[RT] Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has said that nations in Europe were wrong to take in many people who are now supporting Hamas’ actions against Israel. Unless the militant group is punished for its hostage-taking, Europeans risk being targeted similarly, he warned.
In an interview published on Wednesday, Mathias Dopfner, the CEO of German media group Axel Springer, asked the veteran statesman about "Arabs celebrating" in the streets of Berlin after Hamas’ incursion into southern Israel last week. Kissinger, a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, said he found such gestures of support for criminal acts "painful."
"It was a grave mistake to let in so many people of totally different cultural and religious concepts because it creates a pressure group inside each country that does that," he noted.
Asked what Germany and the EU should do in the current situation, Kissinger said he expected "unconditional" political support for Israel — as well as military suppor if needed.
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[REGNUM] A big war is unfolding in the Middle East. After the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 (during which up to a thousand Jews were killed and at least two hundred more were taken prisoner), Tel Aviv began large-scale attacks on the Gaza Strip. 360 thousand reservists have been conscripted into the Israel Defense Forces, and now there are more than half a million fighters at the bayonet point. They are needed not only for a ground invasion of the 2.5 million-strong Gaza Strip and its subsequent clearing, but also for the possible repulsion of attacks from those who decide to support Hamas. Militants from the West Bank, as well as Hezbollah troops from Lebanon. In the future - troops from Iraq and Iran.
[MAIL] Senior citizens looking to relocate may want to steer clear of Hawaii as it ranks as the most expensive state to retire to, figures show.
Retirees in the Aloha state require $121,000 to live comfortably, according to study by GoBankingRates - compared to those in Mississippi who need just $55,000.
Washington DC, Massachusetts, California and New York were the next most expensive states to retire to, with an average annual cost of $94,000 across all four.
After Mississippi the four cheapest states were Oklahoma, Alabama, Kansas and Iowa, with an average cost of $57,000 a year.
Across the US, the average annual income required for comfort was $68,000.
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Hawaii retirement is great if you dont mind living with the highest unemployment in the country and the other great social outcomes of very high unemployment
[American Thinker] Just when you think it cannot get much worse -- with lawlessness overtaking our cities, our southern border being overrun, and the president of United States declaring half of voting age Americans "a threat to the very soul of this country" -- unsettling bricks are being added to the wall of an emerging police state in America.
We now learn that the Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security has officially categorized Trump supporters -- the so-called members of MAGA -- as "domestic terrorists." Additionally, the FBI has formed a secret task force that appears nonpartisan, but actually operates in unprecedented ways that depart from prior focus on cells, anarchist, militia and violence-prone groups, and now focus on people who may be peaceful but identify with anti-government and anti-authority thinking. FBI sources acknowledge that these new categories and task force have been created to target MAGA and Trump supporters.
Not coincidentally, Hillary Clinton has reappeared just as this new information surfaces in a lengthy Newsweek article by William Arkin. In media interviews she labels Trump supporters a cult, and suggests that there needs to be "a formal deprogramming of these cult members." Hillary must favor a police state, as it’s the only way such a mass deprogramming could be undertaken.
The Patriot Act, which was enacted on October 26, 2001, created new laws and protocols to thwart another 9/11 external terrorist attack. Passed with some haste after 9/11, the Patriot Act also introduced what would become a slippery slope of internal political weaponization of the legal system, the FISA courts, and the three-letter federal agencies -- reinforced by the legacy and social media -- resulting in American citizens being denied protection under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments. This trajectory, unchanged, surely leads to a police state.
So great are the depth and breadth of America’s problems now that most people feel that the relatively free America that we took for granted may be irretrievably lost. And because of the secular nature of the scribes of history, the more important and more consequential stories that account for both America’s rise and success into the mid-twentieth century, but also account for our decline and failure that ensued right up to the present, are unlikely to be told.
So here are the most important parts of that story:
[RUMBLE] Summary: Black Lives Matter and other leftist organizations just showed what they really are. In this episode, I address their shocking support for terrorist savages.
[Bee] Forced into playing defense following the deadly attacks perpetrated by Hamas, the White House aggressively denied the $6 billion it sent to Iran had anything at all to do with the $6 billion worth of rockets launched into Israel.
"Two completely unrelated amounts of money," said Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre. "While it may be tempting to believe these wild, unsubstantiated conspiracies that we are somehow financing these attacks, the fact is it is entirely coincidental that Hamas fired exactly $6 billion in rockets at Israel immediately after we sent $6 billion to the Iranian government. Those are just two random numbers that just happen to be exactly the same."
