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He that believeth shall not make haste.Isaiah 28:16
He shall make haste to keep the Lord’s commandments; but he shall not make haste in any impatient or improper sense.
He shall not haste to run away, for he shall not be overcome with the fear which causes panic. When others are flying hither and thither as if their wits had failed them, the believer shall be quiet, calm, and deliberate, and so shall be able to act wisely in the hour of trial.
He shall not haste in his expectations, craving his good things at once and on the spot, but he will wait God’s time. Some are in a desperate hurry to have the bird in the hand, for they regard the Lord’s promise as a bird in the bush, not likely to be theirs. Believers know how to wait..
He shall not haste by plunging into wrong or questionable action. Unbelief must be doing something, and thus it works its own undoing; but faith makes no more haste than good speed, and thus it is not forced to go back sorrowfully by the way which it followed heedlessly.
How is it with me? Am I believing, and am I therefore keeping to the believer’s pace, which is walking with God? Peace, fluttering spirit! Oh, rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him! Heart, see that thou do this at once!
You Make Me Happy | Daily Devotionals by Thoughts about God.
In the movie The Patriot, Benjamin Martin is a loving father who reluctantly goes to fight in the Revolutionary War. His youngest daughter Susan is too young to comprehend why her father has to go away and refuses to speak to him when he returns for a visit. He begs her to say something, anything. But she refuses. As he rides off on his horse to fight once again, Susan screams for her Papa not to go. All he has to do is tell her what he wants her to say, and she will say it. The father jumps of his horse and takes Susan in his arms and assures her that she doesn’t have to do anything. He delights in her because of who she is. He looks her in the eye and says, “You make me happy.”
What a blessing to receive from a father! Receive this blessing from your Father as he kneels down to look you in the eye and say, “You make me happy.”
Listen with your spirit to Ephesians 1:3-6.
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will- to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.”
Precious one, receive the defining love and grace of your God and Father of your Lord Jesus Christ.
You existed in God’s heart from eternity as a precious being before time was. You abide in his everlasting love that adopted you as his child through Jesus Christ.
Be blessed to hear your Father speak his blessings to you.
Be blessed to discover many deposits of his blessings in your inner being. Let them trickle down to soul, heart, emotions, will.
Be blessed to live and move in tune with your Father’s heart for your identity, legitimacy, and birthright. Jesus living in you is the unique glory of your life. He created you for the praise of his glorious grace. This is God’s final word on who you are. Be blessed as you receive all the good gifts of life-giving incarnation from the Spirit of the Life-giver in you. Receive his faith, hope, and love.
Your life is like a treasure map, and you are on a journey of discovery of your true identity, legitimacy, and confident freedom. Feel God’s light shining upon you, revealing the seven colors of the rainbow of his covenant to you.
Be blessed as your God and Father creates new pathways of significance where none has consciously existed.
Be blessed as you discover how the seven colors of God’s covenant are displayed in you.
Be blessed with deepening significance that you can sense should be there. Receive the gentle voice of your Father speaking in the core of your essence, “You are my beloved.”
Don’t find your identity and legitimacy from any human person, thing, or accomplishment. Only your spirit connection with your Father is significant to your identity and legitimacy. That’s the truth of your life. Claim it, and live it.
Precious one, be blessed as you live your life as a redeemed eternal child of your eternal Father. His will for you is that you know that you are beautiful, his own special creation.
Be blessed to know that he determined for you an appointed place and time and purpose and that in him you live and move and have your being (Acts 17:26,28).
Be blessed to live and move in tune with your Father’s heart for your identity, legitimacy, calling, authority, and birthright. Today is the day of his favor for you.
Be blessed as you stand tall in all your legitimacy as a covenant right from your Father the King.
Be blessed as you choose to live from his heart and in your authority in him. Be blessed in Jesus’ name as a child of his God and Father (Ephesians 1:3).
Be blessed in the name of the Spirit of adoption (Romans 8:15 NKJV – Spirit of sonship in NIV).
by Sylvia Gunter
used by permission
Further Reading
• Seven-fold Blessing – by Sylvia Gunter
• Blessed are the Merciful – by Bill Bright
• God’s Blessings – by Alec Niemi
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19 Oct 2023 News Briefing
IDF reports missiles and gunfire at Lebanese border
Israel’s northern border with Lebanon heated up again on Wednesday afternoon after a brief period of quiet, with the Israel Defense Forces reporting another round of rockets and anti-tank missile fire. The IDF said that nine rockets were launched from Lebanon at the Kiryat Shmona area in northern Israel around 5:30 p.m. At least one rocket impacted in an open area inside the city of Kiryat Shmona; four more were intercepted by the Iron Dome air-defense system.
Taliban to join China’s Belt and Road Forum in Beijing
Highlighting Beijing’s growing official relations with the group, Taliban spokesman Akhundzada Abdul Salam Jawad said this week that the group will attend China’s Belt and Road Forum next week. Since taking control of Afghanistan two years ago following the withdrawal of US and other foreign forces, the Taliban has not been formally recognized by any world government.
Putin, Xi In Beijing Pitch For ‘Alternative World Order’ As Biden Departs A Burning Middle East
As a Rabobank note has highlighted, the main theme on display during Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin’s Wednesday talks in Beijing was one of “common threats” bringing the two “dear friends” closer, according to a press readout. “We discussed in detail the situation in the Middle East.” He added: “I informed Chairman (Xi) about the situation that is developing on the Ukrainian track, also quite in detail.” The Russian leader then emphasized: “All these external factors are common threats, and they strengthen Russian-Chinese interaction.”
French authorities evacuate 6 airports across the country in multiple bomb scares
French authorities evacuated six airports across the country on Wednesday, after emailed “threats of attack”, a police source told AFP, the latest in a series of terror incidents since the outbreak of a war between Israel and Hamas.
FDA Finds ‘Signal’ For Seizures Among COVID-19 Vaccinated Toddlers
Seizures/convulsions “met the statistical threshold for a signal” in children aged 2 to 4 following receipt of a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine and children aged 2 to 5 following receipt of a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, researchers with the FDA and three large healthcare companies said in a new … study.
US Vetoes UN Resolution For Gaza Ceasefire As Biden Visit Fails To Calm Fears Of Wider War
The big controversy out of the UN Security Council on Wednesday is that the US vetoed a draft resolution calling for a humanitarian pause in Gaza, as Israeli airstrikes continue and ground forces are reportedly still staging for an invasion.
Egypt’s Sisi rejects transfer of Gazans, discusses aid with Biden
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Wednesday that Egyptians in their millions would reject the forced displacement of Palestinians into Sinai, adding that any such move would turn the Egyptian peninsula into a base for attacks against Israel.
An Appeal To Pastors: Don’t Keep Silent On Israel
No One Can Say They Didn’t Know Has there not been wall-to-wall coverage on all media outlets, day and night, for days? Can anybody claim they didn’t know? There were demonstrations demanding that we should “gas the Jews.” The scenario could expand to a Mideast war. Some are saying World War III is at hand. We have evil at a new level on display. And yet the silence of some shepherds is deafening!
IDF strikes Hezbollah in Lebanon, Biden secures aid to Gaza
Military reports hitting ‘terror targets’ in Lebanon; ‘I did it,’ POTUS says after agreeing with Egypt’s Sisi to open Rafah crossing to allow passage of 20 trucks carrying humanitarian aid to Palestinian enclave; UK PM Sunak to arrive in Israel on Thursday
‘This Is Not the Moment’: US Ambassador to Israel Nominee Opposes Iran Negotiations for Now
The Biden administration’s nominee to become the next US ambassador to Israel on Wednesday told a Senate hearing that he was opposed to negotiating with Iran at this time.
France and the whole free world should feel they are under attack, he said.
Five leaders of the murderous Hamas terrorist organization are left in the IDF’s crosshairs.
Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif, Ismael Haniyeh, Khaled Mash’al, and Salah al-Arouri.
Hamas war is a battle between radical Islam and democracy -Fmr. French PM
France must stand by Israel not only now, right after the murderous attack by Hamas, but also in the coming days, when a ground operation starts, as an international communication battle is surely set to be launched against Israel, … France and the whole free world should feel they are under attack, he said.
