Terrorist's posts depict his flaming anti-Semitism as Israel vows he'll pay

In a shocking turn of events that somehow managed to surprise western media analysts, a commercial flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv was nearly brought down by a man who was merely seeking a peaceful debate about foreign policy at thirty thousand feet.

Authorities confirmed that an Omani co-pilot stabbed the primary captain and attempted to crash the airliner carrying 174 mostly Israeli passengers, including 20 children, in what experts initially labeled a localized misunderstanding over flight routes.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the assault, stating, “As time passes, the picture is becoming clearer. The attacker underwent Islamist radicalization. He intended to crash the plane with all its passengers on board. We are now investigating whether he was sent, and whoever sent him will pay a very heavy price.”

Despite the co-pilot’s extensive social media posting history advocating for religious violence, mainstream media outlets spent the morning investigating whether air turbulence or severe economic anxiety might have been the true instigators of the cockpit dispute.

“This was a person who was willing to commit suicide,” an Israeli official told The Times of Israel. “His social media accounts [say] clearly that he has been radicalized into jihadist ideology.” The official added, “We can’t say for sure until the investigation’s over. But it certainly seems like he was a suicide actor who was probably going to try to down that plane.”

Fortunately, the attack was interrupted when several passengers failed to wait for a properly vetted security protocol and took matters into their own hands.

Passenger Yaniv Hayun described the moment: “The door apparently wasn’t locked, and we managed to open it. What made it difficult for us was the [Indian] pilot himself. He had been stabbed and was on the other side of the door.”

Another passenger detailed how they subdued the assailant using standard consumer electronics, proving once again that wired headphones are superior to wireless models: “We jumped on the pilot with force and tied him up using headphones.”

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz observed, “The serious incident aboard the Flydubai aircraft was an attempted jihadist terrorist attack, which was thwarted only thanks to the bravery of several Israeli passengers who broke into the cockpit, overpowered the terrorist, and with their own hands returned control of the aircraft to an additional flight crew that was present there.”

Capt. Machchhar and PM Modi

At the time of this posting, the suspect had been transferred to the United Arab Emirates for interrogation, while international advocacy groups drafted a stern statement condemning the passengers for using improper physical restraint and unauthorized audio accessories.

Fun Fact: the brave pilot who was flying the plane and was attacked has the name Smit Machchhar. My Indian wife tells me the word 'machchhar' means mosquito in Hindi.

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El-Sayed campaign backed by over $100,000 from dozens of members of group with alleged terror ties

The "Taqiyya Grin"

The political fundraising rule used to be simple. Candidates would promise to keep special interests out of politics, then quietly cash checks from the usual suspects. Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed appears determined to modernize the tradition by proving that "special interests" is apparently just another term that depends on who's writing the check. [H/T Fox News Digital.]

According to a Fox News Digital review, El-Sayed's campaign has collected more than $115,000 from at least 41 individuals who either work for, formerly worked for, or held leadership positions with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, better known as CAIR. That's one way to build a coalition. Another is to skip the middleman and rent a conference room at headquarters.

The irony is particularly rich because El-Sayed has made getting "money out of politics" one of the signature themes of his campaign. Apparently, the money was willing to leave politics, but politics kept inviting it back for coffee and a little bit o' jihad.

Among the contributors were some of CAIR's biggest names, including national Board Chair Manal Fakhoury, national Board Treasurer Eyas Abdeen, national Vice Chair Emad Sabbah, and CAIR-Michigan board member Jukaku Tayeb, who also happens to be El-Sayed's father-in-law. Family gatherings must feature unusually productive finance committee meetings.

Tayeb has reportedly been one of the largest financial backers of the super PAC supporting El-Sayed's campaign. He is also part of the founding committee of the Islamic Society of North America, a group that has been linked to Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood funding, according to previous reporting by the Washington Free Beacon.

Another donor attracting attention is CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad, [aka Nihad Adickwad] listed in Federal Election Commission records under the name Nehad Hammad. The dickwad sparked widespread criticism after saying he was "happy" to see Hamas break out of Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023, while arguing Israel "does not have the right to self-defense" as an occupying power. In Washington, that apparently qualifies as a controversial statement. On some college campuses, it qualifies as tenure material.

The support for El-Sayed stretched far beyond Michigan. Fox News Digital identified contributions from CAIR officials representing chapters in California, Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Washington, Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio, and several other states, suggesting that El-Sayed's fundraising operation has become something of a national reunion tour.

Other contributors include CAIR-California Governance Board Treasurer Rubina Alvi, Governance Board Chair Asaad Traina, CAIR-Michigan board member Muzammil Ahmed, who contributed $11,600, Governance Board members Atef Ibrahim and Dina Ezzeddine, along with former National Board Chair Roula Allouch.

"Taqiyya Grin"

El-Sayed's relationship with CAIR extends beyond campaign donations. In 2022, he appeared at a CAIR event and was paid for a speaking engagement, where he criticized Oklahoma's ban on Sharia law and compared it to the Trail of Tears, according to the Washington Free Beacon. Nothing says "local Senate campaign" quite like re-litigating Oklahoma's legal code through historical analogies.

