By Daniel Greenfield, Gatestone Institute, July 8, 2024

Pictured: President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event in Madison, Wisconsin, on July 5, 2024. (Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

• Candidates past their prime go up to bat because they have the biggest networks of fellow politicians, donors and party activists. It’s as if Major League Baseball favored players on the basis of seniority and how well they networked, not based on how well they can pitch or hit.
• Voters self-importantly think of elections as the big political competition, but that’s like judging companies based on the keynote addresses of their CEOs. Elections are the least important part of politics. All the really important parts of politics happen behind closed doors. What politicians do isn’t run for office, they network, they cut deals and they plan their careers.

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Israel’s Defense Minister, in a visit to Mount Hermon on July 7, said that regardless of whether Hezbollah stops its attacks, Israel may continue to operate against Hezbollah.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | JULY 8, 2024

HEZBOLLAH LEADER Hassan Nasrallah delivers a video address, watched at an event in Beirut’s southern suburbs, last month. (photo credit: MOHAMED AZAKIR/REUTERS)

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah slammed Israel this week in a statement on Sunday. “Nasrallah says that horrendous and unprecedented crimes committed by the Zionist regime in Gaza have awakened the conscience of people in the West,” the Iranian state media IRNA reported.

This comes at an important time for Iranian-backed groups. Iran has a new president and these groups will be under some scrutiny now for whether they escalate tensions. This is because these groups are linked to the IRGC in Iran. The Guards want to show that the new president won’t affect its policies. Reports already indicate Iran is moving forward with missile production facilities.

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Peloni:  Another sizeable victory for those who were betrayed by their employers, who were themselves betrayed by their govt.  The penalties for this suit should be sizeable and the subsequent lawsuits should be as well.  Tyranny has no basis in a free society, and it is quite an important victory to see that this suit was awarded on summary judgement.

Today, we beat @TysonFoods in federal court, and the court awarded summary judgment on liability to the plaintiff employees who lost their jobs to a vaccine mandate. https://t.co/LPPNpcSEXt

— Robert Barnes (@barnes_law) June 28, 2024

By Hugh Fitzgerald | July 8, 2024

Bassam Tawil is a Muslim Arab, a journalist, an enemy of Hamas, and an outspoken supporter of Israel. In a recent article, Tawil takes note of those soi-disant “innocent civilians” in Gaza, from those who took part in the October 7 atrocities, to those who have been holding Israeli hostages captive in their homes. More on Tawil’s analysis can be found here: “Palestinian ‘Civilians’: Complicit in Hamas Crimes,” by Bassam Tawil, Gatestone Institute, June 10, 2024:

“The courageous Israeli operation that resulted in the rescue of four Israeli hostages on June 8 has confirmed what many Israelis and Palestinians have known for some months: that Palestinian civilians were, and continue to be, complicit in the crimes carried out by the terrorist organization Hamas prior to October 7, 2023, and onward.

The four hostages, Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov and Shlomi Ziv, were abducted, together with more than 250 Israelis, during the Hamas-led attack — backed by Qatar and Iran — on Israel eight months ago.

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By Andrea Widburg | July 8, 2024

Image: Muslims and communists come together to celebrate their victory in France. X screen grab.

Since the mid-18th century, people in the West viewed the Enlightenment as a historical movement that marked a turning point in human nature. We would retreat from our tribal, primitive, mindless ways and tread a higher path, forever abandoning irrationality. Jews, for whom the Enlightenment provided a magical release from Europe’s massacres and ghettos, bought into this notion with special fervor. Hitler, they thought, was an aberration, and many believed communism might be the re-set needed to restore rationality. They were wrong. Hitler wasn’t the aberration. He was the reversion to the norm, and Europe is reverting again.

