro-Palestine protesters swarmed
Radio City Music Hall Thursday night ahead of President Joe Biden's $25
million fundraiser alongside former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill
Clinton</b></p></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="One demonstrator held up a sign that said 'Joe Biden Retire B***,' a message aimed at the 81-year-old commander-in-chief" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="423" id="i-94b60c0bf2f1506b" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/29/00/83018981-13250855-image-a-18_1711671413353.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div> <p class="imageCaption"><b>One demonstrator held up a sign that said 'Joe Biden Retire B***,' a message aimed at the 81-year-old commander-in-chief </b></p><div class="moduleFull mol-video"><div class="item"> <div class="vjs-video-container vjs-fixed vjs-span-two-col news" id="v-6275065924835102153"> </div> </div> </div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="Protesters take part in a prayer to break their fast during Ramadan at a demonstration calling for ceasefire in Gaza, near Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="423" id="i-920378a910583063" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/29/00/83018553-13250855-image-a-6_1711670546336.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <p class="imageCaption"><b>Protesters take part in a prayer
to break their fast during Ramadan at a demonstration calling for
ceasefire in Gaza, near Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan</b></p></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="Police officers clash with protesters ahead of President Joe Biden's $25 million fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall Thursday night in New York City" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="423" id="i-df9c7972672a8347" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/29/00/83018547-13250855-image-a-7_1711670560943.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <p class="imageCaption"><b>Police officers clash with
protesters ahead of President Joe Biden's $25 million fundraiser at
Radio City Music Hall Thursday night in New York City </b></p></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="Pro-Palestinian protesters showed up in droves to call for a ceasefire in Gaza as President Joe Biden and a slew of celebrities raise money in New York toward his reelection effort" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="423" id="i-aa7a72a9b0539e85" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/29/00/83018559-13250855-image-a-8_1711670592356.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div> <p class="imageCaption"><b>Pro-Palestinian protesters showed
up in droves to call for a ceasefire in Gaza as President Joe Biden and
a slew of celebrities raise money in New York toward his reelection
effort </b></p><p class="imageCaption"><b> </b></p><p class="mol-para-with-font">One video,<a class="" href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1773488274214207961" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"> shared by</a> conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, shows a man getting shoved by members of the crowd and asking for police to assist. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'Democrats you can't hide, we charge you with genocide!' protesters shouted out, with drum beats helping them keep the time. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The trio of presidents have been at the venue for most of the afternoon - taping a podcast with comedians <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/jason-bateman/index.html" id="mol-4965e810-ed61-11ee-81b2-b5eee6377323" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">Jason Bateman</a></span>, Sean Hayes and <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a class="" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/will-arnett/index.html" id="mol-49779b50-ed61-11ee-81b2-b5eee6377323" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">Will Arnett</a></span> for an episode of their SmartLess podcast. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Videos
shared to social media by attendees show loud music playing as donors
took their seats, with audience members seemingly unaware of the chaos
happening outside. </p>Earlier Thursday, Biden arrived in New York with Obama in tow to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. <br />On
the flight Obama could be heard briefly saying hello to the White House
press corps, as press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters the
conversation was off the record. <br /><p class="mol-para-with-font">Obama's
involvement with the Biden campaign comes after several reports said
the 62-year-old ex-president has been sounding the alarm about Biden's
reelection prospects.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic"> <img alt="Former President Barack Obama (left), President Joe Biden (center) and former President Bill Clinton (former) will appear onstage together Thursday night and be interviewed by Late Show host Stephen Colbert as part of the $25 million fundraiser for the Biden campaign" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" height="284" id="i-3120a1289494f359" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/29/00/83019057-13250855-image-a-19_1711671900731.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div> </div> <p class="imageCaption"><b>Former President Barack Obama
(left), President Joe Biden (center) and former President Bill Clinton
(former) will appear onstage together Thursday night and be interviewed
by Late Show host Stephen Colbert as part of the $25 million fundraiser
for the Biden campaign </b></p></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="Comedians Jason Bateman (left), Will Arnett (third from left) and Sean Hayes (second from right) taped an interview of their SmartLess podcast Thursday with President Joe Biden (third from right), former Presidents Barack Obama (second from left) and Bill Clinton (right)" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="423" id="i-4627979641f19adc" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/29/00/83017183-13250855-Comedians_Jason_Bateman_left_Will_Arnett_third_from_left_and_Sea-a-17_1711671392293.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <p class="imageCaption"><b>Comedians Jason Bateman (left),
Will Arnett (third from left) and Sean Hayes (second from right) taped
an interview of their SmartLess podcast Thursday with President Joe
Biden (third from right), former Presidents Barack Obama (second from
left) and Bill Clinton (right) </b></p></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="Former President Barack Obama (right) got a ride on Air Force One with President Joe Biden (left) ahead of their glitzy $25 million New York City fundraiser Thursday night" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="423" id="i-6a8c6f2ea89a7997" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/28/23/83005177-13250855-Former_President_Barack_Obama_right_got_a_ride_on_Air_Force_One_-a-2_1711670376268.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <p class="imageCaption"><b>Former President Barack Obama
(right) got a ride on Air Force One with President Joe Biden (left)
ahead of their glitzy $25 million New York City fundraiser Thursday
night </b></p></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="Obama (right) guided Biden (left) to the presidential limo as the duo of Democratic presidents arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. They will be joined by former President Bill Clinton" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="423" id="i-bb3ec189960074f8" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/28/23/83005163-13250855-Obama_right_guided_Biden_left_to_the_presidential_limo_as_the_du-a-1_1711670374162.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <p class="imageCaption"><b>Obama (right) guided Biden (left)
to the presidential limo as the duo of Democratic presidents arrived
at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. They will be joined
by former President Bill Clinton </b></p><p class="imageCaption"><b> </b></p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">Earlier Thursday Trump attended the wake of slain officer Diller at the Massapequa Funeral Home on Long Island.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Diller was shot and killed in the line of duty in Queens on Monday. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Guy Rivera, the suspect arrested in the slaying, has been arrested 21 times. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"><a class="" href="https://time.com/6958784/biden-campaign-strategy-problems-2024/" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Time Magazine's cover story</a> last
week chronicled two in-person meetings Obama had with Biden last year -
one in June and then a follow-up in December, when the ex-president
didn't see the president's campaign operation improve. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'He
expressed concern the re-election campaign was behind schedule in
building out its field operations, and bottlenecked by Biden's
insistence on relying upon an insular group of advisers clustered in the
West Wing,' Time wrote, citing a Democratic insider. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">A follow-up <a class="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/us/politics/obama-biden.html?searchResultPosition=2" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">story in The New York Times Tuesday</a> said that Obama is regularly dialing Biden - but he's also phoning White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients too. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">A
senior aide told the paper that Obama has 'always' been worried about a
Biden loss to Trump, and so he's prepared to 'eke it out' alongside his
former VP through Election Day in November. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Obama's
reported warnings are similar to what Clinton was saying behind closed
doors ahead of the 2016 presidential election, which saw his wife, <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/democrats/index.html" id="mol-8e68bc90-ecf7-11ee-ba4f-554a740fcaaa" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">Democrat</a></span> Hillary Clinton, shockingly lose to Trump, who had never held elected office. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">In
the book Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
authors Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen detailed how Bill Clinton feared
that his wife and her campaign aides were taking some support for
granted. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">He suggested she go into
communities that wouldn't necessarily naturally vote for the Democrat
just to show she was making an effort. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="On Wednesday, an NYPD spokesperson confirmed rumors that Trump was planning to attend the wake Thursday at the Massapequa Funeral Home in New York" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="424" id="i-79a7382bbdd29936" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/28/11/82977183-13246435-On_Wednesday_an_NYPD_spokesperson_confirmed_rumors_that_Trump_wa-a-5_1711626737485.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <p class="imageCaption"><b>On Wednesday, an NYPD
spokesperson confirmed rumors that Trump was planning to attend the wake
Thursday at the Massapequa Funeral Home in New York</b></p></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="On Monday, officer Diller was shot and killed in Queens during a routine traffic stop - he leaves behind a wife and one-year-old son" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="481" id="i-4d0d5ecf60c01246" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/28/11/82892081-13246435-On_Monday_officer_Diller_was_shot_and_killed_in_Queens_during_a_-a-6_1711626738924.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <p class="imageCaption"><b>On Monday, officer Diller was
shot and killed in Queens during a routine traffic stop - he leaves
behind a wife and one-year-old son</b></p></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="Thousands of law enforcement officers observed the arrival of Diller's body to the upstate New York funeral home, where his service will be held Thursday" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="357" id="i-aa9cd7c9c2e4bd79" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/28/11/82977187-13246435-Thousands_of_law_enforcement_officers_observed_the_arrival_of_Di-a-7_1711626745391.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <p class="imageCaption"><b>Thousands of law enforcement
officers observed the arrival of Diller's body to the upstate New York
funeral home, where his service will be held Thursday</b></p><p class="imageCaption"><b> </b></p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">'He knew there was some power just in showing up,' co-author Allen said in a <a class="" href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/shattered-authors-bill-clinton-pushed-tone-hillarys-campaign/story?id=46974506" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">2017 interview with ABC News</a>. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Obama
has reportedly advised Biden that his field operations are being built
out too slowly - bottlenecked by the president's reliance on a 'insular
group of advisers clustered in the West Wing,' Time said. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">During
Obama's 2012 reelection campaign - which he successfully won against
Republican Mitt Romney - he had hired 900-plus staffers by summer. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The
Biden campaign, which is headquarted in Biden's adopted hometown of
Wilmington, Delaware, ended 2023 with just around 70 paid employees,
though there's a goal to hire 350. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Biden's
team said that the campaign is also planning to rely on staff at the
Democratic National Committee to aid the state-level effort. <br /></p><p></p>BarkGrowlBitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04830589594331819236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932388.post-5718160944463438082024-03-28T22:21:00.000-05:002024-03-28T22:21:37.689-05:00THIS IS WHAT BIDEN'S INNOCENT GAZANS CELEBRATED<h1><span style="font-size: small;">October 7 terrorist's shocking video testimony is revealed by Israel
as he describes sexually assaulting 'terrified' woman: 'I stripped off
her clothes. The devil took over me, and I did what I did... I raped
her'</span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">By <a class="author" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Perkin+Amalaraj">Perkin Amalaraj</a></span></span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Daily Mail</span></span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Mar 28, 2024</span></span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></h1><h1><img alt="The detained terrorist, who identifies himself as 28-year-old Manar Mahmoud Muhammad Qasem (pictured), said broke into a house in an unnamed kibbutz in Israel on October 7" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="359" id="i-6c65013b292724bd" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/28/17/83002893-13249355-The_detained_terrorist_who_identifies_himself_as_28_year_old_Man-a-1_1711646166564.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </h1> <p class="imageCaption"><b>The detained terrorist, who
identifies himself as 28-year-old Manar Mahmoud Muhammad Qasem
(pictured), said broke into a house in an unnamed kibbutz in Israel on
October 7</b></p><p class="imageCaption"><b> </b></p><p class="mol-para-with-font">A terrorist with Palestinian Islamic Jihad
has described exactly how he raped a 'terrified' Israeli woman on
October 7, claiming that 'the devil took over me.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The
detained terrorist, who identifies himself as 28-year-old Manar Mahmoud
Muhammad Qasem, said he broke into a house in an unnamed kibbutz in <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/israel-hamas-conflict/index.html" id="mol-ec1e1a40-ed26-11ee-b13c-c3a4d188effc" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">Israel</a></span> and found a lone, terrified woman, according to a video shared with MailOnline. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'At
first when I entered there was no one, then I entered a room and
someone was there and was scared of me,' he said in an interrogation
room while sitting in front of an <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/israel/index.html" id="mol-9d0c87f0-ed1e-11ee-b8fc-7542d6e7f00f" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">Israeli</a></span> flag. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'She told me to help her, I took her and threw her on the couch.' </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">He then described in sickening detail how he sexually assaulted the woman. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'The devil took over me, I laid her down started undressing her and did what I did.' </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">But the interrogator, from Unit 504 of the IDF's intelligence arm, pressed him, and the terrorist says he 'slept with her'. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The interrogator angrily says: 'You did not sleep with her, sleep is to sleep. So what did you do?'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The dead-eyed terrorist then admits: 'I raped her.' </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">He
tried to backpeddle, claiming it 'didn't last long' as he heard
shouting outside. He said the rape lasted for 'two minutes, maybe a
minute-and-a-half.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'Two men came through the door forcefully, and we heard screams. I don't know if it was her mother, or who it was.' </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'After we heard the screams, she and I both started to get dressed, then these two men entered.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Qasem
said the two men wore uniforms from the Al-Aqsa martyrs brigade,
Hamas's armed wing, and that they dragged the Israeli woman's mother
into the same room and the two frightened women 'started comforting each
other', before they were both dragged out by two Hamas fighters. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">He then admitted to killing several civilians in the kibbutz using a handgun and a grenade, before running away. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Qasem said that he was called to join in on the October 7 attack by a fellow terrorist, despite training up in Hamas's navy. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">He told interrogators that his friend was wounded in his head when they crossed into Israel. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The
chilling testimony comes days after an Israeli hostage revealed that
she was sexually assaulted by a guard while she was held captive by
Hamas.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Amit Soussana, has claimed that a
guard, who she says identified himself only as Muhammad, with his 'gun
pointed at me, forced me to commit a sexual act on him' in a child's
bedroom.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Ms Soussana, 40, told the New
York Times that she was sexually assaulted, beaten and tortured while
she was held in Gaza for 55 days. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The Israeli lawyer was released during a ceasefire in November alongside 21-year-old Mia Schem.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The terrorist group has for months denied that its members sexually abused people in captivity or during the October 7 attack.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="Amit Soussana, 40, has revealed that she was sexually assaulted by a guard while she was held captive in Gaza by Hamas. She was kidnapped from her home in Kfar Aza, Israel during the October 7 raid. Ms Soussana is pictured outside her home in January this year" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="655" id="i-a32cd2638adc499c" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/28/19/82919907-13249355-Amit_Soussana_40_has_revealed_that_she_was_sexually_assaulted_by-m-1_1711653041537.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div> <p class="imageCaption"><b>Amit Soussana, 40, has revealed
that she was sexually assaulted by a guard while she was held captive in
Gaza by Hamas. She was kidnapped from her home in Kfar Aza, Israel
during the October 7 raid. Ms Soussana is pictured outside her home in
January this year</b></p><p class="imageCaption"><img alt="Ms Soussana, pictured during her kidnapping, refused to go quietly. She was kicking and screaming until her captors bundled her into a car to drive back to Gaza" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="355" id="i-9c095ebb9cf8f6eb" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/28/17/82919903-13249355-Ms_Soussana_pictured_during_her_kidnapping_refused_to_go_quietly-a-5_1711646675590.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </p> <p class="imageCaption"><b>Ms Soussana, pictured during her
kidnapping, refused to go quietly. She was kicking and screaming until
her captors bundled her into a car to drive back to Gaza</b></p><p class="imageCaption"> </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">However, a United Nations (UN) report
released this month stated there is 'clear and convincing information'
that some hostages had suffered sexual violence. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">There are also 'reasonable grounds' that some people were assaulted during the raid, the report added.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Ms
Soussana was abducted from her home during the October 7 raid, beaten
and dragged into Gaza by a group of at least seven gunmen.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">While in captivity, she said she was held alone in a child's bedroom and chained by her left ankle. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">She
said that just several days after she had been taken, Muhammad started
questioning her about her sex life and menstrual cycle.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Muhammad
attacked her on or around October 24, Ms Soussana told the Times. She
claimed that he unchained her, took her to the bathroom and ordered that
she bathe.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">As she washed herself, the lawyer recalled hearing his voice by the door, telling her 'quickly, Amit, quickly'. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">She then turned around to find him standing there with his gun, watching her.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Ms Soussana said she tried to cover herself with a hand towel, but Muhammad advanced towards her and hit her.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'He
sat me on the edge of the bath. And I closed my legs. And I resisted.
