Comrade Bernie Sanders wants strings attached for US aid to Israel

Still commie after all these years

Sen. Bernie Sanders (Communist-VT) wants the US to withhold aid to Israel if they don't do what he says: don't bomb so much, limit construction in Judea and Samaria, and get out of Gaza after the war so that the jihadis can regroup, rearm and re-terrorize the Jewish State.

Comrade Sanders doesn't appreciate the counter-terrorism operations in the Gaza Strip the IDF performed last week. He seems upset that Israel isn't lying down and taking what's coming to them. And just because Bernie was born a Jew, don't think for a second that he has any love for Israel--he doesn't, and he wants conditions placed on them.

Sanders released a statement on his website last Thursday where he lamented the deaths on the Israeli side of the fight, and on the Jew-hating side of the fight.

“Since October 7th, there has not been a day that goes by that I am not deeply saddened and distressed by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East,” he wrote.

“To see innocent young people slaughtered at a music festival, children and elderly people kidnapped, and then, thousands of civilians killed, including entire families being wiped out and thousands of children dead, torments me and millions of others who are watching this conflict unfold.”

But that didn't imply that he believes Israel should fight back with equal or more ferocity, just because the. terrorists sadistically raped, butchered and captured Jews of all ages, burning some to death, beheading others, or simply mutilating them while they lived to see the atrocity being waged against them for being Jewish.

Sanders, a parasite of the U.S. taxpayer, then wrote that the U.S. must take action to force Israel to curtail its air campaign in Gaza and to press Jerusalem to allow expanded aid into the Hamas-ruled coastal enclave. 

Funny, but Americans didn't feel the same about the Japanese in the Second World War after they attacked Pearl Harbor, or the Germans when we bombed the city of Dresden. 

“The issue now is to act decisively to end the indiscriminate bombing by Israel…and secure a significant humanitarian pause so that the massive humanitarian aid that is needed – food, water, medicine, and fuel – can get into Gaza and save lives.”

Sorry comrade, you can go to hell. You don't have a clue about the situation, the strategic understanding and the goals of Hamas, Hezbollah, and for that matter, the implications of a future caliphate and how it impacts on all Western nations. 

Sanders added that “this horrific situation” can only be changed by “attaching conditions” to a bill coming before Congress to grant supplemental aid to Israel which include:

• An end to (Israel’s) indiscriminate bombing and a significant pause so that massive humanitarian assistance can come into the region;
• The right of displaced Gazans to return to their homes;
• No long-term Israeli occupation of Gaza;
• An end to settler violence in the West Bank and a freeze on settlement expansion; and
• A commitment to broad peace talks for a two-state solution in the wake of the war.

Now let's look at Sanders' demands and analyze them.

First, Israel's "indiscriminate bombing" is not indiscriminate at all. Israel takes great pains to avoid civilian casualties, and if Sanders didn't hate the Jewish State so much, he would place the blame for civilian casualties squarely on the shoulders of Hamas, who refuse to allow civilians to leave areas in which Israel has forewarned them they will be bombing. What other nation at war does that. Sure, the U.S. did it in Japan in the "war to end all wars" but we knew civilians were still there and we dropped an atom bomb anyway. 

I don't suspect that Israel would stop displaced Gazans from returning to their homes--this was never an issue and Sanders seems to be making it a straw man issue.

If Israel fails to either occupy Gaza or in some way control it, terrorist attacks will continue and innocent people will die. Sanders is typical of career politicians who make policies that never affect them directly. If all lawmakers lived near an international border, you could bet the immigration laws would be enforced.

Ending settler violence in the West Bank will have to be put. on hold until we can get our magic wand fixed. Insofar as settlement expansion is involved, consider the spoils of war--words that could have just as easily come from the mouth of Muslims, as they have for centuries.

Peace talks for a two-state solution is an incredibly good example of the blatant ignorance Sanders has about Israel and the Palestinians. Every time a two-state solution was offered, Israel accepted it to avoid conflict, but the Palestinians refused it. I believe it was offered four or five times--don't quote me--but each time they refused the offer because their goal isn't to settle with Israel; their goal is "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" and thus destroy Israel and the Jews.

Sanders is a fool who then went on to attack the Netanyahu government.

“Netanyahu’s right-wing extremist government does not have the right to wage almost total warfare against the Palestinian people. That is morally unacceptable and in violation of international law.”

Wrong. The Israeli government has a moral obligation to its people to wage a total war to obliterate Hamas and any other terrorist group that threatens the existence of Israel. Did I mention that Sanders is a fool?

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Harvard professor suggested Hamas attack was attempt to hide Netanyahu corruption: gets outed and apologizes

Larry Tribe: professor at Saudi-funded Harvard University

Harvard professor Larry Tribe tweeted/deleted his conspiracy theory that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pursuing a war with Hamas to distract from his own government corruption. But he's now saying he's sorry for the "ill-informed" statement. X users had blasted his bull crap which is probably why he apologized.

Netanyahu responded to the Sabbath attack which initially killed about 100 Israelis by declaring that Israel is "at war" with Hamas. They have also taken military and civilian hostages, the latter being a war crime.

Tribe posted that the prime minister was "wagging the dog of war" in order to keep the focus off his own authoritarian power.

So the alternative for Netanyahu would have been to keep his mouth shut and just take it on the chin, like a good Jew and stop trying to fool the world that Israel needs to strike back. That didn't work out so well for them back in the day.

A large number of X users, even including Keith Olbermann, refused to buy the crap that Tribe was trying to sell and called the moron an "idiot" who needs to "go commit" himself somewhere. And when Olbermann attacks one of his own idiots, you know that person is an flaming idiot. He said of Tribe that his take on Netanyahu was "moronic and indefensible." 

Kudos to Olbermann.

Local Israeli media reported Sunday that at least 600 Israelis have been killed and 1,800 wounded since the Hamasshole sneak attack from Gaza on Saturday morning.

