The Palestinian "cause" continues to be wildly profitable, at first to the PLO leaders and now the Hamas gangsters. Peace between 'Palestinians' and Israel can never happen until the International aid money train stops.
The
international “money for victimhood” made Yassir Arafat a very rich man
with Forbes estimating his net worth at $3 to $13 billion. This is the real problem. Peace would end the gravy train.
Perpetuating
conflict with Israel has been a very profitable ploy for a VERY small
number of elites in the Palestinian territories and explains why the
PLO, Yassir Arafat, Mahmud Abbas and Hamas have continued to reject
peace for 70+ years now. I explain this Debunking the Palestinian Lie.
It’s
a similar thing with Castro’s Cuba. There it’s really a mafia of sorts.
Venezuela too. And it’s likely to be the same thing with Hamas. In
all of these cases, gangsters have hijacked nations or communities.
Well,
the PLO is gone and Hamas has taken control of a very profitable
racket: the stealing of international aid meant to be for the
Palestinian people and making significant profits in trade into Gaza.
Like Arafat and Abbas, Hamas elites are wildly wealthy.
There enormous profits in “victimhood.” The following photo is from today’s NY Post:
President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that his administration is sending $100 million in “humanitarian assistance” to Gaza
and the West Bank for the Palestinian people. The Gaza Strip is home to
Hamas, a terrorist organization that recently attacked Israel, killing
1,300 people – mostly civilians – and wounding thousands more.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Biden insisted the aid will reach “those in need – not Hamas or terrorist groups,” but did not provide any details on how he will prevent the aid from supporting terrorists in the region.
Uh
huh. Biden is just throwing more money: at Iran, at Hamas, at Israel,
at Ukraine, at Taiwan and who knows who else. Can someone just shoot
that traitor?
At the bottom of the page is a repost of No Obama, 99.9% of Muslims Are Not Peace Loving,
from 2015, which includes polling of Muslim communities about their
attitudes about Sharia and the use of violence to “defend Islam.”
Unsurprisingly,
the data refutes Obama’s claims that ‘99.9% of Muslims are not violent
and want peace and prosperity.’ It turns out that this statement is
wildly inaccurate for Muslims in foreign lands and particularly for
Arabs in the Palestinian territories.
Many countries had
significant numbers of Muslims who deemed violence is sometimes
justified to “defend Islam”. And most Muslims also want Sharia Law for
themselves and/or their countries, pitting these people against Liberal
Democracy and all western constitutional governments.
Here are some Pew poll results from 2014 (or the latest that I could find).
The
first graphic shows many countries where a surprising numbers agreeing
with the use of violence; or agreeing substantially with the statement:
“suicide bombings against civilian targets are justified in order to defend Islam from it’s enemies.”
In America and Europe, there is surprising support of suicide bombings from young Western Muslims.
Topping the list below, of those Muslims who believe that the use of Suicide Bombings, are Some/Often justified are: the Palestinian territories, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey. Bangladesh and Tanzania, Nigeria and Senegal:
The second graphic shows views about Hamas, where Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Israeli Arabs top the list of countries where Muslims have favorable views and/or support of Hamas:
The third graphic shows a substantial minority in many countries who have a favorable opinion or support of Hezbollah:
Views on Sharia and Women’s Rights
The
following graphics show that many Muslims abroad are very supportive of
their brand of religious conservative law (Sharia) to govern their
communities and their nations. This is a huge issue that puts these
people at odds with all constitutional governments using constitutional
law in their home or host countries:
It's
true that an overwhelming number of Muslims in the US mostly don't
support violence "in defense of Islam from it's enemies" --whatever that
means. Still 8% say yes or maybe. That's not 1% or 0.1% as the
President insists. But overseas, it's an entirely different matter.
There are substantial minorities in support of violence for Islamic
causes.
Although Muslims in the US, in general, are overwhelming against violence, there is an alarming number of young Muslims (26%) in the US that believe violence is justified
in defense of Islam. So it shouldn't be a complete surprise about
Mohammad Abdulazeez, a young US Muslim, shot 4 military personnel in
Chattanooga, Tennessee. I'm not hearing a defense of Islam from our
Muslim-apologist-in-chief?? "Crickets...."
Overseas
is where the heart of darkness of Islamic evil exists. More data from
Pew Research Center showing substantial minorities or persons who
support suicide bombings.
I
was raised in a time when the most important aspects of education were
being able to think critically, to never accept any perspective without
questioning and rigorous debate, and to love my community and country.
Not anymore, because of the current direction of education posited by
elite extreme progressive leftists.
This is the major reason, and
nowhere can it be observed better than through the actions, protest, and
unprovoked violence and vitriol Americans 35 years of age and younger
exhibit anytime someone hurts their little feelings with words, actions,
or personal outlook.
Take the present modern-day examples
of the George Floyd riots and the recently expressed solidarity around
Hamas criminal terrorists. I would not be far off to hypothesize that
the same young people who burned down many major progressive cities in
the summer of 2020 are the same ones presently chanting “From the river
to the sea.” Sadly, a recent Harvard
(figures) poll notes that the majority of Americans in the 18-24 age
range think that Hamas’ massacre of over 1400 Israeli civilians “can be
justified.” Moreover, 62% of the exact same group agreed the massacre
was "genocidal." No earthly reasonable person, educated or not would
assert that one can engage in genocidal acts and consider it justified.
Again,
this is a direct result of what is going on at colleges across the US.
They have learned these beliefs through processes of indoctrination
similar to the ones described in both The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation and Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire. I know firsthand from my 16 years on faculty at research, albeit not as cancerous currently.
