tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113686282024-03-18T19:14:18.967-04:00Sultan Knish News and Analysis from the US to Israel to Around the WorldDaniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comBlogger4459125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-90878217631140478142024-03-18T12:21:00.003-04:002024-03-18T12:21:57.523-04:00‘UN Women’ Says Transgender Men are the Most Oppressed Women<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfVXaeOvXQJla5nAv9kNzBLHze6ZzYJ8pEO1-FANjBR274lUhRpGovzcbRY3nfYuqU4qrohzNc7Tab_AB5wufXH_DTwMbghfFIA3lM7DkdizmMlDA9hDjJxVppoxK_6qEhpFi0GaOZW5LHc27Pi1Q-ZE5xPnyD6nJ8SqHCyXsGhFDYRtwajsothA/s1008/image_2024-03-18_092112588.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1008" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfVXaeOvXQJla5nAv9kNzBLHze6ZzYJ8pEO1-FANjBR274lUhRpGovzcbRY3nfYuqU4qrohzNc7Tab_AB5wufXH_DTwMbghfFIA3lM7DkdizmMlDA9hDjJxVppoxK_6qEhpFi0GaOZW5LHc27Pi1Q-ZE5xPnyD6nJ8SqHCyXsGhFDYRtwajsothA/w640-h434/image_2024-03-18_092112588.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Some years back, Martin Neeves, a British chap from the East Midlands, <a href="https://reduxx.info/uk-trans-identified-male-selected-as-un-women-delegate-has-history-of-stealing-sisters-underwear/">went to a psychic,</a> talked to a spirit and decided that deep inside he’s really a woman named ‘Katie’.<br /><br />Fifty years ago, he would have been a tabloid footnote, but things being what they are, Martin, a mediocre photographer, has become a DEI hero, reaching new career heights, spreading awareness as a “Trans” ambassador, conducting diversity training and appearing on the BBC..<br /><br />Within a year, Martin had won the “British Diversity Awards Hero of the Year 2023”, become a “DIVA Awards Unsung Hero of the Year Finalist 2023” and was honored as the “Outstanding Female LGBTQIA+ Champion 2023”.<br /><br />Now Martin will be one of the British delegates to the UN Commission on the Status of Women.<br /><br />The UN Commission dedicated to “the empowerment of women and girls” is running low on them.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf2fph5crpqjGpR-HrH6dNKVNKF6kI1Ev2xbmNpDbRpZm5c9kRkUBiOfJs70AryAvrjHEE1YWf8gLJ2m1MtNFlT1NMYbsP04uORLmCMwZ2jVxgqryCjSyzd9qVr7OqdpjZcSSKbeAny5LryfaIWSz5AM0yJ0nQs7rmzt-UfYMr6ZRhHmAZ2bgc8A/s664/image_2024-03-18_091810209.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="565" data-original-width="664" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf2fph5crpqjGpR-HrH6dNKVNKF6kI1Ev2xbmNpDbRpZm5c9kRkUBiOfJs70AryAvrjHEE1YWf8gLJ2m1MtNFlT1NMYbsP04uORLmCMwZ2jVxgqryCjSyzd9qVr7OqdpjZcSSKbeAny5LryfaIWSz5AM0yJ0nQs7rmzt-UfYMr6ZRhHmAZ2bgc8A/s320/image_2024-03-18_091810209.png" width="320" /></a></div>UN Women had picked<a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/trans-model-shouldnt-represent-british-women-un-told-nsr0j02wc"> Munroe Bergdorf</a> as its UK champion despite his rants about white people, posting, “Honestly, I don’t have energy to talk about the racial violence of white people any more. Yes, all white people. Because most of y’all don’t even realize or refuse to acknowledge that your existence, privilege and success as a race is built on the backs, blood and death of people of color. Your entire existence is drenched in racism.”<br /><br />According <a href="https://reduxx.info/uk-trans-identified-male-selected-as-un-women-delegate-has-history-of-stealing-sisters-underwear/">to Reddux</a>, a feminist site that chronicles transgender issues, Bergdorf had been dumped from the UK National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NPSCC) “when it was discovered that had invited children to message him privately on social media”.<br /><br />But Martin and Munroe are not the only UN Women figures confused about what a woman is.<br /><br />Amy Bryant, a USA delegate to UN Women, “identifies as queer, trans, and disabled”, and uses “they/them” pronouns.<br /><br />Tate Smith, an “award-winning Trans activist & speaker”, who started out as a woman and is trying to become a man with doses of testosterone and butch haircuts, is a delegate to UN Women despite not wanting to be a woman.<br /><br />Between the men who want to be women and the women who want to be men, what is UN Women doing anyway?<br /><br />The entire premise for UN Women was the equal participation of women in decision making, but as the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women approaches, how can women participate equally if they’re being replaced by men?<br /><br />The UN Women internal resource guide has four pages of sexual identity definitions, but fails to define what a woman is. It does claim that a “trans woman is someone whose internal sense of gender is female” and that the most oppressed women around are actually men.<br /><br />According to UN Women, “two groups of women who continue to be among those most marginalized are trans and intersex women.”<br /><br />Forget Afghanistan, consider the plight of Martin Neeves from the East Midlands. In Muslim countries, women have limited civil rights. In some they can be locked up for even trying to leave the house, but UN Women would like us to believe that Mr. Neeves is one of the most oppressed women out there.<br /><br />But if men who claim to be women are really so oppressed, why are so many of them doing it?<br /><br />In times past, women would pretend to be men for the social and economic advantages. These days it’s more lucrative for men to pretend to be women while announcing it to the world.<br /><br />In the space of a few years, Martin Neeves went from obscurity to national fame.<br /><br />Do all of the awards, titles and economic opportunities coming his way now that he’s “Katie” really suggest that he’s an oppressed minority? Had Martin stuck to occasionally cross-dressing in the privacy of his own home would his career be better or worse off than it is today?<br /><br />Men who claim to be women, UN Women argues, are the most oppressed because “it is asserted that transgender women are not ‘real’ or ‘biological’ women’” and “some even believe that transgender women are a threat to the rights of and spaces for cisgender women”.<br /><br />Does this really suggest that men who claim to be women are oppressed or that women are?<br /><br />When women who are living in domestic abuse shelters and prisons try to keep men out, is it because they’re oppressing the men, or because they’re the ones who are being oppressed?<br /><br />A little over a decade ago, the UN produced its Bangkok Rules handbook on women in prison which described female prisoners as uniquely vulnerable, urged that women be examined by female nurses or doctors, and cautioned about the importance of privacy and dignity for women.<br /><br />For example, personal searches should “only be carried out by women staff”, it cautioned.<br /><br />UN Women has decided to throw all of that out and argue that women have no rights as a sex, only as a point of view that is entirely a figment of theirs and everyone else’s social imagination. Anyone can pretend to be a woman which means there really isn’t such a thing. As John Lennon would have sung if he were around today, “imagine there’s no women, it’s easy if you try.”<br /><br />UN Women insists that “all individuals have the right to self-determine their own gender and that doing so does not infringe on others’ rights, nor does it attempt to erase or negate the experiences of any woman.” If I were to suggest that UN Women doesn’t really exist, the organization might have issues with that, but it’s okay to suggest that women don’t exist.<br /><br />The UN was built on the principle of defending national sovereignty and rights that are a matter of human invention, but biology is not a matter of consensus or perspective. It simply is. Everything that the UN promotes has less objective reality than the existence of women.<br /><br />UN Women has decided that anyone can be a woman, but in that case who needs a special UN Women organization? Why not just get rid of the extra space and call it UN Women?</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a> is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" target="_blank">Front Page Magazine</a>.</span></i></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Click <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" target="_blank">here to subscribe</a> to my articles. And <a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" target="_blank">click here to support my work with a donation</a>.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Thank you for reading.</i></div></span></div></span></div></span></div>Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-90620089314922943872024-03-17T17:33:00.003-04:002024-03-17T17:33:36.436-04:00Kamala’s Gaza Coup<span style="font-size: medium;">After years of agreeing with her boss on everything, Kamala decided to make a break for it.<br /><br />It began with newspaper stories claiming that the VP had been pushing Joe Biden to speak more about the “suffering” of Muslims in Gaza during the war between Hamas and Israel.<br /><br />The break went even more public when Kamala visited the United Arab Emirates and attacked Israel, implicitly <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/kamalas-jihad/">accusing it of</a> violating “international humanitarian law” and claiming that “the scale of civilian suffering and the images and videos coming from Gaza are devastating”.<br /><br />Then she warned Israel that there could be “no forcible displacement, no reoccupation, no siege or blockade, no reduction in territory”.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVLjV_eNfbLTklClwcGaVgQTVCbeToqOQ15ZxKdHMupmbJvE59juZPiVVvowuPBqY8OioPBV_Pm3Yq5pky4_PoLAMwpJmKyWL7LElkBpReDXnzT-WkN7Lez-2Ib6Qowxr-nbQ9ASYyOnBQYKv_iZkdSrLesrPhqzjfhk9zW7VJdPLocXhi0gGRtA/s818/kamala%20gaza%20frame.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="818" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVLjV_eNfbLTklClwcGaVgQTVCbeToqOQ15ZxKdHMupmbJvE59juZPiVVvowuPBqY8OioPBV_Pm3Yq5pky4_PoLAMwpJmKyWL7LElkBpReDXnzT-WkN7Lez-2Ib6Qowxr-nbQ9ASYyOnBQYKv_iZkdSrLesrPhqzjfhk9zW7VJdPLocXhi0gGRtA/s320/kamala%20gaza%20frame.png" width="320" /></a></div>At the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Kamala hijacked the civil rights commemoration to rant that “the Israeli government must do more to significantly increase the flow of aid… No excuses. They must open new border crossings. They must not impose any unnecessary restrictions on the delivery of aid.”<br /><br />“No excuses,” she barked.<br /><br />Media stories quickly followed claiming that Kamala’s original draft had been even harsher on Israel but had been watered down. This was the latest in a series of leaks from inside Kamala’s camp which all claimed that she was much more pro-terrorist and anti-Israel in private.<br /><br />The whole thing could be seen as political theater with the Biden administration trying to play both sides at the same time if it were not for the media leaks which very clearly undermine Biden. And undermining the party’s likely nominee before an election is a very odd choice.<br /><br />Or maybe not so odd.<br /><br />Democrats are faced with the seeming inevitability that Joe Biden, unpopular, polling badly and rather old, will be their nominee. Removing him would take either a convention battle or a pressure campaign convincing him to step down. And Kamala might not be the beneficiary.<br /><br />Kamala polls as badly, if not occasionally worse, than her boss, and if the party is going to remove one unpopular incumbent, why not remove both of them at the same time?<br /><br />As the Democratic National Convention approaches, Kamala is carefully putting herself on the side of a growing split among Democrats over the Hamas war and making sure that she will be the default or at least the compromise candidate in any leftist effort to remove Biden.<br /><br />Michigan <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/michigan-muslims-take-biden-hostage-to-save-hamas/">Muslim Hamas supporters</a> and the Our Revolution activists who first put Bernie Sanders on the map have teamed up to push ‘Uncommitted’ votes in Dem party primaries. There are fairly flew ‘Uncommitted’ delegates despite extensive media promotion of the pro-terrorist campaign, but they are likely to be used to disrupt the nomination process.<br /><br />Kamala already has a very good relationship with DNC chair Jaime Harrison who could theoretically be in a position to remove or replace Biden under certain scenarios, but plenty of DNC figures also want Kamala gone, and the Left is not especially friendly to her either.<br /><br />When Our Revolution set out to shake up the 2016 primaries, it initially chose Senator Elizabeth Warren, who refused to challenge Hillary, before<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/bernie-sanders-greedy-lying-socialist-1-percenter-daniel-greenfield/"> settling on Bernie Sanders </a>and making him into a household name. Our Revolution has attacked Kamala and instead spent much of its time trying to promote Rep. Ro Khanna: a pro-terrorist leftist with deep ties to Silicon Valley.<br /><br />Kamala has increasingly adopted Rep. Khanna’s positions and the leftist messaging on the Hamas war in order to get on the right side of a major faction within the Democratic Party. And it’s the faction that is also likeliest to stage a coup against Biden at the convention. If there were any doubt about it, the attempt to upstage Biden during the primaries made that all too clear.<br /><br />Does Kamala really care about Gaza? While she does have <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/kamala-attacks-israel-during-civil-rights-commemoration/">a history of pandering </a>to the Islamist and anti-Israel Left, the only thing she has ever truly cared about is herself.<br /><br />After a mostly wasted term, she’s headed into a presidential election that will either end her career or put her on the pathway to becoming president. Even many Democratic Party insiders are skeptical that Joe Biden will win in 2024, let alone be able to serve out four years in office.<br /><br />Another four years may very well turn into two or three ending with President Kamala Harris.<br /><br />And yet there’s little confidence that Biden will be able to win a straight up election. If he goes down, Kamala goes down with him. But the Gaza coup offers a potential third option.<br /><br />Kamala has been signaling to Hamas supporters and leftists that she would be friendlier to their cause than her boss. And there’s really no reason to be doing that in a normal election year. However Kamala appears to be betting that this may not be a normal election year. She’s hedging her bets by publicly pushing the administration closer to the anti-Israel side, while privately her media leaks emphasize that she could be doing so much more if it wasn’t for Joe.<br /><br />Biden had promised to pick a black woman as his number two. Picking Kamala was either his dumbest or his smartest move. Kamala’s unpopularity made it unlikely that anyone would try to force him out because then they would be stuck with her. Her presence in the White House was 25th Amendment insurance and a guarantee that he wouldn’t be pushed off the ticket in 2024.<br /><br />But Biden had been warned by his allies that she was treacherous and would stab him in the back. Some insiders had bad memories of the time when Kamala had accused him of racism. The accusations began again in the first year of being in office when Kamala became obsessed with the idea that she was being undermined and would be displaced by Buttigieg in 2024.<br /><br />One particular red flag for Biden insiders had come during the VP search interviews when she was asked about accusing her future boss of being a racist. “She laughed and said, ‘that’s politics.’ She had no remorse.” Some of those insiders worried that she would do it again.<br /><br />And now it’s happening again.<br /><br />Last time it was busing, this time it’s Gaza, but Kamala is once again moving leftward and playing on identity politics. She’s once again suggesting that she’s a minority and more sensitive to the plight of minorities than the white man she’s undermining..<br /><br />This time, ‘it’s politics’ means siding with the terrorists and their supporters to stage a coup.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a> is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" target="_blank">Front Page Magazine</a>.</span></i></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Click <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" target="_blank">here to subscribe</a> to my articles. And <a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" target="_blank">click here to support my work with a donation</a>.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Thank you for reading.</i></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div>Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-27806866864077767242024-03-15T11:08:00.001-04:002024-03-15T11:08:12.377-04:00Biden’s ‘Trojan Pier’ for Gaza<span style="font-size: medium;">Five Americans are still being held hostage by Hamas, and Biden has sent no troops to help them, but at the State of the Union address, he promised to send troops to build a pier for Gaza.<br /><br />The estimated over 1,000 troops will spend as long as 2 months laboring to build a floating pier in a war zone under potential attack to help transfer aid to the Hamas supporters living in Gaza.<br /><br />Nothing about this plan makes sense.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin_Ba2bHeGMY977cQEF-mUZrMXYyyRiQEfrCm9DZzBMRzWMtLNi0z1hPjkApTLiblEIlJm_vYsGzLZ0L3A83oGEI1WQhYOp59Y5mMHf2j5i0PHoLi4XCfOS6-_fBApwanitVgBm-MjOlTlFihJBsQEj9jsPXgSlTzdrV46NdilvYCS-CFR0LP8PA/s1640/image_2024-03-15_080648942.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1073" data-original-width="1640" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin_Ba2bHeGMY977cQEF-mUZrMXYyyRiQEfrCm9DZzBMRzWMtLNi0z1hPjkApTLiblEIlJm_vYsGzLZ0L3A83oGEI1WQhYOp59Y5mMHf2j5i0PHoLi4XCfOS6-_fBApwanitVgBm-MjOlTlFihJBsQEj9jsPXgSlTzdrV46NdilvYCS-CFR0LP8PA/s320/image_2024-03-15_080648942.png" width="320" /></a></div>The media has taken to falsely claiming that the Arab Muslims occupying parts of Gaza are starving. Vice President Kamala Harris attacked Israel, claiming that she had “seen reports of families eating leaves or animal feed.” Social media <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/while-gazans-throw-us-aid-in-trash-biden-builds-pier-to-bring-them-more/">videos however show </a>the locals gorging themselves on shawarma and other foods in preparation for the Islamic period of Ramadan.<br /><br />But if the Biden administration really believed that Gazans were starving right now, what would be the purpose of spending two months building a pier to deliver aid? A program with a two month lead time will not help people who are starving right now. It would be a grim joke.<br /><br />And the pier plan only gets stranger from there.<br /><br />According to the administration, there will be no ‘boots on the ground’ constructing the pier and according to a Pentagon spokesman, “it will not be U.S. military personnel that are transporting the aid off of the causeway into Gaza.” So who has the trucks and capability to actually do it?<br /><br />The United States will build a pier for smaller ships to transfer to a temporary causeway. According to the spokesman, the administration is “coordinating with other nations to assist with operating the causeway and distributing aid into Gaza.”<br /><br />Who are those nations? They’re clearly not Israel or the United States. While the Pentagon spokesman mentions Israel as a partner nation, the Israelis are already able to deliver aid.<br /><br />The Pentagon spokesman mentioned the UN and nameless “ally and partner nations”.<br /><br />“Why not just use those existing ports and have Israel look at what’s going through and bring it in? It seems like this is a lot of work for 60 days out when there are people starving, frankly,” a reporter asked.<br /><br />And the spokesman responded with a confusing word salad because he had no good answer.<br /><br />The actual answer is that the Biden administration does not actually believe that the Arab Muslim occupiers in Gaza are starving, let alone starving to death, otherwise it would be doing more than air dropping 11,000 meals and promising to have meal delivery running in 60 days.<br /><br />The temporary pier setup is about bypassing Israel to provide long term access to Gaza.<br /><br />While administration officials describe the pier as “temporary”, a senior official also admitted that “we look forward to the port transitioning to a commercially operated facility over time.”<br /><br />That means it’s not actually meant to be temporary, but a permanent port for the terrorists.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiMeqfrWplzByfNUEW6tSw5wg51WdY34_REVal1Q1-siUWsxc5lKKZ-d9nCUErHvzByNhYohtALe_8Gb_zoTSTLF-OcxM_cpstx_1BEB-rEWU6zeI9DR2iYm-eneakxXV501BsHmy7CD_A8vHApxOpBEMYClNMJQBGgGHpRwH9CeB0065hvnD5QQ/s665/hamas%20frame%20america.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="371" data-original-width="665" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiMeqfrWplzByfNUEW6tSw5wg51WdY34_REVal1Q1-siUWsxc5lKKZ-d9nCUErHvzByNhYohtALe_8Gb_zoTSTLF-OcxM_cpstx_1BEB-rEWU6zeI9DR2iYm-eneakxXV501BsHmy7CD_A8vHApxOpBEMYClNMJQBGgGHpRwH9CeB0065hvnD5QQ/s320/hamas%20frame%20america.png" width="320" /></a></div>The administration claims that it needs this port “to enable humanitarian partners to safely distribute lifesaving aid throughout Gaza”, but the claim that this is about safety makes no sense since it’s not actually providing security for the aid deliveries. A Pentagon spokesman shrugged off the question of whether Hamas might open fire on American forces or the aid deliveries.<br /><br />“I mean, that’s certainly a risk, again, but if Hamas truly does care about the Palestinian people, then again, one would hope that this international mission to deliver aid to people who need it would be able to happen unhindered,” he argued. Is Biden still hoping that Hamas cares?<br /><br />The Pentagon spokesman emphasized however that American forces would not be on the ground, would not be in a position to secure the aid deliveries or stop Hamas from taking them.<br /><br />So what we know about the temporary pier to safely deliver supplies into Gaza is that it’s not temporary and the administration is taking no responsibility for the safety of the aid deliveries.<br /><br />So what is the permanent pier actually for?<br /><br />Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore (JLOTS), the Navy-Army capability exercised here, has as its goal the deployment of “LOTS assets to deploy and sustain a force” overcoming the lack of port facilities or “port denial”. Israel certainly has ports, so the issue then is port denial.<br /><br />The Biden administration claims that it personally will not put troops on the ground in Gaza, but there’s no word on whether other nations might do so. The Pentagon has claimed that security arrangements are still being discussed with partner nations. And some of those partner nations could include Hamas allies like Qatar or Turkey. Any armed foreign nation entering Gaza would amount to an invasion of Israeli territory with the ultimate aim of aiding the terrorists living on it.<br /><br />There is no reason to assume that moving troops is a primary goal here, but certainly ending Israel’s blockade of Gaza is. Beyond any immediate MREs, the causeway will be inevitably used to <a href="https://twitter.com/Jewtastic/status/1766682024738504758">move supplies for the “reconstruction” of Gaza </a>as part of a new “Palestinian State”.<br /><br />The Biden administration is creating a gateway to Gaza that Israel isn’t supposed to control.<br /><br />The Trojan pier is not only about bypassing Israel, but also Egypt. The administration’s vision is that the new arrangement will allow it to directly move materials into Gaza without having to get permission from either Israel or Egypt. And that’s a major victory for the terrorists.<br /><br />Currently, the Israeli military is saying that it will coordinate the construction and inspect the cargo being transferred into Gaza, but that is yet another mistake in a series of them. Once the system is in place and if Israel has been pressured into withdrawing, it gives the terrorists a direct connection to their allies on the outside. And that includes so-called humanitarian groups.<br /><br />Biden’s actions are a violation of Israel’s sovereignty. After a decade and a half of trying to bottle up Hamas after the group seized power due to Condoleezza Rice’s push for elections, Biden has decided to uncork the bottle. And while that’s bad for Israel, it’s also bad for America.<br /><br />The last quarter century has been a series of painful lessons in the cost of trying to win the hearts and minds of Islamic terrorists. Having learned nothing from Afghanistan and Iraq, Biden is bent on repeating the same lunatic experiment by “flooding” Gaza with aid and rebuilding it. If he’s hoping for gratitude, the locals throwing U.S. aid packages in the trash aren’t showing it.<br /><br />Nor will they.<br /><br />The United States spent American lives bailing out Iraqi Shiites and Syrian Sunnis only to have them kill Americans. Obama’s Arab Spring toppled Yemen’s government and turned the Red Sea into a terror zone for international shipping. The Iran Deal gave the terror regime in Tehran billions of dollars that it used to wage war across the region. And the Biden administration helped negotiate the deals to appease Hamas that led directly to the Oct 7 atrocities.<br /><br />After all that, the Biden administration wants to open up Gaza to the rest of the world.<br /><br />If this latest treasonous episode of nation building succeeds, the Israelis will pay the price, but so will all of us. The ‘trojan pier’ is not about delivering aid, it’s about giving the terrorists a gateway to the world. And when that gateway is in place, the world will burn even faster.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a> is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" target="_blank">Front Page Magazine</a>.</span></i></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Click <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" target="_blank">here to subscribe</a> to my articles. And <a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" target="_blank">click here to support my work with a donation</a>.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Thank you for reading.</i></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div>Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-25703306591690212982024-03-13T23:50:00.003-04:002024-03-13T23:53:44.048-04:00Haiti is Run by Gangs. Our Foreign Aid Paid for It.<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>After over $5 billion in foreign aid, Haiti is worse off than ever.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Since the 2010 earthquake, the United States has provided over $5 billion in aid to Haiti. That doesn’t include Biden’s latest batch of $133 million after gangs took over much of the country.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh8A59nUrD_Xmk9u4bUYJQ9nwx73cynRu79pwA6WlikaoLo_irlmPogJ2UiiFH6itI7csREPuXoZE7kWs1qfFgPksUz49bVbhIZmI8bFlmA2kMAFVUpbwc-cJs5z3MsYPkv3MUOSaqq6lycmg4N5JO1FG3Z9Y1xMbcv_bSj3IBcGuwE7-jR3DMVg/s989/image_2024-03-13_205305781.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="663" data-original-width="989" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh8A59nUrD_Xmk9u4bUYJQ9nwx73cynRu79pwA6WlikaoLo_irlmPogJ2UiiFH6itI7csREPuXoZE7kWs1qfFgPksUz49bVbhIZmI8bFlmA2kMAFVUpbwc-cJs5z3MsYPkv3MUOSaqq6lycmg4N5JO1FG3Z9Y1xMbcv_bSj3IBcGuwE7-jR3DMVg/s320/image_2024-03-13_205305781.png" width="320" /></a></div>The $100 million in security assistance announced by Biden is on top of the $312 million that we already provided to fund, train and arm Haiti’s police forces over the last decade and a half.<br /><br />And with over $400 million in backing, Haiti’s police still can’t compete with gang members. But many of the gang members were once the police officers whom we helped to train.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeXxzTazt1PwDG5eWqKH7XQFP4uq5_HANh2FSXhQzUvUMc-RkwFOtNhcwrxm3uy8rqi2ufsrwrj9qgVBQBLKr9HTzE8pFXoDNjr11gAQOSEUPYac9AVceEnZ56-4bNfQux7vOj7I3YwQXb4hRyC7UzTF0LbGGuhDsSHYlhGLuy7SkhBN_bT3Do9Q/s801/image_2024-03-13_204934556.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="587" data-original-width="801" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeXxzTazt1PwDG5eWqKH7XQFP4uq5_HANh2FSXhQzUvUMc-RkwFOtNhcwrxm3uy8rqi2ufsrwrj9qgVBQBLKr9HTzE8pFXoDNjr11gAQOSEUPYac9AVceEnZ56-4bNfQux7vOj7I3YwQXb4hRyC7UzTF0LbGGuhDsSHYlhGLuy7SkhBN_bT3Do9Q/s320/image_2024-03-13_204934556.png" width="320" /></a></div>Jimmy “Barbeque” Cherizier, the leader of the G9 gang which controls the streets and is the most powerful man in Haiti, was a former police officer who had been accused of playing a role in the murder, rape and arsons that burned 400 homes and killed 70 people.<br /><br />The massacre was perpetrated by former President Jovenel Moïse’s government and by its Ministry of the Interior, which controls the police. The killers, wearing Haitian police uniforms “removed victims, including children, from their homes to be executed and then dragged them into the streets where their bodies were burned, dismembered, and fed to animals.”<br /><br />The targets were supporters of former ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.<br /><br />Since 2020, the Haitian police force has fired around 3,000 members for abandoning their posts and the Biden administration convinced the UN to deploy an international police force. But Kenya, which had agreed to lead the force and send 1,000 of its people, decided to pull out.<br /><br />That means the United States will be expected to do it. And it won’t be the first time.<br /><br />The Clinton administration sent in the Marines to put former Jean-Bertrand Aristide in power in Operation Uphold Democracy. Once the Marines left, Aristide, lacking a functional military, turned to the Cannibal Army, a local gang, to stay in power, which went wrong once the ‘Cannibals’ turned on him and joined with elements of the police to oust him from office.<br /><br />Aristide blamed the whole thing on the United States instead of his own pet ‘cannibals’.<br /><br />Rep. Barbara Lee claimed that the Bush administration had overthrown a “true democracy” while Rep. Maxine Waters charged that the whole thing had been an American conspiracy. Leftists to this day insist that Haiti would have been fine if it wasn’t for George W. Bush.<br /><br />The Bush administration sent Marines to keep order after Aristide’s overthrow when rival Haitian gangs, both pro and anti-Aristide, roamed the streets of Port-Au-Prince killing each other.<br /><br />The UN sent in a peacekeeping mission that operated in one form or another for the next 15 years through street battles, a cholera outbreak (blamed on the UN peacekeepers), sexual abuse (also blamed on the peacekeepers) and earthquakes including one which leveled the local UN base and killed the Assistant-Secretary-General of UN Peacekeeping Operations.<br /><br />To whatever extent Haiti’s police had ever been functional, Aristide’s effort to hold power by replacing the police leadership (which opposed him and launched periodic attacks on the country) and relying on armed gangs for support made Port-au-Prince into a war zone.<br /><br />By the time Bill Clinton rushed in to exploit the 2010 earthquake, the situation was already hopeless. Haiti could be nothing else except a war zone and a fundraising tool for aid groups. It’s a permanent disaster area of the kind that keeps NGOs and UN officials in business for life.<br /><br />Haiti’s now former prime minister has spent the last year demanding that the peacekeepers or somebody, including Kenya, come back and secure Haiti.<br /><br />Since nobody else wants to, the odds are that it will eventually turn out to be us.<br /><br />There’s plenty of blame to go around for everyone from Bill Clinton to South Africa’s ANC Klepto-Communist regime which lectured about colonialism while treating Haiti like a colony, but the ultimate responsibility for Haiti’s current condition lies with the Haitians.<br /><br />Haiti has been an independent country for over two centuries and the earthquake that has been blamed for all of its problems happened a long time ago. Haiti’s problem is that it doesn’t have a functional government or society. After over $5 billion in foreign aid, it’s no better off now.<br /><br />Port-au-Prince is overrun with gangs because there’s a thin line between the police and gangs, because there’s no such thing as a legitimate government or a functional society. And no matter how many troops we send or how much foreign aid we provide, there won’t be.<br /><br />After Afghanistan and Iraq, we should have learned the lesson that these are not things that arise from thin air or can be bought with a foreign aid package. Countries are not naturally occurring phenomena, UN recognition, a flag and a spot on a map don’t make a nation.