And he kept punching me and put his gun in my face,' she told the
newspaper. 'Then he dragged me to the bedroom.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">She
alleged that while in the bedroom, which was reportedly decorated with
images of children's cartoon characters, Muhammad forced her to commit a
sexual act on him, before leaving her naked, sitting in the dark and
sobbing on the bed.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Ms Soussana noted
that Muhammad had left her alone to wash himself and claimed her
attacker showed remorse after the assault, allegedly saying to her: 'I'm
bad, I'm bad, please don't tell Israel.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">She
reported the alleged assault and other violence to two doctors and a
social worker less than 24 hours after she was freed from captivity, The
Times reported.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">It is understood that
she also spoke to the UN team that published the report on sexual
violence against hostages in Gaza and during the October 7 attack.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Ms
Soussana has also revealed how about three weeks into her kidnapping
she was moved to another location, which she described as an apartment,
and reunited with other hostages.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">She
recalled being summoned into the living room a few days after her
arrival for a brutal beating by a group of guards who apparently
believed she was hiding information from them.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The
lawyer said the guards wrapped her head in a shirt, forced her to sit
on the floor and beat her with the butt of a gun. They put duct tape
over her mouth and nose, tied her feat, and handcuffed her, Ms Soussana
recalled.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The guards reportedly hung
her 'like a chicken' between two couches and continued to beat and kick
her, while demanding she reveal the information they believed she was
hiding.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'It was like that for 45
minutes or so,' she said. 'They were hitting me and laughing and kicking
me, and called the other hostages to see me.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">After
they untied her, Ms Soussana said the guards took her back to a bedroom
and threatened to kill her if she did not produce the requested
information within 40 minutes. She said that she still does not know
exactly what information they sought.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Ms
Soussana lived alone in Kfar Aza and was an easy target for Hamas
attackers, who discovered her hiding in a safe room in her property on
October 7.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Astonishing footage,
captured by a security camera, showed how she fought to free herself
from Hamas as they dragged her back to Gaza during their ruthless raid.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Holding
her down, the attackers can be seen slapping Ms Soussana as they
attempted to wrap her in a shawl or blanket, but still she fought back,
twisting and kicking. Eventually the captors were forced to bundle her
into a car to get her back to Gaza as they were unable to drag her on
foot.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">More than 1,200 Israelis were
slaughtered on October 7, irrespective of whether they tried to flee or
resist against their attackers.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Ms Soussana was one of several hostages who were taken and spent almost eight weeks days living in captivity.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">She was released by Hamas just one day before the week-long truce between Israel and Hamas expired and hostilities resumed.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Released alongside her was Ms Schem, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival on November 30.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">During
the truce, Hamas released 80 Israeli hostages in exchange for 240
Palestinian prisoners. Twenty-five other captives, mostly Thais, were
freed outside the scope of the deal.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Israel
recalled its negotiators from Doha on Tuesday after deeming mediated
talks on a Gaza truce were 'at a dead end' due to demands by Hamas, a
senior Israeli official has said.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The
official, who is close to the Mossad spymaster heading up the talks,
accused Hamas's Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar of sabotaging the diplomacy 'as
part of a wider effort to inflame this war over Ramadan'.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The
warring sides had stepped up negotiations, mediated by Qatar and Egypt,
on a six-week suspension of Israel's offensive in return for the
proposed release of 40 of the 130 hostages still held by the Palestinian
militant group in Gaza.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Hamas has
sought to parlay any deal into an end to the fighting and withdrawal of
Israeli forces. Israel has ruled this out, saying it would eventually
resume efforts to dismantle the governance and military capabilities of
Hamas.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Hamas also wants hundreds of
thousands of Palestinians who fled Gaza City and surrounding areas
southward during the first stage of the almost six-month-old war to be
allowed back north.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The Israeli
official said that Israel had agreed to double the number of
Palestinians it would release for the hostages at 700 to 800 prisoners
and allow some displaced Palestinians to return to northern Gaza.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Tuesday that Hamas
had made 'delusional' demands, which it said showed the Palestinians
were not interested in a deal.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Hamas has accused Israel of stalling at the talks while it carries out its military offensive.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The
discussions, mediated by Egypt and Qatar, are continuing as a
humanitarian crisis devastates Palestinians in Gaza with severe
shortages of food, medicine and hospital care. Concerns are growing that
famine will take hold.</p><p></p>BarkGrowlBitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04830589594331819236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932388.post-69196409541250071462024-03-28T16:03:00.000-05:002024-03-28T16:03:04.130-05:00WHAT WILL BIDEN DO IF ISRAEL ATTACKS HEZBOLLAH?<p><b> Senior official sees ground operation in north 'after Rafah'</b></p>
<h2 class="jeg_post_subtitle"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">The senior Israeli official told
Israel Hayom that after the IDF completed its planned maneuver in Rafah
it will turn to the north. "Achieving the strategic goal of the return
of northern residents to their homes requires a ground war. We will do
that after Rafah, not simultaneously," the official said. </span></h2><h2 class="jeg_post_subtitle"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> </span></h2><h2 class="jeg_post_subtitle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="meta_text">By </span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.israelhayom.com/writer/shirit-avitan-cohen/">Shirit Avitan
Cohen </a></span></span></h2><h2 class="jeg_post_subtitle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></h2><h2 class="jeg_post_subtitle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Israel Hayom</span></span></h2><h2 class="jeg_post_subtitle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mar 28, 2024 <span><br /></span></span></span></h2><p> </p><p><img alt="Israeli artillery launches bombardments on southern Lebanon after around a dozen rockets were fired by Hezbollah" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="439" id="i-7d258ec63c1484a" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/08/06/10/46359333-9868195-image-a-14_1628243497166.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </p> <p class="imageCaption"><b>Israeli artillery fires on southern Lebanon after a barrage of rockets were fired by Hezbollah</b></p><p class="imageCaption"><b> </b></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Although Wednesday's barrage on
northern Israel has not been considered a game-changer that could lead
to a full-blown war with Hezbollah, an Israeli official has for the
first time indicated that a ground operation in Lebanon was in the
works. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The senior Israeli official told<em> Israel Hayom</em>
that after the IDF completed its planned maneuver in Rafah it will turn
to the north. "Achieving the strategic goal of the return of northern
residents to their homes requires a ground war. We will do that after
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Former officials in the security
establishment claim that it will not be possible to carry out the
Israeli plans. As the US withdraws its support for Israel on the
international front, they argue, the chances for a significant operation
in Rafah are gradually diminishing.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, this doom and gloom is not
shared by the Israeli political leadership. There, both Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as
Minister Benny Gantz, continue to argue that there is no escaping an
Israeli operation in Rafah and the elimination of the remaining Hamas
battalions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The planned action in Rafah was
supposed to pressure Hamas into a prisoner exchange deal that would ease
its situation, but this pressure has not borne fruit and the terror
organization is entrenching itself in its positions. Israeli officials
assess that this is directly linked to the decline in US support for
Israel and Hamas' belief that soon international pressure will force
Israel to back down before it manages to subdue the organization and its
people.</span></p><p class="fi-aic_280"><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the political
leadership level, there is concern about the loss of American support,
but not at the cost of shelving the plans. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Israel Hayom </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">has
learned that the White House is already making efforts to re-coordinate
the arrival of National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi and Minister
Ron Dermer, in order to present them with alternatives they have
prepared for a broad operation in Rafah.</span></p><p class="fi-aic_280"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The White House
understands they would not be able to avert an Israeli operation in
Rafah unless they first try to present these alternatives to Netanyahu's
people, they will not be able to prevent the Israeli plan from being
carried out.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"The message to the US and the world
is important to us – Stage 3 is not the end of the war, and Hamas cannot
be subdued from the air. These are thoughts from 2006," says a senior
Israeli official. "We are currently operating in Khan Younis, and the
brigade that finishes in Khan Yunis will then go to Rafah."</span></p>
<p class="fi-aic_280"><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to the
official, it will not be possible to evacuate people from Rafah and
allow the military operation there before IDF forces complete their
mission in Khan Younis. Despite international pressure, he added, "we
are doing things without a stopwatch."</span></p>BarkGrowlBitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04830589594331819236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932388.post-25269202719533182152024-03-28T15:33:00.001-05:002024-03-28T18:26:23.856-05:00GOV. ABBOTT, A STAUNCH SUPPORTER OF ISRAEL, FIGHTS JEW-HATRED AT TEXAS COLLEGES<h1 class="article-headline ">
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<b>From left to right, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, Texas
Gov. Greg Abbott and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appear together on Nov. 2, 2023. Gov. Abbott arrived in Israel to reaffirm Texas’ enduring and unwavering
support of the State of Israel, the Israeli people, and Israel’s right
to self-defense amid acts of war by the brutal terrorist organization
Hamas. This is Gov. Abbott’s third trip to Israel since elected
Governor in 2015.</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p class="wp-block-paragraph">Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/EO-GA-44_antisemitism_in_institutions_of_higher_ed_IMAGE_03-27-2024.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">executive order</a> on Wednesday “addressing acts of antisemitism in institutions of higher education.”</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Antisemitism is never acceptable in Texas, and we will do everything we can to fight it,” he stated.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“The State of Texas stands with Israel
and the Jewish community, and we must escalate our efforts to protect
against antisemitism at Texas colleges and universities and across our
state,” the Republican governor added. “Across the country, acts of
antisemitism have grown in number, size, and danger to the Jewish
community since Hamas’s deadly attack on Oct. 7.”</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Abbott said the state “took immediate action to protect Jewish schools, synagogues and other key locations.”</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Many Texas colleges and universities also
acted quickly to condemn antisemitism, but some radical organizations
on our campuses engaged in acts that have no place in Texas,” he
said. “Now, we must work to ensure that our college campuses are safe
spaces for members of the Jewish community.”</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The executive order notes that “protected
free speech areas on Texas university campuses, as well as the buildings
and parking lots of Jewish student organizations, have been covered in
antisemitic graffiti.”</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It adds that students have chanted
“antisemitic phrases such as ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will
be free,’ which has long been used by Hamas supporters to call for the
violent dismantling of the State of Israel and the destruction of the
Jewish people who live there.”</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The governor directs Texas colleges and
universities to “review and update free speech policies to address the
sharp rise in antisemitic speech and acts on university campuses and
establish appropriate punishments, including expulsion from the
institution.”</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">He also tells institutions to discipline
the Palestine Solidarity Committee, Students for Justice in Palestine
and other related groups when they violate such policies and to include
the definition of antisemitism, which the state adopted, “in university
free speech policies to guide university personnel and students on what
constitutes antisemitic speech.”</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The state has <a href="https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.448.htm" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">codified</a> the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHA)’s <a href="https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">working definition</a> of antisemitism into law.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“The Combat Antisemitism Movement commends
Governor Abbott’s decision today to issue executive order GA-44, aimed
at combating antisemitism on college campuses,” stated Sacha Roytman,
CEO of the Combat Antisemitism Movement.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Roytman noted that the IHRA working
definition “has shown to be one of the most effective tools for
identifying and countering on-campus antisemitism.”</p><p></p>BarkGrowlBitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04830589594331819236noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932388.post-48551887247037751492024-03-28T15:03:00.003-05:002024-03-28T15:03:56.841-05:00THE WORLD IS SWALLOWING LIES ABOUT ISRAEL HOOK, LINE AND SINKER<h1 class="article-headline ">
<span style="font-size: small;">Israel’s Orwellian nightmare </span></h1>
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The Jewish state swings in the wind because the genocidal Palestinians are said to have a case. </span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> </span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">By Melanie Phillips</span></span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">JNS</span></span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Mar 28, 2024</span></span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><img alt="The ongoing wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and heightened tensions in parts of the world, are affecting this year's New Year's Eve celebrations in a myriad of ways" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="423" id="i-7c6aaf7b2d41c3d" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/01/01/02/79494545-12915609-image-a-36_1704076601308.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /><b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-size: small;">Anti-Israel protesters in New York on December 31, 2023</span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b></h2><p class="wp-block-paragraph">For the Jewish world, these are
nightmarish, hallucinatory times. Israel is fighting a hydra-headed
genocidal enemy that not only slaughtered 1,200 women, children and men
and took more than 240 hostages but intends to repeat such atrocities
until Israel is destroyed.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Yet instead of being supported in its
attempt to prevent a second holocaust of the Jews, Israel now finds
itself demonized. Its overwhelmingly just war of self-defense has been
turned into a war crime. The victims of pure evil are themselves
depicted as evil and turned into the pariahs of the world.</p><p class="wp-block-paragraph">It’s as if both Nazism and Stalinism,
having been defeated in their own countries by the West decades ago,
have united to achieve a posthumous victory by brainwashing millions of
Westerners with Soviet-style doublespeak and Nazi-style Jew-hatred.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Untold numbers in the West now believe the
demonstrable lies being pumped out by Hamas and parroted by its patsies
and fellow travelers at the UN, in powerful “human rights” charities
and the media.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">These lies frame the images of suffering
in Gaza that are being relentlessly transmitted on TV and social media.
As a result, millions now believe that the Israelis are deliberately
starving Gaza’s people by preventing aid from coming in; that they have
wantonly killed more than 30,000 civilians who are mostly women and
children; and that they are attacking hospitals and causing helpless
patients to die.</p><p class="wp-block-paragraph">All of this is, of course, not only false but the very opposite of the truth.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The West Point military expert John
Spencer has written that Israel’s opponents are simply erasing Israel’s
“remarkable, historic new standard” for warfare.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“By my analysis,” he writes, “Israel has
implemented more precautions to prevent civilian harm than any military
in history.” It has done so, he says, at considerable cost to its own
ability to win the war by telegraphing almost every move ahead of time
so civilians can relocate. This nearly always cedes the element of
surprise, allowing Hamas to move both its leaders and the hostages to
escape IDF detection.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Yet this astonishing IDF record is being studiously ignored while patently obvious lies are believed instead.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Currently, video footage shows plentifully
supplied food markets in southern Gaza. Bulletins regularly published
by COGAT, Israel’s humanitarian coordinator for Gaza, attest to hundreds
of aid trucks regularly crossing into the Strip.</p><p class="wp-block-paragraph">There are problems, however, with
distribution by aid agencies within Gaza. These have caused shortages,
particularly in the north, with Hamas stealing aid to replenish its own
stocks or selling aid on the black market at prohibitively inflated
prices.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">All these facts are ignored. Instead, Israel is accused of causing “famine” and “starvation.”</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Casualty figures put out by the Hamas-run
Gaza Health Ministry claim that more than 30,000 civilians have been
killed, of whom 70% were women and children. Expert number crunchers say
that the most basic analysis shows these figures are bogus.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Abraham Wyner, professor of statistics and
data science at the University of Pennsylvania, has written that the
daily totals increase too consistently to be real.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">An article in <em>Fathom</em> by a
population models expert, a bio-mathematician and an international
lawyer explains that the Hamas numbers are “statistically impossible,”
suggesting that the composition of unregistered deaths has been
fabricated to inflate the proportion of women and children who have been
killed.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Yet the Hamas figures have been accepted as fact by Western media, politicians and officials, and are constantly repeated.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Then there’s the astonishing situation at
Gaza’s Shifa Hospital, where hundreds of combatants have been arrested
or killed while firing on Israeli soldiers even from the hospital’s burn
and maternity units. Out of 800 total suspects at Shifa, says the IDF,
500 have confirmed ties to Hamas or Islamic Jihad.</p><p class="wp-block-paragraph">The use of hospitals for military purposes
is a war crime. The hijack of Shifa by combatants using its patients as
human shields and cannon fodder should cause global outrage.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Yet this has been totally ignored in
Western media coverage. Instead, despite IDF initiatives in bringing
doctors into Shifa to treat its patients and ensuring that deliveries of
food and water have continued, Israel is being accused of causing
patients to suffer and die.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In Britain, the relentless demonization of Israel is fueling the institutionalization of eye-watering antisemitism.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Two Israeli brothers who survived the
Supernova music festival massacre and came to Manchester to raise
support for survivors of the pogrom were stopped at the airport by
border guards. They were detained for two hours, spoken to harshly when
they objected and, upon being released, were told by one of the
officers: “They had to make sure that you are not going to do what you
are doing in Gaza over here.”</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A nine-year-old Jewish child wearing a kippah and <em>tzitzit</em>
who was being treated for a rare blood disorder with blood transfusions
every two months at the Royal Manchester children’s hospital was forced
by nurses wearing “Free Palestine” badges to lie on the floor while
still attached to a cannula. The child is said to be terrified to return
to hospital unless he hides his Jewish identity.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>The</em> <em>Jewish Chronicle</em> has <a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/revealed-how-antisemitic-bigotry-surged-through-the-nhs-after-the-october-7-atrocities-pq1zg98v">reported </a>that
British doctors in hospitals around the country have defended the Oct. 7
atrocities, claimed Britain is an “Israeli colony,” accused Israel of
controlling the British government and denied the Shoah.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The number of doctors referred to
Britain’s medical regulator on grounds of antisemitism, which stood at
four in 2021 and zero in 2022, shot up to 66 in the four months
following the Hamas pogrom.</p><p class="wp-block-paragraph">Appallingly, instead of calling out all
the lies about Israel, the Biden administration and the British
government are actually promoting them.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Claiming that “too many” innocent
civilians have been killed by the IDF and that Israel is preventing aid
from getting into Gaza, both the U.S. and Britain have turned against
Israel at the U.N. and are treating it as a rogue state committing human
rights abuses. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">President Joe Biden has conditioned
military aid to Israel on the requirement that it submits a report
within 45 days proving compliance with international law. Britain’s
Foreign Secretary, Lord Cameron, has threatened to stop arms sales to
Israel unless it allows the Red Cross access to Hamas detainees. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Seeking to explain this vicious treatment
by Israel’s treacherous allies, commentators cite the need to appease
American Muslims and radical Democrats in the U.S. presidential
election; the anti-Israel Obama-era retreads in the Biden
administration; and in Britain, the outsourcing of foreign policy by the
inexperienced Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to Cameron, who shares the
poisonous disdain for Israel that’s been entrenched in the Foreign
Office for decades.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Plausible as those reasons are, there’s
also a deeper issue. Israel’s current Orwellian treatment at Western
hands should be no surprise because this treatment has been Orwellian
for decades.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Under existential attack since its rebirth
in 1948, Israel has repeatedly been forced by America and the West into
making lethal concessions to its would-be destroyers that have left it
in a state of permanent siege and under repeated attack.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">America and the West have feted
Palestinian leaders as statesmen even while those leaders brainwash
generations into believing it’s their highest duty to kill every Jew.
The Americans have armed and trained Palestinian police officers who
have subsequently mounted terrorist attacks on Israelis.</p><p class="wp-block-paragraph">The “two-state solution” is being insisted
upon by the U.S. and Britain, even though it has been repeatedly
offered to the Palestinians who have rejected it because their aim is to
wipe Israel off the map.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The reason America and Britain have left
Israel to swing in the wind is that they think the genocidal
Palestinians have a legitimate case. The shocking treatment of Israel
today by its so-called allies is merely a continuation of that
decades-old Orwellian nightmare.</p><p></p>BarkGrowlBitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04830589594331819236noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932388.post-57816510147533981752024-03-28T13:02:00.000-05:002024-03-28T13:02:20.699-05:00OBAMA AND BIDEN PREFERRED TO APPEASE THE AYATOLLAHS<h1 class="article-headline ">
<span style="font-size: small;">The Iranian regime is an existential threat to America </span></h1>
<h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">
The only way to stop Iran’s terrorist octopus is to deliver a crushing blow to its head. </span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> </span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">By Vahid Beheshti</span></span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> <br /></span></span></span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>JNS</span></span></span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Mar 28, 2024</span></span></span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><br /></span></span></span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"></h2>
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<div class="media "><img alt="Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh meets with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran, March 26, 2024. Credit: Screenshot." class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="413" src="https://cdn.jns.org/uploads/2024/03/39487-1320x880.jpg" title="Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh meets with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran, March 26, 2024. Credit: Screenshot." width="620" /><div class="caption"><b>Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh meets with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran</b></div><div class="caption"><br /></div><div class="caption"><p class="wp-block-paragraph">Americans must wake up to the existential
threat posed by the Islamic Republic of Iran. U.S. democracy and Western
democracy in general are under unprecedented attack by forces that are
headed by the extremist fundamentalist regime in Tehran. The regime is a
giant octopus that through its numerous tentacles is trying to
undermine these democracies systematically. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Within the U.S., Teheran uses clandestine means to undermine democratic values in several ways:</p><p class="wp-block-paragraph">It seeks to create a global axis of nations to subvert Western democracy and promote authoritarian ideologies.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It is engaged in a systematic attack on U.S. strategic companies and infrastructure through cyberattacks.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It is seeking to radicalize U.S. citizens
through social media, religious centers and similar avenues via groups
with both direct and indirect links to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps (IRGC).</p><p class="wp-block-paragraph">It kidnaps dual nationals and Western
citizens and holds them hostage. This provides the Iranian regime with
valuable funding through ransoms and the ability to influence U.S. and
Western foreign policy.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Iran lobbies U.S. government bodies and
Congress using groups connected to the regime in order to circumvent
U.S. foreign and domestic policy. Its aim is to propagate the regime’s
extremist agenda. On occasion, such efforts involve those who seemingly
oppose the regime. They have often succeeded in influencing U.S. foreign
policy towards effectively appeasing the regime and giving it a
valuable lifeline in time and funds.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Iran has undertaken a coordinated campaign
of intimidation on U.S. soil that targets all those brave enough to
stand up to it by raising awareness of the threats posed to the U.S. by
the regime.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">America’s current policy towards the
regime is appeasement. That is why the U.S. has been ineffective in
stopping the regime’s campaign of global destabilization, such as Iran’s
proxy Houthi terrorists’ attacks on global shipping. Continuation of
such policies will only encourage the Houthis, Hamas and Hezbollah in
their terrorist activities, including on U.S. soil.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Iranian regime is also very adept at avoiding sanctions, as demonstrated by recent cases involving two U.K. clearing banks.</p><p class="wp-block-paragraph">Current U.S. policies will only put more
American soldiers and citizens at risk. Even U.S. proscription of the
IRGC as a terror organization did not prevent U.S. soldiers from being
killed by IRGC proxies.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It is essential to adopt a much stronger stance against the IRGC by implementing a plan that begins with the <em>global</em>
proscription of the IRGC. This is one of the few effective non-violent
measures that will thwart the reach of the Iranian regime’s terrorism,
as it will make any contact with the IRGC an international criminal
offense, something no sanction will do.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Global proscription will encompass the
entirety of the IRGC and is thus much more effective than sanctioning
individual members of it. Proscription will also stop foreign companies
with any links to the U.S. and other Western countries from dealing with
the IRGC.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">These measures should be taken because it
has long since been clear that the Iranian regime only responds to
pressures it cannot avoid and potentially threaten its existence—like
global proscription.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Furthermore, anyone who wants to preserve
U.S. democracy must understand that any group advising the U.S.
