I should have written in this piece that I didn't mean to suggest standing by Israel was "the right thing to do." Whether I think it is or not doesn't matter. I was making the point that speaking to the public at a time of crisis was the right thing to do. Just wanted to add that. Also, this is the song at the end (Rolling Stone cover tune by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV54ueDutkE)
I see no reason to stand with Hamas or hesitate to stand with Israel. Hamas sought hand to hand combat with babies in day care and opportunities to gang rape and murder girls at a peace concert. Hamas killed over 1200 men, women and children, then took over 240 hostages, including some Americans. Then Hamas hid in 300 to 400 miles of tunnels, while providing no bomb shelters at all for their civilian population.
Under the laws of war, attacking military targets is legal, no matter how many civilian shields they're wrapped in. Hamas locates military targets in, near or under schools, hospitals and mosques. Then Hamas "health officials" multiply civilian casualties by 10 and report them to a gullible press. Don't buy into it.
Marxist anti-colonialists claim Jews have no right to the Holy land, as if Jews haven't been there for 3500-4000 years. If indigenous starts in 1948, I'm an indigenous American.
Feminists and LGBTQs for Palestine make no sense at all. Hamas beats feminists and executes LGBTQs.
Iran doesn't hate the US because of Mosaddegh's overthrow in the 1950's. That's malarky. And the British were major players in the overthrow, because Mosaddegh nationalized British oil holdings in Iran.
Mosadeggegh wasn't such an exemplary advocate of democracy either. At the start of his rule, Mosaddegh introduced a single-clause bill to parliament to grant him emergency "dictatorial decree" powers for six months to pass "any law he felt necessary for obtaining not only financial solvency, but also electoral, judicial, and educational reforms." That law was in force for 6 months. Mosaddegh then asked for an extension in January 1953, successfully pressing Parliament to extend his emergency powers for another 12 months.
Finally, in any brutality contest between the Shah and the Mullahs, the Mullahs come out as the most brutal ever. Their suppression of religious minorities is legendary for its brutality. There's no excuse for daily prayers for "Death to America." I can't even post Death to the Mullahs of Iran on X, because it violates their violence policy.
We overthrew their duly elected president. You say he deserved it. The Iranians feel we had no right to do that and I agree. We installed the Shah who was worse than the president we overthrew. The Iranians feel we had no right to do that and I agree. The fact that the Mullahs turned out worse than the Shah doesn’t justify our interference in their elections. And how about Iraq? I worked (CNC machinery) for many years with Assyrians from Iraq in Chicago who said our invasion was like a tsunami that destroyed their country. One Assyrian once told me “All of Iraq is ruined.” How awful. As bad as things were under Saddam they were far worse after he was gone.
At the time of the revolution in 1979 in Iran, many of the Shah’s opponents were leftists, people who had supported Mossadegh. After the Mullahs got control of the regime, they killed or exiled all the leftists very quickly. In fact, in 1953, the American involvement in Mossadegh’s overthrow was to mobilize the Mullahs and their Shiite supporters against Mossadegh. So it is pretty rich that leftists attribute the Mullahs’ anti-Americanism to America’s involvement with their overthrow of Mossadegh.
I remember reading years ago, it may have been Dean Atchison's 'Present at the Creation', that the mullahs supported the Shah over Mossaddegh because the Shah was less repressive towards them.
That whole part of the world is horrible. I was once talking to a woman who said she was Assyrian. I said I worked with a lot of Assyrians from Iraq and asked her if she also was from Iraq. She said she grew up here but her parents were from Iran. I told one of the Assyrians at work about this and said I was surprised there were Assyrians in Iran. He said when the Turks were killing the Armenians they also started killing the Assyrians who are also Christian so the Assyrians fled to wherever they could find safety and some ended up in Iran. I told him his people have a terrible history and he said “Oh yes! Very terrible!” No denying our fallen world is a deadly place full of evil but we also have many beautiful things here so it’s not all bad.
It's like 'Hamas' is a magic word for you that justifies the Israeli genocide of Palestine. Zionism is a hell of a drug. Listen to people who know better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOdRk7Wptjg
Everyone has a right to self defense. When Hamas kills 1200 Jews in Israel and takes over 240 hostages, breaking a ceasefire, there can be no excuse for that. It's a war crime. Bombing military targets in Gaza ain't. As a Vietnam Era Vet, I learned the laws of war very well. As a Marxist, you learned to use any means necessary to get what you want, especially including lying. You're full of Schiff.
Norman Finkelstein? He’s been an insane anti-Israel activist for thirty years. There’s no genocide in Gaza. There are five or six million Palestinians. Killing 20,000 civilians in the middle of a war that Hamas started hardly constitutes genocide. Every one of those who accuse Israel of genocide denies Israel the right to defend its borders. Even after the slaughter of October 7th, Hamas continue to shoot thousands of missile’s at Israel’s civilians. No nation on earth would tolerate that. The US and the USSR probably killed at least 500,000 German civilians during WW2. Was that genocide?
Are you saying that Hams didn’t kill 1200 Israelis and take over 240 hostages during a ceasefire? Or are you saying war crimes like that genocide are "justified" by the "occupation?" Either way you're a Hamas hole.
“Six months into the war in Gaza, everyone seems to be losing.”
“Israel's war in the Gaza Strip has killed more than 33,000 people, most of them women and children, according to the Palestinian enclave’s health ministry. Israel says it has two primary aims: to free the remaining 130 mostly Israeli hostages; and to destroy the Hamas militant group that led the attack on Oct. 7, a goal that critics say is too ambitious or impossible.”
“Meanwhile Israel has become increasingly isolated internationally, with even its closest ally, the United States, demanding that it do more to help protect Palestinian civilians in Gaza, where more than 1 million people are now thought to be on the brink of famine. Israel’s killing of seven aid workers has put that global condemnation into overdrive, with prominent voices in Europe and the U.S. now calling for the suspension of arms sales.”
