Blog

What She Meant

By calling yesterday’s UN Security Council’s Gaza ceasefire resolution “nonbinding,” US Ambassador Linda Thomas Greenfield was delivering Joe Biden’s message to Israel: Feel free to ignore this. Israel has obliged. The U.S. had abstained.

Ha’aretz: Will No One Rid Us of This Horrible Prime Minister?

The Likud is running Israel into the grave with a lot of their Palestinian victims. Well, Ukraine has lost millions of people to emigration during the current war. Maybe the Israelis can go and create and ethno-exclusivist state there. I hear they’re really into that kind of thing.

Ha’aretz Editorial Board:

Netanyahu Has Become Israel’s Agent of Destruction

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can now add a diplomatic crisis with Israel’s closest ally, the American superpower – Israel’s protector overseas, which has gone out of its way to stand with it since the war began – to his list of glorious failures. On Monday, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire during the month of Ramadan and the immediate and unconditional release of all the hostages held by Hamas. Previous such resolutions have failed, but this one passed, because the United States abstained instead of exercising its veto.

But instead of admitting that he had once again failed, immediately changing his attitude toward Washington, apologizing to Israelis for the diplomatic tsunami he has brought upon them and resigning in embarrassment over his reckless policy, which brought Israel to the brink of the abyss on October 7, he opted to continue to decry and provoke the Americans.

Following the vote, Netanyahu canceled a planned trip to Washington by a delegation led by Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi. He also accused Washington of abandoning “the consistent U.S. position” and thereby “harming the war effort.” Without a drop of humility, his office even accused America of undermining the effort to free the hostages and giving a tailwind to Hamas. It was just a step away from accusing the Americans of supporting terror, as per the automatic response of Netanyahu’s poison machine.

Hey Don’t Threaten Me With a Good Time

WSJ:

The U.S. decision not to veto the resolution was “a very bad omen,” said Itamar Rabinovich, a former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and adviser to several prime ministers. “If things continue this way,” he said, the so-called special relationship between Israel and the U.S. “will become less special.”

Greetings

The big boss man has said that we can blog, chat and rant about whatever we wish. So, expect to see as much from me here. I most likely will keep most things about the liberty and anti-war sector but I was thinking about sharing short stories, training advice, anecdotes and other tidbits that would not ordinarily go under the category of article.

Also, as I am blogging here directly forgive my English, English rather the Yank version that the good editors here have to convert from my ramblings often. To which I commend them for being supremely awesome.

With that in mind, all the best and watch this spot for coming words.

Kym

But Hamas…

When Israel’s defenders bring up Hamas’s execrable anti-Semitic and genocidal charter, they should be reminded that for decades before the 1948 self-declared founding of Israel, Zionist leaders and settlers had talked about reclaiming and sanctifying the “Promised Land” for the “Chosen People”; supported the “transfer,” by force if necessary, of the Palestinian Arabs (those non-Jewish people who for generations lived inexplicably in the “land without a people”); treated them with utter contempt to their faces (to the dismay other Jews); expelled over 750,000 Palestinian Arabs in 1948, the Nakba; massacred hundreds of others and even poisoned their wells; destroyed some 500 villages to make way for Jewish towns, forests, and parks; and militarily ruled the remaining Palestinian Arabs for the next two decades. Then came the occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip through the 1967 war with its attendant brutality and humiliation.

All of that preceded Hamas’s emergence in the late 1980s. This does not justify Hamas’s horrendous violence against noncombatants, but perspective advances comprehension — if comprehension is deemed desirable.

Trump: The American Empire Personified

That’s why they hate him. He’s just saying what they’re all thinking, but you’re not supposed to do that.

Dave DeCamp:

Former President Trump said in an interview with Israel Hayom over the weekend that Israel made a “big mistake” by broadcasting images and videos of the destruction in the Gaza Strip, saying it’s losing Israel “a lot of support.” …

“You gotta get it done. And, I am sure you will do that. And we gotta get to peace, we can’t have this going on. And I will say, Israel has to be very careful, because you’re losing a lot of the world, you’re losing a lot of support, you have to finish up, you have to get the job done,” Trump said.

When asked by the interviewer about how he would respond to the “wave of anti-Semitism” since October 7, Trump replied, “Well, that’s because you fought back. And I think Israel made a very big mistake. I wanted to call [Israel] and say don’t do it. These photos and shots. I mean, moving shots of bombs being dropped into buildings in Gaza. And I said, oh, that’s a terrible portrait. It’s a very bad picture for the world. The world is seeing this…every night, I would watch buildings pour down on people,” Trump said.

The interviewer then claimed that “terrorists” were hiding in the buildings. Trump replied, “Go and do what you have to do. But you don’t do that. And I think that’s one of the reasons that there has been a lot of kickback. If people didn’t see that, every single night I’ve watched every single one of those. And I think Israel wanted to show that it’s tough, but sometimes you shouldn’t be doing that.”

Trump also took shots at Democrats for the growing criticism of Israel from within the party. “Some 15 years ago, Israel had the strongest lobby. If you were a politician, you couldn’t say anything bad about Israel, that would be like the end of your political career. Today, it’s almost the opposite. I’ve never seen you have AOC plus three, these lunatics, frankly. But you have AOC plus three plus plenty of others. And all they do is talk badly about Israel, and they hate Israel, and they hate the Jewish people,” he said. …

Jared Kushner, who was Trump’s point man on Israel, recently said Gaza’s “waterfront property could be very valuable.”

Podcasts

scotthortonshow logosq

coi banner sq2@0.5x

liberty weekly thumbnail

Don't Tread on Anyone Logo

313x0w (1)

313x0w (1)