government not to take a strong stance against Iran and the IRGC is
simply playing into the hands of the regime.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The U.S. and its partners must realize
that the only way to stop this evil octopus from threatening the lives
of their citizens is to deal a crushing blow to its head. This could
enable the 80 million Iranians who want freedom from the regime’s
tyranny to liberate themselves.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Iranians who desire freedom are looking
for any chance to depose their despotic overlords. They must be helped
in any way possible because the fall of the regime is an essential
requirement for peace in the Middle East. Without its head, the
tentacles of the octopus will quickly die.</p><p class="wp-block-paragraph">I have spent more than a year of my life
participating in a sit-down protest outside the U.K. Foreign Office,
which included 72 days on a hunger strike and a two-week stay in a
hospital. I and others did this with the sole aim of stopping Western
appeasement of the Iranian regime and enabling the proscription of the
IRGC.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I recently traveled to Ukraine and was the
first Iranian opposition leader to speak to the Israeli Knesset. Now, I
am heading to the U.S., invited by the Middle East Forum, to explain to
U.S. policymakers that tomorrow might be too late.</p></div></div></div><h2 class="article-underline"></h2><p></p>BarkGrowlBitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04830589594331819236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932388.post-61774615585536035062024-03-28T12:41:00.001-05:002024-03-28T13:02:50.951-05:00JUDGE VERONICA NELSON COMMITTED A HORRIBLE OFFENSE BY DROPPING MURDER CHARGES AGAINST CROOKED FORMER HOUSTON COP<p><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Harding Street raid: Ex-HPD officer Gerald Goines felony murder charges dropped</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Fox 26</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Mar 26, 2024 <br /></span></p><p> </p><div style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic"> <img alt="The announcement comes after judges declared innocent two brothers who had been convicted based on testimony from former officer Gerald Goines" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" height="365" id="i-4d3a0ab5c6a5715a" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/02/26/21/25238002-8048143-image-m-26_1582752110834.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="306" /> </div> </div><p><b> Gerald Goines </b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><span><b>HARRIS COUNTY, Texas</b> - </span>The felony charges against former <a class="link" data-rapid_p="9" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:Houston Police Department;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" href="https://www.fox26houston.com/tag/organization/texas-dps/houston-police" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Houston Police Department</a> officer Gerald Goines were dropped on Tuesday concerning the<a class="link" data-rapid_p="10" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:2019 botched Harding Street raid;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" href="https://www.fox26houston.com/tag/harding-street-raid" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> 2019 botched Harding Street raid</a>, records say.</p><p>A Harris County Judge dropped the murder indictments against Goines for the death of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas.</p><p>Judge Veronica Nelson ruled in favor of Goines saying the indictment was "too broad."</p><p><b> </b></p><div class="row"><div class="col-sm-5"> <img alt="" class="box-shadow shadow-effect-1 img-responsive img-bordered" src="https://www.txdirectory.com/files/photo/per69336.jpg" />
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</div><p> <b>Judge Veronica Nelson</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p>The former officer's defense argued the charges were defective, but
family members of the couple say it's another year of delays and
coverups.<b> </b></p><p>"The judge did exactly what the judge was supposed to do. She
considered dispassionately all of the arguments from the DA's office,"
defense attorney Nicole DeBorde said.</p><p>It's the same argument defense attorney Nicole DeBorde has been presenting for years for her client.</p><p>"It
certainly has merit, because after all of that research, the court
agreed that in fact, the charges were constitutionally defective. As far
as delay, any delay is the district attorney's office filing charges
that could not withstand legal scrutiny," DeBorde said.</p><p>In
February, former police chief Art Acevedo was questioned about the raid.
In January, the Houston City Council approved more funding to defend
the city and Acevedo in the lawsuit, a nearly $3 million price tag.</p><p>Rhogena's family attorney in the civil lawsuit also reacted, stating:</p><p><i><b>"</b>Justice
in the HPD Harding Street killings remains a far-off prospect, at least
in the hands of the US Attorney and District Attorney offices. The
family of Rhogena Nicholas remains disappointed that local, state, and
federal authorities have either ignored this injustice or helped delay
the Goines murder prosecution. The legal explanations aside, we’re now
in the fifth year of a taxpayer-funded coverup of these murders. The
Nicholas family still will not give up its ongoing fight to reveal the
truth of what happened before, during, and after the killing of
Rhogena."</i></p><p><a class="link" data-rapid_p="13" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:Goines previously requested to have the charges dismissed;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" href="https://www.fox26houston.com/news/gerald-goines-botched-drug-raid-2019-houston-throw-out-indictments-dismissed" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Goines previously requested to have the charges dismissed</a>,
but in February 2023, a judge denied the motion based on prosecutorial
misconduct and said there was not enough evidence to justify dismissing
the case.</p><p>The Harris County District Attorney's Office gave this statement:</p><p><i>"Today’s
actions were no more than another delay tactic by the defense. The
Harris County District Attorney’s office is shocked and tremendously
disappointed that a judge would choose to revisit this issue, knowing
that her predecessor had already ruled the defendant’s position
meritless. The office is considering all its options, including amending
the indictment, with an eye towards trying this case as soon as
possible to ensure justice for the victims of these crimes."</i></p><p></p>BarkGrowlBitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04830589594331819236noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932388.post-10829058981241653652024-03-28T10:55:00.000-05:002024-03-28T10:55:55.958-05:00SOME THINGS ARE INHERENTLY DANGEROUS, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE UNSKILLED<p>By Bob Walsh</p><p> </p><div class="row newsmag-margin-bottom ">
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<span class="nmicon-folder-o"></span> </p><p>Richard Peach, 68, of Cocoa Beach, Florida went down to his local Harley
dealership in Titusville on Monday to check out some bikes. He took a
nice, clean 2014 out for a test drive around the parking lot of the
(empty) Titus Landing shopping center. He drove the vehicle at
significant speed into the rear wall of a building. His helmet did not
save his life. <br /></p><div class="full-width-image" data-v-0dea8073="" data-v-0e30817a=""> </div><p></p>BarkGrowlBitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04830589594331819236noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932388.post-13892070017639327362024-03-28T10:39:00.000-05:002024-03-28T10:39:21.521-05:00I KNOW IT IS CHUMP CHANGE BY CHICAGO OR ST. LOUIS STANDARDS...<p>By Bob Walsh</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="stockton police serial killing suspect arrested" src="https://i.insider.com/634b4307410f4300181475c9?width=700" />
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<span class="image-caption-text"><br /></span></figcaption><figcaption class="image-caption headline-bold" data-e2e-name="image-caption"><div dir="ltr">Two teenagers were murdered in Stockton in a four day period over this past weekend. </div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">In
the first one the cops responded to a "person down" call and came by to
do a welfare check. The found an 18-year old female dead on the 4100
block of Logan Lane in the pre-dawn hours of Friday. Her name was
Christy Patterson. A second woman, 20-years old, was found near-by with
gunshot wounds. She was taken to the hospital and appears likely to
survive.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">The second one
went down at about 9 p.m. on the 8100 block of Palisades Drive on
Sunday night. The local constabulary responded to a shots fired call
and found a 16-year old male down at the scene. He was taken to the
hospital where he died. I am frankly surprised the cops showed up.
They don't usually respond to shots fired calls unless there is
something further to go on. </div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">These
are homicides 10 and 11 for Stockton so far this year. Less than one
per week on average. So far, so good. Except for the poor bastards
that got shot. <br /></div><span class="image-caption-text"></span></figcaption></span><p></p>BarkGrowlBitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04830589594331819236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932388.post-45172811246806289292024-03-28T10:18:00.000-05:002024-03-28T10:18:09.130-05:00BIT ON THE ASS BY A WAGE INCREASE<p>By Bob Walsh</p><p> <img alt="No alternative text description for this image" aria-busy="false" class="w-full object-cover object-center h-full babybear:max-h-[400px] lazy-loaded" data-ghost-url="https://static.licdn.com/aero-v1/sc/h/921ynb2z53z33mhm3061qvjag" src="https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C4E22AQHn_qwHrJg9DA/feedshare-shrink_800/0/1662549531761?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=L3R0sfGl8SIxDqBFiIPiJymerhO0qsUTb9Wg0-Elqwk" />
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<br /></a></div><div class="flex items-center font-sans text-sm babybear:text-xs main-feed-activity-card__social-actions"><div dir="ltr">On Monday fast food workers in CA get a government
mandated minimum wage of $20.00 per hour, except if you get your ass
laid off in which case you get $ Zero dollars an hour. A buttload of
fast food operations are cutting back on staff, installing robots, and
otherwise making adjustments because they can not afford to absorb the
increase and do not want to attempt to pass the increase on to
customers. It cost less than $20 per HOUR to operate a fast foot
robot. They don't call in sick, don't need lunch breaks and don't get
vacations. They flip burgers, cook fries and even serve as hostesses
and escort people to their seats in sit-down restaurants. I wonder how
many people actually thought that EVERYBODY was going to get a roughly
20% pay raise? A lot of fast food workers in CA are now unionized. I
wonder how the union will feel when they suddenly have a lot less people
to suck union dues from? </div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">I am a great believer in the concept of "enlightened self-interest." The "enlightened" part of that phrase is important. <br /></div>
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<div class="field field--name-field-blog-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> </div></div>BarkGrowlBitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04830589594331819236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932388.post-51930695733391414892024-03-27T18:55:00.001-05:002024-03-27T18:55:34.644-05:00NOT BY ALLAH, BUT WITH THE HELP OF BIDEN, BLINKEN AND THE EUROPEANS HAMAS WILL BE VICTORIOUS<h1 class="title"><span style="font-size: small;">Hamas chief: Allah willing, we will defeat Israel in hostage negotiations</span></h1><div class="subtitle"><p>The terrorist group will not release any more hostages until Israel accepts all its demands, Khaled Mashaal vowed.</p><p> </p></div><p> <span class="meta-author"> Israel Today </span></p><p><span class="meta-date"><time class="published" datetime="' . get_the_time( 'Y-m-d\TH:i:sO' ) . '">Mar 27, 2024 </time></span></p><p><span class="meta-date"><time class="published" datetime="' . get_the_time( 'Y-m-d\TH:i:sO' ) . '"> </time></span></p><p></p><p> <img alt="Stickers with photos and descriptions of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, been posted on milk cartons at a super market in Tel Aviv, by Israelis calling for a release of the hostages now. March 20, 2024. Photo by Miriam Alster/FLASH90" class="img-zoomable" height="407" src="https://www.israeltoday.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/F240320MA012.jpg" style="cursor: pointer;" title="Hamas chief: Allah willing, we will defeat Israel in hostage negotiations" width="724" /> </p><p><b>Stickers
with photos and descriptions of Israelis held hostage by Hamas
terrorists in Gaza, been posted on milk cartons at a super market in Tel
Aviv, by Israelis calling for a release of the hostages now. March 20,
2024</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p>Hamas will not release any of the 134 hostages it holds until Israel
ends the war, withdraws its troops, allows all Gazans to return to their
homes and lifts the blockade on the coastal enclave, the terrorist
group’s leader <strong>Khaled Mashaal</strong> said on Wednesday.</p><p>Speaking
at a women’s event in Jordan, Mashaal declared that the organization’s
leadership is “waging a negotiating battle no less fierce” than the
military conflict with the Israel Defense Forces, according to a readout
of his remarks posted to Telegram by Hamas.</p><p>“<em>Inshallah</em> [‘Allah willing’], we will defeat them in the
field and in the negotiating battle,” said Mashaal, adding that the
group is also fighting “intense battles” in the media and on the
political battlefields.</p><p>The terrorist leader reiterated that “in
the negotiations, we insist on stopping the aggression, withdrawing from
Gaza, returning the displaced to their places, especially in northern
Gaza, providing all necessary relief, shelter and reconstruction, and
ending the siege.</p><p>“We will not release their prisoners [the hostages] until we achieve these goals,” Mashaal vowed.</p><p>Hamas
is still holding 134 hostages out of 253 kidnapped during its Oct. 7
invasion of the northwestern Negev. Some 1,200 people, primarily Israeli
civilians, were killed during the attack and thousands more were
wounded. Israel forces killed approximately 1,000 terrorists.</p><p>American,
Egyptian, Israeli and Qatari interlocutors have been shuttling to
Cairo, Doha and Paris in recent months in an attempt to hash out an
agreement that would see the release of the remaining captives.</p><p>On
Monday, Hamas informed mediators that it was sticking to its demands
for “a comprehensive ceasefire, withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, the
return of the displaced and a real exchange of prisoners.”</p><p>Israel has dismissed the terrorist group’s <a href="https://www.jns.org/hamas-sticks-to-demand-for-permanent-ceasefire/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">preconditions</a> as “delusional.”</p><p>Late last year, speaking to France’s <em>Le Figaro</em> daily from his residence in Qatar, <a href="https://www.jns.org/mashaal-us-will-accept-hamass-legitimacy-sooner-or-later/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Mashaal</a> predicted that “sooner or later, the United States will argue that Hamas is a reality and enjoys legitimacy among the people.</p><p>“We must learn from history. The Americans accepted the Taliban. [PLO
founder] Yasser Arafat even won the Nobel Peace Prize,” he noted.</p><p>The
Oct. 7 massacre “shocked world public opinion, and polls in the US show
increased support for the Palestinian cause,” he concluded, adding that
Hamas’s terrorist army in Gaza would not be destroyed as it had “passed
the credibility test against Israel.”</p><p>In January, <a href="https://www.jns.org/mashal-oct-7-renewed-the-dream-of-replacing-israel-with-palestine/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Mashaal</a> restated
his rejection of Israel’s right to exist, saying that the Oct. 7 mass
murder “turned the idea of liberating Palestine from the [Jordan] River
to the [Mediterranean] Sea into a realistic idea that has already
begun.”</p>BarkGrowlBitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04830589594331819236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932388.post-51178380189435121342024-03-27T18:44:00.000-05:002024-03-27T18:44:05.270-05:00BEN-GVIR IS RIGHT<h1 class="title"><span style="font-size: small;">Ben-Gvir: Biden sides with Tlaib, Sinwar over Netanyahu</span></h1><div class="subtitle"><p>The
minister told US media that the president is “enormously mistaken” to
pressure Israel over its military campaign against Hamas.</p><p> </p></div><p> <span class="meta-author"> By Joshua Marks </span></p><p><span class="meta-author"> </span></p><p><span class="meta-author">Israel Today <br /></span></p><p><span class="meta-date"><time class="published" datetime="' . get_the_time( 'Y-m-d\TH:i:sO' ) . '">Mar 27, 2024</time></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><br /></p><h2 class="article-underline"></h2>
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<div class="media "><img alt="Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks during a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting, Feb. 15, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90." class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="413" src="https://cdn.jns.org/uploads/2023/02/F230215YS25-1320x880.jpg" title="Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks during a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting, Feb. 15, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90." width="620" /><div class="caption"><b>Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir </b></div></div></div><div class="article-header-media"><div class="media "><div class="caption"><b> </b></div><div class="caption"><p>Israel’s National Security Minister <strong>Itamar Ben-Gvir</strong> has accused US President <strong>Joe Biden</strong> of siding with the enemies of the Jewish state.</p><p>During an interview with <em>The New York Times</em>
published on Tuesday, Ben-Gvir said, “Presently, Biden prefers the line
of [Palestinian-American Democratic Representative from Michigan] <strong>Rashida Tlaib</strong> and [Hamas leader in Gaza <strong>Yahya</strong>] <strong>Sinwar</strong> to the line of [Israeli Prime Minister] <strong>Benjamin Netanyahu</strong> and Ben-Gvir.”</p><p>“I would have expected the president of the United States not to take their line, but rather to take ours,” he added.</p><p>While
the Biden administration provided unwavering early support for
Jerusalem in the wake of the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on Oct.