“There is no victor in this kind of war,” said Yossi Mekelberg, an associate fellow at Chatham House, a London-based think tank. “The situation in Gaza is catastrophic in every sense of the word, and yet Israel is getting more embroiled — in Gaza, but also Iran. Then there’s the hostages: God knows how many of them are still alive. Meanwhile Israel is really pushing itself into becoming a pariah state.”
“Six months into the war in Gaza, everyone seems to be losing.”
Of course standing by Israel is the right thing to do. Anyone who doesn't understand that Israel is a proxy for western civilization should pay more attention. Especially people on the right. Please people, get educated.
Just to be clear, there are far more people on the left who are pro Hamas than people on the right. Marxist anti-colonialists take it as a matter of faith that Arabs are indigenous Palestinians and Israelis are settler colonialists. That's malarkey, but it's what they think. Columbia, Yale and Harvard ain't Trump country. Please try to get in some tenuous touch with reality. All of my Republican friends are very pro Israel. My Democrat Jewish wife watches Fox News for their Israel coverage. You are full of Schiff.
Standing by Israel IS the right thing to do. Palestine NEVER EXISTED until Israel was given nationhood based on their historical rights to that small sliver of land in the ME, and they are the ONLY nation in the ME to share biblical beliefs to LIFE, LIBERTY & GOD GIVEN FREEDOM. "In 2011, Newt Gingrich said “The Palestinians are an invented people.” He was right. So why are they entitled to a state?
In 1964, the Palestine Liberation Organization was formed to liberate Palestine through armed struggle. But it took years for the notion of a Palestinian people to crystalize. In 1967, they were not recognized as such, nor were they considered a party to the conflict. Security Council Resolution 242 passed after the ’67 war, made no mention of them... ~ https://www.israpundit.org/since-when-did-the-palestinians-become-entitled-to-a-state/
For the record, if Hamas killed 30,000 Jewish civilians and wounded another 70,000 more, I’d call that genocide. The only reason you don’t call what Israel is doing genocide is because it’s Jews killing Goy. To thine self be true.
Of course, I can't verify the authenticity of this and I can think of at least 4 players who might have an interest in promoting fake news. But it does make the valid point that Hamas is the very worst that the Palestinians have to offer.
One thing that everyone on both sides of the dispute has ignored or missed is that about 1/3 of the aid package for "Israel" (9/26) actually went to Hamas ,er humanitarian aid. I have seen nothing about how this is to be administered but the history of the USG, the UN and the various NGOs in such matters tells me there is no way that the primary beneficiary will be not be Hamas. So we are funding both sides but not our side (the border). When you fund both sides, the point is to keep the war going. I assume that the goal is to tie this war to yet another funding package for Ukraine. Worked like a charm the last time. Or perhaps it may to further the Color War against Israel by the US IC to get a regime more subservient to the US.
“The only reason you don’t call what Israel is doing genocide is because it’s Jews killing Goy.”
I don’t see it as Jews killing Goy. I see it as Judaism being hijacked by Zionism which believes God gave Israel to the Jewish people 2500 years ago and therefore the land belongs to them and the pesky Palestinians just have to get out. Even many of the protesters here are Jewish and are appalled by what Israel is doing whereas Evangelical Christians like Mike Johnson have no problem with it and very much want to help the Zionists get rid of the Palestinians.
The answer to your comment lies in the comment itself, at the forth word: "If". "If" you believe Hamas figures for civilian casualties, you can also believe Biden's uncle was eaten alive. And don't let me start talking about those "civilians", another word that should be hyphenated referring to Palestinians. Just ask the (few) rescued hostages.
Biden is in the unenviable position of trying to placate two disparate but despicable groups of people out of sheer desperation… Trump SHOULD have taken the opportunity and declared to the anti-Israel protesters: “I DO NOT WANT YOUR VOTE!!!” which would make Biden look AWFUL, which of course… He IS…
They’re not “anti-Israel protesters.” They’re anti-genocide, anti-Zionism protestors. Believe it or not, the Zionists have destroyed Gaza along with tens of thousands of Palestinians who were blown up, crushed by collapsing buildings or, worst of all, simply buried alive. You consider Palestinians savage animals who need to be destroyed. I don’t. I consider them people trapped in a nightmare orchestrated by Israel which has become sociopathic and demonic.
The "Zionists" exited Gaza in 2005, forcibly removing those Jews who wanted to stay. "Land for peace" you know.
In gratitude, the Gazan Arabs launched thousands of rockets into Israel over the next couple of years. The Gazans also trashed the economic capital (e.g. commercial greenhouses) the Jews had left behind in hopes that the Gazans would benefit from their use.
The Gazans also took tens (hundreds?) of $billions of aid from Western countries and used it not for economic development but to prepare for their next attempt to annihilate Israel.
Your "orchestration" is all Hamas's doing, and they were voted into power by their fellow Gazans.
Israel would do well to recall what General Curtis LeMay said following World War II: "I'll tell you what war is. You have to kill people. When you've killed enough, they stop fighting."
In short, The "Palestinians," as a group, have ***earned** every bit of lethal misery anyone would choose to inflict upon them.
The choice is between Western civilization and Islamic barbarism.
Excellent discussion between two of our very best public intellectuals, Glenn Greenwald and John Mearsheimer, about Israel/Gaza, Russia/Ukraine. Near the end (18:50 point) Glenn asks Mearsheimer what he thinks of Netanyahu. Really an excellent interview. I recommend watching these last 7 minutes and then go back to the beginning and watch it all. Very informative. These are two of my favorites that I’ve learned a lot from.
“Interview: John Mearsheimer Dismantles Israel’s Reckless Campaign in Gaza.” (26 min)
I laid out unarguable facts on the ground, and you responded with a video of two talking heads. (Yes, they're familiar talking heads.)
Israel is being reckless? They've gone to enormous lengths to avoid harming the Gazan population, a population that -- for the most part -- deserves no quarter.
“They've gone to enormous lengths to avoid harming the Gazan population”
Dropping 2,000 pound bombs on densely populated areas does not qualify as going to “enormous lengths to avoid harming the Gazan population.” You obviously consider the Palestinians as savage animals that need to be crushed and swept out of civilized Israel. I don’t. I consider it genocide and evil.