CAIR has faced scrutiny for years over allegations regarding ties to Hamas. In 2007, federal prosecutors identified the organization as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing case, the largest terrorism financing prosecution in American history.

CAIR was never charged with a crime and has consistently denied the allegations, challenging its designation in the case. Still, the organization has been formally designated or labeled a terrorist organization by Florida and Texas, while the United Arab Emirates designated CAIR a terrorist organization in 2014, a move widely understood to reflect the UAE's assessment that CAIR has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Responding to Fox News Digital, CAIR rejected allegations that it has ties to terrorism. The organization pointed to its "Dispelling Rumors About CAIR" webpage, memoranda stating it has "repeatedly condemned anti-Semitism throughout our 30 years of existence," and statements saying it has condemned attacks by Hamas and other designated terrorist organizations "for decades."

CAIR also highlighted a 2009 declaration stating, "We unequivocally condemn all acts of terrorism, whether carried out by al-Qa’ida, the Real IRA, FARC, Hamas, ETA, or any other group designated by the U.S. Department of State as a ‘Foreign Terrorist Organization."

The organization further cited a National Board statement condemning antisemitism and the Oct. 7 attacks, along with a 2023 editorial in which National Executive Director Nihad Awad said he agreed with CAIR's condemnation of attacks on civilians.

Meanwhile, El-Sayed has continued to draw criticism from Republicans and pro-Israel advocates over various Middle East-related controversies, including campaigning alongside far-left streamer Hasan Piker, his response to an attack targeting a Detroit synagogue, and declining to comment on the death of Iran's supreme leader because, he said, some constituents in Dearborn were mourning. Piker is the nephew of Cenk Uygur, the guy who yells garbage about Israel and founded Young Turks.

Despite the controversy, El-Sayed defeated Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens in Tuesday's Senate primary, surprising many political observers with a much stronger showing than expected. He now heads into a November showdown against Republican Mike Rogers.

Michigan voters will ultimately decide whether this fundraising strategy represents principled coalition building or merely another case of campaign ethics discovering that campaign slogans come with plenty of fine print.

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Trump Pauses Iran Strikes, Believes A Deal is Imminent

WASHINGTON, D.C. — After spending the morning threatening to turn Iran’s military infrastructure into a parking lot, President Trump abruptly announced Thursday afternoon that peace was back on the menu and the whole thing was “all wrapped up,” proving once again that Middle East diplomacy now operates like a New York real estate negotiation conducted entirely through Truth Social posts.

“We have a deal,” Trump reportedly told aides moments after allegedly green-lighting, canceling, then re-green-lighting a plan to seize Iran’s Kharg Island before finally deciding he preferred making headlines instead.

“Based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved, I have, as President of the United States of America, cancelled the scheduled strikes and bombings against Iran this evening,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

“Discussions and final points have been, in both concept and great detail, approved by all parties involved, including the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, and others.”

Sources inside Washington confirmed several Pentagon officials were informed of the cancellation only after seeing the president’s post sandwiched between advertisements for gold coins and pillows.

The agreement reportedly includes reopening the Strait of Hormuz, renewed nuclear negotiations, and what experts are calling “the annual Middle East ceasefire that lasts somewhere between four hours and two weeks.”

“It’s pretty much all wrapped up,” Trump told The Post in a phone call that insiders say lasted roughly the same amount of time as one of his golf putts.

The sudden diplomatic breakthrough came just hours after Trump warned Iran he would strike them “VERY HARD TONIGHT” and floated plans to take over Kharg Island and “assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets.”

“At some point in the not too distant future, we will be taking Kharg Island, and other oil infrastructure points, and assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets, much like we have with Venezuela,” Trump wrote earlier Thursday morning, causing cable news producers nationwide to begin hyperventilating into paper bags.

Trump later explained that conquering the island remained his preferred option.

“We ⁠are talking ⁠to them, and all, but you know, ⁠look, my preference has always been — take ⁠Kharg Island … my preference would be that,” he said on “Fox and Friends.”

“⁠I don’t know that America has the stomach for it.”

Political analysts immediately translated the statement to mean, “Trump still wants the win, but he also remembers Americans get cranky when their sons are deployed to defend democracy in places they can’t find on a map.”

Meanwhile, Iran appeared to respond to the agreement with the traditional diplomatic strategy of denying the agreement exists at all.

“An informed source told FNA Iran has not approved any draft agreement or initial memorandum with the US, contradicting President Donald Trump’s claim that Tehran agreed to a finalized text,” Iran’s Fars News Agency posted to X.

Observers noted this marks approximately the 38th time Trump has declared an Iran deal “close,” though supporters insist that unlike previous administrations, at least this time America bombed something before negotiating.

At press time, CNN was reportedly preparing a seven-part special explaining why peace in the Middle East is actually bad news for democracy.