7, including Biden becoming the first sitting US president to visit
Israel during wartime, Washington has taken an increasingly critical
stance as the ground war against Hamas in Gaza enters its sixth month.</p><p>This culminated on Monday with the Americans deciding not to use
their veto power at the United Nations Security Council, allowing a
resolution to pass that for the first time decoupled a demand for a
temporary ceasefire from the release of 134 Israeli hostages still held
by Hamas.</p><p>In response to the US move, <a href="https://www.jns.org/netanyahu-cancels-delegation-to-us-as-security-council-backs-ceasefire/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Netanyahu</a> canceled a high-level delegation’s planned visit to Washington.</p><p>Netanyahu said that the changed US position “hurts the war effort and the effort to release the hostages” by <a href="https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/netanyahu-biden-has-given-hamas-hope/">giving Hamas hope</a> that international pressure will bring about a ceasefire without requiring the terror group to release the captives.</p><p>The
Israeli delegation was supposed to discuss alternatives to a pending
IDF ground operation in Rafah city, Hamas’s last bastion in the Gaza
Strip. While Israel is adamant that the operation is required to achieve
its war goals of destroying Hamas as a political and military entity in
Gaza, the Biden administration opposes a full-scale offensive.</p><p>For his part, <a href="https://www.jns.org/pm-must-act-says-ben-gvir-accusing-ag-of-double-standard/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Ben-Gvir</a>
in a statement called the passage of the UN resolution “proof that
President Biden is not prioritizing Israel and the free world’s victory
over terrorism, but rather his own political considerations.”</p><p>Ben-Gvir called for Israel to ramp up its military campaign against Hamas in Gaza.</p><p>In the <em>Times</em>
interview, the minister said that Biden was “enormously mistaken” to
pressure Israel on this matter, adding that he “constantly sought to
impose restrictions on Israel and talks about the rights of the other
side, who include, I remind you, many terrorists who want to destroy
us.”</p></div></div></div>BarkGrowlBitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04830589594331819236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932388.post-24426884552283278792024-03-27T18:26:00.000-05:002024-03-27T18:26:49.302-05:00BIDEN AGREES WITH ISRAEL-HATERS<h1 class="article-headline ">
<span style="font-size: small;">Biden is conciliating, rather than confronting, pro-Hamas Democrats </span></h1>
<h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">
Netanyahu is blamed for worsening U.S.-Israel relations, but the problem
is that the president thinks anti-Israel hecklers “have a point” and
that their cause is “really important.” </span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> </span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">By Jonathan S. Tobin </span></span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><br /></span></span></span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>JNS</span></span></span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Mar 27, 2024</span></span></span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><br /></span></span></span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span class="date"></span>
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<div class="media"><a data-featherlight="image" href="https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2024/01/AP24023800335285-e1706049609357.jpg" rel="lightbox"><img alt="A protester against Israel interrupts US President Joe Biden during an event on the campus of George Mason University in Manassas, Virginia, January 23, 2024, to campaign for abortion rights. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="375" src="https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2024/01/AP24023800335285-e1706049609357-640x400.jpg" title="A protester against Israel interrupts US President Joe Biden during an event on the campus of George Mason University in Manassas, Virginia, January 23, 2024, to campaign for abortion rights. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)" width="600" /></a><div class="caption"><b>A
protester against Israel interrupts US President Joe Biden during an
event on the campus of George Mason University in Manassas, Virginia,
January 23, 2024</b></div><div class="caption"><b> </b></div><div class="caption"><p class="wp-block-paragraph">Democrats don’t have “Sister Souljah
moments” anymore. That political metaphor refers to a moment in the 1992
presidential campaign when Bill Clinton established himself as a
credible centrist candidate by blasting a radical who advocated for the
murder of police officers. President Joe Biden won the 2020 Democratic
presidential nomination primarily because he was embraced as a centrist
alternative to Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). But he has
governed as if avoiding the wrath of the political left is his priority
rather than an opportunity to demonstrate his centrist bona fides.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">That’s the context for Biden’s decision to
blow up the U.S.-Israel alliance with a series of statements about the
war against Hamas and then an abstention on a vote on Monday in the U.N.
Security Council that confirmed a pivot away from support for the
terrorists’ elimination to a more equivocal stand. It also demonstrates
the assumption that his support for Israel is instinctive, and
therefore, trust in him is equally shaky.</p><p class="wp-block-paragraph">That Biden has governed as if he is in
thrall to the left has been obvious throughout his presidency as his
executive orders implementing woke diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)
in government; open-border policies on illegal immigration; and
out-of-control spending that fueled inflation have shown. But it’s been
particularly evident in recent months. His willingness to <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/15/biden-kowtows-to-dearborns-terror-justifying-mayor-to-retain-antisemitic-voters/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">kowtow</a>
to pro-Hamas Arab-American politicians in Michigan might have made some
political sense before the primary in that state, in which he wanted to
undermine an effort to elect an “uncommitted” slate of convention
delegates rather than one that supported Biden’s re-election, even
though his place on the ballot in November was not in any real doubt.
But now that Biden has locked up the 2024 nomination, this would
traditionally be a moment for a candidate to pivot to the center. Yet he
is still acting as if locking up the support of the most extreme voters
in his coalition is the key to victory.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Sympathy for Israel-haters</strong></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">That’s the only way to explain why Biden
seems so intent on not having his own “Sister Souljah moment” with those
who are calling him “genocide Joe” and who are hounding him on the
campaign trail. As <em>The New York Times</em> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/us/politics/biden-gaza-protesters.html">reported</a>
this week, despite the attempts of his staff to insulate the
81-year-old president from critical voices and potentially embarrassing
situations, he simply can’t seem to avoid anti-Israel activists.</p><p class="wp-block-paragraph">At one stop in Raleigh, N.C., Biden’s
attempt to speak about his support for Obamacare was interrupted by a
dozen protesters who began shouting about the lack of health care in the
Gaza Strip, and that hospitals were being “bombed” by Israel and he was
complicit in those crimes. Biden could have ignored them or pointed out
that the problems there are the responsibility of the Hamas terrorists
who governed Gaza as an independent Palestinian state in all but name
for the past 16 years. He could have pointed out that it was Hamas that
launched a genocidal war against Israel on Oct. 7 and that caused all
the casualties suffered in the current conflict. It was also a moment to
remind the world that not only were the accusations of Israel bombing
hospitals a big lie, but that health-care facilities in Gaza have
been—and are still being, as the recent Shifa Hospital military
operation proved—used as Hamas command centers, as well as places where
Israeli hostages were held captive.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Biden didn’t say anything like that.
Instead, he told the crowd in Raleigh that those chanting against Israel
and calling for a ceasefire that would crown Hamas as the victors of
the war deserved to be treated with deference. “They have a point. We
need to get a lot more care into Gaza,” said the president, doubling
down on his administration’s stand that Palestinian civilian needs were
more important than ensuring that the terrorists who started the war—and
are still holding Israeli men, women and children captive—were
eliminated.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Just as telling was his response to being
heckled in Virginia in January when he was trying to talk about his
efforts to defend legal abortions. As the<em> Times</em> noted, after that episode, he <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/us/politics/biden-aide-israel-regret.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">met privately</a>
with a small group of supporters and urged them not to view the
protesters as political enemies, saying that they deserved sympathy and
that their cause was “really important.”</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This doesn’t just explain the decision of
the administration to escalate tensions with Israel. It goes beyond
Biden’s efforts to stop Israel from finishing off Hamas by attacking its
remaining stronghold in Rafah. He is openly <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/us/politics/israel-biden-leverage.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">planning </a>not
just to open up more daylight between the two countries over the war
against Hamas but to abandon Israel diplomatically, slow down the flow
of arms and even sanction Israeli politicians as part of a campaign to
force Jerusalem to bow to his will.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Using aid as leverage</strong></p><p class="wp-block-paragraph">Democrats may have impeached former
President Donald Trump because of what they claimed was his desire to
use aid as leverage to gain some domestic political points. But they are
now threatening aid hold-ups and sanctions in order to force Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop the war in order to shore up
Biden’s ties with his left-wing critics. The administration’s <a href="https://www.jns.org/bidens-un-betrayal-of-israel-is-a-victory-for-hamas/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">decision</a>
this week to let the U.N. Security Council pass a ceasefire resolution
that mandated that the war against Hamas stop without linking it to the
release of the hostages the terrorist group still holds captive is part
of this effort.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">That was a clear betrayal as well as a
demonstration of how Biden’s skewed political priorities have led him to
betray the 75-year-old alliance with Israel. It also shows that the
effort to spin the breach in that alliance as being caused by
Netanyahu’s overreaction to the U.N. vote is pure bunk motivated by
partisan motives.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Netanyahu is getting blasted not just by
Democrats but by some left-wing Israelis for having the temerity to
denounce Biden’s betrayal. They say that he should be swallowing this
shift in American policy instead of calling it out.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This discussion isn’t new. The same things
were said about Netanyahu’s stands that earned him the opprobrium of
President Barack Obama and his media “echo chamber.” They labeled the
Israeli responses to Obama’s efforts to force Israel back to the 1967
armistice lines, surrender part of Jerusalem and then acquiesce to
Washington’s appeasement of Iran’s nuclear ambitions as evidence that
Netanyahu was needlessly confrontational. His refusal to play the part
of a loyal vassal to Israel’s superpower ally was considered arrogant.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">That was unfair to Netanyahu. He had done
his best to defer to Obama but couldn’t be silent when his country’s
vital interests were being sold down the river by a president eager for
the applause of those in the Muslim world who hated America and its
Israeli ally.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It could be argued that his decision to
challenge Obama on the Iran nuclear deal in his address to a joint
meeting of Congress in 2015 made it easier for Democrats to go along
with his tilt toward Tehran by interpreting his defiance as an insult to
the president. But by speaking up in this manner, Netanyahu didn’t just
rally Americans to oppose the pact. He was also sending a signal to
Arab states that feared Iran more than Israel that they should look upon
the Jewish state as a potential ally and not merely a meek client state
for the Americans. That not only helped persuade Trump to withdraw from
Obama’s dangerously weak agreement but led directly to the 2020 Abraham
Accords.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Don’t blame it on Bibi</strong></p><p class="wp-block-paragraph">But today, the stakes in the argument with
Biden are even higher than those with Obama. Israel is currently locked
in an existential struggle with Hamas and its Iranian allies. Israel
must win the war against Hamas to ensure that no more Oct. 7 atrocities
ever occur, and also to allow the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who
were forced to flee their homes in the south and the north by the
fighting to go home in safety. If Biden gets his way and Hamas is able
to emerge from the war as its victors, then Israeli deterrence and
security are finished. And the fallout from the U.N. vote will only fuel
efforts to isolate Israel and harm its economy through lawfare.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The claim that Netanyahu is speaking up
only to shore up his right-wing/religious party coalition is a
misunderstanding of the reality of post-Oct. 7 Israel. Netanyahu may
remain controversial, but the war he is leading is supported by a broad
consensus of Israelis who will not accept anything less than a complete
victory over Hamas and who are equally unwilling to reward Palestinian
terrorism with the offer of statehood.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The only leader playing politics in the
war against Hamas is Biden. It is his craven response to antisemitic
supporters of a Hamas victory that has caused the current impasse
between Israel and the United States. He could have carved out a space
in the center of American politics where support for Israel is
widespread; instead, he is obsessed with not angering left-wing
intersectional activists who hate Israel and falsely think it is a
settler/colonial state of “white” oppressors. Blaming the gap that this
shift has opened up between Washington’s stand and Israeli positions
that would be maintained no matter who was in power in Jerusalem on
Netanyahu, is just political spin.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The current crisis in the U.S.-Israel
alliance isn’t Netanyahu’s fault. It’s the product of the belief among
Democrats that Israel is always in the wrong. And the more that Biden
validates those smears, the more evident it is that the claim that
support for Israel is in his “kishkes”—and thus to be trusted—is a
dangerous supposition.</p></div></div><p></p>BarkGrowlBitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04830589594331819236noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932388.post-58274303394455643792024-03-27T17:20:00.000-05:002024-03-27T17:20:16.322-05:00THIS BLACK BASTARD HAD THE CHUTZPAH TO PRAISE THE JEWISH PEOPLE'S SURVIVAL CENTURIES AGO WHILE UNDERMINING THEIR SURVIVAL TODAY<h1 class="article-headline ">
<span style="font-size: small;">Jamaal Bowman uses Judaism to obscure his antisemitism </span></h1>
<h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">
The congressman who denied Hamas’s mass rapes dares to wish us a happy Purim. </span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> </span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">By Nachama Soloveichik</span></span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> <br /></span></span></span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>JNS</span></span></span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Mar 27, 2024</span></span></span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><br /></span></span></span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"></h2>
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<div class="media "><img alt="Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) speaks on May 10, 2023 at SUNY Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York. Credit: Paul Froggatt/Shutterstock." class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="413" src="https://cdn.jns.org/uploads/2024/01/shutterstock_2307250173-1320x880.jpg" title="Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) speaks on May 10, 2023 at SUNY Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York. Credit: Paul Froggatt/Shutterstock." width="620" /><div class="caption"><b>Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) speaks on May 10, 2023 at SUNY Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York.</b></div><div class="caption"><b> </b></div><div class="caption"><p class="wp-block-paragraph">It’s no surprise that one of Israel’s
harshest critics in Washington doesn’t understand Judaism, even as he
uses it to obscure his antisemitism. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Recently, Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.), a card-carrying member of the leftist “Squad,” <a href="https://twitter.com/RepBowman/status/1771692719485714485" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">wished</a> the Jewish community a happy Purim on X. </p><p class="wp-block-paragraph"><picture><source media="(max-width: 703px)"></source><source media="(max-width: 1031px)"></source><source media="(max-width: 1600px)"></source><source media="(min-width: 1601px)"></source></picture><svg class="Caption__camera-icon" style="height: 13px; width: 13px;"><use></use></svg></p><p class="wp-block-paragraph"><span class="has-bugs post-thumbnail has-bugs-loaded"></span></p><div class="bug-container"><picture class="featured-picture"><img alt="A photo illustration of Rashida Tlaib, Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Ayanna Pressley" class="attachment-lede size-lede" height="432" src="https://fivethirtyeight.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/SQUAD-4x3-1.png?w=575" width="575" /></picture><b> </b></div><div class="bug-container"><b>Bowman (top center) is a card-carrying member of the “Squad,” </b></div><div class="bug-container"><b> </b></div><p></p><p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Chag Purim sameach to all of those in the
Jewish community! Let today be filled with joy, hamantashen, and
costumes,” he wrote. “As the Megillah is reread, let’s remind ourselves
of the incredible bravery of Esther and the resilience of the Jewish
community.”</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Bowman was quickly roasted as a hypocrite who cares little about the “resilience of the Jewish community.”</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">After all, Bowman is an unrepentant, one-sided critic of Israel. Even before Oct. 7, Bowman <a href="https://forward.com/opinion/542245/rabbi-jamaal-bowman-anti-israel-congress-policy-us-blinken-biden/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">blamed</a> Israel exclusively for the lack of peace in the region. He spearheaded a bicameral <a href="https://jewishinsider.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/29160820/Sanders-Bowman-Letter-and-Dear-Colleague-With-Watermark-2.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">letter</a> with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) calling on the Biden administration to “undertake a shift in U.S. policy” towards Israel.</p><p class="wp-block-paragraph">Oct. 7 should have been a wake-up call for Bowman. It wasn’t. Only a month after Hamas’s horrific massacre, Bowman was already <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/rep-jamaal-bowman-heat-saying-supporting-ceasefire-actually-means-jewish" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">calling</a> for a ceasefire and <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1724238851034451981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1724426343662694752%7Ctwgr%5E062b73647e71b0087b3da05ad62fb0ab598f3f3a%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fmedia%2Frep-jamaal-bowman-heat-saying-supporting-ceasefire-actually-means-jewish" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">defending</a>
this call as “uplifting deeply what it actually means to be Jewish.”
(Bowman is not Jewish, deeply or otherwise.) A few days later, in a
newly unearthed social-media video, Bowman <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/squad-member-said-claims-of-hamas-rapes-were-propaganda-days-after-lawmakers-saw-videos-of-10-7-atrocities" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">derided</a> reports of Hamas raping Israeli women and beheading babies a “lie” and “propaganda.”</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">He also has the ignominious honor of <a href="https://www.jewishexponent.com/j-street-drops-jamaal-bowman-endorsement-saying-his-rhetoric-crossed-a-line/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">losing</a>
the left-wing lobby J Street’s endorsement—not an easy feat for your
run-of-the-mill anti-Israel liberal—for calling Israel’s military
operation in Gaza “genocide.” </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This background makes Bowman’s Purim post bad enough. It takes a special kind of hubris—or <em>chutzpah</em>—to praise the Jewish people’s survival centuries ago while undermining their survival today.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It also takes a special kind of ignorance.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The story of Purim is not about
hamantaschen and costumes. Those are ancillary customs that are meant to
remind us of the holiday’s central theme: Faced with an existential
threat, the Jewish people took matters into their own hands and
preemptively killed their enemies.</p><p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Jews of the Purim story lived in exile
in Persia under an impetuous king. The king’s adviser, Haman, hated the
Jews, whom he described as “scattered and separate among the nations …
and their laws differ from every nation, and they do not keep the king’s
laws.” He convinced the king that “it is not worth letting them be”
(Esther 3:8).</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Queen Esther, with the help of her uncle
Mordechai, alerted the king of Haman’s plot to kill the Jews on the 13th
day of the Jewish month of Adar. Ultimately, the king sided with the
Jews and gave them permission to destroy their enemies.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Every year, on the 14th day of Adar, Jews
all over the world gather to read and listen to the story of Purim read
from a scroll called a <em>megillah</em>. The story, as told to young children, is filled with celebration and positive imagery. But the words of the <em>megillah</em> text portray a violent albeit victorious end in which the Jews kill 75,000 of their foes (Esther 9:16-17).</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">There is a sense of historical Jews as
hapless, helpless victims—a persecuted minority without the means to
fight back. But the story of Purim and the arc of Jewish history are
also a tale of survival against all odds.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">That arc found its height in the birth of
Zionism: The idea that Jews will never be truly safe without a homeland.
The idea that Jews cannot rely on the kindness and mercy of others for
their continued existence. The idea that Jews will not cower in fear. We
will not hide our Jewishness to appease yet another enemy. We will not
beg for the right to live. We will demand it.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Next month, Jews will celebrate Passover.