The protesters MOSTLY have NO IDEA what they’re protesting… They are classic “useful idiots”. Do you know WHY Gaza exists? It was a process of Israel’s efforts to live peaceably with Palestinians, which the Palestinians REFUSE to do, so Israel had to keep increasingly ISOLATE Palestinians who ARE the aggressors…
Look at current Israel: There are Arabs, Christians and even SOME Palestinians who live peacefully within Israel and have all the rights of Israeli citizens…
And if the college protesters were TRULY “anti-genocide”, WHY aren’t they protesting Hamas who STARTED the “genocide” and STATES CLEARLY they want Israel exterminated?
Bastardizing the language is sociopathic and demonic.
There is no definition of the word genocide that fits with what is occurring in Israel, that is all an invention in your brain, sociopathic and demonic.
And yet, about 40% of potential voters think he is doing just fine. A case can be made that they are deluding themselves out of hatred of Trump. But Trump observed that they were really after us and he was just in the way. This is a worse problem because it can't be fixed even if Biden goes away. And the 40% denies reality on a host of other issues as well. The US is no longer a real country.
As for Trump, his biggest problem isn't mean tweets, media bias, lawfare or even election fraud. It's that he has this giant albatross called the Republican Party hanging around his neck. Just last weekend they endorsed Biden's foreign policy, made the surveillance state worse and as a bonus gave him cover on the Tik Tok ban. I don't know how Trump gets rid of these Vichyites. FDR tried a primary purge and it was a complete debacle.
"40% of potential voters think he is doing just fine.". This is so true, and includes my wife and many friends of mine. They only watch state-run media and thus never see the stuff that Sasha talks about here. Plus, they hate Trump with the passion of a thousand suns. They will never vote for him even if Joe Biden has a stroke and dies.
The 40% , their ego, whole sense of self and identity, puts a barrier of cognitive dissonance that prevents them from seeing the truth - same as with the covid shots and hysteria.
I call them DNA Democrats. It is so deeply embedded that they will never change. Unfortunately, there are also DNA Republicans who cannot see how dysfunction their party has become.
Those RINO's are doing their part to disillusion the resistance. Fortunately we have MAGA which is outside the Republican party. In fact I am informed that there is a primary in Northern Florida where one of these morons can be put out to pasture, or dropped off in Tate's Hell (look it up, funny story). We need to rid ourselves of these people who do their very best to sow a feeling of hopelessneess. They do it because they are in SAFE R seats. So they know all they need is an R next to their name to get elected. Once elected, they turn into swamp monsters. Time to send this guy to Tate's Hell.
If you need help identifying the problem, look at the last vote allowing warrantless searches on American Citizens (FISA) and Ukraine funding WITHOUT BORDER SECURITY. Every one of those idiots sold us all out.
As I have said before, Trump was worried about Johnson being ousted and flipping the House to the Democrats who would proceed to outlaw Trump. Other than that, the Democrats have de facto control now. Trump, unfortunately, chose to run as a Republican and now he is stuck with the bozos. I understand the practical problems of standing up a new party but had he started on J6, it would have been much easier. Now it is too late. Creates a real dilemma for people like me come November. I do want Trump back in the White House but it gags me to vote for just anyone with an R after their name. Vegas paper asked the R Senate candidates about foreign policy. Guy who is going to win the nomination expressed full-throated support for Israel, which will offend you more than me, but completely weaseled on Ukraine. Btw. he is taking McConnell's money. About half the Republican politicians are crazier than the Democrats.
In 2008 I told the editor of our local newspaper that supported Ron Paul. He told me that I was wasting my vote. I responded that 500 years ago a man in China began to lay down larges stones. One of his neighbors came along and asked whatever he was doing. He responded that he was building building the Great Wall of China. His neighbor scoffed and declared "That's no Great Wall." Somebody has to go out and lay down that first block of stone, somebody has to be the first man off the landing craft in front of withering machine gun fire. Trump has put himself out there, now we must follow.
Just vote for MAGA Republicans in primaries. We can’t third party it but we CAN take over, rid ourselves of Establishment shills and remake the Republican Party to an all MAGA party. Just pay attention. It’s getting easier and easier to tell friend from foe and we have learned the R is no guarantee. But believe me, The Grand Old Party is dead. Long live the MAGA Republican Party!
We are ruled by criminally insane fanatics rapidly destroying us internally and doing whatever they can to follow Israel’s lead to a truly global WW3. Only AI can save our sinking ship. Hope springs eternal as does wishful thinking but there is very good reason to believe AI will be a game changer for humanity.
I did see that. I like Elon and this CEO Jensen Huang of Nvidia also seems to be a good person interested in helping humanity rather than being in the globalist ruling class that controls everything.
We can avoid world war by giving in to the demands of a murderous cult, one which has clearly shown its intentions. A cult that teaches its children to hate non-cult members from a young age. The cult is demanding the return of land it lost after waging a previous bloody war. This will surely lead to lasting peace. - Neville Chamberlain, Munich, 1933.
We wouldn’t need AI to save us if we used our own rational thought to learn from history. Instead, some choose to drink the the same old poison, deceptively packaged with new “Anti-Zionist” labels.
What do you mean by “weaseled on Ukraine”? He supported it, or is bailing on it? Personally I don’t think we should be sending any money or weapons there…
The primary strategy failed years ago. Only thing left is boycott and get ready for a really bad couple of years of Democrat control with the hope that the Republicans emerge cleansed and it isn't too late to rebuild.
I didn't mention it in my original post but Johnson added in a provision to confiscate frozen assets of private Russian citizens and give the money to Ukraine. Very bad precedent that could easily come back to bite US citizens, either via retaliation or worse the USG confiscating the assets of US citizens (401k?). This appears to have been his own initiative without prompting by Trump or even Biden.
Mike Johnson is an Evangelical Zionist Christian totally committed to Israel. He agreed to whatever the democrats wanted for Ukraine in return for getting what he wanted for Israel. With leaders like this, who needs enemies?
The zealot nation isn’t who stood before a hostile crowd and said every including Jewish folks have a right to be safe and free and unmolested. Such an evil evil man, right?