NYU Law Student Bar Association President Loses Job Offer After Blaming Israel for Hamas Terror Attack
New York University (NYU) Law’s Student Bar Association (SBA) president is facing widespread criticism and apparently lost a job offer at a law firm for stating in a newsletter that Israel was to blame for Saturday’s Hamas terror attack.
EU walks back call to cut funding to Palestinians, triples aid instead
European Union announces humanitarian air corridor to Gaza, triples aid to Palestinians after initially vowing to freeze funding.
Escalating terror risk’ – Israelis told to leave Turkey immediately
On Wednesday, Turkey’s warning level for Israeli tourists was raised to level 4 – the highest possible designation – and Israeli authorities urged citizens in the country to return to Israel as quickly as possible.
Foreign Minister: When war is over, Hamas will be gone and Gaza itself will shrink
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen warned on Wednesday evening that by the time the war was over Hamas would no longer exist and Gaza itself would decrease in size. “At the end of this war, not only will Hamas no longer be in Gaza, but the Gaza territory will also shrink,” he told Army Radio.
‘Russia will exploit Gaza war to derail Saudi peace’
Riyadh-Jerusalem normalization would pose a serious challenge to the interests of Russia, Iran and China in the region, … More vexing for Israel is Russia’s ties with Iran, which have strengthened since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Community Security Trust: UK antisemitism up 581% after Hamas terror attacks
Following Hamas’s brutal attacks on Oct. 7, killing more than 1,400 Israelis and injuring and kidnapping many others, antisemitic incidents were up 581% in the United Kingdom, compared to the same dates in 2022.
Delusional, or prophetic? One IDF general warned a massacre would happen
Most dismissed retired IDF general Yitzhak Brick’s warning earlier this year of a Hamas invasion. Now Netanyahu wants his advice on how to win. Yitzhak Brick might be the only Israeli military official to see what was coming. And he’s been warning of it for some time.
Prophecy Watchers Psalm 83
While it does not yet meet the full criteria of the prophetic Psalms 83 war, the present conflict in Israel shows every sign of checking all those boxes in short order. But, when she does enter Gaza by ground, it will be perceived as a game changer for her surrounding foes. Likely one or more of them will see this as the excuse they need and want to formally jump into the conflict.
The solar eclipse and the attack on Israel
As the horrific Hamas attack against Israel on Saturday captured the world’s attention, an event with dire prophetic implications took place with little fanfare’ a Ring of Fire solar eclipse passed over the United States.
Are there Civilians in Gaza?
The terrorists that entered one of the communities were equipped with maps, detailing the location of each home, the names of the families in each home and details of their residents. They had gotten the information from a Gazan who was a regular employee of families in that community. He had done all kinds of handy work, painting homes, refurbishing homes, fixing things. And he was so friendly. Everyone liked Ahmed.
Three reasons Biden’s visit to Israel was big boost of superpower support – but will Biden stick with us for the long haul?
I don’t agree with U.S. President Joe Biden on almost any of his domestic or foreign policies. But when he does the right thing, I’m not afraid to say so. And Biden did the right thing today. He became the first American president to visit Israel during a time of war.
Storm Babet triggers UK’s first Red warning for rain since 2020
Storm Babet is forecasted to bring heavy rains and severe winds over parts of Ireland on Wednesday, October 18, 2023, and the United Kingdom on Thursday and Friday, October 19 and 20, triggering the UK’s first Red warning for rain since February 2020.
Strong winds and heavy rainfall wreak havoc in eastern Mexico’s Veracruz State
One person was killed in Coatzacoalcos City, and over 700 houses were affected by floods in Veracruz State, Mexico, due to heavy rainfall and strong winds over the past few days. Additionally, a new tropical cyclone named Norma is expected to approach Baja California Sur on October 22 – 23, 2023.
Over 3,000 attend revival at Ark. high school football stadium
More than 3,000 people, mostly teenagers, attended a revival gathering organized by the Fellowship of Christian Athletes at a high school football stadium in Arkansas.
How the UN Helps Hamas Promote its Lies
Fortunately, Israel will not be cowed by the opinions of the so-called “international community,” which too often gives the benefit of the doubt to the Palestinian terrorists who lie every time they open their mouths and murder more civilians
Was this Planned? Ammo Manufacturer Plant Explosion Leaves Many Worried
A Hornady plant in Nebraska had an explosion that resulted in one woman’s death and two others’ injuries. Hornady is a leading ammo cartridges, components, and handloading equipment manufacturer.
The World Is Completely Going Mad
As I was walking to my office to write this article, I quietly uttered the phrase “the world is completely going mad” to myself. Just about every form of evil that you can possibly imagine is exploding all around us, and now “war fever” is sweeping across the entire globe. Unfortunately, the people that want war are going to get exactly what they have been clamoring for, and the consequences are going to be extremely bitter.
FEDS Issue Emergency Alert After Largest Cyber Attack Ever Hits Internets Backbone
In the first video at the bottom of this story, videographer ‘Off Grid with Patrick Humphrey’ talks with us about this MSN story reporting internet behemoths Google, Amazon and Cloudflare recently weathered the internet’s largest-known denial of service attack EVER and are sounding the alarm over a new technique they warn could easily cause widespread disruption.
The U.S. Prepares To Use Military Force Against Hezbollah If It Joins The War Against Israel
We are witnessing an old-fashioned standoff in the Middle East right now. The IDF was supposed to have sent thousands of troops storming into Gaza by now, but threats from Hezbollah and Iran have caused Israeli officials to pause. Do the Israelis really want to fight an extremely bloody two front war?
The US Military Is Laying the Groundwork to Reinstitute the Draft
…The context for this supposed need to reinstate conscription is the estimate that were the US to enter into a large-scale conflict, every day it would likely suffer thirty-six hundred casualties and require eight hundred replacements, again per day. The report notes that over the course of twenty years in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US suffered fifty thousand casualties, a number which would likely be reached in merely two weeks of large-scale intensive combat.
Stanford University Instructor Made Jewish Students Stand in a Corner While Downplaying Holocaust and Calling Israel a “Colonizer”
An instructor at Stanford University has been suspended for his abhorrent treatment of Jewish students, in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attacks on civilians, during a required undergraduate course called “Civil, Liberal and Global Education.” The university’s president and provost called the incident an “identity-based targeting” of students.
WORLD WAR III WATCH: Terrorist Group Hezbollah Calls for “Day of Unprecedented Anger” Against Israel amid Biden’s Visit
Hezbollah, the Iran-backed terrorist organization, has called for a “day of unprecedented anger” against President Joe Biden’s planned visit to Israel.
Sadiq Khan: removing meat from your diet!
The London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has now signed up every Londoner to a low meat 2,500 calorie per day diet!
Global Jew Hunt
As we witness the erosion of classically liberal societies and the rising tide of antisemitism, it becomes evident that leftist influences have played a significant role in fostering not only divisions but also the spread of Islamic hatred towards Jews.
HUNDREDS of Muslim Migrants Protest and Riot in Greece After News Breaks About Gaza Hospital Bombing – Demand Entry into Europe!
HUNDREDS of illegal economic migrants protested and rioted at the Samos asylum center in Greece after news broke about the Hamas hospital bombing on Wednesday. The protesters chanted and demanded entry into Europe. And the European leadership is stupid enough to let them in.
Planned Parenthood Fundraises Off Gaza Fight For Its Own Killing
The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) reported last week that its Palestinian Family Planning and Protection Association (PFPPA) building in Gaza was demolished by an Israeli airstrike. In response, IPPF came out with a fundraising request.
The incoming New Zealand parliament needs to be different to the last one
…roughly 570,000 “special votes” – those cast from overseas, or outside a voter’s electorate – are still being counted, with the final results due on 3 November. Should those votes, which tend to favour the left, chip down National or Act’s numbers, it would force the pair to cut a deal with New Zealand First.
Small Town Sees Two Churches Hit with Arson Attacks in a Single Night
Brocton law enforcement in New York are investigating alleged acts of arson that occurred on Monday at the Tri-Church Parish and Fellowship Church.