We will read from the Haggadah about the Jewish people’s persecution in
Egypt and God’s deliverance. We will ask God to “pour your wrath” on
those who seek to consume us and “to pursue them with anger and
eradicate them under the skies of the Lord.”</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This year, the prayer of <em>Shfoch Chamascha</em>
will have special meaning as we think about the 1,200-plus Jews
slaughtered by Hamas and the hostages in the dark terror tunnels of
Gaza’s underworld.</p><p class="wp-block-paragraph">Politicians all over the country will post
perfunctory tweets and graphics commemorating this holiday like many
others. Predictably, a well-meaning but ill-informed staffer will get
his <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/mike-pence-mocked-failed-hanukkah-message-1768269" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Jewish symbols</a> messed up (sorry, Mike Pence) or <a href="https://www.salon.com/2023/09/24/marjorie-taylor-greene-fumbles-her-yom-kippur-greeting-with-image-of-chanukah-menorah/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">swap</a> one Jewish holiday for another (ahem, Marjorie Taylor Greene). These are harmless faux pas worth a chuckle or two.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Bowman’s post was neither a faux pas nor
well-meaning. It is a complete misunderstanding of the holiday of Purim
and Jewish history. Combined with his persistent criticism of Israel, it
is a mockery of the holiday and Israel’s age-old fight to survive in
the face of dogged antisemitism.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">To Bowman and his friends on the left:
please spare us the glossy photos and hypocritical ignorance. We are not
interested in your false friendship. Kindly take your Chanukah and
Passover posts and shove them into a dark place that never sees the
light of day. You are fooling no one … except maybe yourselves.</p><p class="wp-block-paragraph"></p><b></b></div></div></div><h2 class="article-underline"></h2><p></p>BarkGrowlBitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04830589594331819236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932388.post-61979361755603591452024-03-27T16:28:00.000-05:002024-03-27T16:28:09.214-05:00CROOKS MAY STEAL YOUR MONEY IF YOU USE SELF-CHECKOUT MACHINES IN GROCERY STORES<div class="caas-title-wrapper"><h1 data-test-locator="headline" id="caas-lead-header-7c9baa35-24ae-3bf7-aa27-e2fa105912c3"><span style="font-size: small;">Romanian mob is coming for your debit cards, with ATM-style skimmers now at self-checkouts: authorities warn</span></h1><h1 data-test-locator="headline" id="caas-lead-header-7c9baa35-24ae-3bf7-aa27-e2fa105912c3"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h1></div><div class="caas-attr-item-author"><span class="caas-author-byline-collapse" data-id="m-0">By Michael Ruiz</span></div><div class="caas-attr-item-author"><span class="caas-author-byline-collapse" data-id="m-0"> </span></div><div class="caas-attr-item-author"><span class="caas-author-byline-collapse" data-id="m-0">Fox News <br /></span></div>March 27, 2024<p></p><br /><div class="clear"></div><p class="imageCaption"><img alt="Orange County authorities busted 48 suspects connected to an organized crime ring using card skimming operations to steal from people on public assistance and ATM accounts" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="425" id="i-6e24c16a70b4ea45" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/27/14/82952593-13244637-Orange_County_authorities_busted_48_suspects_connected_to_an_org-a-1_1711548010577.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </p><div class="clear"></div><div class="info"><div class="caption"><p><b><span>The thieves' tools and partially assembled skimming devices are shown.</span> </b></p><p><b> </b></p><p>Prosecutors in <a class="link " data-rapid_p="9" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:California;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/west/california" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">California</a>
say the Romanian mafia has given a new look to an old scam — debit card
skimming — by placing devices to steal personal information on
self-checkout machines in grocery stores.</p><p>Debit card skimmers have long been problematic at gas stations and ATMs. Now a highly organized <a class="link " data-rapid_p="10" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:network of crooks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">network of crooks</a> is branching out.</p><p>"They’ll
have people sitting outside a Walmart or a Target, and it looks like
they’re panhandling," prosecutors told Fox News Digital. "Sometimes
they’ll have a couple of kids. And they are actually using Bluetooth
technology that’s connected to the skimmers inside the stores. So it's
like a two for one, getting cash that people give them and stealing the
numbers off the skimmers."</p><p><b> </b></p><p><img alt="Florin Duduianu, one of Romania 's most wanted criminals, was arrested in the operation and found guilty in January of two counts of aggravated identity theft" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="901" id="i-85c3db4f185d4522" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/27/15/82956951-13244637-image-a-4_1711552598967.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </p> <p class="imageCaption"><b>Florin Duduianu, one of Romania
's most wanted criminals, was arrested in the operation and found guilty
in January of two counts of aggravated identity theft</b></p><p class="imageCaption"><b> </b></p><p>Surveillance video obtained by the El Cajon Police Department shows
suspects can place a skimmer over the checkout's credit card swipe in
just seconds — and they look almost exactly like the real thing.</p><p>Police recommend tugging on a credit card swipe before inserting your card. If it wobbles or comes off, it's fake.</p><p>Authorities say they've already busted dozens of suspects, most of them with ties to organized crime in Romania.</p><p>And despite large busts in December and January of dozens of suspects in the U.S., <a class="link " data-rapid_p="13" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:Europe;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/world-regions/europe" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Europe</a>
and Mexico, where they are teaming up with cartels in tourist hot spots
like Tulum, the thefts are increasing as thieves double down on their
efforts, authorities said.</p><p>They could be raking in up to $9 million a month — much of it at taxpayers' expense.</p><p>The
skimmers, which can target EBT card users as well, have allegedly
drained accounts the moment that the state releases monthly payments,
according to Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer's office,
which announced a major crackdown on such crimes earlier this year. As a
result, more than $100 million worth of thefts robbed taxpayer-funded
welfare programs and their recipients.</p><p>"The victims are single
mothers struggling to put a roof over their children's heads and food on
the table and hardworking people who need a helping hand who find
themselves standing at the checkout line with bags full of groceries
only to be humiliated when they find that they have no money in their
account because a thief has surreptitiously taken everything," Spitzer
said in a statement. "Meanwhile, the thieves are using this money to
fund organized crime, to buy luxury cars worth hundreds of thousands of
dollars, and to lead a life of luxury that the true recipients can only
dream about."</p><p>On top of that, the porous southern border gives the
mobsters a steady supply of new muscle, while a combination of lax bail
policies and incomplete criminal records allow members to cut off their
ankle monitors and flee justice if they get arrested.</p><p> </p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="According to the FBI, skimming occurs when devices are illegally installed on ATMs, point-of-sale terminals, or fuel pumps to capture data or record cardholders¿ PINs" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="423" id="i-30edc36dd64cfcb5" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/27/13/82952597-13244637-image-a-12_1711547538664.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <p class="imageCaption"><b>According to the FBI, skimming
occurs when devices are illegally installed on ATMs, point-of-sale
terminals, or fuel pumps to capture data or record cardholders’ PINs</b></p></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="height: auto; position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="Criminals then use the data to create fake debit or credit cards and steal from victims¿ accounts" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="425" id="i-95357bddf3e8ecb5" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/27/13/82952217-13244637-image-a-14_1711547620612.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div> <p class="imageCaption"><b>Criminals then use the data to create fake debit or credit cards and steal from victims’ accounts</b></p><p class="imageCaption"><b> </b></p><p class="imageCaption">"Thousands of criminals suspected to be tied to organized Romanian crime
have been identified to be in the United States, with a large portion
of them entering the United States illegally, mainly through the
southern border," Kimberly Edds, the director of public affairs for
Spitzer's office, told Fox News Digital. "A smaller portion of this
population is entering as asylum seekers."<b> </b></p><p>A group of Southern California counties, including Orange, Riverside,
Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, has seen about 15% of the Romanian mob's
activity within the US., she said.</p><p>In addition to sending <a class="link " data-rapid_p="16" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:stolen money;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime/robbery-theft" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">stolen money</a>
back to Romania to fund luxe lifestyles and European sports cars, the
crooks are also trading in food stamps for baby formula and energy
drinks, which are then resold in Mexico in an alliance with local
cartels.</p><p>Many of them even flaunt their ill-gotten gains on
TikTok, including a 14-year-old suspect who police captured driving a
$250,000 sports car and wearing a Rolex.</p><p>One of the men implicated in the plot was already on Romania's most wanted list — Florin Duduianu.</p><p>The 39-year-old was convicted in January after police watched him
make multiple withdrawals using different cards from the same ATM in
Placentia, about 30 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles. They caught
him with four Visa gift cards that had been reprogrammed into clones of
four different victims' debit cards.</p><p>Duduianu is expected to get 30 years in federal prison at his sentencing later this week, according to the <a class="link " data-rapid_p="18" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:Justice Department;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/politics/justice-department" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Justice Department</a>.</p><p>In
December, the FBI announced it was partnering with Romanian police to
raid dozens of locations in the European country connected to the
California skimming thefts.</p><p>The joint operation resulted in 48 arrests and the recovery of more than $1 million and 11 luxury vehicles.</p><p>Many of the suspects arrested in Romania also had ties <a class="link " data-rapid_p="21" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:to Mexico's;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/world-regions/location-mexico" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">to Mexico's</a>
Riviera Maya gang, which itself is blamed for millions of dollars in
skimming thefts in tourist hot spots that are popular with Americans,
including Tulum and Cancun in Quintana Roo.</p><p>The gang's leader,
Florian Tudor, is awaiting trial on fraud charges in Mexico and is
wanted for attempted murder in Romania, as well.</p></div></div>BarkGrowlBitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04830589594331819236noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932388.post-79844780636893280732024-03-27T15:46:00.000-05:002024-03-27T15:46:40.011-05:00THERE SHOULD BE A BETTER WAY TO HANDLE THIS<div class="caas-title-wrapper"><h1 data-test-locator="headline" id="caas-lead-header-c20c037f-07b1-3baf-aad1-9883a2ff0ffe"><span style="font-size: small;">'Getting tossed to the side': Arizona officer shot in the line of duty in 2022 fired from job</span></h1><h1 data-test-locator="headline" id="caas-lead-header-c20c037f-07b1-3baf-aad1-9883a2ff0ffe"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h1></div><div class="caas-attr-item-author"><span class="caas-author-byline-collapse" data-id="m-0">By Lauren Clark</span></div><div class="caas-attr-item-author"><span class="caas-author-byline-collapse" data-id="m-0"> </span></div><div class="caas-attr-item-author"><span class="caas-author-byline-collapse" data-id="m-0">Fox 10</span></div><div class="caas-attr-item-author"><span class="caas-author-byline-collapse" data-id="m-0">Mar 25, 2024</span></div><div class="caas-attr-item-author"><span class="caas-author-byline-collapse" data-id="m-0"> </span></div><div class="caas-attr-item-author"><span class="caas-author-byline-collapse" data-id="m-0"> </span></div><div class="caas-attr-item-author"><div class="photo">
<a href="https://www.dcourier.com/photos/2022/feb/16/985026658/"><img alt="Sgt. Preston Brogdon and wife, Bailey. Sgt. Brogdon was wounded Feb. 9, 2022. (Yavapai-Apache Police Department/Courtesy)" class="img-responsive" src="https://westernnews.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2022/02/16/Brogdon-3_t715.jpg?529764a1de2bdd0f74a9fb4f856b01a9d617b3e9" /></a>
</div>
<b>Sgt. Preston Brogdon and wife, Bailey.</b></div><div class="caas-attr-item-author"><b><span class="caas-author-byline-collapse" data-id="m-0"> <br /></span></b></div><div class="caas-attr-item-author"><p><span><strong>YAVAPAI COUNTY, Ariz.</strong> - </span>An Arizona <a class="link " data-rapid_p="9" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:officer shot in the line of duty;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" href="https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-sergeant-out-of-icu-after-being-shot-in-camp-verde-suspects-body-found" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><strong>officer shot in the line of duty</strong></a> says he’s been fired by the tribe in charge of the police department he served with.</p><p>Preston
Brogdon says he nearly died in 2022 after a suspect fired directly at
him. He's still dealing with the medical implications of that injury.</p><p>The
Brogdon family says they were hoping Preston would be able to medically
retire, but in February, right at the two-year mark of his injury, he
was met with something else.</p><p>Feb. 9, 2022 is a night Preston will
never forget. The former Yavapai Apache Nation Sergeant was shot in the
line of duty near Camp Verde.</p><p>"I made the decision not to die. He wasn’t going to kill me," he said.</p><p>Body camera footage shows him screaming in pain as a fellow officer drags him into a squad car.</p><p>That shooting suspect was later found dead.</p><p>Crews airlifted Preston to a Phoenix hospital with life-threatening injuries.</p><p>"I
lost seven quarts of blood. Shattered hip, shattered pelvis, shattered
femur, severed my small intestine, caused me all kinds of nerve and
muscle damage," he said.</p><p>The following months were filled with surgeries and extensive physical therapy.</p><p>Now, he and his family are facing a new challenge.</p><p>"They were like, ‘it’s been two years, we’re going to let you go. At least you have disability,’" he said.</p><p>Preston
shared the letter with FOX 10. The letter alerted Preston of his
termination, stating, in part, "The Yavapai-Apache Nation has terminated
your employment due to not being able to return to full job duties as a
police sergeant per your doctor’s return to work status reports."</p><p>Preston says, "Give me a Purple Heart, give me a Medal of Valor, then you just, get out of here? I don’t understand."</p><p>His wife, Bailey, of course, isn't enthused either.</p><p>"It’s
one thing to soak up all the good media, and the community coming
together and the pats on the back when he first got shot, but it’s
becoming easier for them to forget. Just getting tossed to the side,"
she said.</p><p>As for the Brogdon family, they say they’re leaning on God for their next steps.</p><p>"We are trusting that he has it and doors are going to open for us," Bailey said.</p><p>FOX
10 reached out to several tribal members about this decision. A leader
at the police department did not respond to voice messages either.</p></div><p></p>BarkGrowlBitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04830589594331819236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932388.post-16000206767760084092024-03-27T15:32:00.001-05:002024-03-28T00:01:12.744-05:00BUT THEY WUS TRAINED NOT TO MISS A SPITTOON<h1 class="vMjAx eeTZd WaKtx eHrJ "><span class="gtOSm FbbUW tUtYa vOCwz EQwFq yCufu eEak Qmvg nyTIa SRXVc vzLa jgBfc WXDas CiUCW kqbG zrdEG txGfn ygKVe BbezD UOtxr CVfpq xijV soGRS XgdC sEIlf daWqJ "><span style="font-size: small;">2022 Liberty Co. law enforcement training course was 'fundamentally inadequate,' state agency says</span></span></h1><h1 class="vMjAx eeTZd WaKtx eHrJ "><span class="gtOSm FbbUW tUtYa vOCwz EQwFq yCufu eEak Qmvg nyTIa SRXVc vzLa jgBfc WXDas CiUCW kqbG zrdEG txGfn ygKVe BbezD UOtxr CVfpq xijV soGRS XgdC sEIlf daWqJ "><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></h1><div class="TQPvQ HUcap UamUc WxHIR HhZOB yaUf VOJBn KMpjV XSbaH Umfib ukdDD "><span class="tChGB zbFav ">By</span><span><a class="zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE " data-testid="prism-linkbase" href="https://abc13.com/about/newsteam/tom-abrahams" target="_self">Tom Abrahams</a></span><span><span class="EpNlu "> </span></span></div><div class="TQPvQ HUcap UamUc WxHIR HhZOB yaUf VOJBn KMpjV XSbaH Umfib ukdDD "><span><span class="EpNlu "> </span></span></div><div class="TQPvQ HUcap UamUc WxHIR HhZOB yaUf VOJBn KMpjV XSbaH Umfib ukdDD "><span><span class="EpNlu ">KTRK</span></span></div><div class="TQPvQ HUcap UamUc WxHIR HhZOB yaUf VOJBn KMpjV XSbaH Umfib ukdDD "><span><span class="EpNlu ">Mar 26, 2024</span></span></div><div class="TQPvQ HUcap UamUc WxHIR HhZOB yaUf VOJBn KMpjV XSbaH Umfib ukdDD "><span><span class="EpNlu "> </span></span></div><div class="TQPvQ HUcap UamUc WxHIR HhZOB yaUf VOJBn KMpjV XSbaH Umfib ukdDD "><span><span class="EpNlu "> </span></span></div><div class="TQPvQ HUcap UamUc WxHIR HhZOB yaUf VOJBn KMpjV XSbaH Umfib ukdDD "><a class="td-social-sharing-button td-social-sharing-button-js td-social-network td-social-twitter" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Licenses+being+revoked+for+19+law+enforcement+academy+graduates+in+Liberty+County&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbluebonnetnews.com%2F2024%2F03%2F25%2Flicenses-being-revoked-for-19-law-enforcement-academy-graduates-in-liberty-county%2F&via=Bluebonnet+News" style="opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.2s ease 0s;" title="Twitter"><div class="td-social-but-icon"><i class="td-icon-twitter"></i></div></a>
<div class="td-post-featured-image"><a class="td-modal-image" data-caption="" href="https://i0.wp.com/bluebonnetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/1223liberty-county-sheriffs-office.jpg?fit=1867%2C1679&ssl=1"><img alt="" class="entry-thumb td-animation-stack-type0-2" height="626" src="https://i0.wp.com/bluebonnetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/1223liberty-county-sheriffs-office.jpg?resize=696%2C626&ssl=1" title="1223liberty county sheriffs office" width="696" /></a></div><span><span class="EpNlu "><br /></span></span></div><div class="TQPvQ HUcap UamUc WxHIR HhZOB yaUf VOJBn KMpjV XSbaH Umfib ukdDD "><span><span class="EpNlu "> </span></span></div><div class="TQPvQ HUcap UamUc WxHIR HhZOB yaUf VOJBn KMpjV XSbaH Umfib ukdDD "><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%;">LIBERTY COUNTY, Texas -- </span>The
Texas Commission on Law Enforcement has canceled the peace officer
license for 19 Liberty County academy graduates, impacting multiple
agencies.</p><p style="max-width: 100%;">It revokes the licenses for 19
graduates of a 2022 academy class run by the Liberty County Sheriff's
Office under an agreement with the College of the Mainland.</p><p style="max-width: 100%;">In
a letter dated March 22, 2024, from the Texas Commission on Law
Enforcement (TCOLE) - the agency that governs police licenses,
investigators found the 10-month course "fundamentally inadequate," and
as a result, wrote, "This will require the cancellation of all peace
officer licenses issued to the students."</p><p style="max-width: 100%;">TCOLE
alleges that after an investigation, it found "the Academy's failures
were serious and systemic" and included giving students credit for
"repainting a World War II anti-tank gun at the Liberty County
Courthouse."</p><p style="max-width: 100%;">Liberty County Precinct 6
Constable Zack Harkness said two of his six deputies are from that 2022
Liberty County class. He hasn't seen the letter yet but is exploring
legal guidance because he believes his deputies are qualified. Both
passed the state exam at the conclusion of the academy.</p><p style="max-width: 100%;">"Very
surprising, very shocking," he told ABC13. "Since their graduation
almost two years ago, both deputies have gotten over 350 hours each of
additional TCOLE-approved training in various subjects."</p><p style="max-width: 100%;">Liberty
County ran the course under a memorandum of understanding with the
College of the Mainland, which is licensed to oversee peace officer
training.</p><p style="max-width: 100%;">A college spokesperson said that
the agreement no longer exists, and they are in close communication
with TCOLE about its concerns.</p><p style="max-width: 100%;">Among those
copied on the letter from TCOLE is Ann Marie Mitchell, the training
coordinator for the Liberty County Sheriff's Office. On the social media
site LinkedIn, she wrote, "every Peace Officer, Dispatcher, and
Corrections Officers should be given the training they need to safely
perform their duties in the most professional manner. My duty is to
provide that training."</p><p style="max-width: 100%;">The sheriff's
office told Eyewitness News to expect a statement but, as of late
Tuesday, had not provided one. Harkness said his biggest concern right
now is supporting his deputies.</p><p style="max-width: 100%;">"They have
a very deep, vested interest in this community," he said. "They serve
with a heart, and they're very vested in the well-being of the
community."</p><span><span class="EpNlu "></span></span></div><p></p>BarkGrowlBitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04830589594331819236noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932388.post-9193954660606889002024-03-27T14:53:00.000-05:002024-03-27T14:53:18.965-05:00AND PEOPLE WONDER WHY CITIES ARE DYSFUNCTIONAL<p>By Bob Walsh</p><p> </p><p><img alt="<i></i><br/>A battle between free speech and hate speech at city hall has led to increasing calls for order inside council meetings." class="media__image" src="https://kesq.b-cdn.net/2023/06/citycouncilprotest-300.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" /> <br /></p><p><b>Sacramento city council</b></p><p><b> </b> <br /></p><div dir="ltr">Earlier
this month the city council of Sacramento spent a ton of time debating,
arguing, listening and having people arrested over a resolution
concerning the unpleasantness in Gaza. They finally approved a
meaningless resolution opposing unpleasantness. Unanimously.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">This
week the city council of Sacramento passed, after a ton of time
debating, arguing and listening (no arrests that I know of) over a
resolution making Sacramento a Sanctuary City for transgender People.