Oh wait.
Maybe instead of believing the caricature you actually read and find the truth.
I’m sure he is an evangelical Christian - if that is his worst sin then we are ok.
He may be many things, but judging by his actions, he's no Christian - Evangelical, Zionist Zealot, or otherwise - despite what he has claimed in the past. Talk is cheap.
It is not even clear that the Democrats wanted the confiscation of assets. Johnson's ploy was to avoid making Americans pay for Ukraine but Americans will pay in other ways. As near as I can tell the FISA renewal and expansion had nothing to do with either Israel or Ukraine but was on the Deep State wish list. You are correct the evangelicals are the strongest supporters of Israel but remember Johnson cited his religion as the reason for his flip on Ukraine. One wonders what sort of church supports the soulless globalists.
I can see a mental health objection to tik tok but that applies to all social media. The national security thing is just ridiculous. If you follow the money, I bet it leads to US based social media.
To pass legislation in the House requires 218 yeas. Johnson showed the rebellious bit of his caucus what happens when they grandstand in support of legislation that can't pass the Senate or get a Presidential signature. The loud backbenchers could have done better if they'd participated instead of throwing rotten fruit from the cheap seats. None are in swing districts and all are in danger of being primaried from the right. Most are mediocre fund raisers as well. Now they see they are unneeded for passage.
It's not that we're not a real country......we are just two countries officially un officially. Our side is just trying to self govern and oppose the tyranny on the colonies by England, I mean Washington
One of the definitions of a country is that it has a border.
While DC is the seat of the evil that afflicts us, it is not the sum total. It is really a divide between urban areas and the rest. A house divided cannot stand. So the future is a split or one side imposes its vision by force.
Yes, countries have borders which need to be protected. And don't forget that there are good Americans in urban areas (the leftist mayor of Chicago actually attempted to blame the few people who voted for Trump in the recent primary for Chicago's problems). Never paint with too broad a brush about urban dwellers or it becomes inaccurate.
True but you are hopelessly outnumbered to the point where the net leftism of the cities controls whole states and ultimately the national government. Any National Divorce is going to have to include population exchanges so that too many people aren't left behind enemy lines on both sides. There are probably more leftists in rural areas (%age) than conservatives in cities. People are free to stay where they want but have to understand that they have no chance of power and perhaps a chance of something worse.
Biden won’t actually be allowed to participate in a presidential debate. They will have him mutter about participating, but will ultimately find an excuse for him to drop out (“Trump was planning to use the platform to advance his racist agenda!!”)
There will not be a debate. Obama knows that Joe couldn't survive it, so they'll play like there's going to, but in the end, some excuse will be invented to cancel. Your last sentence is as good as any.
Trump tried to kill Biden at the last debate! He screeched at Biden to infect him with COVID! Talk about conspiracy theories. And you even found a “timeline” for this.
I've been a caregiver to a dementia patient. They're using every drug they can on Joe and, given how far gone he is, the doctors are doing a good job, but he doesn't have much juice left. This election isn't between Trump and Biden, it's between Biden and his shutdown date.
The election is between Trump and the dem media. Pretty much all our elections are that way now. Kari Lake’s campaign for governor of Arizona certainly was. Katie Hobbs was afraid of Kari and spent her “campaign” hiding from Kari.
At nearly 78 years old, Trump the person is no longer the point. He has exposed the massive corruption of our governing class, and for that we should be thankful.
I should have written in this piece that I didn't mean to suggest standing by Israel was "the right thing to do." Whether I think it is or not doesn't matter. I was making the point that speaking to the public at a time of crisis was the right thing to do. Just wanted to add that. Also, this is the song at the end (Rolling Stone cover tune by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV54ueDutkE)
I see no reason to stand with Hamas or hesitate to stand with Israel. Hamas sought hand to hand combat with babies in day care and opportunities to gang rape and murder girls at a peace concert. Hamas killed over 1200 men, women and children, then took over 240 hostages, including some Americans. Then Hamas hid in 300 to 400 miles of tunnels, while providing no bomb shelters at all for their civilian population.
Under the laws of war, attacking military targets is legal, no matter how many civilian shields they're wrapped in. Hamas locates military targets in, near or under schools, hospitals and mosques. Then Hamas "health officials" multiply civilian casualties by 10 and report them to a gullible press. Don't buy into it.
Marxist anti-colonialists claim Jews have no right to the Holy land, as if Jews haven't been there for 3500-4000 years. If indigenous starts in 1948, I'm an indigenous American.
Feminists and LGBTQs for Palestine make no sense at all. Hamas beats feminists and executes LGBTQs.
“I see no reason to stand with Hamas or hesitate to stand with Israel.”
“Whether America Should Help Israel, and Why Iran Hates the United States.” (11 min)
Megyn Kelly interviews Glenn Greenwald. April 15, 2024
https://youtu.be/CQOf_dSh0bw?si=RK62o9qljRlPpH6w
Iran doesn't hate the US because of Mosaddegh's overthrow in the 1950's. That's malarky. And the British were major players in the overthrow, because Mosaddegh nationalized British oil holdings in Iran.
Mosadeggegh wasn't such an exemplary advocate of democracy either. At the start of his rule, Mosaddegh introduced a single-clause bill to parliament to grant him emergency "dictatorial decree" powers for six months to pass "any law he felt necessary for obtaining not only financial solvency, but also electoral, judicial, and educational reforms." That law was in force for 6 months. Mosaddegh then asked for an extension in January 1953, successfully pressing Parliament to extend his emergency powers for another 12 months.
Finally, in any brutality contest between the Shah and the Mullahs, the Mullahs come out as the most brutal ever. Their suppression of religious minorities is legendary for its brutality. There's no excuse for daily prayers for "Death to America." I can't even post Death to the Mullahs of Iran on X, because it violates their violence policy.
We overthrew their duly elected president. You say he deserved it. The Iranians feel we had no right to do that and I agree. We installed the Shah who was worse than the president we overthrew. The Iranians feel we had no right to do that and I agree. The fact that the Mullahs turned out worse than the Shah doesn’t justify our interference in their elections. And how about Iraq? I worked (CNC machinery) for many years with Assyrians from Iraq in Chicago who said our invasion was like a tsunami that destroyed their country. One Assyrian once told me “All of Iraq is ruined.” How awful. As bad as things were under Saddam they were far worse after he was gone.