The
goal and desire of the modern academic is the destruction of American
society in a manner that will make failure and misery universal
outcomes. It is not to educate because suffering is a cultural value to
them. They focus on the weak and use them to engage in the promotion of
make-believe and flat-earth folly. They are a coterie of mutant zombies
that get upset over meat emojis and misgendering, yet own cell phones
made of cobalt, mined by African children via slave labor while
screaming Black Lives Matter. If they believed black lives indeed
matter, the Oregon
Legislature would not have just voted to alter the requirements
necessary for high school graduation for the next three years, requiring
students to show proficiency in basic “essential learning skills”
(reading, math, writing, and science) in order to get a high school
diploma. You guessed it, because of racial equity and black kids being
innately dumb.
In their world, being fat or obese is positive and healthy, just as putting tampons in male restrooms
is a reasonably normal thing to occur according to some form of
extraterrestrial science. They advocate for the autonomy of the criminal
over civility in society because punishing criminals is wrong (an
action of the colonial patriarchy). Mostly being white (female)
self-proclaimed Marxist/Communist/Socialist with hair colors taken from a
Sherwin-Williams color wheel.
“Remove the colonizers”
they shout while at the same time blocking public roads, attacking
innocent people, and damaging the property and cars of others. They
desire by force for others to change language and use statements like
“people with the capacity for pregnancy” and “birthing people” but, to
state “all lives matter” and “build the wall” is a type of hate speech.
We have reached a level of psychopathy and spiritual loss that is beyond
ignominious when defund the police is considered to be rational in
places like LA, DC, Baltimore, New York, and Chicago among others.
These
youngins have bought into this dogma hook, line, and sinker. Hard to
believe that their parents can pay $200,000 for them to learn how to
hate America and all it stands for. They venerate Marx without knowing
he was a Jew, Mexican, and black-hating pig. He described Mexicans as
“lazy” and called Blacks “niggers” whose blood is closer to the lower
animal kingdom. Nathaniel Weyl, a former member of the U.S. Communist
Party, documents this in detail in his book Karl Marx Racist.“ These views were held by his other acolytes including Che Guevara.
The
Democratic elite left has an ideology virtually identical to fascism
and frequently employs the tactics of political intimidation made
acceptable by terrorists and the Nazis instead of debate. And these
college professors and teacher’s unions, money should be stopped from
ever going to the professors, unions, and colleges again. Like Cornell
University professor Russell Rickford who described the October 7 terror
attacks as “exhilarating and energizing.”
We have really
reached a level of psychopathy and spiritual loss that is beyond
ignominious because the lunacy is at every level of the government
public school. One school district
believes ending celebrations of Halloween will help them move forward
in “building equity, fostering inclusion and building a sense of
belonging throughout the schools.”
The fact is that leftism
rots the brain and heart. It tells you what to support and believe
without question. The only pragmatic reason corporations and the
current-day Hitler youth act woke is because it is a means by which they
can virtue signal without doing anything of action.
White
liberals, BLM, Antifa, and other similar leftist progressive groups use
the circumstances of blacks (criminal, poor, or otherwise) to organize
leftist, college-educated, guilt-ridden whites. They tear down statues
and destroy both public and private property.
Their goal is the
acquisition and concentration of power and sadly, many of us have fallen
for their fake azz virtue signaling. They praise Ropespire and
celebrate the mob mentality all while knowing their progressive race
narratives have no footing in reality in today’s America. They care
about Blacks or Palestinians as much as their post-civil war democrat
elders.
The only directive for the educational Brownshirt Stasi is
to teach (inculcate) any perspective factual or not, that is
anti-American in the name of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The
majority of students today in America can’t think critically enough to
recognize this. The aim is to teach belief and dogma instead of skills
that enable and engender critical thinking which results in them seeing
themselves as being a victim without agency. Their life isn’t worth
anything and thus, they are taught their lives have no purpose. Look at
the high levels of suicide, depression, and drug use among Americans 30
and under.
The modern learning environment has gotten to the point
where we no longer accept biology fomenting a type of psychopathy that
asserts men can get pregnant and there are no differences between men
and women. If one examines CRT and gender ideology, it is easy to
understand the modern educational indoctrination process.
This
is the twisted and deranged mental illness we call modern academia.
They desire we feel guilt for being productive and profitable - this is
communism. Their assertion that the function of the family is to
maintain the capitalist structure of society is why they desire to
destroy the nuclear family - this is Marxists. They teach that things
like being on time, ‘working hard, and the scientific method are all forms of white supremacy. This may be why they feel comfortable enough to openly be against schools promoting things like families reading to kids
as a form of racism. All of the above is why we see two teens who
murdered retired police officer Andreas Probst in court throwing up the middle finger to his family while laughing.
So
why do we see what we see in this age group - the promotion of violence
and support for people who will carry out acts of genocide willingly?
It is because we sat back and made it comfortable for them to do it. We
have seen this before in 1919 Germany, where Democrats became the Nazi party.
Leftist
ideologues and woke progressive educators don't care about educating
children, but rather about dismantling the society they want to destroy.
They see children only as tools for achieving this objective. Any
shortcoming one has in their life isn't your fault, but rather that of
another person which makes them responsible for making your life better.
What
we confront is a war of ideologies. It will either be peace, the rule
of constitutional law, freedom with responsibility, or anything goes,
justified by whatever method available. So just in case, revisit Genesis
18:19 where the role of the father and family are discussed: “For I
have chosen him so that he will direct his children and his household
after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just…”
However,
the rot saturated in what passes for higher learning in the age of BLM
suggests that we must be prepared. So get ready to be your own police.
