Division, excuses and incompetence
By Joseph R. Murray, WASHINGTON TIMES – –
Last week, the University of Texas at Dallas made headlines when it shuttered its DEI-related jobs, offices and programs. The decision was not made because the university finally realized that people are complex individuals who cannot be pigeonholed into an identity but because Texas lawmakers, via SB 17, put such programs in the crosshairs.
DEI, which stands for diversity, equity and inclusion, is a mindset that all people of various backgrounds should feel welcome in their school or place of business. While the mindset sounds noble, the means by which its end is reached has caused many to claim DEI is arbitrary at best and racist at worst.
Israel cannot accept a situation where it is diplomatically and militarily hampered in every direction by well-meaning but weak allies or by supremely confident Shiite mullahs and their Russian ally.
By David M. Weinberg, ISRAEL HAYOM 04-21-2024 17:50
Reading the Israeli and global media one would think that this week Israel achieved its greatest victory since the Six-Day War, successfully stymying a massive Iranian missile attack. With dozens of videos and hagiographic pilot profiles, the IDF is busy pumping its technological prowess. In religious circles, there are a thousand memes and essays circulating asserting a divine miracle, no less.
This is poppycock. At best, Israel can record a defensive tactical achievement, perhaps indeed blessed, but not a strategic win. On the strategic level, Israel suffered a whopping loss as Iran pierced with apparent impunity American and Israeli deterrence frameworks.
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“We will bring it [Hamas] more painful blows; it will happen soon,” said the Israeli premier.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at an event of the Likud Party in Jerusalem, April 16, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.
Israel will inflict “painful blows” on Hamas in the coming days in an attempt to free the remaining 133 hostages held by the terrorist group in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.
“Why is this night different, citizens of Israel? That on this night, 133 of our dear brothers and sisters are not at the seder table and are still held captive in the inferno of Hamas,” he said in his Passover remarks.
Essa Al-Nassr, member of the Gulf state’s legislative body and a brigadier general at the Emiri Guard, gets ovation as he makes bigoted accusations against Jews and promises the end of Israel.
by OHAD MERLIN, JPOST APRIL 23, 2024 21:24
Essa Al-Nassr, a member of the Qatari legislative Shura council, spoke on Monday at an Arab League session, expressing antisemitic remarks and inciting to violence and terrorism.
Biden administration promotes Hamas propaganda by smearing Israel as a human rights abuser.
On Tuesday, the State Department published its 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. What should have been a non-political document completed the betrayal of Israel that the Biden administration began on March 25, when it refrained from having the U.S. veto a UN resolution calling for a Gaza ceasefire, the impact of which would enable the leadership of Hamas to survive and launch more attacks on Jews and Jewish babies. The clear meaning of the October 7 massacre was witnessed in Palestinians burning infants alive to cries of “Allahu Akbar” as though the incineration of the innocent – should they be Jews – is a holy sacrament rather than a sick episode in the wretched history of humanity’s inhumanity to its weakest members.
“Racism on college campuses exists, but no Black student for 50 years has encountered anything that stark.”
– @JohnHMcWhorter, Professor at Columbia University denouncing Jew-hatred on US college campuses
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— Dumisani Washington (@DumisaniTemsgen) April 21, 2024
By Louis Markos, THE FEDERALIST 22 April 2024
A complaint I hear increasingly leveled at contemporary American politicians is that they are out of touch with voters, if not downright contemptuous of them. On a number of core issues, politicians seem less concerned with pursuing policies that are deeply unpopular with ordinary Americans than with upholding the ideologies and self-interests of the ruling elite. Two dramatic examples of this political disconnect with average citizens are the refusal of urban governments to prosecute violent criminals, which has caused a surge in crime, and the White House’s tolerance of mass immigration, which threatens jobs, security, and the rule of law.