Headlines – 10/19/2023
Intel shows Israel ‘not responsible’ for Gaza hospital blast, White House says
Commentary: Haters won’t be swayed, but Hamas lies about Gaza hospital blast are being exposed
Arab press largely unswayed by Israeli evidence terror rocket caused hospital blast
Media Repeat Hamas Propaganda on Hospital Blast, Israel Shows Evidence Terrorist Rocket Responsible
MSNBC’s Bash: ‘Irresponsible’ Media’s Rush to Judgment on Hospital Blast Caused Protests
“This is genocide, not war”: Gaza destruction sparks protests across world
World Leaders Incite Riots Against U.S., Israel by Spreading Hamas Lies on Hospital
Marjorie Taylor Greene to seek censure of ‘terrorist sympathizer’ Tlaib over Capitol Hill protest
Sen. Fetterman Scolds ‘Colleagues’ Blaming Israel for Gaza Blast
MTG’s Secret Snapshots of Pro-Palestine Protesters’ Phones During ‘Insurrection’ Go Viral
Iran urges Muslim countries to sanction Israel after Gaza hospital strike
Turkey announces three days of mourning following Gaza Hospital strike
Egypt declares 3 days of national mourning for Gaza hospital victims
Iraq announces three days mourning for Gaza hospital massacre
Troops hurt after drones attack US bases in Iraq as tensions flare after Gaza hospital strike
In Tel Aviv, Biden pins blame for Gaza hospital blast on ‘the other team’
Biden: “I’m not suggesting that Hamas deliberately did it… [They] gotta learn how to shoot straight”
Biden to Israelis: ‘Justice must be done,’ but don’t let rage guide wartime decisions
Biden Warns Israelis Not To Repeat The Mistakes The U.S. Made After 9/11
Biden: World did nothing in the Holocaust. We will not stand by and do nothing again
Taking a rare step, Biden to deliver Oval Office address about Israel
Blinken calls Abbas after PA leader snubs summit with Biden
Arab Leaders ‘Playing With Fire’ by Snubbing Biden After Gaza Hospital Strike: Former Trump Advisor
‘Great damage has been done’: Arab American leaders privately confront Biden administration
Analysis: Biden’s Embrace of Israel Sets Him on a Collision Course With the Arab World
‘Breaking Biden’ Author: All the Ways Joe Biden Has Harmed Israel
Biden’s Meeting with Netanyahu Called ‘Really Embarrassing’ as He Goes Off-Script and Forgets Quote
Biden Makes Up Story About Meeting With Israeli PM Prior to Six-Day War in ’67
USS Mount Whitney heading to Eastern Mediterranean
Joe Bidens Carriers And Troops Send A Signal Of Force If Diplomacy Fails
US law requires Biden to impose sanctions on Hamas for using human shields
Biden admin unveils sanctions on Hamas financing, Iran’s missile programs
Jill Biden Celebrates U.S. Rejoining Anti-Israel UNESCO as Terrorists Attack Israel
Biden admin sends $100 million to Hamas-ruled Gaza
Donald Trump Rips Biden’s $100 Million Giveaway to Palestine as ‘Totally Inappropriate’
DeSantis urges GOP candidates to oppose Biden admin aid to Gaza: ‘Gift to Hamas’
Israel to allow aid into Gaza via Egypt border crossing
Families of hostages slam government decision to allow aid to Gaza via Egypt
Biden praises Netanyahu, Sissi on Gaza humanitarian aid deal: They ‘stepped up’
IDF repeats call to evacuate Gazans amid global pressure to provide aid
US vetoes Security Council call for ‘humanitarian pause’ in Israel-Hamas war
US vetoes Gaza war UN resolution that doesn’t stress Israeli right to self-defense
Urban Warfare in Gaza the ‘Most Difficult Combat Environment on the Planet,’ Says Military Expert
Israel and Hamas ‘cannot coexist’ under any circumstances, IDF spokesman says
Australian ministers say Palestinians are being ‘collectively punished’ for Hamas barbarism
Al-Sisi warns Gaza exodus to Egypt would risk West Bank displacement to Jordan
Northern border heats up with fresh rocket fire, Hezbollah attacks on IDF posts
Israel strikes Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, military says
IDF says senior terror leader killed as it steps up airstrikes in Gaza
US military completes first Iron Dome tests on American soil
‘I Couldn’t Shift Anything’: Senior State Department Official Resigns Over Biden’s Gaza Policy
Pro-Palestinian Insurrectionists Occupy Federal House Office Building in Washington DC
Protesters on Capitol Hill call for Israel-Gaza cease-fire, hundreds arrested
Pro-Palestinian Leftists Interrupt – Shut Down Senate Hearing
Starbucks sues workers union after pro-Hamas posts lead to public boycott
Trans prof at Chicago university says Israelis are ‘savages’ in unhinged rant
Police chief to Arab Israelis: ‘You want to support Gaza, I’ll put you on a bus there’
Top law firm rescinds job offers to Harvard, Columbia students linked to anti-Israel letters
Alan Dershowitz Says Hamas-Supporting Harvard Students Should be Treated Like the KKK
Colleges taught my generation to hate America. Are we surprised that they hate Israel too?
Iconic Jewish NYC deli vandalized with swastika after pro-Israel social media posts
In London, Jews Hide Their Faith While Islamophobic Graffiti Targets Muslims
Germany’s chancellor condemns firebomb attack on Berlin synagogue, vows protection for Jews
Historic synagogue in Tunisia heavily damaged in rioting tied to Israel-Hamas war
Meta to limit some Facebook comments on Israeli, Palestinian posts
Pro-Hamas extremists and neo-Nazis flood social media with calls for violence
Rioters set fire to US Embassy in Beirut after Hezbollah calls for ‘day of rage’
Americans warned ‘do not travel’ to Lebanon as part of Beirut embassy set on fire
US, Israeli Embassies In Argentina Evacuated After Bomb Threats: Report
Emerging threats in Europe spark security concerns in wake of Israel-Hamas war
Israel-Hamas War Spillover In France? Six French Airports Evacuated After Attack Threat
Airports across France evacuated after bomb threats sparking travel chaos for millions
North Korea Possibly Involved in Hamas Attack on Israel: South Korean Military
Iran Sends Ominous 3-Word Warning: “Time is up.” – Israel Responds with a GIF
Sen. Blackburn: Iran Ramping Up Terrorism Funding
US military intercepts 2 attack drones targeting Iraq air base where American troops are located
Putin sends jets with hypersonic missiles to patrol Black Sea
Putin touts solidarity with China in Xi’s pitch for new world order as crisis grips Middle East
Russian lawmakers vote to scrap ratification of nuclear test ban treaty
US Releases Declassified Images of ‘Unsafe’ Encounters With Chinese Fighter Jets
China Aggressively Intercepted US Military Aircraft 180 Times in Two Years, Pentagon Says
MI5 head warns of ‘epic scale’ of Chinese espionage
Reporter is ‘shocked’ after Nebraska governor dismisses her as being ‘from Communist China’
Myanmar junta kills 29 displaced civilians in bomb attack in Kachin
The 30-year fixed mortgage rate just hit 8% for the first time since 2000 as Treasury yields soar
Jim Jordan loses second vote for House speaker amid steep GOP opposition
With Jordan slipping, House could make McHenry a temporary speaker
Dem rep: 199 Republicans voted for ‘Insurrection Caucus’ leader for speaker
Pelosi Launches Vicious Attack on Jim Jordan, Calls Speaker Vote an “Assault on Democracy”
‘Put the Oval Office’ wherever he is: Trump fans say they’d back him as president from prison
Trump Lashes Out At AG Over Fraud Case – And Posts Link To Her Home Address After Gag Order
‘Screaming’ Court Staffer Arrested, Trump Told to Simmer Down in Dramatic NY Trial
State Lawyer Tells Judge To Silence Trump After He Interrupts Witness in Heated Fraud Trial Exchange
Poll finds support for exploring alternatives to democracy, using violence to stop opponents
Musk Considering Taking X Out Of Europe Amid Probe
Who Counts as a Disaster Prepper These Days? Lots of Us
“Devil Comet” 3x The Size of Mount Everest Makes Way to Earth
5.5 magnitude earthquake hits the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge
5.3 magnitude earthquake hits the Kermadec Islands region
5.2 magnitude earthquake hits near Yigo Village, Guam
5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Izu Islands, Japan region
5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Katsuren-haebaru, Japan
4.2-magnitude quake hits near Isleton, is felt across Sacramento region and Bay Area
Bezymianny volcano on Kamchatka, Russia erupts to 23,000ft
Popocateptl volcano in Mexico erupts to 22,000ft
Ruiz volcano in Colombia erupts to 22,000ft
Reventador volcano in Ecuador erupts to 15,000ft
Semeru volcano in Indonesia erupts to 14,000ft
Sakurajima volcano on Japan erupts to 12,000ft
Officials warn of potential volcanic eruption near Fagradalsfjall before Christmas, Iceland
Corrosive ash from massive 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption causes power crisis in Tonga
Tropical Storm Norma could become Category 3 hurricane before hitting Mexican resorts
Tropical Storm Tammy forms over the central Atlantic, becoming the 19th storm of hurricane season
Tropical Storm Tammy expected to become a hurricane after striking eastern Caribbean islands
Storm Babet triggers UK’s first Red warning for rain since 2020
Army deployed as more than 100 properties flooded in Co Cork town in Ireland
French nun tackles environmental protester attempting to stop construction of religious center
Ford Says US Fuel Economy Plan Threatens ‘Substantial Economic Hardship’
Orwellian Irony: The Left is Now Trying to Cancel George Orwell
Biden’s Border ‘Security’ Takes Aim at Christians
FBI’s Wray says AI has been used to amplify ‘terrorist propaganda’
Hawley grills Mayorkas on ‘uptick in potential terrorist-linked illegal aliens’ at southern border
Soros-backed DA and his elderly mother carjacked at gunpoint in New Orleans
Baldwin Wallace poll: 58% of Ohio voters supporting abortion amendment
Amazon will start testing drones that will drop prescriptions on your doorstep, literally
‘Lawyer me to death’: NBA drags out COVID vaccine mandate suit to bleed fired refs dry, they say
Vigilant Fox: Trump Unleashes on ‘Corrupt’ World Health Organization in Viral Truth Social Video
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Mid-Day Snapshot · October 19, 2023
“From The Patriot Post (patriotpost.us)”.