<br /><br />Failed states are not nations. And that’s true of not only Haiti, but much of the UN. The UN membership is littered with failed states that have functional dictatorships. Haiti can’t even manage that. Its armed gangs, official police and ex-police militias are a Praetorian guard that is always on the verge of seizing power or deciding who the president is with some street riots.<br /><br />The various sides in Haiti’s permanent civil war, which includes a leftist movement linked to Aristide and gangs like G9 all claim that they want to build a better and more just Haiti.<br /><br />Mostly they steal, kill, seize power and kill some more before they’re overthrown.<br /><br />Is this our problem? Failed states produce fleeing migrants and serve as platforms for enemy nations. China had formerly dispatched its Ministry of Public Security (MPS) thugs to try and keep order in Haiti (with no result, since they lacked the infrastructure of a social credit system, gulags and swift executions that allow them to peace at home) and has been sniffing around.<br /><br />But it’s not a problem that we can solve or should keep trying to solve.<br /><br />We are not going to fix Haiti. No amount of money is going to do it. And international efforts to “professionalize” Haiti’s police force go back to at least the 90s and the UN Civilian Police Mission in Haiti. Despite all of that, Haiti’s police force functions like an armed gang. And last year, the police union was asking for armored helicopters, drones and more firepower.<br /><br />Sending in the troops is not going to fix the situation. Haiti hasn’t been invaded. There’s no foreign enemy to “liberate” the Haitians from. It’s a classic warlord situation and even if we were to keep thousands of troops there for a decade, trying to suppress the gangs, things would almost certainly go right back to where they were the moment the troops got back on the boat.<br /><br />We can rebuild countries, but we can’t rebuild societies. Only the Haitians can do that.<br /><br />Some failed states bounce back. There was a time when China was overrun by warlords and bandits, and was considered a failed state. And the same was true of Russia. But Haiti is less likely to have a happy or even a more structured unhappy ending because it’s not a country.<br /><br />The best thing we can do for Haiti is put its future in the hands of its own people.<br /><br />Foreign aid can help countries that have experienced a temporary setback, but Haiti is not suffering from temporary problems, and the only thing foreign aid does is prop up a crisis.<br /><br />America should stay out of Haiti and let its own people decide their future. Maybe the Haitians can save themselves.<br /><br />We certainly can’t.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a> is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" target="_blank">Front Page Magazine</a>.</span></i></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Click <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" target="_blank">here to subscribe</a> to my articles. And <a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" target="_blank">click here to support my work with a donation</a>.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Thank you for reading.</i></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div>Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2587924145071543502024-03-13T00:16:00.002-04:002024-03-13T00:17:17.913-04:00Whom Do You Abort When No One is Expecting?<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div><i>The greatest threat to abortion may be its own success.</i></div><div><br /></div></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>The Biden administration is preparing to run the 2024 election on abortion. With a miserable economy and failure on every side, that is the one thing still left for the Democrats to run on.<br /><br />But no generation has ever had less use for abortion than this one.<br /><br />After the end of Roe v. Wade, Democrats warned of a decline in abortions, what they failed to mention was that abortions had been declining long before the Supreme Court decision.<br /><br />After Roe v. Wade first came on the scene, abortions shot up all through the 80s and hit a peak in 1990 with 1.6 million. Then, just as the Democrats decided to go all-in on abortion, purging their pro-life wing, abortion rates crashed, and now struggle to pass the million mark.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi25a8-91aiIf_JT5s5wvrL1n9MfM-Cqq3frEPseQQf7K-eJfK1xU5TMhoVYX3H4np1vKYrgeX37-K82IDktqGGYIwzD32FHs-yemT56POwFUO8ha00jhXB78wRYBLw0PRYJaMSIobrG9PNsHhXPJ-_OlE8se5BO3KXvAIez59xcUoTqOAlc_NrwA/s894/pregnant%20woman%20dle.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="894" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi25a8-91aiIf_JT5s5wvrL1n9MfM-Cqq3frEPseQQf7K-eJfK1xU5TMhoVYX3H4np1vKYrgeX37-K82IDktqGGYIwzD32FHs-yemT56POwFUO8ha00jhXB78wRYBLw0PRYJaMSIobrG9PNsHhXPJ-_OlE8se5BO3KXvAIez59xcUoTqOAlc_NrwA/s320/pregnant%20woman%20dle.png" width="320" /></a></div>The numbers are even more striking when accounting for the large U.S. population increase since 1990. According to the CDC, there were 345 legal induced abortions per 1,000 live births, 24 per 1,000 women,<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00031585.htm"> in 1990</a>. By 2021, there were 204 abortions per 1,000 live births and 11.6 abortions per 1,000 women. The actual abortion rate had fallen by more than half.<br /><br />There were over 4 million babies born in 1990 to a population of 250 million. In 2021 there were only 3.6 million babies born among a population of 330 million. It wasn’t abortion that accounted for much of the decline. The babies were not being aborted, rather they were not even coming into being.<br /><br />Fewer of the young women in their twenties who used to get abortions <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/08/for-valentines-day-5-facts-about-single-americans/">need them </a>anymore. 63% of men under 29 describe themselves as single, but only 34% of women under 29 do. 57% of those who say they’re single aren’t looking for a relationship or even casual dates. Only 13% of those who are looking, are seeking a committed relationship.<br /><br />Rates of sexual intimacy have also dropped. 1 in 3 men in 2018 reported no intimate encounters. Even among teens, the number of high schoolers who ever had sex fell from 54% to 38% in 2019. (These numbers predate the pandemic which means nothing that happened during the pandemic had any impact on them.) There’s a decline in casual sex and intimacy among married couples, but it would be more accurate to say that it’s a decline in relationships.<br /><br />It’s not just a male-female romantic decline either. Friendships are disappearing as are all sorts of in-person interactions. More people are single, not just as couples, but are lonely and alone.<br /><br />Nothing Biden or any of the Democrats can do will save abortion from itself.<br /><br />The war on the family has succeeded all too well, but what replaced it isn’t whatever perpetual orgy the sexual politics activists of the sixties imagined would ensue. There are endless varieties of new sexual identities emerging, men are getting castrated and women are getting mastectomies to try and pretend to be the other sex, but none of this is bringing people together.<br /><br />The alternatives to the family have failed miserably even on their own terms. The family has been crippled, but in its place are lonely shallow narcissists who can’t tear themselves away from their phones long enough to connect to another human being. The country has come to inhabit the world of Edward Hopper’s ‘Nighthawks’, but the late night diner is a 5 inch screen.<br /><br />There is a grim comedy to the endless fight to save abortion when it’s aborting itself.<br /><br />The idea that the family would be replaced by casual relationships temporarily spurred a wave of them accompanied by the widespread use of abortions. But each succeeding generation became less likely to have any kind of relationships. Women turned off by casual sex and men by the demands of relationships drifted apart. Social media replaced real relationships with virtual ones offering online pornography and narcissism as substitutes for human intimacy.<br /><br />And that is where we are now.<br /><br />Democrats believe that it’s urgent to fight for abortion and to plant graphic pornography in schools, especially of the non-heterosexual kind, but apart from spurring a rash of teenage girls to mutilate themselves in the hopes of making themselves over to be boys, it’s not doing much to what may be the least sexual generation of teenagers since the 1880s.<br /><br />In the 1990s, liberal men claimed that they didn’t want to get married until gay marriage was legal. Now liberal couples claim that they don’t want to have kids because of global warming. But marriage rates didn’t turn around when gay marriage was legalized and childbirths wouldn’t be significantly impacted if it was announced tomorrow that the climate is doing just fine.<br /><br />Likewise, overturning Roe v. Wade didn’t have all that much of an impact on abortion.<br /><br />Abortion, like marriage and childbirth, are all in decline. That’s also bad news for Biden and the Democrats because it means that there are fewer younger and traditionally more liberal voters.<br /><br />In 1990, 18 to 24 year olds, more likely to vote Democrat, made up 10% of the population while those 50 and over, who are more likely to vote Republican, made up a quarter of the population. Now the 18 to 24 cohort has dropped down to 9% while the over 50 group makes up a third of the country.<br /><br />Democrats have become more fanatical about abortion even as it becomes less relevant in a country without marriages, children or even intimacy. The real threat to abortion isn’t coming from Republicans or the Supreme Court, but a society with no more babies to abort.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a> is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" target="_blank">Front Page Magazine</a>.</span></i></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Click <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" target="_blank">here to subscribe</a> to my articles. And <a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" target="_blank">click here to support my work with a donation</a>.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Thank you for reading.</i></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div>Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-74311601177826912032024-03-11T23:15:00.002-04:002024-03-11T23:16:32.709-04:00Palestinian Authority Forms United Front With Hamas to Fight Israel<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>A state by the terrorists and for the terrorists.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>While the Biden administration and the European Union were working on creating a ‘Palestinian’ state, the real details were being fleshed out in Moscow where the Palestinian Authority, Hamas and other terrorist groups were meeting.<br /><br />The<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-world-prepares-to-recognize-a-hamas-palestinian-state/"> summit </a>convened at the Institute of Oriental Studies, once a vehicle for Soviet influence operations in the Third World, brought together Azzam al-Ahmada, a member of the PLO Executive Committee, and Mousa Abu Marzouk, a top Hamas leader, as well as a representative for Islamic Jihad, the PFLP, DFLP and other terror groups.<br /><br />The goal of all these terrorists coming together was to create a “technocratic government”.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfCdCrSZ-ldf1BqDhuJAZddk2__QQlIjt4TxuGLrxzwfsmiYkKWYCKKSw69CFLTRd4Vs0cQcaHIOmBJJDtTpcMJ5z_rZ729KFHHVUJLLrGphfLTSWttlUXsNfaL34ewFaFJCZ13B5KtOykki_AHhi6OMKn7bLphv4jJGT2AUbweU7MSomo3kVvFg/s1024/red%20handshake%20dle2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfCdCrSZ-ldf1BqDhuJAZddk2__QQlIjt4TxuGLrxzwfsmiYkKWYCKKSw69CFLTRd4Vs0cQcaHIOmBJJDtTpcMJ5z_rZ729KFHHVUJLLrGphfLTSWttlUXsNfaL34ewFaFJCZ13B5KtOykki_AHhi6OMKn7bLphv4jJGT2AUbweU7MSomo3kVvFg/s320/red%20handshake%20dle2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>What is a ‘technocratic government’? It’s a front for the terrorists and composed of nonprofit executives, academics, economists and others who have experience dealing with the international community and extracting foreign aid from them.<br /><br />Hamas will not officially be part of the puppet regime, but will control the puppets.<br /><br />“I hear a lot internationally, did Hamas agree? It’s none of your business,” Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian Authority’s ambassador to the United Kingdom <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/76a5b5a3-a982-4829-ba81-20b1fe1a660f">told</a><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/76a5b5a3-a982-4829-ba81-20b1fe1a660f"> The Financial Times</a>. “About Hamas — there are ongoing discussions . . . but this government is a technocratic government, it’s not made of any political factions, because this is not the time for political factions.”<br /><br />That’s what the Biden administration and the EU want to hear, but while Qatar is helping assemble a new ‘technocratic’ front for the terrorists, the Moscow summit made it clear that the real agenda of the new government would be terror against Israel and the U.S..<br /><br />The PLO-Hamas-Islamic Jihad summit in Moscow concluded with a commitment to “national unity that embraces all Palestinian forces and factions within the framework of the Palestine Liberation Organization” and laid out the main goals, beginning with “confronting Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Jerusalem, which is carried out with the support, assistance and participation of the United States.”<br /><br />The only actual point of unity for the Islamic terrorist groups that met in Moscow was fighting Israel. And that will be the only mission of any regime they put into place.<br /><br />According to a report from the Lebanese Al-Mayadeen, “the statement expressed support for the resilient Palestinian people and their Resistance, particularly in Gaza, the occupied West Bank, and al-Quds… and providing assistance to the families of martyrs.” Translated into ordinary English, that means supporting the Hamas attacks on Israel and providing funding for the Islamic terrorists and their families.<br /><br />Hamas won’t be out front, but the new “technocratic government” will work for it.<br /><br />“The time now is not for a government where Hamas will be part of it, because, in this case, then it will be boycotted by a number of countries, as happened before,” Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/pa-foreign-minister-says-hamas-knows-it-cannot-be-in-new-technocratic-government/">told the</a> UN correspondents’ association. “We don’t want to be in a situation like that. We want to be accepted and engaging fully with the international community.”<br /><br />It isn’t time yet for Hamas to be part of the government until the puppet regime has managed to pump the international community for money and diplomatic recognition. And the Biden administration and the EU are only too eager to provide both.<br /><br />The only question is whether Hamas will be willing to go along this time. Every previous unity proposal had blown over this same issue, but this time Israel has Hamas on the ropes and this may be the terror group’s only survival strategy. In Moscow, Hamas signed on the bottom line of a unity statement endorsing the PLO as the representatives of the ‘Palestinian’ people.<br /><br />It was only appropriate since the “Palestinians” had been invented not in the Middle East, but in Moscow, under the old Soviet apparatchiks who are still running things now. They include Putin’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-world-prepares-to-recognize-a-hamas-palestinian-state/">who had convened</a> the summit. Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas had composed his Holocaust denial thesis while studying at Moscow’s Patrice Lumumba University, which had trained a generation of third world terrorists, and Abbas had allegedly worked under Bogdanov as a KGB asset using the code name “mole”.<br /><br />At the Moscow summit, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had told the representatives of the PLO, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and half a dozen other terror groups that Abbas had “changed the government, dismissed the previous one, and began the process of selecting new technocratic ministers” which the Putin official hoped “will contribute to the intensification of the inter-Palestinian dialogue.”<br /><br />What the Moscow summit revealed was that the only “inter-Palestinian dialogue” would be between different terrorist groups. Whatever puppets might be out front in the “technocratic government”, the actual government would be the terrorists.<br /><br />The Biden administration and the rest of the international community are eager to solve the problem posed by Oct 7, Israel’s campaign against Hamas, and the domestic Muslim outrage in the West, by doubling down on the ‘Two-State Solution’ and creating a ‘Palestinian’ terrorist state. While the State Department, the Foreign Ministry, UN officials, Qatari emissaries and other diplomats discuss what a state would look like with the Palestinian Authority, the PA is coordinating with its fellow terrorists so as not to spoil its party by revealing what’s going on.<br /><br />The Palestinian Authority is trying to make it work by providing two sets of mutually contradictory assurances. Western diplomats are being told that the PA can unify the ‘Palestinian’ people around a state and an end to the conflict. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other fellow terror groups are being assured that the PA remains absolutely committed to waging a war to destroy Israel.<br /><br />The Moscow summit was the other half of the split screen to the negotiations being conducted by Washington D.C. and various European capitals. While in D.C. there are promises of peace, in Moscow there are only promises of war.<br /><br />And history tells us that it is the promises of war that should be trusted.<br /><br />The summit was about dividing up the proceeds, ahead of time, of whatever benefits the technocratic government would extract from Israel, America and the rest of the world whether it would be a ‘Palestinian state’, billions in foreign aid, or contracts for the reconstruction of Gaza, along with weapons and training.<br /><br />The ‘technocratic government’ will provide the Biden administration and other governments with the plausible deniability needed to go on funding terrorists.<br /><br />As the campaign to recognize a technocratic puppet regime mounts, it will be vitally important to remember the Moscow summit and its unity position.<br /><br />The Moscow summit revealed that a technocratic government will not end terrorism, it will disguise it, and it will not end the conflict, it will escalate it.<br /><br />A ‘Palestinian’ state, the terrorist groups have already announced, will be a terror state.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a> is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" target="_blank">Front Page Magazine</a>.</span></i></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Click <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" target="_blank">here to subscribe</a> to my articles. And <a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" target="_blank">click here to support my work with a donation</a>.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Thank you for reading.</i></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div>Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-86725576591574489002024-03-11T02:36:00.001-04:002024-03-11T02:36:41.283-04:00Sweet Baby Inc: How a DEI Firm is Taking Over Games<span style="font-size: medium;">Microsoft. Warner Bros. Electronic Arts.<br /><br />These are only some of the major corporations who appear on the list of clients for Sweet Baby Inc: a DEI consulting firm that some video game players believe is reshaping the industry.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQjgKOtF2R5_3IncreOlZBYuY_yNhO5Xv3NFQF5mhYsv9bXMwRGpG7kTIRyZGUYs1GgZRD_IohtuG1aoIkedbC_IUvT8PKRcGMMFZWOcrDMNMOuaO3Useh5gYx95EPuzuui5a6_r0AFZ_MUIcHgxTAIPhJWGgkr1AZzHzJ9DH81ICQzPU1QK__PA/s1062/image_2024-03-10_233630694.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="1062" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQjgKOtF2R5_3IncreOlZBYuY_yNhO5Xv3NFQF5mhYsv9bXMwRGpG7kTIRyZGUYs1GgZRD_IohtuG1aoIkedbC_IUvT8PKRcGMMFZWOcrDMNMOuaO3Useh5gYx95EPuzuui5a6_r0AFZ_MUIcHgxTAIPhJWGgkr1AZzHzJ9DH81ICQzPU1QK__PA/s320/image_2024-03-10_233630694.png" width="320" /></a></div>Sweet Baby Inc was only founded in 2018, but its clients now include Xbox, Microsoft’s dominant video game platform and subscription service, Warner Bros, whose video game arm publishes Batman and Harry Potter games, Electronic Arts, which is behind the Battlefield series, the NFL, NHL and FIFA soccer franchises, the Sims franchise, as well as Star Wars games, Ubisoft, the makers of the popular Assassin’s Creed series, Square Enix, makers of Final Fantasy, and Wizards of the Coast, who control the Dungeons and Dragons franchise.<br /><br />As well as Valve whose monopolistic Steam platform controls 75% of global video game sales.<br /><br />Of the top 10 best-selling games in 2023, 8 were published by studios that were either affiliated with Sweet Baby Inc. or that, after Microsoft’s takeover of much of the industry, now are. The consolidation of the gaming industry and the embrace of DEI by top gaming companies has made it virtually impossible for video and computer game players to escape DEI’s reach.<br /><br />What is the secret of Sweet Baby’s success in hijacking a multi-billion dollar industry?<br /><br />In a presentation at the Game Developers Conference, co-founder Kim Belair urged gaming company employees to form relationships with marketing people, urge them to bring in consultants <a href="https://twitter.com/GamesNosh/status/1764802262017183761">and then</a> “terrify them with what could happen if they don’t give you what you want.”<br /><br />Terrifying the marketing departments for some of the biggest gaming companies in the world seems to be working.<br /><br />But what does Sweet Baby Inc. actually do?<br /><br />According to the DEI firm, it begins with “an all hands review” of the project followed by rewriting it. Sweet Baby Inc boasts that its people “aren’t afraid of breaking something down to build it back up.” And what they offer is “sensitivity readings”, the same process that led to the rewriting of classic books by everyone from Ian Fleming to Agatha Christie, to “risk” assessment.<br /><br />Gamers claim to have spotted the results of Sweet Baby’s involvement in Assassin Creed: Red, a game featuring a black samurai in 17th century Japan, and Suicide Squad, featuring a character that appeared to be modeled on anti-civilization activist Greta Thunberg.<br /><br />While the degree of Sweet Baby’s involvement in remaking games remains opaque, the company claims to handle every area of writing, from creating characters to writing dialogue to world building, reinventing everything for the sake of “inclusivity” and “diversity”. Players however describe seeing favorite franchises ruined and characters transformed, displaced or inserted to fulfill a political agenda along with a severe drop in quality and enjoyability.<br /><br />That’s why some players created lists of games to avoid because of Sweet Baby’s involvement.<br /><br />The<a href="https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44858017-Sweet-Baby-Inc-detected/?appid=1934570"> Steam ‘curator</a>’, one list of games on which Sweet Baby consulted, has triggered outrage and efforts to remove the list and cancel its creator. Normally companies boast about the games that they were involved in, but at least one Sweet Baby employee, <a href="https://fandompulse.com/2024/03/01/chris-kindred-of-sweet-baby-inc-attempts-to-cancel-a-steam-curator-for-revealing-their-projects/">Chris Kindred</a>, called the list “harassment” and tried to <a href="https://thatparkplace.com/sweet-baby-inc-employee-who-tried-to-cancel-gamer-over-boycott-list-gets-x-account-limited/">get it removed</a> and the account that goes along with it too. The “sensitivity reader” concluded with an antisemitic slur about being worn down by “Zionists”.<br /><br />Since Steam accounts contain digitally purchased games, that could mean a loss of thousands of dollars. Despite efforts to remove the list, it now has over 155,000 followers showing just how controversial Sweet Baby Inc has become and how many players are looking to avoid it.<br /><br />And there’s evidence that gamers are avoiding anything rightly or even wrongly linked to Sweet Baby Inc. The company’s name, even when inaccurately linked to a title, depresses sales.<br /><br />Sweet Baby Inc. has been connected with some of the highest profile game industry disasters in recent years. It consulted on Suicide Squad, which launched earlier this year as a massive failure with as much as $100 million in losses. Gotham Knights, also from Warner Bros, replaced Batman with a gay Robin and other woke characters, flopped almost as badly in 2022.<br /><br />A woke reboot of the Saints Row franchise not only failed, but helped take the studio and possibly its larger company down with it. Some have linked Sweet Baby to the launch and failure of Starfield and a variety of other troubled games that suffered from wokeness issues.<br /><br />The high-profile games on the official list of Sweet Baby Inc. products have mostly failed or underperformed suggesting that the company has become a kind of bad luck charm.<br /><br />But some of the biggest companies in the industry aren’t abandoning Sweet Baby Inc or other similar groups like Black Girl Gamers, which consulted on the massive bomb, Forspoken, also estimated at $100 million in development costs, no matter how much money they lose.<br /><br />Like most industry leaders, the big gaming firms are committed to DEI and ESG.<br /><br />Companies like Microsoft, Warner Bros, Ubisoft, Electronic Arts and others value their high ESG scores which are supposed to attract woke investors and, more importantly, woke funds, including state government investors and union pension funds which put politics ahead of profits.<br /><br />Those, and not the players who buy their games, are the real customers for the big gaming companies.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a> is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" target="_blank">Front Page Magazine</a>.</span></i></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Click <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" target="_blank">here to subscribe</a> to my articles. And <a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" target="_blank">click here to support my work with a donation</a>.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Thank you for reading.</i></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div>Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-76603822521421063632024-03-10T03:12:00.002-04:002024-03-10T03:13:32.323-04:00A Despicable Speech by a Despicable President<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>"This was not a State of the Union address, it was a fascistic campaign rally."</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Joseph Robinette Biden began his final State of the Union address by invoking FDR. But while Biden has nearly as much trouble getting around as FDR, he didn’t lead a nation out of a depression, but into one, and he didn’t win a war, he did however lose several.<br /><br />Including a personal war with his diction and his teleprompter at the State of the Union.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLt88aOWG3jYC0egmZ26UwLW9f_seyggpD3UQiDljVhXd3TIcINCTI7gJbAtLmTx4cAjEGUaY4iH7M4EIIalrDRh-fa8IgbthKszGhi7EPMhr8hxpnOvIj-kk8Xlf0sPkGdo4S2wz1FdKG_LZ7t5bZsNBLmWUG5-tLHvTQlC0fzYWr5PZfvIsrLw/s1162/image_2024-03-09_231159597.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="695" data-original-width="1162" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLt88aOWG3jYC0egmZ26UwLW9f_seyggpD3UQiDljVhXd3TIcINCTI7gJbAtLmTx4cAjEGUaY4iH7M4EIIalrDRh-fa8IgbthKszGhi7EPMhr8hxpnOvIj-kk8Xlf0sPkGdo4S2wz1FdKG_LZ7t5bZsNBLmWUG5-tLHvTQlC0fzYWr5PZfvIsrLw/s320/image_2024-03-09_231159597.png" width="320" /></a></div>Biden’s addresses have gotten longer as he has had less to say. Last year’s State of the Union was the 8th longest on record and this year’s clocks in behind Obama’s 2010 rant. The only reason it wasn’t even longer is that Biden rushed to get through it, mumbling and slurring words, rattling off threats and insults at a speed that made them all but impossible to understand.<br /><br />Usually presidents use the podium to make promises and take credit for past accomplishments, but there’s not much of that here and so Biden began his speech name-dropping presidents who people liked better than him (a long list) and threatening and berating Republicans.<br /><br />A few breaths after implicitly comparing himself to FDR during WWII, Biden then compared himself to Lincoln during the Civil War (“not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault here at home as they are today”) and then President Reagan before launching an attack on President Trump.<br /><br />The State of the Union isn’t a place to attack opposing candidates. Bush didn’t take potshots at Kerry in his State of the Union speech and even Obama didn’t mention Romney in his.<br /><br />And yet Biden attacked Trump a few minutes into his. And then did it again. And again.<br /><br />But this was not a State of the Union address, it was a fascistic campaign rally of the kind that he had been giving for years, most disturbingly while flanked by Marines at Independence Hall before the 2022 midterms, declaring war on Trump, Republicans and all political opponents.<br /><br />After accusing Republicans of being in thrall to Russia and then of being “insurrectionists”, he falsely claimed that they were preventing women from getting IVF procedures. (In reality, no one’s IVF procedures were threatened and Alabama rushed through a bill protecting IVF in record time .) That was then followed by attacking Republicans over abortion.<br /><br />None of this material belongs in a State of the Union address which is not a campaign rally, but a presidential review of the year, and calls for bipartisan cooperation on national priorities. No president has ever delivered a deranged partisan hatefest of a speech like this at the SOTU.<br /><br />Not even Obama ever went that far. Not even Obama violated the State of the Union’s norms.<br /><br />Biden’s State of the Union rant would have been more ominous if it also hadn’t been pathetic. The speechwriters reached (as they always do at these events) for the grandiose, but came off as bellicose, and in Biden’s mouth, even the bellicose became the quavering rattlings of an angry old man who had spent too much time reading Stephen Ambrose and listening to NPR.<br /><br />Much of Biden’s address had to be reconstructed from the transcript because it was indecipherable. His hands and lips shaking, Biden spoke of strength, but showed only weakness, invoked historical figures only to show how unworthy he was of them.<br /><br />The threats and attacks on Republicans gave way to absurd boasts. And while presidents always claim credit for more than they accomplished, Biden’s could only occasion eye rolling.<br /><br />Biden claimed that “our economy is the envy of the world”, that inflation “is the lowest in the world”, that there is “historic job growth”, and that unemployment is “at 50-year lows”.<br /><br />Why didn’t Biden begin by bragging about these incredible accomplishments? Why bury them toward the middle of his speech? Because not only are they lies, but no one believes them.<br /><br />Since no one believes them, Biden moved on to promising free stuff. A cap on prescription drug costs, more tax credits for mortgages, universal pre-k, and student loan payoffs. With a $34 trillion national debt, there’s no money for any of that or for any of his other promises. We’re on the way to $1 trillion in interest payments a year thanks to his previous spending sprees.<br /><br />Desperate for material, Biden warned senior citizens that “Republicans will cut Social Security and give more tax cuts to the wealthy” and promised to pass a bill legislating how many chips there should be in a bag of chips.<br /><br />All that a bag of chips indeed.<br /><br />In between attacking Republicans, Biden also attacked Israel for not caring enough about ‘Palestinians’ and promised to lead an “emergency mission” to bail out Gaza. He demanded that Congress take away our guns to “beat the NRA” and promised transgenders, “I have your back”. None of this was aimed at Americans, it was pure red meat aimed at his own base.