Just like 2020, these police aren’t going to do anything. So embrace
equality over equity, liberty, and freedom over censorship for at any
time, we men need to bask in the patriarchy and our toxic masculinity.
The 1990 YouTube video below debunks the Palestinians' claims and
shows that Abbas has been lying about the origins and history of the
conflict.
Palestinian leaders have repeatedly rejected partition
plans that would have given them much more land for their independent
state than the Jews were offered for theirs.
Rather than being
the innocent victims of a "dispossession" at the hands of the Israelis,
the Palestinians have rejected ALL reasonable compromises and instead
pursued their Islamic bloodlust of getting rid of ALL Jews and the only
Jewish state in the world.
Being thoroughly, repeatedly defeated
and now banished to a large open air “prison” and trapped behind
concrete walls and razor wire —THAT THEY CAUSED, their only play is
mass-caualty event followed by yet more victimhood appeals to an
ill-informed world.
The international “money for victimhood”
made Yassir Arafat a very rich man with Forbes estimating his net worth
at $3 to $13 billion. This is the real problem.
This
post explains how this sorry situation, with a 100+ year history has
resulted. I believe this video and transcript below is a fair treatment
of the history of this issue.
Rough Transcript:
On May 16th 2011 the New York Times published an OpEd
titled “The long overdue Palestinian State” by Mahmud Abbas, president
of the Palestinian National Authority. In that piece Abbas called for
the United Nations to formally recognize a Palestinian State based on
the pre-1967 borders regardless of negotiations with the state of
Israel. The article appeared just a few days before Barack Obama's much
anticipated speech on the Arab Spring in which the President also tried
to jump start peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian
Authority to reach an agreement on a two-state solution. Obama declared
Israel must agree to return to the pre-1967 borders modified only by
mutually agreed land swaps.
Now neither Mr Abbas nor Mr Obama can
explain how anyone could have recognized a United Nations designated
Palestinian state that Palestinian leaders and the Arab states
themselves have rejected.
Of the troubles in Ireland the poet William Butler Yates once wrote “great hatred, little room maimed us at the start.”
In
Palestine, at the start, there was plenty of room —more than enough
room for a prosperous Jewish State and a prosperous Arab state. After
World War I ended with the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire, the League
of Nations established the Mandate for Palestine including all of the
land that is now Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip plus the
entire territory east of the Jordan River now called the kingdom of
Jordan. The area under the Mandate was as large as Syria and about half
as large as Iraq yet the total population at the time was less than 1
million of whom 10% were Jews.
It was in that vast
underdeveloped and underpopulated territory that the British had
promised in the language of the 1917 Balfour Declaration to support the
establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. The
Declaration also promised that nothing shall be done which may
Prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-jewish
communities in Palestine.
Open Jewish immigration to the Holy
Land was encouraged as was freedom of speech, religion and assembly for
the Arabs of Palestine rights they had sorely lacked under Turkish rule.
Mired
for more than two centuries in backwardness and grinding poverty,
Palestinians were never recognized by the Ottoman Empire as possessing
any distinctive national identity. The Palestinians quickly took
advantage of their New Freedom to speak bluntly demanding a stop to the
Jewish immigration which had just begun. Said one Arab representative
during the Paris peace conference, “we will push the Zionists into the
sea or they will send us back into the desert.” RF Aref Dajani, a
Palestinian leader from Jerusalem, warned that it is impossible to live
with the Jews in all the countries where they are at present, they
always are not wanted because they always arrive to suck the blood of
everybody. If the League of Nations will not listen to the appeal of
the Arabs, this country will become a river of blood.
Well, as
promised, blood did flow when the Palestinian demand to end Jewish
immigration was not granted. Jerusalem was the first flash point for
regular Arab attacks on Jewish communities. In April 1920, Palestinians
from nearby towns poured into the old city. The Muslim mayor of
Jerusalem and other notables worked up the crowd to launch a Jihad
against the Jews. “If we don't use Force against the zionists and
against the Jews, we will never be rid of them” urged newspaper editor
Arif al-arif.
The crowd shouted back we will drink the blood of
the Jews. Shouting Islamic slogans like Muhammad's religion was “born
with the sword” thousands surged through the Jewish quarter and into
West Jerusalem. The mobs vented their rage against any Jew they could
find; burning and looting homes and stores and even attacked British and
Arab policemen.
After several days of rioting the final toll was
six Jews dead, hundreds beaten and widespread destruction of property.
What became known as the Nebi Musa Riot was the opening shot in a
90-year war to reverse the Balfour Declaration.
And things
soon got worse as the Allies, to assuage the fears of Arab monarchs,
separated the land east of the Jordan River out of the total area
accessible to Jewish immigrants and created the Emirate of Trans Jordan.
Reconciling the aspirations of Arabs and Jews became far more tenuous
after the Balfour Declaration had to be carried out in the truncated
area of Palestine from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. There was now much less room and a great deal more hatred.
The
decades that followed were marred by perpetual violence against the
Jews both in Palestine and in Europe. The two were often linked. Under
the leadership of the Grand Mufti and president of the Supreme Muslim
Council Haj Amin al-husseini, the Arabs of Palestine waged an endless
Jihad against their Jewish neighbors.
When the British sent a
royal commission to investigate a solution, the Jews represented by high
and vitman pressed for a partition of the territory into two states
even if the territory assigned to the Jews was the size of a tablecloth.
The appeal commission's final report published in July 1937 proposed
such a division. The Jews were offered an independent state in a small
Enclave along the Sea Coast from Tel Aviv to the north of the country
constituting about 20% of the remaining mandate territory while the
Palestinian Arabs would get 80% for their own State.