E. Rowell: The Biden Administration is racing to register non-citizens to vote in massive numbers. They are attempting to prevent Donald Trump from winning by four scandalous and absurd lawfare cases in which the process is the punishment. They hope no one will vote for a man convicted of a crime. They are attempting to create a democrat majority in the House of Representatives through “retirement” of RINOs in order to pass legislation that will make Trump “guilty” of “insurrection” and thus ineligible for the Presidency, should he win the electoral college vote. They see Congress for the corrupt group that they are, stripping Americans of their right to representation by representing their billionaire donors not their constituents. They have even talked of assassination of Trump. The voters see all of this for what it is: an evil, satanic effort to destroy the Republic and We the People.
By Robert Arvay, AMERICAN THINKER 22 April 2024
Image: RawPixel/Edmond Dantès
Any political prediction for the remainder of 2024 must, to be taken seriously, account for one overbearing fact: neither side can afford to lose. For one side or the other, it will be game over. Political power will thereafter be denied forever to the defeated party.
By Ruth R. Wisse, COMMENTARY 21 April 2024
For 76 years, through combined military campaigns, sustained economic boycott, terrorist massacres, diplomatic isolation, and religious incitement, a changing constellation of pan-Arab and Islamist forces has been trying to destroy the Jewish state. So far they have failed. Israel fought off the bombardment from Iran and its proxies as it has the earlier assaults, thereby incidentally giving its friends and allies much to learn about new weaponry, tactics, and the pros and cons of moral restraint in battle.
Amit Halevi, Washington Times April 22, 2024
Saudi Arabia’s official stance on the concept of a Palestinian state has undergone a notable shift in recent weeks. Since the Abraham Accords, Saudi Arabia has portrayed such a state as a distant, nebulous objective, leaving the impression of mere lip service.
Mounting pressure from the White House and certain segments of Saudi society, however, has compelled it to formally endorse the recognition of a Palestinian state. This move aligns with plans outlined in the “Arab Vision” document of the Forum of 6 made up of Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, the Palestinian Authority and Saudi Arabia itself.
Peloni: UNWRA must be ended. Its presence in Gaza and elsewhere has always been to foment a forever generational war against the Jewish people. In fact, the continuation of UN support for this evil institution demonstrates the same level of pernicious intent against the Jewish people as did the establishment of that organization which was intended to specifically, and exclusively, extend the 1948 War into the future so as to overcome the Israeli victory over the Arabs. The malicious weaponization of the Pals to this purpose demonstrates the extensively antisemitic nature of the UN in its singular approach to preserving and expanding and radicalizing the Pal refugee crisis. UNRWA must be defunded, disbanded and deported, save for those members who are not charged for their relevant crimes against the Jewish people. We no longer live in October 6, and it is time to deal honestly and effectively with the matters which made October 7 inevitable. Notably, UNRWA, it should be noted, was just one of these matters.
“Hamas has infiltrated UNRWA so deeply that it is no longer possible to determine where UNRWA ends and where Hamas begins,” a ministry spokesman said.
Mike Wagenheim, JNS April 22, 2024
Gilad Erdan, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, addresses the U.N. Security Council Credit: Evan Schneider/U.N. Photo.
António Guterres, the U.N. secretary-general, said on Monday that he accepts recommendations made by a group reviewing the neutrality of the beleaguered U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.
Peloni: Also see here
by Ephraim D. Tepler and Itamar Marcus, Algemeiner April 22, 2024
Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh speaks during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, March 26, 2024. Photo: Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
In an incredible and rare admission, Fatah has corroborated what Israel has been saying all along: that Hamas is responsible for turmoil connected to the distribution of humanitarian aid sent into Gaza.
A Fatah TV anchor reported that throughout the war, Hamas has been committing what is essentially a triple crime — it has attacked and killed aid workers in order to control aid distribution, stolen the food and water for itself, and caused food prices to skyrocket. Read more…
Former US ambassador to Israel David Friedman analyzes the course of the war and the hopes for the future of the Middle East in a special interview with Arutz Sheva – Israel National News.