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Trump admin may be willing to make 'significant accommodations' on sanctions relief for the terrorists

WASHINGTON—In a stunning display of 21st-century diplomacy that somehow hasn't collapsed into a mushroom cloud yet, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Sunday that the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz now depends on "full Iranian acceptance and then compliance" with negotiated terms. Of course, trusting the ayatollahs to keep their word is like the scorpion carrying the frog across the stream, for you fable fans.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, evidently moonlighting as a Trump hype man, commended President Donald Trump for leading "extraordinary efforts to pursue peace" after a high-level multilateral phone conference that rounded up the usual suspects from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates. Sources confirm the call went swimmingly, with zero participants threatening to turn anyone into a parking lot.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio reiterated on Saturday that the main U.S. objective remains preventing Tehran from ever obtaining a nuclear weapon, ambitious stuff, considering Iran views "nuclear weapon" the same way a kid views a participation trophy, as in 'everyone should get one.'

President Trump, never one to undersell a deal, declared that the Iran agreement to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz has been "largely negotiated," which in diplomatic terms means "we're basically there except for the part where they keep lying."

The U.S. may be willing to make "significant accommodations" for Iran on sanctions relief if the nation's leaders are willing to make similar accommodations to the U.S. on enriched uranium, a senior administration official told Fox News on Sunday, in what historians are already calling "the most polite game of nuclear chicken ever played."

The official downplayed reports that the deal could be signed on Sunday, saying Tehran's system "does not move fast enough."

"Our plan is to deal with all of their stockpile of the enriched material," the official said. "We see the Iranians making some serious accommodations on these questions that we didn't see before." And if you believe the Islamic Regime at their word, I have a bridge to sell you.

"If the Iranians make significant accommodations on the enrichment question then we will make significant accommodations on sanctions relief," the official continued.

"Even in the IRGC's own propaganda, they did not talk about tolling the Strait of Hormuz. Our position is quite clear. We don't think that a toll is an acceptable outcome," the official added. 

At the time of this writing, Iran was reportedly nodding along while secretly spinning more centrifuges, and Washington was pretending this time would be different.

And snakes have hips.

If the Islamic Regime of Iran is allowed to remain in power, nothing will have been accomplished and this will be a waste of blood and treasure.

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Iran Claims Virtually Entire Strait Of Hormuz Is Now Under Its Control In Newly-Released Map

TEHRAN—In a bold strategic masterstroke that military analysts are calling “both hilarious and completely insane,” Iran’s newly created Persian Gulf Strait Authority released a map Wednesday claiming control over a massive “maritime supervision zone” in the international waterway Strait of Hormuz, an area so humongous that ships would reportedly be unable to pass through the critical waterway without entering territory now claimed by Tehran.

According to the statement issued by the authority on X, the regime defined the boundaries of its claimed control zone using geographic lines stretching from the Iranian coast to parts of the United Arab Emirates, because nothing says “regional superpower” like drawing on a map with a crayon and declaring victory. It's like a wet caliphate.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran has defined the boundaries of the Strait of Hormuz management supervision area,” the statement said, outlining a maritime corridor extending from Kuh Mobarak in Iran to southern Fujairah in the UAE and westward toward Umm al-Qaiwain.

Iran also declared that vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz must now coordinate with the Persian Gulf Waterway Management authority and obtain permits before passage, or face the terrifying consequences of strongly worded letters and possibly a very angry tweet from the Supreme Leader.

“Passing through the Strait of Hormuz require[s] coordination with the Persian Gulf Waterway Management and a permit from this entity,” the statement said.

At press time, the U.S. Navy was reportedly updating its “How To Sail Through Iranian Fantasy Maps” training manual while quietly loading extra ammunition, just in case the mullahs decide their imaginary lines need defending with real boats.

Bring it.

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UAE tried to coordinate with Qatar and Saudi Arabia to strike Iran during recent war - report

The United Arab Emirates attempted to persuade its neighboring Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, to coordinate a military response to Iran’s barrage of missiles, rockets and drones during the recent war. When those neighbors declined, Abu Dhabi’s leadership was left frustrated, sources familiar with the matter have told Bloomberg.

UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, widely known as MBZ, made several phone calls to fellow leaders, among them Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in the immediate aftermath of the joint Israeli and American strikes on Iran that began on 28 February. Convinced of the strategic necessity for a unified retaliatory posture to deter Tehran, MBZ reached out in the expectation that shared peril might at last produce shared resolve.

Yet his neighbors demurred. This, they insisted, was not their war. 

The refusal has only deepened the strains already visible between the UAE and Saudi Arabia. The Trump administration, for its part, was fully aware of the Emirati proposal and lent its own weight to the effort to bring Riyadh and Doha into the fold.

MBZ sought to frame the moment in historical terms for his Gulf Cooperation Council counterparts. The GCC itself, he reminded them, had been founded in 1981 precisely in response to the threats unleashed by Iran’s Islamic Revolution of 1979. The argument carried the logic of self-preservation. It did not carry the day.

These revelations offer one plausible explanation for the UAE’s subsequent conduct: its withdrawal from OPEC and OPEC+ at the end of April, and its increasingly close alignment with Israel. Left without the collective shield it had sought, the Emirates acted alone. Despite the absence of Gulf support, Abu Dhabi carried out limited strikes against Iranian targets in both March and April.