Following the Biden administration's controversial decision to send Iran $6 billion as part of a prisoner swap, terrorist organization Hamas launched a large-scale, multi-pronged attack on both Israeli military locations and the civilian population. With the attacks later revealed to have been approved and assisted by Iran, fair-minded people around the world speculated the two situations may, in fact, be related. "Coincidence? No way," said skeptical American Dr. Nate Thomas. "They need to just admit that they screwed up and paid for a horrifically deadly terrorist attack. Denying it just makes them look silly. But that's a trademark characteristic of the Biden presidency, I guess."
At publishing time, sources within the White House were also forced to deny the receipt of a thoughtful "Thank You" card from Hamas for the generous gift had anything at all to do with taxpayer money being used to purchase weapons used to murder women and children.
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Money is fungible.
Two Dollars or two Euros are just as identical and
indistinguishable as two electrons, i.e. totally so.
The Western ruling class really believes the Western public is pathologically stupid, and may is right believing so.
[NewsMax] Rep. Mike McCaul, R-Texas, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said he was informed that Egypt warned Israel three days before Saturday's terrorist attack by Hamas that "an event like this could happen."
The attack resulted in the deaths of more than 1,000 Israelis and at least 22 Americans, with many others being taken hostage.
"We know that Egypt has warned the Israelis three days prior that an event like this could happen," McCaul told reporters Wednesday following a closed-door intelligence briefing on the attack, the BBC reported.
"I don't want to get too much into classified [information], but a warning was given. I think the question was at what level."
An Egyptian official asserted to The Times of Israel that its intelligence service warned Israeli counterparts that Hamas was planning "something big" ahead of Saturday's surprise attack. The official speculated the warning did not make it up the chain of command to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office.
Egypt has not officially commented on the alleged warning, but the Times of Israel also reported that Egyptian media with close ties to the country's intelligence services Wednesday quoted senior security sources denying reports that such a warning was issued.
McCaul said the attack had possibly been in the works for as long as a year.
"We've heard from the administration; there seems to be a failure of intelligence as well," McCaul said, according to The Hill. "We're not quite sure how we missed it. We're not quite sure how Israel missed it."
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Maybe McCaul can chair a select committee with oversight over useless second guessing.
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No doubt the attack was planned sometime prior. My gut tells me the timing of money and Mccartys being booted somehow affected the timing. I think the Axis of Evil is working on a compressed timeline to beat the next election.
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I suspect the warning was along the lines of, “Hey — we’re hearing buzz about something happening soon, but it’s not clear exactly what, when, or by whom.”
In other words. not actionable intelligence. There was apparently a lot of that before 9/11, too.
[Substack. HT AOSHQ sidebar] Israel's battle is a war for civilisation against barbarism
At some point, past experience tells us, pressure from public opinion is likely to become intense over the number of civilians who will be said to have been killed in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.
In previous wars, Israel has been accused of flouting international law by wilfully killing civilians and committing war crimes. This has been the opposite of the truth. The IDF (Israel Defence Forces) has always gone to greater lengths than any other army in the world to protect enemy civilians as far as possible, and its ratio of civilians to combatants killed has been far lower than any other country has achieved. This pressure, however, imposed most critically by the US, has repeatedly forced Israel to curtail its military operations against the Gaza terrorist infrastructure.
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I repeat: anyone who cares about "Palestinians" as people, would work for their assimilation by the Arab World.
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Well, being as the basic Iron Dome premise is that the 'footprint' of the protected area is analysed and sorted into 'must protect' vs 'low priority', it's easy to see how that conclusion would be drawn. You defend the areas you must; the rest are on their own. At a mil$ a pop, you can't afford to protect everything.
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It is worth adding a drone jammer to all defense networks. The EA6B could turn the lights out, so the technology is there to block drone control signals for whatever time is needed.
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[AMERICANTHINKER] Just as the latest invasion began in Israel, swarms of the usual suspects began protesting in front of Israeli consulates in various American cities. Some of the anti-Israeli demonstrators were themselves Jewish...being committed leftists first and Jews second. They were of particular interest to the mainstream news media. Then news of horrific atrocities being carried out by the Hamas ...always the voice of sweet reason... faceless myrmidons began to surface.
Shooting up a harmless music festival is way too much for even woke progressives — let alone flaunting the naked bodies of freshly murdered women. As I write, the revulsion on the left is still lurking below the radar. But there really is no turning back. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... resistance to the sad reality of the excesses of Islamic extremism is a process early in its beginning. So far, the Taliban ...Arabic for students... ’s push against letting Afghan women learn how to read and write has been mostly poo-poohed...let alone the general treatment of women like dogs.