Tribe's post linked to Washington Post’s coverage of the Saturday attack in Israel after Hamas launched several thousand rockets into civilian areas of Israel, killing Israelis as they slept or on their own streets.

Tribe, who evidently thinks he's a mindreader, said that Netanyahu's motivation for war weren't simply about defending Israelis, but an attempt to keep the focus off of himself.

Dave Rubin, a conservative political commentator tweeted to Tribe: "You are a f------ idiot."

Author Ian Bremmer asked Tribe, "Are you kidding me? have you seen what’s happening on the ground? worst take I've seen this morning. and the bar is high."

Defense attorney and conservative commentator Marina Medvin wrote, "You’re a disgusting terrorist a--kisser."

Fox News reporter Julie Kelly posted: "You need to go commit yourself somewhere."

Seattle radio host Jason Rantz blasted the legal scholar, stating, "Thanks for reminding people that you’re the absolute worst person."

Israel needs to go beyond with how they have historically responded to Islamic terrorist attacks. They need to turn a deaf ear to the anti-Semitic criticism they get for responding with greater force than their enemies have meted out to them. And idiots like Tribe need to constantly be called out like this when making such ridiculous claims.

Israel needs to destroy Hamas completely and mean it when they say "Never Again."

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BREAKING: Israel declares "state of war" after Hamas launches surprise attack on Jewish holiday

Palestinian terrorists [aka Hamassholes] reportedly fired thousands of rockets indiscriminately on Israel from inside Gaza on Saturday killing one woman and wounding scores of others. Dozens of highly armed Hamassholes infiltrated Israel and fired at innocent civilians.

The attack was carried out by Iran-funded Hamas on the Jewish holiday known as Simchat Torah and on the Jewish sabbath.

Scumcrumpet in charge of the terrorists, Mohammad Deif, claimed his terrorists fired 5,000 rockets into Israel in "Operation Al-Aqsa Storm." The anti-Semitic POS called for the surrounding Islamic nations to join the Palestinian terrorists in their attacks on Israel because that's where the Jews are.


Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released a map several hours into the attack that showed all the places where rockets from the attack had landed. The IDF suggested that the number of rockets fired into Israel was approximately 2,500, but Hamas is known to exaggerate.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is calling the attack a "state of war."

The IDF tweeted:

Israelis across the country—on Shabbat and the holiday of Simchat Torah—woke up to sirens sounding and Hamas firing rockets at them from Gaza this morning.

We will defend ourselves. pic.twitter.com/S9GN8fld4Y

Maybe it's time for Israel to go on offense and end these deadly attacks on innocent civilians once and for all. If Israel responded in kind, the Palestinians would rise up against their terrorist leaders.

Large rocket barrage targeting southern/central Israel. pic.twitter.com/iQ17tEELpy

— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) October 7, 2023

One woman was killed, her body paraded around by the Hamassholes who killed her, but an exact number of fatalities is not yet known, but it's likely to be high. Hundreds of Israelis were injured in the attacks and this is only the start.

“Hamas made a grave mistake this morning and started a war against the State of Israel,” said Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. “IDF soldiers are fighting the enemy at all the infiltration sites,” Gallant says in remarks provided by his office. The State of Israel will win this war.”

The IDF said that “the Hamas terrorist organization will pay a heavy price for its actions.”

It's time for the IDF to go on the offensive and blow some s*** up. Israel has always gone out of their way to minimize the killing of innocent civilians, but it's beginning to look as if there aren't very many of those kinds of civilians on the Gaza side as they openly celebrate the killing of Jews.

Video has been circulating on social media depicting horrific scenes where bodies lay on the ground in pools of blood and gore, while the bodies of Israeli soldiers can be seen desecrated by Palestinians and Hamassholes as they hunted the streets looking for Israeli citizens to kill.

There are reports that hostages may have been taken — Israeli soldiers and potentially civilians — and it appears that the terrorists were able to steal significant military hardware from Israel.

The IDF needs to end Hamas completely and show them what 'never again' means.

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Jayapal getting the Adam Schiff treatment from House GOP over anti-Semitic comments

Jayapal identifies as a swamp creature

House Republicans are attempting to censure Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) for calling Israel a "racist state." After realizing she was saying those words out loud, she later tried walking them back. She even voted "yes" on a GOP-led resolution stating that Israel is not a racist or apartheid state, but that is too little too late and an obvious attempt for the chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus to stay out of trouble. 

Isn't it sad that we need a resolution to state the obvious about Israel and bite our tongues over the obvious about Palestine and most of the Middle East?

Jayapal said at a Netroots Nation panel in Chicago last weekend, "I want you to know that we have been fighting to make it clear that Israel is a racist state, that the Palestinian people deserve self-determination and autonomy, that the dream of a two-state solution is slipping away from us — that it doesn't even feel possible."

Jayapal's embarrassing anti-Semitic remarks [because let's face it, attacking Israel is a backdoor way of attacking the Jews] came just prior to Israel's President Herzog's address to a joint meeting of Congress.

After she walked it back, however, she couldn't help but take a poke at Israel's Prime Minister: "I do, however, believe that Netanyahu’s extreme right-wing government has engaged in discriminatory and outright racist policies and that there are extreme racists driving that policy within the leadership of the current government."

Reps. Andy Ogles (R-TN), Randy Weber (R-TX), and Jeff Duncan (R-SC) filed the resolution on Thursday but it isn't certain that House leaders will bring it to the floor for a vote. Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has yet to comment on the resolution.

It looks like Republicans are going to use this opportunity to highlight the divides between the two major parties after a boatload of progressive-led anti-Zionist bile was evident among the Democrats, particularly those members of the so-called "squad."

Two committees linked to "squad" member Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and another "squad"-linked and another one linked to the "squad" send thousands of dollars to an anti-Israel/anti-Semitic firm over the past two years, as filings indicate.