Iran, for its part, repaid the region with ferocity. The UAE endured the most intense barrage of the entire conflict, with Tehran dispatching nearly 3,000 drones and hundreds of missiles toward Emirati territory before any truce took hold. Last week, Iranian forces struck the key oil port of Fujairah, hard by the Strait of Hormuz.

Saudi Arabia, having declined coordination with its neighbor, eventually struck Iran on its own terms in March. Riyadh then pivoted, assisting Pakistan’s mediation efforts between Washington and Tehran. Qatar, meanwhile, briefly contemplated retaliation after Iran targeted the vast liquefied natural gas facility at Ras Laffan, but chose instead the safer ground of de-escalation. Bahrain and Kuwait, ever aligned with Saudi caution, likewise kept their distance. Oman, bound by longstanding ties to Tehran, was never expected to join such an enterprise.

Emirati and Saudi spokespeople have not responded to requests for comment. What remains is the portrait of a region divided even in the face of a common adversary, where the clearest strategic thinking has come from the smallest and most exposed player. The UAE, at least, appears to have drawn its conclusions from the episode. Whether its neighbours will eventually be forced to do the same is the question that now hangs over the Gulf.

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Iran claims they hit 3 U.S .warships, Trump says U.S. warships crushed the Iranian attack in the Strait of Hormuz

Iranian state-linked fake media reported Thursday that Iranian forces exchanged fire with “the enemy” [aka Big Satan] near Qeshm Island, a strategically critical island in the Strait of Hormuz that sits as a checkpoint at the mouth of the strait and plays a major role in Iran's ability to disrupt global shipping, as explosions and damage were reported in the area. 

According to Iran’s regime-run Fars News Agency, parts of the commercial zone at Bahman Port on Qeshm Island were struck during the exchange of fire between Iranian armed forces and what the outlet described only as “the enemy.”

Other Iranian fake media outlets claimed the explosions may have been caused by hostile action originating from the United Arab Emirates, according to the IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency. 

Despite a ceasefire remaining in place on paper, Iran launched multiple missile and drone attacks against the United Arab Emirates this week, targeting commercial shipping, oil infrastructure, and Emirati territory.

Meanwhile, in real life, President Trump said three U.S. Navy destroyers successfully transited out of the Strait of Hormuz while under attack from Iranian powderpuff forces, claiming American ships suffered no damage while Iranian attackers were “completely destroyed.”

“Three World Class American Destroyers just transited, very successfully, out of the Strait of Hormuz, under fire,” Trump wrote.

According to Trump, Iranian forces launched missiles, drones, and small boat attacks against the destroyers, but U.S. forces intercepted the incoming threats and destroyed the attacking vessels like they were insignificant annoyances at a picnic.

“Missiles were shot at our Destroyers, and were easily knocked down. Likewise, drones came, and were incinerated while in the air,” the most effective and tremendous U.S. president said. He added that many Iranian boats were sent to the bottom of the sea, and described them as replacements for Iran's "fully decapitated Navy."

"These boats went to the bottom of the Sea, quickly and efficiently," he wrote.

The president also warned Iran against further escalation, saying the regime would face significantly stronger military action if it does not agree to a deal with the United States.

"They’ll never have that opportunity and, just like we knocked them out again today, we’ll knock them out a lot harder, and a lot more violently, in the future, if they don’t get their Deal signed, FAST!" Trump said.

Trump added that the destroyers would now return to enforcing the U.S. naval blockade, which he described as a "Wall of Steel."

“A normal Country would have allowed these Destroyers to pass, but Iran is not a normal Country,” Trump said. “They are led by LUNATICS.”

Trump further warned that Iran cannot be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon, arguing the regime would use one if given the opportunity, and anyone with a functioning cortex knows this is true.

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US hits Houthis leading to "heavy Houthi losses"

The U.S. military has been playing a rousing game of Whack-a-Houthi in Yemen, and the Iranian-backed rebels are taking a beating. 

According to a report from Al-Ain media in the UAE, "the US military has intensified its airstrikes on Houthi militia bases, facilities, and command centers in their main stronghold in Saada Governorate, northern Yemen." Saada, for those of you who flunked geography, is a mountainous region near the Saudi border with a capital city of about 50,000 souls living 1,800 meters above sea level—probably wishing they had invested in some better air defense.

The report goes on to say, "The US military launched a new series of airstrikes early Wednesday morning, targeting militia barracks and hideouts east of Saada city and Al Salem district in the same governorate." Locals reported hearing loud booms—shocking, I know—while the Houthis grudgingly admitted to five airstrikes, "including two on Saada city and three on Al Salem district, amid continued intensive US airstrikes." Sounds like someone’s having a worse week than a vegan at a Texas barbecue.

Apparently, the last couple of days—March 24 and 25—have been particularly rough for the Houthis, with the U.S. dropping more than 15 raids on the Sahar and Kitaf districts, plus a couple on the town of Qahza, southeast of Saada. This all comes hot on the heels of the Houthis’ ninth attempt to take a swing at the USS Harry Truman in the Red Sea. Ninth time’s the charm, right? Maybe they should stick to throwing rocks at rowboats.