THE FOUNDATION
“The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.” —Benjamin Franklin (1774)
| On this day in Patriot history in 1781, Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army at Yorktown, ending the Revolutionary War. And on this day in 1829, a 178-foot-high marble monument to the victorious George Washington was completed in Baltimore. —Mark Alexander |
IN TODAY’S DIGEST
- Hillary Memer Gets Seven Months
- Tlaib Doubles Down on Gaza Hospital Lie
- Executive News Summary
- Keep Your Eyes on China
- Self-Hating Jews Side With Hamas
- An Ultimatum for Qatar: Extradite the Hamas Leader or Face U.S. Wrath
- DAILY FEATURES: Reader Comments, Videos, Best of Right Opinion, Short Cuts, Memes, and Cartoons.
ON THE WEB
- Scarlen Valderaz: Biden Celebrates George Floyd’s 50th Birthday
- In Brief: The USA’s Dwindling Police Forces
FEATURED ANALYSIS
Hillary Memer Gets Seven Months
If there’s anything leftists hate more than conservative opinions, it’s humor.
Nate Jackson
To borrow one of Joe Biden’s most frequent lines, “Not a joke.”
Actually, it was. A Florida man posted memes and he’s going to jail for it.
Douglass Mackey, a.k.a. Ricky Vaughan online, was sentenced to seven months for posting some memes about voting for Hillary Clinton back in 2016. We suppose it’s obvious that United States District Judge Ann M. Donnelly didn’t get the joke because she — let’s just call her Karen — punished Mackey for election interference.
Great, now do Hillary.
Indeed, it is beyond ironic that Clinton interfered in the 2016 election — though we suppose we have to grant that she was a candidate — by paying for the Steele dossier and thus seeding the entire collusion hoax supposedly involving Russia and Donald Trump. It was fake, fabricated, and entirely phony, but it nearly saved herself from her own criminal email scandal that itself was meant to disguise possibly illegal Clinton Foundation pay-to-play shenanigans. The Russia hoax failed to elect Hillary, but it totally succeeded in undermining Trump’s only term, as he was weighed down by deep state actors doing Clinton’s bidding and then by congressional Democrats who impeached him the first time because the collusion hoax laid the groundwork.
It also set the stage for interference in the 2020 election via media suppression of the story about Hunter Biden’s laptop and Joe Biden’s own influence-peddling scheme. It was — get this — Russian disinformation, said 51 “intelligence experts” who interfered with the election and who now often enjoy gigs as cable news commentators.
Anyway.
Back to poor Douglass Mackey. “You are not being sentenced for your political beliefs or for expressing those beliefs,” Judge Karen assured him. “Each one of us has the right to hold opinions and express those opinions.”
So, if he had posted “Vote Trump” memes, he’d also be imprisoned? That’s rhetorical, of course, because Donnelly, a nominee of Barack Obama, used the Left’s new favorite slogan to berate Mackey: His behavior, she hyperbolically asserted, was “nothing short of an assault on our democracy.”
A look at mainstream media headlines also indicates the two-tiered justice at play: Mackey was a “far-right Twitter troll,” lampoons the New York Daily News. The New York Times headline called him a “Man Who Spread Misinformation on Trump’s Behalf.” The first words of the article are “A digital-age dirty-trickster…”
Biden’s “Justice” Department issued a statement about the case, saying Mackey was being punished “for his role in a conspiracy to interfere with potential voters’ right to vote in the 2016 election.” With a Twitter audience of roughly 58,000, the DOJ argued Mackey was able to influence a lot of people. Here’s its explanation:
For example, on November 1, 2016, in or around the same time that Mackey was sending tweets suggesting the importance of limiting “black turnout,” the defendant tweeted an image depicting an African American woman standing in front of an “African Americans for Hillary” sign. The ad stated: “Avoid the Line. Vote from Home,” “Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925,” and “Vote for Hillary and be a part of history.” The fine print at the bottom of the deceptive image stated: “Must be 18 or older to vote. One vote per person. Must be a legal citizen of the United States. Voting by text not available in Guam, Puerto Rico, Alaska or Hawaii. Paid for by Hillary For President 2016.” The tweet included the typed hashtag “#ImWithHer,” a slogan frequently used by Hillary Clinton. On or about and before Election Day 2016, thousands of unique telephone numbers texted “Hillary” or some derivative to the 59925 text number, which had been used in multiple deceptive campaign images tweeted by Mackey and his co-conspirators.
As we noted in January 2021, Mackey faced up to 10 years behind bars, which sort of makes seven months seem like a deal.
We don’t know the guy, and we aren’t here to defend his particular views, though we will note his wife did just have a baby this week. If you have even a basic understanding of elections, his memes were pretty humorous. And if anyone was actually dumb enough to fall for it, well, they might not ought to be voting in the first place.
We understand the difference between attempting to disenfranchise someone and a typical meme, but this is ultimately yet another instance of the Left not being able to handle humor. It reminds us how often we’ve been dinged by social media “fact-checkers” for telling a joke they didn’t get — or, more accurately, just didn’t like. The humorless Left wields enormous power.
As this is a story about memes and going to prison for crossing a Clinton, we’ll conclude by saying Douglass Mackey didn’t kill himself.
Tlaib Doubles Down on Gaza Hospital Lie
The Israel-hating Democrat congresswoman can’t seem to admit the truth about Hamas propaganda.
Douglas Andrews
When you find yourself in a hole, it’s usually a good idea to stop digging. Apparently, though, that age-old wisdom never made its way to Democrat Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib.
At a pro-Hamas rally outside the Capitol yesterday, Tlaib called up the crocodile tears and doubled down with a disjointed ramble: “That’s what’s been really painful. It’s, it’s just — continue to watch people think it’s okay to bomb a hospital where children. … You know what’s so hard sometimes is watching those videos and, and, the people telling the kids, ‘Don’t cry,’ and, like, let them cry. … They can cry, I can cry, we all can cry. If we’re not crying, something is wrong.”