Together, these progressive entities combined to send almost $270,000 to Unbought Power LLC, a Florida-based consulting and advocacy firm owned and operated by Rasha Mubarak, a political activist who had openly expressed anti-Israel views on social media platforms.

Another member of the "squad" had also come under strong criticism over past anti-Semitic rhetoric. Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, another overt anti-Israel/anti-Semite, has an ongoing problem with her mouth and brain as she has uttered many comments and tropes about Israel and the Jews.

Jayapal's initial blather was quickly rebuked by House Democratic leaders and also in a letter by 43 of her colleagues who called her comments "unacceptable." The resolution to support Israel received wide approval, however even then, nine Democrats voted against it.

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US okay with Israel attacking Iran military facilities as Biden continues to dither over nuke deal

According to reports, top U.S. officials did not object to a plan presented to them last week by the Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz to attack Iran. This comes as President Joe Biden and his handler continue to be impotent about bringing Iran back to the table for the nuclear deal.


The Jerusalem Post reported that Gantz told U.S. officials that he set a deadline for when the IDF will need to finish preparations for an attack against Iran, the world's largest funder of terrorism. The Americans did not go against Israel's preparations when Gantz gave us the date on Thursday, according to a senior diplomatic source. "There was no veto," the source said.

This all comes after recently warned that Iran was increasing its military buildup in the western part of the country “in order to attack countries and forces in the Middle East in general and Israel in particular.”

“We are preparing for any such attempt, and will do everything necessary to protect our citizens and our assets,” Gantz said. “In its aspirations to become a hegemon, Iran seeks to destroy all traces of freedom, human dignity and peace in the Middle East and beyond. The nuclear program is a means to its hegemonic goals.”

And the bonus is that while they destroy all traces of freedom, human dignity and peace in the Middle East, they get to kill the Jews, their plan all along as written in their scripture.

The former newspaper, New York Times noted that Biden reassured Israel that the U.S. is considering military options concurrent to the alleged president's ongoing failures in the Middle East after his clusterfrack in Afghanistan and his limp response to Palestinian terrorists attacking Israel earlier in the year.

The Times stated:

[Biden’s] focus on military options and sanctions was an effort to signal to Tehran that the United States was running out of patience with Iranian foot-dragging in the nuclear negotiations in Vienna, administration officials said. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said last week that the new Iranian government “does not seem to be serious about doing what’s necessary to return to compliance” with the 2015 nuclear deal.

But the tougher line was also aimed at calming increasingly frustrated Israeli officials. Though they will not criticize the American president in public the way former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did during the Obama administration, Israeli officials in private argue that the Iranians are advancing their nuclear program while betting that the United States, eager to diminish American commitments in the Middle East, will not abandon the Vienna talks for more forceful action.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told the world in September that Israel was not going to allow the Iran regime to acquire nuclear weapons. It's an existential threat and the Jewish State was not going to sit back and wait to be attacked.

“Iran’s nuclear weapon program is at a critical point. All red lines have been crossed. Inspections — ignored. All wishful-thinking — proven false,” Bennett said. “Iran is currently violating the IAEAs safeguard agreements — and it’s getting away with it. They harass inspectors and sabotage their investigations — and they’re getting away with it. They enrich Uranium to the level of 60 percent, which is only one step short of weapons-grade material — and they’re getting away with it.”

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“Evidence which clearly proves Iran’s intentions for nuclear weapons in secret sites in Turquzabad, Teheran & Marivan — is ignored,” he continued. “Iran’s nuclear program has hit a watershed moment. And so has our tolerance.”

“Words do not stop centrifuges from spinning," Bennett said, sounding a lot like his predecessor, Benjamin Netanyahu. "There are those in the world who seem to view Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons as an inevitable reality, as a done deal, or they’ve just become tired of hearing about it. Israel doesn’t have that privilege. We cannot tire. We will not tire. Israel will not allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon.”

Can you blame Israel? They know what's at stake and they're prepared to do what is necessary. The Holocaust is over and they are not going to take it anymore.

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Erdogan bad mouths Israel--Netanyahu gives it back in spades

Istanbul -- Turkey has become increasingly a sharia guided nation and they don't take well to the Jewish State of Israel. Relations between the two countries appeared to have deteriorated Sunday as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Taqiyya Erdogan said that Israel is a terrorist state that kills children. He also said he would fight against the declaration recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital, as it has been for thousands of years.

He was probably referring to the children that Hamas uses as human shields when firing rockets at Israeli school buses. Israel does everything reasonably possible to minimize "collateral damage" while Hamas does everything it can to increase it.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded in kind during an official visit to Paris, calling Erdogan a leader who bombs Kurdish villagers and supports terrorists.

Israel and Turkey had normalized relations in recent years, but the dual flare-ups did not help the situation.

President Trump's move to relocate the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem has sparked Muslims who want to make Jerusalem Islamic and have no historical support that predates the Jews claim to their capital.

When President Trump made the move to use Jerusalem for the embassy, Hamassholes called for 'three days of rage'-- something they do whenever they get the chance--this is the fourth time in eight months, by the way.

"Palestine is an innocent victim . . . As for Israel, it is a terrorist state, yes, terrorist!" Erdogan said, preaching to the choir in Sivas, a central Turkish city. 

Palestinians typically claim victimhood, even after they go on a killing rampage. It reminds me of Flip Wilson saying, "The devil made me do it." Never the fault of the perp, always the victim. Now we have another Islamic leader blaming the victim for being the terrorist--it's ridiculous.

"I am not used to receiving lectures about morality from a leader who bombs Kurdish villagers in his native Turkey, who jails journalists, who helps Iran go around international sanctions, and who helps terrorists, including in Gaza, kill innocent people," Netanyahu said. "That is not the man who is going to lecture us."

No country is perfect, but to pretend that Erdogan or the Palestinians own the moral high ground is as absurd as referring to Osama bin Laden as a kind, religious leader.