No one was able to explain exactly WHY people in Sacramento need
sanctuary or what exactly being a sanctuary city for transgender people
actually means, but they spent a lot of time and resources on it.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">How
much time did they spend trying to deal with the rampant crime problem,
chronic homelessness and the inability of the area to generate
affordable housing? Somewhere between jack and diddly. </div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">The
people running out state capital city are much more interested in
virtue signaling than in doing their fucking JOB. That's why the city,
and other cities, are turning to shit. </div><div class="jb_0 X_6MGW N_6Fd5"></div><span class="em_N en_N"></span>BarkGrowlBitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04830589594331819236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932388.post-18864101446471154172024-03-27T14:43:00.000-05:002024-03-27T14:43:33.440-05:00CAREER CRIMINAL SHOOTS DEAD NYPD COP<h1 class="headline headline--single-fallback">
<span style="font-size: small;">NYPD cop, 31, fatally shot by career criminal during Queens traffic stop ID’d as husband, dad of young child </span></h1>
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<span>March 25, 2024</span></div><div class="date--updated__item"><span> </span><br /><div class="nyp-slideshow-modal-image__wrapper"><a aria-controls="nyp-slideshow-modal" aria-label="Open a slideshow of all 13 article images." data-slideshow-modal="trigger" data-slideshow-slide-number="1" data-slideshow-slides-total="13" href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/25/us-news/nypd-cop-shot-in-chest-in-queens-rushed-to-hospital-sources/#" title="Open a slideshow of all 13 article images."> <br /><img alt="NYPD officer Jonathan Diller" class="wp-image-31417590" height="590" src="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/qns-mos-shot-014.jpg?w=729" style="aspect-ratio: 0.71186440677966; display: block;" width="420" /></a></div><b>NYPD officer Jonathan Diller was killed Monday during a traffic stop.<span> </span></b></div><div class="date--updated__item"><b><span> </span></b></div><div class="date--updated__item"><p>A 31-year-old NYPD cop was shot and killed by a career criminal
during a traffic stop in Queens on Monday evening in a “senseless act of
violence,” officials and law enforcement sources said.</p>
<p>Officer Jonathan Diller, a married father of a 1-year-old boy, was
shot in the stomach after police tried to remove the suspect, identified
by sources as 34-year-old Guy Rivera, from the passenger seat of the
car near 19-19 Mott Ave. in Far Rockaway, according to the NYPD and
sources.</p>
<p>Diller, who had three years on the force, fell to the ground and
screamed that he had been “hit” after the suspect opened fire, according
to witness Deon Peters.</p><p>“He was moving, he was saying, ‘I’m hit, I’m hit!’ Giving location and
all that,” Peters said. “Like he was crying, like he was really crying.”</p><p>Diller was rushed in critical condition to Jamaica Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.</p>
<p>“Tonight this city lost a hero, a wife lost her husband, and a young
child lost their father,” NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban wrote on X. “We
struggle to find the words to express the tragedy of losing one of our
own. The work that Police Officer Jonathan Diller did each day to make
this city a safer place will NEVER be forgotten.</p>
<p>“Our prayers are with his family, loved ones, and brothers and sisters in blue.”</p><p> <a aria-controls="nyp-slideshow-modal" aria-label="Open a slideshow of all 13 article images." data-slideshow-modal="trigger" data-slideshow-slide-number="3" data-slideshow-slides-total="13" href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/25/us-news/nypd-cop-shot-in-chest-in-queens-rushed-to-hospital-sources/#" title="Open a slideshow of all 13 article images."><img alt="Jonathan Diller with his son" class="wp-image-31417904" height="590" src="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/PHOTO-2024-03-25-21-57-05.jpg?w=675" style="aspect-ratio: 0.75084745762712; display: block;" width="443" /></a></p><figure class="nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large"><figcaption></figcaption><figcaption><b>Diller with his one-year-old son</b> </figcaption><figcaption> </figcaption></figure><figure class="nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large"></figure>
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</p><div class="nyp-slideshow-modal-image__wrapper"><a aria-controls="nyp-slideshow-modal" aria-label="Open a slideshow of all 13 article images." data-slideshow-modal="trigger" data-slideshow-slide-number="4" data-slideshow-slides-total="13" href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/25/us-news/nypd-cop-shot-in-chest-in-queens-rushed-to-hospital-sources/#" title="Open a slideshow of all 13 article images."><img alt="Guy Rivera" class="wp-image-31417686" height="590" src="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/PHOTO-2024-03-25-21-32-49-copy.jpg?w=1024" style="aspect-ratio: 1; display: block;" width="590" /></a></div><b>Sources identified Guy Rivera as the suspect in Diller’s shooting</b><p> </p><p>The tragic shooting unfolded around 5:50 p.m. after cops approached the vehicle that was stopped in front of a bus stop.</p>
<p>Rivera “was asked to leave the car, he was given a lawful order
numerous times to step out of the car, he refused,” NYPD Chief of
Detectives Joseph Kenny said during a press briefing.</p><p> <a aria-controls="nyp-slideshow-modal" aria-label="Open a slideshow of all 13 article images." data-slideshow-modal="trigger" data-slideshow-slide-number="5" data-slideshow-slides-total="13" href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/25/us-news/nypd-cop-shot-in-chest-in-queens-rushed-to-hospital-sources/#" title="Open a slideshow of all 13 article images."><img alt="Police officers standing on sidewalk at 1919 Mott Ave, Far Rockaway, scene of NYPD officer shooting incident" class="wp-image-31416780" height="590" src="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/qns-mos-shot-004.jpg?w=1024" style="aspect-ratio: 1.3338983050847; display: block; height: auto; width: 734px;" width="787" /></a></p><b>The incident happened near 19-19 Mott Ave. in Far Rockaway. </b></div><div class="date--updated__item"><b> </b><br /><p>“And when the officer took him out of the car, instead of stepping out of the car, he shot our officer,” said Kenny.</p>
<p>The bullet hit Diller under his police vest, authorities said.</p>
<p>Even after Diller was shot, the Long Island resident heroically got
the gun away from the shooter when the weapon fell to the ground,
according to Kenny.</p><p> <a aria-controls="nyp-slideshow-modal" aria-label="Open a slideshow of all 13 article images." data-slideshow-modal="trigger" data-slideshow-slide-number="6" data-slideshow-slides-total="13" href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/25/us-news/nypd-cop-shot-in-chest-in-queens-rushed-to-hospital-sources/#" title="Open a slideshow of all 13 article images."><img alt="handgun recovered " class="wp-image-31417195" height="590" src="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/nypdnews-11m-firearm-recovered-todays-79015190.jpg?w=1024" style="aspect-ratio: 1.0423728813559; display: block;" width="615" /></a></p> <b>The bullet hit the 31-year-old officer under his police vest.</b></div><div class="date--updated__item"><div class="nyp-slideshow-modal-image__wrapper"><a aria-controls="nyp-slideshow-modal" aria-label="Open a slideshow of all 13 article images." data-slideshow-modal="trigger" data-slideshow-slide-number="7" data-slideshow-slides-total="13" href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/25/us-news/nypd-cop-shot-in-chest-in-queens-rushed-to-hospital-sources/#" title="Open a slideshow of all 13 article images."><img alt="Mayor Adams press conference" class="wp-image-31417503" height="590" src="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/KevinCDowns-_Cop_DOA_304742.jpg?w=1024" style="aspect-ratio: 1.5; display: block;" width="885" /></a></div><b>Mayor Eric Adams held a press conference Monday after the police officer was killed in the line of duty. </b></div><div class="date--updated__item"><b> </b></div><div class="date--updated__item"><p>Diller’s partner returned gunfire and struck Rivera, who has 21 prior arrests, in the back, sources said.</p>
<p>The suspect was also taken to Jamaica Hospital, where police said he was in stable condition.</p>
<p>“We lost Jonathan tonight,” Mayor Eric Adams said during the solemn press conference at Jamaica Hospital.</p>
<p>“I can’t not say it any clearer: It is the good guys against the bad
guys and these bad guys are violent,” he added, calling the fatal
shooting a “senseless act of violence.”</p><p> <a aria-controls="nyp-slideshow-modal" aria-label="Open a slideshow of all 13 article images." data-slideshow-modal="trigger" data-slideshow-slide-number="8" data-slideshow-slides-total="13" href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/25/us-news/nypd-cop-shot-in-chest-in-queens-rushed-to-hospital-sources/#" title="Open a slideshow of all 13 article images."><img alt="NYPD officer Jonathan Dillers' body was removed from Jamaica Hospital in Queens during a ceremony with family and NYPD officers in attendance." class="wp-image-31419150" height="590" src="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/KevinCDowns-_Cop_DOA_305368-1.jpg?w=1024" style="aspect-ratio: 1.5; display: block;" width="885" /></a></p>
<div class="nyp-slideshow-modal-image__wrapper"><b>NYPD officer Jonathan Diller’s body was
removed from Jamaica Hospital in Queens during a ceremony with family
and NYPD officers in attendance. </b></div><div class="nyp-slideshow-modal-image__wrapper"><b> </b></div></div><div class="date--updated__item"><p>Both Rivera and the driver of the car, identified by sources as
41-year-old Lindy Jones, had criminal backgrounds, according to records
and sources.</p>
<p>Rivera was last released from a New York prison in 2021 after serving
five years behind bars for criminal possession of a controlled
substance, according to state records. His parole in that case ended
last year.</p><p>The accused shooter also served another stint in prison starting in
2011 over a first-degree assault charge before he was released in 2014,
records show.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, officials said Monday night Jones was arrested on gun
charges last April, but was out on the street. Records show he was out
on $75,000 bail on that case and due back in court on Monday.</p><p>He was arrested in the same police precinct where the shooting took
place on April 17, 2023, after he allegedly was found with a loaded
firearm, according to sources.</p>
<p>He was charged with second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and other related charges, sources said.</p>
<p>“This is what you call not a crime problem, but a recidivist
problem,” Adams said of the April 2023 arrest of Jones. “Same bad people
doing bad things to good people.”</p>
<p>Jones, who has 14 prior arrests, was convicted of attempted murder
and robbery in 2003, according to records. He served 10 years in prison
and was released in 2013.</p><p> <a aria-controls="nyp-slideshow-modal" aria-label="Open a slideshow of all 13 article images." data-slideshow-modal="trigger" data-slideshow-slide-number="11" data-slideshow-slides-total="13" href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/25/us-news/nypd-cop-shot-in-chest-in-queens-rushed-to-hospital-sources/#" title="Open a slideshow of all 13 article images."><img alt="NYPD with NYPD Commissioner Edward A Caban line to honor fellow office Jonathan Diller. " class="wp-image-31418385" height="590" src="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/032624COPSHOT9WM.jpg?w=1024" style="aspect-ratio: 1.5; display: block;" width="885" /></a></p><b>NYPD officials including NYPD Commissioner Edward A. Caban line up to honor fellow officer Jonathan Diller. </b></div><div class="date--updated__item"><b> </b><a aria-controls="nyp-slideshow-modal" aria-label="Open a slideshow of all 13 article images." data-slideshow-modal="trigger" data-slideshow-slide-number="12" data-slideshow-slides-total="13" href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/25/us-news/nypd-cop-shot-in-chest-in-queens-rushed-to-hospital-sources/#" title="Open a slideshow of all 13 article images."><img alt="More NYPD presence can be seen, as they honor fellow officer Jonathan Diller. " class="wp-image-31419151" height="590" src="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/KevinCDowns-_Cop_DOA_305347.jpg?w=1024" style="aspect-ratio: 1.5; display: block;" width="885" /></a></div><div class="date--updated__item"><div class="nyp-slideshow-modal-image__wrapper"><a aria-controls="nyp-slideshow-modal" aria-label="Open a slideshow of all 13 article images." data-slideshow-modal="trigger" data-slideshow-slide-number="12" data-slideshow-slides-total="13" href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/25/us-news/nypd-cop-shot-in-chest-in-queens-rushed-to-hospital-sources/#" title="Open a slideshow of all 13 article images."><span aria-hidden="true" class="nyp-slideshow-modal-image__icon"><span class="nyp-slideshow-modal-image__icon-text"><span data-slideshow-modal="count"><br /></span>
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</span></a></div><b>More NYPD presence can be seen as they honor fellow officer Jonathan Diller. </b></div><div class="date--updated__item"><b> </b><p>No charges were announced against either Rivera or Jones late Monday.</p>
<p>Kenny said the pair both have associations with people in Queens, but
the connection between the two men was still being probed. </p>
<p>Following the shooting, police were rushing in from every direction, said Peters, the witness.</p>
<p>“Never saw something like that before in my life,” he said. “Hopefully don’t see it again.”</p><p> <a aria-controls="nyp-slideshow-modal" aria-label="Open a slideshow of all 13 article images." data-slideshow-modal="trigger" data-slideshow-slide-number="13" data-slideshow-slides-total="13" href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/25/us-news/nypd-cop-shot-in-chest-in-queens-rushed-to-hospital-sources/#" title="Open a slideshow of all 13 article images."><img alt="Police van on the street at 1919 Mott Ave, Far Rockaway after NYPD officer and perpetrator shooting incident" class="wp-image-31416803" height="590" src="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/qns-mos-shot-006.jpg?w=1024" style="aspect-ratio: 1.3338983050847; display: block;" width="787" /></a></p><b>The shot officer was part of the specialized community response team, sources said. </b> <br /></div><div class="date--updated__item"> <p>PBA president Patrick Hendry hailed Diller as a hero and slammed the ongoing violence against police officers on city streets.</p>
<p>“Our hero police officer confronted this dangerous individual knowing
that he was putting himself at risk, knowing that he had a family
waiting for him at home,” Hendry said. “But he did it to protect the
people of this city and we need every single New Yorker to be with this
family.”</p>
<p>Diller was a member of patrol borough Queens south’s community response team.</p>
<p>“These attacks on New York City police officers have to end right
now,” the union chief also said. “We have a family upstairs right now
that’s devastated. We have police officers in this hallway who have lost
a brother. It has to end now.”</p><p><b>_____________________</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>SO, HOW IS THAT WORKING OUT FOR YOU</b></p><p>By Bob Walsh</p><div dir="ltr">A NYPD officer was shot to death in Queens today. Him
and his partner approached a car parked illegally in a bus zone. One of
the men didn't want to get out of the car and shot one of the officers
to death.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Both of the occupants in the car were the subjects of revolving door "justice" one having been arrested 21 times, one 14 times.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">In addition a person was shoved in front of a subway train today despite the extra cops and national guard in the subways.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">So, how is that commie District Attorney working out for you? You stupid bastards voted for him, so, it's YOUR fault.</div></div><p></p>BarkGrowlBitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04830589594331819236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932388.post-19134616023608124732024-03-26T23:54:00.000-05:002024-03-26T23:54:15.559-05:00ISRAEL HAS DONE FAR MORE TO PROTECT CIVILIANS THAN THE UNITED STATES DID IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ<p>By Howie Katz</p><p><br /></p><h2 class="article-underline"></h2>
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<div class="media "><img alt="Israeli forces during Gaza ground operations, Jan. 11, 2024. Credit: IDF." class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="413" src="https://cdn.jns.org/uploads/2024/01/2-2-1320x880.jpg" title="Israeli forces during Gaza ground operations, Jan. 11, 2024. Credit: IDF." width="620" /><div class="caption"><b>Israeli forces during Gaza ground operations, Jan. 11, 2024. </b></div><div class="caption"><h2 class="article-underline"></h2>
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<div class="media "><img alt="Fire and smoke rise during Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, Oct. 9, 2023. Photo by Atia Mohammed/Flash90." class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="413" src="https://cdn.jns.org/uploads/2023/10/F231009AM354-1320x880.jpg" title="Fire and smoke rise during Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, Oct. 9, 2023. Photo by Atia Mohammed/Flash90." width="620" /><div class="caption"><b>Fire and smoke rise during Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, Oct. 9, 2023</b></div><div class="caption"><b> </b></div><div class="caption"><b> </b></div><div class="caption">From JNS:</div><div class="caption"><b> <br /></b></div><div class="caption">Israel has warned civilians when and where it is about to begin
operations and published an online map showing which areas to leave. It
has sent out millions of pamphlets, texts and recorded calls warning
civilians of coming operations. It has conducted four-hour daily pauses
to allow civilians to leave combat areas. It has dropped speakers that
blast out instructions about when to leave and where to go. </div></div></div><b></b></div></div></div><p></p>BarkGrowlBitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04830589594331819236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932388.post-24882259409630608062024-03-26T23:25:00.005-05:002024-03-27T00:08:41.150-05:00THE PALESTINIANS SAY SHE WAS REALLY RAPED BY ISRAELI SOLDIERS, NOT BY HAMAS<h1><span style="font-size: small;">'I closed my legs and resisted. Then he dragged me to the bedroom':
First Israeli hostage to reveal she was sexually assaulted while held by
Hamas describes how she was abused…then suspended between two couches
to be beaten and tortured</span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h1><h1><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">By <a class="author" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/profile-941/natasha-marie-anderson.html">Natasha Anderson</a> <a class="twitter-follow-author" href="https://twitter.com/intent/follow?screen_name=andersonatasha&tw_p=followbutton" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"><span class="follow-author"></span></a></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></h1><h1><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Daily Mail</span></span></h1><h1><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mar 26, 2024<br /></span></span></h1><p></p><p> </p><p>
</p><div class="nyp-slideshow-modal-image__wrapper"><a aria-controls="nyp-slideshow-modal" aria-label="Open a slideshow of all 6 article images." data-slideshow-modal="trigger" data-slideshow-slide-number="5" data-slideshow-slides-total="6" href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/26/world-news/israeli-hostage-amit-soussana-recalls-abuse-by-hamas-captors/#" title="Open a slideshow of all 6 article images."><img alt="Released hostage Amit Soussana, kidnapped on the deadly October 7 attack by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, talks to the press in front of her destroyed home" class="wp-image-31432817" height="590" src="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/released-hostage-amit-soussana-kidnapped-75635179.jpg?w=1024" style="aspect-ratio: 1.49661 / 1; display: block;" width="883" /></a></div><p></p><p><b>Amit Soussana recounts her days as a Hamas hostage<br /></b></p><p><b> </b></p>An <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/israel/index.html" id="mol-90f44590-eb9b-11ee-abdd-b1e003cceffe" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">Israeli</a></span> hostage has revealed that she was sexually assaulted by a guard while she was held captive by <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/hamas/index.html" id="mol-90c127a0-eb9b-11ee-abdd-b1e003cceffe" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">Hamas</a></span>, it has emerged.<p class="mol-para-with-font">Amit
Soussana, has claimed that a guard, who she says identified himself
only as Muhammad, with his 'gun pointed at me, forced me to commit a
sexual act on him' in a child's bedroom.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Ms Soussana, 40, told the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/world/middleeast/hamas-hostage-sexual-assault.html" id="mol-bad7b0e0-eb9b-11ee-abdd-b1e003cceffe" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">New York Times</a> that she was sexually assaulted, as well as beaten and tortured, while she was held in <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/palestine/index.html" id="mol-5446c120-eb9d-11ee-abdd-b1e003cceffe" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">Gaza</a></span> for 55 days. The Israeli lawyer was released during a ceasefire in November alongside 21-year-old Mia Schem.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Hamas spokesman Basem Naim, in a statement
to the newspaper, said it was 'difficult to believe' Ms Soussana's
account of sexual abuse and added that 'for us, the human body, and
especially that of the woman, is sacred'.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The terrorist group,<span style="font-size: 16px;"> for months, has denied that its members sexually abused people in captivity or during the October 7 attack. </span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font">However, a <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/united-nations/index.html" id="mol-5470de60-eb9d-11ee-abdd-b1e003cceffe" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">United Nations</a></span>
(UN) report released this month stated there is 'clear and convincing
information' that some hostages had suffered sexual violence. There are
also 'reasonable grounds' that some people were assaulted during the
raid, the report added.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="Amit Soussana, 40, has revealed that she was sexually assaulted by a guard while she was held captive in Gaza by Hamas. She was kidnapped from her home in Kfar Aza, Israel during the October 7 raid. Ms Soussana is pictured outside her home in January this year" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="469" id="i-c7c43083c03460c5" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/26/18/82919907-13241489-Amit_Soussana_40_has_revealed_that_she_was_sexually_assaulted_by-m-2_1711479072222.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <p class="imageCaption"><b>Amit Soussana, 40, has revealed
that she was sexually assaulted by a guard while she was held captive in
Gaza by Hamas. She was kidnapped from her home in Kfar Aza, Israel
during the October 7 raid. Ms Soussana is pictured outside her home in
January this year</b></p></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="Ms Soussana, pictured during her kidnapping, refused to go quietly. She was kicking and screaming until her captors bundled her into a car to drive back to Gaza" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="355" id="i-a1910066106860c3" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/26/18/82919903-13241489-Ms_Soussana_pictured_during_her_kidnapping_refused_to_go_quietly-m-4_1711479137560.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <p class="imageCaption"><b>Ms Soussana, pictured during her
kidnapping, refused to go quietly. She was kicking and screaming until
her captors bundled her into a car to drive back to Gaza</b></p></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="Ms Soussana, pictured during her release on November 30, has now claimed that she was sexually assaulted, as well as beaten and tortured, while she was held in Gaza for 55 days" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="391" id="i-99d3237ff075cae2" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/26/18/82919905-13241489-Ms_Soussana_pictured_during_her_release_on_November_30_has_now_c-m-6_1711479197134.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div> <p class="imageCaption"><b>Ms Soussana, pictured during her
release on November 30, has now claimed that she was sexually assaulted,
as well as beaten and tortured, while she was held in Gaza for 55 days</b></p><p class="imageCaption"><b> </b></p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Ms Soussana was abducted from her home during the October 7 raid, <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12614975/Traumatized-Israeli-relives-harrowing-moment-kidnapped-brutal-Hamas-terrorists-dragged-closet-Canadian-neighbors-baby-boy-3-mother-missing.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">beaten and dragged into Gaza by a group of at least seven gunmen</a></span>.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">While
in captivity, she said she was held alone in a child's bedroom and
chained by her left ankle. She claims that just several days after she
had been taken, Muhammad started questioning her about her sex life and
menstrual cycle.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Muhammad attacked her
on or around October 24, Ms Soussana told the Times. She claims that he
unchained her, took her to the bathroom and ordered that she bathe.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">As
she washed herself, the lawyer recalled hearing his voice by the door,
telling her 'quickly, Amit, quickly'. She then turned around to find him
standing there, with his gun, and watching her. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Ms Soussana said she tried to cover herself with a hand towel, but Muhammad advanced towards her and hit her. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'He
sat me on the edge of the bath. And I closed my legs. And I resisted.