The report claims the U.S. has been busy, hitting targets in eight of Yemen’s twenty-one governorates. Meanwhile, the Houthis are sticking to their guns—figuratively and literally—vowing to keep targeting Israel and the Truman, which is leading the charge against them. Iran’s IRNA media quoted a Houthi statement saying, "In a statement early on Wednesday, the Yemeni armed forces said its missile, drone, and naval forces struck the targets in response to US attacks against the Arab country and on the 10th anniversary of the Yemeni National Resistance on March 26." Oh, and they’re also claiming to have gone after "Israeli military positions in the occupied Jaffa" with their drone unit, "in line with defending the rights of the Palestinian people in Gaza." Noble, if not exactly a winning strategy.

So, there you have it—a classic Middle Eastern mess with the U.S. dropping bombs, the Houthis shaking their fists, and everyone pretending they’re the good guys. Stay tuned, because this one’s got more sequels than a Marvel franchise.

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As the IDF advances into Gaza, Hamxs has real problems

As the IDF advances into Gaza, Hamas has little left in the tank to stop them.

Since March 19th, the IDF has carried out a multi-pronged ground offensive and has been able to penetrate into northern Gaza, the Netzarim corridor south of Gaza city and areas of southern Gaza as well. 

Cairo is doing a River Dance to try brokering a deal for the terrorists, as is Arabic media, which are good indications of Hamas' woes.

The pro-Hezbollah Lebanese Al-Akhbar, for example, has written about a new “assassination” policy by Israel. This comes after the currently successful, high profile strikes on several Hamas political leaders in Gaza. 

In addition several key Hamas terrorist leaders of units in the area of Shejaiya were eliminated.

Al-Akhbar reports that “over the past two days, the situation on the ground in the Gaza Strip has shifted from the framework of the air operation and military pressure on Hamas to the return of full-scale warfare, coinciding with an assassination campaign targeting a number of the movement's leaders.”

The report says that the IDF has moved its 36th Armored Division to the border of Gaza. It states, “the advance of military vehicles from the northwestern border of the Strip, adjacent to the city of Beit Lahia, the northeastern axis adjacent to the city of Beit Hanoun, and the eastern areas of the Jabalia camp. In central Gaza, the enemy expanded its control over the Netzarim axis, the Mughraqa area, and the southern areas of the Zeitoun neighborhood.”

There are a number of IDF advances and victories listed in the report, which is in contrast to last year when these types of articles would shift between details of killing of civilians in Gaza, to Hamas “successes” against the IDF. 

The most they can now point to is the Houthis claiming they might support Hezbollah. Not exactly good news for Hamas, since the terrorists can’t seem to hold onto any areas as its men run away from danger.

Al-Ain media, which is based in the UAE and is not pro-Hamas, has also reported on the IDF moving the 36th Division to the Gaza border. Clearly these Arabic media, whether pro-Hamas or not, both see the IDF’s rapid advance as a game changer.

Hamas is melting away like an ice cream cone on Joe Biden's bicycle seat in July--they are not holding their ground and fighting and may not have many weapons or even booby-traps in its arsenal. It looks as if Biden's generous donation to Iran is depleted but this is merely speculation.

The good news beyond the possibility that they are losing is that this may soon lead to a surrender, not a ceasefire. The bad news is that if Hamas is not destroyed, they will rise up like stink over a cesspool. 

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Blinken arrives in Israel as US pushes for Israel to stop winning

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel for the 11th time on Tuesday, since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. His mission is to get Israel to stop winning the war an leave Iran alone. Although no new negotiations have been scheduled since Yahya Sinwar was killed by a young IDF soldier, the U.S. is hoping that this may rekindle renewed talks and maybe a hostage deal can be done.

Blinken is set to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and families of the hostages being held in Gaza by the Hamas terrorists. Afterward, Blinken plans to travel to Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE to address regional tensions.

Since Iran launched missiles on Israel earlier this month, the U.S. views the situation as dangerous. Alleged U.S. President Joseph Biden mush-mouthed to IDF troops to carefully consider how they respond to avoid a larger regional war. So if they are fired upon, should they fire back? If they are being attacked by a terrorist trying to ram his car into them, should they try to jump in and take away his keys? If Iran launches missiles into Israel, should Israelis send them a nasty-gram with chocolate? 

However, U.S. officials admit that Israel is preparing for a potential retaliatory strike against Iranian targets, with Blinken expected to caution against any action that could escalate the situation further.

In other words, grin and bear it, Jews. It's your fate.

Blinken says he's Jewish but is he really?

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Oct. 7 was just the beginning Iran and Hamas warn: the plotting sickens

Sinwar before he went into hiding waving goodbye before hiding in tunnels

It's no secret Muslims are taught to hate the Jews and to distrust Christians. It's in their scripture and taught in  UNRWA-financed schools and madrassas in the Middle East. So it should come as no surprise to learn that Iran-backed jihad groups plan to turn the Islamic "holy" month of Ramadan into the "second phase of October 7" and torch the Middle East, as Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant asserted on Tuesday.

"The main goal of Hamas is to take Ramadan, with an emphasis on the Temple Mount and Jerusalem, and turn it into the second phase of their plan that began on October 7. This is the main goal of Hamas, and it is being amplified by Iran and Hezbollah,” Gallant said following a situational assessment at the Israel Defense Forces' Central Command, which is responsible for Judea and Samaria.