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Plame goes down in flames

Photo: Wochit News/YouTube

Former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson tweeted an article in The Unz Review an online magazine titled: "America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars," on Thursday. 

The article claims American Jews are pushing for a war in the Middle East, particularly with Iran. The magazine hawks itself as an "alternative" to the "mainstream media," but after reading the article, it appears that it's more like an alternative to an emetic.

After her tweet, Twitter users were shocked. But Wilson doubled down and argued that her critics should read the article and "put aside" any biases. This appears to indicate that she actually read the article but it turns out she claims she didn't read it very thoroughly.

Her responses were interesting. In one she tweeted: "1) First of all, calm down. Re-tweets don't imply endorsement. Yes, very provocative, but thoughtful. Many neocon hawks ARE Jewish," Wilson said.

Then she used the "I'm such and such so how can I hate such and such?" defense. "2) Just FYI, I am of Jewish decent. I am not in favor of war with Iran, or getting out of the Iran nuclear treaty. There are simply https://t.co/AR3Jsl1yml --Valerie Plame Wilson (@ValeriePlame) September 21, 2017.

After the backlashes continued on Twitter, Wilson walked it back, saying she didn't read the article thoroughly and had only paid attention to its criticism of neoconservatives.

So why did she tell others to read the article and "put aside" any biases?

Finally she said: "OK folks, look, I messed up. I skimmed this piece, zeroed in on the neocon criticism, and shared it without seeing and considering the rest," she tweeted. Then she admitted that she "missed gross undercurrents" in the post and actually thanked Twitter users for urging her to take another look at the article's argument. In other words, read the damn thing.

She apologized and said she isn't perfect.

The article by Philip Giraldi says American Jews shouldn't be allowed to make decisions related to Middle East policy, because neoconservative foreign policy establishment is mainly beholden to American Jews with an attachment to Israel.

"We don't need a war with Iran because Israel wants one and some rich and powerful American Jews are happy to deliver. Seriously, we don't need it," Giraldi writes.

But Valerie Plame Wilson has previously praised Giraldi's anti-Semitic venom. In one of his articles in 2014, he offered strong criticism of Israel and PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Wilson's comment was that the argument was "well put." And if you hate Israel and the Jews, everything an anti-Semite says about them is "well put" in the way you already think--even if you learned as an adult, your grandfather was Jewish.

As it turns out, Valerie Plame Wilson resigned from the Ploughshares Fund last week. She wrote on Twitter:

"Actions have consequences, and while I have been honored to serve on the board of the Ploughshares Fund . . . to avoid detracting from their mission, I have resigned."

Ploughshares was a big promoter of the Iran nuclear deal and even funded programming at National Public Radio that covered the deal. In support of the deal, Ploughshares president Joe Cirincione also used similar rhetoric that was retweeted by Wilson and finally led to her resignation. 


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Israel sends rescue teams to Mexico after earthquake

An Israeli Defense Force (IDF) delegation of 50 soldiers from the Home Front Command headed for Mexico Wednesday to aid in the earthquake relief efforts.

The Palestinian Authority sent nobody.

The IDF personnel will assist in the evaluation of the damage and also help with the actual rescue of individuals trapped under the rubble. The IDF spokesperson said that a field hospital may be set up in the future but there is none as yet.

At least 250 people were known dead after the 7.1 Richter scale earthquake hit on Tuesday. The casualties include at least 21 children who were crushed to death beneath an elementary school that was flattened by the quake, but one child, a girl, has been found alive and was rescued Wednesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office offered condolences Tuesday and responded to a request for aid from the Mexican government. "Netanyahu ordered that aid and a search and rescue operation be organized to leave to Mexico as soon as possible," his office said.

Dudi Mizrahi, head of the IDF's search and rescue unit is leading the delegation and will supervise the engineers on the team. "They will help surveying buildings," and decide which structures are safe to enter and which will need to be torn down, an army spokesperson said.

Israel is frequently among the first countries to provide aid and trained personnel to disaster zones hit by natural catastrophes. 

In 1999, Israel provided rescue and medical services to Turkey after an earthquake struck, and did the same for Haiti in 2010. Most recently, Israel provided help to Nepal in 2015 after they were struck by an earthquake.

The Palestinian Authority . . . not so much as a 'Get Well' card.

During Netanyahu's historic trip to Latin America last week, he met with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. The two leaders signed cooperation agreements in several fields including aviation, international development and space research.

Last year, the United Nations' World Health Organization reluctantly recognized Israel for having the world's best field hospital.


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Jordan king in West Bank seen as message to Israel

Ramallah -- Jordan's King Abdullah II flew by helicopter to the West Bank on Monday--a rare occurrence--as a signal to Israel that he's standing with the Palestinians on key issues, particularly on their shared anti-Semitism as per the Koran, the so-called Islamic 'holy scripture'.

The meeting lasted about two hours after Abdullah was greeted with full red-carpet treatment.

Abdullah and Abbas discussed the recent kerfuffle with Israel over the Muslim-administered shrine, including confronting alleged Israeli attempts at increasing its role there, said Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki.

"This evaluation is very important for us to prepare for the coming stage we expect from Israel and from [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu personally," he said.

Israel denies the allegations by Muslims that it was attempting to encroach on their rights at the holy site, which is also the holiest site of the Jews. 

If you look at both religions, it's Judaism that's accepting of other religions and the right for them to practice those religions openly.  

Islam is significantly more intolerant and has been killing infidels throughout the globe. In Islamic majority countries, new Christian churches aren't allowed to be built and many have been destroyed by extremist Muslims. 

The crisis between Israel and the so-called Palestinians came when Israel installed metal detectors after two Israeli policemen were killed by a Palestinian in mid-July. The Muslims didn't like the idea that they were being monitored--it made it harder to kill Israelis.

Even after Israel removed the metal detectors, Palestinians acted as if they hadn't and continued protesting.

