Peloni: I would argue that there is an alternative reason that Shapiro was not chosen to balance the Radical Left ticket, namely, that the Left recognize that US elections are no longer a measure of the will of the people, but are instead based upon the selections made by the powerful.
The @TheBabylonBee got it right: VP Harris has chosen Tim Walz as her running mate. It's a dark day for American Jews. There was only one reason to have passed over Josh Shapiro: The Democrats would rather lose with antisemitic progressives than win with moderate normies. https://t.co/iAORBSV8kq
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) August 6, 2024
Stephen Bryen | Weapons and Strategy | August 6, 2024
Trump reaches for his ear when hit
It is increasingly unlikely that there will be an honest investigation of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. So far, no one has been fired or disciplined in any way. Infighting between the Secret Service and the Butler police continues.
It is time to resolve the abortion debate
By Walter E. Block | August 7, 2024
It is time, no, it is long past time, to resolve the abortion debate, once and for all. Neither the pro-life nor the pro-choice position can withstand serious analysis. Both must be rejected. In favor of what? Evictionism; on this see below. First, let us heavily criticize the two major contenders in this debate.
According to the pro-life position, human life begins at the two cell fetus stage. The sperm alone with not eventuate into an adult member of our species, nor will the egg all on its own; united, together, in the right (womb) environment, the two of them, together, will. In the pro-life position, this tiny Homo-sapien has rights equal to every other member of this species. Among them is the right not to be murdered.
The misuse of language induces antisemitism, to paraphrase Socrates.
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The philosopher Socrates once wrote that “the misuse of language induces evil in the soul” and this maxim pretty much sums up the sanctification of Hamas and vilification of Israel since October 7th. There should be no question about the atrocities perpetrated by Hamas or its goal of exterminating Jews globally. And yet, progressive voices the world over misuse language to describe the rape of Jewish women and girls, murder of Jewish civilians, decapitation of Jewish babies, and taking of Jewish hostages as “acts of resistance.”
Peloni: The relatively small sample size (n=100) is important to note, but in a nation where the elections are openly stolen, I would openly question the relevant value of the best polling data available in any event. This being said, we are all likely aware of several Leftist Jews, people we would likely hesitate to discuss anything political, many of whom have taken a change of opinion over the past many months. While none of them may be lining up to buy their first MAGA hat, I have to admit that I know many who are clearly no longer comfortable in their old Dem party suits, so to speak. I find this very encouraging, while acknowledging that it is simply anectodical evidence.
#New @SienaResearch General Election Poll – New York – Jewish voters
? Trump 50% (+1)
? Harris 49%Siena #A+ – 100 LV – 8/1
— Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) August 6, 2024
by Gordon G. Chang • Gatestone Institute • August 6, 2024
It is incomprehensible that the U.S. after the Cold War would allow militant regimes to develop stronger fighting forces than its own, but that is exactly what happened. Global conflict on the horizon, and the leaders of America’s enemies are not squeamish. China’s President Xi Jinping relishes making war references at every opportunity. “Dare to fight!” is one of his favorite lines. (Image source: iStock/Getty Images)
Jonathan Spyer | August 3, 2024
People hold up the portrait of assassinated Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh Hamas, during a rally at Tehran University, (Getty Images)
Following the killings of Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukr and Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh, Israel and the Middle East are poised and waiting for the next move. The two killings represent a significant humiliation for the Iran-led regional axis, which until this point had been projecting a sense of achievement and satisfaction.
Military attempts now to storm the northeastern Jordanian border. Iranian-Iraqi militia from the Fatemiyoun Brigade, the Iranian-Iraqi Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq militia, and a Pakistani-Afghan militia to the northeastern Jordanian border. pic.twitter.com/W3rKE2dQnF
— Abedalelah Almaala (@AbedAlmaala) August 5, 2024
Concern about civilian casualties never stopped the American air force from bombing Nazis in World War II, or Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, or ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
Moshe Phillips | Aug 5, 2024
Israel last week carried out a rare airstrike on Arab terrorists in a Palestinian Authority city. It was logical and effective. But it was also a prime example of the kind of anti-terrorist action the Israelis will never be able to undertake if a Palestinian Arab state is created.