<br /><br />What should have been his DNC acceptance speech, somehow became his SOTU address.<br /><br />Biden violated the most elementary State of the Union decorum. He gave a speech that he should not have been allowed to deliver. And that should have been shut down during. Presidents deliver these addresses as guests of Congress. As a guest, Biden insulted his hosts, soiled the drapes and tried to wrap his partisan hatefest in name dropping and the flag.<br /><br />At the conclusion, Biden laid out a clash “for the soul of our nation” between “those who want to pull America back to the past” (conservatives) “and those who want to move America into the future” (leftists) while unintentionally giving everyone a taste of what that future looks like.<br /><br />The future looks like a senile president arriving at a State of the Union to launch vitriolic attacks on the opposition, wrecking political norms, implying that a new civil war is at hand, threatening the Supreme Court and defining all opposition as a dangerous form of treason.<br /><br />Americans have seen the future and polls show they don’t like it very much.<br /><br />After over an hour of non-stop attacks on his political opponents while depicting them as enemies of the state, Biden unconvincingly claimed that he wants to “be a president for all Americans”. Like a small number of men in this nation’s history, he had his chance.<br /><br />Biden wanted to be FDR, instead he’s doomed to be the worst possible combination of LBJ, Obama and Jimmy Carter, with all of their bad points and none of their good ones, a political hack who bungled everything and accomplished nothing, hated by everyone, loved by no one, and incapable of even convincingly lying about his accomplishments or delivering a speech.<br /><br />His legacy concludes with a series of unhinged meanspirited rants in which he demands absolute power to save the country from the threat of political dissent. Americans would be scared if they could understand what he was saying. It’s best for everyone that they didn’t.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a> is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" target="_blank">Front Page Magazine</a>.</span></i></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Click <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" target="_blank">here to subscribe</a> to my articles. And <a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" target="_blank">click here to support my work with a donation</a>.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Thank you for reading.</i></div></span></div></span></div></span></div>Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2320031482048664512024-03-07T15:20:00.000-05:002024-03-07T15:20:48.985-05:00Maoist New York Goes to Pol Pot With Urban AgricultureThere’s a story about an old Marxist who would address leftist rallies in Union Square a century ago as, “Workers and Peasants of New York City”. Leftists eventually transform farce into fact and that’s why New York’s number two mayoral candidate is touting a “New Agrarian Economy”.<br /><br />It’s time to farm one of the most expensive and densely populated cities in the country.<br /><br />Mao had kicked off China’s worst famine by demanding that wheat be grown everywhere. And New York City’s Maoists are following in his footsteps by trying to farm rooftops and parking lots.<br /><br />Urban agriculture is one of those obscure lefty ideas so insane that few even believe it exists.<br /><br />But Mayor Bill de Blasio had already created an Office of Urban Agriculture and the New York City Council, which is so crazy that it makes De Blasio look sane, had declared war on "food inequity", by vowing to grow food in one of the most densely populated cities on earth.<br /><br />If your city is going to pot anyway, why not go to Pol Pot?<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEincyeP9rT0tGDflzH1yOv8-Cr1_gXzul0zTSgaywSEDWsGzZwtd4Bl_sA8kvg9RH4LV-lbLKkMnoeTvg7Z5pCGdgZX_gRX_s2xO2FbRUtJkdSaWPPNSzUiqr_P4slntvVxewegD5sYlVCj6fz6AvdIDvr0Q-do2eS4WOvdV6uFOQp_Mn6c1tvHig/s931/skyscraper%20jungle%20dle.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="773" data-original-width="931" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEincyeP9rT0tGDflzH1yOv8-Cr1_gXzul0zTSgaywSEDWsGzZwtd4Bl_sA8kvg9RH4LV-lbLKkMnoeTvg7Z5pCGdgZX_gRX_s2xO2FbRUtJkdSaWPPNSzUiqr_P4slntvVxewegD5sYlVCj6fz6AvdIDvr0Q-do2eS4WOvdV6uFOQp_Mn6c1tvHig/s320/skyscraper%20jungle%20dle.png" width="320" /></a></div>Urban madness doesn’t stay in cities so the 2018 Farm Bill created an Office of Urban Agriculture inside the USDA and is doling out millions of dollars in grants for urban agriculture like the one that proposes to turn residents of housing projects in Camden, New Jersey from “resident, to gardener, to farmer, and eventually to community urban agriculture leader.”<br /><br />Camden is one of the most polluted and violent cities in New Jersey, so assuming anyone manages to grow anything, it’s even odds whether they’ll be shot or die of food poisoning.<br /><br />New York City isn’t about to let New Jersey steal its crown and so Mayor Eric Eric Adams promised go give everyone in the city healthy food by growing it in the city with rooftop farms over schools and hydroponic farms in buildings.<br /><br />Considering the current state of New York City’s public schools, growing lettuce on top of them might not be the priority: getting their students to read and do simple math should be. And the city already has plenty of hydroponic agriculture, but it’s mostly used to illegally grow marijuana.<br /><br />Less than half of New York City public school students are performing at grade level in Math and English. It might be a better idea to have schools actually educate students, if Randi Weingarten will allow them, than to enlist them in some Communist harvesting scheme.<br /><br />It was the Soviet Union that was infamous for rushing students to the fields to harvest crops resulting in a whole lot of wasted crops and wasted time for the students. The Soviet Union might not be the best model for New York City, but finally the old Stalinists and Sandernistas who infest its school system will get to live out their collective farming dreams.<br /><br />New York City is already one of the densest, and most expensive, both in terms of land value and average salary, places in the country. Growing food in the city, instead of importing it from economically depressed upstate areas, or other states, makes no sense whatsoever.<br /><br />But Adams insists that urban agriculture will, "aid our economic recovery, providing a new source of tax revenue and employment for New Yorkers."<br /><br />Saner heads might wonder where these bountiful crops of urban wheat will grow.<br /><br />“Perhaps surprisingly to some, at the end of the 19th century, New York City was one of the nation’s leaders in agricultural production. The counties I call and have called home — Kings (Brooklyn) and Queens — were, I was proud to learn, agricultural powerhouses,” Adams’ New Agrarian Economy report declares.<br /><br />Adams fails to mention that the population of New York City rose sharply from around 1 million to 2 million between 1860 and 1880.<br /><br />Today it’s over 8 million.<br /><br />Back then there were also farms in what is now uptown Manhattan. Today, 32,000 people live per square mile in Harlem. The country farms of uptown Manhattan went away with the end of the Civil War. Brooklyn and Queens, which had more space, took longer to be overpopulated.<br /><br />If Adams really wants a New Agrarian Economy, he needs to expel 80% of the city’s residents, tear down twenty thousand buildings, and then work to redevelop the land for cultivation.<br /><br />Of course that massive effort to turn New York City into a postapocalyptic communal farm still wouldn’t work because one of the reasons that the city’s agriculture went away is that the land had been overexploited for centuries, and then tainted and polluted, until it was good for little more than paving it over, or hollowing it out as foundations for large buildings. A city.<br /><br />There was a reason that the Indians let Manhattan go so cheaply and weren’t too picky about the other boroughs. The land wasn’t good for very much and the water was even worse.<br /><br />The Dutch and then the English only found it useful as ports in a trading hub.<br /><br />New Yorkers regularly died of disease because they were living on swampland and drinking polluted water. But it was all worth it so they could trade stocks and go out to the theater.<br /><br />The great thing about ignorance is that you never realize when history is repeating itself.<br /><br />New York City’s schoolchildren used to learn all this as basic history around the same time that the farms went away. Today they learn about equity and slavery while having absolutely no clue about the basic details that made the world they live in. That’s how you get urban agriculture.<br /><br />Woke education and cultural illiteracy leads to stupendously stupid agricultural policy. Just as it did in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and in Communist China under Mao. The New Agrarian Economy closely echoes Mao’s “Grow grain everywhere” policy. And is as equally ignorant about the basic realities of agriculture as Mao’s second-hand lysenkoism.<br /><br />With every terrible Communist idea making a woke comeback, why not universal peasantry?<br /><br />“New York City is a center of innovation and commercialization of new agricultural technologies,” Adams’ report claims. “As its new technologies develop fast, it is crucial that this economy maintain a similarly furious commitment to social justice.”<br /><br />There’s no idea so insane that a leftist won’t adopt it and taxpayers won’t pay for it.<br /><br />“New York City is a veritable fertile ground for urban agricultural exploration purposes, with its roughly 1,000 acres of green space at developments under the purview of the New York City Housing Authority,” the report claims. Never mind that your average housing project’s land is already covered in human waste and cigarette butts. And is meant to be recreational.<br /><br />Or that 1,000 acres gets you one farm. There’s a million acres of land being used to grow corn in the state alone. How many people does Adams expect to feed from 1,000 acres of projects?<br /><br />Adams proposes to start out by basing school lunch menus on “what we can supply from local New York City urban agriculture”. Using public school students, many of them minorities, as guinea pigs for Maoist urban agriculture projects in a polluted city would alternately starve and poison those students. And since New York schools are also used as general soup kitchens, also the homeless, and welfare recipients, it would also serve as a kind of eugenics program.<br /><br />New York City’s government runs a welfare state that is tasked with providing free and cheap food. Adams would like to take that food supply and make it dependent on growing food on rooftops and housing project yards by “minority and women-owned businesses”.<br /><br />This is what happens when you don’t teach kids about Communism.<br /><br />Between all the buzzwords like “equity” and “food apartheid” is yet another doomed program that only seems to exist to vacuum up cash and government grants before failing miserably.<br /><br />Meanwhile New York City is becoming more of a hellhole than ever.<br /><br />Adams might want to consider using that massive “5,000 acres of vacant lots” (Iowa has about 26 million of acres of farmland) not to grow corn (which Iowa is much better at), but to house the homeless whom the city is currently putting up in $200 a night hotels at taxpayer expense.<br /><br />New York City doesn’t need urban agriculture: it needs basic public safety.<br /><br />Massive numbers of companies have fled New York City during the pandemic. Even Goldman Sachs is considering getting out. Between the lockdowns, the race riots, and the taxes, the city is a horrible environment for business. Instead of raising taxes to pay for urban agriculture, Adams might want to consider how to cut taxes and bring jobs back to New York City.<br /><br />Maoism didn’t work in China. It sure as hell won’t work in New York City.<br /><br />But getting the workers back to the land has the same magnetic appeal for 21st century lefties as it did for Lenin, Mao, and Pol Pot. One of the densest cities in America is pursuing a bizarre project out of the fevered dreams of Mao and Pol Pot. And Democrats in D.C. have been funding such ventures in urban areas around the country at the expense of farm country.<br /><br />It’s not pure ideological fanaticism.<br /><br />Urban farming is a great way to steal grants and funding from family farms who actually need it, while plowing the cash into the same failed urban areas whose broken schools, broken housing, broken families, and broken everything already consume much of the tax dollars of their states.<br /><br />America’s farmers are already struggling. Democrats are happy to rob them to finance bizarre Maoist experiments in growing carrots in housing projects.<br /><br />“We were an agrarian economy at one time,” Eric Adams mournfully declaims.<br /><br />But if he wants to be part of an agrarian economy, he can head upstate. The trouble is that Adams doesn’t actually want to live in a low-density farming community. Nor does he want to do the hard work of actually farming. Like the USSR or Mao’s China, our economy is becoming a figment of someone’s ideological imagination in which nothing but buzzwords are really real.<br /><br />“You’re going to teach my young children a nutritionally-based education so they can learn this multi-billion dollar industry of urban farming,” Adams argues.<br /><br />There’s no multi-billion dollar industry of urban farming. Nor will there ever be. But in a political economy in which Democrats can falsely claim that everyone’s going to get jobs installing solar panels and de-icing wind turbines, in which money and art are imaginary digital commodities, and the government can turn carbon credits into big business, unreality is a minor detail.<br /><br />Like Pol Pot, Adams is dreaming of a great return to nature in the concrete canyons of NYC.<br /><br />“They’re going to be skillful in it,” Adams babbles, as he optimistically invokes New York’s children getting jobs as urban farmers in an industry which pays unskilled Mexican laborers 40 cents for picking a 40 pound bucket of produce. “And these are the jobs of the future, because 40 percent of the jobs we’re training our children for now won’t be available because of computer learning and artificial intelligence. But we’re always going to eat.”<br /><br />The jobs of the future will be planting rotten carrots on rooftops to be sold to the government.<br /><br />Forget all the real jobs. Computers will do them. Especially once the minimum wage hits forty bucks. But we’ll always need someone to work a hoe in the neo-medieval future of New York.<br /><br />The Left has been claiming for some two centuries that it’s the ideology of the future. But its future is the past. All of its ideas come down to a return to the medieval world, the lord and his sharecroppers, the peace of a timeless world in which men rise at dawn and go to bed at dusk, in which there are no questions, only a dogma to learn and repeat, life is nasty, short, and brutish, and in which everyone knows their place. Welcome to the progressive future.<br /><br />Here’s your bucket.<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a> is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" target="_blank">Front Page Magazine</a>.</span></i></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Click <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" target="_blank">here to subscribe</a> to my articles. And <a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" target="_blank">click here to support my work with a donation</a>.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Thank you for reading.</i></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div>Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-76219234887596091272024-03-06T00:01:00.001-05:002024-03-06T00:01:45.988-05:00Castrating Kids to Win Elections<span style="font-size: medium;">Biden’s<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/bidens-1st-ad-attacks-gop-for-banning-book-featuring-child-sex-acts/"> first campaign ad</a> attacked conservatives for keeping ‘Lawn Boy’, a book featuring a 10-year-old performing sex acts, out of schools. The Department of Education launched a civil rights investigation of a Georgia school district for pulling books containing<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/department-of-education-investigates-schools-for-not-sexualizing-kids/"> graphic sexual content </a>from middle school shelves. At a <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-department-of-education-declares-war-on-parents/">Pride Month event</a> at the White House, it was announced that a special coordinator would be waging lawfare against schools that try to shield children.<br /><br />The Biden administration sued Tennessee over the ‘Protecting Children from Gender Mutilation Act’. Democrat judges have illegally blocked similar measures in Florida, Arkansas and Alabama. In Washington and California, Democrat majorities legalized the <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/democrats-create-a-transgender-child-kidnapping-network/">abduction of children</a> by the state for transgender procedures. Similar legislation is pending in other states.<br /><br />“This game of defense can get tiring. We want offense,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra demanded at a Health and Human Services ‘Pride Summit’. “Let’s play on the offensive.”<br /><br />Beyond the usual motives of groomers looking for fresh victims, what is behind the unprecedented obsession with sexualizing children by an entire political party?<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRN6BgQwur8kQ7Fpr1WLcquLSRANDQUWA5C7MHwczXYJso6NyTVPGiAu0vptHbLmRxwH3cDNJJE9mLIAyMA9gT6SA3oa8c8hsFW_dFQfDM_J1anwtkaZuOkIb1ezwkodn_WSCErVYCeGyP5bIE701OqUISR7jx9s0MutznAitRLgU2l0bDwmGihA/s903/shears%20dle.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="727" data-original-width="903" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRN6BgQwur8kQ7Fpr1WLcquLSRANDQUWA5C7MHwczXYJso6NyTVPGiAu0vptHbLmRxwH3cDNJJE9mLIAyMA9gT6SA3oa8c8hsFW_dFQfDM_J1anwtkaZuOkIb1ezwkodn_WSCErVYCeGyP5bIE701OqUISR7jx9s0MutznAitRLgU2l0bDwmGihA/s320/shears%20dle.png" width="320" /></a></div>State schools were always meant to indoctrinate a new generation. Modern schools are community organizing centers and the ideal educator is a community organizer. American students are falling behind in most areas, but they are succeeding at what they have really been taught, to march out of school and rally for gun control, the environment or for racial equity.<br /><br />Beyond indoctrination, community organizing sets out to ‘raise their consciousness’ so that the students see themselves as victims in the major political conflicts, like gun control or environmentalism, and then to shift them into the permanent category of victim activists.<br /><br />Conventional community organizing rallies racial minority students to see themselves as the victims of racism and female students as the victims of sexism, while sexual community organizing takes students who may have no defining victim category and gives them one.<br /><br />Grooming children in schools isn’t just a perverted agenda, it’s a political one.<br /><br />The Democrat electoral agenda depends on building coalitions of minority groups. Sexual community organizing in schools is a machine meant to expand that coalition. Every teenage girl tracked for a mastectomy and every teenage boy for castration is a future Democrat voter.<br /><br />Pagan priests of the Syrian Astarte of Hierapolis would castrate themselves in honor of the ancient goddess and then wear female clothing for the rest of their lives. Puberty blockers for young children, followed by genital mutilation, like political rallies, is similarly part of the ritual indoctrination into a political movement. And while young activists can turn their lives around as they get older, once an irrevocable decision has been made, it’s much harder to walk away.<br /><br />There’s a quote that has long made the rounds. “If a man is not a socialist by the time he is 20, he has no heart. If he is not a conservative by the time he is 40, he has no brain.” But what happens if the man is not a man and is missing parts other than his heart or his brain?<br /><br />Minority coalitions are based on what identity politics considers to be immutable and defining characteristics. Race and, until recently, sex was considered to be among them. Sexual identity politics vastly expanded the potential scope of minority demographics. Surveys describe up to a fifth of millennials identifying as LGBTQ. There is every reason to be skeptical of such numbers and many will move past such trendy obsessions, but ‘gender-affirming care’ will lock them in.<br /><br />Grooming children is at the heart of the electoral strategy for winning the future. That is why Biden and the Democrats are willing to risk their political presence for something so widely unpopular, controversial and which parents across the country are rallying to oppose.<br /><br />Environmentalism and gun control are used to convince students that their lives are at stake. Student loans manufactured by deliberately hiking college costs to unsustainable levels tether the economic future of a generation to socialist policies. Sexual community organizing captures the next generation on a much more intimate and inescapable level than ordinary policies.<br /><br />A woke educational and medical establishment have created a school-to-castrato pipeline that rushes students through the process of ‘social transition’, puberty blockers and then irreversible surgeries that make them incapable of living a normal life or functioning as non-transgender.<br /><br />Much as the black community was locked into dysfunction and dependency, the urge to rush children into making irreversible decisions about their bodies is about demographic capture. Identity politics promises liberation while enslaving reliable constituencies and voting blocs. But no single group has been more sinned against by plantation politics than the children and their families, mutilated and destroyed to provide votes for a political party.<br /><br />That’s why Democrats are willing to fight to the death. It’s why the Department of Justice plotted to investigate resistant parents as terrorists, why the Southern Poverty Law Center named Moms for Liberty a hate group, why Democrat judges block state measures to protect children, and why the HHS Secretary is calling for going on the offense against parents.<br /><br />Democrats are building the future of their party around the sexualization and mutilation of children. The political math is as simple as it is cruel. Some 80% of LGBTQ people <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3740690-lgbtq-voters-overwhelmingly-voted-for-democrats-says-human-rights-campaign/">vote for</a> Democrats. Much like open borders, Democrats are artificially reshaping national demographics to create a favorable electorate. These policies aren’t about progress, but about winning.<br /><br />“To put it brutally – you can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs,” New York Times foreign correspondent Walter Duranty wrote of the crimes of Communism.<br /><br />Castrating kids to win elections is a horrifying strategy, but so is organizing a mass invasion of the country through an open border or destroying black families and then legalizing crime.<br /><br />Millions of broken eggs are how the great leftist omelet is made in the kitchens of utopia.<br /><br />When the ends justify the means then no crime, no matter how horrendous, is too extreme and everything, even the sexual abuse of children, can be spun as social justice that will take us to the right side of history by way of the lowest depths of hell.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a> is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" target="_blank">Front Page Magazine</a>.</span></i></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Click <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" target="_blank">here to subscribe</a> to my articles. And <a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" target="_blank">click here to support my work with a donation</a>.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Thank you for reading.</i></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div>Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-12112003859425050752024-03-05T02:03:00.002-05:002024-03-05T02:03:54.820-05:00Why the US is Losing the War to the Houthis<span style="font-size: medium;">After <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/while-the-biden-admin-was-out-of-the-office-iran-took-over-the-red-sea/">Biden came home </a>from his Caribbean vacation, the Deputy Defense Secretary came back from hers and the Secretary of Defense was on the verge of being released from the hospital, airstrikes were finally authorized against the Houthi Jihadis attacking ships in the Red Sea.<br /><br />Biden said that the air strikes sent “a clear message that the United States and our partners will not tolerate attacks on our personnel or allow hostile actors to imperil freedom of navigation in one of the world’s most critical commercial routes.”<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgttIbFKmYkVvf62tqCy1Fdkr-S2e6rDFnZmJRKatWhT0kMbo8H_wYlT3Yt7gG6FXEXWCDhnyuigQdbi_v2NeYAMvr-9nWNkRGCUdJK0EAj9bbs_J9edn0ovzKCuHXbqASr6arPwUiQyr9F_fVUCnxKYVkexKUnvR0Ix-TSY2RHoByFOaQyjpOMYw/s1062/bombing%20target%20frame.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="1062" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgttIbFKmYkVvf62tqCy1Fdkr-S2e6rDFnZmJRKatWhT0kMbo8H_wYlT3Yt7gG6FXEXWCDhnyuigQdbi_v2NeYAMvr-9nWNkRGCUdJK0EAj9bbs_J9edn0ovzKCuHXbqASr6arPwUiQyr9F_fVUCnxKYVkexKUnvR0Ix-TSY2RHoByFOaQyjpOMYw/s320/bombing%20target%20frame.png" width="320" /></a></div>The message was not very clear since the Houthis then struck a bulk carrier owned by an American company and spent the next two months terrorizing the Red Sea. The Iranian-backed terror group which seized control of much of Yemen due to Obama’s Arab Spring has launched even more devastating attacks on ships and has now reportedly attacked an undersea cable, after previously deploying an undersea drone and warning of further “submarine” attacks..<br /><br />The Red Sea siege has affected shipping and commodities prices all over the world. The U.S. Navy ended a lot of its cargo runs in the Red Sea and so have a lot of civilian shipping firms.<br /><br />Why have the Houthis been able to not only survive, but to escalate their attacks? Because the Biden administration was never serious about taking them out. The original attacks targeted less than 30 sites from a terror group that had shot off over 1,000 rockets and missiles in the previous 7 years and was clearly prepared for an extended campaign of rocket attacks.<br /><br />Israel had reportedly dropped over 1,000 bombs a day in the first week of the Oct 7 war. While numbers like these were widely criticized as overkill, they worked. There had been <a href="https://rocketalert.live/">over 6,000</a> Hamas rocket alerts in the first two weeks of the war. Two weeks later, the number had dropped to over 1,000 and currently stands at less than 100. Israel’s massive assault had worked.<br /><br />Biden’s occasional pinprick attacks barely even slowed down the Houthi attacks.<br /><br />After the first round of U.S. strikes, right before Biden flew off to Raleigh, North Carolina to promote his plan for subsidized internet, there was a remarkable exchange with a reporter.<br /><br />“Are the airstrikes in Yemen working?” he was asked.<br /><br />“Well, when you say ‘working,’ are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they going to continue? Yes,” Biden replied.<br /><br />No one in the press seemed interested in following up the very strange statement. If the airstrikes aren’t working, why carry them out? Was there a plan to step up the strikes? No.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdRBchkHOMPZLbbPS-m2d7RL1_C726tFj-_vgg-JFStF0bwDFPnhIBw_No_FNhoGYMD8yl5eTF3uchoFXyfMxZsKp1PKp6iQEaPrwSIDWP7IzZTDkb6t0b5FE3KaxK2TrcxgesopuG5k8E8gH7Up6T7_zhTcb6b6hLry7xFKM2kyGuQRTouOEcJQ/s874/houthis%20fight%20memri.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="874" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdRBchkHOMPZLbbPS-m2d7RL1_C726tFj-_vgg-JFStF0bwDFPnhIBw_No_FNhoGYMD8yl5eTF3uchoFXyfMxZsKp1PKp6iQEaPrwSIDWP7IzZTDkb6t0b5FE3KaxK2TrcxgesopuG5k8E8gH7Up6T7_zhTcb6b6hLry7xFKM2kyGuQRTouOEcJQ/s320/houthis%20fight%20memri.png" width="320" /></a></div>After the initial wave of attacks, the US Navy shifted over to what it euphemistically called “defensive air strikes” against Houthi missiles or rockets that had already been launched or were being prepped for launch. The constant reports about “defensive air strikes” made it sound as if the United States were constantly bombing Yemen, when the US Navy had been allowed to do the bare minimum to prevent and survive more incoming attacks. It wasn’t enough.<br /><br />Two weeks after the original raids, as the Houthis continued their attacks, Biden authorized follow-up air strikes on a mere 8 locations. A week later, a tanker had been hit and was burning. In early February, Biden signed off on a third round of attacks hitting 36 targets across 13 locations. In the coming weeks, the Houthis shot down the second of two U.S. drones<br /><br />After multiple Houthi attacks and damage to an underwater cable, Biden now signed off on a fourth round of attacks that hit 18 targets across 8 locations. Will these stop the Houthis?<br /><br />As Biden already admitted after the first round of attacks, they won’t. But that’s not their purpose. The goal is to maintain some sort of balance of power against the Houthis. The Department of Defense regularly issues official warnings to the Houthis that there will be consequences. But the only consequences are the occasional light air strikes on old Yemeni air defense capabilities and rocket:, some of which date back to the days of the USSR.<br /><br />So far two American Navy SEALS are dead and Iran has control of the world’s shipping.<br /><br />And how many of the Houthi Jihadis have been killed? After an initial naval battle in which ten of the terrorists were killed, the Houthis claimed that only five of their men were killed in Biden’s first round of airstrikes. The funerals of another 17 were held after the third round of strikes.<br /><br />That would make for a total of 32 dead terrorists after two months of fighting the United States.<br /><br />Are the Houthis understating their casualties? Maybe. But a New York Times article on the Biden administration’s intentions <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/us/politics/houthi-yemen-strikes.html">stated that the</a> strategy represents “the administration’s attempt to chip away at the Houthis’ ability to menace merchant ships and military vessels but not hit so hard as to kill large numbers of Houthi fighters and commanders, and potentially unleash even more mayhem into a region”. As if ceding the Red Sea hasn’t done that already.<br /><br />Chipping away at their arsenals while trying to minimize Houthi deaths has failed miserably.<br /><br />What is the Biden administration doing wrong? Apart from scale, it’s trying to target Houthi drones and missiles, and some air bases, preferably right before they’re about to be used. This is the same approach that failed in Iraq and it’s also the same approach Israel used to use against Hamas also in an effort to deter attacks, minimize casualties and avoid escalation.<br /><br />And then Oct 7 happened. Since then, the Israeli military strategy has been to destroy Hamas forces as functioning units rather than target its rocket stockpiles. And it worked. Hamas, like the Houthis, had learned to fire off rockets or drones from disposable locations before running away. Even when rocket stockpiles are taken out, the terrorists can go ahead and build more.<br /><br />Rockets can be replaced, but organized forces that have trained together are harder to replace. That’s what Israel demonstrated. And it worked. Even though Israel didn’t specifically focus on taking out Hamas rockets, the rocket attacks dropped sharply because there’s no one to shoot them. When rockets are targeted, the terrorists run away and regroup, but when the terrorists are targeted, they have to keep running, so they don’t have the time and space to regroup.<br /><br />(That is what the proposed hostage deal and the various calls for a ‘ceasefire’ are really about.)<br /><br />Biden is unwilling to target the Houthis and so they keep attacking.<br /><br />After two months and over four rounds of larger attacks, the Houthi command and control operations, and their forces, remain intact even if they lost some infrastructure along the way.