Desperate for
any means to be able to bring in large numbers of the endangered
European Jews, the zionists reluctantly accepted the commission's
partition plan. Led by the Mufti, the Arabs rejected partition out of
hand and pressed on with the armed revolt against the Mandate. The
British succeeded in putting down the violence for a time.
Al-
husi was sent into Exile ultimately in Hitler's Nazi Germany, where he
lived as a special guest of The Fuhrer. But severe limitations were
placed on Jewish immigration to the Holy Land in the Years leading up to
the Holocaust. That undoubtedly directly led to the death of many
thousands of European Jews. Now, following the atrocities of the second
world war, Britain relinquished authority over the mandate to the newly
formed United Nations.
The UN created yet another commission to
try to figure out what to do with the contested territory. The United
Nations special committee on Palestine recommended by a vote of 7 to 3
yet another two-state solution, another partition plan to the general
assembly. This plan would have seen the Territory divided almost
equally between Jews and Arabs. Once again the zionists made public
their acceptance of the proposal and once again Arab officials announced
that any partition would be met with rivers of blood.
Shortly
after the UN vote the 20 member Arab League sent their newly organized
Arab Liberation Army against the Jews of Palestine. Elements of five
regular Arab armies from Egypt Jordan Syria Iraq and Lebanon invaded
Israel on May 15th 1948.
Arab League's Secretary General Abdul
Ramanaam vowed “this will be a war of extermination and a momentous
Massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongol massacres and the
Crusades!”
But despite their overwhelming numbers and heated
rhetoric after a year of fighting it was the Jewish state that had won a
decisive victory. Based on the 1949 armitous lines, Israel's territory
expanded by almost 40%. The Palestinian Arabs were the big losers. For
the second time in 10 years their leaders rejected a partition plan that
would have given them Independence and more land designated for their
state than for the Jewish State. Instead they ended up with nothing and
650,000 Palestinians became refugees.
Jordan's King Abdullah sent
his Arab Legion to occupy the Palestinian West Bank and Annex the
territory to his kingdom. Egypt took the Gaza Strip and for the next 18
years denied Palestinians any civil rights. It never occurred to the
rulers of Jordan or Egypt to create a state for the homeless
Palestinians nor did new Palestinian leaders like Yassir Arafat protest
this occupation of their land by foreign rulers.
Three
times in the past decade, Israeli Prime Ministers have offered
Palestinian leaders an independent state far more generous than anything
Jordan and Egypt ever allowed when they controlled the West Bank and
Gaza.
At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister and
Barack agreed to the Border suggested by President Clinton that would
have established a West Bank Gaza Palestinian state with some
territorial adjustments and with the Palestinians getting East Jerusalem
as their capital.
For his part, Palestinian Liberation
Organization chairman Yasser Arafat walked out of negotiations went back
home and launched the second intifada. Invoking Islamic Jew hatred as
justification, the Palestinians conducted a three-year
brutal campaign of suicide bombings against Israeli pizza parlors,
wedding halls and discotechs.
In 2005, Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decided that it was against Israel's
security interest to govern the 1.1 million Palestinians in the Gaza
Strip. Sharon dismantled all of the Jewish settlements and pulled
Israeli forces back across the 1967 borders between Israel and Gaza
without even any land swaps. As an added bonus, Israel left the
Palestinians a thriving flower export industry to help jumpstart the
local local economy.
The Palestinians response to this
generosity, first they destroyed the donated green houses and then they
launched a war of missiles and Rockets against civilian targets in
Israel.
In a September 2008 meeting in Jerusalem, then Israeli
Prime Minister Ahud Ohmert presented President Abbas with a detailed map
of a future Palestinian state that, with land swaps, would constitute
close to 100% of the territory of the West Bank in Gaza prior to the
June 1967 war. Omert also offered to divide Jerusalem enabling the
Palestinians to locate their capital in the eastern half of the city.
Promising
to come back the next day for further discussions, Abbas took Omert's
map to his Romala office just a few miles outside Jerusalem for his aids
to study, but Abbas never returned with the map.
This was the last time the Israeli and Palestinian leaders met.
Many
times over the last 63 years both the International Community and the
state of Israel have offered the Arabs of Palestine their own State.
Each time these offers have been met by more violence against Jewish
citizens. Neither President Abbas nor President Obama are ignorant of this fact. They simply both chose to ignore it.
For
Mr Abbas, this refusal seems to be part of a consistent thread woven
throughout the Arab war against the Jews. Mr Obama's positions remain
more mysterious.
[Doug here: International Aid Money is what has enabled
Palestinian's continued intransigence--They rejected peace offer after
peace offer. The "money of victimhood" is what has REALLY precluded
peace. As always, follow the money. ]
“A New York Times reporter who came under fire last year
for a praising Adolf Hitler in multiple resurfaced Facebook posts was
rehired by the Gray Lady to cover the Israel-Palestine war.
Palestinian filmmaker
Soliman Hijjy hailed the Nazi leader as recently as 2018 in a post on
Facebook, when he shared a photo of himself captioned that he was “in a
state of harmony as Hitler was during the Holocaust,” per a translation
from Arabic by pro-Israel media watchdog site HonestReporting.
That
same year, Hijjy was hired by the Times as a freelance journalist and
worked on a slew of “visual investigations” published by the
organization through 2021, including one on an Israeli airstrike that killed 44 people.
Palestinian
filmmaker Soliman Hijjy is freelancing for the New York Times again —
recent bylines at the news giant revealed — one year after the
journalist came under fire for eulogizing Hitler.