"We cannot let them have this, and that means we need to do everything we can to bring calm to the area," Gallant continued. "We must not give Hamas what it failed to achieve during the beginning of the war and [let it achieve] 'unity of the battlefields,'" he said, referring to the Hamasshole's attempts to spark a multi-front war.

If Hamas had its way, they would rename the month "The Ramadan Bomb-a-thon." Since starting the war with the barbaric attack on Israeli civilians [mostly], the violence continued to escalate across northwestern Negev on October 7. 

A total of 41 Israeli airstrikes have been carried out in the West Bank since the start of the war, as well as more than 200 counter-terror operations in Palestinian towns. Jews fighting back after being attacked has angered not only the Muslim communities across the globe, but also leftist students attending Islamic-funded universities in Western nations.

For example, between 2014 and 2019, over $5 billion was donated to US schools by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE. We see the impact this had when observing the anti-Semitism and anti-Zionist demonstrations have been occurring in such formerly prestigious schools like Cornell ($1.2 billion), Harvard ($894 million), and MIT ($859 million), just to name a few.

Judea and Samaria  saw a dramatic rise in terrorist attacks in 2023 compared to the previous year, with shootings reaching their highest level since the Second Intifada of 2000-05, IDF data shows.

Since October 7, around 3,300 Palestinian terror suspects have been captured in arrest raids throughout the Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley, including more than 1,350 who were associated with Hamas, the IDF said on Tuesday.

In the Gaza Strip, IDF forces are closing in on the position of Hamas' cowardly former leader Yahya Sinwar, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing current and former Israeli officials familiar with the intelligence. Sinwar is believed to be hiding in tunnels below Khan Younis, where he has surrounded himself with human shields comprised of hostages taken on Oct. 7 and Palestinians who have been taken in by Hamas altogether.

"It's not about locating him, it's about doing something" without risking the lives of the hostages, one senior Israeli official told the newspaper.

However, the operation in Gaza cannot conclude until Sinwar is captured, killed, or removed from power, officials stressed to The Washington Post.

Speaking at a World Zionist Organisation conference in Jerusalem on Tuesday, IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari vowed to get to Sinwar "dead or alive." 

"We are fighting Hamas from the north to the south," Hagari told attendees. "We will finish in Rafah; it is an important city – there are hostages in Rafah," Hagari was quoted as saying. The city of Rafah is the last Hamas stronghold in Gaza and could be the key to ending the war.

Our very own US Rear Adm. Rachel Levine responded with "Fighting is just so silly."

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Iran acting like a tough guy

Let's be clear, Iran is trying to act like the schoolyard tough guy. They are bouncing on the balls of their feet, grabbing their collective crotch, making hand gestures signifying, "C'mon, c'mon, I'll take yiz all on."

The Islamic Republic of Iran is warning the U.S. that our bases in Afghanistan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and our aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf are within range of its missiles, which makes Iran, its nuclear reactors, its infrastructure and Revolutionary Guard, President and Ayatollah in range of our Cruise Missiles, Tomahawk missiles, Sea Sparrow and Patriot missiles, the war aircraft on those carriers and a whole bunch of angry military folks who saw what Iran did to our sailors.

Not that I advocate war. But all they're doing is grabbing their nuts and acting tough because they're scared.

The Tasnim news agency, Reuters reports that the comments were made on Wednesday by Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander, Amirali Hajizadeh [pronounced: Ayatollah Ali Khameini]. He said: "They are within our reach and we can hit them if they (Americans) make a move."

The commander said the missiles are more accurate than the old ones and could hit the Kandahar base in Afghanistan, the Al Udeid Airbase in Qatar and Al Dhafra base in the UAE.

If we don't shoot them down first.

And then when we do, Iran will begin to understand the power of the greatest military force on earth. Sure, there would be casualties on both sides, but Iran will no longer look like it did.

Iran will look like a gas explosion combined with a plumbing accident.

The sanctions must be doing their job.


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Obama transfers 10 terrorists from Gitmo to Oman

Dubai, UAE -- Oman (not "Obama man") said on Monday that it will joyfully accept 10 of the worst terrorists still at Guantanamo Bay Detention Center right before Obama is ready to leave the White House as part of his threat to shrink the facility he promised, but failed to close.

The U.S. Department of Defense had nothing to say on the matter.

Oman's Foreign Ministry did not name the scumcrumpets but assured the public that most of them are named Mohammad or a derivative of that name, and said in a statement carried on state-run Oman News Agency that they have accepted Obama's plea.

When the Associated Press pressed for more input about the matter, Omani and U.S. military officials were too embarrassed to respond.

The sultanate of Oman previously took in a bunch of Gitmo's 'worstest': 10 from Yemen in January 2016; and 6 in June 2015. Saudi Arabia gladly repatriated 4 scum on January 5th, and the United Arab Emirates took 15 in the largest single transfer of dangerous cargo during Barack's administration on August 15th. 

Allahu Akbar, everybody.