<br /><br />This might be excusable if, like Bush in Iraq, Biden really believed that what he was doing would work, but he admitted in a direct quote to the press that he knows what he’s doing won’t work.<br /><br />Beyond the damage to shipping and the prestige of the United States, two Navy SEALS are dead because the commander-in-chief pursued a military strategy that he knew would fail.<br /><br />Biden had two options in Yemen. He could either hit the Houthis hard or let them do what they wanted. Both were politically untenable. It would be too politically damaging to go into the primaries inflicting sizable casualties on an Arab Muslim terror group that his pro-terror supporters love and now chant at pro-Hamas ‘ceasefire’ rallies, “turn another ship around.”<br /><br />But doing nothing while shipping slowed down and prices rose would also be damaging.<br /><br />Given a choice between alienating the country and his party’s terror supporters, he chose a middle ground of ‘show’ strikes like the kind that Bill Clinton had deployed against Osama bin Laden that will avoid offending terror supporters but also will not end the Houthi attacks.<br /><br />This strategy serves no one except Biden who has sacrificed the nation’s prestige, a major international waterway and the lives of two U.S. Navy SEALS to win an election.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a> is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" target="_blank">Front Page Magazine</a>.</span></i></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Click <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" target="_blank">here to subscribe</a> to my articles. And <a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" target="_blank">click here to support my work with a donation</a>.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Thank you for reading.</i></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div>Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-71192456671848238642024-03-03T22:12:00.005-05:002024-03-03T22:13:10.440-05:00Lyft Protects Women From Rape With Transgender Drivers<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>“Don’t tell anyone. Remember, I know where you live and where your friend lives now.”</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Lyft, the ridesharing company, released information admitting to 4,158 sexual assaults from 2017 to 2019. And each year it got worse. Lyft ended up paying out a $25 million settlement to shareholders over disclosures involving, among other things, driver sexual assaults.<br /><br />And since then the lawsuits have kept right on coming.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfuka8aOWzsBDCLghxFoGys240D-cifRT6jP1yDzuv0Xjrt2YnRiq9AfSuLd3JbsbUwC8vSkMFonValbrJJ3vanuWc-QLD68PjhBCQVSWsflbjv0iZpx8GdYyAkyEckP_WzldYPAvoeZ0ObqmafL_NC50nkHGAytvNbuSPxxiM1SHFdpLdrx9Jsg/s1536/lyft%20dle2.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfuka8aOWzsBDCLghxFoGys240D-cifRT6jP1yDzuv0Xjrt2YnRiq9AfSuLd3JbsbUwC8vSkMFonValbrJJ3vanuWc-QLD68PjhBCQVSWsflbjv0iZpx8GdYyAkyEckP_WzldYPAvoeZ0ObqmafL_NC50nkHGAytvNbuSPxxiM1SHFdpLdrx9Jsg/s320/lyft%20dle2.png" width="320" /></a></div>Earlier this year, a Florida woman sued claiming that she had a baby as a result of being raped by a Lyft driver. Her lawsuit argues that “Lyft failed to take reasonable precautions to protect its vulnerable female passengers… from the foreseeable and known risk of assault.”<br /><br />And so the company, known for its pink color scheme and progressive politics, is taking action by rolling out its Women+ Connect program offering “rides for women by women”.<br /><br />But since Lyft’s politics are woke, the women aren’t actually women. Instead it’s a potluck of women, men who claim to be women and “nonbinary drivers”. Women requesting a female driver, in the hopes that they won’t be one of the 292 Lyft female riders and drivers subjected to rape in 2019, the 1,041 who fought off a rapist driver or the 573 otherwise molested will have the luck of the draw as to whether a woman pulls up or Roy who changed his name to Regina.<br /><br />Behind the wheel may be a woman or a man (or as Lyft angrily and falsely insists “transgender women are women” or nonbinary which, according to the rapey app consists of those crazies who “may identify as being both a man and a woman, somewhere in between or as falling completely outside of these categories” which is to say that they may be absolutely anybody.<br /><br />Lyft doesn’t mention that it initiated Women+ Connect because of all the rapes. Instead it highlights how “diverse communities are stronger”, which is an odd way to describe women, and offers the promise of “good vibes, conversations that turn into friendships” and “a nod that says ‘I get it.'” And preferably not a sexual assault by one of Lyft’s thousands of rapists on wheels.<br /><br />For a measure that’s meant to let women pick female drivers, Lyft prioritizes its partnership with the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ lobbying group formerly backed by Harvey Weinstein who, if he gets out, will have few career options except as a Lyft driver. HRC’s former president was ousted for helping former Gov. Cuomo fight allegations that he sexually harassed women.<br /><br />Partnering with HRC, an organization that’s been tied up with sexual predators, seems like an odd choice for Lyft, but so does emphasizing the companionability of women being around women, and then surprising them with HRC’s row of transgender and nonbinary men.<br /><br />Lyft could have actually implemented a Women+ Connect program limited to women, but instead it chose to prioritize its woke politics over the safety of its female passengers.<br /><br />This is typical of a woke corporate culture in which politics matter more than customers.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8tGC6z0yd8Y4_RTrFm3Zr_vjMBxrWeraQa3giK-zK1V3EOCohWH1hXUePPzYpVM5nLroggTI3cbgE0VM7-BE52vZqDlRt6pc7bHnreqgvX1A_v3wuk2oAMZkh4PUKW9rCqCcA9VgBTWQO0egyFl1BUANy0twLhU3Bah6J6jA7Lw-LleOlrn509w/s1087/image_2024-03-03_191208063.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="674" data-original-width="1087" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8tGC6z0yd8Y4_RTrFm3Zr_vjMBxrWeraQa3giK-zK1V3EOCohWH1hXUePPzYpVM5nLroggTI3cbgE0VM7-BE52vZqDlRt6pc7bHnreqgvX1A_v3wuk2oAMZkh4PUKW9rCqCcA9VgBTWQO0egyFl1BUANy0twLhU3Bah6J6jA7Lw-LleOlrn509w/w400-h248/image_2024-03-03_191208063.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">While women were being raped in Lyft sedans, the company deployed Lucky Lyft, a trivia game show in which Bob the Drag Queen, actually Christopher Delmar Caldwell, a large bearded black man who must be referred to as “she” and “her”, strutted around in pink “surprising unexpected riders” with an opportunity to win some money by answering questions.<br /><br />One trivia question Lyft has not been willing to answer is the number of sexual assaults in 2023. I have reached out to the rideshare company and was told that these were “the latest publicly available report” numbers. Implicitly, Lyft has some private sexual assault figures it’s not sharing.<br /><br />Meanwhile, there continue to be “unexpected surprises” for Lyft riders resulting in lawsuits.<br /><br />A lawsuit from a Pheonix woman in 2022 described a Lyft driver proposing to smoke meth before grabbing her phone and sexually assaulting her. The driver told her, “Don’t tell anyone. Remember, I know where you live and where your friend lives now.”<br /><br />Not that sexually segregating riders and drivers offers any firm guarantees.<br /><br />A Kansas woman <a href="https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article283355453.html">got into a</a> Lyft rideshare vehicle with a female driver. Unfortunately also in the car was her husband who had “an extensive criminal record, including convictions of aggravated assault”. And then allegedly both husband and wife “violently raped” her and stole her things.<br /><br />The lawsuit does not mention if either husband or wife identified as nonbinary at any time.<br /><br />A common theme in a number of Lyft sexual assault cases is alcohol. I’ve had rideshare drivers tell me that they get very intoxicated young female passengers heading home from bars. And a lawsuit described rideshare forums where drivers talk about how to take advantage of them.<br /><br />There are common sense precautions to take but the same woke culture that insists that men can be women also argues that taking those precautions is “victim blaming”. But reality has no politics. The reality is that a man will never be a woman and that women need to be aware of the risks of being out in public around men (whatever their alleged binary or gender) while getting intoxicated during a time of rising crime rates and falling law enforcement.<br /><br />Lyft, like most dot coms, manufactures the illusion of service as a seamless experience defined by app interfaces, buzzwords and graphic design. In reality most dot coms depend on low paying grunt work from dubious people to make the service actually work. Bright colors, smooth lines and cheerful animations when we push a button condition us to be dazzled by the surface rather than understanding that electric cars require dirty rare earth mining, that your photos stored in the cloud are sitting on servers in miserable conditions (and only private to the extent that no one in the chain of access cares about them) and that content moderation is handled by third worlders with a passing knowledge of English who spend all day wading through porn.<br /><br />The gig economy is even worse because it makes paying people a few dollars to run errands seem like magic when all it does is monetize the free time of random people to service the whims of the laptop class for late night takeout or rides home at 1 AM. None of this is safe.<br /><br />How could it be?<br /><br />Woke politics form a crucial part of the corporate illusion that takes the gig economy from little more than offering a random stranger twelve bucks to drive you home into something reliable.<br /><br />Lyft is committed to DEI and ESG. It brought in Obama’s close adviser, Valerie Jarrett, as a board member. After the drug overdose death of George Floyd, it “committed to becoming a bigger part of the solution” by focusing on “inclusion and diversity” and hiring black people.<br /><br />Like Bob the Drag Queen.<br /><br />And it even promised to donate money from protest rides to a variety of groups, including Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, and the National Bail Fund Network, which bails out criminals, including rapists.<br /><br />In 2020, the Massachusetts Bail Fund, whose motto is “free them all”, put up bail for Shawn McClinton, who had already been convicted of rape once, who had then broken into a ladies room, grabbed a woman, dragged her into the men’s room, and raped and strangled her.<br /><br />When the bail fund cut him loose, he went out and raped another woman.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd0ds6vaeYdX4tUZC5nJPaNVE1KywhK4KPMPJE_Z2z6mky2iMSpeUJUrqJ7UsSH_byNkElL0rYPhxZzjOjzCv2jYz-DGno2J7m0ugbC9mdvrBnSsWjkUwrq_d5ajnV4UTqHlDEuHmQkDXKAGR_MCU0MDHDgVNRT2Uu8qc5OiSXZ68SUT4bnSaQgQ/s512/lyft%20dle.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd0ds6vaeYdX4tUZC5nJPaNVE1KywhK4KPMPJE_Z2z6mky2iMSpeUJUrqJ7UsSH_byNkElL0rYPhxZzjOjzCv2jYz-DGno2J7m0ugbC9mdvrBnSsWjkUwrq_d5ajnV4UTqHlDEuHmQkDXKAGR_MCU0MDHDgVNRT2Uu8qc5OiSXZ68SUT4bnSaQgQ/s320/lyft%20dle.png" width="320" /></a></div>At least unlike Waleed Alkhuwaylidee, a Lyft driver who could only speak Arabic, and was accused of raping a woman before making a <a href="https://www.salemnews.com/news/former-lyft-driver-facing-rape-charge-stopped-at-canadian-border/article_3ed028e0-b22d-11ed-83ac-736c1e26541e.html">run for the Canadian border</a>, he didn’t do it in a car.<br /><br />When Lyft isn’t paying to free rapists, it’s promising to protect women from them by finding them female drivers or mentally ill male ones. Rather than prioritize protecting women, Lyft puts its politics first and women second.<br /><br />But while Lyft may not offer women safety, it can offer them the nonbinary driver of their dreams.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a> is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" target="_blank">Front Page Magazine</a>.</span></i></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Click <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" target="_blank">here to subscribe</a> to my articles. And <a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" target="_blank">click here to support my work with a donation</a>.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Thank you for reading.</i></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div>Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-59015957582311095732024-03-03T02:47:00.003-05:002024-03-03T02:47:41.821-05:00The World Prepares to Recognize a Hamas Palestinian State<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>A "Palestinian" state will be a state of the terrorists, by the terrorists and for the terrorists.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the PLO’s Palestinian Authority and the other Islamic terrorist groups who make up the official “Palestinian” leadership have been<a href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/1708195603-russia-extends-invitation-to-palestinian-factions-for-talks-in-moscow"> invited</a> for unity talks in Moscow.<br /><br />The terrorist unity talks scheduled by the Putin regime are a homecoming for a “Palestinian” movement invented by Soviet propagandists. Mahmoud Abbas, the long-serving dictator of the PA, wrote his Holocaust denial thesis while studying at Moscow’s Patrice Lumumba University which had trained a generation of third world terrorists.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfI2DyV3_kSJ5KaRRQZU4uLv5w4fCe4BNFJFhIk8L-3ZoukRI6h0C-9FXJ7GgwopV5Mh5U7IS4LAt7ptxYA1JmqDGw0r2WUQSyCgqVOa-OfHtvo632_otrORqPpIXxhHloP3HE6ISG9GEDU95TkavM4QVS0SQhhWhuEWCeLblYSTFrkCK65qE9-A/s1032/palestinian%20keffiyeh%20trash%20dle.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="877" data-original-width="1032" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfI2DyV3_kSJ5KaRRQZU4uLv5w4fCe4BNFJFhIk8L-3ZoukRI6h0C-9FXJ7GgwopV5Mh5U7IS4LAt7ptxYA1JmqDGw0r2WUQSyCgqVOa-OfHtvo632_otrORqPpIXxhHloP3HE6ISG9GEDU95TkavM4QVS0SQhhWhuEWCeLblYSTFrkCK65qE9-A/s320/palestinian%20keffiyeh%20trash%20dle.png" width="320" /></a></div>The invitation to Moscow comes from Putin’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov. Materials from a KGB defector revealed that Abbas had <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/soviet-documents-said-to-reveal-abbas-was-kgb-agent-in-syria/">worked for the KGB</a> under Bogdanov. Back then Abbas had the KGB codename “mole”, these days, his code name is “president”.<br /><br />Some of the same ex-Soviet operatives who helped set up and fund the PLO, the PFLP and the rest of the “Palestinian” movement are now trying to unite them all under one single banner.<br /><br />While the State Department in D.C. and British Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron are talking about <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/rewarding-the-oct-7-massacres-with-a-palestinian-state/">immediately recognizing a “Palestinian” state</a> as soon as they can force Israel to stop its campaign to destroy Hamas, the Palestinian Authority is trying to bring Hamas into the state.<br /><br />The media claimed that Abbas had visited Qatar to hold talks with the Islamic tyranny’s leaders on a “ceasefire”. In reality, the Palestinian Authority leader <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/rjndoffit">had been meeting </a>with the Qatari regime, another state sponsor of Hamas, to pursue unity talks with the fellow terror group.<br /><br />Putin’s relationship with Iran makes Moscow, like Doha, home turf for Hamas. Some weeks after Oct 7, top Hamas leaders had flown out to Moscow to meet with Bogdanov after the Russian official had previously chatted with leaders of the terror group in their home base in Qatar.<br /><br />In 2006, Putin had reacted to the Hamas takeover of Gaza by declaring that “we are maintaining our contacts with Hamas and intend, in the near future, to invite the leadership of this organisation to Moscow” and emphasized that, “we have never called Hamas a terrorist organisation.” Putin invited Hamas leader Khaled Mashal, who recently claimed that “the Russians told us they would study our Oct. 7 attack in their military academies.”<br /><br />A week after the Oct 7 attacks, Hamas stated, “we in the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS) appreciate Russian President Vladimir Putin’s position on the ongoing Zionist aggression against our people and his opposition to the siege of Gaza”.<br /><br />After Oct 7, Putin and China’s Xi had blocked a UN condemnation of the Hamas atrocities. Now Russia is working on uniting its old PLO friends and its new Hamas friends. But Russia and Qatar are not alone. The Biden administration and the European Union are all pushing for a “Palestinian” state after they force a ceasefire. And that state will inevitably include Hamas.<br /><br />“Russia has invited all Palestinian factions who will be meeting on the 26 of this month in Moscow. We will see if Hamas is ready to come to the ground with us,” Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh informed the Munich Security Conference. “We are prepared to engage. If Hamas is willing to join us, that’s positive. We need Palestinian unity,”<br /><br />“One should not continue focusing on October 7,”<a href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/palestinian-territories/1708249458-palestinian-authority-signals-readiness-for-unity-talks-with-hamas"> he </a>warned attendees at the forum.<br /><br />“Hamas is an essential part of the Palestinian political map. Israel’s talk of eliminating Hamas will not happen and are not acceptable to us,” Shtayyeh<a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bkqrczm8p"> had told</a> Qatar’s Doha Forum in December around the same time that the PA was holding<a href="https://www.jns.org/hamas-in-secret-talks-with-fatah-about-post-war-alliance/"> unity talks </a>with Hamas in Doha.<br /><br />After the Oct 7 attacks, Biden claimed that, “the vast majority of Palestinians are not Hamas. Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people.” In reality, polls show that Hamas would easily<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-two-state-solution-is-terrorism/"> win any current election</a>, as it won the last set of “Palestinian” elections in 2006, leading Abbas and his Fatah faction to seize total control of the West Bank and reject any future elections. Hamas was able to take over Gaza leading to the two “Palestinian” statelets.<br /><br />In January, Abbas’ spokesman <a href="https://www.jns.org/pa-spox-says-ramallah-prepared-to-hand-over-power-to-hamas/">had promised</a> to “hold general elections, and if Hamas wins, the president will hand over the [Palestinian] Authority.”<br /><br />With polls showing that Hamas <a href="https://www.jns.org/us-leaves-open-possibility-of-hamas-retaining-power/">would handily</a> win an election, If Abbas is serious this time, that means recognizing a “Palestinian” state will mean creating a Hamas state inside Israel.<br /><br />Hamas and the Palestinian Authority had been holding unity talks on and off, including four months before the Oct 7 attacks, and quickly began holding them again afterward.<br /><br />The <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-786737">current proposal</a>, like previous ones coming out of the unity talks, <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/pa-prime-minister-were-ready-for-unity-with-hamas-world-needs-to-forget-october-7/">places</a> Palestinian Authority officials up front, so that terrorists can receive foreign aid from America and the EU, while Hamas officials maintain an official subsidiary role but continue to control Gaza.<br /><br />In the past, Hamas had been able to siphon foreign aid through UNRWA, but as it now faces the possibility of utter destruction in Gaza, it may be more willing to accept the proposal being advanced by Qatar, Russia, the EU and the Biden administration. While Russia and Qatar may be more publicly supportive of their Hamas allies, all the proposals come down to a government of “technocrats” serving as the public face of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.<br /><br />Shtayyeh is an example of one of those “technocrats”, academics with experience in extracting foreign aid and telling foreign diplomats what they want to hear, but with no actual political power, who were put into place to act as a cover for the Arafat and Abbas regimes. A similar puppet regime of technocrats subsidiary to Afghanistan’s warlords had operated in Kabul before it fled the Taliban. The Taliban and the Biden administration have resurrected a version of its “technocrats” to administer the funds going from the United States to Afghanistan.<br /><br />The current plan is to blame Oct 7 entirely on Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, and a few of his cronies, to demand their expulsion, and then to make a deal with the “moderate” Hamas leaders in Doha before putting the plan for a “Palestinian” state in overdrive. But the Moscow summit is a warning that any such state will never be anything other than a terror state.<br /><br />The primary difference between the Qatari and Russian positions, and the Biden and EU position, is plausible deniability. Qatar and Russia want Hamas out front, while Biden and the EU prefer it out back. And we already know from Afghanistan how that will end up working out.<br /><br />The Qataris negotiated our deal with the Taliban that would have made the Islamic terrorist group a part of a multilateral government. Americans died to maintain that State Department fiction as the Taliban were advancing to take over the entire country. Hamas had its chance to be part of a multilateral government with other Islamic terrorists and each time it chose to try and take everything. Biden and the EU may want to keep Hamas in the background, but history tells us that, like the Taliban, it will eventually seize power and dominate any “Palestinian” state.<br /><br />It’s difficult to know whether Secretary of State Blinken and the State Department personnel who pretended until the last moment that the Taliban were not trying to take over Afghanistan, but only to take a stronger position in the negotiations for a united government really believed that. It’s also difficult to know whether they truly believe that their proposed “Palestinian” state will be anything other than a terrorist state that will eventually fall into the hands of Hamas.<br /><br />But we know that not only Qatar and Russia, but the Biden administration and the EU, have urgently fought against any Israeli move into Rafah that would finish off Hamas in Gaza.<br /><br />It’s obvious why Qatar or Russia’s Bogdanov are condemning an attack on Rafah, but the Biden administration has introduced a draft UN resolution calling for a ceasefire, and from Biden on down have warned Israel against going into Rafah. The internal reasoning is probably similar to the one that guided Nixon and Kissinger during another October war 50 years ago.<br /><br />During the Yom Kippur War, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger <a href="https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/henry-kissinger/2019-08-09/kissinger-told-soviet-envoy-during-1973-arab-israeli-war-my-nightmare-victory-either-side-soviet">had told </a>Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin that “my nightmare is a victory for either side.” He warned that without negotiations and a deal, “the Israelis [will] have pushed the Arabs out of every territory and “If we do nothing by Tuesday, Wednesday at the latest, Arabs will have been defeated.”<br /><br />“I do not mean to imply that he wanted Israel to lose the war, he simply did not want Israel to win decisively. He wanted Israel to bleed just enough to soften it up for the post-war diplomacy he was planning,” Admiral Elmo Zuwalt, the former head of the Navy, wrote in his memoir.<br /><br />The Biden administration also wanted Israel to defeat Hamas, but not to defeat it too much.<br /><br />The administration is worried that if Israel wins in Rafah, it will win too much and be much less interested in its diplomatic solution of creating a “Palestinian” state which it believes is the real solution to the conflict. And it needs Hamas to provide pressure on Israel to create such a state.<br /><br />The same failed idea that has haunted the region for decades is that Islamic terrorism can only be defeated by giving the terrorists some, but not all, of what they want. Much as it did not occur to the State Department that the Taliban would want everything, it refuses to believe that Hamas would want everything. And every time the negotiations fall apart, history is rewritten again.<br /><br />In an article published in early October, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan described the negotiations that had brought peace between Hamas and Israel. “We have de-escalated crises in Gaza,” he boasted. The online version of the article has been edited to remove those words.<br /><br />Since December, Sullivan has taken to warning Israel to “transition” to a new “phase” of the war in which it stops its military campaign and goes back to occasional drone attacks on Hamas leaders. And then he and the rest can get started building their “Palestinian” state. And when Hamas takes over again, more articles will have to be edited and more bodies will be buried.<br /><br />The Biden administration, the European Union (for now only being held off by Hungary), Russia and the rest of the international community are preparing to reward Oct 7 with a terrorist state. A ‘Palestinian’ state will be a state of the terrorists, by the terrorists and for the terrorists.<br /><br />The 10/7 attacks reminded Israelis of what Americans had known and forgotten after 9/11.<br /><br />The Israeli soldiers battling in Gaza are not just fighting for their country, but to remind America and the world that it is possible to defeat Islamic terrorists, instead of negotiating with them. A victory there will show everyone that we can all fight and win, instead of surrendering to Islam.<br /><br />A lot is riding on that battle for Israel, for America, Europe and the free world. That is why the leaders of the international community and the diplomats of the world are fighting to save Hamas. What happens in the next weeks will hand the Islamic terrorists and their enablers either one of their greatest defeats or their greatest victory: a Hamas ‘Palestinian’ state.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a> is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" target="_blank">Front Page Magazine</a>.</span></i></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Click <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" target="_blank">here to subscribe</a> to my articles. And <a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" target="_blank">click here to support my work with a donation</a>.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Thank you for reading.</i></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div>Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2176719402276185732024-03-01T00:46:00.002-05:002024-03-01T00:49:12.475-05:00Aaron Bushnell, Who Burned Himself Alive, Cheered Murder of U.S. Soldiers<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> “I work for the air force and would also have no right to complain about violent resistance against my actions.”</i></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>When Aaron Bushnell, an Antifa member and Air Force Airman, set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington D.C., Hamas supporters in this country made him into a martyr.<br /><br />Cornel West praised Bushnell’s “extraordinary courage and commitment”, Roger Waters celebrated him as an “All-American Hero” and the media emphasized his military role.<br /><br />In reality, Aaron Bushnell was a member of radical anarchist groups on social media, he wanted to leave the Air Force and cheered the killings of members of the U.S. military.<br /><br />When three black Army soldiers were murdered in an Iranian-backed Islamic terror attack back in January, Aaron Bushnell <a href="https://archive.is/bEtX6">posted it to the</a> Antifa ACAB (All Cops are Bastards) Reddit group with a mocking “OhNoAnyway.jpg” meme.<br /><br />“The cops are the domestic military and the military is the international police. They are bad for the exact same reasons,” Aaron Bushnell posted in the ensuing debate.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDHvgCQ3MYqmIBxchcPsJHJhmnOD9kho6OZhzK66q5b2CJe0N6Oi_ZpredV6bF5xU36ExSYOqPPiU21bdkCUZi0MQR-Q0c-hSfKmKjPhSMe_gay0IfKj9eIEUS3bVZW88QE0roD2nQ-79HLo0eCagzO26YTowQouD2_sU1I7vh0fz-GzLHM-0qbA/s805/image_2024-02-29_214636283.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="489" data-original-width="805" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDHvgCQ3MYqmIBxchcPsJHJhmnOD9kho6OZhzK66q5b2CJe0N6Oi_ZpredV6bF5xU36ExSYOqPPiU21bdkCUZi0MQR-Q0c-hSfKmKjPhSMe_gay0IfKj9eIEUS3bVZW88QE0roD2nQ-79HLo0eCagzO26YTowQouD2_sU1I7vh0fz-GzLHM-0qbA/s320/image_2024-02-29_214636283.png" width="320" /></a></div>Bushnell believed that Islamic terrorists killing U.S. military personnel was justified, arguing that, “I work for the air force and would also have no right to complain about violent resistance against my actions.”<br /><br />In a previous exchange he warned another user against joining the military and argued again that the murder of Americans was justified. “The US DoD is one of the most powerfully evil institutions to ever disgrace the face of this planet. You will have blood on your hands that you will never be able to wash off. There are many people who suffer under the imperial boot who would have every reason to wish you dead, and they would be justified. Don’t do it.”<br /><br />When asked by another anarchist as to whether joining the military would provide him with the skills to conduct domestic terrorism, Bushnell appeared skeptical. “<br /><br />It’s very unlikely that you get any kind of ‘proper training’ that would be useful in a revolutionary context,” he suggested. The military was “a neo-feudal institution plugged into the broader neoliberal system. It runs on nothing but coercion, toxic masculinity, and brainwashing.”<br /><br />Aaron Bushnell’s comments reveal that he wanted out of the Air Force and believed it was evil.<br /><br />“I joined thinking I was doing my part to make the world a better place. Then I realized we’re the baddies, and the only way to make the world a better place is to get out,”<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPg5OpehM9rFXa6o2jlSToCmUc4pvW7ozzeASWlc_ScuvU3AnbueL6Di69XuwoLlXVrAfd2c-_yKBdaNkkQ0mNSgjgEkZsF4C22IYWOvzKqHa7CCVgzw6zGVc8i3l9RJjLCczY_tcJxdH_p5b9qwXI09dIrgtdyMqPWxSv6ptTTogqJhwq-OS-0g/s1025/aaron%20bushnell%20acab.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1025" data-original-width="716" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPg5OpehM9rFXa6o2jlSToCmUc4pvW7ozzeASWlc_ScuvU3AnbueL6Di69XuwoLlXVrAfd2c-_yKBdaNkkQ0mNSgjgEkZsF4C22IYWOvzKqHa7CCVgzw6zGVc8i3l9RJjLCczY_tcJxdH_p5b9qwXI09dIrgtdyMqPWxSv6ptTTogqJhwq-OS-0g/s320/aaron%20bushnell%20acab.jpg" width="224" /></a></div>Bushnell, who died in support of the Hamas war against Israel, not only supported the Islamic terror group, but also justified the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews.<br /><br />“Israel is a white supremacist, ethnonationalist, settler-colonial apartheid state….It has no right to exist,” Bushnell argued. He claimed that all the Jews could be killed because “there are no Israeli ‘civilians’” and that Israel was “the closest thing the world has to the Nazis”. Exterminating Israelis “wouldn’t be genocidal but actually perfectly reasonable, as Israelis are settler-colonizers” and described Hamas as an “anti-colonial resistance organization”.<br /><br />“Israel’s existence can’t be justified in the first place, it’s a colony of the US and UK. It has imposed apartheid, displacement, and extermination on the Palestinian people since its inception. No aggression against the Israeli colony can be condemned by non-Palestinians.”<br /><br />The murdered Israeli families in nearby towns had it coming because they were “colonizers” and “I don’t get to claim it’s a violation of my human rights if some of those people come and kick me back out of that house or throw a molotov at it or kidnap me.”<br /><br />Aaron Bushnell compared Hamas to the “diverse coalition in Star Wars” and dismissed people “clutching their pearls over” the killing and rape of young Israelis at the Nova music festival because there “are no innocent civilians in settler colonialism”.