Sadly, many in Israel saw the move as a sign of weakness, and the Palestinians and Arab world saw it as a victory.


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Two Israeli police killed by Arab-Israeli jihadists

"With our without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil--that takes religion." Steven Weinberg

Jerusalem, Israel -- Three Israeli Arabs shot and killed two police officers and wounded another at the Temple Mount, also known as the Noble Sanctuary to Muslims.

The sacred compound has been a hotspot for past attacks over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

But while it is common for Palestinians to attack Jews without provocation, this attack was not common as it was carried out by Israeli Arabs and raises concerns over the possibility of an escalation of violence toward Israel.

The site has been closed Friday for security reasons and will be swept for weapons. Noon prayers, therefore, will be cancelled and will affect thousands of worshipers. 

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas uncharacteristically called Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to condemn the attack, according to WAFA, the Palestinian news agency. He told Netanyahu that he rejects "any violence from any party, particularly at holy sites."

Mr. Netanyahu assured Abbas that the status quo at the site will be preserved.

The weapons used in the attack were brought into the compound by the attackers, according to Israeli police chief Roni Alsheikh. 

The shooting, in fact, began inside the compound, he said, and in response, "a police force charged at the terrorists, killed two and wounded the third. When the wounded assailant was being checked for explosives, he stabbed an officer with a knife he had hidden on his body and killed the officer.

The holy compound is popular with tourists and is the holiest site for Jews and the third-holiest for Muslims.

UPDATE: A Muslim cleric is being held by police for questioning. 



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Erdogan calls on Muslims to flood Jerusalem mosque to protect its identity

Turkey President Recep Tayyip [Pee-Yi-Yo-Kay-Yay] Erdogan has called upon the world's Muslims to fly to Israel, head on over to Jerusalem and visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque. 

It would also be great if the pilgrims fly Turkish Airlines and leave a generous donation at the mosque to support jihad while ostensibly going there to protect the site's Islamic identity. 

Muslims believe that their holy pedophile prophet was transported from the Sacred Mosque in Mecca to al-Aqsa during the make believe Night Journey. Legend has it that Mo led prayers towards this site until the seventeenth month after the emigration, when the Devil directed him to turn towards the Kaaba--the pagan stone that Muslims worldwide walk around and practice stone-throwing for future sharia enforcement.

Erdogan, true to the Koran, never misses the chance to bad mouth Israel and this time he compared Israel's policies to South Africa's Apartheid era.

Speaking in Istanbul, where he threw the bull, Erdogan discussed Palestinian economic development and lashed out at Israel over its settlement plans in the West Bank and Jerusalem, in total disregard of the Old Testament describing how the Jews occupied Israel long before Mohammed was even born. 

"We, as Muslims, should be visiting Al-Quds more often," the Turkish leader declared, using the Arabic name for Jerusalem. "Each day that Jerusalem is under occupation is an insult to us."

He was referring to the fact that the Koran calls for the killing of Jews, and what better place on earth to find Jews than the Jewish State.

About 26,000 Turks visited the Temple Mount in 2016. But for Erdogan, that wasn't enough. As a stockholder in Turkish Allahu Akbar Airways, he said that "hundreds of thousands" should be visiting the site, which is considered holy by Muslims. "[It] would be the greatest support to our brothers there," he said.

"Al-Quds is holy for all three divine religions. It is the heart and summary of all human history.

"Both in terms of our religion and historical responsibility, Al-Quds and the fight of our Palestinian brothers for rights and justice is of great importance to us. We will keep making efforts for Quds to turn into a city of peace."

By 'peace' Erdogan is referring to the idea that once all Jews and other infidels are either converted to Islam or dead, there will then be peace. That's what the Koran says, and that's what extremists believe, and Erdogan is an anti-Semitic extremist.

"What's the difference between the present acts of the Israeli administration and the racist and discriminatory politics that were practiced against black people in the past in America--and up until a short time ago in South Africa.

"Here is the only solution," the idiot said. "The establishment of a fully sovereign and independent Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem as its capital along the lines of 1967."

Which, if those lines were established, would leave Israel totally vulnerable to the Muslim world that wants to see them pushed into the sea, so that "Palestine could be free."

It's a pipe dream to believe that if Israel simply gave up even more land, as it has always done to soothe the angry Muslim souls that demand it, to the Palestinians, that this would end all fighting. No, the Palestinians (aka Hamas) have made it very clear that the only good Jew is a dead Jew.

Israel's foreign ministry responded to the Turkish hypocrite saying that "Whoever systematically violates human rights in his country should not preach morality to the only true democracy in the region.

"Israel adheres strictly to full freedom of worship for Jews, Muslims and Christians--and will continue to do so in spite of this baseless slander."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wasn't originally going to respond to Erdogan's speech, but after he heard the hypocrisy being vomited forth and widely reported by the media, he changed his mind.

Erdogan also warned President Trump that he'd better not dare move our embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, saying it would be "extremely wrong" and "ill advised."

"It is not a simple location change," Erdogan said. "Those who think that way are not aware of how delicate the balance is in the Holy Land."

Sure--but it was a lot more holy and tolerant before the Muslims came and destroyed churches and synagogues there and around the world.

And while Erdogan and his ilk preach Islamic peace and tolerance, theirs is the one religion that has never seen peace and never were tolerant, not even of different Islamic sects, much less other religions and cultures.


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Netanyahu on wall: "A great idea"

"La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froide" (translation. "Revenge is a dish best served cold")  Pierre Choderlos,  Les Liaisons Dangereuses, 1782.

President Obama is gone from power. Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still here. The two men probably didn't like each other very much, but Bibi was simply following Obama's anti-Zionist lead.

On Saturday, Netanyahu expressed his clear support for our current President Trump's plan to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Bibi, as his Israeli supporters fondly call him, said the barrier he had built along Israel's southern border "stopped all illegal immigration" and was a "great idea."