Something is wrong, all right, but it’s not what Tlaib thinks. What’s wrong is her refusal to walk back the vile smear she threw out Tuesday afternoon: “Israel just bombed the Baptist Hospital killing 500 Palestinians (doctors, children, patients) just like that.”
As of this hour, her X post hasn’t been taken down, although it’s been helpfully appended with “Readers added context,” one bit coming from a Wall Street Journal report: “The U.S. has collected ‘high confidence’ intelligence showing that the explosion at a hospital compound in Gaza was caused by the militant group Palestinian Islamic Jihad, not an Israeli strike.”
Perhaps Tlaib doesn’t want to take the Journal’s word for it. But what about the word of Joe Biden’s National Security Council?
“While we continue to collect information,” posted NSC spokeswoman Adrienne Watson, “our current assessment, based on analysis of overhead imagery, intercepts and open source information, is that Israel is not responsible for the explosion at the hospital in Gaza yesterday.”
To be fair, though, most Democrats aren’t aligned with the Hamas Wing of their party. Not even John Fetterman, who last week lamented to Stephen Colbert that America “is not sending their best and brightest” to Congress, could support his Jew-hating colleagues’ increasingly untenable position.
“It’s truly disturbing” posted Fetterman’s handlers, “that Members of Congress rushed to blame Israel for the hospital tragedy in Gaza. Who would take the word of a group that just massacred innocent Israeli civilians over our key ally?”
When you’ve lost Senator Hoodie…
Typical of the sloppy reporting, even after it became clear that Israel wasn’t responsible for the explosion, was this headline from ABC News: “Hundreds killed in explosion at Gaza hospital: Gaza Health Ministry,” which was followed by a more specific claim within the article itself: “At least 500 people have been killed in an explosion at Al Ahli Arab Hospital in the middle of Gaza City, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.”
The Hamas propaganda wasn’t just the blaming of Israel; it was also the making up of a location and a casualty count. As we noted yesterday, it wasn’t an airstrike, it didn’t hit a hospital, it didn’t kill hundreds, and Israel didn’t do it. But other than that, the reporting was accurate.
But what are we to expect when our mainstream media trusts its reporting to the Gaza Ministry of Health, which is nothing more than a propaganda organ for Hamas?
Asked this morning on Fox News about whether Tlaib might have evidence to back up her claims, Republican Senator Marco Rubio pulled no punches: “Well, we’ve seen evidence that she’s lying, and that she doesn’t know what she’s talking about, and that she’s just parroting the Hamas line. … We need to stop referring to the Gaza Ministry of Health. It is the Hamas Ministry of Health. … Both Senator [Mark] Warner, a Democrat, and I — he’s the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and I’m the vice chairman — we’ve put out a statement together, we’ve both reviewed the intelligence available … and we are convinced that this was not an Israeli strike. … I think the danger here is that [Tlaib’s words] aren’t just annoying words. They are leading to action. We see unrest in Amman. We see unrest in Lebanon. We see growing unrest in the West Bank. We see it developing all over the world, [and it could] threaten the governments of countries that are critical to stability in the Middle East, like Jordan, like Lebanon, like Egypt.”
Perhaps we shouldn’t expect more from a congresswoman who flies a “Palestinian” flag outside the door of her DC office, but what about the professionals? Shouldn’t we demand more from those to whom we entrust “the first draft of history”?
Perhaps not — at least not when it comes to the Jewish state. “The media holding Israel to a different standard, in this context, than it would any other country is a form of discrimination,” said former George W. Bush foreign policy adviser Dan Senor, who added, “I would say there’s some underlying anti-Semitism in the way some parts of the media covers any conflict Israel is in.”
This seems right to us. It’ll be interesting to see whether Tlaib rescinds and apologizes or simply lays low and lets the storm blow over. From what we know of Tlaib, we’d bet big on the latter.
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Executive News Summary
Jim Jordan falls short again, another big foreign aid package, Arkansas kicks out the ChiComs, and more.
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Cross-Examination
- Jordan bows out: We may have House Speaker Pro Tem Patrick McHenry as interim until January. Having failed to collect the necessary 217 votes needed for the speakership in Tuesday’s first floor vote, Ohio Republican and House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan came up short once again on Wednesday, this time receiving just 198 votes from his GOP colleagues after having gotten 200 in the previous floor vote. The 22 House Republicans who voted against him voted instead for an array of others, including former speaker McCarthy, Majority Leader Steve Scalise, former Congressman Lee Zeldin, and Jordan’s Freedom Caucus colleague Byron Donalds. One dimwitted colleague, Pennsylvania’s Mike Kelly, voted for lachrymose former speaker John Boehner, who last wielded the speaker’s gavel in 2015. Jordan opted to cancel the third scheduled vote today. Democrats in both chambers will continue to enjoy a hearty laugh at Republicans’ expense.
- Another big foreign aid package: In light of Hamas’s attack on Israel, the Biden administration is working on a major $100 billion foreign aid package. Yet of the $100 billion reportedly being considered, just $10 billion will go to Israel, while the bulk of the rest will go to Ukraine. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wants to move it “as quickly as possible because the needs are great in both Israel and Ukraine.” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, however, wants to make sure that it includes money for our own border — a novel idea. And, he said, “The border part of it needs to be credible.” As always, bundling more spending together is meant to attract votes — or at least make it harder to oppose.
- “Pay to Slay”: Speaking of money and Israel, the Palestinian Authority, which, as David Strom notes, “is recognized by the UN and officially recognized as the government of a Palestinian state by over 100 governments around the world,” is paying the families of “martyrs.” Ever wonder where “humanitarian” aid to the so-called Palestinians goes? Roughly $300 million annually goes to the families of jihadists killed while fighting Israel. That includes the terrorists killed during and after the latest assault.
- Semiconductor restrictions: Industrial policy is rarely made better by government regulation or interference, but there are some sectors of the economy that do have what Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo called “clear national security or human rights implications.” She’s referring to the Biden administration’s new restrictions on exporting artificial intelligence chips and manufacturing equipment to China. “The goal is the same goal that has always been,” she said, “which is to limit PRC [People’s Republic of China] access to advanced semiconductors that could fuel breakthroughs in artificial intelligence.” China is famous for intellectual property theft. Semiconductor production is hugely important for the United States, which is one of many reasons we must deter Chinese aggression in Taiwan, where a significant portion of such semiconductors are made.
- Good news: Arkansas kicks out the ChiComs: The troubling rise in American land purchases by Chinese firms has run into its first obstacle: Arkansas. The state became the first in the nation to order the divestment of a Chinese company, Syngenta Seeds, which must now get out of Arkansas. “We will make sure that every company operating in Arkansas is a friend to Arkansas and good to hard-working Arkansans,” said Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders. That certainly isn’t true of Syngenta, a subsidiary of ChemChina, which is considered by the Defense Department to be a threat to the U.S. Other states are almost certain to follow Arkansas’s lead.
- Texas builds border wall with NEW Mexico: Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott has prioritized his state’s southern border. How could he not? His state has borne the brunt of the intentional invasion caused by Joe Biden’s open-border policies. But it seems that Texas’s western border is also a problem, as illegals are crossing into New Mexico and then moving to El Paso. Abbott addressed that by ordering a concertina wire barrier along portions of the border with New Mexico. Democrats wasted no time decrying “harmful border stunts” instead of doing anything themselves to stop the crisis.
Headlines
- Biden administration announces new sanctions against Hamas (Axios)
- Hamas terrorists likely used North Korean weapons during brutal attack on Israel (Fox News)
- Biden announces $100 million in aid that will likely go to Hamas (PJ Media)
- Top law firm rescinds job offers to Ivy League students who signed letter blaming Israel for violence (Fox News)
- Former Trump attorney Sidney Powell pleads guilty in Georgia election interference case (National Review)
- EPA takes step toward regulating small aircraft emissions (Washington Examiner)
- The housing market is so unaffordable that buyers need to make nearly $115K to afford the average home — that’s $40K more than average earnings (Fortune)
- “Transgender” fencer beats 14-time champ for women’s world title (Daily Wire)
- The FDA has approved a surprisingly cheap cancer treatment that “uses sound waves to disintegrate tumors” (Not the Bee)
- Satire: Liberals replace Star of David on “Coexist” sticker with Hamas paraglider (Babylon Bee)
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Keep Your Eyes on China
The latest conflict in the Middle East is solidifying the new Axis of Evil.