Nitsan Keidar, INN Apr 22, 2024
David Friedman Flash 90
David Friedman, former US ambassador to Israel spoke with Arutz Sheva – Israel National News in a special interview for Pesach. Friedman will be the Honorary Chairman of the upcoming Arutz Sheva Jerusalem Conference in New York, to be held along with the Celebrate Israel Parade on June 2nd.
Take us back to October 7th, what do you remember from that day?
Peloni: This is what is missing in America, Canada, England and elsewhere.
200 000 Colombians took to the streets in Medellín today to protest against the antisemitic, far-left President Gustavo Petro.
Major demonstrations also took place in Bogotá, Cali, Barranquilla and Cartagena.
This are moving quickly in Colombia
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 22, 2024
Peloni: See also – Central Command Chief Yehuda Fox to step down in the summer
These two are key promulgators of the Old Conception, so as they pass into an overdue retirement, it becomes key that their replacements be of a very different mindset.
Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva is the first high-ranking Israeli defense official to resign over Hamas’ massacre. ‘I will forever carry with me the terrible burden of the war,’ he wrote in his resignation letter
Amos Harel and Yaniv Kubovich, Haaretz April 22,2024
Israel’s head of military intelligence, Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, announced his resignation on Monday, six months after Hamas’ surprise attack on October 7. Read more…
30 Terrorists Killed, 100 Arrested, 450 Operations on 3 Fronts
By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS 22 April 2024
Netzah Yehuda Battalion recruits and their families at a swearing-in ceremony at the Kotel, May 17, 2023.
This past year, the Netzah Yehuda battalion operated in three different sectors: in the north, Gaza, and Judea and Samaria––where most of its activities have been carried out over the years. About a month ago, following the IDF’s satisfaction with the fighters and as the battalion was moved up to the front in the Gaza Envelope, the commander of the ground forces decided to turn the battalion into a maneuvering combat unit for the first time.
A left-wing group with Muslim Brotherhood ties is behind the Biden administration’s imminent announcement of sanctions against an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) unit composed of religious soldiers, according to NGO Monitor.
By Joel B. Pollak, BREITBART 21 April 2024
Menahem Kahana / AFP via Getty
As Breitbart News reported, citing Axios’ Barak Ravid, the Biden administration is set to announce sanctions on Netzach Yehudah (“Judea Forever”), a unit that includes ultra-Orthodox soldiers, who are exempt from the draft.
The sanctions relate to allegations from well before the war that began with the Hamas terror attack on October 7. Netzach Yehudah had since been relocated from the West Bank to the Golan Heights — and is now fighting in Gaza.
America’s most radical president has hijacked every arm of the federal government to drag him across the finish line this November. And you’re paying for it.
By Jeff Reynolds, AMERICAN GREATNESS 21 April 2024
President Joe Biden has taken every part of the federal government and transformed it into his personal reelection machine, creating a hyper-partisan election apparatus out of supposedly neutral federal agencies. And American taxpayers pay for all of it.
Let’s turn on the lights and see what we find!
By OMEGA FOR AMERICA 20 April 2024
We are releasing the Fractal Dark Money Tracking System this week.
It tracks NGO, 501c 3s, foundations, grants and other tax-exempt org money from the source, through respective chains, to recipients.
You cannot claim to fight voter fraud if you do not stop its’s source – illegal or unsavory connected money – hidden in complex databases – invisible for 20 years.
By Alexander G. Markovsky, AMERICAN THINKER 22 April 2024
Image: Berlin in 1945/Public Domain
On October 7, 2023, the grisly gangs of Hamas terrorists launched a violent assault on Israel, indiscriminately raping and killing women and children, torturing its soldiers, and taking hostages. The sheer brutality of the attack stunned Israel. Despite Israel’s subsequent massive bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza, six months later, the Israeli-stated objectives of eradicating Hamas and releasing hostages remain as elusive as ever.