Hijjy’s
2018 post — including a 2012 Facebook post where he wrote, “How great
you are, Hitler” in Arabic alongside a photoshopped image of Hitler
seemingly taking a selfie — were unearthed last year, when pro-Israel
outlets called out the Times for hiring antisemitic journalists as
freelancers.
Last
year, this post by Hejji on Facebook was unearthed. It shows Adolf
Hitler taking a selfie with an Arabic caption that translates to: “How
great you are, Hitler.”
Palestinian filmmaker
Soliman Hijjy is freelancing for the New York Times again — recent
bylines at the news giant revealed — one year after the journalist came
under fire for eulogizing Hitler.
It’s beginning to be difficult to see who is the most crazy and ignorant party in this whole sordid affair.
Tucker Carlson sat down with Col. Douglas Macgregor (ret.), who laid out a disturbing scenario in which the United States could quickly be pulled into a direct conflict with Iran, Russia and China over Israel's anticipated response to the October 7 Hamas attack.
Carlson starts off highlighting Lindsey Graham, who vowed; "...if Hezbollah, which is a proxy of Iran, launches a massive attack on Israel, I consider that a threat to the... state of Israel, existential in nature. I will introduce a resolution [in] the United States Senate to allow military action by the United States in conjunction with Israel to knock Iran out of the Oil Business..."
Carlson then asks: "So what would war with Iran mean? McGregor: Well, it's hard to know because virtually no one who's talking about it in public is operating from a deep interest in America's interest. Is this good for us, or is it not?"
If, as Sen. Graham suggests, we start bombing critical infrastructure in Iran, Macgregor warns "the destruction would be wholesale" as Iran would target "all the bases we have in Iraq and Syria - with around 1000 Americans - would be targeted... and this time accurately."
According to Macgregor, "The chosen destination" if we continue on this path, "is Armageddon," and the implications (of which nobody seems to be considering) for the United States, Europe, and the Middle East are grave. For example, "just on the economic side, about 20% of the world's oil passes through the Straits of Hormuz every month - probably 25% of liquefied natural gas, and you're talking about shutting down 2 to three million barrels a day of oil from Iran.
"You know this entire region is involved in the war. This is not an Iranian Monopoly by any stretch of the imagination," he continued.
The two also discussed how one of the primary challenges of in contemplating war with Iran is the unpredictable nature of such conflicts. Economic sanctions, which have been the go-to strategy for years, have failed to cripple Iran's military capabilities. When military force comes into play, a whole new set of unknowns emerges.
The U.S. military, as it stands, may not be adequately prepared for such a conflict - particularly if the enemy has new weapons systems and capabilities.
"We've had the luxury of sitting around forward operating bases and striking opponents that were armed with AK-47s, and command detonated mines and the occasional mortar or rocket. Very, very low-intensity combat," he said, referring to the types of engagements the US military has grown accustomed to.
Nuclear wildcard?
According to Macgregor, "This is a high-end, conventional war that we're looking at, with the potential to go nuclear - which, obviously, I don't think we or the Russians want to happen, but we have the wild-card in Israel. They do have a nuclear capability."
"We don't know what the trip wire is for them to employ such a weapon. At that point of course, all bets are off and I think most of the world would turn against Israel. Right now, they just have to worry about the Muslim world against them," he continued, explaining that by focusing on Hamas and Hezbollah as immediate threats, the broader implications are obscured. For example, attacking urban environments such as Gaza comes with a high risk of civilian casualties - the consequences of which would catastrophic, both morally and strategically.
"Hezbollah has a very large operation in Mexico," says Macgregor. "There are no doubt many, many Hezbollah agents inside the United States. We can only begin to imagine the kind of trouble they could cause."
In the midst of all this, the question arises: How will a war with Iran affect American domestic politics? History shows that war is often used to stifle dissent, but in today's connected world, censorship can only go so far. Public opinion, initially in favor of violence against Hamas, may wane as the conflict escalates and images of destruction flood the media.
"But what's most important, I think, for Americans to understand is, if we attack Iran on the basis of Hezbollah's alleged willingness to attack Israel, if Israel gets into a real shooting war with Hezbollah, they have the largest armed forces in the region."
In my post How Israel Emerged In the Collapsed Ottoman Empire, I mention the role of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who allied himself with Germany and the Ottoman Empire during WWI and then Germany and Hitler in WWII -- both disasters for Middle Eastern Muslims. The loss of Germany in WWI caused the fall of the Ottoman Empire and their loss in WWII saw them lose control of their region that included the area now called Israel through large-scale Jewish immigration after 1948.
The Mufti literally sat at Hitler's right hand (see photo below). I quoted Sol Stern, an American and Israeli citizen, has been writing about Israel for 50 years, as follows from his book A Century of Palestinian Rejectionism:
At
the center of his account is the neglected and little known -- yet
central -- figure of the Arab-Israeli conflict, Haj Amin al-Husseini. As
the grand mufti of Jerusalem, he was the leader of the Palestinian
movement from its inception in the 1920s in the wake of the British
Balfour Declaration, into the 1950s, after which he was succeeded by his
nephew Yasser Arafat......
Like Arafat
and Abbas after him, time and again the mufti rejected any compromise.
Driven by a sense of Islamic entitlement and Arab resentment of the
West, insensible to the economic growth made possible by the relative
prosperity of the Jews, the mufti urged his followers to embrace
implacable hatred.
Siegel writes about the book:
In
the Arab revolt of the late 1930s, Islamist crowds stormed through the
streets of Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter shouting slogans such as
“Muhammad’s religion was born with the sword.” The mob killed, looted
and burned. Two years of low-level war left the Jews stronger than ever
and the local Arab economy in ruins, a scene that has recurred time and
again. But the mufti saw hope for his cause in Hitler’s war against the
allies and the Jews.