At the time of the revolution in 1979 in Iran, many of the Shah’s opponents were leftists, people who had supported Mossadegh. After the Mullahs got control of the regime, they killed or exiled all the leftists very quickly. In fact, in 1953, the American involvement in Mossadegh’s overthrow was to mobilize the Mullahs and their Shiite supporters against Mossadegh. So it is pretty rich that leftists attribute the Mullahs’ anti-Americanism to America’s involvement with their overthrow of Mossadegh.
They never give up their emergency powers without some sort of force. And if we’re lucky it’s ballot box choice.
I remember reading years ago, it may have been Dean Atchison's 'Present at the Creation', that the mullahs supported the Shah over Mossaddegh because the Shah was less repressive towards them.
That whole part of the world is horrible. I was once talking to a woman who said she was Assyrian. I said I worked with a lot of Assyrians from Iraq and asked her if she also was from Iraq. She said she grew up here but her parents were from Iran. I told one of the Assyrians at work about this and said I was surprised there were Assyrians in Iran. He said when the Turks were killing the Armenians they also started killing the Assyrians who are also Christian so the Assyrians fled to wherever they could find safety and some ended up in Iran. I told him his people have a terrible history and he said “Oh yes! Very terrible!” No denying our fallen world is a deadly place full of evil but we also have many beautiful things here so it’s not all bad.
Celtic Woman - The Voice Lyrics. (3 min)
Optimistic Triangle. Jan 2014
https://youtu.be/BxGE65pn2vg?si=5ENiegXU-SiZdq1s
It's like 'Hamas' is a magic word for you that justifies the Israeli genocide of Palestine. Zionism is a hell of a drug. Listen to people who know better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOdRk7Wptjg
Everyone has a right to self defense. When Hamas kills 1200 Jews in Israel and takes over 240 hostages, breaking a ceasefire, there can be no excuse for that. It's a war crime. Bombing military targets in Gaza ain't. As a Vietnam Era Vet, I learned the laws of war very well. As a Marxist, you learned to use any means necessary to get what you want, especially including lying. You're full of Schiff.
Typical Zionist, lying about your genocide by calling it 'self-defense'. You didn't listen to the interview I linked, did you?
There's no reason for you to be so misinformed with all the information available today, and your ignorance is nothing to be proud of.
Norman Finkelstein? He’s been an insane anti-Israel activist for thirty years. There’s no genocide in Gaza. There are five or six million Palestinians. Killing 20,000 civilians in the middle of a war that Hamas started hardly constitutes genocide. Every one of those who accuse Israel of genocide denies Israel the right to defend its borders. Even after the slaughter of October 7th, Hamas continue to shoot thousands of missile’s at Israel’s civilians. No nation on earth would tolerate that. The US and the USSR probably killed at least 500,000 German civilians during WW2. Was that genocide?
“in the middle of a war that Hamas started”
“The Israeli-Gaza War Did Not Start on Oct 7.” (15 min)
Glenn Greenwald. Feb 25, 2024
https://youtu.be/wO4hxzidrhc?si=FTGnGq96Tyr5IFep
Are you saying that Hams didn’t kill 1200 Israelis and take over 240 hostages during a ceasefire? Or are you saying war crimes like that genocide are "justified" by the "occupation?" Either way you're a Hamas hole.
“Six months into the war in Gaza, everyone seems to be losing.”
“Israel's war in the Gaza Strip has killed more than 33,000 people, most of them women and children, according to the Palestinian enclave’s health ministry. Israel says it has two primary aims: to free the remaining 130 mostly Israeli hostages; and to destroy the Hamas militant group that led the attack on Oct. 7, a goal that critics say is too ambitious or impossible.”
“Meanwhile Israel has become increasingly isolated internationally, with even its closest ally, the United States, demanding that it do more to help protect Palestinian civilians in Gaza, where more than 1 million people are now thought to be on the brink of famine. Israel’s killing of seven aid workers has put that global condemnation into overdrive, with prominent voices in Europe and the U.S. now calling for the suspension of arms sales.”
“There is no victor in this kind of war,” said Yossi Mekelberg, an associate fellow at Chatham House, a London-based think tank. “The situation in Gaza is catastrophic in every sense of the word, and yet Israel is getting more embroiled — in Gaza, but also Iran. Then there’s the hostages: God knows how many of them are still alive. Meanwhile Israel is really pushing itself into becoming a pariah state.”
“Six months into the war in Gaza, everyone seems to be losing.”
Yahoo News. NBCNews. Apr 7, 2024
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/six-months-war-gaza-everyone-110022613.html
You had me at I.
Of course standing by Israel is the right thing to do. Anyone who doesn't understand that Israel is a proxy for western civilization should pay more attention. Especially people on the right. Please people, get educated.
Just to be clear, there are far more people on the left who are pro Hamas than people on the right. Marxist anti-colonialists take it as a matter of faith that Arabs are indigenous Palestinians and Israelis are settler colonialists. That's malarkey, but it's what they think. Columbia, Yale and Harvard ain't Trump country. Please try to get in some tenuous touch with reality. All of my Republican friends are very pro Israel. My Democrat Jewish wife watches Fox News for their Israel coverage. You are full of Schiff.
"Especially people on the right."
You haven't been paying attention.
“Whether America Should Help Israel, and Why Iran Hates the United States.” (11 min)
Megyn Kelly interviews Glenn Greenwald. April 15, 2024
https://youtu.be/CQOf_dSh0bw?si=RK62o9qljRlPpH6w
I converted to Judaism and applied for dual citizenship. Thanx.
Listen to the student protesters themselves, then compare it to M.Johnson's comments - he's on a different planet: https://rumble.com/v4rr03b-interview-columbia-students-on-encampment-and-protest-suppression.html
Perhaps at some point, when enough Palestinian flags are flying in our country, you will be able to say “standing by Israel is the right thing to do”.