And he kept punching me and put his gun in my face,' she told the
newspaper. 'Then he dragged me to the bedroom.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">She
alleged that while in the bedroom, which was reportedly decorated with
images of children's cartoon characters, Muhammad forced her to commit a
sexual act on him, before leaving her naked, sitting in the dark and
sobbing on the bed.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Ms Soussana, who
noting that Muhammad had left her alone to wash himself, claimed her
attacker showed remorse after the assault, allegedly saying to her: 'I'm
bad, I'm bad, please don't tell Israel.' </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="Ms Soussana, has claimed that a guard, who she says identified himself only as Muhammad, with his 'gun pointed at me, forced me to commit a sexual act on him' in a child's bedroom" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="702" id="i-6bdec8b5d3b046b0" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/26/18/82920013-13241489-image-m-10_1711479319795.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <p class="imageCaption"><b>Ms Soussana, has claimed that a
guard, who she says identified himself only as Muhammad, with his 'gun
pointed at me, forced me to commit a sexual act on him' in a child's
bedroom</b></p></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="'He sat me on the edge of the bath. And I closed my legs. And I resisted. And he kept punching me and put his gun in my face,' Ms Soussana recalled. 'Then he dragged me to the bedroom" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="999" id="i-ba3a3bcb3431c9ba" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/26/18/82919901-13241489-image-a-7_1711479213656.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <p class="imageCaption"><b>'He sat me on the edge of the
bath. And I closed my legs. And I resisted. And he kept punching me and
put his gun in my face,' Ms Soussana recalled. 'Then he dragged me to
the bedroom</b></p><p class="imageCaption"><b> </b></p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">She reported the
alleged assault and other violence to two doctors and a social worker
less than 24 hours after she was freed from captivity, according to the
Times. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">It is understood that she also
spoke to the UN team that published the report on sexual violence
against hostages in Gaza and during the October 7 attack. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Ms
Soussana has also revealed how about three weeks into her kidnapping
she was moved to another location, which she described as an apartment,
and reunited with other hostages.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">She
recalled being summoned into the living room, a few days after her
arrival, for a brutal beating by a group of guards who apparently
believed she was hiding information from them.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The lawyer said the guards wrapped her
head in a shirt, forced her to sit on the floor and beat her with the
butt of a gun. They then put duct tape over her mouth and nose, tied her
feat, and handcuffed her, Ms Soussana recalled.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The
guards then reportedly hung her 'like a chicken' between two couches
and continued to beat and kick her, while demanding she reveal the
information they believed she was hiding.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'It
was like that for 45 minutes or so,' she said. 'They were hitting me
and laughing and kicking me, and called the other hostages to see me.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">After
they untied her, Ms Soussana said the guards took her back to a bedroom
and threatened to kill her if she did not produce the requested
information within 40 minutes. She said that she still does not know
exactly what information they sought. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Ms
Soussana lived alone in Kfar Aza and was an easy target for Hamas
attackers, who discovered her hiding in a safe room in her property on
October 7.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Astonishing footage, <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12614975/Traumatized-Israeli-relives-harrowing-moment-kidnapped-brutal-Hamas-terrorists-dragged-closet-Canadian-neighbors-baby-boy-3-mother-missing.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">captured by a security camera</a></span>, showed how she fought to free herself from Hamas as they dragged her back to Gaza during their ruthless raid.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Holding
her down, the attackers can be seen slapping Ms Soussana as they
attempted to wrap her in a shawl or blanket, but still she fought back,
twisting and kicking. Eventually the captors were forced to bundle her
into a car to get her back to Gaza as they were unable to drag her on
foot.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">More than 1,200 Israelis were slaughtered on October 7 irrespective of whether they <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12827125/One-brave-woman-against-seven-cowards-Astonishing-moment-hostage-Amit-Soussana-fought-Hamas-gunmen-abducted-October-7-eight-weeks-freed-alongside-Mia-Schem.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">tried to flee or resist against their attackers</a></span>, but Ms Soussana was one of several hostages who were taken and spent almost eight weeks days living in captivity.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">She was released by Hamas along with Ms Schem, who was <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12810335/Two-women-hostages-released-Gaza-returned-Israel-freed-today-Hamas-truce-deal.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">kidnapped from the Nova music festival</a></span>, on November 30, just one day before the week-long truce between Israel and Hamas expired and hostilities resumed.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="Ms Soussana lived alone in Kfar Aza and was an easy target for Hamas attackers, who discovered her hiding in a safe room in her property on October 7. Pictured is a view from inside her destroyed house on January 29, 2024" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="423" id="i-4407746ea16714d0" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/26/18/82920081-13241489-image-a-11_1711479374236.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <p class="imageCaption"><b>Ms Soussana lived alone in Kfar
Aza and was an easy target for Hamas attackers, who discovered her
hiding in a safe room in her property on October 7. Pictured is a view
from inside her destroyed house on January 29, 2024</b></p></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="Ms Soussana was released alongside Ms Schem, 21, (pictured during her release) on November 30, the day before the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal expired" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="455" id="i-427def681f7191d9" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/26/18/82920015-13241489-Ms_Soussana_was_released_alongside_Ms_Schem_21_the_day_before_th-m-12_1711479509062.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <p class="imageCaption"><b>Ms Soussana was released
alongside Ms Schem, 21, (pictured during her release) on November 30,
the day before the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal expired</b></p><p class="imageCaption"><b> </b></p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">During the truce, Hamas <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12668205/Hamas-Hostages-Gaza-released-plan-report-claims.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">released 80 Israeli hostages in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners.</a></span> Twenty-five other captives, mostly Thais, were freed outside the scope of the deal.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Israel
on Tuesday recalled its negotiators from Doha after deeming mediated
talks on a Gaza truce 'at a dead end' due to demands by Hamas, a senior
Israeli official has said.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The
official, who is close to the Mossad spymaster heading up the talks,
accused Hamas' Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar of sabotaging the diplomacy 'as
part of a wider effort to inflame this war over Ramadan'.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The
warring sides had stepped up negotiations, mediated by Qatar and Egypt,
on a six-week suspension of Israel's offensive in return for the
proposed release of 40 of the 130 hostages still held by the Palestinian
militant group in Gaza.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Hamas has
sought to parlay any deal into an end to the fighting and withdrawal of
Israeli forces. Israel has ruled this out, saying it would eventually
resume efforts to dismantle the governance and military capabilities of
Hamas.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Hamas also wants hundreds of
thousands of Palestinians who fled Gaza City and surrounding areas
southward during the first stage of the almost six-month-old war to be
allowed back north.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><div class="moduleFull mol-video"><div class="item"> <div class="vjs-video-container vjs-fixed vjs-span-two-col news" id="v-1780480136296708731"> </div> </div> </div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img" style="position: relative;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img alt="Amit Soussana (right), who was held hostage by Hamas and released, hugs a friend near her house where she was kidnapped on January 29, 2024 in Kfar Aza, Israel. Dozens of Kfar Aza residents were killed, and others kidnapped, during Hamas' October 7 attack" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" data-gallery-handler-attached="true" height="423" id="i-3e532aa6bff6a482" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/26/19/82920017-13241489-image-a-29_1711480112426.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" width="634" /> </div></div></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <p class="imageCaption"><b>Amit Soussana (right), who was
held hostage by Hamas and released, hugs a friend near her house where
she was kidnapped on January 29, 2024 in Kfar Aza, Israel. Dozens of
Kfar Aza residents were killed, and others kidnapped, during Hamas'
October 7 attack</b></p><p class="imageCaption"><b> </b></p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">The Israeli official said that <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12995321/israel-two-month-gaza-ceasefire-release-hostage-stomed-parliament-building.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">Israel had agreed to double the number of Palestinians it would release</a></span> for the hostages at to 700-800 prisoners and allow some displaced Palestinians to return to northern Gaza.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Tuesday Hamas had
made 'delusional' demands, which it said showed the Palestinians were
not interested in a deal.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Hamas has accused Israel of stalling at the talks while it carries out its military offensive.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The discussions, mediated by Egypt and Qatar, are continuing as a humanitarian crisis <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13152221/gaza-truce-edge-fighting-continuing-rage-israel-hamas-palestine-food-shortage.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">devastates Palestinians in Gaza with severe shortages of food, medicine and hospital care</a></span>. Concerns are growing that famine will take hold.</p>BarkGrowlBitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04830589594331819236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932388.post-86136216031998597642024-03-26T23:06:00.000-05:002024-03-26T23:06:12.979-05:00ISRAEL NEEDS AMERICAN BACKING ON THE WORLD STAGE, BUT IT'S NOT GETTING THAT FROM BIDEN<h1 class="jeg_post_title"><span style="font-size: small;">Prepare for a Biden-Netanyahu showdown: Israel sees UN resolution as a real threat</span></h1>
<h2 class="jeg_post_subtitle"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">The pressure exerted from Israel
and internally from Republicans and within the Democratic Party is
supposed to silence the rising tones from the progressives, or at least
create a counterweight that will force Biden not only to quietly support
Israel by arming it, but also publicly.</span></h2><h2 class="jeg_post_subtitle"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> </span></h2><h2 class="jeg_post_subtitle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="meta_text">By </span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.israelhayom.com/writer/shirit-avitan-cohen/">Shirit Avitan
Cohen </a></span></span></h2><h2 class="jeg_post_subtitle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></h2><h2 class="jeg_post_subtitle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Israel Hayom</span></span></h2><h2 class="jeg_post_subtitle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mar 26, 2024</span></span></h2><h2 class="jeg_post_subtitle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></h2><br /><div class="block lg:mr-5 -mx-4 lg:ml-0"><img alt="" class="w-full mb-1 align-top" src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hb0stl6qx/image/upload/w_900,c_scale,q_auto,f_auto,dpr_auto/v1620883246/AIN/Bibi-Netanyahu-Biden.jpg" title="US President Joe Biden, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu (Photo: Reuters, Flash90)" /></div> <div class="pt-1 pb-5 text-sm text-gray-200"><br /></div><div class="pt-1 pb-5 text-sm text-gray-200"> </div><div class="pt-1 pb-5 text-sm text-gray-200"><span style="font-weight: 400;">There has been no shortage of hints when
it comes to the White House's efforts to convey the message that Israel
should refrain from taking action in Rafah, find a path to a ceasefire,
and increase aid to Gaza. The vice president turned this subtlety into
explicitly policy when she threatened Israel that there could be
consequences to an operation in the city. On Monday, the rhetoric turned
into action at the UN.</span></div><div class="pt-1 pb-5 text-sm text-gray-200"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></div><div class="pt-1 pb-5 text-sm text-gray-200"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Israelis by and large will likely
brush off the Security Council resolution as yet "another example of a
delusional UN," but high-ranking Israeli officials see it as a real
threat to Israel's freedom of action, as a deliberate undermining of
Western legitimacy to act against Hamas terrorists, and a a potential
weapon that will be seized by Israel-haters around the world to demand
an end to the war even before the return of the captives and the
toppling of Hamas. </span>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The doom and gloom that had until
Monday been dismissed as paranoia became a potential reality in the
hours following the resolution, which calls for a halt to the war in
Gaza for the entire month of Ramadan and the release of the captives
passed without condemning Hamas.</span></p><div class="jeg_ad jeg_ad_article jnews_content_inline_2_ads "><div class="ads-wrapper align-center "><div class="ads_code"></div></div></div>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The text was hailed by the murderous
terror organization, and Palestinian representative to the UN also
demanded that the international community actively force Israel to
implement the decision with the tools at its disposal (and there are
such tools). The sponsor of the resolutions even went on to contradict
the US by saying they viewed the decision as binding. </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So is this just American naivete or
an attempt by Washington to use tools at its disposal to show the
Israeli government that it is serious in its intentions against the
operation in Rafah? Senior Israeli officials who held talks with the
White House in the hours leading up to the resolution in tried to have
the wording changed or have it vetoed – as was the case with previous
similar statements – but they were told that "Very senior officials at
the White House are opposed to a veto this time."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Biden administration had felt
compelled to show a tougher hand on Israel for electoral purposes, but
Israel sees this move as a way to appease progressive voters on the
backs of the captives and Israelis living in border communities.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's
reaction – scrapping the talks that had been planned in Washington – at
first glance, appears measured. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The
rationale is that if the White House is not interested in supporting
Israel's efforts on the battlefield, there is no reason for a senior
Israeli delegation to travel to Washington to hear alternatives to the
operation in Rafah.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But this is not going to be the end
of Israel's response. The American decision caused consternation from
within the Democratic Party and even more intensely among Republicans –
who may now do what they did in 2015 all over again. Back then it was
President Barack Obama who came out against Netanyahu, which resulted in
the latter being invited for a fiery speech in Congress in which he
lashed out at the administration This time it's Biden who is president,
and the current Speaker of the House has already said he would invite
Netanyahu. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are those who think that these
actions will ultimately push Biden to express unequivocal support for
the continuation of Israel's offensive operations in Gaza until Hamas is
defeated.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The pressure exerted from Israel and
internally from Republicans and within the Democratic Party is supposed
to silence the rising tones from the progressives, or at least create a
counterweight that will force Biden not only to quietly support Israel
by arming it, but also publicly. This may also be what Israel needs most
at this stage, when the legitimacy of its actions is dwindling at an
alarming rate. It needs American backing on the world stage that would
push back against the pressure exerted by European countries that have
already begun taken action to stop the war. </span></p><p></p><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></div><p></p>BarkGrowlBitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04830589594331819236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932388.post-39104585177891937492024-03-26T18:54:00.001-05:002024-03-26T18:54:36.280-05:00A CLEAR POLICY SHIFT ..... BIDEN IS PLAYING TO THE FAR-LEFT WING OF THE DEMOCRTIC PARTY<h1 class="title"><span style="font-size: small;">Netanyahu: Biden has given Hamas hope</span></h1><div class="subtitle"><p>White House ‘disappointed’ by Israeli reaction, falsely claiming that ‘nothing has changed’ about US policy.</p><p> </p></div><p> <span class="meta-author"> By <a href="https://www.israeltoday.co.il/writers/ryan-jones/">Ryan Jones</a> </span></p><p><span class="meta-date"><time class="published" datetime="' . get_the_time( 'Y-m-d\TH:i:sO' ) . '"> </time></span></p><p><span class="meta-date"><time class="published" datetime="' . get_the_time( 'Y-m-d\TH:i:sO' ) . '">Israel Today <br /></time></span></p><p><span class="meta-date"><time class="published" datetime="' . get_the_time( 'Y-m-d\TH:i:sO' ) . '">Mar 26, 2024 </time></span></p><p><span class="meta-date"><time class="published" datetime="' . get_the_time( 'Y-m-d\TH:i:sO' ) . '"> </time></span></p><p></p><p> </p><div class="c-image">
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<b>U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz </b></span><b> called the UN Security Council resolution “a capitulation to and victory for Hamas.”</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p>Relations between Israel and the United States are more tense than ever after the administration of President <strong>Joe Biden</strong> on Monday chose to break with standard US policy by failing to back the Jewish state at the UN Security Council.</p><p>A
resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza passed by a vote of
14-0 because the US did not veto it as it had all previous such
resolutions. The American representative abstained, but the failure to
abstain was seen in Jerusalem as support for the motion proposed by
Israel’s enemies.</p><p>The resolution “demands an immediate ceasefire for the month of
Ramadan respected by all parties leading to a lasting ceasefire and also
demands the immediate and conditional release of all hostages.”</p><p>In
other words, this temporary ceasefire is to become permanent, which is
in and of itself already a reward for Hamas. In addition, Hamas was not
called upon to <em>unconditionally</em> release the Israeli hostages it is holding, No, the resolution says their release will be <em>conditional</em>,
meaning Hamas will also get something else in return for that gesture.