The Mufti sent Hitler 15 drafts of declarations he wanted Germany and Italy to make concerning the Middle East. One called on the two countries to declare the illegality of the Jewish home in Palestine.
Furthermore, “they accord to Palestine and to other Arab countries the
right to solve the problem of the Jewish elements in Palestine and other
Arab countries, in accordance with the interest of the Arabs and, by
the same method, that the question is now being settled in the Axis countries.”1
On November 28, 1941, the Mufti met with Hitler, who told him the Jews
were his foremost enemy. The Nazi dictator rebuffed the Mufti’s
requests for a declaration in support of the Arabs, however, telling him
the time was not right. The Mufti offered Hitler his “thanks for the
sympathy which he had always shown for the Arab and especially
Palestinian cause, and to which he had given clear expression in his
public speeches....The Arabs were Germany’s natural friends because they
had the same enemies as had Germany, namely....the Jews....” Hitler
replied:
Germany stood for uncompromising war against the Jews. That naturally
included active opposition to the Jewish national home in
Palestine....Germany would furnish positive and practical aid to the
Arabs involved in the same struggle....Germany’s objective [is]...solely
the destruction of the Jewish element residing in the Arab sphere....In
that hour the Mufti would be the most authoritative spokesman for the
Arab world. The Mufti thanked Hitler profusely.2
Two German historians say that Hitler had a plan to extend the Holocaust
to the Middle East and had forged an alliance with Arab nationalists.
This is perhaps why Hitler met with the Mufti and provided him a budget
of 750,000 Reichsmark per month to foment a jihad
in Palestine. The alliance did not alter Hitler’s racist views
toward Arabs reflected in his refusal to shake the Mufti’s hand or drink
coffee with him.3
In 1945, Yugoslavia sought to indict the Mufti as a war criminal for his role in recruiting 20,000 Muslim volunteers for the SS, who participated in the killing of Jews in Croatia and Hungary. He escaped from French detention in 1946, however, and continued his fight against the Jews from Cairo and later Beirut. He died in 1974.
A document attesting to the connection between Nazi Germany and the Mufti was released in March 2017. In the letter published by the National Library of Israel Archives, SS Chief Heinrich Himmler heaps praise upon Mufti al-Husseini, stating that the Nazi leadership has been closely following the battle of freedom-seeking Arabs - and especially in Palestine - against the Jewish invaders. Himmler ends the letter by bidding the Mufti warm wishes for the continuation of your battle until the big victory. This letter was delivered in the Fall of 1943, two years after the Mufti's famous meeting with Adolf Hitler.4
Sources: 1 “Grand Mufti Plotted To Do Away With All Jews In Mideast,” Response, (Fall 1991), pp. 2-3. 2 Record of the Conversation Between the Fuhrer and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem on November 28, 1941, in the Presence of Reich Foreign Minister and Minister Grobba in Berlin, Documents on German Foreign Policy, 1918-1945, Series D, Vol. XIII, London, 1964, p. 881ff in Walter Lacquer and Barry Rubin, The Israel-Arab Reader, (NY: Facts on File, 1984), pp. 79-84. 3 Von Jan Friedman, “New Research Taints Image of Desert Fox Rommel,” Der Spiegel, (May 23, 2007). 4 Letter written to Grand Mufti from Himmler uncovered,YNet News, (March 30, 2017)
Tucker Carlson has come out on Twitter and just repeated the results of the Medical Examiner in the George Floyd case; namely that George Floyd had no physical signs of asphyxia (refer to my post which is included below).
Now, I don't know why Tucker is so late to the party here, as Gulfcoastcommentary readers were informed of ME results and the lack of evidence for the murder charge against Derek Chauvin long ago; despite how "it looked." Yes, it DID look bad, but I suggested at the time that Chauvin's knee was not actually on Floyd's neck but on his back/shoulders. It's also true that Floyd was experienced labored breathing even before being forcibly subdued, a sign of opiod overdose. The Medical examiner found that Floyd's lungs were FULL of fluids in a sign of a fatal fentanyl overdose. Read here at New Updates on 'Saint George' and 'Holy Martyr' Jacob Blake below.
There was HUGE PRESSURE on the Chauvin jury to CONVICT despite the exonerating evidence. In Chauvin's case, it "looked bad"but the medical examiner was unable to see any forcible asphyxia. He also found lethal levels of fentanyl and other 'substances'. This guy was an enormous loser and serial criminal!
Why do all the black activists propagandists and race hustlers like BLM, Obama, Holder, the Biden administration,
Sharpton and other black "leaders" choose such unworthy "martyrs" when
they play the race card? Perhaps it's because there are so few worthy
ones? Like maybe NONE?
Race hustlers like Sharpton and Obama always rallied to back the black
"victim" instantly, and without any facts established, to cases where
white police interact with black persons with or without the appearance of
wrongdoing. It's still happening today but even more dishonest. The dishonest, Leftist, Big media always raises the ante in the court of public opinion. It's because there's money in victimhood. So, naturally
they fail to report the fact police operate in environments where black persons commit violent crimes at 7 times the rate of whites putting officers in a constant "war zone."
Black communities = War zones. It's no wonder police fear for their lives. And it's no wonder they treat these people like animals. It's because they
act like animals. Blacks are notorious in resisting and violently
reacting during police encounters.
But remember how notably silent they were when black perpetrators gun
down white officers. This shows their true intent and bias: to start a
race war, disrupt the social fabric of the country and start a campaign
against law enforcement. It's outrageous that the President of the
United States himself was complicit in that effort. Therefore Obama was
complicit in murders of black persons in Baltimore when the city erupted
in lawless, black-on-black violence after the police backed-off their
duties in response to this war on police and the "witch hunt" trial of 6
police officers.