Emmy Griffin
With the horrific attack on Israel by the terrorist group Hamas that left more than 1,400 Israelis dead, the West is distracted from its most formidable foreign adversary, China. The Chinese have neglected to condemn the actions of the Islamic terrorists and instead are focusing on the Israeli countermeasures being carried out against Hamas in Gaza. As with Vladimir Putin and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, President Xi Jinping chooses to align himself with the side that is anti-West and would put a strain on U.S. resources.
This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. The Chinese have long been voicing their ambition to take over Taiwan (or take it back, in their view), and the U.S. has been the deterrent from that particular aggression. Beijing has been biding its time, and now it has the added boon of a weak and feckless U.S. president; ergo, its aggression has been largely unchecked.
Over the past two years, People’s Liberation Army (PLA) fighter jets have been “coercive” and “risky” in their behaviors toward U.S. fighter jets. More than 180 encounters with the PLA have resulted in antagonism and provocation on the part of PLA pilots. This is a significant acceleration in aggression.
The Chinese have been accused of infiltrating and subverting various Western democracies all over the world. This includes such countries as the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and even the U.S.
The infiltration of U.S. lawmakers’ confidences — such as Congressman Eric Swalwell’s (D-CA) relationship with a Chinese spy, and another was an aide to the late Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) — have been the most high profile in recent years, but other measures of less visibility have been perpetrated as well. Emails have been hacked. Military bases have been trespassed upon. Chinese companies have been buying up American farmland. Chinese influence peddling is suspected in President Joe Biden’s case as well. The espionage and influence of the Chinese is cause for alarm.
In September, China decided to up the ante on tensions in the South China Sea. Taiwan reported that swarms of Chinese fighter jets were doing practice runs over the Taiwan Strait in staged attempts to block U.S. aid to Taiwan during the long prognosticated invasion. China also used the month of September to antagonize the Philippines and try to lay claim to several islands and shoals belonging to that island nation.
This month, with the world’s eyes on Israel, China has taken the opportunity to solidify its alliance with Russia. Putin visited Beijing this week as part of Xi’s Belt and Road Initiative conference. The Belt and Road Initiative is Xi’s pet foreign policy project, and it’s a ruse for going into poorer third-world countries and economically enslaving them under the auspices of giving them infrastructure. This particular conference was an opportunity for the Russian dictator to visit his old friend and ally and discuss what was going on in the world and in the West.
All the while, in the background of China’s aggression and strong facade is the fact that its economy is crumbling under its feet. China has too much debt and its cities are rife with empty buildings. Furthermore, China’s restrictive policies toward foreign businesses are driving away more economic opportunity. When China’s economy is on the fritz, its usual solution is to go on the offensive against its neighbors.
As the Middle East threatens to boil over, both Xi and Putin have declined to condemn Hamas’s acts but have called for a ceasefire. Their positions are clear: The attacks on Israel are yet another symptom of why the West needs to be out of power and the East should be the next global hegemony. It would be deeply unwise for the West in general and the U.S. in particular to take their eyes off China.
Self-Hating Jews Side With Hamas
Angry anti-Israel leftists staged a noisy protest inside the House rotunda.
Douglas Andrews
No, it wasn’t an insurrection. And, no, no middle-aged white dude put his dirty feet on Nancy Pelosi’s desk. But still.
Yesterday afternoon’s noisy stunt at the Cannon House Office Building — ostensibly to demand a ceasefire in Gaza amid an Israel-Hamas war that is only now being lost by the murderous thugs who started it — resulted in multiple arrests, perhaps as many as 100, and including three people who assaulted a police officer, according to the Capitol Police.
What is it with these people that makes them want to throw in with the gang rapists, the baby killers, the genocidal monsters? And worse: Don’t these people have any sense of decency, any sense of respect for sacred places? This was, after all, the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building, the same place where Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer once donned slave-trading Ashanti Kente cloths and took a knee in remembrance of The Martyr George Floyd.
What’s most interesting about yesterday’s non-insurrection, though, was that many of its participants were self-hating Jews — Jews wearing black shirts emblazoned with the message “NOT IN OUR NAME.” Apparently, in the wake of an unprovoked and barbaric attack by Islamist terrorists who murdered more than 1,400 Israeli civilians and 30 Americans and took 199 others hostage, these delusional protesters still think their fellow Jews can live in peace upon their ancient homeland with Hamas launching missiles and plotting their destruction right next door in Gaza.
The group leading the demonstration calls itself the Jewish Voice for Peace, “Jews organizing toward Palestinian liberation and Judaism beyond Zionism.” The group put out a social media statement: “The root of violence is oppression, and we’re here to say not in our names. We have the power to stop the ongoing atrocities against Palestinians. We refuse to standby as the Israeli government commits genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.”
And we thought Noam Chomsky was a trip.
The same group also protested outside the White House on Monday, along with another group of anti-Jewish Jews, the “If Not Now” movement, which was also present yesterday at the rotunda. We’re certain that Hamas appreciates their support.
Elsewhere on Capitol Hill yesterday, three pro-Hamas protesters disrupted a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing to confirm Jack Lew, Joe Biden’s nominee for ambassador to Israel. As The Daily Caller reports: “The protesters began shouting during the opening statements of committee Chairman Democratic Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin and Republican Idaho Sen. Jim Risch before capitol police escorted them out of the hearing chambers and arrested them. … The protesters, who began shouting within minutes of each other, demanded a ‘ceasefire’ from Israel and claimed that the terrorist attacks on the nation were Palestinians ‘fighting back’ against ‘Israeli genocide.’”
It’ll be interesting to see what happens to these three, given that hundreds of January 6 tourists were charged with “corruptly obstructing, influencing or impeding an official proceeding, or attempting to do so.” These three certainly impeded a Senate hearing yesterday. And last time we checked, Senate hearings were official proceedings.
An Ultimatum for Qatar: Extradite the Hamas Leader or Face U.S. Wrath
Qatar’s ruler must choose: Does he stand with the terrorists or with us?
Jeff Jacoby
Following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, President George W. Bush issued a blunt demand to Afghanistan’s Islamist dictators, who had long sheltered Al Qaeda’s top officials.
“Turn [Osama bin Laden] over,” the president said. “Turn him over, turn his cohorts over, turn any hostages they hold over, destroy all the terrorist camps. … This is nonnegotiable.”
In the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre in southern Israel, President Biden should be issuing a similar message to Qatar. The rich Persian Gulf sheikhdom has for years underwritten Hamas’s control of Gaza, funded its killing operations, and shielded its senior leadership. That makes it a key collaborator in what Biden called the “pure, unadulterated evil” of the barbaric Oct. 7 slaughter of at least 1,300 Israelis and the abduction of at least 199 hostages.
Israel was the foremost target of the bloody Hamas rampage, but those killed by the terrorists included 30 US citizens too. As many as 13 Americans may be among the captives held in Gaza. Which means, as Biden said, that the campaign to destroy Hamas is necessary not just for Israel’s welfare but for “the security of the United States.”
It is time to put an end to Qatar’s pro-Hamas duplicity. The president’s visit this week to Israel provides the right opportunity to say so.
Many Americans know that Iran’s Islamist regime is a major sponsor of terror and has provided weapons, training, and logistical support to Hamas. The State Department has reported that Iran provides about $100 million annually to an array of terrorist groups, Hamas among them.
But Qatar’s role is even more sinister.
To begin with, Hamas’s main headquarters and top leaders are located in Doha, the Qatari capital. Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas, resides in Qatar. So does Izzat Al-Risheq, who oversees Hamas’s media operations. Neither the regime in Doha nor Hamas makes any secret of the fact that Qatar harbors some of the worst terrorists on earth. “Footage last week showed Haniyeh, 61, smiling and praying from the comfort of his air-conditioned Doha office to celebrate the slaughter of Israelis,” The Telegraph reported this week. “In the video, Haniyeh and 12 of his henchmen are seen dressed in freshly pressed suits as they watch the horror unfold on a widescreen TV.”