And what Hamas wants is for Israel to free thousands of jailed
terrorists.</p><p><strong>Bottom line:</strong> The ceasefire is <em>not</em> linked to the release of Israeli hostages.</p><p>Prime Minister <strong>Benjamin Netanyahu</strong> was clearly incensed.</p><p>A
statement released by Bibi’s office slammed the Biden administration
over its “clear departure from the consistent US position in the
Security Council since the beginning of the war.”</p><p>Netanyahu went
on to warn that Biden had “given Hamas hope that international pressure
will force Israel to accept a ceasefire without the release of our
hostages, thus harming both the war effort and the effort to release the
hostages.”</p><p>We, along with others, have been stressing since
October 7 that all Hamas needs to do to win is not lose. If the terror
group can hold on and survive the IDF offensive, it can and will claim
victory, and justifiably so in the eyes of the Arab world. The
destruction of Gaza is inconsequential to them.</p><p>And now Washington is playing right into the hands of the terrorists’ agenda. <br /></p><h3><span style="font-size: small;">Cancelled talks</span></h3><p>Netanyahu’s
first response to what was seen in Israel as a betrayal by the White
House was to cancel a high-level Israeli delegation scheduled to arrive
in Washington on Tuesday.</p><p>The reason for the trip was to discuss
Israel’s looming military operation in the border town of Rafah, the
last remaining Hamas stronghold in Gaza.</p><p>This outcome might be for
the best, as Israelis feared the Americans planned to use the meeting
to force undesirable alternatives. Biden has been vocally opposed to the
IDF entering Rafah in order to finish off Hamas, arguing that it would
create a humanitarian catastrophe.</p><h3><span style="font-size: small;">Playing dumb</span></h3><p>The
Biden administration predictably responded to Israel’s angered response
by insisting that it had done nothing out of the ordinary, and
suggesting that Netanyahu was overreacting by cancelling the Israeli
delegation.</p><p>“We’re very disappointed that they won’t be coming to
Washington, DC, to allow us to have a fulsome conversation with them
about viable alternatives to going in on the ground in Rafah,” White
House spokesman John Kirby told reporters.</p><p>“Nothing has changed
about our policy—nothing,” Kirby added. “We still want to see a
ceasefire, and we still want to get hostages out—all of them. And we
would still want to see more humanitarian assistance get in to the
people of Gaza. The reason we abstained is because this resolution text
did not condemn Hamas.”</p><p>The savvy observer will note that contrary
to the Biden administration’s rhetoric in the immediate aftermath of
Oct. 7, it is no longer calling for the dismantling of Hamas and the end
of its rule in Gaza as one of the war objectives.</p><p>For most Israelis, that is the primary war objective, otherwise the atrocities of Oct. 7 will occur again in the near future.</p><h3><span style="font-size: small;">Clear policy shift</span></h3><p>Kirby is wrong, and is perhaps deliberately lying, according to experts.</p><p>Richard Goldberg, a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, noted in <a href="https://www.jns.org/israeli-officials-decry-unsc-ceasefire-resolution-us-abstention/">remarks to JNS</a>
that just days ago, the White House had insisted on a resolution that
clearly linked a ceasefire to the release of the hostages.</p><p>Israelis
were still displeased with that kind of resolution, as it would still
leave Hamas in power and able to carry out future attacks. But at least
they could stomach it.</p><p>Now, said Goldberg, the Biden
administration has effectively supported a resolution that takes the
Hamas position of making a ceasefire and the hostages separate issues.</p><p>What’s worse, it did so in such a way that looked like submission to Russia and China.</p><p>“The
United States makes itself look weaker on the world stage by abstaining
on a pro-Hamas resolution backed by China and Russia,” explained
Goldberg. “The more Washington projects distance from a close ally, the
more America’s adversaries take note and get emboldened.”</p><h3><span style="font-size: small;">Victory for Hamas</span></h3><p>Both
Democrats and Republicans in Congress also saw the move at the UN
Security Council as a clear shift in American policy, and a dangerous
one at that.</p><p>“It’s appalling the United States allowed passage of a
resolution that fails to condemn Hamas The UN has always been unwilling
to condemn this group of terrorists, cowards and rapists. We must stand
with Israel and stop pandering to the political fringe or Hamas
apologists,” tweeted Sen. <strong>John Fetterman</strong> (D-Pa.)</p><p>Sen. <strong>Ted Cruz</strong> (R-Texas) called the resolution “a
capitulation to and victory for Hamas. It reverses what the Biden
administration said was its policy linking a ceasefire to the release of
hostages, even while Hamas is still holding hostages, including
American hostages.”</p><p>What’s worse, Cruz pointed out, is that the resolution Biden allowed
to pass fails to condemn Hamas for starting this war by torturing,
raping and slaughtering thousands of Israelis.</p><p>Like most in Israel, Cruz believes the resolution will only embolden Hamas and thus prolong the war.</p><p>Senators <strong>Marco Rubio</strong> (R-Fla.) and <strong>Tom Cotton</strong>
(R-Ark.) suggested that Biden was playing to the far-left wing of the
Democratic Party in a desperate attempt to ensure his own political
survival. Polls currently show he’ll lose to <strong>Donald Trump</strong> when Americans go to the polls in November.</p><p>The far-left wing of the Democratic Party vocally opposed Biden’s early support for Israel’s war on Hamas.</p><p>Once again, the fate of Israel will be the central issue of a US presidential election.</p>BarkGrowlBitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04830589594331819236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932388.post-73685710400521620222024-03-26T17:08:00.000-05:002024-03-26T17:08:50.411-05:00BIDEN HAS JUST THROWN HAMAS A LIFELINE<h1 class="article-headline ">
<span style="font-size: small;">Biden’s UN betrayal of Israel is a victory for Hamas </span></h1>
<h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">
The terrorists were certain that the West would save them from defeat in
Gaza. The administration has now confirmed that they were right. </span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> </span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">By Jonathan S. Tobin</span></span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> <br /></span></span></span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>JNS</span></span></span></h2><h2 class="article-underline"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Mar 26, 2024</span></span></span></h2><br /><p>
<img alt="The U.N. Security Council adopts Resolution 2728 (2024) 14-0, demanding an immediate ceasefire to Israel's war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip during Ramadan and immediate release of all hostages taken from Israel and being held in Gaza, with Washington abstaining, March 25, 2024. Credit: Loey Felipe/U.N. Photo." class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="413" src="https://cdn.jns.org/uploads/2024/03/UN71031377_20240325_LF_3839_-1320x880.jpg" title="The U.N. Security Council adopts Resolution 2728 (2024) 14-0, demanding an immediate ceasefire to Israel's war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip during Ramadan and immediate release of all hostages taken from Israel and being held in Gaza, with Washington abstaining, March 25, 2024. Credit: Loey Felipe/U.N. Photo." width="620" /> </p><p><b>The
U.N. Security Council adopts Resolution 2728 (2024) 14-0, demanding an
immediate ceasefire to Israel's war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip during
Ramadan and immediate release of all hostages taken from Israel and
being held in Gaza, with Washington abstaining, March 25, 2024.</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p class="wp-block-paragraph">Don’t believe the Biden administration’s <a href="https://www.jns.org/white-house-disappointed-israel-cancels-delegation-to-washington/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">claim</a> that it hasn’t changed its stance on Israel’s war on Hamas. The U.S. <a href="https://www.jns.org/washington-abstains-as-un-security-council-unanimously-passes-ceasefire-resolution/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">abstention</a>
on the vote in the U.N. Security Council for an “immediate ceasefire”
in Gaza isn’t just a routine political or diplomatic maneuver. It’s a
fundamental betrayal of the U.S.-Israel alliance, whose consequences go
far beyond the immediate circumstances in which the White House believes
that its political interests require it to force the Jewish state to
give up its goal of eliminating Hamas from the Gaza Strip.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Rather than merely sacrificing Israel’s
security, it is also handing a major victory to both Hamas and its
Iranian allies. With the United Nations demanding an end to the war,
there is no reason for Hamas to stop trying to hold onto those parts of
Gaza it still controls. Nor is there any reason for it to release the
hostages it still holds captive except for a deal that will force Israel
to acquiesce to a return, in one form or another, to the pre-Oct. 7
status quo. That will ensure that it gets away with having committed the
largest mass slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, as well as
asserting its primacy over Palestinian politics in the foreseeable
future.</p><p class="wp-block-paragraph">That doesn’t just expose the
administration’s supposed quest for Middle East peace as a sham, since
it is essentially anointing an organization pledged to Israel’s
destruction and Jewish genocide as the primary voice of Palestinian
nationalism. It also sends a signal to the region and the rest of the
world that the United States is no longer interested in defeating
Islamist terrorism or in keeping faith with allies.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>A two-faced strategy</strong></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Security Council resolutions have the
force of international law, and if Israel continues its operations to
eliminate Hamas—as its government has rightly said it must—this
resolution could be used as a basis for international sanctions against
the Jewish state. Yet the Biden administration claimed that the
resolution, which called for a cessation of fighting for the remaining
two weeks of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan (though the world body had
nothing to say about Muslim attacks on Jewish holidays like Simchat
Torah, the day of the Oct. 7 atrocities), as well as the release of the
hostages and for the free flow of aid into Gaza, is “non-binding.” In
this way, it continues to try and talk out of both sides of its mouth
about the war—on the one hand seeking to stop Israel from winning while
claiming on the other that it’s still a faithful ally.</p><p class="wp-block-paragraph">Given that Hamas has not ceased its
violence and continues to hold Israeli hostages, it can be argued that
Israel has a legal right to continue its battle. But Israel’s enemies
around the world—at the United Nations and in the United States—aren’t
interested in the fine points of international law. What they want is
for the fighting to conclude with Hamas still standing with the ability
to regroup and rearm, and make good on its promises to keep killing
Jews.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">While the U.N. vote must be considered a
turning point in the history of relations between the United States and
Israel, it cannot be considered a surprise. President Joe Biden has been
steadily walking away from his initial pledges of support for Israel
after the Oct. 7 massacre. At the time, Biden didn’t just condemn the
barbaric terrorist attacks on 22 Israeli communities in southern Israel
that left more than 1,200 Israelis dead, with thousands wounded and more
than 250 others dragged into captivity in Gaza. He agreed with Israel’s
government that Hamas, which had governed Gaza as an independent
Palestinian state in all but name since 2007, must be eliminated. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Letting Hamas get away with murder</strong></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Ever since then, Biden and his
foreign-policy team have shown themselves to be more worried about
conforming to a narrative in which the suffering that the Palestinians
brought upon themselves by starting a war that included rape, torture
and firebombing homes, in addition to killing and kidnapping,
invalidates Israel’s right of self-defense or any accountability for
barbaric crimes.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The notion that Israel’s counter-offensive
into Gaza was “over the top,” as Biden mischaracterized it (let alone
the big lie put forward by Hamas propagandists and their Western dupes
that it was “genocide”) remains contrary to the facts. Though many
Palestinians have died, Israel’s efforts have been more measured than
those of any other modern army faced with similar issues related to
urban warfare and resulted in <a href="https://twitter.com/aroberts_andrew/status/1756778979485245849" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">historically low levels</a> of civilian casualties relative to those of enemy combatants.</p><p class="wp-block-paragraph">If Hamas is to be defeated—and it must be
if justice is to be served and the security of Israelis assured—then the
Israel Defense Forces must be allowed to finish the job it started
after Oct. 7. The Israeli government is right to assert that it has a <a href="https://www.jns.org/gallant-israel-has-no-moral-right-to-end-war-against-hamas-terrorism/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">moral obligation</a>
to root it out of its remaining stronghold in Rafah, as well as
guarantee that it doesn’t use its tunnel network to reassert control in
other parts of Gaza.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But unlike any other war that has been
waged by Western forces against Islamist terrorists, the international
community appears to be unwilling to tolerate an Israeli victory if it
means the elimination of Hamas. The reason why Israel is treated in this
way has nothing to do with the graphic pictures of Palestinian
suffering or even the inflated statistics about deaths in Gaza supplied
by Hamas to its willing accomplices in the corporate media. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">At the heart of this betrayal is a belief
that Israel and its genocidal Islamist opponents are somehow morally
equivalent. Were Biden trying to maintain the alliance with Israel, then
he would have continued to assert that Hamas must be defeated before
any ceasefire and that any aid going into Gaza—most of which has been
stolen by Hamas for use by its remaining forces hidden in the tunnels
with the hostages they are holding—must be kept out of its hands.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A morally serious American government
would assert that any and all casualties in Gaza are the responsibility
of Hamas, not Israel, and that the only way to save the Palestinian
people from more suffering is the immediate and unconditional surrender
of the terrorists. But for Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and the
rest of the chorus of Democrat officeholders and liberal media outlets
clamoring for a ceasefire are not interested in Hamas’s surrender. They
insist that the impact of the war on the Palestinians is more important
than ensuring that Gaza is no longer controlled by people who are intent
on using it as a platform to carry on a century-old war on the Jews.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Escalating pressure on Israel</strong></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Nor is this resolution the end point of a
pressure campaign not on the Palestinian murderers who remain in Rafah,
but on Israel to cease a war of self-defense. As <em>The New York Times </em><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/us/politics/israel-biden-leverage.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">reported</a>,
the abandonment of Israel in the United Nations is just one prong of a
multifaceted plan of action being employed by the White House to force
Israel to tolerate a Hamas victory in the war. It is prepared, as the <em>Times</em>
aptly put it, to “coerce” Israel to give up the war by starting to stop
weapons shipments that enable Israel to continue fighting effectively.
If that doesn’t work, the article, based on calculated leaks from the
administration, said that Biden will then proceed to enact sanctions on
Israeli officials.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In plain terms, Biden is contemplating
applying measures to Israel that it has used against Russia for its
invasion of Ukraine. And it is thinking of doing that at the same time
that it continues to <a href="https://www.jns.org/iran-has-accessed-10b-it-received-under-sanctions-waiver-us-official/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">waive sanctions</a>
on the world’s leading state sponsor of terror in Iran, in which it has
gifted Tehran billions of dollars of much-needed aid to that despotic
regime.</p><p class="wp-block-paragraph">This turn against Israel won’t help the
Palestinians. Allowing the ceasefire resolution to pass will only deepen
Hamas’s resolve to keep fighting and to hold onto the hostages. They
deliberately created a situation in which their human shields are being
killed or enduring privations precisely in order to orchestrate
international pressure against Israel. The more the Palestinians are
hurt by the war, the better it is for Hamas.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Nor will it speed the release of the
hostages since the resolution encourages Hamas to refuse to give in,
secure in the knowledge that support from the international community
gives them the leverage to hold them in captivity indefinitely until
Israel not only pays an exorbitant price in ransom but also acknowledges
that Gaza will remain in the terrorists’ hands.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Biden’s political motives</strong></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A rational U.S. policy would have been one
in which the U.N. Security Council would not be allowed to become a
forum in which Hamas terrorism was effectively endorsed and Israeli
self-defense treated as a war crime. It would have continued to insist
that any resolution about a ceasefire must be dependent on the release
of hostages and the demand that Hamas be labeled as a terrorist group
that must lay down its arms.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But Biden and his advisers are obsessed
with the idea that criticism of his early support for the war will cost
him the election because left-wing activists and Arab-Americans—cheered
on by liberal media—think that Israel, and not Hamas, is the villain of
the war. They have tried to have it both ways for months, simultaneously
genuflecting to leftist critics of Israel by validating the smears of
its conduct in Gaza while maintaining both support in the United Nations
and the flow of arms. They orchestrated a campaign of defamation of
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as if he were continuing the
war for his own purposes rather than following the will of the Israeli
people to ensure their security and rights.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This development can be considered worse
than the similar betrayal of the Obama administration at the United
Nations during its last days in office in 2016, when it let the Security
Council pass a resolution that essentially labeled the presence of
every Jew in Judea and Samaria, and eastern Jerusalem, as illegal. That
happened only weeks before everyone knew that the incoming
administration led by Donald Trump would reverse this stand, as it did. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This vote happened at a moment when Biden
has, at a minimum, another 10 months left in office during which he can
implement his plan to render Israel defenseless and to acquiesce in a
U.N. campaign of delegitimization that could have a devastating impact
on the Jewish state’s ability to go on functioning in the world economy.
This shift in policy means that if Israel is to defeat Hamas, it will
have to do so alone with its sole superpower ally increasingly
determined to force it to give up and let the terrorists reconstitute
their state. </p><p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Liberal Jews fail to speak up</strong></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This is also a moment when friends of
Israel throughout the American political spectrum ought to be working
together to apply the sort of pressure on Biden that will cause him to
return to a position of support for Israel’s war of survival. But
Democrats like Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer regard solidifying
the liberal base behind Biden’s re-election campaign as a priority.
Mainstream liberal Jewish organizations are equally unwilling to use
their political capital with the same ruthless determination that
Israel’s intersectional leftist foes have employed to force Biden to
bend to their will.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">If Jewish Democrats and liberal Jewish
groups are prepared to tolerate this betrayal or are willing to endorse
the administration’s gaslighting about it all being Israel’s fault, then
that will be just one more nail in the coffin of the bipartisan
consensus that they have long touted. Biden will not unreasonably
conclude that he will pay no political price for undermining the Jewish
state’s security. Or at least none until he finds that there are more
votes to be lost in the political center by abandoning Israel to the
jackals at the United Nations than on the left from those who think he
was insufficiently hostile to the Jewish state.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This is one more signal to America’s Arab
allies that they are kidding themselves if they think that Washington
would ever defend them against Iran. Worse than that, a world in which
Hamas is allowed to win the war it started with atrocities on Oct. 7 is
one in which no one, including Americans, should consider themselves
safe from terrorism.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Yet as ominous as those consequences may
be, the singling out of Israel in this manner must also be viewed as
part of the surge in antisemitism since the war began. Jew-hatred from
the left has been legitimized in ways that right-wing antisemitism never
has been. A policy that lets a terrorist movement bent on Jewish
genocide win can only be seen as part of this.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Biden’s feckless behavior has created a
long list of disasters, including out-of-control inflation, the rout in
Afghanistan and the collapse of the border that let in as many as 10
million illegal immigrants. But by extending a lifeline to one of the
planet’s most vicious terrorist groups, the president has set in motion a
series of events that could undermine American security just as much as
he is harming Israel.</p><p></p>BarkGrowlBitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04830589594331819236noreply@blogger.com0