<br /><br />“That music festival was happening just three miles from Gaza,” Bushnell contended. “Imagine a similar event happening in the early days of the colonization of North America. Can you or I really say that Indigenous people are wrong for retaliating against colonizers who are rubbing their domination in their face?”<br /><br />Aaron Bushnell believed that the destruction of America was as justified as that of Israel.<br /><br />How extreme were Bushnell’s views? We know that he was a member of multiple anarchist groups including those advocating violence. He at varying times defended Communism as an ideal and in a reply to “Are there any Marxist-Leninist here?”, commented, “I highly recommend The Bolsheviks and Worker’s Control to anyone interested in the history of Lenin’s praxis”.<br /><br />“Communism is a stateless, classless, moneyless society, so whatever society you’re talking about clearly isn’t communist,” he argued. True Communism had never been tried.<br /><br />In comments on a user’s celebration of his 99-year-old father’s military service in the Korean War, Bushnell argued that American pilots were war criminals and colonizers. He claimed that North Korea’s offensive was spurred by resistance to American colonialism.<br /><br />Aaron Bushnell had started out as a radical leftist and, like many in anarchist spaces, had come around to viewing Islamic terrorists as resistance movements against American colonialism. When defending the Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, he sneered, “as if a poor country committing piracy against imperial trade would be bad”.<br /><br />Beyond geopolitics, Bushnell had adopted every possible radical belief from legitimizing crime to animal liberation. His Antifa associations led him to declare everyone else a fascist.<br /><br />“Scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds,” he wrote.<br /><br />America was inherently bad and the only redemption for it was a violent revolution.<br /><br />“Electoral politics is letting the fascists win,” he claimed. When responding to Biden’s senility, he posted, “I couldn’t care less about this ableist bullshit. He’s bad because he’s the President of the United States. That’s that.” Anticipating a violent civil war, he posted, “Our choices are not Biden or Trump. Our choices are genocide or revolution.”<br /><br />He anticipated the day when “the power of the bourgeoisie will dissolve because they made the fatal blunder of profiting off of the working class.”<br /><br />Despite being white, he loathed white people, declaring that, “whiteness needs to be abolished” and denounced “transphobia” and “TERFS” or women who oppose transgender men.<br /><br />Aaron Bushnell claimed that “marriage is also mutually exploitative and coercive” and condemned “human supremacy which is destroying humans, non-humans, and the entire planet”.<br /><br />“The idea of crime was invented by rich people to describe behavior they didn’t like,” he contended, and argued that “defrauding” a company is “morally superior to giving it money.“<br /><br />Finally the man who set himself on fire to support Islamic terrorists who would have cheerfully killed him, with his consent, posted that, “sanity is a myth constructed to justify brainwashing and marginalization of people who cannot or will not conform.”<br /><br />What happened to Aaron Bushnell to turn him into this? Like a lot of directionless but clever young men, he went down a rabbit hole of extremism that eventually led to violence. A review of his social media shows little in his life except radical politics and video games. Bushnell had grown up in <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-airman-who-set-himself-on-fire-for-hamas-was-antifa-ex-cult-member/">an abusive leftist cult </a>that wrongly described itself as “Christian”.<br /><br />The experience appeared to have left him with a hatred of Christianity, so that he posted, “the Real Jesus™️ only looks like a half-decent role model compared to the monstrosity that his followers created… Jesus can fuck off with his demagoguery.”<br /><br />Searching for some structure and direction, Bushnell joined the Air Force, but then was indoctrinated into anarchist leftist groups which provided him with his sense of identity. While pictures often show him in the uniform he wore when he killed himself, off-duty pictures commonly show him wearing red. And he began taking part in Antifa protests.<br /><br />The Air Force under Biden had launched a campaign to root out “extremism”, but that meant extremists that the leadership and the administration disagreed with. Bushnell was one of a number of personnel who openly supported terrorism and hated America who stayed on.<br /><br />Bushnell had been preparing to leave the Air Force and transition to civilian employment, and yet he decided to exploit his uniform by turning himself into a martyr against America.<br /><br />Narcissism and emotional instability were certainly in the mix. But Bushnell had also been failed by his family, which raised him in an abusive elite liberal cult, by a society and a government which mainstreamed extreme leftist views and by a military which failed to intervene.<br /><br />In the end, Aaron Bushnell spun out of control. Like other Islamic terrorist supporters, he might have opened fire at a military facility, instead he chose to martyr himself for Hamas.<br /><br />His death will be used by Islamic terrorists and Antifa to recruit more young men like him.<br /><br />The Bushnell case is a wake-up call about actual extremism within the military. Someone recruited him and someone encouraged him to kill himself. National security begins with finding and exposing the Islamic terrorists and extremists inside the United States Air Force.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a> is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" target="_blank">Front Page Magazine</a>.</span></i></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Click <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" target="_blank">here to subscribe</a> to my articles. And <a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" target="_blank">click here to support my work with a donation</a>.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Thank you for reading.</i></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div>Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-10353495096433310922024-02-28T22:04:00.001-05:002024-02-28T22:04:04.736-05:00Progressive Prosecutors Build a New Kind of Police State<span style="font-size: large;">Before New York Attorney General Letita James launched her selective prosecution of former President Trump, the former public defender was advocating for the “criminal justice reforms” that empowered criminals and terrorized a state.<br /><br />AG James had run for office promising to “reform NY’s criminal justice system and to investigate and prosecute Trump’s family businesses” and she kept her word. Criminals now roam free in the state while prosecutorial resources were dedicated to targeting political opponents.<br /><br />In New York, criminals have nothing to worry about from the Attorney General’s office, only Republicans do. And this is becoming the norm among “progressive prosecutors”.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilM2XX_1QHlpt54R21E9AQz_zTetfAG1FRcbpuEQEUblMq_ZQhu5lWOTBWCvxyIggV24eHG-7v0VK-8q95cYUCSpW9hyjOR7JyJMoejPwZkAuA7mx7oT5YCjfhAD-Mov317Z4tWEsn3mFKs066GoQxI9_6E6Y3HPIEXi4kuZ2BktnRrL6zLiTQOg/s1037/image_2024-02-28_190354678.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="872" data-original-width="1037" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilM2XX_1QHlpt54R21E9AQz_zTetfAG1FRcbpuEQEUblMq_ZQhu5lWOTBWCvxyIggV24eHG-7v0VK-8q95cYUCSpW9hyjOR7JyJMoejPwZkAuA7mx7oT5YCjfhAD-Mov317Z4tWEsn3mFKs066GoQxI9_6E6Y3HPIEXi4kuZ2BktnRrL6zLiTQOg/s320/image_2024-02-28_190354678.png" width="320" /></a></div>The crime waves sweeping the country and the serial prosecutions of former President Trump and other conservatives are not separate events, but the common outcome of a fundamental transformation of the justice system from punishing crime to punishing political opposition.<br /><br />Within prosecutorial circles, the same debate has been taking place between maintaining even handed professional standards or using the profession to advocate for social justice as in other fields. In the media, it’s been between objective reporting and biased activism, and within medicine, between treating those who are sickest or prioritizing disadvantaged groups.<br /><br />Among prosecutors, the debate has taken the form of the familiar social justice formula of “punching up” or “punching down”. Progressive prosecutors argue that prosecuting violent junkies or serial thieves is “punching down” and that they should advocate for change by dropping those cases, which make up much of their workload, and attacking the ‘root causes’.<br /><br />The first part of this argument has gotten plenty of attention as cities and communities fight to oust radical prosecutors (dubbed by some the Soros DAs because of that billionaire’s backing for such figures) because even in an era of soaring crime rates, they refuse to bring criminals to justice. But it’s the latter part of that argument which may be even more dangerous.<br /><br />What are the ‘root causes’ of social problems and how should they be fixed? If sending muggers to prison is ‘punching down’, whom are the prosecutors going to be ‘punching up’ against?<br /><br />Too few have connected the vigorous prosecutions of Trump, his supporters and former administration officials to the same movement that gives violent criminals a pass, but they are two sides of the same coin. Progressive prosecutors have been attacked as promoting lawlessness, but more accurately they are promoting a new concept of what the law is.<br /><br />Prosecutorial discretion means choosing which criminals to prosecute based on a set of values. The same philosophy which allows a DA to refuse to bring charges against a repeat sex offender because he is a member of an oppressed minority group allows him or her to bring charges against a driver for smearing his tires over a BLM street graphic, or for a federal prosecutor to choose which president to prosecute for taking home classified documents.<br /><br />Prosecutors are not supposed to be judges or legislators, but social justice activism demands that everyone use their profession to be an advocate for social change, And that social change, under the revolutionary agenda of leftist movements, demands “punching up” against political power rather than “punching down” against those helpless victims who are merely mugging people because of the economic policies of Trump and other Republicans.<br /><br />That is what progressive prosecutors believe and act upon. By engaging in sustained lawfare against conservatives, they believe that they are fighting against the ”root causes” of crime.<br /><br />And all other social problems.<br /><br />Police defunding was misunderstood from the beginning. Despite the impression created by CHAZ or the BLM riots, the end goal is not lawless anarchy, but a new kind of police state which merges generous welfare and street lawlessness with relentless prosecution of speech and other political offenses. Such systems already exist to varying degrees in Europe where ordinary citizens often have more cause to fear, for example, London’s Met police than criminals do. This new era of law enforcement officers has already begun in this country at the very top, but will take some time to make its way to street level.<br /><br />The same phenomenon is moving more rapidly through the ranks of prosecutors, many of whom come through a limited set of law schools and are highly attuned to their careers and the political trends that can assure them a lucrative income or strand them in a backwater.<br /><br />Federal prosecutors, the most savvy of careerists, understood that early on and the aggressive prosecutions of conservative figures, along with the failed prosecution of leftists for some of those same offenses, is the result. Local DA’s like Fulton County’s Fani Willis, got the memo, and so did state officials aspiring to higher office, like Attorney General James.<br /><br />This isn’t “lawlessness”: it’s a new sort of law based on a different set of values. And those values are fundamentally hostile to the traditional notions of law, fairness and freedom.<br /><br />Law enforcement and the justice system in its various forms were brought into being to protect the ruling class and then to protect individuals from harm by criminals. The American experiment significantly watered down the elements of the legal system that treated the persons and the agendas of the ruling class as uniquely worthy of protection and democratized law enforcement so that it protected the persons and property of each individual citizen instead.<br /><br />Progressive prosecutors, for all that they claim to be making the system fairer, are actually reverting to that earlier two tier system in which the justice system is a means of enacting the agendas of the ruling class rather than protecting the lives and property of individuals. Like those government bureaucrats who choose which regulations they adhere to, some prosecutors have usurped the powers of the people.<br /><br />‘Punching up’ is really ‘punching down’.<br /><br />The philosophy of the progressive prosecutors, much like DEI medicine, places more value on some lives than others based on their race, gender or other protected characteristic, almost entirely devalues personal property while valuing government property quite highly, and seeks to punish political dissent against the ruling class while rejecting the notion that its members have any obligation to protect the ordinary citizenry.<br /><br />This progressive police state, like the rest of the social justice system, values generalities over specifics. It addresses “root causes” rather than protecting Mrs. Rosen or Mrs. Johnson from having their purses stolen, it drives “systemic change” rather than ensuring that a repeat sex offender stays away from the Greenview playground, and pursues other ruling class ideological agendas rather than providing defined services to a defined person.<br /><br />The classical American view set out the duties of civil servants and elected officials in terms of the needs of the people while the progressive approach is to define the ideology of this governmental ruling class as the answer to all the needs of the people whether they know it or not. The shift in definition is also a shift in power that allows the ruling class to define its agenda as the embodiment of the national welfare and any opposition to it as a threat to the people.<br /><br />This is why they often describe Republicans and conservatives as “threats to democracy” whose political views must be prosecuted and who need to be locked up to save the agenda.<br /><br />Enacting the progressive agenda through every institution also involves protecting it through those same institutions. And within the ambit of prosecutors, that can mean dragging opponents of that agenda into court. Prosecutors who believe in social change are dropping the prosecution of criminals whom they consider victims of society while prosecuting opponents of social change for having caused all the social problems with their conservative politics.<br /><br />Criminalizing dissent is not overreach: it is a necessity for those who believe that criminality stems from the political views of society and not the individual life choices of criminals.<br /><br />Criminal justice reform legalized everything from drugs to shoplifting, sprang violent felons from prisons and eliminated bail, but it also worked to outlaw defensive measures from legal gun ownership to barring businesses from asking applicants about their criminal past. A raft of new laws targeting single family homes, theft prevention programs, surveillance equipment and a multitude of other conditions and tools that they blamed for criminality went up even as stealing was treated as a victimless crime and junkies carrying out violent assaults were set loose.<br /><br />The criminal justice reform movement is as concerned with policing businesses and ordinary people as it is unconcerned with policing criminals. And a particular priority of the new progressive policing is punishing speech and ideas that are deemed hateful and sustain an oppressive capitalistic system of “whiteness” that they claim is the root cause of crime.<br /><br />The more organized the ideas and the system, the more they need to be rooted out.<br /><br />And that is what the lawfare aimed at conservatives, especially conservative elected officials, is about. Progressive prosecutors are implementing their agenda one freed criminal and one imprisoned conservative at a time.</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a> is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" target="_blank">Front Page Magazine</a>.</span></i></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Click <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" target="_blank">here to subscribe</a> to my articles. And <a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" target="_blank">click here to support my work with a donation</a>.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Thank you for reading.</i></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div>Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-14384464515828991532024-02-27T21:31:00.003-05:002024-02-27T21:33:37.014-05:00Michigan Muslims Take Biden Hostage to Save Hamas<span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp8_LcEnZUavdXRz9SYEbQsGVDROrEARkK3MOY1E7_mKiX8k6BVsSWjVnvtSnewzMvOIfd_5Q6vjb1v-eS0ynke8fkSrqyhpfP_VSGLIMmq5WfDfLgqV0zqNbtADOdCWHVY8GeQ8eU624VQc8RGrVPOTTFmrXUlZbTBLmmk0DAHv8fUAhjT_1vzg/s970/image_2024-02-27_183328201.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="970" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp8_LcEnZUavdXRz9SYEbQsGVDROrEARkK3MOY1E7_mKiX8k6BVsSWjVnvtSnewzMvOIfd_5Q6vjb1v-eS0ynke8fkSrqyhpfP_VSGLIMmq5WfDfLgqV0zqNbtADOdCWHVY8GeQ8eU624VQc8RGrVPOTTFmrXUlZbTBLmmk0DAHv8fUAhjT_1vzg/s320/image_2024-02-27_183328201.png" width="320" /></a></div>While Israeli commandos rescued a 70-year-old man and 60-year-old man who were being held hostage in Gaza, Hamas supporters in America were taking an 81-year-old man hostage in D.C.<br /><br />Hamas may be losing in Gaza, but it’s winning in Michigan.<br /><br />Rep. Rashida Tlaib is now the latest Michigan Muslim terror activist to urge Hamas supporters in the state to reject Biden in the primary by casting an “uncommitted” vote.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXMci6X0vPTzo_T3vygG0MtgwTC0CVHjAWny8iKbg2Au5KP3fihEKhtEVQrPsNtCpQicGX2kFgzT9zaphuJus9O5oa32F0LYi4_dotPaZw5cxL1XXF8NaBbeW0V8_wiwQOm_unRzVok-d7dPCW51k3wEKwrCorVSqdoAfB_2NxJE6yekw7zBUkqQ/s828/hammoud%20frame1.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="828" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXMci6X0vPTzo_T3vygG0MtgwTC0CVHjAWny8iKbg2Au5KP3fihEKhtEVQrPsNtCpQicGX2kFgzT9zaphuJus9O5oa32F0LYi4_dotPaZw5cxL1XXF8NaBbeW0V8_wiwQOm_unRzVok-d7dPCW51k3wEKwrCorVSqdoAfB_2NxJE6yekw7zBUkqQ/s320/hammoud%20frame1.png" width="320" /></a></div>According to Rep. Tlaib, who became the only member of Congress to refuse to vote to condemn Hamas rapes of Jewish women, her goal is to “create a voting bloc” to stop Israel’s campaign to take down the Islamic terror group.<br /><br />The campaign, misleadingly titled, “Listen to Michigan”, to pressure Biden into saving Hamas is being run by Layla Elabed, Rep. Tlaib’s sister and its spokesman is Abbas Alawieh, who had served as Rep. Tlaib’s legislative director and then as Rep. Cori Bush’s chief of staff.<br /><br />The leading signatory of ‘Listen to Michigan’ is <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-truth-about-the-jihad-in-dearborn/">Dearborn Mayor Abdullah H. Hammoud</a> (pictured above) who after the Hamas atrocities of Oct 7 had <a href="https://www.memri.org/tv/deraborn-michigan-palestine-rally-adam-abusalah-biden-cancer-mayor-abdullah-hammoud-resistance">addressed</a> a pro-Hamas rally declaring that Dearborn was “the city of resistance”.<br /><br />That same rally featured Osama Siblani, the publisher of the Arab American News paper and with whom <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-sends-delegation-to-meet-with-hamas-supporter/">Biden officials had met</a> in an attempt to end the pro-Hamas pressure campaign, who had<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-truth-about-the-jihad-in-dearborn/"> previously told </a>the Washington Post that, “Mr. Bush believes Hezbollah, Hamas and other Palestinian factions are terrorists, but we believe they are freedom fighters.”<br /><br />The Dearborn mayor had spoken at a previous pro-Hamas rally at which Osama Siblani had threatened, “We are the Arabs that are going to lift Palestinians all the way to victory. Whether we are in Michigan, and whether we are in Jenin. Believe me. Everyone should fight within his means. They will fight with stones. Others will fight with guns. Others will fight with planes, drones. And others will fight with rockets. And others will fight in their voice.”<br /><br />Michigan Muslims have decided to fight by taking Biden hostage while playing the victim.<br /><br />Mayor Hammoud had recently convinced Biden to condemn a Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/welcome-to-dearborn-americas-jihad-capital-pro-hamas-michigan-counterterrorism-a99dba38">op-ed </a>by a MEMRI counterterrorism researcher which exposed the level of terror support in Dearborn.<br /><br />Hammoud then repaid Biden by doubling down on fighting to save Hamas from Israel.<br /><br />The number two signatory is Michigan State Assembly Majority Floor Leader Abraham Aiyash out of Hamtramck, the first all-Muslim governed city in the country, who has accused Israel of “genocide” and promoted a message urging “context” for the Hamas atrocities of Oct 7.<br /><br />(Rep. Aiyash was profiled in the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s <a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/election-jihad-islamist-political-machines-are-transforming-states-and-threatening-america-and-israel">Election Jihad report</a>.)<br /><br />The Hamtramck politician was rapidly elevated by the Democratic Party to one of the top positions in the state after first being elected in 2020. Rep. Aiyash abused that power to first block a resolution condemning the Hamas atrocities of Oct 7 because it did not also criticize Israel and complained that it neglected “the conversation around the Palestinian people, particularly in the Gaza Strip, who for decades have endured mistreatment.”<br /><br />He has now decided to repay the Democratic Party by taking Biden hostage for Hamas.<br /><br />Also signing on to the campaign is State Rep. Alabas Farhat, newly elected in the 2022 midterms, who claimed that asking him to condemn Hamas was a “racist dog whistle”, and who has accused Israel of “apartheid”, “occupation” and the “systematic murder of Palestinians.<br /><br />Also listed is ‘Bill’ Bazzi, Dearborn Heights’ first Muslim mayor, as well as Dearborn Councilman Mustapha Hammoud, the son of<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-truth-about-the-jihad-in-dearborn/"> Abed Hammoud</a>. Abed Hammoud, a Lebanese immigrant and an “old family friend” of Gov. Whitmer, who had headed the Congress of Arab American Organizations alongside Osama Siblani, had complained that a government crackdown on the Hezbollah Islamic terrorist group was “smearing the whole community”.<br /><br />“Now people are scared to even say `I want Hezbollah to defend Lebanon,’” he had objected.<br /><br />Despite that, the Obama-Biden administration had made Hammoud an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. Hammoud is currently listed as the lawyer for Hezbollah financier Mohammad Bazzi: a “specially designated global terrorist” who has been described as “a player for senior Hezbollah operatives and senior Iranian leadership”.<br /><br />Hammoud, the other Hammoud, Farhat, Aiyash and multiple other Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, and Muslim officials across Wayne County benefited from significant Democratic Party funding outlays. But they did not run for office or take power for the party, the country or for anyone or anything except members of their tribal group and its ideology of Islam.<br /><br />Given a chance they demonstrated that their only loyalty was to Islam and Muslim terrorists, not America or even the Democrats who brought them here, nurtured them and funded them.<br /><br />At a recent speech, Rep. Ilhan Omar, speaking in her native language, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/rep-ilhan-omar-we-are-people-of-the-same-blood-somalians-first-us-government-will-only-do-what-we-tell-them-to-do/">hailed Somalis</a> as “people of one blood” and “people who know they are Somalians first”.<br /><br />“The US government will only do what Somalians in the US tell them to do,” the translation describes the Somali Muslim congresswoman as saying. “They will do what we want and nothing else. They must follow our orders.”<br /><br />“Sleep in comfort knowing I am here to protect the interests of Somalia from inside the US system,” Rep. Omar assured them.<br /><br />That is the ‘Listen to Michigan’ campaign writ large.<br /><br />“We are on the road to a great victory here in D.C. and there in Palestine,” Osama Siblani, who had openly expressed his support for Hamas and Hezbollah, boasted at the same rally at which Mayor Hammoud spoke and at which other ‘Listen to Michigan’ signatories were present.<br /><br />To the Hamas caucus in America, they are fighting one war whether it’s in Israel or America.<br /><br />And Democrats are learning the hard way that their new Muslim constituency has no loyalties or allegiances to anything except, as Rep. Omar put it, “people of one blood” and, as has been made clear in Dearborn, people of the same religion. And the issue goes far beyond Israel.<br /><br />Hamtramck Amer Ghalib, the mayor of the first all-Muslim governed city in America, is one of the ‘Listen to Michigan’ signatories. Democrats squirmed when Ghalib banned flying gay flags, compared black people to animals and attacked Christians. He <a href="https://www.meforum.org/63372/exclusive-islamist-hamtramck-mayor-bigotry">praised Saddam and Iran</a>.<br /><br />These are a few of the other things that Democrats have to accept from their new electorate.<br /><br />‘Listen to Michigan’ and you can hear the mayor of the first all-Muslim governed city <a href="https://www.meforum.org/63372/exclusive-islamist-hamtramck-mayor-bigotry">thanking a Sheikh</a> and celebrating the “young people from the Salafi stream who came out with great enthusiasm and elected me”. Salafis, like the Al Qaeda group, are a Jihadist movement.<br /><br />‘Listen to Michigan’ and you can hear the Dearborn mayor hailing his city as a “city of resistance” at a pro-Hamas rally.<br /><br />‘Listen to Michigan’ and you can see Michigan being taken hostage by Islamic terrorists. And that same movement is now bent on hijacking the 2024 presidential election. With Biden polling poorly, the Hamas supporters in Michigan are betting that they can either force Biden to save Hamas by imposing sanctions on Israel or that they can take credit for his election defeat.<br /><br />The emerging narrative is that the Democrats aren’t turning out voters because the party hasn’t come out strongly enough in support of Hamas and against Israel. If the Democrats lose in 2024, that narrative will solidify and future Democratic Party presidential candidates will be warned to support Islamic terrorism and oppose those like Israel who resist it or lose<br /><br />A handful of Muslim settlers in Michigan built up their state within a state, they’ve taken the Democratic Party hostage and now intend to take the United States of America hostage.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a> is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" target="_blank">Front Page Magazine</a>.</span></i></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Click <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" target="_blank">here to subscribe</a> to my articles. And <a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" target="_blank">click here to support my work with a donation</a>.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Thank you for reading.</i></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div>Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-54299972553750721982024-02-26T23:30:00.000-05:002024-02-26T23:30:08.648-05:00Why Old TV Shows Are Beating Hollywood’s Billion Dollar DEI Machine<span style="font-size: large;">Even as streamers like Netflix, Amazon and Disney+ are spending almost incomprehensible amounts of money creating the movies and shows fueling the Peak TV wars, the numbers show that audiences are turning down much of that content to watch old television shows instead.<br /><br />A recent article noted<a href="https://fox5sandiego.com/news/national-news/the-top-streamed-shows-are-almost-all-old-why/"> that</a> according to Nielsen, which tracks viewership numbers, “the most minutes last year – more than 57 billion – were spent watching ‘Suits,’ a legal drama that premiered 12 years prior.” The show had more than double the number of viewing minutes than Netflix’s race-swapping woke usurpation fantasy, “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story.”<br /><br />The Hollywood Reporter noted that the “top 10 overall titles in Nielsen’s year-end rankings are all acquired shows, the first time that’s happened in the four years streaming rankings have been publicly available.” Acquired means the library of older shows that Netflix bought after spending $17 billion on content, much of it on new shows like “Bridgerton” whose three seasons cost $168 million, only to lose to the estimated $200,000 per episode that it paid for “Suits”.<br /><br />In 2023, more people were watching “NCIS” reruns than the top two streaming programs combined. And more are watching old episodes of “Friends” than either “Ted Lasso” or Star Wars’ “The Mandalorian” despite an estimated $120 million per season budget.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI7vVlidi0jlg_x8Sdu_E9EIAmM5yc28PJIA_OhSepMaH5kJ8kouP2VwjvvBJDwGsXt9SLr01NTN6yX_hjEi174OGQjNN3r-ScKBXIyFG-EsjLUkClDOe3R2nXtitX2lJArVVikKDAkKm5EQlujXrspcKO2prD27c_JKjo-gy4vkcyApWhp7DdWw/s916/tv3%20dle.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="769" data-original-width="916" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI7vVlidi0jlg_x8Sdu_E9EIAmM5yc28PJIA_OhSepMaH5kJ8kouP2VwjvvBJDwGsXt9SLr01NTN6yX_hjEi174OGQjNN3r-ScKBXIyFG-EsjLUkClDOe3R2nXtitX2lJArVVikKDAkKm5EQlujXrspcKO2prD27c_JKjo-gy4vkcyApWhp7DdWw/s320/tv3%20dle.png" width="320" /></a></div>In 2022, Amazon had spent $500 million to buy the rights to Tolkien’s world in order to produce a woke multicultural version of “The Lord of the Rings”, but twice as many people watched “Seinfeld” reruns (not to mention “The Great British Baking Show”) as “The Rings of Power”.<br /><br />After an unfathomable $238 billion in Peak TV spending that year, most viewers were comfortable dialing up old episodes of “NCIS”, “Criminal Minds”, “Gilmore Girls”, “Seinfeld”, “Supernatural”, “The Simpsons”, and “Heartland”: a show about a horse ranch set in Canada.<br /><br />The trend continues with Nielsen numbers for this week showing old school shows Suits, NCIS and Grey’s Anatomy in the top 10.<br /><br />The issue isn’t just “wokeness”. Apart from ‘Heartland’, the old shows that are popular now are not traditional or conservative, but they were generally popular in their own time. Some of the shows were made with a more male audience in mind, a demographic that is no longer serviced by the current streaming industry with rare exceptions like Amazon’s ‘Reacher’.<br /><br />(‘Reacher’ now ranks as the number two series on streaming, vastly outperforming anything else on Amazon, suggesting that male audiences have been deprived of programming.)<br /><br />But another issue is a radical demographic transformation in the industry that began with #MeToo and the BLM hate movement. Hollywood made DEI commitments and carried them out, whether it was locking the Oscars behind racial quotas for participating films or dumping white male talent in favor of affirmative action quotas.<br /><br />Writers Guild of America numbers show that 64% staff writers <a href="https://twitter.com/Scientific_Bird/status/1759700304725971342">had been men</a> in 2011, but by 2020, only a third were men. 71% of staff writers had been white in 2011, but less than half were by 2020. Male story editors declined from 61% to 39% while white story editors fell from 79% to 39%. Professional talent at key points in the production chain likewise declined sharply.<br /><br />By 2020, the number of white producers fell by 24%, the number of male producers by 25%, white co-producers fell by 30%, white supervising producers by 23%, white executive story editors fell by 26% and male executive editors by 27%. The numbers are likely worse now.