Sultan Qaboos bin Said (his friends call him "Caboose") ruled Oman since 1970. He has been the "go-between" with the West and Iran and has also negotiated a boatload of prisoner releases in recent years for Western countries too stupid to know a dangerous dude unless he exploded in front of them.

Since he wasn't able to close Gitmo altogether, Obama is doing his level best to free as many Islamic terrorists as possible because he can, and because he will be provided with armed security for the rest of his life so, as they often say, "no worries."

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said that he not only wants to keep Gitmo open, but wants to "load it up with some bad dudes."

Mr. Trump is known for his openness, not his eloquence.

When Barack Hussein Obama came into power, there were 242 terrorists in Gitmo. Being the good Muslim sympathizer that he is, Barack pledged to close it over serious international criticism over the mistreatment of detainees. 

The idea that we would stoop so low as a nation to pour water on a person's head who may have merely immolated an infidel to death was just too much for liberals to tolerate.

Fortunately, Obama wasn't able to close down Gitmo because Congress was against suicidal behavior.

The majority of scumcrumpets were sent to lovely Afghanistan, Pakistan (pronounced "Pahkeestahn" by Barack Obama) and Saudi Arabia.

In all, only about 30 percent that we know of, have returned to the battlefield to kill us. The remaining 70 percent have sent their kids to do the job.


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Iranian-back Houthis fire on Navy destroyer

According to the Pentagon, Houthi rebels fired two missiles at a U.S. Navy destroyer during operations off the coast of Yemen on Sunday. They were either lousy shots or missed the destroyer on purpose. I go with the first one.

But a U.S. defense official said that the ship, although was not hit, was definitely targeted.

This bellicose escalation occurred only a week after our Navy sent warships to the area when a United Arab Emirates flagged auxiliary ship was destroyed off the coast of Yemen by the same Houthis.

Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said, "We assess the missiles were launched from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen. The United States remains committed to ensuring freedom of navigation everywhere in the world, and we will continue to take all necessary steps to ensure the safety of our ships and our service members."

This incident is not so much on the Houthis--it's on Iran. They're the ones who gave them the missiles and we need to reassess the nuclear deal and our relationship with these terrorists.

"In the first instance USS Mason employed onboard defensive measures, although it is unclear whether this led to the missile striking the water or whether it would have struck the water anyway," an official told Fox News.

The USS Mason was conducting routine operations in international waters when the Houthis fired the missiles, but an exact location was not given.

"Beyond that, the incident is under investigation, and we hope to have more details for you in the coming days," the official said. "We take this very seriously. We will protect our people."

Yemen's Shi'ite Muslim rebels offered no reason for the missile launches which came after a Saudi-led airstrike targeting a funeral in Yemen's capital which killed over 140 people, and wounding 525 people.


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Hillary's blatant hypocrisy

In her fight for women's health, the LGBT community and the presidency of the United States, Hillary Clinton has reached out to her Clinton Foundation donors, but faces an uphill battle in trying to get their support and win the job as POTUS.

Saudi Arabia, who had "donated" $50 million to the Clinton Foundation said they would not, under any circumstances, support women's rights or gay rights on any level. In fact, Saudi officials made it clear that they did not want to deal directly with Ms. Clinton as she is a woman and considered inferior to men, and the idea of any woman running a country is ludicrous as far as they're concerned.

The Saudis said they preferred to deal with her husband Bill, whose philandering is appreciated by the Islamic nation as they are permitted multiple wives and understand Bill's insatiable sexual appetite.

In fact, Saudi Arabia, like some other Islamic countries, kills homosexuals as prescribed in the Koran. Depending upon the circumstances, the penalty for committing a homosexual act can be public flogging (100 lashes for adultery)  or other strict Sharia sentence.

While Ms. Clinton eagerly accepts money from this homophobic, misogynist nation, she doesn't confront their beliefs nor advertise them to her constituents. 

The Saudis also tend to treat women worse than their camels. 

Saudi women cannot leave home without a male relative as an chaperone, and must be covered "modestly" to ensure they're not raped for indecency or beaten by the "Morality Police." 

Morality Police? What an oxymoron.

Algeria, another Islamic country, donated only $250,000 to $500,000 to the Clintons, but refuse to help gays and any gays caught in their country can get anywhere from 2 months to 2 years in the slammer. If one person is under 18, the other can get as many as 3 years and fined 10,000 dinars. That isn't a lot of money by our standa, about $124, but in Algeria, it's substantial. Human rights in Algeria kind of suck too, but Hillary doesn't care where the money comes from as long as it comes.

Other Islamic countries that have given to the Clintons that treat women with contempt and homosexuals with strong punishments are:

Brunie: donated $1 million to $5 million
Kuwait: donated $5 million to $10 million
Qatar: donated $5.8 million
Sultanate of Oman: donated $1 million to $5 million
United Arab Emirates: donated $11.5 million

Jamaica gave anywhere from $50,000 to $100,000 which for Hillary is "chump change." She makes more than that in a 20-minute Wall Street speech. 

And while being gay isn't a crime in Jamaica, they imprison gays who are caught in the act up to 10 years. 

So while Hillary claims to support gay rights, the LGBT community, and women's rights, her lack of voice against countries who clearly oppose these rights speaks volumes.

