By Andrea Widburg, AM THINKER

For at least 20 years, Bill Maher occupied the more left side of the Democrat party. However, as Elon Musk recently did, Maher is also discovering that the Democrat party has pulled so far left that all he can do is stare aghast at the flaming pile of nonsense that is his erstwhile political home. Maher is, ever so slowly and reluctantly, being red-pilled. Most recently, Maher has decided that the Democrats have gone way too far with transgenderism.
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A culture self-destructs if its people choose not to defend it. Bad people get away with really bad stuff when everyone else chooses to look the other way. Op-ed.

By Melanie Phillips

(JNS) The “broken windows” theory of policing, which was responsible for a stunning drop in crime in New York in the 1990s, was based on a simple proposition. This was that bad people are encouraged to commit serious crimes if lesser social nuisances such as litter, vandalism or fare evasion are ignored.

This transmits the fatal signal that those in authority are giving a free pass to disorder. To stop serious offenses, there must be a consistent message that there will be zero tolerance for breaking any of the rules that keep a society civilized.

The “broken windows” theory might well also be applied to politics. The classicist and commentator Victor Davis Hansen has published a bone-chilling analysis of America that suggests it is inexorably going down to destruction.

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By Steve Kramer

On May 18, the Jerusalem Post published an editorial entitled “Israel cannot abandon the two state solution.” 

I maintain that Israel must leave that tired so-called panacea behind.

The subtitle of the editorial is: It is time for Israel to strengthen its ties with moderate Palestinians [actually, Palestinian Arabs] and keep cooperating with pragmatic Israeli-Arabs. Unfortunately there are few pragmatic Israeli-Arabs. The Arab members of Knesset, even those from Ra’am, the one party supporting the current (teetering) government, don’t genuinely support a Zionist state. Mansour Abbas, Ra’am’s head, has periodically said that he recognizes Israel as a Jewish State and that,“It will stay like this.” He doesn’t mean it.

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T. Belman. I spent 2 days with Bat Ye’or and her husband 15 years ago when we attended a conference in Toronto. She is a very special lady. She is most famous as the author of Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis 

“Between Islam, Woke and Ukraine, Europe is in danger of dhimmitude,” says the Egyptian-born UK,creator of the Eurabia concept. Op-ed

By Giulio Meotti, INN

Bat Ye’Or expressed “realist” positions on the war in Ukraine. I talked to her about the war, Europe, Islam and Israel..

She inspired Oriana Fallaci and Michel Houellebecq mentioned her in his novels. As Le Monde recounts, Bat Ye’Or is the historian who imposed the theme of “dhimmitude”, the fate of Jewish and Christian minorities in the Islamic world. Bernard Heyberger, one of the most famous experts on Eastern Christians, Director of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, acknowledges in Le Monde that Bat Ye’or was “the first to draw attention to the phenomenon of dhimmis.”

Bat Ye’Or, you wrote that only one winner will emerge from this war: the Islamic Ummah. Because?

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Where it counts—in the halls of government and boardrooms—the effort to boycott Israel doesn’t even register.

By Steven A. Cook, FOREIGN POLICY and Eni Enrico Mattei ,  Council on Foreign Relations.

Last week, a suspected Israeli soldier shot and killed Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh while she was reporting on an Israeli military operation in the West Bank. A few days later, Israeli police attacked mourners at her funeral. A number of members of the U.S. Congress are now circulating a letter to their colleagues for signature demanding an FBI investigation into her killing.<
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The episode is no doubt going to provide momentum for advocates of boycotting, divesting from, and sanctioning Israel, a movement known as BDS.

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By Ray DiLorenzo, STAND UP AMERICA

Klaus Schwab – World Economic Forum

As a writer, I am obligated to write what I see and interpret it through a reality prism, not a political one.  I have to travel the road given, not pave a new one to my liking,  especially now with so many crises coming together. There is so much at stake.  It is not an easy journey for we live in strange and evil times.

We are going to ask many questions.  The questions alone will leave traces as to their answers.

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T. Belman. The fact that Russia “has redeployed some forces and hardware out of Syria” is hardly a game changer. Russia can’t afford to fight Israel in Syria because Israel would wipe them and their facilities out in a blink. Russia stands to lose in such a war. Besides its in Russia’s interested that Israel keep Iran at bay.