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by Majid Rafizadeh  •  July 6, 2024

The Iranian regime is rapidly pursuing acquiring nuclear weapons. This breakout must be prevented. Iran is already supplying terror groups with ballistic missiles. Why wouldn’t it equip these groups with nuclear weapons as well? (Image source: iStock/Getty Images)

• The Iranian regime is rapidly pursuing acquiring nuclear weapons. This breakout must be prevented.
• Iran is already supplying terror groups — Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Houthis — with ballistic missiles. Presumably to hide behind “plausible deniability,” Iran’s regime does not seem particularly shy about arming these militias abroad with advanced weaponry. Why wouldn’t it equip these groups with nuclear weapons as well?

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Peloni:  The question which must be asked is why is it that this bill was not introduced when the Republicans took power after they took power, or at the very least after Speaker Johnson became Speaker of the House.  Is this a sincere effort to return power to the people, to restore the govt to being by the consent of the governed, or is it simple posturing, reminiscent of such Republican shenanigans as Lindsey Graham’s infamous claim that “we’re going to get to the bottom of this” as he actually got to the bottom of nothing?  It is a real tragedy, but an even greater crime, that so little has been done by the Republicans at any level, federal, state, national RNC, to reinvest the American people with their unalienable rights which have been stripped from them by an electoral system which obviates the will of the people.  What is needed to achieve this is not the Graham-like faux gesticulations, but the Trump-like substantive actions which made America great again.

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?The SAVE Act will safeguard our elections by ensuring only American citizens vote in federal elections.

Here’s what the legislation does:

— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) July 5, 2024

Peloni “There must be a complete commitment to dismantle the to the entire Globalist-Neocon Establishment that is perpetually dragging us into endless wars, pretending to fight for freedom and democracy abroad while they turn us into a third world country and a third world dictatorship at home.  The State Dept, the Defense bureaucracy, the intelligence services, and all of the rest need to be completely overhauled and reconstituted to fire the Deep Staters and put America First.”

We have never been closer to WW3 than we are right now. I will solve the proxy war in Ukraine on day one! We must defeat the globalist tyrants trying to push us into never ending wars. If I do not win in November, it will be RIP Justice in America and around the world. pic.twitter.com/24TpnAYrx3

— Donald J. Trump (Parody) (@realDonParody) July 8, 2024

Peloni:  The devastation which will be brought to England over the next five years by the decision by the conservative vote to work at cross purposes demonstrates the consequence of a small tent philosophy.  The power which has passed to Labor will not only ensure that there will be no early elections, but also that when the elections do come around again, England will be a very very different nation than the one which was betrayed by this rift among the conservatives.  While this lesson will cost the English dearly, it should be a lesson to the conservative movements around the world that it is better to work together then at cross-purposes.  While warring against an existential threat, it is better to have a victory of some form than a defeat of any form, and nota bene, the fight against the Red-Green alliance should be understood to be an existential threat against all democracies, everywhere.

Barry Shaw | July 7, 2024

The British Labour Party achieved a historic victory. The party has not enjoyed such an overwhelming advantage over competing parties for hundreds of years.

For them to achieve that so soon after their party had been riddled in widespread anti-Semitism under its then leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is so remarkable that a deeper dive into the figures and the facts are required.

First, they achieved their victory with a very low voter turnout.  Only 60% of a disgruntled voting public cast their ballots.

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Barry Shaw | July 8, 2024

Following the French political whiplash in which the world thought Macron had lost the country to his political right over his failed monetary and social policies, we woke up to the results of an election to discover that France had swung hard Left with the Marxist Melenchon’s party in command of the vote.

As French-Jewish philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy put it, the victory of the far left FLI marks a rise in the “new antisemitism.”

This new antisemitic threat is the amalgamation of Marxism with a rising harsh Islamism, both carrying explicit Jew hatred.

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By Eric R. Mandel | July 7, 2024

WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 18: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks during a news conference following the weekly Senate Democratic policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on June 18, 2024 in Washington, DC. During the news conference Senate Democrats spoke on a number of topics including the upcoming anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling and the Court recently striking down a federal ban on bump stocks. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

For decades, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) has told everyone that he was the watchman for American Jewish interests and the U.S.-Israel relationship.