The only thing Hillary Clinton clearly supports is Hillary Clinton.



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Muslim Bros. in Jordan shut down

Amman, Jordan -- How horrible; the Jordanian police shut down the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood. The MB is a huge sponsor of terrorism and has enormous influence worldwide and holds a warm spot in the heart of Barack Hussein Obama.

The MB warned that closing the headquarters would "bring us back to the days of martial law with the absence of law and order," but did not explain that what they really wanted was sharia law and the return of Jordan to the Seventh Century. 

Protesting everything

But the MB often does not bother to explain their real intentions to infidels until after they are conquered, the women and children turned into sex slaves while the men beheaded.

The MB in Jordan lost its registration status last year because it failed to comply with new government requirements, kind of like how the Trump campaign failed to comply with campaign requirements in certain states.

The Muslim Brotherhood Society, an offshoot of the MB, was legally registered and challenged the right of the MB in Jordan to participate in coming parliamentary elections, where they hoped to gain government control via their "population jihad" and eventually turn yet another land into a Seventh Century society, where the women have slightly fewer rights than camels and goats.

What Jordan really wanted was to crack down on the MB like it was done in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. 

Miss MB of Jordan holding poster hostage

Egypt is an excellent example of the MB's intention of taking over and turning a modern secular state into a theocracy, forcing men to wear beards and women to wear burqas.

The former deputy party leader of the MB in Jordan, Nimar Assaf (his friends simply call him "Ass") said that closing the headquarters was "a dangerous step, because this group was against terrorism [LOL] and had been part of this country for a long time, and such actions drive people to extremism."

No, the Koran and the orthodox interpretation of it drives people to extremism, you idiot.


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Arab nations now want UN to make the Western Wall Islam's own

Nothing will easily stop the spread of this disease. People are dying from it all over the world. It sneaks up on you when you're on your way home from work, or from visiting your grand kids and suddenly some stranger tries to kill you with a knife or a meat cleaver. He cuts your arm, you bleed profusely, and just as he's ready to cut your throat, another citizen shoots the stranger dead.

The disease is called orthodox Islam; the place, for now, is Israel.

Some people in the West who want to divorce this ongoing terrorist behavior from the actual religion of Islam and refer to it as radical Islam. It's only radical if you're not a very religious Muslim, otherwise it's perfectly Islamic to kill the infidel.

Rumors were told of how Israel had its sights on the Temple Mount which is considered sacred by both Jews and Muslims. The rumors were false.

Another rumor was told to angry Palestinians of how a 13-year-old boy was executed by the Jews. But in spite of the fact that the boy stabbed another 13-year-old boy to death as he rode his bicycle, and then stabbed another adult and was captured, the kid is now in an Israeli hospital receiving treatment. Another false rumor debunked by visual proof.

But to add insult to injury, as they say, there is a plan by six Arab nations to rid the Jewish State's claim to its holiest site. On Wednesday, the United Nations' so-called cultural arm will vote on this claim that the site should go to the Muslims.

The United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt all affirm "that the Buraq Plaza is an integral part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque" and if passed by UN vote would make the Jewish Western Wall an Islamic domain on the Temple Mount.

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded by this disgusting proposal and said "This is a clear endeavor to distort history, in order to erase the connection between the Jewish People and its holiest site, and to create a false reality."

The recent attacks by Palestinian scumcrumpet terrorists that were, in part, caused by the phony rumor mentioned above, that Israel tried to change the status quo at the Temple Mount. So the response by these Muslim nations is to do exactly what they are accusing Israel of doing! 

Historically, the Western Wall is what remains of a retaining wall that was part of the second Jewish temple. While Jews are not permitted to pray on the Temple Mount, by rabbinic decree, they are allowed to pray at the Western Wall, which is the closest they can venture to their most hallowed site.

But the religion of peace, as some dhimmies call it, does not want Jews anywhere near the site. In fact, the religion of peace doesn't want Jews anywhere.

The vote was originally slated for Tuesday in gay Paris, but UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova, a Bulgarian diplomat, tried to delay it saying she "deplores the recent proposals under discussion by the UNESCO Executive Board that could be seen to alter the status of the Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls, inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage list, and that could further incite tensions." She also said "The protection of cultural heritage should not be taken hostage."

As if orthodox Muslims need a legitimate reason to be angry or take hostages.

The draft decision, which refers to the Jewish State as "Israel, the Occupying Power," was circulated by the aforementioned Arab states because Palestine isn't a member of the UNESCO Executive Board. The five-page document has only one sentence crafted to push the Western Wall into Islam's purview.

Sneaky scumcrumpets, so it appears.

The rest of the document blames Israel for all the violence past and present and stresses an Islamic claim to everything on the Temple Mount and screw the Jews if they don't agree.

It's bad enough that Muhammad got bad information when he wrote the Koran (with the help of a scribe who wasn't an illiterate like him), and put Alexander the Great over a thousand years in the wrong era of history. But to steal Jewish history and claim it for their own is highway robbery.

Then again, Muhammad actually engaged in highway robbery of caravans in the desert. 

Now his followers want to do the same to the Jews with their holy sites.

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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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