Qatar’s financial underwriting of Hamas far exceeds that of Iran. Since 2018, it has reportedly provided $30 million in cash per month to the thugs who rule Gaza. In 2021, Qatar started shipping $10 million worth of fuel to Gaza each month; proceeds from the sale of the fuel are used to pay as many as 50,000 Hamas operatives.
In short, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the emir and dictator of Qatar, is the main foreign enabler of Hamas. Even more than Iran, it is he who facilitated Hamas’s military empire in the Gaza Strip. Yet he escapes obloquy because Qatar is treated as an American ally. Al Thani simultaneously presents himself as a loyal friend to the United States and a loyal backer of those who murder US citizens. On Oct. 13, he hosted Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Doha, joining him at a press conference during which the American warned that “there can be no more business as usual with Hamas.” One day later, it was Iran’s foreign minister who was in Doha, where he met with Haniyeh and praised the Hamas leader for the “historic victory” achieved by killing so many Jews.
The double game played by Qatar is morally abominable. It’s also a slap in the face to the United States and to the Biden administration, which last year rewarded Qatar with the designation of “major non-NATO ally.” Whatever justification there may have been for such complacency in the past, it vanished on Oct. 7, when Hamas gunmen unleashed a bloodbath in Israel, killing and kidnapping dozens of Americans in the process.
Biden needs to deliver a “nonnegotiable” ultimatum to Qatar, just as Bush did to the rulers of Afghanistan in 2001: Extradite the Hamas commanders who are in Doha so that they can be brought to justice for the American blood on their hands. Refuse to do so, Al Thani ought to be told, and there will be stiff consequences: Qatar will promptly be redesignated as a state sponsor of terrorism. All military sales will be canceled. The US Air Force assets based at Qatar’s Al Udeid Air Base will be relocated. And more repercussions will follow.
Qatar’s ruler must choose: Does he stand with the terrorists or with us? For too long he has had it both ways. No more.
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SHORT CUTS
Non Compos Mentis
“Perhaps the major achievement of the resistance in the temporary takeover of these settler-colonies is the death blow to any confidence that Israeli colonists had in their military and its ability to protect them. … As the ongoing war between the Israeli colonial army and the indigenous Palestinian resistance has only just begun, the days to come will surely be crucial in determining if this is the start of the Palestinian War of Liberation or yet another battle in the interminable struggle between the colonizer and the colonized.” —Columbia University professor Joseph Massad
Village Academies
“According to some of America’s most talented young people, a little country founded after a mid-century genocide of six million Jews, occupying about 8% of the land mass of the Middle East, surrounded by Islamists for whom nothing short of Israel’s utter destruction will be enough, is at fault for the attacks and attempted conquest to which it so often has been subject. This mentality is, in part, the fruit of the propaganda to which they have been subject in the name of education.” —Rob Schwarzwalder
“Our State Department maintains a list of countries that are the worst violators of religious liberty and human rights. They are almost always radical Islamic or godless communist countries. Of the 12 countries on that list, five are Islamic nations and four are communist nations. That’s the same coalition that dominates our university campuses — Islamists and Marxists.” —Gary Bauer
Friendly Fire
“It’s truly disturbing that Members of Congress rushed to blame Israel for the hospital tragedy in Gaza. Who would take the word of a group that just massacred innocent Israeli civilians over our key ally?” —Senator John Fetterman (D-PA)
Leftmedia
“The willingness of the media to believe a bunch of murderers and rapists uncritically is astounding.” —Erielle Davidson
“Watching the news since October 7 is like watching all of Jew-hating history condensed into a 12-day period: Holocaust-level pogrom, Holocaust denial, blood libel, assurance by ‘all the right people’ that the Jews ought not defend themselves.” —Ben Shapiro
“Insular media elites have a nasty habit of thinking they represent democracy. They aren’t a half or a third of democracy. They own it. Like they’ve trademarked it. Anyone who dares to attack them is attacking democracy. … Leftist reporters should have the humility to suggest they are just a part of democracy, and another part of democracy is people criticizing the crusading reporters. It’s a part of democracy to say The Washington Post is a pack of arrogant jerks seeking to destroy Republicans and elect Democrats. That viewpoint should never ‘die in darkness.’” —Tim Graham
For the Record
“Hamas’s main headquarters and top leaders are located in Doha, the Qatari capital. … Qatar’s financial underwriting of Hamas far exceeds that of Iran. Since 2018, it has reportedly provided $30 million in cash per month to the thugs who rule Gaza. In 2021, Qatar started shipping $10 million worth of fuel to Gaza each month; proceeds from the sale of the fuel are used to pay as many as 50,000 Hamas operatives. In short, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the emir and dictator of Qatar, is the main foreign enabler of Hamas.” —Jeff Jacoby
“Everyone in the world knows that the primary goal of Hamas is the extinction of the state of Israel and the death of every Jew who lives there. Anyone who provides a cent to such an organization is responsible when the organization turns its stated goals into murderous action.” —Washington Examiner
Upright
“America can flex her muscles without using them. In fact, we should. A world without America is a dark and chaotic place — and a more dangerous place for America. All that can be avoided — so long as America doesn’t go wobbly.” —Ben Shapiro
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Levin: After THIS ‘how could you NOT call Hamas Nazis?’ – Conservative Review
While America is divided on the Israel-Palestine conflict, Mark Levin is sure that one side is getting it right.
And that’s the side that isn’t cheering on what Levin calls “the second Holocaust.”
“I understand 6 million Jews are not being slaughtered,” he explains, “but they want to slaughter 7 million Jews. That’s the whole point of this.”
While many Americans believe they know what happened during the Holocaust, they don’t know just how involved the Palestinians were in it.
In 1941, Haj Amin Al Husani, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, fled to Germany and met with Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders in order to persuade them to extend the Nazis’ anti-Jewish program to the Arab world.
The grand mufti offered to help the Third Reich slaughter Jews in the Middle East and contributed 5,000 men to the Third Reich army.
This mindset has not been left behind, but it’s been carried on to the Palestinian people, who are taught at a young age that the Jews are not human beings.
“They’re taught that they kill, dismember, and cannibalize Palestinian babies and so forth. The most horrendous kind of indoctrination and propaganda at the earliest ages,” Levin explains.
Essentially, the children are being taught to reflect Nazi values.
“So, Al Husani was a Nazi,” Levin says, and now “they want to blame the Jews and they want to blame Israel.”
“Their long-term if not short-term goal,” he continues, “is to blow the Jews out. To obliterate them, to mass kill them. Genocide, that’s their objective.”
And Mahmoud Abbas, the president of Palestine, is overseeing it.
“The truth is Abbas is a very, very wealthy man,” Levin explains. “He controls every penny that comes in there. They run it like the mob, they divide their economy in the sectors, he puts family members in charge of the sectors or his closest friends or political allies in charge of the sectors, and they rule over the economy and they rule over these towns like butchers.”
And they use that power to raise potential terrorists.
“As long as they can keep indoctrinating and brainwashing the children who become, many cases, terrorists, and focus their fire on the Jews in Israel, they can continue to line their pockets,” he adds.
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We know corporate media are biased, but the reporting on Gaza shows they’re willing to be propagandists — even if their false reports are likely to get people killed.
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More Than 3,000 Actors and Musicians Sign Letter Accusing Israel of ‘War Crimes’- Silent on Hamas Targeting and Murdering Civilians (Video) | The Gateway Pundit
An open letter from Artists for Palestine UK, signed by more than 3,000 actors, artists and musicians, is being criticized for its tone deaf condemnation of Israel and complete omission of the Hamas terrorist attacks which targeted civilians.
The letter claims Israeli airstrikes and the government’s decision to cut off food, water and fuel to the region amounted to “war crimes,” but of the slaughter of babies and elderly at the hands of Hamas terrorists, apparently not so much.
“We are witnessing a crime and a catastrophe. Israel has reduced much of Gaza to rubble, and cut off the supply of water, power, food and medicine to 2.3 million Palestinians. In the words of the UN’s undersecretary for humanitarian affairs, ‘the spectre of death’ is hanging over the territory.