<br /><br />While you don’t need to be a white man to write, such a massive industry demographic turnover could not happen without bringing in a whole lot of unqualified personnel for the wrong reasons.<br /><br />The demands of DEI and the need to produce massive amounts of new content for the streaming wars led to a hiring surge of writers, directors and other creative personnel who were not actually qualified. The impact of that is all around us.<br /><br />Disney has lost a fortune on movies staffed by inexperienced DEI hires. “The Marvels”, its first comic book universe movie that didn’t even hit $100 million (amounting to likely losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars) was written and directed by Nia DaCosta, hailed as the first black woman to direct a superhero film, with one previous low budget horror film to her name. Her fellow writers had little more than a few episodes of Disney+ Marvel shows under their belts.<br /><br />“Madame Web”, a recent effort to launch a Spider Man movie franchise without Spider Man, performed even worse for Sony. The movie was helmed by a TV director based on a screenplay originally written by an otherwise mostly unknown minority writer/director, and crashed badly.<br /><br />The decline of animation quality at Disney has <a href="https://filmthreat.com/features/the-d-files-part-1-disney-and-the-downfall-of-john-lasseter/">been chronicled</a> in features like Film Threat’s D-Files which put it down to an urgent need to hire new diverse staff while <a href="https://filmthreat.com/features/the-d-files-part-3-disney-the-killer-of-dreams/4/">purging</a> the “old white guys” The new diverse hires “understood very little about actual animation and bringing art to life”, and “struggled to succeed at a job they weren’t qualified to have in the first place”. Their ineptitude was blamed on an intolerant workplace and the veterans were forced out.<br /><br />Something similar has been going on across the industry and no one is allowed to talk about it.<br /><br />When the editor-in-chief of The Hollywood Reporter proposed a story on how, “those white men who had spent decades writing scripts—which had been turned into blockbuster movies and hit television shows—were no longer getting hired”, he was intimidated into backing away from it.<br /><br />That was one of <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/hollywoods-new-rules">the many stories </a>documented in The Free Press‘ coverage which quoted multiple writers and producers, mostly anonymously, describing a DEI culture in which, “suddenly, every conversation with every agent or head of content started with: Is anyone BIPOC attached to this?” Multiple emails contained dismissals such as, “This one a dead end — they are going to limit search to women and bipoc candidates” and “Studio now telling us this job must go to a female / bipoc writer. Sorry — it sucks.”<br /><br />“I’m all for LGBT and Native Americans, blacks, females, whatever minorities that have not been served correctly in the making of content, whether it’s television or movies or whatever, but I think it’s gone too far. I know a lot of very talented people that can’t get work because they’re not black, Native American, female or LGBTQ,” legendary Chinatown producer Howard Koch said.<br /><br />Why are shows from the 1990s beating billion dollar projects at Netflix, Amazon and Disney?<br /><br />One answer is that Hollywood purged or sidelined a lot of its own talent leading to productions that have ten times the cost of their old forebears, but are badly written, acted and directed. A $200 million fan film may make for an impressive trailer, but minute by minute still remain as fundamentally unprofessional as anything uploaded by a random amateur to YouTube.<br /><br />The issue is not just wokeness onscreen, but wokeness behind the scenes. A lot of the old movies and shows were woke for the level of the time, but they were also competently written, directed and acted by some of the best talent that money could buy. That is no longer true.<br /><br />Sam Goldwyn, an immigrant and former glove salesman who never learned to speak proper English, yet was responsible for some of the greatest films of the forties, had a simple formula. “You get yourself a great story. Then you get the best writer available. Then you get the best director. Then you hire a first-class cast, the right cast, and a great cameraman.” Not anymore.<br /><br />Now you get a story that conveys an important socially relevant message about a minority group. Then you get an inexperienced writer from an oppressed group, a BIPOC director who has done nothing except four music videos, a TikTok BLM influencer as your star and a cameraman who is also the only white male on the set and prays all day not to be fired.<br /><br />What did they know in the nineties and the oughts that no one seems to know today?<br /><br />TV shows were ‘woke’ ten, twenty and thirty years ago, but the message was, except for some artsy projects, a subtle addition rather than the entire purpose of every single movie and show. Hollywood hypocritically pushed wokeness, but was careful about adopting and internalizing it. And while the upper ranks of Hollywood still mostly consist of white men, the creative talent was fed to the sharks leading to the likes of Disney’s Bob Iger overseeing a sinking DEI ship.<br /><br />Last fall, Disney was being congratulated for landing Ahsoka, its latest woke Star Wars series, in the number two spot of original streaming shows, but it didn’t even break the top 10 overall. Disney had spent as much as $25 million an episode with more special effects than many movies only to lose to Suits: a show from 2011 with few effects and a budget of $3 million.<br /><br />The audience had spoken.</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a> is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" target="_blank">Front Page Magazine</a>.</span></i></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Click <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" target="_blank">here to subscribe</a> to my articles. And <a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" target="_blank">click here to support my work with a donation</a>.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Thank you for reading.</i></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div>Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-26642851657629964332024-02-25T18:33:00.001-05:002024-02-25T18:33:54.709-05:00Can Texas Stop Soros From Taking Over Conservative Radio?<span style="font-size: medium;">Mornings in Northeastern Pennsylvania start on WILK-FM with ‘The Bob Cordaro Show’ described as “convincingly conservative, lovingly logical, proudly and passionately patriotic and reliably right”. And then eventually other conservatives, including Ben Shapiro, come on the air.<br /><br />But that may be about to change.<br /><br />WILK is one of a number of Pennsylvania stations owned by Audacy (five in Philadelphia alone), the second largest radio broadcaster in America and it, along with over 200 radio stations across the country, is about to fall into the hands of George Soros in time for the 2024 election..<br /><br />After Audacy was forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Soros Fund Management bought hundreds of millions of its debt for <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/02/14/business/george-soros-poised-to-control-audacy/">50 cents on the dollar</a> and under a bankruptcy agreement will become its largest shareholder with a potential impact on much of the country and its politics.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6fN1yMgVs4tNxfynoa9cSA5mP_ykNuEkXZahSJoBtZQHqxTtxyycYt-jyQSWf4lr5gmqNlwvN6Kntyt2Ke3pUGHzo5Znz3zXDmerG9swsI8erkL9Jff9X2DWBPReaRXDX8r08O3XEj0OezK8Ce87aHytk8422OH89B6rygB4JZd_Bjb_pbJR1mw/s921/radio%20dle.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="921" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6fN1yMgVs4tNxfynoa9cSA5mP_ykNuEkXZahSJoBtZQHqxTtxyycYt-jyQSWf4lr5gmqNlwvN6Kntyt2Ke3pUGHzo5Znz3zXDmerG9swsI8erkL9Jff9X2DWBPReaRXDX8r08O3XEj0OezK8Ce87aHytk8422OH89B6rygB4JZd_Bjb_pbJR1mw/s320/radio%20dle.png" width="320" /></a></div>Audacy claims to be able to reach 200 million people across the range of its properties which include sports, music and talk radio stations, as well as a large digital platform, and while Audacy is not an inherently conservative company, it owns a number of talk radio stations and the talk radio format caters to commuters, early risers and working people which is to say conservatives. And the Soros takeover will give one of the biggest funders of leftist extremism control over not only conservative talk radio stations but those that are, like WILK, in swing states. That includes two other stations in Pennsylvania and many others across the country.<br /><br />While business is business and the Hungarian immigrant made a fortune as a shrewd investor, radio is not a booming market and there is a pattern here that goes back to 2022 when Soros took over Radio Mambi, a conservative Hispanic radio station in Florida, as part of a network that would give him access to <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/12/20/inside-george-soros-backed-move-to-silence-conservative-hispanic-voices/">a third of Hispanics</a> in the country.<br /><br />Some radio hosts left Radio Mambi in protest and formed Radio Americano. Radio Americano, the country’s first conservative Hispanic radio network, formed a partnership with Audacy leasing one of its radio stations. Having taken over Radio Mambi, Soros will now be in a position to also cripple Radio Americano with a significant impact on the upcoming election.<br /><br />When Republicans take over Democrat radio stations, Democrats don’t take it lying down.<br /><br />When Caracol 1260 AM, a Latino radio station, was being sold in 2021 to a group that included a conservative Hispanic figure, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, a Democrat organization, sounded alarm bells and urged the FCC to block the sale.<br /><br />“To win in 2022 this must stop!” former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell had argued.<br /><br />The sale fell through and the Democrats won in 2022.<br /><br />When Soros first came after Radio Mambi, some Republican legislators, including Sen. Tom Cotton, Sen. Marco Rubio, and others turned to the FCC, warning that, “far-left ideologues are attempting to consolidate and expand their control over the media, so they can flood the airwaves with propaganda” and asking the federal agency to step in and take action.<br /><br />That did not happen and nor should anyone expect the FCC to stop Soros now, but the company filed for Chapter 11 in the Southern District of Texas. And while the NRA and Trump already discovered the dangerous powers that state prosecutors have over organizations doing business or even registered in a blue state, there’s no reason the reverse can’t be true.<br /><br />Audacy’s rapid bankruptcy deal that will make Soros into the company’s biggest shareholder can be examined by state officials including regulators and prosecutors like Attorney General Ken Paxton. Audacy’s reach includes Texas where it has at least one conservative talk radio station, KJCE which, along with local talent, broadcasts Sean Hannity, Dana Loesch and Frontlines of Freedom, and local officials can determine whether the bankruptcy deal and the subsequent Soros takeover will impact the Texas market and viewpoint diversity.<br /><br />Instead of a rapid bankruptcy followed by a fast takeover, Texas state officials have a duty to thoroughly scrutinize the parameters of the agreement, its local impact and any issues that may arise from the new role of the Soros organization and what its management role may be.<br /><br />Part of the agreement involves the appointment of a new board of directors. At Radio Mambi, the Soros people brought in Democratic Party operatives in a leadership role. Does Soros have similar plans for Audacy? Who will be on the proposed board of directors? Did George Soros personally play any role in the move by the Soros Management Fund?<br /><br />The company has signaled that major cuts will be as part of its reorganization. Will those cuts be politically neutral or will they single out conservative employees and the conservative side of the business? Will this reorganization which is officially meant to deal with the debt load really be used as cover for a purge of the political opposition by a major funder of the ruling party.<br /><br />These are worrisome questions.<br /><br />When NPR radio stations began turning into conservative talk radio, the media and Democrat legislators quickly mobilized to fight against the transformation. The question is whether Republicans intend to allow George Soros to crush conservative radio without a fight.<br /><br />Republicans have various tools that they can use to challenge the Soros takeover. While Audacy reached a deal with a “supermajority” of its debt holders, it’s not truly universal. Some debt holders have already filed objections and while the matter is before a judge in a progressive part of the state, Texas officials do have some options that they can explore.<br /><br />Radio is the voice of the nation. Monopolies have silenced conservatives across much of the mainstream media even as dot coms have driven them out of social media platforms, but the radio dial is still a place where a twist or a push of a button still offers the sound of freedom.<br /><br />But for how much longer?</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a> is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" target="_blank">Front Page Magazine</a>.</span></i></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Click <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" target="_blank">here to subscribe</a> to my articles. And <a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" target="_blank">click here to support my work with a donation</a>.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Thank you for reading.</i></div></span></div></span></div></span></div>Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-11348718160658848752024-02-23T03:14:00.001-05:002024-02-23T03:14:50.807-05:00Green Crime: An Electric Car, Wind and Solar Crime Wave<span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-duGSsxsQDiq87Lj55-wr0OT-7jXu0unAFGb51yzQbYeT6TfbCSqHnQRPrnHwfd0AZbJdG9GRSl_U06mXYvgbbfiGswq-2btkAyZ5n5Rc7xxneLGlD22-laCuU9EzXUDtEAoMf4gEY98iO4xL0BWgV3WgDtF2sxQkmcBS26Dq8oA21x3R6uwEDA/s512/recycling%20dle2.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-duGSsxsQDiq87Lj55-wr0OT-7jXu0unAFGb51yzQbYeT6TfbCSqHnQRPrnHwfd0AZbJdG9GRSl_U06mXYvgbbfiGswq-2btkAyZ5n5Rc7xxneLGlD22-laCuU9EzXUDtEAoMf4gEY98iO4xL0BWgV3WgDtF2sxQkmcBS26Dq8oA21x3R6uwEDA/s320/recycling%20dle2.png" width="320" /></a></div>Biden’s Inflation Increase Act intends to spend $7.5 billion taxpayer money to build charging stations for electric car owners. Two years later, no EV chargers were built. And that’s good.<br /><br />The modern sheen of the electric car is running into the medieval state of American cities.<br /><br />Seattle began installing dozens of EV chargers only for thieves to show up and raid at least eight of the charging cables for copper requiring <a href="https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/copper-thieves-have-new-target-electric-vehicle-charging-stations/635DX4LIGVASVOLWBKKAJBUUAY/">thousands of dollars</a> worth of repairs.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFjF9ezp5QUjKzvmt350EjP5L6nhdarjOD4IPzNMarcH9mvj_zojue9gZ7xTmXP4RQMoG9VBtIDRWQ8RjzWQEf5UAq07OEpiDTeA2QPGbOIfv1RdRGEkS68Z72vcyVgTd6vSgJIU-PutO3F7azB4uxlU_g3TCK_pM9K7Vr82CxrlOxez0F64hQkg/s512/recycling%20dle.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFjF9ezp5QUjKzvmt350EjP5L6nhdarjOD4IPzNMarcH9mvj_zojue9gZ7xTmXP4RQMoG9VBtIDRWQ8RjzWQEf5UAq07OEpiDTeA2QPGbOIfv1RdRGEkS68Z72vcyVgTd6vSgJIU-PutO3F7azB4uxlU_g3TCK_pM9K7Vr82CxrlOxez0F64hQkg/s320/recycling%20dle.png" width="320" /></a></div>In response, the city is planning to put the chargers<a about="" c="" have="" href="https://www.newsdata.com/clearing_up/briefs/thieves-slice-ev-charging-cables-for-copper-in-seattle/article_c6793b0e-9e61-11ed-9047-ef579e41ec04.html#:~:text=%22There" of="" progress="" s="" said.="" she="" slowed="" worth=""> high up on poles</a> that can only be lowered by an app. This will cost even more money and in an environment in which brazen copper thieves toppled an FM radio tower in Oklahoma, isn’t likely to deter the criminals.<br /><br />EV owners who suffered from copper theft while leaving their cars to be charged in public places were told by the Seattle Police Department to “stay with the vehicle if you can while it’s being charged,” Considering that it can take an electric car hours to charge, that’s gonna be a wait.<br /><br />In Oakhurst, CA , every cable was cut on a Tesla ‘supercharger’ station almost as soon as it had been set up. At a nonprofit in Van Nuys, <a href="https://www.foxla.com/news/video-brazen-thieves-steal-ev-charging-cables">38 cables</a> were stolen. Since the thieves rarely see any real punishment in cities where property crime has effectively been legalized, it’s getting worse.<br /><br />The problem has become commonplace enough that Biden’s Department of Energy rolled out a <a href="https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/ev-charging-cable-theft">special guide</a> to stopping charging cable theft by warning that “the theft of EV charging cables can lead to a decrease in the use of EVs, which can have a negative impact on the environment.” Proposals from the DOE include charging your electric car at home.<br /><br />Not that only charging electric cars at home is enough because thieves have taken to going after charging cables right in driveways as the EVs are being charged overnight.<br /><br />Charging cables for the already overpriced electric cars can cost over $1,000.<br /><br />Thieves on bicycles ride from suburban house to house, seizing cables and riding away with them. It’s estimated that an experienced crook can make off with one cable in <a href="https://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/thieves-now-targeting-one-pricey-electric-car-part/3187391/">13 seconds</a>.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisokwn138ZNv4y8b3jbQLQ6LJVXMkpENp1s47PK1ns8_N3JbjvbEqsMUdfWlhY0NOuUHF-kAtYbnvcmN-beHGw7GVXjs-sqXqCXbz8AHkvmpwfts_TvZzRTYdM8twxKpiuXSf27BRzm7FIHBLIFLMoKWRl9LjJz9sN9Sof4zkhycQTUK0DjBZBVA/s926/green%20crime%20dle2.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="767" data-original-width="926" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisokwn138ZNv4y8b3jbQLQ6LJVXMkpENp1s47PK1ns8_N3JbjvbEqsMUdfWlhY0NOuUHF-kAtYbnvcmN-beHGw7GVXjs-sqXqCXbz8AHkvmpwfts_TvZzRTYdM8twxKpiuXSf27BRzm7FIHBLIFLMoKWRl9LjJz9sN9Sof4zkhycQTUK0DjBZBVA/s320/green%20crime%20dle2.png" width="320" /></a></div>And so electric car owners are warned to make sure that they lock their car in the garage. Then they’re told to lock their cables with padlocks and make sure their insurance covers their cables.<br /><br />The incredible convenience of electric cars is now such that owners can only charge them while locked in their garages, with a padlock on the cable and the cable under the car’s wheel.<br /><br />But it’s not just Teslas. Copper thieves are coming for every piece of ‘green’ infrastructure.<br /><br />In Fresno, CA, $100,000 in copper wire was stolen from a solar farm, but wind farms, because they’re often far away from people, are an even more attractive target for copper thieves. And wind turbines have massive amounts of copper in them, making them even more desirable.<br /><br />Copper thieves cut<a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/copper-thieves-target-iconic-windmills-near-palm-springs-5178057"> into a turbine</a>, haul out cables and then drive away causing as much as millions of dollars in damage. Such thefts have been reported from Arizona to Minnesota to Iowa to Massachusetts, Internationally in the UK, there was a <a href="https://www.energyglobal.com/special-reports/10102023/solar-theft-why-is-it-on-the-rise-and-how-can-farms-protect-themselves/">48% increase</a> in solar and cable ‘green’ copper theft, and 5,000 <a href="https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/04/15/weekend-read-solar-crime-on-the-rise/">major solar thefts</a> across Europe.<br /><br />But where is all that copper going? The answer is appropriately green. It’s being recycled.<br /><br />After the copper is stolen, it’s taken to recycling centers, many of which boast of their “sustainability” and contributions to the planet. There the copper is resold, often to China, which spurred the original copper boom, and transformed into more green energy equipment that the copper thieves will steal and then recycle to continue the cycle of environmental crime.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Green energy gear, from EV charging cables to solar panels and wind turbines, require a lot of copper. This demand for copper raises the price of copper and drives copper thefts.<br /><br />Recycling soda and beer cans depended on homeless people digging through the trash and hauling giant garbage bags full of cans to be exchanged for 5 cents each. Copper theft is a more advanced version of the same game. The perpetrators are often addicts stealing copper and turning it over to organized criminals or selling it to recyclers and buying fentanyl.<br /><br />Videos have documented trucks picking up ‘harvested’ copper and providing fentanyl.<br /><br />That’s the kind of dysfunctional misery that the green revolution rests on and always has. The recycling junkie thieves aren’t just looking through the trash for Coke cans, they’re tearing up copper wire, but that’s a difference in scale, not in substance. Recycling was always theft.<br /><br />Biden’s Department of Energy claims that looting electric cars is a threat to the planet. “EVs are an essential part of the transition to a more sustainable future, and any obstacles to their adoption must be addressed,” it warns. But it doesn’t call for cracking down on crime.<br /><br />And it’s the electric cars and other green tech that’s driving the copper theft wave.<br /><br />Electric cars use four times as much copper as real cars. One Tesla needs a mile of copper just to hook up the battery packs. Solar panels need 5.5 tons of copper for each megawatt. A wind farm can use as much as 7,000 tons of copper. There’s nothing ‘green’ about any of this.<br /><br />Green energy demands a lot of mining and then outsources that to Communist China. And China helps the cartels manufacture fentanyl which they trade to junkies for copper.<br /><br />From the Chinese Communist perspective, it’s a beautiful virtuous cycle.<br /><br />The zombies they create steal our copper, send it to them and they resell it to us. The more we go ‘green’, the more copper we need, and the more China makes money by selling us ‘green’. And the more Americans it can turn into fentanyl zombies to steal it back to China.<br /><br />Green crime does pay: at least for thieves, Communists and environmentalists.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a> is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" target="_blank">Front Page Magazine</a>.</span></i></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Click <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" target="_blank">here to subscribe</a> to my articles. And <a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" target="_blank">click here to support my work with a donation</a>.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Thank you for reading.</i></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div>Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-42953925850035387922024-02-22T03:04:00.001-05:002024-02-22T03:04:05.803-05:00Is Biden Really the 14th Greatest President in American History?<span style="font-size: large;">The 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey has officially announced its results.<br /><br />And the survey from the American Political Science Association says that Obama is greater than Eisenhower and JFK, that Bill Clinton was greater than John Adams and Biden is greater than Reagan (not to mention Ulysses S. Grant and James Monroe of the Monroe Doctrine).<br /><br />Is Biden really the 14th greatest president in American history? Obviously not. But these same “political science experts” also ranked Obama as the 7th greatest president, Bill Clinton as the 12th greatest president and Carter near the upper middle as the 22nd greatest president.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPf3eTmvFljMru_u1k1HTFS-he7T1mDFTU_jj7Hu3ZvN31F0AruZZibMxBN8cmGjIGparc5SsIVPz3rQgD3eajIWN6J-bQO_ptGGmqcdWOf-Y_QPONy9D4ph4DEpu4puB31Q_FKbDvZxaU4XlcN-LQEKdvykWNFxm8Ky8-PSFJvIbhOjse0ofXFg/s776/biden%20champagne%20toast%20frame.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="776" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPf3eTmvFljMru_u1k1HTFS-he7T1mDFTU_jj7Hu3ZvN31F0AruZZibMxBN8cmGjIGparc5SsIVPz3rQgD3eajIWN6J-bQO_ptGGmqcdWOf-Y_QPONy9D4ph4DEpu4puB31Q_FKbDvZxaU4XlcN-LQEKdvykWNFxm8Ky8-PSFJvIbhOjse0ofXFg/s320/biden%20champagne%20toast%20frame.png" width="320" /></a></div>The Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey reflects the partisan hijacking of American history within academia. The top level of the rankings have been stacked with contemporary Democrats with FDR in 2nd place, Truman in 6th (just behind Thomas Jefferson), Obama in 7th, LBJ in 9th, JFK in 10th, Bill Clinton in 12th, Biden in 14th place and Woodrow Wilson in 15th.<br /><br />If you believe academia, every single White House Democrat in the last hundred plus years, except Carter, ranks among the top 15 presidents in American history. What are the odds?<br /><br />Only Clinton, who was impeached, Carter, who was a widely hated one-term president, and Biden, who is as unpopular as Carter, failed to crack the top 10.<br /><br />This isn’t history, it’s revisionist history so shameless that it would make a Communist blush.<br /><br />It is also no coincidence that no 20th century Republican who remained in his party cracks the top 10 except Eisenhower, that even Reagan ranks below Biden at 16th, George Bush I falls to 19th, Ford to 27th, slightly above Martin Van Buren, a corrupt and despised Tammany Hall leader (and one of the fathers of the Democratic Party), George Bush II is down in 32nd place, Nixon at 35th and Trump at 45th. Of the pre-New Deal Republicans, Coolidge is at 34th, Harding at 40th, and Hoover at 36th. In these same rankings, Biden is in 16th place.<br /><br />The rankings represent an attempt at overruling the consensus of the age. Truman was widely unpopular, yet is named the 6th greatest president for little more than remaining at the wheel during the end of WWII, then presiding over the loss of China and near disaster in Korea, while Eisenhower, who was far more popular, takes 8th place after Obama. LBJ, who left office rejected by his party and the country, after disasters on every front, is ranked in 9th place.<br /><br />But as wrongheaded as those rankings may be, at least Truman and LBJ presided over crucial moments in history and made momentous decisions. One can point to some of their accomplishments, but what did Obama accomplish to honor him as the 7th greatest president?<br /><br />That is besides the same thing that led to him receiving a Nobel Peace Prize and a Grammy.<br /><br />And what exactly entitles Bill Clinton to the 12th spot ahead of John Adams, Reagan, Grant, Monroe, Andrew Jackson and other genuinely pivotal figures? Did he fight for America’s independence, defeat Russia, or rebuild the nation after a civil war?<br /><br />What is Bill Clinton even remembered for except a sex scandal (and assorted financial ones)?<br /><br />It is bad enough that partisan historians are obsessed with pushing FDR to the top until he replaces Lincoln and, in the current survey, has already displaced George Washington, but they won’t stop until Bill Clinton’s red face is on Mount Rushmore only because of the D after his name.<br /><br />And there’s Joe Biden, currently outranking Woodrow Wilson who, for all his flaws, presided over the country during WWI and, apart from a brief period when he was in a coma and his wife made the actual decisions, was conscious and able to communicate throughout his presidency.<br /><br />It’s not just that leftists are bent on tearing down every historical figure, they’re equally determined to replace them with not only radicals, but corrupt and worthless mediocrities.<br /><br />If William Henry Harrison, who died 31 days after his inauguration due to a bout of especially vigorous handshaking, is to be ranked down at number 41 on account of being incommunicado for most of it, what does that say about Biden? Biden could have only improved on his time in office if he were wholly unable to communicate, instead of only partially able, thereby preventing him from the folly of overseeing multiple economic, political and foreign policy disasters.<br /><br />But then we must ask ourselves, what is greatness?<br /><br />The revisionism started with a New Deal rewrite in which all of history began with FDR. Every Republican after Lincoln and Grant was ridiculed and written out of history with an exception made for Teddy Roosevelt whose splinter campaign was deemed to be progressive. Then when the Eisenhower era arrived, the ‘eggheads’ stewed and then with the arrival of JFK, began rewriting history once again.<br /><br />After the chaos of the JFK and RFK assassinations, and then the frustrating rise of Nixon, the euphoria of his downfall, and the even more frustrating ascension of Reagan, it took some time to reboot history yet again into the form we are seeing again in the latest version of the Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey. The survey has come a long way since the Schlesinger presidential rankings. and it requires a new definition of greatness.<br /><br />What makes Bill Clinton, Barack Hussein Obama or Joe Biden great? Nothing outward. A conclave of experts assembled to explain their greatness can only spew gibberish. Both Clinton and Obama briefly touched off a spurt of media erotomania, but the spell quickly passed. And no one even fainted at Biden’s basement campaign rallies or believed that he loved them.<br /><br />But in the New Deal revisionist history, greatness does not come from presiding over historic events, but in pursuing the leftist program of fundamentally transforming America. So while Biden may not make hearts flutter, like JFK, Obama and Clinton, he’s following the same plan.<br /><br />Somewhere along the way the definition of greatness changed from making America great to making the Left great. It’s a greatness that is equally accessible to sleazy crooks, anti-colonialist hucksters and a fossilized D.C. hack who barely knows where he is half the time.<br /><br />Sit down, James Madison (no. 11) and get out of Bill Clinton’s way. Learn your place John Adams (no. 13) and let Biden come on up front. We no longer measure the greatness of presidents by their character and their accomplishments, but by their destructiveness.<br /><br />The greatest of presidents are now those who have done the most to destroy America.</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a> is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" target="_blank">Front Page Magazine</a>.</span></i></p><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Click <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" target="_blank">here to subscribe</a> to my articles. And <a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" target="_blank">click here to support my work with a donation</a>.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Thank you for reading.</i></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div>Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-78036354888778992492024-02-21T03:23:00.004-05:002024-02-21T12:25:48.081-05:00Bidenomics is Great. If You’re an Illegal Alien<span style="font-size: large;">Earlier this month, I broke down the jobs report that was hyped as evidence that Bidenomics was working and found that at least 1 in 5 jobs being created were <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/1-out-5-new-jobs-in-bidens-booming-economy-are-government-jobs/">actually government jobs</a>.<br /><br />Worse still, 1 in 10 jobs added in January came from “employment in social assistance”. What was driving this sudden boom in welfare jobs? The real boom was happening on the border. Cities are being flooded with masses of migrants who need social workers to care for them.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8W0NsKfiUQS_GDsgS6c7iJtxYgS-sAwLnftEW6IYunQ-jpXkZ-Q4FuIb-yIP_i2BV1gXa2nLqP05OqUxNTm0D_tIndTwIH3R2dQK_E-e6lF7cvQ1cNkLrMQ0K3aM52mX7EUaEEYJOoP22VmsmlTDr5QYNTKJYPqZ4CvAwiUd09z-MUfoTzvbc8Q/s512/biden%20border%20money%20dle.