So sit on it, Obama.

President Trump signed executive orders on Wednesday to begin construction of a continuous "physical" wall, being one of the few leaders in history to make good on a campaign promise, which was to keep out illegal immigrants from Mexico, particularly "rapists" and drug dealers.

I think he also meant murderers and other felons, but people nowadays have shorter attention spans.

"Beginning today, the United States of America gets back control of its borders. We are going to save lives on both sides of the border," Trump said.

And while Mexico is still refusing to pay for the wall, while Trump said it would, he's still going ahead on the promise.

Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto responded quickly Wednesday to Trump's declaration. He told his nation, in a national television address that he regrets and rejects Trump's decision, and he is canceling a meeting he was to have with Mr. Trump on Tuesday.

There are a number of cost projections for the wall that range from $8 million to $20 million. If I know government spending like I think I do, my guess is that a wall will cost around $35 million or more, just because it always almost doubles in price when the government is involved. 

But Trump's administration and leadership is no ordinary government. Who knows what price lurks in the heart of the project?  In any case, Congress is running around trying to come up with the money.

Trump also wants to hire another 5,000 border patrol agents and 10,000 more immigration officers. These increases must first be approved by Congress however.

Taking to Twitter, a la Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted: "President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel's southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea."

The difference is, however, Israel paid for their wall, which was finished in 2013 after two years of construction.

But the actual West Bank barrier is not the same wall. That wall was built to end terror attacks and stem the flow of illegal immigrants from Africa coming through Egypt. They were mostly from Sudan, Eritrea, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia and Nigeria. They came seeking asylum and employment.

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Bibi reveals Israel struck Syria dozens of times

Thankfully, Israel has been striking in Syria, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu revealed. Dozens of strikes have taken place against suspected transfers of weapons to Lebanon's  Hezbollah jihadists. Had the transfers been successful, innocent children, and civilians would have been slaughtered by Hezbollah, a terrorist group that has sworn to wipe out the Jews wherever they find them.

Although Israel has remained neutral in Syria's civil war, there is no way they would allow shipments of high-tech weaponry to get into the hands of the slimy Hezbollah jihadists. They just don't like talking about it.

Bibi was visiting troops in the occupied Golan Heights and said, "We act when we need to act, including here across the border, with dozens of strikes meant to prevent Hezbollah from obtaining game-changing weaponry."

In contrast President Obama would have said, had the shoe been on his foot: "We talk when we need to act, especially here across the border, with dozens of action verbs meant to threaten Hezbollah from not giving me me an atomic wedgie."

Netanyahu, who actually fought in Israel's Special Forces, did not say what types of strikes the ISF performed. That's called protecting your strategy, unlike one presidential candidate who merely pretends to actually have one. 

Guess who.

Israel and Russia maintain a hotline to prevent accidental clashes between the two forces.


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Kerry "Surprised" by Palestinian violence: I told you he was stupid

According to Fox News, Secretary of State John Kerry has called for an end to "senseless" violence in Israel and rejects an international presence at the Al-Aqsa Mosque as anti-Semitic tensions escalate.

However, Kerry and the Obama administration never use the term "anti-Semitic" because to do so would be Islamophobic.

For Kerry to call the violence senseless merely shows that he has no common sense or understanding of why these Palestinian attackers are killing Jews [unless, of course, he actually understands but is being directed by the Obama administration to employ moral equivalency regarding the violence.]

First of all, the Palestinians are constantly fed a diet of anti-Semitism; it's how they're brought up from the moment they open their eyes. The children's TV programs depict Jews as evil and dangerous, using the blood of children to add to their holiday matzohs. Their parents encourage anti-Semitic thought because it's the patriotic thing to do. 

Muslim kids rarely meet actual Jews, but the early impressions are powerful.

Second, the heroes of the Muslim mindset are not sports figures nor television personalities, nor are they Nobel Prize winners because there are a disproportionate number of Jews on the list. No, the heroes of the Muslim mindset, particularly for Palestinians, are the martyrs, the jihadists, especially those who have killed a Jew.

They even name streets and town squares after Muslim martyrs who have killed for Allah. Not surprisingly, many of these streets are named Mohammad Something-or-Other.

Third, they have been fed propaganda. They're told by their leaders, for example, that the Jews plan to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the Jews executed the 13-year-old boy who killed an Israeli boy his age. 

This turned out to be balderdash of the highest order and proved false when the kid was shown on Israeli TV in bed at the hospital where he was being treated.

Finally, the Koran [Mohammad's ripoff of the Old Testament and written to suit a militant agenda] is filled with anti-Semitic, anti-Christian claptrap that depicts Jews and Christians as apes and pigs, and prescribing horrible deeds to be done to us. They also have a lot of bad things to say about other infidels.

Kerry told reporters at a Madrid news conference that "We don't contemplate any change, but nor does Israel. Israel understands the importance of that status quo. What is important is to make sure everybody understands what that means. We are not seeking some new change. We are not seeking outsiders or others to come in."

France, the home of the attack where Charlie Hebdo cartoonists were murdered by Muslims for printing an unflattering caricature of Mohammad, has called for action at the UN for an international presence to ensure the status quo at the Temple Mount, the hilltop compound revered by Jews and home to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third-holiest shrine and national symbol for Palestinians, where Jews can visit but cannot pray.

In addition to the U.S. and Israel being against an international presence in this area, Jordan also agrees.

Kerry will be meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu this week to discuss the situation regarding the Temple Mount, and wants to make clear to PA scumcrumpet, Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan's King Abdullah what the plans will be in respect to this situation.

Meanwhile, the violence continues in Israel as  21-year-old Mohannad al-Okbi, an Arab citizen from Hura, a Bedouin town in southern Israel was armed with a gun and knife and began shooting in a southern Israeli bus station. He killed an Israeli soldier and wounded 10 others before he was shot and sent to his 72 virgins.