Obama was also complicit in numerous murders of white police officers
across the nation due to his war-on-law-enforcement "activism." Obama
and Holder also coordinated protests using 'professional' protesters in Sanford and Ferguson,
so they are also responsible for deaths and property loss in Ferguson
riots -- riots that hurt only responsible black residents.
Daunte Wright
On April 11, 2021, Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, was fatally shot by police
officer Kimberly Potter during a traffic stop for an expired registration. From Wikipedia:
"Officers ran Wright's name through a police database and learned that he had an open arrest warrant
"after failing to appear in court on charges that he fled from officers
and possessed a gun without a permit during an encounter with
Minneapolis police in June".
Based on that information, police attempted to arrest him.
A police body camera
showed three officers approaching the car. An officer on the driver's
side opened a door and Wright stepped out of the car. Wright had his
hands behind his back as an officer attempted to put on handcuffs.
Potter then approached Wright and the other officer. Wright struggled with the officers, broke free, and got back behind the wheel of his vehicle..."
He resisted arrest and failed to follow officer commands. DO BLACKS EVER NOT
RESIST POLICE? Although, a common event in black communities, this
incident aroused the mindless black protestors and propangandist media
outlets AGAIN.
As riots continue to swallow up the city of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, more details are coming to light about Daunte Wright, the man who was shot and killed by a police officer last Sunday.
A new report reveals that there was a
second open warrant for Wright’s arrest, this one related to an
aggravated armed robbery attempt.
The second warrant adds to the other
outstanding for failing to appear in court on charges that he fled from
officers and possession of a gun without a permit.
Wright and a high school
acquaintance, Emajay Maurice Driver, were both charged with first-degree
aggravated robbery in a December 2019 incident.
According to documents, Wright and
Driver went to a party about 5 miles from Brooklyn Center. The men spent
the night at the apartment because they reportedly had no ride home.
The next morning, when one of the two women paid the other her share of rent – $820 in cash – the two men tried to rob her.
Per Fox News:
“Wright then allegedly
pulled a black handgun ‘with silver trim out from either his right
waistband or his right coat pocket,’ pointed it at the woman and
demanded the [money], the court documents say. Wright then allegedly
choked the woman while trying to pull the cash out from under her bra,
where she had it tucked away. He allegedly tried to choke her a second
time and tried to take the money…Driver allegedly told her to give
Wright the money. The two men then left the apartment, got into a white
Cadillac, and left the scene without the money.”
Wright was eventually arrested over
the incident and released on $100,000 bail, which was revoked in July
because he violated the condition of possessing a firearm and failed to
keep in touch with his probation officer, according to BizPacReview.
Daunte Wright was another career criminal in the making --- not a tragic figure.
Freddie Gray and Eric Garner
From my post Unworthy Martyrs: Gray and Garner both had huge rap sheets. Gray had 18 arrests. Garner had 30
arrests since 1980 on charges such as assault, resisting arrest and
grand larceny.
Eric Garner, the 350 lb black guy in Manhattan, who resisted arrest was
wrestled to the ground. He was reported to have said "you're choking me,
you're choking me" at least 15 times while wrestling with police --
proving beyond a shadow of doubt that he WAS NOT choking. (how could he
have the breath to say that repeatedly if his airway was restricted?)
The officers wrestled him on the ground but his death was a cardiac
event on the way to the police station. A grand jury declined to indict
officers.
Notice that this same phenomenon, ie., perpetrators
saying over and over again that they can't breath even though they can
speak repeatedly? This same thing is at the heart of the George Floyd
case.
Sandra Bland
From that same post Unwothy Martyrs, Sandra Bland, who was arrested by a cop in Waller County, Texas,
committed suicide three days after her family refused to bail her out.
She became a media darling for the "political correctness" crowd and
Black Lives Matter crowd. The family blamed the police for her death.
But Sandra had a long history of run-ins with cops. According to NBC5, she
she owed a total of $7,579.00 in court fines resulting from five
traffic stops in various Chicago suburbs (including a DUI), and she had
been cited several times for her failure to pay those fines. She had at
least 10 encounters herself with police in both Illinois and Texas in
past years. The words "Failure to comply" was frequently cited by
officials and police.
In all these cases, once facts are gathered, the credibility of the
complainants largely dissolves. In a publicity stunt, funded by who
knows who, Sandra Bland's family filed a lawsuit against Waller County
in order to "find out" what really happened to Ms. Bland. At a press
conference, when someone asked the family why they didn't bail her out,
the family walked out of the conference -- along with their credibility.
You see, a despondent Ms Bland killed herself three days after her
family refused to bail her out. Bail was a modest $500. It's a sad story
really, but for the family to make racist allegations is bad. It's
black people who are the racists in this country!
On July 6, 2020,
AP says that Kenosha County prosecutors charged Jacob Blake with
third-degree sexual assault, trespassing and disorderly conduct in
connection with domestic abuse. An arrest warrant was issued for Blake
the following day. Police knew this.
More video evidence
shows that Jacob Blake was failing to respond to police commands even
after they Tasered him. With guns drawn and police yelling at him to
stop, Blake tried to reach inside the floor of his vehicle. See the
video at this New York Post story. The
police had no idea if there was a weapon in the car. They literally HAD
to shoot him according to any and all police department procedures.
And
in 2015, Blake DID HAVE a weapon in the floor-board of his car in a
violent interaction with police. Basically, because Blake could not
control himself and became an
imminent threat to the officers, he had to be put down like a wild
animal. He, like so many black men, committed "suicide-by-cop" with his
actions and lack of impulse control. This also explains why blacks
commit violent crimes at SEVEN TIMES THE RATE compared to whites.