Mark Steyn, in After America, describes Moslem enclaves in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... before the mullahs’ takeover of Iran. They were pretty much integrated into the rest of their world. Children freely played in public, women were often uncovered, tension was minimal. Then came the collapse of the Shah, and the inquisitors religious police began to show up.
A new template has been cast. Hamas and its cohorts are on the other side. Citizens of the modern world are undeniably repulsed by the unfolding of this episode. The reluctance of doctrinaire leftists to admit the grotesqueness of these events will likely fade, and that will be a profound embarrassment. Hamas’s intention has been to instill fear in the hearts of its enemies. Instead, they have provoked profound hate and an unstoppable willingness to fight back.
Ilhan Omar ...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side. She is a member of The Squad, and would like to make the country look a lot more like Mogadishu... and her cohorts in Congress are, shall I say, dead meat...politically speaking. No longer will "additional perspective" be presented as a valid position. The Hamas, et al. faceless myrmidons are thugs — and worthy of extreme measures to annihilate them. The Israelis are well capable of doing just that. And this time around, they will not have to endure the usual amount of opprobrium that had previously been heaped upon them.
Now, on the next evening’s news, only pro-Israel demonstrations were covered. The pro-Paleostinians must have stayed home. Blue and white lights are illuminating symbols of solidarity with Israel such as city halls and churches. The magnitude and viciousness of the Hamas attacks are truly sinking in.
One of the first serious tasks placed before the U.N. in 1948 was the fulfillment of Israel’s illusory sovereignty. Seventy-five years later, the work continues. It may be fair to say that the U.N. has really sustained the conflict, rather than having put an end to it. U.N.-sponsored refugee camps in the area have housed multiple generations of displaced people. Such have also been fertile recruitment centers for Hamas and other paramilitary organizations.
What is particularly sad, however, is the involvement of innocent victims in the misery being orchestrated by the forces of evil.
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I think Hamas saw it's influence dwindling away.
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Hamas has always been a chess piece. It would be more accurate to say that Iran may have acted foolishly.
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[The Federalist] It all becomes even more egregious when inspected within the context of the Biden administration’s foreign and domestic policies.
Many of the articles surrounding the atrocities of the Hamas attacks this past weekend have referenced the recent $6 billion "deal," in which the U.S. gave this money to Iran in exchange for five Americans. It already seemed like the worst trade in history.
But it’s more nefarious than simply unleashing $6 billion to Iran, a known terrorist state and the most existential threat to the free world. In reality, this one detail hyperlinked quickly in most articles is part of a larger spider web of hidden details.
In a recent article, senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and former National Security Council official Richard Goldberg traces the money trail. He confirms: It is so much worse than we think.
Goldberg lays out the numbers. The $6 billion you’ve seen in every (other) headline is only the money being transferred from our friends in Qatar. But this is separate from the $10 billion of assets being transferred from Iraq, which Goldberg says will continue on "a rolling basis." Then there are the reports that Iran will be allowed to access $7 billion in fiat currency by trading drawing rights with the International Monetary Fund. He also says Japan is scheduled to transfer $3 billion to Iran.
"Money is fungible," and even the funds that have not yet been unfrozen are likely being treated as good credit in Iran’s ledger.
The revelations do not end there. U.S. officials have also quietly acknowledged that they’ve uncapped Iranian oil exports to China. These export levels, previously held around 775,000 barrels per day under Trump’s sanctions, are now estimated to be between 1.4 and 2.2 million barrels per day. Modest estimates value this relief at $25 billion annually.
The total? $50 billion.
It’s giving a thug a loaded machine gun and expecting him not to shoot the bullets.
Less than a decade ago, the spokesman of the Izzuddin Al-Qassam Brigades publicly thanked Iran for providing the "weapons, money, and other equipment" used in attacks. Although there has been no public "thank you" to Iran from Hamas in relation to the surprise attack on Israel this past weekend, it is clear that Iran did help plan the attack. It is unlikely they stopped there. But of course, the Biden administration is hesitant to confirm this — with Republicans already alleging the White House’s ties to the attacks, they would like to avoid any evidence that confirms what most of the world suspects.
This is peeling back what is only the first layer of deception in the Biden administration’s policies.
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In the adult world there is the necessity for Operating Assumptions. Some things cannot be immediately known given the guardian layers of manufactured complexity and bureaucracy.
Past a certain point you have to look at all the players and their history, then apply the common sense questions.
Short story way too long, simply because I didn't have a timeline and video, well, it couldn't make it any worse.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[RUMBLE] Summary:
[Bee] Forced into playing defense following the deadly attacks perpetrated by Hamas, the White House aggressively denied the $6 billion it sent to Iran had anything at all to do with the $6 billion worth of rockets launched into Israel.
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
...always the voice of sweet reason...