One of al-Okbi's relatives was arrested on suspicion of assisting him in the cowardly attack. Al-Okbi has no past record of jihadist involvement, which means his mosque is not being monitored.

Unfortunately, an Eritrean migrant was also killed in the attack by Israeli security who, in the heat of the battle, thought he was an assailant. 

You can be that the mainstream media will have a field day with that event.




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Obama calls Putin "weak" but not to his face

President Obama says that Putin's campaign in Syria is a sign of his weakness. 

He might as well have said that "Putin riding a horse shirtless is his poor attempt at making me look bad on my bike." Or "Putin beating my butt in boxing is his pathetic way of trying to look stronger than me." And so on.

In a CBS "News" interview on Friday, our so-called "Commander in Chief" said that Russian airstrikes in Syria are a sign of growing weakness of Vladimir Putin. He questioned whether Putin is simply defying us in the Middle East by attempting to support Bashar al-Assad's regime now in its fourth year of fighting.

"When I came into office, Syria was Russia's only ally in the region," our fearless leader said. "And today, rather than being able to count on their support and maintain the base they had in Syria, which they've had for a long time, Mr. Putin is devoting his own troops, his own military, just to barely hold together by a thread his sole ally."

Obama's philosophy about holding onto allies is likely not lost on Putin or Benjamin Netanyahu.

When Obama was questioned in the interview about the situation where Russia is "challenging your leadership, Mr. President," and "is bombing the people that we are supporting," Obama skirted that fact and questioned whether that was any indication of leadership at all.

"If you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in, in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we've got a different definition of leadership," Obama said.

So how then does Obama define leadership? By not leading the world? By leading from behind? 

Just ask the trail dog on the sled how's that working out for it.

But you must admit, when it comes to running an economy into the ground, Obama is the man to do it.


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Palestine: jihad as usual

An Israeli teen was stabbed with a vegetable peeler and six Palestinians were killed as violence in Jerusalem and the West Bank continues as it has for centuries. Hundreds were injured and police on both sides of the border have their hands full.

Palestinian doctors reported that three Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli military on the Gaza-Israeli border. A subsequent report by Gaza's Health Ministry said that three more Palestinians were killed by Israeli troops after innocently throwing rocks at them near the same border. 

One of the victims was 15 years old and had a long life of violence ahead of him.

Palestinians rallied after Friday prayers calling for death to the Jews and Christians. Pissed off Palestinian youth began hurling stones on the Gaza side of the border and Israeli soldiers responded with tear gas. However, one Palestinian witness, with impeccable Muslim credentials, said the soldiers then began using live ammunition.

Could it be the Israeli soldiers saw kitchen knives, screwdrivers and other weapons that had been seen on previous occasions? Or did the Israelis simply want to show the world how unfair they are, just because their country is surrounded by Islamic countries that want them all dead?

Gee, I don't know.

What I do know is that the Israeli military reported that around 200 Palestinians in Gaza came at them throwing rocks and rolling burning tires in their direction. Nothing serious, especially if you're wearing flame retardant fatigues and don't mind losing an eye from a hurled rock. (And rocks is how they kill women for being raped without proof given by four male witnesses.)

There have been at least four recent attacks--three by Palestinians and one by a single Israeli--and this threatens to spread throughout the country. This has ignited fear of a new Palestinian Intifada (or uprising--Islam has as many words for fighting as Eskimos have for snow). 

Israeli officials, not wanted to scare their people, have "done an Obama" by downplaying the severity of these attacks.

Hamasshole leader Ismail Haniyeh, a man who never met a Jew he didn't like to kill, applauded the stabbing attacks of the teen jihadists and the scumcrumpet called for more violence, as an Intifada. 

This is the same Islamic mindset as that of Iran and the nuclear deal with which Obama has put us in peril.

On the other hand, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "strongly condemned the harming of innocent Arabs," and promised that people using violence will be brought to justice.

Fox News reported that Israel has banned Palestinian men from a sacred site in Jerusalem Old City in order to restore calm. Men under 45 are barred from Al-Aqsa mosque but women of all ages can enter.

As for women not posing a threat to Israelis, the Times of Israel reported on Shorouq Dwayyat, an 18-year-old Palestinian teen, who posted on Facebook she was going to become a shahid (a martyr) and later stabbed an Israeli man on Wednesday. 

Dwayyat a student at Bethlehem University wrote:
"Mother: Where are you going?
Mother, I am going to become a shahid.
Mother, I want to ask a request of you
Don't cry about me, when I become a shahid
#Our greatest desire is to become shahids for Allah"

The Israeli Dwayyat stabbed in the back was carrying a gun and shot her in self defense. He was a good shot.

Dwayyat was evacuated to Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem and is in critical condition.

In a TV interview with Channel 2, the girl's mother lied that her daughter stabbed the Israeli in self-defense after he attempted to pull off her head covering. (Evidently, Muslims believe the punishment for someone to remove a headscarf from a Muslim woman should be death, as the mother thought this was a good excuse.) 

Obviously, the mother didn't know about her daughter's Facebook post.

Meanwhile, at the hospital, several Dwayyat family members had a kerfuffle with police because they were barred from seeing the teen. One family member was detained for questioning.

Dwayyat's terror attack was close to the spot where a Palestinian man stabbed two Israeli men to death on Saturday night. The stabber was shot dead by security forces. 

Perhaps the terrorist was motivated by the Israelis trying to get him to shave his beard.


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Kerry missing at Mensa meetings

John Kerry is either ignorant or simply a simpleton.

I know that is an outrageous thing to say about the Secretary of State of the United States of America--who am I kidding--in Kerry's case, it isn't outrageous at all. When God gave our brains, Kerry was busy falling off his bicycle onto his empty head.