Unfortunately, the police were totally justified in shooting him.
"Dr.
Baker, the chief medical examiner, had to concede that at 11 ng/mL,
Floyd had “a fatal level of fentanyl under normal circumstances.” He
also conceded that the fentanyl overdose “can cause pulmonary edema,” a
frothy fluid build-up in the lungs that was evidenced by the finding at autopsy that Floyd’s lungs weighed two to three times normal weight.
This is consistent with Officer Kueng’s observation at the scene that Floyd was foaming at the mouth and, as found at autopsy, that his lungs were “diffusely congested and edematous.”
In
other words, like a drowned man, Floyd’s lungs were filled with fluid
BEFORE FORCING OFFICERS TO RESTRAIN HIM ON THE GROUND. And
that was the obvious and inescapable reason why Floyd kept shouting
over and over again that he couldn’t breathe even when he was upright
and mobile.
The memorandum ends with Dr. Baker’s devastating conclusion that “if
Floyd had been found dead in his home (or anywhere else) and there were
no other contributing factors he [Dr. Baker] would conclude that it was
an overdose death.”
Translation: this toxicology report
drives a stake through the heart of our murder case. How do we justify
criminally charging these police officers and explain away our colossal
screw-up?
The handwriting is on the wall. Through all of the rioting, looting,
and burning, the prosecution has kept secret its knowledge that George
Floyd died as the result of a self-administered overdose of fentanyl.
The Chief Medical Examiner of Hennepin County said as much way back on
May 31, 2020.
Michael Brown
From my post Unworthy Martyrs, Michael Brown, the thug from Ferguson, who was caught on surveillance
video robbing a convenience store and assaulting the clerk minutes
before his run-in with Officer Wilson, also apparently had
a 2nd degree murder charge as a juvenile (records sealed).
The grand
jury and forensics confirmed that he fought then charged Wilson. Is
there any doubt that his life would have been a life of crime? He was
hardly the "gentle giant" the media tried to portray. ABCNews, a
thoroughly discredited and incompetentmedia propaganda outlet, continued to
portray Michael as an angelic kid who was going to college, even a day
after the convenience store video blew up all the credibility of all
those involved. The claim that Michael was going to college was a
complete fabrication. He was heading to jail.
From my post Media Circus and Race Baiters Clear Out of Ferguson. Michael Brown Was the Aggressor: The incredible media circus and propaganda campaign has now fallen apart
now that reports that "angelic" Michael Brown not only was the
aggressor in the incident, but he reportedly busted Darren Wilson's
face. This is now (finally) being widely reported.
Of course none of the major media outlets broke this and other truths
since they were so invested in spinning and propagandizing their story
to portray Michael Brown as this "angelic" teenager who is so innocent
and deservedly headed to college. Bullshit! It was the same bullshit
in Trayvon Martin's case -- except Martin nearly WAS an angel compared
to Michael Brown. See below for Brown's rap sheet.
No charges were ever brought for Officer Wilson even after the idiot
Holder was in town to force a 'show trial.'. But the black racists,
so-called black "leaders" and the thoroughly discredited media should have been
indicted instead. The whole incident is just another case of
out-of-control, criminal and hot-headed black men causing a problems
for themselves and their communities. America, there is a black criminal epidemic underway as black "culture" has collapsed along with Obama's economy.
It's getting hard to find a black man in the case who's NOT a criminal
(including Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson). It turns out that the star
witness, Dorian Johnson, who lied to police in defending Michael Brown,
has an outstanding warrant for a 2011 theft and lied on a police report
related to that theft. He was also an accomplice (with Michael Brown)
in the convenience store robbery and assault just prior to the
shooting. Nice guy, huh? See my blog below.
Michael Brown's already has an adult arrest record even though he just
turned 18 years old a few months prior. He is charged with Burglary 1st
Degree, Assault 1st Degree with Serious Injury, and armed criminal
action. Yeah, he was going to college, right? Who made that up?
He was headed to prison -- not college. It looks like there were 4
charges for the same incident: His juvenile record is sealed but I'll
bet you $100 that he had juvenile crimes as well. From Liveleak:
Burglary – 1st Degree { Felony B RSMo: 569.160 }
Date: 11/02/2013 Code: 1401000
OCN: AJ006207 Arresting Agency: ST ANN PD
Once again, the hot-headed and idiot black residents of Ferguson, the
troublemakers that converged on Ferguson including the racist black
leaders in this country and their sympathizers in the media are proven
once again to be wrong, wrong and wrong -- wrong about EVERYTHING!
(ABC
did this same shit with regard to Michael Brown too, posting a much
younger and flattering photo of little boy Brown. Similarly, there was
nothing but sweetness and praise for someone who was obviously going to
COLLEGE!! It was all made-up propaganda. Michael was always headed to
prison or an early grave. Period.)
Nowhere does the story mention his rap sheet of this 'dedicated' family
man, which includes convictions for felony cruelty to children, family
battery violence, false imprisonment, interference with custody, and more. Here's Rayshard's criminal record:
Rayshard was just another low-IQ black career criminal who was incapable
of conducting his life in an advanced society like the USA. This story
is repeated 20 million times over in this country . The problem for America is low black intelligence and their high criminality. It's not a surprise. It's the same in every black community in the world.
The entire black community, and it's so-called "leaders,"are thoroughly
discredited time after time when their "victims" are found to have
caused trouble for themselves. There is usually no white bogeyman -- just black troublemakers in a culturally-collapsed community as far as the eye can see.