Whether you “think it is or not” actually does matter. Not “standing by Israel” is standing by Hamas/Iran.
I hope, like you did in 2020, you will have an epiphany.
This is just one more thing the left has completely inverted.
Standing by Israel IS the right thing to do. Palestine NEVER EXISTED until Israel was given nationhood based on their historical rights to that small sliver of land in the ME, and they are the ONLY nation in the ME to share biblical beliefs to LIFE, LIBERTY & GOD GIVEN FREEDOM. "In 2011, Newt Gingrich said “The Palestinians are an invented people.” He was right. So why are they entitled to a state?
In 1964, the Palestine Liberation Organization was formed to liberate Palestine through armed struggle. But it took years for the notion of a Palestinian people to crystalize. In 1967, they were not recognized as such, nor were they considered a party to the conflict. Security Council Resolution 242 passed after the ’67 war, made no mention of them... ~ https://www.israpundit.org/since-when-did-the-palestinians-become-entitled-to-a-state/
For the record, if Hamas killed 30,000 Jewish civilians and wounded another 70,000 more, I’d call that genocide. The only reason you don’t call what Israel is doing genocide is because it’s Jews killing Goy. To thine self be true.
A Jewish-American activist says attacks on Palestinian voices have ‘gone too far.’ (5 Min)
Middle East Eye. Apr 24, 2024
https://youtu.be/__6ryFcR3A0?si=CSQMgd7roHX64vGX
A counterpoint.
https://www.newsweek.com/message-gazan-campus-protesters-youre-hurting-palestinian-cause-opinion-1894313
Of course, I can't verify the authenticity of this and I can think of at least 4 players who might have an interest in promoting fake news. But it does make the valid point that Hamas is the very worst that the Palestinians have to offer.
One thing that everyone on both sides of the dispute has ignored or missed is that about 1/3 of the aid package for "Israel" (9/26) actually went to Hamas ,er humanitarian aid. I have seen nothing about how this is to be administered but the history of the USG, the UN and the various NGOs in such matters tells me there is no way that the primary beneficiary will be not be Hamas. So we are funding both sides but not our side (the border). When you fund both sides, the point is to keep the war going. I assume that the goal is to tie this war to yet another funding package for Ukraine. Worked like a charm the last time. Or perhaps it may to further the Color War against Israel by the US IC to get a regime more subservient to the US.
“The only reason you don’t call what Israel is doing genocide is because it’s Jews killing Goy.”
I don’t see it as Jews killing Goy. I see it as Judaism being hijacked by Zionism which believes God gave Israel to the Jewish people 2500 years ago and therefore the land belongs to them and the pesky Palestinians just have to get out. Even many of the protesters here are Jewish and are appalled by what Israel is doing whereas Evangelical Christians like Mike Johnson have no problem with it and very much want to help the Zionists get rid of the Palestinians.
The answer to your comment lies in the comment itself, at the forth word: "If". "If" you believe Hamas figures for civilian casualties, you can also believe Biden's uncle was eaten alive. And don't let me start talking about those "civilians", another word that should be hyphenated referring to Palestinians. Just ask the (few) rescued hostages.
I, for one understood the point you were trying to make. Keep it goin’ Sasha👍🏽
Biden is in the unenviable position of trying to placate two disparate but despicable groups of people out of sheer desperation… Trump SHOULD have taken the opportunity and declared to the anti-Israel protesters: “I DO NOT WANT YOUR VOTE!!!” which would make Biden look AWFUL, which of course… He IS…
They’re not “anti-Israel protesters.” They’re anti-genocide, anti-Zionism protestors. Believe it or not, the Zionists have destroyed Gaza along with tens of thousands of Palestinians who were blown up, crushed by collapsing buildings or, worst of all, simply buried alive. You consider Palestinians savage animals who need to be destroyed. I don’t. I consider them people trapped in a nightmare orchestrated by Israel which has become sociopathic and demonic.
The "Zionists" exited Gaza in 2005, forcibly removing those Jews who wanted to stay. "Land for peace" you know.
In gratitude, the Gazan Arabs launched thousands of rockets into Israel over the next couple of years. The Gazans also trashed the economic capital (e.g. commercial greenhouses) the Jews had left behind in hopes that the Gazans would benefit from their use.
The Gazans also took tens (hundreds?) of $billions of aid from Western countries and used it not for economic development but to prepare for their next attempt to annihilate Israel.
Your "orchestration" is all Hamas's doing, and they were voted into power by their fellow Gazans.
Israel would do well to recall what General Curtis LeMay said following World War II: "I'll tell you what war is. You have to kill people. When you've killed enough, they stop fighting."
In short, The "Palestinians," as a group, have ***earned** every bit of lethal misery anyone would choose to inflict upon them.
The choice is between Western civilization and Islamic barbarism.
Excellent discussion between two of our very best public intellectuals, Glenn Greenwald and John Mearsheimer, about Israel/Gaza, Russia/Ukraine. Near the end (18:50 point) Glenn asks Mearsheimer what he thinks of Netanyahu. Really an excellent interview. I recommend watching these last 7 minutes and then go back to the beginning and watch it all. Very informative. These are two of my favorites that I’ve learned a lot from.
“Interview: John Mearsheimer Dismantles Israel’s Reckless Campaign in Gaza.” (26 min)
Glenn Greenwald. Apr 3, 2024
https://youtu.be/2F3owyErgFs?si=nTQJoPdduSPXlPYE
I laid out unarguable facts on the ground, and you responded with a video of two talking heads. (Yes, they're familiar talking heads.)
Israel is being reckless? They've gone to enormous lengths to avoid harming the Gazan population, a population that -- for the most part -- deserves no quarter.
“They've gone to enormous lengths to avoid harming the Gazan population”
Dropping 2,000 pound bombs on densely populated areas does not qualify as going to “enormous lengths to avoid harming the Gazan population.” You obviously consider the Palestinians as savage animals that need to be crushed and swept out of civilized Israel. I don’t. I consider it genocide and evil.