Bibi refuses to play "Rock Paper Scissors"

Kerry and Benjamin Netanyahu were standing in the area along the West Bank where a couple was murdered in front of their four kids. Kerry tried to convince Bibi that the peace process the Obama administration is trying to shove down their throat could put an end to these murders. 

Just how naive does he think Benjamin Netanyahu and the rest of the world is?

Like I said, Kerry is either ignorant or a simpleton, and my money is on the latter.

Rabbi Eitam Henkin and his wife Naama, were driving with their four kids when a car containing two Palestinian Muslims pulled alongside and shot them to death. Their kids, ages 4 months to 9 years were uninjured, if you don't count becoming an orphan as an injury.

"Palestinian terrorists murdered yesterday a young mother and father leaving four little orphans. A gunman brutally murdered nine innocent Americans," Netanyahu said before he met with Vietnam dropout Kerry last week in New York. The Israeli PM was referring to the Roseburg, Oregon massacre which President Obama has turned into a political circus.

Kerry claimed that "our hearts go out to the families of the Israelis who have been lost but our hearts also go out to the people of Oregon too, where we've had our own violence in our country."

Getting back to Kerry's words against the Palestinian attack, Netanyahu said: "I appreciate your strong statement of condemnation. I have to say that I have yet to hear any condemnation from President Abbas and the Palestinian Authority."

Netanyahu went on: "Worse, I heard senior officials from his Fatah movement praise this action. They say this is the way to go.  No, it's not the way to go. The way to go for any conceivable arrangement is to fight terrorism and to make sure that terrorism reaps no rewards."

What do words offer as a solution to terrorism?

Nothing.

And somehow the Obama administration still believes their words have power and magical power at that.


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Palestinian jihadists upset that Israel is preventing them from killing Jews

Somehow the secular progressives in the U.S. are going to find a way to blame Israel (read: the Jews) for treating Palestinians as if they are all terrorists. In Jerusalem's Old City two Israeli Jews were stabbed to death by Palestinian Muslims, and three other Jews were also wounded. Now the Israeli police barred Palestinians from the Old City to protect unarmed Israelis.

Somehow the secular progressives are going to say that this would have never happened if Israel didn't oppress the Palestinians.

The Old City has been sacred to Jews for five thousand years and sacred to Muslims for about four thousand less. Nevertheless, this banning of Palestinians is unprecedented. 

These "lone wolf" attacks on Jews has become routine. Just a few days ago a rabbi and his wife were murdered in their car by a pair of Palestinian jihadists while their four children, ages 9, 7, 4 and 4 months sat in the backseat. Fortunately, they were not killed, but now they are left orphaned by the orthodox followers of this desert religion.

Many in the Palestinian community praised this blood bath. This comes as no surprise to anyone who has read the Koran and understands how Jews and Christians are depicted in this so-called holy book.

In response to the violence, Israeli police say they will prevent Palestinian residents of Jerusalem from entering the Old City for two days of Jewish holiday. Those Palestinians who work in the Old City, Israelis and tourists will be allowed to enter.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has remained mute on the killings but for now is trying to keep violence to the Jews at a minimum, until this all blows over. He and Bibi Netanyahu are currently at loggerheads. 

Hamassholes being Hamassholes

Israel captured the Old City and east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war, annexing the areas. Palestinians claim east Jerusalem as their capital, but are hoping to destroy all of Israel so they can expand on their little caliphate on the prairie.

Israel is the only civilized nation in the Middle East and is surrounded by anti-Semitic nations that want to see it destroyed along with its inhabitants. Somehow secular progressives have been able to twist logic and see Palestine (which, historically, was never an actual country) as the victim in this region.


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Bad Deals: a legacy of incompetence

Touchdown!

While Europe is considering tougher immigration laws, the Obama administration has become almost lawless on the way it deals with this issue. The reasoning behind Europe's thinking is due to the rise of Islamic terrorism and the influx of Muslim jihadists.

It has gotten to the point where illegal aliens are demanding a safer way to cross the border into the USA. See the Gateway Pundit for more on this.

The thinking behind Obama's non-intervention/permissiveness on immigration policy has nothing to do with America's security, but everything to do with his socialist aspirations of fundamentally changing America, and his legacy he leaves behind. Unfortunately, the legacy will be the mess he leaves behind and may prove catastrophic once he's out of office and safely tucked away somewhere.

Worse than his failure to secure our borders, Obama's administration has declassified Iran and Hezbollah as terrorist entities. He stated on VOX that climate change is a bigger threat than terrorism. Perhaps he needs to actually take a course in meteorology before making this claim, but I'll take a 0.02 F degree increase over the last decade than a beheading. And for anyone to say "the science is in," doesn't know anything about the scientific method.

But let's get back to terrorism. 

Obama is working on declassifying the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) as a terrorist organization, which spits in the eyes of the FBI and UAE. It's likely that Obama needs to make this terror-funding group appear to be the good guys because he often meets with them in our White House. He also meets with the Council on American and Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim American Society (MAS). The names alone are oxymorons to what they actually wish to do to our country, which is, to destroy us from within.

Declassify terrorist organizations? It's hard to imagine how the definition of terrorism can be so flexible.

Obama is obviously more comfortable dealing with Iran and the MB than he is with our only true ally in the Middle East, Israel. We all know how much he and Netanyahu hate each other but is it also possible that Obama has caught the latest strain of the anti-Semite virus that has been plaguing the USA?

While CAIR makes crazy claims of Islamophobia, there is far more anti-Semitism being displayed all across America. But Islam likes to play the role of victim while simultaneously attacking you for victimizing them. 

There are many people in the Middle East who believe Obama is taking sides in the sectarian fighting and is refusing to deal or discuss human rights violations that are taking place. He is turning a blind eye all for the sake of a nuclear deal with Iran and this will cause some of the middle class to turn to the Gulf states for help protect their towns, while the rural class joins the Islamic State or Al Nusra to protect their families. 

So Obama will end his presidency with a legacy, but not the legacy he is hoping for. 

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