During a November speech on the Senate floor, Schumer said, “Vitriol against Israel in the wake of Oct. 7 is all too often crossing into brazen and widespread antisemitism, the likes of which we haven’t seen for generations in this country, if ever.”

And those left most vulnerable and defenseless against antisemitism under the guise of anti-Zionism are Jewish students who have been intimidated, attacked and stigmatized on American campuses, abandoned by cowardly university administrators and faculty. The need for action by the Department of Education is evident, but it requires defining antisemitism to enact consequences.

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It’s all coordinated propaganda.

Daniel Greenfield | July 8, 2024

Journalism has been dead and buried since the 90s. What exists today is public relations, opposition research, agitprop, and the other elements of a communications apparatus for a political movement.

Occasionally people notice that everyone in the media is saying the same exact thing in the same exact way.

Now that the media got its marching orders to demand that Biden step down (mere weeks after denouncing the idea that there was anything wrong with him as dangerous disinformation and cheapfakes), the hive mind is once again marching in unison to an absurd degree.

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King Abdullah II was very angry against the tweets of the Israeli Jewish rabbi Jacob @RabbiHerzog who wrote several tweets predicting the fall of Hashemite rule in Jordan. King Abdullah II asked the Royal Hashemite Court Intelligence to provide all support to the Hamas… pic.twitter.com/6iFcA33rzS

— Abedalelah Almaala (@AbedAlmaala) July 7, 2024

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The Saudi leadership must prepare for the near and upcoming battle with the Yemeni Houthi regime. In less than a month, violent decisive battles will begin between the Saudis and the Yemeni Houthis. The most violent political speech by Abdul-Malik…

— Abedalelah Almaala (@AbedAlmaala) July 7, 2024

Peloni: Well, Nagal may prove to be accurate, but I am hoping that the current deal is not accepted to forestall the coming war in Lebanon.  The time is long past due to deal with Hezbollah, and by Nagal’s own assessment, the threat of the anti-tank attacks on the areas across the border will not be change, and which of the evacuated families would be likely to want to return to living under such an obvious threat.  I would argue none.  End Hamas, end Hezbollah, and prepare to end the Mullahs.  This is the only deal Israel can afford to accept, period.

Jacob Nagal | FDD | July 5, 2024

After nine months of fighting in Gaza and the north, direct attacks from Iran, and terror attacks inside Israel, the country faces several difficult decisions.

The main challenges are the wise transition from a high-intensity war to an ongoing low-intensity war in Gaza, promoting a hostage deal, and shifting the center of gravity to the north (by agreement or war) and to Iran (preventing a nuclear breakout and weakening the regime).

The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) is nearing the completion of the first war goal, under the old war cabinet guidance, of negating Hamas’ military capabilities and crushing its military organizational structure. Unfortunately, the denial of Hamas’ governmental and organizational capabilities and the killing of all its leaders has not yet been completed, despite some impressive achievements, and the war goal of returning all the hostages is far from complete, despite some successful operations and deals.

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Political tensions and hostilities don’t allow airport and aviation authorities the right to ignore their international duties.

by Alan Baker | July 7, 2024

AN ISRAIR plane is painted with the Israeli and Turkish flags, at Ben-Gurion Airport, as Israeli commercial flights to Turkey resume, February 2023.  (photo credit: TOMER NEUBERG/FLASH90)

As reported in the media last Sunday, an El Al flight from Warsaw en route to Tel Aviv was not allowed to refuel in Antalya, Turkey after making an emergency landing to evacuate a passenger in need of urgent and vital medical attention.

Apparently, due to political hostility generated by the Turkish leadership, local workers at Antalya airport refused to refuel the flight before it could take off for Israel, despite the medical emergency that required the impromptu landing in Antalya and the emergency evacuation of the sick passenger.

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