The protesters MOSTLY have NO IDEA what they’re protesting… They are classic “useful idiots”. Do you know WHY Gaza exists? It was a process of Israel’s efforts to live peaceably with Palestinians, which the Palestinians REFUSE to do, so Israel had to keep increasingly ISOLATE Palestinians who ARE the aggressors…
Look at current Israel: There are Arabs, Christians and even SOME Palestinians who live peacefully within Israel and have all the rights of Israeli citizens…
And if the college protesters were TRULY “anti-genocide”, WHY aren’t they protesting Hamas who STARTED the “genocide” and STATES CLEARLY they want Israel exterminated?
you DIDN’T mean to suggest supporting Israel was the right thing to do? why not? it IS the right thing to do.
Justifying genocide by calling it “self defense” is not “the right thing to do.” It’s the sociopathic and demonic thing to do.
Bastardizing the language is sociopathic and demonic.
There is no definition of the word genocide that fits with what is occurring in Israel, that is all an invention in your brain, sociopathic and demonic.
Israel has become a global pariah state. That’s the reality of the world we live in no matter how you spin it.
And yet, about 40% of potential voters think he is doing just fine. A case can be made that they are deluding themselves out of hatred of Trump. But Trump observed that they were really after us and he was just in the way. This is a worse problem because it can't be fixed even if Biden goes away. And the 40% denies reality on a host of other issues as well. The US is no longer a real country.
As for Trump, his biggest problem isn't mean tweets, media bias, lawfare or even election fraud. It's that he has this giant albatross called the Republican Party hanging around his neck. Just last weekend they endorsed Biden's foreign policy, made the surveillance state worse and as a bonus gave him cover on the Tik Tok ban. I don't know how Trump gets rid of these Vichyites. FDR tried a primary purge and it was a complete debacle.
"40% of potential voters think he is doing just fine.". This is so true, and includes my wife and many friends of mine. They only watch state-run media and thus never see the stuff that Sasha talks about here. Plus, they hate Trump with the passion of a thousand suns. They will never vote for him even if Joe Biden has a stroke and dies.
Yes Mainstram media IS the problem.
Keep up the good fight with the truth.
The 40% , their ego, whole sense of self and identity, puts a barrier of cognitive dissonance that prevents them from seeing the truth - same as with the covid shots and hysteria.
I call them DNA Democrats. It is so deeply embedded that they will never change. Unfortunately, there are also DNA Republicans who cannot see how dysfunction their party has become.
They used to be called "Yellow Dog Democrats"...someone who would vote for a yellow dog if it had a "D" behind its name.
Yep. I am old enough to remember though the term has fallen out of use.
Pairing yellow dog and Democrats is animal abuse.
Speaking of animal abuse why was Biden's dog in the shower with him.
The egotistas dominate the contours of the political landscape and drown out the noise of the our shared kabuki.
Opposite of sycophants. Most of those 30% have their head on their shoulders and are concerned about issues that matter.
Save your energy, she/he is a troll!
Those RINO's are doing their part to disillusion the resistance. Fortunately we have MAGA which is outside the Republican party. In fact I am informed that there is a primary in Northern Florida where one of these morons can be put out to pasture, or dropped off in Tate's Hell (look it up, funny story). We need to rid ourselves of these people who do their very best to sow a feeling of hopelessneess. They do it because they are in SAFE R seats. So they know all they need is an R next to their name to get elected. Once elected, they turn into swamp monsters. Time to send this guy to Tate's Hell.
If you need help identifying the problem, look at the last vote allowing warrantless searches on American Citizens (FISA) and Ukraine funding WITHOUT BORDER SECURITY. Every one of those idiots sold us all out.
Mara Macie running against supposedly invincible Swamp Monster Rep. John Rutherford (R-FL). Time to make a difference.
Trump also supported Mike Johnson though. Without Trump’s support that could not have happened.
As I have said before, Trump was worried about Johnson being ousted and flipping the House to the Democrats who would proceed to outlaw Trump. Other than that, the Democrats have de facto control now. Trump, unfortunately, chose to run as a Republican and now he is stuck with the bozos. I understand the practical problems of standing up a new party but had he started on J6, it would have been much easier. Now it is too late. Creates a real dilemma for people like me come November. I do want Trump back in the White House but it gags me to vote for just anyone with an R after their name. Vegas paper asked the R Senate candidates about foreign policy. Guy who is going to win the nomination expressed full-throated support for Israel, which will offend you more than me, but completely weaseled on Ukraine. Btw. he is taking McConnell's money. About half the Republican politicians are crazier than the Democrats.
In 2008 I told the editor of our local newspaper that supported Ron Paul. He told me that I was wasting my vote. I responded that 500 years ago a man in China began to lay down larges stones. One of his neighbors came along and asked whatever he was doing. He responded that he was building building the Great Wall of China. His neighbor scoffed and declared "That's no Great Wall." Somebody has to go out and lay down that first block of stone, somebody has to be the first man off the landing craft in front of withering machine gun fire. Trump has put himself out there, now we must follow.
Just vote for MAGA Republicans in primaries. We can’t third party it but we CAN take over, rid ourselves of Establishment shills and remake the Republican Party to an all MAGA party. Just pay attention. It’s getting easier and easier to tell friend from foe and we have learned the R is no guarantee. But believe me, The Grand Old Party is dead. Long live the MAGA Republican Party!
But what is to be done if GOPe is nominated.
Don't vote for Trump. Vote against Biden.
And by the way, was your life really that bad in 2016-2020?
Definitely voting FOR Trump. It's the best way to stop the banana republic stuff and eternal war.
We are ruled by criminally insane fanatics rapidly destroying us internally and doing whatever they can to follow Israel’s lead to a truly global WW3. Only AI can save our sinking ship. Hope springs eternal as does wishful thinking but there is very good reason to believe AI will be a game changer for humanity.
I will just leave this here for you.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-homeland-security-names-ai-191605906.html
Not a single good guy in the group. Naturally, no Musk but apparently even
Zuckerberg was not evil enough for them.
I did see that. I like Elon and this CEO Jensen Huang of Nvidia also seems to be a good person interested in helping humanity rather than being in the globalist ruling class that controls everything.