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8W0NsKfiUQS_GDsgS6c7iJtxYgS-sAwLnftEW6IYunQ-jpXkZ-Q4FuIb-yIP_i2BV1gXa2nLqP05OqUxNTm0D_tIndTwIH3R2dQK_E-e6lF7cvQ1cNkLrMQ0K3aM52mX7EUaEEYJOoP22VmsmlTDr5QYNTKJYPqZ4CvAwiUd09z-MUfoTzvbc8Q/s320/biden%20border%20money%20dle.png" width="320" /></a></div>New York City is <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/nyc-budget-cuts-impacting-public-125902169.html">cutting school lunches</a> for kids while Denver is<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-ie/money/other/denver-slashes-5m-from-its-parks-and-rec-budget-as-it-prepares-to-spend-180-million-to-shelter-migrants-in-2024/ar-BB1i5JRl?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds"> slashing funding</a> for parks to be able to care for migrants. Some of the job growth in Bidenomics consists of the country, and states and cities going deeper into debt to provide more benefits for the illegal alien invaders.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>But the “job growth” in Bidenomics still posed a puzzle that confused the Wall Street Journal which wondered why the unemployment rate is <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/1-out-5-new-jobs-in-bidens-booming-economy-are-government-jobs/">now actually higher</a> than it was a year ago and the labor force participation rate is only up 0.1%. If there really was a booming job market, the unemployment rate should have dropped sharply and the labor participation rate should be up.<br /><br />So where did the supposed millions of jobs that Biden is bragging about come from?<br /><br />A report from the Center for Immigration Studies however shows that the job growth is<a href="https://cis.org/Report/Employment-Situation-Immigrants-and-USborn-Fourth-Quarter-2023"> mostly happening</a> among immigrants while the number of Americans in the workforce has actually declined since before the pandemic. The report found that, “there were still 183,000 fewer U.S.-born Americans working in the fourth quarter of 2023 than in the fourth quarter of 2019, before Covid. The number of immigrants (legal and illegal) working is up 2.9 million over 2019.”<br /><br />Steven Camarota of CIS <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/02/13/opinion/job-gains-are-going-to-immigrants-and-keeping-young-us-born-men-out-of-the-workforce/">speculates</a> that, “half the net increase in jobs went to illegal immigrants.”<br /><br />Some of this may be attributable to the corporate embrace of DEI. An <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/race-in-america/jobs-major-corporations-people-of-color/">EEOC report</a> found that 94% of the S&P 100 jobs in 2021 went to minorities. The major corporations <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-black-lives-matter-equal-opportunity-corporate-diversity/">hired only</a> 20,524 white workers and 302,570 minorities. White people make up 57% of the country, but got only 6% of the jobs. While white workers were less likely to be hired, they were far more likely to be fired. Of the jobs lost among the country’s top companies, 68.5% were held by white workers, 16.5% by black workers, 9.7% by Hispanic workers and 2.3% by Asian workers.<br /><br />If the numbers showed a pattern of exclusion so severe toward any other group than white people, there would be civil rights investigations and lawsuits being launched to end this kind of systemic discrimination. But while much of this shift was attributed to BLM, that corporate DEI wokeness may be misleading because<a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/race-in-america/jobs-major-corporations-people-of-color/"> the EEOC breakdown</a> showed that 40% of the new jobs in 2021 went to Hispanic workers while only 23% went to black workers.<br /><br />The Hispanic unemployment rate fell from over 18% during the pandemic to less than 5% now and the Hispanic labor force participation rate is <a href="https://www.bls.gov/blog/2023/expanded-data-for-detailed-hispanic-or-latino-groups-now-available.htm">higher than</a> the national average. The highest participation rate is for Salvadorans who make up a sizable percentage of the border migrants.<br /><br />The Hispanic employment boom is tilted toward Central America rather than the general Latino sphere. Non-migrant Hispanics, like Puerto Ricans, have a fairly low labor force participation rate while Hispanics from migrant nations have a much higher one. They’re driving job growth.<br /><br />What does that look like?<br /><br />Migrants, including children, are working at jobs all over the country. <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/ben-jerrys-boycotted-israel-while-using-child-labor/">Some companies</a> were more blatant than others about their use of migrant child labor to do all of their dirty work.<br /><br />“If migrant children needed to work full time, it was preferable for them to have jobs at a well-monitored workplace,” Cheryl Pinto of Ben & Jerry’s argued.<br /><br />Migrant children have had their hands <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/ben-jerrys-boycotted-israel-while-using-child-labor/">crushed in milking machines</a> or <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/migrant-child-labor-takes-a-16-year-olds-life/">mangled to death </a>in poultry plants. They routinely secure jobs using bought, borrowed or stolen IDs from Americans.<br /><br />Behind Bidenomics are illegal alien kids working in Dickensian conditions in poultry plants, milking facilities and sawmills and providing the inflated job growth that looks good on paper.<br /><br />Since many of the illegal alien arrivals were never employed in America, there is the illusion of job growth, but the unemployment rate and the labor force participation rate don’t improve.<br /><br />The job growth under Bidenomics isn’t going to Americans.<br /><br />Open borders is not just a strategy for demographically transforming America, it’s also at the core of Bidenonomics. Even as cities and states groan under the mass of invaders, corporations get plenty of cheap labor allowing them to deliver big numbers for Wall Street. The stock market ticks on even as American families are being wiped out by high prices and economic decline.<br /><br />Bidenomics is pretty good if you’re an illegal alien or if you’re in a position to profit from them, but catastrophically bad for everyone else. It’s also not sustainable. While surveys and studies have been rolled out from governmental organizations and think tanks arguing that immigrants are driving economic growth, the cost to taxpayers is much greater than any of the benefits.<br /><br />The only long term economic growth provided by open borders is for the welfare state which also appears to have accounted for 1 in 10 new jobs in January. But how many social workers can we employ to cater to a cheap labor force while taxpayers go bankrupt to pay for it?<br /><br />In Maine alone, each migrant <a href="https://www.themainewire.com/2024/02/maine-republican-lawmakers-reveal-alarming-cost-of-taxpayer-funded-housing-welfare-for-migrants/">cost $56,000</a> just to house. New York City spent $1.45 billion on migrants, Chicago spent $361 million, Denver spent $180 million, and it’s getting worse.<br /><br />American cities are going bankrupt and cutting services to pay for those ‘Bidenomics’ jobs.<br /><br />Bidenomics means American children are going hungry in schools, it means Americans losing their jobs to illegal aliens and it means an endless spiral of government spending on illegal aliens driving inflation to higher levels so that Americans can’t even afford to buy food.<br /><br />And then the media wonders why Americans hate Bidenomics.</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a> is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" target="_blank">Front Page Magazine</a>.</span></i></p><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Click <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" target="_blank">here to subscribe</a> to my articles. And <a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" target="_blank">click here to support my work with a donation</a>.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Thank you for reading.</i></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div>Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-78509520045228225492024-02-19T22:33:00.008-05:002024-02-19T22:44:15.087-05:00Biden's Firing of Attorney General Opens Up Obstruction of Justice Case<span style="font-size: large;">The Mueller report suggested that former President Trump could be charged with obstruction of justice because of his decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey and alleged pressure on Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to fire Mueller. Now a report has emerged that Biden is planning to fire Attorney General Merrick Garland over special counsel investigations.<br /><br />While the media made much of the obstruction of justice allegations at the time, it’s shown little interest in its own reporting which implicated Biden in multiple instances of obstruction of justice.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7vtB4zTPVkt0X2Y086LtPjughU4w2QImyj8ZdAFHAvf-AFGpeQLRhA6sIBMCtxKtwjv3Nptq_oqDNLbP3wrlQgIHoqRFbzwbj5o0_64ftQtPbjR6OpbRtBBm_EMaQY94kf-L7BelY7IUuMGqVjZzIFWh_I7G8irBTC3fHMcKS2PFUz5H7PSniYw/s908/garland%20frame2b.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="908" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7vtB4zTPVkt0X2Y086LtPjughU4w2QImyj8ZdAFHAvf-AFGpeQLRhA6sIBMCtxKtwjv3Nptq_oqDNLbP3wrlQgIHoqRFbzwbj5o0_64ftQtPbjR6OpbRtBBm_EMaQY94kf-L7BelY7IUuMGqVjZzIFWh_I7G8irBTC3fHMcKS2PFUz5H7PSniYw/s320/garland%20frame2b.png" width="320" /></a></div>A recent Politico report <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/09/white-house-frustration-with-garland-grows-00140813">described</a> Biden complaining that Attorney General Merrick Garland did not stop Special Counsel Hur from editing out mentions of his diminished mental capacity in his report, that Garland should not have allowed a special counsel to look into his son’s misconduct and finally that Garland had failed to schedule a trial of former President Trump quickly enough.<br /><br />As a result, Politico reported that Biden would oust Garland if he gets a second term.<br /><br />Not only was Biden interfering with supposedly independent investigations of himself and his son, but even into criminal proceedings aimed at his likely opponent in the presidential race. The interference has become crude and overt enough that it now includes media leaks threatening the job of his attorney general for not sufficiently protecting him from investigations.<br /><br />And for not doing enough to schedule his presidential opponent’s trial before the election.<br /><br />Troublingly, the report describes Biden complaining in “recent weeks” that Garland took too long to move on trying Trump. And in mid-January, Garland unexpectedly told CNN that “the cases were brought last year, the prosecutor has urged speeding trials with, with which I agree, and it’s now in the hands of the judicial system, not in our hands.”<br /><br />It appears now that the attorney general was not just talking to CNN, but to President Biden.<br /><br />If the Politico report is true, this is deeply corrupt behavior that meets the standard for impeachment. A pattern of interfering in his own investigations is obstruction of justice, but interfering to speed up a criminal case against his opponent so that a trial takes place before an upcoming election is abuse of power. Both are extremely impeachment worthy charges.<br /><br />Impeachment proceedings moved forward against former President Nixon over obstruction of justice charges related to the coverup of Watergate. Former President Bill Clinton actually was impeached on obstruction of justice grounds and finally former President Trump was impeached for the first time on obstruction of justice charges. The precedents point to impeaching Biden.<br /><br />These reports come after multiple denials by the White House, by Attorney General Garland and other administration figures that there was any political interference in the investigations.<br /><br />“Since he took office and consistent with his campaign promise that he would restore the independence of the Justice Department when it comes to decision-making in criminal investigations, President Biden has made clear that this matter would be handled independently by the Justice Department, under the leadership of a U.S. Attorney appointed by former President Trump, free from any political interference by the White House. He has upheld that commitment.” the Biden administration claimed after whistleblowers described efforts by the Department of Justice to sabotage their investigation into Hunter Biden.<br /><br />The independence has been exposed as a sham and the documented interference with the Hunter Biden investigation could have come from the Justice Department under pressure from the Attorney General or other administration figures because Joe Biden was protecting his son.<br /><br />House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan had <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-jordan-investigate-whether-president-biden-sought-to-obstruct-his-sons-cooperation-with-the-houses-impeachment-inquiry/">already announced</a> an obstruction of justice investigation into Biden over allegations that he had interfered in the Hunter Biden investigation and the revelations in the Politico article that Biden had sought to pressure not just one investigation but three and to do so at the level of the attorney general’s office are likely to provide more fuel for an obstruction of justice case.<br /><br />“We are facing obstruction like has never been demonstrated in the history of congressional investigations,” Rep. Comer had argued.<br /><br />According to the Politico report, anger at Special Counsel Hur’s report by “Biden and his closest advisers” led them to “put part of the blame on Garland, who they say should have demanded edits to Hur’s report.” While Attorney General Garland could have tried to edit or suppress the report, Congress would have demanded unredacted copies and the leaked copies would have been an even bigger scandal. Garland appears to have understood this even when Biden did not.<br /><br />Biden also charged that Garland should not have “empowered a special counsel to look into his son” claiming that “the stress could send Hunter Biden spiraling back into addiction.”<br /><br />Most damagingly, Biden recently took to grumbling “to aides and advisers that had Garland moved sooner in his investigation into former President Donald Trump’s election interference, a trial may already be underway or even have concluded” apparently out of concern that the trial might not take place before the presidential election for maximum political advantage.<br /><br />As a result, “most of the president’s senior advisers do not believe that the attorney general would remain in his post for a possible second term.”<br /><br />Clearly the Biden team expects more legal troubles or assaults in a possible second term and believes that Attorney General Garland is spending too much time protecting himself from the fallout and not doing enough of their dirty work. That does not bode well for the next four years.<br /><br />While there are no indications that Biden has directly pressured Garland, the constant mentions of the subjects to top aides and advisors, followed by media leaks, are meant to have the same effect while providing plausible deniability. They also convey a message to anyone who wants to be Garland’s possible successor of the expectations of the office that he or she hopes to assume.<br /><br />When the president expresses his unhappiness to aides, they are expected to act on it. And the question is, beyond media leaks, what actions did they take to pressure Garland on the three investigations? That is the question on which Biden’s impeachment may depend.<br /><br />Despite efforts to portray Biden as a disinterested party who was watching the investigations unfold without interfering with them, the Politico report shows that he was highly invested in them, closely monitoring them and sending strong signals of what he wanted to see done with them. These are evidence of obstruction of justice and a severe abuse of power.<br /><br />And they cannot go unpunished.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a> is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" target="_blank">Front Page Magazine</a>.</span></i></p><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Click <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" target="_blank">here to subscribe</a> to my articles. And <a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" target="_blank">click here to support my work with a donation</a>.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Thank you for reading.</i></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div>Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2591772331667140942024-02-16T02:39:00.002-05:002024-02-16T02:40:56.452-05:00The Truth About the Jihad in Dearborn<i><span style="font-size: medium;">“We are on the road to a great victory, here in D.C., and there in Palestine.”</span></i><div><br />
<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEdJrSdJPK0HtKFSn-DKm-gcWySXBRc0VXMLMC71A-Gv09eaH2TQzDtHDXGWpzmnGEzm9PIv5M3jXJvjG7XqYIqmvFIeu-rbkAZGi9_zj3B9dmjoUxPk4aaANs7Mqir2AefXa7i8iwusxoJAnapa9zuj_Pf6-l-6jEwlxfp2IuqWpP92RR9K85RA/s1011/image_2024-02-15_233515171.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="661" data-original-width="1011" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEdJrSdJPK0HtKFSn-DKm-gcWySXBRc0VXMLMC71A-Gv09eaH2TQzDtHDXGWpzmnGEzm9PIv5M3jXJvjG7XqYIqmvFIeu-rbkAZGi9_zj3B9dmjoUxPk4aaANs7Mqir2AefXa7i8iwusxoJAnapa9zuj_Pf6-l-6jEwlxfp2IuqWpP92RR9K85RA/w640-h418/image_2024-02-15_233515171.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;">When the Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/welcome-to-dearborn-americas-jihad-capital-pro-hamas-michigan-counterterrorism-a99dba38">ran an op-ed </a>by a counterterrorism researcher exposing support for terrorism in Dearborn, MI, Biden didn’t condemn the hate, he condemned the op-ed.<br /><br />“Americans know that blaming a group of people based on the words of a small few is wrong. That’s exactly what can lead to Islamophobia and anti-Arab hate, and it shouldn’t happen to the residents of Dearborn,” Biden tweeted.<br /><br />The “small few” named in the op-ed included a pro-terrorist gathering attended by over 1,200 people (2% of the local Muslim population), the Dearborn’s Islamic Center of Detroit and the 120,000 square foot Islamic Center of America which can accommodate 2,500 Muslims and has been described as the largest mega mosque in the country. That’s far from a “small few.”<br /><br />After the Hamas attacks, the Detroit News promoted claims by the Islamic Center of Detroit that it had been forced to boost security because “people are scared”. A week earlier, Imam Imran Salha of the center had<a href="https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/65201/these-mosques-pray-for-the-annihilation-of-jews"> told a huge crowd</a> that Israel had put a “fire in our hearts that will burn that state”—Israel— “until its demise.”<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgenHyDYJgTIOoiY9dQnXNACC_oDNTpQ9mYfnaaqNE20tF78HZcPgp3wO0nas31BJkwvjdowp1vOgOeIewGTKwEG6DPGP56ItKc5Z6QxSOZjcMiB-Xoxw9sFOZR_m5deTLKBEGNYUNz6d4gdVWbS_zl27MggVKSnxtiu_GoPz6nEECPQbpD2sFFCA/s710/image_2024-02-15_233622962.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="389" data-original-width="710" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgenHyDYJgTIOoiY9dQnXNACC_oDNTpQ9mYfnaaqNE20tF78HZcPgp3wO0nas31BJkwvjdowp1vOgOeIewGTKwEG6DPGP56ItKc5Z6QxSOZjcMiB-Xoxw9sFOZR_m5deTLKBEGNYUNz6d4gdVWbS_zl27MggVKSnxtiu_GoPz6nEECPQbpD2sFFCA/s320/image_2024-02-15_233622962.png" width="320" /></a></div>Last year, Imam Salha had <a href="https://www.memri.org/tv/detroit-imam-warns-muslims-against-alliances-palestine-lgbtq-allah-eradicate-disgusting-zionist-regime">been recorded</a> on video disavowing non-Muslim and gay supporters. “If somebody loves Palestine, but they don’t worship Allah, then I don’t want your activism for Palestine,” and complained about those who “shake hands with people who endorse things like the LGBTQ principles.”<br /><br />Imam Salha may despise them, but Biden and Michigan Democrats, from Gov. Whitmer on down, will defend him and dismiss exposes like the one in the WSJ as “hateful”.<br /><br />Biden’s condemnation had been prompted by Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud who had claimed that the WSJ op-ed was “Islamophobic” and endangered Muslims. CNN and other media outlets uncritically repeated Mayor Hammoud’s claims that the op-ed was a threat.<br /><br />“In response to an Islamaphobic, Anti-Arab, and blatantly racist opinion piece published by the Wall Street Journal today, we have increased the presence of law enforcement throughout Dearborn,” Mayor Hammoud had claimed. “This is more than irresponsible journalism. Publishing such inflammatory writing puts our residents at increased risk for harm.”<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4t7cn7em4vMQzm2dyrdJQphNfDAba9_Gsg4IT8pg-QOV-aPe0oEljqP5-a7dcjeEcN0G5YdwnnAX7Y9ppyTybyW0hWOpnGV2vyOOoo5wF8VpgT96NFpzvBH6Qc77SFkWD6OTbQCK_TxY53LqhbsAc8LrPbWgFVVSbnfxHw89O7UsA0VnD3YprOQ/s828/hammoud%20frame1.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="828" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4t7cn7em4vMQzm2dyrdJQphNfDAba9_Gsg4IT8pg-QOV-aPe0oEljqP5-a7dcjeEcN0G5YdwnnAX7Y9ppyTybyW0hWOpnGV2vyOOoo5wF8VpgT96NFpzvBH6Qc77SFkWD6OTbQCK_TxY53LqhbsAc8LrPbWgFVVSbnfxHw89O7UsA0VnD3YprOQ/s320/hammoud%20frame1.png" width="320" /></a></div>What Mayor Hammoud did not mention was that he had spoken at an anti-Israel rally convened by the same pro-terrorist group which had been mentioned in the WSJ op-ed where participants condemned Biden and elected officials for supporting Israel after the Hamas attack.<br /><br />The rally had <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2023/10/10/dearborn-rally-calls-for-end-to-palestinian-occupation-as-war-rages/71130889007/">been organized</a> by New Generation for Palestine: a local anti-Israel group that has defended Hamas. Amer Zahr, the president of NGP, responded to Oct 7 by<a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2023/10/10/dearborn-rally-calls-for-end-to-palestinian-occupation-as-war-rages/71130889007/"> arguing</a> that, “Palestinians have a right to defend themselves from an occupation, and that’s what led to this.”<br /><br />NGP has used signage reading, “Thank You Yemen” at a time when America is at war with the Houthis and fighting to stop their attacks on civilian ships.<br /><br />At an NGP rally only days after the attack, Zahr had argued that Oct 7 was<a href="https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/emotional-passionate-pro-palestine-rally-draws-hundreds-in-dearborn"> not an </a>unprovoked attack. He had previously<a href="https://canarymission.org/professor/Amer_Zahr"> stated</a>, “we say very proudly, that we stand with every resistance against Israel and every resistance against the occupation … whether it’s called Hamas, whether it’s called Hezbollah.”<br /><br />Linda Sarsour, who had long been accused of supporting terrorists, claimed <a href="https://www.memri.org/reports/dearborn-michigan-mayor-abdullah-hammoud-pro-palestinian-rally-city-resistance-biden-must">at the rally </a>at which Mayor Hammoud spoke that, “Israel already lost the war” against Hamas, while the co-master of ceremonies called for destroying Israel.<br /><br />The “small few” in Dearborn includes the mayor of the city as well as Sarsour: a prominent Muslim political figure, who had been named as one of Obama’s ‘Champions of Change’.<br /><br />The WSJ op-ed’s title, “Welcome to Dearborn, America’s Jihad Capital” had come in for criticism by Hammoud, Michigan politicians, including Rep. Debbie Dingell as well as President Biden..<br /><br />MEMRI had<a href="https://www.memri.org/tv/deraborn-michigan-palestine-rally-adam-abusalah-biden-cancer-mayor-abdullah-hammoud-resistance"> posted a video</a> of the NGP rally at which Mayor Hammoud called Dearborn “the city of resistance”. That’s a euphemism often used to describe Hamas terrorism.<br /><br />This was not the first time that Hammoud had appeared at an NGP event praising terrorism.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5zKHURRzgrObfKiDkh9yjkGaePV4mIeerzrivWWuW1z-sj5p8H5CQPII_Os78fsMJZ4Fi-_WqVqGQAIQw1MyQYQUZ1xoFNwzaXJf0kEe9x3v_J7DfdF-v81yDe8AS5MaAbfqvkQkMnAiZnDkhH8d_qTFDmLlck87YEJ8IxlLjKM-LnJw4Eebwtg/s720/siblani%20frame1.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="720" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5zKHURRzgrObfKiDkh9yjkGaePV4mIeerzrivWWuW1z-sj5p8H5CQPII_Os78fsMJZ4Fi-_WqVqGQAIQw1MyQYQUZ1xoFNwzaXJf0kEe9x3v_J7DfdF-v81yDe8AS5MaAbfqvkQkMnAiZnDkhH8d_qTFDmLlck87YEJ8IxlLjKM-LnJw4Eebwtg/s320/siblani%20frame1.png" width="320" /></a></div>In 2022, Mayor Hammoud spoke at <a href="https://www.jpost.com/bds-threat/article-707841">an NGP Dearborn rally </a>at which Osama Siblani, the publisher of Arab American News, <a href="https://www.rjchq.org/rjc_e_newsletter_20220526">declared</a>, “We are the Arabs that are going to lift Palestinians all the way to victory. Whether we are in Michigan, and whether we are in Jenin. Believe me. Everyone should fight within his means. They will fight with stones. Others will fight with guns. Others will fight with planes, drones. And others will fight with rockets. And others will fight in their voice, and the others will fight with their hands and say free, free Palestine!”<br /><br />Biden responded by sending a campaign official<a href="https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-campaign-chief-courts-pro-hamas-activist-to-boost-muslim-support/"> to meet with Osama </a>and court his support.<br /><br />Mayor Abdullah Hammoud claimed that describing support for terrorism in Dearborn was “racist”, “anti-Arab” and “Islamophobic” while he took part in rallies at which there were calls for violence and support for terrorism by figures who had supported terrorists for decades.<br /><br />It’s not that the media doesn’t know about what’s going on, it’s that it will no longer discuss it.<br /><br />“Mr. Bush believes Hezbollah, Hamas and other Palestinian factions are terrorists, but we believe they are freedom fighters,” Osama Siblani <a href="https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60172/michigan-terror-supporters-seek-to-influence-govt">had told </a>the Washington Post.<br /><br />The Chicago Tribune <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/2006/07/27/theyre-100-american-and-pro-hezbollah/">had quoted</a> Osama boasting, “If the FBI wants to come after those who support the resistance done by Hezbollah, then they better bring a fleet of buses. I for one would be willing to go to jail.”<br /><br />At the November rally where Hammoud spoke, Osama had bragged, “We are on the road to a great victory, here in D.C., and there in Palestine.”<br /><br />Mayor Abdullah Hussein Hammoud, the son of Lebanese immigrants, chose to take part in a rally with Osama and then threaten the Wall Street Journal for reporting on the support for terrorism in Dearborn while playing the victim.<br /><br />Quite a few of the politicians condemning the WSJ for exposing Dearborn know better.<br /><br />Gov. Gretchen Whitmer had claimed that the WSJ op-ed was “incredibly cruel and ignorant and a total misrepresentation of an important city full of a lot of beautiful people.”<br /><br />Gov. Whitmer’s old family friend is Abed Hammoud: a Lebanese immigrant and former U.S. attorney who once ran for mayor in Dearborn, and whose son Mustapha is a city councilman.<br /><br />Abed Hammoud, <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2006-07-27-0607270148-story.html">had headed the</a> Congress of Arab American Organizations alongside Osama Siblani and<a href="https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2006/05/lebanese-americans-publicly-support.html"> CAAO rallies</a> included<a href="https://dearbornunderground.blogspot.com/search?q=hammoud"> support for Hezbollah</a>. He had complained that a government crackdown on Hezbollah was “smearing the whole community”.<br /><br />“Now people are scared to even say `I want Hezbollah to defend Lebanon,'” he had objected.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Tgvbc5bVYZgI2gJ4JWK9PacgHw60Y1zyRzmrIzNcXasmK2IfrLXHnf_X76KzZKIei_5JppuD4r-7-9QFr3os-6L7T6ruIhgS1KhYqN5mZbYsniv3bdxI2JNlNQFHuW6956YqJs7UJ2LZCmdoxtD-E0ihSAhJGhhA7e1zAde38Bs6mB6AxbhjpA/s318/image_2024-02-15_233913440.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="186" data-original-width="318" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Tgvbc5bVYZgI2gJ4JWK9PacgHw60Y1zyRzmrIzNcXasmK2IfrLXHnf_X76KzZKIei_5JppuD4r-7-9QFr3os-6L7T6ruIhgS1KhYqN5mZbYsniv3bdxI2JNlNQFHuW6956YqJs7UJ2LZCmdoxtD-E0ihSAhJGhhA7e1zAde38Bs6mB6AxbhjpA/s1600/image_2024-02-15_233913440.png" width="318" /></a></div>Abed Hammoud was listed as <a href="https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2023/04/27/alleged-hezbollah-financier-mohammad-bazzi-arraigned-in-brooklyn-federal-court/">the lawyer for</a> Hezbollah financier Mohammad Bazzi: <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/honorary-consuls-mohammad-ibrahim-bazzi-terrorism">a</a> “specially designated global terrorist” who has been described as “a player for senior Hezbollah operatives and senior Iranian leadership”. These are Gov. Whitmer’s beautiful people.<br /><br />Despite Hammoud being quoted on the record about Islamic terrorists, Obama chose to appoint Gov. Whitmer’s family friend as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.<br /><br />There are no shortage of beautiful Islamic terrorist cases that have come out of Dearborn, MI.<br /><br />11 Muslim men out of Dearborn had been among those charged in Operation Smokescreen for smuggling cigarettes to benefit Hezbollah under orders from Mohamad Youssef Hammoud, allegedly a Hezbollah leader in America, operating out of Charlotte, who was released 7 years too early.<a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/case/291/us-v-assi"> Fawza Mustapha Assi</a> of Dearborn was caught smuggling night-vision goggles and other equipment to Hezbollah and sentenced to ten years in prison. <a href="https://www.google.com/url?client=internal-element-cse&cx=007811315508120065319:59zy8iq-o_8&q=https://www.investigativeproject.org/case/803/us-v-kourani-et-ano&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjM_arQgpWEAxW7IEQIHX6uATsQFnoECAcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw38rxOlrlZ0M8-hrYv17hvl">Samer El-Debek</a> of Dearborn was accused of training with Hezbollah and trying to “assess the vulnerabilities of the Panama Canal.” Khalil Abu-Rayyan of Dearborn promoted ISIS and talked about shooting up a Detroit church and stated that it was his “dream” to carry out a beheading. Ibraheem Izzy Musaibli of Dearborn was<a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-edmi/pr/michigan-man-sentenced-prison-providing-material-support-terrorist-organization"> sentenced</a> in 2023 to 14 years in prison for being an ISIS Jihadist.<br /><br />Those are only 15 examples out of many more that have come out of America’s Jihad Capital.<br /><br />But the political support for Islamic terrorism in Dearborn is what really makes it such a national security threat. Much as Hamas supporters cry “genocide” when there are consequences for their terrorism, exposes of terrorism support in Dearborn are met with cries of “Islamophobia”.<br /><br />Mayor Abdullah Hammoud claims that Gaza is suffering from a “U.S. government-backed genocide” and that Muslims in Dearborn are terrorized by a WSJ op-ed exposing terrorism.<br /><br />What was Mayor Hammoud’s response to the Hamas mass murder of Israeli and American civilians? Beyond his attendance at a pro-terrorist rally, he posted a message on social media on Oct 7 in which he did not condemn Hamas, but he did condemn Israel, and claimed that, “Israel’s decades of illegal military occupation and imprisonment of Gaza make peace impossible and tragic violence inevitable .Israel has trapped millions of Palestinians in Gaza in what is recognized by the international community as the world’s largest open-air prison. Failure to recognize this context is the inability to comprehend what is unfolding overseas.”<br /><br />The context was an attempt to place the blame for the Hamas kidnappings and massacres of Israeli civilians including little children on the victims of Islamic terror rather than the terrorists.<br /><br />Mayor Hammoud then threw in, “Hypocrisy is sending billions of tax-payer dollars to Ukrainians fighting for their homeland and championing their armed struggle as ‘resistance,’ while condemning even peaceful forms of Palestinian resistance, such as boycotts, as illegitimate.”<br /><br />This is why Hammoud is one of the Islamist politicians featured in the <a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/election-jihad-islamist-political-machines-are-transforming-states-and-threatening-america-and-israel">David Horowitz Freedom Center’s ‘Election Jihad’ report</a> which describes how Islamist politicians are crawling into political offices across Michigan, not just in Dearborn, but around the country.<br /><br />The ‘Election Jihad’ is real and it threatens America’s national security and its future. If you doubt that, just look at Dearborn, Michigan.<br /><br />251 people from Dearborn fighting for America in WWII.<br /><br />These days Dearborn produces the likes of Ibraheem Musaibli who traveled to Syria, joined ISIS and fought for the terrorist group only to be turned over to the United States and sent to prison for only 5 years. He’ll be out and roaming the streets of America’s Jihad Capital by 2028.<br /><br /></span><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a> is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" target="_blank">Front Page Magazine</a>.</span></i></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Click <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" target="_blank">here to subscribe</a> to my articles. And <a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" target="_blank">click here to support my work with a donation</a>.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Thank you for reading.</i></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div>Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-53194606982511153032024-02-14T15:43:00.002-05:002024-02-14T15:43:48.440-05:00How the Kennedy Family Caused Today’s Immigration CrisisAnd brought Obama's father to America.<div><br /></div><div><br />