In the past, Israel typically has sent ground troops into PA cities in pursuit of terrorists. But again and again, mobs of Palestinian Arab civilians have interfered by hurling rocks and firebombs at the soldiers as they try to advance.
In recent weeks, persistent and perturbing reports have appeared in several prominent media outlets — with potentially ominous overtones for Israel — of a sizeable weapons deal brewing between Armenia and Iran.
Although there have been spluttering peace negotiations between Azerbaijan and Armenia, raising hope of some resolution to the decades-long conflict between the two Caucasian nations, tensions still exist.
Barbara Diamond | August 4, 2024
Throughout history, we Jews have “stood out.” We were the first to walk away from the concept of multiple gods. It began when we believed in one God amidst heathens who prayed to clay idols…the sun …the moon and the stars.
By | Brownstone Institute | August 4, 2024
If, as on Family Feud, you asked a hundred people who know me to identify one of my characteristics, most might say that I talk too much about the Scamdemic. But 53 months ago, the thing that—sadly—may have been at the top of the list is that I eat a lot of food, and that much of it is weird.
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Biden appears determined to enable Hamas to survive.
“Biden warns Netanyahu against escalation as risk of regional war grows,” by Barak Ravid, Axios, August 2, 2024 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Peloni: It would take very little effort to provide some course correction to the currently abysmal anti-US US policy in the Middle East, but as Dyer explains, this would require a different administration, and one not inclined to making US involvement more prolonged than needed to achieve the tasks at hand.
I found her use of the term Petunia to describe the current ‘administration’ in Washington to be instructive, because no matter how you might describe it otherwise, the current anomaly controlling the levers of power in the American Empire is altogether a pervasion of every intent or expectation of govt which was ever anticipated by either the Constitution or even the current or past renditions of what comprised the American people. Petunia has caused a great deal of damage to the prestige and influence of the US in the region and the world in a very short time, and that would be in regards to America’s allies and adversaries, both. It has cost many lives, and will continue to do so til something more competent and American might replace Petunia, its corruption, and its corrupting influences.
To re-seize the initiative and get deterrence going.
J.E. Dyer, a retired Naval Intelligence officer, blogs as The Optimistic Conservative, August 2, 2024
As usual, late-breaking news demands to be included in this article. I’m not going to rewrite the piece to reflect any potential change in likelihood, this weekend, that a response to a major, concerted attack on Israel – and very possibly U.S. interests as well – may shortly be in order. But the tea leaves seem to read that way.
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The hype over whom Kamala, a VP, will pick as her VP, is part of the astroturf effort to generate excitement around her non-candidacy. It really doesn’t matter which of the contenders she ends up picking.
The last vice president to take the White House before Biden was George H.W. Bush. And like Biden he was a one-term president.
Peloni: To preempt the Iranian strike or not to preempt the Iranian strike. That really is the only question at hand currently. Or is this simply a blind bluff to get Iran to stand down its multi-layered attack for some form of response which is more deflectable. Given Israel’s recent demonstration of its real time intelligence capabilities, I would suspect that this is no ruse, particularly in light of the likely political fallout which would accompany the failure to follow thru on such a public threat of an Israeli preemptive response. Hence, I think the preemptive strike is more than likely if Iran does not step back from their own threats.
If you combine the official readout and the unofficial readout, it's pretty easy to glean Biden's true message to Netanyahu: 1) We will help protect you with missile defense; 2) We will not support offensive operations against Iran. 3) If you conduct offensive operations, we may… pic.twitter.com/EGST6hYNag
— Mike (@Doranimated) August 3, 2024
by Behnam Ben Taleblu | August 4, 2024
Bloodlust” is a term cascading across the Iranian media space this week:
“Bloodlust is commanded,” declared Jam-e Jam newspaper, connected to Iran’s state-sanctioned broadcaster.
“All of Iran seeks your bloodlust,” touted the Tehran daily Hamshahri.
“Iran with one voice seeks the bloodlust of [our] dear guest,” Khorasan newspaper proclaimed.