Gaza is already a society of refugees and the children of refugees. Now, in their hundreds of thousands, bombarded from air, sea and land, Palestinians whose grandparents were forced out of their homes at the barrel of a gun are again being told to flee – or face collective punishment on an unimaginable scale. Dispossessed of rights, described by Israel’s minister of defence as “human animals”, they have become people to whom almost anything can be done.
Our governments are not only tolerating war crimes but aiding and abetting them. There will come a time when they are held to account for their complicity. But for now, while condemning every act of violence against civilians and every infringement of international law whoever perpetrates them, our obligation is to do all we can to bring an end to the unprecedented cruelty being inflicted on Gaza.
We support the global movement against the destruction of Gaza and the mass displacement of the Palestinian people. We demand that our governments end their military and political support for Israel’s actions.
We call for an immediate ceasefire and the opening of Gaza’s crossings to allow humanitarian aid to enter unhindered.”
David Mencer, an expert on the Middle East and former director of Labour Friends of Israel, joined GB News and pointed out the ridiculousness of the letter saying, “I’m speaking to you live from Tel Aviv,” Mencer said, “and I think the perspective from here right now is to me, it looks like you’ve got to be a special kind of Jew hater to sign this sort of drivel.”
He added: “This letter is so misguided and misplaced, I simply say to this group of misfits and weirdos, that I invite them to rescue their alien careers and try their chances as artists in Gaza under the Hamas regime.”
“You know, if they do that, I promise to sign a letter when they are locked up by Hamas.”
“They’d be lucky if they’re locked up because they’d be most likely, judging from Hamas record, have their throats cut.”
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Mencer was asked if he had a message for those who signed the letter and shared, “I would say that it would be a great idea if you took a little trip down to Hamas and educated yourself into the Gaza Strip and see what it’s like for artists trying to, you know, perhaps give over any sort of opposition from the genocide or Islamic under all this regime.
“Now just educate yourself. Go and visit and then come over to Israel and see the flourishing democratic scene which exists here in Israel and compare the two and then I make a decision about where you’d rather live.”
Some of those who signed the letter are walking back their initial support after backlash.
Actor Sam Heughan, from Outlander fame, claims he “inadvertently signed something that does not reflect my beliefs.”
In seems actors and Harvard students struggle with reading comprehension.
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Gaza Hospital Misinformation Is One More Reason To Destroy The Censorship Complex – Conservative Review
In reporting that Israel bombed the Gaza hospital and killed hundreds, media proved they have no real interest in fighting disinformation.
4D Chess: Biden Offers The Palestinians $100 Million In Exchange For None Of The Hostages | Babylon Bee
TEL AVIV — In a stunning move sure to be taught at universities in politics and diplomacy classes for generations to come, President Joe Biden has brokered a deal to send $100 million of U.S. taxpayer money to the Palestinian Authority in exchange for none of the hostages currently being held by Hamas.
“Here’s the deal,” Biden mumbled to the gathered media. “Nobody’s ever done anything like this. We’re going to send 100 million…billion trillion…100 thousand…all of the…the…100 million dollars to…to the…to the folks that…those folks there. Philistines. Planetfiends. Palestines. Palestinians. And in return, I have asked for none of the people being held hostage by Hamas to be released. I worked hard on this deal and held firm until they agreed to take it. I showed them who’s boss. Marginzarfinabit…”
The deal, which was quickly agreed to by the Palestinian Authority, is believed to provide much-needed humanitarian relief to the Palestinian people by funding the purchase and assembly of more rockets, bombs, and small arms. “Our people are starving and thirsty,” said Palestinian Authority spokesman Omar Hassan Bakalakadaka. “This influx of funding from the United States will go a long way toward paying for further violent acts to be perpetrated against Israeli civilians. Thank you, President Biden, and death to Israel.”
Biden has promised the Palestinians he will authorize another $100 million after the first $100 million is spent, in exchange for nothing whatsoever.
At publishing time, the White House stressed that the administration was more than willing to take the Palestinian Authority at its word that none of the $100 million would be used for all of the things the Palestinian Authority always uses money for, such as weapons and horrific acts of terrorism.
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It’s Not Just Students: Meet the Professors Leading the Academic Embrace of Hamas – Conservative Review
An Ohio State University student group last week held a “day of resistance” rally that saw organizers defend Hamas terrorism and condemn Israel’s “apartheid system.” Behind that group is a socialist English professor who has long supported Palestinian terrorists and advocated for the end of the Jewish state.
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Inside Black Lives Matter’s Long History With Hamas-Friendly Activists – Conservative Review
Black Lives Matter chapters across the country made waves last week when they praised Hamas’s attack on Israel. It’s merely the latest instance of the progressive group making common cause with the terrorist group. A coalition of 26 local chapters called the attacks a “desperate act of self-defense.” The Chicago chapter shared an image glorifying Hamas gunmen on paragliders. And the movement’s Phoenix branch praised Hamas “freedom fighters” for their acts of “resistance.”
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Son of Hamas leader breaks silence on decision to denounce terror group: ‘They don’t care’ about Palestinians | FOX news
The son of a founding Hamas leader broke his silence on his decision to denounce the terrorist group after he turned on his own family and converted to Christianity when he saw the horrors of the group’s reign firsthand.
Mosab Hassan Yousef, who spied in favor of the Israelis and sought asylum in the U.S., spoke out on his decision to leave the life of terror behind during “FOX & Friends.”
“I was born at the heart of Hamas leadership… and I know them very well. They don’t care for the Palestinian people. They do not regard the human life,” Yousef told Brian Kilmeade Thursday.
“I saw their brutality firsthand back in 1996 when I spent about a year and a half in Megiddo Prison… They killed so many Palestinian people at that point, and this is when I decided that I cannot be together with this movement.”
“I had to be honest with myself. Even though Hamas gave me advantages…. I was like a prince in that world… but I did not like them,” he continued. “I turned against even my own blood… because this is how much I did not like Hamas, and today, 25 years later, they are the rulers of Gaza, and we see what they are capable of doing.”
His remarks come almost two weeks after the terror group carried out a massacre on Israeli border communities, murdering and dismembering civilians, including children, and taking hostages.
They also reportedly have upwards of 200 hostages held in Gaza, which is currently facing dire food, water and medicine shortages.
Israel declared war shortly thereafter and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have traded airstrikes with Hamas as a ground invasion remains imminent.
“Hamas is not a national movement. Hamas is a religious movement with a goal to establish an Islamic state,” Yousef said. “They don’t care for nationalism. Actually, they are against nationalism. But that’s my understanding that they are using the Palestinian cause only to achieve their goals, so the long-term goal… [is] transforming the Middle East and the world into an Islamic state.”
But Yousef said the real culprit behind the scenes is Iran – a known sponsor of the terror group.
The country’s foreign minister posted an ominous tweet on Wednesday that said time is “running out” for Israel.
“Iran is the real master in this picture,” Yousef said. “Hamas does not serve the Palestinian people, Hamas serves Iran. Those are the masters of Hamas. So their lie about nationalism, that they are a national movement… They are using Palestinian people as a human shield.”
“We need to free Gaza from Hamas,” he continued. “Israel … is doing the Palestinian people the greatest favor by bringing Hamas down.”
At least 4,800 people have been killed on both sides since the war began earlier this month, including at least 30 Americans.
Here Are the Media Outlets That Uncritically Regurgitated Hamas Propaganda
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Bumbling Biden’s Disastrous Middle East Trip
The Arab leaders he was scheduled to meet in Jordan all bailed out of the summit, leaving just Biden and Netanyahu in an awkward embrace. Also today, Rep. McCaul to authorize US force against Lebanon? Biden to demand another $100 billion for Israel and Ukraine. Watch today’s Liberty Report:
‘Breaking Biden’ Author: Why Joe Biden Wants an Open Border Despite Terror Threat
Breitbart Editor-in-Chief and bestselling “Breaking Biden” author Alex Marlow explained why President Joe Biden allows the United States to have an open border despite all of the concerns about potential terrorists entering the country from our porous southern border.
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