Israel will continue to intensify their activity as the need to do so intensifies.Israel now has the UAE and Saudi Arabia to back them up.

Why Would Russia Fire A ‘Syrian’ S-300 Missile At Israeli Jets?

By Jacob Nagel and Jonathan Schanzer, FDD

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz revealed details about the largest Israel Defense Force (IDF) drill in recent years last week. The drill included simulated airstrikes on Iran and a simulated multi-front war against Iran-backed proxies in Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza. The message was unmistakable: The Israeli government is weighing its military options, and the military is readying for whatever the government decides. Iran should be worried.

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https://www.theepochtimes.com/election-fraud-is-organized-and-nationwide-hans-von-spakovsky_4479305.html?utm_source=ref_share&utm_campaign=copy&rs=0&

BY BARENAKEDISLAM

A global coalition of more than 25 organizations just released a report outlining why a “United Nations probe against Israel is completely lacking in impartiality or any legal basis,” and called for its chair, anti-Israel Navi Pillay, to recuse herself.

Breitbart Pillay (pictured) was appointed in July by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to head the Commission of Inquiry (COI) into alleged Israeli human rights abuses. The commissions creation, which is the highest level of any U.N. rights investagtion, came in the wake of the 11-day conflict with Hamas in May 2021.

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T. Belman.  This article reminded me of a woodcut (shown below)  by Jacob Steinhardt, I bought it almost 50 years ago in Jerusalem.  It is titled “Habakkuk”.  It is my most prized acquisition.

No matter the joy of the modern Habakkuk, we see today’s Babylonians, the evil so-called Palestinians, again murder our best people.

By Howard Rotberg, INN

The prophet Habakkuk lived during the time of Menashe (Manasseh), king of Judea. During this period, G?d decided that the Temple would be destroyed and the Jewish people would be exiled. The prophet Habakkuk lived at the time of the exile of King Jechoniah, eleven years before the destruction of the First Beth Hamikdosh in the year 3328 .

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By DEBORAH BRAND, BREITBART

Former Vice President Mike Pence’s advocacy organization has submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the State Department for documents pertaining to the Biden administration’s “strong opposition” to Jewish communities in the West Bank.

According to State Department spokesperson Ned Price, building Jewish homes in the West Bank was “completely inconsistent with efforts to lower tensions and to ensure calm, and it damages the prospects for a two-state solution” between Israel and the Palestinians.

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By Adi Koplewitz, MEDIALINE

The Jewish state’s freedom of action over Damascus will only increase, expert says

Four Syrian soldiers were killed, and three others were wounded, in an Israeli missile attack on several positions of regime forces in Damascus early on Wednesday, the state-controlled Syrian Arab News Agency reported.
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By Linda Goudsmit

URGENT!

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18534/who-death-trap

I am not exaggerating – this article exposes the culminating steps of the globalist COUP, and how the Biden regime is planning to quietly surrender the sovereignty of the United States to the authority of the United Nations on May 22, 2022 in Geneva, Switzerland.

American sovereignty will end with passage of the Biden regime’s 13 amendments that change international health rules of the World Health Assembly (WHA), the governing body of the United Nation’s World Health Organization (WHO). The amendments transfer the authority to make health decisions, including lockdowns, travel, education, etc., etc., etc., from sovereign member nations to the United Nations.
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So Devastating They Didn’t Even Run The Story [VIDEOS]

This is absolutely brutal… She could end up being better than DeSantis.

BY ZACH HEILMAN, RED VOICE        May 19/22

https://rumble.com/v157gdl-kari-did-so-well-in-this-interview-that-the-most-biased-paper-in-az-history.html

Having garnered the endorsement of former President Donald Trump, Republican Kari Lake is currently seeking to become the new Governor of Arizona. Before entering the political arena, Lake was part of the mainstream media, reporting on the daily antics in D.C. But after watching the Southern border be overrun with illegal migrants thanks to the Biden administration, she decided to take a stand. And with that, both the Democrats and media have had a rather difficult time handling Lake when it came to interviews and the constant smear campaigns against her.
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