Thanks. I will watch Huang.
We can avoid world war by giving in to the demands of a murderous cult, one which has clearly shown its intentions. A cult that teaches its children to hate non-cult members from a young age. The cult is demanding the return of land it lost after waging a previous bloody war. This will surely lead to lasting peace. - Neville Chamberlain, Munich, 1933.
We wouldn’t need AI to save us if we used our own rational thought to learn from history. Instead, some choose to drink the the same old poison, deceptively packaged with new “Anti-Zionist” labels.
“Whether America Should Help Israel, and Why Iran Hates the United States.” (11 min)
Megyn Kelly interviews Glenn Greenwald. April 15, 2024
https://youtu.be/CQOf_dSh0bw?si=RK62o9qljRlPpH6w
What do you mean by “weaseled on Ukraine”? He supported it, or is bailing on it? Personally I don’t think we should be sending any money or weapons there…
Didn't give a clear answer. I assume that means he will support sending more there.
We have these critical votes that identify the problems. It is up to us to throw them out.
The primary strategy failed years ago. Only thing left is boycott and get ready for a really bad couple of years of Democrat control with the hope that the Republicans emerge cleansed and it isn't too late to rebuild.
We've already had "really bad couple of years of Democrat control." Sure, let's try some more.
Name your poison.
I didn't mention it in my original post but Johnson added in a provision to confiscate frozen assets of private Russian citizens and give the money to Ukraine. Very bad precedent that could easily come back to bite US citizens, either via retaliation or worse the USG confiscating the assets of US citizens (401k?). This appears to have been his own initiative without prompting by Trump or even Biden.
Mike Johnson is an Evangelical Zionist Christian totally committed to Israel. He agreed to whatever the democrats wanted for Ukraine in return for getting what he wanted for Israel. With leaders like this, who needs enemies?
The zealot nation isn’t who stood before a hostile crowd and said every including Jewish folks have a right to be safe and free and unmolested. Such an evil evil man, right?
Oh wait.
Maybe instead of believing the caricature you actually read and find the truth.
I’m sure he is an evangelical Christian - if that is his worst sin then we are ok.
He may be many things, but judging by his actions, he's no Christian - Evangelical, Zionist Zealot, or otherwise - despite what he has claimed in the past. Talk is cheap.
It is not even clear that the Democrats wanted the confiscation of assets. Johnson's ploy was to avoid making Americans pay for Ukraine but Americans will pay in other ways. As near as I can tell the FISA renewal and expansion had nothing to do with either Israel or Ukraine but was on the Deep State wish list. You are correct the evangelicals are the strongest supporters of Israel but remember Johnson cited his religion as the reason for his flip on Ukraine. One wonders what sort of church supports the soulless globalists.
Both FISA extension and TikTok (soon to be TikTak) control were the Trojan horses of the bill that most non thinkers are not seeing. Thanks MSM.
The other Trojan horse was the confiscation of assets from private Russian citizens.
I can see a mental health objection to tik tok but that applies to all social media. The national security thing is just ridiculous. If you follow the money, I bet it leads to US based social media.
To pass legislation in the House requires 218 yeas. Johnson showed the rebellious bit of his caucus what happens when they grandstand in support of legislation that can't pass the Senate or get a Presidential signature. The loud backbenchers could have done better if they'd participated instead of throwing rotten fruit from the cheap seats. None are in swing districts and all are in danger of being primaried from the right. Most are mediocre fund raisers as well. Now they see they are unneeded for passage.
It's not that we're not a real country......we are just two countries officially un officially. Our side is just trying to self govern and oppose the tyranny on the colonies by England, I mean Washington
One of the definitions of a country is that it has a border.
While DC is the seat of the evil that afflicts us, it is not the sum total. It is really a divide between urban areas and the rest. A house divided cannot stand. So the future is a split or one side imposes its vision by force.
Yes, countries have borders which need to be protected. And don't forget that there are good Americans in urban areas (the leftist mayor of Chicago actually attempted to blame the few people who voted for Trump in the recent primary for Chicago's problems). Never paint with too broad a brush about urban dwellers or it becomes inaccurate.
True but you are hopelessly outnumbered to the point where the net leftism of the cities controls whole states and ultimately the national government. Any National Divorce is going to have to include population exchanges so that too many people aren't left behind enemy lines on both sides. There are probably more leftists in rural areas (%age) than conservatives in cities. People are free to stay where they want but have to understand that they have no chance of power and perhaps a chance of something worse.
Well said, great comment.
So many people on both sides of the aisle need be holocausted that it makes no sense.
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Biden won’t actually be allowed to participate in a presidential debate. They will have him mutter about participating, but will ultimately find an excuse for him to drop out (“Trump was planning to use the platform to advance his racist agenda!!”)
There will not be a debate. Obama knows that Joe couldn't survive it, so they'll play like there's going to, but in the end, some excuse will be invented to cancel. Your last sentence is as good as any.
Trump tried to kill Biden at the last debate! He screeched at Biden to infect him with COVID! Talk about conspiracy theories. And you even found a “timeline” for this.
My take is that something this ridiculous shows either desperation or insanity (or both).
If there’s a silver lining in the NYC trial, it’s Trump getting outside everyday morning and afternoon campaigning in NYC. It’s uplifting to see.
I've been a caregiver to a dementia patient. They're using every drug they can on Joe and, given how far gone he is, the doctors are doing a good job, but he doesn't have much juice left. This election isn't between Trump and Biden, it's between Biden and his shutdown date.
I love the guts behind your writing, Sasha.
“This election isn't between Trump and Biden“
The election is between Trump and the dem media. Pretty much all our elections are that way now. Kari Lake’s campaign for governor of Arizona certainly was. Katie Hobbs was afraid of Kari and spent her “campaign” hiding from Kari.
As goes Arizona so goes the nation. Or was I thinking about Carrie nation?
Without the guts there would be no glory.
At nearly 78 years old, Trump the person is no longer the point. He has exposed the massive corruption of our governing class, and for that we should be thankful.
They've published the national debt for years and years as it has grown so it now dwarfs GDP. Where have you been? Living under a rock?