<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinLXc9xKLXGtLj5fD-jq8RZcJjPjxSzxjiUagaPpUoa_mX-y5YLSKabdqAHrHZOh5hPer3Pv-Wngr1mzn5eKKx5fCmeYnZeZhTYxkIog0ZgD5VmrXAAodKigXNFnbS62qTWeqxYBaNyTYy4mZNT_-yTZrOlOKsmusc2Sr37N8YLaSWYovbFCv5tg/s1866/immigration%20signing%20erase.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1228" data-original-width="1866" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinLXc9xKLXGtLj5fD-jq8RZcJjPjxSzxjiUagaPpUoa_mX-y5YLSKabdqAHrHZOh5hPer3Pv-Wngr1mzn5eKKx5fCmeYnZeZhTYxkIog0ZgD5VmrXAAodKigXNFnbS62qTWeqxYBaNyTYy4mZNT_-yTZrOlOKsmusc2Sr37N8YLaSWYovbFCv5tg/w640-h422/immigration%20signing%20erase.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div>When LBJ signed the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act into law, JFK had been dead for two years, but it, more than the Cuban missile crisis or the race to the moon, was his real legacy which still impacts us today when there are no more Americans on the moon or nukes in Cuba.</div><br />At the signing, LBJ paid tribute to “the vision of the late beloved President John Fitzgerald Kennedy”. Little did the 36th president know that the 44th president, born to a radical Kenyan student, was already growing up in this country due to JFK’s personal intervention during his 1960 presidential campaign.<br /><br />“This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill,” President Johnson argued. “It does not affect the lives of millions. It will not reshape the structure of our daily lives… Yet it is still one of the most important acts of this Congress and of this administration.” Only the last was true.<br /><br />It affected not only millions, but tens of millions, and it reshaped our lives and our country.<br /><br />At the signing ceremony, LBJ was flanked by the newly minted Senator Ted Kennedy and a grinning RFK to cement the bill which ended national quotas for immigrants as the Kennedy legacy. The bill would be described as Senator Ted Kennedy’s “first legislative victory” <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8416650">which</a> “helped change the face of the country” and “fashioned the modern day immigration system.”<br /><br />“The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs,” Senator Ted Kennedy had promised in the Senate. All of these promises proved to be false.<br /><br />The 1965 bill was a sequel to a battle that Rep. John F. Kennedy had narrowly lost to Senator Richard Nixon over the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. President Truman had vetoed the 1952 bill because it imposed national restrictions on immigration, favoring Western European immigrants and drastically limiting immigration from the rest of the world.<br /><br />Kennedy had upheld Truman’s veto in the House but Nixon cast a tie-breaking vote and the 1952 bill became law.<br /><br />While Nixon won the battle, Kennedy won the war. In 1958, Kennedy <a href="https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.130942/2015.130942.A-Nation-Of-Immigrants_djvu.txt">published</a> “A Nation of Immigrants” which argued that restricting immigration by national origin “violated the spirit expressed in the Declaration of Independence that ‘all men are created equal’”.He was preparing to relaunch it in 1963 for his big immigration push before his assassination.<br /><br />During the 1960 presidential campaign, the Kennedy team focused its outreach on immigrant groups restricted by the bill. The 1952 bill, also known as the McCarran–Walter Act had been partly the work of Senator Pat McCarran: a powerful Senate Democrat who had wanted to keep out Poles, Ukranians and other Eastern Europeans, Jews, Greeks and everyone he did not like.<br /><br />The Kennedy campaign turned to Eastern Europeans, who were prominent in Illinois, and Chinese-Americans, prominent in California, as part of its strategy to win the White House. And the strategy paid off with a narrow victory in Illinois that clinched the presidency. (Nixon narrowly won his native California, but by a far smaller margin than Eisenhower’s triumphant romp.)<br /><br />That made the 1960 election into the first true multicultural presidential campaign that changed the face of American politics. And by 1968, Nixon would be cutting his own “black power” ads.<br /><br />One of the more significant moments in the 1960 campaign took place at the Hyannis Inn Motel, just down the road from what is now the JFK Museum, when Kennedy met with a number of Ukrainian and Eastern European Democratic Party activists organized by Michigan Gov. Gerhard “Soapy” Williams, who headed the Democratic National Committee’s ‘Nationalities’ division to organize the support of different national groups (the term commonly used then to refer to immigrants from outside Western Europe) to rally support for the Democrats.<br /><br />(As President Kennedy’s Secretary for African Affairs, ‘Soapy’ would play a key role in pulling away U.S. support from Rhodesia and South Africa while championing “Africa for Africans”.)<br /><br />At the Hyannis Inn, Kennedy promised an end to national quotas and, almost as importantly, for “due process, right of appeal, and statutes of limitation” to “be extended to noncitizens” which would eventually turn immigration into the endless process of litigation that it now is.<br /><br />Senator Ted Kennedy would describe immigration as a “very central part of President Kennedy’s administration.” “President Kennedy elected in 1960, one of the first pieces he introduced in the Congress of the United States was reform of our immigration laws. I remember being on the Judiciary Committee after being elected in 1962, and my brother Bob coming up and testifying for the Immigration Reform Program,” he later recalled.<br /><br />Once in the White House, President John F. Kennedy could not immediately deliver on these promises, it would fall to LBJ’s dealmaking savvy and brute force politicking to do what the former pretty boy senator couldn’t and actually open up the immigration system to the world.<br /><br />But what JFK could do was play on national opposition to Communism to open up the doors to refugees, which he did, ushering in the 1962 Migration and Refugee Assistance Act, initially meant to provide refuge to Cubans and Eastern Europeans fleeing Communism to come here, but which would become a key element in a virtually endless system of asylum migration.<br /><br />Much as he had with the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, LBJ would once again do what JFK could not, by signing on to the UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees in 1968. This treaty is what <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/what-caravan-shows-we-have-do-protect-america-daniel-greenfield/">forces us to process </a>an asylum request by any migrant who walks up to the Mexican border. LBJ had promised the Senate that it would “not impinge adversely upon established practices under existing laws in the United States” and that “State laws are not superseded by the Convention or Protocol.” Those claims would also prove untrue.<br /><br />States and cities have been swamped by masses of migrants crossing the border by making asylum claims and they are barred by the federal government from keeping them out.<br /><br />A decade later, Senator Ted Kennedy would be hard at work codifying the UN treaty into immigration law with what would eventually become the Refugee Act of 1980. What had started out as an anti-Communist measure instead became a means of admitting Communists, Marxists, Islamists and an endless flood of migrants who could be persuaded to support them.<br /><br />Refugee admissions led directly to the current border crisis, but there was another shadow immigration policy that may have been equally devastating, if not more so, which was also initially justified as a means of fighting Communism, but became a means of importing it.<br /><br />The 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act, for all that it was denounced as racist and exclusionary, had actually increased immigration from Asia and had begun putting into place the student visa system that political elites wanted which would dramatically transform America.<br /><br />While JFK had signed the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act into law to increase the number of foreign students in 1961, Barack Obama Sr and Shyamala Gopalan, the mother of Kamala Harris, had both moved to America in 1959: using the student visas that the McCarran–Walter Act had brought into being to subsidize American universities with a flood of foreign students.<br /><br />When Donald J. Harris, Kamala’s father, arrived in 1963, it was likely as part of the growing number of foreign students benefiting from the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act.<br /><br />But when Sayyid Qutb, the Muslim Brotherhood leader and godfather of Islamic terrorism, fled Egypt to study in Colorado in 1949, and came away loathing everything about America and calling for war against it, he was able to do it because of the lobbying by the Institute of International Education (IIE) headed by key university and foreign policy leaders which used their elite access to vastly increase the number of foreign students coming to America.<br /><br />The IIE’s promotion of foreign students led not only to visits by Qutb and Obama Sr, but by a generation of radical Marxists and Islamists who soon set up operations in this country.<br /><br />The only way to understand what happened to America beginning on September 11 is to study the wave of Third World radicals who came to study at American universities and stayed, or, like Barack Obama Sr and Donald J Harris left their children behind here, or, like Qutb, learned enough to figure out how to best wage war against the United States of America.<br /><br />To understand why we have pro-Hamas riots in the streets of New York City, part of the answer begins with the arrival of Archibald Wickeramaraja Singham, a Sri Lankan Marxist to study in America. He became a powerful academic and his Maoist son, Neville Roy Singham, made a fortune, moved to Shanghai and <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/how-the-irs-allowed-china-nonprofits-to-buy-code-pink/">directs anti-war groups from China</a>. His story is far from unique.<br /><br />Edward Said, the academic godfather of terrorism, was sent to study at an elite boarding-school in Massachusetts before moving through Princeton and Harvard. While the IIE and the open door to foreign students was supposed to ‘Americanize’ Third World elites, those elites actually ended up radicalizing and even ‘Islamizing’ America. They have already produced one two-term president and one vice-president who could end up becoming a president in her own right.<br /><br />The IIE was primarily concerned with subsidizing Ivy League universities. And the foreign students they tended to attract were radical members of the elites in their own countries.<br /><br />The Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act was also known as the Fulbright–Hays Act of 1961 after Senator J. William Fulbright. Fulbright had pulled off nearly as great a coup under Truman with an act amending a bill dealing with surplus property left in Europe that allowed the State Department to use the sale of “surplus war properties” to fund foreign students to come to America also partly <a href="https://eca.state.gov/fulbright/about-fulbright/history/early-years">subsidized by</a> the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation.<br /><br />Senator Fulbright was to foreign students what Senator Ted Kennedy was to immigration. And the IIE took the lead in making sure that colleges took full advantage of the Fulbright system.<br /><br />JFK championed the Fulbright scholarships and the foreign students changing America.<br /><br />“Do you know that we brought more foreign students to the United States ten years ago than we do today?” Senator John K. Kennedy had complained on the campaign trail at NYU in 1960.<br /><br />Foreign students had been excluded from immigration quotas, but many did become immigrants, joining universities and firms as a new kind of intellectual cheap labor force. These men and women, engineers, doctors, bureaucrats, and academics, became the backbone of the Third World Marxist and Muslim Brotherhood presence that transformed America.<br /><br />The elites who had been restrictionist eugenicists at the turn of the century were now eager to open up to the world. The Cold War as it played out in world capitals was less a matter of nuclear buildup and defense drills (which the elites dismissed as nonsense) but of a global influence operation playing out across cultural, political and academic battlefields.,<br /><br />That led to everything from the CIA backing the colorful spatters of Jackson Pollock to “It’s a Wonderful Life” director Frank Capra being dispatched to India to report on Communist infiltration into Bollywood. Bringing foreign students to America was described as the ultimate influence operation. Moscow had the paltry Patrice Lumumba University while America had Harvard, Yale and Columbia, but the trouble with using the Ivy League to fight Communism was that universities were already leftist and the new students and future faculty even more so.<br /><br />America’s elites did not change the world, instead the world changed them.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM88R_tW4o9rRXkNlAXqkxx_QYuR2a1nak0H46Jqz_AgHlab3QD6eE9c6Ui9UAs_mx9u85QFWUkAY6XXFqfdX6lEX-9pKfoyHBoc0Haqsudy-Dck-Efil8cCpjKGJqTVPaCQt5JFbuuwtHP-NqnCzoIoWT4y4cLv-o-cgSARpzWF61Iixxn6gBLQ/s455/jfk%20mboya%20erase.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="455" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM88R_tW4o9rRXkNlAXqkxx_QYuR2a1nak0H46Jqz_AgHlab3QD6eE9c6Ui9UAs_mx9u85QFWUkAY6XXFqfdX6lEX-9pKfoyHBoc0Haqsudy-Dck-Efil8cCpjKGJqTVPaCQt5JFbuuwtHP-NqnCzoIoWT4y4cLv-o-cgSARpzWF61Iixxn6gBLQ/s320/jfk%20mboya%20erase.jpg" width="281" /></a></div>JFK may have been one of the best examples. During the 1960 presidential campaign, Kennedy held a press conference together with Kenyan nationalist leader Tom Mboya. The topic was Mboya’s efforts to bring members of his tribe to study in America. Hoping to appeal to black voters by embracing African nationalism, JFK tried to use his brother’s foundation to foot the bill.<br /><br />Additional funding was provided by the Rockefeller Foundation.<br /><br />A furious bidding war soon broke out between Nixon, inside the administration, and Kennedy over the opportunity to win over black voters by funding the airlift of Kenyan students. It was an image battle that JFK easily won with his press conference together with Mboya.<br /><br />JFK’s political genius rebranded immigration, often viewed as a means of Communist infiltration, into the ultimate anti-Communist measure, turning a political weakness into a strength, and accusing the Republican administration, as it had once accused the Truman administration, of losing the world in the struggle against Communism. America could only defeat Communism, he argued, by being open to the world, taking in immigrants and students, forming the Peace Corps to go out to the world, and, as he had in Europe as a student, to learn about the world.<br /><br />But what JFK really believed was that through exposure to the world, America would change, as he had been changed by his time in the United Kingdom and traveling across Europe. It was a message highly appealing to the elites who believed America was inferior to the world. Bringing Kenyan students to America was not so much about changing them, but about changing us.<br /><br />JFK hoped to unify a new rising liberal coalition, fusing elites, urban and suburban Catholics and Jews, bringing in new voting blocks of black and Asian voters, and reinventing the Democratic Party and America for a new generation. He found inspiration in younger African leaders like Mboya more than anything that was happening in America and viewed them as the future.<br /><br />One particular Kenyan student from Mboya’s circle would indeed become America’s future.<br /><br />Mboya’s African American Students Foundation (AASF) would bring hundreds of students from Kenya to America. Among the Kenyan students receiving AASF grants was Barack Obama Sr.<br /><br />“The Kennedys decided, we’re going to do an airlift. We’re going to go out to Africa. And we’re going to start bringing young Africans over to this country and bring them scholarships to study so that they can learn what a wonderful country America is. And this young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets and came over to this country,” Barack Obama Jr. said in his speech at Selma. Like many of Obama’s stories, it wasn’t really true, but there was some truth to it.<br /><br />Barack Obama Sr. had not qualified for the original Kennedy airlift, but as a personal friend of Mboya and a fellow member of his Luo tribe, the AASF paid his expenses in Hawaii anyway.<br /><br />The Kennedy administration had pitched its immigration reform plans as a way of overcoming American tribalism, but instead opened the door to the tribalism of the Third World.<br /><br />“Our beautiful America was built by a nation of strangers,” LBJ had declared at the signing of the 1965 immigration bill that ended the quotas and opened up immigration to the world.<br /><br />America since has become more of a nation of strangers than ever, at odds with one another, angry, conspiratorial, resentful and lacking a common language of values or interests.<br /><br />And there is little that is beautiful about the broken America that they have built.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a> is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 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And <a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" target="_blank">click here to support my work with a donation</a>.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><i>Thank you for reading.</i></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div>Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-55681506427333919412024-02-13T12:11:00.006-05:002024-02-14T15:42:55.078-05:00Rewarding the Oct 7 Massacres With a ‘Palestinian’ State<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRhkPVTOhgmOXXFutADpssKMes3swsVCuB5hyphenhyphenfgiqupiiavZySYv47jDIY7j9IFbx_YNFtTozG0yBAh1r6C1yvpQQFKY1Nh51DZ67Ts4pIu45vOERiNrB-Hh1xSzX9H4J_u9RepNPJc0w8WyN1ybVH89bjDpxLRCwQ8V9XmpjHcWZTjJmLSECCgw/s1032/palestinian%20keffiyeh%20trash%20dle.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="877" data-original-width="1032" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRhkPVTOhgmOXXFutADpssKMes3swsVCuB5hyphenhyphenfgiqupiiavZySYv47jDIY7j9IFbx_YNFtTozG0yBAh1r6C1yvpQQFKY1Nh51DZ67Ts4pIu45vOERiNrB-Hh1xSzX9H4J_u9RepNPJc0w8WyN1ybVH89bjDpxLRCwQ8V9XmpjHcWZTjJmLSECCgw/s320/palestinian%20keffiyeh%20trash%20dle.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;">What do you get when you massacre over a thousand people, rape, behead, torture and kidnap everyone Jewish, Christian or non-Arab in sight? International diplomatic recognition.<br /><br />Secretary of State Tony Blinken has reportedly begun conducting a review of options for recognizing a ‘Palestinian’ state after the war. The State Department has claimed that there are no policy changes, but that may be yet more diplomatic doubletalk.<br /><br />UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron, brought in after PM Rishi Sunak ousted Minister Suella Braverman for speaking out against the pro-Hamas rallies, published an op-ed calling for a “pause” in the fighting, exchanging Israeli hostages for captured Hamas terrorists, and providing “safe passage” to “key Hamas leaders” and “the people responsible for October 7” to leave Gaza. After that he announced that his government might recognize an Islamic terror state.<br /><br />“We – with allies – will look at the issue of recognising a Palestinian state, including at the United Nations,” he claimed. “That could be one of the things that helps to make this process irreversible.”<br /><br />Why the urgent need for the “irreversible” recognition of a terror state?<br /><br />According to Cameron, “we must give the people of the West Bank and Gaza the political perspective of a credible route to a Palestinian state and a new future.”<br /><br />The “people” in question have already been polled on what they want from the future.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0NA5ws9SlgRt5ocH-9LnFq5doDy8Htp79sNjkp_Hfe4EzEQkl1i_pxz7mDfnjy-D7WeR1-uKzMdbd76NTO9vXq_hdQRi7ik5hJcn6Cwsb0DjvtUhTdFza32UEfs2IDilpLLWd9ogq_M1irruTYmb2Ao_oaW5QucydnF0ZPsLKGjR0t_-cloUCig/s1024/palestinian%20kids.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="1024" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0NA5ws9SlgRt5ocH-9LnFq5doDy8Htp79sNjkp_Hfe4EzEQkl1i_pxz7mDfnjy-D7WeR1-uKzMdbd76NTO9vXq_hdQRi7ik5hJcn6Cwsb0DjvtUhTdFza32UEfs2IDilpLLWd9ogq_M1irruTYmb2Ao_oaW5QucydnF0ZPsLKGjR0t_-cloUCig/s320/palestinian%20kids.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>A poll found that <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-myth-of-gazas-innocent-civilians/">74% of ‘Palestinians’ </a>supported the Hamas atrocities of Oct 7 and a majority “extremely” supported them. Only 12% were against. 83% of those in the West Bank, under the Palestinian Authority and the immediate beneficiaries of statehood, supported the crimes.<br /><br />98% in Gaza and the West Bank said that they felt ‘pride’ as ‘Palestinians’ over the war. 74% expected the fighting to end with the defeat of Israeli forces in Gaza. Only 17% supported a two-state solution while 77.7% wanted to destroy Israel and replace it with a ‘Palestinian’ state.<br /><br />This is what supporting the “Palestinian people” with a “Palestinian state” really means.<br /><br />Former Minister Theresa Villiers who, unlike Cameron, had backed Brexit, warned that “accelerating unilateral recognition of Palestinian state would be to reward Hamas’ atrocities.”<br /><br />And that’s exactly right.<br /><br />The only reason any of this is being discussed is the Oct 7 Hamas attack. Recognizing a terror state after one of the worst acts of terror in history will retroactively validate everything.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqta43XNIf7RSc6FXjURD7FcCbbYUexdDcejXqlHHdiwWvISit7GQk3GnTWjEGFchmMTNTKHnBAf-azCwMKCrEQFK1jqE7YZdQC8cQzTxH4flUAvJfuAVYt9FJdUVgXfJbTs-LwkTmfGyqrPBSkDFaRtbP_zcCYiDSx34MmjAI17ad8CkvHTKgHA/s700/palestinian%20kids2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="700" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqta43XNIf7RSc6FXjURD7FcCbbYUexdDcejXqlHHdiwWvISit7GQk3GnTWjEGFchmMTNTKHnBAf-azCwMKCrEQFK1jqE7YZdQC8cQzTxH4flUAvJfuAVYt9FJdUVgXfJbTs-LwkTmfGyqrPBSkDFaRtbP_zcCYiDSx34MmjAI17ad8CkvHTKgHA/s320/palestinian%20kids2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Hamas will be able to claim victory, and so will the ‘Palestinians’ who took part in it, cheered it and supported it to a larger degree than Germans supported Hitler.<br /><br />The Palestinian Authority, on which the hopes for a Palestinian State, depend is just as bad.<br /><br />Despite Blinken’s best efforts, Mahmoud Abbas, the PLO leader who serves as the official ‘President’ of the Palestinian Authority, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-two-state-solution-is-terrorism/">refused to disavow</a> the Oct 7 attacks. Instead, the PLO, Fatah and other elements of the ruling regime in charge of the West Bank <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/dont-give-gaza-to-the-palestinian-authority-terrorism-anti-semitism-israel-fatah-68aa2ba8">have praised it</a> and others, like the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades,<a href="https://idsf.org.il/en/papers/palestinian-authority-and-fatah/"> even bragged about </a>taking part in the attacks.<br /><br />A video from the Palestinian Authority terror group <a href="https://www.jns.org/fatah-in-gaza-joined-in-oct-7-attacks/">features </a>“terrorists wearing Fatah’s yellow armbands firing Kalashnikov rifles at a kibbutz” and “a Fatah terrorist stamping on the head of a murdered Israeli” as the group boasts that “we had a prominent and clear role” on Oct 7.<br /><br />Abbas was elected to a four-year term in 2005. There have been no elections since and he has functioned as a glorified dictator subsidized by our foreign aid. His likely successors, including the imprisoned leader of a terror group who is ahead in the polls, all <a href="https://idsf.org.il/en/papers/palestinian-authority-and-fatah/">praised the Hamas attack</a>.<br /><br />Democratic elections in a ‘Palestinian’ state would mean Hamas. The Islamic terror group won the 2006 legislative elections and took over Gaza. It’s why there have been no elections since. <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-two-state-solution-is-terrorism/">Current polls show</a> that if there were to be democratic elections, Hamas would easily win them.<br /><br />Biden claimed that, “the vast majority of Palestinians are not Hamas. Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people.” But the vast majority of them disagree and want Hamas to head or form part of a unity coalition of Islamic terrorist groups running a ‘Palestinian’ state..<br /><br />The only Palestinian Authority candidate who could beat Hamas is Marwan Barghouti, the grandfather of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, currently serving several life sentences in Israel prison, who responded to Oct 7 by urging a total war against Israel. Hamas has demanded Barghouti’s release as part of any ‘terrorists-for-hostages’ trade with Israel..<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDYM6EXFc_Kp5bSlsjxUpnrhd5kEeXrrM2EaAyIJqmu-58LHPPn2zk3udNH6KX0u04lS41mvcWJvABSXzfi7wcXh_ukOcSlf7Lr5Iua-IVofqcnI66ErmScfA8_5u_FCx6XCsyaWRrSP6_oQQPWvkRuabYDeG46QQup8pJkk0i2n5LAuGSB0ZA8Q/s400/palestinian%20kids3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDYM6EXFc_Kp5bSlsjxUpnrhd5kEeXrrM2EaAyIJqmu-58LHPPn2zk3udNH6KX0u04lS41mvcWJvABSXzfi7wcXh_ukOcSlf7Lr5Iua-IVofqcnI66ErmScfA8_5u_FCx6XCsyaWRrSP6_oQQPWvkRuabYDeG46QQup8pJkk0i2n5LAuGSB0ZA8Q/s320/palestinian%20kids3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Recognizing a ‘Palestinian’ state means either recognizing the Palestinian Authority’s terror dictatorship in the West Bank or Hamas. Either way an Islamic terrorist group will run the place, eliminate any opposition and launch more terrorist attacks against Israel and then anyone else.<br /><br />But diplomats who were blindsided by the Oct 7 attacks are fighting to take control of the situation and the narrative by offering up the same old failed policies. Diplomats claim that Oct 7 was caused by a failure to negotiate, but it had really been brought about by endless negotiations.<br /><br />Before the Oct 7 assault, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan had an article in Foreign Affairs magazine touting how negotiations with Hamas <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/restoration-video-all-star-panel-on-israel-and-the-civilized-world-at-war/">had led to quiet in Gaza</a>. After the Hamas invasion, the online version had that edited out and only the print copies remain.<br /><br />The roots of the Oct 7 attack lie in the 1992 pressure campaign to <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/how-the-u-s-the-un-and-the-media-saved-hamas-thirty-years-ago/">force Israel to take back the Hamas terror leaders it had deported</a>, followed by the Oslo accord deals with Arafat and the PLO, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s ’s insistence on democratic elections that brought Hamas to power, Obama’s Arab Spring which empowered the Muslim Brotherhood parent organization of Hamas to win democratic elections, including in neighboring Egypt, which provided a vital outlet of support for Hamas, and then the Iran Deal that funded the state sponsor of Hamas which led Iran to expand its operations and ambitions around the region.<br /><br />The addiction to diplomacy, nation building, accords and agreements led fatally to Oct 7.<br /><br />Israel had <a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2005/09/20/rice-urges-israelis-to-allow-palestinian-vote-with-hamas/">resisted allowing</a> Hamas to take part in elections only to face pressure from Rice.<br /><br />“Whenever you have 80 percent of the Palestinian people turn out in a free and fair election, one that is free of violence, it has to be a cause for hope,” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice argued after Hamas won the 2005 elections.<br /><br />In 2007, a year after Hamas seized control of Gaza, Rice declared, “frankly, it’s time for the establishment of a Palestinian state.”<br /><br />No matter how often the same approach fails, the diplomats never admit they were wrong.<br /><br />To be a modern day diplomat is to ignorantly blame a lack of diplomacy and negotiations for everything and to promise that they can fix everything. Diplomats were telling us for generations that a “Palestinian state” would be the solution to all of the problems in the region, but ever since the Oslo accords, life in Israel and the Middle East has become much more violent.<br /><br />There’s a limit to how much damage generals can do, but not diplomats.<br /><br />Compare the damage from the Iraq War to the fallout from the Arab Spring which didn’t just set one country on fire, but led to brutal and enduring civil wars in Yemen, Syria and Libya, while causing serious harm in Egypt, Tunisia, and many other countries across the region.<br /><br />Oct 7 was not the result of a military process, but a diplomatic one, in which the Biden administration and several Israeli governments had negotiated temporary quiet with Hamas.<br /><br />Diplomats can’t afford to allow the impression that there is a military solution to terrorism. Or to much of anything else. And so they’re rushing to impose their diplomatic solution that would empower terrorists because that is all that diplomacy with terrorists ever accomplishes.<br /><br />Since Oslo, diplomacy has consistently proved the flip side of the Roman “si vis pacem, para bellum” or “if you would have peace, prepare for war.”<br /><br />Israelis have learned the hard way that if they prepare for peace, they will have war. Diplomacy is supposed to avert war, but with Islamic terrorists it encourages war instead.<br /><br />Despite all the promises, the Oslo accords and other peace negotiations never ended the violence because the Islamic terrorists quickly realized that violence was their best leverage. Negotiations soon fell by the wayside as the Palestinian Authority terrorists focused on direct or indirect proxy terrorism. Hamas then took up the slack by promising to turn the violence on or off in exchange for money and political power. Recognizing a “Palestinian” state after Oct 7 would validate terrorism as the ultimate strategy yet again and would ensure more such attacks.<br /><br />The push for a “Palestinian” state after Oct 7 not only rewards the atrocities of that day, but encourages the Arab Muslim ‘Palestinian’ settlers living in the West Bank and Gaza to repeat them.<br /><br />What do you get when you massacre over a thousand people, rape, behead, torture and kidnap everyone Jewish, Christian or non-Arab in sight? The answer should not be your own country.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></i></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></i></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></i></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></i></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a> is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 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